The only thing I felt while wandering through the Everfree forest is despair. I have been wandering for about 3 days now utterly lost. “Well damn,” I mutter “if I don’t get a source soon I’m not gonna live.”
I continue on walking, hoping to find a path. When out of nowhere I hear a growling. I dare to look behind me, and it probably saved my life. Because what I see is a timberwolf jumping at me. I duck down just in time to have the tips of its claws scratch my scales.
And with that I take off running as fast as I can. By this point the timberwolf’s friends joined in. and things only got worse from there. One of the wolves managed to get in front of me, and kick me with its hind leg. That’s all fine and dandy, if I hadn’t been near the edge of a cliff. As I fell of the cliff the onlything I thought was well this has got to be the worst day of my life.
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UNKNOWN POV
“Well this is just great, not only has Twilight sent me into the Everfree, but she had to send me with Fluttershy,” I mutter.
Then out of nowhere we see something fall of the cliff ahead of us. Squinting to get a closer look I see that it looks like a pony. Once I registered this I grabbed fluttershy’s foreleg and took off towards it.
CRASH! We missed it and it crashed into the ground. Cautiously Fluttershy and I approach the pony.
Fluttershy gasps loudly, and I run up to see what she is gasping about. I trot up beside her and see why, a changeling! But this changeling looked weird. It had a silver back armor, where as the others they saw at the invasion had blue. This was the same to say bout its visible wing. it was a silver so bright, its wing could have been made of pure silver. Then it started to stir.
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MY POV
After my fall I blacked out, only to wake up however later it was to find to ponies staring at me profusely. Well damn. “Is there something I can help you with?” I ask politely.
The cyan mare with the prismatic mane gets up in my face responding with “What are you doing here changeling?” she said the word changeling with such venom I could have sworn I had seen some fall out of her mouth, or I was just delusional from my hunger and the fall.
“I was trying to find a new home, now I am in a bush with a possible broken wing and leg.” I reply with a curt and matter of fact tone. “Now back to my question. Can I help you ladies with anything?”
The yellow mare with the pink mane pipes up at this. “Let’s start with your name, you do have one don’t you?” She asked kindly.
“You wouldn’t understand my Changish name so I will tell you its Equish translation, my name is Mirror Image.” I say, more directed towards the yellow pegasus than the cyan one.
Smiling she said “ok well my names Fluttershy, and this is Rainbow Dash,” pointing her hoof at the cyan Pegasus. “You said you had a broken leg and wing?”
“Well im pretty sure of the wing, but not so much about the leg,” I reply wincing. “I don’t suppose I could get some help standing up?”
“Sure let me help with that,” Rainbow Dash said, finally rejoining the conversation, as she walks over to me and holds out her hoof.
Reaching up for the hoof with my fore leg I stand up. “That you Rainbow Dash, correct?” I say politely as I get shakely to my feet.
“Don’t mention it,” she replies “I mean seriously don’t ever mention it.”
“Now if you don’t mind, I will be on my way.” I state as I start to walk past them, only to be stopped by Fluttershy.
“Oh no you don’t, not on that leg!” she says louder than normal “now mirror you are coming with us until you are healed. You do have your own pony disguise right?”
“Yes I do,” I reply while shifting into my pony form. The only thing that would stand out being my eyes, which are still a pale silver. “And why pretell do I need my disguise up?” I ask as politely as I can.
“Well we don’t want to freak anyone out on the way to my cottage,” Fluttershy says as if I was someone she talked to every day. "We better get going if we want to make it by nightfall," and she starts walking in the opposite direction. Once we reached the edge of the forest Fluttershy gives me a look and I put up my disguise. After about five minutes we reach a small cottage "Well this is my home sweet home," Fluttershy says as we walk inside.
After about four steps in I stopped and breathed in deep breaths. Rainbow Dash asks "Mirror, what are you doing?"
The only thing that I do in response is to cast a spell revealing all these thick swirling clouds spiraling towards me. "And what are those?" Rainbow asked increduliously.
"Emotions," Fluttershy responds to her "Love to be exact."
After I finished feeding I look to the two mare and say "Changelings can feed on more than just love. In this case it is a mixture of love, joy, and a bit of fear." At the last emotion Fluttershy looked towards the floor sheepishly. "And now if you don't mind, I would like to rest. if you have a place for me to sleep?"
"Oh yes, right this way." Fluttershy says leading me upstairs. "I'll see you tomarrow Dashie."
"So will I hopefully," I say as I start to limp upstairs.
Rainbow replies with "Yea goodnite to you too."
Author's Note
Note The only character I own in this chapter is my OC Mirror Image.
Thank you for sitting through the roughest chapter in any series the First.
