Isle of She-Beasts

Three days have passed, since Spike and Loona escaped from Cozy Glow.

After the spider bite, Spike was put in a coma. Loona was patched up, with bandages wrapped around her arms, legs, and across her back. But she needed crutches in order to get around. It hurt her to even stand. Still, the wolf-dog tries her best not to let her painful agony show.

Though, once in awhile, Loona came by to check up on Spike.

“Is he okay?” She croaked in a voice that was barely a whisper.

“He’ll be fine,” Starlight answered. “It’s a miracle you brought him to us in time! That spider was a brown recluse spider! They’ve been known to have a poison that can even kill you if left untreated!”

Loona walked up to Spike, gingerly bending down to sniff his unconscious form. The pungent foul stench of the spider’s bite was still ripe, but the air around Spike was cool and refreshing as the sea breeze.

“I think we should clear the area,” Applejack advised. “Let Spike rest.”

“Uh…sure…okay…” Loona limped away on her crutches.

She paused for a moment, turning to look back at the human in bed. It hurts her neck, so she turned her whole body to face Spike.

How could this human have saved her to begin with? Why didn’t he just let her rot in Cozy Glow’s prison? Why did he save her from a spider?

All was quiet until…

“BAAAAHHHH!!!” The cry of a sheep was heard.

“What’s going on?” Rainbow asked.

“Who is it?” Applejack followed.

Eventually, almost everyone gathered in the center of the village to find a distressed Kirin and his adopted mother, Leggy Lamb, who followed close behind him.

“Kirin? Leggy?” Applejack called. “What’s the matter, Sugarcube? Where…where’s Twilight?”

In response, the one-horned little ram bleated frantically, while his mother spoke on his behalf.

“Twilight…taken…snakes…” Leggy Lamb bleated, out of breath. “Me…Kirin…escaped…”

Knowing that something is wrong, everyone all exchanged agreements, before they beckoned for the adult sheep to show them the way.

“Hurry, Leggy. Take us to where Twilight was!” Applejack ordered.

Leggy nodded in understanding, before she looked down at her adopted son.

“Kirin…stay.”

The little lamb, however, was rather disobedient. He wanted to go after his mother, who continuously persisted in urging him to stay put.

From a distance, for Loona, it was almost as if she was seeing a ghost of her younger self in the little lamb.

“You girls go on ahead,” Starlight called. “I’ll stay here and keep an eye on things.”

The other She-Beasts all exchanged agreements, as they left the village, leaving Starlight Glimmer to look after Kirin, with Loona, Spike, and…

“Fleur!” Starlight shouted, running towards the former She-Beast, who was standing atop of Spike’s bed. “Get off the bed!”

Fleur hissed aim response, until Loona loudly barked, scaring the former cat-woman off.

“I never liked cat-people,” Loona muttered, clutching her chest, straining from the stresses to her throat.

“Well, that takes care of her, for now,” Starlight muttered, while holding a fussy Kirin. “So now what are we going to do with you?”

In response, Kirin thrusted his head forward in a headbutt, smashing his head towards Starlight’s face.

Eventually, after a long hike through the jungle, Leggy soon brought the girls back to the place where she last saw Twilight.

“Here we are,” Leggy bleated.

“Who-whee!” Applejack exclaimed, shocked at the sight.

Before their very eyes, the entire area looked like a crime scene of some kind.

“So this is the place where Twi was taken, Leggy?” Applejack asked.

“Baaa!” The sheep reverse-hybrid nodded.

Sunset kneeled down to inspect the ground and noticed some rather large snake tracks, “I think I found something!” She called out and the others came to her.

AJ sniffed the snake trails before cringing in disgust, “Eeyup, I recognize that scent anywhere. It’s definitely Sombra.”

“Sombra…” Bea quietly growled to herself. Her tone was nothing but venom when she uttered it.

“It’s still kinda fresh, so I might be able to follow it.” The wolf-woman said.

“What are we waiting for then?!” Bea suddenly shouted, startling the other beast-women, “Let’s find that bastard!” Before darting off to a random direction.

“Uh, Bea…” Applejack called out.

“WHAT?!!!” The croc-woman snarled, snapping her head towards AJ.

“The scent goes that way.” The wolf-woman said as she pointed her thumb at the opposite direction where Bea was about to head off to.

“Right. Well… Let’s go.” The crocodile reverse-hybrid said, a little embarrassed before heading off to the direction AJ was pointing.

The other beast-women looked at each other with concern. This was probably the first time they’ve seen Bea all angst up like this.

All of a sudden, something punches Bea in the snout which sends her flying. The other She-Beasts turned to see a huge creature coming out of the bushes.

In appearance, it looked like a gray-furred gorilla with a disfigured face only a mother could love.

The gorilla lets out a huge roar and many more show up. Some of them, surprisingly, were wielding makeshift weapons such as spears and tomahawks.

25 Congo Ost Grey Gorilla

The girls got into a fighting stance as the gray gorillas charged at them.

