Its a dark, cold, windy night. Nothing can be herd except the sharp breathing of a teenage unicorn, and rustling leaves underhoof. The mare seemed to be in a hurry to get somewhere. Unfortunately for that mare this is not the time or place to be. Every pony knows this is not the time to be outside. The breathing got faster as she was running out of energy. Thankfully for her there seems to be a small oak wood cabin about seventeen feet away. With a sigh of relief she quickly ran towards it, almost two feet in front of of the mare. Snap went the twigs under the ginormous monsters feet. The monster was barely see able due to how dark it was, the only thing that stood out was glows of yellow presumably the eyes and was that smoke? With a quick stop the mare came to a halt. She was so close to the cabin if only she could just get by this "thing". With a long look she stared, unmoved by the creature. With great courage the unicorn tried to run away from the monster. If she could only get to the settlement of Matripony and get some help from hunters. But before she even got three feet away the monster seemed to go in front of her. Startled she fell back on the flank, dirtying her pale brown coat. In great fear the mare stayed completely still like a statue. Time passed almost feeling like a eternity until eventually the creature with great speed went back to the sky's and flew away. Waiting for a couple moments until the coast was clear. With great speed she rushed to the door opened it, then swing it back shut with a great and loud thud. After a couple moments of tension building, silence. The mare full of fear relaxed and slumped down by the door, as time went by the mare till she went to sleep. Abruptly she woke up to knocking on the door.
"Coming" the mare mumbled. She squirmed around for a bit until she finally woke up. With a grown she stood up and opened the door. With a grown the girl mumbled
"Yes?" With a quick response the mail stallion responds with.
"You miss Pixie?"
"Yes, what do you need?"'
"Umm. You got a package from Canterlot Monster Academy." The mare, Pixie lit up. She was as excited as can be, her horn even sparked a little, she grinned from ear to ear. Canterlot Monster Academy is one of the best monster academy's in all of Equestria. Pixies excitment was uncontrollable.
"Miss Pixie you OK?" The mail stallion asked. With great haste she levitated the box and quickly mumbled.
"Thank you!" She gave the stallion one bit and then slammed the door in his face. Once Pixie was inside, she slowly and carefully opened the little package. With her green aura she lifted a piece of to read it. The letter reads.
Dear Miss Pixie Shield.
We are happy to inform you that you have been accepted into Canterlot Monster Hunter Academy. You are going to be a group A student. Follow the instructions to get to Canterlot. Armor, Weapons, and books will be provided. You will be a duel blade class. You will be staying in the Alpha dorm with a C student named Luna Crest. Due to your astounding grade on the entry exam we will be giving you one more exam when you arrive to place you in the right grade. If you do good on the test we give you. You could move from a rookie class hunter to a junior class hunter. Can't wait to welcome you.
Signed Celestia
Pixie stared at this letter that held the amazing news. She had been waiting for a long time for this. Ever since her parents started teaching there she was wanting to go so bad. She studied all day and all night. Hoping she would get in. With all that hope and joy. Pixie bounced up to her room . With great stride up the oak wood stairs and through the bedroom door and with a thud, dropped on to the bed. With a quick remembering she sat up and said.
"I should start packing I am leaving soon, or should I study?" She pondered that for a couple minutes until she eventually decided to start packing. A little while passes until it's about sunset. The mare was exhausted after today.
"Maybe I could read a bit before I hit the hay," so of course the mare does. She picks up the book Monsters, Magic, and More. She sat there and read the whole 200 page book in a hour. After she was done it was almost twilight. Pixie lays down in her bed and slowly drifts to sleep. Sunset came, Pixie stirred unwanted to wake up. Then she realized that she needed to wake up for her to start her journey to the academy. After a bit of mumbles and falling out of bed. She got up styled her dark brown mane, put on her saddle bag, and got the rest of her bags ready to go. With a deep breath Pixie prepares to leave. Since its day most of the monsters in the area are sleeping in there dens. With great courage Pixie trots towards Matripony. Matripony is a small settlement they only just built the cab station. Since trains weren't going to be invented for three more years the ponies had to ride horse drawn carriages. The town also only has a house or three, and a kitchen that's all. The ground is muddy for some reason even thought it hasn't rained. The mare trots through the mud. For some reason no pony was out except for the four stallions pulling the carriage.
