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Rarity's eyes fluttered open and she yawns before pausing. She was not in her massive fancy four poster bed with the thousand thread silk sheet count. SHe had saved up over five years of allowance to purchase those things. And they were some of her pride and joys. Instead she could feel mud in her hair, sticks against her feet and two very large strong arms wrapped protectively around her torso.
They were so big and protective that they nearly crushed her. They were warm though. She smiles and closes her eyes. She is almost cozy right here and now. But then she shifts and a rock digs into her derrière and she frowns before finally opening her eyes again and glancing around.
"Oh joy. We are still in a pit. And here I just had a marvelous dream where we were stuck in a ravine." She mutters causing Applejack to snort behind her.
"And how would that be any better then being stuck here?" The farmer twangs making her gasp and jump.
"How long have you been awake? And why didn't you wake me up?"
"Well you needed the rest. And I wake up at the crack of dawn. Just the kind of person that I am, but I know that you ain't that style so I let you rest." SHe shifts and winces causing Rarity to jump off and flutter over her friend nervously glancing all around to make sure that she wasn't any more hurt then before. Applejack winces and gazes down at her leg.
It was facing the right way at least but any pressure made the entire thing cry out in pain.
"Well I still think you should have woken me up, that way we would have been able to do more today." Rarity says purposefully before gazing at Applejack intently. "Are you okay? Are you in pain?"
"A bit. But I will be fine. But well...This is going to get you very very mad." Rarity quirks an eyebrow quizically before sighing in defeat.
"Just give it to me as clear as you can. I think that if we get a couple more rocks that would be a good anchor to-"
"Rarity I am not talking about rebreaking my leg. I need you to start a fire, make a shelter, gather water, and find some sticks for me to fashion a splint and a crutch from. Do not, I repeat do not under any circumstances think about trying to break me legs." Applejack says rolling her eyes at the silliness that had entered the fool girls head.
Rarity blushes before standing up and dusting herself off before nodding.
"Very well then. I shall get to it. And just for your information I did not say A ravine. I said Aye R'avine. It is a hotel that I went to back in civilization. They have a wonderful breakfast bar and bed selection. If the two of us were trapped there we would be rescued in no time." She says before glancing around and biting her lip before moving to a section of the wall that did not look too steep or too flithy and begins clambering over it. SHe groans as she gets to the top and flops back huffing loudly.
"Hey! If you could dunk this in the water! Then carry it back!" Applejack calls up before tossing her checkered shirt up. Rarity grabs it before blushing. Wondering what in the world Applejack was wearing down there if she had just tossed her her shirt. Rarity walks quickly trying not to think about it. It is easy to find the trail that Applejack had blazed last night. It is a complete hurricanes worth of wreckage. It is easy to find the small river and Rarity pauses licking her lips nervously at the water. It is not taped after all...and she had heard plenty of terrifying stories about how you are supposed to never drink from outdoor water...
"Screw it. Better to be alive and sick then dehydrated and crabby." She says before closing her eyes, screwing up her face and walking to the water. She takes a deep breath before shoving her entire head under the water and scrubbing obsessively, trying to get the dirt and grime, sweat and sticks, and the dozens of leaves that had fallen and gotten interwoven in her hair last night. She finally pulls up with a gasp before pursing her lips, admiring her reflection in the water and then diving back underneath to take three long loud slurps of the water. She blinks dully before finally pulling away and wiping her lips with the back of her hand.
Rarity gazes down at the water, her long luxurious hair is flattened to her head. SHe taps her chin and then nods excitedly to herself. She entwines her fingers through her hair, pulls and flicks and soon has it combed out even just a little bit. It could look much better but this was going to have to do. She nods contentedly to herself. Yes this was going to do rather nicely. She glances around before dipping the shirt in the water. When it is only partially in she pulls it out, it is stiff from being slept in, but still perfectly clean amazingly enough.
"How does she stay so clean out here?" Rarity mumbles to herself. She blushes as she rubs her fingers over the large buttons on the pockets. She brings it towards her nose and takes a little sniff. She doesn't know what compels her to do so and she pushes it away the moment that she has. She closes her eyes as the scent of straw and salt and hard work enter her nose. She blinks and shakes her head.
"Smells just like her. Of course it would. She slept in it." She mumbles before sighing in amazement. It was so strong and powerful and just so so so so...well...HER!
"While I support the idea I don't think laundry is the best course of action right now though." Rarity tsks as she dunks the entire shirt in the water before pulling it free and shaking it, it is soaked with water and a lot drips down it. Rarity picks her way carefully through the woods, trying not to trip on anything. She eventually makes it back to the pit to see that Applejack had merely taken off her shirt but rezipped her jacket. It had been smart to wear layers yesterday.
"Great! Toss it down! Then if you find some good sized sticks I can make a crutch and a splint!" Rarity delicately drapes the shirt down to Applejack and then wrinkles her nose in disgust as the girl grips it and pops an end in her mouth and sucks long and loudly.
