A/N: Yay new chapter *cricket noise* In other news i will be renaming HiE all the way to Essence of Equestria and deleting chapter 1.

I originally planned to put part of this chapter behind the last chapter but i think it turned out even better now. A part of this chapter has been written a long time ago and was written when the original chapter 1 was still on paper. Luckily adjusting it wasn't that hard.

Also i would like to thank the following people for their positive reviews:

- taz2723 ( I read his story and its amazing i advise you to read it as well :Out of the Darkness )

- legionbrony ( I know HiE in equestria stories are a bit overdone, but hell its the best way to learn writing fanfiction.)

- Le spy (red or blue spy?)

- Guana (I'm sorry, but you still won't know how they will react to him) :P

- ruff1298 (Harsh criticism, but i knew that chapter was bad.)

- doorcf (you will find out soon enough)

- GaliCat (i had fun writing that, and you will probably like the fact that a new dream will be coming soon)

- imsad (thank you)

- Mew Three2000 (Thanks for reassuring me that not having English as a first language isn't a problem)

I probably should have done this before so i didn't get this massive list, but without any further ado here is the next chapter:

Chapter 4:

Suddenly ponies

It was dark. I could feel that my body was in the least comfortable position since my arrival. I tried moving my limbs, but having them only return pain from all the cramps. As i moved my body a bit more a burning sensation from my back quickly stopped all movement. Then i started to remember my fight with the cockatrice and the manticore also remembering the state in which my body was, before i entered this hollowed out tree.

I moved my hand to the opening and pushed away the branches that were to hide the entrance to my stowaway place. As a lonely beam of light fell down the opening i used this opportunity to look at the position i was put in. I was folded double with my head almost next to my feet.

I moved my free hand outside the gap. I tried moving my hand along the trunk as far as i could, to see if I could find some grip. Just before the length of my arm would run out I found a branch. I gave the branch a small pull to see if it could hold me. As the branch stood firmly and I could not put any strenght behind my pull I decided to try my luck. I tried lifting my body using the branch as a support. It took a few tries but after overexerting that arm and wiggling my legs in ways they have never been wiggled before i was now halfway out of the tree. After taking a short break and contemplating over the fact that I forget how I ever got into the tree in that position, i continued my removal from the tree. I finally succeeded in removing myself from the tree when I felt that I got a cut in one of my fingers. But when I looked at my fingers to find the exact location of the cut I couldn't find any traces of blood. And even though I felt a sharp object cut my finger there were no traces of ths wound except for a bruise at the location where I first felt the pain. After sticking my finger in my mouth to stop the imaginary bleeding (it still felt like the right thing to do), i looked around for any and all clues of civilization.

In the distance between some trees, i could see something what looked like a dirt road. As i stumbled along the trees, making only the necessary amount of movement to prevent any pain from the wound on my back, i found the place where i battled the two mythical monsters. The traces of battle where still visible :There were several uprooted trees, some small bloodspatters but there was also a pertrified manticore. As i remembered my battle, the wound made by the stinger of the manticore began to burn. I decided it would be for the best if i didn't think about it to much and i hastened my pace.

Lady luck was still smiling on me. When i reached the road there was a partially destroyed signpost.

When I wiped off the moss growing on the sign I could see some placenames. But time and the less than ordinary wildlife destroyed most of the sign, the only words i could make out from it were:

" XXXXville 2 mileX."

and from some warning sign slightly underneath it

"XewaXe XX The XXXXXX joke"

"Ooh" i thought "what was miles in km again? And why do I have to be careful of jokes, they can't be that bad! "

I started walking into the direction the arrow pointed thinking about the distance i had to travel. It took me sometime to realize that not only that 1 mile is about 1.6 km but also that i was on some other part of the world where they use miles. When i walked half a mile the density of the forest began to lessen. The roof above my head made out of branches and leaves began to have openings through which beams of light would shine through and hit the ground, illuminating my path.

As I knew I was nearing the edge of the forest I started to lighten up. I could not hold my excitement anymore "I am finally getting out of that depressing forest." I almost cried out and i started running.

