Chapter 3 is up.
We continued on our journey through the Everfree Forest. Since Lone Warrior was not familiar with muffins, I decided to educate him on the different kind of muffins there were.
"...Then there are also banana muffins, cranberry muffins, parsnip muffins, cinnamon raisin muffins, zucchini muffins, apricot muffins, lemon poppyseed muffins, blueberry muffins, pumpkin muffins, chocolate chocolate chip muffins-
"PLEASE, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT MUFFINS!"
I stood silently after Lone Warrior's outburst. It was obvious he was annoyed by my constant talking; I guess I DID get a bit obsessive talking about muffins.
Then something caught the corner of one of my wonky eyes. A patch of pretty blue flowers grew just a couple feet of where they were. My curiosity tempted me into going over to check out the flowers. I walked over, stood in the middle of the patch, and picked some of the flowers. They smelt lovely and they tickled my nose.
"Lone Warrior, you should come smell these flowers I found."
It was hard for me to make out from this distance with my eyes, but it seemed like Lone Warrior was smelling the air instead of coming over to smell the flowers themselves. I couldn't really make it out, but it seemed his face was pale with worry.
"DERPY, GET OUT OF THOSE FLOWERS!"
Lone Warrior rushed over to where I was and tripped over face-flat into the flowers. I wasn't sure what he was so worried about until I saw my body starting to sprout feathers all over.
"Whats going on?"
"That's poison joke."
"Poison joke?"
"It poisons ponies by playing jokes on them."
His voice all of a sudden sounded different. It sounded high pitched like a small rodent and from the looks of it, Lone Warrior seemed pretty annoyed with the new voice. I, on the other hoof, was more concerned about the feathers sprouting simultaneously throughout my body.
"Is it lethal?" I asked.
"Of course not, but it is irritating."
"Well then what's the cure?"
"A bath."
A bath? That didn't sound too were able to find a nearby pond and gather some herbs to make a medicinal bath for us. Lone Warrior stepped into the pond first.
"Aren't you going to come in and wash yourself? Lone Warrior asked me.
I shuffled my hoof nervously.
"I sometimes slip underwater and stay in too long. Could you help bathe me?"
Lone Warrior slapped his hoof on his face in disbelief.
"So needy." I heard him mumble under his breath, "Alright, come in and I'll help you."
I didn't much like it when Lone Warrior acted grumpy with me, but somehow listening to him speak in that high-pitched voice made it seem a little more tolerable. I tip-hoofed into the pond, making sure I wouldn't slip. I sat down next to Lone Warrior as he felt over towards me and started washing my feather covered body. I cringed as he accidentally touched my sprained wing.
"Sorry."
"Its okay." I replied, "I understood that it'd be hard to differentiate my wing from all these feathers."
Lone Warrior continued to scrub me. As the feathers started to dissolve, I looked into his clouded eyes behind his teal mane and wondered how they got that way. Was he born that way? Did he get them later in life? So may questions evaded me, but there was one that I dared to ask.
"Lone Warrior, how do you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Do all those amazing things. Like walking through the forest and detect certain plants and animals nearby."
As I would've normally expected from Lone Warrior, he seemed a bit annoyed with my question, as if it were the simplest no-brainer quester anypony could ask.
"I'm getting out." he finally spoke in his normal voice and started getting out of the pond.
I turned around to look at him as he got out.
"I can't do any of that." I spoke, "I think what you do is amazing."
I couldn't believe it. Even with my eyes, I was able to see Lone Warrior smile; a small smile, but a smile no less. That made me smile too. I had almost forgotten that I was still in the pond and slipped, but luckily Lone Warrior was able to pull me out of the water.
"Oops. My bad."
Okay, thats chapter 3. Please R&R.