A Wolf's Story

Chapters

Chapter 2- Eating and an Injury [RW]
3- Bubbles [RW]
4- Hello and Goodbye [RW]
5- Going Soft
6- A Race
7- Adoption and Returning
8- Classes
9- An Odd Day
10- Revealment: Part 1
11- Revealment: Part 2
12- Revealment: Final
13- New Beginnings
14- Making Plans
15- The Truth (Edit)
16- The Prophecy
Chapter 1- The Beginning [RW]

Chapter 2- Eating and an Injury [RW]

2- Eating and an Injury

I woke up to something moving around next to me and I think that it’s just my dog moving under the covers. I reach my hand down and try to pet my dog but feel that I don’t have hands anymore. I open my eyes and bring my hand up to my face and see a red paw instead. My eyes snap open and I look at myself and memories of yesterday flash in my mind. I look down and see the filly sleeping peacefully with her head on me still. I yawned and the filly started to stir awake. She opens her eyes and looks around and yawns. She rubs the sleep out of her eyes and looks up at me. She backs away quickly with a scared look. What did nothing I say yesterday get to you? I thought to myself. I got up and stretched my legs and yawned, an idea popped into my head and I looked at the filly.

“How about we get to know each other a little better so you won’t be scared of me anymore?” I ask her hoping she’ll agree.

She’s hesitant at first but nods her head. “Uh may I know what your name is?” she asks me quietly and looks the other way.

I was about to say my name but remembered I can’t say my name here. “I uh don’t have a name.” I said simply.

“You don’t?” she asks with a confused look. “So you were never given a name?” she asks with her ears splayed back.

I shake my head and she looks saddened. “I don’t have one either. Can… can I give you one?” she asks me, and I nod my head.

“But only if I can give you one?” I ask her. For a second I could see her starting to smile, but doesn’t, she nods her head and I put a paw to my chin. “Hmm how about Azura?” I ask her.

She actually smiles and nods her head rapidly. “What about Shadow?” she asks.

“Hmm Shadow? I like it.” I said smiling at her, and she smiles again but then she looks saddened. “Alright Azura, tell me why that guy was hitting you yesterday?” I ask her. She looks down and is hesitant again.

“Well I did something bad and he… he punished me.” she said and I barely saw tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes.

“And what did you do that was bad?” I ask her with a hardened look.

“I broke something and my dad got angry and said that I was just a worthless life and should be ashamed to call me his daughter, then he took me outside and punished me.” she said starting to cry. I get up and walk over to her and sit down in front of her.

“Even though you did something like that it doesn’t give him the right to call you worthless or hurt you for something like that.” I said to her. I lift her head with a paw to look at me and see tears streaming down her face and onto the ground. “And if he was really your dad he wouldn’t have hit you or got angry at you for something as small as that.” I said to her.

“How do you know that?” she asks me.

“I just do.” I said to her. She wipes her eyes with her hooves and looks back at me.”can you explain to me why you two were living in the wood where predators could get you?” I ask her.

“Well it used to be my mom's house and when my mom and dad got married my dad moved in with her and had me but my mom died when she was having me.” she says looking back down at the ground. “I…” she tried to continue but heard a very loud grr. It wasn’t me so it must be… “Sorry I haven’t ate for a few days.” she says.

“You haven’t? Well then I suppose we should find someplace to eat.” I said standing up.

“Where are you going?” she asks me.

“To find a place to get something to eat for you.” I said starting to walk to the entrance of the cave. “Stay here. I’ll be back in a few minutes.” I said opening my wings. I got to the entrance of the cave and I looked back and saw her sitting there watching me. I flapped my wings and I flew out of the cave.

I flew high into the sky scanning the ground to find any houses or towns or something like that. I flew around for a few minutes before seeing a city or something on the… side… of the mountain. The fuck!? How the hell does that even work? I thought to myself. I flew down closer to the place and I now see a sign that says Canterlot and now I know that this place is a fucking castle on the side of a fucking mountain… great. I saw many ponies walking around, many with clothes on and others with none. Luckily no one saw me and I flew beside buildings and I saw what looks like a tower with an open window. I flew into it and landed softly and brought my wings back to my side.

I walk around the place and it looks like a freaking library and a home in one. I walked all around and this place had two floors the second floor had a huge glass window with many books with a bedroom on that floor a well and the first floor was basically a kitchen with even more books. All in all it was a freaking library and it was very dusty so it must be abandoned, mostly for the fact that there wasn’t any ponies in the building or any signs of them being here recently. I walk back upstairs and see an open book on a stand and I walk over to it and see what it is. It was opened to a page with a picture of a dark blue pony and had writing under the picture and the other age had a picture of six jewels and it looked odd. I looked under that picture and read the description and couldn’t believe what I was reading.

I was reading about the Elements of Harmony, it said something about the elements to be used to banish something or someone called Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago. I read the whole thing and I found what the Elements of Harmony are now, now I just need to find where they are and how to steal them. I remember why I was here and went back downstairs and looked in the cabinets for any food I could bring back. I didn’t find a single thing that was edible. I went back upstairs and flew out of the open window that I flew in from the roof and flew above the city. I flew over what seemed to be a castle and saw another opened window and I dived and flew straight towards the open window. I landed inside and I was in a dark bedroom. There were no lights on but thankfully I have night vision now. I walk towards the door that was on the opposite side of the room and use my mouth to pull it open a bit. I look through the opening with one eye and see that the next room is a hallway. I open it a bit more and poke my head out and I don’t see anyone around.

I walk out of the room and into the hallway, I quickly make my way down the hall and I stop at the end of the hall and look around the corner to see if anyone was coming. Once again the hall was empty and I run down it as silently as possible. A door is at the end of the hall and I run to it and stop at the door. I wait a few seconds to catch my breath and use my snout to push the door open slightly. I look inside and see that it’s a kitchen with nobody in it. “Where is everybody?” I wondered. I opened the door more and walked inside and used my back paw to close the door behind me.

