A/N: Thank you for the criticism, I will try to have them fixed and the next chapters better than ever.

   Man or Hysteria-made clearing that he doesn’t remember creating  

    I had been flying around for hours trying to get a lock on where my two weapons have gone. I flew over a clearing and I saw trees of varying color. Frowning to myself, I flew down to get a closer look (and wouldn’t you know it back in the clearing, he helped make the hell. Why do we keep coming back here if that’s what you’re thinking? Then shut up, it’s important).

“The heck happened here? Looks like we went and started fighting but that can’t be possible. All I did was turn a bear to stone, destroy that stone, misplace its head, then find it later after it nearly lands on Dash, then blow it up, then scream something about my face, get bucked in the ribs and pass out from pain. I then woke up later covered in gauze around my ribs, head, and wings and bleeding from several places (good times good times) and I think that is it, at least that’s all I can remember. Let’s think about what happened and see if I missed something,” Hysteria mumbles. The rock, which, get this, is not actually a rock, but a gray-coated pony with pink and black mane, and the top part is in a ponytail and her cutie mark is a scroll being written on by a quill, rolls out of the way and I fall on my ass.  

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” I exclaim as I proceed to rub the sore area.

“I could ask you the same thing you… whatever you are!” she yells right back at me. Her eyes go a little wide when she sees how tall I am. “Wows are you a hairless ape or something?”

“Wow you look like an emo. What an ape? No I am not. This body did evolve from apes, but I am not one myself. And you’re not listening anymore, are you?”

  “Nope. I stopped listening after wow, but I did hear you and yes I am an emo. Got a problem with that?”

“No problem,” I say, trying to stifle my laughter, but can’t. “Yes, no problem. It’s just kind of funny even in the land of Equestria there are emo ponies. Wow that is something that even I wasn’t expecting. Well whatever,” Hysteria said with a dismissive shrug.  

“Your making fun of me, aren’t you asshole?” said the emo pony with an angry glare at Hysteria.

“No, I was not making fun of you. And my name is Hysteria, not asshole,” said Hysteria with infuriating politeness and a smile that just screamed the words: u mad?

“Ok, two can play at that game. My name is Layla and I am a poet. This is where I have recently started coming to think. I was in the middle of one when you rudely tried to sit on me.”

“Oh ya, hehe sorry about that,” said Hysteria, slightly blushing. “You kind of looked like a rock from where I was standing. Shoot, I couldn’t even sense you.” Wait a second, I still can’t. The fuck is up with that? he thinks to himself.

      She sighs, “It’s fine you just kind of surprised me, that’s all.”

      Hysteria had stopped listening by then and was again worrying about Luxa and Terra, so he decided to interrupt her. “Yes, what you were saying was very interesting. I don’t care, I just need to ask you, have you seen a sword and a pair of gloves?” I ask.

She looked at Hysteria, annoyed at his sudden change of demeanor. “Yes, I have. They are right here,” she said as she pulled them from behind a rock some distance away.

I smiled in relief that they are safe, but as I reached for them, she pulled them back with a smug grin.

“Nonono, you can’t have them. I found them fair and square.” She then pretends to think about it, then smiles like a demon. “I know, what will you give me for them?” she says. Smiling and all around, enjoying the now angry expression on Hysteria’s face.

“Now you look here you bitch. You hand them over before I blast you into oblivion,” said Hysteria as he prepared a spell to blast the smug Pegasus into nothing.

Leyla just smiled even wider as the words came out of his mouth. “Go ahead and try. Use all the magic you can, I will still kick your ass anyway, so go ahead.”

     A little unnerved by her attitude, Hysteria hesitated for a second. “What does she have planned?” he thought to himself. No what!? Fuck it, let’s just do this! Hysteria shouted, “Let’s see if you’re so smug after a barrage of my magic!!!” He then aimed at the sky and swung down unleashing a wave of deadly energy. After the smoke cleared, there she stood, fine as ever with an even bigger smile.

