Author's Note

Here we go another chapter, hope you guys enjoy and as always leave a comment on how you feel or what digimon you want to see in this story.

Chapter 5 (semi clop ;) )

I slightly opened my eyes to see that it was still early in the morning, and that I still had a good hour before it was time to get ready to go to the Crystal Empire. I closed my eyes thinking I could do back to sleep but.. “JACK!!!” Midnight screamed ash slammed open the door to my room.

This causes me to jolt up which unfortunately caused me fall off the bed. “Gaahh!!” I landed on my face with a thud. I quickly got back up with the covers still covering my body. “What?! What happened?”

I saw Midnight in the doorway panting hold her chest as she spoke in gasping breaths. “It….it's….Dorimon….he's….he's.” I was worried for a moment thinking something bad happened to him and was about to ask what's wrong, when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed she wasn't alone. Standing next to her at about up to her hips was a purple dragon with bat like wings and a red gem at the top of his head.

‘Well I'll be damned, he digivolved.’ What once was Dorimon is now instead Dorumon. I took a deep relieved that nothing is wrong. “Midnight relax he's fine, he just digivolved is all. Digimon do that at some point, think of it like how a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis.” Midnight started to relax and look down at Dorumon and gently stroked the top of his head. Dorumon nuzzled into her hand and wagging his tail.

‘He hasn't talked yet? Hmmm maybe he's just shy?’ Seeing as I was now wide awake I decided to start getting ready. I felt the cover slide of my body, as I made my way to the bathroom when I heard a loud “POMF” sound followed by a “Eep”. When I turned to look at her I saw that her wings were fully extended and a light blush on her face. I wasn't sure why she was acting like that until a cool breeze made me shiver, that when I realized that I'm in nothing but my boxers. I quickly darted to the bathroom feeling my face burn in embarrassment.

Now on the train heading towards the Crystal Empire the five of us sat in peace. Midnight decided to sit at the opposite side of the car that Twilight had revered for us. Before we left I had to explain to Twilight and Spike how Dorimon digivolved during the middle of the night, it was kinda funny to watch Twilight trying to frantically try to understand what had happened. Spike however seemed unfazed by the sudden change, he and Dorumon were playing tag running up and down in the car. I was told before we left that it would be a four-hour ride till we got there, so deciding to take initiative I asked Twilight for a few books to read that told me about Equestria history and laws.

I would occasionally glance over to Midnight who when ever saw me looking at her would quickly turn her head in embarrassment, I sighed and decided to continue reading. From what I've learned I now know how Equestria was founded and that aside from the ponies that there were other sentient creatures that had kingdoms of their own. There were the Yaks, Dragons, Griffins, Zebras, Minotaur, changeling, and Hippogriff. Actually Twilight told me that the Hippogriff barely made their reappearance after the defeat of a being known as the Storm King.

I was slowly coming up on the chapters in regard to pony lifestyles, the title at the top read “The concept of herds” However just as I was about to start this new chapter the sound of a loud whistle filled the air. Closing the book I noticed that were now in snow covered landscape. ‘Man time flies when you're reading.’ I moved to the opposite side of the car to see a beautiful sight, in the far off distance was a beautiful kingdom made of crystals that shimmered. But what really threw me for a loop was that where once would a baron covered land of snow quickly turned into a lush green meadow.

I was about to turn back when something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I turned back to where I could still see the snow covered fields, it looked like a tall white lanky figure with glowing red eyes. I stared at this figure in the distance before I felt a tap on my shoulder. Turning around I saw Twilight and Midnight looking at me concerning. “Jack are you okay?” Twilight asked.

I turned my attention back out towards the window only to see that the figure was gone. “Yeah, I think my eyes are just playing tricks on me is all.” I sat back down as the train made its way into the lush greenery as we it approached the Crystal Empire. ‘What was that I saw in the snow?’

Soon the train pulled into the station, and the doors opened, once we had gotten off the train I started to take in all the little detail of the city and its residents. While it true that some building did incorporate crystals into their architect I couldn't see why they were called crystal ponies. I did notice something interesting was that they sort of had a Greek look to them, from the way their manes and outfits looked to be more accurate.

While I was looking around I started to hear a loud flapping sound, when I turned my head I was immediately blinded by something wearing a sky blue shirt, the unknown attacker wrapped its hand around the back of my head while its legs around my neck. I heard baby like giggles as I tumbled around losing my balance lacking my sight. “Flurry Heart no! We don't tackle hug others!” The voice was male and in a moment I felt whatever was holding onto my head being pulled off, but not without some resistance as it gripped me tighter making it hard to breath.