I walk around and see pots and pans hanging up and cabinets for spices I’m guessing. There were already food made and set out. I looked around for any other way in here and I see window up above that’s closed. I fly up to the window and unlatch it, open it, and fly out of the window. I fly high up above the window and remember which part of the castle this window is at. I remember where the window is and I fly back over to the other side of the mountain where I left Azura in the cave. I fly into the cave and land inside, I walk to the back of the cave and find Azura lying there fast asleep. I nudge her softly with my snout and she groans in response.

“Get up. I found somewhere we can get something to eat.” I said to her. She sits up and rubs her eyes.

“Where?” she asks me.

“In a city on the other side of the mountain. Now get on my back and I’ll fly us there.” I said lowering myself to the ground so she could climb onto my back.

She looked at my back and back at me. “Can’t we walk there?” she asks.

“No, now get on. Besides it’ll be faster if I fly us there.” I said to her.

She climbs onto my back and wraps her hooves around my neck. “Ready?” I ask her. She nods her head and I walk back to the entrance. I open my wings slowly as to not knock Azura off, I flap my wings a few times so she can adjust herself so when I take off she doesn’t fall off. She’s finally ready and I flap my wings and I fly into the sky, I look back at Azura and see that she closed her eyes. I fly higher into the sky and break through the clouds and see the blue sky.

“Azura open your eyes and look at the view before you.” I said to her.

She slowly starts to open her eyes and finally opens them all the way and her jaw drops as she looks at the vast open sky. She looks around for a few seconds in astonishment and looks back at me.

“This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” she said to me. “Thank you for saving me.” she said tightening her grip around my neck in a hug.

“Don’t mention it.” I said to her looking in ahead again. I flap my wings hard and propel myself forward and soon we’re above Canterlot.

“What is that place?” Azura asks me.

“It’s Canterlot. See that open window down there.” I said pointing a paw at the window I opened up from the kitchen and she nods her head.

“Well that's where we’re going to get food.” I said to her. “Now hold on tight because I’m going to have to go fast in order for nobody to see us.” I said to her and she tightened her hold around my neck.

I pulled my wings close to me and dove straight towards the window. I landed inside and Azura hopped off of my back. “You okay Azura?” I ask her, and she looks back at me and nods her head. “Good now look around and eat whatever you’d like.” I said starting to walk off to my right.

“But isn’t this stealing?” she asks me.

I stop and look at her. “It’s only stealing if you’re caught. Oh and if anybody comes in hide and stay quiet.” I said looking in front of me and starting to walk again.

I walk up to one of the counters and look at the food that’s on it. I was easily taller than the counter so I don’t have to jump up on them. There were mostly just vegetarian dishes and I saw some desserts but I don’t think I could eat that as a wolf. Screw it I’m eating it, I see a cake and walk up to it and take a bite out of it. It was a vanilla cake with pink frosting with frosting decorations. It tasted amazing, better than anything I’ve ever tasted on Earth that’s for sure.

I looked back at where Azura was standing and she wasn’t there, I look around and see her just staring at a plate of something. I lick the icing off of my snout and walk over to her.

“Are you having trouble reaching that?” I ask her.

She nods her head without looking at me and I grab the plate in my mouth and put it on the floor next to Azura. She licks her lips and takes a bite out of whatever that was, it just looked like sliced vegetables put in a bowl with some seasoning on it. She pretty much devoured it and finished it in a few seconds.

I heard a door open and I look over and see a stallion wearing a chef's attire walking in.

“Azura hide in the cabinet and stay quiet.” I said crouching down. She climbed into a cabinet and I did the same and I left a crack to see if they would walk by. The hoofsteps keep getting closer before they stop right in front of me.

“Who’s been eating the food!? I bet somepony must be in here.” he said to himself.

I look out of the crack and see his back towards me and he was about to open the cabinet Azura was hiding in. I had to do something in order for him not to find us. Ah fuck it I’ll just have to distract him and then grab Azura and fly out of here. I silently walk out of the cabinet and I notice that I’m easily taller than this guy, I grab a pan and throw it to the other side of the room and it crashes to the ground making a loud clanging sound. he jerks his head towards the direction of the sound and he looks over at me. Oh fuck me.

I run straight towards him and run into his side using my head and he goes flying towards the spot where I threw the pan. he landed and I grabbed Azura out of the cabinet with my mouth and ran towards him again. I open my wings up and he cover his face with his hooves and I flap and take off into the air and I fly out of the window. I flap my wings as hard as I could and I dash off away from Canterlot and towards the cave. After a couple of minutes of flying I finally reach my cave and land inside but when I landed I put too much weight on my front right paw and it bent to the side and felt something pop out of place and I went tumbling towards the ground dropping Azura.

Why do I have this problem now of all times?

Azura got up and ran over to me. “Shadow are you alright?” she asked me with a worried look.

“I’m fine. Nngh, don’t worry about me.” I said trying to stand back up and I instantly fell back down.

“Let me look at it.” she said as she carefully took my paw in her hooves. She examined my leg and poked a few places on my leg and right where I think my ankle should be she poked it and I jerked back. “You must have sprained it.” she said with a saddened look now.

“Great. That’s just perfect.” I said trying to stand back up again but this time not using my front right leg. I stood up and wobbled a bit and I started to fall to my side but Azura got to my right and she stopped me from falling and I looked at her in shock and confusion.

“Come on I’ll help you walk to the back.” she said as he started to walk slowly. I tried to walk with just three legs with my right one off of the ground and let me tell you something, it was hard as fuck.

“Uh thank you.” I said to her. She looked at me and smiled and kept walking.

She helped me walk to the back of the cave and it took about 5 minutes just to walk back there. I laid down slowly and made sure I didn’t sit on my right paw.

“Now you’re going to have to stay off of that for a few days.” she said.

“How do you know about this stuff?” I ask her.

“Well when my dad went to get food every few days he would sometimes take me with him and when he it was my birthday he got me a book and I read it whenever I had time. So I guess I know a bit.” she said.

“Hmm well I suppose you're going to make me rest now?” I ask her with a smile.

“Mmhmm.” she said with a smile, and my smile dropped into a frown.

“Wait you’re actually going to make me?” I ask her and she nods.

“If you don’t get your rest it’ll take longer to heal.” she said.

“Fine, fine.” I said resting my head on my good leg. I closed my eyes and waited to fall asleep.

