Crazy's New Experience

I jumped down onto the ground and started rolling. I put the fire out on my leg.

"Whew, that was close!" I wiped the beads of sweat from my forehead.

Maybe somebody wants me dead.

"Pfft, no way."

I looked at the flames of my home with newfound nervousness. It shouldn't be true, the war is over after all. Is it even over yet? Maybe I was lied to?

"Who cares, I guess I'll just be homeless." I ran away from the town and into the foliage of the forest.

"Time to go adventure!" I said with the minimum amount of enthusiasm, and maximum amount of cynicism.

"Damn it all!" I shouted while running in the forest. Then I ran.

XXX

I had ran for around 30 minutes now, I was drenched in sweat and blood. Sadly I can not say something cool like the blood was not mine. It probably was mine.

I was outside the gates to some sort of city. It was guarded by, guards... My vision was fading.

"Yippee ki-yay!" I shouted as I fell into unconsciousness.

XXX

I woke up around an hour later, my thoughts were fuzzy at the moment. I tried to get up from the ground that I lied unconscious on. The sudden movement made me feel sick and I threw up right next to me.

I got up with the help of a stick that I picked up. I made some makeshift bandages for my injury from some plant fiber and a small animal trap due to not knowing the shrubbery. The trap was pretty complex, it was designed by me and for me. It is very efficient for others, and it has to be considering my bad luck.

It would lure small animals in and capture them within a fifteen foot radius and had around one catch every four animals. At least for me.

It caught a small rabbit while I was away creating bandages. It was around one meals worth of food. I cooked it over a fire and ate it.

It was around afternoon when I had myself bandaged up and ready to go into town. I was preparing my second rabbit leg, but when I looked back over it was gone. I looked around me confused.

Maybe I ate It? I looked to my left casually and saw a golden haired boy eating my rabbit.

"Nice rabbit."

"Why are you eating my rabbit?" I asked in utter confusion.

"Oh, I'm Sabmad Abdul. Most people call me Sabmad the airhead."

That's pretty depressing...

"Um, my name is Chan Linniac. People tend to call me Crazy."

"Really? They used to call me empty minded. You are a NEN user right?"

"What! How did you know!"

Looking him down, Sabmad was much younger than me. He was much better dressed as well. Most of his clothing was a very loose fit. His clothing looked like the gi that I wore while practicing at the dojo. Except his was yellow with the ends of the sleeves colored brown.

The most significant parts of him was his golden hair, purple eyes, and a long scarf that hung around his neck. It was red in the center with brown on the edges.

"It was easy, I used GYO! Your aura is not flowing away from your body, unlike a normal person."

"What is GYO?"

"You don't know? It's a NEN technique to see objects concealed with IN!"

"What's IN?"

"You really know nothing do you!"

"I know the first four categories..."

Sabmad ran his hands through his messy hair, making it even more messy.

"So frustrating... I know! I can teach you!"

I looked at him, and nodded. He spoke again.

"You gonna burn that?"

"Excuse me?"

"Oh! I'll do it for you!"

I watched as Sabmad threw my animal trap onto the small campfire.

"HEY!"

"Oops, I did it again. Sorry, I really like fire! Find me when your arm is less broken!"

As I was shocked at what he just did and what he said to me, Sabmad ran off into the city.

"Damn, that was the last rabbit leg as well!"

I ran to the gates when I was stopped by the guards.

"Stop! By the cohorts of-" I jumped over the two guards as they looked at me stunned.

"If you wanna stop me, your gonna have to catch me!" I grinned as he tried to keep up, but I was already so far away.

I ran in alleyways and navigated around the city. Or at least I tried to...

Ok fine, I got lost...

I found myself next to a maze. There were statues in the yard in front of the maze. One of them I found particularly odd. I could not get a close look at the moment due to a group of children ponies gathering around it. They started move away, while I drew near to the statue.

A maze... That brings back memories. I looked at the statue the pony children were looking at. I looked closer at the statue, there was a visible crack on the surface. I could have sworn I heard some sort of laughter as the pony children walked away.

"What a strange statue. I would not take it if you paid me."

The shell of the statue cracked away. Revealing something under it. I watched as it go up and started stretching. I tried an unorthodox approach.

"Yo. How's it 'cracking' weird dragon pony thing."

