1. The Strange Portal.

     Death. That is what I know is behind me while i'm running for my life. I looked behind me, and to my horror I see the Eater of Souls gaining on me as I start feeling my lungs burn from running so long, the crunching of the Autumn leaves under my shoes with the gurgling of the creature that wants to eat me alive. I find a small hole that I jump into and I quickly place a dirt block above me to prevent the Eater from following me. Will I ever stop getting into these kind of situations? I think, probably not answering my own question as I start digging downwards in hopes I find something that will help me. While i'm digging I feel my pickaxe hit something that isn't dirt, I start swinging even harder, eager to find out what it is I struck. When I pick it up i'm a little disappointed to find that it was just silver, I immediately feel happy because i knew that silver was good. When I finish digging up the shiny and useful mineral, I fall and I land on my stomach.

   "uuuaaagh..." I mumble as the shock passes through. When I stood up, I got out a torch and I placed it in front of me, and I notice something that will scar me for a long time. That is, if I make it out alive. I realize that i'm in the crimson, basically the corruption, just as bad or worse. I hear gurgling/slurping noises. I tense up, as I realize that i'm going to be eaten by an Crimera, basically an eater of souls but born of the crimson, red and not greenish, without eyes, and while having a small mouth with very sharp teeth made for latching onto you and sucking out your blood. I turn around, and to add to my Horror, I see that it's a very big one. This isn't going to be pleasant I thought, as I shut my eyes and wait for the inevitable pain. I waited. The pain didn't come, and I crack open an eye, and I see the Crimera is about to eat me whole, to my surprise, and it just eats me. Darkness. Pain. I wake up gasping and sweating, realizing i'm still alive, I start laughing out of relief. I stand up and put my golden armor on, and I pick up my tools, which absorb into my hand and disappear. I start walking for the door only for me to stop moving and gain serious goosebumps. I feel like I'm being watched by something evil... I chuckle worriedly and I was about to open the door to notice Cody the Guide is awake.

  "What are you doing up so late? You DO know it's very dangerous to be wandering around at night." He told me, looking tired and annoyed "It would be a shame for you to die again, you know how horrible feeling death is."

  "I had a nightmare, I plan to go digging to get my mind off of what I saw in it." I lied, which I didn't feel comfortable doing.

  "Don't think I can't tell a lie from the truth. What are you REALLY doing?" He questioned me. He had me beat, I don't go digging during the night, mostly because of the Demon eyes and the Zombies that like to show up.

  "... Fine, i'm going to go exploring in the corruption to get my mind off of it. Happy?" I said, annoyance reaching into the edge of my voice.

  "Sort of, I don't want you going getting yourself in mortal danger without having enough health." He said matter of factly and then said "You might want to go find some life crystals before going into the corruption, you don't know what might be lurking deep in it."

  "I'm not going to die, I have gold armor, gold sword, and a gold bow. what could possibly go wrong?" I said confidently before opening the door and leaving the house to the guide, merchant, and nurse to themselves for awhile. I start speed walking towards the corruption to see if I can find something valuable. I look at the trees around me, and smile, it was always good to look at something calm and nice to help calm myself a little. But what really calms me, is searching underground for valuables. I quickly approach the corruption, and I take a deep breath and I fill with confidence. I jump into the first chasm i see and I am quickly engulfed by darkness.

  I realize it was a dumb decision when I forgot about fall damage and I clench my eyes shut and wait for the quick, painful crunch that will come, I wait and I fall onto some creature. I open my eyes and see I happened to land on an eater of souls, which is now freaking out and bumping into the ebonstone walls. I draw out my sword, and I drive it into one of its eyes, making it make an ear piercing screech presumably to call for help. I knew it's useless because I pull out my sword and drive it into another eye, where it screeches again and dies.

