My Little Pony: The Silvermane

Fluttershy sat in her living room upon the couch Paul usually slept on, the yellow pegasus mare looking nervous as she twiddled her thumbs and gazed at the old wooden clock on her wall, watching time tick on by. She was getting more worried as she noticed it had just passed by the four o'clock in the afternoon mark and Paul, who should of been back by now, had not turned up. "Oh dear... I do hope everything has gone okay..." Almost as if the universe had decided to answer her question for her, a loud knocking was heard at the front door, catching Fluttershy's attention. She got to her hooves slowly and made her way to the door, opening it ever so slightly and glancing outside, "H-hello, can I..." She began before freezing up and her eyes going wide at what she saw...

There, to the mare's utter horror, stood a half bandaged, nude and visibly mutilated figure, whose face, what could be seen through the poorly wrapped bandages, was like something out of a Hellraiser movie, with exposed muscle under torn flesh and missing lips to boot.  Needless to say, Fluttershy's scream could be heard all throughout Ponyville, only ending when she fell backwards and landed on the ground with a heavy thud after passing out from the shock...

"Huh... You would think she saw a ghost or something..." Paul mumbled with a slight slur, his face slowly fixing itself even as he spoke, before casually stepping over the unconscious mare's body and tried to close the front door, only to find he couldn't since her hooves were in the way. "Guh... More work..."

'I would hardly call what you have done today work... Exercise that you very much needed, yes, but work...'  Mr Happy snarked at the back of Paul's mind, judging Paul as he knelt down and gently hooked his arms under Fluttershy's and dragged her inside a short way, then let her back down on the ground before shutting the front door. 'You could at least-'

"What? She is surprisingly heavy, I spent the last few hours running away from a crazed vet who can't take 'I am NOT an animal!' for an answer and to cap it off... I am hurt, hungry and tired... Not even in that order..." Paul grumbled, speaking out loud, much to the confusion of the one or two critters that had poked their little heads into the living room to see what was going on.

One of said critters was Angel Bunny who, upon seeing Fluttershy, went into an almost adorable frenzy, leaping at Paul and latching onto his left leg before sinking his teeth into his ankle... Which seemed to have no effect on the man. Paul glanced down at the bunny and tilted his head to the side, his blue eyes unblinking as he reached down and gripped Angel by the scruff of his neck and lifting him up so they were face to face.

"Ah... What have we here? A late night snack for the wolves? Best put you outside where you belong..." Paul said in a cheerful, slurred tone before walking to the door with Angel Bunny still struggling like mad to escape from his grip, but having no luck. After a few moments of exiting Fluttershy's cottage and walking around the building so he got a good view of the Everfree forest Paul looked down once more at his arch-nemesis with a lipless grin, "Next stop... Hell. When you get there, tell em Paul Silvermane sent ya, you little rodent!"

'Paul! No! What the fuck are you doing?!' Mr Happy shouted at the back of Paul's mind, only able to watch on as he held the now terrified bunny up and let him fall... Before punting the white furball into the forest a good distance. Paul whistled loudly and clicked his tongue, "Now... Bed..." He strolled back towards the front door of Fluttershy's cottage, a certain spring in the naked humans step, but stopped as the sound of beating wings reached his ears, making him look up at a certain rainbow maned mare.

"What the buck is going on here?! I heard screaming, so you better tell me where Fluttershy you stu-stu-stupid... monkey...?" Rainbow Dash managed to stutter out as Paul looked up at her, his ruined face having very much the same effect on her as it did on Fluttershy. The brave pegasus that had flown down to check on her friend found her courage fail her at the hideous sight below her, fainting dead away mid air and landing with a loud thud a few feet below on the grass.

"Huh, my grandmother did say I had looks that could make a girl swoon..." Paul chuckled as he casually gripped Rainbow Dash's legs and dragged her towards the slightly ajar door to the cottage, not caring as the unconscious pegasus smacked her head off the step before placing her on top of Fluttershy in a compromising position.

'Ok, I'll ignore the fact that you probably just killed an innocent animal, and that your leaving Fluttershy on the floor... But why the hell are you leaving Rainbow Dash in a position like that?'

"Because, Mr Happy, I only promised to 'try' and act normal again, also, fuck Dash... Monkey my left ass cheek..." He yawned loudly and blinked a few times, feeling his body sway slightly where he stood, "Enough angry time... Time for sleep." He mumbled before staggering over to the couch and face planted onto the piece of furniture and letting sleep take his battered form.

The sound of shocked gasps and yelps of panic woke Paul the next morning, the man groaning as he ran a hand over his face carefully, thankful to find that even though it was still tender in places, he was nearly fully healed, even his lips having regrown.

