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// 6: I am running out of names already 
// Story: Dawn of The Ice King 
// by KingdomBrony16 
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It’s nighttime on the supposed last day of my body adjusting and let me tell you this week and especially today has been friggin insane. If you realized I said supposed. Right well, I guess I should explain what happened today, see it all started this morning when I killed everything…


~This morning~


I woke up to absolute stillness, which is weird because I normally wake up to the hustle and bustle of animals and usually Fluttershy wakes me up. I sat up in my bed and looked around absolutely stunned, everything in my room and I mean everything was completely frozen solid. “Ok… I knew my body was going to be getting used to ice powers and was constantly emitting cold but seriously? I got cold enough to freeze everything in my room?” I expected Ixis to respond to that but she didn’t that didn’t really bother me too much though, she doesn’t always say something, thank jeebus. I got up and stretched, popping my joints, getting rid of the stiffness that settled in over night, “Oh man that felt good, ok bathroom next… ok slight problem. The door is frozen shut.” I give the door a solid knock only to confirm that, yes it was frozen shut.

“Ok, so how do I get out, I have ice powers so I obviously can’t melt it, hell I’d probably just end up freezing it more if I tried to do anything. Uhm, wait, I have semi super strength now, duh, just force it open.” I lifted up a leg, pulled it back, tensed my muscles, and kicked out. “And there goes the door… well fuck. I’ll have to apologize for that and get a new one once I go to work at some point next week I guess.”

I was surprised by my room being frozen over yes, what I wasn’t expecting was the entire hallway being frozen over. I looked towards the stairs and saw the ice going down them and then I got worried, “Shit… please don’t tell me…” I ran down the stairs carefully so I didn’t slip only to find my fears confirmed, Fluttershy’s hallway was frozen over as well. I ran to her room and kicked open the door and there she was, frozen solid, still in her sleeping pose which answered when this happened. Weirdly I wasn’t freaking out that I killed someone I cared for. I wanted to freak out but I couldn’t, I don’t know why I couldn’t but I couldn’t, hell I wasn’t even scared I was just worried. “Ok… how do I fix this? Should I go to Celestia? No… no she’d kill me, what about Luna? No, I don’t think she’d know what to do. Twilight seems to be my best choice right now.”

I made my way through the house while noticing that pretty much everything was frozen, I was also worried about hedgy I haven’t seen him in a few days but I know he doesn’t leave the property so hopefully he was outside where it was safe. I got to the front door and decided to not kick that down so instead I just made my way back to my room and broke through my ice covered window. So… two things I noticed, one is that it was a very beautiful day out, second was that Fluttershy’s entire estate was frozen, grounds and all. Ok so the good news is that not many ponies come out this close to the Everfree so I could go and get Twilight without anyone noticing this. I should probably hurry.

I ran into town to Twilight’s and knocked on the door feverishly, “Come on someone answer the damn door.” If there is one thing I’ve learned in my life is that when you curse at something it gets done faster and like magic Spike answered the door. “Spike, no time to talk,  go get Twilight now, I don’t care what she’s doing tell her it’s a magical emergency or something.” He just nodded and took off to somewhere in the back of the library.

A few minutes later Twilight came out scratching her head, she had bags under her eyes and was wearing a lab coat, not really surprising. “Chris, what’s going on? Spike told me you had a magical emergency or something. Care to tell me what that is?”

I just grabbed her arm and pulled her outside, “No time to explain, Fluttershy might be dead, I’m not too sure, but I’m now just starting to freak out and I’m not liking it.” She stopped dead, stopping me with her.

“W-what?” her eyes were wide with disbelief.

“You heard me, Fluttershy might be dead and I need your help, now! So let’s go, we’re wasting time.” I probably had the most serious look I’ve ever had on my face because she just nodded, which is something she never does at least with me. But I didn’t have time to worry about it, we ran and when I say ran I mean fucking booked it. When we got to the Cottage not much had changed but I did realize that it looked like a giant ice ball.

“What happened here… It looks like an ice bomb went off.” Twilight said looking around at everything.

“Yeah, from what I gathered is that this happened last night obviously originating from me, what I’m not sure of if it was instantaneous or slow. I’m really hoping it’s the first one.”

“Me too, instantaneous would mean everything is still alive if barely. Only way we will know though is if I can scan something frozen in the ice that has a pulse.”

We looked at each other and nodded, “Only problem is, how do we get back inside?” I asked, “My room is way too high up and I don’t think either of us can climb up this.” Cuz climbing down sucked, I didn’t actually climb down, I tried and immediately fell, which hurt but hey whatever.

