Alexander the Alpha

The next day Alexander, Thomspon, Daring and Fang exited the temple and after saying their goodbyes  to Daring Alexander looked at Fang. “So where do we need to go?”

She pointed at a mountain in the distance. “That’s where the Diamond dog capital is.” When she looked back she saw both Alexander and Thompson look mouth agape at the mountain.

“Damn, that’s not a little walk!” Alexander exclaimed followed by Thompson letting out a small symphony of shrieks, growl, moans and clicking sounds. Fang looked at Thompson confused as to what he was trying to say.

“He says we can forget that he is going to carry us all the way to the mountain,” Alexander translated what the raptor wanted to say. Living with a Hentzal raptor almost 24/7 had his perks you learned their little language a little bit how strange that also sounded.

“Well he wouldn’t have been able to carry anyone either way the branches are too low in the jungle and besides it’s much better to stay as low as possible with all the strange creatures living in the jungle as it is whilst we know most of them even to these days new creatures are discovered not many of them a whole lot better than those we already know of.”

“Mind telling me the major threats we can face in the jungle,” Alexander asked really wanted to know what he needed to worry about and about what not.

“There too many creatures to name, but the most dangerous ones would be the Manticores, the timber wolves, the cockatrice those are the worst the others like Ursa’s and dragons are bigger and more dangerous, but also rarer so we shouldn’t walk into one anytime soon and if one shows up they are big and we are small so plenty of place to hide besides that dragons prefer gems over meat,” Fang explained she was so into her small explanations she didn’t notice Alexander looking at her with open mouth and Thomson looked uneasy at the mention of dragons.

Alexander had seen a lot an even more, but these creatures she talked about where nothing else besides myths except the ursa’s he had never heard of those  and he knew a few dragons not the giant flying fire breathing reptiles, but he had heard of Dragon raptors and let’s say he had no good experiences with them. The Dragon raptors were double the size both in height and length of Thompson and had the ability to breath fire, but their most annoying personality feature would need to be their absolute despise of everything besides their own kind even against other raptors they were vicious.

Fang had noticed that Alexander was daydreaming and Thompson shaking in what looked fear. ‘heh he is scared of something,' Fang thought in herself.

“Uhm with dragons do you mean uhm the giant fire breathing reptiles,” Alexander asked.

“Of course silly how many other fire breathers do you know besides unicorns and their magic?” fang asked rather curious.

“Well, we don’t have the dragons you mean anywhere, but we have Dragon raptors who are bigger than a Hentzal raptor and can breath fire then there are Aqua dragonises who are basically long, big snake like creature with small claws and who can breath fire uhm let me think and just to empathize my point that there are quite a few there are Dragon terranadis who look a bit humanoid only bigger and bulkier so yeah we do have a couple and there are more with the name dragon in and even more with the word dragon not in it.”

Fang was awestruck they only had two types of fire breathers she knew off and those caused enough problems as it was and ponies were by far not as frightening as the creatures he had told of sounded definitely the Dragon raptor as Thompson had scared her to death and even now was making her slightly uncomfortable and seemingly this dragon raptor was bigger, longer and far more hostile than Thompson even making said raptor nervous just by the mentioning of their names.

“If you don’t mind me asking, but Thompson looks rather nervous when you mentioned these dragon raptors mind telling me why?” Fang asked curiously.

“No, not at all you see the federation I work for controls numerous planets sometimes I work interplanetary, but most of the times I stick to the plant I live called Obrimar now to give you a picture of the planet it is a wild planet with very few big cities and metropolis and those we have are far apart from each other most o the times people live in small villages. The planet contains a lot of nature with plants and animals unique to Obrimar.

Obrimar was a place all the criminals were sent to as punishment on times the prisons got full that isn’t now anymore I add, but it is still a place where many criminals go into hiding as it is nearly impossible to find them in the wild nature the planet has and most of the times they are probably eaten by an animal or plant sooner or later so we don’t worry too much about escaped criminals as the nature is basically a death sentence there if you don’t know how to survive in it,” Alexander explained.

“A lot like the everfree forest then it seems the dark spot in beautiful Equestria,” Fang said spitting out the last world in disgust.

“I don’t know much about Equestria, but I assume you don’t like it’s rulers much.”

You could put it like that stupid ponies always stick their nose where it doesn’t belong and a lot of them are rascists distrust every race besides themselves yet dare to claim this is their land,” Fang snorted annoyed her voice getting louder and louder nearing the end of her little rant.

Both Thompson and Alexander looked awestruck at her not having expected this kind of outburst. “Wow, it seems someone dislikes ponies. I had never imagined mere ponies to annoy a predator that much,” Alexander said slightly playfully.

“Well, there are a few good ones, but most are either annoying or absolute snobs definitely in Canterlot where there are a lot of nobles and they have magic I mean what do you want me or other predators to do against that,” Fang replied stuttering and also slightly embarrassed she had let her feelings get the best off of her again.

“I can hardly imagine their magic is such a burden you can’t get a single one of them in service.”

