Chapters My Little Pony: Future of Equestria
The sun was just rising over the horizon and Ponyville was still sleeping.
Author's Note
this is my first FanFic ever, so i don't really know what I'm doing. If there are any veteran Fan-Fic writers who could give me a few tips, i would really enjoy it
My Little Pony: Future of Equestria
Just outside of Ponyville, right next to Saddle Lake, there was a cottage. This was a cottage that most ponies stayed away from, not from their own accord, but from a powerful spell that was cast there, making it Unnoticeable. This cottage laid abandoned for years, ignored by all who traveled their.
Jet looked up at her and grinned, "I guess were going to have to be behind on our schedule then." He took off his satchel and opened up both sides which immediately burst with the overflow of stuff that was in them. "This might take a while."
Runa could not believe her eyes.
He turned and ran off to Ponyville, leaving Runa in a daze of her own. She was in such a big of a daze, that she didn’t see a small white filly sneak into Cody’s bag.
A few minutes later, Dreamie was pacing around the cave. Any minute now, she knew her friends would notice hers and Jets absence from their jobs and come looking for them, and she knew that the cave was the first place that TimeChaser would look. Her worries only grew when she looked over and saw Jet pulling out another collapsible telescope and toss it onto the already littered floor of the hideout.
Author's Note
[1] Cody is not one of my ponies, but a friend of mine is letting me use him in this story. for the original story of Cody, please go to http://www.fimfiction.net/story/94192/the-history-of-cody
My Little Pony: Future of Equestria
A New Friend
Time Chaser opened her eyes and found herself in an unfamiliar room, on an unfamiliar bed. The walls seemed to be made of stone, and held torches at various spots, keeping the room dimly lit. She hopped off the bed and accidentally hit her head on the ceilings odd anglement.
After placing her fez on her head, Time Chaser opened the door and poked her head out into the hallway.
Suddenly, she heard voices coming from around the corner.
"Yeah, me too, Even if she isn't, we will have to just use what we have already. We have plenty, we can start without one mare, right?"
"Okay," Time Chaser thought, "time to hide." Looking around, however, she found nothing to hide behind. An idea sprung into her mind, and she jumped to the ceiling, hiding just as the two unicorns from the Everfree forest.
After hiding them inside the room, Time Chaser nodded to herself.
"I've gotta save my friends. Nopony will be getting eaten on my watch!" She pulled a full black suit out of her saddle bag, which had been sitting next to the bed she was on.
Around the corner, she found many doors, leading to rooms very similar to the one she was in. A big, ornate door was at the end of the hallway. Laying her ear on the door, she could hear various voices, two.... three at most.
"Are they almost done Dad," one of the voices, most likely a young colt, asked eagerly, "We have been waiting for ages."
"Ah," Time Chaser mumbled, "so this is a family operation, huh?"
"Don't worry," An older voice, most likely the father, replied, "they will be done very soon. Then we will be able to eat."
Much to her surprise, they were a perfectly ordinary looking family of ponies,the mother and father standing by the door with a little colt and a mare close to Time Chasers age standing by another door. She knew first hand about the dangers of the Changelings, and how they could look like anypony they wanted to be. She immediately let loose a barrage of magic, shooting everything in the room except for the ponies standing in front of her.
"What the?" The elder stallion exclaimed, ducking down. The Mare charged at her, forcing her to step to the side. the mare hit her head against the wall with a thud, causing all the china from the wall to fall down and shatter around her.
Then, the door to the other room opened, revealing Candy Mellow and the rest of her friends, who were all sitting at the table, save for Candy, who opened the door.
"Is everything alright in here?" Candy asked, until she saw Time Chaser, and instantly understood what happened, "Time Chaser! Calm down."
"I will calm down as soon as you drop my friends shape you monster!"
Time Chaser suddenly felt herself get lifted off the ground by magic, which she instantly recognised as being Runa's, Jet's and Dreamie's. The three of them lifted her up, and floated her over to a spot next to the table, set and prepared for a dinner.
"I think," The older mare said, walking out of the kitchen, "that there has been a misunderstanding somewhere."
The father, a Blue stallion with a crazy brown mane, walked forward, extending a hoof warily.
"Well," the mother said, cutting in, " I don't know what you heard, but I promise you, we are not Changelings." She smiled and tilted her head slightly, the ultimate sign of an innocent motherly mare. But Time Chaser could see right through them all. She could see the vile creatures that hid as her friends.
"What?" Cody exclaims, "how can you use that as a question?"
