Chapter 2 Welcome to equestria, also learning to craft is fun! And gives me a headache

All I saw was darkness, I could see myself, somehow. How? I have no clue. I start to regain a sense of touch, I feel grass, then hearing, I hear birds tweeting, then smell, ugh, smells like dog shit, then taste, and finally, I think I can open my eyes.

Before I do, I think that the birds are right beside me, Loud, loud, loud, loud, LOUD! due to the sheer volume of the tweeting, I say " Shut up birds, if you're going to tweet, do it away from me... I have a headache. " Wait a sec.... WHAT THE HELL?! MY VOICE! I quickly sit up and open my eyes, now fully awake and in the mode of ' I don't give a shit about anything scared ' and look down at myself and what do I see?

Feathers, breasts, the survival gear for the avali, and the diplomats sleeves for the avali and of course, the gear and sleeves are blood red. along with hands that seemed to be more like claws, also covered in FEATHERS! What the HELL! Why in the hell do I..... oh shit, hang on a sec, I can worry about THIS later, there are more important things to do I quickly look around and see I actually have BETTER vision that I did before ( I was almost legally blind, that was how bad my vision was ) and I got up. Hang on, my vision seems to be at least 20/20, whats up with this? I.... wait, I'm my OC right now aren't I? Well shit, stuck in a forest, as my OC, and by my guess, in equestria, great, only big problem, I'M A WOMAN NOW! Hold on, my OC had....

I started getting a feel for my body, and guess what? I'm some sort of mutant avail, I have the wings on my arms, but I also have two bat like wings on my back, and I have not one, not two, but THREE avali tails Are you serious? Well shit, hm, I wonder.... I look around again and at that moment I see, guess what? A Manticore. Yep, theres proof I'm in equestria right now, also, how in the hell didn't I see that, also, FUCK ME I'M ABOUT TO DIE!

I then realize its asleep Must be taking a cat nap, damnit I like puns almost as much as that damn skeleton, need to move quickly I slowly start to move as my sense of balance is F.U.B.A.R right now. I fall " Ow " and again " Ow ' and yet again " OW! " and damnit, that was loud. Fuck, have to remember that my hearing is...like...8X better than a humans. Shit. It IS going to be hard to sleep at night. Oh well, at least now it'll be REALLY damn difficult to sneak up on me.

30 minutes later....

I saw the castle of the two sisters on the way to my current location and wow, its shocking, I have, to put it simply, a metric fuck ton of information flooding into my head, mainly how to craft certain things, but the first thing I learned was how to open my inventory, and what do I see? All the FU books Going to save those, an Avali TeleporterTHIS will be useful, a guide on how to craft avikan items,Perfect, now I can hunt things for equipment, and I somehow also know how to refit it for an avali A protectorate sword, a protectorate pistol, and a few more VERY important items, A personal tri coder, 40 handheld torches, 2000 pixels and, guess what the last item is? Holy scheisse.... I have the fucking matter manipulator! This'll make survival a lot easier I quickly got to work chopping down trees, gathering cobblestone & mud ( The manipulator doesn't work the same as in the game, it makes it out into rough shapes, so it can also be used as a shaping tool ) and plant fiber from the trees, I then proceed to take the manipulator and create a shelter high up in the trees so that only I ( And pegasi ) can reach it.

3 hours later

Finally! Took almost all my supplies but it is done! The 'tree house' was supported by trees, cut logs, and cobblestone, the whole thing is 15-16 feet off the ground, has a hole I can jump into ( I can jump roughly 22-30 feet into the air now ) and the inside is 9 meters long, 6 meters wide, and 3 meters high. I place down a torch for light. Then I start to wonder how to build an inventors table, I mean, it worked by pulling up a crafting menu, and... Bingo, crafting menu, lets see.... and would you look at that! Works just like the game, the manipulator works differently, but only slightly, maybe because the world isn't made of blocks and is 3D is perhaps why. I quickly craft some of the basic things ( Inventors table, furnace, foraging table, wooden work bench, some rope, a spinning wheel, a avail nanolathe & Avali Weapon Workbench, along with four weapons, a primitive scythe, a primitive broadsword, 40 hunting spears, and a boomerang.

