Chapter 3: "TimberWolves? Pppppffffft! B*** Please!"

Everfree Forest, Afternoon

POV: The Wolf

My heavy panting sounds like thunder to my sensitive ears, once undetectable odors invade my now enhanced sense of smell. My ears swivel left and right straining to pick up any sounds that where out of the ordinary. Eventually, I stop to catch by breath and take in my surroundings: Forest, forest everywhere. I growl in frustration, I was never going to get out of this forest!

Thats when I heard the screaming, shrill and panicked. It sounded like small children crying out for help. Locking onto the source of the screams with my ears, I speed up and run as fast as my four legged body will allow. Becoming a blur of shadow. As I close in I begin to hear growls and barks that sounded like a wolf's, but it was strangely warped and sounded hollow. I pour on more speed, using my own powers to help keep my legs going. I burst into a clearing. Only to find the weirdest encounter I had ever seen, not even the influence of drugs could replicate this kind of weird. Sanity and it being lost aside, I had burst into the clearing to witness a bunch of what seemed to be wolves made of timber that drooled tree sap and glared at me with glowing green eyes, similar to my own eyes. Huddled together, eyes shut and waiting for the end where a shivering group of what seemed to be Technicolor equine like creatures.

Most of the weird looking wolves advanced on me slowly, glaring at me with eyes intent on killing. While some just continued to close in on the small group of ponies. I growled at the wolves in front of me, raising my hackles and baring my sharp white teeth. This made some of them stop right in their tracks and stare at me with confusion. But one wolf, apparently the leader, barked at them to keep advancing and attack. I decided that it was time to up the 'ante, I growled again, this time deepening my voice to the point where my growl sounded like a deep thrum. When I raised my hackles again, this time smoke curled off my fur. My glowing eyes started to 'drip' liquid green light, this terrified the wolves in front of me all of them except the Alpha fled from the clearing yipping in terror. I then turned my attention to the Alpha, we circled each other slowly, searching for each other's weak points. A scream interrupts our duel as one of the wolves makes a lunge for the group of ponies and bites down on the blue pegasus's foreleg, the pony screams in pain. I'm then knocked to the ground by the Alpha and pinned under his legs. "This cheating BITCH think he can best me? Well, we're just gonna have to remedy that!" I feel, anger. It builds up inside of me as the Alpha proceeds to loosen a victory howl, which is cut short by a tendril of shadow impaling its neck. The ponies gasp in fear as the now dead timberwolf is thrown aside and I stand up, green wisps of flame start to appear across my fur in fiery patterns. The other wolves then look upon me in complete fear, I then extend all my other shadowy tendrils. Grinning wildly, I advance towards the wolves, which in turn causes them to flee in mind chilling terror.

Once they where gone I started to calm down and return to my regular normal looking wolf form, I turn my head towards the ponies frozen in awe and fear and notice a puddle of red slowly spreading. Shit. One of them got bit earlier! I bolt over towards them intent on saving the cyan pegasus's life. They of course, scream and bolt away, revealing the wounded pony. I slowly trot up to her and nudge her, she twitches but does nothing else. Her breathing is shallow and ragged, I know that I do not have much time left, so I prepare to channel my healing spell into her body when I am knocked over by a bolt of lavender light. I snap around to the source of the interruption and see the five other ponies had came back and where now yelling at me in an unintelligible language, I could guess they were telling me to leave their friend alone. But I persisted and got back up and tried again, this time I managed to complete the spell before I was knocked down again.

As I got back up I was encased in a glowing lavender aura, that did absolutely nothing. this confused the purple looking unicorn greatly, I just ignored her and proceeded to check on my handiwork. It seemed that the spell was successful in stopping the bleeding and closing the wound, I grunted in satisfaction and sat down. Waiting to see what these ponies would do...