Soon I was able to breath as I felt whoever was holding on being pulled off. When I looked at my mysterious assailant I was met with what had to be the most adorable thing I've seen so far in Equestria. Wearing a blue baby dress was a light pink toddler alicorn, she had a curly mane that was lavender, pink, and light blue. Holding said toddler was a unicorn stallion, he had white fur and neon electric blue mane….. ‘Wait is this guy related to Vinyl Scratch?’ He wore purple and blue armor. “Sorry about that, Flurry Heart kinda flew off before I knew it. I'm Shining Armor.” He extended his hand out.

I took his hand and gave it a good shake “It's nice to meet you too.” While I was shaking his hand I noticed that Flurry Heart was reaching out me.” I chuckled and lowered myself down to her level. “And it's nice to meet you too.” I lightly tickled her belly making her giggle and fidget a bit.

“BBBFF!!” Twilight cheered as she and the others came to join us. Twilight walked over to her niece and lifted her up and down and spun around making her laugh. “And how is my favorite niece in all of Equestria.”

Shining Armor chuckled. “She your only niece in Equestria Twily.” Shining soon noticed Dorumon who was standing next to Midnight, he slowly walked over to him which made the little digimon hide behind Midnight's legs as he poked his head out to watch Shining Armor. “Hey there little guy what's your name.” He asked crouching down, so he was at eye level with him.

I was going to answer his questions seeing as Dorumon couldn't speak when… “D-Dorumon s-sir.” I felt my jaw drop and I wasn't the only one, Twilight, Spike and Midnight had the exact same expression as me.

“Well Dorumon it's nice to meet you.” He then placed Flurry Heart done in front of him. “And this is my daughter Flurry Hearts. Say hi sweet.” Fluffy Heart stared at the purple digimon that was about her size, she tilted her head a bit looking at what I could only guess is her first digimon. She walked up to Dorumon who for all the while remained still as not to scare her off. Flurry raised her hand out and light petted him on the top of his head, and gently rubbed it.

I watched as Dorumon tail swishes back and forth as he smiled. Flurry noticed his tail and started to chase it to which Dorumon started to play keep away as he dashed away and swung his tail playfully taunting Flurry to catch it.

Everyone laughed as the two kids played without a care in the world. Twilight started to look around as if looking for someone. “Shining where's Cadence?”

Shining Armor expression shifted to a more serious one. “She currently dealing with some issues in regards to the attacks.”

“Attacks?” everyone asked in unison. Shining nodded his head and gestured for us to follow him. He was leading us in the direction of a large crystal tower, once we got to door the guards who wore purple armor stand at attention before allowing us in. Inside we saw and elevator and Shining pressed the “up” button and the doors opened, and we all walked inside.

“We've had several attacks all of which had the exact same pattern. First, is that the attack take places at night. Second, is how we find the ponies who were attacked.” As the door made a “ding” sound they opened once more, when the doors opened again we walked in side I noticed that we were in a kind of watch tower. The inside reminded me of the kind you would see at an airport where they would communicate with the planes. As I gazed around the room I saw something that caught my attention immediately, in the center of the room was a large block of ice. But it was what was inside the block of ice that sent a chill down my spine. Inside the block of ice was a pony, the pony was male and had a look of pure terror on his face. It seemed that he saw who is attacker was just before he was frozen in ice.

“This is what they all share in common.” Shining Armor finished as he walked inside making everyone stand at attention. “For the past three nights we've found ponies frozen in ice, all with a look of fright plastered on their faces.” I noticed Twilight coverings Flurry hearts view as he continued. “Cadence is back at the castle trying to find a way to unfreeze everypony, but the ice will not melt even with the use of fire or magic. According to our doctors the ponies inside are still alive...for now.”

The room fell silent. In the back of my mind I already had an idea who it could have been. I had seen this kind of scene before, only problem was that my mind wasn't able to remember which digimon did things like this. A moment passed until I decided to take initiative. “Any witnesses that may have seen the culprit?”

Shining Armor nodded his head and walked over to a desk near the center of the room. The room as I said was similar to an airport watchtower, large windows from every direction allowed us to see the Crystal Empire. Pony guards with binoculars stare off in each direction surveying for any sign of trouble. Shining armor returned with a paper in his hands. “Two of the first victims were a couple who were out one night with their ten-year old filly, she said that she stopped to pick up her doll without her parents noticing she stopped. When she next saw them she said she saw a white figure standing in front of them, it was tall and skinny with glowing red eyes. Next thing she knew there was chilling breeze, and her parents were frozen in ice.” He hands me the paper. “She drew this to help give us an idea what it looked like, poor filly was shaking in tears when she told us all this.”

