Tales of a Wandering Soul

Two years later.

I've been going through town and town again looking for my parents and I even began looking through Resident Logs where ever they were available. No pony wanted me to stay in their homes, most of them thought I was some sort of homeless bum, in a way I am but i'm better than that. I've been traveling through hot sands, creepy forests, mountains, ice lands, a big majority of Equestria was covered in my hooves! You know any bums that do that? I didn't think so. I've been exploring and going through cities large and small, some of them even looked run down and the buildings looked damaged. I've seen some towns look like that but I wonder why that's been happening to these towns that used to have beauty. Recently i've been having strange dreams about a pony that wears a hood and a mask that looked like a cat. In my dreams she was always silent and watching me with those painted eyes.

Ever since I got my cutie mark and I started to perform in towns I've been getting less and less hungry since ponies would throw tips at me and buying food and water didn't seem to be much of a problem. It was a nice change, beats starving for weeks that's for sure.

I met a very young unicorn that looks maybe four years younger than me, her coat was as yellow as a lemon and her mane twisted around with colors of orange and brown, mixing. I met her at the park and she was just sitting there crying on a bench. I couldn't help but sit next to her and ask her "Shh...shh...What's wrong?". She said to me "I-I can't get to H-Haystake" She said with a quivering voice and tears falling off her chin. "What's your name little filly?"

Her name is Jinx, "I'm Fret... hey kid... What're you doing here anyways?" She told me her parents left her at the park and they lived in a different town. Poor thing, she reminds me of myself except I didn't just sit around and mope. Instinctively, I said I would accompany her and she looked up and smiled. I suspected that she knew her way to Haystake.

We both got off the bench and we went down the road to what could possibly lead to Haystake. I was in front of her and she was very close behind me. The path led through a forest of very tall trees, I was always unsure about places like these. Forests always seemed dark and creepy to me. I would always feel something following and watching me, and even at nights I couldn't sleep peacefully. The crawling feeling that goes up my spine just tells me something is going to attack me in my sleep or unsuspectingly.

I tried to distract my fear with normal conversation, "So, what's it like being a unicorn?" Jinx replied, "It's not too bad, we have magic and we can do some amazing things". She doesn't have her cutie mark yet; maybe she's still looking for her special place in life, or maybe she's waiting until she finds the opportunity. I see why she didn't want to go on her own, these forests are pretty creepy...

I heard some rustling around the forest and humming "Wait d-did you hear that?" Jinx replied in confusion, "Hear what?" "Voices! I can hear voices echoing through these woods!" "I don't hear anything, you're probably scared. I thought big ponies like you weren't supposed to be scared!" The only difference is the fact that i'm slightly older. When I was a foal and even I was like this when I was young. Well, I guess you could say i'm still a foal, being eleven doesn't exactly make you a grown up.

I keep hearing voices in these woods, I know i'm not imagining this, I can feel my eardrums vibrating from how loud some of these voices talked. The voices were getting louder and louder, eventually I heard Jinx say to me, "Hey, Fret" "What is it?" I felt something jump on my back and I felt something smash against the back of my head with such power and fury. It felt like the back of my head was about to peel off, I screamed in pain and anguish.

I fell to the ground and I began to lose my vision, "AGGHH!!" I continued to scream. I heard everything inside my satchels fall out onto the dirt road. Then, I saw that unicorn stand in front of me as I lay here about to pass out from the pain. "Good Night" she said. I heard the voices of the forest get very loud, almost an roaring . I reached out to her then my body just gave out. My body felt as stiff as a board. I closed my eyes to try and let the pain flow and exit my body but before I knew it, I was unconscious.