Pixie trots towards the stallion pulled carriage. She starts digging in her green saddle bag looking for bits. Unfortunately the school needs you to provide your self transportation.
"One, two, three, four, and.... Five" Pixie counted bits in magical grasp. This should be enough she thought to herself. She trotted up to the entering platform and said.
"Canterlot please?" The stallions grumbled. "Six bits please,"Six? I only have five! She paused and responded with.
" But all I have is five, can you cut thy a break?" The stallions turned and gave her a no nonsense look.
"Please?" Pixie gave them the puppy look. The stallions were having none of it. Pixie levitated her luggage and started going through it. Finally she pulled out a expensive looking gem.
"Will this do?" Pixie asked the stallions, the stallions paused stared at the gem and replied.
"Ok we'll take it," Pixie neglectfully puts the gem in the pouch next to the second stallion. And with that Pixie starts her journey to Canterlot. Half a hour passes it's almost noon. Till finally they get through where the ponies were. They approach a yellow large gate that was the entrance to Canterlot. There was a pony in a stand right next to the gate quickly Pixie got out of the cart and on the road next to the stand.
"Why thank you gentlemen" complimented the mare as she starts to walk towards the stand. With that the stallions drive of back to Matripony. Leaving Pixie to what ever comes next.
Half a hour passes back in Matripony a new mare approaches, her hide and horn blue as the sky, her mane a variety of deeper blues, and a bow and shield cutie mark. Her saddle bag filled to the brim and a pearl handled pistol on the side. She looks around for something and sees a filly walking around outside. The quickly trots up to the filly and ask.
"Excuse me which way to Canterlot?" The filly responds with.
"North but who are you?"
"Well Lulus the name and hunting is my game" Lulu the blue unicorn is on her way to Monster Academy in Canterlot. The filly gazed up at her and said.
"Your a hunter? That's so cool!"
"Why thank you for thy compliment, I'll be off," the mare turns and starts to walk off until the filly screams.
"Wait! We need your help, please!" Lulu stopped and stared.
"What's wrong? I really should be in a hurry if I get to Canterlot to late I won't be accepted as a student." Stated Lulu after a moment the filly continued and said.
"A monster has been terrorizing the town and we need help, many of us have been hurt trying to take thy monster head on, we tried to get real hunters but are small settlement can't pay them enough to help us. Please help us," Lulu stared down at the panicked filly in absolute shock. It's completely unheard of for monsters to be in or anywhere close to this area. I can't do this now I have to get to the academy yet I need to help them, Lulu though to herself. She ponders for a bit until she replied.
"Sure," with great joy the filly says.
"Thank you so much, I need to tell the mayor."
"So, you think you can hunt this monster?" The mayor asked looking a the light blue mare. The mayor and Lulu were in his office discussing about what to do.
"I do have hunting experience, and I am soon to attend Canterlot Monster Hunter Academy," Lulu replied and the mayor questioned.
"So you haven't even been there yet? And yet you think you can slay this beast?"
"I believe so, but I do have to ask a few questions about the monster," The mayor stared at the mare while pacing back and forth. He paused and though for a bit, Until he finally responded with.
"How much?"
"A ride to Canterlot, that's all," He stared for a bit at Lulu.
"Deal," He put out his hoof out to shake, and with a little uncertainty she shakes on it. They leave the mayors office to discuss what to do next. Lulu goes to the towns folk to ask about the monster, due to the lack of ponies who have settled in the area she didn't expect to find to much information. She went from the first house, to the second found nothing until she went to the third house. There a stallion said that he had seen the monster and described it as.
"The monster has a thin, long body, but seemed to be dragon like, it had wings and everything. But it had really reflective scales and fins on its back."Lulu thanks the stallion and walks away. The monster he described as a Plesioth, a water dragon like monster, but it shouldn't be here if anywhere it should be near the coast not inland. Lulu got ready for the fight, she bought supplies from the sales pony, and polished her gun.