"Thank fuck I no longer look like Pinhead's inbred cousin..." He mumbled to himself as he rolled off the couch with a thud, landing on the floor, before getting to his feet and tugging the worn bandages from his body and tossing them on the couch. Paul glanced over to where he had left the two pegasi mares last night and found them both stumbling to their hooves,  their cheeks burning red as they avoided each others gaze.

"Hey!" Rainbow Dash shouted as her eyes caught sight of him, ignoring the fact he was naked once more, "What the buck happened last night?! I remember hearing Fluttershy screaming and-" She stopped as her reddish-pink eyes caught sight of the torn and discarded bandages on the couch, "Wait a second! You were the one that knocked me out last night!" She started to stomp towards Paul, snorting loudly as her anger increased in leaps and bounds.

Paul, noticing the look of murder in Rainbow Dash's eyes, began to back away, flashing a nervous smile, "Um... Listen, yesterday was kinda rough, got shot off a catapult and ended up at a vet of all places... So lets not lose our heads here." He raised his hands in mock surrender as he kept backing away till his back hit the wall beside the kitchen door. 'Oh shit...! Happy, what the fuck can I do now?!' He thought, his blue eyes wide with fear as the irritated pegasus approached him.

'SnAp heR neck LikE a TwiG!' The dark, twisted sound of a new voice assaulted his mind, making him yell out loud in pain as the voice brought about sharp stabbing pains in his head. He clutched at the sides of his head and slide to the floor, groaning loudly as his breathing grew ragged, the room around him seemed to blur and even the sounds of Rainbow and Fluttershy becoming muffled.

'Mr Happy! Wha-?!' He screamed inside his head just as the pain began to recede, his entire body relaxing as he panted, "what...?" Paul mumbled as he glanced around, his vision coming back fully now, his gaze finding Both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy stood over him, both with looks of concern on their faces.

'You are one lucky fuck, it took a lot out of me keeping that splinter locked away... You really need to sit down with me and work this out sometime, maybe even ask Princess Luna to-' Mr Happy's voice whispered from the back of his mind, his words soothing his psyche as he spoke.

'Who or what was that? It sounded pissed and... Oh god, it wanted me to...' Paul shivered as he slowly staggered to his feet, finding a helping hand from Rainbow Dash hooking around his right arm to help steady him while Fluttershy rushed into the kitchen, saying something about 'medicine'.

"Hey, you ok buddy?" Rainbow Dash asked, cocking an eyebrow and looking him up and down slowly as she asked, slowly pulling her hand away from his arm once he was steady.

"Y-yeah, just a bit of a headache. It is probably some left over side effect from skidding on my face..."

"Well, look on the bright side, at least you can't get any uglier monkey boy..." She said as she flicked his nose before making her way to the front door and taking off into the sky with one beat of her wings.

"Bitch..." Paul mumbled under his breath, before making his way over to his bag that still sat beside the couch and tugging it open, pulling out a purple button up shirt and slipping it on. After he slipped on some a pair of black pants and purple socks he made his way into the kitchen, finding Fluttershy sat at the kitchen table, having what looked like a panic attack.

"Um... Fluttershy? You ok?"

"Oh, Paul... While I was looking around for some pain killers for you, I noticed that Angel Bunny was nowhere to be seen! I have asked my other little animal friends and they don't know where he is either..."

'Aw balls... Why did you let me do that Mr Happy? First you let me kill small animals and then you let psychotic personalities have free reign.' He thought as he moved to stand beside the miserable looking pegasus, who had just began crying, tears running down her cheeks as she sniffled. 'Huh... For some reason I feel like somewhere, somehow, someone is cursing me for making her die...'

'I did try to stop you, but as usual you ignored the advice given... And as for 'him', don't worry too much. He is locked away for now, so as long as you keep calm you will be fine.' Paul felt something twinge at the back of his head, as though he had been clipped round the back of his head. 'No one is out to get you... Well, not yet anyway, but it is still early days. Now, you can either be honest with her and tell her what you did, or you can be a dick and deny any kno-'

'Easy way out it is!'

"Fluttershy... I am sorry to hear that, but maybe he just decided to... I don't know, move on?" Paul said softly, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder as she looks up at him with her glistening eyes. "He is old enough to make his own choices, and maybe he just chose to seek out his own way, you know?"

'You are so going to hell... And I hope you get the worst punishments on offer there, you dick...'

Fluttershy looked down at the table for a short time, before taking a deep breath and smiling sadly, "Yes... Maybe your right, he is a grown bunny now, and I am sure Angel can handle himself ok on his own."

'I fucking hope not... My whole story rides on him being dog shit by now...' Paul grumbled in his head while outside he wore a smile, nodding down at her, "Indeed, so lets not get ourselves down, we should celebrate! I think-"

The sound of knocking rang out through the house, making both pony and man turn to look through the kitchen door and out at the front door where the noise issued from. After a few moments of silence another series of knocks, these ones more rapid in delivery, landed on the door. Paul rolled his eyes and, after giving Fluttershy's shoulder one more gentle squeeze, he made his way to the front door, opening it wide to reveal the knocker to be none other then Ponyville's resident dragon, Spike.

