Pain. Unimaginable Pain.

Jeff walked through the forest, trying to find something that he could kill to feed himself. It was then that he realized something. In a survival situation he was nothing. On the run, he was everything, he evaded police capture for years, yet he could being taken down by something like hunger or thirst? It was idiotic if he died that way!

He roared in anger and plunged his knife into the nearest tree. He immediately regretted it as he stomach growled in displeasure of the movement when he needed food. Jeff pulled his knife back out of the tree and continued his hike.

After a half hour of stomach roaring Jeff finally came across a river. He waded, while pulling out his knife, into the river and watched the crystal clear water. He saw movement from the corner of his eye and shot the knife into the water.

He was rewarded with a fish on the end of his knife. He pulled it off and tossed it to shore. He repeated the process until he had five fish. He walked back to the shore and gathers some twigs and leaves. He put it in a pile and, trying to remember some survival shows he watched before, created the wood into a teepee shape.

He delved deeper into his memories to try and figure out how to start a fire. He came up with a method that required a rock and tree fungus. He grabbed his knife and grabbed at one of the random stones. He looked towards the trees and started his search for tree fungus.

Finally coming up with some, Jeff tried to remember the details of how to get it started in the scattered memories. He placed the tree fungus around the teepee of wood, grabbed the rock, held out his knife, and finally struck the rock against the knife.

It had the wanted effect. There was a small spark. Jeff let out a cry of triumph and did it again, this time closer to the tree fungus. Managing to catch some of it on fire at the fourth try, he grabbed the fungus, not even feeling the burning of it in his hands, and put it in the middle of the pile, he blew on it slightly until it eventually caught the wood on fire.

He let out another cry of triumph and grabbed at a random stick. He had figured out how to clean the fish and gut it. He stuck a fish on the stick and put it to roast over the fire and fell asleep soon afterword.

Lyra awoke with a start. She managed to sit up before crying out in pain. Her entire body felt as if it was on fire! Bon Bon was pacing outside of the room and heard Lyra's cry of pain. She rushed in quickly and asked, "What's wrong?"

"My -pant- body -pant- feels -pant- as -pant- if -pant- it's on fire!" Lyra managed to pant out.

Bon Bon eyes widened before she shouted downstairs, "Twilight!" They heard the sound of hooves on wood as Twilight came up the stairs.

Jeff awoke to a burning sensation across his entire body. Already familiar with the pain he grabbed the bottle of whiskey and swallowed a small portion to try and take away from some of the pain. The burning sensation slowly disappeared. Jeff's smile widened before checking to see if the fish had cooked yet.

He was surprised that there was no fish over the fire. "Alright, which animal wants to fuck with me now?" shouted Jeff, eyes darting from side to side.

He then heard a far off howl. "Wolves, does the world-" He was cut off by a rustling noise and a wolf coming out of the bushes. Though, this wolf was strange, it's entire body was made of wood. "What the hell are you supposed to be? Some reject of the dogwood?" asked Jeff, both taunting the creature and seeing if it was possibly sentient.

The wolf growled before it howled again. From the shadows of the forest Jeff saw green eyes look at him. He pulled out his knife and grabbed a large branch from a nearby tree. He put it in the fire, hoping to make a torch so he can see better.

The first wolf charged at him, jumping up, trying to clamp it's jaws on Jeff's neck. Jeff was expecting something like this and slashed high, cutting off the creature's lower jaw. Instead of getting sprayed with blood, like he was expected, Jeff was sprayed with tree sap.

"You just ruined my beautiful face." said Jeff as he felt the sticky sap hit his face. "I'll fucking kill you!" roared Jeff in outrage. Jeff went on the offensive, running forward and slashing wildly in a blind rage. He was in to much of a rage to notice that the wooden wolves were circling him, pushing him closer to the fire.

Jeff stopped his attack when he realized that he was completely surrounded by them. He then remembered the branch that he left in the fire and reached for it. He pulled it out and wielded it like a club, the fire at the end so that it was close to his face.

One of the wolves stupidly charged forward. Jeff saw it and swung the branch at it, catching the wolf on fire and hitting it into another wolf, setting them both on fire. The other wolves, seeing this, all charged in at once. Jeff was lost under a flurry of claws and wood.

Lyra screamed in pain, no, utter agony. The two mares were doing whatever they could to try and stop Lyra's pain. It was then that Twilight realized something. "It's the spell!" exclaimed Twilight.

