As my body came back to consciousness, a headache, that I was used to from spending nights over nights planning for the next day's events, appeared in my head. My body felt cold, as if I were put into a freezer for a week. My thoughts were that I was going to wake up in the jail cell and see myself as some sort of abomination, but that is not what I seemed to have come back to. My ears picked up on wind, meaning I had to be outside, or I was actually in a freezer. I felt the surface I was on, and I reeled my hand back in pain. I looked to the ground next to me and saw what looked to be dirt that was burn't to a black goo. I looked up to only find.... more dirt in my wake. I took a moment to clear my head a bit, and I realized that I was in a crater, the insides of it being completely blackened. Confused, I climbed out of the crater to find an assortment of trees. From how they were sorted, I seemed to have been in the middle of the pathway. Everything looked like a relatively normal forest, but then something crossed my mind.

'How in the hell are those trees so damn high?!' I thought about as I looked back at the crater. As I was about to test and see where the pathway led me to, there was a glowing on my left hand. Using my right, I shielded my eyes as the glow got bright, then all of a sudden diminished. I stared at the back of my hand and it read "OPEN YOUR PALM" in big, bold text. Unsure of what to do, I hesitantly opened the palm of my hand and faced it upward. A second later, a book of some sorts faded into view.

"What the fuck?" I said to no one in particular, startled by the gold-slated book in my hand. With nothing else to do, I took a seat with my legs inside of the crater and opened the book. It was blank at first, but then some text appeared shortly after looking at the blank page. I read the contents of the book, and was startled way more than I was when it first appeared. It read my name as the owner of the book, and I don't know how it did so. After being amazed for a few minutes of this book's sorcery, I continued to read on. It explained that the book always needed an owner or it would "burn up", whatever that means. It also said that the owner can't just be anyone, and must be someone with a good imaginative and creative conscience to be the book's host. The reason the book is blank is because it is meant for the owner to write their own magic inside of this book.

'This book was probably written by some Dungeons and Dragons fanatic...' I thought, feeling less motivated to continue. Time to test and see if it works I guess. I flipped through the pages and saw that all except the next two pages were blank. The second page explained the rules and arguments that would determine how the magic is used and what it can do, and the third was something called a "Equus Magic Locator", which can apparently be used to determine your location as well as any other's location, through mana. This sounded so unreal and bullshit that I had to test this out. On the second page, it stated that thinking of a pen in my hand would make a pen appear, and that writing down any type of magic with a name, explanation, and way to use it would allow me to use it. Nothing left to lose and slightly believing it due to the fact it appeared in my hand from out of nowhere, I tested it out. As I thought of a pen inside of my hand, and mimicking my hand to do the same, a pen appeared in my hand. Startled, I looked around, wondering if someone was joking me. When I saw no one, I looked at my hand. There it was, a white and gold pen, inside of my hand, and attached to the book.

'Wait... If that's real, then isn't the...' I hastily flipped to the third page that had this locating device on it. It said I was currently in a forest that was named the Everfree Forest, and the danger level, scaling in between numbers zero (no danger at all) and fifty (insanely dangerous/hostile), was projected as 17, meaning there is danger here. Now completely entranced to the book, I flipped to the first blank page and came up with a type of magic. What I came up with was an ability called 'Search' which allows you to find and identify monsters, showing their distance away from me, what they are, a name if they have one, and a color code on how dangerous the monsters are. Green means harmless, yellow means dangerous if provoked, and red means dangerous. It was a pretty straightforward explanation and it should work right. The activation method is using the incantation "Search".

"[Search]!" I yelled out into the forest. It took me a moment to realize that my voice had echoed out into the wild. As I yelled it out, dots and marks appeared, reminding me of that ESP cheat people use in shooter games. I looked around, to see the different color marks, only to fail my observations from the amount of clutter the marks were bundling in.

