Hello everyone, how are you all? Welcome, this is kind of a re-do of a story I deleted. I needed to do a lot of things to fix them, but I had 21 chapter in the story, so I thought I'd re-do it. If you think you want the old one, you don't, trust me. It was very hard to read, and I didn't know what I doing. So anyways, please enjoy.
The everfree forest is a relentless place. The weather moves on it's own accord, and there are a multitude of deadly creatures. The cockatrice can turn you to stone by simply looking at you, and you won't know it from a chicken before it's too late. There are hydras, and they are almost Impossible to defeat, for if you cut off one head, two more will grow in it's place. Poisonous plants are in abundance. It is a place where nopony in their right mind could ever enter without a very good reason. But there is one pony who is different, he lived there for twenty years. He learned to watch the animals to know when rain was coming. He earned to never look at a chicken, for fear it would petrify him. He stays away from anything he doesn't see other things eating, and he learned which plants he could use to heal himself from injuries. his life was simple, don't die, but that was easier said than done; especially when poison joke had removed his magic from him. He had never encountered this strange blue flower before, and so he knew of no cure. This tale is of how he left the forest, and he found a place he didn't know existed.
"Surprise!"
"what in tarnation!?" Applejack had returned from the field, only to find everypony in town all gathered around and in the barn, jumping out from behind barrels, and tables, somehow Pinkie even fit herself into a bowl of candies.
"what in the hay are y'all doin' here?"
"well what do you think were doing silly-filly?" giggled Pinkie, climbing out of the bowl.
"well, I'd think this here was a party, but us'ally you tell the pony yer throwin' the party for that y'all are doin' it."
"well that would ruin the point of a surprise party! Were you surprised? Huh? I had Twilight and Spike help me make the cake and Rainbowdash set up the decorations and Fluttershy had some animals come over here and they're going to sing you happy birthday and" Pinkie just kept going, making it seem like she was never going to stop.
"a'right, I git it."
"so were you surprised? Huh? Were ya? Big Macintosh said that you wouldn't be and I said that my surprise parties were surprisiest and that you would for sure be surprised"
"yeah, sure Pinkie, Ah was s'prised"
"oh yay because if you weren't I would have had to pull out my scary mask that always surprises ponies"
"ah get it Pinkie." Applejack walked over to Twilight "y'all have been watching her sugar intake, ain't ya?" Applejack asked, making sure Pinkie didn't overhear
"yes, I made absolutely sure she had no excess sugar. I don't know how she's so hyper." Twilight looked confused.
"okay it's song time! Fluttershy would ask your birdies to start the song? You're going to love it Applejack I asked Fluttershy to extend the song." Pinkie was practically bubbling over with excitement.
"alright, are you ready?" Fluttershy asked the birds. "if you aren't then that's okay, I'm not going to rush you." the birds nodded, and a chickadee sang out a tuning note. Then all sixteen of burst in rapturous melody, Fluttershy leading them. After a few seconds Pinkiepie began singing, her voice practically exploding with her overactive personality. "Happy birthday to you!" most of the other ponies started singing along. "Happy birthday to you! Your birthday's today! so have lot's of fun! Happy birthday to you!" everypony sang out the last note, then the birds sang out a finish worthy of being sung to Celestia. "well gosh darn it all, you a'most got me to tears. I've never had this big a birthday party. 'twas usually just me, Big Mac , Granny, and Applebloom having an applecake for dessert."
"I know silly-filly! That's why I threw you this party!" Pinkie was bouncing about, handing ponies punch and muffins. "here Derpy, have a muffin!" Pinkie handed the gray mailmare a muffin, and bounced away.
"here, have a muffin!" she handed a red unicorn with a Tetris block cutiemark a Muffin, and began bouncing away. "wait just a muffin making minute!" she turned around and bounced back to the unicorn. "I don't recognize you."
"はじめまして、遊び所軍です。どうぞよろしく。"
"huh? What does that mean?"
"you talk the Equestrian?"
"of course I speak Equestrian, silly-filly!"
"I see, I am, Gamemaster." Gamemaster bowed to the puffy pink party pony.
"well I'm Pinkiepie I would throw you a 'welcome to Pony-ville' party but we're already at a party." she Bowed back, giggling.