All of you stay awesome and fist bump LIKE A BOSS!
A day in the forest (Chapter 3)
“Um… Hello Fluttershy.” I hear an unknown voice say from our left. Immediately turning I see a grey mare with a lovely black mane.
“Oh Octavia! What are you doing in the forest?” Fluttershy asks with a forced smile on her face.
“Oh I’m trying to find my bowtie, my roommate Vinyl decided to try her hoof at teleportation spells,” The mare named Octavia replies with a twinge of ignorance in her voice.
“And she teleported your bowtie?” I ask with a tilt of my head “finally someone who doesn’t think bowties are out of style.” As I say this I walk over to shake her hoof. “My name is Mirror Image, Octavia was it?”
“Yes My name is Octavia,” Octavia replies while reaching out to shake my hoof. “What brings you guys into the Everfree at this time of day?”
“Oh it’s just terrible one of my chickens got out and came into the forest,” Fluttershy says with despair “And we don’t know whether she is okay or not.”
Octavia staring blankly at Fluttershy says “That is bad, do you need my help? I could probably find my bowtie in here as well.”
“Well I…” Fluttershy starts to say nervously before I butt in.
“That would be quite lovely Octavia, the more eyes the better.” I say as enthusiastic I could get
with the pain in my leg. “Let us head out now so that we may find them both.”
After about five minutes of walking Octavia pipes up “I couldn’t help but notice, and I just have to ask. What happened to your leg and wing?” With that I stop and turn to look at her, to which she quickly replies with “Sorry if I was rude with that question!”
Chuckling I respond “Rude? Not at all, I had fallen of a cliff trying to escape some Timberwolves. And before you ask, I was in the forest trying to find a new home, I was kinda forced to leave my old one.”
“Wow that is just horrible.” She says with a gasp “wait is that your chicken?” she asks pointing.
“Oh Henrietta! We found you!” Fluttershy says with a lot of energy “Wait why are you wearing a bowtie?”
“That would be mine,” Octavia says sheepishly as she takes the bowtie off of Henrietta.
After about twenty minutes we reach the edge of the forest. It was starting to get darker.
“Um I know we just met and all,” Octavia says nervously looking at the ground “But would you care to join me for something to eat?”
“Well I was supposed to help Fluttershy, but if she doesn’t need me then sure.” I say looking toward Fluttershy.
“What? Oh me, no I don’t need any more help Mirror, but since you are staying with me for now, make sure that you are back soon.” Fluttershy says caringly.
“Thank you Fluttershy,” I say with a quick nod. “Well Octavia where do you want to go?”
“Ooh I know this good restaurant by the edge of town near here!” Octavia says with a lot of glee as she starts to drag me along “This way to the Broken Shelaighlai!”
We arrive in no time at all, true to Octavia’s word it was on the outskirts of Ponyville.
“Hello Sir, Ma’am, are you ready to order?” the waiter asks in a polite yet snobby tone.
“I’ll have the Spicy Daisy and Hay fry sandwich, what do you want mirror? Go ahead and pick whatever you want, because I’m paying for this.
“You know what? I’ll take the same as her,” I say nodding “that sounds like it would be interesting.”
“And anything to drink at all?” the waiter says
“No thank you,” I say nodding “I can’t answer for Octavia though.”
“Just a water please,” she says. As the waiter leaves she asks “I do believe that you mentioned this in passing, but why are you staying with Fluttershy?”
“It’s a complicated story but here is what I can explain off the bat,” I reply with a shaking my head “So it starts in my old home near the wastelands. As you might have heard it is pretty bad out there, the air is so rich in Sulphur few can actually survive there. I being a Pegasus and all am not much help there where the unicorns get all the…” I pause hanging my head down.
“I can’t lie about this, I had a story all set up if someone asked what happened, but it’s not right.” I say solemnly. “Do you know of somewhere secluded we can go after we eat, because what I want to show you could scare a lot of people.”
“Did you hear that?” I ask looking around “I swear I heard someone talking.”
“What are you talking about?” Octavia asks looking concerned “Oh look our food is here!”
Not much happened over the time we were eating. The sandwich was slightly spicy like intended. Octavia let about 16 bits on the table and took me outside. “There is a creek by the edge of the Everfree that no one goes to at all.”
“This should work,” I say looking around “Now I want you to promise me something. Do not scream, ok?”
“Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” She says while doing some gestures.
“What?” I say with a cocked head.
“It pretty much means that I can’t break the promise.” She explains.
“Um… ok, here goes nothing.” I say as I drop my disguise. The only thing Octavia does is stare. “I must say I actually expected a different reaction.” I say “You okay?”
Author's Note
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