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[Leafeon 2,702]

@Zoop

 

"Uhm... Are you ok?" The unicorn asked with an expression of confusion, worry, and a slight bit of entertainment. She had seemed to already have forgotten exactly who had just put the pink stallion into an unimaginable confounded state. On top of looking lost, the pony looked like he was severely embarrassed as well.

 

It took some time for Firebolt to remember that the whole reason this pony was acting like he had amnesia was due to her. She could probably show a fragment of concern. "Ah... Sorry about that..." She said quietly, sneezing again. Firebolt most definitely not stay in her wet coat, as she was starting to feel sick. Of course, other then basic levitation, the mare's magic was based off of fire. As well as a few simply spells to do with forgery. The only problem with that making herself warm again was that... The only fire she could make, didn't really give off heat. To actually do anything about that, Firebolt would have to leave the side of the stallion. Which would simply look bad.

 

So, instead, the mare waited for a response.

 

((Apologies for short posts. Phone is a phone.))

[Neikos 968]

Note to self. No afternoon naps if you haven't slept the night before. They tend to take a lot of time. Oh and also, not outside in the woods. But it's too late now to know this. I actually got woken up by the rain. It's light knocking soon turned into battering as the drizzle transformed into a torrent of water pouring from the skies. As I was still sleep drunken I got up, trying to orient myself. Usually I use the mountains, but this rain made it impossible to see further than a few hooves in front of you. My next strategy was then known landmarks. I had a few scattered around. Thinking I saw the nearby river I walked towards it. It was then when I got surprised by a thunder which got a shriek out of me. It also disoriented me as I ran for the next closest small tree. It didn't matter though in hindsight, if I had gotten struck by lighting it would have been too late anyway. And I was already soaked, so this tree didn't really protect me from anything. It was starting to get cold and I felt that. My knowledge not working right now I had to do the worst thing possible of course. Run around, hoping to find something I recognize.

 

My luck was still here though as I ran head first into a branch which threw me right back. Great. Now I had bruises and I think one was bleeding a little. I tried to not touch it with my muddy hooves. No need to risk an infection. The rain should wash it out a bit and as soon as I find some civilization I could get it disinfected. It was then where I turned around. Squinting my eyes I saw light. I instantly panicked, "Was that a Fire?!" instead of turning around I would run towards it. Making sure to not go nearby any trees who could sneakily put a branch in front of me I finally got to the light. I then realized that it was actually a house. What was it doing around here? I didn't know this part of the forest, else I wouldn't be here. So naturally I didn't know of this house. I still found it weird to build here. Either way it seemed that there was somepony home. I hoped they would be welcoming, so I knocked at the door trying to not put too much dirt on it. "Anypony Home?" I then took a few steps backwards and hoped that my scratched face wouldn't scare them at this hour. I did have a feeling that the moment the door opens a lightning bolt would ascend behind me, illuminating my back and giving me a theatrical entry worthy of a comic villain.

[Electrobolt 2,069]

After having told this mare what had happened to the pink pegasus, Grand Journeys began to wonder what she would think. However, opposite of what she was expecting, the mare laughed. Did she think this was funny or something? Shaking her head, Grand let out a sigh before the mare spoke. But she then got interrupted again as the sound of a thud caught their attention. As the both of them looked over, the pink pegasus stallion was lying on the floor. Apparently, the telekinesis had gone out and he plopped onto the floor in a rather rough fashion. *Ouch...* she thought, wincing slightly. *That looked like it hurt...*

 

Grand was lost in thought for a moment before the mare spoke up again as she stated that she almost mistook him for a mare. Looking back at the stallion, she thought for a moment before letting out a light chuckle herself. *Hahah... I can see how she thought that...* she thought, a small grin appearing on her face at the idea of mistaking the stallion for a mare. However, around that time, the mare spoke up yet again, before introducing herself as Winterglade. Winter then asked what  her name was and how she ended up here at the cottage.

 

Shaking her head before clearing her throat, Grand began to speak. "It's nice to meet you, Winterglade. My name is Grand Journeys, and I was originally in these woods to explore them. However, as I was exploring, the rain started to pour, and... As I tried to find shelter, well... I wasn't looking where I was going... I bet you know where this is going from here, right? Eheheh..." Just as soon as she finished, Grand heard a noise, almost a panicked shout of sorts. Looking around, she wondered who was making that noise, before her eyes stopped on the pink stallion. It seemed he was awake now, and rather alright as it would seem. She was relieved at this, before she began to giggle. The pure randomness of his shouting had struck the mare as silly.