“Uh is it alright if I sleep next to you? So I don’t get cold again.” she said and I looked at her and she was looking at the ground drawing circles into the ground with a hoof.

You know I’m starting to like this kid. “Sure.” I said and I closed my eyes again and I felt Azura’s body touch mine and she settled into my warm fur and I started to fall asleep and I felt Azura’s soft breathing and then I instantly fell asleep with one last thought.

I’m starting to fall for this pony. Oh well at least it won’t happen with any others.

3- Bubbles [RW]

3- Giving and Getting

After I sprained my ankle and fell asleep the next day I woke up and just laid next to Azura. While I laid there I thought about the events of yesterday and why Azura wasn’t acting shy when I was hurt. It was strange to see her like that, even though I was hurt you would think she would still be a bit shy. Oh well, anyway, after Azura woke up she was back to her old self, being shy and still a bit scared of me. But when she looked at my injured leg she seemed like a whole new person, err pony, and I tried to walk with three legs for a few minutes after and felt that I finally got walking on three legs down.

But right after checking my leg she went right back to being shy, she’s probably like that because of her dumb ass father, maybe I should find a family or someone to take care of her because a wolf isn’t cut out to raise a different kind or if you want to be technical a human shouldn't be raising a sentient pony. Maybe I should help her with her shyness while I look for someone to take care of her so the family would take her in easily if she wasn’t shy, I don’t know if I could even break her shell but I guess I could try, and much less find someone to care for her.

So for the next week I tried talking to her as a friend and sneaking around Canterlot to find someone to take care of her while trying to get food at the castle. When I went to the castle again there were guards everywhere, probably because I let myself be seen last time, or maybe for the fact that he saw me grab Azura and thought I was going to eat her or something so he must have told someone about that day and had guards make sure the evil filly eating wolf wouldn’t get in the castle again.

Luckily with not having to worry about hiding Azura it was easy to grab some food, and put it in a bag that I found that was a big back that was black with purple designs on it, and I flew back to the cave and ate with Azura, it was mostly veggies and fruit for Azura and some more cake and something else for me. The first time I said I was going to get us something to eat while I was injured she protested and told me that I shouldn’t be straining my body when I need to heal and I told her that I would only be gone for a few minutes.

When I flew to the castle to get us food I didn’t go to the castle I flew to a dark alley way where the sun didn’t shine light into it and I would blend in easily. I sneaked through alleys and tried to find an orphanage or a family that would maybe take Azura in, if I could find either of those I could give Azura to them and get on with finding where the Elements are and stealing them.

While I was sneaking around I heard something about a town or something to the south called Ponyville and I thought that would be a good place to try to find out where the elements are. So I went and got some food and headed back to the cave and this went on for about a week and I also made some progress with Azura being shy, she started to talk to me more and she smiled a lot too even though she could hardly see me thanks to this cave being so dark, yet I could see her thanks to night vision. And remember when her ribs were showing and she had bruises all over her body, well when she ate meals normally, sort of, she started to gain weight to where I think it would be normal for a pony from this world and over time she started to heal as well. And after the week was over Azura had told me that I should be able to walk on my right paw now, so I tried to and it felt completely better so now I was able to run and sneak through alleyways on four legs instead of three.

And while I was sneaking around I leveled up my sneaking a LOT and I got a few new magic spells and it was to blend into the shadows and to blend in around any of my surroundings but I can move in the shadows but I can’t if I use the one where I can blend in anywhere. When I leveled up and got a new spell the man from before showed up as a hologram or something like that and he told me that I had a choice of what spell I wanted. I asked him how I would be able to talk to him if I needed help and he said just say these words ‘When Darkness rises Silence falls.’

Oh one more thing while I was in Canterlot one day I thought I should learn more about the Elements of Harmony so I went back to that building that was a home and a library. I went straight to the book and I read it over and over again and only found the exact same thing, something about the Mare in the Moon and only what it said before about the elements. So I just decided that I would have to find a library in Ponyville once I get rid of Azura. Sigh what am I going to do about Azura?

Now we’re back to the present on the day after the week.

I flew back into the cave and flapped my wings a few times and landed softly onto the ground. I had a bag of food in my mouth and walked to the back of the cave where Azura was. I sat the bag down and Azura came over and I opened the bag revealing food that I choose mostly every day, it was the same thing she ate the first day we stole food and because it’s her favorite thing.

She told me that she didn’t get much too eat at all, her father wanted her to do her chores and if she did them before her time limit was up he would give Azura scraps from his dinner he ate. She said he rarely gave her anything and that he would beat her if she didn’t finish her chores in time. When she said that it pissed me off and I almost lost it. And I realized that I actually was starting to like Azura, like she was the daughter I never had.

Back to the present, so me and Azura finished eating and we laid there for a while before Azura sat up and stretched while yawning.

“Shadow, when can we go outside?” she asks me and I lift my head and look at her.

“Hmm I suppose we could get out of this cave for once. Alright lets go.” I said standing up and stretching my legs.

We walked to the entrance and I saw that the sun had started to set in the east, it’s kind of hard to tell what time of day it is when your in a cave and there no light. I crouched down and let Azura on my back and she wrapped her hooves around my neck, I opened my wings and flapped them a few times stretching them out, I flapped once and I flew out of the cave and glided to the ground below the cave where there was an open field of grass and I landed. Azura got off of my back and walked around as I sat down and watched her.

She walked away from me about 15 ft away from me and sat down with her back turned to me and looked up at the sun. I looked up at the sun as well and saw the same beautiful colors of the sun again, there was orange, red, with bit of blue in the sky and it made the clouds look like they were red as well. We watched the sun for until it had finally set and the moon had came out. I don’t know why but I felt like howling. So I took a deep breath, looked into the sky, closed my eyes and let out a howl.

After I stopped howling I opened my eyes and looked at the beautiful stars in the sky and saw a full moon that made it all perfect. Back on earth it was hard to see the stars out in the city what with all the city lights everywhere, man I’m actually glad I’m in this world than in that hell hole. Never even liked my family even when they died I still despise them. (Exactly how I am right now. Even though mine aren’t dead yet.) Azura walked back over to me and sat down next to me and looked back up at the stars.

Azura yawned. “Shadow what are those things in the sky?” she asks me and I look at her in disbelief.