      I jump off the creature and i start looking for a weak point in the ebonstone, knowing I can't break it with a gold pickaxe, I have to resort to bombs to break it. once I find one  I knock on it to be sure, and sure enough it felt a slight bit softer than everywhere else. I grab a stick of dynamite and light it, in which I sprint a nice distance and I turn around in time to watch it explode and drop everything it destroyed, I absorb it all and I start digging through some dirt and I eventually fall into a cavern. Which looks remarkably the same as the one I had a nightmare about. with one small difference. Make that big Difference. What I am looking at right now appears to be a portal, which appears to be made of the rock that's like ebonstone but its crimson instead of corruption, even though the whole room is of the crimson right now. I slowly walk over to it, dead blink roots crunching under my boots, and I touch it, only for it burn me and open up, startled, I fall over and my head, protected by my helmet, strikes a stalagmite. i Slowly get up, shaking my head, and I look at the now open portal, which is swirling with bright, vivid colors.

     I got curious and I jumped into the portal, regretting the decision, because I am feeling unbelievable amounts of pain right now it's not even funny. I manage to stay conscious long enough for me to exit the portal for me to see that I exited in a forest right next to presumably a town.

    I woke up, feeling a migraine set in, and I sit up, and look carefully at my surroundings, I noticed that the trees don't look like normal forest ones, or the jungle ones. This forest. It's giving me the creeps. I stand up and I look behind me, noticing that the portal is there, only barely visible, and it's not made of crimstone anymore, it appears to be some unknown material, which I try to break with my pickaxe, in which it isn't affected. Whatever that material is, I cant break it. I decide to head towards what appears to be a town. I hear a loud roar from behind me. I spin around too see a cat like creature with limbs that I don't recognize. I quickly whipped out my Gold bow, and I fired a few fire arrows at it, which only made it angry. I put my bow away and I sprinted toward the village like I never sprinted before. I could feel the stomps it was making, and they grew more violent, then I knew it was gaining on me, I wouldn't normally do this but I would rather preserve my life and try to get help then not get help at all. I started yelling loudly as I ran.

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  A cyan Pegasus stirred awake at the sound of somepony yelling, apparently from the everfree forest. sweet Celestia doesn't anypony learn?! she thought as she stretched her wings and took flight in the direction of the yelling. When she got close enough she noticed that the pony yelling for his life isn't a pony at all, but a Minotaur like creature wearing strange clothes, but she didn't care, somepony was in danger and needed saving, apparently from a manticore. The cyan Pegasus sped up and picked up the strange creature.

  "jeez how much do you weigh?" She asked the Minotaur like thing she was carrying.

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  I noticed that I was being picked up by this strange cyan horse-like creature with wings and I noticed it speak to me.

  "jeez how much do you weigh?" It asked. I would explain after I was out of danger, so instead I looked up, and glared with a look that could kill. In which the creature glared back but carried me out of the now known dangerous forest.

  "What is that? and what is this place?" I asked, in which the horse creature looked pretty damn surprised when I said that. She dropped me onto the ground just as we reached a good distance away from the forest, apparently right In plain sight close to the town.

  "Who are you? What are you?" it asked, and now it was my turn to be surprised, to not know what I am.

  "Well considering you just saved me I will tell you. I am Nightshade, a human." I said, answering it's question, "Now who are YOU, and what are you? and what was chasing me and what is that creepy place?" I asked, it's turn to answer my questions. It looked surprised again, as if I was stupid or something.

  "You don't know what a pony is? What are you stupid?" the pony replied. Well. i'm not surprised. Considering it's small. "I am Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in equestria, and what you were running from, is a deadly manticore, and what that creepy forest place is the Everfree forest." now I realized something, she has wings, i'm guessing its a she because of the feminine-ish voice.

  "Where did you get you're wings?" I asked, curious because I would love to craft my own, but then she started laughing. Why is she laughing at my question?

  "What? You think you could get wings other than being born with them? You're so dumb!" she said, finally calming down.

"Apparently I AM in a different world, considering you ponies exist, that manticore exists, and everything i'm seeing in this world apparently exists." I said, scowling. I stood up and walked into the village, where so many ponies are staring at me, and they all started screaming and running. Don't they know i'm a hero? Wait, it's probably because I have never been here before i thought.

  Then someone yelled "MONSTER!" Yep. That explains it. I guess in sorta know how the slime's feel. Now that I think of it, I haven't seen any here, which is strange. Considering they were everywhere I went, even on floating islands. I felt a sudden pain on my head, and I blacked out.