First, some info
- This fic will have alot of errors in the text.
- I am not a good writer. (Actually, I don't even like to write that much)
- This is my first fic, but I don't blame anything on that.
- If you wonder about anything, then please ask me. I gladly answer what I can answer.
Enjoy
Unforgettable past
Chapter 1: What just happened?
It was a ”normal” day in the Everfree forest. You could always hear the owls in the daylight, and how the cold wind played music in the treetops. You could hear the wildlife start running as you entered the many paths of the forest. You could even hear the snores of the cave monsters, or whatever lived inside the caves. Normal ponies would normally stay out of the forest for many reasons, mostly by the fear that an Ursa Minor would appear, or even worse. But it was a different thing if you lived in the forest already, just like Zecora. She knew the forest quite well already, as she had lived there for a while and knew most tricks to stay safe while wandering in the dangerous forest.
Zecora was on a walk to gather some new interesting herbs she had discovered some days ago while taking her daily walk. It was her job to find and discover all the functions of the new and interesting herbs she had found. As she was trying to find and gather the herbs, she noticed some weird wind strokes time by time. It was like Rainbow Dash felt for a one-man race around the forest. But Zecora couldn't see any pony in the sky because it was so dark. That made Zecora realize that she had to hurry home before it got too late, bad things could happen after midnight in the this forest. So she started to run home to her little hut and tried to ignore the possible dangers that could happen.
As she entered her hut she let out a weak sigh. She looked around in her hut. It was still in a complete mess after the many times she had thought “ I will do it later”. There were lots of books lying scattered around on the floor in a total mess, almost all of her potions, brews, flasks and ingredients were placed on the wrong shelves and some of them were even lying on the floor, even her many masks were on the floor. She didn't even know why. She just ignored the mess (again) for the moment so she could get started with the new and exciting herbs she just had picked up. After a couple of hours of experimenting and writing about the herbs she was almost done with her first test brew. She just needed to drop a few more drops of the last ingredient. But just as she was about to carefully drop the those last drops. She was interrupted by something she couldn't even explain herself.
Everything happened so fast. She didn't even know what happened, not even afterwards. All that she could understand was that she heard a big explosion, just like when you break the sound barrier, like Rainbow does before she makes a Sonic Rainboom. But she realized that this wasn't a Sonic Rainboom at all. Because almost directly after she heard the explosion everything turned dark, pitch-black. And almost directly after that, an enormous wind struck her hut and everything around it. She couldn't see it, but she heard how the trees almost got ripped from the ground, and how all of her flasks and potions hit the wall and floor. Even Zecora herself got pushed into the wall by the wind. When she finally got back on her feet she heard a giant crash just outside her door. All of that happened just for some seconds. She had never been this scared in her entire life. The light finally came back after she heard a big crash just outside her door.
She could barely stand up with her shaky hooves. There was also some glass shards stuck on her hooves thanks to all of the flasks crashing to the floor. She carefully tried to go to the door with her shaky hooves, but after some unsuccessful attempts she focused on not falling down. After successfully avoiding all of the shattered glass lying on the floor like a maze, she managed to get to the door. As she opened the door she could see some thin smoke coming up in front of her. She quickly thought it could be a small meteorite or something like that, which would explain the big crash, but nothing else. As she looked down to see what it was, she got a shock - of all of the things that could come crashing so hard it made a small crater it was a pony.
A young stallion pegasus, who was brown by the color. His mane and tail was in a terrible shape, like he had been flying through trees and bushes for hours. But aside from that, the mane and tail had a very unusual color, they were in a unique silver color, and his mane was surprisingly long for a stallion. And as if that wasn't weird enough, his cutiemark was impossible to guess the meaning of. It was a red question mark, nothing more, nothing less. She could clearly see that he wasn't from around here. He must have come from some foreign land, probably from some desert country. But then something very strange caught her eye - his wings was nothing she had ever seen. First, they were in a different shape than a normal pegasus wing. Secondly, they were slightly bigger than normal wings. And last was the color. Every pegasi wings she had seen so far was the same color as the ponys body, but his wings were black. He had a brown colored body but black wings. She knew something was weird about him.
