Rebelling Against the Princess

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I became nervous. Very, very nervous. This unicorn has been leading me for what felt like forever, and somepony is following us, although the unicorn doesn't notice, or at least doesn't care. And that's what struck me, and I stood still. What if these ponies are working together to attack me? What if they believe my abrupt ending is a good idea? The unicorn turns out, his face looking puzzled. That's when I realized another thing, that was hidden by my previous pain. His spell is making me sweat... It feels like the starting of a weak fire, slowly beginning to catch fire, to burn me. The idea of me tied to a stick, which is cast over a fire scares me. I can practically feel the fire lick me, like someone new at cooking over fires, being so bad they set me on fire.

When I realize the fire is fake, and I'm just imagining things, I continue walking. The unicorn shakes his head lightly, and quickly ends up in front of me. Sunlight... Lots of it. Not just the weak illumination without heat, but actual sunlight coming through some trees, and the pony pushes some bushes away, and gestures for me to follow. I quickly gallop, although still weak, and I end up covered in sunlight. I grin largely, and I laugh happily. I haven't enjoyed sunlight in so long! What else has being in the Everfree forest been taken away? Soon, my strange amounts of glee subside, and I sigh. "I've never been this warm, or have seen sunlight like this in so long. This is beautiful." The unicorn, with a not-so-hidden curiosity tone is in his voice. "I'm Star Bringer, but... What do you mean?" I turned to him, and my glee quickly vanishes. A tone of sadness creeps up.

"The majority of my life, I was stuck in that horrible place. You have any idea how many times I got attacked, or stuck, or hungry and thirsty? I can't even remember. Oh, and I'm... uh... Actually, I don't know."

"What? How do you not know your own name?" His curiosity is replaced with frustration. I guess it's understandable.

"How? Don't ask me. I'm pretty sure I hit my head enough times to forget."

Star smiles at that, but only a tiny bit. "Alright. But follow me, your badly hurt, if you haven't noticed. Somehow your hooves or legs didn't get hurt, which I don't understand." He walks, expecting me to follow, and as he moves, I see a zebra's head stick of the forest. Her face shows a puzzled expression, but she ducks back into the Everfree forest. I follow the unicorn, and as we end up coming near to town, most ponies gasp and look confused. Four ponies, unicorns, dash forward and grab me with magic. "Hey, quit it! Let me go!" I try shaking myself, but I'm simply too weak, and in too strong a magic grip. They gallop, bringing me with them, and my head turns and I see the ponies all around.

The unicorns bring me to the hospital, but I'm too tired. In a race of what gets me first, whether pain or the want to sleep, pain wins. I black out.

I stand, looking at Shadow Mist as he is brought to the hospital. Despite not really knowing him, I feel like we are already friends. I sigh, and as I turn around, I manage to hold most of my scream, and let out only a weak one. "God, Dasher, be more sneaky and scary, will you?" Dasher, a pegasus pony with grass-green skin and a black mane that goes down to her body, brown eyes, her cutie mark a silhouette of a pony galloping. Dasher grins, and laughs a little, and once she finishes, he says "You should've seen your face. But anyways, what happened to that pony?"

"He claims he was stuck in the Everfree forest most of his life. And, not to mention, he was stuck under a heap of rock."

"Well that doesn't seem to make sense. How did he get there?"

"How the hay do you expect me to know? What's weird about this, is how was he in the Everfree forest most his life?"

That's when Dasher realized something, although with her years of keeping her secret, and knowing when and how to hide her true feelings, Star couldn't tell she realized something. "I don't really know. But it does seem weird." A silence looms between the two, and they seem to try and find words. Piercing the silence, Star says "I got to go. I'll catch you later?" "Hopefully." Dasher said with a bored voice. Star hesitates, but quickly he leaves, heading home.

I watch as Star gallops away, the idea throbbing my head. It took all my willpower not to blurt out what I was going to say. I mean, I can't believe that the strange pegasus came from the village of Mytro! But it began piecing together. He, if he really is Shadow Mist, has the same eye color, same mane color, same skin, and a similar face style as when he was just a young filly. But that didn't make sense. Could it? Shadow Mist should be dead, nopony has seen him in years! And how is he still sane? Or, why didn't a creature kill him first? God, it's been such a long time since she'd seen Shadow Mist. My inner emotion defenses couldn't hold this happiness feeling. A grin quickly spread on my face, and I jumped. I quickly fly up into the air, flying in circles, shouting 'Wooohooo!' Ah, Shadow. I can't believe I saw you again.

I eventually run out of happiness fuel, and I glide back down to the ground, happy. I need to see him, once more, just to see if it were true. I gallop quickly into the hospital, and ask for the room number, which I'm given. I force myself to calmly trot to the room, and eventually find the door. I push open the door, and I see Shadow Mist, unconsious. Of course, I can't keep a feeling of sadness from emerging within me. It seems like he isn't alive. I slowly trot over to Shadow Mist, and I stand next to him. He's breathing, so he isn't dead. I don't see anything bad, until I notice his wings. Oh my god! What happened to you?! His wings are bent in a painful way, and they don't so good. Not to mention how dirty he looks, from being in the Everfree forest. I silently look at him, when I sigh, and stroke his head. This feels weird, doing this.

Eventually, I stop, and a doctor steps inside. He looks at me, and says "Excuse me, but you need to leave right now." I nod, and say "I needed to go anyways." My voice in a some-what sad tone. I slowly walk out the door, and walk out of the hospital. I fly home, and quickly enter, where I promptly run to my room, and jump into bed. I'm tired, and worried for my friend. But I can worry later. It's time for sleep now...