Will of Fire

Chapter 1 - Prologue

By: TheXIIILightning

Warning: This chapter might contain a few moments with blood, it is NOT enough to be rated Teen, but being written in the 1st person POV, I felt a warning needed to be included for those of younger age. If you advance to the first " ~^~^~^ " or even the next Chapter you will loose nothing in terms of story.

Thanks for understanding, and enjoy the story.

I awoke in the middle of the night on a muddy dirt road, my head was hurting and the torrential rain was as cold as the longest day of winter. I tried to get up, slowly moving my hind legs. I felt a sharp pain striking at my chest and left wing, that made slump into the ground bellow me.

“What happened?” was the only thing I could say after falling in a puddle of blood, MY blood.

My vision was red, mostly because of the cut on my head and the rain that kept relentlessly falling on me. I lifted a hoof, trying to feel the gravity of my injuries, and they were… bad.

As I touched my hoof on my chest, I felt pain, slightly numb now, but I could feel one, maybe two large cuts, bleeding heavily. They were not stab wounds, they were long, and not too deep. Slash wounds most likely. Wait, did someone hit me with a sword!?

"This isn't the time to find out…” I muttered to myself. As much as I wanted to know how I got into this bloody mess, surviving is far more important.

I tried to view my surroundings I saw nothing but pitch black, the occasional lightning and a few lights on the horizon.

'A town…' I didn’t say it out loud, I didn't want to jinx my only chance of survival. I knew I was bleeding, and in this storm nopony can hear me call for help, I have to make it to town. I called out all of my remaining strength, it hurt, but I had to do it.

I got on my hooves, stretching my right wing for support.

I think I only walked for a few yards, but it felt like miles. By the time I got into town, the lights were all out. Every house, every street light… Total darkness…

There was no point in trying to reach the doorstep of any house, the ponies that lived there could be asleep. I could yell but I was too weak to try it, and the thunderous storm wasn’t helping at all, any sound that I made was buffed out instantly by the roaring thunder.

I had made a choice, I needed to find a house with some lights on, any house that just might hear me call for help...

I was almost ready to give up, I passed through eight blacked out houses, my strength was failing me but for some reason I kept going, I wasn’t going to die, not yet.

At the end of the road I took a right, and there it was, my beacon of hope.

The only house, err, tree with any kind of light. It was as tall as any house I passed before, and a small candle was shining in a lamp hanged by a tree branch.

And someone was still awake inside too, I could see light through some windows.

A few more steps and I’m saved!

I made it to the front door of my target, a door was between me and salvation, but that line was too far away to cross now.

I fell, I couldn’t move anything, my body wasn't my own anymore. There was no pain, there was no cold, I didn’t feel anything.

I didn't feel the rain falling on me, or the thunder roaring through the night.

I could only lie there and watch, a wooden door standing tall, just inches from me, and still, unreachable.

My eyes were closing as I cursed the door to open, I was so tired I couldn’t even speak, but I remember, that the last thing I saw that night was a brown quill.

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Peaceful

That is the best word to describe my feelings right now.

Nothing but peace and quiet. If this is the afterlife I could get used to it, I just need a banjo, maybe a book or two. Company would be great as well…

*sniff sniff* "Hmm… Maybe a muffin would be great as well. Do I even need to eat here?"

As soon as I said that, “greedy” sentence everything started shaking and getting slightly darker. The completely blank world that I saw before was now black, with the exception of a small circle bellow me, slowly getting smaller by the second.

“Wait! I’m sorry, I didn’t mean any disrespect! I just wanted a muffin! That’s no reason to kick me out!"

My pleas didn't matter, the floor before me banished and I fell in a dark abyss, screaming “Noooooo!” like a little foal having a nightmare.

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“Muffins!”

I yelled getting on my haunches, sweating like a workhorse. It took only a second to realize that I was alive. Was it the big bluish wall in front of me, the cozy bed I was on, or the warm sunshine entering through the window at my right, I had no idea. But I knew one thing.

“I’m alive!”

“And I’m Pinkie Pie!” Screamed a bright pink colored pony. Not realizing that she scared the buck out of me.

“Ah! Horsefeathers!” Was the only thing I said before falling of my bed, into the cold tiled floor.

End of Chapter 1

This is the 1st Chapter, didn't like it?

Oh well, visit the next chapter and see what happens, how will our pony deal with the Pink intruder?

Don't ask me, I just write this thing.

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I'll shut up now.