Escape to the North

Four, dark figures came out from the forest of dried trees and bushes. The sun hid behind the horizon and only moonlight fell from the sky. The moonlight showed newcomers’ silhouettes, when they stood on a high rock raised high above a small field.

   "Daszkin, call  them," a grey wolf said quietly.

A black wolf nodded and howled. The echo moved through the woods. Even a few minutes later, Applejack and Rainbow Dash could hear his howl bouncing between trees and then went silent.

 "Hmm..., I think they are too far" Rainbow Dash stated uncertainty.

  "You know, we, wolves, can hear sounds from many kilometers," said Wolfrim with a smile.

 "Really?" The rainbow pegasus looked at him with a fake curiosity.

 "Yes. Better be careful, because in this forest are still wild and deadly beasts, which ones can hear your heartbeat" something flashed in his eye.

 "Which "beasts"?" pegasus started to feeling a bit uncomfortable.

 "For example, this wild wolf right behind you," Wolfrim smiled wider seeing how Rainbow Dash was running away with a scream. Indeed, there was a wolf behind her.

 "Wolfrim, we set up a camp near a field,"A stranger informed before gazing at Dash who was catching her breath,. "I think, you shouldn't be so loud," he suggested.

 "I-I know. Beasts, wolves and other creatures," gasped pony.

 "No, because you will wake up every animal in this forest,"wolf said and disappeared in some bushes.

Rainbow Dash was confused. She heard a strange sound from behind her, it was Wolfrim and Applejack.

 "Haha, very funny,"  stated dryly.

 "Yes it was. Especially..." started Applejack, however she suddenly jumped into the air with a scream, for she heard a deep "Boo" behind her.

 "DASZKIN!" shouted the earth pony while turning towards the old wolf.

 "Do not shout. Who knows what is in this forest?" said Daszkin with an innocently smile.

 Wolfrim was still rolling on the ground with laughter. The rest joined him and the night's silence was broken by laughter

Suddenly, something appeared in the bushes near a glade.

 "What is this?" Applejack stopped laughing and pointed at two yellow points in the darkness

 "Szto?" Wolfrim looked at it's direction. " They're wolf eyes that are shinning in the darkness. when the moonlight reflected from them".

 "Hmm... interesting," said the pegasus standing between them.

 "Now ponies. You will see the whole herd," Daszkin  exclaimed with a smile.

The shinning points started to appear in the forest's darkness. More, more, and more. They looked like stars that fell from the dark skies and were lost in the woods.

 "Beautiful," whispered the ponies. Wolves started to coming out from the forest. Travelers came out from bushes too and started to welcome their brothers, sisters and other members of family.

"Good to be at home," said Wolfrim with relief and happily in his eyes.

"Now, you should go sleep. Tomorrow will be a hard day," said Daszkin while moving into a shadow.

"Don't forget to give me a full report. After Wolf's and Grey's death, I am leading us," a grey wolf stopped a black wolf.

"I know,  I'll give you your report," said Daszkin without turning his head, disappearing into the forest.

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"You can't defeat me!" yelled Werewolf, when Wolf fell on the ground, after a big punch in his face.

Wolf-pony looked at monster.

"I... won't let you... to kill my love..."  gasped wolf-pony gasping at monster. He tried  to got up, but his broken leg hurt too much.

"You are either  really dump, or really brave. But it doesn't matter," said Werewolf moving closer to the wounded wolf-pony.

"I... won't... let you to kill my love," said Wolf slowly and bit quiet. He (uklęknął<- to check) with a pain on his face. His leg was badly broken, it wasn't even straight. The beast started to move in his direction cackling. Wolf could feel how the strange power started to filling his heart. This "something" made his soul burn. It was something uncontrollable like a fire in the forest. Wolf stood up, his leg wasn't hurting anymore. From his closed eyes, started to flying out black flames, which started to spreading out on pony's body.

"What the hell?" Werewolf shouted in suprise before taking a step back.

"You can take out to my body, you can take out to my herd, but I WON'T LET YOU TO KILL

FLUTTERSHY!" yelled wild demon  jumped in the direction of the confused Werewolf.

 Wolf could see this terrified on his opponent’s ugly face. This beast couldn't have any chance with the demon of the wildness.