Twilight thought for a second, “Teleporting, I can teleport us in.”

“Well do it then.” She did, and I really wish she didn’t. Teleporting sucks massive balls.

“Teleportation sickness, always happens to first timers.”

I just bent over and threw up ice… there was a nice little tower of ice now… cool. “Ok now that I know I never want to do that again, let’s go.”

We made our way to Fluttershy’s room and Twilight began to do her thing, “Ok, discounting you and me…” She paused for a second and there was a flash of bright green light, “Ok she’s fine, still alive but like I said before it’s barely.”

I gave a sigh of relief, “Thank god… ok, and do you know how we could get rid of all of this?”

“I could try a heat spell. But it might be a bit unbearable for you all things considered.”

I just gave her a flat stare, “Do you really think I care if I’m uncomfortable for a bit?” She just laughed nervously before starting up the spell. I felt it get warm, then hot, then really hot, then oh god why was it so hot, someone please turn of the heat. Ok, so Ixis wasn’t kidding when she said I’d be way more vulnerable to heat. Then I felt the heat die down but nothing was melted, “Uh Twi… nothing happened.”

She just gave me a look, “It seems the ice you gave off is unmeltable at least by what I can do. I’m sure Celestia can melt it though.”

I waved my arms wildly, “No, no Celestia, at all.” “Why?” “Because she’ll kill me and I don’t want to die, at least not like that. I’m sure we can figure out something, please? Can we just try?”

“Ugh… fine. But if nothing we try works we’re getting Celestia.” She said and then pointed a finger at me, “And you have to explain what’s going on.”

I nodded, “Fair enough, come on let’s get started.”

And so for a large portion of the day we tested and tried many things, ranging from me trying to break the ice, from using potions, and from Twilight trying a range of spells. Finally it was decided we get Celestia. Needless to say I was scared out of my mind and I’m normally not scared of anyone save for two or three people/ponies, she is one of them.

When she came I was shaking like a leaf, when you have the most powerful thing on a planet staring at you with a half concerned, half worried, half annoyed, half angry, half happy look then you have my permission to judge how I act around people.

She crossed her arms, “Hello Twilight, Chris, it’s good to see you two again and I wish we could’ve seen one another on better circumstances but seeing as this isn’t a better circumstance one of you should explain.”

“Oh this is all Chris, Princess. Chris, explain please.” Initiate smug look from Twilight.

The bitch, ah whatever she’s still a good friend and nice little rivalry is always fun. Anyway, still scared, “I well… you see, I’m not entirely sure what happened either, Ixis isn’t really talking to me for some reason but all I know is that some point during the night I froze everything instantly. We’ve tried everything to melt it but nothing works and Twilight thinks that since you control the sun you can generate enough fire magic to melt all this and I am inclined to agree.”

“Why didn’t you get me first and foremost?” She asked with a sigh.

Twilight gave me a look that said ‘I told you so.’

“Well, Twilight wanted to and I admit that that would’ve been the smartest move but I was scared that you were gonna kill me. Still am actually.”

She gave me a confused look, “Why would I do that?”

I wasn’t entirely looking her in the eye until now and when I did I saw more than just what her posture was giving off. I saw understanding, caring, and kindness in her eyes while her posture was the opposite and that’s when I realized something, I just shrugged. “I don’t know maybe because I froze one of your little ponies and one of the key components to the greatest defensive weapon this country possibly has. That’s kind of treason territory.”

“If any of that were on purpose, yes I suppose it would be, but it wasn’t. Also, you wouldn’t have tried as hard as you both did if you thought there wasn’t a chance she could be saved.” She gave me her that motherly smile she always has. It’s really weird seeing this side of Celestia, I completely understand this is how she normally is around her subjects and I understand why, but I guess since I know her as acting normal and kinda really flirty and perverted, prankster and jokester but still having this caring side it just weird to see this formal, regal, motherly Celestia. But that’s also how she is to a lot of her ponies, a caring mother who if you pissed off could vaporize you without thinking about it but a mother regardless.

“Heh… yeah, so do you think you can melt all of this?” I gestured at the tree.

“Let’s see, possibly.” Her horn started glowing a yellow color and I knew instantly the spell started.

Twilight did throw a barrier up around us but I could still feel the heat, it felt like I was bathing in lava without really melting. I could feeling my insides twisting in pain and I was on the floor writhing. Then it started to stop and eventually I was able to breathe without feeling like I was going to explode into flames.

