The second chapter of my "A Simple Wish" story. Hope you enjoy, let the pony madness BEING
As I came to I slowly started looking around me. Somehow I went from the Coney Island boardwalk to the middle of this huge forest. It was early morning, the sky was completely cloud free and the air smelt unimaginably clean and crisp. I was surrounded by trees that had to be at least 50 feet tall, they provided a thick canopy on either side of the dirt road I was on. I slowly got up and went to brush myself off with my hands but fell flat on my face. I rolled over onto my back and brought my hands up to my face, they felt different, I looked at them, they weren't hands they were…hooves?
I quickly looked down at the rest of my body, I had four legs! And a tail!
I stood up shakily and looked around for something that I could see myself in, a lake, pond, or something! I saw a small stream by the side of the road and stumbled my way over and fell once again face first, this time into the water. I yanked my head out and stared into the water. As the ripples started to settle I saw a small horse looking back at me, not really a horse, more like a pony or something like that.
I brought my right hand, er, hoof up and waved at the pony in the water and he waved back. I stuck out my tongue and he did the same. I splashed water as him and he vanished. I stood up, dripping water from my face and shoulders.
"Note to self, no splashing reflections with water." I mumbled as I shook the water off.
I stopped and looked at the water again. This time I angled myself so that I could see all of myself. And a smoky black pony posed in the water next to me. He had a dark black mane that was a little on the long and shaggy side, and a tail of the same color and shagginess with a dark yellow and a deep red stripe down it. His eyes were a bright white with dark dull red, almost scarlet, irises and big black pupils. His hooves had thick black band at the end of his legs. On his hip I noticed that he looked like he had something missing almost, but I couldn't figure it out. He also had wings that were outlined a bit darker than his body. Oh and one more thing, that pony, is me.
I jumped away from that stream and started pacing in circles.
"This can't be happening! I must be hallucinating" I reasons to myself. "Yes that's it, I passed out on the pier and I'm going to wake up in a nice comfy hospital bed" I smiled at the thought of a nice bed and some food. My stomach growled. I needed to find some food.
"Ok" I said aloud for some reason, "I'll find some food first, then I'll deal with the fact that I'm a horse…pony…thing" I started trotting off down the road. Did I just say trotting? I stopped and looked down at my legs.
"My legs!" and I jumped around, simply because I could "I can walk!" and I started off down quickly with a big smile on my face and soon was picking up speed. "This is great" I thought, "I don't care that I'm a horse, I can walk!" Then a great idea came into mind "But, can I run?" I put everything I had into my new legs and was off. It felt surprisingly natural to be running around with four legs and all. Soon I was cruising down the road at a good pace for a while when I suddenly realized how tired I was. I slowed down and tried to catch my breath.
"To hell with New York, I like running, I don't ever want to wake up!" I announced to the trees around me with pride. My stomach grumbled again. "Right, food…"
As I continued to trot down the road I kept my eyes peeled for any sign of food. Soon enough I came to what looked like an old fence that came up to about mid chest on me. Just on the other side of the fence was some trees with the greatest looking apples I have ever seen. I easily hopped the fence and looked up into the tree.
"How the heck am I going to get up there?" I said aloud, I then looked around. "I need to stop talking to myself." I looked down at my legs and decided to try them out at climbing. I jumped up and tried grabbing onto a branch, but I couldn't get a grip and slid off and fell straight onto my back.
"Ow, that really hurt my wings" I said to myself again, then quickly facepalm...facehooved.
"Duh, I have WINGS" I got up and looked back over my shoulder. "Ok" I thought to myself, "Just need to, fly, shouldn't be too hard" I mentally commanded my wings to open up and they unfurled and stood ready for action. "Okay wings…FLY" I mentally yelled, soon I was flapping like crazy and soon I found myself rising into the air, and from someone who walked, ran, and flew in one day, this is awesome.
Soon I rose above the trees. I then mentally commanded my wings to stop and sure enough they did, "Good" I thought, "oh wait, not good" I managed to mumble as I plummeted straight into the apple tree below.
"Fantastic" I grumbled as I rubbed my face, "I probably hit five branches on the way in." My pain was soon forgotten as I saw a shiny red apple right in front of me. I reached out and picked and quickly bit into it. It was the best apple I've ever had! It was so sweet and delicious. I finished it off and started grabbing more. After I ate about twenty of them my stomach was stuffed. I lay back in the tree and started to fall asleep when all of a sudden I heard a voice.
"What in tarnation do ya think yer doin' in my tree?"
Hope you enjoyed it, remember to R&R and feel free to PM me with any questions, comments, concerns, or CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, or any ideas you have of some good plot devices/story ideas.