"You don't look like an element of harmony... What even are you? Ooh I know! You are a minotaur!"

"No, I'm a human."

I watched as the creatures body distorted with some sort of strange stretching. I got sick of it pretty quickly and spoke up.

"What are you doing? Stretching?"

He suddenly disappeared in front of me. He's gone! No wait- I turned and saw him behind me dressed up in something you would probably see in some sort of Broadway film.

I backed away from him, stumbling a bit due to surprise. Something whacked me lightly on the side of my head.

"What's with you, you're so chaotic!"

"Why thank you!" Something whacked me on the side of my head once again. I turned to look at it but I got hit on the opposite side of my head, once again.

"Wasn't a compliment." I mumbled in anger.

"That's not the point, have you heard of the elements of harmony?" I cracked up in the background in laughter.

"What's so funny?" I started to laugh out loud now.

I calmed down enough to speak.

"That sounds like it was made for a show with the general demographic being little girls and strange teenagers! It's probably in some cliche place, like behind the thrones in the palace!"

"Hmm. That sounds pretty accurate. You want to go and help me get the elements of harmony?"

I burst out into laughter again.

"I'll help, if you stop calling them such a stupid name!"

"It's not that bad, they turned me to stone for a thousand years!"

"No way... I did not know such colorful, and morally obligated creatures were capable of such an act..."

"It's all true!" He made a bed come out of nowhere with a snap of his fingers, and laid down dramatically. Something whacked me again. I spoke, now slightly frustrated.

"I tell you what, we can be mutual allies!"

"What's that like! Can I call you friend?"

"Man, you really are lonely aren't you... I guess one thousand years trapped in stone will do that to a person... Or in your case, a wierd dragon pony thing."

"You didn't say no! Let's go get the elements of harmony, friend!"

"What kind of mess have I gotten myself into-" I was whacked once again.

"Hey weird dragon pony thing, can you stop that thing from whacking me in exchange." He snapped his fingers.

"Consider it done. Now follow me, friend!" He disappeared once again.

"Finally, he's gone." What was his name... I think it was Discord, or at least that's what the children called him.

I walked into the maze, going nowhere in particular. The floor and my surroundings changed from maze to palace.

I suddenly found myself in the throne room. There were seven faces now staring at me, a couple of which I had seen before.

"Sorry, wrong turn." I turned around and jumped out of the window behind me. The drop was further than I thought and I started to panic.

Then I fell back into the throne room through the ceiling. I fell on my face. I got up and waved calmly to the now confused faces of the ponies. I saw Discord slip through a strange door and come back out holding some sort of jewelry. Then he walked inside of a stained glass window...

I rubbed my eyes and nothing changed. I shrugged and walked out of the door to the throne room. I gave myself a head massage as I could feel a headache coming.

"Damn ponyland physics and confusing Discord crap..."

I stopped rubbing my head and opened my eyes. I was in the throne room again. One of the ponies spoke, this one had a kind of annoyed tone as if I had done something to her.

"That looked fun! But he missed my party which was more fun!" I identified this one as Pinkie Pie.

"Sorry, had a tough schedule..." I kicked the wall nonchalantly. It might have looked intimidating due to the small layer of TEN shrouded around my body.

What I did not realize until it happened at the time was that the wall had kicked me back. I was kicked outside the window and thrown back outside the window for around three times before I stopped myself by embedding a knife into the wall.

I threw up in my mouth and swallowed it. Not now motion sickness! I scanned the room and the ponies in it.

Among them, I spotted someone who scared me to the core.

Princess Celestia was among them. She looked stunned while she looked at me like something had gone wrong. Then she returned to her innocent smile when she turned away.

I was about to freak out when an arm grabbed me from the stained glass window, and pulled me inside.

Trust me, I had no idea what was going on but I felt a lot smaller. It seemed I was inside the window and Discord pulled me in. Discord was not there anymore though.

The ponies just continued as if nothing had just happened.

XXX

The box was empty. Unsurprisingly. I was bored of watching as they continued like I was not there. I tapped the glass between and it cracked.

XXX

I got bored and fell asleep for a bit. Only to wake up outside and next to the maze.

"Of course! It was only a Nightmare! Oh wait no, there's Discord and the six ponies next to me" Everyone stared as I got up and walked over.

The one I identified as Twilight Sparkle asked me a question.

