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"I can scarcely believe it. We are going to die out here." Rarity said as she brushed more dirt out of her hair. She took a step and got moss juice directly on her overly fancy dress that she really should not have worn out here.
"If you keep on saying that then I am going to get annoyed." AppleJack complains as she stands up and stretches trying to get the kink out of her spine. She gazes around them at the river that they were beside. The waterfall was screaming beside them.
"Besides it isn't that bad. Sure we are out in the middle of the woods. In the middle of nowhere. A solid half hour hike over uneven terrain back to our car, and no one actually knows where we are. But we have each other! And we can get out of just about anything!" AJ says with a hearty grin as the blonde farmer slaps her favorite hat onto her head. It was completely water logged and instantly soaked her straw colored hair. Making it looking puffy and ridiculous.
"And we are separated from Spike and the girls. Your sister included." Rarity points out as she peels a leaf off of her arm and tosses it towards the water. AppleJack stands completely still for a few moments before howling and Jumping close to six feet in the air. Rarity yelps and jumps back with her hands up in a wanna be Karate stance.
"AJ?!" Rarity screeches as the other girl grips her hair and screeches at the top of her lungs. The deep gravely voice echoing through the uninhabited woods.
"Applebloom! I completely forgot about her! Where is she?! She could be lost, hurt, stuffed up, dead!" She turns on her heel and sprints towards the nearest patch of woodland. She sprints into it like a bear out of hibernation.
"AJ? AJ! WAit for me!" Rarity calls after her friend as she elbows past some low hanging branches, attempts to walk demurely over a few mud puddles, and wrinkles her nose at a patch of poison ivy which she definitely did not want to step in. Applejack on the other hand was sprinting heedlessly and recklessly through the woods yelling at the top of her lungs as she shouldered past large trees, jumped over massive roots and heaved boulders casually out of her way. She was not thinking at all and was just moving at what had to be near supersonic speeds.
Her mind was nearly blank as she went. All thoughts of her own safety or Rarity's safety or how to get home, or how to not get more lost were gone. She was only focused on finding her sister and making sure that she hadn't been bitten by a poisonous snake or gotten in between a bear and a hard place! It would not be the first time for either of those things.
Rarity pants as she runs, she is not going fast, while a lady should be able to exercise a lady should not be expected to perspire. She gags as her favorite designer boots this week step in a mud puddle. She closes her eyes and breathes out carefully, suppressing the OCD need to stop and spit shine both boots until they were spotless and fabulous. But she had to make sure that one of her closest friends in the entire world didn't do something totally stupid. Like get hit by a boulder or get a nasty splinter from all of the trees that she was knocking out of the way.
"How is she this fast? And this strong?" Rarity complains to herself as she huffs along trying to keep up with the juggernaut. She stops and glances around, completely convinced that they had come this way earlier. She sighs and rubs her head trying to make heads and tails of these woods.
"All because those three needed to try forest survival or something. Why did I agree to do this?" She laments and glances around. Yep, definitely in the exact same spot. There was the small river, there was the waterfall. There were their boot tracks. The two of them were definitely running around in circles like undignified pigeons. Rarity shakes her head and waits for a few seconds, tapping her heel and then checking her phone. No service, but she could at least check the time.
Thirty seconds went by. Then forty. Then a minute. Then she heard Applejack making her way aggressively fast through the woods. Rarity steps to the side to hold her hand out to slow the taller stronger girl down. She waits, waits a bit longer. Huffs and blows some hair out of her face.
"Honestly what is taking her so-" A loud yelp fills the air, followed by a crash and some rustling in the trees. Rarity jumps and turns to face the direction that it had come from. A tree was shaking and a large flock of song birds exited the canopy with a loud beating of wings.
"Applejack? AJ!" Rarity yells in fear as she begins to run through the woods, carefully, then with more speed and intensity, throwing off all fears of dirt and germs and looking ridiculous and just barreling through the woods as fast as she possibly could go.
Which was nowhere as fast as Applejack was going but it was still pretty darn fast. She was huffing and panting and gasping, holding her side as a stitch exploded there. She gasps and then hears moaning and the occasional yelp. She pauses and glances around. The woods all look the same to the fashion minded young adult. She had not studied anything like this before. It was all so chaotic and strange, none of it made sense. In a mall things made sense, in a clothing store things made sense. But not here. Here it was all wild and crazy, it was all madness.
Rarity starts to feel her face flush and tries to control her breathing, she closes her eyes and shakes her head. Her long manicured fingers rubbing her forehead.
"Get a hold of yourself woman! You are not Fluttershy!" She growls before biting her lips and stomping her foot. "APPLEJACK! WHERE ARE YOU!" SHe shouts at the top of her lungs causing a few birds nearby to shift in the forest and take wing.
"Here! Careful!" AJ howls out from somewhere to her right. Rarity starts to make her way through the undergrowth, shimmying through bushes and biting her lips in disgust. She pauses when she feels something damp and sticky float down and land on her neck.
