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Chapter 2: A fishing trip.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI woke up the next day with a lack of realization to what had happened to me. It was a tendency I had, when ever I slept or got carried away with something, I would forget almost everything that happened to me in the past days. I never knew why but I think it might have something to do with my adhd (Did I forget to mention I had adhd? Welp, now you know.) and my extreme lack of basic focus towards most things.
I got up, looked around and started to remember small pieces of my situation. This time I just tried to think positive as I remembered what had happened. I sat back down and went to remembering a dream I had, the dream was one I had been getting for a couple months now. I would be at school and somehow manage to get in a fight with someone I hated every time. This may sound strange but I loved the dream. Do to the reputation I had around school I was left unchallenged by anyone you could consider a "bully". I love getting into mock fights with friends and things like that but a real fight meant I could fight full strength.
My reputation became a bit of a curse as few people even wanted to get in mock fights with me. I got a pent up urge for fighting, which came out in my dreams.
Suddenly I felt as if the room had looked different. I got up and realized there was frost everywhere and some books had froze shut. Remembering to speak dutch I said "Waarom zie ik deze verandering niet meteen....?" (Why don't I see these changes right away.) "Serious, je zou dit gebouw in the fik gooien en ik zou het pas na vijf minuten weten." (Seriously, you could catch this building on fire and it would take me 5 minutes to figure it out.)
I started an endless rant on how I didn't see this before and it appeared that my words had brought the attention of the little purple unicorn pony. I had almost completely forgotten her name and had to dig deep in my brain to find it.
"What's going on in here?" The pony asked. The voice quickly reminded me who it was. "Twilight." I said softly to myself ending my rant. The pony came in with a face that mimics mine when ever I have a *WTF Moment*. "What happened in here, did you do this?" She asked.
I was just about to say something but then realized that she wasn't looking for an answer. She continued to walked around the room, almost slipping ever step of the way. I saw this and an idea popped into my head. I started sliding around the room like I was iceskating. It had to be one of the funnest thing I had done in a while.
Twilight stood still and just looked at me for a moment. She had her focus on my legs. "How in the world can you even stand up on those weird legs." She said. Again I almost answered but made sure to keep my mouth shut. The next thing that happened almost made me laugh. Twilight tried to walk over to the steps and slipped faceplanting into some books.
Out of instinct, I slid over to her and tried to help her up. She got a fearful look as I touched her and she almost kicked me right in the face. Reflexes kicked in as I somehow managed to dodge the kick. I lost balance and fell backwards but luckily for me I was able to catch myself in fall and landed like a backwards cat.
"Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to try and kick you!" Twilight splurted out almost instantly. I got up and gave her a careless face trying to say that it didn't matter. I understood why she would kick at me. Last I remembered, I was a strange creature to her and not a friend.
She got up and looked at me closely, probably to check whether or not I was okay. Suddenly a knocking noise could be heard coming from upstairs. "That must be them!" Twilight shouted. She did her best to reach the stairs and rushed up. I was left with a brief moment of silence before hearing voices upstairs. Four ponies walked into the icy room. I recognized three of them. There was the yellow one, Fluttershy, Twilight and the blue one, Longtrot. The last one to walk in was a aqua colored unicorn.
They walked in one after another and suddenly the room felt a lot smaller. As the aqua pony walked in a look of excitement filled her eyes. "You really did it! You found a human, I can't believe it. I've always dreamed of this moment!!" She said.
"That's nice an all but do you know what happened to my room?" Twilight asked whilst picking up on the frozen books.
"If we can find out his name then yes, I might be able to explain it." The aqua pony said.
"Is this another one of you odd theories again?" Twilight asked.
"Twilight, you have already seen how much proof I have to back up my *Theories*. Stop denying there truth." The aqua pony said. Two things popped up in my head. 1, How would my name explain anything and 2, Lol aqua pony. I thought of the pony wearing an aquaman suit and talking with fish and laughed a little.
"Um girls, could we have the talk in a different room? This one is kind of really cold." Fluttershy said. The other ponies nodded and started up the stairs. I just blandly followed without concern. I was looking forward to hearing the aqua ponies explanation. We walked into the main room and Twilight started talking.