“Wait are you serious?” I ask her and she nods her head. “Well those lights up in the sky are called stars and that big white circle is called the moon.” I said pointing to the moon.

“Wow I always wondered what they were called. Do they have names?” she asks again.

“No.” I said chuckling. “But they do make up constellations and they have names.” I said to her.

“What are con-stol-lat-uns?” she asks me.

“Well EXPLANATION.” I said to her.

“Can you show me some?” she asks me with a curious look.

“Sure.” I said and I told her of all the constellations and pointed them out to her. She was listening intently the whole time and staring at the stars in wonder. After I told her of all the constellation I said that t was getting late and that we should head back to the cave and sleep. So I flew back to the cave with Azura on my back and we headed inside the cave and laid down next to each other.

“Shadow?” she asks me while yawning and I laid my head down.

“Hmm?”

“Can you be my new daddy?” she asks me and I went wide eyed and looked at her in disbelief.

“Why would you want me to be your dad?” I asked her in disbelief.

“Well my real dad didn’t care about me and when I met you I felt safe for once in my life. And I never had anypony care about me the way you do. So will you?” she asks me with hope in her eyes.

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea Azura.” I said to her.

“Oh alright.” she said with a frown.

I thought about what she said for a few seconds. “*sigh* I suppose I could.” I said laying my head back down. She had a smile on her face and she laid her head onto my side and closed her eyes.

“Good night… dad.” she said.

“Good night Azura.” I said smiling and I laid my head down close to her and smiled. It seems like she really is the daughter I never had, and now… now I do.

I woke up the next morning to Azura moving. I cracked open and eye and saw that she was still asleep and she looked uncomfortable so I wrapped myself around her and she snuggled into me with a smile. I closed my eye and fell back to sleep again.

I woke up again this time from Azura shaking me. I cracked open an eye again and saw her there and she stopped shaking me. I got up and stretched my legs and yawned.

“What is it?” I ask Azura.

“Can we go outside again?” she asks me.

“Now?” I ask and she nods. “Why?” I ask her.

“Well I wanted to find somewhere to clean up. I haven’t had a bath before and I’ve always wanted one.” she said.

I need to find out what else she hasn’t tried before. I thought for some reason. “Alright let's go then.” I said starting to walk to the entrance of the cave.

Azura gets on my back and I take off into the sky and head towards Canterlot. I know it’s crazy but it’s not like I can’t be sneaky. I fly towards Canterlot and now I think its time to use one of the spells I learned. I thought of a name back in the cave of the spell and I said it in my mind. ‘Blending Colors’ I thought and I felt myself feeling a bit light headed for a second and it passed as soon as it came. I looked at my paws which were always in front of me and I could still see them, so I guess I can see myself, I looked back at Azura and saw her smiling with her eyes closed and her head tilted up smelling the air. I looked back in front of me and saw that we were getting close to Canterlot.

I fly down towards Canterlot and glided towards the castle. I flew around the castle trying to find any open windows or doors on a balcony. After flying around the castle I found an open balcony door and flew down to it and landed silently.

“What are we doing here?” Azura asks me.

“Shh, you said you wanted a bath so I’m giving you one.” I said and Azura got off of my back and she started to walk into the room but I stopped her with a paw and she looked up at me.

“Azura if a pony walks in here and we can’t escape pretend I can’t talk.” I said to her and putting my paw back on the floor. She nodded and we walked into the room and luckily no one was in here and I let my spell off. What’s with ponies leaving windows and doors open? I walked around and opened a few doors and finally found the one room I was looking for. I called Azura over and opened the door more so we could walk inside.

It was a bathroom that looked very normal for a castle. It a circle room that had a toilet, a sink, and everything else you would see in a bathroom with three windows on the walls with rays of sunlight shining through them. I walk over to the shower and turn the nozzles and wait for the water to warm up. I waited a few seconds and put a paw under the water that started to stream out of the shower head and it was warm.

“Azura come over here and see if the water is warm enough for you.” I said and Azura walked over and put a hoof under the water.

“Should it be warm?” she asks taking her hoof out and putting it back on the floor.

“Yes. Now hop in and I’ll help you wash up.” I said and she got in the shower and water fell on her and she let out a satisfying ‘mmm’ and I looked around and saw two bottles of soap on the side of the tub and I looked at one of them and surprisingly I could read it, it was shampoo so I grabbed it in both of my paws.

“Now stay still. I’m going to put some soap on your head.” I said to her and she nodded and stood still.

I squeezed the bottle and soap poured onto Azura’s mane and she shivered and I chuckled at her. I put the bottle down and started to rub in the soap making bubbles on top of her head and some piled up and fell down onto her muzzle and she looked at them and blew them off of her muzzle. She giggled at it and I chuckled at her silliness.

“Alright now put your head under the water and lean your head back and I’ll wash off the soap.” I said and she did as told.

I washed the soap out of her mane and made sure I got all of the soap out before repeating the process for her tail. I grabbed the next bottle in my mouth and tilted my head sideways and bit down on the bottle and soap spilled out and onto Azura’s body. I put the bottle back down and rub the soap into her coat with my wings since I wouldn’t want to put my paws on her and accidentally push her over because I didn’t have any balance or anything to hold onto.

I rubbed in the soap and she smiled. After rubbing it in I told her to get under the water and let the water wash off the soap. She did and after a few minutes the soap was all out of her fur and I turned off the shower and went and looked in a few cabinets looking for a towel. After finding what I was looking for I grabbed a towel in my mouth and brought it over to Azura and put it over her and used my wings to rub the towel over her. I finally finished drying her off and I take the towel off of her and she looks at me and smiles. I smile back at her and I help her out of the shower and set her on the ground.

“Your turn.” Azura said.

“No, no, no. I came here to give you a bath and that’s it. Now let's go.” I said turning around.

“Come one you gave me one now it’s your turn.” she said.

“I really can’t believe I’m doing this.” I muttered under my breath.

