It took a few minutes, but finally ah managed to get mahself under control again. It was kinda boring, no monsters, no ghosties not even animals were around. Nothin' special happened at all,
we just kept on walkin' through the huge forest. Big broad trees all around us, the wind which were blowing through their leaves and branches, dark green grass underneath our hooves. The sun was still sinkin' down very slowly, although it was quite hard to see 'cause of the enormous heights of the trees. It was just a suspicion, but it seemed that even Twilight was gettin' much more nervous and scared with every step we're goin'. Her ears were lowerin' and her eyes rushin' from on
side to another.
“Uhm, Twilight?” Suddenly she cringed and looked back at me.
“Great Celestia! Please, don’t startle me like that Applebloom!”
“Are ya really afraid Twilight? Ah mean, you are the greatest magician in ponyville, no, the whooooooole world! You even defeated the great ursa!” That was so amazing! She just carried him away with her magic AND made him fell asleep at the same time!
“Well, it actually wasn’t the great- Uhm, nevermind, you're right. Okay, maybe I'm not
THE greatest magician in the whole world, but it should be more than enough to stand against some ghosties and monsters.” She smiled, then we started to laugh.
“WATCH OUT APPLEBLOOM!” Twilight suddenly shouted.
“WAAAAH!” She bit in mah tail again and pulled me back with a strong hitch.
First ah didn’t realized what actually happened, then ah saw it.
“What the hay?!” There was a gigantic dark abyss right in front of me. For what ah saw, it seemed to be bottomless, nothing to see except for a giant empty dark space at it's... end?
“That was close, are you alright Applebloom?”
“Yeah, everythin’s fine, but what are we goin' to do now?” Twilight looked around and tried to find a way over the gulch. The other side was too far away to jump, neither was there any way around it.
“Blank...”
“Huh?” A strange voice appeared from behind, ah turned around, tried to find it's
origin, but it was nothin' there. It was a female voice. Ah couldn't recognize the voice so it
couldn’t have been any pony from Ponyville. Maybe it was a native pony like Zecora?
“Applebloom look!” Twilight said surprised. Ah looked in her direction and saw a huge tree which was placed like a bridge between the two sides of the abyss.
“A tree? But it wasn’t there a minute ago! Who could have placed it there in such a short time?
Do ya' think it... it was a ghost?” Thinkin' of it brought me a creep, but ah never saw a ghost before so it was kinda thrillin', too.
“Haha, oh Applebloom don’t be silly. Ghosts doesn’t exist. It surely was Zecora, she's a magician too you know. So don’t worry. It seems to be stable enough to pass, let's go it's almost dark.”
Twilight could say what she wanted, but it had to be a ghost! Ah mean that voice ah heard before was very suspicious and the trunk which appeared all of the sudden, that couldn’t have been a coincidence! Or maybe it really was Zecora? Whatever ah followed Twilight over the gulch and we continued our journey to Zecoras home. We've passed a small road between some big rocks, a few minutes later we came to a lawn. A wide open area with only a few trees and a bleak brown ground, Zecoras home wasn’t far now. It was gettin' darker and the wind stopped blowin', the Everfree Forest started to get colder and scarier. Then we've finally arrived at Zecoras place, a big tree right in the middle of this empty area surrounded by many other tall trees. Her tree was something special. It had a special shape, windows, very exotic paintings with stripes and many voodoo masks,
hangin' all over the place. Zecora already waited at the door and began to smile.
“Applebloom, you wait her okay?” Twilight whispered.
“What? But ah wanted to say he-” She cut me short and continued.
“There’s no time for small talk! I'll give her the bags and we're out of here. We'll visit her again some other day when it's not that late, okay? Wait a moment, don’t run away!” Twilight ran ahead
to Zecoras tree.
“Hey Zecora, I brought you the things you wanted.” Twilight turned her head to the side, took the bags from her back and placed it against Zecoras door.
“Kind ponies, I thank you for delivering what's told.”
“Glad to help.” Zecora and Twilight started to smile on each other.
“Blank...” That voice again! Suddenly Zecoras expression grew much more serious.
“Hm? What's wrong Zeco-” Zecora cut Twilight short.
“You do not want to remain for the events that will unfold! Hurry back to Ponyville you must, for the darkness this night you cannot trust!” Twilight’s expression grew concerned. She looked into Zecoras eyes, shortly after she ran back to me.
“What the hay did that mean?” Ah asked her.
“I don’t know, but we should better hurry up and go home. Come on Applebloom!” Twilight
walked ahead. Ah looked back to Zecora who was still watchin' me from her door.
“Run little filly...” Soon after she disappeared inside of her house.
“What? Why did she-”
“Applebloom!” Twilight shouted from behind.
“Uhm, yeah ahm comin'!” Ah turned around and followed Twilight back to the bleak area.
The sun was gone now and the darkness overcame the Everfree Forest. Silence and coldness took it's place. Princess Lunas moon was shinin' from above, givin' us barely enough light to see where we had to go. Nothin' happened, well although things were kinda weird since we came here in the first place. Ah looked around a bit. Suddenly ah noticed that some moonlight were shinin' on Twilight flank, reflecting her cutie mark. Twilights cutie mark was so awesome and beautiful.
It was a big purple sparkle surrounded by some smaller white sparkles and stood for her mind blowin' magic abilities. Mah sis' Applejacks cutie mark was a group of three red apples, standing
for her roots of our apple buckin' family. Every pony in our family had a cutie mark like this.
Big Macintosh for example had a green apple half and grandma Smith a apple pie, sooooo ah firstly thought that mah cutie mark had to be somethin' with apples, too. Maybe ah was mistaken.