"If you were the real Cody, you would know."
"His name is Code Breaker," Jet said, "but I don't get why that's such a big deal."
"Its the idea of the name," Cody grumbled, "people expect my talent to be hacking or theavery. My whole colthood, people were expecting the worst from me because of my name. That's why I changed my name when I moved to Ponyville. Only my friends know my real name."
"That," the green mare said, "is stupid." Everypony in the room turned to her, "What? It's just a name. I seriously can't see why he needs to get in a big fuss about it."
Runa giggled, "Yeah, I usually call him that when I am mad at him. After that, I usually get my way."
"Alright," Time Chaser interrupted,"so you're all really my friends, but that doesn't explain who these ponies are."
"Well as I said, I am Chancellor Spotting Swirl. This is my wife, Serenity Swirl. My daughter over there is Amity, my son over in the kitchen is Rainy, and you should have met my other two boys earlier. I sent them to go see if you were awake yet, I wonder what happened."
Time Chaser blushed, "Yeah, see that's back when I thought you guys were bad ponies....."
"Oh no,"Jet groaned, "T.C., what did you do to them?"
"Nothing horrible! I swear!" She looked at her friends, all of which were looking back at her, concern on their faces,"What? I thought they were attacking me!"
Almost immediately, Time Chaser asked the question that was nagging at her skull,"Alright, if you are not Changelings, then who are you guys?"
Mr.Swirl picked up his cup and took a few sips from it, "We are just a family of ponies that live in the Everfree Forest. We don't really have many visitors around here. When my kids found you yesterday, it kinda spooked them a little."
"Woah woah woah,"Time Chaser said, holding her hooves in a stop motion," so I was sleeping for an entire day?"
"Nearly two," Dreamie said," the rest of us woke up earlier this morning, you seemed to have slept all day today as well."
"What time is it, anyway?" Time Chaser around. For the first time, she noticed that the room they were currently in had no windows, neither did the kitchen.
"Alright, so where exactly are we, and why do you guys live in the Everfree forest, and....." TimeChaser was cut off when Runa shoved an apple in her mouth, forcing her to become silent, "If you would let him speak, he is trying to explain everything to you, yah know."
Spotting Swirl took a sip of his drink, then a small breath.
"When I should have graduated from the Elementry School, my parents stopped leaving the house themselves. After that happened, I was barely allowed outside my room, let alone the whole house. I was very confused at the time, and alone. The only pony who I played with was my neighbor, who would seek in when my parents were forced to leave for food and medicine and stuff. With her influence, I gained the courage to ask my parents why we could not leave."
"My Dad became mad at me, while my Mom became scared. 'Just do what your told for once!' My Dad screamed 'Why can't you just shut up and do what your told?' I wanted to yell at him, but I chickened out. As more weeks went by, I grew restless, feeling the need to get out of the house. Every time I asked to go outside I would get yelled at or told it is to dangerous."
"Finally, my Dad got fed up. 'You want to go outside? Fine, we will go outside!' He packed up all of our stuff and threw it into a Shrink Box.[1] 'We are moving to the Everfree Forest, where it is safe!' I was scared that my parents lost their minds. I had to get out of there. I ran next door to my friend, Serenity. After a long talk, I decided to follow my parents and I went to live in the Everfree Forest. Serenity came to see me often, and married me a few years later."
He looked at the ponies sitting around him, a grin on his face, "And that's the story."
"Are you kidding me?"Jet groaned "that wasn't anything like I had hoped."
"What do you mean?" Serenity asked, "What did you expect?"
Jet blushed, "You know, more action and stuff, like a Daring Doo expedition or something."
"My question,"Dreamie interruped, "is why didn't you return to Ponyville after you became adults? Why did you stay here, in the most dangerous place around?"
"Because while the Everfree has many dangers you can see, Ponyville, and all of Equestria, is haunted by an evil they cannot hide from."
It was oddly Candy Mellow that broke the quiet. "I have noticed that, while picking up some supplies for my store, many ponies are looking over their backs, like something is following them."
"Me and Dreamie have done some reserch,"Jet said,"and we have noticed that many ponies in the past have reported strange fealings of unease."
"Not just that, but someponies are saying they are seeing flashes of something before it fades away. Something dark and scary. Now I used to dismiss these as just some ponies looking for attention, that is till I saw it myself." Dreamie looked at her friends and smiled. "That's why we are going to the Pillars of Harmony. Something is wrong in Equestria, and I want to know how that is."
