Angel's Venture Into the Everfree Forest
It was a bright sunny day in Ponyville. Everyone was busy completing their daily tasks, and conversing among themselves. Everyone that is, except a small white rabbit sitting on his favorite couch slowly glancing around at the room lethargically kicking his leg back and forth. He was always this bored when he was waiting for Fluttershy to return home. She and her friends were going on another trip to the Crystal Empire leaving him by his lonesome self. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were supposed to be coming, and Angel Bunny wanted to bug out before anything happened.
Struck by an amazing idea he decided he would venture out into the garden outside, because what could go wrong in a small enclosed space with a bunch of animals three times your size walking around right? He sat up wearily and bounced out the door.
The garden was bustling with animals of all shapes, sizes, descriptions, ethnicities, and histories. Angel Bunny felt very lost in the crowd of animals completing the tasks that Fluttershy had assigned them in her absence. There were birds checking for cracks and such all along the house, beavers carrying fresh water into the shed, of course, nopony actually knows what’s in said shed, and Angel Bunny was to lazy to bother looking inside. Soon enough, a group of three annoying little ponies could be heard loudly making their way up the path. Angel Bunny looked frantically around for a hiding place when all the animals instantly sped off to their respected homes each not wanting to witness the annoyingly cute ponies trash the house trying to help ‘clean’ it up to supposedly earn their cutie marks. Angel was sure they did it only to vandalize and beat up all the things Angel Bunny held close.
Seeing as how he was the only living thing left within a 10 feet radius of the house, he decided it was best to follow all the other animals. Unfortunately, the three chatting fillies caught sight of the furry bunny as he was making his escape. Thinking it was a game they began to give chase. Angel Bunny was terrified, those little devils had more destructive power than a wrecking ball falling at terminal velocity, he ran in the only direction he could think of, the Everfree Forest.
The cries of the eager adventurers faded gradually as Angel Bunny tore through the brush at near unimaginable speeds. Soon enough their cries could no longer be heard by the now very dirty and upset bunny. He decided that he would lie in wait for a bit until he was sure that the fillies would give up their search. It was then that Angel Bunny discovered that he was very VERY lost.
Panic settled in and he started to hyperventilate. What if he never got back? He would have to fend for himself in the cold, dark, and and above all dirty forest filled with Celestia knows what. Angel decided that now would be a good time to try to find his way back. The only problem was the fact that his path of flight had all but disappeared into to gloom of the forest. Why did he have to be so stupid as to run into the most dangerous place around?
Angel decided it was best to move on and try to find a way out instead of wallowing in self pity. He started looking around for a likely path to take when he heard rustling in the bushes behind him followed by the roar and snapping jaws of a timber wolf looking for a quick meal, Angel Bunny being very fast when needed, hauled flank, a very hungry pile of sticks running after him.
Angel dodged trees, plants, hedges, and all sorts of other vegetation. The timber wolf was hot on his heels, it sounded as if it was gaining slowly, inch by inch getting ever closer to the panicked bunny. He needed some way to get rid of the beast.
Looking around, he spotted a large boulder tilting precariously on the edge of a steep incline. He rushed up the rocky slope and gave an almighty kick to the boulder. Of course being a small bunny, his kick was not enough to dislodge the boulder from its perch, what did happen was that it unfurled into a large menacing pile of rock that was very displeased at the timber wolf that had run into it as it was in the process of standing up, and swatted the startled canid out into the forest where it landed in a large heap of lifeless wood.
Angel Bunny taking advantage of this, ran off before he was spotted and also swatted into the cold unforgiving forest. He felt very accomplished at what he had done, swelling his already huge ego to something that was nearing critical mass.
• • •
He eventually came upon a stream where he washed himself vigorously. He hated getting dirty, and being in that horrible forest, he got very dirty. He also despised doing things himself when Fluttershy could be doing it for him. The only things that he did was for Fluttershy’s benefit when she couldn’t do something, but washing himself was on the list of owner’s duties. Angel was in a glum mood, he had been stuck in this horrible forest for close to two hours, and it was just getting worse and worse, already he had gotten his illustrious pelt dirty, been attacked by animated piles of sticks, and proceeded to wander around for an hour. Thankfully, the place he was in seemed devoid of all life, leaving him to wash in peace.
Unbeknownst to Angel Bunny, there was a very good reason that nothing lived in this part of the forest. Something else Angel was unaware of was that he had wandered into the northern forest, where the swampland gave way to evergreens and the darkness that settled around the area was decidedly unnatural.
It was in the middle of the bunny’s impromptu bath that he began to detect some white noise akin to static sounding in the back of his mind. He looked up from grooming himself and glimpsed a pony, dressed in a suit taller and thinner than any living pony around, it had no face, but still seemed to be gazing at the bunny.
This elicited a flight response in the now very scared Angel. He bounced away as fast as he could passing by several notes depicting the spectral pony. Angel was glancing at one of these notes when he tripped and fell over. Turning to look behind him he could see that blank face staring straight into his soul, he blinked and it was gone.
Disbelieving his own eyes he blinked again, nothing happened.
Breathing a sigh of relief, he got up and started wearily walking off to Celestia knows where.
• • •
Angel Bunny was feeling rather depressed, why did those pesky fillies have to ruin his day? He didn’t deserve this! He decided that when he got back he was going to make Fluttershy give him the longest grooming ever given in the history of Equestria. The only problem was that he had no idea how exactly he was going to get back. This worried him immensely, but he was sure that he was going to get back, or else how was he going to get his revenge on the three fillies that had caused him so much grief?
As a matter of fact he was so mad at them the he was imagining their voices echoing in the distance calling out his name.
“Angel!”
He jumped into the air startled as Applebloom ran out of the brush and hugged the now annoyed bunny.
“We thought we’d gone lost ya, but since we gon found you, then it’s ok!”, she said cheerfully.
Angel couldn’t believe that of all the things that could've happened, he had to have been saved by these three fillies who were now squeezing him in a tight group hug. Even if the pesky trio had been Angel’s rescuers, he was still glad to be rid of that horrible forest with its crazy inhabitants. After that, Angel was perfectly happy and content to plot his revenge on the trio that were eagerly chatting around him as they walked back into the safety of Fluttershy’s cottage home.
Author's Note
Thanks for reading! Give me all the critics you want.
