Wolves of Equestria

I do not own MLP FIM or any of its characters or other stuff from the show. All MLP FIM stuff belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.

OC characters: Dusk Shine, Applejack (male), Rainbow Blitz, Bubble Berry, Elusive, Butterscotch, and Lord Solaris belong to Trotsworth.

OC characters: Eris and Prince Artemis belong to JaquelinDreamz.

I do not own other character names, abilities, music, and such things from other series. Their respective owners will be made known.

My OC: Keiji Maeda, Todashi Akechi

Chapter 2: Ponyville meets Keiji part 1

The butter yellowish pegasus mare Fluttershy awoke to the sound of birds chirping. She looked out her window and saw that the storm had passed and the sun was now shining. She yawned and turned to

“Um, Keiji time to….” The mare said as she began to try to wake up the little wolf that had slept at the foot of her bed, but when she looked he was gone. “Uh Keiji…where are you?” she said as she looked around for the wolf. She scanned her bedroom until her eyes found a piece of paper on her nearby nightstand. She got out of the bed and noticed it was addresses with her name on it. She picked up the note and began to read it.

It read

Dear Ms. Fluttershy,

I just wanted to again thank you for the kind and generous treatment you’ve shown me. It means a lot to me to meet a pony that didn’t judge or treat me differently because I was a wolf. Thank you very much, but I must be on my way. I got places to go and people to meet, you know everyone does and I’m almost late to a meeting with a few other wolves to the north. But if I'm ever around Ponyville again I’ll make very sure to come see you. And don’t worry, I’ve always believed that things like this aren’t t goodbye, it’s just I’ll see you later. I’ll see you again sometime Miss Fluttershy.

Best regards and much friendship

Keiji ^__^

P.S

I got a little hungry and saw there were a couple of critters running around outside. So I decided to "stock up” my food supply. But don’t worry I didn’t touch your little bunny rabbit. I just took a couple of chickens and such. But anyway bye, and thanks for the food.

Fluttershy dropped the note with a look of sheer horror on her face as she read the ending of it. She dashed out her bedroom door to see if what the note said was true.  But as soon as she was out of her room she smelled something, something that smelled like food being cooked. She ran to kitchen to see what was exactly going on.

The sight that Fluttershy now confronted was that of a wolf wearing an apron that had “Kiss the cook” on the front it. He was preparing a couple different things. From the looks of it he was making pancakes, toast with different stuff on it, and a simple salad, at least from what she could see. Then the wolf noticed that she was there.

“Oh good morning Ms. Fluttershy I didn’t see you there. I’m just preparing a little breakfast.” The wolf said with a smile. “Sorry about the note. I sometimes have a sick sense of humor.” He said as he let out a mischievous giggle. “But anyway, there’s buttermilk pancakes, toast with a few different choices of jellies, hash browns cooked golden brown, a pretty simple salad, and eggs prepared whichever way you’d like.” He said rattling off the different foods, but the last one made Fluttershy gasp in shock.

“Did you say eggs?” she asked the horror evident in her voice.

“Um…yeah, don’t you ponies eat eggs?” the wolf asked getting a confused look on his face. He could see that it discomforted her.

“It’s just…” she started to say with before pausing. “You didn’t get…those eggs…from the chickens outside did you?” she stuttered quietly.

“Oh.” Keiji said with pause. “Oh don’t worry these aren’t from your chickens, I snuck out to a local market and picked up a few eggs so that could make a proper breakfast. And don’t worry, I left a little money for the eggs and no one ever knew I was even there.” The wolf said with a stupid cocky grin on his face. “But if you don’t want any eggs Ms. Fluttershy that’s fine.” He said kindly his grin turning into a smile. “But what would you like for breakfast?” he asked actually inquiring of what she wanted this time. He grabbed a plate getting ready to prepare what she wanted. Then he heard Fluttershy’s’ stomach growl a little which only made him smile more.

