It’s been a few weeks since the whole Nightmare Moon incident, and a few small things happened. Applejack went a little crazy from exhaustion, which me and twilight got through to her after a while, thankfully. And there was an incident with some gold tickets. (which I couldn’t help but think of that old Willy Wonka movie’s ‘I got a golden ticket’ song. Which just sent me in an uproarious phase of complete laughter, and…I got forced to sing the whole song for the girls…oh god how embarrassed was I after that song? So much so that I wished I could burn myself to ashes with my wings…

Aside from those, I can fly now, thanks to Rainbow Dash, and we now work on maneuvers, and my speed. I can now keep up with her for a good 20 to 25 minutes before I start slowing down, and my endurance gets better every day we work on it. I also found an instrument store and found they have guitars here. oh, it is such a relief to know guitars are still playable. Unicorns can play them so much easier because of their magic, but pegasi can use their hooves, or even their wings. Yeah, wings…I learned how to move them pretty quickly, but the advanced levels of manipulation? Yeah, the feathers can act like the fingers of a hand, and that just seemed crazy.

The weirdest thing…that dark blue alicorn with the black and blue eyes…every night before I fall asleep he comes into my room, and I asked Celestia and Luna if they knew any alicorns like that, but they said they were the only ones that still lived…to their knowledge…well, other than their niece. After a week of it happening I told them it was every night, and for a couple nights, I had guards posted at my bedroom door. They always said, they saw the door open, but always checked into the room. never saw him. The princesses believe it was just my mind tricking me, but I now he’s real. How do I know? Because last night, I saw him come in, and make 2 eggs appear, one was decently big, while the other was…maybe twice the size of a chicken? Maybe closer to three times bigger…

I woke up to find the eggs still there, and the big egg was dark blue, with red circles, and the smaller egg was black with what looked like blue flames, like the flame decals on a car, but they covered the lower half of the egg. I set up a drawer with a few blankets like a couple nests and set the eggs in them, and the smaller of the two, felt so warm, which made me guess that it would hatch later. I headed downstairs towards the kitchen, and I could smell something cooking. But one smell hit hard…is that…bacon?! Wait, spike said last night he was gonna make ‘hay bacon’ must be made of hay, I should ask about that later…

I got into the kitchen to see…big surprise…twilight reading a book… “Twi, don’t you ever….oh I don’t know…NOT read? even all night with you sometimes…and when I wake up in the middle of the night for my 3 am drink, I have to blow out the candles you used, set a book mark, and close your books, THEN be very, very, VEEEERRRYYY careful to get you on my back and get you in bed while NOT waking the light sleep wonder that sleeps through thunder storms! I mean…” I looked over at spike. “I walk into that room to put her in her bed, one tiny squeek of a floorboard, and you jump up, but a storm hits, with thunder that shakes the tree, and you snore away! But some weird ALICORN comes into my room EVERY night and you sleep through THAT as well!!!” I slammed my head on the table chin first letting my head lay there as my hair covered my vision.

The silence let me know they were worried…I NEVER snapped like that before. I heard some hoofsteps, and then a hoof on my shoulder, knowing twilight came around the table. “the princesses said there was no pony else that was an alicorn…they even used a scrying spell to watch over you, and they never saw anypony enter your room.” I just leaned my head so I could look at her with one eye through my hair, and I started flapping my wings grabbing her and flying upstairs with her. “WHAT?! BLAZE!!! PUT ME DOWN!!”

I set her down by the drawer and pointed at the eggs. “not real?! HE LEFT THESE LAST NIGHT TWILIGHT!! I KNOW HES REAL NOW, AND I AM STRESSED AND SCARED NOW!” I almost bucked back in anger but calmed down so I wouldn’t jostle the drawer and make the eggs fall out. I sighed and looked down. “I-I’m sorry Twi, I didn’t mean to snap…this whole thing has been so taxing on my sanity, and this…? This made it so real for me, because even I thought it was just exhaustion, but I saw him set these eggs down, and then look at me.”

“this can’t be possible…these are….eggs of a dragon, and a phoenix…a dragon egg, a surprise to see here, but I know there are a lot of dragons, but the phoenix egg?! They are so rare, only one phoenix is known of in Equestria…and that’s Philomena…Celestia’s phoenix.” I looked at twilight as she was staring in shock at the phoenix egg. Are they really that rare?

