Written as Moon, but Red as Light

by Quasar4000

Arrival

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In the mind was dark. So dark as if you can't see anything else. All was quiet and calm, there stood in the darkness was Light Yagami.

'What... is... going on?'

Suddenly, a surge of unbearable pain course through his mind as he clutch his head and gritted his teeth. 'Ahhhhhhh!!! What... is... this?' As Light clutch his head in agony, he began to hear voices.

'Murder...'

'Pain...'

'Death notes...'

'KIRA**'...

With that said, a bright light appear, blinding Light's vision and soon he awaken.

Light's eyes shot open and gasp. He breathed heavily as he started to get up until a pain erupt in his chest causing him to winced. Ugh! Why does my chest hurts? As a matter of fact...' He looked around his surroundings and it seems that he's in the middle of a grassy field. The weather was a bit cloudy and the wind blew gently. '... where in the world am I?'. Light slowly got up as the pain started to shimmer down and look around for anything out of the ordinary.

'Hmm... how did I end up here? Wait, who am I? What is my name? Why can't I seem to remember?' Light wonder as he held his hand to his head in confusion with his eyes shut until he open them after a short while and notice something different. "What the...", Light looked at the sleeve of his arm and noticed that he's wearing something that he never knew of. Light then notice a pond that was near him and hurried over there to take a look at himself. As Light got to the pond and looked, he was surprised.

Light was wearing a black coat that looks a little bit big for his size along with a white button shirt and a frilly scarf that looks like what an English gentleman wore in the 19th century. His pants seems to be a type jeans, wore a belt with a large "M" shaped buckle and he wore cowboy looking boots. He wore a messenger bag, a red tie has been wrapped around his forehead instead of his neck as a headband. Light also noticed that he wore goggles that he never seemed to remember to owned and to his confusion even more, his hair was all spike up.

'What in the... where did this came from?' Light ponder as he inspect the new clothing.

'I don't remember anything'. He grunted in frustration and clutch his head. 'Why can't I remember anything!?'

Distraught, Light brought his fist and hit the ground in frustration, making a small crater of some sort. He noticed this and became somewhat shock by this display of strength.

'What the! How did...?' Light looked at his hands, spectacle of this action Light spot a flat medium size rock on the right of himself. He picked it up and broke it in half.

'Whoa! One second I woke up with no memory of myself and the next I'm like that guy who can swing from web to web.' Light was surprise at this new found strength, but quickly remembered his situation. 'Regardless, I must focus on the problem other than this.'

Light tried to think hard to remembered but nothing clicked. He looked around and found no sign of the civilization.

'Great, here I am in the middle of nowhere and it looks like there's no towns or cities nearby, heck I don't even know where I lived or even have a home.' He sigh. 'Perhaps I shouldn't panicked, someone should notice that I'm missing and the authorities will appear to find me, even though I can't seem to remember who I am. But they might help by identifying me.'

Light then notice that a forest seem to appear in the horizon and to even more to his surprise, could see in great detail from this far. He raised his hand near his eyes.

'I'm just full of surprises today ain't I?' Light then looked back to the forest.

'Although, it wouldn't hurt to take a look around.'

Light check his messenger bag to see if there was anything useful. He pull the zipper and open the bag and found something more unusual. His pack contain 4 bottles of water, 2 big bags of consommé flavored chips, 3 cans of soup noodles, one box of pepperoni pizza that is somehow still warm, a compass, and a combat knife w/ holster. Light was puzzled at this sight as he couldn't remember packing any food nor had a knife with him. Nevertheless, he took one of the water bottles, open the cap to drank some before putting it back in his pack and taking the knife out. Light closed his pack, attached the holster to his belt and headed off into the forest. Little did he know that his adventure was just beginning.

(In Ponyville)

"Twilight! Twilight!" A purple dragon yelled as he came down the stairs where Twilight Sparkle was, reading books.

"Yes, what is it Spike?"

"The princess sent a letter." Spike said as he handed Twilight a scroll.

Twilight open up the scroll and read:

Dear Twilight,

I have sent you this message for a very important matter. Luna and I felt a strange disturbance in the dimensions as something terrible is about to happened. Bring the other elements along to Canterlot for an important meeting immediately as possible.