[Key Gear 6,664]

It wasn't that that was bothering her though. Suddenly, she sneezed, softly, but still enough to stop her levitation. Inevitably, she dropped Keystone, with a gasp.

Misty heard the sound of a sneeze, followed rapidly by the sound of a dull thud. Whatever the creepy stallion with the mustache wanted, it would have to wait. Everything would have to wait... So many guests, so suddenly. She glanced around in search of the sound, completely missing the pink pegasus stallion lying prone on the floor. In her growing anxiety, she mistook him for a pink rug.

 

"secondarymechanismsareimportantforstoppingthecylinderfrombeingcompromisedbythingslikepickingandbumpkeysusuallythisisaccomplishedthroughtheuseofasidebarmechanismsuchaswithour---"

"Eeek!" She squeaked as the pink rug turned out to not be a rug at all, but a pony. A pony that was now babbling completely incoherently. She considered what steps she could take to deal with a mad pegasus, but, thankfully, he settled down before she had time to recall the location of her largest frying pan. With a tired sigh, she looked around. There were quite a few ponies in her living room, where just hours before, it had been empty. The sound of thunder outside caused her to jump, and she could have sworn that she heard a knock on the door in the midst of the sound. She went to check.

 

A sudden cold fear washed over him as the realization that he truly was all alone in the darkened woods. Icarus' mind jumped to the dozens of horror tales and movies he had seen with settings such as this, but quickly brushed them away and decided to try and find somewhere else to wait out the storm. Just as he turned round to find somewhere else to hunker down, he heard the door creak open.

Misty looked around the edge of the door. There, standing right in front of her, was another soggy guest. Her eye twitched slightly, but she put on her most convincing smile. "Hello, there... I'm supposing that the storm brought you to my door?"

 

With his faded lavender coat drenched, Wing was thrilled to see another pegasus in the same predicament -- or at least thrilled to see that he was not stranded alone. "Hello!" he called over the storm's rumbling growl. "I'm surprised to see another pony out here in this weather. I take it you got stuck out in this storm too?"

She leaned out of the door and into the rain. It was another pony, in the rain. She wasn't quite certain what to make of this gathering crowd, and she was now quite certain that she would not have enough rooms. Then, there was the question of how long the storm would last. She started worrying about food. A few ponies was fine, but this many... She couldn't remember the last time that so many guests were present.

 

Just then, she heard another knock at the side entrance to the mansion. Misty's eye twitched again. More guests... She hastily greeted the two new ponies at her front door. "Well, I need to go grab another door now, but... Ummm... My name is Misty Leaves, and I'm the owner of this cottage. If you need anything let me know, and I'll help you as soon as I stop flying between doors!" She unfurled her wings and carefully zipped back to the kitchen.

 

"Anypony Home?" I then took a few steps backwards and hoped that my scratched face wouldn't scare them at this hour. I did have a feeling that the moment the door opens a lightning bolt would ascend behind me, illuminating my back and giving me a theatrical entry worthy of a comic villain.

She arrived at the side door and took a moment to steady herself before opening it. She took three deep breaths, and savored the relative silence of the kitchen. Finally, she opened the door. Just as she did so a bolt of lightning came down, illuminating the area behind the green earth pony. In the light, she could clearly see the scratch on his face. A look of terror appeared on her face, but it vanished when she realized that the pony in front of her was just another soggy guest. She sighed and went expressionless.

 

"Alright, I think that you definitely need two things. First, a first aid kit. Second, a bath. Third, hold on a second and let me get you a towel for those muddy hooves. I would rather that my floor didn't get hoofprints all over my floor." Misty trotted into the kitchen and took out a cloth and removed a first aid kit from a drawer. She returned to the earth pony waiting in the rain. "Here you go! Come on in, but take this cloth and do something about those hooves before you go through the house. I have a first aid kit here, I can help you with that scratch if you don't mind a bandaid on your face."

 

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Key Gear snickered as she caught the sight of the pink stallion being dropped by the unicorn. Her snicker turned into a chuckle. It was bad to laugh at the pink stallion, of course, but she couldn't help herself. He looked ridiculous, lying there on the floor. However, his ridiculous appearance was soon accompanied by an even more ridiculous sound.

