One place left out of the tour

"I only recently moved in. rumor i've heard was mainly listening to otherponies and reading ghost stories." He noted with a smile, looking for a nice place within Fireseeker's view to sit.

"And you, Fireseeker? do you live there?" he asked, tilting his head wonderingly, before sitting down on a spot which wasn't as comfy as he was used too, but made for a nice place from Fireseeker's position to hold conversation.

"Same as you," replied Fireseeker, "Only just moved here. Travelled all over Equestria for a few years but now I've settled down here, at least for a while. Got so much life to live and I don't want to spend it all here, ya know what I me-"

Fireseeker cut his sentence short when he heard some kinda of animal scuttling through the undergrowth nearby. He listened intently and scanned the bushes but the creature must have moved on as silence was all he heard.

"Creepy, eh?"

He listened to the story, but as Fireseeker was cut off, he also looked in the direction of the bushes... Fireseeker had noted that it was creepy, but Ave was unsure what to think about it.

"all.. kinds of adventure, huh?" Ave said absent-minded, his focus obviously on the noises around, wanting to keep the extra caution up.

"as a writer... you probably have books about them, don't you? that would be impressive. you don't see many writers who get their adventures done themselves." Ave smiled, his focus back on Fireseeker, as he ignored and talked through any noise he heard, hoping that Fireseeker would hear him regardless of the noises.

Fireseeker kept his gaze on the bushes for a while longer. You could never be too certain. With the possible threat gone, he turned his attention back to Ave.

"Oh, yeah. I write about my adventures, or at least base most of my work off of them," he explained. "I actually have a job for the 'Pony Pulp Fiction' magazines, if you've ever heard of it."

He shook his head slowly.
"i don't know much about books and magazines. i preferred books of the studying kind back in Manehattan." He smiled a little, thinking of his older life, but after that he blinked and looked back at Fireseeker.

"It's good that you have a job though. do many a pony like your stories you write?"

Fireseeker nodded, feeling slightly self-conscious, as if he might blush.

"Not to toot my own horn, but they're probably the most popular stories in the magazine."

Then Fireseeker swept his mane's forelock into a more respectful manner, raised his chin and put on a posh voice.

"But enough about the writing of common ponies. You say your from good old Manehatten?"

"yeah. i'm a midclass pony from there. i don't really have a tale to tell about it though." Ave smiled, shutting his eyes, and thinking if he had anything worth mention to say to someone who traveled all of equestria and writes a well known article in a magazine.

"nope.. not much. i was just a good student. starting a new chapter over here in ponyville."
He said, half to himself, half to fireseeker, thinking about his words.

He suddenly moved his head elsewhere, looking at a bush.
"that was a close ruffle.. be careful. maybe we should get more in the middle of the clearing, so we can steer clear of the bush..."

Fireseeker shrugged.

"I'm sure it's fine. What's the worst that could happen? You said it yourself; this place seems harmless. Albeit a little creepy but harmless."

To prove his point, Fireseeker trotted over to the bush and ruffled it with a hoof.

"See? Nothing to worry-"

Once again, his sentence was cut short by the Everfree's wildlife. But this time, an animal popped out from the top of the bush. In shock, Fireseeker back-pedalled and collapsed onto his back.

Looking up he saw that what had scared him, and the head that was currently poking out of the bush was...

"A chicken?"

Ave observed as Fireseeker did so, and as he sat down and looked at the chicken, ave saw something, and quickly dashed infront of fireseeker, blocking his sight of the chicken...
"t-that worked?... o-oh, maybe you should look at your hind hooves.."
Ave noted, a little worried about what was happening.

"i think we've ran into a myth. Chicken, turns you into stone when looking at. do you know it?"
Ave told, sitting, still obstructing his view of the chicken head while looking at Fireseeker.
He let out a relieved sigh, seeing that obstructing his view had indeed stopped Fireseeker from turning into stone more, his own hooves also having changed into stone a little.

Fireseeker's eyes widened at Ave's description as he looked down at himself. Just like Ave had warned, the tips of his hind hooves had turned to stone.

"Sweet Celestia," he muttered under his breath, turning his head to make sure he wasn't looking at the chicken thing. "Ok, lets not panic."

Fireseeker nervously took several deep breaths, attempting to calm himself down and give him time to think.

"What should we do then? Run?"

"um.. well.."
Ave started to get nervous, not being able to think of anything.
"i think running is going to be difficult. and how are we going to find a way back without you flying?"

He nervously shook his head and put his mind too it, but he couldn't think of anything that would help them.
"We could yell out at first and then see if we can go back, we haven't been out her so long, right?"
He hoped that they could walk the distance back without too much issue.
"you know... this really is demotivating for looking for a castle. we should enter more prepared." That is, if they had planned to return sometime.

