"So, Angelus; care to explain who or what this thing that took my daughter is?" Spike asked, walking with the dark-skinned angel along the corridor towards the medical ward.

"Not really. If you're lucky, I'll give you a name before we head out. In the mean time, I'll need your friend who saw the creature to be completely sure who it is I'm dealing with." Angelus replied, brushing the king off as if he were just a noble with another mundane complaint.

"Rainbow Dash is in no condition to move, let alone guide you to the creature. Besides, it's in the Red Forest." Spike argued.

"That's where it is, I need to know who." he said, picking up the pace. He knocked the door to the ward open, not bothering to close it. Fortunately, Spike did that for him. The nurses began to approach the newcomer, ready to force him out if need be. Upon closer inspection of his features, the nurses found themselves too scared to even maintain visual contact.

Angelus made his way to Rainbow Dash's bedside, Twilight and Gilda on the side opposite him. Rainbow Dash looked upon her new visitor with a certain amount of awe and admiration.

"I nearly went straight for a moment, there. What can I do you for, big guy?" Dash asked, smiling at the grouchy angel. Angelus went to say something but Spike interrupted.

"Ah, Dash, this is Angelus; he's one of Mar's Generals. He wants to know who it was that attacked you." he said. Twilight picked up on what had passed through his lips.

"Wait... who? Mar knew the creature that attacked Dash and stole my daughter?" she asked, looking more towards Angelus than her husband.

"That's correct." Angelus replied, still as grouchily as ever.

"Not much I can tell you. All I saw was silhouette." Dash said.

"Did you see its eyes?" Angelus asked. Dash nodded. "What shape were they?" he asked.

"Cat's eyes, you know, slit pupils." she replied.

"What colour?" Angelus asked.

"Orange." she said.

"Light or dark?" he pressed, leaning forward.

"Light?" Dash said unsurely. Angelus expressed something akin to relief.

"Excellent. It's not the one we thought." he sighed with relief.

"Wait, there's more than one of those things?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, there are two... so far." he replied, moving to walk away.

"Wait!" Dash said, grabbing his arm with her hoof, a gesture Angelus clearly didn't like given the expression on his face. "Angels have healing powers, right? I want you to heal me up, so I can help you find Dawn." she said.

"Dash!" Gilda protested, as did Twilight. "You're in no condition to go out there looking for anypony. You'd only get in Angelus' way." the gryphon stated.

"Yeah, that's why I want him to heal me, so I'll be of use to them. I left Dawn there in the forest. I can't rest here while she's out there, having Celestia knows what done to her. Twilight, please... order me to find her." Dash begged. Twilight was at a cross-roads. She wanted her friend to rest and get some sleep after having nearly lost her life, but she also wanted her daughter back safe and sound. If Dash was able to help her achieve the latter, she'd be a fool to turn down that request.

"I may have some small use for you. I'll heal you. In return, I need you to grab a contingency of guards. Make sure they're female." Angelus said, his hand glowing a light golden coour as he brought it near Dash's wing.

Dawn felt her rump hit the dirt, hard. She fell back and was pinned down by something she couldn't see, save for a pair of eyes glaring at her. She'd been brought into a cave under a large tree. The cave was big enough to house a dozen grizzly bears. It was dark, but it was dry. The hybrid tried to squirm under the weight of the creature, but to no avail. "You won't get away with this! My parents will come and save me. They're the strongest beings in Equestria." she threatened, or tried to at least.

"Aw, is that it? I was hoping to make you squirm a bit before getting that information out of you, among other things." a rather sadistic female voice responded. Dawn was frozen speechless. Had she just given the creature what she wanted right off the bat?

"Why did you take me?" she asked, hoping to confirm her fear.

"Why not? That pretty rainbow pony got away, and your features, plus your draconic half remind me of a certain entity I know and love. I just can't resist." the creature replied. Dawn was getting an uneasy feeling, and she rarely got those.

"What do you plan to do with me?" she asked.

"Since your parents are the world's strongest, I'll use you as bait to lure them to me. I'll fight them and... hopefully, win." there was a line of hesitancy as the voice spoke to her.

"What do you mean by hopefully?" she asked.

"While I appear strong to you and your kind, I am incomplete. As such, I have to pass tests given to me, so that I may complete myself and fulfil my destiny." the voice responded.

"Destiny? Who are you?!" Dawn demanded. There was a sly and almost seductive chuckle within the dark space as the eyes of the creature met her again.

"My name... is-."

"...Rena Piper. She's part of a wolf-like race that originated outside reality itself." Angelus said, sitting down with the group of ponies that had been selected by Rainbow Dash. Sitting in on the conversation was Twilight Sparkle and Gilda, who were curious to know about this kidnapper/ attacker.

"What do you mean by 'outside reality'?" Twilight asked.

"Think of Reality as a bubble, and just outside that bubble is another bubble surrounding it. So you have Reality, as a bubble within another bubble. That other bubble is what we call 'Irreality'. So it's like the origin of imagination. Rena was born there, but sent into reality to live as a real being, the reasons for this are unclear to even us Angels." Angelus replied.

"So what's Rena's story?" Spike asked.

"Rena grew up on another world known as Beo-Dur. It was a world not entirely unlike this one. The dominant races were Wolves and assorted felines. The Felines were savages with primitive minds. The Wolves were evolved, cultured. They had social classes. Upper, Middle and Lower. Rena was one of the Lower class. She spent the first thirteen years of her life as a slave-girl. She was shunned even by her fellow slaves because she wielded a power different from those of others. While every wolf possessed control over the natural elements such as fire and ice, Rena had control over Shadows."

