Chapter 7

Thank you much, Dylan, for the review. Glad to see that I'm hitting those nitches. And to the rest of you, I am disappoint. Really? No reactions over the fight? Well sheesh! .

Dawn came, causing me to rub sawdust into my already red eyes. I glanced at the window, faintly remembering that I had seen dawn just a bit ago, but surely...

I shook my eyes and my stomach grumbled. I had fed it earlier but it wanted to eat again. I left my workshop, mane and tail filled with sawdust shavings

My magic was exponentially low, but still working. I used it to lift some food. A salad and cupcakes, and munched steadily through them. Five more cupcakes and three apples followed that before I felt full. I had been moving the furniture into the main room as I completed it. The first ones had a rough charm, but as my eyes traveled over the line the workmanship got better. I didn't want to boast or anything, but they looked pretty damn good.

One I had made from two rounds of the log. It was a sort of daybed, though there was no cushion in it as of yet. The other items were several tables and chairs. I looked at them in confusion. There definitely shouldn't have been that many for one night's work...

I shook my head at it nd went to lay down. My head was pounding and I felt the lack of sleep.

Dark woods rose around me, blocking non-existent light. I could only tell by smell and feel that this was a woods at all. There was n source of light at all. A breeze slid past my face and made me shudder. It's breath felt like dull claws sliding over my skin. And that's where I noticed it. Skin, not fur. I was a human again! I freaked out there, turning and looking at myself. My scrawny body, the clothes I'd died in. It didn't make any sense, just like these woods!

Wait... It didn't make sense! It was a dream! I sighed in delight and pinched myself to test it out. No pain, I was in the clear. I felt along the wall of trees and followed it, taking deep breaths of the damp air. There was definitely twigs and wet clumps of mast under my feet, so it was a deep forest.

I breathed calmly, quite enjoying the dream. I tuned out the signs of large beast, not much caring. Slowly the trees became visible. I looked around and smiled. My eyes weren't adjusting to the dark, there were actually little orbs of light floating around. They looked fuzzy, like a spore or something.

I felt... calm here. It was nice. Ahead there was a clearing with a soft blue light. I walked towards it, head taking in the little spores that were drifting around. The woods creaked and greeted me to this covered sanctuary.

There was a field of blue flowers as I entered. I smelled their sweet scent and then looked. Sitting in the center of the field was a girl. She was a little younger then me and had a tired smile on her face. There was a few apple cores around her.

She looked very familiar. Brown hair, curly. Blue eyes and freckles set on her face and arms. They reminded me of the ones on my own arms. My eyes widened as I took her in again. "Sis?"

"Hey bro... Do you know where we are?"

We spent almost an hour catching up, her telling me about her dreams of an alicorn, and how she felt odd in them. Trapped. Her words jogged my own memories of what had been happening while I slept.

"Sis." I said, finally cutting her off. "I think you are here. I think you're stuck in the Everfree Forest, in a patch of Poison Joke... I think you might be the one that's causing all the darkness, as a joke."

She only returned a small smile as she yawned, nodding. "Maybe." she said. But right now I'm tired... I need to go to sleep now."

A panic filled me shot out of bed. There was orange light coming through my window and I gasped in horror. "Sis! What're you doing here!"

I paced the floors, my chest tightening as I hyperventilated. I tore the saddlebag off of me and ran to the front door, whipping it open. On the other side stood Twilight, but I had no time to talk to the awestruck unicorn. Panic fueled my flight as I shot by her and through the short distance to the Everfree Forest. I flew up, over the trees and scanned the tops. They were all black, as if the smog clung to every pore of their being. Surely there had to be a current in this mess!

I flew close, looking at the black. There was a pulse in it, but no direction. As if it were everwhere at once. I bit my lip and soared over the trees. If I couldn't know where she was then I would find her!

"Siiiiiiiiisssssssssssss!" I bellowed at the top of my lungs. There was no answer from below so I moved to the next area, repeating my call over and over again. Pegasi took notice of me but stayed away, looking at me in half fear.

I moved along the forest, as much as I could, screaming my voice away until it cracked. A tear rolled from my eye as I looked around. The sun had set and a full moon graced my search. I had worked my throat raw so I was no longer able to call to her. I flew over the woods, pulling at the trees with my magic and making them rattle. I would burn myself to a husk to find her. One of my own family, followed me here after death. Why and how was she here!

My magic was out and I was basically asleep on my wings. I headed to the edge of the Everfree and crashed into the ground, looking at the dark trees. I won't give up on you sis.