Led through the mist,
By the milk-light of moon,
All that was lost, is revealed.
Our long bygone burdens, mere echoes of the spring,
But where have we come, and where shall we end?
If dreams can't come true, then why not pretend?
Oh how the gentle wind,
Beckons through the leaves,
As autumn colors fall.
Deep in an unknown part of the Everfree Forest was a part of the wood where no pony has ever been too, not until now. Walking through the wood on a lone dirt path were six animals from a small town called Ponyville. An owl, a toothless alligator, a tortoise with a propeller, a cat, a dog, and a rabbit all who, like their owners, are great friends to one another even if some of them are opposites of the other. The tortoise and owl, named Tank and Owlowiscious, looked casual while moving through the path, the cat and dog, named Opal and Winona, looked a little worried at the sights around them, the rabbit, ironically named Angel, looked very irritated for not finding the way out yet, and the alligator, named Gummy, just kept a blank expression as if nothing is happening.
Owlowiscious landed on a nearby branch and looked around a little more before sighing in defeat once again. "Please tell us you found something," Opal yelled to him as she still looked worried.
Owlowiscious flew back to the group and said, "Sorry everyone but I still can't find anything. The wood is too foggy and dark." He waved his right wing over all around them indicating the fog all over the trees and sky. "If it wasn't so foggy I would probably have more of a chance." Angle only scowled at what he said.
"Or maybe you're just making an excuse because you're getting lazy," Angel said making them all gasp at what he said. "That's all."
Getting a little irritated himself with Angel Owlowiscious went up in front of him and smugly said, "Well I don't see you helping in anyway. So you don't have any right to call me out."
"If you want to take it there then so help I will-"
"Hey! Will you two stop it," Winona asked turning toward them. Owlowiscious and Angel turned to Winona and she continued, "Let's just keep going and try not to argue." With that said the two of them stopped arguing and continued along with the rest of them.
A few minutes went on and they were still moving down the path with little hope of finding a place to stay, much less their home. Everywhere they looked they saw nothing but trees and insects. However, once Owlowiscious looked at one of the trees he saw a very familiar looking young phoenix. He blinked a couple of times to see if he wasn't imagining this but still saw it.
He was about to talk to the young phoenix when all of a sudden all six of them heard the sound of an axe splitting through wood. They all hurried over to where the sound came from and saw to their relief an old unicorn stallion carrying an axe with his magic. From the sight they all assumed that he must be a woods pony since he was cutting off branches a fallen tree. His fur was a light grey color and his mane and tail was white. He was also wearing a dark trench coat so they couldn't see his cutie mark and on his left was a lit lantern which was very bright for just about any pony.
Out of all of them Opal was the most excited to see a pony in front of them. "Finally! Some help," She said as she started moving toward him. The others tried to get her to slow down to not try and startle him.
It was too late though since the old unicorn heard them. "Huh," He turned and looked for them. "Who's there?" He then saw where the noise came from and sighed in relief. "Just regular animals, thank Faust." He however, noticed something off when he saw a cat and dog in the group. "What's a cat and dog doing all the way out here?"
Winona rolled her eyes at that. "We should say the same thing about you. What's a stallion doing all the way out here in the woods," Winona said not knowing that he actually understood what she said.
"I live out here. Just because I'm out here in the woods doesn't mean I don't have a home."
"Uh-huh," Winona said but then her eyes, as well as all of their eyes, shot wide open at the fact that he was talking to them. "WAIT YOU HEARD US TALK?!"
"Shhhh," The woods pony shushed them and tried to make sure that nothing else was around. "Of course I heard you talk. Why would you think I couldn't."
For as long as they've known no pony has ever heard an animal talk, except cows, sheep, buffalo, and some weird tiger, goat, and snake hybrid. No matter how many times they have tried to talk to other ponies it was practically impossible since pony brains couldn't understand most animal languages, except maybe Fluttershy. Seeing a pony in front of them that actually can hear them talk was something a little abnormal for them.
