Crossing Anthology

I returned to the hotel, I entered our room and I was greeted with Rainbow Dashes face two inches away from me, she asked me,

“Just where have you been all morning!? None of us could find you!”

“I went to get breakfast. Donuts for everypony!”

I displayed a box full of delicious chocolate glazed donuts to the six ponies, all of them trotted happily to have some, Pinkie however sprung to the donuts and gobbled up 3 in one bite. I promptly said,

“Damn.”

Everypony else said,

“Thanks Lemmour!”

“Ah you’re welcome, I didn’t even buy these.”

Twilight looked up from her donut and asked,

“Really? Then how did you get them?”

“They were bought for me by a new friend, his name is Pan.”

“Oh that’s nice.”

Applejack used her nose to flip a donut in the air and then catch it in her mouth, while chewing she asked,

“Mmmm… Where is he? I’d wanna meet any fellar who’d be so kind as to buy us donuts.”

Rarity turned to Applejack with a disgusted face and yelled,

“Applejack! Please, don’t talk while you’re eating!”

Applejack continued to chew and got closer to Rarity’s face and said,

“I ain’t talkin and eatin; I’m eatin and talkin, miss frilly-filly!”

Small drops of spit got on Rarity’s face, and Rarity became angrier. The redness of her cheeks really contrasted with her white fur. Fluttershy tried to calm them both down,

“Oh… Um… Girls, please, settle down, let’s just enjoy these delicious donuts and have a good time, please?”

Rarity and Applejack continued to argue, the argument became more heated, and Twilight finally intervened,

“BOTH OF YOU STOP!”

Twilight used her magic to separate them to opposite sides of the room. Then suddenly, the attention was brought off of Rarity and Applejack, and towards the knocking on our hotel door. Pinkie Pie opened up the door, behind the door was the hotel receptionist as well as another pony behind him. The receptionist greeted himself,

“Good morning mares and…”

He was looking confused at me.

“…Robot? Any who, I’ve come to tell you that this young mare behind me claims to have seen your lost friend, there was no hotel room included on the fliers so I brought her here.”

Twilight became ecstatic; she jumped toward the door yelling,

“YES! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Come on in!”

The unicorn mare trotted in and sat on the bed. Twilight introduced herself,

“My name is Twilight Sparkle, and your name?”

“The name is Lemonleaf; allow me to express my condolences on your kidnapped friend.”

“It’s quite alright, I feel we’re getting closer, so, what have you seen?”

“Well, yesterday near my home in Hollow Shades, I saw a light purple pony, with a black mane. She had your dragon by a chain around his neck. With several chains binding his hands and feet.”

Everyone gasped in shock; Rarity looked even more angered than a few moments ago. Rarity then said,

“SHE HAD MY LITTLE SPIKEY IN CHAINS!? I’LL KICK THE SHIT OUTTA THAT BITCH!”

Everypony was baffled at what Rarity had just yelled. My assumption was that ponies didn’t cuss a lot. Rarity then said,

“… What? Lemmour says those words too!”

Twilight then turned back to Lemonleaf and continued her conversation,

“ANY way… That sounds just like the appearance of the same person who took Spike. I saw her take him, was she wearing a diamond necklace?”

“Yes, she also had a crescent moon and fist cutie mark.”

“Yep, that’s definitely her. You said she was in Hollow Shades?”

“Yeah, that’s the place.”

“Would you be kind enough to take us there and direct us around the town?”

“I’m sorry, but I’m here to visit my family and just got here today, I’m glad I could be of assistance though.”

“It’s alright, I’m sure we can find our way around.”

“I will give you this advice though; steer clear of the west part of town, there’s a lot of gang and drug activity that goes on in that area. You Earth ponies and Pegasi ponies better watch your backs especially, the gang there is a unicorn gang, they are very confrontational towards anypony that isn’t their own race.”

“We’ll keep that in mind, thank you so much for coming by.”

The other ponies thanked her, and she left. I was in the back of the room; I lied down onto the bed. I couldn’t stop thinking about the town that Lemonleaf mentioned. “Hollow Shades… Hollow Shades… Why was that so significant? I then got a mental image of myself being dragged by my neck through a forest by King. I could see something far in the distance, a sign saying “Hollow Shades”. Suddenly, a sharp pain entered my head, and I screamed as loud as I could. The pain I felt was like having a tent peg struck into my skull with a metal baseball bat. The ponies galloped to me as fast as they could, they saw me with my hands on my ears, my body shaking and shivering, and with tears running down my cheeks. Seconds later I passed out.