Twilight and I soon went back into the kitchen. By the time we got there spike had set pancakes on three plates, and ‘hay’ bacon was on a separate plate in the center. We all sat at the table and started eating as twilight told spike to not each too fast because he is going to probably be sending and receiving letters for and from Celestia a lot. After breakfast I told them I was gonna go see if Rainbow Dash was wanting to fly around, show me some tricks, or just hang out in general.

Who knows, she may be hanging with Pinkie doing pranks like she did yesterday. From what I hear they pranked a lot of ponies. Rarity with sneezing powder, applejack with water soluble paint on her apples, twilight with invisible ink. Wait…they didn’t try to prank me…or Fluttershy…hmm…Fluttershy would probably be hurt, emotionally, from a prank…so her being unpranked, is understandable…but not me? maybe they didn’t have an idea….or….are they….no…they can’t be….they aren’t scared of me, are they?! Are….do they all fear me…? no, that cant be true, it cant…

I just froze up and stood there thinking, but in the middle of my thoughts, I could see ponies giving me a good berth…they do…that explains why they seem to watch me from the corner of their eyes…and they don’t think I see that?! Am I…a monster to them? I looked around to see some speed up when I did. I can’t believe this…before I was ignored because I was weak, and they all believed that if they were close to me they had to protect me…and now, its because….I’m a freak…a…a monster.

I decided to head towards the park, I needed to be alone, and the park was the best place to be alone. On the way I saw a…oh dear god…griffons DO exist here. I saw Fluttershy bump into the griffon while she was guiding some ducks and ducklings. I could hear her apologizing in her timid tone, but that griffon…by the voice, I'd say it’s a she…she just mocked Fluttershy and yelled at her. I cant let this go on.

I hurried over and got between the griffon and Fluttershy staring the griffon down. “What is you PROBLEM?! She apologized, and you decide to be a bitch, and mock her?!”

I saw the griffon step back and looks genuinely pissed, and ready to strike. “my problem?! She was the one who bumped me; she should have gone around ME.”

“oh, I’m sorry; I didn’t know I was talking to the duchess of the bitches!”

“I could easily take you dweeb!”

Oh yeah?!” I got in her face baring my teeth, with my wings outstretched.

“YEAH!!” she shoved her face into mine, outstretching her wings.

I decided to test something and made my wings go on fire pressing into her face harder and YELLED. “OH YEAH?!?!?!?!”

I could see the griffon back up scared. A pegasus using magic…definitely a freakish thing here apparently…I made my wings go out as the griffon scowled and walked off, mumbling something. I turned to Fluttershy, and hurried over to her to make sure she was ok. She told me she was fine, and thanked me for jumping in to defend her. I just shrugged and smiled at her. She got all the ducks together again, and started leading them again.

I continued heading to the park, and laid at the edge of the lake. I started wondering if what I did was too much…I soon heard two others land nearby, and I could hear Rainbow Dash’s voice say ‘hey’.

I looked up at her and saw the griffon behind her looking sad, but she just smirked at me for a moment. “why did you yell at Gilda?!”

I cant believe that griffon knows Rainbow Dash. “I didn’t yell at her…without reason…” I scratched my head nervously as I sat up. “Fluttershy backed into her as she was leading some ducks, and miss anger issues, mocked and yelled at her…I wasn’t sure WHAT she was gonna do to Fluttershy…lions and eagles are predatory creatures…and she is both in one…I didn’t want to risk Fluttershy getting hurt…what I did….may have been much…” I looked at Gilda. “and I apologize…but when I see another being pushed, or threatened, I tend to jump in and take any oncoming beating…or…attempt to kill…” I looked away from them as I felt a stinging pain at my neck and rubbed the spot to calm the pain.

“Blaze…Gilda is my friend, and I want to see my old friends become friends with my new friends too…now, we are about to head for a fly. Wanna join in?” I looked at her seeing her smirk, and Gilda seemed annoyed. I just nodded and Rainbow took off, as Gilda and I started flying after her.