Twilight looked down at me, she was watching Celestia in awe too much so to notice me before. “Chris are you ok?”

I coughed and I swear I tasted blood, I put a finger in my mouth and pulled out, not a sight of blood on it, “Y-yeah… I think… so…” I stood up slowly and saw Celestia walking over to us. “D-did it work?”

She shook her head, “I’m afraid not whatever that Ice is, it doesn’t seem to be able to be melted by heat of any kind. I would’ve made it hotter if not for two reasons.”

“What are those, Princess?” Twilight asked.

“I would’ve destroyed the planet and our young friend here was already in massive pain and it hurt me so to do even that much. I am sorry Chris.” She gave me a quick hug which I returned, patting her back.

“S’cool, just felt like I was ya know being torn apart atom by atom by fire. Other than that, I’m good.” I was joking of course, not about the whole feeling like being torn apart but I just had a joking tone, though Celestia was obviously still very serious.

“I don’t understand, I put up a heat shield around us. I felt the heat too but it was lessened greatly.” Twilight said.

“Maybe so, but Chris being essentially and Ice Dragon he is much more sensitive to heat even through a shield he could feel approximately the exact temperature I was putting out multiplied by a lot. But since there was still a shield he didn’t die, which I’m happy about.”

I gave a nervous laugh, “Same, just remind me to never make you angry.”

“Never get me angry and you have nothing to worry about. But we’re still faced with a problem.”

“Right the tree, so anyone else got any other ideas?” They both shook their heads. “Thought not… great.”

+Well, I have an idea.+

“IXIS?! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!”

They both looked at me with expressions I really didn’t feel like explaining. Celestia was the first to speak up, “Ixis, is there? In your head? Is she giving you any advice?”

Then Twilight, “Where has she been we could’ve used some help.”

“Well she has an idea and I have no idea Twilight. Ixis, what’s your idea?” It was quiet except for in my mind for a bit, “You sure that will work? Alright if you say so. I honestly don’t know if this will work but if it does I have no idea what will happen, so Barrier around you two please?” I didn’t wait for an answer I just walked up to the ice covering the tree and placed my hands on it and closed my eyes, ‘I really hopes this works.’ +It should…+ And that’s when it started happening, I started to absorb the ice into my body. It felt… interesting. The easiest way to put this is, imagine bathing in a tub full of ice water but instead of being uncomfortable be cold I was actually starting to feel good, very good. When all the ice was gone and absorbed into me I stepped away. “Shit I can’t believe that worked.” +I told you so.+ “That you did, that you diAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.” I felt a very sharp, very pain jolt being sent constantly throughout my body. I looked at my arm and saw it icing over and it started to spread over the rest of me. eventually it reached my head and I blacked out.


~Outside of what was going on with Chris~


Twilight and Celestia were watching this as it happened. After Chris’ body froze over completely a light started to shine from inside the shell of ice then it exploded sending ice flying in all directions with Chris laying on the ground out cold.

Twilight looked up at Celestia, “Princess… What… What just happened?”

She shook her head, “I do not truly know Twilight, what I do know though is that we need to bring him inside and Check up on Ms. Fluttershy. Twilight you go get Chris and put him on a couch yes? I’ll go check on Fluttershy.” Twilight nodded and went to go get the resident human.

When she got to him she looked down at him and was more curious and confused with some shock thrown in there, “Are those…? I’ll worry about it later, I need to do what the princess told me to do.” She levitated Chris in her magic and brought him inside setting him on the loveseat. Celestia was coming down stairs with Fluttershy leaning on her. “Princess, I think there’s something you should see, it seems that Chris has… wait Fluttershy? You just got unfrozen, shouldn’t you be laying down too?”

“She wanted to see him, I told her what happen and that’s what she requested.” Celestia explained.

Fluttershy, had a small layer of water on her much like a lot of things in the house. “Is… is he… ok?” She asked breathing hard, she was obviously struggling.

“I’m not sure honestly, I went to go get him when I saw that he had those.” Twilight said pointing to them.

“Are… are those one of his… changes you said he’d be… going through?” Fluttershy asked now sitting next to Chris’ sleeping body on the couch.

“Again, I’m not really sure. It might be it might not be. I guess we’ll find out when he wakes up.”

“O-ok… I’m going to sleep now too… will you wake me up… when he’s up?” Twilight nodded, “Thank you… feel free… to help… yourself to some food…” she finished as she was falling back asleep.

Celestia looked at Twilight, “You all have become good friends in such a short time.”