"Well then Lyra, what is your explanation." Twilight asked slightly irritated.
"I've told you many times that names have meaning and those meaning participial define an animal. I mean look at you, Twilight Sparkle. You are very talented with magic and are the student of princess Celestia, goddess of the sun. Twilight it the time during sunrise and sundown when both moon and sun are in the sky. Someday you will take you teachers place, I can promise you that.
Not only that but your cutiemark resembles your name greatly when you got it after you were named. This happens with almost all ponies. I don't think this is just a massive coincidence. So why wouldn't this be true of other animals?" The aqua pony that I was now going to refer to as Lyra finished.
The two started an argument about it and I took the time to remember what Gunnar A. Berge ment. My mom had told me what my name meant a few times and I ended up looking it up a few times myself. Gunnar is derived from the Old Norse name Gunnarr, Which itself had derived from the two words "Gunn" which means war and "Arr" which means warrior.
The A. stood for Anthony which I knew little about other than that It was the name of a saint or something like that.
The only thing could speculate with the name Berge was that it had something to do with mountains being that the dutch word for mountain was berg.
Personally I thought my name was awesome and thanked my mom for giving me it. That's when a bolt of sorrow hit me. There where only two people I truly cared for, my mom and my little brother. The idea of not being to see them again hit me like a train and I almost burst into tears. I faced away from the ponies and let out some tears.
Somehow the yellow pony Fluttershy noticed my sorrow and walked up to me. "Um girls, maybe is not the best time to be fighting." She said pointing her hoof at me. The ponies stopped there arguing and turned to me. "Feel so bad for you." The Fluttershy continued.
"Why do you think its crying?" Longtrot asked.
"It probably misses its home and family." Fluttershy said sadly. She could not have been anymore spot on and I sank to the floor. My sorrow started turning into anger as stress started to build up. Cracks could be heard as I closed my hands and toes shut as hard as I could. That together with some deep breathing tended to get rid of a lot of stress but only if I was not being irritated by people or animals around me.
The sounds of my cracking bones seemed to scare the ponies and all but Fluttershy took some steps back. I sat there for a moment emptying my mind and trying to get back into a positive mind set. I stood up, wiped any tears of my face and faced the ponies. I gave them a little smile and walked over to an area in the room where it was easy to sit. I grabbed my Ipod and just turned on a random song. It was my best idea yet and I quickly forgot my sorrows.
The ponies continued to talk aside from Fluttershy you sat in a nearby chair and just watched me. I lost all focus from everything around, all of it absorbed into my music as it played. I don't think I could live a day without music. Realizing this, I checked the ipod's battery life. It send it was charging for some weird reason. I thought it was a glitch and a feeling of disappointment came up. "Atleast I won't know when I will be losing my music." I thought to myself.
I turned off my Ipod after awhile as I felt my stomach growl. Fluttershy's ears perked up when she heard it. She got up and left the room for a moment. Shortly later she came with a bowl full of different kinds of things. She happily trotted up to me and set the bowl in front of me. There was a warm smile on her face as she watched me eat. There was sliced apples lettuce some flowers and a lot of hay in the bowl. I ate the apple slices and lettuce but avoided the flowers and hay having no idea what they would do to my body.
Fluttershy had a mixed look of happiness and disappointment as I set the hay and flower filled bowl down. It was a nice meal but I really wished I had some meat. Yet another realization hit me as I thought that. "How in the world am I going to survive without any meat." My diet was originally almost all meat with a little bit of vegetables and snacks. It was not the most healthy diet in the world but that's how I had lived for a very long time and my body was more or less used to it.
That made me very worried. I had no idea how my body was going to react to a sudden halt in my intake of meat. I could get very sick from it or worse. Now I didn't know if I was right about that but the idea was enough to keep me worried. An idea popped up in my head. Almost all the animals here could be found on earth. Maybe it had fish that I could cook up and eat.