But now he needed her help. He was exhausted, and not just a little. She had never seen a pony as tired as he was. His body was full of scratches from sticks, trees and bushes, she guessed, as he had probably been flying around in the forest. She tried to drag him through her hut that was currently filled with glass shards from all of her broken bottles. Before she could safely drag him to bed she had to clear away most of the glass, luckily, her hut wasn't big. So she just had to clear a little path from the door to the bedroom door. After carefully putting the shards aside she helped him to bedroom. Before leaving him to rest she had to check if he was alright first. Because no one would be alright after crashing that hard into the ground. Surprisingly, there was no sign of anything from the crash on him. He was in almost perfect shape, except the small bruises and scratches.
After examining him for a short while she got back to her cauldron. Then she realized that her house was in an even worse mess than last time. She took a deep sigh and grabbed her broom. Because she didn't “have” time to clean her house, she just put all the glass shards into a corner and wiped up the most of the spilled liquid that used to be potions and brews. Now she could start with her potion, again. Her last one got ruined because of the giant wind push, that knocked it down. But then she realized that she was way too tired to even go get the new ingredients, again. Plus it was way to late for that too. So she just took some blankets and laid them on the floor to sleep on, because her bed was currently occupied at the moment by a completely unknown pony. She was wondering if all this actually happen. Then, she fell asleep.
When she woke up she didn't know what to think anymore. Everything was still in a mess, the glass in the corner, the lousy cleaned floor and the weird stallion in her bed. She didn't think about it very much as she went outside almost directly to get some fresh air. She had to get some new samples of the herbs she took yesterday, because they were used in vain thanks to yesterdays incident. Thankfully, she already knew where they were so it was easy to find and pick them again. As she went back into her hut she didn't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. Everything was still the same. She let out a weak sigh and went to work. The stallion were still sleeping though, but more calmly this time. As she started with her brew she started to notice how the stallion started to struggle in his sleep. Twisting and turning around, not so violent but was enough to see that he was obviously having nightmares. After awhile she were almost finished with the brew. Thanks to her notes from the last time, it took far less time than it normally would. She just needed to add some more leaves, but not too many. But just when she was about to drop the leaves something distracted her - It was the stallion.
He had woken up, and calmly sat up on the bed. It was clear that his vision was not clear yet, as he was trying to focus on objects very near to him. It looked like he hadn't noticed Zecora yet. But thanks to that distraction, Zecora accidentally added too many leaves into the brew. Thanks to that, the brew blew up and made a small explosion. Zecora just stood there with a poker face, her brew had just exploded in her face. She started to laugh at the irony until she saw him. He didn't look as sleepy now as he did just seconds ago, and neither did he look surprised. She could see how his face made an angry expression, and it looked angrier and angrier every second untill he jumped out of the bed. Zecora just stood there, scared by his reaction. Was it something she did? But she couldn't think very much about it since the stallion had already planted his fore-hooves on the floor then quickly turned around and heightened his back-hooves in the air ready for a kick. Zecora didn't have time react and instead got kicked into the wall. While she lay on the floor she saw him running out of her house and then, she passed out.
She later woke up, in her bed. She had a bandage on her head. She went out of her bed to check out the rest of her hut. Her hut was clean. No glass on the floor, in fact the floor was completely clean, all of her flasks were on the right place. Now she was confused, did this really just happen? Did she just get kicked by a complete stranger? The things that confused her the most was her cauldron - or more about what it contained. It was the brew she had tried to make twice, but now it was complete. She just went to her bed again with one simple question..
"Did all that just happen?"
This wasn't the first time some pony would stumble on this unknown stallion. This was only the beginning of an unknown adventure yet to be discovered.
To be continued
Thanks for reading this story. If you have any questions, ask them.
I want to thank my friend "The Alpha", an irl friend and my english teacher for the spell and grammar check.
When trees gives you stallions, something ain't right
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When trees gives you stallions, something ain't right
Unforgettable Past
Chapter 2:
When trees gives you stallions, something ain't right
The sun rose from the horizon at Sweet Apple Acres. It was a wonderful morning, or at least you could think that. For Applejack, it was a long morning. All thanks to Pinkie Pie. She just needed to have an after party for the party of having an after party for the party that was made to celebrate the start of the applebucking season. Applejack really regretted that she allowed it too. Not only did she come home far later than ever before, she overslept too.
