When two worlds meet. Beginnings.

Now that Gabriel thought about it, he didn’t really go to the bathroom since he got there. Not even a quick piss or something. He wasn’t fully conscious at the moment, but that was the first thing that occurred to him. Of course, he didn’t wet his pants. His body wasn’t old, and it has been years since he peed on himself in his sleep. Yet his pants were wet, as well as his shirt. The sun was shining brightly at his closed eyelids, and he suddenly opened them because of his mobile phone getting wet. He quickly patted his right pocket and got out his phone. It wasn’t wet nor broken, and he sighed in relief. His whole body felt like it was being rocked from side to side, and he felt some rocks bumping against whatever he was on. Gabriel then observed his surroundings.

He saw that all of his friends were still on top of the thing. Some of them weren’t wet, some of them were, and Felipe specifically was completely dripping with water. He was relieved that all of them were here safe and sound, but that relieve quickly faded away when he continued looking at the environment. Apparently, they were on a river. Well, the thing, that was made of wood and probably a big factor of why they were floating, was the one on the river. It’s just that the group was was on top of said thing. They were in a forest, at least that’s what it looked like. There weren’t actually that many trees, but the ones who were there had hanging vines, and the trees themselves were very big. The river was going at a steady pace, and the thing would occasionally bump into a little rock, making a tiny dent on the improvised boat.

There wasn’t much that Gabriel could do except wait until they hit shore and wake the rest of the group up. He hoped that there wouldn’t be on other thing trying to kill, be it the environment or the wildlife. And he specially hoped that there wouldn’t be a waterfall at the end of this river or something similar. He got scared earlier at the sound of falling water, but it was just the tiniest waterfall that made a little bit of noise at the side, which angered Gabriel and gave the finger to it. While waiting, he double checked if the boys were okay, seeing if they had broken some bones. They didn’t, and he was getting bored.

Gabriel was having a nap when he was rudely awakened by the object hitting shore. Wait... they had hit shore! He inmediatly got off the ‘boat’, and he checked if everything was ok. The ground was dirty, but there was a nice plane with comforting sunshine and cooling shadows, so he decided that this was where they would rest. Not like he could choose where to do that after. He hopped back into the thing and started pulling out rather sluggishly each member of the group. He started with Felipe, since he was the first one that Gabriel saw, and he just so happened to be the wettest. Basically, out of pure fucking laziness. He dragged him out carefully, and put Felipe in the spot where the sunlight shone the brightest. Gabriel dragged the boys one by one, and noticed a few odd quirks.

Julio and Hugo, even unconscious, were still gripping their weapons tightly, and it seemed like Sebastián was smiling while unconscious. Or maybe he was sleeping and having a dream. Another one was that, while Gabriel was picking up Hugo, Hugo’s bones still cracked, which creeped him the fuck out and appalled him.

After getting everyone on the little plane, Gabriel waited for them to wake up, but nothing really happened and he was starting to get bored. Remembering that some of his clothes were wet, he stripped himself off them and put them on the sunlight as well. With only his underwear, he remembered the reason he woke up. He had to at least take a piss, but he didn’t feel comfortable leaving the boys alone unconscious. He tried to wake at least one of the up, so that it could keep watch of the rest, and he doubled his efforts. He heard a mumble behind him, and Gabriel turned around with a hopeful expression.

“Ughhh, where am I,” mumbled Samuel.

“You finally woke up! Hey Samuel, can you do me a favor,” asked a person in front of him, who was doing little jumps, but that voice could only be of one person.

“Gabriel? Are we dead,” asked Samuel with blurry eyes.

“No bro, we are alive. But I have to pee real fast. Can you keep an eye on the group,” asked Gabriel, who didn’t have clothes on except his underwear.

“What? Sure, I can do that. But you have to explain me how we are alive,” responded Samuel, who know noticed that they were in some kind of forest.

“Thanks dude. Be right back,” exclaimed Gabriel, and he sprinted towards a tree.

Samuel observed his surroundings, and started noticing things. First there was a river, and the thing that they were on had probably carried them all the way to here. He tried to see if the castle that they were in was still visible, but there wasn’t even a hint that it ever was there. They must have moved kilometers upon kilometers on the discount boat through the river. He checked if his phone was alright, and he saw that it didn’t have any new scratches or was wet at all. He now had to ask Gabriel how the hell did they survive, and he waited for him.

After a minute or two, Gabriel stepped into view looking very relieved, and he walked back to the plane. “Hey,” he said nonchalant.

“Hey. How did we survive a fifty meter fall,” asked Samuel nonchalant.

“Puff, I dunno man. We must have gotten lucky. But hey, we are alive! Lets not look too much into it,” happily said Gabriel, who sat down next to Samuel. “Let’s wait for all of the boys to wake up, and then we’ll figure out what to do next.”

Samuel squinted his eyes, but he agreed. They both had some small talk and cracked a couple of jokes between each other, and then they enjoyed the sunlight. When one of the boys woke up, they would explain the situation to him and tell him to wait until the last one woke up. They would chatter between each other, wondering how did they survive that huge fall, how it was surprisingly fun, some of them did go to take a piss, all that good stuff. When the last one of the boys woke up, they started to plan and vote.