“We do get ones mostly earth ponies because they lack the magic of unicorns and the ability to fly like of pegasi, but there the most useless of all for what we need. Manual labor is something we can do too. We need unicorns for tracking gems and pegasi for aerial transport as the everfree is just too dangerous to transport gems with ground routes.”

The two were walking through the jungle and neared a small clearing with a temple in it much smaller than any of the temple sin the complex, but for a temporary shelter it would do. “We should set up camp there,” Alexander pointed out. Fang merely nodded in agreement.

The two made a small bonfire and found some berries to eat so after taking a drink from the water bottle Alexander brought and ate a bit of fruits Fang gathered the three just looked at the night sky.

“You know about the ponies we don’t exactly hire them,” Fang said stuttering trying to find the best approach to tell him she didn’t knew how his species looked at slavery.

“They’re slaves aren’t they,” Alexander said more as a statement than a question.

“Yes, we need hose gems it’s the way our economy survives and we diamond dogs just don’t have the kind of magic to trace the gems in the ground like the ponies do and we also don’t possess wings like pegasi for air transport from the mines in the everfree to our settlements. Please don’t think badly about our kind even if our ways are ifferent from most creatures in Equestria,” Fang said sadly it was difficult for a diamond dog to admit this, but whilst she barely knew this stranger he had saved her from Ahuitzotl and helped her get back to her people with seemingly no interest in a reward besides not being shot on sight.

Alexander looked at the sad diamond dog he could sense how hard it would need to b for the diamond dog to admit that he could knew it he had dealt with people who had such problems before granted most of the times he shot those people on sight because they were his enemies, but hey a man got to do what a man got to do right?

“Listen uhm Fang the federation I work for looks down upon slavery,” He started this caused Fang’s ears to drop knowing that he probably didn’t want anything more with her or the others to do. “However the federation is no fool on some planets who are too distant for quick aid slavery is just necessary for their economy to survive I would even lie if I said my home planet Obrimar didn’t have slavery,” Alexander finished.

“So you aren’t to outright hate us for having slaves in order for our economy to survive?”

“Yeah pretty much if you got to do something you got to do something who can claim he fights for justice by setting free slaves if that acts has as a result of others being forced into a life of poverty.

There was a small silence between the two of them that was broken by Fang. “You know you are an alright guy you just seemed to digest something that ponies failed to understand or centuries,” Fang said whilst giving him a warm smile.

“How come you guys need slave for such a long time if it is for economic reasons only?”

“Lots of bad stuff happened in the past none of which stupid ponies would know of or even bother asking, but things happened let’s keep it at that or the time being alright,” Fang replied trying to drop the subject.

“Very well, I think we can all agree that we have more pressing matters for the moment than to think about the past like finding a way to a city or to find away to create a pizza in my case,” Alexander replied causing Fang to chuckle as she wondered how the man could possible keep thinking about so called pizza’s even when he was in the middle of the jungle in unknown territory.

“We take watches alright I will go first, then you and finally Thompson sounds good with you?”

“Yeah alright as long as Thompson doesn’t snap at me or something hen waking him up,” Fang replied earning her a smile from Alexander.

“No worries I think you are on his good side for the time being.”

Fang gave him a weak smile before laying down and drifting off into a deep slumber.

She was being shaken with when she opened her eyes she looked into the face of Alexander who placed a much telling finger over his mouth. She nodded her head as a sign she understood she needed to be quite.

He allowed her to stand up and motioned her to follow he carefully sneaked towards a small wall with a hole in it when she arrived he motioned her to look through the hole. When she did se saw about 5 Timberwolves patrolling the foot of the temple they were sleeping in.

“Mind explaining what those things are?” Alexander asked whispering not scared, but extremely confused sure he had seen strange animals, but once made off of wood that was new even to him.

“Timberwolves very bad don’t possess a known weak point a stabbing the thing won’t do anything since they’re made out of wood.”

“How do you deal with them then?”

“I heard a story about a baby dragon or so hitting a combined one with a rock somewhere in it’s mouth which caused it to fall apart for some reason, but even if we figure out how he did that these are small ones it’s unlikely to do that with these smaller ones. I heard ponies often times try to hit them really hard which causes them to fall apart however that won’t work on these ones!”

“Why not?”

“These Timberwolves made out of different wood then those of ponies. These ones are more resilient we would need some kind of ram for these ones.”

“A ram you say? You think a raptor will work too?”

“Raptor what are you oh yeah Thompson could work, but the remaining members would jump him before he could react after hitting the first one. We could use fire,” Fang proposed.

“No, if any of those things run in the jungle while burning we could start a fire and I don’t think we want that to happen.”

“We could hide until they leave?”

“Too risky if those things say in the area we better fight them here than in the jungle,” Alexander replied not liking the risk of having to fight those things in the woods where it was a lot harder to defend themselves.

“I know we could trick them into coming to that place over there,” Fang whispered enthusiastically whilst a plan formed in her head if they could get the Timberwolves underneath a small ledge which had some heavy stone bricks on it they could crush them by letting them fall upon the Timberwolves only problem was they would need some bait.

