The two mares were trotting along the way to Ponyville with their, now invisible, passenger slash patient dragged over Colgate’s back.

“Hey Colgate, we’re reaching Ponyville soon. I think we should watch out now. It’s dangerous to carry such a creature through the town, hoping that nopony will notice the glow of my horn as I keep it in place. What do you think should we do about that?” Lyra asked with a frown forming on her face.

“Hmmm… Let me think about this… That’s it! You take my saddlebag and levitate it in front of you.
We just say that you lost a bet and have to carry it like this as a punishment.
Your magic is strong enough to hold it up and the poor thing in place.
Like this they will also think that our magic level is not very high and we need a lot of magic of ours to levitate a simple saddlebag.
It’s better when they underestimate us and the power we can use, than knowing about our full potential.” Colgate responded, grinning Lyra right in the face.

Lyra on the other side squeezed her eyes shut, stuck her tongue out and blew a raspberry at her, levitating Colgate’s saddlebag off of her back and in front of her at the same time.

“There. Are you happy now?”

“Yes. Very happy. Now I only have to carry this poor creature and am able to move more freely.
You know, even though it seems to be light weighted; it is not. I think it’s about seventy five to eighty kilogram and its limps are dragging over the ground when you are not holding them up with your magic, so I guess it’s fair that you carry my saddlebag for me.” Colgate responded.

Lyra gave a heavy sigh, looking in front of her again, spotting their destination.

“Look we are finally there. We are…”

“Oh hey, you are new here aren’t you? Oh silly me! Of course you are! I know everypony in Ponyville and I have never seen you two before! Where are you from? Are you from Canterlot? I like Canterlot! They have yummy sweets there, but I prefer the ones from Sugarcube Corner here in Ponyville! Do you like sweets? I’m sure you like them! Everypony likes sweets!” a pink coated mare with a bubbly pink mane and tail, and three colorful balloons as a cutie mark babbled without taking in a single breath, while she kept babbling, coming out of seemingly thin air, right in front of the two unicorn mares.

Lyra and Colgate, shocked from the sudden amount of pony where air should have been, landed on their rumps, dropping both, their saddlebags and the invisible unconscious creature, as their magic flow was disturbed.

Fortunately for them they placed a high quality invisibility spell on it that keeps it invisible even when they would rest their magic for a while, or for other magic requiring actions.
It required a bigger amount of magic, but was worth the effort as they now saw.

The pink mare now bounced in place, waiting for them to answer her questions, beaming at them the whole time.

“Where the buck did you just come from?” Lyra asked the beaming mare in front of them, after she regained her composure.

“From Ponyville silly. Where else should I come from?” the pink mare asked with a quizzical look on her face.

“Ungh. That’s not what I meant. I mean, where do you come came from right now. You had to be anywhere near us to be in front of us from one second to another.
So tell me where you were hiding.” Lyra said, annoyance rising within her.

“I wasn’t hiding anywhere!” the mare responded, puffing her cheeks. “I was at Sugarcube Corner, improving the recipe for my Mmm-cake, when my Pinkie-sense started tingling, indicating the arrival of three new friends to Ponyville. So I came here to greet you and ask you who you are. I’m Pinkie Pie by the way.”

“You.” Lyra growled under her breath, ready to kick Pinkie Pie away with her magic any time now.
Colgate however laid a hoof on Lyra’s shoulder to calm her down and looked at Pinkie.

“Hello Pinkie, my name is Colgate and the lovely mare next to me is Lyra, and I think what my friend wanted to ask is where you have been seconds before you appeared in front of us.” She asked Pinkie in a candy sweet voice, smiling softly at the pink mare.

Pinkie Pie sat on her haunches, tapping her chin with the right fore hoof, supporting it with the left one, placed at the elbow of the right, wearing a thoughtful expression on her face.

She sat like this for several minutes, not moving a muscle at any time, before Colgate interrupted her thoughts.

“So? Where did you come from? Do you remember now?” she asked Pinkie, curiosity dripping from her eyes.

“I don’t have a clue.” The pink mare said a goofy smile on her face.
Lyra groaned, rubbing her temples, trying to avoid an upcoming headache.
“I stood in the kitchen when my Pinkie-sense was tingling and a few seconds later I was standing in front of you two.” She answered Colgate’s question, beaming as wide as the skin on her face would allow.

Now the jaws of both unicorn mares hung open and they were staring at Pinkie with wide eyes, before they closed said parts of their faces and face hoofed.

“Well, I have to go now, greeting the third pony that came here and then back to my Mmm-cake before it burns to ashes. Goodbye, see you later for your welcome to Ponyville party!” the mare said, while the two unicorns were still dragging their hooves down their faces.

By the time their hooves left their faces and they opened their eyes again, the pink earth pony was gone.
Their jaws instantly flew open again and they quickly scanned the area with their magic, to see where she had gone to, but her presence was gone completely missing.

“What the? ... How did she? … What in the name of Tartarus is going on here?” Lyra stammered, her face changing expressions one second to the other.

“I have no idea.” Colgate responded, still awestruck and with a puzzled look on her face.

“Ugh.” Came a voice from nowhere and shook them out of their daze.

“Oh right, that thing is still here with us. I totally forgot about it.” The mint green mare acknowledged, snorting displeased.

“Oh come on. Shut your muzzle Lyra and help me here.” Colgate nagged, gathering the creature and their saddlebags.
Lyra lifted the saddlebags up in the air, sat her own on her back and levitated Colgate’s in mid-air in front of her with her magic.
Colgate on the other hoof lifted the creature up on her back and as soon as it was set right, Lyra held up its legs so they won’t scratch over the ground, making noises and leaving tracks.

They continued their path down to Ponyville, luckily missing out a pink pony, popping out of nowhere, this time.

They soon arrived in town, taking in every bit of peace lingering in the air. Their nostrils breathed in the fresh air, that was clearly missing in Canterlot and they both sighed in relief, that no further incidents disturbed their little journey.

“So far so good.” The mint blue unicorn whispered to her teammate, looking out for the house Princess Celestia had gotten them.
The mint green unicorn mare could see the anticipation shimmering in the eyes of the other unicorn mare, as she was looking around the place.

“Why are you so antsy Colgate?” she asked, quirking an eyebrow.

“Just in case you haven’t noticed, we are running around in town in search of our new home with an invisible creature over my back, nopony knows us here, we have a meeting with Major Mare later on and worst of all, this mare Pinkie Pie lives around here, could come our way at any time and probably is sooner or later. And you ask why I’m antsy?” Colgate listed, giving the other mare a stern look.

