Where am I?
There is something around me... what is that? It looks...
Gray, red. Those are the words... why do I know those words?
Remember
I have to... I have to remember what happened. Where I am...
What it is that's around me...
It is... hot. Green... green is breaking through... re... rejuve... helping me. Making me feel better...
I feel... stronger, better, newer.
Remember
I have to remember... everything...
What is there for me to remember? I can see something through the red... no, not just red, also orange...
...and hot...
Fire? I think that is what it was called...
How is the green called?
Remember us...
Remember? Who...
Familiar. Memories, streaming. Hurting, stop!
Stop hurting.... go away memories...
I am sorry...
...ground is away. Ground is away? No, touch is away... body is away?
Replace? Compatible, nearby. Wood, leaf, fire bad. Fire made body go away...
Fire. Bad. Wood, leaves, good. Dark, big sillhouette seen through the fire it's breathing, bad.
Live...
Drive. To run, get new body, eat...
What is eating? Needed? Remember in time...
Please, live, my...
Memories... hurt... shut out...
...get away from voice.
Calm.
Calm like undisturbed water, like a mirror hidden behind a large piece of fabric...
One pawstep after another...
You are getting closer to the chicken, and closer...
What a foolish creature, coming so deep into the Everfree...
You pounce at it, but suddenly it turns around and looks at you!
That's not a chicken, that's a cockatri... *mental sigh* I really should remember that there are Cockatrice around here.
The cockatrice comes out of the bush it was hiding in, and curls around your shell of stone. It starts applying pressure, until your stony prison begins to crack. It breaks and your parts fall to the ground, shattered.
Your energy, your spirit floats around, before you get yourself together.
I still faintly feel the connection to my body's parts... I hate this part, it always hurts.
As you sever your soul from the once-wooden claws, head, and other things that make up your body, you feel excruciating pain coursing through your souls veins, like fire eating up your logs, turning you to ashes, like toxic, corrosive substances being sprain upon your skin... fur, scales, whatever.
After freeing your essence, you 'look' around in search of fallen branches.
It took you a while, but you finally found enough to re-form yourself.
After recreating your body, you slowly start walking back towards your pack's cave.
As you near it, you hear your packmates talking about what they caught today.
*gro(I got a few birds.)wl*
*gro(What? How did you get that?)wl*
*gro(Remember that cottage near our forest? I took a few when noone was looking)wl*
You ignore them as you smell blood, it is faint, but it is there.
You follow it, until you reach a clearing of the forest. You remember it, having been here hundreds of times before.
Unlike the other times, there is a group of manticores lying on the ground, beaten to a bloody pulp and in some cases a smear on the ground. Three out of twelve are still standing. In the middle stands a pony-like sillhouette covered in flames.
Manticores are usually hunting alone, not in groups... This is interesting, will I see once again the violence slumbering in ponies?
You crawl into a bush and watch the fight from there:
The sillhouette shoots forward towards one of the manticores and headbutts it, causing it to fly against the next tree, and seemingly dislocate most if not all of its bones including the neck.
After that the fiery pony(?) turns around and takes out two swords. The flames from its body go over to the flames, and encase them also. You can now see that it has two wings unfolded from his back to carry the swords.
As you get a better look at his stature, you realise it is probably a stallion, considering the rough sillhouette of his wings...
A thestral-stallion.
This doesn't match... A thestral couldn't cause all of those flames. There has to be more to it than this... A fourth alicorn? No, unlikely...
While you think about what the mysterious, flaming stallion is, he already sliced up the next manticore. He looks at the last manticore, and waits. After about ten seconds, the manticore storms at him, only for him to sidestep and bite into its leg.
You could hear the bone breaking, and see the manticore being engulfed in flames. Unlike the stallion the flames are able to harm and burn the manticore.
After brutally killing all of his foes, the stallion looks around, until his eyes lock with yours.
As you stare at him, hoping that he only randomly looks towards you and does not stare back, you lose your self-control and run away in panic.
You do not realise he doesn't follow you, and do not realise where you are headed.
You stumble over stones, rocks, through branches of bushes...
Over sand, ignore your packmate's cave in your hurry...
Finally, you feel water, causing you to stop. As you look around, you realise you have reached a river in the Everfree. There is a short shore free of bushes, the rest being completely overgrown by plants.
Wait... I already heard about a place like this. There was something here... something big...
As you ponder on this, you hear a voice coming from further down the river: "Oh, nonono, this moustache-style just won't go! I look absolutely ridiculous!"
You stare into the direction it is coming from, before walking towards it. You stomped through bushes, and as you reach another clear part of the shore, you can see a purple sea-monster with a lightblue belly, orange hair including the moustache he was talking about, and only four teeth, but those are fangs.
You cannot understand why the moustache would be looking ridiculous, but you are a complete novice at fashion.
The sea-monster did something to his moustache and... it looked the same as before.
"This looks much better", it said.
You face-claw, drawing its attention.
"Uh... hi?", you say in the pony-tongue*(**) for once.
What do you do?