Stuck in Equestria with my Grandma

The sight of houses, stores and coffee shops in the streets are quickly changed to trees, trees, and more trees as we travel all the way from the comfortable city to my prison, to my punishment, to my worst nightmare other way known as ‘family reunion'.

I Look at the forest in front of me as I think about all the other things I could do during this vacation instead of going to.. to THIS. I could go to paintball field with my friends, go skateboarding. I could have seen the new Y-Men movie; I hear that it is the last movie we will see with that actor who is the only reason we keep seeing those movies in the first place. I could even go and ask Martha for a date, maybe, I don't know, that's a possibility, right?

"Monty….MONTY!" I hear my mother finally screaming at me while I was pretending to not hear her. "Monty, are you listening? Can you please clean your little sister mouth, she could be drawn with her own barf" She says from the left front seat of the car while my dad drives on the other side.

I look at my 3-year-old sister bond to a baby seat of the car like if she was in one of those mental institutes for crazy people. "Calm down Mom, she is ok Is just a little spit of milk," I say as I clean her her cheek with my shirt and making funny faces earning a cute laugh from her.

"But not with your shirt sweetie, we have to look nice for your new sister-in-law. We need to have a good first impression don't you think? Or did you forget about it?" Sure, how can I forget about that? Not seriously I am asking, how can I forget about it? My mom and dad just don't stop talking about my oldest brother, Jimmy getting marry with a woman of a prestigious family or something like that.

"Oh, and we forget to tell you that Sammy is about to get his doctorate in medicine so we have organized him a party for him too. We even invited all of his friends. So don't ruin your clothes before the party would you, son?" My dad says adjusting the rear-view mirror to look at me as well as looking behind him parking the car next to the cabin. Without knowing we had already arrived at my jail.

"What? Are we going to have a party? Why hasn't anyone told me before? And why does he have a part? No one throws me a party when I pass 8th grade" I complain well I getting out of the car slamming the door that makes the baby cry.

"Ush, Ush, Samantha. there-there," My Mom says well releasing all the harness from the costume made baby seat she order. "You mean barely pass. You almost fail the semester, Remember? Seriously Monty Jimmy and Sammy pass with straights A's in their high schools. Sure you can do better than that in yours." She says making emphasis in the last word.

I roll my eyes "Yea sure mom, sorry for being the shame of the family," I say grabbing my old and trustworthy blue backpack out from the back of the car. I have to do it by myself since there wasn't anybody to do it for me. Dad has given them all a vacation for the week.

"Augh, Monty don't be so melodramatic. And I am going to tell you this before you over react, Grandma call and she says that she is coming to the party too"

And as if someone had thrown a baseball into my weak spot I let go of my backpack." Grand's coming?!"

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The rest of the day pass as I expected. The party was as boring as any other party my parents organize. Full of fancy stuff with a fancy food and all. I just keep staring at Sammy's friends while they slowly die of boredom as finally, they went in a limousine to, as they call it, a real party.

Many people believe that having parents with a multimillion company will be great, it isn't. It Is waaaaaay too boring to have everything you want whenever you want. I know this isn't a very popular thought but screw them, what would they know. At the age of 8, I realize I really didn't have any friends, real friends like the ones I see in T.V. cartoons. I prefer a million times the public school I am attending now than that private school full of spoiled kids that my parents wanted me to go.

"Well is getting late. Why don't we prepare everything for some smores and sing songs around a campfire" My dad says when he finishes congratulates my brother, once again,  and say goodbye to him and all his friends not before he told them the risks of partying too hard.

"Ho good idea Albert. Jimmy, why don't you come with me to grab some firewood in the forest " My grandma says with her trembling voice well pointing at me with her walking stick.

"Grand he is not Jimmy, I am Jimmy, did you take your pills?" My oldest brother says entering the room with my soon-to-be-sister. "And is better if I goo instead, is getting late and soon it will get dark"

"No, is ok, he can come with me I will protect him if something happens. And thanks for reminding me about my pills Sweety" Grand says grabbing Jimmy's cheek and sticking her hand into the big old purse of hers and pull out a tube with green and yellow pills in it and taking two of them swallowing them as a goose swallows its food.

"I need no protection. I am already all grown up thank you very much. And who is saying I want to go? " I say while giving her a glare.

My grandma looks at me with eyes that I really couldn't read. I never know what is in her mind.

