When two worlds meet. Beginnings.

“I found another one,” the shout from Julio could be heard, but it wasn’t too loud as to not alert unwanted visitors.

“God damn! How many are there? This shit is getting ridiculous,” exhaled Gabriel with a tired tone.

“Well, with all the traps they are giving us, we can eat fish now,” optimistically said Felipe.

Alfredo cocked an eyebrow. “Raw fish? We don’t know how to make a fire”. At this statement, Felipe scratched the back of his head, and a incomprehensible mutter could be heard.

“We are really going nowhere staying here. The traps are getting closer and closer every second, and we will be cornered at the end. We need to make a play now... Any ideas,” offered Hugo.

“We already had this discussion! I have an idea. We all get the fuck out of this forest today, is that clear? So, I was thinking that we go through the apple farm, since they might not have traps in there, and there is a lot of cover, though not as much as the forest, in form of the apple trees. So, they are looking through the forest, but we won’t be there anymore, since Alfredo saw that there was something that wasn’t the forest on the other side. So, we go through the apple farm, grab some apples, and completely go unnoticed and disappear since they will be looking at a place we aren’t in. So, what do you think,” Samuel said with a pleased smile.

Hugo grimaced. “I dunno, it seems kinda risky, and you sounded a bit bossy.”

Samuel shook his head. “I’m sorry man, I just cannot stand been here anymore. The tiny pine trees are scratching me all the time, and the idea that we are being hunted by aliens really makes me nervous.”

Gabriel shrugged. “Eh. It’s no big deal that you are nervous, we are all nervous. I think that’s not a terrible idea, and it might just be the best bet we have for the moment.”

Some shuffling con be heard from a nearby tree, and from it emerged Sebastián looking concerned. “I saw three of the flying horses scouting and looking around, sometimes swooping down, only to get back to the air inmediatly. They are getting closer, and it’s very worrisome. Also as a side note, how the fuck can they fly? They look so weird.”

Felipe chewed on his lip for a moment, and then hummed. “We need to get out today. I also think that Samuels plan is the best we can think at the moment.”

“Is it settled then,” asked Samuel. All the boys nodded. “Okay then! Let’s pack things up, and get the fuck out.”

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A good five minutes passed, spent packing up food and a few nets.

Samuel looked around at his friends, who looked ready to go. “Everyone has their things?”

Sebastián huffed. “Not like we have many things.”

With a deep voice, Hugo laughed. “Ha! You all may have little to no things, but I have the mightiest of weapons. The Indestructible Stick of Strength!” At this, he started swinging said weapon around carefully as to not hurt the boys, ending with a heroic pose. “Truly, no soul that has ever existed is as powerful as me, and my feats of strength are unparalleled and second to none! My thick, powerful, long and hard stick!”

“Yeah, just like my dick,” said rather loudly Gabriel.

“Wait, what do you mean by that,” asked Hugo with a confused tone, but then realization hit him, and he reddened up. “OH NOT LIKE THAT, YOU DAMN PERVERT!”

That got a chuckle out of the group, which only annoyed Hugo more. After that, they all fell back to a comfortable silence. They were nearing the apple farm now, and Alfredo and Samuel where keeping a hawks eye to the sky. Every time a flying pony came into view, they would all hide under the trees until it passed by, wait a few minutes, and then get back on their merry way. In fact, the apple farm was starting to come into view.

“Alright, there it is” sighed Alfredo. “So, how we doing this?”

“It’s literally the simplest shit ever. We go one by one through the acres, keep an eye on the sky, hide under a tree if necessary, and rinse an repeat until it’s done,” informed Samuel.

“I dunno, it seems a bit too easy,” commented Hugo while getting closer to the edge of the forest. “I mean, if we find one of the wingless and hornless ponies, then it’s easy, but if there is a flying one, then we are fucked, since they literally pulled a chariot while flying, are probably the strongest, and can, well, fly.”

“I never said it was gonna be easy,” sharply said Samuel. “It’s just that, on paper, it seems easy.”

The group was now at the edges of both the farm and the forest, and they stopped right there. Some boys were looking at the land on the other side of the farm, which, indeed, wasn’t a forest, and some looked at the light blue skies with barely any clouds.

“Who goes first,” asked Alfredo.

“Whoever asks for it, goes for it,” swiftly replied Samuel, and he smiled a sly smile along the rest of the group.

“W-What? Are you shitting me?”. They were indeed not shitting him, as the little smiles and snickers could prove. “Oh, go fuck yourselves,” exclaimed Alfredo, but he was already preparing himself.

“Hey man, look at the bright side,” happily said Julio while patting Alfredos back.

“Which is,” asked the short teenager while cocking an eyebrow.

Julio gave a toothy grin. “Eh, can’t think one for the moment, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.”

Alfredo muttered all kinds of insults and curses to not hear the laughs, and was ready to go.