“Don’t try to fool me Colgate.” Lyra said with a smile on her face. “You want to get to our house to look at the creature. I can see it in your eyes.”

“Ok, ok. You got me.” Colgate said, blushing slightly. “But we have to look out nevertheless. I don’t want to cause a panic. That would blow our cover for sure.” She added in a calm and calculating tone.

The two mares trotted to the town square, looking for further information about their, soon to be home.
When they arrived, they saw that the market was running and the whole town square full of ponies trotting and flying around.
Small stalls were standing in front of the houses of the ponies, which were also mostly shops, where they lived in and sold their goods.
There were stalls with carrots, apples, wheat, bonbons and many other goods, each one of them looking like the harvest was good this year.

The air was filled with the chatter of friends talking and others haggling about prices of the goods they were selling and purchasing. Bits were wandering from hoof to hoof, filling the bags of the salesponies.

“Celestia damned!” both mares cursed, sweat beginning to run down their faces, while they clenched their eyes shut and gritted their teeth.

“We will never make it through with this thing on your back. Somepony will notice and freak out for sure.” Lyra hissed, eyes darting back and forth in search of any way to get through it without anypony noticing their little “package”.
“What do we do now?”

Colgate raised one of her fore hooves up to her chin, bit her lower lip and made a thoughtful expression. Her eyes were slowly looking over the place, examining every possibility for a way through the crowded town square.
After a few minutes of thinking, and Lyra nervously stepping from one hoof to the other, she sighed and spoke up, a shimmer of desperation painted in her face.
“I see a possible way for us to get through.”

“Great!” Lyra interrupted, with her chest full of hope and her face lighting up.

“But,”

“Oh please. No buts. Everything but no buts.” She pleaded, her ears falling flat against her head and her chest deflating as both, air and hope, were leaving her body again.

“But.” The mint blue mare went on, concern and confidence fighting to take over her face. “We have to go through the middle of the town square and, before you say anything, I know that it is risky and that we’ll have to look out for others crossing our path, but I trust them to mostly stand at the stalls and buy things, leaving free a rather big midway.”
She said, pointing to a gap between the ponies at the market. “We can walk along this way and get through it without anypony noticing, but only if we keep calm and don’t draw any attention on us.”

She gave a reassuring look and began to walk into the town square.

The moment Colgate set into motion; Lyra’s face fell and left only one emotion.
Sheer panic.
She was taken aback by the bold move her teammate did and her heart pounded heavily against her ribcage.
Her heart rate reached levels, she normally only experienced, when she fought against Colgate, or the captain of the Royal Guard; Heavy Armor, an elderly unicorn stallion with dark brown coat, a light, dirt brown, mane with a silver stripe in it and a pony equipped with full body armor as cutie mark.
She never thought a simple invisible creature over the back of her teammate could speed it up this much.
She suddenly felt dizzy and shook her head to regain total control over her senses again, just to see that Colgate was a fair bit away from her now, trotting among the citizens unnoticed, or when noticed just being greeted kindly.
‘Ok Lyra, keep it together. You have been through worse situations. You can handle this.’ She thought, gulping down the lump that had formed in her throat, following the mint blue mare.

At first she was nervous, looking left and right, but relaxed soon after when she saw that nopony was paying much attention to her.

When she caught up to Colgate, she slowed her pace, trotting lightly next to her with a now joyful face as she saw the plan of the other mare working out just fine.

They reached the other end of the town square without anypony noticing their “package” and sighed in relief. Looking around for their house, they scanned through the other part of the town and grew more and more desperate with every step their hooves covered.

They walked the whole area three to four times, not finding the building described to them by Ink Well, the Royal Canterlot administrator and, unknown to the majority of the Canterlot citizens, chief of the department of information of the special forces of the Royal Guard, a pegasus with a black dotted white coat, a hazelnut brown mane and his cutie mark resembling a quill, writing on a piece of parchment.

“That’s impossible.” Lyra said, eyes darting around nervously once more, in search of their house. “He said it would be a brown house with white windshields on the windows and a roof made of hay, but there is no such building here in town.”

Colgate looked on the ground, wearing a thoughtful expression again. “You’re right Lyra. He can’t be wrong. He never gave us any misleading information. There is only one option left.”

“And that would be?” the mint green unicorn mare asked her curious.

“They changed its appearance. They changed some minor or major details and now we can’t find it because of that.” Colgate responded matter of fact, a bemused expression forming on her face.

“What do you mean by “They changed some minor or major details”? He gave us the information a bit more than a day ago.” Lyra asked dumbstruck.

“Well, we may have gotten the information a day ago, but the question is, when he had gotten it? It could have been only a few hours before we got it, or they received it quite a while ago when the former owner moved out. It could be that they didn’t receive any new information since. That on the other hoof would mean that everything could have happened in the meantime.” The mare explained.
“So I think we will most likely not recognize it. That is, if I’m right and I’m sure I am. Unfortunately that means, that we’ll have to go to the town hall and ask the major where it is.” Colgate concluded, her face darkening in its expression more and more, before she finally relaxed it, closed her eyes, hung her head low and sighed in defeat.
“I think we have to go to the major earlier than we wanted to.” She growled to Lyra, rolling her eyes in annoyance.

“You can’t be serious! What’s with this thing over your back? They are going to notice it, even if it is invisible!” the mint green mare shrieked in response.

“Sssh. We still have our saddlebags.” Hissed Colgate.

“Our saddlebags? What do they got to do with our situation?” Lyra asked in a more hushed tone, looking at Colgate confused and a tad bit angry.

“Do you ever use your brain except for fighting and eating?” the mint blue unicorn mare asked her teammate with a flat look.

“Hey! Don’t just insult me like that! That’s mean!” she huffed.
“If you noticed, I’m carrying our saddlebags and hold up the legs of that creature the whole time and as far as I know this require a decent amount of concentration, so I’m not really able to think much right now”

“Yeah. Sorry. I tend to forget this, when I can rest my magic” Colgate responded, giving the other unicorn a sly grin.

“Oh Colgate! You’re such a tease!” Lyra said, puffing her cheeks while giving her teammate a light magic punch on the shoulder.

“Ok, ok. I’ll say it. We are using our saddlebags to excuse ourselves to our new home, lay it down somewhere in the house, place a sleeping spell on it so it won’t wake up while we are away and get back to the major. Everything clear?” she explained.

“Yep. Everything. Now let’s go.” Lyra said; trotting of to the town hall.

The two unicorns reached the town hall several minutes later, looking around curiously.
They felt as if they’ve been watched the whole time, but it seemed that nopony was following them
They peeked behind them one last time and upon seeing no pony following them, or hiding anywhere, they went into the town hall.