“Well…breakfast would be…nice.” Fluttershy managed to say as she blushed profusely from the embarrassment of having her stomach growl in front of him. “I guess…I’ll have some salad and toast…and maybe a little hash browns.”  She said quietly still blushing.

Keiji prepared a plate with her requested items as quick as a flash and presented them to her at her table. She took a few bites of everything just to try it out. She was surprised at how good it was. Then Keiji walked over and gave her another plate with a single pancake on it.

“Oh, I just thought you might like a pancake too.” Keiji said while giving her pleading puppy dog eyes as he place the plate with the pancake right next to the plate she already had.

“Um…thank you very much.” The shy mare replied as she carefully took a bite of the pancake. She was immediately more surprised at just how good it was. “Wow it’s really good!” she exclaimed happily. “Where did you learn to cook so well?” she asked questioningly?

“Aw shuck Ms. Fluttershy, you’re going to make me blush.” The wolf said with a small blush appearing on his muzzle. “It’s just an old family recipe I learned from my mother.” He said with no small amount of pride in his voice. “It’s like my mother always told me.  “Son, it’s never a useless thing to learn a new skill!” he said speaking about his family with even more pride in his voice as he put his fist up to his chest as a sign of this. Fluttershy giggled at his enthusiasm.

“Well it’s very good. Thank you very much Keiji.” The mare said with a smile.

“Well I think I’ll have some breakfast too.” The wolf said as he prepared his own plate of food. In less than a minute he was sitting himself down at the table across from her.

It was then Fluttershy noticed something on his plate that was drastically different from hers. Much to her horror Fluttershy saw that there were two thick slices of bacon on his plate along with the other stuff he had given her. This shocked her extremely to see this almost to the point where she screamed.

Keiji quickly noticed this and gave her a quizzical look.

“What?” he asked simply, a little confused.

“You….you’re…you’re eating meat.” She barely managed to say. This caught Keiji a little bit by surprise.

“Well I am a wolf you know.” Keiji said almost like she should’ve already known. “What did you expect?” he continued starting to sound a little bit offended. It was then Fluttershy realized that she had never really thought about that. She realized that she never bothered asking him anything like that.

“I’m sorry…” the timid mare said with a pause. “ It’s just ponies never…eat meat and it’s…very…uncomfortable for me.” She managed to stutter. Keiji then started to feel a little guilty on account that he had never really taken her feelings into consideration on this matter.

The wolf signed. “I’m sorry Fluttershy.” He said beginning to look a little down. “I’m sorry I didn’t think of about that. I should’ve realized that it might be quiet uncomfortable for you.”  He said regretfully. “And if it makes you feel better I will not eat meat around you unless I absolutely have to.” He said with a reassuring tone to his words.

Fluttershy was taken aback a little by this. She realized that he was fairly justified in his actions. He didn’t honestly have to apologize for anything. He was just doing what came naturally, yet he was still apologizing anyway.

“Oh it’s ok. You don’t have to apologize for eating meat. You were only doing what is normal for you.” She said with much understanding and compassion in her voice. “Thank you for considering my feelings anyway though.” She said thanking him for the consideration he had shown in turn.

“It’s nothing Fluttershy. I was always been taught to try to be considerate of all those around me.” He said with semi-dopey grin. “I’ve always loved the feeling you get when you help or be nice to others.” He said still smiling. “And it makes me especially happy when I prove wrong those who think less of us and others who they believe lower than them.”  He said smugly.

This took Fluttershy a little by surprise. She didn’t understand why he said something like that. But then she remembered the couple old legends and stories she had heard about northern wolves. She remembered how the old stories painted the wolves out as simple minded savages who only liked to fight, raid, and steal from others.

It was then she really began to fully realize what he meant. She realized that there might be a prejudice toward wolves on account of the legends and stories about them.

“What do you mean?” she said very quietly before being cut off by the wolf.

“I’ll tell you when we’re finished with breakfast.” He replied with a small smile. “I promise.”