That had never happen to her before, and even worse was the fact that this was the first day of the applebucking season. But she was way to tired too be able to rush downstairs and start working directly. Instead she went to the bathroom and started brushing her teeth and combing her mane, she also took the opportunity to wash her face. In that way she wouldn't look so sleepy, and she would get a little more refreshed too. Without realizing it, she fell asleep in front of the mirror, that much for the water idea. After realizing that she had fall asleep, she headed downstairs. She was going to act like nothing was wrong, but that didn't go as planned. As she was going to take her first step on the stairs, she missed it. That ended up with her embarrassing falling down and sliding down on the stairs, loudly, head first.
After embarrassingly falling down the stairs, she saw that Apple Bloom, Big Mac and granny Smith already sat at the dinner table, waiting for her. Granny Smith was reading the papers, Big Mac was silently eating his food and Apple Bloom sat there with her chin to the table, mostly by boredom.
“Yeahh...” Applejack answered with a bad poker face, as she went to the dinner table. It was then she saw that there was already food on the table, ready to be eaten.
“They know how to cook?” Applejack asked.
“No”
“Noope”
“No way!” They all answered at the same time.
“Ohh Ah see where this is goin’.” She said, as she took a seat at the table.
It didn't take long until Applejack had realized just how good she was at making food. While she was trying to eat something that was meant to resemble a pie, she started to ask why they hadn't started the applebucking yet.
“Why haven't y’all started the applebucking yet?”
“'cause we don't start the bucking until every family member is gathered.” Granny said.
“Well, at least y’all could had woke me up in time.” Applejack said with a little annoyed voice.
“A fully awake pony is always better than a half sleeping one, isn't that obvious?” Granny said.
“Well of... Of course, good thinking there.” She said with a nervous poker face. Applejack just continued trying to eat her food without saying anything in this awkward situation.
As soon as she was finished they all went outside to start the applebucking, well at least Big Mac and Applejack. They were the only ones in the family who could buck the trees hard enough for the apples to fall. Granny Smith and (mostly) Apple Bloom's job was to put some baskets under every tree, so the apples would fall in them. Granny went with Big Mac to the east side of the farm and Apple Bloom went with Applejack to the west side.
The sun was at top of the sky, and was as warm as it could be. The sky was almost clear, just some few clouds in the sky. But they were so small and thin that it was hard to even noticing them. Applejack stood at a small hill and watched her sister place the baskets under the trees, she needed to give her some time to place them before she started the applebucking.
”She better hurry or I will fall asleep here.” She thought. It seemed like nothing had helped her tiredness, not the water nor the food. She started to wonder if she would be able to achieve today’s work. Her eyelids started to slowly fall down, and suddenly she woke up. She knew that this can't go on forever.
Applejack approached the first tree and gave it an average kick. Then she heard the sound of apples falling down in baskets. She looked up to the tree and searched for some apples. This gave her a smile on her face, an average kick took down all of the apples. If she used the same power on every tree, she probably would have succeed with today’s works without a problem. She continued with the bucking without any problems. After a couple of trees she felt the tiredness coming back.
Applejack just tried to ignore that feeling and continued, but in vain. The more trees she bucked, the more tired she got and not by the kicking. She also noticed that less apples fell from the trees. Thankfully, Apple Bloom did too. She approached Applejack and asked.
“How late did you actually come home yesterday?”
“Ya don't wanna know, actually, ah'm not sure myself,” She answered.
“But.. what made ya come home so late?”
“Two words.. Pinkie parties...”
“But didn't that party start very early?”
“Yes it did, but that wasn't the only party she threw,” Applejack said with a weak sigh.
“What do ya mean?” Apple Bloom asked.
Applejack started to lean against the closet tree and yet again let out a sigh.
”Listen. You know Pinkie Pie, right? After the first party, that was great by the way, she decided to throw a new one. That after party was also great but after that things started to go down. After that after party she wanted to celebrate again, for achieving such a great after party. But less ponies came to this party, no big surprise, only Pinkie can party that much without getting tired. And ironically, she threw yet another party. This one was an after party of the party of having after party of the party to celebrate the applebucking season.”
“That doesn't really explain why ya came home so late.”
“Well, ah'm not sure if she threw anymore parties after those 'cause ah fell asleep during the second after party.” Applejack answered with little ironic laugh.
“But didn't you get your sleep back then?”
