I woke up the next day, happy as can be. It was nice and early in the morning so the sun had not come up, leaving me without a headache. I had the same *Beat someone I don't like at school* dream and noticed that the chair I was sitting in was rather frozen. It once again sparked my interest as I put my overthinking cap on.

"So, with a urge to fight or irritation, things start freezing up around me. Isn't that odd." I thought to myself. As a little test I walked away from the cottage to be safe and thought of someone I hated doing something that ticked me off. As I thought the area around me began to freeze. The strange thing was that my cloths and accessories did not get a layer of frost or ice over them. "Well looks like I solved one mystery." I said. "So basically, things start getting cold when I am angry or have an urge to fight, both of which being moments were I am focused on someone or something I want to hurt. Maybe if I could learn to focus on other things correctly, I could get the same results."

I started testing my testing my theory. Trying to focus on object and thoughts but with little success. "Hate and sorrow are the two most easy things to focus on but are far from things I want to be focusing on especially if I somehow manage to work my way into a fight." I told myself. That's when it hit me. "Music!! Of course, how did I not think of that to begin with." When I listen to music I could completely forget about the world around me but I hadn't had any icy results when listening to it. This may meant if I learn to correctly focus my mental energy, I might be able to actively choose area's to freeze over. I had just to way to find out if this was true.

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Now this should be something anyone can do. What I want you readers to do is turn on a slow song with a clear rhythm. I find that if I listen to the halo theme music it easiest to do what I'm about to tell you. Now there are multiple ways to do this but I will explain the two easiest ways.

1. Close your eyes and as the song plays imagine that the different sounds you hear are points on your body. I normally do it with my arms. As reach note plays imagine one or more of these points being softly touched. If you are focusing correctly you should feel something on those points on your body.

2. As the song plays, keep your eyes open but not focused on anything. Now imaged a pulsing feeling go up and down parts of your body. Each of the pulses speed and feel being based off of a different note or notes of the song.

If you keep practicing this you should start really feeling as if you are being touch or that energy is pulsing around your body on command. Once you can do it with music, try imagining those same feelings but without music. You should be able to feel them and basically trick your brain into believe there really there. I call this "Mental energy". With it I have mostly been able to focus more strength into a movement for instance and I believe that if magic really existed, this would be the way you would tap into it.

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I put some music on and imaged pulses running through out my body. I focused them to my hands and looked at them, trying to keep my focus on the pulsing. To my great surprise, I saw snowflakes seem to form or some off my hands. My attention then turned to the strange stones on my gloves. They were glowing ever so dimly. I then touch the ground with my finger and watched as the ground slowly began to form frost and ice around my finger, It slowly spread out making a little circle of ice.

"Success." I said as I turned off my music. "If I can control it, I can hide it." I thought to myself happily. The more I was able to keep hidden, the more I could learn with out to much attention drawn to me. Of course this would me I would have to do my best to stay calm, which can be very, very, hard at times.

I spent some time thinking about all the possible things I could do with my relearned gift. Now that I knew I could actively use it I started wondering what all I could do with it. Sticking to the realms of logic, I knew that for now at least I could freeze just about anything, as long as there was moisture in the air. It probably also meant, I could freeze living things, which ironically sent shivers down my spine. It probably meant that that night I had slept with Fluttershy and when I had done the fishing trip was a stroke of luck beyond belief.

I thanked the nothingness about a million times before looking around me. I had the strange feeling that something was wrong. The sun was rising and a thick mist was forming around the forest in which I had made first encounter with the ponies. I felt as if something was watching me from within the mist. I tried to ignore it and sat down in the now wet chair, constantly looked back at the forest. My concern only grew and I started to get worried. Along with that my curiosity and urge to go into the forest grew as well.

The only thing that kept me from going was that I would leave Fluttershy with no real knowledge of my whereabouts. Sure I could just right a letter saying I went into the forest but that wouldn't really help. The forest was a big place and together with the mist, I doubt I would be able to go in without getting extremely lost.

