My little pony: the Shadow veil saga

Not long after Apple bloom ran off to meet her friends at their tree house, did Big Mac, Applejack and Shadow veil decide to get back to work. Shadow veil tried to stand up, but fell to his knees.

Applejack saw this and rushed over. "Over did it there, did ja?"

"A minor set back" Shadow veil smiled, then his horn glowed green as she got a bolt of magic at the ground nearest to him.

Out of a flash of green light, a brown Medicine bag appeared. Shadow veil opened it and began searching until he found a vile with a number '6' on it. He then opened the vile, quickly drank the contents inside, smacked his lips, then placed the vile back in his bag. Not a moment later, he jumped up and stretched all of his legs out, ready for work again.

"What was that?" Applejack asked, looking at the bag in confusion.

"One of my potions, designed to increase endurance slightly and rejuvenate." Shadow veil answered the orange mare's question as he trotted back into the orchard.

"Didn't princess Celestia say no magic to help ya with yer community service?" Applejack asked, a little questioning.

"I simply used means other then magic. Potions come from means of the earth, natural sources that can be harvested and used by any pony." He said with a smile as he kicked another tree, this time all the apples fell into baskets. He looked towards Applejack with a victorious grin "It's fare game."

She rolled her eyes and replied "just so long as ya ain't usin magic ta get yer work done, ah suppose it's ahright."

Big Mac, Applejack and Shadow veil continued there apple bucking for several more minutes before they heard a cry for help from the far end of the orchard, sounding like three young fillies.

"Wait here," Applejack said as her and Big Mac began rushing to the crusader's club house.

"I will do no such thing" Shadow veil replied as he quickly followed suit. "Besides, my help might prove more useful."

Applejack didn't have time to argue. He was a grown stallion, and anything they faced he'd be able to handle on his own incase things got out of control. The group raced towards where the club house was, and saw immediately what the danger was.

Several timber wolves had snuck into the orchard and were circling the club house. Luckily the girls were safe inside, and out of the wolves' reach. But they were trapped, and it didn't look like the wolves were going to give up and run away.

"Help! Applejack! Big Mac! Help!" Apple bloom called from the club house as a timber wolf jumped up and snapped it's jaws at the filly, but missing her by a good two feet.

"Ok y'all, here's the plan" Applejack began as she drew a diagram of the clubhouse and the timber wolves around it in the dirt. "Way ah see it, we have ta git 'em away from the club house, and hopefully they follow us. We don' have anythin to hit 'em with, so well have ta just-"

"I hope you don't mind if I take the direct approach and tell them politely to take their leave." Shadow veil said as he began to calmly walked up to the pack of starving timber wolves.

"Are y'all crazy?!" Applejack cried out. "Get back here! Those things are dangerous!"

"They are indeed, but they also have a good memory" Shadow veil added under his breath as he continued his light trot towards the pack of timber wolves circling he clubhouse.

The timber wolves continued to grown and attack the base of the tree the club house was mounted too as Shadow veil casually approached them. Once he was a good few feel away from the nearest one, he cleared his throat.

One of the timber wolves turned turned to him, aggressively nestling his fangs, preparing to pounce on the dark unicorn. Applejack and Big Mac watched in amazement as the dark unicorn just stood there, looking at the beasts as if they weren't a threat at all. Then something amazing and shocking happened.

Shadow veil allowed a few sparks to fly from his horn at the timber wolves, not intending to get them, but enough to put on a slight show. A flash of fear exploded on the wolves' face, haunting memories of the past ran thru the creature's mind as he went from being a fierce beast to a frightened pup.

It then ran off, back towards the
Everfree forest. It's actions caught the eyes of its comrades. At first they just watched it retreat, then their gaze trailed back put to where Shadow veil stood tall and proud with a deviant smile on his face. They then turned their attention away from the treehouse and focused on the dark unicorn.

Without much warning, a smaller timber wolf lunged at Shadow veil. But as the beast got within a few inches of the dark unicorn, Shadow veil, without hesitation, struck the timber wolf with a powerful bolt of lighting. One moment there was a fierce and angry timber wolf, then a flash of light had made it vanish, leaving bits of burnt debris that tumbled to the ground around the dark stallion.

The rest of the timber wolves stopped in their tracks, something had remained them of years past. A similar being had visited the ever free before, one they had avoided for good reason. The bits of charged debris left by the small timber wolf did not reform as the timber wolfs normally did after being broken up. Shadow veil placed one hoof on a piece of the broken and charred timber wolf, then stomped down hard, shattering the piece.

The rest of he timber wolves cringed, and without another moment of hesitation. The rest of the pack ran back into the Everfree forest as fast as their legs could carry them, with their tails between their legs.

Shadow veil smiled as he triumphantly trotted up to the club house , and from the ground proclaimed to the cutie mark crusaders "coast is clear girls. I don't think those beast will be coming back any time soon."

Three little fillies popped third heads out if the club house, nervous and shaking. Apple bloom was the first one to speak up "are you sure?"

Shadow veil then picked a piece of the charges timber wolf, which happened to have been it's right front leg, and tossed it up to the girls. As it landed, the girls screamed. But as they inspected the piece closer, Scootaloo put a hoof out to touch it. As she did, it turned to Ash and blew away.

"I'm sure" Shadow veil said in a light and up beat tone. Then he trotted back to where Applejack and Big Mac were, their jaws dropped and eyes still on the scene. Shadow veil looked at them for a second before asking "shouldn't we get back to work?"

They both snapped out of it, and Applejack who's words flopped out answered him with "what the... How did... Where did... Hugh..???"

"How did you learn to do that?" Big Mac asked his question more clearly.

Shadow veil turned to the two apple siblings and smiled "I've lived with this my whole life" Shadow veil pointed to his slightly sparking horn. "Don't you think after so long I've learned to control it."

"Well, 'ah figur' that makes since" Applejack collected her thoughts. "But timber wolves wouldn't just run away out of fear like that."

"Your right" Shadow veil commented. "If I just attacked them like that, the whole group would have gone after me, attacking in different formations. But they remembered that that didn't work last time..." He trailed off as he began walking back to the apple farm, a evil laugh trailing behind him.

Big Mac looked at Applejack with concern in his eye. She met him with the same look, and wondered once again if she could really trust this pony. Twilight sure had her hands full with this one .