Post Author's Note:
Hello once again audience! Where we left off, THINGS were HAPPENING.
I would like to thank all of you for your reviews and continued support, and those who haven't reviewed, thank you as well.
Reminder: OC villain still needed, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah…
And without further more interruptions, here comes, CHAPTER FIVE.
Chapter 5: It's all fun and games…
Wow. This forest sure is pretty at night…
I was still on my quest to find those berries for Dashie, Lightning, and myself.
Of course, Lightning will just have to wait 'till he wakes up first.
Gee, I hope he doesn't have a concussion…
While reflecting upon this, I stumbled over a fallen branch and tumbled into a clearing where moonlight was glimmering off those delectable looking berries.
"BINGO!" I said aloud.
The berries were blue, but not blue berries. They were rounded and reminded me of the things Derpy and I used to pick as children. Of course, she would just stuff them inside her muffins. I wonder where she is nowadays…
While picking the round delicacies and storing them into a makeshift saddle bag I made out of leaves, I noticed a square stone slab of sorts with something inscribed on it. However, I couldn't see it due to the absence of the sun. Eh, I figured I would see it in the morning.
With the berries in hoof, I started trotting triumphantly towards the flames of our little camp.
I saw that Lightning had woken up, and now it was Rainbow who was napping. Nothing out of the ordinary for her I guess…
"Wake up sleepy head, I brought some food." I said while nudging Rainbow.
Rainbow jumped startled and shouted, "WHAT CUPCAKES?!"
"SHHH!" I said. "You want more trouble out here?" I said gesturing towards the dense woods.
"Sorry, you startled me…" Rainbow said while yawning. "You bring anything?
"eee'yup." I said mimicking that strong red stallion.
Lightning sat up and said, "Great 'cuz I'm starving."
I divided up all the berries and passed them out. All at once we began to chow down like a pack of hungry Timberwolves.
"So, while I was over there, I saw some weird stone slab thingy that I think we should take a look at in the morning." I said talking with my mouth full.
"Really?" Rainbow asked also with her mouthful. "What did it look like?" she asked.
"Well…" I paused for a moment. "I don't really know…I couldn't really see it."
"Come on dude!" Lightning exclaimed.
"Hey, if you have super vision, be my guest and go scope it out for your self. It's dark out in case you haven't noticed."
Lightning just gave me a weird look and turned around.
"Hey, I'm gonna go to sleep." Lightning said yawning.
"Have fun with that." Rainbow said not caring.
Rainbow and I just sat there staring into the fire as if it was hypnotizing us. I decided that it was late, and I was extremely tired.
"Hey Rainbow, hang tight for like, two seconds. I'll be right back." I said.
"All right. Cool." Rainbow said nodding.
I then proceeded to take off into the air. I searched the skies for the puffiest clouds I could find to bring down with me. After choosing them, I looked down and saw that the tops of the trees extended everywhere into an eternity.
I sighed and thought to myself, "We're never going to get out of here…"
I came back down with the clouds and handed the puffier tuft to Rainbow.
"Thanks Storm! These are the puffiest clouds I've ever seen!" Rainbow said excitedly.
"Yup." I said while proceeding to lie down on my own.
I looked over at Rainbow after I had lain down, and saw that she was already fast asleep.
Wow. I have an excellent taste in clouds.
I turned over on my cloud, closed my eyes, and I too was out.
Early the next morning…
I woke up to Rainbow shaking me.
"He- what- what are you doing?" I said moaning tiredly.
For a Pegasus who sleeps a lot, that girl sure could wake up early.
"Shhhh!" Rainbow sounded.
"What? What is it?" I whispered back.
"Lightning. He's still asleep." Rainbow said.
"Why is that an issue worth waking me up over?" I asked with a now more serious look on my face.
"Becaaaauuuse, we should prank him!" Rainbow said grinning ear to ear.
Well, at least she hasn't change any since we got here…
"You do realize that he just suffered a massive blow to the head right?" I said.
"True…true…but still. Can't we do a little prank?" She said beaming.
"Hmm…all right, what did you have in mind?" I asked looking at her now with excitement.
I haven't pranked somepony in ages.
"Weeeell…" With that, she took a handful of uneaten berries from the previous night, squished them up a bit and put them into Lightning's fore hoof.
"This is gonna be soooo sweet!" Rainbow said excitedly. She plucked a feather from her good wing and began to tickle Lightning's face with it.
As planned, Lightning swung his hoof at his face, coating it with berry goo.
Rainbow fell backwards laughing, and as did I.
Lightning on the other hand, wasn't laughing. At all. He instead picked up some more berries and flung them as hard as he could at my face. Needless to say, it had the same effect as when we did it to him.
Rainbow was now in hysterics as Lightning and I had the great berry war. In the midst of the cross fire, Rainbow too had her share of berry throwing.
By the end of our little war games, we all had a laugh and ridiculed at each other, that is, until we realize we had used up all of the berries we had.
"Well Celestia damn it." I thought.
"Well, guys now that we've been irresponsible, we lost all of the berries I had gathered last night. So guess who has to go back for more?" I asked knowing the answer was myself.
"You deserve it." Lightning said remembering who had placed the berries in his hoof in the first place.
I just glared over at him.
"Well, actually, if we are to go gather some more berries, than I want you guys to come along to see that stone slab thingy I found last night." I said pointing in the direction I had found them in.
"All right, I could use some more adventure as of now." Rainbow said.
I started ahead and they all followed, and eventually we were at the same local as where I found the berries, and thank god there were still some left. Parting some shrubbery, I unveiled the little stone slab, in which I could now make out the inscription. It appeared to be a mouse trapped in a cage with a piece of half eaten cheese in front of it.
"What could that possibly mean?" Lightning asked.
"I dunno…" I replied.
Not noticing it, we all began picking berries and eating them while trying to think of what this weird symbol could possibly mean. Eventually, there was one final berry left, and I picked it.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the ground opened up beneath us and all three of us went tumbling down into darkness.
End Author's Note:
Suspense! Where did they fall to? What will become of them? Why am I asking you guys?
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