I took a few deep breaths after realizing what I had just down. "Well looks like my cover has temporarily been blown but at least I have some time to escape." I thought. My serious side was returning after the hyper-activeness blew over. A feeling of regret come over and I questioned whether or not I should continue. "This might screw me over later on but for now I need to just keep walking.

As a punishment for my stupidity, I decided that I would continue walking for the rest of the day. No stops, no breaks, just endless walking until I could walk no further or if I was attacked else how incapacitated. I walked along side the river, plotting any and ever possible move I could use in cause I was tracked down. I kinda sucked being back in my serious tired state but I needed to focus.

After what seemed like an eternity of walking the sun finally started to set. I took my last few steps and dropped down on the ground. My legs felt like they were about to explode and my feet were extremely dirty. With some effort I was able to drag myself over to the rivers edge and dip my feet in. The cold water felt great on my sore legs and I clean off my feet as best as I could. "I took a look around to see if I could find a well hidden area that I could use as a sleeping area.

To my dismay, there was not a single stop on the ground to lay in or on, however, the massive trees around me held some good places. The challenge was getting to them. Climbing was never an issue for me and I required almost no leg power but I had a fear for heights and these tree's were huge. They were almost twice the size of Twilight's tree house and were covered with massive branches.

"Well, time for monkey mode." I said as I stumbled over to one of the tree's. Lacking the ability to jump made it hard to get into the tree but once I was in the rest was easy. Something people fail to realize when climbing is that you should not stop until you have reached you destination and try to use you legs as little as possible. That way you can reach maximum distance without getting tired. I have used this knowledge many times to out climb my friends and even my gym teacher, who was a far better sportsman than I am.

I reached a distant point in the tree and sat down. I was sitting on a giant branch that was almost completely covered from view. "Damn my legs hurt. I'm glad that is over with." I sad whilst rubbing my legs and arms. Now my entire body was sore from climbing and walked. "This is going to feel really bad in the morning." I complained. Though it made have been more good than bad. Thanks to that movement, my endurance will probably increase greatly.

"I don't think the ponies will find me here. As long as I can train Frostbite with some better secrecy, I stay here." I said happily. Even though I screwed up big time when I helped the Thor pony with the magic hat, it was not gonna stop me from being happy. I had a great time letting out a large piece of random that I normally got out with my friends and to get a pie as a bonus was even better.

"Speaking of pie, why don't I try some?" I grabbed the pie out of my bad and inspected it with the last remaining light I had. It was to bad that I didn't have any eating utensils but at least i had pie. The pie had managed not to get damaged during my entire climb. "An indestructible pie, I hope it is edible." I said before pulling a pie of the crust off and taking a bite.

"This is great." I thought to myself as I continued eating. I couldn't make out what is tasted like but either way it was great. I ate about a 3rd of the pie before getting some stomach pain. Too much sugar does that. I sat the pie down on two smaller branches that happened to be close by and laid down.

"It really is amazing how big this tree is. This could be a nice place to live in, if I had more time to work on it. Maybe try to flatten out the top to make a smooth surface. I would live like one of the wood elves from lord of the rings." I said trying to close my eyes. I just couldn't keep them closed for some odd reason. I tried to fall asleep for a while with no success.

"Welp, looks like I'm not sleeping right now. Too much energy..." I said as I sat up again. My eyes open wide when I saw what was coming out of the tree. Bright yellow orbs were slowly floating out of the tree, giving the area an amazing lighting. "Wow... I wonder what those are." I said as I tried to touch on of the orbs. It moved away from my finger before I could touch it.

"Well this is quite amazing but as long as those orbs continue floating around, I'm not gonna be able to get any sleep. What should I do whilst I wait?" I asked myself. What I really wanted to do was catch on of the orbs but I felt to sore to do so. Coming up with a better Idea, I decided to do some looking around. There were orbs everywhere and I noticed that there were some odd colored ones moving around much faster down below.