"You know what forget I asked that," The woods pony said trying to wonder why six animals are out here. "What are you all doing out here in the open?"
Tank, using his propeller, flew down in front of him and said, "We're sorry sir but we were just looking for a way home."
"Right now you should be looking for a place to hide," The woods pony said to all of them. "Don't you know what would happen if the Beast were to find you." The six of them looked at each other in confusion before the the woods pony said, "Well all you need to know is that it won't be good."
Owlowiscious decided to speak up and said, "Sorry but we don't know anything about a beast, we're all just lost." All of them nodded at that.
"You have no idea how right you are," The woods pony said to Owlowiscious. "I'm afraid that out here all of you are more lost than you think."
After their first encounter the woods pony brought them all over to an old mill that he sometimes uses as a shelter. Gummy just stood there in the middle of the room, Opal and Tank were laying on the couch next to a fire place with Opal laying very close by Tank feeling more calm near him, Winona was laying on the ground near the couch, Angel was sitting on a nearby chair relaxing from the endless walking, and Owlowiscious was standing on a top of the chair Angel was sitting on.
The woods pony started a fire in the fire place just when Owlowiscious asked, "So what is it that you do anyway?"
The woods pony took a deep breath and replied to his question. "Do you remember that tree I cut down," The woods pony asked to which Owlowiscious nodded his head and he continued. "You see that tree isn't just like any other tree, it's made of Edelwood. It's a certain type of wood that I use to keep this lantern lit." He pointed his hoof at the lantern. "This lantern has been my burden for far too long but I must keep it lit no matter what happens."
Angel tapped on one of Owlowiscious's talons and made a gesture saying that the woods pony was crazy. Owlowiscious rolled his eyes and Angel looked at him rolled his own eyes. "Dude he's crazy," Angel whispered to Owlowiscious. "But don't worry I got an idea. We knock him out and then we get out of here."
"Okay one: he's not crazy," Owlowiscious whispered to Angel. "Two: even if he was that's a bad idea so just forget about it." Angel stated looking a bit irritated at that remark.
The woods pony looked back at Owlowiscious and Angel and asked, "What are you two whispering about?"
"That you're crazy and we want to get out of here," Angel said while Owlowiscious was trying to shush him to no avail.
"You can leave whenever you want to but I urge you all to be cautious," That got all of their attention as they all looked in his direction. "You must be careful to not run into the Beast while you are out there." Before any of them could ask about the beast he was talking about he continued to talk. "I'll go out into the mill for a little while don't follow me." With that said he left all of them.
After he left Tank started wondering about what he said. "A beast," Tank asked himself. "What do you think he meant by that?"
"I don't know but it sounds scary," Opal said as she started clinging onto Tank a little more. "Not to mention it might be filthy."
Winona looked around a little but and noticed that something was wrong. She looked at the rest of the group and figured out that one of them was missing and she knew exactly who it was. "Hey guys where's Gummy." The rest of them started looking around as well and also noticed that he was gone.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no," Opal started to panic. "You don't think the beast got do you?"
"Drama Queen," Angel whispered to himself. "He probably just went outside to find something to eat. I'm gonna go out there to find something, I'm getting hungry," Angel said as he got up from the chair and headed for the door.
"I'm gonna go with you and try and find Gummy," Winona said as she got up from the floor and followed Angel out the door. Angel made and annoyed gesture but accepted it anyway and allowed her to come.
Outside the mill Angel and Winona started searching around the area. Angel was only looking for berries or fruit while Winona kept on searching for Gummy. While searching for Gummy Winona decided to look and see if he got into the mill. When she looked inside she saw the woods pony again but this time he was using the mill. He grabbed the sticks he got from the tree from before and placed them in the mill making oil.
Angel kept looking around and finally found a bush full of safe to eat berries. "It's not any of that good stuff Fluttershy makes me but this will do," Angel said to himself as he started grabbing some of the berries. Just as he was about to pick another he heard a growling sound and looked to find what made the sound. Once he did he regretted making that decision.