I sighed in defeat and turned around and walked back over to the tub and jumped into the shower. I turned the water back on and I let the water wash over me and after a few seconds my fur is matted down from the water. I’m starting to miss my hands. I thought as I remembered running my hands through my wet hair every time I was in the shower. I open my eyes and look over at Azura who was grabbing the bottled soap in her mouth and I moved out from under the water and Azura tilted her head to the side and squeezed some soap out and onto my fur. She put the bottle down and used her hooves to start rubbing the soap in and she was giggling while doing so.

After rubbing the soap into my fur she told me to get under the water and I did so and she started rubbing the soap off and in all honesty, it felt kind of good… for hooves that is. I expected them to be very hard and uncomfortable once she started rubbing the soap in but they felt really soft somehow. I don’t even know how to explain how they felt, but anyway she finally rinsed off all of the soap off of my fur and I could feel that my fur is very soft now. I could also smell the soap, it smelled like peaches and oranges mixed together with a hint of kiwi. Man my sense of smell is amazing now.

“There all done.” Azura said with a smile.

I hopped out of the tub and shook all of the water off of me and my fur poofed out and made me look like I had a lion's mane. Azura giggled at how ridiculous I looked and she took the towel I used on her and put it over me and started to dry me off. She finished drying me off and I looked at her with a smile.

“Alright now it’s time to go.” I said and we walked out of the room and thankfully no one was in here still, which is still very odd.

We walked out to the balcony and Azura got on my back and I took off into the skies which was still daylight outside.

“Azura are you hungry?” I ask Azura without looking back at her. I felt her shake her head and then I felt soft rumbling on my back and it was Azura’s stomach that had did that. I smirked and changed direction and headed for the kitchen.

For some reason the window was open still and I glided over the window for a few seconds looking for any ponies that might be in the kitchen and luckily there wasn’t so I glided down to the window, went inside and landed safely onto the ground. Azura got off of my back and we walked around and ate what was left out and while I was eating some fruit I heard a door open and I looked towards the sound and saw a pony walking in and it was the same chef from before.

I looked over towards Azura and saw that she had saw him too and was getting into a cabinet. Thank god she know what to do after all this time. I thought as I crouched down and crawled over to the end of the cabinets and looked over the corner to see him walking the opposite direction of me with the sound of clip clopping as he walked. I waited until he had walked away and I crawled over to the other side of the room where the other cabinets were at and crawled over to the cabinet where Azura was hiding. I opened the cabinet quietly and motioned for Azura to get on my back since her hooves would make too much noise.

She got on and I crawled over to where the opened window was at and moonlight was shining through it and I looked over the corner and saw the guy chopping up some vegetables and it looked like he wasn’t moving any time soon. He would look side to side every so often and I would duck back behind the corner and look back over when he looked the other way. Seems like he’s jumpy from something. I wonder what could have caused that? Oh yeah me! I thought and I resisted the urge to smirk and thought that I should find a different way out of here since he’s not moving any time soon. I sneak over to the door he came in and slowly and quietly opened the door as to not make any noise. I open the door and crawl out and silently close the door. I hear clip clopping coming from the right at the end of the hall and I look towards the sound and see a shadow getting bigger and bigger.

I run to my left as fast as I could and I get to a four way and turn right hoping to get far away from whoever was coming. I run down the hall and look behind me hoping no one else was walking down the hall and there wasn’t and I look back in front of me and see a giant blue door with two guards stationed at the sides of it and I stop running as soon as I saw them and their eyes widened at the sight of me.

“There’s the wolf! Get it!” one of the guards yelled and I was right next to a door luckily and I ran through it and into a dark room with two glass doors on the other side of the room.

I ran and slammed into them sending them flying open and I ran out onto the balcony, jumped over the railing, opened my wings and flew to my right flying towards my cave as fast as I could flapping my wings vigorously. I see something flying towards me and I squint and see that it’s guards flying towards me. I turn around and flap my wings as hard as I could and went speeding towards the castle again.

“Azura close your eyes! Things may get ugly soon!” I yell at her and she nods. Luckily the guards weren’t close enough to hear me so now it’s time for a bit of a flying battle.

This is gonna be fun! I thought as I thought of an idea to get rid of them and I turned direction towards the guards flying at me. I flapped my wings once and I went hurdling towards them and there eyes widened and they tried to get out of my way but I sped up and flew faster and used a spell. Steel Wings I thought and I felt my wings start to harden but still able to move. I looked back and saw my wings were now silver and very sharp. I flapped my wings again and glided straight at them and when I was right above them I flapped as hard as I could and hit them on the head and they stopped flying but maybe only for a few seconds and I took that chance to fly towards my cave.

Once again I was stopped by three more guards. I turned back towards the castle and thought of another way to get rid of them. I flew straight toward the castle hoping I could lose them in the streets. There weren’t many ponies in the streets so I wouldn’t really be seen I just need to be a bit careful. I dive into an alleyway and flap my wings stopping right above the ground I flap them again and I fly out of the alleyway and into an empty street.

“STOP THAT MUTT!” I hear one of the guards say far away behind me.

I flap my wings and fly through the streets like a bullet and doing sharp turns around corners and the guards were on my tail but I was losing them by the second. Every corner I turn they couldn’t match my speed on turning them and one crashed into a building across an alleyway after I turned and he didn’t turn fast enough and lost control and crashed into a building. Now there were only two left following me, time for some tactics I’m trying out for the first time.

I fly even faster than before and I adjust my wings and pull them around me and Azura and I spiral upwards and back around and unfold my wings and glide along the ground and see the two guards flying straight towards a building and they start to pull up but one hit a flag pole and landed on the ground out cold and the other flew back around and started chasing me again.

Now for some stealth tactics. I fly back towards the castle going through alley ways and I finally get near the castle grounds and the final guard was still behind me but not even close to me. I speed up and look behind me to see a trail of black behind me as I flew and Azura with her eye closed tight and my eyes widened at the black trail. Hmm odd I’ll have to ask the man who sent me here about that later. I thought as I sped up more and got to the castle and flew straight up along the wall of the castle.

There was a balcony up above me and I flew straight to it and looked back and saw the guard still in the alleyway desperately trying to catch up to me. I land on onto the balcony and there was a huge door with curtains beside it. I look back at Azura and we're both panting heavily.

"Azura get off and hide behind those curtains." I said and she did what I had said.