It wasn’t too long when I felt something grab me, and clamped my muzzle shut. As I noticed I was inside a cloud. I looked over and saw Gilda staring at me intensely. “listen twerp, Rainbow Dash is MY friend…and she has known me longer than you or any of those other lame ponies…she will be on my side, rather than yours…as I’m sure you noticed…” she smirked and let me go leaving me in the cloud for a second then I flew after them again.

We flew for about 25 minutes and landed on a cloud as I was panting, and I could hear Gilda’s voice. “aww, does the tired colt need a breather?” she laughed, and I raised my head to glare at her and I felt a sharp sting and gagged, which caused a coughing fit.

I felt a hoof on my shoulders and looks up and Dash panting. “I-I’m fine…I just…wrong pipe, that’s all.” I chuckled nervously. “Swallowed some air and it all went down the wrong tube.”

I saw Gilda fix her feathers that had the tips dyed a shade of violet. And sat there looking annoyed.

I just rolled my eyes, and sat down flexing my wings, which made Gilda watch me cautiously. She’s nervous about me lighting my wings, huh? Good to know…

I leaned my head and made my neck pop loudly which made Gilda flinch and Rainbow looked at me, which made me turn my head the other way making a series of pops, making Gilda cringe. The relief made me happily sigh and look behind me, and I saw…wait…that blue alicorn! I looked back at Dash, then back where the alicorn was, but he was gone…damn…

I decided to let Gilda and Dash go on and I flew back to the library. I walked into the door, and saw Celestia looking at the phoenix egg, that was still in the small nest of my old human clothes and some blankets, which now sat on the Twilight's studying table. I walked over and looked at the egg. And it wasn’t long when I heard Celestia’s voice.

“Blaze, I need you to describe this alicorn you have been seeing…in FULL detail…”

I looked at her and nodded as I sat there staring at the egg. “dark blue coat, and feathers, light grey, nearly white hair color, blue eyes, but the white of the eyes…his were black….so it was like he had a completely black eye….black as the void itself…and it just had a blue ring in it. I do not feel any threat off him, but I do….worry…and it feels like I should know him…or….at least OF him…its hard to explain…”

Celestia nodded and looked at me. “he gave these eggs to you for a reason…the phoenix, if it binds its life to yours by nicking you with its beak and makes its tears heal the wound, the phoenix is safe….the dragon egg…watch the dragon closely…I scanned an alteration spell on them…so when they hatch, they wont just be hatchlings. The phoenix will be mature, and the dragon…I would say…around spikes age?”

I just nodded unsure of what to say. Celestia smiled and teleported off, but a few seconds later I heard the door crash open and I felt something crash into me. I looked back to see pinkie, with her eyes spinning. She soon jumped up and hopped excitedly, with a big grin, and set a paper on the table and ran off. Wonder what that was about…

I looked at the paper and saw a crude griffon drawing, with a cake, that looks like it was a photo rather than a drawing, and I could tell it was an invitation to a party for Gilda. Maybe this would help out. I certainly hope it helps, since Dash seems to be close friends with Gilda.

Twilight and I headed for SugarCube Corner, for the party. I saw Gilda come in a few minutes after we got here, and she got a lemon drop, which seemed to have been tampered with since she yelled, and tried to get a drink, but the cup had a hole in it that made it pour on her chest.

After another couple pranks, Gilda got in pinkies face. “you think these weak little pranks was gonna break me? sorry, but they didn’t…you are just queen lame-o for these pranks anyway…” I saw her start leaving telling…or TRYING to tell her to leave with her. I heard Dash say she made the pranks, and that must mean the she was the lame-o. Gilda really messed up…

I could see Dash was going to say something and I walked over. “Dash wait.” I walked up to Gilda and looked at her. “why don’t we all just say some things happened, and some things were said…and just start over with a clean slate…okay?” I held my hoof to Gilda, hoping she would agree to the idea.

I saw her look at my hoof then me before scowling, then I saw a yellow blur come up the right side of my face, and I felt a pain over my eye. The speed from the yellow blur made my head go up, and I could feel something warm flow down my face. I suddenly heard a few gasps, and I heard Dash call my name in worry. I just lowered my head and looked at Gilda, as I felt something change in my mind.

