Chapter 4: The Forest

Chapter 4

Where to begin… well I guess I should say the pain was still present when I awoke. It was dark, the air felt thick as I looked up to see a canopy so dense no sunlight penetrated through. Wait a second how did I end up outside? I felt around with my hands and notice the floor was stone and I was surrounded by three ruined walls in various states of decay. As my eye adjusted to the lack of light making out the silhouette of an ancient archway. To be honest this whole part of my journey is a little fuzzy so bear with me. I pulled myself up off the cold stone and attempted to walk around and once again I was too weak to even shuffle I along. The pain was too much. Darkside came back as well “look at you so weak, so pathetic can’t even push yourself to walk on your mangled foot. You worthless waste of space you should have just let yourself perish in that shack.” I shut my eyes clenched my hands and tried to calm down. Deep breathes… get your bearings. Holding back it in for now I managed to shuffle along the wall using it to support my weight as I made my way to the archway. In the distance I could see a faint glimmer of light through all the trees that surrounded the ruins. Just have to make it there I thought to myself there is no way anyone would find me in these woods…if anyone was looking which they most certainly weren’t. SNAP! What was that?

Breathing, gurgling, growling those are the three sounds that greeted my ears as I started crawling towards the edge of the forest. I looked to my left and saw nothing but darkness, I shifted my vision to the right again saw nothing. Then I saw it. Dead ahead was what I could only describe as a wooden dog. It’s snout looked like a freshly cut log leading to its blood chilling yellow eyes. In my eyes If wood could look muscular it would probably look like this creature. It seemed to radiate raw nature almost as if the plants and tree decided to fight back against any possible threats to the wilderness. It growled coming closer those eyes narrowing preparing to lunge and rip open my throat. Whelp at least it will be quick I thought by this point I really just didn’t care what happened to me. The dark side had won. I laid there accepting my fate as the creature neared my wounded body on hidden in the foliage. It was upon me I closed my eyes hoping its bite would be swift and precise my heart was racing, sweat was pouring from my brow dripping everywhere. I waited and waited. Huh? Why am I not dead yet? The wooden monstrosity appeared perplexed by what it saw on the ground. Sniffing me a few times the creature yelped and sprinted off into the forest.

“Ooookay….” I whispered to myself. The Dark side chimed in “hah you’re so weak and disgusting even a ravenous predator doesn’t want to end you. Might as well do it yourself.” “

“SHUT UP!” I screamed as I clutched my head… “Just leave me alone I…”. I desperately wanted to just end it all right there but some part of me willed me to go on. I guess I still didn’t want to die. I restarted my slow crawl towards the edge of the forest. Finally I reached my goal without any strength left I collapsed. As vision faded I noticed a small cottage with little bridge leading up the entrance. And what I saw I can say shocked me beyond belief there was a…pony with a cream colored coat and flowing pink mane and….were those wings? It was tending to a pink pony who appeared to be unconscious on the back of another pony. It looked very worried about the pink pony while the cyan pony carrying her was lowering her head in I could only describe as shame she looked very guilty. My vision was too fuzzy by this point to make anything out on the cyan pony other than that she looked like a rainbow.

Author's Note

So yeah in equestria and what not. So I uploaded these 4 chapters to see what people thought there are plenty more after this but I need to know if people like this or if I should stop. Anyways thanks for any feedback and I apologize for any typos or grammatical errors I did my best to edit but let me know if you see anything incorrect.