Being that the ponies around me were most likely mammals and defiantly were intelligent herbivores, they probably wouldn't like the idea of me eating a other mammals or meat for that matter but I knew quite a few people who didn't even consider fish meat. Maybe the ponies would think in the same way but first I would have to confirm whether or not there was even fish to begin with.
I walked up to the door and opened it. Twilight yelled. "Hey! What do you think your doing?!" She ran up in front of me trying to block me from getting out. Fluttershy intervened. "it probably just needs some fresh air and to move around a bit. You have been keeping him inside this entire time, without a lot of movement." Fluttershy said. "I can keep an eye on him whilst hes outside.
Twilight reluctantly moved out of the way. "Fine, but make sure he comes back." Twilight said. Fluttershy nodded and smiled happily. I just kinda stood there trying to make some sense of the situation. It was clear the Twilight trusted Fluttershy quite a lot. I understood it quickly. Fluttershy was taking care of animals at that cottage hut thing and probably had a lot of knowledge when it came to animals.
The two of us walked outside and the first thing I did was start walking out of town. There were to many buildings for me to get a good look at the landscape. Fluttershy followed closely behind. Once I was out of the town I looked around for the highest point I could see. There was a big hill not to far away and I started jogging over to it.
Once I was at the top of the hill I looked at my surroundings looking for a river or large body of water. To my luck and unluck there was a river in the far distance. "Always a catch." I thought to myself as I started on my way to it. It took a little while to reach the river and the sun was now high in the sky beating its heat down on me. "This was the reason I hate summer." I thought to myself as I continued walking.
The heat started really getting to me and I found a tree and sat under it. I was soaked in sweat and wished I had something drink. Fluttershy walked up right beside me and sat down. She looked at me for a moment. "You're shinier that I last remember." She said. She watched as a drop of sweat rolled down my forehead. Before I got the chance to wipe it off, Fluttershy put her hoof on my forehead and examined it closely. The next thing she did caught me completely off guard. She licked the sweat of her hoof. It was *WTF Moment* number three.
"Salty." She said distastefully. My *WTF* face was still showing and she looked at me. "Hehe." She said embarrassed looking away. We sat under that the tree for a few more minutes until I got up and started walking again. It didn't take much longer to reach the river and I almost jumped out of join when I looked into its crystal clear waters.
I saw some fish quickly swim away and even saw a few crabs here and there. "Now I wish I a metal pan or something like that. Then I could boil the crabs." I thought to myself. Thanks to Bear grylls, I knew I could boil the crabs and eat them safely but that would be impossible if I didn't have anything to hold them in.
I walked up to a tree and climbed up in it looking for a straightish stick that I could turn into some kind of makeshift spear. After finding one and breaking it off, almost falling in the process, I looked around for a rock which wasn't hard considering they seemed to be everywhere. Fluttershy watched me the whole time without making a comment.
I began sharpening one of the sticks ends or at least tried I didn't think it would hurt as much as it did. "Perfect." I said with a dutch accent. You spell it the same way but when you pronounce the word in dutch you same it more like pairfect. Pronounce the R kind of like a dog growling and you have probably said it in a dutch manner.
Fluttershy did hear this but didn't seem to make to much of it. I decided to keep my mouth shut from then on just in case. I took my shoes off and rolled up my pants. I walked into the water, which was not very deep from where I stood with my makeshift spear prepared. I stood in the water as still as I could and watched as the fish slowly returned. Aiming for the biggest fish I swung my spear in a stabbing motion. Through some manner of sorcery I managed to hit it in one strike killing it almost instantly.
It was the size of my forearm and for a brief moment I wondered why such a big fish was in knee deep water but hunger quickly got the better off me. I quickly collected some sticks and dry grass. I then proceeded to make a circle of rocks a distance away from the river and placed the the dry grass and sticks in the circle. I looked around and grabbed a bunch of rocks, smashing the together, trying to make a spark. Fluttershy walked up to me with two rocks in her mouth and set them beside me.
I had completely forgotten she was there but her help led to great success. Sparks flew as I hit the two stones together. After a few tries I was able to get a fire going. I was very proud of what I had done but couldn't help but thank Fluttershy for helping me. "Dank je." (Thanks/thank you) I said with a smile. She seemed to understand my thanks and returned with a smile. I held my spear with fish still stuck to it above the fire and let it cook for a good like time.
