After some wood gathering later…

Well all is prepared so when night time comes I just start a fire.
“Well I hope you're happy now dad I’m finally using the skills you taught me…” I said with a smile.
Well that’s one problem done let's get the rest I need to get some food
I was walking while taking off my shirt and using it as a bag. I caught some apples and some berries while I was walking and I thought about the box. “well if I can level up I need to use this skill it's going to come in handy.” The sun was beginning to get down and I started to head back to the camp when I heard a rustle again i quickly put the shirt on the ground and took out my dagger I was getting ready and I was confident with my new reactions and strength so as soon as I heard growling I jumped at the sound and saw a wood wolf jump out at me I quickly stabbed it in the eye and turned around to see another wolf inches from my neck and I quickly ducked and slashed its leg it fell whimpering and I started to look around for more and I was right three more came running
I started to run towards a tree acting like I was to climb it but I did double take and turned around quickly and grabbed one snapping its neck and dropping it and looked at the remaining two with a sadistic smirk and began to walk slowly towards them and they began to back down and I jumped at one snapping its back while the other took a knife to the middle of the forehead.

YOU HAVE LEVELED UP

this time I thought about it and put the point in agility.
“Hey faster means better with these wolves.”
And I went back, grabbed my shirt and went back to the camp.
When I reached back it was night time already so I started making the fire and when I finished I sat back down and began eating an apple.
“Damn this apple tastes amazing.” I was starting to get sleepy so I thought about how to sleep because it’s not gonna feel good when I wake up to an ambush.
…
I had a brilliant idea I thought with a smirk.

3 hours later…

I was walking silently with the little sleep I had and my idea repeating in my mind making me think that I’m a genius.
“good job myself” I said sarcastically
I was walking around looking for some sleeping wood wolf pack so I can kill them silently so I can level up easily
while I was looking I saw another strange lion thing and I began to walk slowly
when I was near it it looked at my direction but the only thing it saw was my knife plunged to its eye.
“Heh I’m really a genius.”

2 hours of looking later

“Ok after I found 14 more lions I'm now at level 9. strength’s at level 14 agility at level 13 stamina’s 12 I’m good and I can already feel myself stronger with how light my body feels.”
I got back to the camp though I wanted to find a pack of wood wolves. These fuckers knew how to hide but hey I’m at level 9 and beggars can’t be choosers.

I ate another apple and was thinking about getting to some base and by the hut that I saw I was certain that I could find an empty one so I started looking again taking any apple or berry I saw my dagger was getting weaker so I needed to find another one… dagger...WAIT.
I quickly stopped.
“Damn it, I should've taken some bones from those lions. I could make good daggers with those bones and they'll be sturdier.”

Damn it I was irritated while walking the sunrise began and I started to hear some birds chirping and while walking the rustles began again
I quickly took my knife and ran to the rustle so I could get a quick kill but to my surprise the bush screamed like a child so I stopped and looked to see three baby horses.
one was yellow and had a bow on its head and the other was orange with… wait ARE THOSE WINGS, the other however was white this one had a… horn?
“I think I’m seeing stuff now” though to be honest it's not the weirdest thing I saw today consicedring the lions.

but the little horses gasps broke my thinking chain.
“It just spoke.” The orange one said. Great, another talking equine I thought.
“Ummm… e-excuse me mister I’m S-Sweetie belle and t-these are my f-friends Applebloom and S-Scootaloo I’m sorry that we w-were intruding on your t-territory but, we will n-never do it again please let us go” said the white unicorn while whimpering and shaking.
“Awwwwww…” I said. and I crouched so I was less intimidating to them
“I didn’t mean to scare you little fella, that's not my territory I thought you were some of those wood wolves. But, what are you guys doing here this place is dangerous for kids like you.” I said and I reached out and scratched her behind her ear she flinched when I reached but relaxed when I started scratching.
“Ummm, we are kinda lost mister we went into the everfree forest to look for our cutie marks and we were headed to Zecora and we got lost.” the white one said again. “Cutie-what?. you know what ignore that, did you just say Zecora as in a zebra that talks in weird rhymes.” I said
“Yes, that's her….. ummm..could you take us to her mister we are scared” sweetie belle said. “sure thing sweetheart” I said. after I said that I heard a rustle in one of the bushes I quickly readied myself and waited
to my luck it was one of the lion things.
I got a little further from the kids so it won’t hurt them and waited and the manticore pounced at me. I slid again under it and Tried to stab it’s throat but to my sheer horror the dagger broke so I side rolled and avoided a tail sting.
“Shit this is bad!.” How the hell am I going to kill this one, And I was starting to get nervous and started to think of a solution and then the lion noticed the kids and tried to pounce on them.
“AHHHHHHHHHHH” I heard all of them scream the moment I heard the scream something snapped in me with the use of my new agility and strength I ran towards the lion and got between the lion and the kids when it pounced I punched it in the face with all my might I heard a sickening crunch and twisted my wrist but i didn’t think of the pain at that moment all I thought about was getting rid of this lion.
I ran towards the lion. It was still on the ground recovering from the punch. I picked a stone up and started bashing its skull. Every hit was met with a sick crunch until the final straw and part of its head split open and covered my face and hand in blood and brain matter.
I dropped the stone and stood up and turned to the kids and walked towards them and I was surprised to see them look at me with fear and their faces were green except the orange one she looked at me with astonishment.
“Let’s get you to the zebra before more of those lions show up.” I said calmly. “THAT WAS AWESOME!.” scootaloo screamed. “You were bam like this then the manticore came at us and u were fast and got between us and punched it like it was a weak animal and then you….. ewwww” Scootaloo completed the sentence with a shiver.
“Let’s get you to the zebra and ignore what I did,” I said before being interrupted by the box again.