"What are the Pillars of Harmony?" the little Rainy Swirl asked.
Runa answered him, "They are the gravesites for the users of the Elements of Harmony. 100 years ago, they were known as the Mane 6. They defeated Nightmare Moon, vanquished King Sombra and Queen Chirsalis, and even sealed Discord."
"If they were so powerful, then how come they died?"
"None of them were immortal,"Amity interjected, "One of them had the choice to be, but declined it so she could die with her friends." She huffed, "What a waste, if it were me, I would say goodbye to those guys and take immortality."
"That is no way to think Amity," said her father,"friends are all Equestria stands for."
"And as you said, Equesrtia is corrupted."
"I said no such thing."
"Yes you did. What else were you saying besides the usual 'You cannot leave the forest, it is not safe'?"
"Now you know that's not....."
"I think," Serenity said, cutting off their argument, "that I have an idea."
"What's that?" Spotting asked.
"Maybe, if she leaves in a group, Amity could be able to leave the forest."
"Really?" She asked, joy in her face.
"Serenity, I think we should talk about this before we just-"
"We have talked about this Spotting, and we never get anywhere. I believe our daughter is old enough to make her own choices." She turned to the group of friends sitting at her table "Would you mind adding another pony to your group? She knows this forest like the back of her hoof, so she may be of some help."
"Hm... We need to think for a few minutes."
Time Chaser lifted everypony with her magic and pulled them into a circle, "Group Huddle!"
After a few seconds of hused conversation, they turned around to face the family, "We accpet."
Amity squeled and dissapeared, only to return moments later with a completely full saddle bag,a camera, a huge tourist hat, and sunglasses. "When do we leave?"
"Tomorrow morning," Her Dad said chuckling, "For now, you should all eat up, then get a good nights sleep. The forest is very dangerous at night."
"We couldn't thank you enough." Dreamie said as Gravel and Bright came walking out of the kitchen with the food.
"Did we miss anything?" They asked, setting down the food. Everypony laughed except for Time Chaser, who was looking up, thinking.
"What's the matter?" Cody whispered to her.
"Well," She replied under her breath, "I just thought about it. I have been sleeping for almost two days. How come I gotta sleep now too?"
Cody chuckled and passed her a plate, "We all need to be well rested for what we are about to face."
Time Chaser thought for a second, shrugged, then dug into her meal. No pony noticed when, in the dark corner of the room, for a brief second, something was visable.
Author's Note
[1] A big box that will shrink after the lid is closed. It is a granchild of one of Pinkies and Rainbow Dashe's Prank toys.
My Little Pony: Future of Equestria
The Journey's Beginning
The next day came too early for Code. Then again, most mornings came too early for him. He woke up to the sound of a pony knocking at his door and shouting his name.
A sudden burst of light came through the door, and his marefriend was insantly standing next to his bed.
Runa giggled and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Come on sleepy head, everypony is waiting for you. Here, I'll help you." She lifted his bag up and placed it on his back, quickly fastening the clasps around his wings. "All done, now its time to go." She opened the door and with a playful smile, left the room.
All of them were standing by the door, trying to hold in laughter while Dreamie tried to talk to a pile of luggage. No, Code thought, that's not a pile of luggage. Walking around Runa, he saw Amity,shaking under the weight of her pack, grinning from ear to ear.
"I...didn't know....what I... would need," She struggled to say, "so....I just...grabbed it all." She shifted her pack to try and get more comfortable, only to cause everything to shift to her left side and have her fall over. Everypony in the room burst out in laughter, save for Dreamie, who was obviously trying to hold it back
"Amity," She said after a deep breath, "You don't need all that stuff. We will only be gone for a few days." She quickly turned her head towards Jet, who blushed and shied backwards. "Besides, we all have stuff that we can share together, so it won't be that big a deal."
"Well, okay. Can you give me a minute to unpack and repack?"
"Sure, we don't mind waiting."
Code glared at his marefriend, who smiled sheepishly. He laid down and closed his eyes, mumbling about his sleep being interrupted. He was just about to doze off when Amity announced that she was done.
He opened his eyes and was only slightly humored when her saw her still wearing an overstuffed pack, but by the looks of things, she had already taken out most of the stuff she was going to bring.
"That'll have to do, we should be leaving." Dreamie picked up her bag and walked out the door, followed in suit by her friends. Code yawned and followed the group outside, where they were all surprised to see a small farm, and sunlight. the door they exited from was hidden in the shadows of a small hill. In front of the hill was a small field, which was home to a small, fenced in garden, filled with odd fruits. Surrounding this field was the looming Everfree Forest.
