I slowly started to wake up at the feel of something very warm on my back. I jumped from sleeping and being awake for who knows how long. I finally woke up and stayed awake but still felt to tired to even move. It was like one of the moments were my alarm would go off way to early and I would keep turning it off but the alarm would end up going off again and again until I pulled my Ipod out of it.

I opened my eyes and tried to look around. I couldn't see anything and closed my eyes again. My face was mushed up against a pillow from the feel of things. "Ug... Body, Y U NO let me sleep?" I thought. I stopped thinking and started falling back asleep. Trying to fall back asleep ended up being one of the worst idea I had had in a very long time. As I fell back asleep I drifted into a nightmare.

I found myself back back in the mountain cave of the Horgr. All my friends, new and old were there with me and at first I felt happy. It all changed as a group of dragons popped out of tunnels in the cave. I suddenly couldn't move anymore and started to panic. This panicking only made the dream worse. A feeling of horror came over me as I watched the dragons start devouring my friends. I tried to move and help them but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't move. There seemed to be no worse feeling then to helplessly watch you close friends get swallowed hole by the dragons. My friends ran away from the dragons but one by one they were all caught.

A feeling of pure hate came over me as the last of my friends was finally caught by the dragons. I was able to regain control of my body and stomped on the ground.. The dragons all turned there attention to me. There eyes were red as blood and pierced through me like arrows. We stood there for a moment without movement. I yelled out in anger but no voice sounded. As I did this all the dragons charged me giving me only a second to react. As the first one struck at me I threw up my arms to protect myself from the.

I woke up and gasped lifting up my chest. I felt something drop onto my legs. "Damn, I have the most fucked up nightmares!" I said nearly shouting. I was breathing heavily and shaking uncontrollably. I tried to calm down and rested my head back against the pillow. I heard some mumbling behind me and tried to roll over to see who or what was doing it. As I did this, whatever had rolled onto my legs tumbled off the bed.

"I'm awake, I'm awake!!" The object said. It got up and looked around. I gave it a better look and quickly recognized it as Lyra. "She must have climbed up on my back when I was sleeping." I said completely forgetting that I was talking English in front of her. "Huh, did you say something?" Lyra asked sleepily. To my luck she hadn't understand it and after realizing what I had done, swapped my thought patterns back into dutch so I wouldn't make the mistake again.

Lyra mumbled some more and got back into the bed. "Brrr, when did it get so cold in here and since when do your gloves glow?" Lyra asked. I looked at my gloves and saw the stones glowing a dim white light. A horrid realization hit me and I looked around the room. Just as I thought, most of it had been completely frozen over. The fact Lyra was unharmed calmed me down somewhat but the fact I could have turned her into a pony Popsicle didn't exactly process well in my mind.

I tried to re-calm myself down with a few more deep breaths and got up. Lyra laid down were I had been laying and covered herself under the blanket. She seemed to tired to realize the new state of her room and I took the chance to slip out of the room. "That's it. I need to learn how to control this weird power before I sleep near anything alive." I thought as I paced around. It had been too close of a call for me to feel any what good.

"If only I could get a few days alone just to practice the whole ice situation." I thought. The image of the dragons eating my friends quickly popped back up and it reminded me of something else. "Do I really have the power to protect these ponies from that?" I started to feel a bit scared. I didn't want to ever have to witness anything like that really happening but didn't know what I could do to stop it.

"I could run away from it all and force myself never to see it." I thought but quickly denied it. "No, I am not my father. I'm not going to take the easy way out and abandon everything I cared for just because I can't handle the reality of my uncertain  fate." I said to myself quietly. The last thing I was going to do was just give up, I had too much pride and reasons not to do it.

I started planning how I was going to do everything. I remember what the big wyvern had said. "The mist marks when the war begins, so how about this. If I can manage to grab some food and resources, I could leave for awhile and work on mastering my power either until I run out of resources or if I notice sighs of danger. That way I could at least get the time I need to prepare myself."

This seemed like the best plan but it didn't come without some bad sides. Since I hadn't told any of the ponies about the whole war thing, or for that matter, not told any ponies that I could speak English aside from Fluttershy, meant that they would think that I had run away or something and my constant facing something dangerous and disappearing meant that not only would they think something bad had happened but that there hopes would also be high that I would return soon. High hopes crash much harder than thoughts of doubt and I didn't even want to imagine what the ponies would look like.

A new idea popped up in my head. "Why don't I just tell them I could speak English and understand them?" I asked myself. The only downside to that would be that I would have ruined my days of progress just trying to keep it secret. Of course I would also have to answer and re-answer a mountain full of questions which didn't sound to nice either. I scratched the idea from my imaginary list of plans.