"oh? who's this?"
"oh hi Twilight this is Gamemaster he showed up and I don't recognize hem so he must be new and he was talking a funny language earlier and I'm wonder if this should be Applejack's birthday and his 'welcome to Pony-ville' party because he showed up during a party."
"okay, well, hello Gamemaster, I'm Twilight Sparkle."
"it is my honor to meet you Sparkle-San, Pie-San" Gamemaster bowed again.
"alright, well, what are you doing here? As Pinkie said, you're new."
"ah, yes, I am toxined by a blue flower, I need a cure."
"huh, A blue Flower? Are you talking about poison joke? But that only grows in the everfree forest."
"I know not the name of the flower, I only know that it is of the obstructing of my magic." He tapped his horn, which was looking a bit like an odd purple-brown color.
"oh wow you get the same thing as Twilight when you get poison joked." Pinkie giggled out.
"alright, just mingle with the other ponies here, I'll go to the spa and get the herbs for the medicinal bath you need."
"thank you of the much Sparkle-San." Gamemaster bowed low once again. Twilight nodded and began going to the spa.
"well howdy there, I ain't never seen you 'round here. Ah'm Applejack."
"hello Jack-San, I am Gamemaster, it is my honor to meet you." he bowed low to the orange country pony.
well then, it's an hon'r ta meet you too." Applejack bowed back. Then went to help Rainbowdash in a game of horseshoes. Leaving Pinkiepie and Gamemaster there.
"well do you want some punch? Or maybe you want to play a game?"
"a game?" Gamemaster was highly intrigued, as his name suggested he adored games; they were his one passion, there was nothing more satisfying than watching someone enjoy themselves in a game he made, or showed them. And he was undefeated in every game he had ever played.
"oh yeah, we can play pinata, or pin-the-tail-on-the-pony ooh have you ever played candy-land? I LOVE that game."
"have you ever played いれんせい?"
"huh?"
"irensei, it's a strategy game that's played with an いご board."
"what's an ayegoh?"
"no, igo, it's a game with black and white pieces, and a 19x19 square board, and you capture pieces orthogonally?"
"I've never played either of those games! you need to teach me!" Pinkie was exited about learning new games, seeing as parties always needed games and new games were always fun. "alright, I can teach you." he waked over to a table covered in different games, and pulled out a board, and handed Pinkiepie the pieces she would need. "alright, I will go the first." he placed a piece on the board.
"now the goal is to make a line of seven in any direction, you aren't allowed to make a winning line if part of it is on the two edge rows. if you surround all the points of a piece of orthogonally then those pieces are removed. We'll play with the ko rule, if you were to make a move, and it results in the board looking like it did before my turn, then you aren't allowed to make that move. oh, and if you're black, right now I am so you don't have to worry about this, but I feel I should tell you so you know, then you cannot make a line of eight."
"oki-dokie-loki!" Pinkiepie placed a piece, and then Gamemaster placed a piece, and back and forth, until Gamemaster won the game.
"wow!that was fun! We should get Twilight to play this game!"
"what game should I play?" Twilight walked up to them, carrying some herbs in her mouth.
"oh hi Twilight! We were playing irensei, It's a game that Gamemaster played when he was a colt."
"really? Well, here's the herbs, just put these in a bath, and it should take care of your poison joke problem."
"thank you Sparkle-San." he bowed and placed the herbs in a small wallet-like pouch on his flank.
"so, apparently I need to play this game?"
"yeah you do! It's really fun! And it's a game of smartness!"
"alright." Twilight sat down to play, and Gamemaster explained he rules.
"okay, I got it, so am I black or white?"
"whichever you prefer."
"Black."
"alright." he gave her the pieces and waited for her to move, then he went, then Twilight, then Gamemaster, faster and faster until the pieces were a blur.
"I win!" cried out Twilight, laying down her final piece.
"let me look." Gamemaster looked carefully, making sure she had in fact won. "well, as much as it pains me to say it, you are the first pony to beat me in any game."
"really?"
"yes, I was always the best in school."
"wow." Twilight looked surprised that she was better then who was apparently the best in his school.