As if I had been spotted, a blue orb flew up to me and left about a meter in between me and it. I tried to find some more details on what it looked like but it was to bright to see anything. "Its like a little fairy." I said quietly, trying not to spook the orb. More colored orbs of light join it and soon I found myself surrounded by little orbs. I just stared at the orbs for a good long time, studying there every movement.

Many of them left and I watched as they seemingly rounded up the yellow orbs. "What do you think there doing, brain?" I asked myself, trying to come up with a theory. "I've got nothing." My brain told me leaving me to just watch and wonder. The red orb never left and seemingly sat down on the branch I was sitting on.

I got bored of watching and laid back down. "The things I would do for a nice soft bed right now. Sore body plus bed equal extreme comfort but I guess I will have to live with this for now, I thought as I closed my eyes. "I still couldn't bring myself to fall asleep, so I just laid there and imagined battles between Some of my own thought  up characters versus anime and video-game characters. It was a nice little hobby I had and now that I had Frostbite, I could throw myself into the action and imagined all the possible things I could do if I had more control over my powers.

When doing this I came up with two new skills that I could try to do. One was a mimic of the weird ice ball that the giant dragon slayer Horgr had used. "I wonder if I can do that." I said. It made me wonder how it could possibly do it. If its power worked the same way and Frostbite then I had one minor theory that lacked to a great deal of evidence to even consider being true.

"Maybe, after its formed the strange iceball, it take the absorbed energy and alters it, turning pieces of it into movement which could be used to propel it. It would release the remaining energy as heat into the iceball, basically making it explode due to rapid expansion. If it works like this in anyway, it might mean that I could control the stored energy in the same way but for now, lets assume that everything I just said was a load of bullshit." I said, ending my theory.

So far I had spent so much time theorizing how the world worked, without any of it being confirmed which actually made me feel a little sad. "Imagine if I was wrong about all of it. Wouldn't that just suck?" I said, with a hint of disappointment in my voice.

I realized I still had another possible ability. This was something that I had always loved from videogame like magicka. Ice pillars that shot up out of the ground, impaling any thing that didn't avoid them. Though it would mean I would still have to base the possible use of it off of my resent theory, it didn't stop me from imagining I could do it.

I went back to my imaginary fights. I finally started falling asleep, only to be woken up by the sight of a red light shining through my eyes. I opened my eyes only to find the red orb sitting on my nose. It noticed me open my eyes and tried to fly away. My reflexes kicking in and I grabbed the red orb mid air.

My had started feeling like something was burning it so did some minor pulsing to my hands. The red light kept glowing dimmer and dimmer as I cooled down the my hands. After the burning feeling had disappeared almost completely, I peaked into my hands to look at the orb. "Holy crap, it is a fairy." I said softly. In my hands lay a rather exhausted fairy girl in my hands.

My first thought was that of confusion. "Why in the world would there be a humanoid fairy in a land full of intelligent ponies?" I thought whilst staring at the little fairy. It was still glowing but only slightly which worried me slightly. "I hope I didn't just kill you." I said softly. To my relief the little fairy stood and started glowing brightly again. She flew away leaving me stuck in a confused state.

"Well, I'm starting to wonder if this can get any weirder. Lets see now I have come across a weird lion scorpion thing, talking ponies, unicorn and pegasi, dragons, Horgr which are basically just dragons that don't want to be dragons, a probably god pony and now fairies... I feel as if this is becoming some kind of giant joke. Oh well, if I'm living a joke, then I might as well laugh along with it."

I decided to forget everything that just happened and put some music on. I turned on the song Rain by Breaking Benjamin. It was a nice slow song and just what I needed to find a calm mindset. For whatever reason though, I would often almost start crying when I heard the song. I could never really explain it but tried to ignore the sadness when listen to the song.

After I shed a few tears and turned the song off, I felt a lot better. As if hidden weights had been lifted from my mind. I was smiling warmly and just felt so peaceful. I lay down and closed my eyes. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep and I had a nice dream of me playing some LoL with my friends. Playing video-games was my way of releasing my stresses in real life and in my dreams.

