Black and blue surrounded me once more as my mind reactivated. I found myself in the odd swamp. The being from before stood in front of an ancient tree, book still in hand. The being lifted its head and a black emptiness stared me down. I had no idea how to react and just stared back. To be honest, the being looked cool as the shadows arced of its cloak.

"Whats going on?" I asked myself. The being opened it book and stared down at it. The book was old and looked burnt. A curiosity sparked inside my mind as I wondered what was written inside the book. The being started turning the pages as if looking for something. Each page it turned sent a shiver down my spine. I didn't know why but something about the book worried me.

The being stopped turning the pages and stared at the book, not moving a muscle. It turned its head back to me and a feeling of ultimate fear came over me. I could no longer move as the being stared. I wanted to scream and run but something held me in my place. The slammed the book shut causing a boom to echo.

As the sound echo'd the world around me started to shake. The walls and ground around me started to crumble and fall. I closed my eyes as the last piece of the floor started to collapse around me. My eyes shot open as I woke up. All the pain I felt from the fall had returned causing my to grit my teeth and shake violently as I tried not to yell out in agony.

The pain quickly passed leaving me gasping for breath as I tried to calm down. "Why.... Does..... This..... Have..... To happen...... to me........?" I said in between breaths. I regained my focus and sat up. My vision was blurred and I did what I could to make out my surroundings as it returned. At first all I could see was black but as my vision returned, I found myself amongst a bunch of bushes.

I looked at the ground and remembered my insane dream. "Oh thank goodness, it was just a dream. A fucked up, creepy dream." I said as my breathing went back to a normal rhythm. My focus started to fade once more as my attention turned to the world around me. The trees were full of bright orbs of light. "Wow, if I had know that the forest looked like this at night, I may have never gone up into the forest top."

It looked amazing and I stared at it for a few minutes, watching the orbs fly around one another. "A fitting crown for an amazing forest." I thought before standing up. My knee started hurting once again, forcing me into a minor limb. "Now, I remember I needed to do something after taking my nap but what was it that I needed to do?" I looked around to see if my surroundings would give me any hints.

I wander out of the bushes and did a second look around. I watched a yellow orb float past a tree a noticed the hole in its trunk. "Oh yeah, that's what I wanted to do." I walked back into the bushes and grabbed my bag and walked up to the entrance. A feeling of concern swept over as I questioned whether or not to go in. "Maybe going into a cave full of zombie things in the middle of the night without anyone knowing where I am is a bad idea. Oh well, bad ideas lead to great fun, in some cases at least."

I decided to go in. This would be the test whether or not I was any what prepared for battle. If I could get through this without major injury or death, then I would have made a giant step forward. It may have been far to soon for me to be risking my life and without the knowledge of what was inside meant that defeat or victory were far apart. "Its type to swap mood sets." I thought to myself. No more random and unfocused thoughts, they would lead to stupid and on thought out processes.

I stood still one last time and took one large, deep breath, releasing all my jumpy energy and turning it all into a serious and controlled thought patterns. Without even knowing how, I pulsed my energy though my body to my hands and gloves, causing the gems to glow. It wasn't as bright as a flash light but it was bright enough to see movement which is all I needed.

I wandered into the depths of the cave only to stop at the body of the zombie mage. "I need to bring the others out." I thought to myself. "Wake up!" I shouted in a very deep tone. It was an odd thing I had. Once puberty kicked in I managed to lose the ability to scream or yell at a high pitch. When I would shout out to someone during gym or when outside, my voice would getting extremely deep. I had been an issue because the person I was shouting to couldn't hear me as other kids or peoples voices would sound over my voice just because of there pitch.

My voiced echo'd through out the cave like a boom. "The Horgr master would be proud if he heard that." I thought to myself as I remembered how its voice sounded. My focus quickly came back as the echo ended. I started to hear the sound of bones cracking and the smell of decay surrounded me. I could hear faint laughs and voices come closer and closer to me.

I was quickly met by what looked like five figures in front of me. The looked like a mix of two viking soldiers and three men wearing white togas. They resembled the roman citizens from any documentary on Rome. The vikings looked at me and started to laugh. It was a sinister and insulting laugh directed at me. One drew a sword from its belt and started to walk towards me.

"Remember Gunnar, no fancy fighting or trying to show off. Clean, efficient kills." I told myself before starting to pulse. I lowered my hands, making me lose sight of the zombie viking and relied on my other senses and memory to mark the locations of the zombies. I starting pulsing my Frozen aura and felt the air stop moving. I heard the zombie stop for a moment before picking up its pace.