"Spiderweb! Ew! EW! EEWW!" She yelps and starts doing a funky dance reaching and plucking trying to pull it off. She gasps as she looses her balance and pinwheels her arms to stop from falling over. She regains her balance and sighs before turning around and gasping. She was maybe half an inch from a large pit in the middle of the woods. It looked like it must have been there for ages. It was the size of a basement but the sides were so steep that any fall from there could prove dangerous.
And Applejack was at the bottom holding her leg and wincing in pain. Sometimes pausing to grind her teeth and yelp.
"Applejack!" Rarity yelps before glancing around nervously. She then takes a deep breath, holds her nose, closes her eyes and jumps like she is going into a pool. She lands with an oof after a few seconds of weightlessness. She glances around and crawls nervously over towards one of her best friends in the entire world.
"Oh no. Oh no! Your leg! Are you alright?" Rarity asks nervously, her hands fluttering helpless across Applejacks broad body, the girl was built large and tough as nails. Her face was more used to smiling so the frown caused large creases to form over her sunburnt freckled face.
"Nope. I think it's broken. Or sprained. Or both. It hurts. A lot." She grumbles deeply before attempting to move it and winces again. "I didn't see the pit when I was running like a plum fool around here. I probably went thirty feet before I realized there was no ground. Next thing I know I hear a crack and well..." She gestures to a nearby rock and winces in pain. "You get the rest."
"Oh dear. Oh me. Oh my!" Rarity says in concern before she bites her thumb trying to think. Her entire mind was racing in fear. Her body felt like it was going a mile a minute. And that wasn't just because they were out in the middle of nowhere, totally lost and probably incredibly hurt with zero cell phone reception.
"AJ?" Rarity said quitely. Her eyes filled with concern. AJ looked at her, peeling her eyes away from her stomach, she couldn't stand the thought of looking at her leg and seeing the damage. It felt like a massive boulder of pain was sitting on top of it.
"I'm scared. What are we going to do?" Rarity said in wide eyed amazement. Applejack gulps, her entire face blushing, her adrenaline was up, her pain tolerance was making her feel fuzzy and she was shivering a little in fear and shock.
"I-I-I-I...I need my hat." She says simply. Rarity wrinkles her nose before shrugging and reaching over to pick up the brown lump of misshapen leather and cotton. Rarity plops it onto Applejacks head, cocks her own head and readjusts it so that it frames the girls face better before swallowing. Rarity licks her thumb and rubs it over Applejacks nose and cheek before nodding to herself.
"Perfect." She nods satisfied at the site. Applejack is blushing in amazement before reaching up to wipe at her cheek and spread a bit more dirt on it.
"What did you do that for?" Applejack said in confusion. She was used to having a small bit of dirt on her person at any time. That was just the way of things. Rarity frowns and reaches out to rub some more off.
"You really should try to be a bit more aware of yourself darling. After all you are a cutie pie if you didn't have so much well...that on your face." She says simply gesturing broadly to Applejacks large square jaw and high cheekbones. Rarity wants to reach out and cup that jaw and restrains herself, wiping the dirt off had already taken up a lot of her mental space. Her fingers were still tingling.
"You mean the dirt?" Applejack says with a good natured grin that turned into a wince. She knew about Rarity's objection to the stuff, she was actually amazed that the fashion crazy teen had agreed to go out there with them this afternoon...or early evening as the sun began to rapidly set behind a nearby hill.
"Yes...that..."Rarity says with a frown. She shivers as the breeze picks up. The hole that they were in was deep and very cold. "Can you move?"
"No." Applejack says shaking her head. "I tried and very nearly passed out. I think that we might be stuck out here." She gulps and glances around shivering herself.
"I hope that the others are alright." Applejack mumbles as she hugs her shoulders. Rarity gulps as she glances around the ominous looking pit that they were going to be stuck in for a bit.
"I just hope that we are alright." Rarity responds as the wind picks up and the two sit staring at each other and shivering.
"Okay. Don't call me crazy. But I heard it again." Applebloom said as she set up the small three person tent that was going to hold her and her two friends. She paused and glanced around, she was the tallest out of the three girls, and also towered over their one guy friend Spike.
"You aren't crazy, that was a wolf and all of us are going to die out here." Spike said simply as he squatted beside a small fire and began to rub a stick against a stone trying to sharpen it into a spear.
"Spike. Dude." Scootaloo said limping over to him and offering him a swiss army knife that she kept in a small additional hanger on her plastic and metal leg brace. "Use this. It's faster. And Bloom stop being paranoid. Nothing bad is going to happen."
"That's probably because it already happened and the four of us are going to die out here." Sweetie Belle said simply as she moved some more damp wood over beside Spike, blushing and glancing at him the entire time. "I mean Rarity and AJ went over that waterfall, we got off of the trail and now there are wolves hunting us."
"Okay. That's it, no more craziness you're going to give yourself a nightmare." Scootaloo said, really meaning she was going to get nightmares. "We are fine. We have all of the camping supplies. Rarity and AJ are tough and will be back in no time. And who knows someone somewhere is bound to miss us and come looking for us in no time. And there are no wolves!" Scootaloo said firmly just as the breeze picked up.
A wolf stops at the rise of a hill and sniffs. It smells human flesh. Human flesh was tasty. It starts padding down the hill still sniffing absentmindedly. It wasn't too hungry. But it could eat.
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