I took some more time to think about it and decided that just leaving would be the best choice. Even if I couldn't tell them why I had left, at least I could leave with the knowledge that I was just doing it to keep the ponies safe from me and the threat of being the victims of war.

Once my plan had been completely thought up and I had decided what all to do, I started grabbing the necessary things to start my journey. I first looked for a few bags that I could put things in. "I hope Lyra doesn't mind me taking these things..." I said quietly. Once again I was doing things I shouldn't inside someone else's house.

"Maybe I should bake her a *I'm sorry for sleeping in your bed and taking you stuff because Lol*  Cake. That would help, right?" At the exact moment, I felt something that could only be described as a distrubance in the force. As if a millions tiny souls cried out, "No, don't say that." but were suddenly silenced. "Looks like someone is being forgiven." I joked.

I grabbed some food and did what I could to gently set it in the bag. "If only these ponies had plastic, that would makes this easier." I thought whilst I grabbed some more fruitish type things. I didn't really know what else I could possibly need. I may have made a plan but I couldn't remember the steps I needed to take to carry it out.

"Maybe, just maybe, I should find a way to organize everything. I should find some way to be able to double check what I had and what I needed. Something written down.... on paper.... with a writing utensil. A list, I shall make a list! It is brilliant!" I shouted in my head. I started looked for the new things I needed. Paper was easy to find but the lack of pen or pencil left me with the challenge of learning how to write with a quill.

It took me about a million times to write down something that could be considered readable but atleast I now had something to work with. Once I had finished the packing and struck the final check off of my list. I checked what time it was on my Ipod. It was 4:31 in the morning, which was around the normal time I got up. A new realization sparked. "Why haven't I been checking the time with this before?" I said facepalming my way into a new, less idiotic world.

"Okay, now I have to sneak my way out of town and into a safe area in which to train. Though I wonder if you can really call it training and not experimentation." I said. I walked up to the door and opened it slowly. Opening that door war like stabbing someones trust bubble and I hesitated for a second. "Should I really be doing this?" I asked myself, one last time.

After a moment of thought I took a step out of the door. Then another and another. "Yes, I should be doing this." I answered. I closed the door gently and started walking. There was not a soul in sight and I could see the faint glow of a sunrise coming up over the horizon. "A wonderful day to make ponies worry." I said.

"You know what would make this day even better? Music." I grabbed my Ipod and put on *Tribute* by Tenacious D. I was in a good mood and this only made it better. I found myself singing along as I made my way out of town. You'd be surprised how happy I tended to be early in the morning, before something or someone had ruined my day through magical means or endless talking but now that I was alone I seem the only thing that could ruin my day was rain or a case of the hidden apple attack.

My plan from here was to walk up to the river I had went to with Fluttershy and follow it. As long I noted down which way the river was flowing, I could follow it until I found a good spot to camp out. The only worry I had was a bear attack but if I could save myself from a Horgr dragon thing, I think I could scare off a bear.

I was just able to get to the river before the sun had really started to raise now. It looked amazing but caused my eyes to bleed from how bright it was.  I turned my back to the sun and decided to walk against the stream. I grabbed a piece of paper noting which way I was heading and started walking. The warmth of the sun started to beat down on my back giving me the energy I needed to keep a steady walking speed.

I walked for about an hour before reaching a reasonable destination. The river lead me up to a forest edge which formed a perfect place for practicing and hiding when needed to. The forest looked nothing like the Everfree forest. For one, it was much brighter and had an energetic feel to it.

I turned my music off and scouted out the area. I needed to make sure there was no walking paths or roads close by. The only road I could find was way off in the distance which meant It would be safe to cook as long as it was during the day and as long as I put out any fire with dirt or with my icy power, If I could learn to control it.

I started to set up a little shelter inside the forest. It would have been great if I had a tent or something like that but this worked too. My shelter making skills were not perfect but as long as I had something to protect me from any possible rain, then it would be fine. Once the shelter had been set up I sat down in it. It looked like a mini hut just barely big enough to fit me but it felt nice to sit in.

The hut had an odd feel to it, it had a nice welcoming feel even though all it really was was some large sticks set up to hold a tree branch roof. The annoying thing was that I would have to refresh the roof ever day or two to keep the shelter from filling up with dead leaves and to keep its nice light green color that made it feel so nice. There was probably some other way to solve this problem but I didn't know enough about survival and such.

