The salty air fills my lungs as I stand on the deck of the ship. I look out over the sea. In a few days, I will arrive in Equestria. I have completed my research in the desert. It was quite an interesting experience until some bandits found my camp.
I remember it so clear.
"Well, that was a waste of my time," I say to myself as I return from some old ruins. I had hoped I would find some magic relics or information on my research there but alas it was al for not.
As I approach my camp I can hear voices. It is strange nopony normally comes this far out into the desert unless there is a good reason. I had set up camp between a few big rock so that I have extra protection in case of a sandstorm. As I finally see my camp I also see there is a few stallions going through my things. Now if there is on thing I hate it is if ponies mess with my belongings. They seem unaware of my presence. I clear my trout loudly and then all of a sudden all of their attention is on me.
"Well, well what do we have here boys, some nerdy pony that's lost" a rather buff station says. He is completely brown with brown eyes, he is also covered in some armor. They all start to laugh at his remark.
"What do you think you are doing here," I say. I am still covered completely by my cloak so they can not see how I look.
"Whoo, is somepony trying to be brave?" he asks with a mocking tone. They all start to surround me
"I will ask you once, would you kindly leave?" I ask. I always try to avoid violence but I am not afraid to hurt them if they do not comply with my kind request. They all start to laugh at what I asked.
"You expect us to just leave. Oh no , we are going to take everything here of value and then we will get rid of you" one of them said. They all seem pretty confident. A smirk slowly makes its way onto my face.
"I will like to see you try unless you are all too scared," I say with a mocking tone this time.
The leader huffs as he looks at his gang. Then suddenly he lunges forward to tackle me only to meet dry sand. I now stand a few hoof lengths away. They look surprised, I had teleported in an instant. That is what I love about my magic, unlike normal magic that is a flash of light when you teleport, I just disappear and reappear without the fancy light show. It is quite unnerving to witness, to some, it is creepy other down right scare. I just move instantaneously.
"What? Come back here you coward!" he yells then lunges towards me again because you know if something doesn't work the first time keep on trying until it does. Again he meets the only sand . I am now between my camp and them.
"So you are just going to avoid us the whole time huh? Well, I don't see how you will be able to stop us from taking what we want" one of them says.
"I trying to be kind here, so just leave," I say in a stern tone. My patience is already thin after today's failure to find anything. I really don't want to deal with these idiots now. They all chuckle again, now I am irritated
"Well we aren't leaving," one says as they begin to approach me again. I sigh at this, well they asked for this.
"I am not going to fight you" I simply say, they all start to laugh.
"I knew it he has no balls," one said. I smirk at this.
"You are right I do not have any" I say as I try to stop myself from chuckling.
"But at least my pet has some to spare," I say. They are officially confused now.
One of them was about to say something when the ground started shaking. While we were talking I summoned my pet I tamed wit my magic... by accident. How useful is my magic not? When I am utterly... hum... emotional. Then something burst out of the ground behind them and as they turn around they come face to face with my 'pet'. It is a gigantic silvery-black worm that has piercing red eyes, for them but me just glowing blue. Its maw is full of razor-sharp teeth. In front of them is one of the things nightmares are made of. A Mongolian Death eater.
They are frozen in fear in front of the worms piercing gaze. The worm slowly sways from side to side, waiting. It all ends with one word.
"Eat"
And just like that, one could say there were never any bandits only me and my camp.
That is really the only trouble I had for my whole time there if I recall correctly. Indeed, it was the only trouble and it was solved so easily by a little magic.
As I look out over the horizon the sun slowly setting I remember when I first met Ellie, my giant, monstrous, deadly, pony devouring, pet...
"Oh, dammit! It's already getting dark" I say to myself. I am a great distance away from my camp and I won't be able to make it bake before it is completely dark. One thing I know about this desert is, you do not want to be out in the open if night falls. I start searching for a safe place where I can spend the night.
"My, my aren't I a lucky pony?" I ask myself while looking at a cave. It is the only shelter I can find so I rather take my chances with whatever is in there than the sand crawlers. Those nasty little buggers only come out at night and they can devour a grown stallion in seconds. I enter the cave to see it is larger than it looks. I cast a light spell, then a ball of light hovering next to me appears, to better observe the cave.