I looked at the picture as he handed to me. The drawing wouldn't have been any help to anyone else, but for me it told exactly who the culprit was. The drawing was of a human shaped figure with long lengthy arms and leathery wings that looked like it had holes in them. I felt my body shaking, but not from fear no what I was feeling was pure rage as I spoke the digimon name. “Icedevimon.” Then the memory from when we were back on the trail flashed in my mind. ‘That figure in the snow, it was him.’

I turned to Shining Armor. “Listen I know whose behind this and if we don't hurry those ponies will die. The culprit is an Icedevimon, and I think he's out there.” I pointed out in the direction of the train station where I had seen him. “He's out in the snow using it for camouflage, he probably strikes at night so nopony will see him. But if we wait any longer the ponies who are frozen will die.”

“So what's your plan?” Shining asked giving me and everyone else at.

“Bait.” They fell silent again. “I'll go out theirs and try to lure him out, then once he shows himself if you and a few guards can catch him by surprises and stall him long enough for me to spirit evolve I can take him on and beat him.”

I waited as Shining held onto one of his elbow while his free hand tapped at his chin to think. After waiting a good few minutes he turned to me. “Eight guards, that all I can offer. We can't afford to lose any more ponies to this thing. Will that be enough?”

I nodded my head. “That's plenty, how soon can you have them ready?”

He took a moment to think before giving me my answer. “Ten minutes, fifteen tops. I'll have my guards ready by the train station when you're ready.” I nodded, and he moved over to the desk one more. I watched as he opened a compartment and pulled out a case. Inside I saw ten different colored gems. His horn glowed pink as he levitated the gem out of the case and held it in midair. And much like how Celestia the gem that showed a record of fight that day a holographic flat screen monitor. “This is Prince Shining armor does anypony copy.”

In a moment an image of a pony with a grey fur and an eyepatch displayed on the monitor. “This is Free Fall how can I serve you, your highness?”

“Send an eight guards squad to the train station near my position, and have them ready for cold weather combat.” The pony on the other end of the monitor gave a salute before disappearing.

I wanted to ask how they did all that but knew we were sort on time. I then remembered that he mentioned cold weather combat. “Longshot, but do you guys have anything for me regarding cold weather gear. I'm wearing all I got.”

Shining Armor opened up another compartment and pulled out a gem that had a chain necklace attached to it. He tossed to me and I caught it. “Put that on, it's enchanted to protect you from cold weather.”

I looked at the gem necklace, the gem itself was blue like a sapphire. I slipped the necklace over my head and around my neck. The gem glowed for a moment before going back to normal. I looked myself over noticing that nothing had changed at all. “Um I don't feel any different, you sure this isn't a dud?”

He just chuckled a bit. “It activates once it senses your body temperature goes below certain temperature, when it activates it will block out the cold entirely.” He added and quickly tossed me a small short sword. I looked at him a bit confused since I didn't need a weapon, he must have figured what I was thinking. “If you're gonna be bait you need to look that part, if you go out there with no weapons he might get suspicious.”

The sword wasn't too heavy which was good since I probably wouldn't be strong enough to carry anything bigger due to my loss of muscle mass. The sword looked like the kind the Greek would use, and I'd be lying if I didn't like it I did have a fondness for swords back home. I thread the straps through my belt loops till it was nice and fastened to my side.

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We waited at the train station for the guard squad to arrive, while we waited I decided to think of ways to out match my opponent. I know that he will have an advantage, he could easily camouflage into the area, and he could fly something I can do until I have my beast spirit. While I was in thought the guards had arrived. Most of them either had purple armor with either yellow fur, or purple fur. ‘Okay what's up with the guards of this world, is there some kind of cloning machine or what?’

Four of the guard with the yellow fur were pegasi carrying crossbows, while the purple furred guards were earth ponies with spears. Shining Armor had a two hand long sword and wait a second……. “Shining Armor your coming with us?”

“Of course I have the head captain of the crystal guards.” He added nonchalantly.

“Yeah I get that, but you're also a Prince. Shouldn't you stay behind to protect everyone?” I asked trying to change his mind.

He stared out into the frozen waistband for a moment before speaking. “Listen Jack, I get that you want me to stay cause I'm royalty, but that's just not the kind of pony I am. I can't just sit in comfort while other ponies lives are at stake, I will do what I can to protect them even if it cost me my own life.” His words were filled with pride and confidence, they were the words of a true leader.

