Equestrian Japanese Club

Area: Rocky area outside Ponyville.
Time: Early morning; Sunrise
POV: Tom

Tom opened his eyes only for them to be greeted by the glaring sun, he picked his head up off of the rocky ground he was laying on and shook his head. He let out an exasperated sigh and brought a paw to his head. Wait, what!? He moved the appendage from his head and in front of his face so he could see it. The paw was large easily covering his whole face, the fur was black, as well as his claws, but the soft part of his paws were dark red. He let out a small gasp thinking he may have been bleeding, but saw that it was just the coloring of his skin.

He stood up from where he was, as he did he felt fabric moving against his fur and some weight at his left hip. he looked down and saw he was wearing a dark red gi, he felt the fabric with his paw."hm..." This should feel heavier. He thought. Tom inspected himself further and reached for the object hanging at his waist. It was bound on him by a black rope, he pulled it out. Laying in both of his paws was a sword sheath for a katana. "Oh-ho-ho..." He pulled the blade out of it's sheath. "Yes..." He sheathed the sword and put it back by his waist. Tom let out another sigh and realized he was tired, whatever was going on he would find out later, for now, he would find a place to rest. He placed a paw on is head and felt rough matted down curls and ran it down his neck where the hair stopped, In the shade He thought. Tom walked over to a tall rock and sat under it's shadow, tilted his head down and dozed off.

Rarity and Spike were out collecting gems early in the morning to fill out another order made by Sapphire Shores, that demanded many gemstones. Spike was concerned. "Are you sure it's safe to be out here Rarity? I mean, you remember what happened last time." he said.
Rarity smiled. "I appreciate your concern darling, but it should be perfectly safe out here, I doubt any of those scoundrels would try anything after what happened last time." Rarity chuckled, recalling the event.

"Look, there's one now!" Spike pointed to a diamond dog laying in the shade of a tall rock. This dog looked very different from the other dogs Rarity and Spike had seen. This dog had black fur and his face was wolfish and slim while the other dog's faces they had seen were wrinkled and muscled. He had hair that was curled and matted down and went down his neck between his pointed ears like a mane, he was also slimmer and his spiked tail was slim and longer than the other dogs, he also wore a dark red jacket made out of some kind of heavy fabric and had some kind of stick-like object next to him.

The dog raised his head from his slumber under the rock and looked at them for a few seconds before closing his eyes and looking down again. "Well he doesn't appear to be too interested in us. But let's not wait around until he is." Rarity observed. Spike nodded in agreement and the two moved on looking for gems.

Tom raised his head and opened his eyes to look at the source of the nearby conversation. He saw a white unicorn with a well done purple mane and tail as well as a baby dragon with purple scales and green spines. Tom lowered his head and closed his eyes again. ah hell... Tom knew where he was. Equestria. Tom hid his reaction and continued to think. Tom wasn't a brony, but he watches the show himself so as to have an understanding of their culture, and for his own enjoyment at times. He had recognized the two he saw as Spike and Rarity, two main characters from the show. How did I end up here? I swear if Orlando dragged me into this... Tom thought of his brony friend who, out of the three he had, was the only one who had an actual desire to come to Equestria. Tom dozed off again.
"AAAAAHHHHHHH" Tom's ears perked up as his thoughts were interrupted by a loud scream, which he could only imagine belonged to Rarity. Tom stood, picking up his his sword and looked around. His hearing was sharper as well as his sense of smell, using these he ran on all fours to the direction of the scream, katana at his waist.

Rarity let out a scream as she and Spike were surrounded by three diamond dogs. It was the three dogs that were presumably the leaders that had kidnapped her last time. This time the dogs said nothing but only surrounded her and spike holding crudely forged spears that their guards normally wielded. "Wh-What do you ruffians want!?" Rarity yelled. The dogs said nothing, but closed in on the two letting out low growls and even snapping at them.

Spike looked closer at them and made eye contact with one. It wasn't the same look of greed they had last time but one of a ravenous animal. "I don't think we can reason with them, they've gone crazy!" Spike came closer to Rarity savoring what might be his last moments with her. "Rarity, if we don't make it, I just wanted to say-" Spike was interrupted as one of the dogs was tackled by something and let out a whimper as it landed on it's side. The diamond dogs diverted their attention from their prey and regarded the new threat. Spike and Rarity looked at what could possibly have been their savior. It was the strange looking diamond dog they saw before.