I have all of those items set up inside and it starts to get dark out, as I see the moon is rising, I decide to sleep, as I need to get up early, I'll hunt tomorrow, as I know better than to be out in everfree at night, fan fictions and experience with actual forests taught me that. So I put down some plant matter that I crafted at the wooden workbench and lied down and fell asleep quickly.

in Kalali' dreams

I see a place I know all too well, my room, always messy, with a shitty office pc that my father CLAIMED to have bought for over 900 dollars Yeah the fuck right, its so damn bad it compares to a 400 dollar, and it meets a higher quality of them, no way it was 900 dollars, I know the fool lied to me, I mean really, got a PC that compares to an ACTUAL 700 dollars PC, and I get this piece of shit? Talk about a money hungry asshole. Little did I realize, that while in the dreamscape, thoughts are like speaking, and I had an eaves dropper, can you guess who? Luna. Now I may have not watched the show, but I happen to find a bit of semblance with Luna, as well, I've done things I regret, and ever since then I've attempted to make amends for them. But the watcher decided to keep herself hidden, and I knew she was there, but I couldn't care less. So I start to plan. ( But I make it sound like I don't know what a pony is )

Alright, when I wake up I need to do some extra recon, and look for a water source, then a food source, note: Avoid cockatrices, those wooden wolves, and anything else TOO dangerous, hopefully I can find some rabbits and / or birds to catch and eat or maybe even a manticore that's asleep, but I may need to result to berries and fruit if I can't find anything, but one problem, if I attempt to make contact with the locals, judging by their behavior, body shape and posture, they're a prey species, so I would need to wait on contact until I can get a safe area to retreat to incase things go south, I will also need armor and better weapons than what I have now should I need to fight back, but I really hope it doesn't come to that, they're so cute! If I'm right, then there are three species, Ones without horns or wings, ones with horns, and ones with wings, but none with both so far, but the most amazing part is that they speak English! I'm guessing the rest can as well, I also wonder if the written language is the same? I'll need to recon that old castle I saw while I moved to this location, and I'll need to make some traps to keep stuff out that I want to KEEP OUT! and... shoot, looks like I'm waking up, there is work to do today! it all fades to white.

I wake up and stretch my limbs, they pop and I feel like I can move again, so I quickly get out of 'bed' and grab my stuff, equip my hunting spears, and get ready to go, I look down from my houses hole in the floor and, by luck of the fucking draw, a manticore sleeping RIGHT below the opening. Fuck, I KNOW this is too damn easy, I'll need to watch out, I know for a fact that the universe wants to fuck me over, so hang on, I'm going to craft some salves I quickly craft them then I decide to craft a primitive spear and just drop down on this poor idiot of a manticore, I know it could be the one that fluttershy helped during the time of nightmare moon ( Yes, I've read over 800 fics, my favorites being Mordane Stronghoof, fallout equestria, fallout equestria heroes, Shattered skies, alicorn of music, Nightmare: rise of demons, and the list goes on, so I know a fair amount, but I may not be 100% correct. Moving on )

I decide to kill the manticore, so I take aim, and prepare, and I drop down, driving the spear head right through its spine and neck, killing it instantly, but what happens next baffles me, a menu appears saying ' Disappear and leave less behind, or do it the old fashion way and earn more? ' I chose disappear this time, as I don't know what parts are safe to eat on a manticore, and it drops 20 pieces of raw meat, 20! I luckily know how to smoke meat, so I can store it for a few days, which I also get ' Manticore poison gland, Vemon Sample, Manticore Venom, Manticore stinger, leather X 4, monster hide X 7, monster bone X 10, great monster bone X 1. ' Holy shit! That stuff will be useful, now all I need to do is make the stations needed for using monster hide and bone, and a great monster bone? Since equestria has hydras, dragons, and such, it might be a mix of a lava like planet in terms of danger from some enemies, and a lush in terms of habitability. That, or I got REALLY lucky. I gather it up and go back up into my house, and build a chest, and store the spare materials, then I get quite a lot of knowledge on what I can use from the materials I gathered, which while it is useful, it hurts. I build a fire and cook then eat the meat.

Its alright, I'll admit that, not the best, needs salt, pepper, and garlic to bring out the flavor, I'll worry about that later. For now, I need to find water, then I need to fortify an area of 20 meters around my home, preferably 30 meters, I'll need bricks for that, which means I need more cobble stone as my current supply is... 20, just 20, not enough for a decent defense, I'll also need pillars to hold them up, a gate, which will need iron, a lock, and much more, I'll also need a bow or something else for ranged defense, gah, so much shit to do, not enough time, alright priorities first: Water, Ranged Weapon, Copper and Iron Ore, Cobblestone, Sand, Wood. Now lets get moving. I quickly check my manipulator's stats and am shock by what I see, it has all of its utility upgrades already, as in, Paint, Wire, and liquid gathering. So that makes it easier, I'll still need to boil the water, as while is may be equestria, I know the water has to have some sort of microbe that wants to kill me.

