As we entered a Large temple it got extremely dark, as we walked in to the dark, shadowy abyss, the body of my feathered companion lit up to help guide me, but it was still hard to see, it was so dark in fact that my eyes were straining to see anything aside from her.

“Dammit, I can barely see, so much for the lights coming in handy” she expressed in a frustrated voice

“Hey, bird?”

“Hmm?” she asked in a curious, yet playful manner.

“Those statues that we pass by the entrance, who were they?” I asked

“Them?” she asked while giggling “They are the guardians of time and space, the one on the left is Clockwork, The Guardian of Time and the one on the right is his sister, Nova Star-Pico”

Wow that’s remarkable… Guardians of Time and Space? This reminds me of Dialga and Palkia… Wait Dialga and Palkia? Who are those people? Just forget it, sometimes it’s better to not ask questions you don’t know the answer to, especially since I have amnesia, besides I have a question for my feathered friend… plus she’s looking at me like I’ve gone insane… Shit am I saying this out loud… no? Thank god, she must just be wondering why I’ve suddenly gone silent, for god sake man, JUST ASK THE QUESTION!

“I thought you need like to be an Alicorn to do something like this? … Like the two Royal Sisters who raise the Sun and the Moon, respectively”

“That's a common misconception.-Pico. You don’t have to be an Alicorn to do something like that, heck that also applies if you want to Rule a Kingdom as well.”

“Wait… ‘Rule a Kingdom?’… I don’t understand?” I asked with a confused look.

“Are you sure you didn’t hit your head on the way down? Pico. You’re in Equestria you butt.” she said with a playful smirk.

“I know that, but I don’t see what that has to do with not being an Alicorn to be a ruler” I said starting to get frustrated with what is going on.

“Didn’t you learn Geography in school?” She curiously asked and I looked way and put a hoof in my mane, making it look like I was just stupid, I don’t want her to think I’m crazy.

“I’m sorry-Pico… I didn’t know…” she said with a pained expression, I looked at her to continue

“You see, Equestria isn’t the only Kingdom on our planet-Pico, there’s a few, there’s also the Griffon Kingdom for example…”

I lost her after that one… GRIFFONS? REALLY? Wow, this world is just pure, unfiltered insanity, what’s next? Batponies? , pfffft, really, you couldn’t make it up if you tried.

“... and that’s when I say to him, of course you’re going to have to put those whores down… wait, what were we talking about again?, I got side-tracked-Pico” she asked with a dazed look

“Griffons, griffonsarenomalright? Imeanishouldknowbecauseimnomal hahaimnotcrazy” I said with a high pitched voice

“haha you silly butt, you’re funny-Pico” she said and playfully smiled

Wow… I thought I wouldn’t get away with that… Well I stand corrected.

“Now I get to ask you a question.-Pico. Forgive me for prying but why are you running away from your home?”

“I’m not running away from home, I’m going home, what lead you to that conclusion? I asked, once again confused, I’m making a habit out of this.

“I can look into your head and see what’s going on, why are you leaving?, also why are you lying” She asked, her playful demeanour had disappeared and was replaced with a look that I can only describe as a cross between concerned and annoyed, the kind of expression your Mother would pull…

“Why are you staring blankly at me, are you alone with your thoughts?” she once again said

Son of a Monkey, not only is she on to me, but she also realized I talk to myself too much… how did she do that? How did she read my thoughts, okay, that’s It, I should probably tell her.

I explained her what happened thus far… It was hard explaining it to her… I may have cried a little but she then wiped my tears and gave me a smile.

“My little pony, listen up, what you said may or may not be true, but either way, you must never give up on yourself, keep your head up high and besides human or not, you have another chance at life. Don’t miss that chance, okay?-Pico”

She’s...right. I never thought of it of that. I was so concerned that I would get hurt again. I may have set the bar too high. I may have to apologize to Luna and Tia.

“Oh look” She then jumped off me “We’re here”

Wait what? I got so focused on the story that I never realised where I was going.

“Wh-whoa Is this..”

She looked backed at me “Yup, that my other half.”

It was a bright open room and in the center there was two large pillars with giant torches on top. I observed that in the center was a Bright fire with a Crimson Feather engulfed within the flames.

“That feather contains my other half, I needed your help because I needed the help of a living Unicorn to pull it out.-Pico” She said in a serious tone.

I was now determined to help her out even more. “Okay let's do this.”

“Don’t worry, the flame won’t burn you, it can only burn people that have evil thoughts-Pico… well, we all have bad thoughts every now and then, I mean the world isn’t black and white, I mean sick and twisted thoughts” She corrected.

I gingerly touched it to see if the bird was correct, it felt warm, but nothing other than that, so did what was instructed and I tried to grab it, but it wouldn’t budge at all.

“”Stubborn little-”

I used both hoofs and pulled with all my might, but it seemed pretty insistent on being a stubborn sod, but I kept pulling without any remorse.

“GHAAAA COME OUT YOU FREAKING SON OF A BITCH!”

I kept pulling and pulling until the space around it started to distort and crack, this was when I finally pulled it out...

CRASH

The area around the feather shattered and pieces of it landed on the floor next to me, the feather was in my hoof as I got up, Pico ran to me to check if I was okay.

“Sweet Feathers, are you okay there?” She asked worried.

I nodded as I cracked my neck “I’m fine thanks, nothing to worry abo-ARGH!”

The feather then suddenly burst into flames and burned my neck and hoof, I used my magic to levitate it out of my hoof and throw it about five or six hoof steps away from me, the crimson fire turned into a large sphere and it was getting bigger by the second.

