and then, Fly left and was never seen again... I closed the book I was reading, Pre-equestrian myths and tales. Just as I expected, several stories were missing, including the myths of Zauberer, Morte, Wojna and mine.

This was going to make things a lot harder, but I already suspected so, seeing as nobody but the old guy was able to see me, and the old guy not really see either.

It was then that I heard a noise. If I had to make a guess, I would say it was originating from the castle of the 2 sisters, but I didn't really care back then. I looked out of the window, I looked at the forest surrounding Everfree-castle.

The castle was called Everfree because it was supposed to be free forever, not bound by any shackles, and the forest was slowly getting smaller and smaller, being consumed by the city like a host gets consumed by some parasites.

I thought about my past, all the years I have been in the ice-shard, and what I can remember from this time, ignoring the sounds of magic in the background, ignoring that I slowly freezed the book into a solid ice-block.

I remembered one of the many times I tried to be the goalkeeper while we trained football-penalties, it was 1 of the times we were training in the garden of my old house.

"So, are you ready?" Phillip, an old friend of me and my brother, asked, going back a few steps so he could gather speed before kicking the ball.

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be" I told him, trying to predict where he will shoot the ball to get a goal, to the left or to the right, high or down?

Phillip started to run, stopped on one foot to get his momentum into the other, causing him to kick the ball very hard...

I was too slow to react to even attempt to move or block the ball, causing the ball that was aimed straight to my head to land in my face. I was caught unprepared, and because I was a whiny pussy, I fell down and tried to hold back the tears of pain, but I didn't succeed.

"Hey, are you okay?" my brother asked me. Philipp ran the short distance to me, wanting to make sure it was nothing really bad. He, too ,asked: "Hey are you okay? Look, I didn't want to hit you in the face. I was actually aiming for your nuts... wait, I am not making this any better, am I?"

'But that same statement, that he was aiming for something much worse, made me laugh. I remembered.

It was then, that I heard a loud crash happening, destroying the building next to the library and leaving behind only a crater.

How I knew that? That same building once was the only thing next to the forest you could see from the library, now there is only the forest.

I looked to what once was a book, and decided that I should better bring the ice-block back where it came from, lest someone could get suspicious.

After that I should get back to the old man, after all I owe him my freedom, kind of.

"Oww, my head" I said, before looking around. I seemed to be in a rather normal oak-forest, next to a town seemingly using fireworks, seeing as how the sky seemed to explode now and then.

Seeing as I had nothing better to do, I decided to go to the town., it seemed rather... middle-aged, not the pre-historian buildings I had to endure for so long.

I thought about how I got here, just to see I had no memories about it. Dafuq?, I thought, it's definitely not because of alcohol, I never drank alcohol. The last thing I remember is going to sleep in that cave... it was somewhere around a chain of especially high-reaching mountains, I think.

Seeing as how I reached the outskirts of the town, I turned to the next building. It seemed like the house of some rich snob, seeing as how it has the over-reaching 2nd floor and takes more space inside it than normal houses from the middleage.

Politely as I was, I went to the door and knocked at the door.

I don't know what I expected, probably something like 1 of those rabbit-like things I met in the equivalent of the stone-age in this universe opening the door, maybe even a ghost, but what I never would have thought to happen happened:

The damn house exploded right in front of me.

Realising that they did NOT used fireworks, but rather seemed to have a battle between 2 sorcerors, I decided to go to the next village instead.

It's not like I had to eat anything anyways.

"Hey, old guy" I said "I'm back."

"Ah, and here I was, thinking you had left me already." the old stallion said, moving his head into the direction of Jack Frost's voice while having his eyes closed, like the last time I spoke with him.

I laughed, before I realised he wasn't joking.

"What? You seriously thought I would leave you forever right after you get me out of the damned ice-shard?" I asked him, not believing what he said.

He sighed, before telling me: "Nobody cares for a blind, old stallion. They all just come, take a look, say: 'Oh my, you poor dear' and leave. You didn't introduce yourself either."

"I didn't? Well then, my name's Jack Frost. I am an ancient spirit of ice." I said "and actually, I want to do something useful. Do you know something I could do? Oh, look, now they end the spellwork with a giant rainbow! That's rather cool." I said, excited about the rainbow.

He really did think about something I could do, before saying: "Well, since they did a spellwork they probably have to clean up some things tomorrow. You could try to help some of the guards."

I smirked, before thinking about it and realising that I really could try that. "Thanks, I'll try that. I'll see you later,k?" I said, before running off, knowing I'd have to wake up early and near the castle to follow some guards on their duty.

Unknown to me, the 'blind' old stallion opened his eyes, revealing that they are normal and looked at where I went off to.

"Now that's done. On to the next task." he muttered to himself. Next Chapter: As Winter brings the Ice... Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 21 Minutes