Do you ever get that feeling were you wake up and wish that you hadn't? Well I had this right now as I slowly came to my senses. I had a headache that could kill and to make things worse, someone had been ever so smart to set me so that the sunlight was only barely shining into one of my eyes.

My next reaction was rather needed.   "Fuck!" I yelled at the top of my lungs as put my hands over my forehead. With that out of my system I tried to sit up and look around me. I couldn't remember anything that had happened from what I assumed was the day before aside from something about dragons and war and dragons going to war. Then my memories slowly started flowing back into my head, which for some reason made it hurt even more.

I finally gained the focus to look around me and noticed that I was surrounded by quite a few ponies in what seemed to be a barn. My little shout of pain seemed to have drawn there attention to me and I was being given a multitude of confused and concerned looks. With a little bit more focus I was able to remember just about each and ever pony in that room which made me completely forget about my headache.

Before Fluttershy, Lyra, Rainbow, the purple pony of which her name I could not remember. the little white pegasus and of course the orange cowpony. The site of the orange pony quickly reminded me of the hoof to the face. Without thinking I got up and walked up to the orange pony, who just kinda stood there, set my hand on the ponies head and stuck down with the over. My hand absorbed a large piece of the blow but it didn't stop the pony from faceplanting into the floor below. "Dat was voor dit." (That was for this.) I said pointing at the big bump on my forehead.

Rainbow charge me only to be stopped by what seemed to be the purple ponies magic. "What was that for?!" Rainbow yelled, only adding on to the excruciating pain in my head. To add on to that I ended up facepalming to that comment. I thought I had made it rather clear why I had done that but as my hand came in contact with the bump on my head I felt what could only be the second most painful experience of my life. The only thing topping it would still be a tooth infection.

I fell back rolling around on the floor due to the pain. I wish I had an icebag or something along those lines to help with the swelling and headache. The ponies started talking amongst themselves as Fluttershy helped the orange pony up. It was at this moment that I realized just how awkward this moment felt. I sat up and took a few deep breaths. The pain started to fade away, but the headache never really changed. I was prone to headaches so getting used to It wasn't really an issue as long as I had something to focus on.

"Well looks like he'll be okay." The orange pony said as she looked at me with angry eyes. Seeing It as a challenge I tried to mimic her eyes. Not having mirror though I didn't know if I was successful or not. "You mind not starting a new fight, Applejack?" Lyra asked. "I want to try some new things with Gunnar and the last thing I need is for him to be knocked out again."

I took this as an insult. "If she hadn't surprised me with a falcon kick to the forehead I could have probably stood some chance!" I thought as if I was talking to Lyra. I signed and closed my eyes. A moment of piece would be nice for me to forget the headache and maybe do some good old day dreaming but it seemed the Lyra had other plans.

"Gunnar?" Lyra said as if about to ask a question. I opened my eyes and looked at her. She smiled at my reaction. "Well it looks like you were right about his name." She said happily. I wondered if I had really reacted to my name when one of the ponies had said it up until now. The only reaction I had really made up until this point was my in mind party. Which reminded me. "Pinkie Pie still owes me a root beer!" I surprised myself by being able to remember her name when it was only from a thought considering I still couldn't remember the purple ponies name.

Lyra motioned at me to follow her out of the barn. Seeing no reason not too, I got up and followed. During my walk out, I was eyed by the little white pony. She seemed curios about me, which made sense. I was apparently some super rare/extinct species which made me think. "If I am super rare here, why would they same that the human species was extinct. Wouldn't it be better to say either humans were extinct or just rare? It seemed illogical to chose both. Oh well, it doesn't seem to be a problem so lets just leave it that way."

I continued thinking about it and almost crashed into the barn door. "Man, I need some rest." I thought as I wander out of the barn looking for Lyra. It was getting dizzy from the head injury and moving around was making it worse. I tried to ignore it and find Lyra. She had walked up to one of the apple trees and was waiting on me.

"Can you do this?" She asked as she pointed to me with a questionary face. She then turned her back to the tree and gave it a good kick which knocked some apples out of the tree. I assumed that there was little to no way that I was going to be able to knock any apples out of the tree but decided to try anyways.