I shook my head and sighed knowing full well that I can't change this stallion mind, but then again why would I? “Well so long as we stick to the plan we should come out on top, and hopefully free those ponies from there icy prisons.”

I noticed that he was looking around for someone. “Where's Midnight Blossom? I thought she was your personal guard?”

I rubbed the back of my head feeling guilty for not explaining earlier. “Yeah well I told her to stay behind with Twilight to keep her safe in case things went south. Plus I'm not so helpless that I need a personal guard.” He stared at me for a moment before shrugging his shoulder as he turned to face in the direction of the snow.

We walked up to where the grass met the snow and for a moment I wonder why it was a perfect line, but I would probably get the same results anytime I asked how these ponies could do indescribable things, and that was “Magic”. When I stepped out and into the snow the effect was instant as my body felt like I just stepped into a walk in freezer butt naked. That's when the gem around my neck started to glow and soon my body stopped shivering and was back to being warm. Even though I could feel the snow that touched my bare skin due to me wearing shorts mind you, I still didn't feel cold. ‘Cool…..did I just make a pun?’

We started to walk off in one I told them where I thought I saw the digimon, while I couldn't feel the snow icy touch I still couldn't walk through it without trudging through. The ponies hover didn't seem to have any troubles with their strong legs or ability to fly. ‘Lucky’

After a good twenty minutes of walking through the snow we were at the spot where I thought I saw Icedevimon. I hadn't noticed but the area had a few rocky terrain that anything could hide in. It was time to execute my plan. “Alright you guys should find a place to hind while I walk around, if he's out there right now then he should take the bait.”

Shining walked up to me and hand me a red long cylinder stick. “This is a distress flare, fire it off when you think you're in trouble.” I nodded and slipped the flair into my pocket. “Me and the guard will hide until we see the flair. Good luck.” I started to walk off in one direction hoping to stumble onto anything that could either get the digimon attention or help me figure out where he could be.

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For a good five minutes I trudge through the snow walking a good distance before stopping and move around in a large circle, so I wouldn't stray to far from the ponies. I had used a rock as a landmark, so I knew which direction was witch. The rock was actually in two pieces, I know this cause it looked like the top broken and slide off. I was starting to think that this plan may have been a waste of time.

I started to walk back towards the ground when a chilling gust of wind blew in. “Well well if it isn't a human being.” Came a smooth sinister voice. I quickly started to looked around trying to find the source. “And here I was getting used to tormenting ponies, but then again there's nothing wrong with changing it up.” The voice traveled on the wind and snow started to kick up obscuring my view.

“Why are you doing this to the ponies?!” I shouted trying to figure out where he was.

“The better question is why not?” His voice sounded like it was coming from every direction. “If the weak can't defend themselves, then they deserve to die. And those ponies are such fragile creatures, makes it all the more fun when I freeze them over with those terrified expressions.” The voice was getting closer, I tried to back away not paying attention to where I was going.

Suddenly I felt my body falling down. I quickly threw my hands out and managed to grab the edge. I looked down to see I was near the broken rock, and that I was dangling inside some hole. I tried to pull myself up but couldn't get a good grip as I started to slip deeper into the hole. “Well isn't this unfortunate.” I quickly turned to look forward in only to see Icedevimon crouching down in front. “See I was going to freeze and make you into a nice human Popsicle, but this is good too."

I tried to pull myself out only slip deeper with only my finger tips hanging onto the edge. I saw Icedevimon move his long hand toward me, and with a quick swipe he stole the neck around my neck immediate I felt the freezing temperature whittling my strength. “G-give t-that b-back.” I tried to speak through the freezing sensation that was overpowering my body.

He fidgeted with the fem before looking back at me. “How about no.” He gripped the gem in his palm before crushing it shattering it to pieces. “Seems like our times is up, I hate to leave you hanging, so I'll help make this quick.” He stood back up at his full height as he looked down at me. “See I figure if you don't die from the fall, then you'll freeze to death down there. Either way I win.” He raises his right foot, and quickly slammed it down on my right-hand twitching it as he smashed my finger. My hand lost its grip leaving me only hanging by my left hand. “Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go have some fun with your entourage, later kid.” And with that he kicked my hand off the edge sending me falling down the hole.

