"Uhh... What hit me?" I mumbled as started to get up. I rubbed my metal hoof against my messy mane. "What's for breakfast?"

"Jason what in the hay just happened to you?" I heard Applejack ask.

"What do you mean?" I let out a yawn.

"Dude you were just on fire, then you screamed and passed out." Rainbow Dash said.

"Huh?" I opened my eye's to see five ponies staring at me. "Oh yeah don't worry about it."

"Don't worry about it, you were just on fire! Not worrying is something we shouldn't be doing!" Twilight yelled.

"Oh, well you see that fire was just a soul absorption, I was taking the raw force of a soul and channeling it into one part of my body. Me passing out was just me finishing the conversion."

They all looked at me, dumb founded.

"Oh right, you probably don't know about this, I remember when I first learned about it... Wait a minute, I can remember!"

"Remember what exactly?" Rarity asked.

"Well not everything, but I remember some of my teachings. Like what exactly that dragon is."

"And what exactly was that thing?" Applejack asked.

"It's an undead dragon that was brought back with Necromancy."

"What's Necromancy?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Necromancy is a magic that brings something previously dead back to life." Twilight answered.

At the mention of "dead" Rarity realized she was standing in the remains of a dead dragon. She let loose a loud scream before she passed out and fell backwards onto a couch.

"Umm... Exactly Twilight! Normal Necromancy brings the dead back, but they are normally just there to do simple tasks. So they shouldn't be as reliable as this dragon was. No, what made this particular act of Necromancy exceptionally amazing, was a soul was used to give the dragon intelligence."

"Wait, so your saying that thing had a living soul." Applejack said.

"More importantly, it was my soul."

"What!?" The group said in unison, except for Pinkie. Who seemed uninterested by the conversation.

"Yup, hey, wait a minute, where did the Princess go?" I asked.

"Something urgent came up and she had to leave while you were passed out, now what do you mean, your soul?" Twilight said.

"Oh umm... Well, the green light that was in its eye's, was a portion of my soul."

Silence

Applejack broke the silence. "So that thing was alive thanks to your soul? How did it get your soul in the first place?"

"Well you know how I lost my memory."

"Yes." They said in unison.

"Well it wasn't really lost as it was, stolen."

Silence once again.

"Hmm... Maybe I should explain this a little better. Hmm... I got it, think of my soul as an unfinished puzzle. You can still make out the image, but without the rest of the pieces it isn't fully put together. Well my personality is the unfinished puzzle, while the missing pieces of the puzzle are my memories. They don't define the soul but they do make up a part of it. So what happened was, whoever sent this after me." I motioned to the lifeless skull. "Also used some sort of magic to break my memories from soul. These parts of my soul took on a physical form, and whoever stole them put them in these dummies, probably hoping to use my soul up in the process." I looked around at the ponies that were in front of me, most were confused, except for Twilight. Who was levitating a notepad and a quill in front of her, she had taken notes on my lecture.

"So any questions?" I asked.

"Nope I'm content." Twilight responded, putting her quill and notepad away.

"Well we're not." Rainbow Dash interjected.

"Hmm... How about this. The green light that was in the dragon's skull was my stolen memory, and me putting my hoof in it retrieved a part of memories."

"Oh, why didn't you just say that to begin with." Rainbow Dash said.

I rolled my eye's "Well it looks like it is getting pretty late, shouldn't we head back."

"Hey don't y'all leave without cleaning up your mess." Applejack motioned towards the dragon.

Hmm... Oh I have an idea.

"Humrra Volvape!" I yelled.

Two images appeared at the ground around the dragon. One was a symbol of a rock, the other was an arrow that pointed away from the rock. I let the thought go through my mind, and the ground began to shake. A crack formed underneath the dragon. The crack grew until it had surrounded the dragon. With a final shake of the ground, the dragon fell down into the newly formed abyss.

"Humrra Claudmino!"

Where there had been an arrow pointing away from the rock, there was now an arrow pointing towards it. The ground once again began to shake. The crack that had appeared was getting smaller. With a loud *crack* the ground had sealed back up.

"There we go, out of sight, out of mind." I said, breathing heavily.

The group looked at me with open mouths, except Pinkie who appeared to find something else to stare at.

Applejack shook her head and yelled "Why did you do that, now it's still here and covered by piles of dirt!"

"It's because all things deserve a proper burial, even something like this. Also the bones will bring nutrients to the your soil, so it should help with your crops."

Applejack stormed off back to her barn. Apparently she wasn't too happy with my response.

I turned towards the three ponies "So whose going to carry Rarity back?"

***

The responsibility of carrying Rarity was left to me. Great, not like I was exhausted from fighting a dragon! I couldn't even use magic to carry her I was exhausted. It had taken us awhile but we had reached a small stream that was on the edge of Ponyville. Rarity had dragged me down, so I was constantly trying to catch up with the group of silent mares. Were they still angry at me?

"Can one of you carry her?"

*sigh* "I guess I'll take her home." Twilight said, as she flashed her horn. The weight was lifted. "I'll see you all later." She exclaimed as she walked away with a floating Rarity.

"Yeah I better go too, see you later Pinkie, see you new pony." Rainbow Dash said, as she flew off into the night.

I waved my hoof at the the pegasus "I guess that just leaves you and..." I cut my sentence short as my eye's came into contact with Pinkie's.

They were on the brink of tears.

I walked closer to Pinkie "Pinkie is there..." Pinkie brought her hoof across my face with a loud *slap*

I looked into her eye's. They were filled with tears.

"Pinkie?"

At the mention of her name she turned away.

"Pinkie what's wrong?"

She made eye contact again, she was still crying. "How can you be so reckless? When you stuck your hoof in that dragon's eye, and then you caught on fire. I was really worried that I had lost my friend. That I would never see you again." Her face was pointed towards the ground. Tears flowed down from her face.

"Pinkie, please don't cry." Tears were forming in my eye's. "I'm sorry for making you worry, but nothing bad happened. In fact everything seems to be better. Now please cheer up."

No response from Pinkie

What could I do? An idea struck me. I wrapped my hoof around her and brought her into a hug. Her tears ran hot against my chest. "Pinkie I promise that I will not do anything that reckless again." I whispered into her ear.

Silence

"Okay but you've got to Pinkie promise." Pinkie said a hint of happiness in her voice.

I chuckled "Sure Pinkie, what ever it takes."

We held that embrace for a few minutes. Until I felt a pain in my tail.

"Gah" I jumped back from Pinkie.

"Jason be careful or you'll hurt him."

Him? I looked at my tail. Clenched down to it was a crocodile.

"Hurt him he's the one hurting me!"

Author's Note

Well back on the publishing train. And before anyone ask, No it is not Gummy. Gummy is an alligator. Also if you felt that Celestia's departure was short I'll explain it more in the next chapter.