 

"secondarymechanismsareimportantforstoppingthecylinderfrombeingcompromisedbythingslikepickingandbumpkeysusuallythisisaccomplishedthroughtheuseofasidebarmechanismsuchaswithour---"

She blinked. It was an unusual rant, but it sounded almost like something that a locksmith would say. It also sounded incomprehensible and fairly insane. This stallion was oddly amusing. She stared at him and made her way over. It seemed that he was doing better, but he was still making odd sounds. She wondered if he even had the ability to speak normally.

 

He sighed, sat down where he stood, and brought a hoof to his face at his own actions, blushing furiously and mentally berating himself for his own foolishness.

"Ah... Sorry about that..." She said quietly, sneezing again.

Key shook her head, and trotted directly over. Pink pegasus stallions should not be allowed to blush. It looked ridiculous. She addressed the unicorn. "I don't think that you have anything to be sorry about, since you woke him up after all. I've got a question though... Does he speak anything other than nonsense and weird sounds?"

 

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The forest wasn't getting any less confusing, but Ambrosia was certainly getting more and more tired. The rain was still pouring down and she wasn't making very much progress at all. Her earlier concerns grew. What if she never managed to find her way out at all? She wasn't a very strong earth pony, and she didn't have very much endurance. She started to worry about having to spend the night in the forest because she was too tired to move, she would simply be stuck in the rain until the storm was gone. The misery that she felt was overwhelming.

 

"Hey! I don't suppose you know the way out of here, do you?

She jumped as the voice of a stranger cut through her thoughts. Looking behind her, she could clearly see a unicorn stallion. Even in the middle of the storm, her hopes raised. Thinking quickly, she shouted back to him. "No, I don't know the way out of here, but if you could light this dark place up then I bet we could find either a way out or at least a safe place away from this lightning!"

 

---

 

Luminescence was running just about as fast as she'd ever ran in her life. In fact, she was certain that this was as fast as she would ever run in the future, because she intended to scratch investigating storms off of her list of interests. She hated running; she hated the dark. Fast movement was better left to teleportation spells than hooves. Indeed, she would have teleported through the forest, but she feared teleporting straight into a lightning bolt. She was already running towards every bolt of lightning that fell, teleporting would simply get her there fast enough to be zapped.

 

Confirming her fears, a bolt of lightning seemed to hit the ground directly in front of her. She skid to a halt, and if she wasn't soaking wet, her fur would have stood on end. It was too close for comfort. Now, there was nothing but the darkness and the rain. She shook with the force of her panic. A single bolt of lightning dropped in the distance. She darted for the natural light source, and hoped that her instincts would not lead her wrong.

 

After a few moments, another bolt of lightning dropped in the same area as the first one. Backlit by the blazing light, she could clearly make out what seemed to be the distinctive outline of a home of some type. She ran faster, and the rest of the structure came into view. It seemed too large to be a standard home. At the front door, two pegasus ponies were, apparently, just entering the building.

 

@@Twiliscael, @@WingMcCallister,

 

She hardly even noticed the pegasus ponies. Instead, her attentions were focused, solely, on the open door. With an impressive burst of speed, the silvery unicorn covered the remaining distance between herself and the door. At the same time, her horn started to glow with a rich, silvery glow. That was when her teleportation spell went off. She hadn't even planned on doing it. It had been a product of her panic and her concentration on the door.

 

The unstable spell moved her forward, into the open doorway. Unfortunately, it didn't cancel out her momentum from running, and she tumbled into the cottage at breakneck speed with hooves flailing as she struggled to regain control. She came to a halt when she collided with a sofa. Upside down, she looked at the ponies gathered in the room. Her heartbeat was still out of control, and her breathing was still unsteady. Despite this, she managed to slowly and carefully stand to her hooves with some semblance of graceful movement.

 

She raised her head high and steadied herself for a moment, before finally speaking. "Good evening, I apologize for the nature of my entrance. I'm normally not quite so wild. My name is Luminescence. I seem to have found myself lost in this forest. Can somepony please direct me to the towels? And, is anyone familiar with this forest? Is this type of storm normal for this area?"

[Twiliscael 3,960]

 

 

"Hello!" he called over the storm's rumbling growl. "I'm surprised to see another pony out here in this weather. I take it you got stuck out in this storm too?"