“Alright, so, let me first say that it‘s actually hilarious that we survived that, and we were on top of that piece of wood PLUS being carried away by the river is the cherry on top,” said Hugo with a huge grin.

“Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But let’s get back to business. Celestia- was it Celestia? Was that her name,” asked Samuel, and at the nods of the rest of them, he continued. “Thanks. So, Celestia probably will send more of her guards to catch us, so we must get moving. We don’t have our lances, so that’s one less way for us to defend ourselves. I was thinking that we could get back onto the shitty ‘boat’, and let the stream carry us.”

“But isn’t Celestia like a Princess? Couldn’t she just like order other guards to scout the river from the other side of the country? I think it’s risky,” said Felipe thoughtfully.

“That’s a good point. And we also have that thing as a giant clue pointing to where we are,” Alfredo said towards the dented wooden thing with scratches and burnt marks.

“Well, we must somehow hide it if we go on foot, and its rally big and heavy, more now that it doesn’t have wheels. Also, what is it? I mean, it was near an gigantic door, and the hallway was also as huge and wide,” commented Julio annoyed, wanting to know just what it was.

The group turned their necks towards the thing, and started really analyzing what it was, and what those marks were.

“It looks like a bowl,” said Sebastián, “and those scratches look like that of a lion.”

“So it’s a big bowl! Let’s not get distracted! Who wants to go by foot and who wants to go by bowl,” said Samuel loudly so as to get the attention back.

Gabriel was about to say something, but he was interrupted by the rustle of a few bushes nearby. All of the boys inmediatly got up, Hugo raised his weapon and Julio raised his fist. There was definitely something behind those bushes, and they would be ready for whatever it was.

From the bushes came out another pony, but it didn’t have a weapon or armor, and it was a normal pony. Its coat was that of a gray color, and its hair was a worn out blue. It was limping, and it was dripping blood. It was panting heavily, and it was quite a pitiful sight. She saw the group of boys, and what she did next was even more pitiful.

The pony threw itself to the ground and it started begging and crying. “Please, please don’t kill me! I’ll do anything! Please don’t eat me, I want to live! Don’t kill me, pleaaseee,” and it started bawling its eyes out, rambling and shaking, and its words were almost incomprehensible.

This made all of them quite uncomfortable. What a sour sight! And she said all kind of things, like she would allow them to use her body, that she would go back and be punished accordingly, that she would work extra hard. Anything.

“What do we do,” asked Felipe while still keeping an eye on her and in Spanish.

“Do we, like, tell her to stop? She might attract some guards with her cries,” suggested Sebastián, wincing at the cries.

“Bro, she saw us. What if she tells some guard that she saw some weird ass creatures and fucks us over,” said Gabriel concerned for their safe being.

“Dudes, I have an idea,” said Hugo with confidence.

“What are you gonna do,” asked Julio intrigued.

“I’m gonna use my natural acting talent, and my incredible lying skills to calm her down,” responded Hugo with a smile. “Alfredo, keep this, okay?”

He passed his weapon to Alfredo, and Alfredo tapped it a few times. “Sure will! Don’t screw it up, though.”

“Gee, thanks for all the outstanding support,” Hugo responded sarcastically, and he walk through the group.

The pony noticed that one of the creatures was getting closer, and she started shaking even more violently. Hugo saw this, and put his palms in a peaceful manner, but he didn’t stop walking. He kept on walking towards it, and when he was one meter in front of it, he stopped getting closer and squatted in front of it so as to be more or less in the same eye level.

“Hello, it’s a pleasure to meet you,” he said, and he gave a gentle smile. “May I know your name?”

“S-Sapphire Rock,” she stammered out.

“Greetings, Sapphire Rock, me and my friends over there are a recently discovered species by you horses- or was it ponies? Sapphire, can you help me out here? I’m such a mess trying to remember names, never mind whole species,” Hugo said while scratching the back of his head.

“It i-is ponies,” replied Sapphire, a little bit more smoothly now.

“Thanks! I really am forgetful. First of all, I wanted to say that we are sorry if me and my friends startled you. We are just the ones chosen by our people to speak and negotiate with the ponies. So, again, sorry if we scared you. Also, you seem quite hurt. What has happened to you,” Hugo asked with genuine concern. At the mention of this, she started shaking more. “Come on, you can say it. We won’t hurt you.”

“I t-ried to escape from th-the mines,” answered Sapphire, who now had stopped panting as much.

“Mines? What mines? Are they pony mines? Let me tell you, if you don’t feel comfortable with answering a question, then you don’t have to answer it,” mentioned Hugo, and he now had sit down on the floor, still respecting the meter between them.

Sapphire gulped, but she seemed willing to give an answer. “They were pony mines, but it has been raided and captured by diamond dogs, so now we work for them,” she managed to say without stammering.

