Isle of She-Beasts

For what felt like an eternity, Spike truly felt himself lighter than air, as if he was floating on the clouds, in his sleep. For the first time in his life, Spike truly felt himself at peace.

Almost as if the teenage girl who almost tried to molest him, the phobia he developed against the opposite sex, and all the troubles he experienced on the island of Dr. Grogar were all trivial compared to the entire cosmos of the universe.

It could be that his thoughts have recently been brimming with pleasant memories and fantasies of the girls he had been stuck with, since being shipwrecked on the island. It was all surreal for Spike to realize that he has befriended a group of girls. Even after all the camaraderie they've experienced together, he was still rather afraid of them. He loves them, and is scared of them.

Long story short, the thought of them being his friends were enough to freak him out.

All the same, Spike hardly cared if they were humans, or She-Beasts, or even animals to begin with. He loves them dearly for who they are. His friends. Though he wondered if they could be more. Or if they were already more than friends.

Spike thought back to the times when he, impulsively, kissed Twilight on the mouth, after they succeeded in teaching the Reverse-Hybrids how to speak English, to better communicate. He had kissed Twilight so suddenly, on the mouth, when initially, he meant to go for her cheek.

Afterwards, Spike had been kissing, even receiving kisses, with Rarity, Beatrice Santello, multiple times from Fleur-de-Lis, Leggy Lamb, Fluttershy, Starlight Glimmer, Marina, a deep and intensive kiss from Applejack, a sharp painful kiss from Rainbow Dash, and his latest, Sunset Shimmer.

Which leaves Pinkie Pie and Loona next. It was as if Spike's fate were all decided by the turn of a wheel.

Spike wondered how Pinkie Pie would kiss, while putting Loona as the last girl he would ever kiss with, knowing the wolf-dog's intensive hatred and stubborn attitude. Best not to invoke the wrath of a rapid dog if he wants to save face.

The more Spike thought about it, the more he felt a weird indescribable feeling that wasn't like any sort of emotions he felt before. It was driving him insane at the thought of the girls. He couldn't help but smile, which he originally doesn't often make, especially at the thought of any girls. But he could hardly care how much the feeling hurts, or how crazy he was about the girls. He loves the girls for their charisma, beauty, and unique traits of character.

Spike was sound asleep in his bed, smiling happily while rolling onto his sides, and hugging onto something soft and comforting, which resembles a large body pillow. It had the fluffy and sticky texture of cotton candy, with a mixed aroma of strawberry, cherry, raspberry, even watermelon. Furthermore, it has the rhythmic beating of a melody that is soothing and relaxing, as if it were alive.

Spike's eyes slowly blinked open, to find himself staring into the baby blue eyes of the pink monkey-woman, Pinkie Pie.

"HI!" Pinkie Pie chirped.

“Ah! AH! AAAAHHHH!!!” Spike screamed, startled awake by the unexpected appearance of Pinkie in his hut.

Spike was so surprised, he frantically scrambled out of bed, and collided his head into Pinkie’s.

“OOOOH!!! OOOOWWW!!!” They both grunted in pain.

Spike fell back onto his bed, hissing from the blow on his smarten forehead, while Pinkie Pie was hopping around his bed, hooting and crying from the pain to her head.

“Pinkie Pie? What…What are you doing here?” Spike asked. “And…are you alright?”

“Yeah. I’m fine,” Pinkie Pie replied, rubbing the bruise on her head. “I’ll live! And to answer your first question: I came here because I want to show you something awesome and fun!”

“TA-DA~!” Pinkie Pie hollered, presenting her presentation to Spike.

Spike could hardly believe what he was seeing. Pinkie Pie had made good on her promise of installing zip-lines to her web of vines.

Even more impressive, was that Pinkie Pie had somehow gotten wooden planks to put together rope bridges, with her vines, connecting from one tree to another, branches by branches, and so on.

“Oh my goodness!” Spike shouted. “Is this all for real? You just…you…how long did it—“

“Just one night,” Pinkie Pie answered, anticipating his question.

“One night?!” Spike was further incredulous as he is skeptical. “But how?!”

