After the whole incident with Drake, the princesses, Emerald, Sapphire, and myself, as well as a bunch of castle staff, got together to fix the library. When we finished, it was night time, the time for most of us to go to bed.

I woke up the next day just like any other day. It was pretty normal, minus the fact that I had a sleeping princess next to me.... Well, two.... Actually, two and a couple of changelings.... Did I forget to mention how lucky I am?

Anyways, the day was like any other. I woke up, got out of bed, got dressed, then unceremoniously woke up the others in the bed by opening the blinds and taking their sheets away. I mean, it wasn't the nicest way to wake up, but hey, they all had jobs to do. Let me tell you, the changeling sisters were not happy with it.

Well, afterwards we all went to go get some breakfast. On our way there, however, I felt something strange. I told the others to go on without me and started to investigate the strange feeling. Let me tell you, it was weird. It was as if someone was telling me, no, screaming at me to move, to get moving, to go and explore. I don't even know where it came from. All I did know was that something was telling me to get moving.

The only thing keeping me from following that voice was another, much stronger one. That voice was my stomach screaming out angrily for food. So, as per usual, I went off to the dining hall, hastled the cooks for a bit, made my own food, as well as everyone else's breakfasts, then ate.

The only change to the entire pattern was that I decided to bring up my experience with those in the room.

"What do you mean, 'an urge to explore'?" questioned Luna.

"I mean I had an urge to go off and explore," I said. "It's like something inside of me is telling me to go off and investigate things, to search the world. I just feel like I don't know enough about the world I'm living in right now. I need to explore it."

"Well, I'm sure Luna could help arrange something so we could go off on a vacation of sorts," Celestia said. "I'm not sure how Luna could come with, but I'm pretty sure we could pass me off as being supervised by you, Dox."

"Ooooh!" Emerald squeed. "I love going off to new places! It'd be so much fun! Please, can we go?!"

"Wow, Emerald," Sapphire said. "I haven't seen you act like this since Dox got us to leave the hive to go to Canterlot."

"Well, it's fun seeing new places!" Emerald responded. "Last time I got like this was because I didn't go in disguise, but this time I get to go to a brand new place, entirely!"

"Ya know, that does sound fun," Sapphire said. "Yeah, let's go on a vacation."

"Actually, I think it'd be safer if you all stayed here," I said, getting a disappointed response from everyone in the room. "I know, and I'm sorry. But all of you are too close for me to risk it right now. It really doesn't help that the feeling that I'm getting is telling me that what I'll find won't be good. I just don't want to risk it, especially with me having shagged all of you, and me being compatible with all of-"

"You're what?!" came the interruption from the four mares, as well as a few castle staff that could hear me.

"Yeah...." I said. "I'm able to mate, and have children, with all of you....."

"DAMN IT DOX!" screamed Sapphire.

"Yay!" squeed Emerald.

Celestia blushed a bit.

Luna looked as though she was now thinking over all meaning of life.

"Welp, I guess I'd better be going and-" was all I managed to get out before Sapphire's fist collided with my face.

"Damn it, Dox," she said. "Why didn't you tell us that? I was starting to get worried when my sister was getting fatter."

"Hey!" came Emerald's slightly peeved voice.

"I'm sorry," I said. "I should have told you. If you'd-"

"And if you finish that statement, we'll all kill you," said Luna. "I don't care what you have to say about that. I know what you were about to suggest, and if you do it again, you will be missing BOTH arms, and a leg, all before I'm done with you. No, you'll be missing MUCH more than that."

"Alright, sorry," I said. "Listen, if you could double the guard while I'm gone, it'd help me feel less concerned about you. Alright?"

"It's been done," Luna said. "Now, please, go off on your adventure. Just remember to come home sooner rather than later."

"Right," I said, getting up and heading to the door that led to a balcony. "I'll be back when I'm done with the adventure. Bye!" With that, I turned my outfit into a wingsuit again and jumped off the balcony.

"I worry about his sanity, sometimes," Celestia said.

"We all do, sister," said Luna. "We all do."

As I fell, I started to think about things.

What was calling me? Why was it calling me? Why now, of all times, was it calling me? Where was the voice coming from?