"And that's where our worlds are similar? Magic?" Twilight asked.

"As well as Royalty and nobility. Rena had the misfortune of being slave to a rather bigoted and pretentious Noble. Residing over a small village, despite her status among her peers, Rena was often sought after by many a male at the break of night, forced to relieve their tensions and daily stresses. Some of her aggressors were married, yet still they sought her. Beyond that, she was treated as little more than a tool for their continued use."

"How horrible." one of the guards said, covering her face with a hoof.

"So what happened to her?" another asked.

Angelus went on. "One the verge of ending her own life, she met a stranger who offered her another life, free from restrictions. She offered her the destruction of that world, rather, the power to destroy it with her own two hands. And she accepted. Rena quickly referred to the stranger as her new Master."

"The other one." Spike noted. Angelus nodded.

"Zamiel Piper. The stronger of the two. Zamiel was the first Piper to enter Reality itself. Originally a female, Zamiel learned she could change genders at will. Their race was named after the original Piper herself. Zamiel was a name she earned throughout the history of many races. Specifically, the Human Race. The name was German, originating from an Opera that referred to Zamiel as the Dark Hunstman. Zamiel, after having been betrayed by someone, threw him into a dark pit to be eaten by wolves." The ponies seemed disturbed by this history lesson.

"Piper's history exists throughout Humanity. The earliest being the Egyptian God Anubis, who was responsible for embalming the dead and seeing them safely into the afterlife."

"I don't see what any of this has to do with Rena." Spike said.

"Throughout Zamiel's history, she was alone, and often liked it that way. Her personality twisted into something indescribably evil. She's sadistic, seductive, masochistic, any dark thing you can think of, it most likely originated from her. Now, take into account the fact that she's teaching another being everything she knows." Angelus replied. A grim feeling washed over every pony, gryphon and dragon there.

"I see your point. So why did these guards have to be all female?" Spike asked.

"Pipers tend to hold a racial grudge against those who do them wrong before they discover their powers. For Zamiel, it was a God of light who took the form of a Minotaur. For Rena, it's the entirety of the Male race. They tend to torture those kinds of beings before killing them. Everyone else, they just outright kill. So far, only Angels and a select few demons have proven themselves to be the exception to that rule. Rena, however, isn't as cruel as her master. She likes females and tends to seduce them every now and then. If you want to know about the benefits of accepting her advances, you should either do so yourself, or ask my sister." Angelus said. Another long pause filled the room.

"When do we head out?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"As soon as his majesty gives the order." Angelus replied. All eyes turned to the golden dragon sitting thoughtfully in his throne, his wife staring anxiously at him.

"We leave at daybreak. If Rena Piper controls the shadows, then we would have the advantage during the day." he commanded.

"No, Pipers evolved to use darkness even in the light. Zamiel killed a god of Light by using the darkness in his heart. I don't know if Rena is that advanced yet, but we have to assume she has all Zamiel's abilities, even though they're not as strong. That's the only way we'll get your daughter back safely." Angelus said.

"What does Rena even want here in Equestria anyway? It's not as if we've done anything to her." Twilight demanded.

"Rena acknowledges only one other and does as she tells her to. Your exploits eighteen years ago no doubt intrigued The Wolf Piper, and she found you to be the perfect test subjects for Rena's training. Dawn is nothing more than a hostage to get the strongest of you to come out and fight her."

"So she'd be expecting us?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Perhaps, but she won't be expecting me." Angelus slammed his fists together, the entire room rattling from the impact.

"Then we leave immediately." Spike said, standing to his feet.

Author's Note

Okay, so TWIST!!!! I chose Rena Piper as opposed to Zamiel Piper because Zamiel was a character I designed to be completely unkillable. I'll give you a brief overview of her.

As explained in the chapter, Pipers come from a bubble outside of reality which closest depicts the imagination. This was dubbed 'Irreality'. Piper was sent into reality as a newborn pup. She wound up on a world dominated by gods known as 'Pandorum'. There she grew up, shunned by her fellow gods, save the one who found her and raised her, eventually growing up with her. Piper grew to love the one who cared for her in an intimate sense, but so did another god. Realising that he could not have the source of this love triangle, the other god (the god of light mentioned before) killed her, all to make Piper suffer.

This is when Piper's personality took a dark turn. She literally destroyed her mind, along with the pacifistic teachings that her love had taught her and became known as an anti-god, the original 'Wolf Piper'.

Pipers are born with the power to control sound (Hence the name), but later grow up to learn how to manipulate darkness to the point they become like a galaxy-sized black hole. Now, no living or dead being knows how to kill a Piper, because they have the ability to choose how they die.

Take all this information, put it together and you have Zamiel Piper. Now, think about another being of the same race being taught by a merciless, sadistic, seductive and unkillable bitch. Only this one just so happens to despise the male gender with all her heart. This is Rena. Her social skills are like that of Shiyori from Bleach, while her fighting skills and personality are like that of Seras Victoria and Renamon. And because she's a wolf, she's just as sexy as Renamon too.

SO!!! If tl;dr (even after the sexy renamon pic didn't make you go back and read just to make sure what the connection there was) to sum it all up. I've put a Mary Sue OC into the third story, but this one is the bad guy whom we have to defeat.

Hope this makes up for lost time.