Sweet Apple Mystery
Chapter 8: Thirsty?
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Anyway, back to the story, and now the REAL stuff happens :D!
***Chapter Eight***
When Magenta woke up, she was all sweaty and her throat felt dryer than sandpaper. She was still freaked out by the dream. It must have ment something, but what? She didn't like it one bit.
Big Macintosh were already working and Applebloom had gone to school. Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle were here to help out.
Magenta stopped in the doorway when she noticed them. She didn't wear her coat and the humiliation from the party were still fresh in her memory. She wasn't sure if she wanted to go meet Twilight and Rainbow. But she didn't have to worry about that, because soon Rainbow hade noticed her and flew over to her in a dangerously high speed. Magenta took a few steps back when it seemed like Rainbow were going to crash into the house. But Rainbow were an excellent flyer and stopped right in front of her. She shook her wings and folded them.
"Hey Mags! We heard what happened to AJ, and we're going to visit her this afternoon, are you coming along?" Rainbow said as Twilight came trotting.
"We tought that you might need some extra hooves, now when Applejack won't be able to work for a while" Twilight said and stopped next to Rainbow. She tilted her head. "Are you feeling well, Magenta? You look awfully tired..."
Magenta looked at her reflection in a puddle next to the house. Twilight were right. Her mane were a tangly, white and pink mess and she had dark bags under her purple eyes, who looked dazed and lifeless.
"I don't know... It didn't sleep well last night and..." She started to say as her gaze lifted from the puddle to the mares, when she flinched. Wait a minute.
She turned her attention to the puddle of water. Since when had it been there? She didn't remember any rain recently. She backed away from it and felt the wind. Everything were still, not even birds sang.
"What the buck? Where did the sun go? They haven't said anything about any big clouds today! If its Derpy again, I swear i'll..." Rainbow said as it suddenly went darker and colder. But when they looked up at the sky, it wasn't clouds blocking the sun... It was a huge, round ball of water. Surrounded by the characteristic green glow from unicorn magic. From a unicorn with green eyes, since she had learned from Twilight Sparkle that every unicorns magic glows with the same color as their eyes.
And so the ball of water dropped and crashed onto Sweet Apple Acres. Everypony were taken by surprise when the massive amount of water spread throghout the farm and swept almost everything with it. Magenta felt the water lift her up and carry her away. She tried to reach the surface to get air, but the water was to wild and managed to force her down every time her head popped out from the surface.
Rainbow Dash were the only one fast enough to get out of the way and were now circling the area. She found Twilight Sparkle and Granny Smith and carried them to safety, in this case to the top of a tall oak tree. However, she couldn't find Big Macintosh, or Magenta for that matter. She felt fear gripping her heart as she understood that the water must have carried them both away and she started to follow the stream. Wishing and praying her friends were still alive.
Magentas legs started to feel like jelly and her lungs were near to burst. She panicked. She really didn't want to die, not like this. And not now. Black dots were dancing in front of her eyes.
She was close to giving in when her hoof caught a branch. She grabbed hold of it and pulled herself into land, where she stopped to catch her breath. What just happened? How could someone just lift up tons of gallons of water, just to drop it on Sweet Apple Acres? And why would anyone do something like that?
Rainbow found Big Mac a couple of hundred metres away, stuck in a tree. He had swallowed a lot of water, but would be just fine.
However, when Rainbow asked him about Magenta, he just shook his head. He hadn't seen her either. Rainbow felt stricken by panic. Oh please, oh please, oh PLEASE! Let Magenta be alright!
Magenta woke up several hours later, when the water had withdrawn and the only things that prooved that it actually happened were some puddles here and there and broken twigs and branches scattered everywhere.
She looked around. She didn't recognize this place. She had never been here before.
She were in some kind of forest, not an apple orchard. And here the trees were old and dark and twisted. Their thick leaves blocked out most of the sunlight and everything were just plain creepy.
Magenta gasped when she realized where she were. She were in the Everfree Forest.
She had heard about this place. Monsters and all sorts of weird and dangerous creatures lived here. Magenta rised and examined herself. She were unharmed, except for a couple of bruises, really muddy and a haircut from hell.
She tried to look at it in a positive way. Maybe she would run into Zecora, the zebra. Zecora lived in Everfree Forest, and she would surely help her to get back. Problem were, she had never visited Zecora before, and didn't have any clue where in Everfree she lived.
Magenta sighed. This wouldn't get fun.
She were still soaked and she were freezing. So she started walking to keep herself warm, but everytime a chilly breeze swept through the forest, she got cold again.
Magenta had been walking for what felt like hours and the sun had gone down. The forest were pitchblack and scary. She couldn't even see her hooves so she kept bumping into things. Her hooves were, on top of it all, getting numb.
Suddenly she heard voices and saw a light between the trees. A campfire!
The sight of the campfire lifted her mood and seemed to give her new strength. She stumbled her way to the campfire and the two ponies sitting around it. She didn't notice the train-like machine behind them.
She fell to the ground ten metres from the fire and the two ponies noticed her, stopped talking and turned to her. They seemed surprised.
"Excuse m-me... I-i think i'm l-lost..." Magenta said and fainted.
That's all i've got for you this time! Stay patient for the next chapter, who'll be out soon ^^!
Btw, I just saw the movie Rango... Damn, one of the best movies i've ever seen :O! And i think i immediatly fell in love with the outlaw Rattlesnake-Jake :D! Seriously, i'm really intrigued with this guy, and a bit disappointed that we didn't get to know more about him D:... So i'm thinking of writing a Rango fanfic, with Jake as one of the main characters and i'll see if i can come up with a legitimate background for him :D... I have rented some western movies and books and started to do some research on the subject and i just started writing a script for the story, so hopefully i'll be able to publish the first chapter soon :D! However, i'm not sure if i should create some OC's to star in the fic... Cuz i don't want it to seem like it's revolving around my OC's, i want it to revolve around Jake :(
Well, well, until then, see ya!
Delilah OUT!