Life in Canterlot had never been as exciting as a black maned pony with a treble clef cutie mark thought. Every week was the same. She'd get a job at a social event playing the same songs for the same ponies at the same places. She worked three days a week and her favorite place to be when she wasn't working, was a hole in the wall coffee shop that had the best latte's in Canterlot. Today being one of her days off, she decided to get up early take a stroll. She makes her ways down the streets of the city and finds the shop next to a small park. As she walks up and looks at the menu sign above, the employee blurts out "double mocha latte with a hey straw, Ms. Octavia?" She giggles and says "have I really ordered it that many times?" The stallion at the desk nods. "Well today's different so I'll order something else! A double mocha latte with NO straw please" they share a soft chuckle as Octavia leaves bits on the counter as the colt turns around and makes the common order with ease. As Octavia picks up her drink with a hoof and walks to an empty table. she sits and looks down at her latte in a sort of calm excitement. As she takes her first sip, she looks up at the skies and she sees a black dotted shadow fall over the city sky. She dismissed it as a storm cloud and continued to sip her latte. As she looked back up at the clouds, she sees what looks like pebbles hitting the floor at a distance, only to realise these were much more than that. They looked like a crossbreed of a pony and some terrible creature from the everfree forest. She didn't have much time to contemplate on what they were be seeing one with a horn chase an earth pony off a small tower near the road and tackle it at an intersection, followed by it crippling the pony with a eerie green stream of magic. As Octavia turned around to leave the park, another one of those horned monsters raced around the corner straight at her table. leaving little time to react, Octavia bided for a few seconds as the monster became ever so close, then pushed down on the table she was sitting at just as the monster reached the opposite side. This motion hit the monster with the table, knocking the air out of it and leaving it momentarily stunned. Using the push back momentum from hitting the monster with the table, she backed away, then kicked the table at the horned creature. It ducked under the volatile piece of furniture and dashed toward Octavia looking for a Fight. The furious fiend starts throwing punches at Octavia. she gracefully blocks and dodges just as fast as it can attack. Octavia then see an opening in the monsters attack when the monster throws a hoof too far out from its body and grabs the hoof while spinning around to knock the monster completely off balance and using the momentum and weight of the monster to toss it away from her. As it recovers from the unexpected beating, it regains balance and dashes toward octavia once more. She avoids kicks and swings to face and surprises her assailant a volley of punches to the sternum and neck, she follows up with a swift knee to the ribs and pushes the creature away. The creatures quickly limps backward and gains stability. Its horn begins to shimmer with the same eerie green glow as earlier. But rather than shoot at Octavia, The monster looks up and shoots the the emerald beam into the sky. Leaving octavia no time to question why it did that, she is again rushed by the creature. Being just as prepared for round three, Octavia avoids its barrage of punches and spinning kicks. Just as the fiend lands on the floor from its kick, Octavia takes the offensive and kicks the monster in the chest, Pushing it away and leaving it disoriented. She hears a noise from above her and sees another one of these creatures rushing at her from the sky. This one had wings rather than a horn and was considerably faster.She dodges the creatures kick.As she blocks a few more punches she realises how much faster and agile this one was.she needed to think fast and create some space between them so that she could defeat it. As the creature uses it wings to keep it self in the air and give Octavia a fury of kicks. Octavia sees this as a chance and using the hoofs she was blocking the kicks with she pushed the creature away. As the creature landed and got back up to his feet,it received a hard buck to the chest. Octavia now seeing her chance to end this she gets behind it in an attempt to choke it out while it elbowed her in the ribs repededly.Seeing the creature finally passed outoctavia gets up and starts to run towards an abandoned house to compose herself. "Why is this happening?Why are these things attacking canterlot? Is this happening all over equestria? I hope my parents and vinyl are ok."