The walking turned into running as the zombie closed the distance in between me and it. I ramped up my pulsing and started to here the familiar sound of ice cracking. The foots steps stopped followed by a loud thump. I lifted up my glove and shined its light other the area.

There lay the frozen body of the zombie viking. I gave out a sinister laugh of my own as I looked at the four remaining zombies. Any visible looks of joy had left there rotten faces and surprise and angry replaced them. "Good to see they are still human." I thought. I gave the zombies an arrogant and and smug look taunting them to make a wrong move.

The other viking zombie charged me, letting out a bloodthirsty roar as he ran.  "Idiot..." I said as I started to pulse again, this time making sure to pulse faster for some extra safety. Moments later the other zombie viking fell to the ground. I smiled and turned my attention back to the toga zombies. My evil side was showing and I was ready to deal with my next opponents.

One of them prepared a familiar fireball and threw it at me. I didn't even need to react because the throw was extremely off. The fireball veered of and hit a wall behind me giving me a short good look of the cave. It was lined with corridors leading around the cave system and was surprisingly well preserved.

I giggled at the toga zombie's fail and started walked towards them. One of the toga zombies lifted up its arm and I saw static sparks arc out of its hands. Gaming instinct kicked in and I quickly pulses a Blast shield before hearing an ear piercing boom. It was like a bomb had gone off only meters away from me.

As the blastshield faded away, I dashed at the toga zombies and began pulsing the Frozen aura once more. The toga zombie that had shot lighting at me briefly froze before I was met with something along the lines of a counter aura. The fireball toga zombie's eyes began to glow with a sunset color. I looked and me and cackled before taking a few steps at me.

I started to feel a massive heat overwhelm me. It was like I was in the middle of a desert as the heat pounded away at me. I stopped running as slowed the pulsing down and decreased the pitch, causing the heat to dissipate. It quickly became a battle of the auras as we both fought to gain temperature control.

I started to lose the fight as the heat took over. I changed tactics and rushed as fast as I could at the toga zombie. My body started to feel like it was catching on fire as I closed the gap. My dash caught the zombie of guard, reducing the temperature somewhat. Right before I was in punching distance of the zombie, it threw up its arms and started to chat.

Once again my gaming instincts saved me as I barely managed to swerve out of the way of a steam of flames shot out of the zombies hands. Before the zombie could get time to react turned inwards and threw a punch at it, hitting it in shoulder. I quickly started to pulse Flash freeze as fast as I could and watched as the zombie almost instantly froze in place. "Four down, one to go." I thought to myself as I turned to the last of the toga zombies.

It had silently moved away as the fight took place and had been studying the fight closely. I started walking towards the last toga zombie. It stood still and continued to stare. Something about this didn't feel right and I stopped walking. It felt like I was walking into a trap so I shined my light over the ground and walls. I didn't see anything out the ordinary but the feeling stayed.

I turned my light back to the toga zombie but it was gone. "Damn... The one that got away." I thought as I walked back to the frozen bodies. It smashed there heads just in case they were like your average zombie and would rise from the dead once there bodies had thawed.

A great feel of joy and pride came over as I smashed the heads of my fallen enemies. My second battle in the deep was a success but that was not what overjoyed me. "The power to simply take ones life without consequences." I thought to myself after smashing the last head. It was a rather dark ideal but more than not the world would piss me off. I was finally able to get some of my hate for humanity out on zombies out of all things, which left me with no feeling or regret and dismay.

I stumbled over something as I wandered around. I looked down and found the sword of one of the viking zombies. "Hmm...... should I take it? You never know, might come in handy at some point." I asked myself. I examined the sword as best I could. It had some runes covering the sides of the blade and hilt, but aside from that, it looked like your standard long-sword.

"Wow, this is a pretty cool sword. I doubt it will be any real use considering I haven't held a sword in my life but might as well take a reward for my strangely easy victory." I look around for one of the zombie vikings bodies for its belt and sheath. "You know, it may be because they were zombies but that fight felt rather to easy. I don't ever remember any of my older fights being that easy but it might just be that I have Frostbite to back me up." I thought as I tried to put the belt on.

It was hard to get the belt on in the dark but after a minutes or two I managed to get it on. It was made from a leathery substance and was surprisingly strong considering I just pulled it off a zombie but that didn't matter for now. I would get the time to think about it all after I had gotten out of the cave. If I got out of the cave that is.

I started to hear strange whispers running through out the cave. I couldn't understand a word they said but I was sure of one thing, they didn't sound the slightest bit happy. I did what I could to ignore the voices and picked a random tunnel entrance.

I walked up to the entrance and looked in. To my surprise walked into a what looked like a small house. There were multiply rooms and I even found the remains of a cloth blanket. Aside from the blanket I was able to find some pieces of dry wood, which would make some great fire would if I ever needed it.

