The Harvest Disaster
Chapter Three
Something slammed into the wolf that was biting into her neck with such force that the wolf let go of her neck and gasped for breath. It was Volcano. Volcano stomped on the wolf and head-butted him repeatedly.
"RUN!" he shouted to his older sister. She scrambled up blindly and ran. She didn’t know where she was running but she ran. Something, yet again, slammed into her. She screamed, but found that it was only Cherry Treat. Cherry Treat was also badly injured, blood trickled from her nose and she had a cut on her flank. The continued running together, without a word, not knowing which way to go, yet still running.
The wind was at incredible speeds. Their hair whipped around their faces and stung. Magic Star had tears running down her cheeks, as did Cherry Treat, they were totally lost. They came to a very large, knocked over tree. The bottom was hollowed out, so they crawled in… at last, they had found refuge.
Soon after they had found the log, they heard a noise. It was foot steps. Scared out of their mind that it was the wolves they remained perfectly silent. The steps came closer and closer. They could hear that it was more than one something, there were many.
Magic Star and Cherry Treat could hear them breathe, they were so close.
"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaagic Staaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!"
"Cherry Treat?!?!! Where are they?"
"I don’t know…I’ve lost all hope."
"Speaking of lost hope, does anyone know where we are?"
"CHERRY TREAT WHERE ARE YOU?!?!"
"MAGIC STAR!!! COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!!"
"It’s no use."
"Where are we?"
"We’ll never find them I just know it."
"Shut up, Shady. Do you always have to be so freakin’ negative?"
"But it’s true, this is all my fault, we’ll never find them and it’s all my fault."
"Yea, it is all your fault so why don’t you just f—"
"Hey now, stop fighting."
Magic Star and Cherry Treat smiled at each other, and crept out of the log to find everyone standing around, calling their names.
"Hey!" yelled Cherry Treat.
"You’re ALIVE!!!!!!!!" they all yelled, running over to them to smother them with hugs.
"But of course we’re alive! Where are we?" asked Magic Star, gasping at her surroundings. They were in a canyon-like area. As she looked up, they were in a ravine, a very, very steep ravine. There were huge trees and jungle-like surroundings…thick woods…a huge canopy. Where were they?
"My hypothoseis is that we have gotten turned around in the severe storm. Perhaps I should begin to fly back to Dream Castle and prepare a search party. Then we could calculate and begin searching for you and by using the-"
"Windwhistler, don’t even start. No one understands you. Raincurl, can you translate that for us?" said Steamer.
"All I could get out of that was that she could fly back to Dream Castle and have other ponies start searching for us," said Raincurl.
"Does anyone know where we are?" asked Cherry Treat.
"No,"
"Then how does Windwhistler know which way to go?"
"No clue. Just let her go. I really don’t want her on this trip anyway,"
"Good idea."
"Okay Windwhistler, you go ahead. Fly as fast as you can!" exclaimed Tootie Tails. Windwhistler sprung into the air and flew away. Now the group consisted only of earth ponies.
"What do we do now?" asked Stockings. "Are we ever going to get back to Dream Castle? I miss my daughter…I can’t imagine what she’s going through."
"Of course we’ll get back," assured Tootie Tails.
"Let’s see, how many are here?" asked Magic Star.
"Okay. There’s me, you, Tootie Tails, Raincurl, Shady, Stockings, Apple Jack, Fifi, Steamer, Wigwam, and Bubbles," said Cherry Treat, looking over the small herd.
"Any idea what time it is?" asked Tootie Tails.
"Looking at the sky and judging by my stomach I’d say it’s about lunch time…perhaps a little past," said Wigwam.
"I’m hungry too," added Apple Jack.
"All right, let’s think of what we’re going to do," said Magic Star, sitting down on a rock.
"We’re going to die."
"Shady! Shut up! No one wants to hear the negative bull sh—"
"Steamer!" yelled Tootie Tails. "Fighting will get us no where. Now, Shady, please be quite and refrain from speaking negatively."
"I got an idea," said Wigwam quietly.
"Go on," said Magic Star curiously.
"Wull, I was thinking maybe the Flutter ponies could help us, they helped us when the smooze was here, they could help us again."
"Yeah but they were being complete buttholes about helping us," chimed Raincurl.
"Okay, so Flutter ponies are a no," said Wigwam, thinking hard.
"DREAM BEAUTIES!!!!!!" exclaimed Bubbles.
"Wha?"
"The Dream Beauties could help us!"
"Who the heck are they?"
"I used to visit them all the time! They have the best beauty tips and tricks. I love the way Crystalline did my hair that one—"
"Okay Bubbles! Where can we find the Dream Beauties at?" asked Magic Star.
"Oh…uh, I dunno. I haven’t been there in years," she retorted.
"You don’t remember anything? A cliff? A tree? A hillside?!?!" Cherry Treat asked desperately.
"Uh, well, there was a rock…no… a hillside with a horse carved into it!" she exclaimed.
"All right everyone calm down!" said Magic Star, the other ponies were yelling with ecstatic joy.
"Let’s find something to eat and then rest up. We will search for the Dream Beauties tommorrow!"
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