My mind just seemed to shut off, as I felt an urge to act, to jump, to….tear her apart…I suddenly flew into her and made us roll out of the door and into the streets. I threw her and rolled onto my hooves as everything seemed to be colored red, but Gilda seemed to have a black aura around her…my target…the first and last fight I was ever in…it was just anger, but this…I can feel bloodlust deep inside.

I got closer to Gilda, which just made me smile widely, but I could see many ponies watching back away scared. I must be smiling like some kind of maniac. I felt my wings stretch out and I saw the orange glow radiate off me onto the ground, but I noticed the glows color change, but I didn’t care. When I got close to Gilda she curled up scared, and the window of the store she was in showed my reflection.

I saw the demented smile of a killer, the right half of my face and a lot of my hair were covered in blood, and my eyes were red, but the scariest part was the white of my eyes…they weren’t white anymore, but they were red, like I had a lot of blood vessels in my eyeball bust, and the blood filled the eye. The flames of my wings had even turned red, like the sun when it sets. I looked in shock, then looked down to see the blood going down my right hoof, and looked back to see hoofprints in blood. I felt everything go numb and I looked at Gilda.

I made my wings go out and folded them up, and then…I just bolted off, running, I wasn’t sure where, but I didn’t care. I just had to get away. I quickly found myself in the library, and I ran to the restroom, and locked the door as I started cleaning off the blood at the sink. The whole time, I kept wondering what was happening to me, why did I get an urge to kill? I have been stabbed, cut, and more, but I never…NEVER had an urge to KILL! Is this power corrupting me? all this time when I thought that if I had power, I wouldn’t be corrupted by it…was I lying to myself?!

After a few minutes, I was still scrubbing wet yet crusted blood off my face, and I heard a knock at the restroom door which made me flinch and look at myself in the mirror. My face still had some blood, and the three cuts going over my eye continued to bleed. I quickly wiped off the remaining blood and pulled out the roll of gauss quickly wrapping around my head a few times at an angle, so my eye is covered, and bit it to rip the gauss stuffing the end under the wrapping. It looked like a shoddy wrapping, but semi professional at least.

I opened the restrooms door to see the girls all looking at me with….fright I guess, I couldn’t tell since I couldn’t bare to look any of them in the face. I soon felt a hoof gently move my head, which I didn’t resist but I kept looking away, which most of what I saw was straight pink hair, and I soon felt the gauss lift up and I slowly opened the eye, which I soon saw half of what I see go red quickly.
“oh my…we need to get you to the hospital, that needs to be professionally dressed, and cleaned.” I looked at Fluttershy; feeling lost in my own mind, so I just chose to say what came to mind.

“why…?” Fluttershy looked at me shocked, and confused and I looked at the rest of the girls looking at me worried, except Rainbow Dash who sitting down the hall rubbing one of her forelegs, looking away from me. “why are you still helping me…? why are you helping a monster like me…?”

I saw Dash raise her head with wide eyes and she charged into me tackling me in a hug, which shocked me “you are NOT a monster blaze! How could you even think that?! Because you were covered in blood?! That was your blood, Gilda probably had a few bruises, but she didn’t bleed, you did!!”

I just lowered my head as my hair covered my vision. “I thought of killing her…”

Me and Dash sat up and she hugged me again, as the other girls joined in, which surprised me, and helped me calm down. I soon heard twilight’s voice. “but you didn’t…”

We all started heading for the hospital, but I could feel all the stares on me as we walked through the town. At the hospital the doctors started cleaning, and disinfecting the wound. They stuck a piece of cloth with a salve on it, which felt nice and cold. They wrapped gauss a lot better than I did. I was soon let go, and given a couple pills to help me sleep tonight. When me and the girls left the hospital we all headed the same way, but as we went along some had to head another way to head home. The only ones to make it to the library were me, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Dash.

I felt a little tap and I looked over at Fluttershy. “be sure to get plenty of rest…I will be by tomorrow to change the bandages…i-if that’s ok with you that is…” I just nodded and smiled which made her smile a bit, but she hid her face into her mane more. “bye” she seemed to trot off happily. Wait…could she…? Nah, she’s just really kind and caring.