“Spit! Grit! Elbow grease! And a whole lot of wooden planks from Shipwreck 731!”

Confused, as if not fully understand the whole meaning of the answer, Spike decided best not to probe any further.

However, the last part of Pinkie’s answer at the end did piqued Spike’s interest.

“Shipwreck 731?” He asked.

“Yeah! It’s that old shipwreck, where Bea and Loona like to hangout to smoke and stuff. And also where I got the wooden boards from the ship’s deck to build my bridges! It had a number written on the nose that reads 731, so I named it, Shipwreck 731!”

“Oh yeah,” Spike remembered. ‘I haven’t thought about that old ship in awhile,’ He thought. ‘But now that Pinkie said it out loud, there’s something oddly familiar about 731. But what?’

Suddenly, the sounds of chittering, chattering, and leaves rattling were heard. Among the ambience sounds of the jungle are the distinctive sounds of wooden wind chimes. The alarm has been sounded. Something has entered their territory.

“What the hell is that?”

Spike and Pinkie Pie turned to look in the direction the noise came from. Pinkie Pie pulls down a pair of binoculars hanging at the end of a vine, above her. The way she was holding the binoculars, with the vine attached, made her looked almost like she was looking through a periscope on a submarine.

“I spy with my little eyes,” Pinkie Pie observed. “Devil monkeys. Devil monkeys?!” Pinkie Pie looked through her binoculars again to realize her horrors were indeed true.

“WE’RE UNDER ATTACK! Quick, Spike! Sound the alarm!”

“What alarm?” Spike asked.

“Come in TOKYO!” Pinkie Pie grabbed ahold of Spike’s nipples, through his shirt, and gave them a hard twist.

The pain was so agonizing as it is shameful to Spike’s masculinity, that he let out a loud shrieking scream.

”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—OW!”

Once Pinkie Pie released him, Spike turned to look at her in outrage, “WHAT WAS THAT FOR?”

“You’re the alarm! Duh!” Pinkie Pie chuckled. “And now, WE GET TO THE BATTLE STATIONS!!!”

With that, Pinkie Pie picked up Spike and proceeded to zip down on a zip-line, screaming all the way.

“WHEEEEEEEEE!!!” Pinkie Pie cheered.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!” Spike screamed, louder than a fire truck’s siren.

Back in the village, the girls and little Kirin were all awaken by the sound of Spike’s screaming. They all emerged from their huts to see what the commotion was all about.

“What in tarnation is goin’ on out ‘ere?” Applejack asked. “I jus’ heard Spike screaming! Is he alright?”

“Maybe the human was just scared of his own shadow and is running scared in the forest,” Loona guessed.

“Highly doubt it,” Sunset shook her head. “Spike may be scared, but not that scared.”

“Yeah. And is it just me? Or do I hear a police siren?” Fluttershy asked.

At that moment, Pinkie Pie was zipping overhead, carrying a screaming Spike.

“The devil monkeys are coming! The devil monkeys are coming!”

At the mention of the devil monkeys, with the distant sounds of wind chimes ringing, thus validating Pinkie’s words. With that, everyone sprang into action to defend their home.

Leggy took Kirin to a nearby hut to hide, with Rainbow Dash leading Fluttershy into the same hut.

“You gals and kid stay here,” Rainbow Dash advised. “We’ll handle the rest.”

Rainbow Dash soon turned and flapped her wings, flying off into action.

“Man the catapult!” Applejack barked.

“Everyone! Get to your stations!” Twilight ordered.

“Uh, excuse me?” Starlight asked, confused by the situation. “What is going on?”

“The devil monkeys are coming!” Twilight explained to the shark-woman. “They’re savage monkeys that are engineered by Grogar to be deadly killing machines. And unless we can drive them off, they’ll ransack the entire village and steal everything we’ve worked hard to collect and saved!”

“So then…what can I do to help?” Starlight asked.

But everyone were too busy and too focused on the upcoming danger at hand to answer. Starlight simply turned her head to the left, then to the right, vice versa, and so on.

That is until she felt a hand on her webbed fingers, to which she turned to see Bea taking her to the side.