Fluttershy poked me after a little while. She just happened to poke me in the wrong spot and I shot up like when you scare a cat. I never knew why I reacted like that when I got poked on the sides of my chest and was always complaining to my friends stop doing it, they never really did though.
It seemed she had around the same reaction and we both stood there for a moment. I couldn't help but laugh at the awkward moment and Fluttershy just smiled back. She pointed at the fish. "The foods done." Fluttershy said quietly. It was the cutest thing I had ever heard. I pulled the spear away from the fire and pulled the fish of the spear. It was hot but just barely cold enough to hold. I waited until the fish had cooled of a bit and torn some of the scales off. I made sure to blow on a piece of the fishes meat and took a bite. It tasted great even though I got a big piece of bone in my mouth. I knew that fish bone was safe to eat as long as it doesn't manage to get stuck in your throat so I made sure to just chew much more than normal so that any bones I swallowed were nice and ground up before I hand.
After I had finished about half the fish I saw a dark figure moving towards me in the distance. I didn't think much of it until it got closer. My first reaction was to yell as fast as I could "Holyshitabear!!" It originally started as a joke between me and my friends but it ended up becoming something we said anytime we noticed something bear related.
There was nothing strange or different about this bear in comparison to any normal brown bear, not that I had seen that many browns bears in my life. Of course that didn't really reassure me knowing that bears were dangerous. This bear seemed to be really focused on my hard earned fish.
The bear stood on its back legs and roared as loud as seemingly possible. Then I did something which I knew was completely stupid and was worth a facepalm, not that there was anyone there to offer a facepalm. I stood up tall and gave something along the lines of a death stare at the bear. I had a burning urge to fight the bear and had a feeling of complete confidence. My stare broke when I noticed a something that looked like a snowflake float up in front of my face. I looked around me a noticed that the ground around me was covered in frost and ice.
The bear charged at me in my moment of confusion only to stop two feet away from me as fluttershy flew over me. The bear was staring at Fluttershy as she started given a rant on how it had just almost attacked me and how that was wrong. I didn't see Fluttershy's face but judging by the sudden mood swing from the bear, it must have been something scary because once Futtershy's rant had ended the bear just kinda ran as fast a it could in the opposite direction.
I looked at Fluttershy in awe only to get the same look returned. During the heat of the moment I seemed to magically forget I had somehow froze the ground around me. That included my fish and the fire. I gave a disappointed sigh as I looked out how all my hard work had frozen over. At the same time I thought it was cool.
The idea that I had some newborn powers made me think of the possibilities. If I could understand these whatever these powers were and master them I would be able to do thing I had only dreamed of. A dark image popped up in my head as I kept thinking and I welcomed the idea with open arms. "The power to tear down empires." I thought to myself.
Even though I might have something that could be considered special powers, I decided to just leave it as a dream. I didn't know anything about this world other than that it had mythical creatures and magic. I had yet to have any real knowledge of there strength or order of rule. For now I would have to keep my eyes and ears open.
I put my socks and shoes back only to take them back off. It felt much nicer to walk barefoot and now that I didn't need to act as a proper human, I decided I would live more the way I liked. We started walking back to town. I didn't know what season it was here considering that fact that it was winter before I popped up here. Assuming it was about late spring or early summer I looked up at the sun. Judging by its height in the sky and my eternal clock I assumed it was some time in between 5 or 6.
There was a minor uproar as we reached Twilight's tree house. As Fluttershy knocked on the door slightly I cold hear fast footsteps eeerrrm, I mean hoofsteps rushing towards the door from the other side. Out of reflex I pulled Fluttershy away from the door as it swung open at fullspeed. Twilight jumped out of the building. I looked like she had been panicking.
"Oh Fluttershy, I so happy your safe. We thought something had happened to you!" Twilight said relieved.
"What do you think could have happened to me?" Fluttershy asked quietly as if she was sorry, which I think she actually was.