I did my best to focus on other things whilst I waited for any sign of Fluttershy. I didn't wait to be impolite and just walk in or anything like that. She was the nicest thing I had ever met and I wanted to return that kindness back to her. I looked out in too the distance and saw four ponies walking to the cottage. It didn't take long for me to recognize them. It was Lyra, Longtrot, Rainbow and the purple unicorn. "Why can't I ever remember her damned name?" I thought to myself as they came closer. They had bags with them as if they were going on a trip.

Once they reached the cottage, I waved slightly. Longtrot waved back if a big grin. It looked like she was very excited about something. I didn't really know what to think of it. Longtrot and the purple unicorn walked over to the cottage whilst Lyra walked up to me. "Lets see if this works." She said as she stuck her hoof out at me. I thought for a quick second and realized what she was doing. She was signaling a hand/hoof shake. I happily reached my hand out and shook her hoof. She seemed happy by my reaction. "Yes, It looks like I was right." She said happily. She pulled a list and quill out of her bag and wrote a check done.

"Now lets see if he has a cutiemark." She said to herself. She pointed at a tattoo on her hind leg and pointed to my leg with a questioning face. For whatever reason, this made me think of a walrus with a monocle and top hat saying "Question mark face?". I did understand what she was motioning and checked my legs for any tattoos. After finding nothing I simple shook my head at Lyra. She put a cross on the next item on her list. This is when I realized two things. 1. All the ponies I have seen so far have had these tattoo aside from some far smaller ponies I had seen. "Must be part of pony puberty." I thought to myself. And 2. being that these last few day have been filled with realizations and I had to admit, It felt good to start understand new things. It was mostly theory based realizations, which was one of the things I was good at, because even if I was wrong, I could just get a chance to rethink it.

Rainbow had walked up to us during this time and was giving a strange look to me and Lyra. When I looked at her with a confused face, her expression turned to a disgusted look focused at me. "Why do you care so much about this thing?!" Rainbow asked Lyra. "Because its a rare species that was thought to be extinct." Lyra explain simply. She was looking through a book. She dropped the book in front of me. It was on a page with a very old map of earth. The map showed Europe and Asia and a large part of northern Africa. What it had was in great detail but the map was missing about half the world.

She pointed at the map and then pointed at me with the same questioning face. I grabbed the map and drew a circle on the edges trying to say that I was from somewhere else on the map. My signaling was not very good and she ended up not really understanding. I resign but this time what I did was draw a circle around the places on the map there were and make a X shaking my head. She seemed to understand now and nodded. Then I pointed at the area west of Europe and then pointed at myself. Now she understood me and nodded whilst a big realization popped up on her face.

"I think this map may be a liiiittle bit old." Lyra said as the other ponies walked up. "Lyra were almost ready, Fluttershy just has to get some things." The purple unicorn said.

"What is so important about this thing?!" Rainbow asked trying to understand.

"I told you already, this is an animal that has thought to be extinct for a very long time and me want to know more about its origins!" Lyra yelled. It seemed like she had been asked this a couple times already and that fact she was annoyed was easy to see.

Fluttershy walked up to the group. "I'm ready." She said. Now I had 3 items on my *OMG thats fucking cute* list. It seemed that Fluttershy had at least cute one moment a day. All I had to do was keep my eye out for more. "Well then lets go!" Longtrot said excited. To my extreme luck they started walked up to the forest. "Now might be my chance to find out whats wrong." I thought to myself.

"Well this is strange. The forest is normally never misty at this time." Fluttershy said with some concern. Considering she lived next to the forest, the would know best and that only added to my suspicions. I quickly caught up to them as the walked in. The mist was very thick as we entered and I made sure to stay close by. I had to admit the surrounding forest looked pretty nice, though I wish I had put my shoes on considering I kept stepping on small rocks and sticks which could hurt at times.

