Legend of Pegasi

They say that going there is dangerous. They say that there are a lot of strange and magical creatures waiting to hunt you and stop you from going further. They also say that even if get past the creatures, they won’t leave you alive.

Yeah, but… who cares? Well, not me of course.

And that was where everything started. My brave, or as other ponies said, ‘idiotic’ decision was made when I said, ‘Who cares?’ to what others told me. I mean, really, these Fairy Ponies didn’t seem as bad as others made them sound. I hadn’t seen one myself but it wasn’t as scary as those pony’s explanations.

Magical beauty that froze you to the bone and eventually leads to your death by those Fairy creatures! Seriously? I don’t know about those cowards but I didn’t believed EVEN A WORD. Those nonsense belonged to their superstitious owners. None of these lies can scare me, the one and only brave Soarin.

And my story starts from right here. From the day my best friend and I and started our long to the boundaries of…

Wait a second, why am I being this sappy? This is supposed to be my journal not a cheesy, sappy romance novel. Therefore… here we go!

As I said earlier my friend, Starswirl and I were heading to a dangerous journey. A journey to find a Fairy Pony and come back alive. This way, we could prove ponies wrong ideas about the Fairies and also prove that we can be the first ponies who come back alive.

And because of that, I woke up early in the morning and grabbed my saddle bag as I walked outside of my room. There, in front of the fire place, Starswirl stood with his hand made map of Equestria. Being an egghead like what he was, had some advantages such as knowing every single detail about Fairy Ponies AND Equestria. Therefore, our job was much easier with his knowledge.

“Ready to go?” he asked as he saw me.

“Pff, I was born ready,” I answered casually.

“Um… Soar? You sure you wanna do it? It’s still not that late. We can stop it right here,” mumbled Starswirl.

“Star, if you don’t really wanna come with me, it’s okay. You know I can handle myself,” I said.

He rolled his eyes and huffed as he heard my answer. “I can’t leave this idiot fearless colt who wants to experience the most dangerous things. God what should I do?”

“Maybe you should let him experience it?” I said with a grin.

“Fine. But only because you’re the only and the best friend I’ve ever had and the fact that you won’t stay alive without me AND the fact that I’m responsible for you,” he said as he smiled sadly at the end. “By the way, I sure don’t wanna be disloyal to your parents.”

I sighed sadly as I let my mind drift off to the memories from the past. I still could remember my dad’s last trip. I still could see his gentle smile at me and hear him when he told me to take care of my mother while he was away. I could also remember my mother’s sad tears as if she wasn’t going to see him anymore. And that exactly happened. He never came back and the only thing left from him was the necklace my mother had given to him.

After his companion in his journey gave the necklace to us, my mother caught a very hard disease. That was the only time I was scared in my life. Scared of losing that always happy mare that I knew as my mother but unfortunately my fears came true. And the last moments of her life, she talked to Starswirl and I. She said that she could my dad smiling at her. She made Star promise that he would protect me since he was older than me. After that, she passed out right in front of me and ever since then, Starswirl had become my everything. My friend, my companion and the brother I never had.

But he sure wasn’t coming to the trip with me just because he was responsible for me. I knew that he was even more eager than me to start this trip just because he wanted to discover new magic very badly. By the way, it was Starswirl, the most egghead pony in Equestria that took any risk just for the sake of magic!

“Earth to Soarin! What are you doing high above?” said Starswirl sarcastically. “I know you want to fly badly but try not to go so high above.” He snickered as he saw my glare.

“Hahaha, so funny,” I said as I hardened my glare.

“I bet you didn’t even hear me, did you?” he asked. He got his answer quickly as he saw my sheepish grin. We a roll of eyes, he continued, “I was saying that Fairy Ponies can be anywhere. According to my studies on them, they are invisible to us but they can be visible whenever they want. Therefore, there might be a bunch of Fairies now listening to us. They inform the other fairies and therefore we will be dead even before we get to their realm.”

“Then what should we do?” I asked.

“Well, there’s always a way for everything and this one too. There is a powerful spell that keeps them away but it’s too hard to cast. When I was gathering equipment for the journey, one of my worries was how to cast this spell almost every inch of the way because it takes a lot of energy but then a thought crossed my mind. You see, there’s another way for keeping them away and it’s using small bells but they’re not a good idea because Fairies can destroy them easily but what if we cast the spell on the bells? Therefore, whenever they wanna get near, we ring the bells and they go away and they can’t get close to the bells because the magic stops them from getting near.”

