I had the strangest dream of my life. I'm not gonna lie, I am happy that it was a dream. It started simple enough with me going to sleep in my bed, after I had just run around Ponyville gathering my six friends items for a sleepover. Actually, make that five friends, as Rainbow Dash had had a workout bag with some changes of clothes, so I didn't need to get her much of anything. But again, it started when I went to sleep.

In the dream, I was sitting at a computer. A laptop, to be precise. I was typing the words to some story. I stopped and read through it for a second, and saw that I was typing out what was happening AT THAT VERY SECOND in the dream. I found myself typing these words in here. It didn't get much stranger until now. I then sat back, before saying to myself.

"I still need to name that manticore. Otherwise, you wont have anything for your pet. Since i didn't get many answers, I guess I might as well name him. Its not that bad, I was just hoping that you could have a good pet name for when you wake up. Oh well. I think Cy would be a decent name, don't you Cameron? Well, I think you should name him Cy. You need to wake up now. Also, you should tell Twilight the Dude Story. She would like that. Go on, wake up now. Bye!" I said, before everything went black, and I woke up.

I felt a little disoriented from the dream, and didn't get up right away. Until I felt something behind me shift in bed. Slowly, so as to not disturb whatever had gotten in bed with me, I turned over. Happily, it was one of my friends. Unhappily, it was one to many of my friends in bed with me. I saw that Pinkie had gotten into bed and had snuggled up to me. I wanted to scream like a little girl. But, taking a few breaths to calm down, I reached over and gave her a proper slap, right across the face.

I know, it wasn't the nicest thing to do, but you can't give me fault for not being comfortable with people in my bed. Especially cuddled against me with a nice and soft embrace. That last comment is totally irrelevant to what is happening though. I had also felt comforted and warm, and it hadn't felt bad. It had felt very good actually. Those two statements are irrelevant as well.

Pinkie quickly picked herself off the floor, smiling at me and saying.

"Sorry. Just wanted to give the readers a little something. You are very soft by the way. And those breasts of yours are nice and squishy. I know what it looks like, but all we did was cuddle. It was nice cuddles though. Thank you. Also, it's best if we don't talk about this to the others. I'm going to go make breakfast for us now, so see you soon!"

She then walks out the room. I just sit their flabbergasted as to what happened. She had cuddled me, lightly fondled me, and then walked off to go make breakfast for us all. Now I felt kind of bad for slapping her. Then I remembered she had been sleeping with me. So I didn't feel as bad then. I sighed and got up, heading to my new bathroom to do my morning ritual. I brushed my teeth, got on new clothes, and walked out the room. I am happy to report though, that my shirt has another funny saying on it.

"There is no "We" in Bacon

I walk out to the dining room and see that Rarity, Applejack, and Twilight are already up. They look to me as I enter the room and see my shirt. They chuckle lightheartedly, and resume eating the eggs, BACON, and toast that Pinkie had cooked up for us. Fluttershy walked into the room, also saw my shirt, and giggled while blanching some. I understood, and didn't question her on it. After that, Rainbow Dash got up as we where starting to clean up, walking in to the room and seeing that we had started to clean off the table. We point to one plate, and she goes and starts to eat, giving her thanks to Pinkie and us for saving it. After we are done cleaning, and Rainbow eating, we head to the living room and sit around the glass coffee table in the middle.

"You know, Cameron? You have been here almost a week now, and almost everyday you have said that you would tell me the Dude Story. Can you please just tell us it already? I really would like to know it." Twilight says. I stare for a second, comprehending the fact that it has been one week since I had gotten the job from the Shaman. I really need to step up my training game.

"Yeah sure, of course I can. I just kept forgetting after I had said it. You wanna get some tea or coffee or anything before I start this story? I don't know how long this story is gonna take."

"No, I think we can handle the wait. I just wanna hear the story. What is it about?" Twilight says, with the other girls nodding in agreement for want to hear the story.

"It's the story on how Howlers became all glowy and awesome. I guess it starts a long time ago.

"Before cities, streetlights, and many other things. A young dude was searching for herbs and berries for his village. He suddenly heard crying coming off in the distance. It was a sound unlike any cry he had ever heard. The dudes village had the belief that they needed to help anything in need, be it person, creature, or other, they had to help as best they could.