Fireseeker saw the sense in what Ave said, looking back down at his hooves.

"Yeah, I don't think running or flying with stone legs is a good idea..." he said, trailing off. He let out a heavy sigh. "Guess I underestimated the Everfree forest, eh?"

Fireseeker looked around the clearing, being carefully not to look at the chicken creature nearby.
"So, call for help?

Ave nodded and started gathering his breath and preparing, he then knocked his hoof against the ground softly, in an exact rythm, at about 1 second per knock.
At the 4th knock he plunged his head into the sky and made a call as loud as he could, hoping it'd somehow reach somepony so they could help the two.

Fireseeker observed Ave perform this call for a short while. Knowing himself, Fireseeker would probably have just started wailing for help at the top of his voice. He was glad Ave was here and seemed to know what he was doing.

When he got the pattern down, Fireseeker joined him, knocking the ground with his hoof and calling out on the fourth beat.

Brawny hears the ponies yelling for help, but even though this must be an emergency, he takes his sweet time getting there, since he's not very concerned. He approaches the ponies calling for help. "Why are you ponies screaming?'

gemini looks down from a cloud he was on, looking for the source of the noise waking him from his nap. he couldn't get any sleep last night, so he was very cranky as opposed to his usual nice attitude. that was the reason he was above the everfree, after all. everywhere else was too noisy today. with a big stretch of his wings, he decided to glide down to the clearing to stop the noise so he can get back to sleep." why the noise? can't a stallion get a decent sleep here either?" geminis eyes widen a bit when he sees their hooves turned to stone." what...what happened?"

"O-oh Thank Celestia! we kinda had a run in with a creature of myth. and we're now.. in a bit of trouble... And i'm so very sorry for waking you from your nap, Sir Pegasus" Ave replied slightly nervously, but relieved and out of breath.

He took a moment to catch his breath from the calling out for help.

((order is now Fireseeker --> Brawny --> Gem --> Ave, just for clarity.))

"Gemini! Brawny!" Fireseeker called out as he recognised them both. "Thank Celestia, we need help."

He gestured towards the general direction of the evil chicken thingy but made sure not to look.

"Don't look towards those bushes. There's a creature that turned you to stone if you look at it," he warned.

Brawny thinks this is one huge joke. "An evil chicken? Are you kidding?!" Brawny just bursts out laughing at how ridiculous that sounds. "In the bushes? I'm gonna have a staring contest with it"

gemini starts to tap his hoof to his chin in thought." you mean...an evil chicken...that turns you into stone....is...is the bottom half a snake or something? because if so, it's a cockatrice. and...i highly advice not doing that brawny. unless you want to be an oversized paper weight. then you can go be my guest. either way, these two need to get out of here, and one of them can fly while i carry the other, i guess....." he starts to think of other ways to help them out of the everfree if that fails.

Ave sighs, feeling like a burden, unable to use magic or flight, and having these heavy stone hooves won't help.

"Hmm.. i'm not sure... what would be the best way through this..." Ave could not come with any ideas. then again, he was still too bothered too think straight.

He tried lifting his hooves and walking, but the stoned hooves were very limiting, making him manage a few steps, but at a very slow tempo, and it costs more strength then average walking.

"you could either escort us out at a slow slow pace, get some help which might mean more or find a way too help us move so we can get out of here.." he gave it some more thought, weighing out the options that were given.

"Brawny, seriously, stay away from that cockatrice thing," Fireseeker warned him.

Annoyed at his own lack of manoeuvrability, Fireseeker flapped his wings a little but feeling the heavy weight of his stone hooves pushed any thoughts of flying out of his head.

"I doubt I can fly like this. I'm too heavy," he said, regretfully. "Maybe you guys could carry us? One on each of yours backs?"

Brawny has a new thought in his head "where's the cocka-whatever? I have a surprise for him" Brawny sticks his flank into the bush laughing. 3 seconds later he has stone cheeks

"real smart brawny. i'm not carrying you out too." gemini rolls his eyes, still slightly annoyed at being awoken from his nap." so, i can help carry one of you, and i hope brawny here isn't too tired to carry the other."

"i can wait. i'm not the type to get myself in trouble." Ave remarked, glad that he didn't make things worse.

"Perhaps you can help one of us out, and then look for both a cure and for some help of the unicorn kind. is there some kind of emergency help service in ponyville?" Ave was thinking. he read that nearly every country or town had an emergency help service which would help incase something went wrong, like how you could get guards in Canterlot to help you. but he wasn't sure he saw anything even slightly similar in ponyville.

(so, incase we don't want to add more ponies, you could just get the emergency help thingamabob and have those bust us out, thusly pretty much setting the end for the RP up. you can do other things though. remember, be creative and think up your own twists and possibilities if you want & can!)