“Ah have no idea, doesn't look like it. Any more question ya want to ask while ah'm still awake?”
“Yeah..huh..hmm.. no....”
“Then I shall return to mah buckin duties.”
“Oh. Just one more thing.” Apple Bloom said
“Yeah? What?”
“Ye see that tree over there.” Apple Bloom was saying as she pointed to a tree not far away.
“Yeah, what 'bout it.”
“Ah heard some noise from that tree, like something was sleeping on it. Can it be Rainbow Dash?”
“Not likely. She should be aware of this. Not even she is stupid enough to sleep on the apple trees during the applebucking season.”
“Anyway, just wanted ya to know about it. Get back to your bucking now.” Apple Bloom said as she trotted away to get some more baskets to the rest of the trees.
Applejack looked at the tree Apple bloom talked about. It was about 20 trees away, not that far away. As she tried to not fall asleep while bucking the trees, she thought more and more about the that tree. It came closer and closer and suddenly it was there. She looked closely at the tree. She noticed something, something was snoring. Applejack got one of those ”Are you kidding me” faces. It really had to be Rainbow Dash. Who else would sleep on a tree, especially in the start of the applebucking season. Applejack wanted to do a little prank on RD, so as she heighten her back hooves ready for a kick, she hit the tree with all her might.
Just as planned, RD fell down from the tree. But the only problem was that this wasn't RD at all. It was an unknown stallion. As he fell down from the tree, he hit a big tree root. Applejack could feel the pain just by seeing it and hearing it. As she walked closer to see if he was okay or not, she noticed some stuff about him.
He was a brown Pegasus stallion. He had an unique silver colored mane and tail. Nothing out of the ordinary. But she also saw those things that wasn't ordinary. Mainly his wings, Applejack wasn't a expert on pegasi but she knew something wasn't normal about then. They were in a different color from his body-color, they were black. They were also slightly bigger and different shaped than the others. And the thing she saw last was his cutie mark. Weird as it could get, it was a question mark. A red question mark.
As she stood there she asked ”Are ya okay, sir?”. She didn't get an answer, this made her very nervous. She gave him a small poke and asked again ”Hey, are ya okay, sir?”. Again, nothing happened. She looked around to see if anyone else were nearby, but they weren't. Apple Bloom had either gone to help granny Smith or had she gone somewhere with the Cutie mark-Crusaders. She gave it a last chance. This time she shook the stallion as she asked yet again, ”ARE YA OKAY, SIR”. This time it looked like something actually happened. It seemed like he finally woke up. Applejack let out a sigh of relief.
He slowly opened his eyes, he blinked a couple of times until he saw Applejack there with bad poker face smile. His face expression instantly changed to something between anger and panic. He then quickly jumped up and landed on his fore-hooves and kicked the tree he had been sleeping in. That made some few apples fall, and one of them hit AJ in her head. As it hit her, she got a little dizzy and didn't notice that the stallion had changed direction of his kick, that now was pointing to her instead. As she got kicked, she flew into the a tree and passed out.
”Hey, AJ! Stop sleeping already”
Applejack open her eyes and saw Apple Bloom in front of her.
“..huh...”
“Yeah AJ. Wake up sleepy head. It not like ya to sleep at the job.”
“WHAT! Was ah sleeping, whatsthetimewhathaveahmissed. Ah must continue work right away.” AJ screamed as she starting to run to the tree farm again. For some reason she had woken up on the small hill a bit away from the trees.
“What work? Apple Bloom asked as she tried to stop AJ's running.”
“You have already bucked today’s trees. She finished.”
Applejack suddenly stopped. She looked at the tree plantage.
“Did ah buck all that? She asked confused.”
“Yeah, just like ah said. Ye had already bucked all of today’s apples. Shouldn't ya know this 'cause YOU did this.”
Applejack just sat down with a confused face.
”Yeah, ah must have forgotten when ah took a that nap”
“Anyway, ye are free from work the rest of the day.”
“Ah am?”
“Did ye hit your head earlier or something. Ye KNOW these things. Of course you're free for the day. Anyway see ya later.”
Applejack just sat there, on the small hill and said silently to herself ”Yeah. Ah'm suppose to know these things, but ah'm darn sure that stallion was real.” Then she just wandered away to the town with just one thought in her head. Did all that just happen?