"It's a spell," Amity said, causing Code to jump, "surrounding this field is a small warding spell that keeps the trees from growing and the fog from entering. My grandmother put it here so she could grow food so she didn't have to go into town."
"It's amazing," CandyMellow exclaimed, running over to the garden and smelling a flower.
"It's amazingly simple," Dreamie said in awe. She walked over to the edge of the clearing and put her hoof into the fog, then back inside the invisible barrier, "I wish I had time to record this."
"Me too," Jet nodded knowingly, "but we need to get to the Pillars as soon as possible. We can always record more about this when we return."
"Alrighty then fellas," Time Chaser said, bouncing around the field, "Let's head out on our adventure!"
The group huddled up together, with Amity at the lead and they stepped over the threshold of fog. After a few seconds, the majestic scenery of the field began to shift and waver, before completely fading all together, as if it had never been there in the first place.
This was Amities first time out this far past the field, and so far, she was letting her new friends down. She had already sprung five traps that her family had originally placed for any monsters that strayed too close to their home. If that wasn't bad enough, she herself placed three of the ones she triggered.
"Sorry about that,"she apologized, "My map says the trap was more to the left of us, I don't know how we triggered it."
"It's alright," TimeChaser said just as the rope got cut and she hit her head on the floor, "Ouchies."
Dreamie walked next to Amity, her face revealing her concern, "Are you alright Amity? You seem kinda off."
Amity looked at her new friend and she knew she couldn't say how much she was freaking out, "Oh yeah, I'm fine. Just a little excited that I am finally able to leave the house without one of my parents or older brothers tagging along. I'm.... fine." She smiled sheepishly, hoping her new friend wouldn't ask her again.
"Well that's understandable," Dreamie said with a smile, "this is new for all of us, nopony I know of has ever gone through the forest this far before. Sorry, but you're going to have to save the exhilaration until we get out of here, some of our group are getting a little scared."
"M.M..m..More... than a llli..little....." Candy Mellow stuttered, backing into Code and screaming.
"Alright, lets see here..." she looked closer at the map, silently cursing her own horrible hoofwritting. "Umm... I think we should go...uh....that way." She pointed straight ahead of her, right towards a big cliff. "No, uh... this way." She started walking around the cliff.
From behind her, she heard Jet mumble, "Remind me again why we brought her along. Isn't she supposed to know where we are going?" Amity walked a tad bit faster, nearly tripping another trap. "What am I here for?" She asked herself, "It hasn't even been an hour and I have already started screwing things up. Now I see why Dad wanted me to stay home. I can still go home, just turn around and-"
"What's the matter Amity?" Time Chaser asked, bouncing up next to the embarrassed pony,knocking her from her thoughts, "you look exhausted."
"Why does everypony keep asking me what's wrong? I am fine."
"Really, cause you sound annoyed."
"I'm not annoyed," she snapped angrily. Noticing her anger, she took a quick deep breath and turned to T.C.
"Yeah, I'm.. not used to it is all. Its causing me to read the map all wrong and I get turned around and upside down. To be honest, I don't even think I am leading us the right way anymore."
"Don't worry," Code said, walking up next to her and putting his hoof around her, "you'll figure it out. Your part of the herd now! Its way too late for you to go home now."
The extravagent way he presented it caused Amity to chuckle and clear her head. She took another look at the map and pointed up the small hill next to them, "We have to go that way."
That was when she heard the howling. It was distant, and quiet, but she still heard it throught the forest. She froze in place while her new friends trotted up the hill, listening for any other disterbance. Suddenly, she heard it, a rustling in the bushes to the side. She almost eased up until she realized that was the direction they had come from, and they just disabled all of the traps!
"What's wrong Amity?" Dreamie asked worried, "you look like you just saw a ghost."
"We have to run, now." She said, trotting up the hill in a quick sprint.
"What?" Jet asked as she passed, "Why?"
"Timberwolves!" And then, the forest exploded. Timberwolves of various sizes and colors all pounced on the unsespecting herd, and they would have been immediately crushed or worse had it not been for Dreamie and Jet quickly producing a shield for them and teleporting them to Amity. Immediatly after the teleportation, they set off in a run, with Code flying alongside them.