"Ah. I see." Rarity says making a face as Applejack holds the shirt above her head and squeezes water out. Applejack smirks and smacks her lips.
"It ain't pretty I admit. But it will give me water. Which is just what I need." Appklejack gazes intently at her friend before biting her lips. Rarity might be slightly drenched from carrying the shirt and dunking her head and doing who knows what back at the river, but with her hair plastered to her head and the light shining dramatically behind her she looked absolutely radiant to the simple farm folk.
"Rarity I am going to be honest with you. I am scared, have no idea what to do and think that we might just die out here." She said it all straightforwardly and simply. Making Rarity quirk an amazed eyebrow at the straightforwardness of the words.
"But as long as we stick together I think that we can survive this. I just need to reinforce my leg and we can make it. So will you help me?" Applejack says with a nervous grin.
Rarity feels her heartbeat increase before smiling and nodding aggressively. After all how could you say no to a speech like that?
"No. I don't care about any speech that you have. The answer is no." Spike says gruffly as he looks at Scootaloo who stood in front of him with crossed arms and a big frown on her face.
"Oh come on! You're the guy! I thought that you would be totally down for some dumb ass alpha male stuff!" Scootaloo complains before stomping her foot. "You've got to try this! We don't have any other ideas!"
"Besides you know just staying put and hoping for the best that we get found?" He says with a quirked eyebrow.
"You are like one of the most ambitious guys that I know! Why are you being such a pain now!" She complains again as he sighs and leans back against the tree. Spike had been daydreaming for what felt like hours. He didn't have TV or comic books so all he could do was stare off into space and wait for something to happen.
"Well this is supposed to be a vacation right? Isn't that how you three phrased it for me earlier?" He complains. Scoots glances over at Applebloom who shrugs helplessly.
"I mean it's just firewood. We are in the middle of the woods..." AB said helplessly as Scoot's rubs her forehead in irritation.
"Look I am going to make it simple for you." Scoots growls grabbing Spike by the front of his purple shirt. "You see Sweetie over there?" She said pointing towards where the young multicolored haired girl was glancing around trying to decide which direction to head off in.
"She is going to be looking for firewood. She however is weak and girly. Which means that she needs someone like you to go with her to make sure that she doesn't trip and break something. Now do it or else." She flicks his nose making him wrinkle it in disgust before finally standing up and dusting himself off.
"Okay! okay! Jeez!" He jogs over towards SweetieBelle holding a hand up to catch her attention. "Yo! Wait up!"
She turns and blushes before grinning and waiting until he had gotten beside her. The two ducked into the woods and start searching, talking to each other.
"And remember which way that you went! We don't want to loose you two too!" Scoot screams after them. Applebloom walks to stand beside her young friend watching the other two pick their way through the woods.
"You think that he suspects anything?" Bloom asked her friend. Scoots just shakes her head in response.
"If he does he is too stubborn to admit it. Man where do you think the other two are? Will we ever find them? I mean we got separated within a few seconds of getting into these woods. I don't want to think that they're you know in trouble or anything but..."She leaves the words hanging there as Applebloom nods beside her.
"Yeah. Yeah I totally get that. They are probably fine. AJ is tough as nails. Nothing can hurt her!"
"And Rarity?"
"I've got nothing against her. She was very pretty." Applebloom nods as if that is the last of the conversation before turning back to survey their camp. "MAn all of this just for a merit badge, I bet that we are going to get into so much trouble by the time that we get home."
"Do we have any more food by the way? Or fresh water?"
"Water yes, we have all the canteens. Food though...eh? I think that a lot of it went downriver with the other two when they fell over. Or when we fell over. Either way we might have to go hunting for food. You know how to kill anything?" Scootaloo gazes at her friend in silent amazement as Applebloom chuckles.
"I'm kidding. We'll get Spike to kill it for us."
Spike grips a few pieces of wood, studies them for posion ivy and finally heaves them up.
"How you doing Sweetie?" He calls out to her. SHe glances at his pile and then at her smaller pile of four very aesthetically pleasing sticks before glancing at his again.
"Fine." She grumbles in irritation. Silently cursing her friends for figuring out who her crush was on so quickly and then putting the two of them together totally alone so that she had no excuse but to talk to them.
"And I was being so crytpic about who it was!" She complains before swearing softly and kicking a nearby rock. It really wasn't fair how fast those two caught on to things. Which stunk since he never seemed to realize anything.
"Still. By the time we go home I am making him mine." She says to herself before focusing back on looking for sticks. Spike was just grabbing whatever he could find. She was being far far more careful and studying each and every last twig before deciding if it was any good or should just be left for the forest.
A wolf pads to a small river and starts slurping. It watches as a small can of tuna fish floats down it before bumping around a bend.
Rarity dips the shirt, Applejack was certainly thirsty. This was her third shirt! They might not even get time to work on all those other chores she had come up with. Rarity does a double take as she watches a tin of tunafish float just within reach. She reaches out and plucks it out, her eyes widening in amazement.
"What are the chances?" She mumbles in good natured and hopeful shock.
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