I walked up to a tree and first tried kicking it as if I was trying to kick a door down. I somehow missed the tree almost completely and fell down. My coordination was really off from the head injury and I doubted I would be able to knock any apples out.

I took a deep breath and tried to focus before giving the kick another try. This time I was able to hit it square in the middle of the trunk and Knocked a few apples down. Once again through unluckness a apple decided the best place to make first contact with was the bump on my head. Instead of rolling around on the ground in pain I just put my hand on on the bump and push as hard as I could.

Now for most this would be considered insane but I had a reason for doing this. At first it hurt extremely bad and I was groaning from the pain but the longer I pushed the less the pain became. Eventually I could hardly feel the pain anymore and it got used to the pain and pressure. I never knew why this worked with bumps or bruises but whenever I did this the pain seemed to just disappear.

Meanwhile Lyra was giving me a look of *WTF are you doing, are you insane?* look as I did this. It made me laugh in my head as I tried to ignore the last of the pain. This made her face change into *Okay, hes fucking insane* look. All that made me do was laugh louder and the pain completely disappeared. Even my headache was leaving as I lost all focus on it. "The magic of not giving a damn." I thought to myself with a smile. For a brief moment in time all I could do was feel happy.

My happy moment was ruined as the orange came out of the bare laughing. "You two call that bucking?" She said as she walked up to a new tree. She kicked it knocking each and ever apple out of the tree. "Now that's how you buck a apple tree." She said with a confident grin.

I made the *Challenge accepted* pose and walked up to yet another tree. I tried different methods of kicking the tree, but couldn't reenact the orange pony in efficiency. I swapped from kicking to running into the tree full force. It knocked out almost all the apples in one go but costed too much energy. The orange pony bucked another tree just to show off which only further motivated me to find away to knock out the apples in one go.

My little test with Lyra had turned into something along the line of a science project about the most efficient way to knock apples out a of apple tree. Seeing how bashing the trees failed I went back to kicking. After finding what seemed to be the best kicking method, being the door kick method, I started find what was the best places to hit the tree trunk and from what distance.

The best place to hit the tree ended up being about halfway up the trunk. The only problem I was really having was finding what distance was best to kick the tree's. It seemed that different trees needed to be kick from different distances. Not only that but if I kicked from to close there wouldn't be enough force to knock the apples out but if I kicked from to far away I would either miss or hurt myself in the process.

For a moment I stopped and wondered, "Why in the world am I doing this?" I really didn't know why I had started practice on how to kick a tree but it was rather fun and I wasn't the only one practicing. The little white pony had come out of the barn and was now also trying to knock the apples out of the trees.

She looked very cute as she tried to kick the trees and I had a moment of hng. I took a break from my tree kicking practice and looked for Lyra. She wasn't exactly to hard to find considering she had watching me the entire time. She had brought a quill and some paper with her and had been swapping between watching me and writing things down. One could assume she was writing things about me or her study on me but I could be wrong.

I walked up to Lyra and sat down next to her. She was sitting up against a tree in an odd fashion, kinda like how I would but I normally would sit cross legged. To be honest it looked rather painful but Lyra seemed comfortable so I tried to ignore it. She looked up from her papers and looked around confused "Huh, where'd he go?." she asked looking around. I tapped her on the shoulder and made her jump out of surprise.

I couldn't help but laugh at this which ended up being a mistake as she poked me in my side which made me shoot up myself. She was intrigued by my reaction and poked me again. I bounced up again and quickly made some distance between me and her.

"Oh god, she has found my only weakness!" I thought as I slowly walked away. A rather sinister smile popped up on her face and she start slowly walking up to me, moving a little faster each step. I realized just what she wanted to do and started running away. It was hard to run due to my journey back and my endless tree kicking practice. Lyra started catching up to me and was trying to knock me.

She aligned herself and prepared to pounce on me. She jumped at me and I was only just able to avoid her. "Wait a second, I have finger!" I thought to myself and proceeded to shoot up the nearest tree like a cat running from a dog. I took a moment to catch my breath and started to feel the tree shaking. I looked down and noticed Lyra kicking the tree. She kicked a few times before I heard someone shouting in the distance.