I looked at him with wide eyes and dropped jaw. Slowly, a smile and then a grin broke on my face. “Starswirl! Oh star, star. You’re… you’re… just wow! I don’t know what to say. Now I know why you delayed the trip till now! All I can say is that you’re genius!”

“Thank you so much but it wasn’t anything. I just put two and two together. That’s all!” he said with a smile. “However which one do you want?” he said as he pointed to the two items in front of the fireplace. One of them was a cloak that had bells on the bottom of it and the other one was a wand that had bells at top of it.

“Wait, you mean if I choose the cloak, I have to wear it all the way,” I said as I looked at the strange hood in disgust.

“Yeah, so what?” he said casually.

“So what? Everypony will make fun of me for wearing this! No thanks, I won’t. At least if you wear it, they say that Equestria’s big magician is wearing his working suit… er, cloak! But I’ll be a laughing stock if I do it,” I said.

“Big magician, huh? I’m not that famous you know,” he said.

“Maybe not THAT famous but that few spells you invented really blew unicorns away,” I said with a small smile. “However, I think picking that wand would be a better idea.”

“Great! I really wanted to try that cloak!” he said happily. “But I have an extra one if you changed your opinion.”

“No thanks…” I said as I looked at the… thing in horror. “How about starting our trip right away?”

“Yeah, let’s go!” he said. We stepped out of the house and closed it behind of us. I stared at it and sighed as I turned away from it. Starswirl who saw everything, put a hoof on my shoulder and said, “Don’t worry. We’re gonna be back here again.”

“I hope so,” I answered with a sigh.

“Come on now! You’re with the most genius pony of Equestria. Nothing can happen,” he said cheerfully.

“Yeah, I sure hope so!” I said with a chuckle and received a punch as answer.

“Wait a second, what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” I said happily.

We started walking in the path when suddenly Starswirl stopped. “Use the wand. Now!” he said suddenly. I didn’t waste any time and shook the wand right away. Right as I did this, an ear piercing scream was heard and a couple strange floating ponies appeared. They were shutting their eyes and holding their ears. They were exactly like two ghosts floating. And when I say ghost I mean literally. Their transparent bodies showed the scenes behind them perfectly.

“W-what are they?” I stuttered.

“Fairies,” answered Starswirl simply.

“They’re… not as beautiful as I thought they are,” I said as I looked at the screaming creatures in disgust.

“Yep. They sure aren’t beautiful when they’re angry like them but in general they’re the most beautiful creatures around,” he explained.

Right on the cue, the Fairies raised their heads and looked at us with such angriness that made a chill run down my spine but the angriness on the face wasn’t the thing that scared you. The amount of angriness was almost unseen as the scary face of them made you have nightmare for a good week.

“I just hope you’re right about them being pretty,” I whispered to Star.

“You’ll pay for that!” hissed one of the Fairies.

“You’ll pay for that!” said the other with the same angriness as its partner. Then in a blink they started dashing as they repeated the phrase over and over.

“Will… they really do it?” I asked as I watched them disappear.

“They still don’t know us. As I said, the magic prevents them from getting near us,” he said. “By the way, place this in your ear.” He gave me a small object that… well, there was just no way to describe it because it was indescribable. The best definition for it was a small wooden ball. “Once you place it in your ear, it doesn’t come out till you want. With this, you can hear voice of the Fairies wherever they are. Therefore, you’ll know when to shake the wand. And don’t worry about stealing it. It has the same spell that keeps Fairies away just it’s stronger and won’t let ponies steal it either,” he said.

“You know what? I would have been already dead without you,” I said as I placed the ball in my ear. It felt a little weird but soon, I got used to it. After getting everything set again, we continued our walk. I took a deep breath and smiled as the first rays of sun hit my face. A beautiful day to start a good trip. Too bad that ours wasn’t anything near good. Dangerous, thrilling, mysterious, yes but good, definitely not.

And guess what? It was just the perfect way to start a life-threating-super-dangerous-and-awesome journey. Yep, just the right way.