But what the hell

I sat there waiting for her to notice me for what felt like hours when she stopped looking and started walking away. After a few seconds I decided to follow her to make sure she got home safely. As I followed the zebra silently I looked at the surrounding forest and I noticed something, The forest had a foreboding and unforgiving feeling but also seemed welcoming and accepting at the same time. How odd I feel like I just came home after a long vacation that sucked. Why is that? After half an hour we arrived at a cottage inside the forest with some interesting designs and some strange smells coming from within.Hm I guess she uses the African style of design, wait of course she does she is a zebra! God I am an idiot. Once she had gone inside I started walking away when I started to feel weak and my legs collapsed. Shit the invisibility was draining my energy. I put my hands forward and was unconscious before I hit the ground.

I smelled cooking meat and heard fire when I woke up. OK possibilities go, I AM HUNGRY. I tried to sit up but soon fell back over from dizziness.OK never mind I guess I will just see what time of day it is. I opened my eyes and saw that it was getting close to sunset. I looked to my right and saw these two strange looking logs just outside of the trees. When I looked to my left I saw the same fox from earlier cooking what looked like some kind of bird on a stick. My stomach gurgled and she turned around.

"Hey you are awake that's good." She said unnaturally cheerfully and then raised her paw stopping me from speaking."Before you ask, One you used to much energy in that spell of yours and two I am not the one who carried your sorry ass over here they are." She said pointing behind me. I looked back to my right and saw that those strange logs were actually some kind of wooden wolves.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE THOSE?" I shouted while jumping up and then back to my knees as the vertigo kicked in.

"We are called Timber-wolves by the ponies but you may call us whatever you wish my liege." Its voice resounded in my head similar to how the manticore spoke to me.

"So you are wolves made out of wood?" I asked standing back up once my head stopped spinning.

"Yes we are and we are also your ever faithful servants."

"OK two questions. One how am I able to understand you? Two what do you mean my servant?" I asked scratching my head. OK this day is really weird and yet I feel strangely calm.

"I think I can better answer those questions my lord" Shit her too? "You see the Ursas have always had a connection with the forest and its animal so they can therefore speak to them kinetically if the animal can't speak its own words. You are also an Ursus Solaris which are the strongest and most noble creature in all of Equestria and the surrounding territories. even stronger than the Alicorns." She seemed sad when saying this. " But you are the last of an ancient and powerful race which means all creatures that recognize you will either challenge you or become your servants." So I am a legendary and ancient bear that is all but extinct and I technically have an entire world under my leadership. Good thing I am not greedy or things might have gotten bad and I would end up dead, Maybe that is why greed is a sin.

"So what you are telling me is that I am a powerful bear that is by your definition the ruler of most of this world but I am also the only one?"

"Yes."

"Well I have now heard the most odd thing ever, Yet I some how believe you."

"Good now do you want some of this cockatrice meat or are you not hungry anymore?" she asked chuckling when my stomach growled. "I will take that as a yes." She went back to the fire as I turned to the Timber-wolves.

"So how did you two find me in the first place?"

"We were with our pack and had decided to attack these dogs and a wolf when everything went wrong and our alpha died so we retreated, as we were returning to the den we smelled you so we went to you and brought you to the fox over there and she explained the situation. Once she told us what you were we decided to serve you as best we could my liege." The voice was that of the other wolf this time and it sounded more feminine and didn't resound as much.I guess female voices don't resound as much. Good now I can tell the difference.

"OK if you are guys are going to be my servants as you put it could you please stop calling me your liege?"

"Then what should we call you?"

"You could call me Ivan."

"So you want us to call you Ivan instead of anything that sounds remotely like you are a king?" asked the fox coming back with a chunk of cockatrice meat.

"Yes please." I said taking the meat from her. "Wait I don't know your names. Could you please tell me them?" I asked be fore taking a bite.

"My name is Alice of The Free Foxes."

"I am known as Brisk-Claw."

"I don't have a name" The female instantly slouched and sounded extremely sad.

"Why don't you have a name?" I asked walking over to look into her eyes. Her eyes were the colour of hardened amber, She smelled of ground pine needles and liquid sap.Why do I get the feeling she is just a child or teenager?"

"She has not earned her name yet and is there fore merely referred to as youngling." Brisk said with slight disdain in his voice.Pompous ass.

