The Monster Hunter

by the ninja king

The History Lesson (edit)

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Mrs. Cheerilee was walking towards the school, wearing a white t-shirt and black pants, admiring the sun just peeking over the horizon, shining it's golden rays on the school, at least until she spotted Spike in some green sweat pants and a blue hoodie, doing some stretches. "Hey Mrs. Cheerilee, what's up?"

"Not much, but don't you think you're here a bit too early? It's only 8 o'clock, and school doesn't start for another hour," Cheerilee explained. "You did know that, right?"

"Nope," Spike said, as he picked up his left leg and he grabbed it, pulling it behind his back.

"Well, you can keep doing that while I go inside and get ready for school," Mrs. Cheerilee said, as she flew off to the school house, leaving Spike to his stretches for a good thirty minutes to practice acrobatics. He did flips, swung on tree branches, and showed how flexible his body was. It was when he was on a tree branch when he spotted Apple Bloom walking towards the schoolhouse, wearing a pink short-sleeve shirt and black sweat pants, and decided to drop in, by running through the tree branches and landing near the door of the school house.

"Hey Apple Bloom," Spike said, just as she was walking up the stairs.

"Hey Spike," Apple Bloom said, smiling. "What're you doing here?"

"Well, I'm here to teach your class about monster history and the origin of monster hunters."

"Cool! Well, I'm going inside to get ready for class," Apple Bloom said, as she went inside, leaving Spike to wait and watch as the kids arrived for the school day.

"Class!" Mrs. Cheerilee said, quieting the class, "Today, Spike is going to give you a lesson about monster history and why monster hunters exist." When she finished, the kids started talking about how awesome it is that Spike's going to be teaching them, at least until Spike himself walked in, and everything went quiet. "Kids, why don't you introduce yourselves to Spike?" Mrs. Cheerilee suggested.

"I'm Diamond Tiara," The twin-headed chimera wearing a black t-shirt with blue jeans said, pointing to her lion head that had a purple mane with a thick white stripe wearing a tiara with diamonds in it. "And I'm Silver Spoon," she said, pointing to her goat head with glasses and silver hair.

"My name is Snips," a chubby zombie with orange hair, a brown t-shirt, and blue jeans said.

"And I am Snails," another, taller zombie with purple hair, a black shirt, and black pants said.

"I'm Twist," the cupid with glasses, a green shirt, and black pants said.

"Name's Scootaloo," the harpy with purple hair, a red t-shirt, and black pants said.

"I'm Sweetie Bell," the vampire with purple and pink hair, a big black hat, a green long sleeve shirt, and blue jeans said.

"My name is Pipsqueak," the Hyde (Jekyll and Hyde) monster with chocolate brown hair, black shirts, and blue jeans said.

"I am Rumble," the Tengu with black pants and a blue shirt with a gray silver mane said.

"And I already know Apple Bloom," Spike said, as the kids gasped in awe, looking at the werewolf with a blush on her face. "Ok. Now that I know everyone, let’s start the lesson, and be sure to raise your hand if you have a question. Around two billion years ago, monsters started civilizations calling themselves Pure Bloods, but don't ask me why, they just did. But unlike today, where there's a mix of many kinds of monsters in nearly every town, each one housed only one type of monster, even though there wasn't any hate between any of them, well except for the harpies and tengus, they're the exception," Spike finished, just as everyone but Scootaloo and Rumble raised their hands.

"Harpies and Tengus are the only monsters that only have one gender in their species, so they breeded with each other," He continued, quelling the questions of all but one of the students. "Yes, Pipsqueak?"

"Do you know if the first Cities those monsters built are still around today?" He asked.