Unnoticed by them, a little cloud was just above their heads and a pegasus was looking over its edge again, after hiding from their view.

“Damned! I lost them!” the pegasus cursed, returning to the duty of the weather patrol schedule.

Once inside Colgate and Lyra were looking around for an information desk. Normally it would have been in the center of the large main hall, but due to the preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration, taking place in Ponyville this year, it wasn’t anymore.
They already moved the big desks and most of the furniture in some side offices around the main hall. Only a few offices were still clean and in use, one of them being the office of Major Mare.

The two mares were slowly going along the left wall of the main hall to avoid being in the literal center of attention. When they were about to reach the first door on their way, another one opened.
Coming out of it was an elderly earth-pony mare with a light brown-greyish coat, grey mane and tail and a rolled up scroll with a blue ribbon around it as a cutie mark. She wore thin framed, half-moon shaped glasses and a serious expression on her face.
She was clearly coming out of her office to check on the progress of the preparations.
Looking around she soon spotted the two unicorn mares, which were not moving a single muscle, hoping the major wouldn’t notice them.

“Ah, you must be the new mares in town. Good to see you finally arrived here.” Major Mare greeted them as she saw them staying to her right, just a few meters away.

“Damned!” both mares cursed under their breath, making a little frown before giving the major a warm smile.

“Why yes, we are indeed the new mares in town.” Colgate answered her kindly.

Now that a conversation was unavoidable, the two unicorn mares approached her slowly, getting more and more nervous with every step they took.

“Now that you are already here, we should clarify the modalities. If you would most kindly follow me in my office, so we can speak in private.” She asked Colgate and Lyra.

She turned around and started trotting back to her office, when she heard a groan coming from the direction of the mares.

The two of them also heard the groaning and Colgate, not preoccupied with using magic already, casted a muting spell over the creature.
Lyra, acting surprisingly fast for her state of mind, put on a displeased face.

“Could we probably reschedule clarifying the modalities? It is rather exhausting carrying these saddlebags around all the time and we wanted to take a shower after our trip. The only reason we came here is, because we couldn’t find our house.” She groaned in fake exhaustion.

“Oh yes. We repaired and recolored your house for you. We want our new citizens to feel at home after all. We also exchanged the key locks, so your key wouldn’t fit. Fortunately I’ve got the new one with me in case you wanted to see it first. Your house is located near the library right next to Mrs. Scratch’s and Mrs. Punch’s place. You can’t miss it, just follow the bass. There’s just one thing I want to know.”
The major said, grabbing the key, which was placed around her neck with a simple cord, and hoofed it to them.
“Why are you carrying both saddlebags on your own and don’t share the weight with your friend?”

“Don’t ask major. I lost a bet and now I have to carry them around like this until we get home.” Lyra responded, glaring angrily at Colgate.

“I see.” The light brown mare said quirking an eyebrow. “Then go on to your new home, toss the saddlebags in a corner, refresh yourselves and come back as quick as possible.”

The two unicorn mares galloped out of the town hall as soon as Colgate grabbed the key with her magic and, unseen to anypony else, steadied the creature on her back.

As they were nearly out of the door of the town hall Major Mare called after them.

“It could be that I’m not here when you return. If that’s the case, ask my secretary Pageturner where I am. She will be in my office when I’m away. See you later.”

“Will do!” they called out in unison and were out of the door.

As the two unicorns were out of the town hall they galloped to their new home, knowing exactly where it was located now.

Meanwhile the creature on Colgate’s back was stirring more and more, slowly waking from its unconscious state.
Upon noticing its stirring the mares sped up even more, hoping to get to their house in time.

When they reached the front door of their new home, the creature mumbled something in a worried tone and shifted around on Colgate’s back more frequently.
The mint blue mare quickly grabbed the key with her magic and turned it in the lock, hearing a metallic click.

As soon as the door was unlocked Lyra kicked it open and the mares rushed inside, bands of sweat running down their faces and every other part of their bodies. They slammed the door shut with their magic again, dropped their saddlebags on a drawer standing in the hallway and the creature on a couch located in the living room.

“Quick Lyra, we have to take the invisibility spell off of it! I don’t know what is happening, but it seems to suffer!” Colgate yelled at her.

“Calm the buck down Colgate. I’m taking it off already.” The other unicorn responded calmly, making the creature visible again.

The now visible creature was flailing its forelegs around, trying to cover its face from something, maybe the light in the room, and its eyes were already fluttering as if it was about to wake up.

“Oh damned!” Lyra shouted
“It would be bad, if it is to wake up now. We have to sort things out first. Colgate, you need to lay a long lasting sleep spell on it. When everything we have to do at the moment is done, we will take care of it, I promise, but please knock it out again for now.” She begged, the underside of her fore hooves touching each other, whilst she was on her knees.

“It’s ok Lyra. I’m sad that we can’t stay by its side and make sure that it is alright for now, but I also know that we have more important things at hoof for now and that it is necessary.” The mint blue unicorn sighed, gathering the needed amount of magic in her horn.

“Wha…Where am I? What is go…” the creature mumbled, before Colgate’s spell sent it away in the land of dreams again.

“You heard that?” Colgate asked Lyra, eyes wide as dinner plates.

“Yes I heard it. It spoke!” the mint green mare responded, mouth opening and closing constantly and eyes as wide as Colgate’s.

They stood in front of the creature for several more minutes, completely in awe, until they simultaneously fell on their haunches, taking in a big breath they didn’t notice they were holding all the time.

“Ok. That was unexpected.” Colgate said with a whistle, regaining control of her body and mind again.

“I…I…Lets just…refresh and…go to the…major.” Lyra stuttered, trying to set her mind back up at ease again.

The two mares got up slowly and walked away from the sleeping creature, getting their saddlebags and heading upstairs. They refreshed themselves and trotted out of their house, soon after they made sure nopony would find the creature while they were absent by casting another invisibility spell on it.

They made their way to the major’s office, now greeting everypony that came their way kindly and with a big smile.

Once they got to the town hall, they went to the major’s office in a straight line, not afraid of being discovered every second, because of some invisible creature on Colgate’s back.
Walking in Major Mare’s office they frowned a little. The major wasn’t present and they were greeted with the rump of a young earth pony mare, sorting some documents into a folder, which was already near to burst. She had a cream colored coat, a brown mane tied back into a ponytail and a staple of documents as cutie mark.
Her tail was swinging lazily around while she was humming a love song to herself, smiling genuinely all the time.