Right in front of him was a giant Timber Wolf but something was different about this one. Since he was with Fluttershy he practically everything about all types of creatures so he already knew that there was something different. This Timber Wolf had much darker colors than a regular one, it had sharper fangs, and it's eyes were bigger and brighter. The sight of this Timber Wolf made Angel's ears drop and made him run for his life.
As he ran he climbed onto a barrel that Winona was standing allowing her to look through the mill. When he climbed in the force caused the barrel to shake and make Winona fall inside it to. She was about to bark and Angel until she saw Gummy underneath her. "There you are Gummy I've been looking for you." She turned to Angel and said, "What was that for anyway?" Angel only pointed at the Timber Wolf that started to look inside the barrel and at them. The sight of the creature made Winona and Angel scream but Gummy still had a blank expression.
Back inside Owlowiscious looked over and Opal and Tank and asked, "Tank you don't really believe in this beast right?"
Tank started to think about it and came up with an answer. "Well we've heard of strange creatures before so I would think that there might be something unique out there."
Just then the woods pony walked back inside and noticed that Angel, Gummy, and Winona are gone. "Why are three of your friends gone," Neither of them had a good answer until the door swung open again revealing the missing three.
Just then the Timber Wolf burst through the door and rapid speed and found it's prey. Owlowiscious flies up screaming, "BY FAUST THE BEAST IS REAL?!" The woods pony was about to do something but then some of the wood that fell off when Angel was hit into the wall fell onto his head knocking him out. Owlowiscious looks in shock at that and said to himself, "This is just great we're trapped in here with the beast and no way to defend ourselves."
"I have a thought," Opal said to all of them. "RUUUUN?!" Just like that all of them were running away from the beast.
They were about to head to the exit but the beast blocked them off. It was about to consume them when it felt something on it's left hind leg. It looked over and saw Gummy chewing on it even though Gummy didn't have any teeth. It threw Gummy off of it's leg but when it went back to the other it saw that they all left and when it turned back to Gummy it saw Gummy was gone too.
The beast quickly caught up to them and Angel threw one of his berries that he grabbed at it, which then it ate. Thinking that he could use these berries to help he sighed, "Oh I hate to do this. Oh well just as long as I don't get eating, I didn't really want these berries anyway." Angel then started throwing the berries he collected at it, distracting it, and letting them get away.
As they were running they made it to the roof of the mill with the beast following them. "Angel," Tank called to him. "Quick give it more of your berries."
Angel looked around for some but noticed that there weren't any left. "I think we have a problem," Angel said making sure that they all know that they are in quite a predicament now. He quickly looked everywhere on the roof and saw one last berry and sighed. He grabbed and threw it off the roof making the Timber Wolf follow it and get stuck in the mill making the roof and walls outside crumble and collapse.
They all jumped off of the roof in time and landed in the water, much to Opal's disgust. As she quickly got out of the water the rest of them looked over at the beast's direction and saw that it crumbled into stones and twigs like any other Timber Wolf would. They all got out of the water and sighed in relief while Opal was shaking the water out of her fur which then caused her to get all frizzy.
Just then they heard someone talking. "My goodness what happened here," They all looked and the woods pony has recovered and saw the damage that was caused. They all moved toward him and he looked over them saying, "Did all of you have something to do with this?"
"Yes we did," Winona said. "But don't worry we took care of the beast so there's no need to worry anymore."
"What?! The Timber Wolf, that wasn't the beast," The woods pony said making them all shocked to hear it. "The beast is nothing like any creature you would find in the Everfree Forest. I've seen the beast and that was not it."
With his wings wet Owlowiscious was only able to walk to him. "We're sorry sir we didn't know, but this wasn't our fault."
"You were the ones that brought it here and made it chase you everywhere making this happen am I right," The woods pony said. He turned away from them and says, "I think it's best that you all leave right now before the real beast comes."