"What are you doing here-"

"Don't ask." I finished before I walked inside the maze and turned a random direction. A wall rose behind me. I did not care much as I just laid down and tried to sleep. I was kicked off the ground.

"Fine Ceasar, I'll get up for homeschooling..." I got up, still half asleep. I was pretty sure I was going to start hallucinating in a bit. I walked forward in the maze.

I saw my parents, my brother, and allies I had made over time. They were all walking away from me. They spoke to me.

"Hey, come back..." My parents went first, my brother came back to me, and touched my arm as his face was covered in shadows. My curse mark appeared where he touched my left arm.

Xiao came to me from behind and moved my arm to point forwards without him touching me. I was suddenly tugged into the light.

The light disappeared into nothing behind me. It revealed me in a location with three shadowy figures.

One shadow I identified as Jotaro approached me and pushed me forwards with his stand. Right into Killua.

He chased me for a bit with us starting slow, going to fast. He eventually overtook me and left me in the dust. I was pushed back to Jotaro. But he just kept moving. Eventually passing me.

I then watched as the third figure lost his stomach and head, my hands were covered in blood.

My curse mark bled, breaking the illusion. I was on the ground like I was unconscious. I got up and realized that I was still in the garden maze. I started walking into the maze.

XXX

I got bored of walking and started running through the maze. On more than one occasion I tripped while running, but it seemed I was perceptive today as I caught myself every time.

The last stretch was not as lucky as I did not catch myself. I used REN at the last moment so I did not take much damage, my stamina did. I crashed into some sort of fountain, getting soaked in the process. I got out of the water and saw Discord and the rest.

"Yo!" I said enthusiastically. I heard mumbling from the ponies mostly along the lines of 'Oh yeah, that human is here.' My mood was now ruined, to say the least.

Wait a second, why are most of the ponies losing color. It's a dream come true! Finally, my retinas can rest.

"So, Discord. What did you do to them?"

"Oh you know, reversed the elements of harmony's personalities. The usual."

"You dont have a usual, Discord."

"You know me so well."

"Wait, they are the elements of harmony! I didn't know it was some stupid little club!"

"Hey! We're not a club!" I look over to Twilight.

"You're awfully colorful today. Doesn't really matter to me. Discord?" A tiny Discord appeared on my shoulder.

"What is it friend?"

"Once again, we're allies! Could you get me out of the maze?"

"What's the magic word?" I grunted in displeasure.

"Please?"

"Nope the word is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" Discord snapped his fingers and I found myself standing on the pedestal that Discord stood on when he was a statue.

XXX

I had been travelling on foot for a couple hours after Discord teleported me out. The wind on my skin felt icy due to me being wet. My teeth were chattering. This is bad. If I stay like this, I could get sick. With my luck I would probably die if it came to that.

Damn, I need fire. I had slowed to a walking pace. I sat down and moved a stone next to my tinder, so if I struck the stone with my knife it would ignite the flames. I knew that I was probably about to undergo the early stages of hypothermia, which I knew from the brief time that I tried a lecture in medicine.

I pulled out the knife. Why is it so difficult? I've been closer to death these past few months than I ever have. Why me? I never wanted this curse. I held the knife up ready to stab the stone.

Why does everyone leave me? I stabbed down onto the rock, igniting my tinder. I dropped the knife.

The knife was broken, my hands were shaking. Tears were streaming down my face. What is this? Why am I crying? I wiped the tears away and put back on my smiling face to trick myself into ignoring the pain once again.

I struggled to keep smiling, visibly losing my shallow grin. When I started to shiver some more I lost what was left of the grin. I was trying to not break down at the moment. I stopped and thought for a moment. Why am I shivering?

I looked over and saw the fire had gone out.
I also felt a cold breeze. I started to panic and blow on the coals erratically. This action sadly came to no avail.

I saw a flash of black for a moment, and then my fire was lit back up again. I looked to my left to see a familiar figure. It was Sabmad, once again chewing on some sort of cooked dead animal. He broke the silence.

"Yo! I said you come to me, not me come to you bastard!"

"Hey, what can I say? I've always been a bit if a rebel." I said with a small smile.

"Or a fool..."

"What!" It faded instantly.

"Oh, nothing."

Sabmad threw a log onto the fire.

"Did I tell you I like fire? Let me tell you some advanced NEN applications. I love fire!"