Before long, the entire village’s gates were closed, preventing any of the invaders, on the ground, from getting inside. Meaning the only way in would be over the walls, that are heavily guarded, thanks to the girls’ preparations.

With Pinkie Pie’s tangled web of sticky vines — some covered in barns and sharp thorns — hardly any monkeys would be able to get in.

Up in the trees, Spike and Pinkie Pie watched, until the both of them could see the front of the charging troops.

They were just as ghastly as Spike remembered from the last attack. Gigantic baboons, with long canine snouts. They come equipped with long tails and kangaroo-like back legs, allowing them to jump insane distances.

Spike and Pinkie Pie watched as the devil monkeys charge towards the village, like a flood pouring through the woods, on a stormy downpour.

Thankfully, as expected, many of the devil monkeys literally fell victim to the pitfall traps that were set around the village.

Others were even caught in the snare traps, while the even not so fortune bunch were gruesomely killed on the spots, after becoming the victims of the spear-spring traps.

And yet, despite all the traps set in place to hinder their progress, the monkeys could hardly care less. They kept on charging towards the village.

“FIRE THE CATAPULTS!!!” Applejack howled, as she, Rarity, and Sunset Shimmer cranked on the levers, firing their ammunitions at the attacking monkeys.

Many of the monkeys scattered and flee from the flying barrages.

“It’s working!” Sunset Shimmer shouted. “They’re retreating!”

“Don’t count her chickens, just yet, Sugarcube,” Applejack cautioned the tiger-woman. “They’re still plenty more of them, in the trees!”

Spike and Pinkie Pie looked up to see several more devil monkeys climbing up the trees, leaping from one branch to another, like trapeze acrobatic.

“Here they come!” Spike shouted.

“And here I’ll give!” Pinkie Pie reached into her apron, pulling out a large coconut with a lit fuse.

Spike looked with wide eyes, “Is that a bomb?” He asked.

“Coconut bomb!” Pinkie Pie smiled proudly, before she chucked it at the devil monkeys.

KA-BOOM!!!

The monkeys were blasted off the branches, by the explosion. Before they could recover and recollect themselves, Pinkie Pie was already chucking her second and third coconut bombs, scaring away the monkeys.

KA-BOOM!!! KA-BOOM!!!

“BRING ME AMMOS!” Pinkie Pie demanded in a heavy gruff tone. “It’s the watermelon, Spikey-Wikey!” She pointed with a giggle.

“Uh…okay?” Spike picked up the watermelon and gave it to Pinkie Pie, who started eating, “But I don’t think now’s a good time to…eat?”

Spike was taken by surprise when Pinkie Pie started shooting out watermelon seeds, as if they were bullets, faster than a machine gun.

Spike watched in awe as Pinkie Pie continued to pelt the monkeys with her watermelon seed bullets, until she run out.

“Uh oh! I’m out of ammos!” Pinkie Pie screeched.

At that moment, the loud screech of another primate was heard. Only it sounded almost like a man, then a monkey.

“Aaaaah-ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaah-ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaahhhh!!!”

This made Spike, the girls, and the monkeys to look up, and see a lone humanoid figure, standing atop of a tree branch, basking in the sunlight, striking a pose, as if he were a superhero.

The humanoid then grabbed a vine and proceeded to swing down, into the fray, without a care in the world. Which was quite unfortunate for the creature, had he paid more attention to his coordination and surrounding area.

Spike and the rest of the girls screamed and pointed, "WATCH OUT FOR THAT–"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" The humanoid screamed in terror, as he crashes into the tree, with a loud–

BAM! BOOM!

“Oooh...” Spike and the girls cringed.

The monkey-man slides down the thick bark, until he landed on a branch, between his legs.

"OOOOOOH!!!" Some nearby chimpanzees howled, emphasizing on the pain.

The monkey-man keeled over to the side and plopped down onto the forest floor, as if he were a doll. Nevertheless, the monkey-man soon got up, brushing off the leaves and twigs, revealing himself in the light of day.

In appearance, he light brilliant arctic blue eyes, with a mane of light amber blond hair that framed his face, and a coat of white fur that coated his entire body, except his face, hands, and feet.