"Well then I guess I shall name you then. How does that sound?" She perked up and her tail started wagging happily.

"That sound wonderful my lie- um Ivan." She said cheerfully.

"Good now then I shall call you Skadi." I touched my palm to her forehead when I said this. When my palm touched her head and there was a flash of light and my arm turned black for a time then turned to a normal white. Where my hand had touched her a small snowflake was now etched into her skin (or would you call it bark?) and her eyes had a flicker of ice white in them.That is cool but how did I do that?

"I feel weird." Skadi informed us before sneezing out some snowflakes.

"Holy shit!" I said jumping away from the blast of cold. "How did you do that?"

"I have absolutely no idea." She sounded pretty scared then again I was scared.

"I have a theory Ivan" Alice said stepping from behind me. When the fuck did she get there? "I believe that when you named Skadi you picked something that meant winter or snow and your touch gave her some power with that name."

"How the hell are you so smart?"

"Just logical not smart." She is so full of shit.

"You have done a terrible thing Ivan." Growled Brisk-Claw. He slowly started slinking towards me his hackles rising and his claws digging into the ground. "A name is a sacred thing among the Timber-wolves and you have broken our sacred laws by doing this." I looked into his eyes and saw he was going to give it his all to kill me.

"If you are going to attack me do it don't just talk." I said taking a defensive stance, THIS FUCKER IS GONNA DIE! He calls me his king pledges his allegiance and then attacks me because I broke a tradition I didn't know about? He is DEAD! He snarled and charged at me with his hackles up and his teeth bared, I responded with a roar and a swing of my arm. My arm connected with his chest just and flung him out of site into the tree line.

"You pledge your allegiance and then attack over a minor misunderstanding! I will not accept traitors into my group. Now die!" I shouted before barreling after him in order to finish him off. I figured I would find his easily but the moment I left the clearing the canopy of the forest cancelled out any light  what so ever, so I was practically fighting in the dark. Great now there is no turning back.

"You are about to find out why I am called Brisk-Claw and when I am finished here I am going to eat that fox follower of yours." This pissed me off as Alice had done nothing wrong so I stopped searching and stood still waiting for his first move. I heard a rustle of leaves and turned just in time to smash downwards with both of my arms and put his head and upper torso three feet into the ground. I walked closer and picked him up by his tail, when his head left the dirt he lunged forwards and bit deeply into my thigh causing me to roar out in pain.

"DIE SHITHEAD!" I shouted as I repeatedly punched him in the head and neck forcing him to release me but ripping the wound more in the process. Slowly as a focused on causing intense harm to him before he died my hands heated up until the were on fire. I dropped him and dung my claws deep into his skull and chest lighting him on fire and killing him in on final stroke. As the flames got higher I felt a surge through my body similar to when I killed the manticore but some how different instead of getting the urge to hide I just felt power surge within me. My thigh started itching like crazy and when I looked down to scratch it I saw my wound closing up and the itching was my flesh knitting together.

"What the Fuck?" I shouted running back to the fire. When I got there I grabbed Alice and pointed at my my still healing leg. "HOW?"

"Hm I guess the energy you took from his life force manifested into accelerated healing but I don't think it would regrow a missing limb." She remarked calmly which irritated me.

"So what your saying is when I kill something I get power from their life force?" What am I a Dovakiin?

"I think only on certain fights or creatures you haven't fought before." She said poking my new scar which was also disappearing. "I don't think you will get anything from another Timber-wolf. Oh have you noticed your biceps by the way they have kinda changed." What does she mean they chang...

"Holy shit! Those are new." On my biceps were these weird wavy lines that wrapped all the way around my arm. They were the same colour as my pentacles but didn't seem to radiate power like them. As I wondered when they got there I felt a little weak for a second and a light flashed on my wrists. When I felt better I looked at my wrists and saw a band of teeth tattooed into my writs with the teeth pointing to my hand on the right and to my upper arm on the left.

"Those look interesting. Maybe when you get the power you get a mark on your body relating to the kill  or the power." Remarked Skadi as she sniffed my wrists and unmarked leg where the wound was.

"Hey you might be right there Wolfy." Alice chuckled when Skadi glared at her. Great not only do I get new tattoos when I kill but I have to keep Skadi from killing Alice. Why did I wake up this morning? Next Chapter: The Guardian pt.1 Estimated time remaining: 34 Minutes