I stopped for a moment. "Wait, what did you say?"

"I love fire."

"No before that!"

He froze for a moment. "Sorry, sometimes I enjoy messing with people. Let's talk about NEN!"

"Where do we start!"

He pointed his finger upwards. "GYO!" What is he doing? Did he tell me to go?

"Focus your NEN into your eyes. This technique is used to detect objects hidden with IN, which is a technique that renders NEN objects invisible to the naked eye." Oh, it's a NEN technique.

First I started doing REN with all of my aura. I tried to focus it down to my eyes. But only got it to my head before my aura dissipated back into a state of TEN.

Sabmad was sort of unhappy, his happy go lucky grin no longer on his face. "I have a suggestion Chan-"

"Don't call me that name!" I shouted at him angrily. I stopped for a second, realizing my irrational anger. "Sorry, let's just move on.

"Okay, I'll call you Lin! My suggestion is to compact your NEN into your eyes instead." Damn, I let my anger slip. I see that he is putting up as much of a facade as I am. There is no way he is this cheerful fight now.

I threw another log into the fire. I got my aura to my head, compacting it in my eyes this time. I started to see something from his finger. It looked identical to the number two.

"I see it. It's two right?" I saw Sabmad grin. Yes! I got it right. Yeah! No push ups today!

"Wrong, four hundred." He pointed down. What? What is he talking about? It was definitely two!

"No way! It was two! I'm sure of it-" Sabmad jumped over faster than I could see and kicked me in the stomach. I coughed up my lunch on the ground. I tried to get up, but he held me down.

"Four hundred push ups, now." He took his foot off of me. I grumbled, but got in position for a one armed push up. "What are you doing? That's not how they do it where I'm from."

Sabmad lifted me into a handstand with my left arm. I started doing the push ups. When Sabmad spoke again.

"Now go into ZETSU." You've got to be kidding me. I did not activate ZETSU just yet.

"No way! I couldn't possibly-"

"Ok fine, eight hundred. You happy?" I was furious at this point, but I complied. I started doing the push ups, unsure I would get to five.

XXX

I was at my 348th push up, exhausted. When I mumbled.

"Just my luck." Sabmad was sitting next to me placing logs in a circle around me.

"One thousand." Sabmad said with a devilish grin. I would have sighed, but I had barely enough energy to move. THAT SADISTIC PIECE OF CRAP! I WILL GET MY REVENGE!

XXX

I was on my 684th push up when the logs surrounding me burst into flames after a flash of black light. I would have panicked but I just robotically continued with my push ups. Except now a bit more motivated to not fall over in exhaustion. I was really starting to hate this kid.

XXX

I was at the 1000th push up. By this point Sabmad had made a six foot wall or flames surrounding me. One of my problems I had before was gone, by that I mean that I was not cold anymore.

I had just had reached my limit and now had a challenge I had to beat. Such unfortunate timing. I needed to jump over the wall of flames with my exhausted arm which I had done 1000 push ups with. The bandage covering my curse mark had caught on fire.

Damn, I'm just going to have to bear the pain till I get out of here! The bandage fell of my arm. The Co2 produced by the flames had just about depleted my oxygen supply. I let myself inch down and was about to touch the ground with my face.

I could feel the hairs of my arm slowly singing off. I knew I had to do something with NEN but I needed to think for a moment. Wait, that's it! GYO! I compressed my aura into my left hand.

I pushed past my limits and with a bit of adrenaline, I jumped with my left hand. Yes I did it! I was above the logs with a new problem on my hand. I had jumped straight up and not at an angle.

I'm going to have to do something reckless. I pushed past my limits as I pulled my fist back, putting all the aura I could into my left arm and compressing it.

I punched the ground with all I had. It blasted the first layer of logs into the forest. The other layers were set in a path to fall on top of me. I can still save this! I grabbed the broken knife blade out of my pocket and cut my curse mark out of instinct.

The blood that flowed onto the blade was a very dark purple. I then flicked the liquid onto the burning logs above me. I waited for the pain.

It never came. I watched as the burning logs above me burned so fast that they turned into ash that was blown away by the wind.

I saw Sabmad run up and stand above me with a grin.

"You passed!"

That was the last thing I heard. before my consciousness faded.

A look of fury plastered itself on my face as I was unconscious.