Its slowly getting late time ticked very quickly. Its about seven she has a hour. Lulu sits outside near the site where the monster normally appears. Its a small practically wasteland like area, there was no plant life or any kind of life there at all it is amazing that this place is so close to the life-full city near bye. She is waiting and anticipating until a small squeaky voice broke the silence as a filly runs up to her.
"Hey I got you something, I hope you like it," She has a small chain bracelet in her mouth,Lulu looked down and smiled at the small filly and with her blue aura levitated the bracelet to her hoof and up to her joint.
"Thank you" Lulu hugs the little pink filly. Lulu continued."Now get out of here, I dont want you getting hurt, K?" The filly nodded and trotted away as quickly as possible. Lulu had a half an hour till the monster comes. She trotted back and forth waiting for the monster to come. Its getting really dark, its eight o'clock. Back and forth, back and forth Lulu trots. Two minutes pass, then suddenly it started to rain. Lulu looked up at the clouds that suddenly rolled in.
"Bingo," Lulu smiled and looked around, then with a great thud the Plesioth came down from the sky's. Plesioth is just as the villager described, Lulu looked up at it and gave a slight smile.
"Let's begin," Lulu grinned and got into a attack stance.
Quickly Lulu pulls out her fully loaded, pistol and starts firing at the top fin. With a quick,sporadic movements the Plesioth rushed towards the mare. With a quick tumble she gets out of the way. Quickly she reloads her gun.
"Come on, come on," Lulu was absolutely panicking, it took a long time to load a small hoof sized pistol,shes almost done, SMACK. She was hit with a water jet from the monster, she was knocked over she stumbled back up, but just as she got up the monster rammed her back down. At this point she was running low on energy to tumble or run. With a caution she looked around and saw the monster was drooling, a sign a monster is tired. She smiled and took out her pistol and started shooting but this time towards the face. Lulu watched the monsters reaction very carefully, then with a brighter glow of her horn, enchanted some of her bullets to become thunder bullets. She keeps shooting at the Plesioth who is just sitting there, almost completely exhausted. Then without any warning the Plesioth gave a large, ear shattering roar. Lulu flinched, pulling her ears back. She winces and sits there for a bit. When she looks up Lulu gets hit by the Plesioth's water stream. She lays there for a bit, almost unconscious. The monster slowly approaches the almost unconscious mare, she lays in the dry dirt trying to stay awake.The monster is now towering over the mare with a soft glow of her horn the unicorn levitates the gun and, BAM! A direct hit to the neck, the monster falls back a little, with great haste the mare gets up and starts shooting repeatedly at the monsters. with every shot the monster slowly backs up, after about a dozen shots the monster slowly collapsed to the ground.Lulu stares for a moment the reloads her gun just in case.She slowly approaches the monster. With a quick swoosh the Plesioth gets up, Lulu backs up and gets in a attack position. Right when shes about to attack the monster shots a fast stream of water at her. But of course she didn't have enough time to dodge and got hit in the leg with great force. Her leg at this point was broken, with a great wince and a small cry Lulu tumbled to the ground. With that that was the last straw, With a great amount of magic Lulu enchanted a "special" bullet. With great speed she loaded her gun and got ready to fire, at this point the monster was charging at her. Bang the bullet fires from the gun, when it hit the Plesioth a large explosion went off. A longtime passes waiting for the smoke to clear, after half a minute the monster goes up in the air and fly's off. Lulu tried to chase after it but before she took even two steps she fell over her broken leg. with a pained look she looked at the monster flying off. As Lulu got up and limped towards town she talked to her self.
"How am I going to explain this to the town, the filly, or the mayor. How could I have failed at doing my special talent" she talked to herself like that until she was on the borders of the town, but she kept on limping till she got to the mayors office. She limped through the door and towards the door at the end of the hall. With a deep breath, and the glow of a horn Lulu opened the door. She swings the door open but before she says a thing, a quick glance at the mayor makes her completely speechless.