I started preparing a schedule of things that needed to be done in the day. I was acting really out of character with my lists and plannings though. Normally I would just do things as they came along without any sense of what to do next but now I felt compelled to keep everything planned.

For today and tomorrow I would keep a close eye on when the fish came and went in the river. I would give me a clear time of when was best to catch them. Other parts of the day could consisted of practicing the use of my power and working on some theories of why and how all this was happening. Finally I threw in some general breaks to reflex and listen to music or wash up.

I walked up to the river and looked for any fish. There were some fish here and there so I noted the time. It was close to 10 which made me realize just how long I had been working on this. "Damn... Time flies when your having fun." I said to myself with a smile. It was nice to constantly be moving around and using my body. The fact I didn't fail an infinite amount of time working on the shelter let me keep my good mood and I wanted to get working on the next set of things.

There were to things I needed right now, couple fishing spears and the stuff for a campfire. Finding the correct size sticks was easy. I looked for some rocks in which to sharpen my lovely sticks. Once I had the needed objects I got to work on my spears. It went far better this time and I had my first spear done in a half an hour.

"I am becoming a master in the art of sharpening sticks. All will fear my point stick making abilities!" I shouted with a deep voice evil voice. It was a hobby I had to basically pretend I was someone else and I would always through a alternate voice in to match the character. The only one who ever had a problem with this was my mom, she thought I was crazy because normally when I used these voices, I'd be talking to my self.

I finished more spears before taking a break. The sun was now high in the sky and I was getting tired. I wandered into my little shelter and laid down. The lack of a clean, flat floor was inconvenient but not that big of an issue so I just dealt with it. I started drifting of into a minor sleep.

No dreams this time and I woke up peacefully. I check the time, it was almost 2. I quickly got up to check and see if there was any more or less fish in the river. The river was empty, not a single fish could be seen. I noticed something move in the water and gave it a closer look. I could see a little crustaceans walking around in the water.

I decided it would be better to note this down. I had brought a pan with and If I felt the need to catch so little crabs, that's where they'd go. I walked back to the hut and planned out what I was going to do today. Seeing no reason not to I chose to start some practice with my powers.

"It would be nice if I could come up with a name for it instead of just calling it a power." I said as i walked to the edge of the forest. The sun was shining brighter than ever and once again I found myself cursing at the sun as I got used to the light. "You won't ever give me a break, will you?" I said to the sun, shaking my fist at it.

"So... If I were to give my icy power a name, aside from icy power, what would it be?" I asked myself. Nothing came to mind at first. "Damn it, this will have to wait for now. I'm not gonna have any practicing done like this." I said scolding myself. "Now, where to begin?" I asked. This was not exactly easy. I didn't know what all I could do or some to do it. If I had a teacher it would be easier but I doubt such a luxury would just pop up.

"Well lets start with what we know." I started sending pulses through my body. Snowflakes started to appear and I could see my breath. The ground around me started slowly freezing up making a nice circle of ice and frost. "Okay, I can do that, now lets focus it." I started to direct all pulsing to my hands.

A misty substance started forming around them and I touched a tree. The tree's trunk rapidly started to freeze up and soon it spread to the ground and other tree's. The rate at which it froze surprised me and I removed my hand. "Well that explains why I was able to freeze that side of the mountain so quickly." I thought for a moment about what I just said. "Wait, how in the world do you freeze a rock?!" There seemed to be no logic behind the event and I left myself with what seemed to be an unanswerable question.

"Welp, lets not dwell on it for now, I had planned when I was going to do that. Lets see, I should probably try something new."  I remembered the the icy dome I had made during my fight with one of the Horgr. I tried to remember the events that led up to the creation of the sphere. "Lets see, It was about to hit me and as I threw up my arms, I felt a strange burst of energy pop up around my body. Can i recreate it? Lets find out!"

I tried it a couple times but couldn't focus enough on my pulsing as I threw up my arms. "Lets try it without the arm movement." I stopped moving and focused in on my natural energy, mixing it around in my chest. I one go, I tried to release it all and got a minor result of success. A large bust burst of snow shot out of me in all directions. "Well this is leading to something good." I said smiling.

With a couple more tries the burst started taking on shapes getting closer and closer to a dome as I practiced. I felt good about my accomplishment but still had one tiny problem: It required a lot of focus to do and I doubt I would be given that time in a fight. If I really wanted to do it right, I would need to be able to instantly do it and keep its form for long enough to protect myself.