One gorilla pounced at Applejack but the She-Beast managed to kick it away.

Another tried to slash at Sunset with its tomahawk, but the tiger woman managed to catch it midair before slashing at the beast with her free claw. Causing the ape to scream in pain.

Marina finds herself surrounded by a few of the apes. Thinking fast, the octo-woman used her tentacle hair to grab one and whipped it across the others.

One of the gorillas thrusted his spear at Rainbow but the falcon-woman manages to dodge it before grabbing the spear with her talons, yanking it away from the ape, and begins whacking it with its own weapon.

Two gorillas swung their sticks at Rarity, who immediately ducked her head, causing the two gorillas to accidentally wack each other on the heads. The snow leopard quickly stood back up, grabbed the gorillas by the bottom of their lips and pulled them together, smashing their heads into each other.

“Never underestimate a lady by her looks,” Rarity huffed.

Beatrice was snapping her jaws at most of the gorillas to stave them off. One of the grey gorillas was unfortunate enough to get in too close to the crocodile reverse-hybrid.

In a lightning fast speed of blur, Bea lunged forward and grabbed it by the throat, in her jaws. From that position, she fell on her side, rolling into a death roll, taking the grey gorilla with her, and dismembering its neck.

Fluttershy and Leggy stayed out of harm’s ways, as they weren’t exactly fit for combat.

Up in the treetops, Pinkie Pie was hurdling some fruits and some more of her coconut bombs at the gorillas, hitting them on the noses. Then, she grabbed a vine and proceeded to swing down into a flying kick.

“I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!”

“PINKIE!” The girls shouted. “WATCH OUT FOR THAT—“

BANG!

“Ooh!”

“Tree…” Sunset Shimmer cringed.

The girls cringed as they watched Pinkie Pie peeling herself away from the tree, and she fell to the ground with a loud thud.

By the time Pinkie Pie got up and dusted herself off, she found herself surrounded by the grey gorillas, who were closing in for the kill.

“NO!” Sunset Shimmer roared, pouncing atop one of the gorillas, biting and clawing into its shoulders.

The gorilla let out a loud roar as it grabbed the tiger-woman by the head and tossed her off.

Applejack was fending off a gorilla, but two more quickly charged forward and overpowered her. One of them nearly bit her arm off, had Rainbow Dash swooped in to gouge its eyes out, with her talons.

“You okay, AJ?” Rainbow asked.

“Sure am!” Applejack barked, while distressed to see the gorillas’ numbers aren’t dwindling. “But there’s too many of them!”

“…We have to get out of here!” Sunset Shimmer grunted, tossing a gorilla onto its back.

“Where to?” Rainbow asked, pointing to show the path they came from was blocked by more of the gorillas.

The girls found themselves backing up into a huddle, with Fluttershy and Leggy protected in the center.

As the girls were bracing themselves for a fight to the death, a loud screech was heard. The screeching sound of Predator 00 — Ēferno the dragon.

The grey gorillas froze up in their tracks, with the terrified look of wide eyes dread and fearful frown written on their faces. The gorillas and the girls frantically looked in random directions of the jungle, until the gorillas dispersed and disappeared into the jungle foliages.

End of Fight

“Quick girls! Cover your eyes!” Sunset Shimmer advised, remembering her past experience with the Predator. “Ēferno always attacks the eyes before he pounces…”

“That won’t be necessary, young ladies,” Called a familiar voice.

The girls looked up to see the silhouette outline of a huge bat-like creature, who gently glided down from his perch and stood in the daylight before the girls.

“Scorpan!” The girls exclaimed in relief.

“Are you girls alright?” Scorpan asked.

“Sure am, Mr. Scorpan.” AJ replied.

“What were those things?” Sunset asked. “They didn’t look like Blueblood’s goons and they knew how to use makeshift weapons.”

“Those were Grey Gorillas.” Scorpan replied grimly. “Tank grown apes with human DNA in them. They were originally Grogar’s minions before switching to boar-men.”

“Why?” Rarity asked.

“From what I heard, they were too unruly and violent for him to control.” The gargoyle replied. “With that said, mind telling me what you girls are doing out here in the middle of the night.”

Sunset spoke up, “Well… it’s kind of a long story…”

Meanwhile, back in the village

“Finally, some alone time. Now maybe I can get this…thing off of me…”

With a bite and a growl, Loona tugged at the bandages on her arms. It hurt her to even bite, and the bandages were squeezing her bruised arms.

But she was itching in certain parts of her body and she was in need of a good scratch. She needed her bandages off in order to take her dress off, to scratch her itches away.

Loona hates the wretched dress that Cozy Glow forced her to wear. But it was the only piece of clothing she has left to cover up her body, after Cozy Glow had destroying her shorts and tops.

Loona was standing behind the curtain, in the medical hut, when her ears perked to the sound of the curtain being pulled away.

She looked up to acknowledge the presence of the shark, Starlight Glimmer.

“AAAAHHH!!!” She immediately blushed and let out a high-pitched bark of surprise, frantically covering herself.