"C'mon Monty, you know Grands. She always do whatever she wants. You must have gotten used to it by now." My brother says while putting a hand in my head petting it.

Grand uses to travel a lot in her younger days for her work. Maybe that's why she has a lot of hobbies. Now that she is retired, she still travels a lot but we don't know why or where most of the times. We know she travels around the world only because of the few times she sends postcards of the different places she goes. From Egypt to Australia and from South America to the North pole. She always goes traveling the world without even a goodbye, one day she is eating dinner with us the other she is gone for years.

"C'mon everyone, is getting dark. Why are you taking so long to come over here? Monty, could you please go already fo some wood its getting cold out here" My mom screams from the backyard where we usually make the camp fire.

"Ugh, I am on my way!" I scream at my mother while I go to get my backpack and coat. "I am going alone if you don't mind," I say to my grandma while taking my phone and earphones out of my backpack and put them on while I get out the cabin into the forest.

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The sun has just hidden into the west horizon. The animals in the forest start to get ready to sleep only for the nocturnal creatures to start hunting for their food. The first start of the night has already appeared in the dark sky. I heard that if you are the first one to see the first start of the night your most wanted wish will be granted at the start of the next day. I really hope it isn't true though. I can't wait until morning to get my most wanted wish granted.

"Where the fuck am I?" I ask out loud to no one in particular. hoping for someone to answer. I was collecting dry pieces of wood for the fire but I guess in between the complaints about my life and my music I get distracted and swerve off the path because I didn't recognize where I was.

"Great, I have no signal in here, damn Verizon. GPS isn't working either" I say walking and looking at my phone trying to get it to work. Since I have memory, I always use this forest as my playground, I should have known it as the palm of my hand but….

"Ugh? HAAAAAAA!"  I scream well I was falling down a hill that was hidden between some bushes. The sudden falling makes me lose the firewood I was caring as well as my phone.

"Ugh, dammit," I say as I examined my right leg in which I was bleeding out as well as some bruise and cuts all over the rest of my body." luckily I have a first aid kid in my backpack, wait? where is my phone?"

While looking for my phone I examine where exactly I have fallen. Apparently, I didn't fall from a hill, it was a hole in the ground. Deep enough to hide a tree. It was full of vegetation and vines covering the sides. "That's why I didn't see it." I thought to myself blaming the vegetation than myself.

Expecting carefully my surroundings I see my phone stock in some branches all the way on the other side of the hole from where I was. "How the heck did it goes all the way there"

And as I walk and lay down to reach it from the ground I feel pain going through one of my fingers." Ouch! what a sharp piece of wood" I say while liking the cut in my finger.

But I stop all my movements when I notice the low sound of breathing from something in my surroundings." That isn't a squirrel"

My blood gets cold as I notice the sharp branches holding my phone moves like fingers, or should I say claws dragging my phone into the darkness. A big silhouette caught my eyes as well as a pair of yellow glowing eyes with no pupils from behind some vines. It seems that the vines hide some sort of cave or a tunnel from where this creature keeps staring at me.

I took slow steps back trying to run from the beast but the only thing I accomplish was cornering myself into the limits of the hole. Now I was between the rock and a hard place.

"Oooooowhoo!"

I heard the howling of the beast taking steps towards me. It is then that I finally could see the creature. its sharp fangs and big size of what I think is a wolf but with no fur is seeing thanks to the pale light of the moon. The strange but intimidating wolf was reaching out to me but I didn't give it enough time to do whatever he was planning to do with me before I let out a loud scream, a scream that probably was in a very high-pitch for a man to be able to make.

But regardless of that, the scream takes the wolf by surprise because it took steps back into the tunnel hiding between the darkness of it. But not before I notice a small grim and the sound of a subtle laugh echoing in the tunnel.

"Di-did that wolf just laughs at me?" I thought. "I have to get out of here quick," I say as I took my backpack from the ground.  But before leaving, an unsettling feeling pass through my head. You need a quick pick from the tunnel, You need to see what is in there.

"No, I can't. What if the wolf comes back" I say out loud trying to convince myself of not doing it. But the more I think about it, the more I want it to take a look. Something in my guts is screaming at me to do it.

With my curiosity winning over my sense of self-preservation I move the vines blocking the tunnel and took a pick in the dark.

