Author's notes: Writing for Zecora is so annoying.

Chapter 2: New Home

I blink, "I am Daniel, it is nice to meet you Zecora." Did I land in some world populated by magical zebras?

"Um, can you tell me where I am?" I asked Zecora.

"You are in the Everfree Forest, it is where so much unnatural things flourish," stated Zecora. She tilts her head, "But I have been here for many seasons, I have never seen you kind for any reason."

Does she rhyme everything? And she called me odd. And 'Everfree Forest', I have never heard of this place before. Am I even on Earth anymore?

"Um, I am not from around here, I am a human, and I-"I started to say, but was cut off when Zecora slammed the door in my face.

"Stay away from here beast, I have no desire to be deceased!" Zecora yelled from within her hut.

Beast? What brought this on? I think this zebra has some mental issues, might explain why it lives in the middle of a forest. I decided not to take any chances with this possible insane zebra and continued to travel further into the forest.

"Where is the end to this forest!?" I yelled in tired exasperation. This forest just doesn't seem to end. Ever. I have been walking thought this forest for hours now; you would think that an end would be found by now.

After a few more minutes of trudging I end up in a clearing, and low and behold, I was back at the castle. That's it, this forest is evil, and doesn't want me to leave. Or maybe I just walked in a big circle, who knows.

"Well the sun is setting, guess I'm going to have to go back to the-", looks at the bridge "-Never mind, looks like I'm going to be out here for a while." Looks around, and sees nothing to use as any form of shelter. "Great now I am going to have to something else." What to do, what to do. Guess I'm sleeping in the trees then.

I go up to one of the trees and attempt to climb. As I begin to climb, crack, the branch breaks. "Ouf" I land hard on my back, knocking the wind out of me. "Screw the positive outlook, this place is terrible," I then throw the branch into the forest. The branch lands in the bush, and hit something, and it wasn't happy by the sound of its growl.

Some sort of wood construct came out of bush, with the branch in its mouth. Is that thing a wolf? Oh hell. "Easy boy, I didn't mean to hit you," I hold up my hands to try to calm it down. The wolf thing continued to get closer. And then it did something I didn't expect it to do. It set down the sit, and nudged it towards me.

"…" Did this thing want to play fetch? I honestly did not expect to be living within the next minute. So I picked up the branch, and noticed a sticky residue on the branch. Does this thing drool sap? "Um, fetch?" And I threw the branch again, and the wood wolf went to go pick it up, and brought it back again. "Good wolf?"

So it seems that I get along well with this thing, whatever it is. Well looks like I have a friend now. But I still need to find somewhere I can rest. Well since I could talk to a zebra, maybe this guy (?) can help me. "Um do you know a place I can rest?" The wolf gives a bark. So I am going to take it that this guy does understand me. And next thing I know the wolf starts to move near the edge of the clearing, and stops to wait for me. "Oh sorry, I'm coming".

I follow the wolf into forest, deeper and deeper into it. I hope that this isn't some kind of trap, and he is the big bad wolf. I continue to follow it till it led me to a cave. We this is better than nothing. "Thank you wolf" I said to the wooden wolf. It gave me a quick bark, and left on its way.

"Well than, guess I have someplace to call home while I'm here" I said as I walked into the cave. As I walked further into the cave I noticed that there was quite a bit of room in here. I would have plenty of space to move around. There was even another chamber near the end of the cave to a small space. Well this is better than nothing.

It is getting rather late, so I might as well sleep. One patch of dirt is just as good as the other, I guess. I lay down on the ground a just drift to sleep.