The two unicorns couldn’t withstand the urge and, with sly grins on their faces and trying to fight back a fit of giggles, whistled.

The mare instantly spun around, ready to smack any stallion square in the face, but froze in the middle of her motion.

“Ah, young love.” Lyra said, the sly grins on their faces growing with each second.

“Who is the lucky one?” Colgate asked teasingly, nudging the mare in the side.

Totally shocked and not knowing how to handle a situation like this, the cream colored mare blushed furiously.
“Her name is Lemon Juice and we confessed our love for each other just yesterday.” She said shyly, making little circular motions with one of her forehooves on the ground.
The two unicorns exchanged a look of amusement, before they simultaneously spoke to the secretary mare again. “Well, we wish you the very best for your relationship.”

“But that aside. I'm Lyra and this is Colgate. We are here to meet Major Mare. Do you know where we can find her at the moment?” Lyra asked her.

“I'm Page Turner. She’s at Sweet Apple Acres now, checking the preparations of the food for the Summer Sun Celebration. But it could be possible that she’s gone when you arrive there. I’ll give you a copy of her to do list, so you can go to all the places she has to go.” The cream colored mare said, turning around to the major’s desk, flicking through some documents.
When she finally found the copy under a literal tower of other notes, she grabbed it with her teeth and, with a strong tuck, pulled it out without any other note moving even slightly.
“Here it is.” The mare said, hoofing the copy to the two unicorns.

Colgate took it in her magical grasp, sliding it into a small pocket she and Lyra were always carrying.
The two unicorn mares bid their farewell to the earth pony and left the town hall, heading for Sweet Apple Acres.

“Those two were nice.” The secretary thought, smiling softly.
“Wait! Did I just tell them about Lemon Juice and me? Oh great Page! You bucked up completely!” she suddenly realized, her face going through several shades of red, before it turned pale like a ghost.
She suddenly felt very sick and wanted to go home.

Meanwhile a certain pegasus spotted the two unicorn mares again. “There you are. I knew I’d find you again. Now show me what you are up to.” The pegasus mumbled to itself, watching Lyra and Colgate through nearly closed eyes.

“So our first stop is Sweet Apple Acres. They make the best cider in all of Equestria.” Lyra stated, licking her lips.

“Yeah, I heard that it is delicious. They even said there is a line of ponies going on for kilometers once they open up cider season at Sweet Apple Acres.” Colgate responded with dreamy eyes.

“Wait just a Celestia damned second! You never even tasted the Apple Family Cider?! Like not a single time in your life?!” Lyra shouted at Colgate, freezing at the spot.
The jaw of the mint green unicorn was falling to the ground, making a little crater and her pupils dilated.

“What’s the matter with you? You act like it is a crime to not drink their cider.” The mint blue unicorn mare sighed, rolling her eyes.

“Are you bucking kidding me?!! It is as bad as one! Once you tasted their cider you will abandon every other cider in Equestria!” Lyra shouted even louder, waving her forehooves wildly through the air.

“I don’t believe you. It can’t be this good.” The mint blue mare said, starting to walk again.

“But it is! It’s the most delicious cider in all of Equestria! I would even compare it to chocolate milk and I love chocolate milk! It’s like the best drink in all of Equestria and I really like balloons! You know like red ones, green, yellow blue and pink ones! I love pink! Maybe that’s the reason why I’m pink! Puffy cupcakes are also yummy! I think I should make those for your welcome to Ponyville party!” Pinkie Pie excitedly exclaimed, appearing right in front of Colgate’s nose from nowhere again.

The unicorn mare stumbled backwards and landed on her haunches out of pure shock.
Again.
Lyra on the other hoof just stood there, staring at the pink pony with wide eyes. She saw the mare popping out of thin air again, but couldn’t believe her eyes. She saw her teammate walking away and in the blink of an eye the pink mare was there, blabbering incoherent gibberish without taking a breath even once.

They both unfroze again, this time a bit faster, because they were getting used to her popping out of thin air.

“Hello Pinkie.” Lyra sighed. “I think you heard our little conversation and I completely agree with you on the cider, but you really don’t have to throw a welcome to Ponyville party for us. We’ll get along with the other citizens just fine. And I think with ‘puffy cupcakes’ you meant mufmfm.” Colgate looked back in shock as the pink mare vanished from her field of view and reappeared in front of Lyra with one of her forehooves shoved in the unicorn’s mouth.

“Don’t you ever say the m word in, or around, Ponyville ever!” Pinkie Pie hissed at her with a stern look. “You neither.” She added, turning her gaze to Colgate.

The mint blue mare nodded and so did the other.

Upon seeing and feeling their approval, Pinkie took her hoof out of Lyra’s mouth and went back to her normal behavior. At least what is considered to be normal when Pinkie is around.

“Oh, but I have to make a welcome to Ponyville party! I make parties for everypony! I throw them for every occasion! It’s just so much fun to have a party and I simply love to make everypony smiley-wily! And I’m friends with everypony in Ponyville! I want to be friends with you too! Are you going to be my friends?! Are you?! Are you?!” she blabbered again, as if nothing happened just now.

Lyra and Colgate stared at Pinkie in disbelieve and simply nodded again, totally oblivious of the consequences, until Pinkie extended her forehooves like they were made of rubber and pulled the two of them in a big, spine cracking, hug.

“Yay!!! You’ll be my friends!!!” the pink pony shouted with joy, streamers and confetti flying through the air. “So, I’m off again! The sweets won’t make themselves! Or would they?! I wonder what sweets making sweets would look like?! Oh! My hazelnut-cake is nearly ready! Have to go! Bye!” with that Pinkie Pie let go of the mares and vanished again.

“That pony sure is strange.” Lyra said quirking an eyebrow.

“Agreed.” Colgate responded, shaking her head at the impossibility of the earth pony mare.

The two unicorn mares continued their walk to Sweet Apple Acres in silence and without further incidents caused by a certain pink mare.

Upon reaching the farmhouse of the Apple family, the two unicorns were greeted with the sight of a red muscle packed stallion with a gold-blond mane and a green apple half as cutie mark, pulling a big cart with buckets and buckets full of apples without any visible effort.
They stepped closer to him, when he noticed their presence.

“Well hello there. Ah’m Big Macintosh, but everypony calls me Big Mac. How can Ah help ya ladies?” he asked in a thick southern accent.
“Hi Big Mac. This is Colgate and my name is Lyra. We are in search of Major Mare. Have you seen her around?” the unicorn mare asked, a kind smile on her face.

“Eeyup. She’s in tha farmhouse talking ta Granny Smith and looking after the apple trees afterwards, but Ah think that Applejack will do tha walking part.” Big Mac explained to them.