"Need some help?" The orange pony said after popping up from behind some other trees. "That would be appreciated, thanks." Lyra said. The orange pony walked up to the tree and faced her back to it. "Oh god." I thought right before the orange pony gave a good kick to the tree. It shook violently but I somehow managed to hang on.

I wasn't able to save myself from falling out at the second kick and landed right on my back. As some kind of mean joke from nature itself, one of the apples had stuck to one of the branches. The orange pony tapped the tree one last time and the apple hit me right in the head. "Kut pony!" (I don't know how to translate that...) I yelled. During the moment, I had forgotten that Lyra was still there and she went straight to jumping at me.

I rolled out of the way and scrabbled to get up which happened even faster than Lyra could react on. If you played dodgeball the same way I did then you'd understand how fast that goes. Yet another stroke of unluck popped up as the orange pony joined the chase. I was getting tired but my hate for getting poked in the side kept me going. Really there was nothing that I hate more than getting poked in the side.

I looked for the most hardest area to run around and found something perfect. There was an area with tons of large rocks everywhere with just enough tree to move around in. I rushed towards it being closely tailed by the two ponies. I started bouncing over rocks using tree branches to aid myself. My planned had worked and I was quickly gaining distance.

I noticed something blueish in the corner of my eyes coming at me with great speeds. I turned my head to get a better look at it. To my disbelief Rainbow had joined the chase as was now flying at me. "Oh kom op!!" (Oh come on!") I yelled before running behind a tree. Rainbow bolted by and started turning around. I check to see where the other ponies were and realized just how much distance they had made in the small moment I took to dodge Rainbow.

I decided the best thing to do was act like an idiot and run at the ponies. If I could catch them off guard I could regain my lost distance. I waited until the ponies were close before making my move. I bolted out from behind the tree and charged them. Lyra started to slowdown but the orange pony continued running at full speed or rather the maximum speed to could maintain amongst the rocks.

As we were just about to pass eachother I quickly jumped on and off one of the boulders propelling me through the air. I stretched my arms out to grab a incoming tree branch and was able to swing myself over the orange pony, who looked on in awe as I ran away. My next obstacle amongst obstacles was Lyra who tried to work like a wall and block me. Unfortunately for her there was just to many tree I could bolt around and it left her wall tactic useless.

I was really getting tired now as I tried to continue running but so were the ponies. Rainbow dash was the only one now still going at full speed but her sweeps at me were easily dodged by simply sticking close to the trees as I ran. As Rainbow made one of her sweeps I bolted behind a tree only to her a scream in front of me.

It was the little white pony once more with a look of fear on her face. Suddenly Lyra popped up behind and jumped right on my back knocking me forwards. Thanks to some last minute reflexes, I was just able to keep myself from crushing the white pony under my and Lyra's combined weight.

She froze in fear as I fell and as I hung over her I realized just how small she was. She was no longer than my arm and my chest almost touched her head. "Oh, sorry Milk, didn't mean to scare you." Lyra said, looking over my shoulder. The pony now known as Milk  made some distance between me and her letting me collapse under Lyra's weight.

Lyra just kinda laid on my back trying to catch her breath making it hard for me to catch mine. "Ah man you caught him before me!" Rainbow said as she landed a few meters away from us. "Why did you need to catch him anyways?"

"It doesn't matter anymore, I'm too tired to care." Lyra said happily. I kinda wished she had gotta off my back considering I was now sweating like crazy and I didn't want to make Lyra get all sticky from my sweat but she didn't seem to care the slightest bit.

"I have to admit, he's really good at running away." Rainbow said.I didn't know if I should have taken that as a compliment or an insult but didn't care to much about. "Well he was able to catch up to that dragon in the forest. The only reason I was even able to catch up to him was because he stopped for Milk Thistle." Lyra said. This did sound like a compliment and I took some pride in it, not that I was going to be able to tell anyone.

"What happened out here?" A familiar voice said. I tried to turn my head and who was talking but was stopped by Lyra who had found it most comfortable on my back. Instead of getting off me and checking to see who it was Lyra just sat up and turned her body. "Oh hi, Twilight." Lyra said, Somehow I knew she was talking about the purple pony who's name I kept forgetting. "Damn it, Why do I remember these things now?!" I yelled in my head.

"We were playing a game of tag." Lyra continued.