“You see Ms. Fluttershy. There’s a bit of a prejudice toward wolves. Though I don’t think it’s really out of hatred but rather the fact we’re a very “different” type of creature than ponies are used to. I mean we’re carnivores and ponies aren’t. I think that’s what it really just boils down to.” he said with a sigh. “It’s so very sad though. It…” he said before dropping it and continued to eat as if he never said anything.

“What? What is it?” the shy mare asked getting a little concerned at how quickly he dropped it.

The wolf looked at her concerned expression and couldn’t bring himself to lie to her about it. He really didn’t want to tell her the truth about what he was thinking about. With a sigh he relented.

“Ok Fluttershy I’ll tell you what’s the matter.” He said taking a deep breath. “It’s just, there have been a few time where I came into a pony town and was…I was.” He began to say trying to find the right words.

“Was what?” was the only thing that came from the shy mare. Keiji sighed and continued.

“I was run out of town. Just for being a wolf, for being different.” he said bluntly.  “And this happened to me a couple of times. There was one town in particular somewhere near Appleloosa. I don’t really remember the name very well. It was like Coltston or something I don’t really remember, nor care to remember that well.” He said with no small amount of distain in his words. “The ponies there were nothing but a bunch of stupid intolerant jerks. It was weird, I don’t know of all the major cities in Equestria, but I know a couple of them. The town was like a bit of a combination of the superior high class attitudes of the ponies of Canterlot and Manehattan with a little bit of, I guess “countryness” of towns like Appleloosa and such.” he said putting up quotation marks with his hands for emphasis.

“Well I was traveling around that area not too long ago. I hadn’t seen much of anyone or anything for a while. And then I came across a fairly large town that looked like a good place to rest. But I was in for a bit of a surprise.” he said before pausing, the look on his face showing that the memory clearly not a very happy one.

“W…what happened?” was all that the shy pony could reply with.

“Well it in a way started before I even got into the town. I was…”

(Flashback) (Keiji’s POV)

It was a fairly day. I was walking down a dirt road for quite a while. I was wearing a simple cloak to keep ponies from freaking out and such. The road was taking up a small hill. As I was coming to a small hill I noticed a simple makeshift sign near the top. As I got closer I saw that it had the name of Coltston etched into it. At first I didn’t really think anything of it so I kept walking.

I noticed that the sun was starting to get low, so I knew I should hurry and get to the town. I kept walking for about half an hour until I finally reached the town itself. I was pretty tired by the time I actually reached the town.  I had been walking pretty much all day and it was about 6 or 7 at night. It was a fairly large town, about 8-10 miles all around from what I could see anyway. It looked like a nice enough place to spend the night, so I just kept heading toward the town.

As I walked into the town I noticed ponies glancing at me and murmuring to each other. It didn’t really surprise me. Even with the cloak I was wearing most ponies could tell I wasn’t a pony, I was very used to it by now. I was able to find my way to a local inn where I try to get some food and rest for the night.

As I headed into the inn I saw that it was similar to an old fashion saloon in a lot of ways. As I entered the inn the bartender that was there gave me a weird look. I could already feel a bit of tension and uneasiness from the ponies around. I ignored it and continued walking to the bar.

“All I need a room to stay in for the night and I’ll be on my way tomorrow. That’s all I need and I won’t cause any trouble.” I said as I tossed a small bag of coins onto the barkeep. “I’m sure that’s more than enough for one night.” I said with a bit of a serious tone.

The barkeep looked at me for a second. “Fine, whatever.” he said handing me a key to a room. “Your room is up the stairs and down the hall to the left, just look for the number on the key.” he said to me as he placed the room key on the bar. I took it and headed for the room. I really didn’t want any trouble right now. When I got to the room the first thing I noticed that it wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t tiny, it was enough to get me through the night. The bed was not too small but smaller than the one I’m use to sleeping in. I just decided to go straight to sleep so I could get going earlier in the morning.

I got into the bed which was not as comfortable as I would’ve really liked, but it good enough for one night. I just tried to close my eyes and go to sleep so that I could wake up earlier. I actually fell asleep rather quickly considering the bed and all.

