Chapter the First

Applejack stared out over the cliff gazing out at the setting sun over the forest. Her long white traveling cloak blew in the wind. She adjusted the lasso, knife, and bow and arrow-quiver that were resting on her back and gritted her teeth. I know yall're out there she thought bitterly and I will find you and make you pay fer what yall did to me.

I don't know your name, but I remember clearly what you look like pardner and once we're face to face, you won't escape me.

Her cowboy hat tilted slightly, shadowing her eyes. "Applejack?" asked a tomboyish female voice from behind her.

"Rainbowdash," she replied blankly, not turning.

"I uh… came to see if you were okay," the blue Pegasus answered sheepishly.

"Why wouldn't I be okay?" she growled.

"Well for one you're acting really cold, you came storming into town muttering to yourself and not giving anything a second thought, and you've got bandages covering the major vein in your leg, on the side of your neck, and under your left eye…" Rainbowdash explained. "And is that a sharpened bow and arrow on your back?"

"Yes," she retorted coldly.

"Why?"

"I'm gonna to find who did this to me."

"And you're going to kill him?" Rainbowdash asked, horrified.

"Y'know how I was gone fer three days while I was bringing apples to grocery stores in other towns? Well, I spent two o' those days lyin on the ground bleeding heavily from knife wounds!" Applejack shouted whipping around to face her, tears welling up in her eyes. "I got robbed of all of my apples and the money I had made selling them! Do you know how it feels to have your pride ripped away from you like that? Huh?"

"Ah- but… um…" Rainbow was at a loss for words, she'd never seen her friend so upset in her life.

"Nothing you or anyone can say will stop me. I might not kill that there black and white stallion, but I will at least cripple him fer life," Applejack promised herself.

"You realize how dangerous and stupid that is right?"

"At this point ah honestly don' care," AJ muttered.

"I'm coming with you," Rainbow said after a moment's hesitation.

"You aint goin nowhere except home," Applejack spat.

"Yes, I am. You're like one of my best friends, if getting revenge means that much to you, I'll help."

"Fine," Apple growled.

"So… should I go and get some supplies or something from my house then? You only seem to have those weapons and that cloak."

"If you must…."

"I can be back in ten minutes," Rainbow promised and burst off into the sky.

Applejack stared up at the rainbow streak in the air and sighed. "Well that wuz decent of 'er… Ah well, nothing I can do 'bout it now."she muttered grumpily. She refocused her gaze out toward the dark forest, it stretched for miles on end and connected various towns. That's where she had been stabbed. That was the first place she'd look.

"I'm comin for you, you'd better pray for mercy when I'm through with you," Applejack hissed into the dead, evening air.

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