Icarus did a quick 180 degree turn and, shifted his weight back, and geared for attack. He quickly regained his composure once he realized that it was only another pony who had met the same fate as his own. Icarus scolded himself for letting his situation get the best of him, but quickly gave full attention to the pegasus who had plopped down right in front of him. "Nice to see a friendly face out here." Icarus yelled through the sound of the storm. "I got caught out here trying to get to a friend's house." *laughs* "Seems like a bad choice coming out today. You see, I was goi-"

 

Icarus was interrupted by a voice from the door in which his plot was now facing. Disregarding the pegasus, he did another quick 180 degree turn (this time with the aid of his wings for an increase in speed) and gave the pony an awkward-but-still-friendly smile.

 

 

Misty looked around the edge of the door. There, standing right in front of her, was another soggy guest. Her eye twitched slightly, but she put on her most convincing smile. "Hello, there... I'm supposing that the storm brought you to my door?"

He quickly scanned the pony, which was evidently a mare. She was a gray pegasus with a purple mane and almost hypnotically deep green eyes. "Yeah," he replied quickly. "I'm sorry to bother, but I'd really appreciate a place to hunker down for a while... just until this damn storm blows over..." Icarus could sense the annoyance in the mare, but quickly saw the open door as an invitation and disposed of that from his mind as he entered the house. Behind him, she began to speak to the pegasus who had met briefly before.

 

Grateful for the warmth and light of the house, Icarus began shaking himself dry. About halfway through his admittedly embarrassing performance, he came to realize that there were several other ponies in the room all looking at him. He abruptly stopped and gave another awkward smile. Spotting the towels near the door, he grabbed one to dry himself off in a more socially-acceptable way. Right as he placed the towel to his coat, there was a sudden burst of light and a loud thud. Icarus wheeled back a bit, but quickly regained himself and craned his neck to see what the commotion was all about. Considering recent events, it was relatively unsurprising that it was a pony, which he quickly scanned over. She was a gray pony at that transition age where you're too old to really be called a filly, but too young to really be called a mare. He noted her graceful way of presenting herself and was pretty interested in who this pony was. 

 

Little did he realize that while he was silently judging this little mare, she had been speaking. Quickly gaining back his senses, he tossed her the towel he was holding. She looked wet and probably would need it. He grabbed another one, quickly finished his drying cycle, and went over to where all the other ponies were congregated. He took a seat on the first open place he saw and sighed. "This is going to be one long storm, isn't it..? he said, not sure whether if only in his mind, or to everyone in the room.

[Starshine 16,335]

"It's nice to meet you, Winterglade. My name is Grand Journeys, and I was originally in these woods to explore them. However, as I was exploring, the rain started to pour, and... As I tried to find shelter, well... I wasn't looking where I was going... I bet you know where this is going from here, right? Eheheh..."

An incomprehensible and strangled sound uttered its way forth from Keystone's mouth as he saw more than one pony staring, looking at him like he was insane. He sighed, sat down where he stood, and brought a hoof to his face at his own actions, blushing furiously and mentally berating himself for his own foolishness.

 

Winterglade almost snorted in laughter when the pink pegasus abruptly rose and started chanting some kind of mantra, almost scaring the host out of her wits. She held a hoof to her mouth to stop herself from laughing. She hardly caught any words from his babbling, but it was vaguely something key related. His cutie mark looked like a huge keypad with wings. Maybe he was a locksmith or something? "Seems like you broke him quite hard there," She said to Grand Journeys. Her mind trailed back to Grand Journeys' words.

 

Ah, an explorer? Winterglade took a quick glance on Grand Journeys' cutie mark. It was a compass with its needle pointing to her wings. It was rather rare for Winterglade to see a pony with adventuring related cutie mark. So far she only knew the fictional Daring Do to have such cutie mark. "Explorer? That nice," Winterglade said. She rubbed her towel a few more times on her mane. "I'm here for delivering things. A friend of mine asked me to fetch some books of hers. I'm supposed to be on the Los Pegasus in a few hours. Oh well." She sighed. There was nothing she could do to convince Summer not to cook her with her words. She looked at Grand Journeys and pointed a hoof to the far corner of the room. "That's my saddlebag there. Thank Celestia it's not really wet."