Thompson obviously couldn’t serve as bait as it would take a while to make the raptor understand his job so that kept Fang and him and Fang was the fastest of them two because she could run on all four.

“Indeed, but we need bait for that,” Alexander said while looking at Fang intensively at first she was confused as to why he kept staring, but then she understood ad if he could see her skin it probably would have paled a bit.

The Timberwolves were minding their own business just looking for some prey to fill their tummies with and the building had looked promising, but so far they hadn’t found anything that changed rather fast when they heard a small whistling from somewhere near the stone structure and when they looked a female creature was sanding which immediately got their attention and they started to advance at the creature with hungry looks.

Fang was whistling to get the wolves their attention and now they had it she wanted nothing more than to lose it. She started running towards the ledge praying that Alexander and Thompson would do their job when she arrived. The hungry growls from behind her gave her an adrenaline boost as she sprinted on all four to the ledge.

Alexander and Thompson had taken position on the ledge and were ready to drop the stone bricks upon the Timberwolves. They could see Fang running towards them followed by a group of hungry looking Timberwolves.

“Okay pal,” Alexander said while adverting his attention form the nearing group and onto Thompson. “Just push the block when I tell you too. You understand?”

Thompson looked at him with a face that said. “I didn’t understand what you just said.”

Alexander formed a poker face before pointing at the stones and said. “Just push the damn stones when I tell you too alright.” This time it earned him a nod from Thompson who hopefully for Fang had the right idea in mind of course we were kind of talking about a Hentzal raptor that once thought the right idea was eating books to get their knowledge.

Fang ran past them underneath the ledge followed by the Timberwolves who got a nasty surprise of a stone to the face. When Fang looked back up she saw Alexander and Thompson waving at her and she felt relief wash over he as she looked at her crushed pursuers the moment was short lived as the pieces of wood started forming a giant Timberwolf which caused her jaw to drop meanwhile on the ledge both the raptor and the human were also looking with wide open mouth at the giant wolf.

“I knew we should have paid closer attention to when she started talking about the combining part,” Alexander cursed silently earning him an annoyed look from Thompson that said.

“Seriously!”

The giant Timberwolf looked hungrily at Fang. “I guess you don’t like being hit on the head with stones do you,” Fang said nervously which caused the wolf to roar at her blowing his bad breath right into Fang’s face who started coughing violently as the nasty smell hit her noise.

“Boy that smells!” which earned her another roar. “I mean what a lovely smell!”

The giant Timberwolf started to advance on Fang. Alexander knew he needed o do something to distract the wolf and a crazy idea formed in his head.

Fang was pressed as close against the temple as she possibly could and the wolf was in her face with his terrible breath when suddenly she heard. “YIIIIIHHHHAAAA!!!” followed by a loud bam and a small voice shrieking. “Awh my balls!!!!”

Alexander was in incredible pain he had jumped on top of the Timberwolf completely forgetting the vital part of why the name Timber was in the word Timberwolf because it was made out of wood. He had just crashed on top of a wolf made out of wood with his balls and boy did that hurt!

“Me nuggets, me poor nuggets,” Alexander managed to say however the action had the wished effect as the Timberwolf backed away slightly from Fang as it tried to throw Alexander off of him by shaking a bit which didn’t work as Alexander had managed to get a hold of a branch from the Timberwolf body.

“Hah you aren’t throwing someone who followed rodeo classes off that easily,” Alexander proclaimed however he missed the fact the wolf narrowed it’s eyes and positioned itself before starting kicking and jumping like a bull would and doing this on a bull can be painful imagine it on a wooden wolf with nothing on besides your boxer short needless to say Alexander suffered.

Fang and Thompson could only wince each time as Alexander produced another sound or scream like “AWH!!, IH!!, OUCH!!!” Interrupted by a few times of “MY BALLS!!!!”

Fang searched a rock trying to make the wolf stop it’s merciless display the rock flew right into it’s mouth and he wolf stopped immediately before starting to couch an finally falling apart. Fang only looked awestruck a the bunch of branches and twigs that had been the Timberwolf with open mouth while thinking. ‘Did I just… never mind Alexander needs help!’

She ran over to Alexander and kneeled next to him. “You okay?”

“No, I don’t feel my balls anymore,” Alexander stammered out in pain meanwhile Thompson had come over to them and when he arrived he started licking Alexander over his face. “Haha stop it now what were you doing while I was busy getting my nuts cracked?” Alexander asked while trying to fend off Thompson’s tongue from his face earning him a confused look.

“You useless reptile you were just chilling out enjoying the show while I went to hell!?!” this earned him a confirmative nod from Thompson by this time the pain had subdued a bit. “So if those were all the creatures that needed to be ridden I would like to go back to sleep.” Alexander said awfully cheery for a guy whose balls got pretty close to being crushed if they hadn’t been Fang hadn’t really checked so she just laid him on top of Thompson who carried him back to the camp.