Without anything else to say Owlowiscious sighed and now that his wings were dryer and he could fly again they all turned and left. They all went back on the main path on their way hopefully back home. Unknown to them the same young phoenix from before was flying behind them. As it landed on a nearby branch it looked over at Owlowiscious and stared in awe.
"Owlowiscious! Big Brother!"
The wind started to pick and all the wild life of the woods were minding their own business as the six pets of Ponyville continued to search for the way out of the Unknown.
All of the pets continued down the path they were sent on, not once looking back at the mill or the woods pony. The only thing that was different was their new found fear for what might happen to all of them. Since they were told that the Timber Wolf they encountered was not the beast the woods pony was talking about they became more cautious of their surroundings. Though even after what they've been through they still had to try and find a way back home.
As the sun finally appeared in the sky they were thinking over the events of last night that they nearly missed the cry of a small animal near a bush they were currently passing. Winona looked through the bush and saw a young phoenix tangled up in a bunch of branches. She reached in and, using her teeth to remove some of the branches, she pulled it out. "Are you OK," Winona asked the young phoenix.
"Yes I am," the young phoenix said while not looking at Winona or the others. "I don't how I got in there. I was just following someone and I must of lost track of where I was flying."
Owlowiscious flew up to them saying, "Well you're alright n-" One look at the phoenix and he immediately recognized him. "Peewee?"
Hearing that voice Peewee looked up and found the one he was looking for. "Owlowiscious?" He looked up and saw him. He flew up next to Owlowiscious and the two embraced each other on the spot.
Hearing Owlowiscious say that name made them all turn to his direction. "Peewee? Wait you mean Spike's pet," Angel asked.
Peewee's eyes went wide at that. He turned to the others asking, "Wait, you know Spike?"
"Well yes," Winona said to Peewee. "Since Owlowiscious is Twilight's pet he told us a lot about him since he's his owners personal assistant."
"I'm gonna walk over there," Angel said trying to escape the reunion.
Winona rolled her eyes at his action and said, "It amazes me that he acts like that with a name like that." She then turned to Peewee and saw that he was still holding onto Owlowiscious. "Seems you care a lot about him." Hearing that made Peewee blush and let go of Owlowiscious.
"Well yeah," Peewee said. "He's my big brother."
They all looked confused until Owlowiscious stepped in. "Well we're not blood related no but since Spike took him in I taught him a lot of things. Like how to fly and other things to help him grow smarter. Pretty soon I started to really like him and see him as my little brother." Owlowiscious finished by rubbing the top of Peewee's head with his left wing making them all awww at the scene in front of them.
Just as this was happening they heard Angel speak again saying, "Hey everyone come over here." This caught their attention and they all moved over to him to see a sign he was pointing out. "Looks like there is a town out here after all." With that they all went into the direction the sign pointed to.
"I can't wait to have myself be groomed," Opal said. "I feel dirty with all this dirt everywhere just trying to get in my fur."
A few minutes went by while they were all still walking down the path with Peewee now joining them. They came across a pumpkin patch which made them all relieved. After all how could all these pumpkins exist if there wasn't any pony around to plant them. Which brought a question to all of their minds that they didn't wanna spoil their relief by asking. If some pony planted them then where is this pony.
Peewee landed on Winona's back and asked, "Don't mind me asking but since you know me would it be alright if you tell me your names?"
"Only since you asked nicely and have great manners," Winona said making Peewee blush again. "Well I'm Winona, Applejack's pet."
"Nice to meet you."
"The cat over there is Opal, Rarity's pet. The tortoise over there is Tank, Rainbow Dash's pet."
"They seem interesting."
"The alligator over there is Gummy, no pun intended, Pinkie Pie's pet."
Peewee couldn't help but notice that Gummy seemed to be full of blank emotion and thought as it kept walking. "He seems weird."