I woke up to the sound of something moving through the tree's. I rubbed my eyes and looked around. All the fairy things had disappeared and I could see something moving below me. "Well crap, I hope I don't have to get in a fight now." I said signing in irritation. I saw two blue eyes look up at me and the creature began moving in my direction.

I backed up away from the edge of the branch and prepared myself for the worst. The creature peaked up other the branch and eye'd me for a moment. I got into a fighting stance as the creature lifted itself up onto the branch. "I am not here to harm you, human. I come baring a message from my master." The creature said to my surprise. It was to dark to make out any clear details aside from the blue eyes which seemed to shine right through me.

"If you don't mind me asking, who are you and who do you mean by *master*? I asked

"I am a speaker of the Horgr and you have met my master once before." The creature said. This struck me as odd that the Horgr would seek contact with me.

"Uum... Okay....? What would that message be?"

"He has told me to warn you of the serpents. It seems they are moving closer to the surface. We do not know how much longer until the war begins, but you should prepare."

"Well preparing is what I have been doing for the past two days. Do you have an estimated time of when the will be at the surface?"

"We are not sure, it could be at least a week but the serpents are not known for attacking so quickly. Prepare yourself, human. It will not be long before the earth rumbles at the sound of battle."

"Very well, thank you for your information but I have another question. How did you find me?" I asked curiously. I thought done a pretty good job in hiding myself.

"After your disappearance from the ponykind, we followed a group of seekers that had been on the search for you. You seemed to have hid yourself well from them but it was clear to us that you had been here."

"Okay... How have the ponies been finding me?"

"They have wandered close and far in search of you. Some have come very close and some may still be in the area. It is the reason I see you know and not at the break of dawn. If you wish to stay hidden then I urge you to act with caution. I must leave now, dawn comes and there are seekers close by." The creature finished before making its way out of the tree.

"You know what, I'm not gonna even acted surprised by this. So much weird and sudden things have happened that I'm just not gonna question it. So my cover is close to completely blown and I have a week to practice as much as I can." I said before laying back down. "There ain't no rest for the wicked." I said before falling back asleep.

I wasn't in the best of mood when I woke up, considering my night had been rather ruined by the ill news and I had a burning headache. "It looks like my day has been ruined before it has even started." I sad whilst rubbing my head. The sun was shining and my muscles ached beyond belief. "Gaaaaaahhh, my legs!" I said as I got up.

Stretching helped ease the pain somewhat but my head stayed. "Welp, time to get my stress related anger out on some innocent anythings." I said before yawning. My eyes felt heavy but I managed to wake myself up completely with some jogging in place. I mumbled out of irritation and wandered around the tree branches for awhile. It was rather fun to get around by climbing even if I was grumpy.

I found my way over to a separate tree branch, higher in the tree and started practicing some pulsing. It seemed my bad mood magically made the pulsing go much more easily and I found myself freezing the tree branch with ease. "I should be careful whilst doing this. Don't wanna fall out the tree and kill myself. How would I be able to explain that." I said half joking and half serious.

Any punches I practiced were sluggish and uncaring making me lose balance quite often. "I really need to make up some more." I said yawning yet again. I sat down for a moment and set my forehead against the trees trunk. "I wish this damned headache would go away." I said. I sat there in a moment of silence.

Doing the only logical thing at this time, I started to whistle like a bird. No musical tunes or anything but it was a rather special method. Seeing as in I can't whistle by blowing out, I somehow managed to learn how to do it sucking in. I practiced it here and there and learn that I could easily alter the sound by moving my tongue closer or further from my mouth.

Like this I could switch between high and low pitch sounds very quickly and mimic some birds pretty well. I continued my whistling for a couple minutes. Its strangely fun sometimes and I normally did it when walking to school or when I was waiting for something.

I removed my head from the side of the tree and looked around. The forest looked amazing and I didn't see why I hadn't seen the beauty before hand. "Really, this world just keep throwing more and more surprises at me. So good and some bad but really, I am happy I have ended up here. No regrets." I hadn't really taken the time to appreciate the wonders of this world. It had all been to weird for me to think about it.

