Dear diary,

Today was a disaster from the start. I woke up and found out that Spike had caught a flu, again. I hate him sometimes... Most times. But he's a baby dragon and I still need to take care of him. The only reason that I had Spike was if I didn't keep him, Princess Celestia would be disappointed. Why can't she keep her pets?

I went out to get some supplies for Spike to help him recover, apparently a special flower that grows in the everfree forest can help him recover quickly. So I went off as fast as I could to go get the plant. On my way there, I bumped into Fluttershy after the Cutie Mark Crusaders ran passed me and made me very dizzy. She told me that she was taking care of them tonight. Strange that she is very quite and is still volunteering to take after three, out of control fillies. After Fluttershy left, I continued my trip to the everfree forest.

I was deep in the forest and almost at Zecora's house, when just then, I saw something, a head of a chicken. I was curious and decided to take a closer look. After that... Nothing... I didn't know what happened. That creature turned me into stone. Let me tell you about what's bad about being put in a cage made from stone, it's made out of stone, it fits the shape of your body perfectly. In a stone cage, obviously, it's cold, you can't move, and I was conscious for all the time I was stone. It was hell. As I was conscious and I was freezing and I couldn't move at all, not even blink because the stone around me fit that well. I stood there, couldn't make a sound, watching the creature that did it walk away and I couldn't do anything but watch the hours go by.

Later on, or what I thought was later on, I don't know, I don't have a good sense of time when I'm stone, it was night, that's all I knew, there was a light and after it, I could move again. Also, I saw Fluttershy with the three fillies in the distance. I went over and asked if they knew what happened to me. Fluttershy exained it very well. That a creature with the head of a chicken and the body of a snake turned me to stone, while she was telling me, I was writing my friendship report to Princess Celestia. Basically, I got stoned in the woods because of some weird creature. I asked how she saved me from the stone cage, she replied that it was because she used something called the stare on it. I didn't understand how it worked, but I knew I would one day. But not I know why Fluttershy can control all of her animals, because she uses the stare as a kind of animal abuse when they don't do what they told. Hmm. Not something you would expect a pony like her to do.