I closed my eyes, but I didn't want to, somehow I was forced. Forced to sleep? A strange blue filled the void where black should have been. I began to focus on the irregularity, a bad decision as it turns out. no sooner did I begin to analyze my foreign aberration than my entire situation became strange and distant. Wait, who am I. a string of letters came to mind I-R-O-N-H-E-A-R-T O-A-T-H-T-O-U-N-G, sounded right but had no meaning, it mite have been a hint if I remembered iron and hearts had to do with each other, I could tell iron is a metal, and a heart is a part of the body that pumps blood. The whole internal conversation made my head hurt so I decided to do an easy one, what race am I ... nothing came to mind, as matter a fact I couldn't feel a body to control or give me a hint. I was going to give up when a slight crack let a ray of light into the now lighter background. If only I had a body to pry it open then I would fill the room with light. No sooner did I think that, then the rays grew. Come to think of it the light opening was like opening eyes, had I just been asleep, oh yeah I was.
My eyelids pealed open to revile a bright moon twinkling night sky. A branch snapped and my head traced the sound, woah my body felt weak, also I had a body! I sprung to my hooves while my bones cracked loudly. I wobbled like a drunken top before I balanced my new found body. Looking down at my hooves I noticed two things, first that I was a very scruffy pony, with my unkempt fur and over grown hair, and second I had no idea where in the wide wide world of equestria I was, come to think of it I had no idea where equestria was. Looking around didn't help much, a dark forest, was the extent of land marks I recognized. I looked back at the moon and felt secure. An idea dripped into my head, everything is going to be alright. A beast leaped from the shadows clawing my side. Fresh blood met the ground as I stared down my opponent. It was a large creture with the head of a goat, and tiger, but where the tail of the beast would be, a snake resided.
"Who dares enter the domain of the mighty Chimera?" the tiger head roared wrath ever present in the voice.
"Tiz I Ironheart!" I boasted loudly, a vain attempt to match the power of my opponent's voice.
"You trespass in the everfree forest, with no offering your corpse will have to do." The ram taunted before leaping into the air to begin it's deadly pounce.It would seem that all hope was lost, but in my mind there was one way to survive. If I delivered a punch to the chimera's chest it may reconsider, but only if the blow was powerful enough to break bone. I was determined to win this fight, this thought was the only chance I had, the only one I needed. The chimera was over my head now, a quick jump to my left narrowly evaded the life ending pounce, now was the moment, my enemy was disoriented by my evasion, I reared up to descend into the beast's side with my right hoof. Before my hit could wind up I felt the snake's teeth bite on my open wound, this had little effect other than the desire for my strike to be quicker and more deadly. I forced all my might into my hoof so that this battle would be over. As I felt my hoof connect an explosion of blood and energy erupted from the beast.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I screamed as my body fell to the forest floor. My entire leg I had used to deliver the fatal blow had burst into pain. I looked over to see what had happened. To my horror the leg muscle had exploded into blood and bone. My heart began to beat rapidly as I entered a state of full panic.
"SOMEONE, ANYONE, HELP ME!" I yelled into the night, with the hope I would wake somepony. A long moment passed, Looking up into the sky my eyes locked onto the moon. Perhaps it was the panic I had entered, compounded by the fear of death, or perhaps I truly memorized the verse I spoke as I raised my bloody hoof to the moon.
"My princess Luna I beg audience, by offering of blood, to bond my body mind and soul, to the eternal energies of your moon. Hear me as I commit this blood oath here by swearing my soul and sealing this contract. By oath I swear to uphold my powers for good and never desecrate them by the dishonor of the moon, princesses, or ancestors. In exchange for my mortal, soul I require the moon's power. If you hear me, grant me the power to live. Please, I beg this prayer." A moment passed of pure silence and I thought my self dead and passing, however, a silhouette began to descend in front of the moon. At first I thought it a weather pony but then I realized my prayer had been answered, the night mother herself had come. Her graceful descent was met with soft words
"Hello Ironheart Oathtoung, I have herd your plea." Ironheart, that was my name.
"How do you know my name? Blood hemorrhaged and I realized I was asking the wrong question. "Will you lend me the moon's aid in my mortal strife?"
"No, I may not lend the moon's power to heal you."
"Then I lay my death bead here."
"I cannot lend you the moon's healing because your soul is already bound to my night, it is not to the moon that you must ask for healing, but the stars."
"Then let it be so, I swear my oath by the stars."
"LET YOUR BLOOD SACRAMENT NOT ME IN VAIN. like a music conductor commands an orchestra, Luna called beams of starlight focused from their stars to my leg, I HERE BY GRANT YOU IRONHEART OATHTOUNG THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STARS". a white film of where my leg had been formed and thickened into reinvigorated muscle.I had looked away only a moment to observe the spectacle and when I looked back to Luna she was gone.
"Your questions must be many my disciple, but on your journey for answers look to the stars for a path and the moon for guidance." I had become dizzy and my vision blurred, blood loss had taken effect.A rumbling from the bushes alerted me to an emerging yellow coated pink maned mare startled at firsts but then recognizing I was the one that called for help from the blood loss rushed over to me, "Are you alright?" or something along the sort was said, I didn't quite catch it as I slipped into unconsciousness.