I awoke to a bitter pain in my arm. When ever I moved it, it would hurt. I check my wrist. It wasn't swollen so I didn't worry to much. "The muscle must be damaged but I don't think that its broken." I thought. I didn't really know because I had never broken a single bone in my body. All I could really do is hope, not something I was bad at. I did my best to get out of the chair and with a pain filled groin. I managed to get up after a couple seconds. I didn't even think of complaining about the pain. I was proud of it, more proud than I should have been.

I looked around me and saw that the fog was still very thick. I had only been a few meters away from the edge of the forest and yet I couldn't see out of it. I grabbed the chair, which seemed to be much lighter now and walked to the edge of the forest wall. It was completely clear of fog or mist outside of the forest, which surprised me. You'd assume that there would at least be pieces of the fog that had escaped. I didn't really think about it too long. "Its magic." I concluded. I proceeded to look at Fluttershy's house to see if there was any sign of life, aside all the animals. I could see a light on inside her cottage and prepared to walk over to it.

Right as I took my first step, Fluttershy's door opened. I watched as 2 male ponies walked out of the cottage followed by a much larger white pony thing. I lost all urges to walked up to the cottage and set the chair back down. My curious side kicked in and I just watched the new ponies from afar. The 2 small pony were wearing golden armor and helmets. The helmets resembled that of a hopliet greatly, only ponified. The guards had no forms of weapons, which made me think that the guards were only a symbol of status.

The big white pony and both a horn and wings. I had no idea what it could be other than that I didn't think it was a pony and that it was probably a just. If this places has talking ponies, magic and dragons then nothings going to stop me from believing there are also horses. It said something to someone in the door and started walking away. Once they were completely out of sight.

I made my move and with chair in hand, I slowly crept up to the cottage. I knocked on the door and heard slow hoofsteps. Fluttershy opened the door. She look like she had been crying and was looking down, literally. "What is it?" She asked in a voice that could make my heart shatter. "Well, I stole your chair and came to return it no longer making it stealing but instead lending without permission, if that makes any since to you." I said.

Fluttershy looked up in surprise. A big smile grew on her face and I'm pretty sure her eyes were starting to shine. "GUNNAR!!!" She yelled as she jumped on me. Now instead of my heart shattering, it started to melt. "Ow ow ow ow ow......... ow." I said as Fluttershy hugged me. "Oh, are you hurt? I'm sorry." She said with a quiet yet happy voice. "Cuteness...... Overload..... Systems failing!!" I thought. It seemed the more I was around her the cuter she got. "Oh wait... your hurt!" She said and then continued to rush into her cottage.

A new realization popped up. "Wait, she is the first pony to call me by my name. This calls for in mind celebration!!" And with those thought I began to throw a party in my head. Everything went the way I wanted it to go until a pink pony popped up. She rushed around the room in my head. "Huh, I have never heard this music before." The pony said. She slowed down a tiny bit and looked at my table full of food. To my horrors she walked straight up to the last root beer. "I wonder what this is." She opened the can and drank it. "This is delicious!! I need to find out how to make it!!" The pink pony proceeded to bolt of the door of my imagination, leaving me there.... Root beerless. "Damn you, mind hijacking PONNNYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! "I shouted in my head. "Now you left me with only a ton of Pepsi, I hate Pepsi!!" I continued. "Wait a second, this is my party. Who's idea was it to get Pepsi?!?" My mind party ended, That fact I didn't get my root beer sucked but the rest of the party was awesome.

Apparently, during the time I no longer had any contact with reality, Fluttershy had come back with a med-kit. "Have my days playing videogames finally caught up rto me?" I thought. Fluttershy waved her hoof in front of my face. "Anypony in there?" She aked quietly. "Is there anything this pony can't do and act cute." I wondered to myself as I got up.

"Well there was somepony in there but now its just me." I said with all seriousness. Fluttershy just looked at me with a confused look. "Say do you happen to know a pink pony with super poofy hair?" I asked.

"Why yes, that would be Pinkie Pie. How do you know her?" Fluttershy asked. She was getting even more confused.

"She stole my root beer." I answered still holding all sense of seriousness. Its not like I was lying.......... or was I. Now we both had a confused look on our faces. Though it seemed more like I had momentarily broken Fluttershy's mind. I started to notice my crazy was shining through like a flash light. Fluttershy snapped back into reality and looked at me with hopeful eyes. "So your hurt, may I check your wounds?" she asked.

"I'd prefer if you did. Thank you." I said sincerely. It was rare that anyone ever cared for my pain, impart because I hid it, but when I showed it, I rarely was even noticed. I got up and we walked into Fluttershy's cottage. It was very neat and tidy. Everything seemed to have its place. We walked into a separate room and I was instructed to take off my shirt. Fluttershy checked my chest and arms for anything serious. A few minutes later Fluttershy had checked almost my entire body. "Nothing serious. You just need to sleep it off and make sure to eat a lot." Fluttershy said.