We kept walking, following the trail until we reached a familiar point. I started to feel uneasy, constantly looking around. I felt as if we were being watched, the feeling was not threatening or anything like that. Just unsettling. "Girls, maybe we should stop for a moment." Fluttershy said softly.

"Why?" Longtrot asked. It was clear she wanted to keep moving.

"Look....." She pointed at me. I didn't pay attention to them for very long. I could hear the wind blowing through the trees but there was a irregular sound moving across them. Now I knew something was watching us. There was no way I was just imagining things. "I think there might be something wrong. Something doesn't feel right." Fluttershy continued.

"Well this is the Everfree forest after all." Rainbow said. I was going to remember that name.

"No, I'm going to have to agree with Fluttershy." Longtrot said. "I've been in this forest quite a few times and I have never felt this way before. Not only that but last time I was here, when I first met the human. He was far more calm. Something is defiantly wrong."

"Well, I don't feel anything strange or anything like that." Rainbow said proudly. I don't have any idea how something could be proud by something like that. "Its because your too ignorant." I thought to myself. Suddenly my eyes locked on something in the distance. It was a large white figure. The mist made it seem further away that it really was which made me a bit scared so think of how big it really was. "Look." the purple unicorn said. She was pointing at the white figure. I thought it was a bit odd that they hadn't seen it early considering they were also alert but then I came up with a quick theory why. Human eyes I designed to pick up and react on movement quickly. It helped us stay alive but I don't remember when the evolutionary trait popped up in humans so I couldn't really explain why. Anyways, It was very possible that the ponies eyes didn't work in this way. For that matter I wondered if they could even see red.

I didn't get the time to dwell on it for long. The white figure started moving away at a fast speed. My body went on impulse and I started to chase the figure. I had no idea why, it was as if my body had just taken over. Any thoughts I had in stopping disappeared as I slowly gained on the figure. Behind me I heard the ponies as they yelled at me and tried to keep up.

The figure started going off the trail and had picked up speed. It seem like it knew I was following. Even without my shoes I followed. My focus on the figure was to high for me to feel any of the rocks or sticks. I started off the path after it, jumping over a thorned plant. My feet slices through the plant, or rather the plant sliced through my feet. They got completely scratched up in the jump. "Ow." I said as I kept running. A little thorn bush isn't going to stop me.

Even though there was more and more things that could have stopped me from chasing the figure, I easily avoided them with only some damage to my feet. I had always been good at obstacle courses and this was not different then one, other than that is was more painful. What quickly caught my eye whilst running was that there were small frozen patches everywhere. Not made by me, I was sure of that. As I kept running, I ran straight into an area that was completely frozen over. It was almost impossible to see the white figure against the background but instinct was helping me keep track.

The figure stopped in a clearing. As I reached the clearing my eyes just kept getting wider. I slowed down and simply walked into the clearing, mouth and eyes wide open in awe. There in the center of the clear stood a large white lizard thing. It was atleast 5 or 6 times my size with deep blue eyes staring right at me. All I could do was stare back. We stared at each other for a good long time.

I started hearing yelling and a trotting sound behind me. The ponies had finally caught up. "I'm glad we finally caught up to you." Lyra said. It appeared she hadn't seen the massive lizard through the trees yet. As she walked through into the clearing, her expression change from confusion and tire too awe and terror.

"Is..... is that a DRAGON!?! Lyra yelled. Her voice went from quiet to yelling mid sentence. Whilst she yelled she reared up and stood her hind legs. I facepalmed extremely had from that. "Yaaah, yell and make yourself look bigger. That won't piss off the dragon at all." I thought. I learn from tv that the last thing you want to do when faced with an aggressive animal is yell or make yourself look any bigger at all. It was a sign of a aggravation and aggression.