I wandered out of the building and decided to be more picky about the which way I went. After choosing a long corridor I began my dungeon crawl once more, keeping my eyes and hears open for danger. I could hear some footsteps and creaking amongst the whispers.

My back stiffed somewhat as I moved along. I just realized how scary my situation felt and me being one that couldn't even get through the first few rooms of Amnesia started to cower. Things felt worse was the realization that I could really die set in. I shook my head and tried to remove the feelings of fear and regret as I continued to walk along. "If I'm gonna have to battle dragons, then I might as well get over my fear of the dark!" I thought to myself.

The footsteps started to get louder as I turned a corner. I came face to face with a group of viking zombies. There were more than I could count and they sure as hell were not happy to see me. One immediately drew its sword and swung it at me. Through means of epic/accidental parrying skills I was able to block of the blade using my glove.

"Wow these things are sturdy." I thought, losing focus on my situation. I quickly threw my focus back at the viking zombies as one threw a spear at me. I dodged only for yet another swing from the first zombies sword to fly towards me. I pulsed a Blastshield blocking of the incoming attack.

I used the cover of the evaporating shield to make some distance between me and the zombies. My fears started to disappear as I focused on the battle. About four zombies charged me simultaneously only to be stopped by my Frozen aura. "It looks like they freeze easily." I thought as I moved back up the zombies.

They stopped for a moment as a toga zombie stepped out in front of the group. I gave it a quick look and noticed something very familiar. It wore a necklace with a blue gem hanging from it. The toga zombie started to chant something. At first I didn't care and continued walking towards the zombies, ice forming around the walls are ground as I stepped closer.

The toga zombies gem and eyes began to glow a bright blue color, matching the glow of my own gem to the exact. "Something tells me I about to get screwed over." Passed through my mind as I walked. The chanting grew louder and the toga zombies gem and eyes grew so bright that I could no longer see the viking zombies behind it.

The toga momentarily stopped chanting and shouted something. It pointed at me before continuing its chant. The viking zombies stepped in front of it in an organised fashion. They started walking towards my forming a solid moving wall of zombie vikings.

I stopped and tried to freeze them with my aura but to no avail. "Well fuck...." I thought as the zombies closed in. The good news was, I knew who to target. The bad news was, I needed to get past a wall of undead soldier to reach it. In this situation, I was going to rely on brains and reflexes instead of what used to be my overpowered abilities.

I drew me sword and got into a ready stance. Now knowing the my gloves could parry off swords I knew I could use my basic fighting strategy. I started walking towards the incoming force keeping my stance as I moved along. As I got closer the wall started turning into a funnel as the zombies tried to lure me into there trap. To my luck I had watch the history channel enough to know what they wanted to do and started moving towards a wall.

The zombies broke there initial tactic and start to surround me. The formed a pattern of two swordsmen and then a spearmen. For a brief moment, I doubted I would make it out alive. I had underestimated my enemies and was now going to pay the price.

They zombies struck in combos. First a random swordsman would strike at me. If I dodged the attack, a spearman would immediately strike at me. If I blocked the attack, a second swordsman would strike at me. It was a losing battle as I was given no chance to strike back. I didn't even know how I was managing to avoid the attacks at all.

Doubt returned as the zombies closed in around me. I now no longer had any method of escape other than to cut my way through. I threw out the doubt once more and prepared myself for another incoming attack. This time I parried correctly push the zombie down before I thrust my blade into its chest. A different zombie followed with an attack only to meet the same fate.

I was acting like Etsio from the assassin creed game as my reflexes to over and I countered blow after blow. The only issue I was having was with the spearmen. one thrust its spear at me during one of my counters. I manged to move my head and avoid the full blow but the spear cut my cheek pretty bad.

I needed to make some distance between me and the zombies and quick. Before a new zombie could strike at me I attacked.

I stuck I zombie in front of me, decapitating it in the process before bolting through the zombies behind it. I quickly pushed my way through the zombies before they were given time to react.

To my luck I pushed my way through on the side that the toga zombie was standing. It was still chanting and didn't seem to even see me. I rushed up to it and stabbed my sword into it. It continued to chant for a brief moment before going limb. Its body fell to the ground and its eyes slowly stopped glowing.

A smile grew on my face as I turned to the viking soldiers. They lost all sense of organisation and charged me, yelled and waving there weapons around as the ran. I started to pulse my Frozen aura and watched as the zombies all started to freeze up. Only moments later each and ever standing zombie fell to the ground like dominos. I laughed like a maniac at the site of this. "That was fucking funny." I said trying to keep myself from laughing.