Coincidentally, my stomach started to rumble. "Well, lets start with tip number two." I said. Fluttershy got happy and walked in a separate room. She came back a few moments later with yet other bowl of fruits and lettuce. The twist being that there were now multiple kinds of nuts to choose from aswell.  "Don't come in to the kitchen, I going to make a surprise for you."

I started happily eating the food given to me. "Now that Fluttershy is busy I can return to the matter of my stolen root beer." I thought to myself giving out an evil scientist laugh. I reactivated the mind party.

[Once you cross this line you will enter the inner circle of my mind. You have been warned.]

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I seemed whilst I was gone the place had gotten trashed and my door was missing. "Must have been a rave." I said to myself. "I grabbed a broom and started cleaning up the mess. "Wait a second, I didn't come to clean up. I came here to demand a root beer!" I shouted "ITS PARTY TIME!!"  At that moment the same pink pony popped up. "Did I hear party?!" She asked. "Yes.... A party indeed. I said. I started to laugh like a evil scientist. The pink pony started laughing with me.

We both stopped laughing after a moment. "What are we laughing about?" The hyper pony asked.

"Oh nothing. Say could you stand on that red X?" I asked.

"Okie doki loki." The pink pony said as she walked over to a red X that was set suspiciously close to two massive robot arms.

"Haha, The trap has been sprung!" I said as a slammed on a big red button. Nothing happened. "What now?" The pink pony asked.

"Hold, on give me a second, something seems to have gone wrong." I check the control panel. Nothing seemed to be wrong but the only way to be sure was to check the inner part of the machine. "Say could you give me that toolbox? I asked the pink pony. "Okay." The pink pony replied. She bolted over to the toolbox and picked it up with her mouth and brought it over to me. "Thanks." I said. I used a screwdriver to open up the the control panel, revealing a stairway down. I walked down and the pink pony follow.

"Say what is your name?" I asked the pink pony.

"I'm Pinkie Pie, what your name?" The pony now forth known as Pinkie Pie asked.

"My name is Gunnar. Nice to meet you." I turned to the pony and motioned a handshake. She shook my hand happily. The case ended up being that is was too happily and we both ended up falling down the remaining stairs. "Ow ow ow ow. "I said rubbing my head. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Pinkie Pie said. She was sitting on my back and quickly jumped off.

I got up and looked around. A noticed the problem. "So that's where my door went!" I said. The door was stuck in between to massive gears. I walked up to the door and tried to pull it out with little succes. "Hmmm it appears to be quite stuck." I said after giving it a few more tries.

"Looks like we will have to break the broken down door." I said whilst grabbed a sledge hammer. I began banging on the door as it slowly began to weaken and crack. Suddenly the door snapped in two and the gears started running again. "Well looks like that works. Lets go back up." I said as we walked over to the stairs and got back to our original positions. I hit the red button. For a moment there was a rumble and then suddenly the big robotic arms grabbed Pinkie Pie. I had a moment of evil laughter before grabbing a microphone.

"Testing, testing, 1 2 3, testing." I said into the microphone. "Is this thing even on?"

Pinkie nodded. "Okay, I will keep it simple due to my lack of time. You owe me a root beer." I said.

"Whats a root beer?" Pinkie asked.

"That drink you drank at my in mind party. Anyways, I hear someone coming. It was nice meeting you and I hope you have my root beer soon." I said.

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[And back to reality. Wasn't that a nice dose of random?]

I started fading back into reality as Fluttershy walked into the room. She had a new, flatter bowl in her mouth with something on it. My eyes widened once I saw what was in it. "Thank you Fluttershy! This has to be one of the best thing I have gotten for a loooooong time." I said happily. It a plate with three big seasoned fish on it. They looked delicious. They had been cooked to perfection and I wanted to dig in right away but I managed to wait until Fluttershy got her own food and started eating.

It was the best meal I had ever had and I didn't leave a single piece untouched. I waited for Fluttershy to finish her food before getting up. It was a matter of respect. She had made what looked like roasted dandelions and salad. To be truthful it look rather tasty but then again I thought almost anything sounded tasty if I had never eaten it before.

Once she was done a chat broke out under the topic *How did you survive a dragon attack.* I explained to her what happened, making sure to avoid the part about the ice sphere. It was one of the only things I could consider a secret.

"Oh yah, I saw two ponies and a horn/winged horse walking away from your house. What was that about?" I asked

"Twilight had sent a letter to the princess regarding the dragon and you. Once the fog had left, the princess was going to send a number of search parties out looking for you but she said for me to prepare myself for the worst and told me about the likelihood of surviving a dragon attack."   Fluttershy responded.

"So what is the likelihood of surviving a dragon attack." I asked.