"Yep. And many still live there, even today," Spike said, as Pipsqueak's hand went down. "Ok. A thousand years later, monsters started to live together and crossbreeds started to pop up. Fast forward another six thousand years, and monsters built huge cities with huge populations. One day 'The Great Mutation' occurred," Spike paused, all of the kids' hands went up and he turned to see Mrs. Cheerilee raising her hand as well. "Alright everyone 'The Great Mutation' was when a great many non-monsters were born." When he finished, everyone's hands went down. "During 'The Great Mutation,' for every 600 monsters that was born, fifty of each non-monster was born as well: ponies, dragons, and changelings, which each had three types for each of them as well. Some can cast magic: ponies that can do it are called unicorns, the dragons are called magic dragons, and the changelings are called magic masters. Others can fly: ponies are called pegasi, dragons are called wyverns, and changelings are called sky masters. And the last of the bunch were very strong compared to ones that can fly or cast spells: the ponies are called earth ponies, the dragons are called drakes, and the changelings are called earth masters." Sweetie Bell raised her hand when Spike was finished talking. "Yes, Sweetie Bell?"

"What kind of dragon are you?" She asked.

"Well, I am a magic dragon," Spike said, with a slight chuckle as he levitated the apple on Cheerilee’s desk. "And in case you're wondering, I'm very a strong magic user." When Spike finished, he dropped the apple and continued on with the lesson. "Monsters treated non-monsters extremely poorly, often calling them impure. So, after 20 years of insults, all of the non-monsters left to where they live now. The Monsters knew about the land, but they thought it was cursed because the elders of each race said that it kills anything that came to it. So, the non-monsters founded six lands in which each race claimed as their capital, with most of their population being only that species." When he finished, Apple Bloom raised her hand. "Yes, Apple Bloom?"

"What are the kingdoms' names?"

"Well, we are in Equestria. The zebras called their kingdom 'The Desert of a Thousand Miles' because it's mostly desert, griffins just call it 'The Griffon Kingdom,' and yeah, I know, how original, but it's mostly hills and very rocky terrain. The dragons called their kingdom 'The Sea of Mountains' because, like in the name, there are a lot of mountains. The changelings called there kingdom 'The Badlands' and even though it's a decayed land, lots of people can still live there. And lastly the Minotaur’s called their kingdom 'Mega Mines' because of their numerous quarries and mines within their mountains. And in case you're wondering about monster kingdoms, they're named after the monster citadel there." When Spike finished Apple Bloom's hand went down. "Ok, back to history. Non-monsters lived peacefully for over two thousand years until the monsters found them and started to invade, trying to take over, but they were met with heavy resistance and stared 'The Great War'. During the war, non-monsters never went to the monster lands because they knew that they could wait them out and they knew that monster cites are old, so they were defended better. Something I forget to say a while ago is that some spells were exclusive to each species: like changelings can do transformative magic. But that changed a hundred years later, when four masters of magic were born: Starswirl the Bearded, a very powerful unicorn, The dragons Fire and Ice, twins that were just as powerful as Star Swirled, and Shane, one of the most powerful changelings during her time. They were all not only great friends and masters of magic, but they also made a vow to make the line of who can do what magic disappear, and in thirty years, they learned magic that they couldn't cast before and taught it to every non-monster that they could. This helped non-monsters a great deal because they were in need of more guards to defend themselves until the magic users learned each type of magic and was able to defend more with less guards, making them more fortified and able to attack the monsters that made outpost in their nations, swiftly taking back their land. But that didn't stop monsters from their attack for over three hundred years, when many of the monsters stopped their attacks and their citizens started to live there, and the non-monsters never attacked the towns until much later, when the first monster hunters appeared." When Spike finished that sentence Scootaloo's hand shot up. "Yes, Scootaloo?"

"Who started the monster hunters and who made your group?" She asked.

"Well extremists started monster hunters, killing anyone they saw to be a danger. But mine was made by people who think that killing the wicked monsters might make peace with the monsters that, too, want peace," Spike said, as a bell rang, signaling the end of the early school day. The kids ran out of room with joy, saying thank you to Spike for telling them so many things that helped shape the world that they live in. And as Spike said his goodbye to Mrs. Cheerilee and walked back to Bloodville for some lunch, he was stopped by a note that his mother sent him. "Huh, I wonder what mom wants," Spike said to himself.

My son, your bow and weapons you asked for will be coming very soon. Love, mom
Spike smiled and continued his walk to Bloodville.


Author's Note

I am going to have a vote on what type bow the Spike uses and you can vote for a cross bow, longbow, compound bow, or recruve bow.

edits done by beirrangu and Blazing Light.

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