(Sometime later that night)

I woke up some time in the middle of the night to the sound of some kind of commotion going on down stairs. Now I’ve always been a curious one, but at the time I was more annoyed at the fact that I was woken up in the middle of the night.  I left the room and head back down toward the saloon area of the inn. Even before I arrived at the stairs I could hear a couple of voices.

When I got to the stairs I saw three stallions standing around a zebra mare and what looked like her daughter. The first earth pony had a light tan coat and black mane, another one was a pegasus stallion a dark brown coat and rusty red mane, and the last one was a unicorn with a dark bluish coat and a light grey mane.

Now I’d seen plenty of zebras around in my travels. Many of the ones I had met were either traveling merchants or traders, though I’d met a couple who were herbalists or potion makes, or just wandering travelers just out there to see the world and learn new things.

I didn’t know what was going on, but I didn’t like it. This was mainly because the stallions seemed to be fairly drunk.

“Come on baby, why don’t ya stay a while and have *hic* some fun?” said the tan stallion.

“I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in your type of “fun” sir.” The zebra mare replied calmly, though I could tell there was a fair amount of annoyance in her voice. She started to turn away before the blue stallion stops her with a front hoof on her right shoulder.

“Come on now *hic* don’t *hic* be that way baby.” The blue stallion’s said for a drunken reply.

“Let go of me. I don’t want any trouble, just let me go.” The zebra mare said as she tried pull away from the stallion.

“Not so fast there lady, we’re not done.” The brown stallion said quickly stopping her with his right hoof on her left shoulder. That was the final straw.

I leapt down from the balcony and quickly walked over to them. I quickly grabbed the stallion’s shoulder.

“Hey, leave the lady alone.” I said somewhat calmly drawing the attention of the three stallions. “Just let her go. And leave her to her business.” I continued.

“Hey! Why don’t you *hic* mind your own business ya mutt!” the brown stallion replied rudely as he poked my chest with his left hoof.

“I’ll let that one go because you’re drunk.” I replied calmly to his not so subtle insult. “Just let her go and leave her be fellas.” I said giving a small smile to try to hide my irritation. This didn’t make them too happy

“Why do you care?” the tan earth pony stallion yelled at me angrily. “Why the hell should you care?! She’s a zebra!”” the unicorn stallion drunkenly said as he poked me in the chest with his hoof.

The smile disappeared from my face. I knew exactly what they meant. I had heard a few rumors about some ponies having somewhat racial prejudices toward zebras and other non-ponies, but I’d never really seen it that much before. I really did not like such ignorance coming from anyone, pony or not. And I was certainly not going to stand by and do nothing.

“I see.” I said quietly. “Now I don’t want any trouble now, but I’m not about to stand aside and let a lady be mistreated and disrespected,” I continued “whatever her race may be.” I said bluntly stepping between her and the stallions.

“Oh is that so?” the earth stallion said obliviously getting pissed. “Are you trying to be some kind of hero of the zebras or something?” he said stepping forward to try to get in my face, obviously trying to intimidate me.

“Stay behind me you two.” I quietly told the Zebra mare and her daughter. I stood on my hind legs before turning my attention back to the stallions. As I turned back to the earth stallion I got into the stallion’s face. “I’m not trying.” I said in a quiet serious tone. I must’ve had a pretty serious look in my eyes.

“Why you dirty piece of…” The stallion began to say before I cut him off while steeping closer to him.

“I know it’ll sound a bit silly, and maybe even a little cliché.” I started with before pausing briefly. “But go ahead pal, make my day.” I said angrily with the utmost seriousness in my tone as I looked him dead in the eye.

The stallion stood there for a few seconds, obviously intimidated by my actions.

“Whatever forget this, let’s go!” the tan stallion finally said angrily after a few seconds of silence. They started to turn and walk away.  I sighed with relief at this.