 

Winterglade watched in curiosity as Misty Leaves flew back and forth between doors. Two new stallions could be seen from the front door. "Wow, seems like we will get a lot of company here," She commented. I hope there would be enough space for everypony, she thought to herself. Just when she was about to trot to fetch her saddlebag, a silvery blur suddenly appeared out of thin air and smashed to the sofa. It was a young mare, silver fur and mane of various deep shades of red, and a horn could be seen on her head. The young mare righted herself and started talking.

 

"Good evening, I apologize for the nature of my entrance. I'm normally not quite so wild. My name is Luminescence. I seem to have found myself lost in this forest. Can somepony please direct me to the towels? And, is anyone familiar with this forest? Is this type of storm normal for this area?"

 

"This kind of storm not normal around this area, or at least as far as I know," Winterglade answered loud enough to be heard by Luminescence. She shrugged. She had been flying around a lot of all kind of forests, but she couldn't recall ever seeing any storm this huge this deep in the middle of the forest. A newly entered stallion pegasus handed the young mare a towel and grabed another for himself. Winterglade looked around once more. Seemed like misty Leaves had gone to invite in another pony. She trotted briskly to her saddlebag and slowly latched the still slightly damp thing onto her back.

Edited May 16, 2013 by Starshine

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

 

 

"No, I don't know the way out of here, but if you could light this dark place up then I bet we could find either a way out or at least a safe place away from this lightning!"

 

Lost facehoofed. Why hadn't he thought to do that sooner? "Oh um, of course. Sorry, I've been, kind of... preoccupied all day. That's how I ended up in this mess in the first place. One minute I'm going through a walk to clear my head, and the next I'm in the middle of the woods in a huge storm. But anyway, yeah, light- I can do that."

 

His horn glowed intensely and a large sphere almost like a miniature sun appeared at the tip. It slowly floated above his head, illuminating the area around them nearly as brightly as daylight.

 

He looked up at the glowing orb and smiled, satisfied with his work. "I guess you could say light magic is something of a specialty of mine. In my line of work, it helps to be able to light up dark areas. Anyway, that should be plenty of light. Do you see anything?"

[Zoop 8,384]

Keystone had barely any time at all to mentally assault himself before his thoughts were interrupted by a light colored mare, who after a moment's confusion, he recognized from earlier, before he had been knocked over and out by an errant wrecking ball.

 

 

 

"Uhm... Are you ok?" ... Ah... Sorry about that..."

 

 

Keystone blinked, beginning to open his mouth to respond with some confusion as to why she was apologizing to him, when another voice rang out, this one belonging to a younger mare that had just trotted up to them.

 

 

 

"I don't think that you have anything to be sorry about, since you woke him up after all. I've got a question though... Does he speak anything other than nonsense and weird sounds?"

 

 

Keystone blinked again harder this time, as his head swam with questions. Who was this pony? Did she live here? What did she mean about the other one waking him up? Why would someone apologize for waking him up? What in the blazing hells was going on here? Why was --- 

 

Keystone stopped his train of thoughts in its tracks, and mentally murdered the crew as he focused his attention on the younger of the two mares, who if the tone of her voice was anything to go by, had found his outburst to be extremely comical. 

 

"I... apologize for that. I had a... bit of a crash landing outside due to the storm, followed by a second crash landing when..." Keystone paused, trying to work out just what in the hell it had been that had caused the second impact, "...something... an oversized bowling ball, a wrecking ball, a boulder... when something came crashing down a nearby hill and directly into me. Needless to say, I was knocked a bit silly for a while..."

 

He sighed, and looked down for a moment, forcing himself to keep a straight face despite a crushing feeling of shame that had befallen him; he couldn't even imagine how completely and utterly idiotic he must look to all of these ponies. Glancing at the blue mare in front of him, and over to the light colored one with them, he spoke again.

 

"Anyway... I'm afraid I'm a bit at a loss as to what is going on here... but... if the sound of the rain and thunder outside is anything to go by, I'm going to guess that we're going to be stuck here for a while, so some introductions probably wouldn't hurt... I'm Keystone, and..."

 

Any further chit-chat on Keystone's part was cut short when a young mare appeared out of nowhere in a flash of light, crashing into a nearby couch almost immediately. Key was no stranger to teleportation spells, having witnessed them on many an occasion, but the sudden flash caused him to jump up and let loose a brief, high-pitched, and particularly unstallion-like squeak; adding to his already impressive list of things that he already regretted doing.

