The Lost is Found.

"But that is beside the point guys, because if he does not wake up soon then both the princesses are going to come down here and when that happens I fear somepony is in for a world of hurt."

Voices fade in and out from my head, warped and distorted but still understandable. These voices continue to fade in and out for an unknown amount of time before the warp ends and as soon as it becomes clear, I realize that I am not dead and throw open my eyes leting out a huge gasp.

"Oh boy he is awake, what should we do?" Twilight says in a hushed voice, causing me to look to my left and find the entire group huddled together in a small circle, heads occasionally quickly looking to me and then back to the ponies in the circle with worried looks.

"Hey guys, what's up?" I ask them casually causing all the ponies bodies to tense up slightly and slowly turn around to face me. "Whoa you look like you have seen a ghost, you alright?" I ask honestly as I try to turn some more to the side and feel a stabbing pain in my left arm. Wincing, I quickly turn and look to my arm to see an I.V needle sticking firmly into my skin with a line running to a bag of an unknown clear liquid. "Wait, what the hell am I doing in the hospital?" I think to myself as I then also notice that I am lying down in a large bed with bright white sheets. "Why am I in the hospital?"

"You mean you don't remember anything about what happened?" Pinkie says energetically, before catching a quick hoof in her mouth by Rainbow Dash and some nervous looks from the rest of the mares.

"...No. Should I remember something?" I ask questionable before nervously reaching down to where my watch would be. Except when I go to grab it there is nothing there. At first I think that I may have just missed putting my hand on it but a quick look reveals that it is not even on me. "Uh where's my watch?" I ask with slight nervousness as I bring my focus back to the group, my eyes dancing from one pony to the next.

"Uh, d-don't ya worry your pretty little head bout that, we got it!" Applejack speaks up from the back of the group and I raise an eyebrow at the tone of her voice. But for now I decide to ignore it and just be thankful that at least I did not wake up in the hospital without my caring marefriends. "Well, I have no clue about how I ended up here, but who cares, all that matters is that I am on the right side of the dirt. So please join me, this bed is more comfy than you think and I imagine you all might have been standing for awhile." I say motioning to the spaces beside me. But instead of smiling and moving to lay down with me, they all continue to stare at me with nervous expressions, all except for Fluttershy as I cannot see her where she is currently located.

"Oh come on you guys I don't bite!" I joke acting like my hands are claws and opening my mouth baring my teeth. However, this has a strange affect on the group as all their eyes grow wide and jump back slightly. What in the nine circles of Hell has gotten into them?" I ask myself seriously as I drop my hands and bring my face back to normal. "Okay I may be autistic but even a blind man can see you all are acting funny now what is up?" I say in a more serious tone furrowing my eyebrows towards the group.

"It's really nothing darling...really..." Rarity says nervously trailing off before finishing her statement.

"Alright that does it, somepony tell me what's going on because this is seriously starting to get old!" I say in annoyance as I reach over and move the stand holding my bag to my I.V line closer to me. I then quickly set up, ignoring the pain in my arm from the needle and move the stand from the left side of my bed to the right. But even if I am able to ignore the pain from the needle, the pain that springs on me from just moving is enough to make me want to throw up. My insides are now alive with searing pain as if liquid fire had been poured into my body and with that let out a pain filled groan before grabbing the pack off of the stand and holding it so I can return to lying flat on my back, which I promptly do causing a sigh of relief to slip my lips.

"Whoa are you alright, the doc said you would not be in that bad of pain." Twilight says in a matter of fact tone before I feel a overwhelming sense of relief wash over my body. Wanting to know where the sudden oncoming of relief was coming from, I look up to where the rest of the group is and find that Twilight's horn is aglow in purple light, her eyes full of sympathy and caring.

"Thanks Twilight, sorry I got a little heated it's I just don't know what happened that got me here and why my body feels like it has been torn in half." I say sympathetically before my gaze goes to the rest of the group.

"Ay hate to say this sugar cube, but this may be one thing you don't want to remember." Applejack says as she nervously looks down to her hooves, the rest of the group slowly nodding their heads in agreement.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa what do you mean by that?" I ask in scared confusion as I roll back over onto my right side, giving my full attention to the group who now look as though they are viewing there worst nightmare.

"Meaning if we tell you your probably going to wish you never heard it. B-but if you really want to know then I guess we can tell you but first let me ask you something, are you hungry?" Twilight asks me honestly, causing me to cock an eyebrow.

"Uh...no." I say in a confused tone, causing Twilight and the rest of the group to recoil slightly as I see tears start to form in Rarity's eyes.