“Let’s go.” I said turning back to the zebra mare. “I have a few things back in the room I was staying in.  I’ll be right back.” I said before quickly leaping up the stairs toward the room I was staying in. I came back as quickly as possible

When I returned I was very relieved to see that the mare and her daughter were still there, which made me feel really relieved.

“Come let’s go. I’ll find you somewhere else to stay tonight.” I said to her quickly, giving her and her daughter a reassuring nod. “I’d rather sleep outside then stay here with such…unpleasant company myself. That is if that’s alright with you mam.” I said as I started to walk to the door.

As I was about the reach the door I felt something sharply hit me from behind. As I was hitting the floor I noticed that there were piece of a now broken chair landing on the floor around me. I knew what was happening, and it really annoyed me.

“So ya thought you could try acting like such a tough guy huh?” I heard the voice of the earth pony stallion I confronted earlier say. “You ain’t so tough now are ya mutt?” I heard the stallion say with no small amount of cockiness in his voice. And I knew what was about to happen, and what I was going to have to do. And it really annoyed me to know that.

“Well for starters, you hit like a filly.” I said as I got up off the ground and stood up on my hind legs and dusted myself off.

“But how could you…” The unicorn stallion said in shock at the fact I had just been whacked with a chair and got up like it was nothing. They didn’t know much about me and what I was like.

“If this is how you guys are going to be, then fine.” I said as I fully turned to face them, giving them a small grin in the process.

“Oh yeah tough guy, we’ll see about…” The earth stallion said as he turned to take a swing at me only to be met with a punch to the nose that sent him flying a few feet through the air before landing on the ground unconscious. Then I turned my attention back to the unicorn and pegasus stallion, looking them straight in the eye.

“So, who’s next?” I said honestly kind of hoping they’d try something.

But I could see the scared and intimidated look in their eyes. I could tell they weren’t going to dare do anything.

“Good thinking fellas.”  I said before turning and walking out the doors with the Zebra mare and her daughter.

(Just outside of the north side of the town)

We had been walking for about an hour or so and were already a few miles outside the town heading north. The mare and her daughter were walking to the right of when I realize something. I realized that I never asked the mare her name or her daughter’s name. I stopped walking and turned to the zebra mare.

“I’m sorry, but I never got your name ma’am. I ask that you forgive me for thinking of not asking earlier.”  I asked giving her a small smile to try to ease any stress she might’ve had.

“Oh uh, my name is Zamira (Za mira), and this is my daughter’s Hashina (Ha shina).”  She answered hesitantly at first, but replied politely.

“Well, it’s really nice to meet you Miss Zamira and to you too young Miss Hashina.” I said with a smile and a respectful bow. “But may I ask? What are you doing in these parts?” I inquired while trying not to sound like I was trying to pry into her personal life. I think she already knew what I was getting at. “I’m only asking because I’ve seen that there are sadly still some ponies out there that either don’t like or don’t trust, or for some other reasons have a prejudice against non-ponies just because they’re different.” I said with disappointment in my voice.

“Well I’m a traveling merchant and we had been traveling for most of the day and were looking for a place to sleep for the night.” She explained before getting a slightly depressed look on her face. “I didn’t expect to be treated so rudely.” She sadly said.

“Hehehe, don’t worry miss Zamira, I know of a place not too far from here that you’d feel much more at home in. At least until you’d want to move on and keep traveling that is.” I replied getting a small grin on my face. “And don’t worry, it’s just a little town hidden away in the forest just up the road here.” I said motioning to the forest ahead of us. “You’ll find the folks dare don’t care if you’re different, mainly because we’re all different.” I said with a chuckle. It wasn’t too long until we were entering the forest.

(About 15 minutes later)

“Halt, stay where you are!” came a voice from somewhere within the trees.

Suddenly four wolves stepped out from behind some trees. Two of them had brown fur and yellow eyes while another had grey fur and blue eyes, and the last wolf had black fur and cyan blue green eyes. All of them were standing on their hind legs and carrying spears.

“Whoa there guys, let’s calm down now.” I said stepping forward. They recognized me quickly.