[WingMcCallister 368]

 

 

"I got caught out here trying to get to a friend's house." *laughs* "Seems like a bad choice coming out today. You see, I was goi-"

 

 

Wing was quite happy to find another pony out in this mess with him. For his life, the stallion could not remember why he had decided to go out in the storm for such a foolish experiment. Bad weather always made him a bit down, and this case was no exception. Thus, the finding of some company brought a smile to his countenance, and the physicist willingly showed it. He was about to respond to his fellow pegasus before a stranger arrived at the front door.

 

 

 

"Well, I need to go grab another door now, but... Ummm... My name is Misty Leaves, and I'm the owner of this cottage. If you need anything let me know, and I'll help you as soon as I stop flying between doors!" She unfurled her wings and carefully zipped back to the kitchen.

 

 

"Hello Ms. Misty Leaves," he answered before the owner had to fly off. "I am Wing, and I'm sorry to trouble you during such a hectic hour. It was definitely not my intention to be an intruder today. I hope it's okay if I ride out the storm." He assumed that based on her offer to help that he was welcome -- at least for now. With that, Wing did not hesitate to get himself out of the rain and inside the cottage. 

 

He was certainly surprised to see the collection of ponies that had gathered inside the abode. The storm had certainly done quite the job at driving many to the home. It was no wonder that Misty Leaves was frantically scrambling between doors. Despite the population of ponies, the question of a younger unicorn perked his interest in particular. 

 

 

 

My name is Luminescence. I seem to have found myself lost in this forest. Can somepony please direct me to the towels? And, is anyone familiar with this forest? Is this type of storm normal for this area?"

 

 

"This kind of storm not normal around this area, or at least as far as I know," Winterglade answered loud enough to be heard by Luminescence.

 

"Hello, Miss Luminescence. I agree with that conclusion. This storm is certainly not normal for this area, at least not in terms of severity."

 

The pegasus lifted his muzzle to glance around at the collection of others crowding the room. "And hello to everypony, I hope you all managed to make it here with some proper level of safety." The scientist suddenly realized just how wet he had become, and he shivered as the evaporation chill rolled over his limbs and back. His coat had been soaked, and water was now dripping onto the cabin floor. He recoiled, somewhat embarrassed that he was making a mess in another pony's place. "Oh dear," he spoke, lifting one of his black hooves from the floor. "I think I may be in need of a towel as well." 

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

@,

Jack could tell he upset the host but at the same time was slightly offended himself.

"I'm sorry friend. I caught you at bad time. I will try again later." Jack said with an emotionless tone. He then turned around and walked away from her. Jack looked around trying to find something to occupy his time with. He saw new ponies coming into the hut but didn't really feel up to engaging a conversation with.

I should have asked her if they she had any liquor. I can tell its going to be another one of those days..or nights. He thought as he tried to figure out what time of day it was.

Jack wanted to have another conversation with the mare known as Winterglade to make a better impression on her. He shook his head at the thought and began licking his mustache to pass the time.

[Neikos 968]

 

 

She arrived at the side door and took a moment to steady herself before opening it. She took three deep breaths, and savored the relative silence of the kitchen. Finally, she opened the door. Just as she did so a bolt of lightning came down, illuminating the area behind the green earth pony. In the light, she could clearly see the scratch on his face. A look of terror appeared on her face, but it vanished when she realized that the pony in front of her was just another soggy guest. She sighed and went expressionless. "Alright, I think that you definitely need two things. First, a first aid kit. Second, a bath. Third, hold on a second and let me get you a towel for those muddy hooves. I would rather that my floor didn't get hoofprints all over my floor." Misty trotted into the kitchen and took out a cloth and removed a first aid kit from a drawer. She returned to the earth pony waiting in the rain. "Here you go! Come on in, but take this cloth and do something about those hooves before you go through the house. I have a first aid kit here, I can help you with that scratch if you don't mind a bandaid on your face."

 

"Celestia thank you", I told the mare that had appeared in the door frame. Her fear being only short lived I soon got a towel to clean and dry myself, which I promptly did before entering. The weather wasn't really nice right now. "Thank you for the towel, and yes, treating the scratches would be really nice. I almost poked my eyes out due to the darkness... The rain is really heavy tonight." I chuckled and shrugged it off. I didn't realize yet that the rain might be a bit more violent. "I am Neikos!", I then suddenly continued, "Who do I have the pleasure of talking with?" As I awaited her reply I would look around the kitchen. It was fairly space, actually the whole house seemed to be spacious which kind of strikes me odd as why would somepony need such a large house out here. I quickly shrugged that thought off and continued drying my hair. Obviously my hair was completely ruined and looked more like green rags rather than the precious coiffure I had. There also seemed to be several more ponies next door, I would ask about those at a later time.

