The Land Before Ours

     I'm Flim, and that's Flam, and we are the World Famous Flim Flam Brothers. Basically, we just steal people's jobs with our inventions in a contest. Town last town was a disaster, we didn't even get to have the pie-baking contest! It kind of ruined our reputation, so we're on our way to Ponyville again, but this time for Zecora. Zecora is the "magician," if you will, of her land. We are going to face her with our new invention, the Dimensional Traveler.

     We have arrived in Ponyville, and ponies apparently hear we were coming. There is a large crowd surrounding the station like we were celebrities. Only, they didn't look too happy. One step,one step, and they threw tomatoes and paper at us. We bolted towards the forest, and dragged the heavy briefcase behind us. Man, I never knew tomatoes could hurt this bad!

     The forest was a lot darker than I'd expected. We set up our tents and went to sleep. The night was cold, and when we woke up, it wasn't any better. In fact, it was worse. No breakfast restaurants seemed to want to welcome us, in fear we'd attempt to steal their shop. Flam looked at me, and I knew we had the same thought: It's time.

     Zecora's hut was a lot farther into the woods than we thought. It was almost lunch by the time we had reached it. Inside, she was muttering something strange, to the tune of a humming noise. I only caught a little but but here's what I heard:

“I often tend to speak in rhyme,

even though it takes most others much time.

This is good for most of my days

because they may not understand my ways.

If I challenge those ponies to a duel,

which potion will prove them big fools?”

     What on Earth is she doing in there? We knocked, and the humming stopped. She answered the door, and acted as if she just woke up. She let us in, apparently not knowing who we were. The room felt kind of dark and scary, but Zecora was obviously just fine. So I went with it. We challenged her to a magic-off, and she accepted. She didn't know of our weapon.