She hid behind the curtains and I straightened them out to make it look like she wasn't there and I laid down beside her. Blending Colors I thought and I felt myself feeling light headed like the first time I used this spell and it past. I heard flapping and it got closer to us and I finally saw the guard and he landed on the balcony I was on and he looked over the edge searching for me. I was tempted to sneak up behind him and bite down on his neck and get rid of him but Azura was right here and if she wasn't I would have killed him here and now.

In the corner of my eye I saw the balcony door open and a tall dark blue pony walked out and had something around her neck that was black with a white crescent moon in the center of it and she had a black crown on her head above her long horn and she had wings as well with what looked like black paint had been splattered on her flank with a white crescent moon on her flank as well.

"What is thy doing here?" she asked the guard with a beautiful voice.

"Oh Princess Luna!" the guard said and he bowed to her and stood back up. "There was an intruder in the castle and he flew off and me and a few other guards chased him but... well he lost him." he said quickly.

"What did this intruder look like?" she asked with a hardened look.

The guard said, "Well it was a wolf. But this wolf had black and red fur. It also had wings and was as fast as lightning if not faster," he looked down "it also had a filly on his back." he finished and he looked scared for some reason.

"Very well, if he is as fast as thy says he is then we suppose you go back to thy's duty." she said as she walked over and looked up into the night sky.

"Yes princess." he said a little hesitant and he walked into the room Luna came out of.

There was shuffling next to me and I looked over and saw Azura fall out of the curtains with an audible 'oomph' and Luna spun around and looked at Azura in surprise.

"What is thou doing here?" Luna asked in a caring voice. Azura just laid there looking at the ground. "is thou alright?" Luna asked again and Azura slowly nodded still looking at the ground.

"What is thy name?" she asked.

She waited a few seconds. "A-a-azura." she said stuttering.

"Stay here Azura we will be right back." Luna said and she walked back into the room and I could hear her talking to someone and she was saying that 'thou are relieved for the night' she said and I guess she was talking to some guards. After a few seconds she came back.

"Why is thou up here? Shouldn't thou be with thy's parents?" Luna asked with a concern look.

She slowly nodded her head again, "I uh, I have a... a dad." Azura said still looking at the ground.

"Well where might thou be at? If thous daughter is away then might thy be home?" Luna had asked her. She nodded again.

"Well then we will have my guard escort thy to where thy lives." she said as she started to walk back into the room.

"I uh... I can find my way home. If that's alright with you." she said and Luna looked at her in surprise and smiled.

"Very well. At least let our guard lead you through the castle." she offered and Azura nodded again.

They walked into the room and I decided to wait for her at the entrance of the castle. I waited until I heard the door inside the room open and then closed and I kept the spell on and flew down to where I thought was at and waited for Azura to come out of the door. I waited for several minutes and finally a door swung open and a guard and Azura walked out and Azura walked down the steps and the guard went back inside the castle and closed the door. I walked over to Azura and canceled the spell while walking.

"Are you okay?" I ask her with a calm tone.

"Yeah I'm fine." she said happily for some reason. I'll ask her when we get back to the cave. I thought and I told her to get on my back and she did and I flew straight to the cave thankfully with no interruptions. I landed inside the cave and Azura got off of my back and we walked to the back of the cave. I laid down and Azura laid down next to me.

"Azura why exactly were you happy when you came out of the castle." I asked her.

I could tell that she caught her breath. "W-well the nice blue pony walked with me half of the way and she was really nice. And she said that she wanted me to come and visit her some time." she said with a smile.

"Well I'm happy you made a new friend," I said to her "I guess," I muttered under my breath "But I won't be able to take you there without getting caught and killed." I said to her and her facial features saddened and tears started to form in her eyes.

"But I suppose we could try." I said. I'm starting to go soft for her. I thought and she hugged my neck and I hugged her back. "now go to sleep and tomorrow night I'll take you there." I said and she nodded and snuggled into my warm fur more and she fell asleep as soon as she stopped moving.

I smiled and shook my head, I laid my head down and let out a sigh finally able to rest my tired bones after flying so much today. Even though I flew every day I wasn't used to flying so fast and making veering around corners. Oh well, guess I can work on that as soon as I can find a way to get Azura a family. I thought and my eyes felt very heavy and they closed and I went into a deep sleep.

4- Hello and Goodbye [RW]

4- Saying Goodbye and Hello

I woke up the next morning to something rubbing against my side. I lazily crack open and eye and look at what was rubbing against me. Azura was there rubbing her head on my stomach and hugging me tightly. Luckily I could still breath so, I just laid there and tried to go back to sleep. But then Azura started to squeeze me even tighter, still I could breath, but I was now uncomfortable and awake. I just let her sleep and I closed my eye and tried to find my way back to sleep. I laid there for what felt like hours before Azura started to wake up. She rose to a sitting position and rubbed her tired eyes with a hoof and yawned.

“Morning daddy.” Azura said.

It took me a few seconds and realized I had said I would be her father. “Good morning Azura. Uh did you sleep well?” I asked trying to think of what a father would say.

“Good… I think.” she said yawning again. “Dad… why do you not want to talk to anypony?” she asked me curiously.

“Uh well… ponies who would find out I could talk and find that I have wings would find me a threat or something dangerous. So they would try to kill me or experiment on me, so that’s why I don’t talk to other ponies but you.” I said.

“How come you talk to me then?” she asked.

Geez you're perceptive for a kid. “Well when I found you being hurt by that pony and took you with me and you woke up and you were scared… I sort of saw myself in you.” I said.

“Oh…” she said.

Azura stood up and stretched her weary limbs and yawned again. I got up as well and stretched my legs and yawned afterwards. I sat down and scratched my ear with my back paw and after a few seconds I realized what I did and groaned. I’m getting too used to this. I thought as I stood back up. I looked around the cave and saw Azura staring towards where the entrance is. I looked over as well and saw a glimmer of light.

I’m getting tired of this cave, I need to find somewhere else to stay… or get rid of Azura and I could head to Ponyville. If only there was another way I could take her with me and not have to worry about her, then I would be able to go to Ponyville with her and I wouldn’t have to get rid of her. But I can’t think of any way to help her unless I trained her to sneak around and lie, but… she doesn’t know what the world is like since she was being abused by her father! And I don’t want to teach her how to be evil, she’s still innocent and I want her to have a good life… even if that means without me being with her.