Sweetie Belles sis' had three diamonds on her flank, 'cause of her glamorous lifestyle and fashion. Pinkie Pie had three balloons, standin' for her ability to throw amazing parties and cheering every pony up. Fluttershy with her three butterflies was standin' for her ability to tame and talk to
the wildest animals around Equestria. Finally there was Rainbow Dash, a pegasus pony with a cool rainbow colored mane and remarkable flying skills. Rainbows cutie mark was a cloud with a rainbow colored bolt. Oh and she was also Scootaloos biggest idol. Sometimes it was a bit strange how that little filly idolized Rainbow Dash... well whatever~
After a few minutes we arrived at the small passage again.
“What in Celestias name?!”
“What's that?” A big trunk blocked the way between the two rocks! It was way too high to climb and too thick to push it away.
“How in Equestria did this tree came here? I didn’t even heard a sound.”
“Maybe it was... a ghost?” Twilight looked back at me and laughed again.
“Oh silly, I already told you that there aren't such things as ghosts. Nevermind, lets see what we have here.” Twilight went past me and examined the trunk.
“Hmm, maybe I could to carry it away with a bit magic. Stay behind Applebloom!” Twilight spread her arms and legs, lowered her body and concentrated herself. Her horn started to glow and with it the trunk itself, soon after the trunk lifted a bit. Twilight seemed to be really strained, beads of perspiration were rollin' down her forehead. Hardly clenchin' her teeth she started to lift it even
a bit more.
“Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaargh!” She sway her head to the left and threw the big trunk far away into the forest, a cumbersome loud echoed through the silence of the night. Twilight sat down for a moment and tried to catch her breath.
“Woooooow, Twilight that was AWESOME!” Ah ran to her and saw her exhausted face, it surely was more than difficult to throw that thing that far away, even for her.
“Hah, hah... thanks! Phew, it wasn’t easy, but now we- OU COME OOOOON!”
Ah looked ahead and could feel my throat gettin' constricted. The whole passage was blocked by about hundreds of those trunks! It was nearly impossible to get pass them, even if there were ten Twilight Sparkles! One thing was clear, it MUST have been ghosts!
“Hah well, don’t worry.” Twilight moaned.
“Stay right there Applebloom, that will take a while.” She tried to move the next one, and the next one, and the next one. After about six trunks, Twilight fell back on her butt.
“Hah, hah, hah... almost... done!” She was really exhausted, it barely hurt seeing her like that, knowing that ah couldn’t help her. But maybe ah could find another way outa here! Ah just had to look around a bit and-
“Blank...” That voice again! It appeared from behind like last time! Ah turn mahself around and...
“A Pony!” Ah could see a beautiful grey pony, she seemed to be really young just like me.
Her sweet orange mane with blond strands were hangin' over her face, makin' it impossible for me to see her eyes.
“Blank...” She went to the left through a small void between some trees. It was strange because ah couldn't remember that void when ah first went through here. Ah ran over to Twilight to tell her that there was another pony beside us around here.
“Hey Twilight! There's-”
“Not now Applebloom, I have to concentrate!”
“But-” Ah tried to explain, but she just didn’t let me finish.
“Please, just wait there okay? I'll do my best!” She didn’t wanted to listen? Fine! Ah decided to check it out mahself. Ah turned around and followed that mysterious pony through the void.
Ah was kinda scared, but waitin' here watchin' Twilight nearly dyin' 'cause of pullin' those trunks away would've hurt me, too. Ah had to do somethin'! Ah went through the void, eternal darkness surrounded me and ah could barely see my hooves in front of mah eyes.
“Hello? Who are you?” Ah asked, but no one answered so ah decided to look mahself around.
Luna’s moon and even the stars were gone, the trees were watchin' me and the coldness surrounded me. Ah was thinkin' of goin' back but- The passage was gone!
“What is happenin' here? Twilight? TWILIGHT!” Ah nervously looked around, searchin'
for a way back, but the trees were takin' every sight. It was just like this place wouldn’t even
belong to Equestria anymore! Ah felt a queasy feelin' spreadin' inside of mah belly, mah heart started to rush.
“Blank...” That voice appeared again, it echoed from around the corner.
“Well okay, If ah can’t go back, then ah'll find that pony instead! Maybe she knows a way
outta here!” Ah ran ahead, followin' the echo of that voice, which was gettin' louder and louder with every step.
“You out there?” Ah turned around, looking out for her, but there was nothin' but endless trees.
The ground under mah hooves felt muddy all of the sudden, the green grass was gone and the coldness raised. Ah continued through the forest, a thick fog was startin' to grow, takin' away mah sight and made mah heart beatin' insanely. The echo disappeared and silence took it's place.
Ahm was alone now, alone in the darkness of the Everfree Forest. Ah wanted to cry so badly.
Ah couldn’t go back and Twilight maybe didn’t even noticed that ah was gone, lost in this horrible labyrinth of trees and darkness. The fog grew bigger and bigger, soon mah whole sight was vanished. Cold wind blew through mah mane, silent moanin' whispered through the wind and gave me the creep.
“What the hay is goin' on? Who's there?” Ah looked around, searchin' for a way outta this fog, Finally ah've found somethin'! Ah could see a light at the end of the path, some kinda music approached from there too, there MUST have been somepony around!
“What the hay?” Ah started to run as fast as ah could. Whatever there was, it couldn’t have been much more horrifyin' than this place. The fog became thicker, it got colder and it seemed that the light was gettin' further away with every step. Finally ah've reached the end of the path and what ah've found was something ah would've never expected to find there.