Shadow Warrior

by ThatOneGamer

Ch.13 - You Are What You Eat

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Wilby's PoV

It's been three days since the party, not much had happened. Twilight asked me more about my world, I helped Fluttershy out with the animals, she was surprised that her animals liked me... except for the white devil. I wasn't too sure on going to Rose Luck's shop and I want to keep my distance from Lyra. Rarity gave me some clothes, which thankfully wasn't too extravagant, just some simple shirts and jeans, made to my liking, loose and comfy. But the entire time I've been here, I never felt something like this.

I've awoken feeling hungry, except... it felt different. I went through my morning routine, shower and clothes, simple right. But I still had this craving, I went to the kitchen and saw Twilight getting ready to ask me more questions and... the delicious floating chicken- I mean Spike. I answered Twilight's qustions absentmindly, I just couldn't help but stare at the chicken- I mean Scootaloo- I mean-

"Wilby, is something wrong?" Twilight finally noticing the staring.

"Hmm, what, who, where, oh...No, nothing's wrong." I answered, gaining my senses back.

"Dude, you've been staring at me nonstop, right when you came in here." Spike complained.

"I'm... just hungry, that's it! Nothing wrong here!" I said, while faking a laugh.

Thankfully they both disregarded it and continued whwt they were doing. With my will power, I focused on Twilight and her questions, while Spike continued making pancakes. When the pancakes were done, Spike given us our plates. Twilight was happily eating her pancakes but I... I didn't touch them. They weren't.... meeeeaaaat.

"Aren't you going to eat your pancakes?" Spike asked.

"I... I am hungry..." I told him.

"Then why don't you eat? It's not that complex."

"I know but... I just have this craving for meat." I said looking at him.

"Wilby... what are you thinking?" Twilight caught me staring at Spike when I said meat.

'What do I do, what do I do? Um... what would Yamcha do?'

'Uh, what would Goku do?'


Goku quickly said to Gohan, "I want to eat your dragon."


"I uh... want... to eat your..." 'Wait a minute, I can't say that.' "Dragon." 'Damn it! I said it anyways.'

"WHAT?!" They both yelled out, which Spike immediately ran out of the room.

"Ugh, I can explain?" I said laughing nervously.

Twilight had a really irritated look plastered on her face, "Just try to explain that."

"Well, while I'm still rational. You see, a human can't... really survive without meat. It's a necessity, to such a point, organs will start-..." I put my hand to my chin and thought about it. "Fuck, I don't know. I only know one person that tried to go without meat and they ended up in a coma. A short, but still. And humans do desperate things when they're desperate. Right now, I'm desperate and to me, Spike was chicken. A juicy one at that."

"Okaaay, I don't like how you see Spike like that and that's interesting to know that humans work like that. But I'm getting off topic..." She took a deep breath, "I guess, we should go out to get you some... meat." She said hesitantly.

"Dibs on Fluttershy's sweet, delicious fish!" I said almost too enthusiastically.

"Oh yeah, some of her animals do eat fish. I'm sure she'll help."

And so we got up and left, leaving everything for Spike to clean up, as per usual.


The short trip to Fluttershy's was uneventful... for Twilight. I had to keep my mind sane while we walked. Also when we passed by a flower shop, I could've sworn I felt someone staring at me. I chose to ignore it. Anyways, we soon made it to Fluttershy's cottage. We saw her feeding her birds, though Twilight interrupted.

"Hey Fluttershy, can we ask a favor?" She asked.

"Hm, oh, hi Twilight, hi Wilby. And of course you can ask a favor." She said happily.

"Well you see, Wilby here needs... meat." When she said meat, Fluttershy got a look of worry. "So we came here to get him some fish."

Fluttershy felt more at eased when they were just here for some fish, then she remembered something. "Oh um... Sorry but, Mr. and Mrs. bear just ate the last of the fish... sorry."

Upon hearing that, both Twilight and Fluttershy turned towards me to see my head looking down.

"Um... Wilby?" Twilight said while coming closer towards me, "Are you gonna be alright-"

"WE'RE GOING FISHING!" I yelled out pointing a finger up into the sky.

"... In the clouds?" Fluttershy said. I lowered my arm towards the Everfree Forest. "Oh... do you mind if I come along, I need to get more fish for the animals that also eat meat."

"Of course you can come along, though don't we need a fishing rod?" Twilight posed a good point... although.

"Don't worry, I got a plan." I said with much confidence.

"And what plan would that be?" She responded.

"Oh... you'll see." I chuckled mischievously.

She huffed at me mostly because I don't give her the full picture unless it's something about humans. Anyways, we went into the forest, Fluttershy leading the way to a pond. But then, the question dawned on me.

"Wait a minute... How come the Everfree is sometimes the worst place to be and other times, it's just a normal walk through the woods?" I asked the two since this question always bothered me back on my world.

"Umm... I don't know, I only lived here for a short time." Twilight responded.

"Well... I'm not too sure myself. Sorry for not knowing." Fluttershy apologized.

I put a hand to my chin, "Then why is this such a normal occurrence..."