Her dress wasn’t fully off, and the top of her corset was still covering her chest. But the wolf-dog was still tugging the hem of her skirt to cover her crotch, and was already wrapping an arm over her chest.

“Wh-What are y-y-you doing?” Loona whimpered.

“Sorry, sorry,” Starlight looked away. “I heard a commotion and I was just checking to see what is going on.”

“I’m…scratching…” Loona replied, before she resumed scratching at her bandages. “It itches!”

“Here. Let me help.”

“No! Don’t—Oh!” Loona’s protests immediately dwindled upon Starlight Glimmer’s webbed fingers making contact.

The anthropomorphic wolf dog suddenly found her tail wagging uncontrollably and was panting rapidly, with her tongue hanging out.

“W-W-What are you doing to me?” Loona moaned in a raspy voice.

“Uh…scratching?” Starlight answered, sounding as though Loona had asked a seemingly obvious question.

Nevertheless, Loona was submissive to the shark-woman’s touch.

“Oh…Oh~Right there~” Loona moaned loudly. “Oh~Perfect!”

“Do you always moan like that whenever someone scratches you?” Starlight asked.

“I never let anyone touch me, actually,” Loona replied somberly.

“Well, you’re just going to have to brace yourself, because it’s time to change your bandages.”

Starlight proceeded to untie the cords before she reaches up for the top of the upper part of Loona’s dress, and was about to pull it down, when Loona stopped her.

“NO! DON’T!” Loona barked, immediately holding up her top to keep her chest covered. “Don’t even look!”

“I’m sorry, but it has to come off,” Starlight apologized. “Otherwise, I can’t change your bandages.”

“Why does it matter? You humans ruined me!” Loona sobbed tearfully. “As if abandoning me on the street, or kicking me, or whipping me, and locking me in your cages wasn’t enough, you…you broke my body. You made me into this? For what?”

“Loona, we didn’t do this. It was Dr. Grogar's doing…”

“What difference does it make? I’m like this because of you humans! You’re all the same! You bicker! You squabble! You’re always taking things that don’t belong to you. You pollute this world! And you all kidnapped, tortured, even dressed creatures like me for your own bizarre twisted pleasure!”

Too injured, too hurt, and beyond humiliated, Loona collapsed onto the ground and wept. She wanted for all this pain and misery to be over soon. She wanted so badly to wake up from this nightmare and be back home, where she truly belongs. Feeling safe and sound.

Without warning, Loona felt a pair of wet, smooth, soft, but strong arms wrapping around her head and holding her close.

“Shhh, it’s okay, it’s okay,” Starlight Glimmer softly coaxed. “I…I know you’ve had some bad experiences with other people and…I’m sorry you got mixed up with the wrong crowd. But not all of us humans are bad. Right now, some of us are victims, just like you are…”

“Yes…I know,” Loona whimpered softly.

It was an overwhelming emotional sensation for the wolf-dog Reverse-Hybrid. She couldn’t think straight. Her emotions were all conflicting and clashing together.

She was very much upset and angry towards Starlight for intruding her privacy. But she was also sad and scared of Cozy Glow. On top of it, she felt rather relieved to have finally let all her pent up emotions go.

But all the same, Loona can’t stop worrying at the thought of Spike.

“The human…Spike…is he…okay?”

“He’ll live,” Starlight replied. “But right now, I’m more concerned about you. Will you let me change your bandages?”

Unable to argue, or perhaps too tired to argue back, Loona complied. She pulled her hands away from the top of her dress, allowing Starlight to pull it down, until her torso was fully uncovered. With the fabric down, Loona quickly wrapped her arms across her chest.

“Hey now, we’re all girls here,” Starlight began. “Except for little Kirin. He’s a little lamb, but still…”

Unmoved by the strange shark’s words, Loona continued to sulk.

“But seriously, I think you’ve got a great body! No reason to hide it…”

“What’s so great about it?” Loona muttered. “It’s not my body…it’s a human’s…I’m a dog. I’m a dog in a human body…”

“Oh,” Starlight was heard, in a low voice upon realizing. “When you put it that way, I…sorry…”

Loona continued to sulk in silence and let Starlight finish bandaging her up with new wraps of bandages.

The shark-woman was on her way out, when she stopped to look at Loona.

“Hey, a little piece of advice: Never accept the world as it appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be.”

“…And what's that supposed to mean?” Loona asked.

“You’re smart, for a dog. I’m sure you’ll figure it out,” The shark said, rather coyly, before she left Loona to ponder on her words.

What’s there to see? What could the world be? The world was awful! It had done nothing but damage Loona’s body, her mentality, and her emotions. She owed this world nothing.

“Stupid fish,” Loona scoffed.

She turned to her left, gingerly picking up her crutches, then proceeded to hobble her way out of the hut.

On her way out, she looked to the left, to take another look at a bedridden Spike. The very sight of the human man brought on a sharp pang in Loona’s chest. It was hard for her to see a human, such as him, so vulnerable.

Just like how she was.