I slide down a long spacious tunnel narrowly missing icicles, however a few managed to scratch and leave cuts on my skin. I soon excited the tunnel and saw myself heading for a chasm. I tried to dig my gloved hands into the ground but wasn't able to slow my descent. And for a moment the world slowed down, in my mind I realized that this was it, I'm about die. My life quickly flashes before my eyes, I remember my first birthday at Dave & Buster with my parents, or when I asked my high school crush to be my valentine only to have her laugh at me, boy that was a painful memory. And finally I was coming up to my time in Equestria, how I met the CMC, how I saw Twilight in her underwear, to Shining Armor tossing me the sword…..wait the sword!!

Still feeling that time was still slow I reached for the sword at my side, the world started to speed backup as I unsheathed the blade and stabbed into the ground and slowly reducing my speed. I looked ahead to see the drop was rapidly approaching, I dug my feet into the ground to reduce my speed even more. I closed my eyes and waited for the inevitable, but suddenly felt my body jolted to a stop. I dared to open my eyes and saw that the sword got caught on a rock just before my feet came close to the edge. “Oh thank God.”

I got to my knees feeling the ground to make sure that it was stable before standing up. I pulled the sword out of the ground and noticed that it wasn't even scratched or dented. “Now that is a quality sword!” I cheered loudly turning the sword and kissing the flat side. I sheathed the blade and looked around my surroundings, I felt myself shivering from the cold. It wasn't as windy as it was top side, but it definitely was enough to make my shiver. “I need to hurry and get back to the other before Icedevimon can hurt them.

I looked around the cave and only saw the way I came in, I looked to the other side of the chasm to see if there was another exit, but to my dismay there wasn't only a large pillar of ice. “My only option is to Hurry and climb back up and hope I'm not too late.” As I was about to make my way for the tunnel I heard my digivice start to beep loudly. I quickly pulled it out and noticed what looked like a radar on the monitor, there was a grid like pattern and a red dot that was showing that something was behind me. I turned around until I was facing the direction of the chasm. “It's not down there is it?” I asked moving carefully to the edge looking down.

As I got closer my D Tector start to screech louder and beeping at a high pitch, and soon I saw a bright light from the other side of the chasm, the pillar of ice started to shine brightly until something slowly started to faze out it, and there in all its glory was the spite of ice. I was left in shock one of the ten legendary human spirits were here in Equestria, not just my own but this one as well. I heard my digivice beep again and quickly pointed it to the spirit, and much like before a beam of light connected with the spirit and sucked it into the digivice and the symbol of ice appeared on the monitor.

Soon the cave began to shake violently until the ceiling above toppled down giving me an opening to escape out of. “Well that convenient, but I'll take it!! I quickly start to climb my way up and out of the pit and find myself topside. I shivered as the cold winds made me wrap my arms around myself for warmth. “Man Davis jacket doesn't seem like a bad idea right about now.” I quickly start to run back to where I last remember leaving Shining Armor, and the guards. But the powerful winds and snow obscured my vision one more. “Damn if I only I had a way to protect my eyes.” As the words left my mouth I remember that I had goggles at the top of my hat, I reached up and pulled them over my eyes and immediately could see better. “And people say that the goggle gimmick is just a fad in the digimon show well, they can kiss it!!” I started to run in the direction where I last saw the group ignoring the freezing pain that started to cover my body. “Just hang in their guys I'm coming.”

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I trudged as fast I could through the now knee-high snow, my legs and exposed skin stung from the freezing temperature. I would have spirit evolved but I wasn't sure how long the form would last. ‘If, and when I make it out of this I really need to run some test.’ No sooner than after a few more feet did I see the horror a head. All eight of the guard ponies were frozen solid each in q different positions, some had a look of surprise, while other looked like they were in the middle of an attack before frozen. Shining Armor however was still alive hold his sword pointed at Icedevimon who had a grin plastered on his face. I need to act fast and get his attention on me and off Shining Armor. Then a thought occurred, I fished into my pocket and pulled out the flare that Shining gave me. At the top of the flare was a small cord, “Please be the kind that fires something.” I pointed the flare at Icedevimon who attention was focused on Shining, steadying flare in my shaking hands I pulled the cord and soon after a red glowing fireball shot out with incredible speed and nailed Icedevimon on his back.

Icedevimon yelled in pain,“GAAHH WHO DARE!?” He turns to me and shot me a death glare. “Well look whose still kicking, guess I underestimated you.” He turned away from Shining and focused his attention on me before flaring his wings out. “I won't make that same mistake twice!!” He yelled before quickly charging me.

I pulled out my digivice smirking at the surprise he’s gonna get. “So you like to play with ice huh frosty? Well let's see how you when I fight fire with fire.” I activated my device and prepared to digivolve into the spire of ice. “Execute, Spirit Evolution!!” I could feel the energy in my body return blocking out the cold as I transformed into… “Agunimon!........ Wait what!?” Though I didn't get the form I wanted my sudden transformation did cause Icedevimon to stop in his tracks.