"Can I help you scales, or do you just like hammering away at people's doors at...?" Paul glanced behind him over to above the fireplace at the old wooden clock.  "Eleven in the morning?"

"Well good morning to you too... Twilight sent me round to see if you were ok and if so, to take you on to your second day of punishment." Spike said, glancing up and down Paul casually before reaching up and poking Paul's chest with his finger, "You at least look better then last night..."

"Wait... You saw me last night?"

"Um, yeah? All of Ponyville saw you running through town naked, being chased by the vet..."

"So all of Ponyville saw me running away, ass naked and looking like a complete cenobite tit, and not one of you bothered to do anything?! Oh god... Please tell me I can come back from this without looking like an idiot, Scales, please!"

Spike chuckled nervously and rubbed the back of his neck while looking away from Paul, "Well..."

"Aw come on Paul! It isn't that bad I swear!" The young dragon shouted after the man, who was presently making his way towards the market in the middle of Ponyville, ignoring the manner stares and whispered comments about him.

"Spike..." Paul stopped dead in the middle of the street, causing Spike to walk into the back of him. "I am going to go give Applesauce a piece of my mind, then I am going to go and continue my day as though I wasn't stuck in a completely different world, where I am getting karma smacked daily and slowly losing my mind..."

"Um, her name is actually Applej-"

"It doesn't matter what her name is! That bloody hick took me to a vet to treat what could of been a life threatening injury, who the hell does that?!"

"Well, on my birthday last year..." Spike began, looking down at his clawed feet as he spoke, "I kinda lost myself to my greed and Twilight had to take me to the vet too... Paul?" The young dragon blinked as he looked around, noticing that his companion had already continued on his way. "Hey! Wait for me...!"

Applejack handed over a large, brown bag filled to the brim with shiny red apples over her stall to Berry Punch, a plum colored earth pony who smiled warmly to the farm pony and handed over the bits for the apples.

"Thanks Applejack, hope to see you and your brother down at my bar at some point... Not seen either of you since that party a few months back where Rainbow Dash-"

Applejack blushed and shook her head, chuckling nervously as she looked everywhere but at Berry Punch, "Yeah, well... This apple buckin' season has me an' Big Mac working somethin' fierce." She sighed softly before shooting Berry a small smile, "Big Mac an' me will try an get down when w- oh darn..."

"Hmm?" Berry Punch followed the apple farmers gaze and turned around, noticing the towns newest resident walking towards them, a neutral expression on his face. "Oh! Its whats his name... Silvermane, right? Wonder what he wants?"

Applejack didn't reply, her eyes wide and her pupils shrunk down to pin points as she felt a sinking feeling growing in her stomach at the mans approach.

"Hello random pony... Hello Applejack..." Paul said coldly as he stood beside Berry Punch at the stall, his eyes glaring at Applejack all the while, more or less blanking out the other pony beside him. "You and I need to talk, alone, about where to take an injured person in times of emergency..."

'Paul... You need to be careful what you say, as anything you say will-' Mr Happy starts to say but stops suddenly, before sighing loudly, 'You aren't even listening are you?'

"What the hell?! The vets? Really? I was missing half my face and chest flesh and you take me to a bloody vet?! That bitch was crazy..." Paul glanced around shiftily, looking uneasy and twitchy for a moment, "I still feel like she is hunting me... Waiting to give me those injections..."

Applejack calmed down rapidly as she watched Paul going on with himself, making her raise an eyebrow to his words, "Um... Sugar cube? The vet ain't out ta get you, and what the hay were you expecting Mac and me to do? We don't know nothing about if our treatments are the same as ya own..." The farm pony adopted a frown on her face as she pushed her stetson back before leaning forwards to stare at Paul, "Ya'll should be thankin' me and Big Mac for even botherin to take ya to get seen to, most ponies in their right minds would of left your sorry hide in the street..."

Paul flinched a little at Applejack's statement, 'The ponies would of just left me there...?' He thought to himself as he stepped back, nearly bumping into an out of breath Spike who had run up behind him.

"Finally! I *huff* caught up with you..." Spike said between breaths, his eyes glancing between Paul, then to Berry Punch and Applejack. "Um, did I miss anything?"

"Come on Spike... I have a job to do..." Paul said quietly, not lifting his gaze from the floor as he turned, nodding to the young dragon, "Lead on, because hell if I remember where that club house is..."

