Hellbound

"Hey! Ugly!" I yelled at the hydra as it turned to me, "Yeah I'm talking to you!"

It growls, and I loose an arrow at it, missing the eye, but hitting it in the head causing a little bit of pain. That just made it madder and made it want to kill me more.

I drew another arrow and pulled beck the bow, but the hydra lunged at me, making me dive to the side to keep myself from dying. I landed on my back, knocking the wind out of me, and making me loose my grip on my arrow. The arrow sailed away, landing with a soft thump in the dirt.

One of the other heads lunged at me while the other was recovering, forcing me to move. I rolled to the left, away from the the other of the two heads. It missed by inches, and I could smell its' rancid breath. I growled and pushed myself up before any of the heads could attack again.

Unfortunatly, this hydra seemed to be smarter then most of the others, and spun around, whacking me with its' tail. The attack sent me flying into one of the buildings, breaking down one of the walls. I struggle to stay concious, the pain was extreme and being shoveled at me by the ton.

Fighting off the sweet release of unconciousness, I push myself up to see the hydra trying to eat some of the ponies. Just a hint of red...

The pain dulled slightly as my anger began to grow. Red around the edges...

Smash! It destroyed one of the houses, and my eyes began to glow. All red.

"NO!" I screeched, catching the attention of the beast. As soon as it began to turn I shot an arrow straight through its' eye tearing into its' brain. It roared in rage and pain, and I smiled maliciously it was music to my ears... The hydra charged me, opening up to another attack as I killed the head on the right, leaving only the middle one.

It stopped its' charge and looked at me fearfully. It took me a moment to realize that there was black energy flowing between us, and it looked like the energy was pouring into me...

"GAAAHHH!" I scream in pain as the energy thread suddenly snapped. I blacked out.

∂ At The Hospital ∂

"Ugh, my head! What happened!" I wince as I yelled, the noise hurt my head. I saw Fluttershy clinging to the edge of her chair, terrified. I look at her and say, "what's wrong?"

She passed me a mirror, and I gasped, my iris of my left eye red instead of the usual blue.

'Hello... It's nice to finally meet you, Ambrosius. As of now I am just a piece of your conscious, so you may comunicate with me through your head... so we don't disturb poor Fluttershy... My name is Zek. I need to talk to you about some things... later though, later...' The voice sounded tired and weak. It was slightly scratchy and needed to make pauses often as if it needed to catch it's breath. I guess it really was 'submerged in my subconcious'...

The voice faded from my conciousness, and left me holding the mirror, looking at the reflection of my one red eye.

Fluttershy shivered, "it's really disturbing, isn't it," I ignored the possible offenciveness in that comment due to the trueness, "it's almost like it belongs on something else... anyways, there is something that is good that came from ths whole incedent..."

She gestured to a silver lump on a nearby chair that resembled... a dragon!? I lean over to Fluttershy and whisper to her, "you call that good!? It's a dragon! They will kill ponies!"

She rolled her eyes, "you could, but do you? How do you know she will?"

I huffed, "I don't trust her. She's a dragon, they deserve to die."

Fluttershy glared at me, and it instantly shattered all resistance in me, leaving me fearing the powerful teal eyes. When she spoke again her voice was full of anger, "you will give her a chance," she said through gritted teeth, "and you will never. Ever. Say that something just deserves to die because of what they are. Got it?"

I nodded hastily, trying to get her to stop scaring me. I've looked a hydra in all three of its' hideous heads and it's still not as scary as this pony. Yeah, life works like that, I think it just likes to fuck with us.

She nods in a 'you bet your ass' sort of way, and turns around and scoops up the unconcious (sleeping?) dragon. She paused and turned again, "oh, and do try and get some sleep, my friends will be by later and they'll want you to be able to answer most if not all of their questions. I know they will be curious about you..."

She looked at me with a slightly worried expression, and I tried to give her a ressuring nod. It might not have worked because I was still recovering from her horrid eyes, the crystal clear teal eyes... *shiver* "don't worry, I'll be sure to cooperate."

"Oh, and do try to almost die less, please?" I roll my eyes and nod once and she smiles.

I hear the door click, and I roll over to sleep. I close my eyes and try to remember the fight with the hydra from earlier today, but it's hazy, as if it happened years in the past...

I slowly succumb to sleep ignoring the thought.

∂ Dream World ∂

I blink in confusion, this wasn't my normal dream. My surrounding area was all grey, a charcoal grey and I was floating. I was starting to wish for ground, the floating became a little much, and a patch of grass quickly expands under my feet.

Surprised, I touched down. I looked up and thought that the sky was wrong (it was fucking grey) so I willed it to be blue. And there was blue. Only blue, so I put a moon in the sky, making the world proper, and darkened all the colors so it looked like it was the night. I nodded in approval, giving the world another once over.

Blank. There was no hills, trees, or even clouds. I struck a heroic pose, "this shall not stand!"

I focused and I created trees all around me, leaving me in a large, flat clearing in the middle of a forest. I smile at my success, and add a few flowers along the edges, making sure they weren't poisonus. I sink the ground and fill the depression in with water leaving a little pool filled with crystal clear water. I line the bottom with river stones and add a few fish.

I look around and nothing seems to be out of place, so I stretch out on the ground. With a content sigh, I close my eyes.

"Hey buddy, time to get up," a voice said to me, it sounded familiar...

I sigh sadly, and flick open my eyelids. I look towards the owner of the voice, and I jolt in surprise. It was me, just different. His muscles were fuller, his black hair was a little longer and he was just a little taller then me, about six feet tall. His eyes were red.

He extends a hand and I take it, and he helps me up. I was suspitious of him so I ask, "what are you doing here? Who are you?"

He just smiles and says, "I'm Zek, and as for what I'm doing here, I'm part of your mind, it's kinda part of my job to be in your dreams. I also want to train you in swordsmanship, and this way it won't be possible for you to die."

Oh, okay, I get it, part of my brain wanted to train me in the proper method of swinging a sword and didn't want me dead, "wait, what?"