"How strange," I remark as I inspect the cave surfaces. It seems as if something goes through here regularly because there is a lot of wear and tear on the surfaces. As always my curiosity got the better of me and I went deeper into the unholy dark cave. As I go deeper it starts to smell something quite unpleasant. It smells like rotting corpses or something close.
As I turn a bend I come face to face with a creature that can instill fear in the fearless. A Mongolian Death eater. I am petrified where I stand unable to think. I actually start shaking . Then I realized through all the haze caused by the pure terror that there was a small rumbling. I observe the worm more closely before I realize it is sleeping. I release a breath that I did not know I held. I slowly turn around having decided it is best to leave while I still can. I begin to slowly make my way back when suddenly there is a loud crack. I look down and there beneath my hoof is a broken bone. I hear something move behind me and I fear I know what that something is. I quickly look back and there I see its hunger filled eyes wide open staring at me. We both just stare at each other for a moment. Then it suddenly moves towards me with a speed that would not be possible.
"Hhhhaaaaaaaa...!" I scream at the top of my lungs. I did the only sensible thing I could think of doing: run, run for my life. I dashed away from it like a scared little filly whit my tale between my legs. As I start making my way back to the entrance. I dare to look back and to my utter shock, it is right on me. I made a quick dive to the side to avoid its gaping maw. I continue to make my way down the side tunnel only to come to a shocking realization. It's a dead end. I hit my hoof against the wall to no avail. I turn around to go back only to see the one exit out of here is currently occupied by the very thing I am trying to get away from. It slowly comes forward only to stop and loom over me, almost as if it is mocking me, by letting the realization that I am going to die sink in. As it is about to strike my life flash before my eyes. All the great memories I have made whit my family. All the fun and sad times. I think about how I am never going to see them again. How much they are going to worry and miss me if I never return. How sad they are going to be. They are going to be hurt... so deeply hurt... hurt because of me. I slowly feel the rage build inside of me.
" I will not let them be sad or hurt because of me. I hate it when they are sad and they are going to be sad because of me." I think. I had made a promise to my mother that I will return alive and I never break a promise .I feel the rage suddenly spike within me.
"NOOOO! I WILL NOT DIE!" I suddenly scream. The world slows down around me. I see my death approaching in the form of a tunnel full of razor sharp teeth.
Everything suddenly went blank as I released a giant burst of magic out of nowhere.
"What happened?" I ask as I come back to my senses. As I try to remember and get back on my hooves I feel somethings breath on my back. I slowly turn around to yet again come face to face with the worm but something seems different. It isn't trying to eat me. For what felt like an eternity we just stared at each other, neither of us moving. It all ended when it rose up from the ground and loomed over me. It felt like déjà vu. I stare into its piercing red gaze as yet again I prepare for my end. Only to notice something strange.
"What the..." I say unable to finish my sentence as I look into its red eyes only problem is they are blue. My curiosity gets the better of me, all my fear of the previous moment forgotten, and I stand up. The worm doesn't engage. It merely tilts its head to the side like a curious animal. I try to get closer to it, even thou all my senses are screaming at me to turn around and run even though there is nowhere to run to. I take a step closer. Nothing happens. I take another step. Still, it does not move. I begin to move around it observing it. It merely looks at me with curiosity the whole time. None has ever had the opportunity to do what I am doing, well none that I know of. Somehow the light spell I cast was still there. The worm was covered in scales and spikes. The scales being a very dark silver with the spikes being black. I continue to observe it only to interrupted as I suddenly feel that breath on my back again. I turned around and it seems to have moved while I studied it. Its head was now level with me. It was merely looking at me. I suddenly had the craziest idea ever. I look away as I reach out with my hoof towards it. I feel it make contact I slowly look back to see it has closed its eyes. I slowly rub its head only to hear it make a sound, almost like it's pouring but very different. It opens its eyes and I look into them. For some unknown reason, I knew it was a girl. I feel happy all of a sudden.
"I think I am going to call you, Ellie," I say. I don't know why but I feel like I have a bond with her.
As I indulge myself in that happy memory a pony in a uniform comes up to me. " Excuse me sir, but the dinner is about to be served if you are hungry," he says.
"Thank you for letting me know," I say. I see the sun set as I head in for dinner. In a few days time, I will be arriving in Equestria. I really can't wait to see my sister again.