"Hehehe......" Fluttershy nervously "She said that you probably would have been eaten..." That didn't really answer my question but I didn't ask further. "I'm sorry for leaving you with the dragon..." Fluttshy said. Tears came to her eyes. Once again my heart was shattering at the sight of the very sad pony.

"Oh don't feel bad. I'm still here by luck from the sound of it. If I had been eaten by the dragon and you were there, what do you think would happen to you? Nothing good I would assume. You did what you could to stay safe, that's what mattered then and it looks like you were successful." I said with a warm smile. I set my good hand on her shoulder to help make her feel better. She seemed to be reassured by it and smiled back. There was still a hint of sorry in her eyes but nothing to serious. It still hurt my heart to see her sad.

"So what did the rest do after getting out of the forest?" I asked trying to take her mind off of her sorrow.

"Well, Lyra said she was going to go try and find somethings out about human culture, I can't image why." Fluttershy answered. I had an idea why and I felt a bit insulted by it. What I thought it was for was a traditional funeral and even though Fluttershy said that the chances of surviving a dragon attack are slim, I felt as if I was being extremely underestimated. Which apparently I was considering I survived.

"Twilight had gone off to send a letter to the princess, who ended up coming to Ponyville. She had taken some interest in you and the news that you had been attacked by a dragon was enough to get her to come here. I guess she will be happy to here your okay." Fluttershy continued. "So apparently the horse was the princess of Equestria. I wonder what the king or/and king looks like." I thought to myself.

"Longtrot, went to find some stuff. I don't know what she wanted to find but she said she'd be back tomorrow." Fluttershy said. "I don't know what Rainbow Dash went to do. She seemed rather angry and just left with out saying anything." She ended followed closely by a big yawn.

"You look tired, maybe you should get some sleep now." I said. She started to look more and more tired as the minutes ticked by. She still ended up looking cute which made me feel happy on the inside. I didn't know what time it was and my earlier nap left me wide awake so I couldn't really make any estimations.

"Maybe your right, it is getting pretty late." Fluttershy said after yawning again. "But I need to keep an eye on you and your injuries."

"You've done enough worrying for me, please try and rest up if you are feeling tired." I said. I knew how it felt to stay up later than my body wanted me to and ending up being slow, stressed and uncaring for others. An instance I had once hit a friend so hard he almost cried because he had been annoying me and I didn't care to put any effort of weakening my punch. Even though Fluttershy would probably act differently, it still sucked to be tired in the middle of the day because of following the stupid idea of not going to be on time.

Fluttershy just nodded slowly and walked into a different room. I followed close behind. She had walked into a nice little bedroom. She walked up to her bed and laid down. She was even more tired than she looked and it looked like she was already falling asleep. I saw a little mirror and the book on mythic animals and items. I picked both up and blew out the light candle in Fluttershy's room and dining room. I didn't know is it was safe or normal for her to leave the lit so did it as a precaution.

I grabbed a lantern from one of the rooms and brought the three items outside. I grabbed the chair and sat down next to a little garden table. First I spent some time looking through the book. I wanted to see if I could find out anything about why my appearance had changed and where I could have possibly gotten the strange powers from. I read through the book, there was tons of different things that pulled my interest.

What It really liked was the chapter about the elemental groups and there separate types. There seemed to be three main groups. The first being the elements of harmony. There were six separate elements in this group. Kindness, generosity, loyalty, honesty and for some reason laughter and magic. It explain what the a user of one of the elements would be like and how it would reflect on others. I didn't question laughter but I did wonder why magic was a magic element and the book did say why either. The other thing the book didn't say that I came to realize was that the first five elements worked like double edged swords.

The element of kindness meant that its holder would be kind to all and try to help in just about any situation. The other edge being that the user could never resort to an act of cruelty or revenge and being as kind to always give others a second chance, could easily be tricked or robbed of any form of fortune, be it wealth or happiness.

The element of generosity meant that its holder would be able to give up anything to help another and at the same time would never feel regret in doing so. However this meant that the holder could ruin there own life in the pursuit of helping another.

The element of loyalty could be the worst and best of the elements simultaneously, with great loyalty the user could end up doing things that he or she would regret knowing fully well it could be wrong but his or her urge to stay loyal meant the user would do so anyways.

The elements of honesty and laughter have about the same effect. One can be very truthful or happy but when things start going very bad, this honesty or lack of seriousness towards the issue could lead to chaos or alienation in a group.

Magic was the only element that was not an issue being that it could only be active if linked together with the other five elements of harmony. The book said that when linked the elements could change or banish evil. Turing beings of pure hate, cruelty or chaos to stone and purifying a creature that has been corrupted.

The next group of elements were the elements of conflict. There were also known as the human elements which was rather fitting after reading what the elements were.  There were nine different elements, four being positive and negative four being negative.