I manage to find a pond in as little as 10 minutes of walking, by my guess, its roughly 30 feet deep, and 100 feet wide, its a near circle, I drain about 1/40 of the water from it and get moving as 300 units of water SHOULD be enough to last me a long time, as after all, 1 unit is about 3X as much as 1 bottle of water by my guess. So I head back to camp and make roughly 40 pieces of woven fabric and make a 'filter' for the water for later. I then look at the hill I see roughly 60 meters away from my current position and go to it, and find out its a cave. Better not be a damn dragon in here, I'll need FAR better weapons to fight one of those things! I walk into the cave with a torch in hand and my eyes light up like the 4th of July! A HUGE iron and copper vein presents itself to me like rolling out a red carpet. I start mining it as quickly as I can, I end up with 104 iron, and 127 copper, and I look to further into the cave and what do I see? Three things. Tungsten, Coal, and a large pile of gold, gems, and other stuff. Take a wild guess about what I found? I look slightly up and guess what else I see? A dragon, staring at me, I stare back, I'm thinking well shit, guess this is how I die huh? The dragon speaks.

" WHO DARES WANDER INTO MY CAVE AND DISTURB MY SLEEP! " Let me tell you, it HURT to hear this dragon. The voice is deep, yet I can tell its a female. Which scares me more, as a female dragon could = EGGS! Eggs = Protective mother, and Protective mother = a very high chance of becoming a very crispy critter, And I do the stupidest thing.

" My name is Kalali, I'm the one who wandered in here and disturbed your slumber, I'm sorry mighty dragon, I was lost and had not considered this to be a possible dragon den / nest, I thought this may have been a place where I could've looked for a certain material I require for survival. "

The Dragon looks me in the eye and shouts.

" SURVIVAL?! HAVE YOU COME TO TAKE MY EGGS?! " It shakes me, but I stand strong.

" No, I was searching for a material called ' Lead ' in hopes of being able to create a thing called a ' weight ' to use for fishing. " I say with confidence.

" THEN WHY TAKE THE IRON AND COPPER THERE? "

" That is the thing, it has been documented by my species that lead is somewhat commonly found near either of those two, I figured I could gather them and that there would be lead underneath it, gather it, and be done, but it seems as if there was none. " I lied somewhat, as I needed to keep from becoming a crispy critter.

The dragon stares at me, seemingly in deep thought, then speaks " YOU SPEAK A HALF TRUTH, YOU NEEDED THE IRON AND COPPER, WHY? " ( WOW! So it bought the part that it is somewhat commonly found near those? I might be able to get out of this alive )

I say " I need the iron for defense purposes, and I need the copper to forge a bow for hunting, but I need the lead for the same reason as I said before, along with a possible trap that I have for a certain creature that turns things to stone by staring at them, as lead is very heavy, drop it from a 20 foot distance, and I doubt anything other than a dragon will survive that "

" CLEVER, A WAY TO HUNT THOSE BEASTS WITHOUT RISKING BEING TURNED INTO STONE, I'M IMPRESSED " I'm rather shocked as to what the dragon said, but I decide lets just role with it. As I'm having a pounding head and ear ache from how loud it is.

" It took some thinking, but now I just need the metal for it to work. " I said pretty much without thinking.

" IF YOU BRING ME 5 OF THEM, I WILL CONSIDER IT REPAYING ME FOR TRESSPASSING, DEAL? " Now THIS is one thing that gets me open, making deals, trading, and such things, I'm a merchant / trader / buyer and seller by nature.

" Hm, I forgot to inform you I set up camp nearby, so I could also help you should you get attacked, and you could do the same, so how about this, I'll bring 10 cockatrices, and we agree that I can stay in the area, and we'll watch each others back, I'll even create a custom gate only you can open, so it isn't as easy for something to get in here and steal your eggs or horde, I just need a piece of lead about this big ( Shows how large of a piece I need which is roughly 2 feet by 2 feet ) to make the traps and start killing, how is that for a deal? "

The dragon looked to be in deep thought, it took a few minutes, but said " DEAL, SO LONG AS YOU'RE SURE YOU HOLD YOUR END OF THE BARGIN. HERE, THIS IS THE ' LEAD ' YOU SPEAK OF, CORRECT? " It shows me a large chunk of lead ore.