"Here dear, you can use this"

"No thanks, I have a flashlight I think." I say as a hand retires a lighted torch in front of me.

"let's go then. let's see where this tunnel leads to. You wouldn't let an old woman go alone through this  tunnel, would you?" My grandma says as she took a step forward into the tunnel with a torch made up of wood and a rope of some sort around the point of the piece of wood stepping inside the dark.

"GRAND! Where? What? How did you…?" I say in surprise to my grandma who was already relative far into the tunnel." W-wait, Wait for me!"

As I enter the tunnel I grab my phone that was a drag before by that thing only to find out that it broke. The screen has a small scratch and it didn't stop glitching showing the time passing from 10:00 to 10:44 and back to 10:00 and so on so I decide to turn it off for the moment.

"How do you find me?" I say finally reaching up to her, for an old lady she walks fast.

"I hear the sound of women in troubles so a went to check it out and found you, how about you? How you end it up in here?" Grand says

while she keeps walking with her walking stick.

"Huu? Ho! Yea right I-I hear the woman too hehe" I lied scratching the back of my head while trying to avoid eye contact. "I hear the scream and went to check it out. But what are you doing in the middle of the forest? in the middle of the night?"

"Well, isn't that obvious Jimmy? I was looking for you. We get worried when you didn't come back. After a few hours, I come looking for you."

"And where did you get the torch?"

"But from my purse of, course" Grands say tapping with her fingers the big old lady purse in her hands. "I never get out with some torch fuel and a lighter in hand Sweaty. What I have always told you?"

"That you should always be prepared for anything," I say rolling my eyes. Telling the truth, she is the reason I have my backpack with a med kit with me at the first place, but to be prepared with the materials needed for a torch. Grandma is hardcore.

"Exactly Jimmy, I had thought you well"

"Grands, for the last time I am not Jim-"

"Shuu, Jimmy do you hear that?" Grands ask interrupting me. As I stay quiet and listen I was able to hear the sound of drops of water falling. And not only that, I smell humidity, the smell of dirt recently getting wet.

"Is it... raining? But I didn't see any clouds in the sky when we enter here" I say while finally noticing something strange with the tunnel. I couldn't see the moonlight from where we enter. Even though the entrance was cover in veins, I could still see the pale light of the night trough it the last time I check but now I just see pitch black.

"I think it comes from the other side of the tunnel, c'mon Jimmy," Grandma says increasing the volocity of her walking.

"Wait, Grand. I think we should go back. There is something strange in here and I don't like it." I say in vain as my grandmother walks out of the end of the tunnel.

The other side of the tunnel was cover in vines like the other side. But where the other side was inside a hole this end was on a mountain. And, as we thought, it was raining but it wasn't big enough to kill the fire of the torch. We were still in the forest; I can still see the trees but something was odd about it. It didn't feel the same.

"Grand, I don't like it in here we better go back, I satisfy my curiosity already. Let's just go home"

"Jimmy where is your sense of adventure, let's explore a little bit more we could find something interesting." The old lady says walking into the forest with me behind.

"Something interesting? What can we even find in a forest that will be even remotely in-ter-est-ing?" I say with my words cutting off as I see what it was in front of me. We have walked reaching the edge of the mountain and from a few kilometers from where we were standing, we were able to see a big castle. The castle appears to be old and abandoned a long time ago.

"Wait, is that a castle? WAIT! are we on the high up from a mountain?! How in heavens do we get here? We were at ground level when we enter the tunnel and we walk in a straight line. And what the heck with that castle? I never see that before" I say watching from the edge.

"Jimmy, watch your language, also I think there are bigger problems to be concern with"

"What could be more important than this." I say moving both hands and pointing at the castle.There is when I notice, the feeling of something watching us from the shadow of the forest and the sound of branches breaking.

The sound of howling and the approaching of shadowing figures coming out of the forest make my blood ice cold once again as I recognize those shadow figures."Of course, there are more. Wolfs always hunts in packs"

"Ho, but these aren't ordinary wolfs, deer" Grand say with her unchanged trembling voice looking everywhere with at the surroundings;

I didn't think twice of what my grandma means by that. As soon as the wolfs come out of the shadows I realize that what I have in front of me wasn't natural.

"Are they..... made up of wood?" But I didn't have time for an answer as one of those wolfs jumps at us.

" Ho CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!"