“YOU?!!!” Rarity screamed in outrage, upon recognizing the monkey-man, which caught the attention of Spike and the other girls.

“Him?” Pinkie Pie asked, sharing Rarity’s shocking outrage.

Sunset Shimmer and Applejack walked up to the monkey-man, sniffing him up and down.

“HIM!” Sunset and Applejack confirmed Rarity’s ire.

“You!” Rarity hissed at the monkey-man.

“Ah who?” The monkey-man hooted.

“Uh, Rarity?” Spike asked the snow leopard-woman. “You know this guy?”

“Unfortunately,” Rarity scowled. “Spikey-Wikey! Meet Vladímir Blueblood. My ex-boyfriend.”

“And a traitor,” Applejack growled, baring her fangs. “He ratted us out to Dr. Grogar.”

“Just to try and save his skin, which backfired and made him into a literal butt monkey,” Sunset added.

“What?” Spike was more than confused, as he turned to look at the monkey-man, then turned back to the girls. “I thought you said Newt Chimera was the one who ratted you girls out.”

“We’ll talk later, Spike!” Applejack replied. “Right now, we gotta get rid of these varmints!”

Planet Freedom — Boss Theme OST

And so the battle resumes, to drive out the fiendish primates.

Sunset Shimmer was roaring loudly as she viciously slashed her claws and bites at some of the devil monkeys. Blood spilled from the unfortunate monkeys that were caught in her way, while the rest flee in terror of the tiger-woman.

Up in the trees, Pinkie Pie was swinging along the vines, tossing her coconut bombs to scatter the monkeys and hurled bolas to entangle some more that weren’t blasted away by the explosions.

“Dashie! HEADS UP!” Pinkie Pie squealed, throwing one of the monkeys to the falcon-woman.

“Got ’em!” Rainbow Dash replied, spinning her body to land a quick and sharp spinning kick, knocking the monkey to the forest floor.

The winded out devil monkey finds itself in one of Applejack’s catapult, which the wolf-woman didn’t hesitantly to fire.

“FIRE!!!” Applejack howled, as she fired the monkey back to its troops, knocking them all down, as if they were bowling pins.

Spike was up on the rope bridges, with Pinkie Pie, when he suddenly tripped and fell to the forest floor, screaming.

“WHOAAAAAAA!!!”

“SPIKE!” The girls shouted.

Thankfully, one of Spike’s legs was caught by a vine, tangled around his ankle. Spike soon finds himself face-to-face to the monkey-man turncoat, Blueblood.

Blueblood, for some odd random reason, proceeded to slap Spike across the face. In retaliation, Spike returned the slap, slapping across Blueblood’s face. Very soon, both man and monkey-man were exchanging blows with each other. Until Rarity stepped in.

“Under normal circumstances,” Rarity began. “A lady should act proper and not resort to violence, but she will gladly finish a fight!”

Rarity leapt into the fray and glared at Blueblood.

“I’ve been waiting to do this to you for a long time!” Rarity growled, much to the monkey-man’s horror.

“Oh, he’s gonna get it,” Applejack smirked, with Rainbow joining.

“Get it good, you mean,” Rainbow Dash smirked, while Spike watches.

With a loud roar, Rarity pounced onto Blueblood and proceeded to give him a piece of her mind.

Spike watched in awe and horror as Rarity viciously scratched her claws at Blueblood’s face. The monkey-man let out a loud screech from the brutal agonizing pain.

“She used fury swipes attack!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Emphasis on fury!” Spike added.

“Yup!” Applejack commented.

Next, Rarity twirled her whole body and landed and powerful spinning hook kick to Blueblood’s skull, sending him flying into the vines, which resulted in the monkey-man getting tangled up.

“Whoa, that’s one nasty hook kick!” Spike exclaimed.

“I taught her that!” Applejack added.

“Maybe a little too well…” Rainbow grimaced.

Blueblood was hooting and hollering in pain, while hanging from the vines, as if he were a piñata, tangled in an embarrassing position that leaves his buttocks exposed. But Rarity could hardly care less.

The angry snow leopard proceeded to kick the monkey-man, between his legs, repeatedly.

