Chapter 1: Waking up in the Everfree, Meeting Rainbow, and facing off with THEM!

Jay woke up about ten minutes after ending up in equestria and immediately had to hurl his guts out behind a tree. He wiped off his mouth and muttered “Ok so demon did weird magic, I got trapped inside, and now I’m here, wherever here is.” He got up and dusted off then blinked as he stared down at himself. His outfit was the same, albeit a bit shorter, and more, tight fitting. He pulled up the cowl of his cloak hiding his face in shadows. He grabbed his sword, which he’d dropped when he got up to puke, and started further into the forest when he was surrounded by creatures made of shadow. He swore and said “Of course the moment I wake up I’m surrounded by dark hounds. At least they haven’t combined with the local wild life of wherever I am.”

He swung his blade, with more strength than he was used to having, and cleaved a dark hound in two. The dark hounds were living shadows that took on the form of wolves. Jay hated the things, because they were a perversion of nature and magic. He himself had many of them under his belt of kills. He winced as one bit down on his shoulder and sent it flying back with a blast of magic. He blinked as it flew back and wondered what had happened to it. What Jay didn’t know he had a blood red horn on his head that was jagged and glowing with crimson light, the same crimson light that had surrounded the body of the dark hound.

He lunged forward piercing a dark hound’s chest causing the creature to collapse into shadows. He growled and swung his sword into another dark hound not noticing the mare watching him from on high. He was so focused on his fight he tuned out most of his surroundings other than the directions the hounds were in. Suddenly the hounds backed off as a figure walked out of the woods and said “So the little hunter survived Morten’s trap. You even managed to come to this Demen’s forsaken planet. I guess I’ll have to destroy you myself.”

Jay snorted and said “Try your worst; I won’t let scum like you destroy yet another world.” The mare on high wondered what they were talking about but kept out of it figuring that the stallion and his enemy weren’t her problem, but she couldn’t just leave. She had a feeling she was needed. Suddenly the hounds attacked the stallion from behind as the beast lunged from the front. The stallion turned and blocked both attacks with a knife and his sword. The mare gasped as he turned killing two of the shadow beasts with one strike then used an X block to stop the sword swung by the larger demon.

The demon was about a foot taller than the stallion, had black eyes, blue skin that was scaly in texture, a short white goatee, red hair that went down his back, and goat legs. He also had scaly wings that were bat like in shape. The stallion tried pushing his blade back but was overpowered and knocked the ground. The mare growled and thought to herself “That no good cheat!” She prepared to dive down and slam into the beast only for the stallion to stab it in the leg and roll to the side as it slashed down at his head.

The stallion, Jay, lunged up stabbing yet another hound wondering how there were so many of them gathered around when they normally took a lot of effort to sustain themselves, so they stayed in small packs of five or six. So far this pack had ten he’d slain and ten more waiting in the eves for him to be brought down by their master. Jay growled and stood up quickly wincing as he felt a burning pain in his shoulder. He looked over and saw it was dislocated so he moved to a tree and popped it into place, only for the dark hounds to attack him. He ducked one but the second clawed open his back.

He resisted the urge to cry out and grit his teeth then slashed upward decapitating the hound. He turned to the arch demon, for he could now tell that’s how high in the demon hierarchy was, and lunged at him only for his knife to be knocked out of his hand and sent flying into a tree. He held his sword with both hands in response and swung at the beast’s neck. It blocked the blade and cracks started to form along it. The blade had been damaged many times before, but it was almost as if the leap through time and space had structurally weakened the blade, that or all the wear he had put on it was finally catching up. Whatever the case may be his blade was on its last legs.