"What are you talking about?" asked Bon Bon.

"The spell that Lyra did! It worked! She's feeling what the creature she summoned is feeling!" said Twilight, excitement evident in her voice.

"Then what can we do to stop it?" asked Bon Bon, fearing that if it goes on Lyra might die.

"We need to find the creature Lyra summoned. I'll tell Pinkie to get Dash so she can fly around Ponyville and the Everfree Forest to find it." explained Twilight as she started towards the bedroom door to get Pinkie.

"Don't bother!" exclaimed Pinkie as she appeared out of nowhere.

"Pinkie, what do you mean?" asked Twilight, chalking up Pinkie's random appearance to Pinkie just being Pinkie.

"I already got Rainbow Dash here." From out of nowhere Rainbow Dash also appeared, looking very confused.

"How did I just get here?" Rainbow asked Pinkie.

Twilight then explained the situation to Rainbow. Rainbow walked towards the door, after a salute to Twilight, and flew off.

Jeff was gasping for breath, having never taking on this many foes before, but he still managed to kill them all. Jeff laughed as he said, "That is why, you don't mess with Jeff the Killer. Now all of you are asleep." He walked back towards the fire, which had went down considerably during the fight, and added some of the wooden wolves corpses to the pile.

Making sure that he had the fire high enough he took off his clothes and washed them in the stream, taking off all the tree sap that was on them. He then hung his clothes up to dry and went into the stream to take a bath and wash off the tree sap on himself.

After he finished washing himself he went back to the fire, added more of the wolves' bodies to the fire, and put back on his clothes.

He cooked the rest of the fish that the wolves didn't get and ate it all.

He looked up at the sky and noticed it getting darker. 'Hmm' Jeff thought, 'Today's fighting has been enough to stop killing for a few nights. Non-sentient creatures don't prove much of a challenge, but these sure did.' He looked at the area around him, a small river, tree sap stained grass and dirt, a fire going, and the stars in the sky.

'Seems to be a good place to sleep.' Thought Jeff as he slowly dozed off.

Finally the pain that Lyra felt subsided. Lyra let out a sigh of relief and collapsed, mentally exhausted.

Bon Bon and Twilight shared a glance before asking in perfect sync, "What happened?"

Lyra managed a weak voice, "First was the burning, it felt like I was on fire, or that I had burns across my entire body, that faded away when I felt a more pronounced burning in my throat. May I have a glass of water, please?" Bon Bon nodded and gave her a glass of water. Lyra gulped it down greedily, before starting again, "Next if felt like I was being clawed at. Like a cutting sensation when you get scratched by a cat, that sort of thing. During that, though, I felt as if I was being thrown against wood." Lyra sighed again.

It was then a cool sensation washed over her, reinvigorating her. "Now it feels as if I'm taking a cold bath." said Lyra, almost curiously as if not quite believing it. "Maybe the creature is taking a bath? " She glanced at Twilight, who was furiously writing things down in a notepad.

"I'm going to inform the Princess about this." said Twilight.

She walked out of the room and continued on towards the library. Twilight went inside and saw Spike shelving books, standing on a ladder. "Spike, take a letter."

Spike quickly got down, grabbed some ink, a quill, and some paper.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

This is not a friendship report. This is something rather urgent. A unicorn named Lyra tried a summoning spell which is said to be able to summon creatures from other worlds, though they would end up being bonded by what they feel, such as sensations to whether the creature is cold, warm, or in pain. Lyra managed to pull if off, but when she first woke up after the extreme magic use she claimed that there was a burning sensation throughout her body, until a little while later there was a more pronounced burn in her throat. Later she claimed as if she was being clawed at. This make me believe that the creature is somewhere in the Everfree Forest and we would like to explore the forest to see if we can find the creature.

Your Faithful Student

Twilight Sparkle"

She looked at Spike as he finished the letter and sent it to the Princess. Twilight looked outside and noticed it getting dark. "Spike, it's time for bed!" The young dragon grumbled and walked upstairs to his bed. Twilight smiled slightly before looking back outside, wondering what kind of creature Lyra managed to summon, before heading off to bed herself.

Author's Note

A/N Yep two chapters now. Hope you enjoy it! Remember commenting helps! Also a question. How do you think this chapter went? To rushed? Just right? What are your thoughts? Point out any mistakes please!