“Oh Mr. Keiji, it’s you.” One of the wolves said quickly as they lowered their spears. “I’m sorry sir, we didn’t recognize you at first” said the black furred wolf.

“That’s ok my friend.” I said placing a hand (paw) his shoulder before turning toward Zamira. “This is my friend, Zamira. And I’d like for her and her daughter to be able to stay in the town for as long as she feels like.” I said motioning to said zebra mare and her daughter.

“Oh, ok then. We’ll show you the way there.” One of the wolves said as they lowered their spears and motioned for us to follow them.

We made our way through the forest pretty quickly, until we came to a small clearing. As we entered clearing ahead of us there seemed to be nothing there but the clearing. But as we kept walking we noticed there was some kind of barrier that was camouflaging something. We kept walking toward it. As we passed through the barrier we saw a town that was sprawling with wolves, ponies, and even a few zebras and griffons just going about their days. And none of them were treating the others differently or anything. I noticed that there was a look of disbelief on Zamira’s face.

“I know…” I said before pausing, trying to draw her attention to me. “It’s kinda hard to believe that all these different species can live together in peace isn’t it?” I asked with small smirk. She looked at me with surprise, almost like I she knew I knew what she was thinking.

“Yes I am surprised that such a place exists, where all can live together in peace and harmony.” She said with an almost sad tone.

“Well, we’re not perfect. We still have problems like most others.” I said chuckling at the irony. “But we do try to stay friendly, even loving toward our neighbors. Because we’ll be able to stand together when and if times get tough, knowing that we can fully trust one another, despite our many differences. And that is very encouraging.” I said with confidence in my voice.

Zamira just looked at me. She seemed extremely surprised at how honest I was being about it. She got a small smile on her face.

“I am quite impressed. I myself had heard rumors about your kind, about wolves.” She said getting an almost shamed looked on her face. “And I’m ashamed to say that I believed some of them.”  She said looking away from me. I smirked at her expression.

“It’s alright Zamira.” I said putting a hand (paw) on her shoulder. “That’s all in the past. What’s important is that you now know that those things you hear were just that, rumors. Things said by ones who don’t know us, who have never met us, wolves and or possibly any who are a different race or whatever than them.” I said giving her a reassuring smile, letting her know it was alright.

She just looked at me, clearly moved by my sympathetic and compassionate attitude toward it. Her eyes started to water before she spoke.  “Thank you Keiji. Thank you so very much. You’ve truly shown that you must never judge someone by what they look like. You’re such a…” she said trying to continue giving me praise before I cut her off with a putting a finger to her lips to stop her.

“Ah! There’s no need to sing praises toward me and my actions.” I said with a soft, kind tone. “My mother taught me from a very young age to help those in need and never care what race or tribe or anything that they were. I was honored to help you, and would be honored even more so if I could call you my friend.” I said with complete sincerity.

Her eyes started to water. Then she suddenly threw her forelegs around my neck and hugged me. I was a little surprised that she, so very quickly, accepted my friendship. I even heard her start to cry softly. “It’s ok Zamira, its ok.” I said softly patting her on the back.

Hashina even hugged me as well, wanting to also hug her mother’s new friend. “Thanks for being so nice to us mister Keiji, you’re a really nice wolf.” The zebra filly said as she continued to hug me.

I was touched by the filly’s kind and loving words. I even started to get a little teary eyed too. I was always a little embarrassed at just how emotional I could easily get some times. “Thank you Hashina, that’s very kind of you to say.” I said gently patting the filly’s head.

I gently broke out the embrace Zamira was giving me. I reached into a small pouch I had on the belt I was wearing. I pulled out a pair of necklaces made of wood with a little silver and gold on them, both with a white wolf paw mark in the center on either side of them.  “These are for you.” I said placing one on Zamira’s neck and the other on Hashina’s.

“Keiji that’s very kind of you, but you don’t need to…” Zamira started to say before I quickly cut her off.

