Deadliest Hay
By:Ollisean (EBT)
Strange How It All Began. Silence hung over breakfast like a spell. Somebody would make an attempt at a cheerful conversation and then it would die out like a campfire built with wet wood.
I kept straining for the sound of the pegasuses. My parents and little sister were doing the same. Maddie, who was ten, was sneaking glances like she might never see me again. My parents were in favor of my plan but they were nervous, too. If everything worked out, I was going to work on a hay carage on the outskirts of Equestria.
We live in a cottage house that is right along the tides, which are huge in SouthEastern Equestria. We live at the beach in a small cove in Port Tanaris. Tanaris is up in the Northern tip of Blueblood Island. The biggest of some eleven Hundred islands the panhandle of Equestria, or "Southeast," as we call it
Port Tanaris is little, and by little I mean tiny. Hardly any streets, very little ponyfolk we only have one store. We got more Carage's then we do people.
I was born in our cottage house and was Maddie. A worn down painted cottage and parasprites of moss. One big Cedar tree from the mountainside behinde us provided all the lumber and the shingle siding we needed. We're rich in a lot of ways, but money isn't one of them.
To make some cash money, that's why I was leaveing Tanaris.
"You don't have to go," Maddie said breaking the silence
"But I want to," I told her. "I'm so excited I can't stand it. I've been waiting to do this for years."
"We need you on our carage," she insisted.
My parents, who knew better were sitting this one out."You guys will do fine without me for a few weeks," I said
"Just because you're sixteen now, and old enough to get a Hayhand licence--that doesn't mean it's a good idea, Josh."
I reached over and gave my sister a hug. Just then the whole house rattled. Books and nicknacks went flying off the shevles, and the sugar bowl sailed across the breakfast table. My father reached out to try to grab it but missed. When it crashed to pieces of the china went everywhere.
Quick as can be, a smile replaced my mothers alarm "Tides nothing else it's fine" she announed. We ran outside onto the just then the pegasuses landed ready to take me,i'd been ready for this my whole life.
Good-byes were brief. "Keep your eye out and don't get hurt." my sister said
"Definitely," I told her.
"Heads up on the plains," my father cautioned. "Stay focused"
"You better belieave I will," I promised
My mother flashed a confident smile. "Get lots of hay, Josh."
"I will"
And with that was pretty much it. I grabbed my stuff and a minutes later I was flying over my cottage. My family was looking up and waving like no other, I waved back and that was the end of it.
