Location Road North

Time 6:36 P.M.

I've been walking for awhile now and the sun is going down. The map the trader showed me made it seem like ponyville was about half a days walk but looking at my pip boy's map it'll be a three day walk. So now I'm in the process of deciding if I should stay for the night or to keep going. I have night vision so going on is an option. Stopping I take a moment to look around me. The desert opened up into some plains awhile back making for a nice change in scenery and weather. "So downside if I stop for the night there are only a few trees to use for shelter and with plains the weather changes quick." I said out loud. People say talking to yourself isn't a good thing but voicing your thoughts even if it's only you, helps in making decisions or hyping yourself up. Looking up there are some dark clouds in the distance sky. Lucky me the dirt road goes straight into the possible storm. I was never good with anything weather related since I grew up in southern California where it didn't rain all to much. "I'll wing it and travel through the night. Just will eat a little and go." I put the backpack down and sit by while taking off my helmet. I pulled out the food and the drink Fizz gave to me. "Eating will hopefully give me enough strength to last for awhile."

Location Road North

Time 11:13 P.M.

I had to stop again and stop myself from shaking from the sugar high I have right now. Turns out Sunny's Sunrise Sarsaparilla had way to much sugar in it. How ponies drink this? I do not know but being jittery is not fun. It wasn't all that bad though, just a sugary root beer drink that kids would like way more. Once I get myself to calm down I take a look at my surroundings. Thankfully the clouds have moved to the right of the dirt road into some evil looking forest that keeps getting closer to the road the further down it goes. My guess is that it'll parallel the road coming up. The forest is still good enough distance away but you can't help but get a foreboding felling just looking at it. The best way to describe it is like from a movie or show that they tried to make the forest way more scary by making it to dark with the mist and everything. Doesn't matter now I found a good place to sleep for the night under a nice big tree.

Time 7:21 A.M.

I woke about two hours, Ate and drank half of one of my waters. I realized I should've bought a canteen back at the traders but I was in to of a hurry to go so, go me. Also I was right about the forest, it is not to far away paralleling the road about a few yards. Looking into it just screams you'll die in here. You can only see about Six feet in before it starts getting dark. "A least it's not raining." I said trying my best to imitate Preston Garvey. Yeah never doing that again. I aimlessly keep walking as I think about what is going on with my life. "Your a ranger but not a ranger. You have memories that you know are not yours but they are. Your old ones are slowly going away and getting replaced by different ones." God even my parents have been changed to something they weren't. Looking up ahead I see a bad sign. There's a fork in the road with one way going straight and the other one into the forest. But what has me most worried is the tipped over cart with a bloody yellow earth pony by it. I ran over to the pony as fast as I could and knelt down felling for any sign of life.

The pony weakly opened his eyes and said "Plll-pllls please helllp my fillly *Cough* timber wolves chased her to the forest." I nod at him before he closes his eyes and goes limp. I gently put him down before running into the forest.

As I ran down the path I started to here noises like growling and barking. After running for a good three minutes I finally found the source. I had to do a double take at what I was looking at. Giant Wolves made out of wood with glowing green eyes and sharp teeth to tear you to shreds that where circling a tree and would bark and tree to get up the tree . Now I thought timber wolves where just giant wolves not something that came from Harry Potter. "Daddy help me!" That voice came from up on the tree and on top of that tree was the ponies filly. A tan Pegasus with a teal mane and tail. I walk out into the clearing with my revolver out. It gets all quite with every one looking at me.

"Ok here's the deal, leave and I wont use you as fire wood." Taunting them seems to work as now they all slowly approach me growling. Getting a better look at them I can see that there are six and one of them is huge. The huge one approaches me first almost with a smug grin on his face. He gets right up into my face and leans down so we are looking eye to eye. "Like I said leave." They all laugh and snort after I said that but what they didn't know is that I slowly pointed my revolver up. When he gets done laughing the big one opens his mouth to eat me but that's when I pulled the trigger. *BANG* Splinters fly everywhere as his head explodes and his body crumples into a pile. As soon as he went down the others advanced on me. I entered Vats and selected all there heads. I shot fives times and four of them got there heads exploded. My eyes open wide as I realized I missed a shot. Next thing I knew I was on the ground with a heavy weight onto of me. The last one jumped me and now is about to bite down on me. I struggled and tried to reach for the gun but he stepped on my arm stopping my arm from reaching it. His mouth is close to my neck when and right when he was about to finish me off he is suddenly whacked by something.

