Daniel Book Four- Zebrica

Daniel woke with a gasp, now again in his human form. He glanced around, and saw Ditzy, Gilda, and CC staring at him wide eyed, and huddled in a corner, all hugging each other like scared foals. Daniel raised an eyebrow. "Daniel, you just shot a concentrated blast of arcane magic into the wall, from your hands. Don't do that again." CC said carefully. Daniel raised his other eyebrow, looking at the rather large hole upon the wall, above two sleeping zebras.

"Right, gotchya, no more magic in Dreamsc- oh I don't feel well," and with that Daniel keeled over one last time.

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"Ugh," Daniel said, getting up out of the bed he was in. He took a couple of seconds to stretch, and remember his surroundings. 'Oh, right, Zebrica. Third day in, and already have fainted at least three times.' Daniel thought to himself as he looked around for, well, anything. What he found was a note on the small nightstand marked with Ditzy's signature. He opened it.

Daniel, Sorry I didn't spend the night with you, but you have been acting extremely strange lately. And dangerous. meet me down the stairs.

~Ditzy

Daniel shrugged. He turned around, and jumped backwards, hitting his head on the wall. Standing in front of him were the two zebra alicorns, in their earthpony forms. Daniel swallowed, not knowing what to do. They decided.

"Are you okay master? Are you hurt?" Candy Cane asked.

"I'm fine, I guess. You spooked me is all. Now, could you point me to the shower?" Daniel replied.

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Daniel walked down the hallway, and opened two large doors to the a rather large table, that everybody was sitting at, eating. Daniel sat next to Ditzy, who was eating (what else?) a blueberry muffin. Daniel took one for himself. "Morning everybody, what's on the agenda today? Training, mystery, fun, or adventure?" He asked. They all glanced at him, and put on nervous smiles, save for the two zebras, who were giving genuine happy grins, and CC, who looked like she was trying not to laugh. Daniel raised an eyebrow. "What's going on?"

"We're going to my hive to begin training today! Oh, I just can't wait to introduce you to our hive queen, Farodinonine!" CC said excitedly.

"Okay, I guess. Sounds interesting," and with that Daniel took another bite of his muffin.

"Now, my hive is in the Griffin Empire, and we are to travel there using nothing but our bodies, and whatever we can carry, this is part of your training Daniel. We will resupply as often as possible, and use our combined talents to survive, on the trek, we will be first going through the Samarea Desert, after that, we will arrive at the great canyons of runes, leading us on to the land of the Griffin Empire. To enter the canyon, we will have to go through the temple of eternity, said to only open to the great fifth alicorn. According to legend a great choice will be made there by him." CC said, now serious. Daniel's eyes widened.

"No, absolutely not, last time I went into a great temple, I received a power that I still do not want, there is no way that I will be going into another one," Daniel said darkly. "I'll still go on the trip though."

And thus, another adventure in the boy's life had started.