The other side of the Mirror Pool

I sat with all of my clones in the town hall and watched the paint on the wall dry. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that two of my clones disintegrated and flew out of the window, their screams still being heard. Three more got sent back to the mirror pool, then four more got sent back. There was only about seven clones left and then me, Twilight was ready to zap the clones that stopped watching the paint dry. One of my clones shaped her head to look like a more grotesque version of me. Twilight zapped three of the clones that laughed at the molding of my head as well as the one that had molded her head. I felt a slight tickle rise in my nose, and I held in the sneeze as much as possible, while watching the clones around me get zapped. There was now just me and another clone, one that looked rather sad about the whole ordeal. I felt the sneeze get too strong for me to hold it back, I sneezed and watched Twilight point her horn at me and I watched the purple beam travel at me and connect. I felt my arms and legs vaporize and then my body, and finally my head. I screamed extremely loud as I watched my surroundings fly by me. I watched the Sugarcube Corner fly by, then Fluttershy's cottage, and finally the hole where I found the mirror pool. I felt the cold water of the mirror pool rise up my still disintegrated legs and then up my body and finally submerging my head. I blacked out after my head was forced under the water.

"Are you coming, Jackson," my older brother, Tyler, called from downstairs.

"Give me a second," I yelled back. I grabbed my backpack and threw some things in it. I threw three water bottles, my phone, and a Glock M23, after ejecting the clip and turning on the safety. I threw the backpack over my shoulder and made my way downstairs to see my brother chugging a water bottle. "Are you ready?"

"I've been ready, are you?"

"Let's go," we left our house and made our way to Tyler's cherry red pickup. I jumped inside and waited for Tyler to get in.

"So where are we going again?"

"A beautiful lake that I found last week, the water is so clear, It's like a mirror," he told me while we backed out of the driveway. The drive was rather short as we talked about school and music. We approached a small clearing in some tree's that looked like it had been there for ages without getting touched by human hands. The grass was bent from Tyler driving his truck up here once, but other than that it was pristine and beautiful. Tyler stopped the truck next to an outcropping of rocks that looked like they were placed there by humans. I got out of the truck and followed Tyler down a steep hill. "We're here."

"We are," I asked him, to which he stepped out of my way and I saw the beautiful lake, that was so reflective that I could see myself perfectly. "This is beautiful."

"Yeah," Tyler said as he sat down and chugged another water bottle. I put my backpack on the ground and grabbed the Glock and the clip. "God dammit Jackson, I told you not to bring your gun."

"Whatever, I'm going to look around see if I can find anything cool," I told him while walking on the lake's bank. I walked a little closer to the shrubs to see if I could find anything that would represent humans have found this place before. I found a fern that looked like it had been munched by something.

"Jackson, come on we need to go," Tyler yelled. I turned around to head back when I heard a slight sniffling sound coming from the bushes and shrubbery. I walked over to where I heard the sniffling coming from.

"Hello," I asked while turning the safety off on my gun. I pulled back the shrubbery to see a small Pink pony sleeping. "Tyler, come here a second!"

"What do you want," he asked while running over to me. He looked at where I was looking and rubbed his face in thought. "Let's pick it up and take it home, I guess."

"You guess, what if it's dangerous and was out down here to keep out intruders," I asked him.

"No, why would they put a pony that's about two feet tall down here and not a guard dog," he told me while walking over to the pony. He picked the pony up like it was a baby and started making his way back to the truck. I ran over to my bag, picked it up, and ran back to the truck. I jumped into the passenger seat and looked into the back seat to see the pony laying there, every so often whimpering. I looked over to my brother who was resting his head in his hands before starting the truck and backing out of the grotto and returning home.

"What are we going to do," I asked Tyler.

"We are going to look after for awhile and then we can figure something out from there," he told me while putting a cigarette into his mouth and lighting it up.

"I thought you were going to stop," I asked him. He was supposed to stop smoking as a new years resolution.

"I need one right now, so don't give me shit for it," he told me. I thought about where today went so wrong. If we never went gone to the lake we would never have found this pony. I slid my hands threw my hair and waited for the truck to stop. Today was crazy.