“It’s time…”

The blue bird then walked towards the large sphere. She then turned back to me.

“Thank you pony for freeing me, for over 1051 years I have been trapped down here and you managed to help free me, thank you so much.” She then gave me a smile.

I actually blushed at her. Is this the feeling of gratefulness

“Before I go, what is your name” She asked

Oh wait that's right, I haven't told her my name this entire time “Its Leo-I mean Leady Star”

“Leady Star, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Tana, The Phoenix Empress, thank you for all that you have done for me.”

Did she Say she was a Empress!? I was about to ask her but then the flames got too bright and I was blinded, when the light dimmed, I opened my eyes the first thing I saw was the exact same blue bird.

“Pico? Pico?” The bird started looking around then looked at me and got intimidated.

“Hey, hey, easy, I’m not going to hurt you.” I said as I walked up to it.

I was about to touch him but the flaming Crimson sphere lit up, when it shrunk again it left what appeared to be a necklace or a charm floating in the space.

This necklace or Charm or whatever started to descend, it then proceeded to attack me and latch on to me in all but 3 seconds, I tried to get it off but I couldn't.

“What the Hell? GET OFF!!” I kept pull and pulling but it wouldn't budge.

[Ugh!]

Wait that moan… I know that moan.

“Tana? Are you... are you in this thing?” I asked as I held it in my hoof

[W-Wait? HUH?! The hell? I was supposed to be reborn in a new body, not trapped in another prison, THAT Lying fucking Old son of a fucking Bitch, Starswirl the Fucking Bearded.]

“Hey watch it this is a teen rating Story. Our author is trying to not to have us use the F word much”

[Sorry, it wasn’t me, it was the editor.]

“Well the editor can go FU- I mean *BEEP* himself, WAIT, WHAT WAS THAT??” I asked in shock

[The Editor.] she said in a deadpan voice. [He’s has a habit of changing what people say.]

“How much has he changed?” I asked in confusion.

[Well you were going to be an Alicorn Princess, but he changed it.] she said with a snicker

“Awww” I said in disappointment

Anyway, she seemed really pissed off and rightly so, this Starswirl person really screwed her over.

“Well this massively sucks, can you transfer to the bird the again?’

[I can’t, it seems this charm forbids from leaving.] She said with a sigh [Though I will admit, this is quite roomy.]

Well, she adapted quickly. Speaking of which, the bird was near my hoof, it must’ve been scared this whole time.

“Hey little guy, don’t worry, nobody is gonna hurt you.” I said with a kind smile.

The dragon sapphire phoenix then opened his eyes, it was crying as it jumped on my head.
“Pico Pico piicooo” It started squawking at me.

“Well I’ll call it Pico for now as for you Tana? Technically, you are still in a prison but unlike the old one, this one is mobile.”

We both laughed at that, we definitely need that after what happened, but she does seem like a nice person.

[Well then I guess it’s a good thing then, well, shall we open a portal to the other world?]

I nodded “Sure thing.”

GAAAAAHOOOOOOOHHHH

“What the hell?...”

[..Was that?]

We both heard a loud roar coming from the distorted space where the large fire once was.

GAAAAAHOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!!

[Oh crap, I just remembered something that Starswirl told me.]

I had a bad feeling about this. “Don’t tell me...Since I pull out the feather, a large boss monster is going to emerge from it and will kill us?”

[Wha-How did you-?”

I interrupted her “Just a hunch.”

A Large shadowy Black claw rose from the distorted space and swiftly came at us, I had to get out the way before it could land, it caused a crater forming the exact shape, the rest of his body came out and it looked as scary as you expected.

“U-Um Tana? Wh-What should we d-’

[RUN RUN RUNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

The monster roared at us, left with no options, I galloped as fast as I could; with Pico on my head and Tana on my chest.

As I glanced back, I saw the monster was chasing us!

“It’s getting closer, shit, I’m too slow.”

[Leady remember I said that I awakened you partly?]

I nodded “Yes, why?”

[Now that I have my full power again, I can fully awaken you, you will undergo a full transformation, I believe they call it Anthro, which is from the word ‘Anthropomorphic’, you will be able to change and revert back at will, this is our only option.]

This time I felt a lot of her power coursing through me, I felt my body growing and changing but as it changed, I felt more...human, It was too dark to see what I looked like, but I felt the changes. I felt faster and made it out of the temple. The first thing I wanted to do was check myself out.

[You do look pretty hot, But... you should have your abilities....did I screw up?]

GAAHHHHHOOOOOOOO

Shit its getting closer. We need to keep running. No wait-

“Tana Open the portal!!”

[Oh shit Right!]

She opened a portal and we jumped into it, and all I saw was ground as I landed face first into it, dammit I should have watched that re-entry, it was a bit bumpy.

As I got up and as I got up I noticed something.

“We landed in the exact same spot I came from.” I smiled, a bit of blood running from my nose from where I hit it.

[HAH we outran it.]

I smiled as I started walking into the forest “We sure showed him, huh?”

[Yup… Wait, Leady? Um, did we forget something?]

GAAHHHHHOOOOOOOO

…..Shit [Shit]

We forgot to close the portal……

Author's Note

I have no idea why my drawing are looking more like a kid drew it. At it sorta gives out a description of whats going on.

I apologize that the art is lacking. I guess I was Running on fumes.Again sorry.Chap 6 will be out in a week or on Xmas eve with less pictures