Spike couldn’t help but wince, cringe, while almost feeling sorry for the monkey-man, if he wasn’t acknowledged of his betrayal.

"Ooh! Ouch! Yikes! That’s gotta-Yikes! I know he ain’t having any babies after—Ooh! Right in the batteries…”

Eventually, Rarity was done blowing off her dreams. In the meantime, Blueblood was taken away, by some of his devil monkeys, while the entire army continued to attack.

Spike joined the fray, using his camera’s bright flashes to stun the monkeys in their tracks, allowing the girls of finish them off, much quicker.

Unfortunately, the girls and Spike were starting to get exhausted from the ongoing battle, while the devil monkeys kept on coming.

“There’s too many of them!” Spike shouted.

“And we’re running out of ammunition!” Applejack barked, before she proceeded to crack her knuckles. “Guess we’ll do this the old fashion way!”

“Good!” Sunset Shimmer panted heavily. “You take over…I’m…catching my breath…”

“Sunset, LOOK OUT!!!” Twilight shouted, but it was too late.

One of the devil monkeys had lunged at the tiger-woman with a spear. With a loud bloodcurdling screech, the evil monkey thrusted a spear at Sunset Shimmer, nearly stabbing her heart.

In retaliation, Applejack took the monkey’s spear and snapped it in half, with her legs. Then, she loudly barked at the monkey, snapping her jaws, threatening to bite at the frightened primate.

But then, more devil monkeys jumped in to take over the fight for their frightened comrade. Their increasing numbers grew so that it was overwhelming Applejack.

Thankfully, she was rescued by the arrival of Spike, who flashed his camera to repel the swarming monkeys.

Assisting Spike, in rescuing Applejack, were Rainbow Dash, Sunset Shimmer, and Rarity.

“Everyone! Get back in the village!” Twilight neighed, beckoning everyone to come in.

“Get her inside!” Spike shouted, beckoning the other three She-Beasts to take Applejack out of the battle. “Go, go, go!”

Without wasting a second to think, Spike turned and started flashing his camera at the attacking devil monkeys. Many of them were stunned and frightened by the sudden flash of light that disoriented them. They staggered, crashing into trees, tripping over logs, some of the snares, and bumping into each other.

But so much more kept on coming. Still, Spike refused to leave, and kept on standing his ground, to buy the girls more time to recover, or to escape.

But he didn’t have to for long, when a loud sharp sound exploded in the air. It made his ears ringing, but it was enough to scare away all of the monkeys into scattering.

With his ears still ringing, and his aching head rattling, as if it were a bell, Spike covered his ears and looked up. His eyes widened in amazement to what he had seen.

Almost as if he was watching an action-packed movie, Loona came running out from the front gate of the village, with a machine gun in her hands. Most likely from the abandoned cargo of the old shipwreck she and Bea used as a hangout.

Following Loona are Beatrice Santello, Marina, and surprisingly, Starlight Glimmer. Each of them were armed to the teeth and nails with guns, harpoons, machetes, and all kinds of weapons that were found in the shipwreck.

While Loona was rapidly gunning down every devil monkeys in sight, Beatrice leapt into the fray, snapping her jaws at the monkeys, whipping her tail out, hitting several monkeys and making a gruesome bone snapping sound.

Some of the monkeys jumped and bit at Beatrice on the back. But the crocodilian reverse-hybrid immediately follows through into a roll, throwing the monkeys off her back, while crushing a few of the unfortunate ones beneath her weight.

Spike was in awe, for this is what animal experts have referred to as the death roll.

Amidst the battle, Marina was using her tentacles to ensnare some of the monkeys, before she shot them through the heads, and hurled some grenades, all of which exploded upon impact.

Lastly, Starlight Glimmer was firing several harpoons at the devil monkeys, hitting them either on the chests, or at their legs. Once hooked, Starlight pulled the monkeys towards her waiting jaws and snapped their heads off.

“Ugh! Hairball!” Starlight spatted in disgust.

“Wow! Who called in the calvary?” Pinkie Pie asked Spike, who simply shrugged in response.