Twilight nodded, “Yes, well despite his sometimes childishness and our opposing views on some things, he’s actually very smart and kind. Also very headstrong and he rarely ever lies and seems to put others before him. I’d say he represents all the elements of harmony, not perfectly but still. Though…”

Celestia raised an eyebrow, “Though?”

“Though I can tell there is something dark and troubling he’s keeping from us. Actually we can all tell, the girls I mean, I’m not sure about anypony else.” Twilight said looking at him.

“I felt that too when we first met, he knows it’s there but he ignores it and doesn’t seem to readily want to talk about it, so I suggest not pressing him on the matter unless it gets to the point where that’s needed.”

“But… I want to help him. He really is a nice guy but whatever that darkness is it’s eating at him.”

“I know Twilight, I know. But something I learned from talking to him through letters is that he is very stubborn when he wants to be. So for now I say let him be and how about we make ourselves useful and clean up. She also takes care of animals yes? Then we should take care of them to.” Celestia turned to leave Chris and Fluttershy to sleep.

Twilight got up to follow and gave one last look back, frowning before leaving the room as well.


~Back with Chris~


“So I’m back in my mind again, Ixis, you there?” He called out into the void, which then moved to an open field of nothing but grass, blue skies, and clouds. I saw Ixis laying down watching the clouds go by. “Ixis?”

She sat up, “Hey… so I bet you have some questions huh?”

“That’s a friggin understatement. What the hell happened?”

She sighed, “Hmm… well you see… you know how I said your body would start trying to turn into a dragon after the first week? I was wrong.”

I just looked at her, “What?”

“I was wrong. Apparently because you aren’t from this world your body, no everything about you is changing how this works. For the first week it worked out just as planned, but…” She hesitated.

“But what?” I was getting impatient, hey I just fucking froze over when that’s not supposed to be possible.

“Well, it’s nothing bad it’s just… ya know, different than what I’m used to. See I’m able to rummage around your body and things since we’re one in the same and your very being isn’t happy with randomly turning into a dragon or in general not having control over anything that’s happening to it. But since magic is unpredictable, your being and the world’s and dragon’s will have come to a weird agreement. Yes they are sentient, this world works much differently than yours as you know. Anyway, at certain points your being, the draconic magic and the world’s magic will combine and explode outward in an icy force, causing what happened here. You have to absorb it that ice, which is something not even we, the Ice Dragons, could do. You can absorb anything cold, snowy, or ice like to restore magic energy and heal yourself or to just increase your power for a little bit. But the ice you absorb when that explosion of energies happens that ice is special. It gives you new powers and you also get a new part of a dragon’s body. Though I have learned that you will get like the full body all at once but accessory stuff, like the horns, wings, eyes, teeth, and tail are all gained through these icesplosions along with new abilities and powers. But after you get all of the, you can transform willingly, until then, you’re stuck with what you got. Oh and you get multiple powers and abilities with each icesplosion, though we won’t know what they are until you wake up.” She explained all that and it was awesome.

“But Icesplosion, really? That’s the best you got?” I asked with a smile.

“Hey you can’t come up with anything better.”

“Touché, but I’m guessing the icesplosions will be random?” she nodded, “That’s a fair deal. So I’m guessing it’s time to wake up?”

“Yep, I’m here if you need me, also I’m going through your memories of game and anime. If you want some advice I suggest Infamous and Fairy Tail, for your figuring out how powers works thing.”

“….I actually never would’ve thought about that thanks.” I closed my eyes and willed myself to wake up.

“Princess, he’s waking up!” I heard Twilight say.

I sat up and felt my foot brush against something soft, I looked over and saw Fluttershy asleep on the couch next to me. “Is she ok?” I asked with a yawn.

Twilight shook her head, “The first thing you do after being frozen, passing out, and waking up is asking if she’s ok… Good to see whatever happened didn’t change you. She’s fine though, just a bit drained.” She shook Fluttershy gently, “Hey, Shy, he’s awake.”

She stretched and yawned, eyes still half closed until she looked at me at which point he opened all the way. “Chris! A-are you ok?”

“I’m fine Flutters, I’m more worried about you, are you ok?” I was looking her up and down seeing if anything was hurt.

She smiled happily, “Mhm, I’m just a bit tired… i-is it ok if I give you a hug?”

“You know I can't say no to you.” She gave me a bone crushing hug when Celestia walked in.

“Well it's good to see you two up and about. I have some dinner cooking, and Fluttershy, don’t worry about your animals we took care of them.” She said.