“Thank you Big Mac. See you around.” Colgate said, walking to the farmhouse.

“Yer always welcome ladies.” He responded, waving at them with a forehoof.

They entered the farmhouse and called out for the major and Granny Smith. As an answer they heard a light snoring coming from the living room, together with a faint creaking noise.
The two unicorns went on, heading into the living room. Entering it Lyra and Colgate saw an old mare with a lime green coat, a grey-white mane and tail and an apple pie cutie mark, sitting in a rocking chair. She was sleeping soundly and her wrinkly skin wobbled a bit every time a little snore escaped her muzzle.
Standing in front of her, they gently woke her up.

“Well hello there. What brings two young mares like ya ta Sweet Apple Acres?” the old lady asked, yawning then and now.

“Uhm, hello Mrs. Smith. We are searching for Major Mare. Have you seen her?”

“Yes Ah have. We spoke about tha catering for tha Summer Sun Celebration about half an hour ago, but now she’s out with Applejack looking at tha apple trees.” The old mare responded, smiling softly.

“Thank you Mrs. Smith.” The unicorn mares chorused.

“Aw shucks. No need ta be so formal. Just call me Granny Smith like everypony else.” She said, waving a hoof dismissively.

The two mares walked between the apple trees, most of them freed from the ripe apples, lying in baskets around them.
The only trees where the apples still hung were the ones Applejack and Big Mac hadn’t bucked yet.
The closer they got to the trees that were still loaded with ripe apples, the louder the sound of hooves hitting bark grew, until they saw an orange earth pony mare with white freckles on her face, blonde mane and tail, with a Stetson atop of her head and a cutie mark made of three red apples.

They looked around for Major Mare, but couldn’t find her.

“Um…excuse me? You are Applejack right?” Colgate asked the orange mare.

“Yes Ah am. What do ya want from me? Need some apples?” she responded.

“No, not really. We want to talk to the major and Granny Smith said she is out here with you.” Lyra informed her.

“Oh, Ah’m mighty sorry, but tha major left twenty minutes ago. She said she had ta go on ta her next stop, or she wouldn’t be ready in time.” Applejack said frowning.

“Ah, nothing to worry about. We will find her sooner or later. Thank you for the information.” Colgate said, giving the earth pony mare a warm smile.
They bid their farewell and the two unicorn mares trotted back in the direction of Ponyville.

“Where is her next stop?” the mint green unicorn asked.
Her teammate took the list out of her pocket and unfolded it with her magic.

“The next point on the list, are the construction workers in the town square, which are preparing the stage for when princess Celestia will raise the sun. We should hurry, or we will miss Major Mare again.” Colgate said, tugging the list back in her pocket.
The mares quickened their pace to a full grown gallop and soon reached the town square.
They looked around for the major, but she was nowhere to be seen.

Unable to find her, Lyra and Colgate went to one of the construction worker ponies.

“Hello sir. The mare to my left is Colgate and I am Lyra. We have a meeting with the major and were told we could find her here.” She asked a light grey coated earth pony stallion with an ink blue mane and tail. On his flank a hammer and a saw were crossed, the first laying atop the letter.

“Hello to you too. My name is Work Bench and I’m waiting for her myself. She was scheduled to come here about ten minutes ago.” The stallion answered, looking at the town’s clock tower.

“So you have no idea where she went?” Lyra asked frowning.
The light grey stallion shook his head. “Please tell her we were here and headed to where the next part of her list is when she shows up.” The mint green unicorn mare asked Work Bench.
The stallion nodded and they trotted away.

“What are you up to? Are you trying to sabotage the Summer Sun Celebration?” a certain pegasus muttered to itself, hidden atop a cloud. It crept to the edge of the cloud to get a better view of the two mares, when suddenly one of them shouted.

“Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash where are you?!”
‘What? How? How do they know my name?’ the sky blue mare thought to herself, jaw hanging agape. She unfurled her wings and shot down to the two unicorns, dissolving the cloud she was resting on mere moments ago in the process.
The pegasus mare landed in front of the unicorns with a rather loud thud.

“Who are you? Why do you know my name? What are you up to? Are you spies?” Rainbow Dash asked them rapidly, stepping closer to them with each question.
The pegasus was nearly muzzle to muzzle with Lyra, glaring at her intensely.

“Uuum…Ahem. First of all, no we are no spies. The mint blue mare here is Colgate”
“Hi.”
“and I’m Lyra. We came from Canterlot today and have to clarify our living and working conditions with her. And we know your name from the list of ponies Major Mare has to go, to look after the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration. Page Turner, the secretary of the major, gave it to us and your name is written on it. Have a look.” The mint green mare explained, lifting up the list in front of Dash’s face with her magic.
There it was.
The sky blue mare read the entry in the list about her aloud.
“Weather control. Responsible pegasus, Rainbow Dash. Oh there is a note on the side. While being close to a single little cloud shout out her name. She’s probably taking a nap on it and will wake up from it. Hey! That’s mean!”

“It’s what’s written here. Whatever. Did you see her recently?” Lyra asked politely.

“No. She hasn’t stopped by yet, but wait. You are the mares moving in to Lucky Slevin’s house. I fixed the roof.” Rainbow said with pride.

“Oh! What happened?” Colgate asked concerned.

“Nothing. Lucky moved to Las Pegasus five years ago and nopony lived in the house since. It was just old and since nopony looked after it for so long, it partially fell apart. We repaired it three days ago and now it’s one of the top houses in Ponyville.” She assured them.

“Well, good to know that we won’t wake up in a ruin one day.” Lyra chuckled, earning an annoyed glance from Colgate.

“Whatever.” The mint blue unicorn said, giving her teammate a flat look. “We have to find the…”

“There she is.” The rainbow maned pegasus mare interrupted her, pointing a hoof in the direction of a gingerbread like building. It was very colorful and looked like one could just take a bite out of it. Over the main entrance hung a sign, with frosting like letters on it, saying: Sugarcube Corner.
The major was just coming out of it, waving at a yellow earth pony stallion with orange mane.

“Good thing we finally found her. Now we…Wait a second. Sugarcube Corner? Colgate? Wasn’t Sugarcube Corner the shop Pinkie Pie told us she was working at?” Lyra asked her teammate, cold sweat starting to run down her neck.

“Yes it…” the other unicorn started, before a pink blur shot past the yellow stallion and out of Sugarcube Corner. It passed Major Mare, hit one of Rainbow Dash’s hooves, spinning her around like a spinning top and came to a screeching halt in front of the two unicorn mares, revealing the mare in question.
“…isssss.” Colgate finished while Pinkie pulled them into a tight hug, pressing all air out of the lungs of the mares.