Your mentor, Princess Celestia

P.S. bring Spike along as well

'It seems the princesses have discover something bad, I must make post haste'

"Spike get the others, we're heading to Canterlot in half an hour." Twilight said

Spike saluted and head off into ponyville to tell the others. Twilight stared out the window, it was somewhat cloudy and she was feeling kinda edgy about what Princess Celestia said.

'If something bad is happening, we'll stop it. No matter what.' Twilight thought as she went to gather the necessary items for the trip.

(Everfree forest)

Light venture into the forest. He walk through the thick woods as it begins to get dark as he went further in. He looked around the forest and noticed something strange. There were mist forming in the air, which only grew thicker as he went in further. It soon became foggier and Light could barely see anything now. After for a few minutes he heard a growl. It sounded very loud to his ears and even feel movement in the air.

'Another one of my mysterious abilities.' The sound of steps started coming closer

'Great, I'm about to be attack by a wild animal and it hasn't even been an hour since I awoken'. Light then smelled something as well, it smelled like someone had really bad breath. Must belong to the predator that is about to maul him. Light grab out his knife and spotted a long wooden stick, he grab the stick and quickly whittled one end into a sharp point. He then firmly held the stake and quickly formulate a plan and deduce the outcome.

Time seemed to slow down as Light goes through an analysis.

'Hmm... steps are somewhat loud, predator must weigh around 200 pounds, must be a fully mature adult. pacing of the steps are going at an interval of 2 seconds, must be in its prime. Male or Female: unknown. Smell of the breath is quite strong, must have wide experience of catching its prey by the teeth. Here's what I'm dealing with; a quadruple creature, obviously carnivore, an adult and a very experience one indeed. Probably a bit arrogant as it seems to think it got me where it wants me. But I'll have tricks up my own.

First, wait for the sound of the steps to come closer. Next, the best strategy is to sneak behind me as a blind spot. It will seem that its prey will be completely clueless and would go in for the kill. The sound of the steps will get very loud indicating a charge. Then, by the split second the sound makes a deep thud predicts a pounce. The air currents will feel very frenzy. Lastly, as it gets almost to the point of feeling skin contact, return with a whack to the muzzle.'

As Light finished his analysis, time seemed to flow back to normal and the action will commenced.

Slowly, a creature was moving silently to Light. Avoiding to let its prey know that it's sneaking up behind it, the creature move closer until Light's back was in it's line of sight. It move silently but swiftly and made its move to strike.

It would seem that the creature expected that the outcome will result with the prey becoming its food as it pounce into the air onto Light's back, but unknown to the creature, it turned upside down. As the creature was about to make contact, Light smirk...

'Just as I predicted'

...and quickly turned around and whack the creature to the side, knocking it back a few feet.

The fog soon cleared up a bit. Light was finally able to see what was his attacker. Upon laying his eyes on the predator he was surprised. 'What the...'

The creature was somewhat of a canine-like creature and it was quite big, slightly bigger than a wolf. The entire body looked like it was entirely made of wood. Its eyes were bright yellow and it seems to have an angry looking expression.

A Timberwolf has appeared!

Light was certainly in for a surprise. 'Is that a... wolf? It looks like something out of a fantasy book.'

The wooden wolf growled at Light and prepare itself in a battle stance. As Light saw this, he two took a stance as well. Both of them stared at each other in silence. The wind blew gently. The leaves fall. And the two remain still.

Light then went into another analysis moment.

'Alright, it seems running away wouldn't work. He or she would just chase after me and probably have my scent by now.' Light then quickly scanned the trees around and saw eyes hidden in the shadows of the leaves. 'The trees seem to be occupied by whatever those eyes are shining through so climbing is not an option either. Last option, go toe-to-toe, "man vs wild".' Light thought as narrowed his eyes, clenched his teeth and grip the stake firmly.

'For now, test to see if the wooden wolf could understand my speech patterns'

"Alright, it seems to me that we're in quite the predicament right now isn't it?" Light said to the wooden wolf. The wolf growled slightly, seemly agreeing with Light's claim.

'Subject appears to be quite intelligent, but still this fight is going to happen.'

"It's just us right now, but make no mistake Fido." Light pointed "You an I knows that only one of us are going to be walking away from this right?" The wolf nodded and prepared to fight.

"Okay...", Light then pointed the the sharp end of the stake at the wolf, wore the goggles over his eyes, and put on a stern expression. "Let's dance"

The light breeze around paused, the leaves stop falling, and time has come to a halt.

'Time for another *"Analysis Mode"*'

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