Fluttershy gave a sigh of relief, letting go of me, “Thank goodness I was really worried about them too.” I nodded in agreement.

“Man do I have something to tell you guys but I’m starving. I can tell you about it over dinner.” I stood up and offered my hand to help Fluttershy up.

Dinner was good, she made a stew and made one especially for me, how sweet. I explained what happened and they explained what happened after I blacked out.

“So what you’re saying is that you have full control over whatever powers you have from these icesplosions until the next one and all you have to do is figure out how to activate or use them?” Twilight asked, still a bit skeptical.

“Apparently so.” I said eating another helping of stew, man she could cook.

“What about those?” Fluttershy asked pointing to my head.

“What about what now?”

“These, Chris.” Celestia reached over the table and tapped something hard on my head, which I felt resonate throughout my skull. It tickled.

“Stop that tickles…. Wait… uhm… I need a mirror.” I said quickly.

“I can handle that.” Twilight’s horn started to glow and a mirror popped into existence out of nowhere, gotta love magic.

“Thank you.” I held the mirror far enough away from me so I could see everything. I had horns two to be exact. They started a bit above my temples and going from that spot they stuck up a fair bit and curved back towards the back of my skull and near the end the curved to the points were sticking up kind of like a classic dragon I suppose. They were on of white-grey color and cold, much like everything else to do with me lately. Actually they extended about four inches behind my skull and I’d say the points were five or six inches above my head. “Well… I don’t know how I can get any use out of these, I suppose I could impale someone if I wanted to but I really don’t want to.”

“That’s good to here, so I’m guess new body parts come as well with each icesplosion?” Celestia asked.

“Oh yeah I didn’t explain that part did I? But yeah that’s right, but only like eyes, teeth, horns, wings, and tail the full body won’t come until all the other accessory body parts are here so. Since I already have horns and eyes and teeth that leaves wings and tails and body. So three more of that happening though I’m guessing the last one is going to be big… really really big. And they are all completely random.” I thought for a minute.

Fluttershy cleared her throat bringing the attention to her, “I-I know I’m not the smartest but, I was thinking… If he already has three parts does that mean he has a lot of powers he has to discover?”

I blinked… blinked again… and blinked some more and then I slammed my head on the table, “Fuck!” ‘She’s right isn’t she?’ Ixis just giggled. ‘Double fuck.’ I just groaned and kept my head on the table.

“Well it looks like you have some work to do Chris.” Twilight said. “I can help you if you want.” I gave her a thumbs up.

They were all laughing now, everyone finds my pain funny even on this world. Still love them though. I picked my head up and scratched around the base of my horns. “Well I don’t know about you but I’m tired as all get out.”

Celestia looked outside, “Hmmm, it is rather late. I should return to Canterlot. Come on Twilight, I will walk you home and then I’ll depart.” Her and Twilight got up and walk to the front door while I put the dishes in the sink. “And Chris, come visit sometime alright? Luna said she would like to talk to you again.”

“Ok, I can do that. I’ll see you later Molly.” I said with a devilish grin, which was only accented by my teeth.

Twilight looked at Celestia who just had the most ashamed look on her face, but I was looking at her eyes, where her true emotions lay and she was going to kill me later, so worth it.

“Come on Twilight.” She said quickly.

“Molly, princess?” Twilight asked.

I closed the door and laughed a hearty laugh. “Oh it’s good to be me, Flutters are you going to sleep to? Flutters?” I walked back to the living room to find she had fallen asleep sitting on the couch. I picked her up bridal style and carried her to her room through her door which was now fixed, I’m assuming Celestia and Twilight. I put her in bed and pulled the cover over her. “Good night Flutters.” I gave her a quick kiss on her forehead and went to my room to sleep but not before sitting at my desk and writing in my journal, which brings us to now.


~Current time~


I closed my journal and yawned when I felt a familiar spikiness brush against me when I looked down I saw Hedgy looking up at me, “Hey little guy, I haven’t seen you in days. I’m sorry if I froze you I didn’t mean to, I’ll make it up to you, lots of crickets and stuff.” He seemed ok with my apology and my offer so I picked him up and went to lay in bed.

‘It’s gonna be a weird life here. But I’m going to enjoy it.’ I thought, but of course no to myself.

+Yeah only because you have a bunch of hot mares all around you.+

‘That is only a plus, everything else is fine too. But good night Ixis.’

+Good night, I’m gonna be rummaging through your mind for a bit before I sleep.+

‘Alright, just don’t do anything crazy in there.’

+I’ll try not to.+