A Lone Rifleman in Equestria

[The Everfree Forest. Twenty minutes after the events of chapter seven.]

After walking through the Everfree Forest with a injured Pegasus in his arms, Wolf made his way to his camp. It was tricky, but Wolf managed find a safer path to his cave with unable to take the original route he took to the cave with Rainbow Dash in his arms that had a broken leg.

Wolf enters the cave with carefully putting down Rainbow Dash in his sleeping bag that he previously had taken out from his backpack while setting up camp in the cave. Wolf had released most of Rainbow Dash, except her injured leg. Wolf gently lowers her leg onto a small pillow that he had set up so that Rainbow Dash's broken leg can be set comfortably and minimize the pain for Rainbow Dash. As Wolf lowered Rainbow Dash's leg onto the pillow, a extremely small shift in the position of the fractured leg caused a jolt of pain to shoot through Rainbow Dash’s body, causing her react as she did when Wolf first broke it.

“Shit! Sorry.” Wolf said to Rainbow Dash.

“ Ah! Just put it down already!!” Rainbow Dash shouted through the pain.

Wolf did this and after a few moments Rainbow Dash calmed down as the pain eased off.

“You okay now?” Wolf asked but to no response from Rainbow Dash who wouldn’t look at him as she is even now more angered with him then she was before with the sudden pain that came from him lowering her bad leg incorrectly.

“.... Still giving me the cold shoulder eh? Well if you change your mind on that and intend to start talking to me then I won’t be far, I’m gonna put my stuff away, go start a fire, and get my dinner going.” Wolf said as he got up and walked towards a stack of firewood that he had collected before he had went out hunting. He also unattached the small scooter that he had latched on his satchel and set it down with his bag in the corner.

As Wolf prepares a fire and quickly skins his prey from when he was out hunting, Rainbow Dash quietly sat and relaxed in her place that Wolf had left her. Although ticked off she wondered why Wolf went to all this trouble for her, the pegasus that tried to kill him. Curiosity got the best of her and she finally decided to break the silence with Wolf to ask him a question.

“Why did you help me?” she asked

“Come again?”

“Why did you help me?”

“You being a casualty wasn’t necessary, I don’t kill unless it is absolutely called for.” Answered Wolf as he relaxed near the fire he had built with also cooking his skinned prey over the fire by means of a rotating stick that had the prey on it.

“So Rainbow Dash, if I recall. May I ask you something?”

“I suppose so.”

“Why did you come after me and where did you get a nice looking blade such as this one?” Wolf asked as he pulled out Rainbow Dash's Dagger from his belt he had placed it in before attending to Rainbow Dash

“You give that back!!” Rainbow Dash demanded and tried to get up but was stopped by a sharp pain in her broken leg, causing her to favor it for a moment and remain in Wolf's sleeping bag.

“I will once I take you back home in the morning. Where did you get this beauty anyways?” Wolf explained as he examined the dagger.

“That’s none of your business!” she angrily replied

“Fair enough. Anyways, get some rest. I’ll be on watch.” Wolf said as he put away Rainbow Dash's dagger and went to retrieve his rifle, but was stopped by some kind of force that had him stop in his place. Before he knew it he was against the stone wall of the cave he and Rainbow Dash was in.

“You two go check on Mrs. Rainbow Dash, the rest of you keep your eyes and weapons on the suspect.” A mysterious, but female, voice commanded and with that multiple guards from Ponyville stormed into the cave with doing as they were commanded.

Wolf had his back against the stone wall and was unable to move, he could only watch as the guards did as they were told and tended to Rainbow Dash as well as making sure that Wolf was contained.

“The suspect is contained your highness.” said one of the guards and with that emerged a tall dark purple unicorn that also had wings like a Pegasus. Wolf realized that this was it was a alicorn as he remembered the descriptions of them in Greek mythology. Wolf had also noticed that she was wearing a crown, and had her horn glowing. He figured that this must be one of the princesses that Twilight mentioned about back in Ponyville and was suppose to meet before things went sideways. The alicorn began to speak to Wolf...

“I would have been on watch if I were you or at least set up something that could alert you if anypony was coming to your little home you have made in this cave.” She mocked and paused to expected some answer from Wolf, but was only met with silence and a ticked off look from Wolf.

“I see. Well we shall speak later.” the alicorn said as she put a sleeping spell on Wolf that had everything for Wolf go completely black.

Rainbow Dash was about to say something to the alicorn but in a flash of light she found herself outside a hospital that had medical personnel on standby to get her checked into ponyville hospital as well as get her leg fixed.

“Alicorns and their egghead magic.” she thought to herself as she was put on a stretcher and rolled through the front doors of the hospital.