They came from the Everfree

After her unfortunate encounter with Painis Cupcake, Fluttershy was placed in the library alongside her animals. She needed the company of fellow ponies to settle down after the events. Who would remain unchanged, after seeing a typical Earth pony violently mutilate, then eat a manticore alive ? Little did she know, it was truly a miracle that she left the cottage, as when the last animal reached town, three shadows entered it, laughing to themselves.

Meanwhile, in the Everfree Forest, a pegasus stallion wandered. His coat was grey, and his mane black. To build on this already D4RK attitude, he had a black beard, and wore a black hat. Nopony could know what his cutie mark meant, but a specialised Homo Sapiens would recognise this symbol as the infamous 'Biohazard', making said Homo Sapiens slowly back away, then, as any curious sentient creature, throw a rock to see if it turned green.

The stallion growled. He was lost in a bloody forest, and on top of that, there was nothing to kill here. Just plain boredom. Eventually, after walking for about twenty minutes, he found an exit, and even a small house. Three voices could be heard from inside, laughing like pigs. "Spies ..." whispered the stallion. But he couldn't just go about and kill them. If he killed three people, the others might escape. He had to wait for ... bigger game. He remembered a thing or two he learned from GentleSpy, a good friend, and slammed the front door with his hoof, leaving a small hole in it. He definitely liked this 'knocking' manner he was teached.

The door opened, and upon seeing him, one of the inhabitants, a pegasus stallion, looked slightly disappointed. He turned to two other stallions behind him. "Yo, 't's not da Flutter coward. Wat d'I do ?" He said in a goofy, uncivilised tone.

"Let'im in. Yo'll see." Said a unicorn, who was busy using his magic to tag the walls. As soon as the newcomer stepped in, the door magically slammed behind him. He didn't seem to care, though. "A'ight, bud, watcha doin' 'ere ? You a bud of Flutter loser ?" Spat the unicorn. He didn't receive an answer, so he pushed on. "Y'know what, I dun care. If ya wanna leave alive, yo jus' giv' us money, or else we buck you up." Still no answer, a simple stoic stare glared back at him.

The grey stallion knew what kind of ponies these were. The kind of blokes who bludgeon their wives to death with golf trophies. Though he doubted any girl ... well, mare, would marry disgusting brats. So he stood silent for the longest time, before asking in the most polite manner he could "Do you have any sort of map to the nearest civilised town ?"

He earned a mix of confused and blank looks. 'Ain't that a little embarassing' he thought, but dismissed it. GentleSpy would care about his manners. But these were just blunt 'manly' stallions. So he asked again, in a tone he preferred "Where's the bloody town ?!"

An Earth pony spoke up. "Wrong neighborhood scum. Now gimme all yo bits !" He was ready to beat the grey pegasus up if he had to. And since he looked skinny anyway, he decided to for it. He spinned, and bucked as strongly as he could. He could already feel the pegasus's pain. Instead, he got pain. A lot of it. Instead of a pegasus chest, it was an Earth pony hoof that broke. "HURT ! HURT !" He screamed. "GET 'IM !" He shouted at his friends.

The pegasus made the first move. He leaped on the grey one ... to stop inches away from a machete. "You prancin' show ponies ..." whispered the latter, before cutting through the former's throat, instantly killing him. Seeing that, the Earth pony tried to crawl his way out, but ended up with a giant sledgehammer head in the face, which bloodily crushed his brain. "It's only gonna get worse, mate." Said the grey pegasus, covered in blood, turning to the cowering unicorn.

"H-hey, 't's a'ight, bro ! I ... huh, di'n' like dem guys anyway ! Huh ..." The unicorn looked around, trying to find an escape plan. It came in the form of a watermelon, which he presented to the maniac facing him. "Y'know, dude, you can 'ave it ! Present ! No fake ! So, huh, lemme go, please ?"

The grey pegasus stared blankly, before spawning a katana, then proceeding to slice both the fruit and the pony in one strike. "Piss off, you bloody fruit shop owner !" He said, before thinking of a way to sign his work. He never left a massacre anonymous, that would be rude. So he took the guts of his victims, then pinned them to wall, forming the words 'CBS was here' with them. "Ah, she's a beauty." He whispered, before leaving the cottage, blood dripping from his fur. He eventually found a map, and went to the nearest town : 'Ponyville'.

Twilight Sparkle decided to relax for the night. Fluttershy just left with her animals, and she was exhausted from sending letters to the Princess and trying to find a logical reason to 'Painis Cupcake'.  Just as she was about to close her last book, she heard footsteps above her. Strangely, they were very audible, despite surely being heard from the first floor. Thinking it was Spike, she didn't pay it much attention. But they were muffled, and resembled more hoofsteps. "Anypony up there ?" She asked, not expecting an answer at all. "Spike ? Did you invite somepony to come over ?" Again, no answer. "I need some sleep." She finally said.

But then something hit the floor. Right behind her. So she slowly turned around ... to find a grey pegasus stallion on the floor. "What's up ?!" He said, then got back on four hooves. Before she could say anything, the stallion created a giant double edged axe out of thin air right in front of her. "Let's see how much blood's in ya !" He declared happily, swinging his oversized weapon in the air. She screamed her way out, running for dear life.

The Ponyvillians were used to odd events. However, the local librarian and Element of Magic running away from a grey pegasus wielding a giant axe wasn't a very commom sight. So they tried to find a way to help Twilight Sparkle, each one improvising in his own house. In the end, they all gathered at the marketplace with whatever they could get, and build a giant makeshift boulder out of paper, rocks, and other things. They waited for the pursuer and the pursued around a corner ... and dropped the boulder right under the nose of the former.

They cheered, but not for long, as the edge of a sharp object was soon seen cutting through the giant stone. Everypony gasped, seeing the grey pegasus still alive and smiling like a madcolt. "A little of the old chop-chop !" He declared, readying his axe once again. A single horizontal strike was all it would take to slice at least half of the crowd up. So everypony closed their eyes, waiting for a violent and painful death ...

It nevered happened. Opening their eyes, they saw the psychopath in a golden sphere, struggling. "Bloody hell !" He shouted. Right above the sphere of pure magical energy stood Princess Celestia. And she looked pissed.

"I came to visit my most faithful student ..." she said in a deep, menacing voice. "... to find a merciless monster trying to murder her ?!" The sphere was sent flying to Canterlot, surely to end up in the same highly secured cell as the first 'visitor'. "Now ..." said the Princess of the Sun. "Twilight, did this fool creature harm you, or anypony ?"

That question struck her like a bread slice in an extremely powerful toaster gets fired into the ceiling. "W-well ..." she had no idea. "Not, that I know, it ..." a high pitched scream, coming from the Everfree, interrupted her. "... maybe ?"