‘Hey man sorry for not chiming in today much,but I know you said you wanted to fight fire with fire, but maybe you should have just said fight ice with fire. Cause you kinda ruined that expression now.’

‘ How was I supposed to know this would happen. I wanted to turn into the spirit of ice, but instead I turned into Agunimon instead.”

‘Right I get that, and we all have our day when we can't do what we want, you just to remember….where did he go?’ I looked up to see that Icedevimon was nowhere in sight.

Shining Armor was still alive and moving, I quickly moved over to him but felt a searing pain run my right arm. I looked to see a claw mark across it. “So what, just cause you can turn into a digimon you think I would be scared?!” Icedevimon voice screamed as another wave of pain moved across my back, I quickly turned throwing my fist out, only to hit the wind. “Don't make me laugh you pathetic fool, in the snow I am the master!! Frozen Claw!!” I was too slow to figure out where he was before feeling pain across my left leg forcing me to my knees.

The pain was immense as the cold spread across my body. ‘Damn it I can't land an attack I'm done for.’ I got back to my feet and focused on my surroundings getting it a fighting stance preparing for the next attack. Deciding to try a new tactic I quickly turned and threw a punch, I was met with another attack only to my abdominal causing me to double over in pain.

“Hahaha!! A nice attempt but futile all the same.” I looked up barely able to move when I saw Icedevimon floating in the air above me. “Now I think it's time we ended this once and for all.” I watched as he spread his wings wide and icicles started to form around him “Icey Shower!!” He flexed his wings sending icicles flying straight for me.

‘Damn it!! I can't dodge it!!’ I braced myself for impaling dooms. The sound of ice shattering could be heard as I imagined my body impaled, but there was no pain. I dared to open my eyes to see that the attack had been blocked by a pink shield of magic. I turned and looked over to Shining who's horn was faintly glowing before it stopped, and he was panting with exhaustion. ‘Thanks Shining Armor I won't let you down.’ I got back up to my feet I engulf my body in flames and feeling the heat melt the surrounding snow. “Come on Icedevimon take another shot at me I dare you!!!”

“Careful what you wish for kid.” He slowly disappeared back into the snow preparing for another attack. I closed my eyes and focused on nothing by my breathing, the sound of the wind blowing slowly died out into nothingness. The world was silent as I consecrated, then the sound of wings flapping from right and the sound of the wind being cut came into view. I quickly leaned my body back and opened my eyes to see Icedevimon clawed hand pass by me, with a look of shock on his face. “Impossible!!”

As his body was about to pass me I quickly grabbed him his scrawny leg and gripped it as tight as I could and swung my arm down taking him down with it. With his body slammed onto the ground I grabbed the other leg and gripped it tighter. He turned to look at me with a face of fear as he realized, it was over. “What was that you said to earlier. That if the weak can't defend themselves than they deserve to die.” I looked at him as my body ignited with flames. “Well look who's the weak one now!!” I start to spin him around as his body is engulfed into the flames. “PYRO TORNADO!!” I listen as he screamed in defeat as I tossed his body into the air. The ribbon of data appeared and I summoned my digivice. “Your frozen terror ends here! Fractal Code Digitize!!” As the ribbon of date was sucked into the digivice and Icedevimon digiegg was sent back to the digital world I saw that all the frozen guards started to melt, and they started to pant as if they had tasted air for the first time.

As I looked out to the guards who gathered around Shining Armor I felt the overwhelming pain surges through my body once more as I fall to my knees. My transformation ended and I revert to my human form. The pain left me exhausted, and the cold weather soon took over me and I started to fall to the ground. Before my eyes closed from exhaustion and pain, just before my eyes closed I saw Shining pointing to me getting the guard's attention before marching over to me. I couldn't hear their voice as they were muffled, and soon my eyelids got heavy till I slowly closed them now only seeing black.

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Soreness, and a bit of pain that's what I started to wake up to, every muscle aching in agony, but that meant I was still alive so silver lining. I slowly opened my right eye barely able to see anything, everything was blurry for a few moments trying to focus my vision. Eventually my vision started to clear up, and I was able to see that I was in a room. It was rather dark with the only light being the crackling fire that was inside a fireplace. Judge by the way on how dark it was I guessed it was nighttime. I started to take in more of my surroundings as my eye wander around. I noticed that the walls were made out if crystals, which meant that I was back in the Crystal Empire. I sighed with relief when something caught my eye, over in front of the fireplace I saw that my clothes were laid out on a flat stone in front of the fire. I saw my Shirt, over shirt, pants,socks hat gloves and goggles spread out and the sword Shining Armor gave me. The only thing I didn't see were my boxer, I slowly shifted my lower half and could still feel the fabric where it belongs. I sighed knowing I wasn't completely naked.