"Tell me about it," Winona said looking at Gummy and his blank stare which made her shiver a bit. "And the rabbit there is Angel, Fluttershy's pet." She then started whispering, "Ironic name if you ask me." That however, got through to Angel as he stared at Winona and Peewee in disgust.
"I don't really like him."
"Yeah he can be mean at times even toward his owner," Winona said. "But once you get to know him he's alright."
Some time later all of the pets and Peewee made it to the town where they all hoped to find some pony to direct them home. Heck they would even except some pony to even let them have something to eat, however, there was just one problem. They've been there for about a couple minutes and they didn't see any sign of life. All the buildings and gardens were abandoned.
While searching Tank looked in through a building with the door open and saw a turkey in there. Confusing went through his mind but it was the best bet he received. "Excuse me but my friends and I are wondering if you know a way out of these woods?" Tank asked the turkey didn't say anything and just stared at Tank with the same blank expression that he always gets from Gummy. "Well is there any pony around here that might help us then?" The turkey didn't say anything but walked over to the window and pointed at a barn on the other side of town. "Um...thanks," Tank said leaving the building and rejoining his friends.
All of them gathered together and Owlowiscious asked, "Did anyone find anything useful?"
"A found a turkey that pointed us into that direction," Tank said pointing at the barn.
"Really!" Angel said not convinced. "A turkey said for us to go over there?"
"Are you doubting him?" Opal asked Angel quick to defend Tank.
"Oh I'm sorry was I upsetting your boyfriend?" Angel mocked which made Opal blush a little but kept her anger.
"Guys can we please stay focused here?" Winona stepped in front of them trying to stop the fighting. While looking at both Angel and Opal she quickly noticed that Gummy wasn't with them again. "Hey where's Gummy?" Winona asked making all of them look around for the missing alligator.
Peewee looked in the direction of the barn and found Gummy. "Look there he is," Peewee said pointing a wing at Gummy. They turned there heads and saw Gummy walking over to the barn without even looking back at the other pets.
Angel turned to Tank and said, "See what you did." Before Tank or Opal said anything he turned in the direction of Gummy and ran to him. Opal simply hissed at him and went on forward along with the rest of them.
As they neared the barn all of them started to hear music coming from the shack. It was almost like they heard a celebration was going on inside which would explain why there weren't any ponies around town. They were all inside the barn. The animals all looked inside the barn and what they saw couldn't be any more confusing and surprising then the fact of them wandering through an unknown part of the Everfree Forest.
They saw what looked a bunch of ponies with pumpkins on their heads and bodies with straw on their limbs. As they could tell they were all Earth Ponies since they couldn't see any horns or wings, but if there were any Unicorns or Pegasi then they would have been covered by the pumpkins. One look and they knew that this must have been a celebration when they saw some of the citizens, husking corn, peeling apples, playing musical instruments, bobbing for apples, and dancing. They also saw some of the citizens in the center of the barn running around a giant pumpkin hanging over their heads with straw all over it's body and some of it in their mouths while they are running.
One look at this and Angel couldn't take. "OK that's enough weirdness for today," Angel said about to leave.
Winona stopped him with her tail and turned him around. "Don't leave these ponies might be able to help us," Winona said dragging him back over to them.
"Really? You're going to ask them to help us," Angel asked irritated. "The ponies with pumpkins on their heads?"
"Just because they are like this doesn't make them any less helpful," Owlowiscious said pointing at them.
Angel still wasn't convinced and said, "It was already weird enough knowing that out here ponies can understand us but I'm not talking to any pony that thinks it's great to be dancing around looking like that."
Tank looked forward and saw that Gummy had walked in and was about to do something to one of the pumpkin headed ponies. "Wait Gummy get back here," Tank said making the others look at Gummy and run into the barn.
This grabbed the attention of the citizens and they all turned to see the animals enter the barn. They all seem to have just been staring at them with blank expressions that would put Gummy to shame, who was doing the same to all of them. Peewee got a little uncomfortable with this and said, "Sorry every pony we just wanted some help."