"well, I must return to the forest, nothing against you, but other ponies aren't my favorite."
"wait, you LIVE in the Everfree forest?" Twilight gasped.
"yes, is that so odd?"
"um, yeah, I almost died with five other ponies helping me!"
"how? The forest isn't too dangerous if you know what you're the doing."
"how long have you lived in there!?" Twilight was astonished at what was she was hearing.
"let me see, I was at home for six years, and I vanished during spring, and since then there were of the nineteen springs, I think twenty years?"
"twenty years!" Twilight was expecting him to say a few weeks at most.
"yes."
"how did you survive the cockatrice?"
"I didn't look at them."
"and the hydras!?"
"I avoided them."
"and what about the weather?"
"well the other animals would seek shelter when there was a storm coming. And I could smell it."
"smell it!?"
"yes, it smelled like a bad spell and the lake."
"what!?" Twilight was amazed at how he got so much knowledge of survival by himself.
"and in Neighpan we all were taught how to survive in the Shinigami's woods at a young age, so it wasn't so hard."
"wait, you've been doing that since you were six!?"
"oh, no, closer to three."
Twilight was amazed, she had never heard of anyone other than Zecora living in the Everfree forest, and Zecora had apparently been taught survival by her father, and she knew how to make a potion that would make her invisible to threats, but he had nothing but some basic magic!
"if you don't mind, I need to head back."
"n-no, wait, you can stay in the library with me!" Twilight had her mentor turn her castle into the library again, she didn't like how she was always treated differently with that huge thing, and Discord had removed her wings.
"no, houses aren't my favorite."
"you can stay in a cave to the north!" Twilight desperately wanted this stallion to stay, he was so intriguing, and she couldn't let him live in the Everfree!
"a cave? Well, I suppose."Gamemaster finally gave in, they seemed nice enough.
"alright, I'll help you take your things there."Twilight was relieved.
"what things?" Gamemaster asked curiously.
"you mean you don't have anything in the forest you want in your new cave?"
"no, I didn't have things to carry about, I needed to be able to run at a moments notice."
"goodness. Well, let me show you." she led him off.
"here we are." Twilight nodded to the entrance.
"thank you." Gamemaster walked into the cave, and Twilight placed a few torches around the cave to light it. The cave was very spacious, it had a deep spring-fed pool in the back, and several crags that could be used for storage. It was empty, probably because inside the cave was a well-known draqonequus. "Discord! What are you doing here!?"
"well, I heard that this new pony was going to be living here, so I decided to clear all the bats and snakes out." he dusted a wall with a feather duster.
"really? That's all?"
"of course, what you think I put something in here?"
"it's you were talking about here discord. I can never be to careful."
"well, then, let me prove to you that I did nothing." he walked around for a bit. "see, what did I tell you?"
"fine, but you be careful Gamemaster, he is not to be trusted." she gave Discord the evil-eye.
"oh, come on, remember, I'm reformed. What do you think dear Fluttershy would think if I booby-trapped someones new home?" he gave his best innocent look. When they heard a splash.
"G?" Twilight looked to the pool in the back, where G was scrubbing himself with the herbs.
"what? You said I needed to bath in it."
"ohhohohoo! I like you already G. Twilight your face." he wiped a tear from his eye with one claw.
"well, I'll leave you two." and he poofed away.
"ah, you know twilight, you should join me, this is quite nice."
"um, no thanks, that's not exactly, 'normal'"
"what do you mean? In Neighpan most people go to the public baths."
"you're in Equestria."
"alright, fine." he climbed out, and used his now-returned magic to dry himself.
"alright, you make yourself comfortable I'll come to see you tomorrow." she walked out of the cave and started walking back to Sweet Apple Acres to give Applejack her gift.
"alright, so now I'm alone, I might as well get everything set up." he began using magic to dust parts of the cave. "this place should be interesting"
"yeah it probably will" he responded to himself.
"maybe we should get to know more ponies."
"I'm not sure that's the best idea." he said to himself while he was polishing the rocks of the cave.
"oh why not?"
"what if they're cruel?"
"oh, I'm sure they'll be nice, Sparkle-San and Pie-San were."
"yeah, but that's just two."
