Purple apple

After her 18th birthday party, Babs Seed found out that she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. She had finished her basic and intermediate studies, but she didn’t know what she should specialize, of even if she should take more courses at all.

Her cousin, Applebloom, suggested that she worked on a farm for a while, since the farm’s hard work will gave her experience, build character, and she will gains a few bits of gold too.

Babs Seed didn't like the idea at first, but she had spent some holidays with her cousins, and they managed to make raising a barn kind of fun, somehow.

So, after some preparations, she left for Ponyville aboard the infallible train.

The name, however, was apparently just publicity, since the train’s movement was stopped when they encountered a giant living tree sleeping over the rails.

“Hey, how much are we going to wait?” Babs asked to the locomotive’s workers, who, after three hours, hadn’t be able to awaken or uproot the living tree.

The workers said they were sorry, but they will have to wait for the experts to arrive.

Babs groaned, then, she looked over the top of the threes, and found some buildings at the distance.

"Is that Ponyville? “ She asked, and the workers nodded, “How long do you think it will take me to reach it on foot?”

“Barely 20 minutes, miss, but it is very dangerous, you have to cross the Everfree Forest. There are things even weirdest than this living three.”

“Oh my, then I will wait as a good girl!” She said with a faked innocent tone.

She took her things for the train, and waited for the moment when the workers where most distracted to run into the forest.

“The forest is just trees, after all” she tough, “Living trees sometimes, but if my family knows about something, it is trees. And apples.”

She said with deadpan tone, not sure who she was talking to.

However, the universe seen to have been hearing, and replied. She tripped with a root, fell to the ground, and there she found an apple like she hadn’t seen before.

It was purple, but it didn’t smell rotten, it smelled very good and tentative actually.

Her stomach made a noise, the only thing she had eaten since breakfast was some gray-tasting sandwich they gave her on the train.

Babs’ parents teach her to avoid eating things from the floor, and to NEVER eat anything that she didn’t know what it was.

The first was removed after she cleaned up the purple apple on a nearby stream, but the latter was stricter. This could be poisonous, like those purple mushrooms on videogames, and she will be intoxicated in the middle of the woods.

Yet this apple looked too tasty to resist, almost as if it had some spell on it. Finally, Babs took a bit, and found the apple to be as tasty and juicy as the outside promised, a little salty though.

She ate the whole apple, almost as if she was afraid of someone stealing it from her. And when there was nothing else to eat, she placed the seeds on her pocket.

Maybe it will be the next sensation on Sweet Apple Acres like those Zap apples.

With this in mind, Babs continued her march towards Ponyville, but after ten or so minutes, her stomach started to grow and move.

“Great, wonderful, it was actually poisonous!” She angrily said, trying to walk faster to get to the town before anything else happened.

She was feeling shivers, and just as she saw the exit of the forest, a strong ache below her stomach made her felt on her knees.

“Somebody… help…” she tried to said, but she didn’t though there would be someone closer enough to hear her. There was.

“By Celestia’s crown! What happened?!” A vaguely familiar voice spoke out, when she saw how the adolescent was lying on the floor, holding her stomach, and growling in pain.

Babs recognized the face of the woman who was trying to help her; she had seen her speaking with Applejack sometimes.

“Fluttershy?” she managed to say.

“Don’t worry, it is okay, I will take care of you…” the woman said, but Babs fainted before she ended that sentence.