“No I insist. This is a gift I truly want to give you.”  I said with tone that was trying to convey kindness but sternness, meaning that I wasn’t going to accept no for an answer.

“But Keiji, what are they exactly?” the zebra mare asked me looking over the necklace around her neck.

“They’re somewhat like what you’d call a “royal seal” of sorts.” I said with a small chuckle. “They’re basically to let folks in the different villages and towns of my people know that the person wearing them is a friend of someone who’s well known or greatly respected by them.” I explained.  “Basically when you wear these, it’ll let any and all wolves know that you’re my friend. And that you are to be treated with the utmost respect and kindness.” I continued. “And if necessary, protect you from harm.” I added with a fairly serious tone.

“Wait. Are you some kind chieftain or king or something?” she asked me with wide eye and an almost concerned look on her face.

“Oh, well...I’m not a king or anything like that per say, but I am quite well known and respected among my fellow wolves, both far and wide. I’ve mainly helped settle some problems and such other things here and there.” I told her not wanting sound like I was some pompous big shot. I was trying not to overwhelm her with all the things I’d seen and done.

“Well I won’t press anymore if you don’t want me to.” Zamira said with a sincere tone to her voice, clearly not wanting to offend anyone.

“Oh, it’s ok Zamira. I just didn’t want to bore you with a bunch of details and boring stuff like that. But anyway, I just wanted to give you it so that you’d to always be able to find a place that you’d feel safe and at home in.” I said trying to ease her mind. “I know it sounds pretty silly, but hey. The way I see it, I’m just being a proper gentleman.” I said with a laugh while giving a silly exaggerated bow causing Hashina to giggle. Zamira even chuckled a little at my silliness. Even a few nearby wolves laughed at my silly joke.

“But sadly I must get going Zamira.” I said somewhat sadly after looking at the large town clock that was on a nearby building. “I have some things I must tend to.”  I said with a fair amount of disappointment in my voice.

“It’s alright, I’m sure that what you need to do must be important for you to need to leave quickly.” She said with a great deal of wise and understanding in her tone. She understood that it might be really urgent or something and that I wasn’t trying to ditch her or something. It really was nice to see how understanding she was about it.

“Thank you, Zamira.” I said with a smile right as I turned to leave. “I’ll see you around Zamira.” I said as I quickly began to run off. “And I’ll defiantly make sure that I’ll come see you two again!” I yelled back to them. “And remember to take care of her guys! She’s a friend of mine!” I yelled to some of the wolves and others as I kept running.

“Don’t worry, we will boss!” I heard one of the wolves yell.

As I kept going, I felt very confident and happy in the fact of knowing things for Zamira and Hashina would be looking up now.

(End of Flashback)

“And so I was really glad I was able to leave Zamira and her daughter in safe hands, so to speak.” Keiji said finishing his little story.

“Wow.” Fluttershy said in somewhat shocked amazement. “I never knew that there ponies like that in Equestria.” She said with an almost shamed expression.

“It’s ok Fluttershy. It’s not your fault.” Keiji said putting a hand (paw) on her shoulder. “There are just those ponies out there that aren’t loving or tolerant as you.” He said putting his good paw onto her shoulder. “But don’t worry about it Fluttershy, that was in the past.” He said with a smile.

After the two of them finished their breakfast Keiji had expressed his want to go walk around the woods a little, but Fluttershy quickly sternly forbade it. She was insistent that he not be up moving around a lot or doing these that could injure his broken leg any further. Fluttershy wanted to ask if she could introduce Keiji to her friends, but she didn’t want to seem prying or disrespectful, decided not to ask just yet.

Just after they had finished breakfast and cleaned up there was a sudden knock at the door.

“Fluttershy!” called a high hyper feminine voice from the other side of the front door.  The hyper voice belonged to Fluttershy's party loving friend Pinkie Pie.

Keiji suddenly got a somewhat worried look on his face.

“What is it? What’s the matter?” Fluttershy asked him getting a little worried herself.

