Leader of the Pack

Chapter II

Twilight place the last of the new monthly Daring Doo books on the top shelf of the new Release section. She glanced down to she Spike sitting in he mob pale, passed out from all the work he had been doing.

“Oh Spike, you’re such a great helper. But so times you need to know your limits.” Said Twilight as she took the sleepy dragon in her magical embrace and took him to his bed.

A knock on the door broke the silence that was growing as Twilight made her way down the stairs and down to the main level. She walked up to the door and opened it. What she saw was Fluttershy, a mix of worry and relief was on her face.

“Oh good, um Twilight? Could you please help me? I have this wolf.. I think it might be a Dire Wolf. And I was ho-” She was cut off by Twilight as she placed her hoof in front of Fluttershy’s mouth.

“Dire. Wolf? WHY WOULD ONE COME HERE?!?” Boomed Twilight as she bolted back to her shelf and began ripping books off and flipping through them, seemingly looking for something.

“Um, why are you mad, did I make you mad or did the news make you mad?” Asked Fluttershy as she coward in the door way of Twilight’s house.

“Nonononononono, I need to figure out why one would come here. Think think think..” Twilight had seemed to trail off into madness.

“Fluttershy, keep away from it! You don’t know what it’ll do to you!” Yelled Twilight as she slammed the door of the house on Fluttershy, effectively blocking her out.

Fluttershy just sat there, stunned. Either Twilight was having a nervous brake down or something was VERY wrong with that wolf that was in her bed, which was in her house, filled with tiny woodland creatures.

Thinking about what it might do to the many small bit size meals, she got up and rushed off to her cottage.

You slowly rolled over in your bed, thinking to yourself about what just happened. You yawned and rolled your neck, a snapping sound was emitted from the motion. The sound awoke you fully. You looked around and your eyes were met with an odd sight. Fluttershy’s cottage.

Okay, you weren’t dreaming, either that or you are still dreaming.

Thinking and weighting your options, you decided to pull your lazy caucus out of the bed. First and foremost, you need a drink.

Landing on your paws with a light thud, you looked back at the bed. It was small, smaller than what you would normally sleep in.But then again, you were a wolf.

Trying to rethink about where the nearest water source would be, you remembered that there was a small stream in front of the cottage. And from the looks of it in the show, it was clean and cool. And that was just what you needed. The feeling of icy water running down you throat.

You look to both your left and right, you see few small animals running about, but fewer still in cages.

Looking down into the water, you finally get a look at yourself, your eyes were a deathly blue, but only a certain angles, they looked red! Your fur was a deep grey, with a bright, clean, shiny coat of white under your belly and chest. And you were indeed a Wolf, but from the looks of it you were VERY big, you needed to duck under the door way, and if what you read was true, at least to some extent, you were about five feet all, at least from paw to shoulder.

You lowered you head, without the slightest idea how to drink as a dog. Well if Jinks can do it, so can you!

You lowered the bottom half of your jaw into the water and let the cool liquid run down you throat. Somehow this worked, and after about thirty solid seconds of drinking, you pulled your head back you with your eyes closed, this moment, it was pure Requiem, perfect.

Fluttershy walked down that path to her cottage at an odd pace, a halfway point between a full sprint and a light jog. The same thing kept running through her head, what would happen if it gets up? Too bad she got her answer before she wanted a real one.

There, standing like a proud noble, the Dire Wolf. It’s jaws were wet, it’s head up high, and a smile pulled across it’s face, it’s deadly fangs bearing.

Fluttershy steeled herself and walked up to the beast.

“Um h-h-h-hello??”

You moment was ruined by the soft voice of your capture, or was it savior? Either way, you looked down, and there, cowering like a foal, stood Fluttershy.

“Okay, if I get this right, I’ll end up in a easy going life in the forest, if I mess up, I’ll face her Wrath. No pressure.”

You once again tried to speak, the words came out in an odd, broken format. Like you were still missing parts of your vocal cords.

“Hello, I would like to thank you for saving me.” came out more like “Greh, I ould, venk ou or aving ee”

The ‘words’ that the Wolf had just emitted sounded more like a deathly threat. But even still she had made out a message, hopefully the right one.

“Oh, um you’re welcome. I-I’m Flut-ters-hy, um, what’s your name?” Asked Fluttershy as she took a few well thought out steps forward. Carefully keeping the massive wolf away from her but not too far.

The wolf shock it’s head as if it were replying. Rather than asking for another reply, she took it as one.

“Oh, no name?” Once again it shock it’s head barked lightly.

“Oh, well, um. Can you talk?” The wolf opened his mouth, as if trying to speak. However, it merely closed it back up and shock it’s head.

“No? Well, um can you understand me?” She asked, what she got back was a deadpan stare. “Oh, silly question, well. Um, could please let me pass?” She asked as she took a few more steps closer, this time without the fear of being eaten, even though the wolf didn’t say anything about not wanting to eat her, but given that it didn’t attacked her out right, it was safe to assume it wouldn’t.

As Fluttershy asked her question, you began to think of ways this could go wrong. But, you wiped the thoughts away as you tried to take a few steps to the side. This ‘worked’, you didn’t fall nor charge with full force. Rather you merely tripped and stumbled lightly.

Once Fluttershy saw that you let her pass she asked another question.

“Um, are, y-you going to-to-to attack me?” She asked, if you weren’t so weirded out for the whole thing, you might have started crying from how sad she look when she was truly scared.

Thinking quickly, you shook your head. This seemed to make her calm down, but it didn’t make you fell any better. Due to it being mixed lie.

Swallowing deeply she trotted past the massive wolf, it’s breath smelling of burnt wood and raw flesh.  Somehow, it wasn’t unnerving, rather settling. Knowing that this creature, it had some intelligence, rather than the ones who lived in the rest of the Everfree. The Timber Wolves.

Knowing that it did eat meat but it restrained it’s self made Fluttershy feel safe, yet on edge. After all, how could a Tiny Herd Animal feel truly safe around a Massive Pack Hunter.