He swore vehemently and rolled as the beast thrust at his face then parried a second swing and grabbed his knife. He buried it in the creature’s side before being pounced upon and pinned by a dark hound. He growled out “Coward! You can’t fight me fairly so you use your pets to pin me? I knew all demons were scum.” The demon just snarled pulling the blade out of its side,
It said “Maybe we should give you a parting gift and let you live, but first I should destroy your pesky sword.” It turned and stomped on the sword’s blade at the base breaking it off then picked up the blade, which was covered in its blood and swiped it down the stallion’s face three times curling each swipe to look like claw marks. Luckily he’d closed his eyes so the wound only cut the lid of the left eye and the area around it. As it prepared to finish off the stallion our watching mare could take no more.

Flying down with a rainbow contrail, she slammed into the demon causing it to drop the blade and tip forward. The stallion looked up with blood dripping down his face and pulled out his knife as the demon fell past then twisted and stabbed it into the hound’s head. The hound burst into shadows and he crawled to his feet, his wounds getting worse the longer he took to get treatment. The mare kicked out knocking another hound into a tree snapping its neck.

She noticed the demons blood was rusting the blade it had used to cut the stallions face and snorted. She picked up the stallion around the waist and took to the air. He struggled against her saying “Damn it! Put me down I need to finish them before they can call more hounds!!!” The mare just ignored him flying out of the Everfree and toward the nearest settlement. The stallion started to feel woozy and realized with all the blood loss and what not he was about to pass out.

The mare sighed and said “Look buddy I just saved your hide. The least you can do is be thankful and shut up so I can concentrate on getting us out of here. I don’t think the guy with the wings is quite ready to let you go.” Jay snorted then fell unconscious as he was about to reply. She looked down and saw that his eyes were closed then muttered “Way to go rainbow, you save the guy only for him to die of blood loss. Gotta get him to Ponyville hospital or else he isn’t going to make it.” She picked up the pace and arrived at the local hospital then carried him in. He was instantly sent to the operating room where they tried to patch him up.

While she waited to find out what the doctors could do, Rainbow felt herself shiver remembering the creatures he was facing. Those beasts made of shadow were no joke, and that big arch demon, she thought he called it, was oozing murderous intent. She didn’t know how he could stand up to them, let alone manage to get rid of so many. Though she was even more worried about what he said involving summoning more of them. They couldn’t do that without some kind of ceremony or something, could they?

Rainbow swore and started pacing waiting for the stallion to get out and tell her what he meant. She sighed as the doctor walked out about ten minutes later and said “He was lucky you got him here Rainbow.” Rainbow raised an eyebrow, her rainbow colored forelock brushed out of her eyes and her wings folded on her back. The doctor continued “Nurse Red Heart is currently working on him, but if you didn’t get him here when you did he may have died of blood loss. He’s also lucky whatever scratched his face didn’t take his eye. If you like you can continue to wait for him or you can head home. He may not wake up for a while.”

Rainbow thought about it and said “I think I’d rather stay here and wait for him to wake up. I have a few questions for him, and I figure I may as well let him meet the girl who saved his tail.” The doctor nodded and returned to the operating room as Rainbow sat back down and ran a hand through her rather long mane. Some would call her a tom-colt, but that was only because she could easily beat the boys. They couldn’t see past her awesomeness to the mare underneath. She sighed as she thought about it and closed her eyes leaning her head back against the wall. She couldn’t get the sight of the mysterious stallion she saved out of her mind. He was different, how different she didn’t know, but different nonetheless.

Suddenly the doors opened and she looked up to see Nurse Redheart wheeling a bed bearing the stallion she brought to Ponyville General into a room to heal. She followed the bed occasionally glancing around and seeing that no one was paying attention then she sat next to it when Nurse Redheart closed the door behind her after getting him settled in. She fidgeted slightly and watched the stallion carefully. He was about six to six and a half feet tall, had a dirty blonde mane, a deep red horn, showing he was a unicorn, that was about three or four feet long and looked like a blood stained sword blade.