They all turned their heads to others while murmuring about what Peewee just said. Murmuring things like "Where did they come from?" "Why would they want to leave?" "Don't they look a bit early to join us?" Owlowiscious pulled Peewee into a one winged embrace and said to the ponies, "Yes we were wondering if any of you know how to get out of these woods." The pumpkin headed ponies turned their heads at the owl and stop murmuring. "You see we were just trying to find a way home and we thought that..."
Just then they heard the doors to the barn close and they all turned around to see two of the pumpkin headed ponies behind them. "What's the hurry?" They all turned back around to see who said that unsuccessfully. "This is a celebration of this years harvest." Neither of them could tell which one of them said that until they all turned to the direction of the giant pumpkin. They looked up at the pumpkin and saw, to their surprise, it moving downward staring at them.
They all looked around them to see all of them murmuring again. Winona decided to take charge and said, "Look we're sorry for interrupting your party but we really should be heading home so could any of you help us?"
They then stop murmuring and walked a little closer to them. All of them started to get freaked out until the big pumpkin in the center said, "Enough! Step away from them." They all obliged and stepped out of his way. They were about to thank him but he stopped them using some of the straw from his body as a makeshift foreleg. "However, I don't think I could let you go just yet. Because of you're crimes."
"Crimes! What crimes?" Owlowiscious was getting a little freaked out and tightened his embrace on Peewee. "We didn't do anything?"
"Nothing wrong," The giant pumpkin asked. "After seeing that you trespassed on our land, disturbed the peace of the town, and ruined the crops."
"What are you talking about," Opal asked shocked to hear that last part. "We didn't do anything to your crops?" That was until they heard something that sounded like munching and they turned around to find Angel eating a piece of pumpkin he must have taken from the pumpkin patch.
He looked at all of them suspiciously and swallowed. "I was hungry and these were the only things I could eat."
"Due to these crimes we sentence you to..." He paused for a moment for dramatic effect that did effect the animals. "A few hours of manual labor."
With that said all of them looked at each other out of confusion and Tank asked, "Is that it? That's we are given?"
The giant pumpkin stood up in attention. "I have spoken."
Owlowiscious, Peewee, Angel, Opal, Tank, and Winona have been doing nothing but work for the pumpkin ponies. Surprisingly even Gummy but not as much. They have been doing a lot of harvesting corn and pumpkins. When one of them would try to escape they were caught by one of the citizens of the town. None of them could escape together and take the one that catches them down since they were all chained with balled up chains that they kept for any turkeys they imprison.
After a few hours of none stop work they were down to their last job, digging holes. Opal was the one that has taken this work harder the most and moaned in pain. "I can't take much more of this," Opal wined. "I'm getting all sweaty from doing all this work."
"I agree with you," Winona said looking at Opal. "Not the work thing since I'm kinda used to this. But still we need to get out of here."
"And do what," Angel said sticking his head out of his hole. "Just blindly wandering around the woods since we still don't know how to get home. Why don't we just stay here where we will have a good life. It's better than starving in the woods."
"As much as I hate to admit it he's right," Owlowiscious said. "Except for the staying in this town part. We can't just wander around forever. There has to be something that can help us get home."
Peewee stood near Owlowiscious's hole and looked at the other holes in confusion. "Now that I think about it what is the point of all these holes anyway," Peewee asked. "Are they making us dig our own graves."
"That's ridiculous," Angel said. "Why would they make us do all that work and make us bury ourselves?"
Winona was busy looking through her hole when she saw something odd. She used her paws to dig up the rest of what was buried and what she dug up made her cringe in fear. "Maybe you should ask the one buried in here." They all looked at what she was talking about and saw to their horror a pony skeleton in Winona's hole.
They all stared at it with wide eyes and Opal nearly threw up at the sight but Gummy just kept staring at it. Angel turned to Peewee and said in a scared voice, "OK I'm sorry I doubted you. I was wrong."