Tom tackled the largest of the dogs surrounding Rarity and Spike and he went down with a whimper. It had taken him a minute for him to get here at full sprint. The other two dogs looked and growled at him and readied their spears. Oh great, they have spears, WEAPON TRIANGLE BE DAMNED! He drew his katana, ready to face them. The shortest one rushed at him pointing his spear forward. Tom sidestepped and struck the mutt between the eyes with the pommel of his sword, knocking him down. The other dog still standing threw his spear, Tom dodged it and caught the dog's paw as he swiped at him with his own left paw, Tom thrust his sword through the diamond dog's abdomen causing a crippling, but none lethal wound, the dog fell over in pain, whimpering. As Tom watched the dog fall he felt a sharp pain in his leg, he yelped and jumped back spilling some blood on the ground. The tallest dog had recovered from Tom's tackled and attacked him with his spear.

Tom glared at him raising his sword to strike again but the shorter dog jumped on his back, clawing and biting. Tom pulled him off with his free paw and, grabbing him by the neck, slammed the dog's head on the ground creating a small crater in the solid rock. He then followed up by planting his sword in the dog, no longer caring where it entered, blood spattered on Tom's blade and face. Tom turned to the last dog who had his spear in a defensive position, Tom ran up and lunged at the dog slashing his sword and landing behind him. Two *thumps* could be heard, one soft, the other very loud as the diamond dog's head, then body, hit the ground. Tom made whipped his sword toward the ground causing all the blood it had accumulated to spatter on the ground. Tom turned to Spike and Rarity the latter of which looked terrified while Spike stood in front of her defensively but still held his own fear in his eyes. Tom was about to speak but was interrupted by violent coughing. Tom turned his head to look at the first dog he took down who was coughing up blood from the wound.

Tom walked over to him. "Why did you attack these two?" he asked, surprisingly enough to him his voice hadn't changed.
"*Cough Cough* We... didn't want to... the horned pony-" The dog managed to choke out before he broke into coughing again.
Tom leaned in closer. "What pony?" He asked.
"The pony... she-" The dog was cut off as his breathing seemed to stop altogether. The dog reached up to it's throat as he choked, gasping for air. His eye's fluttered and eventually stopped moving along with the rest of his body, he no longer struggled. Tom backed up from the dog and turned back to Rarity and Spike. "You two okay?" he asked.
Rarity nodded hesitantly. "Yes... thank you, what was your name?"
"Tom." he said brusquely.
Rarity's eye involuntarily twitched at his name. "Well, thank you again darling for your help." Rarity seemed to have calmed down. "Although I have no idea why they would attack us like that."
"One of them said something about a 'horned pony' a unicorn I presume." Tom answered.
Rarity was a little taken back, his speech was entirely different from the other diamond dogs, more tempered and civil.
"I can't believe you just ended all of them like that!" Spike exclaimed. "I mean- that was just crazy!" Spike's voice held more terror than amazement.
Rarity was about to scold spike about how inappropriate that statement was but Tom answered him. He smiled "Thanks, but I didn't kill all of them, the last one choked on something." he said
Spike looked confused. "What could he have choked on?" he asked.
Tom shrugged "I don't know but it looked liked someone else caused it."
Rarity was about to ask another question but noticed Tom's leg, it was still wounded from one of the dog's spears. "Look at you! You're hurt! We should get you back to Ponyville immediately!"
Tom looked at his leg. "Huh, well we should hurry then."

Tom, Spike, and Rarity were walking down a path that led to Ponyville. Rarity led, with Spike at her side while Tom staggered behind them with an injured leg, Rarity was able to bandage it but it still needed proper medical attention. Spike looked back at Tom and noticed his sword. "So, what's that thing you used to fight back there?" Spike asked.
Tom looked at him and took the katana in it's sheathe out of the rope.
"This is a sword, a katana to be exact, it takes a long time to learn how to use one of these, but once you do, it becomes one of the most deadliest blades anyone can use." Tom placed the sword back at his waist.

Spike and Rarity were taken back by Tom's answer. they've never heard of something like that before. "Where did you ever get such a thing?" Rarity asked.

Tom shrugged and smiled "I dunno." Rarity and Spike both sighed and kept walking to Ponyville.