Dark Woods looked around the dark forest, her eyes passing over the small clearing, looking for any signs of life. Thick trees spread out around in an oval-ish shape ring around the clearing, and soft grass swayed in the gently breeze. Everything took a darker tone of color as the moon rose up into the sky, Celestia's sun setting beyond the trees and the orange sky fades to black. Once she was sure there wasn't any, she got her foldable tent off her back and set it up. It was made up of leaves, vines, twigs and branches. It took along time to build because of hooves, but luckily, it did its job well.
Laying down under the sketchy-looking tent, she looked at her dirty, dark brown coat. It had grass stains, stickers (the pointy kind), and not really noticeable dirt smudges all over it. Her cutie mark, Five berries over a como canteen, could barely be seen under the dirt stains. Her dark, almost navy, blue tail wasn't much better. With leaves, stickers, and twigs pointing out of the tangled mess of a tail, it was way worse then her short coat.
“Could be worst.” She thought as she closed her tired eyes.
“No, it couldn't. We're in the dark, scary Everfree Forest, with no civilization in sight, running from timber wolves, manticores, and who knows what else. Poison joke at every corner and don't get me started on the insects.” a voice replied in Dark's mind, grumpily.
“Who asked you, Bright Woods! At least you don't have to walk or fly through it! You're just a voice inside my head,Dark Woods tiredly, talking through clenched teeth.”sometimes, at least” Dark woods whispered.
“Exactly,it's not my fault that I’m in your head, Darky! You could let me control and rest as a voice with no control over the body you're in.” Bright Woods mentally shot back, annoyance and determination in the voice.
“Not right now. I'm the one who's special talent is surviving. Now be quite so I can sleep, Bright” Dark said out loud. Bright went silent, wishing she had her own body instead of being a mind of this grumpy pegasus.
This was the result of Dark being MPD, also known as Multiple Pony Disorder. Two totally different ponies in one body. It's usually the result of a spell of a long since forbidden spell in Equestia. Dark Woods Wasn't from Equestia, though. She was from the country on the other side of the Everfree, Gallopia (Gallop-pee-ah). She lived in a small settlement calld Hoofdown. Well, until she was disowned by her father disowned you and sent to live in the feared Everfree Forest, where she has been for the last five years of her life.
In two hours since the end of her short conversation, Dark was fast asleep.
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A growl formed at the bottom of Twig's wooden throat and his green eyes glowed in the darkness of night. He looked at the tent where the gentle breathing of a young pony could be heard. A gentle breeze carried the smell of forest and pony to his wooden face. Hunger clawed at his stomach as he quietly crept forward, never losing sight of the tent.
The Mare in the Moon looked down on the timber wolf named twig and the tent it was heading for. Her moon shone at full power, looking forward to the hunt. The mare trapped up there, Nightmare Moon, looked at the wolf creeping up to the tent, watching the scene unfold.
A howl echoed through the night, waking Dark Woods up. She heard a growl and sprang to her hooves, fully awake. Looking through the leaves of her tent, she saw the all to familiar green glow of timber wolves eyes. She heard the soft pawsteps as it made its way towards the tent. It looked alone, until the rest of the pack appeared from behind the bushes. She burst out of that tenet at full speed and opened her wings to full length.
She flapped once, getting a few hooves off the ground, before the lead wolf sprang at her faster then she could fly. He managed to get her right wing and pull her to the ground. The rest of the pack came forward and pinned her to the hard, cold ground. She felt the pain as the wolf's wooden claws dug into her wings, but out of instinct, she kicked the wolf's stomach at full power, shattering him into twigs and branches.
Scrambiling to her hooves, she heard angry growls of the pack. The rest dived at her and the one she shattered started rebuilding itself. The angry growls could be heard as she ran off, hoping to get away.
The hope went away as fast as lightning as she realized something, she was a second to late.
They tackled her to the ground, and pain was going through out her body. One scratched her flank, where her cutie mark is, while the other bit her back leg and warm blood spilled from the new wound. She closed her eyes as the wolves gave her wound after wound.
She fought back as hard as she could. Tears rolled down her cheeks, burning the already stinging cuts and scratches. Images flashed through her mind, her mother's death replied itself in her mind. She pushed the images aside as a claw went for her eye, tearing through the eyelid but barely missing the eyeball.
Dark scraemed in pain, the loud noise startling the timber wolves just enough for her to escape. She ran blindly as blood covered her eye, pain coursing through her body at every step. Her energy was fading fast as the light of day peeked into the forest, emitting from the end of the forest.
“Look! The forest's end-” Bright screamed mentally, right before Dark passed out and put the sentence out like a light. She scraped her leg as she fell face first into the ground right outside the forest.
Author's Note
Yeah, this is my first story, so if it's bad, please tell me how to make it better.
A young filly, with a coat resembling pink Cotten candy and a curly mane that looked like it was made with blue Cotten candy, played in a summer sun. Her mother watch as the young pegasus bounced up and down in a circle for no reason. Pride warmed the mare's heart when the young filly started to fly a little bit, but that pride quickly turned to fear as her daughter got a little to close to the dreaded Everfree forest.
She got up quickly and called to the filly, but the young pegasus didn't hear. The all to familiar glowing eyes of Timberwolves appear at the edge of the forest and the mother ran as fast as her legs allowed, barely making it to her child before she went into the forest. The wolves stalked out of the forest, and the mother sent her child to the village for help. As the filly ran off, the wolves pounced, barely missing the now running mare.
The little foal ran as fast as she could, but just as she reached the village, she could hear a scream of pain. Gulping, she called for help. Almost the whole village replied, and they set off to help the little pegasus's mother.
It was to late, the screams of pain and agony had ceased by the time they reached the scene. All that was left of her mother was a skeleton resting in a pool of blood. Tears streamed down the filly's cheeks as the smell of death reached her nose and realization set in. For let it be known that fate is cruel to that innocent pony, who was blind since birth.
She sat by her mother's skeleton when her father arrived. It took only a second for him to realize what had just took place. He went over to his daughter, looking for someone to blame. The father looked down on the poor pony and decided to blame her. Instead of comforting his daughter, he yelled at her, shocking every pony.
Tears poured down his face as he said the last words he would ever say to his daughter,"I banish you from this place and to the Everfree Forest."
No one believed their ears. The filly sat there in disbelief until her father kicked her. Not just a light shove, a full blown kick that sent her flying a couple hooves (claws, feet?). The young pegasus ran from the town and into the forest, saying nothing but her sobs told everything. She never looked back and never will look back.
Her name is Bright Woods
And that's the day she lost everything...
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Five years later, that same pegasus is laying in a hospital bed, and no one knows if she's going to live...
Author's Note
Sorry for the long wait! I wasn't sure what to do for this chapter, and then things got in my way. Then more things got in my way... Well, lets just say that I got this done and that's that.(I feel so mean) I'm planning for this to be the saddest chapter, and if you want me to describe how Bright Woods can't see but Dark Woods can, I'll do it in the next chapter's Author's notes. So, I'm planning to get a few more chapters done in the next couple months and I know this chapter is short, I'm sorry. Very short. Urgh! I wrote this at 11:00 P.M. When I was suppose to be asleep... Next chapters will be longer, I swear!
On another note, I'm planning to start another story soon, seeing how I've written some chapters in my spare time, but it isn't up yet because I'm working on the picture. Yes, I'm doing the picture myself. That is because I'm horrible at describing my ideas for art projects, and I'm an ok artist.
So, Hope you've enjoyed this chapter and happy New Years! (I'm a little late...)
