Chapter 3: On Top of the Beanstalk

At dawn, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow woke up to find themselves on top of a giant bean stalk starring up at a huge castle sitting on what appeared to be a floating island hidden by clouds.

"Hey, I was right." Applejack said with a smile.

"Yeah you were." Rainbow said. "Look Applejack, I'm sorry."

"It's alright." Applejack said. "It's not like this happens every day."

"No kidding." Rainbow said.

They then headed out and wondered who lived there. Mare or monster? Friend or foe? A princess or a dragon?

They all knew one thing. Three things drew the three girls to the castle. Hunger, desperation, and a love of adventure.

It was a fantastic experience as there were caterpillars as big as dogs and butterflies as large as eagles.

"Wouldn't it be amazin' if mortal mare never set hoof here before?" Applejack asked.

"Well somepony did." Rainbow said as Pinkie fell into a large foot print.

"Oh gosh." Pinkie said as she got out. "Who could have made those?"

"Well it wasn't Cinderella." Rainbow said calmly. Hopefully it was something friendly.

Soon they arrived at a moat that surrounded the castle, so they took a peapod and made it into a boat as the three took some willows and rowed towards the castle.

Then suddenly without warning up in the sky dragon flies the size of dragons arrived.

"Wow!" Applejack called out. "What whoppers."

"No kidding." Rainbow said. "Hey, I got an idea! Hey, long noise! Over here!"

"WHEE!" Pinkie called out as the dragon fly dove in, and all three girls ended up right at the steps of the castle. "Smart thinking."

"Okay, how are we gonna climb these steps?" Applejack asked.

"How about Rainbow flies up one stair? Then she can pull us up and so on and so forth."

Everyone agreed to this and began to slowly make their way up the stairs. This was the most exciting part of their journey so far. Forgotten was their hunger. Forgotten was their fear. The young girls never faltered and eventually made it to the top step.

They then wondered two things, what mystery lay behind the cold walls of the castle, and what dark spell hovered over this gloomy place.

Applejack then went up and knocked on the door, but no one came. They wondered if they should go in, but eventually they decided to risk it. They walked in and found themselves in an enormous entry hall, easily twenty times as big as any normal room. It was also as silent as a tomb. Rainbow was the last to go through.

In an enormous dining room, they looked up to see an enormous pile of food.

"FOOD!" Rainbow called out in joy. "Let me at it!"

They then ran up the winding carving on a table leg and began eating whatever they could find. Pinkie began eating peas the size of basket balls and moved to Jell-O that he could swim through. Pinkie then crashed into a thing of walnuts as he came out.

"Who's there?" A very familiar voiced asked from a chest.

As she said that, an alicorn mare with a rainbow mane walked out.

"Is anyone here?" The mare asked.

"That's Princess Luna's voice!" Applejack called out. "And that maid's Princess Celestia!"

"Yay!" Pinkie called out.

"How'd y'two get here?" Applejack asked as she looked in through the keyhole and saw Luna's navy blue coat and night sky blue mane.

"We were kidnapped by a wicked giant." Luna said.

"Oh." Applejack said before it sunk in. "A giant?!"

"A giant?!" Rainbow cried out.

"A giant?!" Pinkie asked, excitedly.

"A giant." Celestia confirmed.

Well... Things look bad, don't they?