"Then he really did eat her." Rarity says in a broken voice before tears start to fall relentlessly from her eyes, causing me to recoil so hard that the I.V in my arm is yanked from my body. Blood immediately shoots from the place where the I.V needle was just located, covering Twilight and the rest of the group in a thin layer of crimson red. But I pay absolutely no attention to this along with the throbbing pain now making its way up my arm as an eerie silence fills my mind. Then as if guided by the blood, I remember everything, bit by gory bit. Trixie's bloodcurdling screams, flesh being ripped from her body, front leg being ripped off her body with my bare hands. However, all of that does not even hold comparison to what comes next. My eyes fill with what appears to be boiling blood and fire as I bring my foot down hard onto Trixie's neck, smashing through it and decapitating her with a loud bone chilling CRUNCH!

But even after I stood steeped in pools of blood of the now deceased Trixie, anger was still making my eyes boil an angry red for all the things that she had done...and all the things she would have done had I not killed her. Those thoughts were far too wild for me to handle and my anger too great, so I acted on the first impulse that came to my mind. Devour her! From there the scene is a blood spattered nightmare of flesh, muscle and organs being stripped from her body by my teeth and hands before being devoured with sickening sounds.

"Oh God! Oh God no!" I scream in a loud panicked voice as the memory comes to an abrupt end making me lean over the big bed and violently projectile puking all over the wall, coating it in a fresh layer of brownish red. This sight only causes me to violently throw up once again, coating the room in the foul sour smell of rotting flesh.

"Chris! Somepony get a nurse we have to stop his bleeding right now!" Twilights yells in a commander like voice as somepony comes bursting through the door.

"What happened, where is his I.V needle?! Wait hold up I will put it back in." A pony yells loudly before I feel myself being surrounded in a magical field, instantly pushing me back down to the bed and sealing the place where my blood was squirting. Then the room erupts into chatter. "I ask again what happened to his I.V?!"

"He jumped backwards and it got ripped out."

"What the hell is happening to Chris!"

All these statements and more are now flying around the room one on top of another, sounding more similar to gibberish than actual conversation. But I am still too far gone in the memories of the past to even care as tears start to stream down my cheeks.

"What in God's name have I done?! They now all fear me, especially Fluttershy because she saw it first hand. Fluttershy..." The mere thought of the sweet crème colored mare brings out negative feelings in me that no matter how bad I had felt in the past had never even crossed my mind. "I'm a monster!" This relatively quiet statement from me causes a sudden change in the atmosphere that Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and the other pony seem to pick up on immediately as the room grows dead quiet. "I'm a monster." I repeat in a horrified tone.

"Chris your not a-"

DON'T GIVE ME THAT SHIT!!!" I roar sitting up quickly, completely negating the magic holding me down to the bed as I look to Twilight with tear filled eyes. "Not even Annabelle, who is a T-rex will eat something else unless hungry and that is what separates animals from monsters, the ability to only kill and eat when hungry. But I did that...strictly because I wanted the gratification of ripping her apart!" I scream once more before I quickly lay back down onto the bed and start to sob uncontrollably. "Trixie may have been possessed by Xana, wanted to kill me and rape Twilight yet I feel...horrible for what I did to her, the way that I butchered her without mercy!" I utter in between sobs as my insides are being torn apart by guilt, fear and shame unrelenting.

These sensations swirl inside of my violently as did my anger in my memories of fighting Trixie. So much so that it awakens a deep primal fear inside of me that threatens to plunge me into a complete and total mental shutdown. I start to hyperventilate at a rapid pace, my heart beating out of control as a thin layer of sweat starts to accumulate on my brow.

"Twilight do something! He is starting to go freaky deaky again!" Pinkie Pie squeals loudly as I quickly feel a hoof gently come to rest in the palm of my hand, making me feel as though a hand is now wrapped around mine. Instantly I glace over and see the slightly scared form of Rainbow Dash, forelegs laying on the side of the bed with her left hoof in my hand. She is shaking slightly and in her usually confidence filled bright purple eyes I can see signs of distress and slight fear. The sight is absolutely heartbreaking for me to see. This beautiful marefriend who was the least afraid of anything now looks as thought she is going through her own internal struggle just trying to get near me.

"Come on now Chris, you can do this, you can beat your fear! The only thing you need to do is let it in for 5 seconds and it will be gone!" Rainbow Dash says uneasily as her tail swishes back and forth behind her slowly.