Peewee smiled at Angel admitting he was wrong and Owlowiscious stared at him in surprise since he never heard anything like that coming from Angel's mouth. Peewee looked at his chain and used one of his talons to unlock it. After a minute it worked and he was free. He moved over to Owlowiscious's chain and did the same to him. While this was happening Tank looked at the path and saw the pumpkin headed ponies headed their way.
"Quick you gotta hurry their coming," Tank said hoping to be out of here before they show up.
"But wait we still don't know where to go," Angel said.
"Your time is up," They looked up and saw the giant pumpkin and the other citizens in front of them. "Your work is finished. Have you dug up the holes?"
Angel looked nervous and said, "Um...yes we did."
One of the citizens walked up toward them and said, "Well good now we shoul-"
"But you can't come over here just yet."
"Why not?"
Angel looked at the others nervously hoping for anyone to say something to convince them to not look at Peewee helping them escape. Tank looked down at Peewee who was now unlocking his chain. "I'm almost done keep stalling him."
"Um...the problem is that there is a whole bunch of rocks in these holes we dug up and we are now working on removing them for you," Tank said as Peewee finished unlocking his chain and moved over to Opal. "I mean you wouldn't want any rocks in the way of these holes now would you?"
"Well I guess we wouldn't want any," One of the ponies said.
Angel stepped in and said, "Exactly which is the reason why you shouldn't bother us right now. Don't worry me and my friends will-" He turned and saw that they were all gone. He was both impressed that Peewee managed to unlock all of their chains so fast but always angry that he didn't unlock his.
"So what about the rocks?"
"Well you see...what needs to happen...is-" He turned around when he heard something and saw another weird sight. The skeleton Winona dug up got out of it's hole and for some reason started dancing. Instead of the other ponies getting confused by this they all just ran toward it greeting it. "What the heck?" He then saw the skeleton grab a pumpkin with a face on it and place it on it's head. It then jumped into another pumpkin and used it as a body covering. He looked at the rest of the citizens and knew what was going on. "They're all skeletons!"
"What a great harvest this was," the giant pumpkin said. He then looked over at Angel and said, "Are you sure you still want to leave?"
"Of course I do," Angel said half angry at what he asked.
"Really," the giant pumpkin wondered to himself. "Alright then but know that soon you and your friends will join us." Angel looked kinda scared at that. "If it's a way out you want then just follow that path up the hill there." He pointed at the hill with his straw leg.
"Angel what are you still doing here," He looked and saw Peewee and Winona in the bushes.
He started getting a look of a mixture of annoyance and frustration. "What are you talking about," He said frustrated. "All of you left me behind." Winona then pointed at his paw and he looked to see that he was also free from his chain. "Oh."
"Until then," The three of them looked up at the giant pumpkin as he turned his back at them. "I'll be waiting to see you all in the next life." With that said the three of them joined the others and out of the town.
Angel, Winona, and Peewee soon joined the others in the woods and the rest of them were relieved to see nothing bad happen to them. "It's about time you showed up Angel," Opal said.
"Yeah we thought something bad happened to you back there," Tank said.
"That still doesn't excuse you for leaving me there without telling me to start running," Angel yelled at them. They were about to say sorry when he interrupted them and said, "Save it. Your just lucky I was still there. Reason why is because that giant pumpkin guy said to follow the path up the hill." He pointed at the hill at the end of the trail.
Peewee looked a bit worried about what he said. "Are you sure we should go that way since the pumpkin told you?"
"That's gonna have to be a risk to take," Owlowiscious said. All seven animals began walking the trail which lead to the hill. "After all it's probably better than the directions that the woods pony gave us."
As they walked down the path Gummy stopped to listen to something. He could sworn that he heard something that sounded like dark laughter in the distance, but kept his pace.
Author's Note
Sorry for the long wait I just had a lot of other stories to write, video games to play, etc.
Anyway now that I think about it I think I'm going to start writing some original chapters for this story since I think I could make this story longer. Until then thank you for sticking around for the story and see you next chapter.