They began running blindly, aimlessly following behind Amity, who would occasionally make a sharp turn or, in one case, slide through a small whole. All the while, the Timberwolves were right behind them, pawing and clawing over eachother to get to the little ponies [1] Almost out of breath, Amity suddenly stopped still and seemingly dissapeared. One by one, the ponies followed her, running straight to where she was and falling down the perfectly pony sized whole in the ground.
Above them, the Timberwolves clawed and bited at them, but the whole was surreonded by moss covered stones, so their claws kept slipping off.
Author's Note
[1] Isn't there a rule that says this has to be mentioned in every decent fanfiction?
My Little Pony: Future of Equestria
Almost instantly, the thick branches of the trees, and the fog that seemed to seep from them cast the forest into a semblance of nighttime, forcing Dreamie and Jet to light their magic, casting their immediate area in an indigo glow. Many times, Jet thought he saw some movement out of the corner of hie eye, or a glimpse of something in the shadows. Dreamie was silent as she consulted the map, seeming completely calm and unaffected by the darkness around them.
His mind began to wander, and he started to think about which of the many terrible things from the forest that might be following them. Maybe it was a cockatrice, or a Cerberus. Maybe it was a Timberwolf! He walked faster, accidentally bumping into Dreamie, almost making her drop the map.
"Slow down Jet," she said, adjusting the map with her magic, "you need to watch were you going."
Dreamie shielded her eyes and cried out. She was surprised, however, to find that hers was not the only voice to cry out. In the darkness that was once just outside of Dreamie's and Jet's light, four ponies fell onto their flanks.
"Who was that?" Jet cried out, re-sparking his magic, "come on now, show yourselves!"
With groans and mumbles about being blind, the four ponies walked into the light. Jet sighed in relief when he realized who they were.
"More Importantly," Dreamie interrupted, "How did you know where we were?"
Runa spoke up, "We followed you, TimeChaser saw something was wrong, and she got me and Cody to watch you guys. When we saw you go into the cave, and not emerge for a while, we got worried, so we gathered everypony up ,and waited until you had left, then followed you into the forest."
"I knew where you guys were," Cody piped up, "I knew that you were in that cave thing, that's why we had our packs so fast, I had them prepared on the other side of the road for a while now."
Jet looked at Cody, and then to CandyMellow, "What about you? How did you find out where we were?"
Candy blushed and looked down, "I didn't know anything until a few hours ago, when Cody flew into the shop and told me you guys might be in trouble."
"But how did you guys get here so fast?" Dreamie asked incredulously, It took us days just to get packs!"
Cody stepped up, "I actually have been watching you guys for a while now, a T.C.s request, and..."
"He got the packs ready ahead of time," TimeChaser interrupted, bouncing between Cody and Dreamie, "I saw you, but I couldn't spy while keeping a cover, so I asked Cody to do it. Runa and him saw you guys go into the cave, so he flew back to town and got Candy and me."
She stopped bouncing and turned to Dreamie and Jet, her face suddenly filled with tears, "What's going on guys? Why didn't you tell us that you were leaving, alone, together, into the Everfree Forest. Did't you trust us?"
"It's not that T.C.," Jet said, trying to calm down his friend, "It's that, we were trying to leave quickly, and so nopony would notice that we were gone."
"Why should nopony know you were gone," Cody asked, "Why couldn't we have at least known you were going somewhere?"
"Because if two of us had left, then it wouldn't have been that suspicious. But then all of you guys came out here, and now there bound to notice that five ponies have vanished from work."
"They who?"
A sudden rustle in the bushes behind them made Jet jump, and turn around. "Alright, who else is there!" All of them were silent, waiting for a response.
"Absitively not," TimeChaser replied, shriveling into herself out of fear.
The bushes rustled again, only this time, from the other side of them. Dreamie looked around, and called out, "TimeChaser, Jet, and Runa form a circle with me, CandyMellow and Cody, get behind us."
The fog around them were now lit in a full circle by the unicorns combined glow, easing the fear of the group, but even so, they could not spot where the rustling was coming from.
The rustling seemed to come from all around them, and just as suddenly as it began, it stopped.
"Is that it?" Jet asked, looking a little more brave, magic glowing a little bit brighter.
CandyMellow gave out a quick gasp, then fell to the floor, eyes closed.
"Guys!" Jet called out, before his magic blinked out with him gasping,
"NO!," Dreamie screamed, running over to Jet, finally breaking her composure.
After a few seconds, two colts walked out of the bushes. The taller one lit a lantern and held it over his face, cutting through the fog and iluminating his face.
"I think we should bring them back to Mom and Dad, they should know what to do from there."