"Jack-San was nice"
"so, how do you know they'll all be nice?"
"how do you know they'll all be cruel?" he cleaned the herbs out of his bath, and started drilling a hole to the side, he thought he heard an underground stream down there.
"how many ponies have been nice to us?"
"three." he said to himself vehemently.
"yes, but how many mocked you? How many uttered that horrid phrase 'blank-flank' when you were the only pony in school without a cutiemark?"
"all of them." he started to sound a bit depressed.
"exactly, other ponies are cruel, you should stay away from them as much as possible."
"but that was in Neighpan, during school. This is a new place, with new ponies." he was slipping between talking in Neighpanese and Equestrian.
"maybe, but how do you know they'll be different?"
"how do you know they'll be the same?" he was really starting to get mad at himself.
"you know what? We're going to try our best to make friends, whether you like or or not!" he stomped his hoof, breaking the rock free, and revealing the stream, and he started polishing the edges.
"excuse me, who were you talking to? If it's okay that I ask that is, I wouldn't mean to intrude."
"oh, um, nopony."
"o-okay, I'm Fluttershy."
"hello Shy-San." Gamemaster bowed down low.
"this cave looks a lot nicer, um, if you don't mind me saying."
"thank you, I tried to make it look good." he took some scrap wood he noticed while walking in, and made a few pairs of sandals.
"if you come in, would you mind putting one of those on? I don't want dirt in the house." he thought that it would be a given, but after Twilight's reaction to his offer earlier, he thought it best to pay it safe.
"oh, of course." she slipped them on and walked in.
"did you need something?" he continued to smooth out his make-shift toilet.
"oh, um, I was just wondering, if it's okay with you, if you needed any help." she squeaked at the end out of nerves.
"no, I'm fine, thank you much for the offer." he finished his hole, and went around cleaning up the last few spots.
"oh, um, alright. Did you want to come back to the party?"
"no thank you, It's getting late."
"what do you mean?"
"well, it's summer, the sun always sets later in the summer."
"Princess Celestia doesn't raise the sun later in the summer?"Fluttershy was confused.
"what do you mean? You mean the sun doesn't rise and fall on it's own here?" Gamemaster was legitimately confused.
"no, um, does it work that way in the forest?"
"yes, next thing I know you'll be telling me that the weather doesn't do as it pleases here." he chuckled at his "joke"
"um it doesn't, the pegasai take care of the weather." she was slightly embarrassed that she had to tell him.
"really? Does anything happen happen on it's own outside the forest?"
"yes, a lot of the animals take care of themselves, but sometimes they need help, so I help them." she fidgeted a bit, finding this odd pony odder by the minute.
"ah, admirable." he nodded to her.
"so, um, do you want to go to the party?"
"no, I'm getting tired, I'll just go to sleep early."
"alright" Fluttershy waled out of the cave, leaving her "shoes" at the door.
"have a good day." called out out Gamemaster as she left.
"good-night." Fluttershy said, and she flew back to the orchard.
Gamemaster curled up in a corner, and went to sleep, dreaming of the torture he went through bullied as a colt, and what might happen, good and bad, at this new place.
Well, I do believe that I'm already doing better this time 'round
Applejack-"huh, what in tarnation ahm I doin' here?"
oh, hey Applejack, you and the other ponies are gonna be here and in the intro every chapter, I'll talk with you guys, give the readers news, and generally do things.
Twilight-"okay, why exactly?"
'cause I feel like it.
Twilight- "I'm not sure that's really a reason."
it is to me.
Rarity-"goodness, you look awful. What on earth are you wearing?"
oh great, I figured Rarity and I would get in something like this.
Rarity-"come here, I'll take your measurements and make you suit."
I'm gonna be fine, thank you.
Rarity-"no, I insist."
no.
Rarity-"get over here!"
goodness! Run for my life!
Rarity-"you will look good!"
Twilight! Help!
Twilight-"sorry, no, I'm not mixed up in this."
Pinkie?
Pinkie-"nope, I'm with Twily on this one."
run! Alright, please leave a review. *Huff*, *huff* if you like what you see, follow and favorite, and of course, have a wonderful day. Get away from me with those shears!
