Behind the Door

Morning light bathed Ponyville when morning came, the darkness of the new moon from the previous night being replaced by the more pleasant light of the sun as it slowly rose high. Ponies all over the small town began getting up and going about the start of the day, though one mare was anything but awake. In a small, well kept, motel a loud noise could be heard coming from inside one of the many upper floor rooms. The noise had been going on since before the sun had started rising and having had enough of the noise, one of the employees of the motel went up to the room and knocked hard on the door several times. "Whatever that noise is, could you please stop it! You're gonna gonna wake up all of Ponyville!" He yelled.

The noise came to a stop, but was then followed by a loud thud of something having collided with the floor. The stallion raised a brow, wondering what exactly made such a loud noise as the door swung open to a large gray furred mare with a tired look on her face, with a white mane in a complete mess."I didn't ask for a morning alarm with my room." She said, a yawn following.

The stallion craned his neck up and took a few steps back to actually see Mina's face as well as he could. His eyes went a bit wide when he finally registered just how big the tired mare in front of him was. A nervous chuckle left him once he did realize the size of the mare."Sorry ma'am, I was just checking on what the noise in there might of been. I'll just leave you be to your rest." He said, stepping back and away from Mina. He didn't turn around, or break away from his stair until his backwards walk almost sent him tumbling down the stairs.

Mina huffed and shook her head a bit, closing the door and heading back into the room she had been sleeping in for the night. There wasn't much in it, but it was in better condition than nearly anywhere she stayed before. The fact the bed had been just big enough to of kept her whole body on did sway her opinion to be more positive, though.

She reached up a hoof and rubbed her eyes as another yawn left her. "Well, no point in going back to bed. This is probably as awake as I'm gonna get." She said, and walked over to a small desk that came with the room that had a large shoulder bag rested on top of a cloth cloak. Her horn lighted up and opened the bag as she slid the cloak inside, pulling a brush out from the bag for a few moments to brush her mane, a few grunt leaving her with almost each brush.

Once finished, she put the brush back into the bag, and looked back up and around the room in silence. After a few moments her horn lighted up again and an old familiar book came out of the bag."Alright, I know where that door is, how to get there, and that all I need to do now is get a key, that someone I haven't actually seen told me about, from the most powerful being in all of Equestria, and it is likely the most secure city in the country as well." She said, sighing at her own words.

She opened the book and flicked around the pages."This is gonna take some time. Gonna need to find out where the key is somehow, a reason to get into the castle without suspicion, and make sure the key going missing goes unnoticed for quite some time." She continued to say to herself."I bet I'll need to get some kind of connection to someone high up enough in the castle to be allowed to go almost anywhere, and to take along anyone anywhere they wanted to." She said, and sighed out after having heard herself talk."I spent awhile to get to this point, so what's a few more months, or possibly even years." She said to herself just after her sigh, flopping onto her side."But it might take longer than a few years. I have to steal something from an alicorn, and not just any alicorn, bucking Celestia herself. There is only so much one mare can do, and that is way pass what I can do alone. I'm gonna need help, a lot of it." She said, and blinked, looking around the dark motel room she was sitting in."I think I'm going crazy, I'm just sitting alone in a dark room talking to myself. Well, this can't be healthy. If I'm gonna talk to myself, might as well do it in the daylight."

Following her own advice, she stood up and walked to the door of her room, walking out and closing it. She headed back downstairs to the main room and turned her key in to the mare at the front desk, walking out with a good portion of the workers catching a glance at her as she stepped out.

She walked around the dirt path of a road for a few minutes, taking in some of the scenery the small town of Ponyville had, catching more than a few ponies awkwardly staring up at her before they darted their heads in the opposite direction. Mina returned little acknowledgment to those that did stair at her, seeming to be use to the odd looks that come from her size.

Mina stopped her walk awhile later when she felt a rumble of hunger come from her stomach. She looked around and spotted a small outdoor diner, and headed over to it. She walked up to one of the tables and sat down next to a seat that was far to small for her.

A waiter walked over to Mina and spoke in a meek tone quiet enough for only a few of the words "What will you be having." to be heard from the timid pony.

"I'll have whatever is popular for breakfast here." Mina said, looking down at the waiter who gave a small nod before he turned and almost ran.

Mina looked around, the light chatter that had been going on before she arrived had been replaced by awkward silence and a few stares from those around her. by the time the waiter came back and set a plate in front of Mina the light chatter had came back somewhat, a few eyes still giving the occasional stair at her as she ate what was put in front of her, little attention being giving from her to anything at the time.

Mina slid a few bits from her bag once the waiter returned with a check, the awkward air having vanished for most around her. She stood up and turned going back to her walk down the dirt road once more. She passed a fair amount of the town, a set of eyes almost always directed toward her when another pony was around.

Mina's walk eventually lead her to a large part full of bushes and trees, with no other pony in Mina's sight. She continued down the part until she came across a two pony bench. She walked over to the bench, wanting to take a quick rest. She hopped up onto the bench, and rested her head on one of its hoofrests.

Mina remained motionless until a rustling bush caught her attention. She raised a brow at the plant until a squirrel jumped out off it and ran up a tree. Mina let out a chuckle."I'm too paranoid. Always feel like I'm being watched." She said, taking her attention away from the bush.

What Mina didn't know at the time was that she was right, something was watching her. Something crazy. Something beyond the laws of nature. Something... Pink.