“There you are! You know when you want to have your party yet?! Do you?! Do you?! Do you?! Oh, I can’t wait for it! It will be super-duper fun! With balloons and streamers and confetti and cake and party games! We will all be gathered together and I will introduce you to everypony! We will dance and sing s…” Pinkie babbled out, before Lyra tried to silence her with a hoof in the earth pony’s muzzle.
At first the pink coated mare kept on babbling with Lyra’s hoof in her mouth, coating it with saliva, before she realized that something was preventing her from speaking. She looked at her muzzle and followed the mint green hoof up to its mint green owner with a look of slight confusion on her face.

“We…got…the…point…Pinkie.” Lyra said between short gasps for air.

“Yeah…I…think…we…will…have…our…par…ty…this…af…ter…noon.” Colgate added, slowly running out of oxygen too.

“Yipeee!!!” Pinkie Pie beamed, shouting Lyra’s hoof out of her mouth. “I’ll prepare everything right now!” she announced and another pink blur shot right back into the bakery, releasing the two unicorns from her grip, allowing their lungs to inflate again.

They were still gasping for air, trying to fully fill their lungs again, when Major Mare approached them.

Well, as I see you know of Pinkie Pie, the number one party mare in town. You must forgive her, she’s just so random. Nopony really understands how she’s ticking and when you get to know her she’s a very good friend, making you smile when you make a frown.” She told the unicorn mares with a genuine smile.
“But now I have to talk to Miss Dash here. Just wait a bit.” She excused herself, turning to Rainbow Dash.

After a short talk with the prismatic pegasus the major turned back to the mint green and mint blue unicorn.
“I’m done out here. I have just one more thing to do, but the pony I have to talk to should already be in the town hall, so we are able to go to my office directly.” The light brown coated mare informed the two.

A short walk later the three mares found themselves in the town hall again. Right in its middle, looking around in every direction, stood a marshmallow white coated unicorn mare with styled dark purple mane and tail and a cutie mark with three baby blue diamonds arranged in a tri-force.

“I see you are preparing on how you’ll decorate the town hall Miss Rarity.” Major Mare spoke up, getting the mares attention.

“Hello my dear. I just arrived here several minutes ago. I’m just waiting for the muse to kiss me and I will start right away. But business aside, who are those two lovely mares by your side darling?” the marshmallow white unicorn asked, nodding in the direction of the two mares, standing near to the major.

“These are the mares moving in Lucky Slevin’s house. They just arrived earlier today and I’m about to have a meeting with them to talk about the townsfolk and what they have to look out for. You know like the two words.” She informed Rarity.

“Oh that is simply magnificent! I chose the decorations myself and I think I topped myself off with it.” The white unicorn said with pride swelled breast.

“Well it’s lovely Miss Rarity.” Colgate grinned sheepishly.

“Good. I didn’t except anything else. I’ve used t… Oh no!” Rarity cried out with a whiny expression on her face.

“What’s wrong?” A concerned Lyra asked.

“I forgot to introduce myself properly! This is so un-lady like! I’m ashamed of myself!” the marshmallow white unicorn pitied herself.

One of Lyra’s forehooves immediately tried to make contact with her face, only to be blocked by a mint blue hoof in a split second.
The mint green mare sat her hoof reluctantly back to the ground and Colgate spoke up.
“It’s nothing. Everypony forgets things then and now.” She reasoned the mare in front of them.
“The lovely mare next to me is called Lyra and my name is Colgate.” She smiled at the marshmallow white coated mare.

“As you already know, my name is Rarity. I’m the best fashionista around and own the Carousel Boutique. At your service.” Rarity smiled weakly. “If you’ll excuse me now, I have to get started with the decorations. I’ve got a bunch of dresses, waiting to be made for the Summer Sun Celebration too, so I’ll have to start really soon in order to get ready in time.” With that said the fashionista turned around again and mused about the decorations.

“Now that this is out of the way, please follow me into my office.” Major Mare said, going ahead.
The three mares walked into the office and, after Page was gone, started their conversation.

“Well now that we are finally alone I’ll tell you some important things you have to memorize.” Major Mare began.

“You mean except looking out for Pinkie Pie, trying to hug us to death?” Lyra asked sarcastically.

“Yes, there is more to memorize. First of all, we have some strange things going on, because Ponyville is located near the Everfree Forest, but I assure you that is perfectly fine. Then you shouldn’t ever question how Pinkie is doing things. Many tried figuring it out before and failed miserably, so let it be. Lastly and most importantly do not, I repeat, do not speak out any of those three words.” She said, holding up a piece of paper.

Lyra and Colgate took the piece of paper and read the list on it:

Forbidden words
The words written here shall never be spoken aloud, or they will summon certain doom.

1) Party = Pinkie Pie:
Party pony with paranormal abilities. Appearing out of thin air when word is mentioned anywhere near or around Ponyville.
Caution! Do not ask how things work with her, just accept them.

2) Muffin = Derpy Hooves:
Grey coated pegasus mailmare with blonde mane and tail and crossed eyes.
When word is mentioned anywhere near Ponyville or Cloudsdale, Derpy will crash into you or any destroyable object near you.
Caution! Extremely clumsy.

3) Alcohol = Berry Punch:
Fuchsia coated mare with whine colored mane and tail. Owner of the Ponyville liquor store ‘Berry’s Liquors’.
When word is mentioned anywhere near Ponyville, she gallops to you with nearly speed of sound.

Warning! Do not say any of those words, unless you want to summon the pony to them.

As the two mares looked up from the sheet, they were slightly nervous.

“Well, now that this is out of the way, let’s talk about you. As far as I know, you are members of the royal guard’s special forces and are here to watch the towns safety installments for the arrival of her majesty.” The major stated.

“Yes we are here for this, but we are also here to protect the personal student of her majesty. Her name is Twilight Sparkle. She will be here the day before the Summer Sun Celebration, looking after the preparations once more. But this is an absolutely top secret information. Not even Twilight Sparkle knows of it. You mustn’t spread the word about her arrival, or else her majesty will be very upset. Her intention is that nopony knows of her personal student upon her arrival here in Ponyville.” The two unicorns explained, switching back and forth between the sentences.

“The p…p…personal student of her m…m…majesty is c…c…coming to Ponyville? W…w…what an honor.” Major Mare stuttered, sweat drips forming on her forehead.
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“Ow!” the voice cried out. “My head! I have to get out of here. If it’s even possible that is.”
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I nearly did it. I nearly escaped this evil, laughing voice. I could see light, forcing its presence into my mind, so I tried to cover my face with my hands to block it out. I saw schemes of objects around me and heard the voices of two females, but could just make out pieces of what they were saying.