Suddenly something covered Wolf's eyes, when he was very close.

"Hah! Thank you my little friend. This power will be very useful to me," he heard the beast's voice over his ears.

Wolf tried to say something, but he couldn't. Something was holding his face too tight. Wolf started to feel sleepy as Werewolf was sucking out his power. Pony stocked in this deadly grisp.

"Mmm... yes, I can feel it," something started to pressing Wolf's head harder and harder.

"H...how?" Wolf whined defenseless.

"I am son of dark magic, you fool," answered the beast smiling.

Wolf lost consciousness and his limp body was hung few centimetres above the ground.

"Oooo..., no power? What a shame," said Werewolf and started to smahing a small wolf-pony’s head.

A loudly "crack" broke the silence and dead body of wolves' herd leader hit the ground again. His red eyes turned into grey points, gasping at the darkness. Under a blood flowing from his mane, a dread look was painted on Wolf-Pony's face

"Now, let's finish my job," said Werewolf before turning towards Fluttershy's soul.

"Poor, stupid horse with wings. Lost beyond life and death. I don't know who is stupider, your love or your friends. If death wants your death, then you should die. Nobody can change his fate," said calmly the monster while coming close to the pegasus.

"Who's there?" Fluttershy's voice was innocently, as always.

Werewolf bit Fluttershy in one second into her neck. "As I said, your destiny," repeated slowly, while straightening up.

The lost soul sighed surprised. Blood started to stream down her yellow fur. Fluttershy tried to stemmed the bleeding, but the red liquid wouldn’t stopped running down from the wound. The helpless victim fell on the ground with wide opened eyes.

Werewolf was looking at the tussling pegasi with a smile on his face.

"I love this job,"laughed the beast. He could killed her in one bite, but where would be the fun in that? Fluttershy choking, tried to said something, but her words turned into gasping noises as blood began trickling from her mouth and nose. Her suffer ended a few minutes later, when she completely bled out. Her hooves hit the ground so hard, tt's sounded like the all the mountains in the world were collapsing at the same moment. Fluttershy  was looking into a darkness until her own eyes became black.

"Mmm, blood is tasty," said Werewolf licking his tooth. "Now I can take full control over this body and destroy that stupid herd. But how? Hmm, I'll think of something later," Werewolf muttered to himself while sitting in the middle of the light's circle.

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Fluttershy woke up.

"Where am I?" she asked herself, but it wasn't her voice. This one was deep and hoarse. Yes, I did it. If everything is according the plan I should be... thought Werewolf looking around, In North Region. Perfect he finished with a smile.

As quiet as he could, he started moving into the bush's direction. Suddenly he froze.

Is it..? Beast narrowed his eyes. Something was lying between wolves. Something colorful.

Ahh, second stupid pegasus. One of the Elements of Harmony or something like that. Whelp, where is you harmony now? He started to laughing in his mind.

Hmmm, I have an idea how to destroy this herd and those ponies will help me, He thought, jumping quietly over the sleeping wolves.

A few seconds later, he was very close of Rainbow Dash.

No, I can't kill her right here. Those wolves would hear her scream. Hmm,” he was standing over the pegasus for a few seconds. A small leaf fell on his head “Oh, I know, those ponies are dump, so I can do this, Werewolf almost jumped up. The monster's fangs shined in his smile, when he was lowering his head very close to the pegasus' ear.

"Rainbow Dash? It's me Wolf" he whispered as quietly as he could trying to make his voice similar to Wolf's. It wasn’t difficult, the rainbow pony opened her eyes and violet circles looked at  the yellow pegasus.

"Wolf? I'm really glad to hear you." the blue pegasus stood up immediately with happines in her eyes. Yes, they are dump. Now I hope, that Shadows are nearby a thought flew through Werewolf’s mind.

"Yeah, listen, I saw something in the bushes over there”,The demon looked at random directions straight ahead. “I gonna check it out, you stay here, okay?” The fake Fluttershy put her hoof on Rainbow Dash’s chest.

"No, I go with you," denies pony while removing yellow leg.

"Stay here," Fluttershy smiled with some kind of satisfaction, but Rainbow Dash didn't see it. It was too dark.

"No way. C'mon," said the Element of Loyalty.