Well, that last question was easy to answer. The voice seemed to be coming from Ponyville, specifically Twilight’s giant ass castle.

Why would it be calling me? Oh well, I guess I’d have to find out when I got there.

Well, what do ya know. It’s a map. When I walked in, I found Spike and Big Mac trading what looked like baseball cards, called it hoofball.

Anyways, I found my way further and further into the castle, that was, until I found the room with six thrones in it. It was there that whatever was calling me…. stopped.

Then, I found what looked like my token start to hover over the map. After a quick bit of investigation, I noticed that it wasn’t just floating over the map, but so was Twilight’s, Fluttershy’s, Rarity’s, Pinkie Pie’s, Applejack’s, and Rainbow Dash’s.

Their cutie marks were floating over a different town, however, while mine was floating over Twilight’s Castle.

Wait, where’s my token going? I tried to grab it, but it just went through my hand. What is this map trying to say?

It stopped moving….. Wait a second. It’s hovering over the frozen north, specifically a frozen mountain…… Now why does that sound familiar?

About a minute after the hologram-like token stopped over the mountain, a sword spouted from the map. Curious about it, I grabbed it and gave it a few practice swings. Then I started hearing things.

“Save him….” said a voice. The voice seemed to come from the sword itself.

“What the hell?!” I screamed.

“Please…. save him….” said the voice. It was definitely coming from the sword. It even seemed to glow when it talked. It was weird.

“Save who?” I asked the sword.

“My owner,” the sword said. “Yngve, the Nord of the North.”

“Wait, Yngve?!” I asked, surprised. “That was a character of mine, he was the most overpowered of all of them.”

“Yes, I know,” the sword said. “We only recently showed up. We were also informed about this world when we were brought in. At least, I was informed. Yngve was extremely incompetent and just charged in. Then he ran into a dragon and got eaten. He’s still alive, I can tell, but he won’t be for long. Please, I need you to save him.”

“Fine, fine,” I said. “But you owe me, alright?”

“Very well,” the sword said. “For now, you can use me to help you, alright?”

“Alright,” I said. “Now, you’re gonna have to guide me once we get to the Crystal Empire, but otherwise, let’s go.”

It took a while to get to the Crystal Empire. Hell, the train took twelve hours, and even then, I had to walk the rest of the way only because I didn’t take a crystal train.

When I got there, the crystal ponies swarmed me. They were all saying thank you, and I couldn’t understand it. Well, not until I got to the castle. I couldn’t even go on my journey to help Yngve, all because I got herded by crystal ponies! Anyways, I found out why the ponies kept saying thank you. Standing at the castle was Shining Armor and Cadence, but something was different. Shining wasn’t made of stone, anymore. No, instead he was made of a fine crystal. No wonder they were thanking me! I inadvertently turned their prince into one of them! Hell, the second he saw me, he even started thanking me, told me something about being immortal now, connected to some kind of consciousness. I didn’t really pay attention to it, though. I had to say goodbye and run off on my quest.

So, that’s where I am now. At the destination of my quest about five hours later. It was obvious that this was a dragon’s lair, but what dragon? Who was this dragon? Why did they eat Yngve?

Well, whatever the answer, it can wait for tomorrow. Right now, I’m camped out at the foot of the mountain that the dragon’s lair is connected to. Why? For some reason, I just don’t feel safe near the entrance. I’m honestly really apprehensive about entering the lair. Tomorrow I’m gonna need help. Like I said, I’m apprehensive about it, if not just scared. I don’t want to go in there alone. I know there’s the sword, but I’m gonna need more help than that. So, here’s to tomorrow. Hopefully it’ll give me the answers I’m after.

Author's Notes:

So yeah, just had to get a chapter out.
I brought some a couple of characters that I've had in my arsenal for a while now, and now you all get to see them. Or.... one of them. Yes, the sword's a character. The other one is Yngve, the Nord of the North. So, here's to the new chapter and all it contains.
It was all inspired by listening to this song.....

Anyways, this is-
No, that's getting old.

Music Mod, out. Peace be to you.

.... There we go, got my inner nerd out.