The positive elements were of progress, ingenuity, community and curiosity. The negative elements were of greed, war, hate and trickery. The book didn't have any description of the elements that were in anyway, about side of what you could assume them to do. What did interest me was what the book said about the ninth element, the element of power.

The book said that if at least one element that was positive and one that was negative linked then it would lead to either there greatness or destruction based on which two or more elements linked. It seemed that when ever the element of power formed, conflict would followed. "Must be where they got the name from." I thought to myself.

The last group of elements was of time. The least information was given about these elements in which only a being of great power could control one. Not much else of than the names of the known elements of time were given. The elements were of life, death, evolution and extinction. It seemed like like this group was the group of unknown and spare elements based of speculation.

I continued to read through the book when I found something which yet again pulled my interest. It was a chapter on something called a "Knowledge stone" I had no idea what it was that meant until I read further. It seemed that certain items would be found with rare stone in them and according to the book they could hold magical information. It talked about how the stone could pick up and store magic and with training the user could tap into the information and use a spell or spells that depended on the users magically ability and cast it.

Researches could never recreate one of the stones and it seemed that each stone would give information differently meaning that some stones could teach you forever whilst others needed something along the lines of a key to activate. How the stones managed to collect information baffled the researchers, some stone would collect information at random yet other would collect information if you cast a spell at one. There was an entire list of methods, different stones used to collect information. The last thing the book said on the matter was that no one knew where the items came from or how they got them. Some testimonies even said that they had magically woke up with the items, which sounded rather familiar.

I set down the book and looked at my gloves. The stones were still glowing but it was a dim glow again. "Hmmm, I wonder if you are a knowledge stones." I said to the stones as if I was going to get a reaction. I started to get tired myself and stood up to stretch. The moon was high in the sky and was shining a beautiful like across the land. One thing I realized it that the moon looked far bigger than that of earth. I took a moment to enjoy the beauty before walked over to the mirror. I wanted to see what all had changed about me through a 3rd person view.

I looked at myself and smiled. I thought I looked rather awesome. My hair seemed to glow in the moonlight, which only added to the affect. Giving my face a better look I noticed something that sent a shock through my body. "Where are my damn pupil?! How the hell can I see?" I said trying to keep from yelling. It seemed that my pupils had completely disappeared. To make things even stranger my iris had changed color to what considered a deep grey. I looked at myself with a glassy look. With no pupils, it was harder to tell what I was looking at via the mirror.

I didn't know how to react to this at first but quickly started to theorize how in the world I was able to see. All I could really think off is that somehow, the receptors in my eyes had shifted and would now be on the iris. What counted this theory was the fact my field of view never changed meaning that the receptor could not have moved. The only other explanation was that somehow my iris was not blocking light, which was also counter with the fact my field of view would still have been changed.

No matter how hard I thought, I couldn't figure out why I could see the same as always, even though I lacked the holes in my eyes which were required to see. Two knew theories popped up that would probably be considered crazy. The first being that somehow, the receptors had moved to my iris but my brain had still been able to change the signals into a picture that looked the same. The only two issues with this was I would still pick up the light at a different rate, making the change visible and the time it would take for the brain to switch this had not been enough considering I could see once I woke up on the mountain.

The other theory was the most logical and yet still insane. If could be possible that there was now tiny holes in my iris, basically a ton of little pupils that were just small enough not to be visible but just big enough to pick up enough outside information. Together with the pieces of information and the information that my brain had stored though out my life my eyes could build up an image of what I was seeing. The only thing making this theory sound crazy was that it was just to plain strange, but that is what I ended up accepting.

The second part of my day had been painful yet great. I had been able to have one of the most random events in my head to date, in which a pony actually entered my mind and stole my root beer. I had had one of the best meals ever and witnessed one of Fluttershy's most cute moments. Finally I had learn quite a bit more on the massive amounts of myths and powers in this new world and found out eye have no visible pupils but was able to think of a odd enough theory that could explain my odd situation.

I walked over to the chair and sit down, even though It felt better to play down I had grown attached to the chair and would rather sleep in it. As I dozed off I took a moment to think of my new goals. 1. I needed to find out about how to use my power and the strange stones in my new glove things. 2. I needed to find out why my appearance and certain mental factors had changed so dramatically and 3. Get myself some damn root beer from the pink pony known as Pinkie Pie.

It had been another good day.

[Hooray for random events!! Thanks for reading yet another chapter of Insert. I have really enjoyed right this story so far and I hope the additional random (That does really happen in my head.... some people say I'm crazy.)

Once again I will be throwing up an UPDATE sign once this chapter has been filtered. I hope you look forward to another chapter, because I am. Good night people.

UPDATE: Not that is no longer night and I finished with school for the mean time I have done my best to filter the chapter though I have to admit that a lack of focus my have screwed it up.... ]    

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