Awakened Hearts

Part 1

Mark was asleep on the grassy hills. He was knocked out from what happened a last night. Shade approached the sleeping boy, and crept slowly to him and then shook him by surprise yelling out “WAKE UP!”

Mark awoke by the sudden outburst and glared at Shade angrily.

“What!? Why are you waking me up like that!?”

“Well, just for fun and because right now ISN’T THE TIME FOR SLEEPING! WE’RE IN A FREAKING TELEVISION SHOW!!!” Shade replies stressfully.

Mark took a look around to see he wasn’t joking. By looking at the colorful design and the drawn scenery, Shade was correct. They were in fact in a TV show, and if that wasn’t proof enough, as Mark looked around, he saw that his hands too were drawn as well. (Eris designed them)

“What the heck!? I’m all drawn and… cartoony!” Mark yelled out in terror.

“Calm down Juliet.” Shade replies sarcastically. “That’s not the biggest problem right now.”

“What could be a bigger problem than us being in a cartoon!?”

“Which cartoon it is… and apparently last night, I found out.”

“What is it?”

“My Little Pony…”

Mark stares at Shade still cannot believe what he heard.

“You’re kidding right?” Mark asks in hopes that it was a prank.

“No, I’m not… I saw colorful horses with wings and horns and all that.” Shade replied.

Mark widened his eyes and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Not only were they in a cartoon world, it was in a show for kids.

“Well… maybe this isn’t so bad…” Mark says in hopes of regaining his optimism.

“How’s it not so bad?” Shade pessimistically replies. “We’re in a TV show for kids! If word got out that we went to this world, we’d be laughing stocks to the whole town!”

“Well, it’s better than going to a world where we would have to constantly fight a bunch of zombies or aliens, and I don’t think I can fight through monsters like that.”

“Well that’s sounds better to me.” Shade grins as he readied his wooden katana.

“Well, in any case, we should find Eris. She’s probably around here too.”

“I tried looking around, but I couldn’t spot her at all. I was hoping to find Eris a lot since she watches this show. She probably knows more about this world than we do.” Shade admits as he puts his katana back.

“Did you try calling her cell?”

“I was going to, but my phones batteries are out.” Shade pointed out.

“Damn, mine too.” Mark said as he checked his cell phone.

Mark looks around and spots an apple orchard pretty far away.

“Hey, look! There’s an apple farm!” Mark points out obviously.

“I am pretty hungry…” Shade’s stomach growls at the thought of eating again. “But that farm belongs to somebody, right?”

“Yeah, so? We’ll just ask for some food.”

“Okay, not only is that embarrassing, but it also means… we have to talk to those horses, right?”

Mark suddenly realized that they ARE still human, so how would they react if they saw a human that’s taller than them?

“Okay…” Mark admits. “But we DO have stomachs, so we should eat something!”

“Relax, there’s a forest right there! Let’s just hang low and hope no horses are in there too.” Replied Shade as he pointed to the forest.

“Yeah, you’re right! Plus there’s food in forests so I think we’ll be fine.”

“And besides! This is a kid’s show, right? The only danger in that forest would probably be, like bugs and frogs.”

“Yeah, heheh! That’s true.”

The two went into the forest. Little did they know it was the Everfree Forest. A dangerous place for anyone to enter.

After a while in the forest, the two had already set up a camping site. Mark had finished putting up a leaf tent while Shade brought in food found in the forest.

“Are those safe to eat?” Mark asked.

“That’s for you to decide, I don’t know my poisons!” Shade replies.

Shade had placed berries, mushrooms, and some fish on the ground.

Mark starts a fire and looks at the berries and mushrooms. He then pulled out a pocket knife and cuts the ingredients and put the fish and mushrooms onto a stick and roasted them over a fire. The roasted mushroom and fish were done, and Shade grabs a stick and starts to eat.

“This isn’t half bad!” Shade complimented Mark as he ate the food like a corn cob.

“Thanks.” Mark replies. “I wonder what we should do next.”

“Well, one of our first priorities is survival if we’re gonna live out here.” Shade pointed out. “Then we have to look for Eris.”

Mark nodded in agreement as he continued to brew soup with mushrooms and berries. “I sure hope she’s alright.”

Part 2

A while later, somewhere a bit far from the camp site, the yellow pegasus Fluttershy was passing by the forest.

“Angel! Where’d you go!?” She called out.

She walked around the forest shaking in fear.

Behind the trees, Mark spots Fluttershy. He hides again in hopes he wasn’t seen.

“Shoot!” Mark thought. “Why is there a pegasus here!? We only came into this forest to avoid confronting one!”

As Fluttershy walked, she suddenly heard a rustling bush.

“Angel?!” Fluttershy squealed as she looked at the bush, hoping it was her bunny. Instead, a wooden beast came out and snarled at Fluttershy.

“EEP! A TIMBER WOLF!” she screamed.

Mark stared at the wooden beast and thought, “What the heck is THAT!? Timber Wolf!?”