"All right then, follow me," said the beast while walking into the bushes. Not aware that the pony was following her 'friend'

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Two ponies were moving through the woods for a while.

Where are those Shadows? I thought they were following us. Werewolf was beginning to loose his patients. He was ready to kill Rainbow Dash on his own, when something moved behind a tree.

It was a dark figure with red eyes.

There you are. His anger disappeared quickly. Now I must catch this pegasus. It won't be a problem for me he thought before turning back.

"What?" asked a suprised Rainbow Dash.

"I smelt something, wait here" lied imposter and looking around, and sniffing.

"There, behind you!" the demon’s voice unexpectedly broke the silence. The pegasus jump forward then turning back.

"Hm, there is noth...". Fluttershy's hoof closed her blue mouth. Rainbow Dash tried desperally to jump and fly away, but she couldn't feel the ground under her hooves. She couldn't opened her wings either. The yellow pegasus "hugged" her very strong.

"Got ya," said Fluttershy happy. "I can't believe it. Do you really thought, that Wolf can talk when pegasus' soul was still alive?" asked beast with surprise .

"Mph?" Rainbow Dash asked, or she tried to.

"I think you want to ask me Who Am I?, don't you?" the yellow pegasus grinned. "Whelp, remember this beast, who tried to kill your friend? Yes, it's me, don't worry about your friends," Werewolf in the pegasus' body took a dramatic pause. "There are in hell." he whispered with satisfaction. Blue pegasus tried to fling herself, but the beast was too strong.

"Calm down, stupid horse. You gonna join them soon," a scary laugh broke the forest's silence.

"Shadows, now!" yelled ‘Fluttershy’, and three black ghosts flew out from bushes and behind a tree. The first one flew through blue pony, killing pegasus in one second. The second one was flying through the already dead pegasus and took her soul. It was a white, shinning cloud similar to Rainbow Dash. Lastly, the third shadow turned the rainbow pegasus into an empty shell.

Fluttershy throw away her empty "monument" which turned into ashes before it hit the ground. Colorful ash covered a nearby tree.

"Victory, sweet victory," Werewolf started to laughing again.

"Masster,  what are we gonna do with this spirit?" asked one of the Shadows.

"Her? Hmm, take it to Celestia. Maybe she will turned it into a Shadow. She will suffer for ages, wandering on earth," Beast moved into wolves' herd's direction.

"Now, excuse me. I have a herd to destroy," said before disappearing  into the darkness.

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"What is this?" asked Applejack while crouching over a rainbow ash lit up by a rising sun.

"Hmm, Likoni! Come here for a minute," yelled Wolfrim. Few seconds later, a brown wolf with gold rings in his nose, came.

"Szto?" asked the newcomer, but when he looked at the ash, he has already known what is going on.

"Szto to?" asked Wolfrim for sure pointing on the rainbow dust.

"Hmm...," the brown wolf crouched thoughtfully.

Applejack come closer to Wolfrim,

"Who's this?" she asked with curiosity.

"It's our shaman. He can heal your wounds on your body and on your soul. He know every belief in this world, including those on the North he...."

"Yes... it is Shadow's work," the shaman interrupted.

"Shadow?"  Applejack looked at the wolf in surprise.

"Yes, Shadow. The lost soul summoned by a black magic. Those red-eyed, black clouds execute their master's orders. When you touch them, they will kill you immediately. They can even drag out your soul and turnyour body into an ash" explained the walking dictionary letting out a gasp before touching the rainbow dust.

"So, somepony has been killed by a Shadow, and turned into sand, right?" said the earth pony still being unsure.

"Yes, as I said", nodded brown wolf. The ringing of the gold rings confirmed his answer.

"So... who is it?" orange pony pointed a hoof at the strange anomaly.

"I don't know who, but this guy used to be very colorful. I see here, red, green, blue, purple..." said the shaman taking some ash on his paw.

Applejack’s face turned into a pale mask. Her heart almost stopped beating.

"I know who is it," she whispered, terrified.

Wolves looked at her with curiosity.

"Who?" asked Woflrim.

Applejack was collecting words for a few moments. She looked at her friend and tears trickled down  her cheeks.

"It's, it's, R- Rainbow Dash" she stammered before falling onto the ground and losing consciousness.