I started to notice the soft smooth sheets that pressed against my bare skin, and the warmth if the slightly heavy blankets that covered me. And the warm arm wrapped around my chest. ‘…….back up…..what?’ With my right hand I slowly removed the cover just enough to see that there was an arm around my chest. The arm was female, if the hand on my chest was anything to go by, the arm was a nice light gray. When I turned my head I saw the familiar light purple short mane, it was Midnight Blossom!!

My heart started to pounded in my chest as my face started to burn, so badly that I thought my face was starting to steam up. ‘Okay. Okay relax. I'm fine there nothing wrong, all I have to do is slip away.’ It wouldn't be to hard, all I would have to do is slowly slide my body off to the edge of them bed and onto the ground. I started by slowly and very carefully moving my right leg out till it was over the edge. Next I propped my right hand on edge and use that to pull myself out. I took a breath in and started to pull away, but just as her hand was just about to slip off my chest, she quickly wrapped her arms around my own and pulled me toward her. I was pressed against her with my left arm wedge between her cleavage, and then I realized something… ‘She naked!!”

You know it's time like this when must quote someone whose words have touched many, who asked a philosophic question that just right for this moment and that is....

I could feel my arm being pressed against her soft bosom as she nuzzled her muzzle into the crook of my neck. Her fur was so soft as it pressed against my skin. With her at such proximity I started to pick up on a scent, it smelled like some flora, if I was correct it was actually a blossom. ‘Well her name is Midnight Blossom.’ Slowly she slides her left arm up my chest and around my neck as she cuddled me closer further pressing my arm between her chest. ‘My heart feels like it's about to explode right now. This shouldn't be happening, I'm not one of those main characters in an anime.’ But then I remember something that I read in the book on the way here. According to the birth rate of ponies in regards to the gender in term of birth, that the ratio of stallion to mares is about five to one. ‘So I'm in another world, filled anthropomorphic ponies where the females out number the males? …….. Damn it this is like an anime!’

And to add insult to injury, Midnight started to sniff my neck carefully nuzzling it as she sniffed some more, before slowly licking it causing my breath to hitch, I could feel her warm wet tongue dragging against my sensitive flesh, this caused a shiver to run down my spine and unfortunately caused a good amount of blood was starting to head south.

But just when I thought it could get any worse she started to lightly nibble on the nape of my neck humming with content. I could feel sharp fangs barely scraping against my neck, it wasn't painful, but it did make me feel a bit concerned. ‘FUCK!!! This isn't good!’ As she continued to nibble and lick on my neck all while humming with delight, I could feel my mind start to get a bit fuzzy and hazy and my breath felt hotter. ‘Dame it think of something else Jack. Focus on something, anything! Like what you should do tomorrow? Why didn't the ice spirit work?’

Then I suddenly remembered that I couldn't use it, but for what reason did I make a mistake. ‘Maybe I didn't do the right hand motions, or what if I can't access the other spirits?’ As these questions danced around in my mind I noticed that Midnight was slowly waking up, all while the still nibbling on my neck. As her cat like eyes open she quickly dilated, she saw her predicament as she looked up at me. “I thought you said you were a fruit bat thestral?” I asked trying to play it cool.

Her face started to glow red, and she quickly took notice of her position, from her lips on my back, to her hands hold my arm between her breast. She quickly released me ran for the restroom where I imagine her clothes are. As she slammed the door shut,I lost my composure and started to pant heavily trying to get my heart rate back to normal.

Not wanting to add anymore awkwardness to this situation I move over to my clothes and quickly put them on. As I finished putting my gloves on I heard the bathroom door open, and saw Midnight slowly walking out. “Um…. Sooo.”

“Mind telling me why I woke up like that.” I wasn't going to beat around the bush, hoping to find out if it meant anything.

Midnight muzzle was still slightly red as she spoke. “Well when Prince Shining Armor and the rest of the guards brought you back you were shivering due to your exposure to the freezing cold, your clothes were all wet and you were pale as a ghost. So Princess Cadence suggested that one of us should share our body heat with you to help you recover. And since I am supposed to be your personal guard I believed that I should have been the one to do it, since I wasn't able to even help you.” I noticed her ears dropping down as her expression grew somber.

