Chapter 3: The Beginning of the End

She felt the air rush past her, her hooves pounding across the forest floor. Unicorns weren't built for running, and she could already start to feel the strain as she rushed towards the cabin clearing. Sweetie Belle didn't often run as she got older, but still enjoyed it when messing around with her friends. She started slowing down as she felt something different, then stopped for a moment. She could feel a small breeze that steadily got stronger, and watched as her long curly mane started flowing in the wind in front of her. She resumed running toward the cabin, the wind getting stronger with each step forward. When a small laser of magic headed straight towards her, she barley had time to duck before it struck the tree behind her, leaving it with a ringed scorch mark. This can't be good, she slowed her pace to avoid getting caught up in the strong wind that heavily blew her forward. Looking around when she noticed two bodies huddled behind a large rock that stood strong against the fierce wind.

"Scootaloo! Apple Bloom!" she could feel the wind pushing her forward as she walked to the rock.

"Sweetie Belle! Hurry! Over here!" Scootaloo voice sounded quiet as she forced it against the wind, using her wings to both cover her face and try to dispel her voice farther.

"What's going on!" Sweetie Belle shouted over the wind as it roared past the rock they had settled behind.

"I don't know! This firework me an Scoots found came flyin back through the trees!" Apple Bloom explained, "Then it went off an I guess it surprised Twilight, and then she suddenly started floatin, and her mane started gettin wavy, and her magic went nuts and started blastin everythin! Apple Bloom took breathed in, ready to go on when Scootaloo shoved a hoof in her mouth.

"Basically something is very wrong!" She took her hoof out of Apple Bloom's mouth, earning herself an annoyed glare from the yellow earth pony.Sweetie Belle looked around the rock, followed by the two others until all three were peeking around the large boulder. All three gaped at what they saw forming above the young princess, staring wide eyed at the scene before them. Twilight still hovered above the ground with her eyes blazing pure white, her whole body emanating a large amount of magic off in waves, with her horn glowing a deep blackish purple. Though the surprising thing was the large swirling hole mixing the colors of purple, black and red, which seemed to be the source of the large wind force.

"Apple Bloom?!"

The yellow pony looked over beyond the clearing, spotting an orange coat among the trees. She stood up, "AppleJack over here!" stepping away from the protection of the rock she could feel the gale force winds pushing her forward, she struggled to keep her footing as she tried to spot her sister.

"Apple Bloom come back!" Sweetie also stood, but stayed behind the large rock.

"Apple Bloom are you out of your mind!?" Scootaloo stepped forward, feeling the wind pull at her mane.

"It's fine guys! AppleJack's here she'll kno what ta do! We just gotta- ahhh!" while looking back at her friends her hoof had caught on a large tree root causing her to fall, but she never hit the ground. As soon as she had lost her footing the wind rushed her along, rolling her and pulling her towards the portal.

"Apple Bloom!" Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo yelled over the wind, as they saw their friend being rushed away. Sweetie Belle stood there in a frozen panic not knowing what to do when a flash of a purple mane ran bye, she saw as Scootaloo rushed towards Apple Bloom who struggled to get a hold of something. Scootaloo flared her wings open and was rushed forward as they caught the wind, flapping them as she closed in on her friend. Keeping her balance as she caught hold of the scared earth pony, snapping her wings closed as she wrapped another hoof on a large tree root. Scootaloo could see the panic visible in Apple Bloom's amber colored eyes as she tried to keep her hold on the root as her mane whipped around her face. Watching as her friend was kept in the air by the force of the wind as it pulled them both.

"Scootaloo..." Apple Bloom kept her eyes on the orange pegasus as she spoke.

"What is it?" Scootaloo kept readjusting her grip on what was most likely not only hers but Apple Bloom's life line. When she looked up to her friend it was now that she could see the scrapes and cuts across her face, most likely from having been dragged and tossed along the ground.

Apple Bloom squeezed her eyes shut before she spoke, "...I'm scared."

Scootaloo froze, looking back at her friend just as a small tear came out that was whipped away by the wind. She knew it took a lot for Apple Bloom to admit being scared, and to admit it out loud just showed how she felt. She flashed her a reassuring smile, "Don't worry Apple Bloom, we'll get out of thi-"

"Scootaloo! Apple Bloom! Look out!"

Scootaloo looked back just in time to see a panicking Sweetie Belle before a broken tree branch came flying into her vision, hitting her directly between the eyes. Her vision danced with spots, but even though she could see Sweetie Belle moving her mouth she couldn't hear anything besides a high pitched ringing going through her heads. She could feel herself becoming light headed, as her vision blurred. Scootaloo could also feel her hoof slipping from the tree root, but she couldn't muster up the strength to hold on anymore. Her head was clouded and she felt numb, only feeling the pressure that was persistent on her other hoof. She looked up and the last thing she saw was Apple Bloom staring at her wide eyed, tears still being whipped away from her face. Everything started fading as she felt herself let go of the one thing that was keeping them anchored, and through the ringing in her head she heard a voice cut through the fog in her mind.

"Scootaloo! Please!

Author's Note

Okay so I kept putting this off for some reason only my self conscious knows of but I finally got it done! And that's what counts...right? We'll I hope you are all enjoying the story so far, I have many ideas for where this story can go! And if anyone's wondering why there's a gore tag, it's because of a specific scene I have in mind for later in the story...but you'll just have to wait and see what it's about >:D and could someone explain why "adventure" and "slice of life" are conflicting? It really confused me. Oh and one more thing...I suck at doing country accents. There I said it, it's out there and you will probably judge me but I can't help it! I try imagining how it would sound and then try to write it out but it just sounds...weird...so this is why when Apple Bloom or Apple Jack talks there will probably spelling mistakes but those are purposeful...sometimes. So as I said before I hope everyone's enjoying the story so far :D and you could leave a comment telling me on things I could improve since this is my first time writing "professionally" if you could call it that, but try not to be rude or out right mean when leaving a comment since this is as I said my first time writing. Hugs for everyone! *HUGS*

I'm so weird! (>U<)