“…bad…wake up now…sort out…everything…take care…for now…I’m sad…it is ok…more important things…necessary.”

I saw something glowing in front of me and was finally able to pull myself together.
“Wha…Where am I? What is go…?” That was all I managed to say, before unconsciousness got hold of me again.
I was falling back. Back to those nightmares, back to this voice. But I don’t want to go back. I want to stay awake, want to gain consciousness again.

I fought the unconsciousness for what felt like just several seconds.
It must have been longer though, because when I finally won the duel against the darkness of the nightmare and woke up, no one was there.
I was lying on a couch in the middle of a living room, a light breeze coming from an open window to my left. The breeze was carrying sounds and voices inside.
They strangely reminded me of a medieval market. Unfortunately I felt a headache kicking in and rubbed my temples. Slowly getting up, I noticed a hallway at the other end of the living room and a small kitchen to my left.
Since my headache made no attempt to go away I decided that I needed a handful of fresh cold water in my face to cool my head and stop the headache from spreading any further.

My bad luck never failing me, I found the sink to be broken. I tried everything, but to no avail.
I’m not one to give up easily, but I’m no plumber and broken is broken. That’s it.

Upset from the lack of refreshing water on my face, I turned on the heel and went for the hallway.
I hoped to find a bathroom, where I can splash the refreshing goodness in my face, as I looked through the rooms. Not finding any bathroom in the first floor I went up some stairs, located at the front door.
Upstairs I found two bedrooms, something like a conference room with maps, plans and other material and the, long awaited, bathroom.

As I stepped inside I knew something about this all was wrong, horribly, horribly, wrong.
The shower and the bathtub seemed normal, but as soon as I saw the reflection in the mirror I knew it. (I was a goddamned pony!!! Nah, just kidding) Or better it was the thing in the reflection, which was missing entirely.
My body.
I touched the mirror and jumped back instantly. At first I thought that it had been a fake mirror; just an image of the room, hung there to trick people.
But oh how wrong I was.
When I touched the cold silvery surface of the mirror, I could see my fingerprints appear.
That’s right. I saw them the moment I touched the mirror.
(Time for panic? Let’s see what time it is. OH! Already quarter to mindfuck? It’s about time!)
I stared at them in shock and disbelieve. Well, at least I think I did, because I was freaking invisible!

“This cannot be, this cannot be. This is impossible!” I told myself rocking back and forth on the ground in a fetal position, holding the sides of my head with my hands.
Clenching my eyes shut I told myself that it was not real, that I’m just seeing things.
After a minute or two of saying this to me, a warm feeling spread from my very core in my whole body and disappeared as fast as it came.
I don’t know why, but this rush of warmth gave me enough confidence to stand up and look in the mirror again.
There I was.
Face?
Check.
Body?
Check.
Arms?
Check.
Hands?
Check.
I was there again. Trying out the sink in this room I found it to be working. I finally splashed a lot of water in my face, fighting back my worsening headache.

“That was just my imagination. My mind is playing tricks on me. That horrific dream affected my judgment of reality.” I said to me, trying to calm my nerves as I leaned on the sink with my hands, hanging my head low so the water which got into my hair could drip back instead of on my shirt.

After a few minutes I successfully calmed down my nerves enough to grasp a hold of my situation.

“Alright Bob. Think carefully. You most certainly fell off your boat and nearly drowned, than someone found you and took care of you until you were good to go again. Yeah. That’s it. It has to be.
But why did I dream of strangely colored ponies with tattoos on their flanks and why in the name of god were they able to talk?
Why did I wake up on a couch and why was no one around?
Why am I still in my clothes and why am I still injured?” I wondered aloud, looking out of the bathroom window.

Taking in a deep breath, I looked at the surrounding area. It looked like I was in some kind of medieval town where industrial revolution hadn’t taken place yet.

“Ok. That’s odd. Are they really that far beh…AAA…mpf.” I nearly screamed, ducking away from the window. I kneeled right under it, my hands clasped over my mouth, while I held my breath, praying that it hadn’t noticed me.
Now I know that I’ve gone nuts, because I just saw a pegasus flying by. Eyes wide as dinner plates I dared to look out of the window again.
I saw pegasi flying around in the air, pushing clouds from here to there, kicking some of them into nothingness; unicorns, floating things in front of them with some kind of force field and normal ponies, pulling carts, selling goods and going around, chatting idly with others. At least what is considered to be normal. They weren’t just the occasional black, white, brown and, rare, reddish, but also purple, green, yellow, pink and other colors.

“What in the name of all that’s good and holy is going on here? Why do I see multicolored ponies walking the streets?
Why are no humans around?
And most important why are they talking?!” I thought, sinking back down the wall until I sat on the ground again. I didn’t want to accept the fact that this is real. It was just too much.

“Outch!” I yelped in pain as I pitched myself. “So this is no dream. It is all real.” I sighed in defeat.
“Wait! When this is real, I really met those two unicorns and am possibly in their house right now! Oh holy shit I have to get out of here before they come back, because I really don’t want to know what they are going to do with me!”
Panic starting to creep into my body, I rushed to the front door and twisted the door knob.
Nothing.
The door was locked.
That was bad.
Actually…
it was good, because I couldn’t run into the streets, possibly startling the ponies, giving them a reason to attack me.
Nevertheless it was bad in my opinion.
I was trapped inside of a house, in a town full of colorful, talking ponies, pegasi and unicorns.
I ran to and fro through the house to find a possibility to get out of there without drawing any attention towards me.

After I exhausted myself enough and cooled down, I went to the living room and sat on the couch, thinking of a way out.
The front door was out of question. It was locked and everyone would see me instantly.
The windows facing the street were the same problem. I’d be seen in a split second.
The windows on the side of the building were also out. To small.
The only option was the door to a small backyard, surrounded by a wooden fence.
But I couldn’t go out just yet. It was too bright outside and I’m not the best when it comes to sneaking around.

“I’ll have to wait until twilight or even night, when it is dark outside.” I pondered
“But first of all I have to find a place to hide if these two unicorns, I think they were green and blue, come back in the meantime.”

Time passed by while I was staying in my hiding place.
It was near twilight when I heard the unicorns. They unlocked the door and stepped in, chatting idly.
I peeked out from my hiding place only to see the rear end of the blue one staring at me. She put something in a drawer in front of her and as far as I could see it was her saddlebag. At least I think it was.