I felt a little punch on my shoulder on the other side and saw Dash smirking at me. “endurance training will start again the day after tomorrow, no tricks though, just endurance. Until that stuff is off your eye, and you feel good enough to. Don’t want you to get hurt anymore, right big guy?”

“you think this hurts?” I smirked back at her. “I had a spike go through my chest, tearing some vital organs. This is a paper cut, a flesh wound.” I placed a hoof over Dash’s shoulders and pulled her closer using my other hoof to give her a noogie. “so don’t worry your little head over this tiny thing. It’s the second smallest wound I got in my whole life, and the least painful to boot.”

I let her go as she pushed away chuckling. “good to hear you’re gonna be ok…” her ears drooped as her eyes softened and seemed to glisten like she wanted to let out some tears. “I would hate to lose you…you are the only one that can decently keep up with me…even if it only lasts for so long, you can…and I know that once you get better at flying, we will make each other better and better fliers…” she looked at me and smiled.

“I’d like that Dash…I’ll c'ya tomorrow, right?” she nodded and flew off towards Cloudsdale. I should really check it out sometime soon. I soon got to my bed but I didn’t get in it, I sat next to it seeing Mimzy right in the middle of the bed snoozing away. I didn’t have the heart to wake her, so I just grabbed the blanket I had on a nearby seat and went downstairs to the library and saw Twilight reading a book. I popped the blanket off my back with my wings making them create a poof sound, and the blanket landed on the couch with a decent thud.

Twilight jumped and looked at me, before taking a breath. “Blaze, you scared me…” I guess she noticed my stare as she slowly smiled widely…which I heard a small squeek as she did…weird….

“Twilight….bed…now…or I will burn every first edition magic book you have, then every history book, then the rest…..one….by….one…” I saw Twilight glare at me as I smirked and walked to a bookshelf and searched it finding a ‘fundamentals of magic, and the complexities of the flow’ that was written by a ‘Starswirl the Bearded’ and made a single feather light on fire moving it towards the book.

“ALRIGHT, just stop! That is only one of the three remaining copies like that!! The only others are in the royal library, and Celestia’s room! the fundamentals part has been mass produced, but not the complexities of the natural magic’s flow around Equis, and how it affects us!” I slid the book back in its place as she closed her book and went up the stairs.

“no reading in bed either, sleep…I know you haven’t slept much, and you need to…” I flicked the feather making the flame go out. “oh, and Mimzy is hogging my bed, so I’m sleeping down here…so no planning to sneak back down here…” I laid the blanket on the couch and got under it getting cozy.

“whatever you say Blaze…” I could tell by her voice she was annoyed. I soon heard a door close and I looked at the doorway to the kitchen, but I couldn’t see into the room. oh well…its not like I need to….I grabbed the pills I got from the doctors and dry swallowed them. Oh shit, these hit FAST! I already feel dizzy, and really heavy! As my eyes closed I saw a silver gleam in the pitch black kitchen, and I felt a pain go through my wrapped eye. But the pills were too strong, and I fell asleep, seeing 2 blue rings, and a wide smile in the void from the kitchen.

Author's Note

i know, i still need to fix some stuff...primarily CAPITALIZING NAMES!

i have had this chapter close to done for a while, and i of course HAD TO ADD THE HOSPITAL, AND THE POSSIBLE LOVE INTERESTS. ugh...that people....is my brain, with a week of no sleep...i promise you all, when my insomnia break and i sleep, i will work on capitalizing...so...all i can say...
is...

DIBS, IS MOTHERFUCKING OUT, AND GONNA CHUG SOME DAMN MONSTER, TO GET TO SLEEP.

explanation: i have O.D.D. so things that effect the body, many tend to do the opposite. medicine has no effect on me. sleep medication gets me wired. awake. energy drinks, soda, sugar. out like a light...so i bought 6 monsters today...peace out, the DIBs-meister is going to sleep for a few days...

OOH YAY THAT MEANS I HAVE CONTROL!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH THIS WILL BE SO FUN! FUN FUN FUNNY-FUN-FUN!! at least it will be once i go crazy...but what will make my fragile mind snap? if you will excuse me, i need to rummage for his notebook that he planned things out in...