I know not how long I stayed in my stoic position, completely consumed by the sad and beautiful picture that is Rainbow Dash. However after staring at her for what feels like an eternity, I finally grip her hoof snuggly as I manage to take in a deep breath and on exhale start to count very slowly.

"One.Two.Three.Four.Five!" As soon as I barely finish five, Rainbow Dash suddenly removes her hoof from my hand and quickly puts it behind my head near the top of my neck, pulling me into a gentle but passionate kiss. At first this confuses me because of the unexpectedness, but I quickly find that my mind stops being the one in control and instead my heart takes over, slowly trailing my hand up to the back of her head where her mane was and copying what she was doing we gently close our eyes. The feeling of her soft lips on mine are an absolute heaven, warm and comforting to the very nature of my soul with love and kindness I had never before felt. "Wait a minute, what is that? I think to myself as I feel a sort of dark energy start to dissipate within me and with it all the pain and sorrow both physical and mental. This action intensifies the longer that the kiss goes on, until as Rainbow Dash withdraws her lips from mine the energy completely disappears. I open my eyes back up to see a red faced Rainbow Dash who cracks a wide smile.

"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were right about you, I could feel the fire." Rainbow Dash says warmly, causing me to raise an eyebrow slightly.

"Always with the dragon jokes." I say sarcastically as I turn to the rest of the group, instantly earning a round of laughter. "But seriously, how did you find out about that?" I ask in the most serious tone I can muster for the given situation.

"Well, I hate to make you feel stupid but you kissed my teacher and my teacher's sister, naturally both of them are them are going to tell me." Twilight says calming down from her laughing, giving me smug grin.

"And then Twilight told the rest of us." Applejack finishes Twilights statement, almost as if on cue. But despite the rather plain sounding wording it takes me a minute to figure out what she is talking about, more importantly the social connection between it. However after I think on it for a second, the realization dawns on me.

"Oh Celestia you traitor." I sigh in slight annoyance as I shake my head slightly followed by another round of laugher that quickly dies out as I see Twilight levitate what appears to be a scroll from behind my watch and I let it be known by my facial expression. "What is that?" At this question I can see the emotional status of the group shift from happy and relaxed to more serious and focused as the scroll gently levitates to my empty hand near the edge of my bed.

"It was a scroll we found on Trixie when...well lets not go there but we would like for you to take a look at it." Twilight says honestly.

"Okay, what seems to be the problem with it?" I ask as I crack open the scroll open slightly and immediately see that this scroll was written in Dovahzul.

"Well, quite simply we cannot read it and then there is one strange symbols at the end I have never before seen, maybe it can give us a clue as to how Xana got here or more importantly what he is up to." Twilight says in a matter of fact tone as I look more closely to the first line of the scroll.

"It's a contract." I say in surprise as I slowly start to unravel more of the scroll so I could read further into the details.

"How do ya know that Sugarcube?" Applejack asks me skeptically as I continue to pour through the texts, looking for anything that might provide me with more information.

"Because it says Kalyul gro ko sos. With means "Contract bound in blood" in are tongue." I say simply as my eyes quickly scan the rest of the text and find nothing of use. My focus is quickly caught however by the two elaborate symbols at the bottom of the page. The first one that catches my attention depicts a standard eyes of Xana, deep back with a glowing red center dot to forecast the evil and all seeing nature of Xana. However, unlike what I was expecting when I look to the second image myself I can feel myself becoming confused. The second symbol and the one that they could not identify was that of a simple white feather resting in a ink bottle. "Just so were on the correct page here you are talking about the symbol on the right correct?" I say pointing to the quill.

"Ding, ding, ding that's it." Pinkie Pie says in her normal energetic tone.

Wait a second, I know that symbol from somewhere." I think to myself in sudden revelation as I put my free hand to my chin. "But where?" I continuously ask myself this question for what feels like an eternity, staring hard at the image as if trying to incinerate it with my eyes. But after awhile I sigh in defeat dropping the scroll back down to the bed and laying back down.

"No luck huh?" Applejack asks me plainly as I role back over on my side in order to face them when I speak.

"Not in the least amount, we all know what the first symbol is but as to the other one I got no earthly idea."

"Well I will tell you one thing! At least now we know Xana is not alone in whatever it is he's doing, so now we just got to find out who or what this other is. That way I know exactly who's plot to shove a hoof up!" Rainbow Dash says triumphantly, causing me to role my eyes slightly as I look to the rest of the group in a happy spirit.

"Well I solved one puzzle to now make an even bigger one. But with them at my side, I will have it solved in no time and Equestria shall be free of foul Xana's maw!"