Love in Bridlewood

After stepping into the mirror, I found myself flying through a portal of swirling colors. I figured that something like that would happen but when I came out the other end, it was dark. I thought for sure that Twilight would be there waiting for whoever it was that won the trip. I was a bit disappointed at first and then I began calling out, "Twilight, are you here?"

I heard nothing but silence. I was a bit concerned about this but I did know one thing, I had to find my way out of her chambers and downstairs. It took me a while but I finally found some railing and the stairs. As I headed down, I saw nothing but darkness and heard nothing but what sounded like hoofsteps. That kind of concerned me because my footsteps should not have been that loud. Along with myself my balance didn't seem quite right. Luckily I was able to get down the stairs. Once I got downstairs, still nothing but silence and all I saw was a tiny speck of dim light. I figured that must be the exit so I headed that way and opened the door.

When I got outside, I could tell it was before dawn because there was a bit of light off to the east, or at least what I assumed was east. Once it began to get lighter I noticed that there was nothing but Twilight's castle around, absolutely nothing. Once I headed out into what was an empty field, I turned back and took a look at Twilight's castle. Things weren't right though, it looked more like a ruin than anything else. I then became concerned, did I arrive in an Equestria where ponies had vanished and who knows what rules there, if anything at all.

One thing I did do before leaving where Ponyville was go and look in a pond to see my reflection. I was shocked by what I saw. No longer was I a human, I had been transformed into a unicorn. I was white in color with a short dark brown mane and tail. Now I did still have hands but I no longer had feet, I had hooves. This was something that I didn't expect but if this truly is an anthro version of Equestria, it would work to my advantage. Luckily I did have clothes on because running across ponies in nothing but my coat would be horribly embarrassing.

I wasn't sure where to go so after discovering my new form, I decided to head south and see if any of the other communities from Equestria as I knew them still existed. One thing I did notice is that there were no longer any train tracks and that was not a good sign. I thought that either ponies had reverted to simply walking everywhere or they had vanished and Equestria had no sapient beings living there at all.

It took me three days to finally reach the desert and where I at least thought Appaloosa was. Unfortunately, there was nothing there. There were no ponies, no buffalo, no apple orchards or anything. All I was greeted by were dust storms and heat. I was getting frustrated but I then decided to travel west, out towards Las Pegasus, or at least where it should be anyway. I thought that maybe things had happened and everypony had moved to the big cities. Besides, in Las Pegasus I could probably get some information as to what happened to Ponyville, well that and what happened to Twilight and her friends because I wanted to meet Starlight so badly.

It was four days after I turned west that the desert ended and suddenly I was in what seemed to be lush grasslands. It wasn't like the savannas of Africa, the grass was green more like one would see in someone's yard. A day after that I found myself approaching a forest. I was thinking to myself that this can not be! This area is supposed to be desert, not lush grasslands and then a forest.

This forest was strange, very strange. When I got to the edge of it, there were various signs there. One of them read "go away." There was one sign that had what appeared to be an earth pony inside a no sign and then anti-wing signs as well. I was thinking to myself, "What the hell is all this about?" Well given that I was a unicorn, I thought that perhaps it would be safe since it didn't say anything bad about unicorns. I was not about to let my guard down, the inhabitants might be hostile towards anypony.