'Oops, forgot to label the distance of it.' Silly me, tricks are for dumb-asses. I went back to the book and made it only search the area the magic locator can cover. I spoke the incantation again and saw considerably less than I did the first time. There were a lot of entities, but most popped up either green or red. I looked at a red one and as soon as I focused on it, some info about it appeared. It was a very good distance away, enough to make me feel safe I guess. This info panel is saying it's a Timberwolf, but I don't remember them being literally made of timber... Its entire body was made out of wood, with glowing yellow eyes. Its teeth were sharp and splintered, looking like they could penetrate anything they see as lunch. Its look itself scared me out of my mind, so startled that I looked away from it before I started to get chills. To the right of the pathway showed that there were less red marks to be found there. Satisfied by taking the safe route, I took the journey down the pathway. I would've kept [Search] on the entire time, but apparently this "magic" uses my own energy to stay active, a damn shame. On my way to who knows where, I looked around, humming that all so familiar tune from my days of playing Persona 5. I peered at a bush, and it gave a shake, causing me to stop. I chanted [Search] for a brief moment in my head, and its mark appeared. Red, a color I was not looking forward to see. I took a moment to write in the book something to protect myself. I named the spell [Weaponizer] because it gives me a weapon I know the name of and uses my energy to shoot it. As soon as I ended the explanation of the spell with a period, a thought popped in my head, saying that the more energy I use in one day, the better and stronger it will be the next. That must mean that the gun I pick from the spell must be very weak right now. No matter, whatever keeps the monster back.

'Wait... what if I choose a melee weapon?' I thought about, thinking that a melee weapon is usually set in stone for its strength and firepower. Putting it to the test, I closed my eyes and thought about which melee weapon I want and decided to go for a fire axe. After a few seconds, I felt the axe create and form in my hand. When I opened my eyes, I saw the fire axe, from that one zombie game I can't remember, in my hand, its nice red design shining in the crisp afternoon air. I must've been lucky to create it in time as a beast, that was basically a lion with wings, reveal itself from the bush with a mighty roar. I focused on the creature and learned that it was a Manticore, a magical beast with a powerful sting in its tail. Alarmed by the information, I went to action and hacked the axe straight into the beast's body. As the axe made contact, the mythical creature gave out a huge scream of pain, and the axe, unfortunately, was broken, its head stuck inside the beast's chest.

'So melee weapons are not as sharp or durable when using weaker energy.' It did its job anyway, so no big deal. I ran down the pathway, the Manticore running right after me. The wound seemed to have done more damage than I thought it would do, because the lion, scorpion, whatever else it is mixed with, was starting to have more and more trouble breathing. Looking ahead of me, totally not out of shape and wanting to take a nap might I add, I saw what looked like a town. It was not a town he had seen before, as there were no active cars or roads. It looked like something the pioneers had called home once. As I made my way to the forest's entrance, I ran out of the forest and hid behind a tree. I looked back to the now-out-of-breath Manticore, and it seemed reluctant to leave the forest. I heard the creature's panting and footsteps start to become more silent, meaning it was leaving. I watched it go back into the forest, its paw on its chest, and leaving a blood trail. As I sat down at the tree, breathing hard, the book started glowing. As I opened it, the first page changed into some more words. I looked at the words carefully.

'Two spells have been detected in the book, causing a change on the magic locator. It will now tell you the amount of mana that is present in a certain area. The amount of mana in a certain area will allow you to replenish energy faster than normally, just by breathing the air. If there is not enough mana in the area for you to keep up, you can always just go to sleep and replenish energy.' Curious at what it was talking about, I flipped to the magic locator and saw a new statistic labeled 'Mana Yield', and it read 92%.

'It must mean that there is a lot of magic nearby.' I thought about, realizing that I already wasn't breathing hard and my legs were not aching as bad. I was still tired, and still desired to find a place to rest, so I focused on that first. I looked at the locator and saw that I was out of the Everfree Forest and in a new place. The name made me wonder if I read that wrong.

'Who was the fucker who decided to name a place Ponyville?'

Author's Note

Due to my lack of motivation to continue, I will keep this where it lies and see where I can improve. Because I don't know if I will finish this, I will not put a cancel tag just yet, and leave it as incomplete. Also, I can guarantee the chapters being way longer than it is now.

Anyways, sorry for the lack of dialogue, but a single character can't talk to himself. Just common sense.

Have a nice day!