It didn’t take long for the newfound firepowers to scare off the devil monkeys to retreat, back into the gloom of the jungle.

End of Fight

The girls and Spike all let out a cheer at their victory, against the monkeys. Including Blueblood.

“And stay out!” Loona barked.

“Yeah! What she said!” Spike pointed, when suddenly, both he and Loona were unexpectedly grabbed by Pinkie Pie.

"Wa-hooo!" Pinkie Pie hooted and hollered, spinning the two around. “We did it! WE DID IIIIITTT!!!”

With that, Pinkie Pie proceeds to kiss both Spike and Loona on the lips.

“BLECH!” Loona cringed in disgust, pushing Pinkie away to run off, working up a drool.

“Hmmm!” Spike smacked his lips together. “Do I taste…Chocolate?”

“Yup yup yup!” Pinkie Pie smiled. “Even on an island, miles and miles away from civilization, with your best friends, there’s never a shortage of chocolate milk to go around!”

“Hmmm. And where’d you get the milk, pray tell?”

“Oh! I milk them from the local cows! And then I mix them with all kinds of ingredients, like cocoa powders from the cocoa beans that grow on this island! And voila! Chocolate milk!”

“There’s cocoa beans on this island?” Spike asked.

“Yeah! But don’t let Loona have some. She’s allergic to chocolates.”

“Actually, chocolate is poisonous to dogs.”

“Oh sure. Now you tell me. Harumph!” Pinkie Pie then wrapped an arm around Spike, pulling him close, smothering his cheek next o her bouncing breasts, and shouts, “ATTENTION BOYS AND GIRLS! Tonight, WE CELEBRATE! CHOCOLATE MILKS ON ME!!!”

Little did Spike or any of the girls know, their battle against the devil monkeys was observed by Shade Stalker. The hunter watched through a pair of binoculars, while hidden behind the leaves of the shrubs he hid himself in. Needless to say, Shade was intrigued at seeing the young man, along with the She-Beasts, having integrated themselves in a small community of Reverse-Hybrids.

Though their tactical and strategic coordination needed some work, they have shown the capability of functioning together as a whole group. Like a pack of wolves coordinating together to hunt their preys. Like a family.

This was all too overwhelming for the hunter to comprehend. It was an overwhelming sight to behold. A beautiful family between human and animals. A family born of love. Something Shade has always wanted for himself and his brother.

He looked down and sees the cartoon beaver character, gently putting a hand on his arm.

"I-I-I-It's not too l-l-late Shade." Buster told him. "I-I-I-It's not too late to do the r-r-r-right thing. For both you and your brother..."

Shade said nothing and just continued to look on.

Later that day, everyone were all gathered together in the mess hut to enjoy their well-earned victory against the devil monkeys.

Like animals, the girls were still making a mess at the dinner table. For the carnivores, they tore away at the roasted meat of a wild pig. The herbivores were loudly munching into their salads, as if they were pigs.

Spike still ate his meal like a civilized person, with Marina following his example.

During the meal, Spike decided to strike up conversations, “So…about Blueblood.”

“We don’t talk about Blueblood! No, no~” Pinkie Pie sang. “But seriously,” She began in a solemn tone. “We don’t talk about him.”

“Actually, Pinkie,” Rarity began. “After today, I believe he has the right to know.”

Noting the change of mood in the atmosphere, when the rest of the She-Beasts suddenly went from their jovial celebration to silent as death. Spike was certain that this was not a pleasant story and wondering if he would soon regret asking.

“Ugh! Where do I even begin with that uncouth swine?! THE NERVE HE HAS!!!” Rarity roared loudly. “On first glance, he seemed like a gallant and handsome man, befitting of a gentleman, or a prince. Instead, HE WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A ROYAL PAIN!!!”

Rarity was practically pulling her hair out, as she let out a loud screech, sounding almost human, but with a leopard’s growl.

“He treated me more like a servant, a maid, even a slave!” Rarity continued to rant. “He’s all about taking, but never giving. He expected me to open the door for him, or pay our meals! And if that wasn’t bad enough…HE! TRIED! TO! RAT! ME! OUT! TO! DR. GROGAR!!!”