"Well you just spent the whole day with a strange animals we know nothing about. There seems to be an endless list of things that could have happened." Twilight responded.
We walked inside and sat down. The place had turned into a mess during my time gone. There were books all over the floor.
"So did you learn anything about it?" Twilight asked. Her voice was filled with one half excitement and one half crazy.
"I did." Fluttershy said with a smile. "He likes eating fish, he can fish and cook, he can make a campfire and he even talked to me."
"Really, what did he say?" Twilight asked losing some of her crazy.
"Well, it wasn't English but I'm pretty sure he thanked me." Fluttershy said. She sounded confident.
"Well this should help my try to get the princess come to Ponyville and see the......." Twilight paused for a second. "Wait a second, what makes you think its a boy?"
"Well for one, when I heard its voice, it was very deep. Also its body build is broad and strong. Most of the male animals I've taken care of have builds more like this in comparison to the females." Fluttershy explained. She was right about it all and I nodded slightly. They started a deep conversation about everything that had happened today. Having nothing to do I started cleaning up the mess. It was hard to think straight with all the books everywhere.
Its wasn't that hard to clean up. Each book had a colored marker that corresponding with its genre. I was amazed just how many different kinds of books there were. Whilst putting them away, I noticed that the ones still left standing were alphabetically ordered giving me the new challenge of putting them away in the right order.
I noticed that the aqua pony Lyra had been watching me for a while but chose to just ignore her and keep cleaning up, it was the least I could do in return for getting a roof over my head and a free meal. After a little while, I had managed to clean up the entire mess. I sat down and yawned. I was pretty tired from everything that I had done today and had the soar pains of moving around a lot. I was proud of these pains, It proved that I had worked hard.
I turned my head and noticed that Lyra was looking at the books I had put away. She seemed interested in the fact I had put them away. She walked up to me and looked at my feet. I guessed she might have seen I wasn't wearing any shoes or socks leaving me feet exposed. She walked away and just continued to watch me. I got bored of the waiting and started to drum out little beats on my legs to pass the time.
I looked out a window and noticed it was getting dark. It seemed I wasn't the only one who had realized this. The blue pony Longtrot walked in. "Lyra, Fluttershy, its getting dark we should probably leave. She said. Lyra got a look of disappointment and got up.
"Oh yah, I forgot to ask but can I stay here with him tonight?" Fluttershy pointed at me. "I mean.... if your okay with that." We all looked at Fluttershy with a confused look.
"Uuum okaaaay.......? I'm fine with that. There's a guest room upstairs you can use but try and be careful around him." Twilight said. "We still don't what he could do to one of us."
Fluttershy nodded and smiled at me. I didn't really know how to react and just smiled back. They said there goodbyes you Lyra and Longtrot and saw them out. Twilight then proceeded to tell Fluttershy where the guest room was. "I'm going to be doing some more research so I would prefer if you went up there now." Twilight said.
Fluttershy started her way upstairs. I followed closely behind. Once we were up She walked into a small room. It had a big bed in the center. The room looked very nice even though it lacked space. There was a basket full of blankets next to the door. I grabbed a few and laid in the bed, scooting myself into a corner of the bed that was up against the wall. I was used to sleeping with a cat and it always force me into those kind of places. I grew to enjoy sleeping like that which came in handy as Fluttershy hopped up into the bed with a book in her mouth. I didn't care to much about the book and slid my hand in between the wall and the bed. Tensing up my hand I managed to move the bed enough to give myself some breathing room and I laid my face in the opening. It was much earlier than the normal time I would go to bed but I was tired anyways. Slowly I felt my body shutdown and before I knew it I was asleep.
[Please excuse any spelling mistakes that I haven't filtered out yet. I ended this chapter at 1:40am and I'm tired as hell.Thank you for reading and I will start filtering sometime tomorrow morning.]
[*Update* I have filtered the thing out and now my only question is "How in the world did my brain turn sleeping into playing and I typed it down." The mystery's off me. Anyways thanks for reading and I should have a new chapter out soon.] Next Chapter: Conversation on the day. Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 59 Minutes