Journey to Equestria
Chapter II - A Nightmare Awakens
Previous ChapterI continued walking with these three girls through the strange forest. I try to keep calm as I try to not freak out at what has happened so far. I begin to stare at these strange girls.
'They have what looks like fur and hooves?' I thought to myself as I stared intently.
"So, Vyncent what kinda creature are you because you are certainly not a pony?" Sweetie Belle asks me as we continue to traverse the forest.
"I'm referred to as a human," I said to Sweetie Belle as I began to mentally fix my brain without trying to make big expressions of panic and stress and was succeeding in my attempt.
"I've never heard about a human before," Scootaloo says looking at me with a little sparkle in her eyes.
"So, you three are ponies, but you all look different from each other?" I said with a puzzled tone ad a hint of curiosity.
"Well, ya see Vyncent there are four kinds o' ponies here in Equestria," Applebloom said with a smile on her face.
'Equestria, wait this doesn't sound right, I've never heard of this place' I thought as I looked at Applebloom as my mental composure slightly faltered for a moment.
"Yeah, you have Earth Ponies like Applebloom, Unicorns like Sweetie Belle, and Pegasi like me," Scootaloo said as she gestured to the other girls when she mentioned each girls name respectively.
"Ok, but that's three kinds, so what is the fourth?" I asked with a calm, yet slightly panicked voice.
"The fourth type are Alicorns, but there are only five of them," Sweetie Belle says as she stops at a small sign.
The rest of us stop at Sweetie Belle did. I saw the small town in the slight distance. I then looked at the sign and read it with a deadpanned stare.
'Welcome to Ponyville, Population 2,250'
'Seriously, the name of this town is Ponyville, who named this place!!!' I shouted in contents of my mind baffled and stupefied at the title of the town.
"Come on, lets head on down there!" Applebloom shouts as she rushes toward the town.
The rest of us follow suit and chase after Applebloom. We all then arrive in the city together and start to walk through the streets. The many residents of the town begin to look at me with fear in their eyes. After some time passed and many more frightened stares, I put on the hood from my jacket and look slightly down with some misery putting my hands in my pockets as I continued to follow the girls. As more time passed, my stomach begins to rumble and becomes very loud. The girls start to giggle a little while the other ponies ran away.
"It seems that somepony is quite hungry," Sweetie Belle says still giggling at me from the needing sounds emanating from my stomach.
"I am quite famished from all the traveling we've done" I responded with a slightly low tone of voice.
"Let's head to my house and get us some grub," Applebloom said as the rest of the girls later cheered at her suggestion.
After some more walking, we arrive at a place called Sweet Apple Acres. I begin to marvel at the wonderful apple trees while taking off my hood. I almost start salivating at the potential taste of these beautiful looking apples hanging from their trees. Applebloom smiles at my joyous expression as she picks an apple and tosses it to me. I take a final good look at the marvelous apple before taking a bite of it. My eyes open wide and pupils dilated at the sweet taste of the apple.
"This is such an amazing apple, Applebloom," I say to her devouring said apple until the stem remained.
"Aw shucks, it's nothin' special since mah family grows the apples here on the farm," Applebloom says slightly blushing at my comment.
We continue to walk until we see a barn in the distance. The girls and I head toward the barn as I was handed another apple by Applebloom. As we got closer to the barn, I see two ponies. One was an orange colored earth pony female with emerald green eyes, blonde colored hair, and tail, and looked about my height if not taller. She wore a cowboy hat and jeans with a white shirt and blue jean jacket that had what looked to be three red apples together on the top portion of sleeves. The other one was a light blue pegasus female with a set of pinkish-magenta colored eyes, short rainbow colored hair and tail, and seemed to be slightly shorter than me by about five centimeters. She wore a tomboyish look with short cargo pants, a light blue jacket, and a white shirt with a cloud shooting out a rainbow-colored lightning bolt in the center.
"Hey sis, guess what we found in the Everfree Forest," Applebloom says as she waves to the orange woman.
"Applebloom, there ya are, I was worried sick 'bout cha when I heard you went down to the Everfree," The orange woman said as she hugged Applebloom tightly.
"Applejack, we found somepony while me and the girls were there," Applebloom said as pointed to me.
I look at the orange woman and wave at her. The orange woman, named Applejack, then looked at me for a moment and then saw my eyes. She slowly pulls Applebloom behind her with the other girls and begins to move back slowly. I try to reach out and say something but before I can say anything a rainbow-colored blur hits me knocking me down and sending me a few meters back.