"So why are you sitting on Gunnar's back?" Twilight asked. "Oh hay, she said my name." I thought to myself. It may sound weird but I was missing the sound of my own name.

"It comfy here." Lyra replied. My back was starting to hurt from Lyra's weight but I cared to little to do anything about it. I did what I could to lay comfortably and shut my eyes, I was tired and wanted to take a nap. Not that I thought that I could actually sleep like this but I had fallen asleep it stranger places that this so trying wouldn't hurt. Unless of course I really did fall asleep here, in which case I was probably going to wake up with bad pain in my face and back.

"Maybe we should take him to a bed, he looks tired.." Yet another voice said. I recognized it as Fluttershy's voice almost instantly. "You don't say." I thought before shaking Lyra off my back. I opened my eyes and got up. Lyra had a sad look on her face. "Was my back really that comfy?" I thought to myself. The idea laying down in a bed sounded wonderful but Lyra's face made me want to get back down on the ground and let her back on to my back.

I stretched only to her every bones in my body crack and pop. My body felt soar from all the kicking, running and apparent bumping into things. I had some bruises on my arms and legs which probably came from the running but I rarely ever knew were I got my bruises from.

"Well it looks like its time to get going." Twilight said. I walked up to her and smiled thankfully. The rest of the group listened and started on its way out of the apple orchard aside from Milk and the orange pony. "Same Fluttershy, Do you mind if Gunnar's stays at my house today. I want to see what else he can do." Lyra asked.

"I don't see why not." Fluttershy said whilst looking at me questionably. I nodded to say that I was fine with it, though if I really had a choice in the matter or not was debatable. We made our way out of the orchard and ended up at a familiar road. I looked around and saw some rooftops out in the distance.

"I will see you girls later." Fluttershy said quietly before splitting off onto a different path. Plus one to my memories of Fluttershy's cutest moments. "By Fluttershy." Twilight and Lyra said. We waved goodbye and continued on our way. It was a rather quiet trip back. We passed Twilight's library and Lyra said her goodbyes. We walked a few more minutes before reaching a little house on the edge of town.

Lyra walked up to the door and opened it using her magic. We walked into the house and I quickly looked for a spot to sit down and do rest my feet. Lyra went into a different room and came out shortly after with two cups of something. She set on of the cups down in front of me and sat in a chair across from me.

For whatever reason I didn't trust the liquid that had been placed in front of me and looked at Lyra to see if she was drinking it. She took a sip and continued to look at me. I decided that there was no reason not to try the drink set in front of me and picked up the cup. I took a sip to taste test the drink. It tasted like something between strawberry juice and milk, which tasted pretty good.

I quickly found myself chugging the drink down and realized something that I couldn't believe I hadn't realized before. "When was the last time I drank something?!" I thought of everything I had done since getting to Equestria and not once remembered drinking anything. "Odd..... I'm surpised I'm not dead right now." I continued to think.

It seemed I was not the only one to realize something and Lyra was searching for something. "Oh no, did I really?" She bolted around the room, looking in ever spot in the room. "For crying out loud. Gunnar, please stay here, I'll be right back." She said before rushing out of the room. I heard a door close and fading hoofsteps. "Welp, It looks like I can finally do some talking to myself." I said. "Not that I even know what I'm going to talk about. I guess I could talk about talking to myself but that would sound rather boring. Oh well, man this day has been crazy and above all else fun. I haven't ran like that in a long time."

I continued a little ramble about what had happened today. I stopped talking to myself and started looking around the house. It was bigger than it looked but there was only one thing that I was looking for. A nice bed to fall asleep in. It didn't take long to find a room with a bed. I plopped myself down on the bed and laid on my stomach,

It felt nice to be back in a warm bed.  "I guess I'm being extremely rude by just randomly laying in someone else's bed but what the hell, I'm damn tired. Good night sun, please don't ruin my morning." I said before dozing off into a nice painless sleep. Once again I had had a painful day but at least this one was full of fun.

[I hope you don't mind the shortness of this chapter. Thanks for reading and I will say this once more, If you wanna preread the story, then just say so and I will happily send you the new chapters as they come out. Good night people and I will be writing a new chapter soon enough]   Next Chapter: Escape and practice. Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 9 Minutes