“Well I’m just a little worried of the reactions from the ponies of this town might have to seeing a wolf like me.” He said quietly. “And I’m not overly fond of the idea of a bunch of ponies freaking out and panicking just because I’m around here. So please Ms. Fluttershy, don’t tell anyone I’m here, at least not for a little while. Can you do that for me?” the wolf quietly asked the shy pegasus.

“O…o…ok, I’ll try my best.” The timid mare replied. She wasn’t sure of how exactly she was going to keep something like this from her friends, but she decided not to think about it too much right now.

“I’m just going to hide in the closet here until your friends gone. Just worry about your friend right now.”  Keiji said quietly with a small smile before he walked over to the nearby closet and walked into and closed the door behind him.

Fluttershy then went to her door and opened it revealing her pink party loving friend.

“Hi Fluttershy, what are you doing?!” the pink mare happily asked her shy friend.

“Oh, I was just finishing breakfast. I was going to feed the animals in just a little bit. Though I think I need to go to the market to pick up a few things.”  The shy mare told her friend.

“Oh, ok! I was just going to throw a party for somepony today. When I woke up today, I got a strange feeling that I should come see you today. I don’t know why, but my tail was twitching a bit when I woke up, though I didn’t see or hear anything fall or something. I’m not sure what it was.” The pink party pony said with her usual happy energy.

This caused Fluttershy to get a little worried. Did Pinkie somehow know about Keiji? Did she somehow know that there was someone here in her house?

“I guess it was nothing. I’ll see ya later Fluttershy.” The pink party pony said suddenly. As Pinkie turned to leave her tail started to twitch.  “What the, twitcha twitch!” she said before the twitching stopped. Suddenly there came a crashing sound from the closet.

“What was that?!” Pinkie said as she rushed over to the before Fluttershy could stop her. She flung open the closet door, only to see a few coats and other things lying on the ground. She looked from right to left but saw nothing else.

“Well, I could’ve sworn something or somepony fell. Well, I guess it was nothing.” Pinkie said in her usual happy tone before she pulled a list from behind her back. “Well I have to get going Fluttershy. I’ll see you later then!” She continued in a carefree way, before zooming past Fluttershy and out the door, door shutting behind here, no doubt off to her next little thing on her list for the day.

Fluttershy just stood there almost 30 seconds after Pinkie left. It never completely ceased to amaze her at how just crazy and random Pinkie could be.

“Is she gone?” a voice coming from the closet asked that belonged to a certain wolf.

“Um…yes…she’s gone.” Fluttershy replied as she turned back toward the closet.

She turned toward the closet to see Keiji climbing down from the ceiling of the closet. He first lowered himself down while hanging onto a small rafter with his right paw until his back feet were on the ground.

“Well I’m glad she didn’t see me.” Keiji said with a small chuckle. “Judging by how hyper she seemed, she might’ve run off and told of every pony in town about me, which might cause a lot of panicking.”  He said with relief evident in his voice.

“Yes, you’re probably right.” The shy mare said in reply.

“Don’t feel too bad Fluttershy. It’s not like you were lying to her.” He said in an almost nonchalant way. “You’re just trying to keep a secret for another friend, a friend who doesn’t want cause a scene.” The wolf said in an almost nonchalant tone.  “So there’s really nothing to be unhappy about.” He said confidently.

Keiji noticed though that his words didn’t seem make her feel any less conflicted.

“Anyway, how long do you think I’ll have to wear this splint on my leg?” he asked trying to change subjects.

“Oh, well your leg luckily didn’t seem to have been really badly. It looked like the bone was more bruised or badly sprained, than actually being fully broken.” The shy mare said very clearly, to Keiji’s surprise. “You shouldn’t have to wear it for more than a week or so.” She said calmly.

“Well, that doesn’t sound so bad.”  The wolf said optimistically.

“Well….my friends tend to visit almost every day.” Fluttershy said quietly, to a bit of Keiji’s dismay.

“Oi, this is going to be a long week.” He said lightly smacking his paw to his forehead.

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