There was a branch, it was about 20 inches long. It's brown colour gave it the perfect camouflage for the dirt road. It hasn't been lying there on the dirt road for a very long time, if he had a brain he could still remember that he only fell down two days ago. But the branch was a bit depressed, it is lonely and boring being a branch on the ground. That is until:

*CRACK*

I suddenly felt an unmovable object between my feet.

As i looked down to see the cause of this, the ground was already nearing in a rapid rate. When my face hit the dirt i could hear the branch snap between my legs but the damage has already been done.

"BLEAGH" i said, while spitting out all the dirt i got in my mouth."I haven't eaten in a long time but this is not what i had in mind." muttering shortly afterwards "What I wouldn't give for a good meal ! "

When suddenly i could hear some voices in the distance, they seemed to be coming from a cottage that was built into a hill. As i stood up and moved myself to see past the trees that were obscuring my full view of it, a sharp pain suddenly popped up. The wave of pain began at my back and started moving to other parts of my body. Then all the wounds i have gotten over the past few days began to hurt in a sharp cutting pain. I could feel my legs turning into jelly so i grabbed the nearest tree and held onto to it to stop myself from falling over.

I tried calling out for help to the cottage but my voice was stuck inside my throat. I really started to panic when my vision started to get blurry.

At the nearby cottage the playful voices of three children could be heard. "Cutie mark Fence repairers YAY". Next to the cottage there was a chicken coop, in this coop the chickens were going wild. The cause of this ruckus were three young fillies repairing the fence that surrounded the chicken coop. If you classify their deed as repairing. In reality the fillies were just passing hammers to each other and were breaking pieces of the fence that could use some repairing from their point of view. While the young fillies were busy with the Fence, a chicken with an adventurous personality and responding to the name "Cluck" decided to take advantage of the situation and sneaked itself out of the henhouse.

As the chicken was walking ever closer to the edge of the forest she got seen by the yellow coloured filly. The filly just returned from the cottage to get more nails when she spotted the sneaking chicken. "Scootaloo is running off again" she jested, earning the attention of the other two fillies. "I'm not running away" said the orange colored filly confused "I'm right here !".

The white filly remembering what happened the last time they were at this house decided to look around and saw the chicken running away . "Stop bickering girls one of the chickens is running away!".

With a smirk on her face the yellow coloured filly replied " Isn't that what i just said Sweetie Belle?"

Just as Scootaloo's face turned into a grimace and was about to say something, Sweetie Belle jumped in between them and said "There is no time, remember the last time we chased a chicken into the forest?"

As the two filly's remembered their adventure in the Everfree forest Sweetie Belle continued. "We need to help Fluttershy and catch the chicken before he enters the forest, I will reprimand you later Applebloom."

Before the words "What are you, a dictionary?" left Scootaloo's mouth the other two fillies were already running towards the chicken.

When Cluck was at the edge of the forest, she turned around and saw that the three fillies finally caught on to her escape and were coming her way. She decided she would continue her adventure, but she had to be fast. She was now next to the Everfree Forest and with full speed she jumped through a bush that was blocking her escape route. "Clack the cluck" clucked Cluck when she suddenly bumped into a tall bipedal animal. Her adventure sense tingled, but escape of the fillies was more important right now so she ignored the heavy breathing creature and continued fleeing, running deeper into the forest.

My breathing became heavier with every second i stood there, i started to feel my conscious fading away.

"It can't be long now" i muttered under my breath.

When suddenly a chicken came out from under a bush, me and the chicken got so startled by this encounter that we were frozen in place until voices could be heard nearby. The chicken took these voices as a starting signal and ran off deeper into the forest.

I could still think "That was unexpected" before three brightly coloured fillies one Pegasus, one Unicorn and one normal pony came scampering through the same bush the chicken just appeared from. One shock already made my heart beat out of my chest but two was one to much. I saw darkness entering my eyes and my consciousness just gave up. My hands lost its grip on the tree and i could see myself falling down towards the three brightly coloured spots. In a attempt to not hit them i used my remaining strenght to push myself away from them by kicking the ground.

A/N:

And here i thought i created a plothole by not having done something to the Cockatrice so i would be able to escape, but apparently i knocked it out cold.

Read and Review or i will let Cluck stay in the Everfree Forest forever.