The dragon turned it attention too Lyra and let out a nice big roar. Lyra froze were she stood. Most likely from fear. The dragon then continued to take a very deep breath, tilting up its head and straightening its neck to let air through faster. "Wait... a dragon." I thought for a moment and realized what it was just about to do. "OH SHIT!!" I yelled as I shot out at Lyra to get her out of the dragons area of fire. I was just barely able to dive at Lyra pushing her out of the way before I heard a muffled roar and felt heavy wind pounding on my back.

The wind was blowing extremely hard and had me partially pinned down. I was able to face my back up against the wind and open my eyes. There was little snowflakes and ice shards flashed past me at a massive speed. My back started to feel like it was burning as the wind quickly stopped. I stood up and turned around to look at the dragon. It had a surprised look as if it didn't expect that to happen.

To be truthful, I was pretty pissed off. Not only had the dragon tried to attack something I could consider a friend but it had also underestimated me. Something I grew to respect was people that respected there opponent, not look down on them no matter if they where big, small, champion or beginner. You can look down and be a jerk after a fight but during it always treat your opponent as an equal.

"Oi, is dat alles dat je kan!?" I yelled at the dragon. I wanted to grab its attention and provoke it. It took my a second to realize that what I had done was really stupid and was probably going to get me killed but it didn't stop me. If I was gonna die, I was going to die with honor and the knowledge I died protecting something close to me.

A moment of silence formed as I pointed at Lyra and then pointed back with my thumb in the *Your out* motion. She understood and rushed back into the forest. I noticed that the other ponies were there and had been watching. I watched them run away as Lyra yelled something at them. I grinned and faced the dragon. I showed no fear. Finally I got the chance to fight something bigger and stronger than me. "I'm going to enjoy this." I said quietly. The dragon roared and charged at me. I stood still and prepared for action. Rule one of melee fighting: when given the chance, let your opponent attack first.

The dragon swung one of its claws at me. Reflex kicked in and I jumped to the side, barely dodging the attack and following with a stomp on its wrist. A loud crack was heard and the dragon roared out in pain. I was impressed with myself, not once had I ever fought with such early success or sudden damage. The dragon lifted up its arm. Its hand had gone completely limb. The dragon spun around swinging its tail and me. Running solely on instinct I ducked down again barely avoid the blow only to watch as it continued its spin. Time seemed to completely slow down as I watched its other claw swang at me.

Without thinking I felt a surge of energy rush throughout my body as I closed me eyes and threw my arms up to protect myself. I heard a loud bang and cracking noise thunder around me. I open my eyes to find myself surrounded in a icy sphere. It was cracked by the dragons swing but still held strong. The dragon recoiled from the unsuspected event and took a few steps back.. I took a deep breath trying to calm down from my near death experience. As I did this, the ice sphere seem to dissipate into a number of tiny ice shards which floated around in the air for a few seconds before disappearing.

I didn't know what to make off it. It seemed to lack any sense of logic. For a moment I drifted away in thought before realizing there is was still fighting a dragon. I stood back up and faced the dragon. It was prepare to breath its icy breath at me. I braced myself for impact as hit began its icy attack. Pieces of ice started to scratch up every exposed part of my body whilst the rest of it felt like it was burning. It finished its assault and yet I still stood. I grinned and this somehow seemed to scare the dragon. It slowly began to back up which turned into fleeing as it rushed into the forest.

For a moment I was alone, left to think about everything that had just happened. The first thing I thought about was how stupid I was for doing that. "Without thinking straight I managed to get in a fight with a fucking dragon." I thought to myself. Nothing seemed to make much sense anymore and I began to question everything that had happened to me since popping up in this strange place known as Equestria. I started refusing to believe any of it was real. "Magic, talking ponies, me fighting a goddamn dragon. This can't be any what real. I'm crazy! That is the only damn explanation for everything. None of this is real, I refuse to believe it!" I started to yell. I was having a emotional breakdown as I started to question everything. I didn't want to except any of it. "There was no such thing as fucking talking ponies, no damn magic, and no dragons." I yelled before collapsing to the ground.