Needless to say, Rarity’s outburst had blown everyone out of their seats. Spike’s ears were ringing, while his eyes were wide open from the shock, as though they had been frozen in shock.

“See. This is why we don’t talk about Blueblood,” Pinkie Pie explained to Spike.

“Yeah…I’m sorry I asked,” Spike apologized. “I mean…to have this guy betray you girls to Dr. Grogar, I can’t even begin…”

“No need to apologize, Spike,” Twilight reassured. “You didn’t know.

“But we can tell you this,” Rainbow Dash smirked, “That the joke was on him! Even Grogar was disgusted by his betrayal, that he made a monkey out of him!”

“Ya darn right, Dash,” Applejack smiled, which turned into a scowl. “Dr. Grogar made Blueblood the first of us to experience his genetic experiments.”

“And made Blueblood into…a butt monkey! Literally!” Pinkie Pie giggled, with some of the others joining in.

“I guess even derange mad scientists have standards,” Spike commented, as he laughed along with the group.

“Well, hopefully that will be the last time we ever saw of Blueblood,” Rarity huffed.

In the meantime, up in the trees, Blueblood was screeching and howling nonstop at the agonizing pain of his humiliating defeat.

His devil monkeys could hardly get any rests to recuperate from the injuries they sustained from the battle, or cope with the many losses of their own.

It was going to be a long night for the whole troop.

Suddenly, there was a rustling in the tree leaves, which caused every monkeys to instantly perk up in alarm.

Emerging from the tree leaves, under the cloak of darkness, the silhouette of a large hulking creature revealed itself.

It was flanked by even more monkeys, that are much bigger, bulkier, and fiendish than Blueblood’s monkeys.

The large creature crawled along the tree branch, until it towered over Blueblood. Blueblood immediately shuts up, when he gazed up into the soulless icy cold blue eyes that stared into his very being.

Later that night, with nothing but the sound of the crashing ocean, the damp and humid air, with rusty smell of the shipwreck.

The sound of a clicking metals echoed around the shipwreck, as Loona struggled with her lighter. Once again, she was trying to light up her stick of cigarette, but to no avail.

“Argh! Why doesn’t this thing work when I want it to?!” Loona growled, angrily banging the lighter against some crates.

The rattling sound of the old, beaten wooden crate rattled all around the hull of the ship. But just as the rattles died down, her ears perked up to a new sound. The sound of footsteps, with a single boot. Loona turned her head to the entryway, baring her fangs, and arched her back, ready to attack.

"Loona?" The familiar call of the human man was heard, to which Loona calmed down, only a little, because she still felt rather intolerant of the human's presence.

"Loona? Are you in here?" The human called out to her.

"What do you want?" Loona scowled. "Don't you know this is where I'd like to be alone?"

"I know and I meant no disrespect, or anything," The human said in his defense. "I just came here to say thank you. What you did for us today was incredible! Really amazing!"

"Hmph, you're welcome," Loona muttered.

This wasn't the first time she's been praised for something that is as trivial as fighting some monkeys, so Loona hardly cared.

"I don't care what anyone says. You're an okay kind of dog to me," The human shook his head. "No. You're a really good dog! I should say!"

'Good dog?' Loona instantly perked up.

In all her years, never once had she been referred to as a good dog. She had seen many other humans say and address their dogs as good dogs, but hardly anyone ever referred to her as such, until now.

"Me? A good dog?" Loona whispered to herself, smiling, just a little, when she felt a weird sensation.

Loona looked down to see her tail wagging. Why was her tail wagging? It was embarrassing to her. She wanted it to stop.

'No! No, no! Stop!' Loona desperately pleaded, sitting down on her tail, to try and keep it from shaking.

"Anyway, I'll head back to the village," The human turned to take his leave. "Goodnight, Loona!"

"Y-Y-Yeah...goodnight...human," Loona grumbled.

The dog reached for her lighter, trying to get it to light up again, which finally worked. The wolf-dog was just about to light up her cigarette again, when she suddenly heard a sound. A sound that made her whole body frozen in place.

”Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Has my little dog gone?”

“Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Can she be?”

