Rescue Pony (Kinda)

(After taking forever to do my typing for me, Cyd then forgot to post my story. She is a fail :/)

Hello everybodies! How are you? I am fabulous. Today I got my feeties all trimmed up, and I was mostly good at behaving myself. I can't believe I didn't tell you about my last week pony ride. Cyd made plans with Aunty A to meet up on the trail and so we can pony ride together. This is not what happened.

I started off by being mostly good walking up the road, but there was a smidgen of excitement, and I got a bit fancy:

High alert!

We weren't in a big rush, which is good, cos for me not really wanting to jump my ditch. While I was contemplating my options, Cyd got a texting from Aunty A saying she thought she was lost. Cyd was juggling texting her directions and coaxing me. I finally jumped over and Cyd checked her last message.

"F*** I fell she ran off"

Cyd asks if she's hurt and that we're on our way. She leaped on me and off we went. Except for then I thought maybe I'd rather stop for a snack first. Cyd said "Hey Bugsy, we really gotta go find our friend". I took some snacks to go, and had a little bounce before trotting off. We didn't get a reply from Aunty A so Cyd called her. No answer. Called again. No answer. And again. Uh oh. So we called Uncle J and told him what was happening and that we were adventuring to find her so somebody knew where we were. We didn't spot hoofie prints near our meeting point, so we went the direction they should have been coming from. Soon we found pony skids, and speedy prints heading back toward where Maggie-pony lives. There were no people prints though. I was all snorty snorty coming through here, so maybe something spooked Maggie-pony too. Cyd said "Okay Bugsy, this way. Maybe we'll find them soon!" Off we went carefully cos for it being all slippy. I totally got a bit stuck at a puddle cos for not wanting wet hoofies. Cyd got off me, we didn't need to spend time schooling me through it when our friends might need our help. There was a few spots she got off before I did misbehaving, so as to not get stuck. Mostly I did trotting where it was safe. We kept following hoofie prints but no sign of them, or of people prints. Cyd figured by now that probably Maggie-pony was home. The problem was not seeing people prints or catching up to Aunty A yet. We kept trotting on hoping that she hadn't got disoriented on foot and taken a wrong turn and got herself all lost in the woods. Trot trot trot through the woods. 

Uh oh, now which way? There's two ways to get to Maggie-pony's house from here. We looked for hoofie prints, and maybe saw some going the long way. So that's the way we trot-trot-trotted. We soon got to the road, and we just walked. Luckily, we turned up the driveway and saw Aunty M (Maggie-pony's owner) feeding ponies. No Maggie though or Aunty-A though. Turns out they were just hiding around the corner. Nobody was lost, or ouchied too bad, just Aunty A with some bruises.

We didn't hang around for long, it was going to get dark before we got home even if we hurried. Cyd took me on foot for a while to give me a rest, I was a little bit tired.

Phew, it's tiring trying to be a rescue pony

She got back on and we did some more trotting, but I got to walk each time I asked. I also got to practice getting snacks to go. At one point I pulled Cyd over to the other side of the trail from where we were, cos for being thirsty so I was willing to brave the scary puddle.

Then I drank another puddle! Cyd was so proud of me for taking care of myself. After my drinking I was happy to do lots more trotting. I even wanted to trot the downs, but Cyd made me do walking cos for not wanting for me to hurt my legs. Troubles was, we were still three miles of slippy trails away from my house, and the sun was going down!

Then it got a bit darker:

Then it got really dark:

I did pony riding in the dark before with Aunt-E and Ike-pony when I was a super-baby pony in only my second month of pony riding. But this time I was by myself. Know what I did? Just kept trotting right along. We had no lights since we didn't plan on being in the dark. I'm so brave. There wasn't even moon under the trees. I did get stuck at one bit, which was not good for hurrying home in the dark. It was the only trail that takes me home, there are no other options. It took me about ten minutes, maybe a bit more, but eventually we crept closer to the trail, and finally got me on it. Once I was on, I trotted away nearly all the way home. I'm the best pony ever!