I scratched the back of my head feeling guilty. ‘Well now I feel like a jackass.’ I walked over to her and gently wrapped my arms around her gently hugging her. “Hey you did what I asked and that all I could ask for. If anything had happened to you, because of me I wouldn't be able to live with myself.” I watched as her face slowly softened as she slowly smiled at me before hugging me back and nuzzling her head into my chest. “By the way was it really necessary that you had to remove all your clothes, I mean you could have just worn sweats?”

She slowly pulled away still blushing. “Well you see Princess Cadence suggested that, she said something about being able to heat you up in more ways than one.” She looked at me and noticed my facial expressions. “Jack? Is something wrong?”

My right eye was twitching as I could feel some of my veins started bulge out with rage. ‘I wonder if it's legal to prank a princess?’

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After walking up and explaining to Midnight that I wasn't mad at her, we all gathered for dinner in the dining hall. It wasn't anything too fancy but it was rather spacious. Shining Armor, and I sat at one side of the table, while the mare sat on the opposite side. Those mares being Twilight who is watching over her niece as we ate, Midnight who muzzle still had light red blush from earlier no doubt. Flurry Heart was sitting at the end of the table closest to Twilight, she would occasionally sneakily give the food she didn't want to Dorumon who thankfully had his own food, but wasn't going to pass up extra chow. And then there the other princess in the room, she had light pink fur and a mane that was made of three colors, light yellow, hot pink, and violet. The dress she wore a sky blue, and almost looked similar what a Greek Goddess would wear. Cadence seemed a bit happier as she ate her salad occasionally glancing over to Midnight, then over to me before grinning. ‘Okay depending on her actions throughout dinner I'll see if I need to add her to the list of ponies to watch out for, right next to Pinkie Pie.’ I thought as I dug my fork into some Alfredo pasta.

The room was quite aside the occasional clanking of dishes and silverware, it was rather nice….until Cadence decided break said silence. “So Jack are you feeling any better?”

‘I feel like that could be a loaded question, better tread lightly around her.’ I placed my fork down and wiped my mouth in case there was anyone there. “I'm feeling much better thank you for asking your majesty.” I replied with a smile.

She must have known that was trying to avoid anything specific of what happened when I woke up, cause her next question was set and ready “I'm very glad to hear that, did you get enough rest? Were the extra accommodations to your liking?” She seemed to put a bit more ephesus on that last sentence.

‘Oh ho I see how it is.’ I glanced over to Twilight who seemed rather interested in what Cadence was talking about. ‘Ah, so she didn't tell anyone else about the suggestion she gave Midnight….oh this is going to be good.’ Returning my focus back to Cadence I smiled as I decided to play my next move. “Extra accommodation? I'm sorry what would those be Princess? I'm afraid I hadn't noticed anything.” I made the right move as all eyes were on Cadence, well minus Flurry Heart as she used this opportunity to slip all the food she didn't want onto Dorumon’s plate who ate it happily. ‘It's your move now princess.’

Cadence muzzle started to lightly blush as the tables had quickly turned against her. She seemed to have boxed herself until. “T-the fireplace! I mean the fireplace, did it help warm you up?”

‘Checkmate, human 2, ponies 1.’ I finished up my pasta and smiled back. “Oh yes the fireplace really helped, and I'm feeling much better.” I could have kept the game going, but I didn't want Midnight to suffer in case Cadence might bring her into the battle. So decided to change the topic I asked my next question. “So did all the ponies who were frozen thaw out?”

Seeming relieved that I didn't continue our little game Cadence nodded her head. “Yes they are all safe, a mild cold but otherwise alright.”

I was relieved and slightly adjusted in my seat to get more comfortable, but as I did I felt the sword at my side clank against the chair. I took the sword from my side and tapped on Shining to get his attention. “Thanks for letting me borrow this, it really saved my life.” I held out the sword for him.

Shining Armor stared at the sword for a moment before gently pushing it back to me. “I think you should keep it.”

I was surprised and a bit glad. “Are you sure?”

He nodded as he continued. “Yeah, plus I noticed how drained you were after you turned back, maybe learning how to this might help you conserve your strength till you need to change again.” Shining scratched his chin. “Infact why don't you come down here again for some train, you kinda look like you could use some more muscles.”

I was in need of strengthening up, and if I learn how to use a sword I wouldn't be dependent on my digivice. With my mind made up I gave my answer. “You got a deal and thank you.” After dinner, we all went back to bed and would take the train in the morning back to Ponyville.