I'm surprised that actually worked, but I just say " Let me see it.... YEP! This is it, weights more than I thought. Alright, I should have 10 in about 2 weeks, or less. Hopefully less though, oh, and can I keep the eyes? I need them for an experiment. Might be able to reverse the effect of their stare if it works. "

The dragon just nodded, so I left the cave and set off for home. GOD DAMNIT THAT WAS LOUD! But aren't dragons normally greedy creatures? Ah, who cares? I have copper, iron, and lead. So I can make a bow, all I need now is string, which I can craft. I quickly start for home, I had better keep the deal for that dragon. Or else I'll end up as a deep fried avali. Time is ticking, time to hurry Once I reach home I refine the ores and make a few small 2in' wide and 4.5in' long cylinder of lead. My plan is to have a net holding 3-5 of the cylinders up and have it drop onto the target from about a 30 foot height. Thanks to the weight of lead, it should work.

I finished crafting everything I wanted. But the biggest things I crafted were GUNS! That's right! I have guns now! Thing is, I bet they're a lot more or a lot less deadly than in game. I'll need to test that, but here's a list of what I crafted: Hunting Bow, Iron Katana X 2, Iron Sniper rifle, Iron machine pistol X2, Wooden Crossbow, and Iron helmet, leg, and chest inserts, which don't seem to slow me down nor provide any sort of look. Perfect, works just like the game, but I'm guessing that I would need schematics for things that aren't normally from starbound mods, such as.... wait a bloodly second.... I quickly check behind where my ear holes would be a find a switch, now, this feature is an augment my OC had that would allow it to deal with extremely loud noises, such as firing a gun, as it can reduce its hearing from its normal level, down to that of a human, or further, a human with ear plugs, and finally, deaf. It allowed my OC to be able to sleep in noisy areas ( Luckily the forest was quiet last night ) GOD DAMNIT! WHY IN THE HELL DIDN'T I REMEMBER ABOUT THAT?! Oh wait... hang on... I point at a dark location " Lumen " and surprisingly, it works, it damn well works! Oh HELL YEAH! TIME TO GRIFFIN THE GRIFFIN THIS WORLD! HA! Wait, if LATIN works here... then... oh dear god, what if dovahzul works? And do I have my OC's magic? If so, I'm staying the hell away from any contact, too dangerous, dark magic, necromancy, all kinds of magic, I wonder if I apply logic to spells if I actually have regular magic if it would work. I need to move to a location further away first, don't want the dragon to hear me.

45 minutes later...

I'm standing in a clearing, with a few wooden targets set up, time to test dovahzul. I Switch my hearing to the ' Human ' setting and... " FUS! " and a wave of energy came, it sent the target flying back. Holy shit! That worked, IT ACTUALLY WORKED! I suppose I have some spare tricks, I wonder what other shouts I have? I then somehow open the skyrim inventory and see that I have a slot system so the skyrim and starbound system carry over, but I go to magic and find just shouts are unlocked, I can't access any of the magic tabs so I just look into shouts and what I find is surprising, I have access to the: Aura Whisper, Whirlwind Sprint, Unrelenting Force,, Fire breath, Frost Breath, Ice Form, Kyne's Peace, Cyclone, Battle Fury, Call of Valor, Battle & Elemental fury, Disarm and Dismay, Marked For Death, Throw Voice, Clear Skies, and 8 more that surprised me, Slow Time, Drain vitality, Soul Tear, Become Ethereal, Dragon aspect, Storm call, Dragon-Rend, and the most dangerous, Bend Will. Do you have any idea how dangerous Bend will is? Sure Soul Tear is bad, but bending the mind is FAR worse. More so since I bet I can manipulate the mind for longer than in game. Become Ethereal will be useful, so will Throw Voice, Drain Vitality as well. Alright, so I have these shouts, this should work, I need to avoid using any of the more dangerous ones, along with Dismay or Kyne's Peace, since those have to do with the mind, but become Ethereal, or maybe even Dragon Aspect should be ok to use.

With that done, I get set to prepare the trap, it took a while and some 'fine' tuning with the personal tri coder to make a more precise matter manipulator, but it worked out eventually. And then I weight tested the trap and surprise! It can hold 180 pounds of lead, the idea is, the animal steps on an area, it traps it VIA rope and such, then the container filled with lead drops on the target, the container is only 2.785 inches wide on the inside, its a piece of pipe I managed to close off using the manipulator. I then tested the device with a dummy made out of wood and well.... the results were FAR better than I expected. So I made a few more and set them up around my camp, then I went back to the dragon's cave.

As I went in I saw 20 griffins holding down the dragon with chains, I got down and switched my hearing back to Avali hearing. The Griffin who I believe is the leader speaks.. " Alright boys! We have a dragon AND her eggs! The dragon will make a great fight in the arena AND the eggs will fetch a good price on the market, lets haul it out of here. " Shit, its hero time!