The only reason that comparison came to mind was because of the sword he’d been wielding while he’d been fighting. She shivered at the memory and muttered “What kind of trouble are you in buddy? I mean yeah mares and stallions get into trouble around here, but nothing that requires a weapon unless they’re in the guard.” The stallion fidgeted slightly and she noticed how he had a firm, yet lean, yet muscular build to him. Almost like a Pegasus in the way his muscles were spread across his frame, yet he was as tall as an earth pony, while having the slimmer build of a unicorn. It was hard to tell and without his horn you could slap a pair of wings on him and he’d just be a big Pegasus pony. Just take the horn and he’d be a compact earth pony, though not too compact.

She shook her head trying to rid it of the thoughts that plagued her only for the stallion on the bed to groan. She looked at him and asked “You awake, stud?” The stallion groaned again and reached up only to gasp in pain as his right arm locked up. He lowered his arm and used his left hand to brush his mane out of his eyes. He slowly looked around and Rainbow said “In case you’re wondering you’re in Ponyville General.” He looked at her his eyes going back and forth between dark green and slate gray. Rainbow was mesmerized by his eyes so she lost track of what she was going to say.

Jay, the stallion, looked at her and asked “Something wrong?” Rainbow shook her head and he winced as the light hit his eyes and he held his hand to them. He groaned and said “Oh that feels like a massive hangover. Why the heck are my eyes so sensitive?” Rainbow blinked as his eyes closed and coughed looking away with a slight blush. She glanced down and saw he was in a hospital smock, which still somehow showed his physique.

Rainbow coughed slightly and said “Maybe your eyes are so sensitive because of whatever was on the blade that thing used on your face.” Jay opened his eyes and stared at her trying not to wince as the light hit his eyes again and they turned a deep blue that seemed to be a raging storm. Rainbow again got lost and said “How do your eyes change like that?”

Jay chuckled and closed his eyes rubbing them as they adjusted better to the light and replied “They naturally change color. Sometimes it’s because of my mood, other times it’s because of the environment, and others still it’s because of my health.” Rainbow nodded as Jay’s eyes turned grey again and he continued “So, how’d I get here? Last thing I remember is being on the ground slamming my blade into a hound’s neck.”

Rainbow blinked and said “That’s what those shadow things are called, hounds?” Jay nodded and started to explain then screamed and held onto his left eye, blood leaking out between his fingers. Rainbow gasped and called out “NURSE REDHEART WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY!!!” Nurse Redheart burst into the room and instantly applied bandages onto the side of Jay’s eye. Jay gasped in pain and held back another scream gritting his teeth his right eye turning gold. He snarled like a beast and Nurse Redheart used a spell to make him fall into a magic induced coma.

Redheart asked “What happened Rainbow?” Rainbow struggled to explain what had happened still not comprehending what had happened to the stallion’s eye. Redheart continued “I know you didn’t do anything, I would have seen blood on your hands if you had touched him. Also you wouldn’t have called me if you did something to the patient. So tell me what happened?”

Rainbow Dash sighed and said “I don’t know what happened. One minute I was staring into his eyes and asking him about the things that hurt him, and the next he’s screaming as his face starts bleeding from the cuts on it.”

Redheart raised an eyebrow and said “You mean the claw marks, right?” Rainbow Dash shook her head and explained what she saw. Nurse Redheart cursed and started to remove the gauze then used magic to study the cuts. Her Diagnostic spell revealed that yes, it was done by a bladed instrument rather than claws like the doctor and she had originally thought, it also revealed that there was some kind of substance in the wound preventing it from healing properly.

Rainbow Dash looked at Redheart and asked “What are you going to do now?” Redheart sighed trying to decide what to do. If they left it he could die from constant blood loss, but if they weren’t careful they could expand the damage to his face. She was torn. Her Hippocratic Oath was to do no harm and help a patient to the best of her ability, however if she did nothing she’d be breaking that oath.
She sighed and said “I’ll take him into the operating room and try to remove the poison or whatever it is from his system, but no matter what he’ll always have scars on his face. Not that they make him less attractive, they actually make him look rather dashing. Kind of like a rogue hero.”