“Oh buck!”
We both flinched at the scream echoing through the house. It was clearly the voice of the other unicorn and it sounded like she was shocked to her bones.
No doubt she was.
I was away for no reason and I don’t think they liked it one bit.

“Colgate! Come here! Fast! The creature! It’s gone!” the green one yelled.
The head of the unicorn in front of me yanked to the right violently and she galloped into the living room, leaving the front door wide open.
Clever me.
Before I hid I opened the door to the backyard, so they’d think that I ran away.
While they were arguing in the living room I snuck out of my hiding place and looked out into the streets. They were nearly empty as was the sky and big bushes along with long shadows promised good possibilities to hide.
With barely any sound I slid out the door and ducked behind the next bush I could find. Looking through a little gap between the leaves, I saw the two unicorns I tricked storming out of the house.
They frantically looked in every direction, said something I couldn’t understand and darted to opposite directions.

“Good. At least I got rid of them for now, but I have to get out of here.” I thought, looking left and right for any citizens passing by.
As soon as nobody was in sight I dashed out of the bush, making my way out of town from hiding place to hiding place.
Whenever I saw a pony passing by I stayed in the shadows or bushes, avoiding getting in their ways.

When I finally was at the edge of town I saw the forest I had seen when I left the mountain range and just in front of it there was a little cottage with critters all around it.
I tiptoed around it and dared to take a look through one of the windows. Inside I saw a light yellow coated pegasus mare with long, flowing mane and tail and one of those tattoos on her flank. It was showing three pink winged butterflies with bright blue bodies.
She was giving food to some critters, which obviously lived in her cottage, and hummed a little tune to herself, a small smile on her face.

I don’t know what it was, but something about this mare seemed awfully familiar. It was like I knew her from somewhere, but I just couldn’t remember where I saw her.
Maybe it was nothing.

I continued to walk into the forest when I left the cottage behind, still wondering where I saw that mare before.
This mare was still lingering in my mind when I entered the woods. I just couldn’t ban her from my mind. I would have to go back some time and find out where in the name of hell I’ve seen her, but for now it was more important to leave this madness behind.

I ran deeper and deeper into the forest until I was completely exhausted.
Leaning on a tree I caught my breath again. It was night time by now and I needed to find a place to rest.
I wandered around for a bit until I saw a village in the distance.
Finally seeing some civilization again I began to quicken my pace.

Unknown to me a pair of eyes was watching me hungrily. I was nearly out of the woods, in the clearing the town was located in, already seeing schemes walking around the streets busily, as a big wolf were jumping in front of me.
No.
This wolf was not like any wolf I’d ever seen.
Normally a wolf wouldn’t be made of branches and thorns with glowing green eyes staring right into your soul, trying to paralyze you.
I instantly froze on the spot and did not dare to move a single muscle, hoping this wolf thing would lose interest in me when I imitate an immobile object.
Unfortunately it wasn’t falling for it and slowly approached me.
I started to back away slowly, keeping an eye on that wolf thing all the time.
After a few steps back I stepped on a branch.
The moment it snapped under my weight was like a kick start for both of us.
The wolf thing was jumping at me, ready to sink its fangs and claws into my flesh and I spun around and started running away from the town in the clearing and this wild beast.
The town and the clearing were successfully growing smaller in the distance with every second, but, as my luck was never failing me, the wolf thing was keeping up with my pace and it looked hungry.

“Oh fuck! Get lost already!” I shouted at it.

As if answering me the wolf thing howled. Sadly it wasn’t an answer to my request, but a call for the rest of its pack, which appeared by its side moments after.
I saw that seven of them were chasing me now and I don’t know how, I was able to increase my speed even more.
(I think the saying ‘fear gives you wings’ is true)
I ran for a good five minutes. In this period of time clouds covered up the last bits of the sky I could see through the thick treetops of the trees, lightning struck appeared here and there, it started to rain heavily and my muscles were hurting like hell, nearly refusing to work anymore.
Sheer terror and the fear of being eaten alive were the only things that kept me running.
My clothes were soaked; my hair was lying flat against my head and the muddy ground slowed my pace steadily.
Now every time I looked back they were a bit closer to me than the last time. I could already feel their foul breath on my neck, bracing myself for the pain of my skin and flesh being ripped off my bones.
With my last bit of willpower I sped up one last time, avoiding to be eaten alive for just one more moment.
I ran and then…
Tripped.
I tripped over a stone on the ground and fell, face first, on the muddy ground.
The time seemed to slow down as I fell.
I saw my whole life running through my mind; the good times, the bad times and everything in between.
I must say…
My life sucked!
And now mud was invading my mouth and nostrils with its schlick consistency.
My body slid over the sloppy ground and with a furious growl the first wolf thing jumped.
I felt a sharp pain as its claw was digging into my skin, piercing right through it, but it was even worse when I heard an impact, the pain filled howl of the wolf thing on top of me and its claw jerking back violently, ripping a long wound across my back.
I lifted my head out of the mud, turned it around, coughed up some mud I swallowed, and screamed.

When I stopped screaming I opened my eyes and saw the wolf things trying to get through to my body, just to be blown away by blue and golden shimmering blasts of pure energy.

“Oh thank god. Someone helped me.” I whispered to myself.

Unfortunately the fire rate of my saviors was not high enough and one of those wolf things got through.
It hit me square across the face, luckily missing my eyes, and tripped.
That was my chance.
I shot my hands up to its head, dug my fingers in its eyes and jerked them out of its skull with immense force.
It howled in pain and blindly tried to hit me with its claws, but this time I was prepared. I grabbed its limbs and smashed them on the ground until they broke and were hanging down useless.
I took several more or less serious blows, but it was totally worth it.
My last action with this beast was to grab its throat and rip it out.
Too bad I was lying beneath it and light green glowing blood I think it was, was spurting out of the wound and all over my upper body.
(Amazing what powers fear, rage and pain can set free)
Suddenly everything around me was silent.
No energy blasts or howling and growling wolf things anymore.
I stood up just to see that everyone was frozen on the spot.
They looked at me eyes wide open.
I must admit that I must have been a sight with my ripped shirt, my scarred face, the mud and the light green blood covering my body.
I took a step in the direction of the wolf things and they tucked their tails between their legs.

“Come on! Who’s next?!” I suddenly shouted, making them run away like beaten dogs.
I turned to my saviors, the green and the blue unicorn mares by the way and looked at them reproachfully.

“You’re late.” I said weakly, trying to sound as badass as my state allowed it.

Author's Note

Took me long. Is not perfect. Going in my corner now cursing myself.