I pull out both machine pistols and switch to ' Half deaf ' hearing. Then I let 'em have it! * BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! * Already with 10 of them being dead, the griffins are covering their ears in a vain attempt to block the sound, I switch to my katanas and rush three of them, then the fight is truly on, one draws what I believe is a type of musket, I pull out my hunting spear, throw it, and it misses, shit. He fires, it grazes my shoulder, FUCK did THAT hurt.

I shout " ALRIGHT YOU BASTARDS! DIE! VEN-GAAR-NOS! " It does what I expect, it weakens the chains on the dragon and sends the griffins into the stalagmites at the top of the cave, killing the rest. The dragon shakes the chains off and looks afraid, but before she can say anything... " Well, that's that, damn griffins, are you ok miss? What about your eggs? Are they unharmed? Also, I never got your name, can you please tell me it? " She looked slightly less spooked after I asked about her and her eggs safety. And while she was talking I was gathering the weapons and armor of the bandits.

" I'M FINE, I WOULDN'T OF BEEN HAD YOU NOT CAME, BUT ANSWER THIS QUESTION, HOW DO YOU KNOW THE ANCIENT TOUNGE? MUCH LESS BE ABLE TO SPEAK IT IN SUCH A WAY? " The dragon asks with a bit of worry yet also curiosity.

" To be honest, I haven't a clue, I cannot remember too much, to me, it seems as if my memories since before roughly 1-2 days ago were of another life entirely, like I remember seeing through their eyes, doing what they did, feeling the same way they did, it is odd and difficult to describe, but I did learn of the words, but I do not remember where, nor how I can use the Thu'um. " I replied. I had already finished gathering the weapons and I know what I'm going to do with them.

" YOU HAD ANOTHER LIFE, THAT WAS NOT YOUR OWN, BUT YOU CANNOT REMEMBER THE ONE THAT WAS YOURS? " The dragon said which was ' spot on ' for the story I'm going with.

" Yes, that is what I believe, and I must ask, since I saved you, may we call this payment for the deal? " I reply with an unnoticeable smirk.

" YES, THIS IS FAR BEYOND WHAT I ASKED OF YOU, THANK YOU, KALALI, AND MY NAME IS HUO LUN. " Huo Lun huh? It means fire wheel in Chinese if I'm correct.

" Well then, the debt is repaid, so it is agreed that we will watch each others back and I shall be able to live in this area, correct? Also, I still will build that gate for you, to avoid THAT happening again in case I'm too far away. And would you be able to watch my camp while I'm gone until I get a good perimeter set up? I don't want someone or something sneaking in there and stealing my stuff " I'm just making sure I get these details right.

" YES, THAT IS RIGHT, WE HAVE AGREED, BUT WHY BUILD THE GATE? YOU HAVE REPAID THE DEBT 10 FOLD? " She answers with confusion.

" Why build the gate? Because, it is wrong to take a child or children away from their parents, unless said parents abuse their child, in which case, if that DOES happen, I put a hole through their heads. " That's one thing I hate more than nearly anything, child abuse.

" AGREED ON THAT, AND THANK YOU. " She seems to be genuinely happy, very at that.

" You're welcome, I need to head back to base camp and begin building the gate, it shouldn't take too long, I'll need to measure the mouth of the cave, and I need to see how big you are in comparison, to ensure I get the correct size. "

Huo-Lun follows me and lets me do the measurements of the area and her body size, I can reduce the cave's mouth size by about 1/2 and it'll still be wide enough for a dragon 1.8X her size to fit through easily. " Alright, I have the measurements, I'll start making it right away. " I walk back to my base and see its broken up, some of the equipment is busted, and such. " GOD DAMN GRIFFINS! " I repair all of it after using the rest of my cobble stone and mud, so I need to gather more. I then go out, chop down roughly 20 more trees, I gather cobblestone and mud, and at the end I have over 300 logs, 200 ' blocks ' of cobblestone, and 100 'blocks' of mud. I head back home and begin building the gate.

2 Hours later, near dusk...

Alright! That's done. I now have some bricks, I've reinforced the cave mouth, AND it has the gate that only Huo-lun and I can open. It works.

After all that, I decide its time to head to bed, as I'm far too tired to do anymore, I need to eat, and my shoulder has healed. So I cook some meat on the camp fire, eat it, make a pot, drain the water through the woven fabric to remove anything big, then boil it to deal with anything else, drink it Bleh, warm water tastes terrible, oh well, what am I going to do? and crawl up, and fall asleep in my 'bed' lets see what happens tomorrow....

Author's Note

If you decide to either Thumb down or up, Leave a FAIR comment as to why it was good or not, I want to improve, I want a reason as to why It wasn't right in a very detailed way, shape, or form. I want this story to turn out as good as some of the more well known displaced stories, like Gilamesh's story.