Post Authors Note:

Hello once Again audience!

Well, here's the latest installment of Adventure in the Evergreen.

Hope you enjoy, and don't forget to submit your OC villain unless you don't want to be in this story.

Ahem, AND NOW, chapter…FOUR!

Chapter 4: The Menace of the Everfree

I was running. Running as fast as I could with a full-grown pegasi on my back.

"Hold on Lightning!" I shouted. I had feeling this was now a race against time, and with the maze of a forest we were in, time was winning.

I kept following the sound of logs falling, rolling, tumbling, and frequent shouts of rage. Finally I parted through a shrub and encountered a pack of five...no, six Timberwolves?

I set Rainbow down gently in front of a cool patch of grass under a tree, and confronted the issue. I saw Lightning Thrash fly into the air and come down on one of the Timberwolves with an extended fore-hoof. One down, five to go.

Eventually, I got into the thick of things and started fighting as well. There were punches, kicks, take downs, our whole mess of attacks to be used on the Timberwolves, but we only managed to take down two together, and even those would soon rebuild themselves.

We were being cornered by Timberwolves. I began to pick up rocks my wing and fling them at our foes, but to no avail. We were hardly putting a dent.

Lightning decided to be a courageous and charge at the Timberwolves with a decently sized stick in his mouth. I was getting high hopes as he was about to strike, but as he was winding up for the swing, a Timberwolf decided to swing a log of his own hitting Lightning in the head, and knocking him unconscious. Well, I'm screwed. I took a step back and saw a rock fly from behind me and go straight into a Timberwolve's mouth.

I turned and saw that it was Rainbow who had used her one good wing to shoot a rock with such precise aim into the belly of the beast. It suddenly keeled over and broke into a pile of timber. We both looked around to find more rocks, but to our dismay, the ground was barren where we stood. I looked over at Rainbow and smiled as if it were our final good-byes. I still had so much to say to her…

The Timberwolves were inching their way closer, as I inched back throwing whatever I could at them to slow them down. I was cornered at the tree where Rainbow was sitting when suddenly, out of the dense thickness of the forest; a figure came swinging in on a vine knocking the remaining two Timberwolves's heads off.

HOLY SHIT! IT WAS DARING DO!

"OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!" Was the only thing Rainbow and I could let out, because, come on. It's Daring Do in the flesh.

I began, "Thank you so much for savi-"

"THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAVING US!" Rainbow exclaimed. "

It's an honor meeting someone who I think is as awesome as myself!" Rainbow said trying to get up without hurting her injured wing.

"Aw, it was no problem. Just another day in the lives for a brave adventurer such as myself, but, uh, here take these." Daring said while giving us a box of matches. "I kind of have to run now, but I will definitely be meeting up with you guys later. See ya around!" And with that, Daring Do leapt up over some tall grass with a lion, a tiger, and a bear chasing after her.

"Well that was short-lived, but extremely awesome to have met her. I almost can't believe that just happened." I said to Rainbow.

"Yeah, it sucks she had to go so soon…but I guess she is an adventurer and has to keep moving." Rainbow replied sadly.

"It's okay, she said she would come back and meet us more formally next time we encountered each other again." I said cheerfully.

"I know but still…" was Rainbow's reply.

"Well, anyways, what are these matches for?" I said.

"I don't really know…hey, don't Timberwolves regenerate?" Rainbow said.

"Yeah, but usually not as soon as they go down…so we should use this time, and move as far as we can away from these fiends…" I said.

"But what about Lightning? As of now, we are both sort incapacitated." She said looking at her broken wing. "If I move around, it could probably get worse, and who knows when we are going to have to run again."

"Yeah, good point…" was all that I could think of to say. "You don't think the matches are-"

"For the Timberwolves?" Rainbow finished my sentence. "Yeah, I'm starting to think they are…"

"Well, then, I guess we don't have to move after all!" I said clapping my hooves together.

"And there's our campfire too!" Rainbow said excitedly.

"All right, let's get started! And by that I meant let me get started…" I said while starting to lug huge pieces of logs and timber assembling them into a pile.

"Is this what Macintosh goes through everyday?" I thought to myself.

Well after about twenty minutes of lugging wood over to the campfire, Rainbow laughing whenever I accidentally dropped wood on my hoof, and hard work, the little soon to be fire was finally finished. Complete with an arrangements of stones around the stacks of wood.

I got out a match with my mouth, held down the box with my hoof, and struck the match against it. I threw the match into the pile of logs, and a little flame sparked. Soon, the whole stack of logs was ablaze and I let the warmth of the fire engulf me. I saw that night had fallen as Luna set up her beautiful moon and dark sky over Equestria like a blanket covers a sleeping child.

Seeing that Lightning was still out, I put him on my back using my mouth and wings for support, and placed him resting on a tree near the fire. I knew he would probably love the warmth of a fire on a cold night such as tonight.

When we were all cozy around the fire I heard Rainbow say, "So, It's been one heck of a day, am I right?" She chuckled at the end of her sentence.

One heck of a day… To think this all happened in a day…

"Yeah, I know right. The way things are right now just doesn't make any sense." I said. "One day, I'm living my perfectly normal life, and the next, I'm lost in the center of the Everfree forest… Funny how things work out." I replied losing myself in the fire.

"Hey, well at least you didn't get your wing broken." Rainbow said glaring at me.

"Rainbow, if I could have, I would have totally taken that hit for you. I would do anything to keep you safe. I would hate to lose another loved one…" I said that last part inaudibly.

"Ya, I guess you would wouldn't you. You're a great guy Stormy." Rainbow said smiling.

"Thanks. You are too Dashie." I said blushing.

After saying that, I heard Rainbow's stomach growl.

"And you know what would make a better guy? Going back where we were and gathering a few of those berries we saw when we first got here." Rainbow said with a toothy grin.

"Ugh, Okaay…" I replied. I mean, what could I say? I'm hungry too ya know.

"Keep a lookout okay? Yell or something to let me know if something's not right." I said.

"OH, and watch Lightning!" I yelled back as I set out to go pick those berries.

"Gee, I really hope there aren't anymore surprises waiting out there for me…" I thought to myself. It's going to be a long night…

End Author's note:

Yes, It truly is going to be a long night. You can thank Celestia for that…

Well, I hope you are all enjoying, and another chapter is coming hopefully on WEDNESDAY! WOOH!

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