Seeing the Arctic

by Mleep

Rating: teen
Tags: Human
Length: 1003

After a rude awakening, Twilight finds herself in the Arctic Tundra.

Twlight finds herself in an unknown land

Along the way, hopefully she'll find something capable of helping her

Maybe then, it will be able to find a way to get her home

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-12-04 04:30:04 UTC

Chapter 1

I was waking up from my groggy slumber. The first sensation I could feel was cold, and boy, was it cold. Slowly but surely I had found my bearings. I had no clue where I was. What kind of place could be so cold and look so desolate? It looked like I had washed up from the sea. The first thing I asked myself was where my friends are. "FLUTTERSHY? APPLEJACK? RARITY? RAINBOW DASH? PINKIE PIE?" But yet I heard nothing. I was so scared, in a random place I had no clue about, and no one to help me. I guess the only thing I had to do was to start moving. Where I would move and where I would end up is a mystery. I'm not sure how long I had traveled, or what time it was. Suddenly, an idea had hit me. Why did I not try to do magic? If I got here through some magical means then maybe I could get back by magic. The first thing I tried to do was setup a clear place to do a spell. I needed concentration and a good amount of room to do my spells. Teleportation spells were out of the questions, ones over a long distance were mostly out of my means, and since I assumed I was on another planet then trying to teleport across worlds would be impossible. If the stars were somewhat similar I could possibly find out were my planet was. Looking around I could find some similar star areas, and then I could see where my planet was. Sending a message was so much easier then sending a whole living being in tact, so I could probably do it, but with a lot of effort. Concentrating on my planet I recalled what I would need to do and fired away, sending a huge beam of light to my planet. Hopefully Princess Celestia would get it and come to rescue me.

It was getting night so I needed to find a shelter, of course there were many caves but I could only guess and wonder what kind of animals could be in them. I took me awhile to think about it, but what other kind of options are there? That's the only way I could prevent being spotted and free from this cold weather. So I guess that would have to be my only option. Really dreading this I slowly and carefully went to the closest cave around here. The entrance being pitch dark really didn't help seeing if there were any animals around. I'm glad I had an illumination spell with me, but of course most unicorns knew that. While walking in I could hear a single roar, in front of me. And then I clearly saw it, a huge polar bear. So many thoughts went through my mind as what to do and how to act. My biggest fear was if I didn't have the heart to kill it. What other choice do I have? I'll really regret killing it, but after that Changeling attack, I am so glad I learned quite a number of attack spells during that time. With tons of regret, but fear for my own life I started to choke it. Hearing it roar and make obvious sounds of pain was so distasteful to me, but I didn't let go. After what seemed like a lifetime sitting here chocking it I heard nothing from it, looking up in front of me I could see it sitting there, lifeless. I pray that Fluttershy would never have to find out that I killed an animal, I don't know if she would be able to forgive me. Shaking that scary thought out of my head I went the rest of the way through the cave, luckily that was the only bear, and the cave was a lot smaller than expected. While walking around I saw a skeleton, that looked very bipedal in nature. With him he had a small backpack, the outside of out was torn up but most of the contents were mostly safe, except for some small items. I fiddled around with them a bit, apparently one of them could make fire. This was a very cool invention, especially for someone who lives like me, who my species are mostly dependent on magic. So I got to thinking that if there were more of these bipedal creatures, that they might be able to help me, or even help me find my way out of here. Of course it was kind of a stretch. How many of these creatures would want to live in such a cold place like this? But of course maybe they adapted to these kind of conditions and that I doesn't bother them at all.

Sitting next to my small makeshift fire I had used burning some of the items in the bag, I tried to get some sleep, hopefully the fire would last me long enough to get to sleep and maybe tomorrow I'd be able to find civilization of some sorts. Hopefully whatever it is that I find isn't some kind of crazy thing, that wouldn't think twice about killing me on sight, but I guess I have my magic to back me up. But even then, just thinking of all possible outcomes would I even find anyone to help me in this place? Probably not, but I guess I have nothing to live for if I don't try.

Sleep almost seemed like an impossible thing, luckily the fire was still going but I had so many thoughts, especially about what my friends are doing. Are they looking for me? Did they get my message? Did they end up on this planet too? I am just hoping for the best for all of my friends. I hope they do have the chance to find me, and that I can get out of here. Finally, sleep took me over and I feel asleep.