A Strange Place for a Strange Man

James woke up after a long night sleep, with a slight sigh of relief, even.

“Finally. A night without a nightmare. This is a rare event.”

He said to himself, kind of frustrated, more or less because he’s sick of the nightmare’s he keeps getting.

He walks out the door at the second he wakes up. As he does so, he starts thinking. Thinking about reasons he could be getting them.

“It must have something to do with my previous life. Maybe it’s something that happened before?”

All he remembers really, is the fact that he was a human once, but now a pony. He doesn’t remember why he became a pony, other than the fact that he was a brony. That’s the only reason he can think of, at least. Also, usually after he wakes up from a nightmare, he only remembers slight glimpses of them, thus not being able to remember much of his earlier life.

“I wish I could get a dream-reader. Does that even exist? Even in the real world? As far as I remember, it was stated that someone had invented a dream-capturer, but that seems pretty unlikely.”

He just kept talking to himself, while taking a little walk. Well, it was starting to get decently far, though. And he even realized, that he was inside the Everfree Forest.

“Oh, hay. Look at where I am. Great, James. Get lost in the Everfree Forest. You can now check that off of your list.”

He said, seemingly angry at himself.

He turned around, to find himself facing a bunch of bushes, rather than a road leading backwards.

“Wait. Have I been turning without noticing it, and now I’m lost. Oh look, a classic. I can pick two ways to go, which one is it. Oh dang.”

He chose to go right, because, why not?

As he ventures through the road, he finds himself in a quite familiar spot.

“Isn’t this where I was attacked by that manticore?”

He asked himself.

Aside from the circumstances, and the danger that he’s currently facing, he still went further inside the forest. He was curious as to what lies ahead in this forest. Since he wasn’t able to see it in the show itself, he might as well go see if there’s something new.

Getting further into the forest, just gets you more creeped out by the place. He started feeling paranoid, and he started getting scared. He even thought he heard slight growls, which just disappeared in the wind. This didn’t calm him down, infact, he just started feeling more and more paranoid everytime the growls disappear.

He finally made it to a dead end, and decides to go backwards. He probably needs to go home, Fluttershy might be worried about him. He’s been out for quite a while now.

He turns around, and fears that he might encounter a strange creature.

He closes his eyes and covers his face, before looking all the way behind him, he peaks out with his right eye, and realizes that there’s nothing.

“Oh, phew. Nothing.”

“ROAR!!”

“Oh, celestia, why?! Why are you doing this to me?! Why me?!!!!”

He cried out, as he turned his head to look behind him. And what was he faced with? A Timberwolf.

“This is just dang great, isn’t it?”

He ran away as fast as possible, but has a hard time doing so, he’s not used to running on four legs. This slowed him down quite a lot. He found a rock, sort of big, and apparently a Timberwolf is pretty easy to trick, which he remembers from the show. So he runs to the rock, in hopes that he’s able to jump over it. He fails. He faceplants the rock, slightly. Not too hard, so not fatal. But the Timberwolf, as said before, is easy to trick, so it just jumps over it.

The Timberwolf runs away, as James sighed.

He hears another growl. This time it sounds louder, and more dangerous. This happens at the same time, as he realizes, that the Timberwolf did not get tricked, it was simply fleeing from, whatever this creature is.

He looks up, and sees a gigantic Timberwolf. It looks sort of like the one in the show, which is made by the three Timberwolves building themselves together.

“Is this the one from the show? The one that was defeated by Spike?”

He asked himself, right before he screamed, and ran as fast as he could away.

He made it out of the forest, and saw Fluttershys’ cottage.

“Yes! I made it!”

The Timberwolf was long gone, luckily.  He apparently escaped from it somehow. Either that, or it was still chasing that other Timberwolf.

“Fluttershy! Are you home?! Fluttershy?!”

He yelled as he went inside.

He got no reply.

He decided to go to town, to try and find her.

…

He was in Ponyville, and started searching for her. The town itself seemed rather empty. There were nopony. He started getting pretty scared, and started shaking slightly. It was even starting to get dark. But, it was only 1.00PM.

“What in the blue Luna is going on here? Why does the town seem so wasted?”

He went further into the town, where he decided to go to Raritys’ boutique.

On the way there, he felt sort of strange. He felt spied on, despite the fact, that there were nopony in sight!

He was there, but he was only met with a little piece of paper, which said.

At the tailor to get some stuff. Will be back soon.

He didn’t know where that was, so instead, he went to Twilights’ house.

Nothing.

He went to the cakes. He hadn’t been there yet, maybe they’re there.

“SURPRISE!!! Hi! My name’s Pinkie Pie! I heard that you were new here, and thought I’d throw you a party. Do you like it, huh?! I hope you will! I didn’t plan it alone. Fluttershy helped me! Twilight did too, but not too much, because she was busy with reading some books, apparently. Well, do you want a piece of cake? Some punch? Some Sarsaparilla?!”

For a while, James didn’t know where to put himself. He was rather shocked.

He wasn’t sure wether he should scream in shock, or smile in relief.

He chose to smile. Which turned, more or less, into a shy-like face.

He got back his conscious.

“Oh. Wow. Sorry, I sort of froze there. Oh my god, Pinkie! How nice of you!”

He grabbed her and hugged her. He was pretty shocked. He was certain that he was going to die. And now this. That is, most likely, a pretty shocking experience.

And Pinkie is used to giving hugs, so she didn’t find it weird at all. She just hugged back, and yelled out.

“You’re welcome!!”

James started looking for Fluttershy. He wanted to speak with her.

He found her, by the corner of the room, seemingly hiding herself a bit.

“Hey, Flutters, What’s up? Why are you just sitting there?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. I just don’t like when Pinkie invites the whole town.”

She replied.

“Arh.. I understand. Too many people. I feel your pain. I used to be like that.”

She smiled, as she asked.

“So, where were you this morning?”

“Oh, so you did notice. Well, I decided to take a morning walk, to think about some stuff. And suddenly, I found myself lost, in the Everfree Forest. Which is when I chose the wrong way back home. And so I ended up by a blind end. When I was chased by a Timberwolf.”

Fluttershy didn’t reply right away. It was pretty shocking.

“Oh my gosh. Even I haven’t been through something as wild as that, and I’ve lived here since I was a little filly. You been here for a few days, tops.”

Fluttershy replied.

“Yeah, guess you’re right. Anyway. Wanna do something? We could go talk to the others, if you’d like?”

“Sure, let us.”

She said.

They started partying, and speaking with some of the other ponies, attending the party. Which they spent most of the day on.

After the party was over, they all said their goodbyes, and went onwards home.

When they got home, they went straight to bed. Partying with Pinkie can be pretty tiring after a while.