Alicorn Sword: An Equestrian Adventure

I aimed at the lone rock island, sat at the water's edge. Fired, and...

"Dang it! Missed!" said my friend, Eddie, from behind me.

"The stone has only gone in the water" i explained "I could just get it back"

"I reckon it's that sligshot" Eddie continued "You've had it a long time, i reckon it's just getting worn and broken"

"Well it is getting dark" i said, looking up at the setting sun "It must be affecting my concentration"

"Or it could just be the slingshot"

"It's not the slingshot"

"You need to get a bow and arrows" Eddie grinned, showing off his archery equipment. "This baby shoots miles"

"No thankyou" i said, already heading back.

"Well, same time tomorrow?"

"Earlier?"

"Done."

I headed back to my house, laid my head to the pillow and went straight to sleep.

The next morning i was woken as a piece of gravel hit me hard on the head.

'Really Ed?' i thought before walking over to the window

"Sorry" Eddie said "I couldn't open the door, the gravel was there and you're window was open"

I sighed, slipped on my suit, jumped out the window and landed with a roll next to Eddie.

"Couldn't you just use the door?" Eddie asked, but i grabbed him and practically led him to the same spot which we had been firing stones and arrows at, the night before.

The arrows and stones were fired when...

"Dang! last arrow!" Eddie put down his bow and rested his head against a rock.

"I could get it for you" i smiled, but Eddie just laughed

"How exactly would you get to that island?"

"Easy, just grab that fisherman's boat..." i pointed towards a canoe with a fisherman counting his fish on the river bank. "... Then just row on to the island, collect the arrows, come back"

"Ha!" Eddie laid his hands behind his head "Like he's really gonna let you borrow his canoe"

"Oh alright then" i grinned

"You're not planning what i think you are. Are you?"

"Oh yes i am"

"Sam, No!"

But it was far too late. I was already walking over to the canoe. I pretended to count the fish with the guy, who seemed completely oblivious, when I shot over the riverbank, hopped into the canoe, grabbed the oar and started madly paddling towards the island.

I heard the fisherman getting real angry and shouting, but that was all part of the fun.

I soon banked on the island, it was completely uninhabited, with an abandoned lighthouse in the centre, the rest was just made up of large, black rocks.

As i looked around and found the arrows, i kept getting distracted by the appeal of the lighthouse. Something about it just made it seem really exciting and made me want to go inside

'No one's been in there for years' my brain would say 'Plus anyone who's gone in there, never comes out, surely you'd like to see what lies inside'

I tried my best to ignore it, but when i found all the arrows i had made up my mind that i was going to just have a peek inside, just to see what was in there that was so dangerous.

The door creaked slowly open, and i forced myself to look inside. The room was dark except for a green light coming up from the floor. I goggled in awe as i saw, there was a massive, green cyclone of smoke. Going down further underground.

I just walked in to take a closer look when... I was falling, all i could see was green smoke.

'How stupid could i have been?' i thought to myself 'Imagine being so stupid as to walk into a large cyclone of green smoke, which you couldn't even see the bottom of'

Well i was on my way to where ever this was taking me,

'What if it takes me right through to the other side of the world' i wondered 'and i end up on the other side. What if i can't get back? How will i get back? Where does this even go?'

All these thoughts were rushing through my mind as i fell through the green mist...

Suddenly i was wet, i was... I was in water. I swam upwards and clung onto the land, despite having my eyes closed.

'I'm going to open my eyes and see an extraordinary sight aren't i?' i thought. Eventually i forced my eyes open and was slightly disappointed to find that it wasn't anything extraordinary at all, it was in fact a forest. But this forest seemed really weird, there was something sinister about it, and since i only had a slingshot and arrows, i decided to find stones to use as ammunition for the slingshot.

"I hope there's a place to settle around here" i said "I'd sure hate to get stuck out in this place at night"

A twig snapped and several crows, cawing as they went, rustled out the nearby trees.

Finally i came across a much lighter looking forest, this forest looked more weird than the first one, but i soon found that the trees were,

"Apple trees" i smiled and picked one out, "I'll make a shelter here" i continued, taking a bite "Then hopefully i'll be able to find whatever lies in this area"

So i gathered some sticks, leaves and branches and made myself a cosy little nest like shelter at the foot of one of the trees. It took the rest of the evening to find firewood and build a sort of camp area. By this time i was really tired, i'd already fallen through a portal into another world and was now just getting used to sleeping in it.

The next morning i woke with a start, someone or something was walking around the campsite outside

"Mah, mah, just look at the beautiful views you can get from up here"

'A country accent?' i wondered, i knew America was not on the other side of the world, but now i was confused

"Don't yah think so big Mac?"

"Eeyup"

'Whoa, two of them?' i hadn't been prepared for two. So i quietly waited, hoping the voices, whoever they were, would go away.

"Hey what's this over here"

'A third voice? how many beings are out there?' i thought, but i had been found. There was nothing i could do now except accept my fate

"Whah it looks lack some pony has been campin' here. Not surprased bah the lovely views"

'Hold on Some Pony?!?' i squirmed uncomfortably, hoping whatever they were, they wouldn't find me.

"Hang ahn there's an antrance"

'Damn'

"Whah there sure is sugar cube but i wouldn't bather them, they probably had a hard night after the large windstorm the pegasi put up"

'Pegasi?' this was not a bad bit of information i was hearing. 'Ok' i thought 'Let's put the facts together, Pegasi, Pony...'

Suddenly one of the voices let out a sqeak of fear, i jumped.

"T.. That's naht any pony" said the tiny voice

"Are ya quaht sure 'bout that sugar cube?"

"Y... Yes"

'Dammit' i'd been found, i lay as still as a log and watched in complete awe as an Orange horse with a blonde mane, peeked inside my shelter

"Well doesn't look lahke anything's in there" she said "Let's just remove this"

Then the whole thing came crashing down on me, the beast had knocked it down with it's tail, then i felt it stand on top of me.

"We'll burn this tonaht and use it as barbecue fuel" said the orange one

"Sounds great" said the younger one. Now was my chance, i squirmed about, throwing the orange pony off me and emerging from the, now, flattened pile of sticks. Silence fell, i had the ponies to my back so i swung 'round and saw them clearly for the first time.

The orange horse had a cowgirl hat on (Which i just thought was really weird), the guy that had been saying "Yup" was also a pony, but a redneck

'Weird' i thought 'i never knew there were any redneck ponies'

Then the younger one, was blonde with a red mane and tail. She was the one, i guessed, who first discovered my camp. The older and younger horses were clutching each other and cowering in a corner. But the orange pony got up and looked at me angrily

"Look, i don't know what you are" she said "But you knocked me ovah so apologase"

I was stunned. I didn't know what to say.

"Fan then, i'm Applejack, this is big Macintosh" she pointed to the older pony "and this is Applebloom"

Both Applebloom and Mac were unable to speak

"Look" i finally spoke "I know by your reactions, you probably haven't seen a creature like me before, but from the sound of Apple jack, i'd say she's as sweet as the apples she grows"

'Great' i thought 'Is that all you could come up with toget along with this Applejack?'

But i didn't think anymore, since i got a hard blow to the head by Applejack as she kicked me, right in the head.

"Come own big brother" said Applejack "Let's carry this thing back to the barn, hopefully Twilight will know what it is"

Then, with Applebloom following, Big Mac and Applejack pulled me towards their barn.