Post Author's Note:
Hellooo audience!
Today, we hit the TENTH chapter of this story! *Fires part cannon*
Woohoo!
Anyways, here is the latest installment of this fic, CHAPTER 10.
Chapter 10: Welcome to Peach Point!
My vision was clearing up and I could see things clearly now. I was on my back on some makeshift hammock made out of vines that Daring apparently crafted herself.
"Phew…glad to see you guys again, without being high on poison that is."
"Wup, he's back." I heard Rainbow say.
"Yup. And very glad bout it too. You would never believe what I saw. There was Celestia, and she suddenly started shaking her flank-"
"OKAY, how are you feeling Storm Runner?" Lightning said interrupting me.
"Um, good I guess. What did you guys use to counter the effect of the poison?" I asked examining where the dart had previously been.
Daring looked around a bit and said, "well, there wasn't exactly an immediate cure around, so, one of us had to suck the poison from your flank wound."
"Oh Celestia, please don't tell me Thrash did it." I said looking at Daring with huge eyes.
"Oh Tartarus no it wasn't me." Lighting said with disgust. "And Daring went out to look for any possible alternatives, but that took too long, so, I guess Rainbow figured you would die if it was left unattended." Lightning finished lowering his voice towards the end of his sentence.
I just stared. I guess it would have been awkward either way. As I was pondering this Rainbow walked in.
'Yeah, and now we're even for you saving my life from those buffalos." Rainbow said wiping her tongue with her hooves.
"Well, okay then, so when are we going to head out again, Daring?" I asked changing the subject.
"Whenever you're ready I guess. Do you feel okay?" Daring asked.
I got up and said, "Better than ever. Now let's get outta here."
We began walking again, and things remained relatively quiet the whole way there. A couple hours into our walk, we stopped and picked a few berries to eat, but nothing of importance really happened besides Lightning's occasional whine about if we were there yet, and of course, I asked that too at a point. After walking what must have been like ten miles, we finally reached a point in the forest where it wasn't as dense of the rest of the forest, and it was immensely hotter.
"Phew." I said wiping my forehead with my hooves. "We almost there yet? It's an oven in here…"
"Yeah, I mean, we must be close. Look at the lack of trees and vines in this area." Daring replied wiping her face as well.
We approached a thick wall of shrubbery and parted it. A desert. We got out of a huge forest to see a harsh desert.
"What?" Lightning asked. "How is there desert, right after a thick forest? I just, can't even…" Lightning finished while face hoofing.
"The Everfree is a strange place…" Daring said looking down at the crisp desert sand in front of her.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Rainbow said pointing to a little speck out on the desert plain.
"Eh, I don't know." Daring said squinting to get a clearer look at the black silhouette. "Never seen it there before."
"Well, I'm pretty sure it's better than that hell-hole of a forest. Let's go." I said marching ahead forward through the yellow desert sand.
Everyone followed suit without further speech, and we began yet another trek, this time, through hell itself. We were all sweating profusely, and I thought I was going to pass out.
"Look!" Lighting shouted. "A lake of berry punch!" Lightning yelled with his tongue flopping out charging toward his sea of punch. He jumped and cannonball into the punch, also known as more sand.
Lighting got up disgruntled realizing that he had fallen for a mirage, and gave us dirty looks as we laughed at this little stunt.
After more arduous trotting, we finally made it to the establishment.
"Hm. Peach Point." I read out loud as we came up to the sign.
It looked like a nice little settlement. There were log cabin homes, shops, and a peach orchard behind it all. It seemed like the perfect little oasis in this sea of dread.
"Howdy y'all!" I heard a familiar voice say in that all too familiar country accent.
We all looked over and saw an Orange earth pony with blonde hair, emerald eyes, and three apples for a cutiemark.
"Applejack?" Rainbow, Lighting and I all said at once.
"What brings y'all to this neck of the woods?" Applejack said happy to see some old friends.
"Yeah, it's kind of a long story…" I said reminiscing everything we had gone through since that one day.
"And ah'd be happy to here it over some peach cobbler and sweet tea." Applejack said gesturing us over to a small building.
We all sat down at a circular table and began sharing all the things that had gone down over the past few days, although it seemed Lightning was telling most of it, emphasizing all the details where he had done something "amazing", but Applejack was listening undistracted by anything else going on.
After we had told our tale, Rainbow asked, "So, what exactly brings YOU to this neck of the woods anyways?"
"Well, ah came out here to visit my cousin peach cobbler, and pick up some fresh peaches while ahm at it. This place does have the best peaches around ya know." Applejack said.
"How did you even get here?" Lightning asked. "It's like a million degrees out there."
"I travelled with a caravan that was on its way over here. They didn't mind me taggin' along none."
"Hm. Well, Y'all don't think you guys have an extra room for us do you Applejack?" Lightning said using his own country accent. He was always very fond of that kind of stuff.
"Why certainly!" Applejack said. "Y'all can stay in the building over there" She said pointing through a window to a cozy little building across the way.
"That's fantastic!" Lighting said.
"Anything for y'all" Applejack said smiling.
It was pretty late by this point and we were all tuckered out from just everything.
When Applejack showed us to our sleeping quarters for the night and before she turned to leave, she gave a little wink to Lightning Thrash.
"Dude, she totally digs me." Lighting said excitedly.
I just rolled my eyes and trotted into my own small little dorm, shutting the door behind me. I got into my bed and for some reason, the memory of me killing one of those buffalos shot back through my mind. I shuddered, and disregarded the thought and tried to sleep. After a few minutes, I passed out from sheer exhaustion.
Far from the town and in the Everfree lurked two buffaloes from behind a bush, one looking through binoculars and one standing guard.
Pulling down the binoculars, the first one said, "Yup. That is definitely where they headed. Let's report back to chief raging bull with news that we found the ones who took down our fellow brothers."
The other buffalo nodded and they both dashed back into the thickness of Everfree Forest.
End Author's Note:
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