[Leafeon 2,702]

@@Zoop,

 

"Yes. I believe so." Firebolt said to the stallion, then held out a hoof. "Well, you should still probably lie down for a bit, I mean, it would be unwis-" The mare's sentence was interrupted by the random appearance of the mare. Unannounced, of course. She was further interrupted by the light stallion's "squeak", and she looked at him in confusion. "What... was that for, exactly?"  She wandered, still holding out the hoof for him to get up.

 

"Well..." The mare began, while waiting to see if the stallion would respond. "I'm Firebolt." Firebolt's smile was particularly warm. For her anyway. Though her name was FIREbolt most ponies considered her to be a bit more cold. Though she really didn't know why...

[Electrobolt 2,069]

When she was giggling at the stallion's rambling, Grand Journeys began to think about what had been going through his mind when he went off like that. Then, remembering how her rolling into him had casued all of this to happen, she slowly stopped her giggle-fest before forcing a small cough. Around that time, Winterglade had started talking again, saying that she had broken him quite hard. Hearing this had caused her to look down slightly, as she sighed when the mare said that. *I didn't mean to, though...* she thought, as she was wondering what Winter was thinking about now.

 

After some time, she spoke up again, saying that she was delivering things for a friend of hers. Winter also added that she was supposed to be on the train bound for Los Pegasus in a few hours. She then pointed to her saddlebag, which Grand looked over to as she saw it was just slightly wet. "Yeah, this rain... Don't you think it's odd how it---" Before Grand could complete her sentence, she saw the cottage owner moving all over the house. She seemed rather busy or something, as she shook her head to look at the front door. Right there were two more ponies who entered the house.

 

At that moment, Winter made a remark about all the ponies coming in. "Yeah... Seems like this rain is attracting everypony to this house, huh?" she asked, still curious about what caused the rain to come about anyways. Just then, the sudden teleportation entrance cause by another pony had caught her by surprise as she quickly looked over to where the source went. Upon looking over to the couch, she noticed a young mare, having collided into the cushions as she began to right herself in it. She then apologized for her entrance before introducing herself as Luminescence.

 

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Afterwards, Luminescence began asking for a towel before asking some questions, like whether the storm was normal for this area or not. While her questions were being answered, Grand had noticed a towel soaring through the sky and landing near the unicorn mare. After answering the questions, Winter had gone to get her saddlebag and strap it onto her. Looking over to see who tossed the towel, she saw the white-coated pegasus stallion from before getting another towel, before drying himself off. Looking at the towel he tossed, she could see that it had been used a bit.

 

Shaking her head, Grand let out a sigh as she thought, *I would think a fresh tower would be better, as opposed to a towel already used by somepony else...* With that thought in mind, she approached the table with towels as she grabbed a towel, starting to approach the couch. When she was there, Grand rested the fresh towel on the couch as she said, "There you go, Luminescence. A fresh towel would be better than a used towel, wouldn't you think? My name is Grand Journeys, by the way. It's nice to meet you, regardless of the circumstances."

 

Grand smiled as she nodded at the young mare, before recalling the pink stallion whom she had crashed into. Now that she knew he was awake, she would now need to apologize to him. She looked back to the pegasus before returning her gaze to Luminescence as she began to speak. "Um, sorry Luminescence, but I have something I need to do right now... We can talk a little later though if you'd like?" With a smile, she then trotted over to the pink pegasus stallion, whom was with the unicorn who levitated him in as well as a new earth pony, who's coat was a lovely shade of persian blue.

 

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She had no time to admire the coat color of the earth pony mare, however, as she walked up close enough to the stallion before beginning her apology. "Um, hello..." she started, wondering what he would think of her apology. "I, uh... I'm sorry for colliding into you... You see, I was trying to find shelter while also quickly moving through the woods, and... I tripped over this rock on top of this incline... It was an accident, I didn't mean to roll into you and cause all of this to happen to you... So, um... Again, I'm sorry, and... Nothing is broken, I hope...?"

Edited May 18, 2013 by Electrobolt