"Take that you meany!" The filly Shouted triumphantly from the tree. The timber wolf was staggered back by whatever she threw giving me enough time to roll over to my gun. The wolf got his bearings and jumped at me again. *BANG* I got the shot off when he was in mid air making him explode over me. It goes quite again as I slowly get up and reload my revolver.

"Are you okay up there? And thanks for the save." I say approaching the tree.

"Are they gone?" she softly replied.

"Yes but we need to get out of here before more show up." I see her beautiful teal eyes matching her mane and tail looking down at me. "Are you hurt?" I asked her again she just shake her head. "Well like I said we need to go."

"Can you catch me I cant fly so well." she said while she opened her wings. I reached my arms up as she glides down to me catching her as she gets close. "Thank you. Where is my dad?" she asked.

My heart aches as she looks up to me. Looking down at her beautiful teal eyes I can't work up the courage to tell her. "I'll tell you when we get out of the forest." She just nods her head as I walk while holding her. "Whats your name?" I ask her.

"Misty Dew. Whats yours and thanks for saving me." she replied.

"Ranger Wolf of the...just call me Wolf." I find the path leading out and follow it back.

"But you don't look like a wolf." She looks up into my visor.

"It's not my real name but it's complicated Misty I think your to young to here the story."

She pouts and whines "But I'm seven!"

My heart shatters as she says that. "That's still to young. Where is your mother, how come she isn't with you and your dad?"

Misty sadly sighs "She passed away not to long ago." We reach the fork and before we reach the cart I set her down a kneel to her level while I take off my helmet.

I look into her eyes as she looks into mine. "Misty before we go back to the cart I need you to be prepped." She tilts her head. "I'm sorry but your dad didn't survive his wounds." She instantly tears up and tries to run to the cart but I grab her before she makes it. She squirms in my arms.

"Let me go!!" She shouts at me while still struggling to get free.

I hold her tighter and closer while I pet her mane "Shhh shhh I can't let you see him like how he is. No child should see their parent like this, just wait please I'll let you see him just not like this." She stops struggling and just cries. I set her down while she just stares at the ground crying. Walking over to her dad I look into the cart to see a red sheet. I grab the sheet and drape it over her dad. I gently pick him up and bring him out of the mess of his blood pole and lay him down by misty.

"DADDY!!!" She cries as she puts her head down on his chest. Looking at the scene there is only one thing a can really do. I walk over to the cart and get a shovel. Once I get the shovel I walk under a tree that was near by and started to dig. I dug about for an hour occasionally looking up at Misty checking up on her. She's run out of tears by now and and is just staring at him. Scooping the dirt out of the hole I'm happy that it's deep enough and set the shovel down. I walked back over to her and knelt by her.

"Come one Misty it's time." I gently pick up her dad and walk over to the grave. She follows me and I gently lay him in it and start putting the dirt back in. She carves his name into the cross I put for him. After he is buried I nod my head in respect and leave Misty some time alone. Walking over to the cart I flip it back over and put the contents back. The cart survived somehow and it's small enough I can pull it which gives me an idea. I walk over to Misty and kneel down next to her. "Misty I'm sorry this happened but you can't stay here. I'll take care of you." I hold my arms out to her as she runs and hugs me. she starts crying again as I pick here up and walk back to the cart.

"Thank you." She sniffles out as I put her on to a blanket in the cart. I walk to the front of the cart and start to pull it forward. Its really light.

Looking back to her I say again. "Don't worry Misty Dew I'll take care of you."

Author's Note

Kinda sad but hey there was blood.