Cutie mark crisis

Chapter 7: Short trip back.
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So the seven ponies leave Ponyville and head into the Everfree forest. They have walked about five minutes in the forest and they are already lost.
‘’Twilight, I thought you knew where we were supposed to go.’’ Rarity says and looks at Twilight.
‘’Hey, it’s not that easy to navigate in a forest.’’ Twilight says back to Rarity.
‘’I know.. but this early.’’
‘’Rainbow.’’ Lixidie calls.
‘’What?’’
‘’Could you try to fly up and see, where the sun is rising.’’ Lixidie asks.
‘’Sure thing.’’ Rainbow flies above the tree tops.
Rainbow looks around then she comes back to ground.
‘’The sun is rising from our right. Anyway, how is that going to help you.’’
‘’Sun rises from the east and sets in west. Now, if sun is rising from our right, it means that east is on our right side and west on our left, and that means that north is in front of us.’’ Lixidie explains.
‘’Soo, are we going the right way?’’ Rainbow says and looks at Twilight.
‘’Yes, we are.’’
They try to take view points from in front of them so they would go straight forward. But when night comes they set a to stick point the direction, where they want to go.
‘’Are you sure you want to sleep on the ground again?’’ Rarity asks and looks into the woods.
‘’We don’t have anywhere else to go.’’ Pinkie responses.
Lixidie looks up the trees. Then she takes her blanket and a piece of rope and starts climbing up the tree. She’s up on a branch in no time.
‘’What are you doing?’’ Fluttershy asks worried.
‘’I will tie my legs on the branch and sleep here.’’
‘’Is it safe?’’
‘’If you know what you’re doing.’’
‘’Looks like fun.’’ Applejack says and climbs to sit next to Lixidie.
‘’Hi.’’ Lixidie says and smiles at Applejack.
‘’I said that I never leave my friends.’’ Applejack says and smiles back.
‘’Well, I am not going to climb up there. I prefer to stay on the ground.’’ Rarity looks at the two ponies in the tree.
‘’Yeah, we’ll stay down here.’’ Twilight says and starts unpacking her backpack.
Whole night goes peacefully but Applejack gets a shock when she wakes up.
‘’Somepony, Help me!’’ she screams.
‘’What?’’ Lixidie says and looks at Applejack who is hanging from her tree branch.
‘’I guess I didn’t check my rope twice.’’
Lixidie laughs a bit and then jumps to the branch below Applejack.
‘’Let go and I’ll catch you.’’
‘’Are you sure about this?’’
Lixidie nods.
‘’Here it goes… AAAAAAAAAH!’’ Applejack closes her eyes but then someone crabs her and lowers her on the ground.
‘’Gotcha.’’ Lixidie says and jumps down from the branch.
‘’Thanks.’’
‘’I owed you one.’’ Lixidie says and walks to Twilight.
‘’Should we get going?’’
‘’Yes. Okay everypony, let’s get walking.’’ Twilight says and they start walking to the direction where the stick was pointing.
When they have walked about three hours, Twilight announces:
‘’Now we should be at the border of the northern Everfree forest.’’
‘’How do you know that?’’ Pinkie asks.
‘’I know that Southern and Northern Everfree forest is separated by a big river.’’ Twilight says and points down to a river.
‘’So, how do we recognize the entrance to Zeabra’s hiding place.’’ Rainbow Dash says and raises a rock.
‘’Princess told me that it is surrounded by many different flowers.’’
‘’Well, what are we waiting for?’’ Rarity says and starts walking closer to the river when suddenly a gigantic tentacle reaches from the water.
‘’Rarity!’’ Fluttershy yells and grabs rarity just before the tentacle hits her.
‘’Gosh! What was that?!’’ Rarity starts yelling at Twilight.
‘’It was a tentacle of the monster that guards the river. The river is only crossable at night when the monster is sleeping.’’ Twilight tells.
‘’It’s not even twelve o’clock! What do we do the rest of this day?’’ Applejack asks.
‘’I guess we can just relax.’’ Lixidie says and lies down on the grass.
‘’Yeah. Let’s just relax and wait for night to come.’’ Rainbow Dash says and jumps to lie next to Lixidie.
They all play and relax at the edge of the forest.