Elias's Source of Resilience to Life: Ponies

Part Four

So Many Wonders

I continued to walk, wondering if the pony was warm enough. I think I could safely make the assumption that she was because she started to doze off into sleep. I wanted to get to a good place for me to stay from people’s vision, that way I could travel without people wondering what the heck a kid was doing with a pony traveling all by himself.

The best place for me to travel would be through a forest, and there was plenty around here for me to travel through. I kept to the North while slanting towards the nearest tree line. When I came upon the forest, I noticed that the forest was rather thick so it would be a good spot to travel.

I wasn’t always a brave person. I heard of some scary thing like slendermen, The Exorcist, and not to mention Pinkamena from the fanfic Cupcakes. Things like slendermen scared me the worst when I was in a forest and it was dark. I felt like something was watching me slowly inching closer and closer to me. It was dark, I looked around me. I looked through the pitch black void between two trees and thought I saw the many arms of a slenderman moving around, slowly getting close to me.

I was really scared, but, I knew that I had to be brave. All of a sudden the thing that always cheered me up came to my mind. A song that was sure to make this place seem better.

“When I was but a kid and the sun was going down. The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me frown. I’d hide under my pillow, from what I thought I saw, but granny Fuentes said that wasn’t the way to deal with fears at all,” I sang “ She said ‘Eli, you got to stand up tall. Learn to face your fears. You’ll see that they can’t hurt you. Just laugh and make them disappear.” So I laughed at the face of fear and made it disappear into the dark abyss of which the demon belonged to.

“Ha, ha, ha,” I laughed and my fears were gone. Everything seemed better and I produced a smile to appear on my face. I pressed on into the less scary forest.

I wanted to cover a lot of ground today; at least getting to the edge of the highway. I picked up the pace and went on.

About an hour of walking, I covered a good four miles and decided to take a rest and eat an apple. After I was finished, I checked on the filly that was asleep, so I guessed she must be fine, and I moved on. After another four miles I set up a small camp by getting some dryer leaves and setting them as a floor. I gathered some sticks and put them in the ground as walls and on top for a ceiling.

I thought about how good it would be to make a small fire. I rummage through my bag and to my luck, I found a lighter. I grabbed some left over sticks and hoped I could get a fire started. I gathered some dead, dry leaves and grasses and stuffed them into the small pile of sticks. I set the fire starter on fire and to my luck, which must have been very good today, the sticks caught fire.

"Whew, good,” I whispered and walked to the little shelter I had made. I laid out a blanket from my bag on the floor of leaves and took one of the blankets of Rainbow Dash as the last sheet. She started to stir from her sleep but not enough to wake her up. I went under the covers with the filly in my arms and started to shut my eyes. It wasn’t the most comfortable place to rest but it was bearable. I fell asleep.

The next morning was still surprisingly warm. I opened my eyes to the beauty of nature to look at. The blissful, warm sunlight flooded through the trees of the forest and the only thing that was missing was the comfort of the luscious green of vegetation that would make this view much more welcoming. But still I have never experienced nature like this before. I have never seen a place filled with so many wonders. I got up, trying not to disturbed the little filly that was still snoozing away.

“What is this place filled with so many wonders? Casting its spell on me; that I am now wondered,” I sang. It was beautiful, but, I had no time to take in this beauty, I had to get to my destination. I took up the blankets and put one in my bag and another around Dashie, who I had picked up. I wanted to get this traveling done soon so I picked up the pace even more and went into a half jog half run.

After another hour of jogging, I covered about 6 miles. Ten miles left, my journey was getting closer to the end. I stopped again and started to eat some fruit and veggies when the foal woke up. I gave her a few carrots and an apple that she gladly ate. I was going to wrap her in the blankets again but she must not have wanted to for she denied me putting it near her. So I started to jog again and she started trotting alongside me.

This made it somewhat rather easy; in fact, I was even able to travel faster. We traveled about three more miles until we came to thinner parts of the forest and I could look outside the forest to see where we were. It looked somewhat rather familiar so I knew where I was going. I continued in the direction in where my destination was.

Finally, the forest started to break away. I swathed the rainbow filly in blankets. I soon found the road and knew exactly where to go. I went down the road until I took a right and continued. Soon, after a few minutes of walking, I took another right, and another couple minutes I took a left, I was getting close. I continued down the road. He lived in a heavily forested area which was my favorite part about where he lived.

I soon came upon the familiar house I would go to. I rapped on the door that was soon answered by my old friend whom I longed to see in a long time. He had the most surprised but glad look on his face.

“Hi,” said Gage a smile appearing on his face that is until he noticed the rainbow pony in my arms. His face turned to a look of great confusion. I had to understand. It isn’t every day you see your friend who moved in a suit of warm clothing, carrying traveling bags, and having a rainbow pony arrive at your door.

“Hey, Gage,” I said feeling happy to see my old friend “I can explain later but for now I only can ask you a great favor,” I said hoping he would understand. Most of the time, Gage and his family were always accepting people, especially towards me.

“Why don’t you come inside,” Gage offered as I kindly took his offer and went inside to explain and hope for the best outcome.