"I can't believe I have forgotten that I'm technically in an alien world/dimension and I have taking a large piece of it like a normal day. Am I an idiot or just really forgetful? I bet that just about any scientist with any understandment of life would beg to come here. Oh well, I guess I just got lucky." I said with a smirk.

With some new found energy and happiness I got back to practicing. To help me keep my balance, I started punching the tree trunk. My gloves kept my hand from getting to hurt meaning I could throw punch after punch without issue. I new realization popped up and I threw my last few punches of that session. "Shouldn't every inch of my body be sore right now?"

I sat down again to ponder on the question. "I remember being super sore, shouldn't that still be in affect yet worse now? Hell  when I woke up I was in pain. WTF just happened? I swear something weird is going on!" I couldn't understand it the slightest bit and eventually gave up on trying. "Well looks like the magic of this world just likes fucking with my head." I said.

"Speaking of magic and world, I wonder how I got here." Once again my mind hand jumped subject. "I don't remember every doing something that could have caused a trans-dimensional shift and you'd assume probability that is happened by random seem low. Even if you were to think about the so called rules of this world, I doubt it should have effect on mine."

I did my best to think of some way I could have possibly gotten here and came up with little aside from generic random wormhole and something teleporting me here. It seemed the more I thought about it, the less logical it became. "If it were a wormhole, I guess I could consider myself lucky. I could have poofed up in the middle of space for all I know." After some time of random theories I gave up on trying to figure it out and just accepted the fact that I was not going to understand everything. I never really stopped my for long and I was probably going to have another go at it later.

I went back to punching the poor tree, practicing 1,2,3 combos with some success here and there. "Its to bad I don't have someone to practice with..." I said in between punches. "It would let me test my skills and stop talking to myself as much." I had punched the tree some much that a small dent was starting to form in the trunk. My knuckles started to hurt pretty bad and I took a break.

"Well tree, you were a worth adversary. May we have many such battles together." I said complementing the tree. I sat down for a moment and looked at my hands. "I surprised you guys managed for so long." It seemed that the lack of social interaction was driving me to talk to inanimate objects. Nevermind, I'm normally like this. "I still wonder why my body doesn't feel sore. Its makes no sense but then again, everything that has happened to me so far hasn't made any sense."

I felt a rumble in my stomach. "Welp, looks like its time to devour the rest of that delightful pie." I did my best to make my way back to the *home branch* as I called it. To my amazement, the pie had been left completely untouched. Not a single bird or bug had come anywhere close to it. "Thank you nature, for not screwing me over even though I carried out yet another stupid act."

It seemed like my bad mood had completely gone away as I ate the last of the sugary goodness that is pie. It wasn't very easy eating the pie without making my hands all messy and they were now sticky as hell. "Its time to clean up." I said happily as I made my way out of the tree. For whatever reason, it was harder to get down the tree than up and I found myself climbing up and down just to find a good route down.

I walked straight to the river, making sure to keep an eye out for movement. The river was moving far faster then before so I had to look a for a good spot to clean them. I was able to find a still pool after a short period of walking and washed my hands. "Well this is nice." I thought as I dried my hands of. The whole *dry myself of by freezing stuff* was pretty cool and I enjoy plucking the pieces of ice of my hands. An Idea popped up in my head. "Wouldn't it be cool if I could make some armor out of ice. I would just snap my fingers and boom, a cool set of icy armor."

I thought the idea was awesome. "Maybe that's what I should practice next. Of course I doubt I could make armor but if I could form some lasting ice, that would be good too." My sentence was interrupted by the sound of chatter coming from somewhere in the forest. It was loud enough to hear above the sound of the flowing river which worried me. Instinct kicked in and I found myself rushing up the closest tree.

Once I had reached a reasonable height, I looked around. I couldn't see where the chatter was coming from but the sound gave me a good idea how where is was coming from. I easily made me way from tree to tree, doing my best not to look down. It was now that I realized just how big the this forest was. It looked like it could easily rival the of the red woods in size. I was surprised that I could even hear the voices down below.

