Hellbound

"Just, just one more time? Please?" I ask again, extremely confused.

He sighs and rubs his temples, "ugh, okay, one more time. I am going to train you. Train. You. And we will be using normal blades for the best effect. If I was to do this with you in real life, you would be dead, but in your mind, you won't die, you'll just come back. Get it?"

I nod slowly, barely understanding what he said.

He smiles, and says, "we aren't going to be doing any training tonight, so you can ask me any questions you want, and I'll try to answer them."

"So... how did you get to be... you?"

"You mean how I took a physical form?" I nod, "well that's an easy question. Remember the battle with the hydra, the one that just took place? Remember the energy flowing between us, how your eyes turned red? That was me. I was always with you, I could only come out during your weakest moments though, when you were in a rage and your will was focused on killing. I sucked the energy from the hydra- or dragon really, making it lose it's 'monster' form and go back to it's dragon stage, and that energy is part of me, making it so I'm able to talk with you when you sleep."

I furrow my brow, "so you can just suck the energy out of anything? Or just certain creatures?"

"Just certain creatures, only those from the forest because their magical pattern match mine, and- shoot you have to get up, Fluttershys' friends have arrived. We'll continue this next time."

He disappered, and I saw the dreamscape fade away, until there was only that grey color.

∂ Back at The Hospital ∂

My eyes flutter open and I hear a doornob turn. I look towards the door, and I see eight ponies stream in, two of them I couldn't recognise from Fluttershys' discription of her friends, and the two were significantly taller then the others. The white one could have been as tall as me.

A pink mare, Pinkie Pie I believe, jumped up and got in my face before spouting out, "HelloI'mPinkiePie!It'snicetomeetyou,IalreadyknowyournammebecauseFluttershytoldme!*gasp*Ihavetothrowyouaparty!ByebyeI'mgonnagogetitsetup!"

She dashed off at super-sonic speeds, leaving only a cloud of dust in her wake. Twilight sighed, "I'm sorry that's just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. Anyways I'm Twilight, nice to meet you..."

Taking the hint I introduce myself, "Ambrosius, I already know all your names, Fluttershy told me all about you. Except, the taller ponies, I don't know your names..."

The white one says, "I'm Princess of the Day, Celestia, and this is my little sister, Princess of the Night, Luna. Pleasure meeting you."

I smile, "nice meeting you two," I turn towards the ponies, "I'm sure you all have many questions, I'll answer them in just a second."

I get out of the bed, wincing slightly as I put weight on my ankle, probably pulled or twisted. I stretch out and take note of any badly hurting places. I spark up a small blue flame and wash my wounds with it, healing them.

Satisfied, I stretch poping my back and neck. I smile, "now where were we?

I laugh at their shocked faces, before Twilight says, "you can do magic!?"

"Yup."

Rainbow looked up, "is that how you killed the hydra?"

"Nope, I have no idea how that happened."

Luna spoke up, her voice was full of disbelief, "so you have no idea how you killed a HYRDA?"

"Well, I have some theories, the most prominent is I just sucked out all the corrupting magic of the forest. That one makes the most sense to me because the hydra turned into a dragon so a dragon is the base creature and the magic of the forest is what corrupted it."

Twilight looked wierd, "that makes... sense. How could you have thought of that, in a few moments when everypony has been working on what causes the creatures of the Everfree to be so unique and dangerous."

"Logic, data, and human ingenuty, add it together and anythings possible."

The crowd was unsettled, swapping glances and shifing their hooves.

"Oh, and would now be a good time for me to bring up that I'm a prince...?"

Blink. Blink.

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