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a wild Pinkie appeared from a bush and quickly said, "Plot convenience!" and disappeared back into the bush. Her sudden appearance scared Twilight and Fluttershy and caused them to hide behind me. Though she just gave me the short answer.

"Ah, thank you Pinkie. I guess that answer would suffice for now." I said calmly.

Twilight was flabbergasted by my reaction to the sudden Pinkie. "How are you so calm with Pinkie's sudden appearance, how did she even do that, how does that make any sense?!"

I looked at her and said, "Twilight, I wasn't going to mess with the events of what happens, except for a certain few. But whatever you do, don't try to understand Pinkie, if you try to, you'll be spending your time at the hospital."

"Okay... but you seem to understand her, so how?" She questioned me, Fluttershy also seemed interested.

"Short answer is, I don't. I'm just simply on her level."

She was very confused, "What does that even mean?! On her level, what level?"

"Exactly!" I love messing with her mind, maybe I'll try break it later.

"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!" Her rage almostbeing broken.

"Um, Twilight we're here." Fluttershy intervened.

"What? How long have we been here?" Twilight asked.

"A little while, I've been trying to tell you but... I was a little scared from the yelling, sorry." She replied.

"It's ok Fluttershy, I understand that Twilight was scaring you." I comforted.

"Hey!" Twilight said but decided to not argue against me, she sighed "So, how are we going to get the fish?"

"Well, you're going to use your magic to pull out the fish." I said bluntly.

She gave me an irritated look, "Can't you use magic too?"

"Yes, but I can't really use your type of magic. Unless you want me to go Emperor Palpatine on the fishies." I said while walking towards the pond.

"Who's Emperor Palpatine?" Twilight asked.

"All I will say is that it evolves lightning." When I reached the edge of the pond, I squated and looked at the delicious fish swimming.

Twilight sighed, "Ugh fine, I'll catch some fish."

Before she did that, Fluttershy said something vital, "Um, I can just ask the fishies to give us their deceased."

"Fluttershy, I know that you love animals and you know that I love animals as well. But you must understand... The circle of life, whoa, I don't know the lyrics TO THIS SONG~!" I sang it in it's tune.

"Circle of life?" They both questioned.

"Animals give two kinds of life, they give birth to their young and they are killed for others to live. That's the basics." I answered as shortly as I could.

"Well... I guess but still-" I cut Fluttershy off for the better.

"Nature is beautiful and cruel, no one can argue against it. Now, Twilight get with magics already, I'm hungry hungry hippos." I said while still looking at the fish.

"Ugh fine, it would be easier if you helped but I guess unicorn magic is unique." She said while focusing her magic to pick the fish.

"Unicorn magic isn't unique, alicorns can use it as well." I countered her statement.

"Well, yes but there's only two alicorns so-"

"There's three alicorns, you forgot Cadence."

She lost focus, "Oh yeah, how can I forget about my foal-sitt-"

I cut her off again, "No Twilight, we aren't allowed to talk about her, not yet anyways."

"What, how come I'm not allowed to talk about her?"

I pointed at her, "Just nooooooo."

"Ugh fine." She returned to trying to catch some fish.


After many fails, Twilight got the hang of catching the fish. She caught about 16 of them, I decided to only take two of the fish leaving Fluttershy 14. She wanted me to have more but I denied politely each time. We continued our way back to the cottage.

"Hmm now should I eat this raw or cooked." I said while holding up two of the fish in my right hand. I was holding most of the fish in my left arm while Twilight held some fish within her magic.

"Isn't cooking them a little gruesome?" Twilight asked, both her and Fluttershy seeming sick by the idea.

I looked at them with a raised eyebrow, "Sushi it is."

We soon made it back to Fluttershy's cottage and we gave her cut of the fish, to which she stored away in her fridge for later. Twilight and I said our goodbyes and went back to the library.

Once inside, we saw Spike cleaning up, though when he saw me, he got a look of worry. "You're not going to eat me, are you?"

"Nah, these fish should suffice... for now." I said, while bouncing the fish by their tails in my hand. "Also, if you don't want to be sick, don't come in the kitchen. I'm gonna skin these fish and cut them up."

"Ugh you didn't had to tell us." Spike said, looking a little green.

"Well I just continue reading through these books." Twilight said, not worrying about what I'm doing.

With that, I went into the kitchen to prepare the fish. It's not that hard to make sushi. (I'm sure no one wants to hear it how to go through it step by step.)

I enjoyed the fish very much, it was much more fresh than the ones on Earth. After I was done eating, I went and told Twilight that I was done for today and was hitting the hay early. We said our good nights and I went to my room. I stripped down to my pants and went to my comfy bed. What I didn't realize was that this dream was going to be very different.


Author's Note

*Sigh* Here's another chapter... Sorry if I'm taking a long time, it's just... I'm not all that motivated to continue through the story. I mean, I really want to get to the middle and end because I have such good ideas. Though the beginning is truly slow... I know I can't skip neither but hopefully the beginning will be just a few more chapters. Then we can get to the main course but for the time being, I'll just keep handing out chapters, whenever I feel motivated enough.

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