That’s it I have to find someone to take care of her, I don’t want her to be like me. I look at her and she’s still looking at the entrance to the cave. I walk over to her and sit next to her.

“Azura would you like anything specific for breakfast?” I ask her still looking at the entrance.

“Um I’m fine with anything.” she said looking down at the ground.

“Alright… I might be a while so.... I’ll be back as soon as I can.” I said as I started walking to the entrance of the cave. (Sorry if any of you are getting tired of the word ‘entrance’)

I get to the front of the cave and smell the morning air and look into the sky. There's a good breeze going so that could help me with gliding to the castle. I open my wings and flap once and take to the air. I get up high into the sky and there are no clouds in the sky so I would have trouble sneaking in. I fly to Canterlot with no interruptions and I look for a window or something open and I find a balcony door open and fly into it. It was another bedroom that was like the one I entered with Azura and had our baths.

I slowly open the door and take a look inside and find that it’s empty. I walk inside slowly just incase and I get close to the door before a bright light flashes and I run over and jump behind the bed. The light fades away and I peek over the bed and see that guy as a hologram again and I let out a breath and walk over to him.

“Hello again Cameron, or should I say Shadow? Anyway I’m waiting with very little patience for you to find where the Elements are and to get rid of that kid you have. She’s getting in the way of our deal and if you don’t get rid of her soon… then I will.” he said with a harsh tone.

“Don’t worry I’m trying to find a way to find someone to take care of her, just give me a bit more time and she’ll be gone and I’ll find the Element’s.” I said.

“You better.” he said.

“I actually have a few questions. What are the Element’s exactly?” I ask him.

“I’ll answer that when you have more time on your hand, or should I say paw.” he said.

“Don’t patronize me.” I said and I growled.

“Do not worry once you find them I will help you in getting them.” he said.

“Another question what exactly is your name?” I ask him.

“Just call me M.” he said and I nodded.

“Okay one more, how exactly do I earn more skills that I don’t have?” I asked.

“You would just have to try things out. Like say you are flying a lot you will earn a spell that will make you fly close to the speed of light, but in order to do that you would have to be very skilled in flying, and you’ve only scratched the surface of flying.” he said.

“Now my time is up, I must leave. If you ever need me just say these words, Call Upon the One who is Feared. And I will appear like I am now.” he said and he started to waver.

“Fine now leave me alone so I can get back to doing what I was doing.” I said and he glared at me and snapped his fingers and the image of him disappeared into thin air.

I walk over to the door and cracked it open and look through the crack with an eye and there's a pony walking down the hall toward me. I close the door quietly and put an ear to the door and listen. The sound of hooves on the floor get louder and they pass by the door and I wait until I can no longer hear them. After several seconds I can’t hear hoof steps and I open the door and walk out and close the door behind me.

I sneak down the hall and I try to remember where that one room is. I think I know where I am and I think I’m close. I stop at a corner and look around the corner and there it is, it was the giant blue door from before with the two guards stationed at each side. If that isn’t where that Luna is at then I don’t know where she would be at. Now the only problem is the guards, luckily while I was using Blending Colors hiding from that guard my skill leveled up and now I can move while using Blending Colors instead of having to be still in order for it to work. But I still have to get rid of the guards if I want to sneak into that room. An idea pops into my head and I cast Blending Colors and sneak over to a very large painting that was of a white pony with a wavy pink, blue and green mane with a long horn and large wings that looked to be as long as mine and was hanging on the side of the large hall and I got right under it. It was very close to the guards and they would surely notice what was about to happen. I jump up as high as I could and put my claws into the picture and started to slide down it with a *crrrrrrrrrrk* sound and I landed onto the ground and I had made a very long knash in the painting right along the ponies chest and all the way to the bottom of the painting.

I looked over and saw the guards looking over here with a confused look. They both started walking over here and I sneaked away from the painting and around the two guards and over to the door silently. They were staring at the painting very confused as to why it had suddenly got claw marks on it. I opened the door slowly and quietly and sneaked in and closed the door the same way.

It was a very dark room, luckily I could still see easily and there was a table with a chair to my right, with another door that was smaller than the one I had came into and there was a very large bed across from me with a nightstand next to the bed. There was also a large bulge in the bed that looked like something was under the blankets and was breathing.

I walk over to the bed and looked at whoever was in the bed and it was Luna thankfully. I saw that she was asleep with her head rested on a dark blue pillow, just like her whole bed. I also saw a book under her pillow. Who keeps a book under their pillow? I thought, and now I’m curious as to what it is.

I rolled my eyes and started to walk off but I was tempted to get it and read it. I’m really going to get myself killed one day doing this sort of thing. I turn back around and went and grabbed the book in my mouth. I slowly pulled the book out from under her pillow and she turned over on her side and my eyes widened and she reached out with her hooves and grabbed me and I thought I was going to die. She pulled me close to her and squeezed me tightly.

On the inside I was screaming AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! like a little girl. I look at her and she was still asleep somehow and I let out a breath of relief and I try to wiggle out but she just tightens her grip.

“Mmm no don’t.” she said in her sleep. Damnit she talks in her sleep.

I noticed something as she was squeezing me, I was still bigger than her even though she was taller than the guards. I really need to compare myself to the height of a pony. I thought and I started to wiggle again, but I was stuck in place thanks to her death grip.

After several minutes of trying to break free of her grip she finally loosened up and I was able to get free finally. I get out of the bed before she could pull me back in. I look back at her and she reaches across the bed for me and whined in her sleep looking for where I had gone. I push a pillow closer to her and she grabs it and hugs it like she had done to me and smiled.

I went back over and finally grabbed the book, I opened it and flipped through some pages skimming through it and it was a diary. What kind of princess has a diary? I thought and I got to a page that caught my interest. It was a page that mentioned Azura. It say’s this.

Dear diary, we have met a filly named Azura and we found something strange about her. She had some kind of power in her that we have not seen before. We must try to get closer to her and see if what we think it may be is what we think it is. While we were talking to Azura we sensed something else around us and we could not sense what it exactly was but it was close to chaotic magic, or maybe it was but we could not tell at the time. We will have to find if it had something to do with Azura or not but in the meantime we had asked if she would come and visit us and we could maybe become friends.