It was the sound of a little girl singing. She sang in an eerie cheerful tone that was malicious and made the hair on the back of Loona’s neck to stand.

She sounded like she was singing in the distance, in the jungle. But to Loona, she sounded close, as if she was approaching.

“Oh no…” Loona whimpered in fright. “Not her!”

"What was that?" The human asked, having heard the singing.

"SHHH!!!" Loona shushed, jumping at the human man, covering his mouth with one of her hands. "Keep your voice down and be quiet!"

Very slowly, the human and Loona crawled along the ship’s deck and hid themselves behind some crates. The place reeked of the salty sea air, the smell of rotting fishes, rusty metal, and foul stench of gunpowder from the old guns. It was very horrible to the nose. So horrible that it almost made Loona and the human vomit.

“PU!” The human groaned. “This place stinks! Like something just crawled in here and died!”

“Good!” Loona cringed. “If you don’t like the smell, then neither does she!”

“She? Who are we talking about?”

“SHHH!! Quiet!”

At that moment, the singing can be heard again. Except this time, it was even louder and it was coming from the beach.

”Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Has my little dog gone?”

“Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Can she be?”

“Please no!” Loona whimpered, begging and pleading for her, and the human, to not be found.

Loona felt herself growing smaller, as if she was becoming a puppy. She felt so vulnerable, and so terrified that she could hardly stand up on her own legs.

It was one of those moments when she desperately pleaded for her mother’s comfort. For something, or someone, to save her. To wake her from this nightmare.

The nightmare inducing singing can be heard again. This time, it was coming from the opening, and was heard inside the ship’s hull, right next to Loona.

”Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Has my little dog gone?”

“Oh where...

...Oh where...

...Can she be?”

Loona was so anxious from all the pent up fear, that she couldn’t think straight. She could hardly take it anymore. She had to escape.

Compelled by instinct, Loona made a frantic dash for the exit, leaving the human behind. This proves to be her undoing, as she was suddenly grabbed by several pairs of strong and powerful hands.

“My beautiful doggy!” The cry of a child squealed, which Loona cringed in horror. “I’VE FOUND YOU!!!”

Loona turned and looked, to see the most horrible creature to have ever walked the Earth.

The creature appeared to be a mix of a bird and a pony, with the front-half of a large pink fluffy bird, that resembles an owl. Her lower-half appeared to simply be a little white horse’s hindquarters, with light blue tail.

The creature was also surrounded by tall, brutish ape-like creatures that stood upright, like a man.

“Oh golly! Looney!” The little creature squealed happily. “You had mama Cozy Glow worried sick! You remember your mama, don’t you? DON’T YOU?”

“Cozy Glow…” Loona whimpered. “H-How can I f-f-forget?”

Cozy Glow exclaimed happily. “My beautiful Looney! You remembered! You’ve been a naughty girl for running away from mommy! You need to be punished!”

“No, no! Please no!” Loona begged, with her voice cracking up so high, she heard herself sounding like a scared cat. “I can be a good girl! Please! Don’t punish me!”

But Loona’s words fell on deaf ears as she was immediately dragged away, by the ape-man, barking and screaming for her life.

To keep her from calling out for help, Cozy Glow had the ape-man clamped some kind of harness over Loona’s mouth. Furthermore, both her hands and legs were tied together with thick ropes of vines, and another was tied to her collar, forcing her to come along.

“LEAVE HER ALONE!” Another voice shouted.

Everyone around Loona stopped in their tracks. They all turned to the source of the voice, revealing himself to be none other than the human.

The human man was holding one of the old rustic guns at the ape-man, trying to look tough. But his quivering legs and chatting teeth were all the obvious signs of him being afraid.

“Let her go!” The human barked. “Let her go now, or…I’ll shoot!”

But Cozy Glow was unfazed, “Oh golly! A man! A new playmate!” She cooed, as she flapped her wings and flew up to the human. “It’s been so long since I’ve last seen a man, who isn’t Grogar! SEIZE HIM!”

With that, the ape-men were all swarming the human, who screamed and struggled to shoot at the ape-men. In the meantime, Loona resumed struggling to break free from her bondages, until her whole world suddenly went black.