The timber wolf chased after the pegasus around the woods while Mark watched what was happening.

“… Aw crap, I gotta do something.” Mark said to himself.

Meanwhile back at the camp site, Shade was sleeping in the tent. He suddenly heard a rustling in a bush. He pulled his katana an inch out and yelled out, “Who’s there!?”

Out of the bush, a white bunny came out and only glared at Shade.

“Oh… just a rabbit.” Shade puts back his katana and went back to sleep.

The bunny felt insulted and started to attack Shade. However due to Shades toughness, the bunny was grabbed by Shade and put him from eye to eye.

“I don’t kill animals, so don’t make yourself an exception.” Shade warned the bunny.

The bunny nodded its head in understanding. Shade put the bunny down and soon offered the bunny the mushroom and berry soup.

“Want some? It’s good.” Shade offered.

The bunny crossed his arms and looked away. Shade shrugged his shoulders and went back to sleep. The bunny was actually quite hungry. Soon it gave in to his stomach and ate the mushrooms and berry soup. He was actually quite pleased and tugged Shade’s shirt for more.

“Hmm? You want more? Well, I have to ask Mark to make more… where is he? He shouldn’t be out this long for more food…” Shade wondered. “I guess I better go check on him… wanna come along?”

Angel jumped to Shades shoulder and held on. Shade smiled and went on to look for Mark.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was still running from the timber wolf. She ran and ran until she tripped over a root of a tree and fell down. The timber wolf walked slowly up to the weakened pegasus, when suddenly Mark threw a large rock at the beasts head, tearing it off the body. Fluttershy looked over to Mark, but he hid away before she could see.

“Hello?” she asked. “It’s alright! I won’t bite!”

“No durr!” Mark thought.

“I just want to say… thank you!”

Suddenly, the timber wolfs remains came back together, and it was back to its ferocious state. Fluttershy screams and Mark slaps his head in disbelief.

“Are you kidding me!? This is a kid’s show!” Mark said to himself, quiet enough not to let Fluttershy hear.

Fluttershy attempted to run, but she apparently hurt her leg. Mark sighs as he knew what he had to do. He jumped out of the shadows and carried Fluttershy out of danger.

“Aaagh!” Fluttershy screamed at Mark.

“Pretty loud there.” Mark said to Fluttershy.

Mark ran with the injured pegasus, and soon more timber wolves showed up. He eventually ran into a dead end by the cliffs, and turned to see the timber wolves have indeed cornered them. Mark put Fluttershy down behind him, and defended the pegasus.

“Wait! They’re dangerous!” Fluttershy warned.

“Yeah! I know!” Mark replied.

The timber wolves attacked Mark, but as they got a bite from him, he countered them by pushing them away from Fluttershy. He soon started to bleed and slowly got tired.

“Ah! That really stings!” Mark yelled from the pain all over his body.

“Are you okay!?” Fluttershy asked.

“Not… really… Wait… can’t you fly!?” Mark pointed out to Fluttershy.

“Ah, uh…”

“Get out of here then! Now!”

“But what about you!?”

“What about me!? Just go!”

The timber wolves went in for another attack, but then from the cliffs, Shade jumped down and slashes the wolves with his wooden katana, breaking them to pieces.

“Mark! What the heck!? Why are you bleeding everywhere!?” Shade questioned.

“Now’s not the time! Those things rebuild themselves! We gotta get out of here!” Mark informed Shade.

They all ran away from the remains of the timber wolves. They eventually went far enough from the area to assure themselves that they wouldn’t be able to track them down.

As they ran through the forest, Fluttershy couldn’t help but ask something.

“Um… thank you… if… if you don’t mind me asking… what are you?”

“Humans…” Shade replied.

“Ah! Um… thanks again.”

“You don’t have to thank us again.”

“Oh, um… sorry…”

“You don’t have to say sorry.”

“Oh, um…..”

“You don’t have to say anything.”

“Oh, um, alright…..”

Shade sighs and gave in to the kindness she was trying to give. “You’re welcome.”

Fluttershy smiles at Shade. Mark suddenly coughed blood and they all stop.

“You’re coughing blood!” Shade pointed out.

“I’m… I’m fine… let’s get her out of here as soon as possible.”

They walked to the end of the forest. Fluttershy smiled as she saw the sunlight once again. Along with her, the bunny goes to her side. Fluttershy saw it and hugged it happily.

“Oh! Angel! You’re safe!” She say’s to the bunny. She then turns to thank the humans once more “You found him! How can I-”

But as she tried to, she opened her eyes to see that they’re gone.

Behind the shadows, the boys head back into the forest camp site.

“You alright?” Shade asks to Mark who was holding on to Shade.

“I’m starting to… feel better…” Mark replies.

“If we have to, I’ll go into that town and get help.”

“Do you think they’ll help such alien creatures?”

“It’s like we said… this is a kid’s show.”

They head back into the camp they have to call home.