Spike blinked before heaving a heavy sigh, "Fine, its this way... See you later Applejack!" He waved to her as he walked off, leading Paul off down the road towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Berry Punch, who had been standing by the stall silently, watched the young drake and the man leave, before turning her gaze to the apple farmer, "Don't you think that was a little harsh? Yeah, the guy isn't making the best impressions around Ponyville, but still..." The plum colored pony shrugged, "He isn't the worst that I have seen, I will just say that. Thanks for the apples, and remember, I hope to see you in my bar at some point..." She flashed Applejack a wink before turning and walking off, disappearing into the small crowd that milled around the small market square.

"Ah know... Ah know he doesn't mean ta act like that..." Applejack said under her breath, a sad look upon her features as she leaned on the stall, shaking her head as she waited for her next customer.

It took Spike and Paul a good twenty minutes to make their way to the Crusader's clubhouse, both males having kept to themselves and not talking. Paul wasn't talking, as his thoughts went back to what Applejack had said, and Spike wasn't talking since he still felt just a tad uncomfortable around the werewolf.

"Hey! You three in there? No? Oh well, best go home..." Paul said before turning to leave, not even waiting for a response.

"Yeah, we're here alright!" Came Applebloom's voice from the clubhouse, seconds before she opened the front door and peered out, smiling cheerfully at both Spike and Paul.

"Bugger..." Paul muttered under his breath before taking a deep breath and releasing it slowly.

'Keep calm, Paul, You will be-ShOw theM YOur trUe ColorS!'

Paul gritted his teeth, his back still to the clubhouse and everyone present as his body shook faintly, his teeth feeling slightly sharper to him as he kept taking short and shallow breaths, slowly calming down and trying to ignore the now terrifying voice inside his head that wasn't Mr Happy. 'Happy... For the love of god, keep whatever is wrong with me in check, at least till I am not around anyone else... Fuck, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I snapped and-'

Paul felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and soon the voice of Mr Happy returned, sounding weary, 'I wont let that happen idiot... I would make you suffer brain death before that, I promise you...'

"Mr Paul?" Sweetie Belle spoke from beside Paul, her voice laced with concern as she looked up at him, "Are you ok? Your shaking."

"Oh come on Sweetie! He is just being a baby because we proved our catapult worked yesterday, isn't that right Grandpa?" Scootaloo teased from beside Applebloom at the clubhouse door, the orange pegasus filly giggling and wearing a smug grin as Applebloom joined her in her amusement along with Spike.

Paul sighed and looked down at Sweetie Belle and smiled weakly, "Yeah... Runty is right, I am just feeling a little salty about being wrong, that's all... honest." He kept on a brave face, knowing it wasn't right to lie to them, but what else could he do.

"If your sure Mr Paul..." Sweetie said before moving over to Spike and smiling happily, "Are you here to play with us today too?"

Spike smiled back at Sweetie Belle and shrugged, glancing to Paul as he spoke, "Twilight gave me the day off to keep an eye on him so he doesn't do anything dumb so... Yeah, I guess I can hang around."

"Guh, boring! Lets get this over with, we haven't even come up with anything to do today to get our cutie marks!" Scootaloo said before rolling her eyes and heading back inside the clubhouse, before being followed by Applebloom who just shrugged.

"Come on inside, I am sure you will both fit... I think?" Sweetie said as she went up the ramp to the clubhouse and went inside, leaving Paul and Spike staring at the door.

"Um... You first, I insist..." Spike tried to say, but found himself being pushed forward as Paul moved behind him and began shoving him up the ramp.

"Ladies first, Scales..."

"My name is Sp- Oof!" Spike managed before being pushed through the open door and landing on his face.

Paul chuckled lightly as he made his way inside, having to duck down and squeeze through the door just to get into the clubhouse, and once inside he had to stay crouched. "Huh... Not a bad place, reminds me of something I had when I was younger." He said more to himself then anyone present, his gaze traveling around the clubhouse interior, noticing the many maps, failed plans and other drawings that were pinned to the many walls.

"Hmm... Hey! I've got an idea! Lets all tell stories? Like, funny things that happened ta us or our kin and maybe even some scary like stories?" Applebloom said as she stood at the top of a square table, with Sweetie Belle on her left and Scootaloo on her right. "We could get our story teller cutie marks?"

The two other fillies nodded their heads and turned to look at Spike and Paul expectantly, leaving an awkward silence slowly filling the room.

"Um... What?" Paul asked, raising an eyebrow as he looked at the three ponies, unsure what they were doing.

"Duh! Your the guest, so you have to tell us a story first, then Spike and then us, its only fair." Scootaloo said, still grinning as the three Crusaders took a seat on the floor and waited, all looking to Paul.

"Guh, fine... Ok, story story... Um... OH! I know, there is one legend told through my family, but I think you might all be a little young to-" He didn't bother finishing his sentence as four sets of eyes glared at him, making him raise his hands in mock surrender.  "Ok, fine... Let me tell you all the tale of 'The White Death'..."

To Be Continued...