“Go,” shouted Felipe, who made sure that no ponies were on the sky.

Alfredo sprinted towards the nearest apple tree as fast as he could. There wasn’t a long distance, no more than ten meters, but he ran like a madman. In less than six seconds, he was already under the safety of the leaves, but he was left panting for a few moments, and it looked like he would vomit his lungs out. He was pretty weak, after all. After taking a breather, Alfredo Gabe a thumbs up to the group, and, after a few moments, Samuel came in sprinting the short distance. One by one, all the boys came in sprinting while it was safe under the same apple tree.

“And we do that again,” asked Alfredo while still panting for a bit.

“Fuck me, it’s gonna take a while, isn’t it,” fearfully asked Samuel.

Gabriel smiled. “At least this way we are working out.”

“Let’s get this over with,” said Sebastián with a sigh.

And the group got on with it. They did the same thing every time. Go one by one, check if there is anything flying over them, run like hell onto the next thing. It was a tedious activity that was soon getting into the nerves of everybody, and it showed. An hour had already passed, and they were only half way through the damn farm. They had to do something to pass the time.

“Hey Gabriel, can you put a bit of music? The sounds of crickets or whatever is getting into my head,” asked suddenly Sebastián.

“Sure bro, just give me a sec,” answered Gabriel while looking for his phone.

“Dude, Gabriel, what the fuck. We are going through trees, not listening to music. And we have no WiFi, so how the fuck are we going to listen to music? And that would be a stupid waste of battery,” harshly reprimanded Hugo to the two boys.

“Sorry bro, it’s just that it’s sooo fucking boring in here. I wish there was another way to pass time,” said Gabriel after he winced at the tone Hugo made.

Winona? Atta girl. Ye keep lookin’ for ‘em critters, said a voice with a weird accent accompanied with barks.

“You had to open your big fucking mouth, didn’t you Gabriel,” asked Hugo with a frown on his face, and the rest had panic clear on their expressions.

“What do we do? Do we just gun it,” hushed Julio.

Felipe gave a nervous frown. “We cannot outrun them, since they have a dog. And the horse would alert the flying ponies if it saw us, which would be our doom.”

The barks where slowly getting closer.

“So what do we do? Do we go all ninja like and sneak our way out,” Hugo was pacing in pace, but it seemed like it was out of fear instead of working out, and the sounds of clops could be heard.

“I think that’s our only chance,” tried to say Sebastián with a brave voice, but his whole body was trembling and it came out weak.

“Let’s get moving then, and we have to do it all at once from one tree to other,” Samuel tried to object the statement that Alfredo made, but the nearing barks prompted him to agree, and all of the boys started moving together as quietly and rapidly as possible. But moving as a group usually means that unfortunately some noise will be made, especially if it’s a twig being broken.

And dogs have really good ears.

The barks started getting louder and more aggressive, and it could be clearly heard that something was coming fast. The group scrambled and dispersed, some hiding behind bushes, others run a bit farther away and hid behind a tree and a few climbed trees and hid between the leaves and sticks while panicking.

A dog came into view. It was a combination of brown and white coloration, and it was decently big for a dog. Felipe saw this race of dog once while walking in the park. He didn’t remember what race it was called, but he knows that those existed in Earth, which really frustrated him since there was no reason why this normal dog was in this alien dog. He hid in the top of the tree, and he was starting to really regret it, since he was the tallest of the group, and he was in a tree that was pretty small, but he chose the first tree he saw and climbed for his live.

The dog started sniffing the air and looking around, and was walking up to the place their group was just in. That was bad, because if it picked up their scent then the dog would be on their heels for the rest of the way. He had to do something fast. He started to brainstorm for ideas and distractions. Then it occurred to him a terrible idea that could just work.

He furiously picked up his mobile phone and started searching for some music that he had downloaded in his phone. He didn’t care what song it was, just the first one that came up would do. The dog was almost directly in front of where they had just being in, and he clicked onto the first downloaded song that he had. It was a the stupid Nokia Arabic Ringtone that Hugo had send him for a joke video that they were doing and that he had to download to be able to even put it in. He put the volume as high as possible and threw it at the other direction the group was in as far as he could.

The dog, who already had its head right above where they were standing and was close to sniffing the ground, turned it’s head around and arched its ears toward the thud that was heard a good distance from where it was, and some weird noise was heard as well. The dog growled, and made a beeline towards the noise. It now was gone, and Felipe gave a sigh of relief at that.

Barking could be heard, but it wasn’t getting any nearer, and the clops went towards where the barks where, so they had to get out of there now. Felipe was the first one to come out of hiding, and soon the rest of the group also came out. They didn’t say anything, and they actually run all they way through the rest of the apple farm onto the other side. The only thing Felipe heard before running out of there was somebody saying “What th’ hay?”, but it didn’t matter at the moment, and they all run dear to their lives.