To ocean and beyond

by flutterdashpie

Miraculous

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When reality returned to me, I realised I was lying on a soft, sandy, beach. Did everything that I had thought happen even happen? Did I just happen to fall asleep on the beach? I opened my eyes to inspect. The surrounding area was a little too dark to see though, due to the fact that it was night. I got up and tried to adjust my eyes to the dark. A slow and cool breeze wisped past my mane and off into the distance. It was deffenitly colder where I was. That was the first hint that got me to know I wasn't neccecarily at... 'home'. The air smelt fresh and it had almost a minty scent to it. I wasn't really tired but I still decided I might as well try to sleep. I lay in the soft sand and closed my eyes. I only just realised how amazing it was that I had actually survived that storm. It would almost seem impossible! Eventually I fell asleep and took a trip into the strange world of dreams. The dream I had was quite different compared to most of my other dreams. I was flying over an ocean. The ocean had wisps of fire blasting through the waves, attempting to burn me up, but I survived. Suddenly the fire began to shift into the shapes of dragons, and the water shifted into shapes of princess Celestia... Then I woke. "What the heck?" Was the first thing I thought to myself. When I stood up I realised something and stopped. I wasn't even hungry. I was pretty much dying on the ocean of hunger but now... I wasn't hungry at all! I shook the thought out of my head and continued on into the massive jungle infront of me. The jungle was like a cross between the everfree forest and... and... well, I don't really know what else it's a cross of. The trees had a ton of green vines wraping up and around them, flowing from tree to tree, tying the forest together. The trees had big green leaves, kind of like palm tree leaves, but they were darker, and thicker. Some of the other trees had dark green leaves that ruffled about like the leaves of an oak tree. I began to walk slowly into the jungle, listening to the strange creatures and birds around. It was unusualy dark inside of the jungle and I wasn't really fond of the darkness. I stepped on a branch and was startled so much that I fell backwards and cut my wing a little. I tried to rub the pain away but I knew it was helpless and gave up. I got up and kept going, hoping to find some huge civilization or something. About an hour or two later I had a strange feeling. Something was watching me. I could feel it. "Hello?" I yelled "Is anypony out there?" I waited a minute or two but nothing seemed to happen. About half an hour later I got the feeling again. This time I froze and waited. I heard a very quiet ruffling sound coming from the bushes and a little bit of a strange, low rumble emanating from it. I curiously crouched slowly up to the place and pulled aside the bushes. I gasped and paced back about a meter. The bones were glowing with a strange, soft glow although the thick green canopy above blocked out most of the sunlight. They looked like any average ponies bones but they seemed to be more angled and the eye holes were thinner and more squinted. I shivered and continued on. Before I knew it, night had fallen. I could barely see a thing, it was so dark! My hooves were bleeding and blistering by now, and most of all, I was tired. I curled up in a ball on a mossy spot on the ground that was under a tree and fell asleep before I knew it. I was woken up by a high pitched ringing noise. It wasn't a painful ringing but almost a soothing sound. I looked around to see where it was coming from and noticed a slight dimmed light not so far in the distance. I neared closer to the light where the ringing seemed to come from and I could see a  slight silhouette of a slim, wolflike creature. It had a long, slim tail and at the tip was an orange glowing light, the one I had seen in the distance. It's body was thin and curvy and it had short, slender legs. It's head looked similar to that of a hyena, and it had a fuzzy mane that curved slightly to the side and fell over one of his eyes. I couldn't see it's eyes perfectly, but I could tell they were large. When the creature caught site of me, it merely froze and stared at me. Green. It had pure green eyes, the same color as my mother's. It had stopped making the high pitched squealing, and was now making a low humming noise. It came strait up to me and looked me strait into my eyes. I was afraid at first but then the creature blinked and almost... Smiled at me. Right when I started to feel that the creature was harmless, it got up and began to bound away. I decided I might as well follow it but then I realized I was exhausted and fell to my side. How much sleep did I get? It didn't feel like much. The creature looked back at me as I started to make frustrated moans. Was it... Waiting for me? I tried my best to stand up and began to follow the creature once again. Every time I fell, it stopped to wait for me. When we got to a spot where the creature fell asleep, I had decided that this must have been our destination and fell asleep near a tree, opposite the creature. I woke up to a strange liquid dripping on my face. At first I thought it was rain, but then I realized it was sticky and smelly. Slobber. I opened my eyes to find daylight embracing me but now I could see the true face of the creature... and it was snarling angrily.

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