"Rainbow Dash, what was that for?" Applebloom says with a shocked tone.
"Whatever this demon looking thing is, it is going back to the Everfree Forest," Rainbow Dash says as she assumes a fighting stance.
"Alright then, I wanted to handle this peacefully but I guess this is how it's going down," I say getting up and entering a boxing stance with a slightly higher guard.
I rush in with my guard up at the blue pegasus and throw a few jabs at her when I got in range. She dodges the jabs and sends a kick to my right side which I block by raising my right leg. I throw right straight at her in the stomach. It lands as she slightly falters a bit before throwing a punch back at me. I roll under the punch and shift my weight throwing a left hook into her right side aiming for her liver. She gets hard and steps back a little from the force. I then get hit in my right side with a kick straight to my liver. I cough up some blood from the force and look over to see the orange pony was the culprit behind it.
"Now you go back to where ever ya came from, ya demon-lookin' vermin!" Applejack yells at me as she steps back from me.
I then focus my attention on the orange pony whose name I remember was Applejack. I raise my guard up once more and charge at her throwing a flurry of punches at her. She manages to block them all and sends a kick straight toward my chest. The sound of bones cracking reverberated as her kick hits its mark. I cough up some more blood and feel pain as I felt two or three either crack or shatter from the impact. Before she could draw her leg back, I grabbed her leg with my right hand and pull her toward me and land a left straight right in her face. She stumbles back from the punch. The blue pegasus flies off and I assume she's going to get help, but I put my focus back the pony in front of me. I get ready to charge in to finish the fight until I hear both a sonic boom in the distance and the sickening crack of bone being shattered. In my peripheral vision, I see the blue pegasus kicking my left side before the force of the impact sends me flying. I toss and tumble as I'm blown away and suddenly stop by colliding with a tree.
"Nice job, Dash" Applejack says dusting herself off.
"No sweat, AJ" Rainbow responds with a smug tone of voice.
The three girls looked in horror of what the two ponies had done to the human. Applebloom started to cry as she and the girls ran to the tree. I feel pain coursing through my body as blood begins to spew from my mouth. My vision becomes blurry as I try to make out what seems to be the girls trying to help me.
"Hey get from that thing!" Rainbow yells at the girls readying herself to attack again.
"He helped us escape from being killed by Timberwolves!" Sweetie Belle yells with tears in her eyes.
"Oh sweet Celestia, if that were the case then we need ta get 'im to the hospital" Applejack suddenly realizing that Sweetie Belle was telling the truth.
My vision begins to go in and out due to the pain and blood loss. I then see the girls as they look sad as if they were crying. I try to move but I'm stunned by the pain.
'Damn it, I can't move and I'm gonna... die' I thought as the pain began to get worse.
The thought of death began to run through my mind and the fear of it begins to rise. I felt my heartbeat increase and my blood pumping faster and faster. My shallow and irregular breathing began to calm itself and the pain began to lessen as the need to fight started to awaken deep in my subconscious.
'You're going to die and these girls are crying,' A feminine voice says in my head.
'What can I do, I can barely move at this point' I respond to the voice with familiarity.
'It is simple to win if you let me wake up because we can never lose if we fight together' The voice says with a sweet tone as to coax me into doing what it wants.
I try to resist it and fight against what it wants. My eyes begin to glow a deep red as I open them wide at the thought of losing. The blood in my body begins to pump faster and feels like its boiling.
'That's it, now time to awaken a true nightmare upon those who see us as weak' The voice says as the image of a familiar woman appears and kisses me before fading away.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash slowly walk over to the tree ready to help the being they injured to a hospital. Applejack suddenly stops and begins to shake uncontrollably as fear starts to course through her body. Rainbow feels the same fear as Applejack and stops as well. The girls then cower in fear as they see the bloodied human stand up.
"I w-will never LOSE!!!!!" I shouted as my pupils sharpen looking cat-like and my eyes glow a deep red.
"W-w-what even are you?" Rainbow Dash asks with fear heavy in her words.
"You wanted to fight a demon, well here is one shot because I'll be your worst nightmare," I say as I smile revealing my canine teeth have sharpened to resemble fangs.
I charge in as I let out a loud battle cry that could be heard throughout the entire farm and echo toward the town itself. The blood of a warrior coursing through my veins. The blood of what many considered a monster, beast, and demon alike. The blood of one who runs on primal instinct.
Author's Note
Hello everyone. I am starting this story up again after somethings have happened. If you have any constructive comments, please write them and I will try to write more until school decides to screw me over and start up again.
Peace!