I practiced awhile longer before getting tired and somewhat bored. "I'm done practicing for now." I said looking at all the white spots on the ground. If I kept practicing like that, the entire field would have been frozen over. I decided the best thing to do now was check the river. If any fish were there I would catch a few, if not I would simply note the time and eat some of the food I brought with me.

I checked the river. There were a few fish swimming around, but not near as much as the morning before hand. Since I didn't really have anything better to do I decided that I could at least try to catch one or two. I walked back to camp and grabbed a spear. "This pointy stick shall feed me tonight!" I said before walking back. This entire day had been enjoyable but I felt a bit sad when I remembered about Lyra and the fact I just left without a word.

I got over my sadness once I got into the water. It was much deeper than the water from before and it went halfway up my chest making it harder to jab with my arms and turn around. It added to the challenge of catching a fish and I accepted the added difficulty with pride.

After standing completely still for a while the fish started to reappear and I took aim. I launched my spear and hit a fish on the tail. It started swimming around frantically and was bleeding pretty bad. I followed it as it started getting pulled downstream and once it had stopped moving I grabbed it. "That's one prize." Once again I have successfully obtained a meal via method of the pointy stick.

I walked back to camp and set the fish down. "Damn it, I'm all wet....." I complained. Then an idea popped up in my head. "Every time I had used my power, my cloths had not froze. Maybe I can freeze the water in my cloths and force it out." I was far from a perfect plan but if it worked then I would have a new, more practically use for my power."

I walked away from my camp so that I wouldn't freeze it as well and did the pulsing thing. Just as I had predicted the water in my cloths started to freeze. A layer of ice covered most of my clothing, leaving me to just pull it of. Once I had gotten the last of the ice off I check my cloths. "Success, I need to think of these plans more often!"

I once again, walked back to camp. I started setting up the place I had made for starting the fire and yet another realization popped up. "Crap, I have no idea what rocks I need to hit together to make the sparks." I had completely forgotten about this and quickly started collecting tons of rocks from the surrounding area. After I had collected a giant pile of rocks, I started the process of rock smashing.

It took about twenty minutes before I got any real results. After I had gone through a large chunk of the pile I managed to get two rocks to really spark. I noted what the rocks looked and felt like before starting up the fire. It wasn't that hard to start up the fire, but to keep it going had some issues. I ended up starting the fire several times before finally keeping it going.

Once I had a nice fire going I hanged the fish over the fire and waited. Without Fluttershy there to help me I had a hard to making sure the fish got cooked correctly. Once it was cooked enough to eat, I took it away from the fire and put it out. I brought my fish into the hut and started eating my fish. I was good but not near as good as the one Fluttershy made for me but that didn't stop me from eating every last piece of it.

I happily finished the fish and walked outside. The sun had started to set meaning there would be no more fishing or fires for the rest of the day. "Well, I guess its time for some music and thinking." I sat up against a tree and put my turned some music on. I turned a random song on and sang along with it. I didn't care what mood the songs had and was happy to listen to any of them.

I continued to do so until it had gotten completely dark. Due to the trees I could hardly see a thing and had a hard time making my way back to the hut. After bumping some trees and stumbling over a few rocks I found the hut and laid inside. Once I had gotten bored of the music I turned it off and started doing to thinking.

"I hope Lyra and the others won't mind my disappearance to much, I know I wouldn't be happy about it but its not like its the end of the world." I thought to myself. "I hope they haven't been spending there time looking for me, at least not too much. There's no way I'm going to reveal myself anytime soon. Once I can control this damned power I will consider going back but for now I will keep hidden."

Saying this reminded me of something. Fluttershy and Rainbow could cover a greater distance then I could via flying so i would need to keep my eyes to the sky whenever I was training, fishing or cooking. "Great, its like Skyrim all over again. Keep my eyes on the skies and prepare for the worst."

My eyes were starting to get heavy and I slowly started to close them. "I really hope I can brush my teeth soon." I said before drifting off into a slightly uncomfortable sleep.

[I must say, this has been a very fun chapter to write. I didn't have any headaches and had gotten enough sleep when writing this chapter which has left me with a very good mood. Not only that but my MLP presentation got the best grade of the class and some kids even asked it I could do it again. I would have done so if the teacher had not declined just because it was damn fun. Maybe my cutie mark would be a microphone or something along those lines

Anyways thanks for reading yet another chapter of insert. Please excuse that fact I have not been filtering the last couple of chapters but I have a nice little proposal, If anyone could do the filtering from now on, I could send you the new chapter before release. This means the chapters will probably be posted later but they will be posted with better quality and care. PM me if you interested and I will (probably) happily accept.] Next Chapter: Names and theories. Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 50 Minutes