“Diamond dogs? What are those,” Hugo asked curious.

“C-Can you get up,” Sapphire asked timidly.

“W-Why,” asked Hugo, genuinely surprised.

“It’s to see something,” she said whispering.

Hugo quickly looked at the group, who all gave a thumbs up, and he sighed, but he got up. The pony sized him up and told him the he could sit back down.

“They are about your shoulder to chest height. They are bipedal and have arms that reach from their shoulders to their knees, but have really short legs that are from you knees to... whatever is your species equivalent to a hoof. They have really long backs, and look and act like a dog. They-“

“Woah there, slow down. I think that me and my friends encountered them before. Do they have four protrusions with blunt claws,” interrupted Hugo, who was now a bit more nervous since he and the group knew exactly what she was talking about.

“Yes, they have four claws. Those claws may look blunt, but their magic allows them to cut through anything. And you survived the encounter? You must be really skilled fighters,” said Sapphire a bit more excited.

“Yeah, uh, I guess we aren’t bad at it. So, we must continue our journey! Do you need any help with that wound of yours? You seem to be in pretty bad shape,” said Hugo, secretly hoping that she didn’t need help.

“I don’t need help,” said Sapphire, and Hugo gave a satisfied smile. “But my family and friends need it! They will die if you don’t help them! The royal guard hasn’t come to save us! Please, save my family,” shouted Sapphire, standing up and crying.

“Give me a second, please,” said Hugo, and he tried to crank a smile, but it came out weird and walked right back at the boys.

“You all heard that,” asked Hugo in Spanish.

“They were raided by the desert dogs, or diamond dogs, it doesn’t matter, and she wants us to save them,” said Felipe with a straight face.

“Incredible acting skills, eh,” mocked Gabriel.

“Fuck off,” shot back Hugo.

“So, she wants us to save them? Lets do it then,” said Julio like it was that simple.

Samuel huffed. “The fuck you talking about, thinking that we can just walk up and take that fucking place?”

“I think we can take them,” said Alfredo out of the blue, which surprised everyone.

“What? Why do you say that,” asked Sebastián, not being able to figure out why Alfredo of all people said that.

“Listen you guys, I have a plan. And it involves literally walking up to them,” said Alfredo with one of his weird smiles he does not too often. “Hugo, go tell her we will help her.”

“Wait a fucking second. We have to vote, alright? So, who wants to go save the mine from the dogs,” asked Samuel, and there were five hands in the air, which meant that they had to save them. A heated discussion happened between both groups, but they had to do it now.

“Alright, Hugo, go tell her that we will help them,” said Samuel rather sourly.

Hugo nodded, turned around, walked towards Sapphire and sat down.

“We will help you out, but we have to treat your wound,” said Hugo calmly.

“Oh, I already did that by myself! There are some wonderful herbs that help against infection, and I already made myself a nifty little bandage with the vines. I am so grateful for you beings helping us,” cheered Sapphire.

“Yeah, we will,” said Hugo less excited. “So, fill us with some information. Do they have bows or crossbows? How many are there? Can you walk?”

“We, and subsequently them, didn’t have any weapons, only pickaxes. There were about twenty four diamond dogs, and I can walk just fine,” Sapphire said, as she shakily got up.

“Alright. If you need help just tell us. Also, I want to mention something now that I can,” said Hugo nervous.

“What is it,” she asked.

“You must not tell any royal guard that we were here, and let me tell you why. Princess Celestia disrespected our culture in a very grave manner, and we have gotten into a fight with her. We have decided that there’s nothing of value for our species in these lands, and we wanted to stop the negotiations and exchange of values between our species, but Celestia demanded that there should be trade. That was an even bigger insult to up our culture, and it is tradition that when one greatly offends another, the person who got offended must slap the offender. But her guards took this as an assault, and they attacked us. So, we now fought our way out, and hit some of her guards, so they are searching us for capture. We must return quickly to our home, because if a diplomat doesn’t return soon, then war will be declared against this country,” said Hugo really serious.

Sapphire Rock had her mouth hanging open, and her already big eyes widened even more. Seriously, they were almost the size of plates.

‘Come on bitch, take the bait. Eat that bullshit up. Come on bitch, FALL for it. Eat it all up! You better fucking believe it! COME ON, YOU SLUT! I’M SAYING THE TRUTH! I AM GOING TO MAKE ABSTRACT ART OUT OF YOUR CORPSE IF-‘

“Wow! I cannot believe it! Equestria may be in mortal danger! Are you sure you want to help us,” she asked astonished.

“Of course! It wouldn’t sit right with us if we doomed you and your family. Also, how far is Celestia’s castle,” asked Hugo with a happy tone.

“It’s about six to seven hours on hoof from here, I think. I was going there, but you beings showed up, and have survived and encounter with diamond dogs before! I am so thankful,” said Sapphire while grinning.

“No, we are the ones that are thankful,” said Hugo.

‘Holy shit! What a fluke! Man, I love saying bullshit’, Hugo thought happily, and the group followed the earth pony.