I'm Scared

Twilight Sparkle gazed at the beast, It towered over her at near twice her height with teeth clearly not made to play nicely. How could something like this even exist? She had come to know this monster as Todd. He stood with his lips drawn into a terrifying imitation of a smile.

"So, Todd, I trust you've been well informed of your new role in Equestria." Twilight sheepishly looked up at the hue-man. "I suppose that means it's time to get down to business." Well that was a graceful opening. 'Oh hey, hope you know what you're here for, time to go risk your life for our species.' she thought while awaiting his response.

"Works for me, I've been waiting to get to work for some time now."

Better than I thought. "Okay well, here's the case file. I'd warn you It's a tad frightening, but you know."

"Know what?" His head cocked to the side as his horrifying smile faded quickly to a terrifying scowl.

Oh Celestia! Did I really just offend an animal that could kill me? "Oh- uh- I j-just meant -or I guess I thought, since you're a predator and all, that gore wouldn't bother you."

"A predator? Is that how you see me now, huh?" Tod's amusement was now apparent. Twilight was now more terrified than ever. He thought it was funny that she thought he was a predator --he was, wasn't he? Maybe he found her fear of him humorous.

Either way, I'll have to be more careful with what I say.

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CLEARANCE LEVEL: PRINCESS

ON 4 NOVEMBER OF 0002 H.E. (That's Harmonic Era, human DAISY SHINE, MARE, AGE 23, REPORTED HEARING VOICES DURING WIND STORMS. DAISY SHINE WAS ADMITTED TO THE PONYVILLE REDHEART HOSPITAL FOR PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION. DURING HER DETAINMENT THE MARE EXPERIENCED SEVERE PARANOIA AND REPORTED DELUSIONS OF BEING HUNTED. AFTER A THREE DAY EVALUATION IT HAD BECOME APARENT THAT THE MEDICAL CENTER LACKED THE RESOURCES TO KEEP SUCH A PATIENT. AT THE ADVISORY OF DAISY SHINE'S CASE PSYCHIATRIST SHE WAS TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE CANTERLOT CENTER FOR LONG TERM MENTAL CARE. DURING TRANSPORT DAISY SHINE BEGAN TO SUFFER HALLUCINATIONS AND SEVERAL TIMES PLEADED WITH SECURITY TO ALLOW HER TO LEAVE. SHORTLY AFTER THE MARE ESCAPED BY UN-KNOWN MEANS. TRANSPORT STAFF GAVE PURSUIT UNTIL THE PATIENT ENTERED THE EVERFREE FOREST. SHORTLY AFTER LOSING LINE OF SIGHT WITH THE ESCAPED PATIENT A LOUD SHRIEK WAS HEARD BY THE STAFF AND LOCALS . DAISY SHINE IS PRESUMED DEAD. THIS EVENT IS BELIEVED TO BE IN RELATION TO REPORTS OF A TALL NARROW FIGURE BEING SPOTTED WATCHING FROM DEEP IN THE EVERFREE AND OF SIMILAR SOUNDS COMING FROM THE FOREST. SUGGEST INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE PREDATOR NEAR PONYVILLE.

"One pony went missing, and you assume I need to go into the woods looking for an imaginary monster?" Twilight had never seen someone treat the death of a living thing so non-nonchalantly. In fact, it seemed that he saw Daisy Shine's death as nothing but a nuisance to him.

"I assure you Todd, the Everfree Forest has a lot of terrifying beasts in it. It would be pertinent to come to terms with your new job. As well, I would appreciate it if you could act like life has some value to you, a lot more ponies have gone missing since then." ]That's it twilight, stay strong. Don't let him scare you

"Message reccieved, I'll quit my bitching. So, does your world happen to have wendigos?"

"Well, yeah. Windigos are part of the reason Equestria exists. Why do you ask?"

"Voices in the wind, loud shriek, feels hunted, hallucinations, tall lanky creature in the woods? I mean come on, it's winter for Christ's sake."

"Who's sake?" Twilight knitted her brow. "And, I'm afraid I'm a bit lost on what you're talking about.

"Never mind the Christ thing... its just a human thing. You asked me to look into an imaginary monster and I gave you one. It's a wendigo."

"But windigos are spirits of the winter. They don't shriek they just make bad weather when they feed off of disharmony. None of what you're talking about. Maybe we should go to the library and look into some zoology books to--"

"MAYBE, miss Sparkle, it would be pertinent for you to come to terms with my new job. I say its a wendigo, and until I have evidence to say otherwise I'm hunting wendigo. I'm going to need supplies, do I get a spending account or anything like that?"

I'll ignore your rudeness just before asking me for money. "I was instructed to assess your needs and requisition the funds and equipment that you request."

"In that case, I need a can of hairspray, a length of twine about twelve feet long, a disposible lighter, a windproof kerosene lighter, Styrofoam packing material, a silver plated knife with at least a ten inch blade full tang, a bow preferably recurve, and twenty or so silver tipped arrows."

"What? Why do you need silver? A lot of what you're asking for seems to be fairly arbitrary."

"You're asking me to go into the woods, during the dead of winter, to hunt the demon spirit of the desolate woods, and yet you have the moxy to ask me why I need what I asked for? I could just go home and lay down, and you know, not die."

"Okay, point taken. Do you need anything else?" He does have a good point, I keep forgetting he's risking his life for us.

"No, just get me what I need and we can go innna wood."

He seems to be far too satisfied with himself for making no sense... wait WHAT DID HE SAY? "WE!? What do you mean we?! I thought you were supposed to, do the you know... hunting." Twilight's ears shot down, obviously frightened by the prospect of helping Todd to hunt another living thing. Did he expect her to help him kill?

"Well, I don't know much about your world, so I need a guide. You seem to be pretty bright so I'm taking you. Besides, you're supposed to be keeping track of me so were going to sticking together."

A burning grew quickly in the mare's face Oh Celestia why am I blushing! Twilight get a hold of yourself, It was just a silly compliment. Besides, he's a predator. He's probably just playing at your emotions to get you to go with him.

"Twi, Twi snap out of it. Go get things ready, meet me in the clearing outside the Everfree in one hour."

Twilight tried desperately to retort, but all that came out was a stuttered "O-okay."

"Good, lets get to work then."

"O-okay"

"And stop acting like a school girl."

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The snow crunched beneath Twilight Sparkle's hooves. Her legs burned as she tried to keep Todd's impossible pace. Why won't he just slow down? Its clear I can't keep up, he's looked back at me so he knows I'm struggling. I didn't want to come anyways. Why did I fall for his stupid trick. How could I be out witted by such a childish pony-- er human. Besides, everyone knows predators are naturally less intelligent than non predators. And--

"Stop it." the human's sudden outburst caught Twilight off guard.

"Huh? Stop what?"

"Stop thinking about me."

"How could you tell?!"

"You're glaring a hole in the back of my damn head."
How could he tell? Maybe he's smarter than I thought.

"I said stop it."

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