CONGRATULATIONS ON REACHING LEVEL 10 MIKE
ALL OF YOUR STATS WILL GET A 10+ POINTS BUT, YOU WILL LOSE THE ABILITY TO HEAL WOUNDS AFTER LEVELING UP AND THIS IS THE LAST TIME IT WILL HAPPEN.
S/N: improving your physique gives bonus points to all stats.

It disappeared and my hand glowed and healed but I was taken aback with my healing abilities gone I quickly imagined the box and started to read

Name: Mike
Level: 10.
Status:
Endurance: . Strength: 24. Agility: 23. Charisma: 20. Stamina: 22.
physique: Average
Health: 150/150. Mana: Locked.

“C'mon guys I know where she lives follow me.” I said.
I began walking and thinking about what just happened, so now I’m faster by two times as when I started here that's good and double strength that’s gonna come in handy and don’t know what to do with charisma but, double stamina and endurance means I can go longer in a fight definitely an improvement but, my healing abilities are gone and I was kinda nervous about it I knew that with these new stats it was a painful task to get me injured but, if I get injured then I’m doomed unless I found some hospital my thoughts were interrupted when I heard a feminine shout. “SCOOTALOO, APPLEBLOOM, SWEETIE BELLE, WHERE ARE YOU IF YOU HEAR US SCREAM.” the voice said.
“Oh mister that sounds like Rainbow dash, lets go to her” Scootaloo said. “Ok hop on my back” I said. “wha-AHHH” the orange one screamed
as I picked her up and put her on my shoulder. “Woah you’re so tall mister” Scootaloo said as I picked the white one
and put her on the other shoulder and heard her gasp a little.
I bent down to pick the yellow one but she backed away from me shaking a little. “Come on now it’s not going to hurt us you saw how it saved our flanks from the manticore.” Scootaloo said. “Name’s Mike kid and I’m a he not an it” I said calmly with a smile. “Oh sorry” said scootaloo. “It’s alright but let us deal with Applebloom here she’s definitely scared of me” I said. Applebloom stopped shaking and was walking towards me slowly.
“Sorry if I scared you kid didn’t mean to but if I did nothing you were to be the manticores breakfast.” I said. I leaned and picked up apple bloom and put her behind my head as she looped her hooves around my neck. And put my hands on the other two at my shoulders. I didn’t want them to fall.
Ok I was ready to go to where the sound came from and I wanted to test my new agility. I leaned forward a little and started running and I was surprised with my speed it was like riding a bicycle at max speed
“I’m definitely faster than the wolves now and not by little but not much either. “Wow you’re fast!.” Sweetie belle said. I ignored her and continued running toward the sound and I saw two small horses but definitely adult small horses. Their ears turned to my direction but before they could look I was in front of them and stopped and looked down at them. One was white and with a horn purple hai- or mane and there was a weird gems tattoo on her ass, the other was purple with a horn and violet mane with a pink stripe in it and they looked up at me their eyes widening and their mouths opened before they could do anything I picked the little fellas on put them on the ground and turned around.
“Wait Mike.” I heard Sweetie belle say. but I didn’t want any trouble and They could hunt me and I was in no condition to fight strange horses with horns and wings. So I started running again to go back to my hunt for a place to stay.

after some wood wolves and 1 manticore kill later…

I was walking and tired because I didn’t sleep well the night before and I didn’t level up from those kills I got earlier so I continued walking

2 hours later.

I was going to give up on finding a place to stay in but I noticed that the trees got fewer so I continued until I saw what I was looking for.
I saw a stone castle though not in the best shape it was crumbled and looked old but hey at least its a place to stay in. I looked to the left and saw a slow running river near it.
“Oh this place is good I’m definitely going to stay here!.”

Author's Note

I feel like I'm speeding thigs up too much but hey I lack the creativity to make the in betweens