Adventure awaits! Who will join in?

"Come on Cal! Let's go in, this place looks awesome!" sang Tya. Calim rolled his eyes and stood next to her, studying his map. 


"No wait! Look at the map for once, this place could be dangerous. Just be careful, okay?" Calim groaned, staring sternly at his sister. Tya pursed her lips and glared mockingly at him, but complied and looked at the parchment Calim was suspending. 


"Look there!" she said excitedly, pointing to a small lake on the map. A small, winding object was swimming around in it, and a treasure chest sat nearby. 


"That's a sea serpent Tya, do you really wanna deal with it?" 


"Who cares! Adventure awaits!" she laughed, running off into the trees. 

Wild Card was hanging upside down from a tree branch with a sharpened stick when he heard two ponies arguing with each other. From what he heard, one sounded like a logical stallion while the other one sounded like an excited mare. He liked the excited mare much better. He jumped down from the tree and spotted them.

"HOWDY Y'ALL! I'M WILD CARD! Too loud? Most ponies think so. Oh well, I'm Wild Card! Who are you two? Maybe we can be friends!" Wild was twirling his sharp stick while saying all of this and waiting hsi answer. After waiting too long, he shoved the stick in a tree and sniffed both of them and pointed to the mare. "She smells much better."

Sandy had been walking around ponyville when he saw two ponies going into the Everfree forest with a map. Adventurers???? He jumped up, squeaked excitedly and galloped after them. He found the two ponies in a part in the forest. He jumped in front of them, his excitement getting the better of him.

"Hi! I'm Sandy hooves and I wanna be an adventurer and I saw you two had a treasure map so I though you'd let me rag along so I can be an adventurer since it's my dream to be one!" He said breathlessly.

He then saw Wild Card, a pretty nice pony nearby. Sandy bounces up to him.

"Hi loopyracket!" He said to Wild.

Sandy knew how funny this pony was so he felt it necessary to say something utterly strange to him.

Tya giggled a bit at Wild's introduction. She glanced at Calim, and was about to respond, when a bright yellow colt hopped in front of them. 

"Well hya Wild Card, Sandy Hooves. I'm Tya and this is my brother, Calim." Tya laughed, taking the map from Calim and rolling it up. "Of course you can join us little one." she said sweetly, kneeling down to be closer to the foal. 


Calim rolled his eyes at Wild Card. She smells better? What does that have to do with anything. He thought to himself. He snickered a bit at the foal's eagerness, "Tya, I'm not sure if he should come along." He said to his sister, "This is going to be too dangerous for a foal." 


"Oh come on Cal, give him a chance. If it proves too dangerous, I'll personally lead him out." Tya said patronizingly. She looked at Calim with wide, begging eyes. Sandy Hooves was adorable to her, and she wanted him to fulfill his dream "You can join us too Mister Card." she added, turning to Wild. 


Calim sighed, "Ugh, fine." 

Wild Card bounced in excitement over being able to join in the adventure of these two ponies named Tya and Calim. They seemed like fun ponies. And he remembered the foal who ran over. He looked down and greeted him with a lick on the cheek.

"Hello little banana! YAY! Adventure! Where are we going? Ah, who cares?! It's gonna be FUN! But Calim seems a bit like a grumpy pants. Have you been bitten by a skunk that had 8 limbs recently?" Wild inspected Calim and shook his head, giving the okay that he was not bitten. Then he ran forward towards adventure. Then he ran back, because he had no idea where he was going

"YAYYYY!" Sandy bounced up and down with excitement at the prospect of an adventure. He was already in his way to Daring do levels, except it'd actually be real! 

When Wild licked him, Sandy just laughed. If another pony did it its be worrying but he knew that was just what the eccentric stallion was like. He showed the rest of the group what was in his Saddle bag.

"Well, if you think I won't be useful just take a look at my bag. "

Within was a box of medical supplies, a compass, a camera, some sandwiches, a rope and a little book, which Sandy made sure would be kept out of reach of the other ponies.

"You can use these all you like. All I ask is that you leave the book- that's my journal and I want it to be private so when I'm old and a famous adventurer I can leave it as a special chronicle of my life. I also sometimes write in personal stuff which I'd like to be kept private."

With that, he jumped onto Wild's head and waited to see where they'd go.

Tya laughed again, Wild and Sunny got along pretty well! 

"Well, let's go then! Away!!" she shouted, grinning. She ran off into the trees, looking at her map quickly. "This way!" she said, veering off to the left. Calim sighed and followed suite, not wanting to lose sight of his sister. 


"Tya, would you just slow down!" he called, out of breath. He wasn't really sure about the foal, they already had all those supplies-and more. But he didn't argue. Wild Card sort of freaked him out a bit, but it Tya thought he'd be helpful....

Wild Card felt Sandy jump on his head. He was giving the little adventurer a ride. It must be comfortable up there. Wild would want to try that, but it would be impossible. Oh well. Adventure! Wild Card followed Tya and Calim.

"Where we goin?!"

Sandy laughed as Wild carried him on his head. This was fun! He looked at the stallion of the twin ponies who were leading them.

"That's actually a good question- where are we going?"

A they went along, Sandy kept taking pictures of stuff that interested him- foliage, animals, the other ponies, that sort of thing. He was also kind of curious about the twins. He turned to Calim.

"Can I ask a question? How did you and your sister become adventurers? I normally wouldn't care but since I dream to be an explorer and adventurer when I grow up, it seems like a good idea to ask those who know their stuff."

"We are following this map," Calim said, holding up his map, "We're going here." he pointed to the sea serpent and treasure chest. 


"This is gonna be fun!" Tya squeaked, laughing at Sandy sitting on Wild. She trotted ahead, beaming brightly. Calim rolled his eyes, following her just as quick.


"We started adventuring when we were around 6-" Calim started to explain, 


"We found an old map in our house and decided to follow it!" Tya interrupted. "And that was the start of our adventures!" 

Wild Card looked at the map and saw the treasure and the serpent. The serpent looked scary. Not as scary as the mutated Walruses. But from what he remembered, they were all the way in the Crystal Empire. They liked the cold. Wild Card ventured forth anyway.

"This is gonna be SO fun! Why don't we talk about ourselves a little bit? I'll start. I was born to two Unicorns and a big family of Unicorns. Everypony always told me I'm special for being an Earth Pony. Then they thought I was too special because of my brain. Not my fault ponies don't see gift giving spiders and talking muffins like I do. So my parents sent me to an orphanage when I was a wee colt. Most ponies thought the same way my family did. But some found it entertaining. And now here I am. Treasure hunting in the Everfree Forest. How about you guys?"

Sandy's eyes lit up when they said that.

"That sounds so much like my first adventure! I met a pony who helped me find a lost temple for ancient pony gods! We found tons of treasure and I took a lot of pictures."

He took the pictures out of his bag. They were of stuff like old statues, carvings, the treasure and the like. Sandy thought for a moment at what Wild was saying.

"Not much for me to say. I'm only 8. I guess you could say that I live with my parents and have a lot of friends. Close as brothers we are, even if I don't have any."

He grinned. He really appreciated having those guys. Of course, if one betrayed Sandy he could get really mad but that aside he loved those colts.

"Wait! Wait, please!" A panicked voice of a mare called, before a white Pegasus came charging towards the group, wings flapping frantically. Her appearance was astonashing, to say the least, and the material encasing her right ear was perplexing, but over ally, she looked afraid and very, VERY flustered.