I was exhausted and needed to calm down. Everything I had accepted from the moment I ended up in Equestria had never really been accepted. I just tried to bundle it up and pretended to believe but I never really did. It had caused hidden stress that I was letting all out now. I laid there for a while. Slowly calming down as I began the hard course of really accepting my fate.

I smiled as I got up. "I just beat the shit out of a dragon." I said quietly taking the moment to feel pride in what I had managed to do. The only damage it really seemed to have some was the scrapes all over my body and a healing piece of emotional damage. Even though the fight was very short I ended up enjoying it a lot. I poked one of my bruises. It hurt but the pain only made me feel better. It was proof of my actions.

I started walking back to the path. It hurt to walk, most likely because I moved beyond my physical bodies ability and was now paying for it. As I walked the pain continued to grow probably from the last of my adrenaline wearing off. There was an extreme pain in my wrist but the pain was so broad I managed to ignore it and keep walking. "Hell, anythings better than a tooth infection. Now those hurt like hell." I said to myself as I walked. I wasn't even joking, A tooth infection is so focused at on point on a nerve that no matter what you do you can't ignore the pain, at least that was the with me. With other people it might be different.

To help me forgot the pain, I started to wonder about how I got the bruises to begin with. I know I had been very ruff running through the think forest but I never remember bumping my arms or legs against anything other than a few thorn bushes. I thought about how I had seen pieces of ice flying past me when I was hit by the first breath of the dragon. "Maybe, the piece of ice were bigger at the focused point and I just didn't see or feel them because I was to focused to on the fight to realize it." I thought to myself. I wanted to check my wrist but the noticed something different.

The strange stone on my glove was glowing even brighter. The light it glowed was a deep blue color. I wondered what it meant. I knew that depending on the culture color could mean important things. I did know that in art, blue was more of a sad color but I never really cared for art. I wondered it the purple unicorn had any books on the meanings of color. Since I didn't have internet, books would have to do. "I wonder if I can find out anything about these gloves in one of her books aswell." I said to myself.

After doing the thinking I finally remembered why I had checked my arm in the first place. I tried take the glove of to check the damage but it seemed to be rather stuck. What I could see was that part of my wrist were turning black. "That can't be good." I thought to myself. I sighed in relief. It seemed my sanity had returned and I was back to my good old self. I smiled and picked up my pace. "Fuck you pain, I do what I want!" I joked. Nothing like a good joke to keep me going. Even though my jokes tended to not be funny for the people around me, I didn't care. I had joked because I liked them and that all that matter to me.

I found the path and slowly followed it out. It took quiet awhile to make it out of the forest but once I was out I felt relaxed. "I'm in massive pain and I'm relaxed. What kind of person am I?" I thought to myself as I walked up to the cottage. It seemed that no one was there. I checked the windows and didn't see anything inside. I decided to sit down in the same chair I had done this morning at wait. Fluttershy did live here and she would most likely be back before.

I looked up at what was not a clear sky. "It isn't even mid day and I need to get some rest, how does that work?" I thought to myself. Deciding it would be better not to wake up with a headache I moved the chair to a spot just inside of the forest. The shade was far nicer and the forest was still filled with mist, making it feel much nicer. I closed my eyes and drifted off into a pride filled sleep.

[Yaaaaay..... A new chapter. I hoped you like reading it. I feel much better after a good nights sleep and even though I have been getting tons of headaches I have managed to finished the chapter. I'll be trying to add some more dialogue into the following chapters. Once again I will be prereading the chapter and filtering it tommorrow, though I will say if you want to help me with filtering you can just PM me and I can send you the chapter right before it gets posted. I'm doing this because otherwise I don't have enough focus on the story to properly filter it. If you want a better know when the quality chapter has been improve I will add a *UPDATE* note under this block box (as I shall now forth call it.)

Thanks for reading and I hope you look forward to the next update.

Update: By some form of sorcery I have only been able to find a few mistakes. this could mean either 1. I'm improving or 2. I'm blind. Anyways it should be rather combed now. ]

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