Chapter 1

The cave was damp. That was an understatement of course. In truth the cave was wet, very wet. The cave was wet because it was raining. The wind blew the rain sideways and stray droplets fell into the cave. It had been storming for a long time. A cave such as this should be vacant, but this cave was filled with a creature and its stench. The creature's stench was horrible. If anything with receptors were to be in this cave they would also say that it was very horrible. It would be described as the smell of a wet wild animal. And it would be accurate for the creature was indeed wet. The creature was asleep and its thick fur was wet.

Thunder crashed.

The creature's eyes opened briefly, but closed when it realized that it was only sound. The creature continued to slumber through the night and when it woke the storm was still blowing the rain sideways. The creature grunted and gave a huff. It started turning then stopped stiff. It heard a sound over the rain it was so used to. It was the sound of prey.

The creature stepped outside in the sideways rain and was battered with the raindrops to the side of it's body. If it was wet before, then it was soaking now. Its wet fur was blowing in the wind. It heard the sound again. It looked around it's surroundings to see the mountain that it's cave was lodged in. The mountain side that it's cave was on was steep. Not the steepest side which was on the other side of the mountain. The creature chose this side because it could traverse all the way up but prey was limited to lower down the mountain.

The creature looked down the mountain and heard the sound that drew it out. It hadn't heard that sound before. It peered towards where it heard the sound and saw a faint outline moving. The creature was shocked that prey could make it this far up the mountain. The prey was climbing closer and closer to the creature's cave. The creature crept back inside and hid in the dark back of it's home.

It waited for a minute. Just when it was about to step out and look for the prey again when the silhouette of the prey appeared before the entrance and stepped inside. The creature could see it now and it had never seen anything like it before. It was a color that it didn't know but it had wings for it could see the prey flapping them dry.

Odd the creature thought for the prey also had four legs and it knew birds didn't have four legs. It stopped contemplating as the prey moved again.

It folded the wings against it's body and shook itself. Droplets of water flew everywhere not making any difference to the wet cave that the prey and creature were in.

"Wow, it sure i raining out there," the prey spoke. The creature's eyes widened slightly at the noises the prey had made. It then prepared itself and began to creep forward, towards the prey.

The creature's claws scraped across the ground, startling the prey. It flinched and spread it's wings whilst backing up further into the cave. The prey stopped as it bumped into a wet but warm thing. It breathed in through it's nose and froze. The prey started turning around.

"Holy sweet Celestia!" The prey screamed. For it saw the creature and started running. The creature momentarily disarmed by the loud sound regained its bearings and charged after it's prey.

The prey had run down the side of the mountain where a small path lead down. It looked over it's head to see the creature silhouetted by lightning. It was large and in similar shape to a bear. It had long fur that was blowing in the wind. It opened it's mouth to let out a thunderous roar that the prey heard over the rain. The prey also saw it's teeth which were sharp long.

The prey startled, spread it's wings and tried to take off. In it's panic it had forgotten the strong winds and was blown into the side of the mountain. The prey slumped to the ground and looked up to see the beast leap towards it. The pony closed it's eyes, unwilling to see it's end.

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The creature was cleaning it's fur and claws inside the cave. It remembered how dirty they were when it landed on top of the pony and caved in it's skull. It had pulled out it's entrails so to get to the heart. The heart was a delicacy. But that was in the past and the future was filled with more hunts of these creatures with delicious hearts. The creature figured it was time to leave the cave and descend the mountain to search for this new prey.

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The doors of a room opened up as Princess Celestia walked in to it with her armor and regalia on. She looked towards the bed longingly but knew that even though the daily court was over she still had work to be done. She turned towards her desk, looking at the pile of documents and mail she had recieved and sighed. She sat herself down and started skimmimg through the documents until she found one that seemed interesting. The title read "Pegasus Pony Lost Almost Immediately After The War." Princess Celestia didn't want to read about how her subjects pointed a finger at the newly allied griffins or the long ago beaten bat ponies. What she found interesting was how close this happened to Canterlot. The Griffin war occured on the western border of Equestria and the eastern border of the Griffon Empire. And there were no bat pony colonies anywhere near where this happened. Princess Celestia only hoped that this was only a temporary problem and

Author's Note

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