Not half an hour later I was awoken violently to the sensation of falling and getting smashed in the side with half a dozen very thick and very sturdy branches, luckily it didn't last very long, unluckily it's replacement was being slammed into the cold, hard ground. I groaned in pain as I lay on the ground, my muscles all screeching in unison as my unexpected flight left half of them cramping. I slowly turned my unwilling neck upwards to the sight of my hastily made tree house with a hole in the floor, and one of the ropes hanging my hammock snapped. "ugh!" I groaned as I realized that I should not have trusted a floor of twigs and a single layer of crudely stitched together leaves to hold me up all night as I slept. I grumbled a few choice words before I managed to struggle up, my muscles seeming to calm and loosen as I turned towards Canterlot and decided to just get it over with and just teleport over there.

I squared my stance, turning my focus onto Canterlot and charged up my horn. As I prepared to teleport however, a heavy branch fell from my shelter and struck me. Screaming in surprise my horn promptly overloaded and I lost focus, the teleport, supercharged and unfocused, sent me somewhere random and far, far away. The first thing I noticed was the forest I was staring at, the noise of the ocean, and the sand under my hooves.

The next thing I noticed, was the pain. The pain was centered on my horn and was immense, as if someone had chiseled a hole in my head and was now shoving a large spike through to widen the fucking thing. I screamed and jerked around, as if having a seizure as endless torrents of pain wracked my head, a pool of warm gas descending upon the sandy ground, being absorbed into it And erupting in a multitude of glowing glass crystals.

Adding to the pain was various bloody gashes caused by a combination of my pained flailing and sharp shards of glass that I had inadvertently created, my blood further contributing to the strange reaction of the gas, and creating pink rounded stones.I passed out from pain at the sixteen second mark, the gas continuing to flow for a short while before tapering off and then completely shutting down.

I woke up an indeterminate amount of time later, A steady and intensely painful throbbing emanating from my horn. "Hhhhssssskkkk" I hissed as I tried to sit up, only for my movements to further agitate my horn. my hooves slowly crept towards it, but I stopped them a couple inches short, hesitating in fear of just making the problem worse. After a moment of indecision I lowered my hooves again and hesitantly cracked open my eyes, my horn allowing me a moment of respite from the pain, and my eyes revealing a gemlit sandy shore, with the area around me blanketed in softly glowing glass crystals and much dimmer pink, rounded gems with the exception of one or two mixtures of the two types, which seemed to glow much brighter than pure glass ones.

I hesitantly stood up and looked towards the water, before approaching it slowly, desperate to get a look at my obviously injured horn. My journey was cut short however, as the frog of my hoof fell victim to the edge of one of the glass crystals, causing me to cry out and fall, littering my hide with more holes and reigniting the inferno in my horn, I grit my teeth and clenched my eyes shut as I rode out the waves of pain wracking my body, slowly relaxing as the fog of agony lifted until it was comparably negligible, and slowly got back up and trotted towards the water once again, this time looking out for the sharp and pointy obstacles.

I reached the water and braced myself, before looking down and into my reflection, my eyes widened as I saw the damage. My horn was now harboring a huge, jagged crack down the middle which I assume was caused by me accidentally overloading it earlier. I sat down and whimpered as I stared at my poor horn. I wrenched my gaze away and focused on the strange crystals, determined to save my self pity for later, and walked up to them, using the edge of my hoof to dig out one of the glowing shards and inspected it best I could. 'Huh' I thought, ' its glowing, and the smalle ones over there have already gone out so maybe this is like a light-bulb and converts magic to light?'. I glanced over to the red ones, then the mixes, 'and the pink is a magic battery!' excited to test my hypothesis, and desperate for a distraction, I slid a pink one over to the glowing one and made them touch.. The result was instantaneous.

the glower immediately started dimming and the pink one vibrated, A strange feeling invaded my body, as if I was being zapped with electricity, my entire body tingling with magic, which also had the rather painful side effect of further injuring my horn! I screeched in agony as more mana clouds blasted through my horn and I punted the little fuckin' rock into the forest, collapsing in pain for the third time that day(?). About five minutes later the pain returned to a not quite as abysmal level and I returned to sleep, hoping things would be better tomorrow as the cloud surrounded me.

I awoke with the sun, The ball of super-heated plasma shining through one eyelid and heating my already hurting horn. I tried to sit up but, finding my body completely immobile, flung open my eye before forcing it back closed, the light burning my retina. Cracking open my eye again I looked as down as I could, discovering that hundreds of glass crystals clung to my body and almost completely restricted my movement. I immediately started to struggle, screaming with half my mouth and straining my muscles, soon 'rewarding' me with a crack caused by both a give in the crystal and me accidentally slamming my horn against the ground, renewing the dull pain and allowing more mist escape and causing the glass to grow and fully encapsulate my right legs and most of my muzzle, leaving only one nostril and the corner of my mouth exposed, simultaneously healing what little progress I made and covering my other eye, myself barely closing it in time.

I laid there for an hour, internally screaming and tilting my one remaining ear every which way in an attempt to hear anything besides the ocean and my thoughts, but nothing happened, and I just continued to lay there throughout the day, completely trapped. I hadn't eaten or drunken anything since before I came here, so I was really dehydrated and miserable. I only knew I was night when the air cooled and the tiny bit of seawater that would occasionally splash my ear became ice cold. I was awake all through the night however, as my fading panic, dehydration, and excess of energy from staying still all day kept me awake. On the second day of being trapped, when I started to become tired, I suddenly heard thunder rumbling far above me. 'YES!!!' I thought in excitement, 'rain!'. I opened the corner of my mouth as wide as possible, just as the first drops started falling.

When the storm really picked up a steady trickle of rainwater was entering my mouth, if I could've smiled, I would have. As my thirst was quenched I stopped feeling like death, though food was still a problem, as I was still slowly starving to death. on the third day, I tried using magic to no avail, although the pain was completely missing, so that was a good sign. I was finally able to levitate some nearby sand on day four and used my newfound power to blindly dig around in the wet sand for some clams, as I remember reading that while horses mostly ate plants, they sometimes ate small animals like mice too. I managed to find them, but couldn't levitate them. On day five I could levitate them, but lacked the force required to open them. Two horrid, starvation riddled days later I managed to kill some and rip tiny chunks of the raw meat off and choke them down via the uncovered corner of my mouth. I really shouldn't have shoved a bunch of random magical bullshit together, that was pretty stupid I must admit.

Author's Note

I'm bad at this, but I still like writing. comment your thoughts or any typos that you see.