I started the painstaking process of smashing each and every zombie skull with a satisfying crunch. It was at this moment that I realized that I had been crushing zombie heads with my bare feet. I felt disgusted at first but quickly ignored it. "There just zombie brains, its not like there going to eat you." I said to myself.

I crushed almost every zombie skull before walking up to the toga zombie. I remembered the necklace it wore and grabbed it. As I did this, what seemed like a million images flashed through my brain. They came by so fast that I couldn't make out what any of them looked like.

I lost my balance and fell down. My head started to spin as the last of the images passed. "What the hell just happened?" I asked myself as I rubbed my head. Whatever had just happened gave me a massive headache. I sat there for a moment, waiting for the spinning to go away. "Ug.... I hate headaches."

It took a moment for me to regain control and the headache started to go away as soon as the dizziness had finished. I felt like someone had just spent two days without sleep watching documentaries and my brain was jammed with tons on indecipherable information that just kept looping in my head.

I stood up and tried to remember what I was doing before picking up the necklace. "Oh yeah, head smashing." I said in a cheerful voice. It made me remember how much I missed Halloween. They don't celebrate it in the Netherlands which was a major bummer. It made me wonder if the ponies had there own version of Halloween. I imaged the ponies in what were supposed to be scary costumes ended being cute counterparts.

After my head smashing quest had been completed, I started to select my optional rewards. After shoving the necklace into my pocket, I began checking the zombies for loot. "No gold for me..." I said after checking the last zombie. I suddenly felt very strange. "That awkward moment when you realize you just killed a shitload of warrior zombies and then casually loot there bodies... This is turning out to be quite a stereotypical video-game adventure." I thought to myself.

I had through everything that I thought was worth something into a pile and began the careful process of sorting the useful from the not so useful. There were quite a few swords and daggers in the pile, a few simple rings and necklaces, some of which bearing runes like my necklace and some of the zombies armor that I thought looked cool.

I compared each sword to my own and quickly discarded all the swords and replaced them with a pair of matching daggers. Considering my fighting style, they would fit far better though I liked the sword more. I decided to take two necklaces seeing as how they didn't weigh me down at all and finally a simple shoulder guard.

The once issue I had with the shoulder guard was that it was frozen solid meaning I would have to wait for the leather strappings to thaw before I could even try to put it on, which left me with the question if I should take it with or not. If I take it with it could slow me down and has the probability that it doesn't hit. If I leave it behind I might lose something that could save my life from stupidity.

I sat down for a moment and thought about all my recent decisions. "I really do think I should be dead right now... but its seems fate has other plans, which is odd considering fate tends to be a jerk. Kinda like karma but more life affecting." At that moment I felt as if I was being judged, by hundreds of invisible people. "Welp, I better stop talkin and start walkin." I said as I got up.

I picked up the should guard and stuffed it into the my bag. I gave one last look at the zombie bodies and gave a proud smile. "Glad you won't be walking anytime soon." I said happily. I continued my way done the long corridor, making sure to be sneaky about it. The whispers had increased and I needed to be able to hear incoming footsteps better. "We gotta be sneaky charlie. Snneeeeaaakkyyyy." Played in my head as I moved along.

The serious attitude I had managed to build up was completely gone now and I was back to my random, not caring self. As I walked I passed a few small tunnels. One of the tunnels grabbed my attention as I walked passed it. In the corner of my eye I could see a brief white figure stand but as I turned to look, the figure was gone. "Oh god, the last thing I need to think about right now its ghosts." I said as I looked into the tunnel.

What I saw surprised me. The tunnel broke out into a stairway down to a lower level of the cave. "Looks like I've completed level 1." I thought. Once again I was left with two choices. One, go down into the lower level of or two, stay and explore the rest of this area. The gamer in my was shouting to stay up top and find the rest of the hidden loot but logic was telling me to get in and get out as fast as I could.

The battle of my urges continued for sometime. In the end logic won and I mentally prepared myself for what might await me in the next level. "Who knows, it might just be a dead end." I said to reassure the gamer in me. I took a deep breath and started my way down the stairs.

[Writing, Y U NO Let me sleep?! Thanks for reading and I hope you don't find it all too cheesy but its the easiest way for me to hold some form of structure and let me enjoy the writing a tad bit more even though a minor writer block was dropped infront of me. Oh yah, if you got any questions on the weird theories I've made in the previous chapters, don't be afraid to comment about it. I have been spending along time thinking about the whole name=power thing and if enough people want it I could do a whole side chapter on the matter. Anyways goodnight people/ponies.

Also, I'm sorry if the lack of pony interaction has affected your opinion on the story but don;'t worry, it should all start rolling back in after a chapter or two.]                        

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