"Hearing the distress in the voice of the creature, he wondered into the forest. There, he witnessed a large dark figure hunched over on top of a hill. As the dude got closer, he started to notice something strange. It's mouth was full of sharp teeth, and glowed like liquid sunlight! Like Molten Gold!

"Being the brave and kind soul he is, the dude walks up to the figure. And, once he is right in front of it, he notices something. It's a crying forest spirit. Tears of gold run down it's face. So he asked in a super chill tone, "Why are you so down yo?" And the spirit replies.

"All my forest friends are starting to get ready for winter's sleep...Sob...And I am all alone until Spring returns."

"So the dude then looks for anything that he can use to cheer up the spirit. And he get's an idea! He picks up two leaves and fastens them together, and places it on his face like a mustache. The spirit stares at the dude in silence for a minute. Then, he slowly began to grin. And LAUGH!

"The spirit laughed and laughed. Eventually, it looked down at the dude and said.

"I think winter won't be lonely with you around. Do you mind if I spend the winter with you?"

So the dude was like " Yeah! We can jam out crazy guitar solo, and play checkers!!"

"He didn't realize his life would never be the same from then on. That friendship, created the first howler. Now, instead of spending the entire winter stuck indoors, he was able to run in the snow endlessly without tiring. They ran and played the entire winter. And when Spring came, neither wanted to part ways. The spirit asked the dude if it was okay if they could stay together. and the dude was like, "Jivin! Of course!"

"Then the dude eventually found a wife. They had kids together, and those kids where born with the gift as well. Over time, some of the new generations of Howlers lost touch with nature, and the ability to talk to other spirits. Luckily, transforming by laughter is still strong.

And that's it. That's the Dude Story. There's more, but I don't want to tell them all." I wrap up.

"Darn, that got me all teary eyed. That was a great story Cameron." Applejack said, wiping her eyes with her sleeves. I tell them to just call me Cam, as that's usually what my friends called me anyways.

Rainbow Dash is still sitting on the couch, thinking about what I said, before finally saying.

"Damn. Kinda wanna be a howler now. You know what I mean. Like, that sounds like a totally legit thing to be." We all start to crack up at what she says, though looking at the other girls, they looked to feel the same. I then speak up, saying.

"Hey, do any of you wanna spar with me sometimes? I need the battle and sword training, and I just wanna get started on practicing everyday. Is their anything that I can use as a training dummy or what?"

Twilight tells me that she can create a few golems to use for training, and I tell her that that's a good idea, they just need to be able to be changed for whatever I need to fight and practice against. She tells me to drop by her library later, and she would have the golems done by then. I nod to her as they all start to exit my house. All that is left is Pinkie Pie, who had a note that says to let her continue sleeping taped to her forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead.

After leaving her to sleep in my bed, having dragged her there to sleep instead of the couch, I decide to check out the basement, as I hadn't done so previously. As I made my way downstairs, I wondered what could be down here. I got to the bottom of the stairs, felt along for the light switch, and flicked it on.

The basement was set up as a small repair station, for what looked to be my swords and gun. It had a workbench with vice clamps, tools for disassembling and cleaning a gun, and another workbench with oils and polishes for blades and a shield. And the last workbench had stuff that I had never seen before, meaning that it had to be a repair bench for my God-Eater. It was the logical deduction, at least. I decided not to play with it today, as I didn't need to do any cleaning or repairs to armor or weapons, and headed back upstairs. With nothing to do now, I decided to head into town. Then I thought better of it, and thought about stocking up on steak.

So I went hunting.

Author's Note

Hey guys, I decided on a name that I thought would work, and just decided to use it instead, and before Pinkie jumps in here, i'm sorry for not going with the naming contest.

It's alright. I understand. That name does fit him too. Also, thanks for the cuddles.

Thanks. Anyways, this is the Dude Story. this story is not my own, and I did try to change it a bit so as not to Plagiarize. However, I do want to say that most of the story is just a copy over of the original by the original author. Just want to let you know it is not mine. And with that, I bid you good reading.

Have a Jivin day!