Two Worlds Collide: A Microscopic Tail

Hm... what? What happened? I just closed my eyes for a second wh--oh dear god, is it already Spring?! I skipped an entire season?!? Well... that's just embarrassing. Did anything good happen while I was away? Let me just check the story and I'll, uh, I'll...

Well, I'm going to be completely honest here, I don't remember the story at all. Something about... tiny people, I think? I remember it was Winter, lots of death--magic happened, somehow, and... where the devil did the last chapter go? Oh, this won't do at all--no, not at all. Tell you what, since I've completely forgotten the majority of this story, I'll leave you in the capable hands of a temporary Narrator! I hear first person is all the rage these days, so I'm sure it will be to your liking. Now let’s see, the story started with an unexplained explosion of magic...

We weren't prepared for the Spring. While winter was cruel and unforgiving, at least it limited the threats we had to endure; the giants, the weather, the search for food... it was so much simpler back there. My name isn't important, In fact I doubt anyone will be alive to remember it besides me--for now, just call me Anon.

When the giants--or gods, as they seem now--forced Winter to shift into spring, we originally thought it a blessing. No longer were we shackled to the chains of our titanic tormentors, but were free to escape and maybe--just maybe--find a place to be safe.

Then they appeared. The burst from the earth, the walls, even from the skies; Chittering, armored horrors--foul smelling monstrosities sent from hell itself! They looked like the bugs from our world, only they were bigger, more expressive. They're eyes held a sick intelligence as they regarded us and... and...

There was so much blood! My friends, the family I have come to know and love, all of them were just.. globs of meat to them. When they attacked, I was one of the first to try and defend my home from their invasion--I used my magic to form spears from the minerals of the earth, even as my brothers and sisters attempted to use their own spells to tear the beasts apart piece by chitinous piece. We eve managed to take down a few, but there were just... so many of them.

The man I thought of as a father was the first to go. The insect didn't even chew him, just sucked him down it's gullet like air before moving onto the next, then the next... not all of them made it down in one piece. The thought of my friends being eaten alive was bad enough, but the image of those swallowed whole being digested by a bug alongside the bloody slurry of those who were grinded up first was...

I threw up, and I wasn't the only one.

"Retreat!" I heard someone yell through the chaos. We had lost just about everyone; It had only been a few minutes, and we took some of those bastards with us, but more and more kept coming. A few took the advice and popped from existence--hopefully somewhere safe--while others, myself included, magicked themselves a pair of wings and flew off into the sky.

A few minutes passed before we finally started to let our fight-or-flight instincts die down. Those things were probably ants, but I'll never know for certain. Hell, they may have been something completely alien to the insects from our own world--one thing was certain though, while the giants were likely unaware of our presence, and as such were probably killing us by accident, those things knew full well what they were doing. I could see it in their eyes when they looked at us, they knew full well what they were doing.

A blast of wind slammed into me, knocking my controlled flying into an uncontrollable tailspin that lead to a rather painful impact against... something. Despite the pain, whatever it was I landed on was actually quite soft, if not a bit porous and bumpy. It was a vibrant red color, and stretched off a good ways in the distances before meeting up with another plateau, that even further looked as though it met with another.

The air surrounding it also smelt amazing--if I had to guess, I'd say I landed on some sort of flower. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy it; in the distance, where I was flying, a massive flying insect was making dives at the survivors of my colony. While I couldn't see it happening, I knew that with each pass the massive bug--a dragonfly, from the looks of it--was devouring the people I cared for more than anything.

Weak, helpless, and alone I did what any sane person would do. I curled into a ball and cried.

I don't know how long I lay there--minutes, hours--but eventually I found the strength to get back up. I felt... drained, numb. I briefly wondered if those who teleported away were safe, and if I could maybe find them. I gazed into the sky, determined to find any survivor's that may ha--

My world was suddenly thrown into a chaotic pull as my body violently flew from the flower's petal; I only had a moment to see the vast cavern above me, a forest of white surrounding its dark depths before I vanished within the warm depths of the gaping hole. I thought I would never stop ascending, and in hindsight I wish I didn't; my travel was abruptly stopped as I felt my body fly into a thick, viscous substance as the warm floral scented air continued to blast past me into depths unknown.

A few seconds later, the air rushed out in bursts the same way it went in, a deep, bassy sound echoing from both deeper within and from outside what I guess was one of the giant's nostrils.

This wasn't right! I was going to find my people, find some semblance of life in this horrible shitty world! Not... not end up in a giant creature's snot! I struggled, tried to move my arms and legs, but to my growing horror I found that not only was I too weak to move in the pool of mucous, it was also oozing over my body! My scream was one of horror, fear, and disgust all mixed into one--it only intensified as the world suddenly shifted, and my body was slammed by a mass of G-Forces before once more growing still.

Alone, I remained within the nostrils of the giant being, lamenting the fact that I would never know if anyone else survived the day even as the slime the walls began to consume my body, both drying and burning my skin before hardening over my body and encasing me as though I were an insect trapped in amber.

A cream coated mare by the name of Roseluck finished inhaling the scent of one of her namesakes and smiled at the mare that grew them, Daisy.

"You did really good this year, Daisy." The raspberry maned mare said. "They smell absolutely delicious! What did you do differently?"

Daisy, a pink green maned mare, grinned in response before answering with a wink. "That's my own secret, Rose--you're gonna have to step up your game if you wanna beat me this year!"

The two mares laughed, as they often did, before their jubilation was cut off by an approaching dragonfly. At first the two mares simply stared at the passing bug, before Daisy--as she was often known to do--completely overreacted.

"AHHH! Is it coming to get me? I think it's coming to get me!"

And Rose, always the faithful friend, quickly followed suit with:

"Oh, the horror! The horrrror!"

The two mares, terrified of the approaching dragonfly for reasons I'm sure only they knew, collapsed on the ground, either feigning unconsciousness, or legitimately out for the count--I'm not sure, nor do I really care. The dragonfly, after casting the two a befuddled glance, continued on its way to find more prey to fill its hungry belly.

Ah... it's good to be Narrating again. I stopped paying attention to the other guy as soon as he said his name was Anon--I mean, really? Anon? Do people just not put any thought into their names anymore? Oh well, he's probably gonna wind up in a tissue somewhere and thrown away, or swallowed, or whatever happens to things that get sucked up our noses.

Anyway, the moral of this story is... hm... I suppose the moral is that sometimes its better to just stay inside, because when you go outside, you and your loved ones will be devoured by insects. Well now, that's good advice for anyone I'd say.