Zecora's New Problem

     Zecora begins to prepare herself to go out to Ponyville for recipes for her latest potion. She turns back one last time to her cabin and sighed as she closed the door, she's always alone in that cabin. She sometimes would have visits from some of the ponies in Ponyville but not as much to satisfy her loneliness. As she walked the path to Ponyville she noticed some of the wildlife around her and thought back to ponies being afraid of this place. It's not often to see ponies walking here without any sign of fear except for Twilight and Applebloom. When Zecora reached the end of the Everfree forest she noticed the Apple's farm and some of the memories of Appleblook's visits came back. Zecora sighed again and smiled knowing she won't be alone now since she's out of the forest she lives in. As Zecora took one step a sudden sound of something running behind her caught her attention. From that she turned around no one was there, so she brushed the sound off as some random animal and continued to get her ingredients. As she reached to the shops to get ingredients she paused and thought of the sounds she heard before she came here and brushed it off again, no pony would go into those woods, right? She bought the ingredients and walked back home. When she finally reached her cabin she heard the sounds of bushes rustling. This time Zecora went towards the source of the sound and used her hoof to clear away the bush and sawn a rabbit. Zecora then sighed with relief and turned towards her cabin to see something zoom by her into her cabin as if it was flying. Based off the size of the zooming image she knew it was a pony but same time it looked....like it had stripes. As she slowly approached her cabin she herd the sounds of hooves against wood running. Zecora peaked in and the sounds stopped. Instead of what she expected to find she couldn't see the pony, why was the pony hiding? Did this pony didn't sawn a zebra before as well like the ones in Ponyville. That's when she began to search around her cabin and slowly hear the sounds of a raspy crying pony behind her cauldron. Slowly she approached the cauldron and with each step she touch more the pony becomes terrified. Zecora poked her head at the side of the cauldron and sawn what was hiding in her cabin. This pony was nothing she ever seen before, it had wings like a pegusus but had stripes like a zebra, with light green fur on her upper body and even lighter tint of green for the pony's bottom half. She had a short orange mane with a red streak for both her tail and mane and her strips were dark green for upper part of her body and even lighter on her bottom half. This pony began crying seeing my face in terror and spoke in a raspy and tired voice.

     "D-Don't take me back.......Don't take me back...........don't....." She said quietly from her tired voice.

     "Where? Where are you from little one?" Zecora asked. Instead the strange pony shook her head.

     "Please.....if I tell you can you please....not take me back.........?" The strange pony asked. I nodded and she tensed up in fear and shook her head more. "N-no I can't I can't tell you I'm sorry.....I just can't....." The pony answered.

     "If you can't then what about your name?" Zecora asked. Zecora wanted to know a lot of this pony from her appearance, she became interested into where she came from but from how the pony looks....it's not good, something happened to her that made her like this, but what? The pony stayed silent from my question. "Well?"

     "I......don't know....I....don't...have a name...." She said to Zecora with a sad expression.

     "No name? What kind of place do you live that doesn't give ponies names?" Zecora asked causing the pony to become more scared. "Never mind.....I can give you a name if you want." Zecora said to the pony causing her to froze and look at Zecora with a look of relief. "From how you flew, I'll give you a name of Aerial, you like that?" The pony slowly nodded from the response. "Ok, then your name will be Aerial." That's when Aerial for the first time they met made a slight smile. From that smile it gave me a slight hope that she'll be alright and that she'll give my information on why she was like this and where she came from. Suddenly a knock came from the door and Aerial quickly ran to hide. Suddenly Twilight came in with Spike who appears bigger then normal. As Zecora explained Twilight the situation of Spike's growth Aerial was hiding in Zecora's room as Spike comes in grabbing everything causing Aerial to quickly move between objects till she reached the closet to hide. As the door to the cabin shut showing sign that Spike left she slowly moved from her hiding place as Zecora came in. "Why are you hiding?" Zecora asked.

"I....I just am too scared.....that I'll go back to that place..." Aerial said looking at the door to the cabin.

     "Ok, I understand." The zebra said hugging the strange pony. "I'll keep you safe I promise." Zecora said causing Aerial to smile once more, that's when she knew, she'll be safe with her, and that she'll stay away from the bad ponies and hurt her in that place.