“Is that all you got? That attack was just sad. Hahaha, wow, I have seen better magic from an Earth pony and if you didn’t know, they don’t have any!” she said with a laugh        

By this time, I was extremely angry. I kept telling myself to stay calm, but the rational part of my brain was getting kicked multiple times in the groin and was being ignored. “Well, I’m officially going to blow you up so much that… well there won’t be anything left will be an understatement.” I then start to make intricate patterns as I chant. I float a few inches off the ground and heat starts to radiate off of me and my glasses melt off my face revealing my eyes, which instead of my normal black and yellow eyes, they are black with a white flame on the inside. I pointed my hands at the bitchy Pegasus.

“All right, let’s do this! I am going to erase you.” As soon as I finish my talking a white-hot beam of magical energy erupts from my hands. It makes no sound, it just streaks toward the Pegasus and whatever it passed seemed to shift, then disappear, flicker back for a second, then disappear for the last time. I see it strike the Pegasus, but instead of destroying her, it seems to just spin around her before being sucked into her. “What the hell?!” I exclaim. No wonder I couldn’t sense her, she can fucking absorb magic. Well isn’t that a bitch. And I just wasted most of my energy on that last attack. Fuck, I am so screwed! If I fight her hand to hand,” he nervously says to himself.

Leyla feels juiced from all the power she had absorbed. “Now then, my turn. Wolf bait attack! Leyla yelled out to something behind Hysteria.

Hysteria then turns at the sound of rustling bushes, expecting the worst, and then out hops a jet-black bunny with red eyes that, after a second or two, hops over and starts punching and stomping on Hysteria’s ankles, shins, and feet, slightly annoying him even more. Hysteria just reaches down and snags the offending rabbit. He then contemplates wringing the thing’s neck, but is interrupted by a glow behind him. Turning to see what is happening, he sees Leyla glowing and what seems to be a blast of energy forming in her mouth. “Umm I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” he says, holding up the struggling bunny.

Leyla immediately stops glowing and her eyes go wide. “Wait! Don’t hurt him…” she pleads to Hysteria in a worried voice.

“First, give me back my sword and gloves and I will think about it.”

“Ok,” Leyla says, seemingly defeated. She then proceeds to toss the items over to him.

Hysteria easily catches them and then sets the bunny down and sits down trying to talk to them telepathically, turning his back to the Pegasus.

Leyla sees this and immediately fires off the stored energy in a huge gray blast.

Hysteria hears a whisper so soft that it would have made Fluttershy jealous to hear, from Terra. “Look out behind you!” she is able to get out before going back to sleep.

“What?” Hysteria says before he looks behind himself. His eyes go wide when he sees the blast coming toward him and says one word in his favorite language. Cazzo (fuck). The blast hits him, completely engulfing his body in a super-heated magic blast. He screams, he can feel his eyes boiling until the burst from the heats his skin, roasting his hair, bursting into flames. Afterward, he just collapses.

“Yes, got that bastard. He should be dead now,” Leyla says with pride. She looks to see what her handiwork had done. There is a large line of trees missing from her attack she looks until she sees a brown unicorn wearing green glasses making his way toward her eventually stopping when he was in speak distance. “Rahsaan? What are you doing here and how did you find me?” she asks him.

“I followed your scent. You know you have an odd scent, it’s like ink and sadness. Smells funny together. Ya as I was saying, I was coming here to ask you something until I smelled an unfamiliar scent like spices or something, and after that, this giant blast almost hits me. And then I saw you blast that ape thing, but more importantly, are you ok?” Rahsaan asks with concern.

“Yes, I’m fine. Just a little shrapnel got me. I will get Fluttershy to patch me up later so don’t worry about me.”

“Damn, being burned within an inch of your life hurts,” says Hysteria, freaking out the two ponies.

“H-how are you still alive?! I burnt you to a crisp!” says Leyla, seriously freaked out.

“Oh me? I am nearly dead. I just need to say something before I die.” He seems to look right at Leyla, despite not having eyes and he seems to be smiling. “I will be back. That is a promise and one thing I keep are my promises.” He then falls over and his body starts to dissipate.