Two fillies were in the middle of the room of the Kindergarten. Applejack looked at the game of horseshoe. Rainbow sat next to her. Theys were locked in a fleece competish! Applejack stood up and threw a horseshoe. It landed on a plastic stick.

"Ha! Ah got one!" Applejack cheered, giggling. Rainbow snorted and stood up too.

"Oh yeah? Look at me!" Rainbow threw her horseshoe. It didn't land on a stick. "Thas unfair! I wants one more game!"

Applejack opened her mouth to speak, but before she could speak, Miss Celestia interrupted. "Class, today we're going to participate in the Running of the Leaves. Well, not officially, we'll be with the other foals."

"Miss?" A blue hoof raised into the air.

"Yes, Rainbow?"

"Whazzat?"

"Do you mean 'what's that?'" Miss Celestia said.

"Yeah. Whazzat."

Miss Celestia just smiled. "Running of the Leaves is a very special tradition that is hosted every year. Everypony, throughout Equestria, run through forests, parks, or roads. The force of many ponies..."

"Ahem." Miss Luna coughed. She nodded to the foals. "Perhaps another time?"

"...ah, you're right. Let's go have fun!"

Everypony cheered and followed Miss Celestia out the door and into the forest. It was very pwetty. Reds. Oranges. Yellows. Browns. Pinks. Greens. Lots of colors! Applejack looked around with wide eyes. Nearby, she saw lots of ponies standing around. She even saw Pap and Mam! She tried to scamper over to them, but Miss Luna shook her head. Miss Celestia led them to a place next to those ponies. A few minutes later, they was running away.

"Wauw!" Pinkie looked around with a big smile. "Leaves are falling! Pwetty!" She batted one, then another, then another. Then she was rolling around the leaves, giggling. The rest of the foals soon followed. Applejack tried to, but Rainbow stopped her.

"Wha?"

"A compish! You, me. We collects the leaves. The most wins. Deal?" Rainbow put her hoof out with a big smile.

"Deal!"

The two started running everywhere, slipping and sliding on all sorts of leaves. Applejack flopped to the floor and using her big strong mussels, just like Papa says, and pushed her body along the floor to collect the leaves. Rainbow flapped her wings, the winds moved the leaves. Twi was also gathering leaves, but she's slow. Pinkie was...weird.

"O. M. G. Applejack and Dashie and Twilit. Greatest show ever!" Pinkie bounced on top of a rock and looked at the three foals. "Whos gets the most leaves wins prestig and power! FIIIIIIIGHT!" She started laughing like crazy.

Applejack and Rainbow started going faster. Applejack didn't like that Rainbow was using her wings, the wind was making the leaves go everywhere! She moved away from the clearing to get better leaves without annoying Rainbow. After pushing lots of leaves, she looked up and looked around. Applejack sat down.

"Where am ah?" Nothing looked right. She could not see Miss Celestia or anypony else. Her eyes started to sting. "Helloooo? Anypony there?" There was no answer. Water started coming out of her eyes. Applejack started running around, trying to find something that looked right. Nothing looked right. "Hellooo...sob...ooo...anypony..." Applejack sat down and started crying. She was lost.

***

"There!" Pinkie starts running and crashed into Applejack, the two fell. "Applejack! Yous okay!"

Applejack didn't say anything, she only hugged Pinkie very tightly, crying with relief. "Y'all found me!"

Miss Celestia trotted over and lifted Applejack and put her on her back. "I'm very glad you're safe, Applejack. Let's head back."

"Yes please, Miss." Applejack leaned into Miss Celestia. "Thank ya for findin' me."

"Of course. Anything for my little ponies." She chuckled with a weird note.

The three headed back to where the other foals were. They all crowded Applejack, asking questions, poked her a few times, there was also hugging. Then, Rainbow and Twilight invited Applejack to the big leaf pile they had made while she was gone.

"Hehe, looks good, yeah?" Rainbow said proudly.

"I did most of the work!" Twi said, mad. "Your wings made the leaves go everywhere!"

Miss Luna came up behind, picked up the three of them, then threw them into the leaf pile.

"LUNA!"

"I'm just having fun, Tia! See, they're alright!"

Applejack burst out with a gasp, then noticed the leaves were very soft. Twi and Rainbow burst out next to her. They look at each other, then at Miss Luna.

"CHARGE!" The three roared, grabbed a lot of leaves and threw with all of their might.

The Great Leaf War began and ended that day.

Author's Note

Ah, getting lost. I'm pretty sure at some point in your childhood, you've gotten lost. I've certainly gotten lost many times. Caused many people panic attacks, myself included, lol.

But you also can't forget about the leaf battles and throwing kids around. Good times. :)

Also, my apologies for disappearing. I had vacation. T'was pretty fun and VERY long.