Rainbow Dash found herself nodding along then said “I guess I’ll go home and come back in the morning. Good luck Redheart.” Redheart nodded and rolled the stallion out of the room while Dash watched her go. Dash sighed and walked out of the hospital then flew to her cloud home and fell into a deep sleep.

As rainbow slept she dreamed of the rogue hero as Redheart called him. She dreamed of his fight, but not being able to save him in time as well as his injuries. However the dream changed as time went on and she found herself walking alongside the stallion talking with him. She couldn’t hear his words but the dream version of her smiled and cuddled up to him, though she felt ashamed of herself. She groaned and thought “Man, what about this guy could possibly make me act like a filly with her first crush. It’s as if something about him reacts with my own inner beliefs.” She woke up the next morning feeling rested and got out of bed then cleared the skies of Ponyville.

She hurried to Ponyville General and saw that the operating room’s light was out meaning they were done operating. She walked up to the receptionist, Candy Mane, and asked “Which room is the stallion I brought in yesterday in?” Candy looked up from her magazine and smiled at Rainbow. Rainbow smiled and said “Sorry to be so blunt Candy but I wouldn’t feel comfortable until I know he’s ok. I know I brought him here and should trust the docs, but you know how I am about hospitals.”

Candy giggled and said “It’s ok Dash. I understand. I would be worried about any pony I brought in too. He’s in your old room. I’m sure you still know the way there. I think they removed the coma spell they put him in and let him get some regular sleep over night.” Rainbow nodded and thanked Candy then walked to the stallion’s room.

She walked in and saw him sitting up in bed rotating his left shoulder and heard it pop a few times. She shivered at the sound and shook her head in disgust, then said “I see you’re awake. I also just realized I didn’t introduce myself yesterday. My name’s Rainbow Dash, Fastest flier in ponyville.” He raised an eyebrow and she asked “Who are you?”

He smirked and said “Jay Wolf. Demon Hunter extraordinaire; and the last surviving member of the flaming hearts pack.” She looked at me confused and I said “A group I was the alpha of back in my home town.” Jay knew it wasn’t wise to tell people he was from another world, but he wasn’t sure where ponyville was. So instead of saying what world are we on he asked “What country are we in?”
Rainbow blinked and said “We’re in Equestria. You must be from Saddle Arabia or something right?” Jay shook his head and she asked “Then where you from Jay?” Jay looked away unconsciously rubbing the scar over his left eye, and mumbled something. Rainbow didn’t understand so she asked “What was that?”

Jay sighed and said “I’m actually from a town out in the middle of nowhere. So who is the ruler of Equestria? Also what can you tell me about Equestria in general?” Rainbow smiled thinking that she could explain a bit about her home and her princess at the same time.
She said “Princess Celestia is the ruler of Equestria. Actually in about a year, maybe less, we’re going to be hosting the summer sun celebration here in ponyville. It’ll be the thousandth one.” Jay nodded slowly and had a feeling that this was important so he decided he’d start studying up on this world’s history as soon as possible. Rainbow continued “I’m Ponyville’s weather team’s main mare. That means I’m in charge of the weather of ponyville. Equestria’s a pretty big place with a lot of big cities and what not as well as small towns like Ponyville scattered all over.” Jay yawned and she finished “If you want to learn more just head to the local library. Of course to really learn everything you can you’ll have to Canterlot, Manehattan, or Baltimare to see the museums and bigger libraries. Anyway you should get some more sleep. I’ll see you around Jay.”

Jay nodded and waved her goodbye as she left then closed his eyes and drifted off. Meanwhile Rainbow talked with Nurse Redheart to find out when he’d be released and if he said anything while he’d been out of it. Nurse Redheart revealed he had no prior history, so now it was up to someone else to give him a place to stay and take him to Mayor Mare.

Author's Note

Well there's chapter two. Everyone's favorite rainbow mare shows up and saves Jay's tail. Then we find out the demon blood can cause more harm than good when inflicting a wound. Of course that's why Jay usually cleans his sword. The fact he couldn't before it broke just shows how unlucky he is. All that said I hope you enjoyed.