It sound like an argument but I couldn't really understand a word the voices were saying. There were at least three distinct voices to be heard and one sounded strangely familiar. I made my way from tree to tree, hunting down the source of the commotion like a wolf looking for its next meal. I found it easy to make my way around, there were some many branches to grab or stand on that is was like a horizontal climbing wall, if that makes any sense.

It didn't take long for me to zero in of the location of the noise and even though I lacked sight of the voices, I could clearly hear them. "You know we Reeaaaallly shouldn't be out here." A male voice said. It was a somewhat cowardly voice but not that bad, more like when you ask someone to do something stupid and they somehow get forced into doing it.

"Quit your whining. No one asked you to come along." Another voice said. It was clearly female and rather demanding. I could understand why though, no one likes when some comes along for a trip just to complain the entire time and it sure seemed like the male of the group was doing his fare share of that.

I took a step forward which caused a chain reaction of events to unfold, including my falling a couple stories and a large number of branched falling to the ground. There means of magical reflexes, I was able to catch myself before really makes any deadly speeds. I have fallen about half the tree's height. "Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. That hurts." I said. I felt some shocks of pain through out my body.

I hung there in silence for a moment. "Please tell me they didn't hear that." I thought as I listen for a reaction. Out of some cruel irony the next thing I heard was, "Did you hear that?" "Lets go check it out." two voices said, one after another. I first reaction was to painfully climb back up to a hidden height, which didn't take to long as an adrenaline burst, shot through my body.

I rushed up onto a large branch and hid myself behind it. "Did you see that?" One of the voices said. I still couldn't help but fell like I had heard it before. A conversation started between the voices below. "Do you think that was him?"

"I don't know, it moved to fast for me to get a good look. If fly up and get a good look. Bolting, how fast do you think you could get to ponyville from here?"

"I could be there in about half a days time, as long as nothing gets in my way."

"Okay good, here's your chance to get out of here for awhile. I need you to go to ponyville and find Rainbow Dash, shes a cyan pony with rainbow hair. We will need her if we are to have any real success searching for Gunnar."

"Yes ma'am!"

I could hear galloping that slowly faded away from me. "Well, I think I need to take a leap of faith and try to find my home tree. Man this is gonna hurt." I thought before bolting away. I speed through the tree's as fast as my injured body could take me. I found the river and followed it with my eyes, looking for a recognizable spot. After finding the spot where I had washed my hands I traced further until my eyes landed on a familiar tree.

"Welp, lets hope thats it." I said before moving towards it. My adrenaline kick was wearing off and I was starting to feel the full force of the pain. "Out of all the times I have to fall out of a tree, why does it have to be now?!" My paces slowed down and I heard something following my from the forest floor.

I looked down and saw small pieces of a blue pony from in between the branches. "How in the world did she find me?!" Was the first thing that shot into my head as I moved along. My brain was telling me it was Longtrot though I doubted it somewhat. "Gunnar, is that you?!" Longtrot shouted as if she thought I was going to reply.

I ignored her and continued on my way. I spotted my bag in a branch below and did yet another stupid thing. Instead of carefully climbing down, I jumped due to the heat of the moment. Once again I had hurt myself beyond belief. "Damn it Gunnar think before you go around jumping on things!!" I shouted in my head grabbing my knee in pain. My lack of focus lead to me almost making a *I used to be an adventurer like you...* joke but quickily stopped myself. There has been enough stupid for one day, or rather week.

I could still hear shouting as I fell down in pain. "Gunnar?!" The shouting started to fade as my body started going into shock. "I am an unlucky bastard." I thought before passing out.

[I have to admit, I'm really bad with ending and I'm really tired. I hope this chapter was a little less chaotic and somewhat enjoyable. It odd how much fun I had writing this during the weekend but it screwed up my biology project so I hope it was worth it. Nothing else to say but goodnight people.]

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