The Story Of Rinald McDinald (say the 'i' for a longer period of time)

Carla walked towards the cafeteria, that foggy morning. She sighed. My penultimate day at Outdoor Ed, I can't believe it's gone by so quickly! she thought, sticking her hands into her new, fluffy sweater her parents had gotten her for Outdoor Ed. She looked at the sky, tired. She wouldn't be seeing the beautiful woods behind her cabin anymore, or sleeping on the top bunk, on top of one of her friends; Miriah. Boy, she would miss Outdoor Ed. Her parents weren't really the camping type, and her brother and sister were too small to go camping anyways. She sighed again, and looked around towards the Striped Bass cabin, for the boys. Out came Lennard, a blonde kid with blue eyes, with something wrapped tightly in his hands. He called out to somebody Carla couldn't properly see because they were sitting down on a bench, and Lennard raised his hand up high to catch the person's attention. Carla started walking towards the bench too, and soon noticed that it was Liana who was sitting down. Lennard sat down himself right next to Liana, who provided something that looked very similar to the object Lennard had in his hands. As Carla got even closer, she realized that they were cards. They were quite interesting though. It looked like some sort of game, like with Pokemon cards, but the Pokemon were not Pokemon. They were ghosts, vampires, mutant animals, and warriors.

"Watcha playing?" Carla asked Liana who was putting down a card, and Lennard grinned devilishly.

"Just a game," said Lennard, triumphantly putting down a card. Liana gasped, as Lennard pointed towards a ghost card she had, who was floating through a haunted forest.

"But I didn't die yet, HA!" cried Liana. "I still have five lives!"

"Yeah, and I have 16," said Lennard, picking up another card as Liana twisted a 'forest' card in her hand. She suddenly put down a card that said 'swamp'.

"You shoulda attacked me!" said Lennard, pointing at his card.

"Shut up!" said Liana as Lennard pointed at the same ghost girl flying through the forest as last time.

"Dead!" said Lennard, putting the ghost card in a pile of cards Liana had accumulated, while in Lennard's pile there were only two.

"I said, shut up!" said Liana, grabbing a card from her deck. "Oooh!" she said, putting the card down. Lennard leaned over to look at the card and opened his mouth with astonishment.

"Nice trick, nice trick," he said.

Then, the unmistakable voice of Mrs. Young, the English teacher that had come along for Outdoor Ed, said,

"KP's should already be in the dining hall! Everybody else, we're going in two minutes!"

Liana and Lennard decided to keep playing, as a confused Carla watched their match. Then Carla felt an unmistakable tingle behind her ears. When this happened...

"Hey guys!" said Ian, flailing his arms around wildly, his sweater tied around his neck. His glasses nearly fell off his nose.

"Ian," said Carla.

"Do you know how to play?" asked Lennard.

"Cheeeeeeese!" said Ian, grabbing a card and throwing it off the bench. Carla stifled a laugh as Liana picked up the card and said,

"Take that as a yes," and giggled.

"What's that card?" said Ian, pointing at a 'Titanic Growth' card, with a giant dog on it.

"Mine!" said Liana, keeping it close to her chest. Ian looked at the ground, a fake frown on his face. From a distance, Carla also heard the voice of Aidan who was saying,

"Nobody knows how I eat worms, worm three times a day, HEY!"

"RIIIIIINALD MCDIIIIIINALD!" screeched Ian

"Ian?" asked Carla, looking at him with a confused look.

"RIIIIIINALD MCDIIIINALD!" he repeated. Carla burst out laughing.

"RIIIIIIIIIIIINALD!"

"McDinald?" asked Carla. Ian slightly nodded, and jumped in place.

"McDiiiiiiiinald!"

And that's how our curious story began.

Ian waddled though the door into the dining hall, the number 11 on a card in his hands. Suddenly, Ian didn't feel like going to Outdoor Ed anymore.

"To... EQUESTRIA!" he said, pointing his index finger up at the sky. Three seconds later, he was gone.

Meanwhile, in the magical kingdom of Equestria...

Applejack waved good-bye to Rinald McDinald, her latest client, who waved back at the mare as me smiled contently with a big basket of apples at his side. He brought them inside and closed the door to his house, licking his lips. Rinald loved cooking, and he was ready to cook his biggest and best apple fritters yet.

Rinald took out the ingredients, and a rolling pin. Then he put on his white apron with his name embroidered on the front, and put the basket of apples on the counter. The earth pony looked through drawers to find a knife good enough to cut the apples, when he thought he heard talking coming from outside his window. Rinald sneaked a look outside, and saw Bon Bon, the cream-colored mare with candy as her cutie mark, murmur something to her best friend Lyra Heartstrings.

"REALLY!?" said Lyra Heartstrings, bouncing up high.

"Yes! Lyra, I swear to Celestia that I saw one with glasses and a black mane, wearing clothes,"

"You mean hair. Humans don't have manes, Bon Bon," said Lyra matter-of-factly, looking around.

"Where was he headed?"

"Rinald's house,"

"What would a human want to do with Rinald?"

"Well, apparently something!"

At the very second that those words escaped Bon Bon's lips, a crashing sound was heard all the way from the front door, and a... human... came barging into Rinald's personal space, yelling,

"RIIIINALD MCDIIIIIIINALD!"