The reason for that is because while we were walking to leave Azura to walk home we started talking about the night and she knew surprisingly most of the constellations and she had said her father had taught her what they were, I must meet her father someday and hopefully see what he is like. Maybe he’s the one I have not been able to find yet, maybe he’s the only one who understands my night.

What does she mean by her night? I thought as I slowly slid the book back under her pillow. She didn’t wake so I started to walk towards the door but tripped on something and fell to the ground and tumbled around and knocked into something and a second later there was a loud crashing sound. I heard Luna snorted and I looked over and she woke up and sat up immediately from the sound.

She looked around and her eyes rested on me and we stared at each other for several seconds and I stood up and her horn lit up a dark blue and she shot that thing at me and it hit me and I fell to the floor paralyzed.

“If thou think'st thou can sneak into our room and escape un-noticed then thou can just give up.” she said with a smirk.

I tried to talk but my mouth was slack jawed and I couldn’t move it at all so it just came out as nonsense. She walked up to me and walked around, examining me. She stopped right in front of me and put a hoof to her chin.

“In all of our years we did not expect to see another one of thy’s kind in this time.” she said.

I tried to talk again but got the same result as before. She rolled her eyes and her horn lit up again and shot something at my mouth and I could now move my mouth.

“Now what was thou trying to say?” she asked me.

“I was trying to ask what you did to me.” I said to her with a glare.

“That is simple we simply used a spell that would paralyze you until we wanted to let thou go.” she said smiling down on me.

“Well can you un-paralyze me?” I ask in more of a demanding tone.

“Not until we see that thy is not a threat like we have heard.” she said.

“Fine.” I said.

“Now what is thou’s name?” she asked.

“Ca… Shadow.” I said correcting myself.

“Shadow… that is a very suiting name for thy.” she said.

“Uh thanks… I guess.” I muttered.

“Now that was thou doing last night in the castle?” she asked with a hard look and a serious tone.

“I was getting food for me and… and I was leaving but then some guards came and chased after me. Why are you asking me this if you already know it?” I ask her.

“We wanted to see if we could trust thy, like we said before. And it seems we can… for the moment.” she said. “There wasn’t anypony else with thou?” she asked me.

I was hesitant to tell her but she already knew, but didn’t know who. “Yes.” I said simply.

“And might thou tell us who that may be?” she asked me.

“You already know who it is.” I said to her.

“Fine don’t tell us. But we must ask… what was thy doing with a filly?” she asked me.

“None of your business.” I said to her.

“Well would it so happen that a unicorn filly I met last night be the one you have with you hiding wherever thy has hidden her.” she said reading me with ease.

“I don’t know what your talking about.” I said avoiding her gaze.

“We think thou is lying to us. If you are worried about us telling others. Don’t. I wish not to tell others of this just to have thy hunted down for something my sister is worried about and is having high alert for you. She was told of you holding a filly ‘hostage’ and that you intend on eating her.” she said.

And at that moment for the first time, I could tell I wasn’t being lied to. “Fine, yes I do have her. And I never harmed her if that is what your sister is worried about, and I never intend on doing so. NOW can you let me go?” I ask her, annoyed of laying on the floor.

“Does thou promise not to run off?” she asked as her horn lit up.

“Yes I promise.” I said through bared teeth. The light on her horn shot at me again and hit me in my chest and I could move again. I stood up to my full height and I was easily taller than her, almost a foot taller to be exact.

When I stood up and she had to look up to look at me, she did not have a hint of fear in her expression. But her jaw did drop when I stood up and I grinned at this.

“Now is that all? Because I need to be going.” I said to her.

“Well may we ask if thou is her father figure she spoke of?” she asked me. I thought of her question for a few seconds and I nodded.

“Now I need to ask you something.” I said and I leaned in close to her ear and I whispered my question.

“Is that surely what thy wants?” she asked me and I nodded.

“Well then we will see you tonight. We will leave our door open for you to enter when you come.” she said and I nodded and I walked over to her balcony door.

I pushed it open with my snout and I walked out and closed the door. I opened my wings and flew off high into the sky with the sun still high into the sky. I flew over to the kitchen and landed inside and got some food that was out and put it in another bag that I found and flew back to the cave without thinking a single thought.

I landed inside and put my wings back to my side and walked back to Azura. I saw Azura laying there on the hard ground snoozing and I let the bag drop from my mouth. I looked at her in sadness from my time with her being so short. I walked over to her sleeping body and sat next to her and rubbed my cheek on hers. I looked at her and pushed aside some of her mane covering her eyes. I bent down and nudged her with my nose and she stirred awake.

“Daddy? Mmm your back. I was wondering what was taking you so long and then I fell asleep. What happened?” she asked me rubbing her eyes. I pushed aside the pain in my heart and looked at her with a mild expression.

“Nothing to worry about. Now eat.” I said nudging the bag of food closer to her. She opened it with her hooves and ate from it and after a few minutes she sat up and pushed the bag close to me and I bent over and ate the rest that was there.

“Dad, are you going to take me to Luna tonight?” Azura asked me as I laid next to her.

“Yes Azura I am taking you to Luna. And then you’ll…” I said and quickly stopped myself from telling her of what I had asked Luna.

“Okay.” she said with a smile and she laid her had down. I looked at her and thought of something.

“Hey Azura would you want to maybe go flying with me before we go to Luna?” I ask her.

“Really!?” she asked jumping up with a smile on her face. I nodded and she jumped up and hugged my neck and started bouncing to the front of the cave. First time I’ve ever seen her like this. I thought as I smiled at her.

I walked to the front of the cave and Azura still had a huge smile on her face. I motioned for her to get on and she hopped onto my back and I took off into the sky. I flew for hours on end without landing once. I had stayed high in the sky enjoying the view below us and all around us. I didn’t even feel tired, and when I did start to feel tired I would look back at Azura’s smiling face and I would get a renewed energy from joy replacing the feeling of weariness. After flying for hours the sun had started to set and as I saw this happening my smile vanished and was replaced with sorrow. I looked back at Azura and she had an awe-struck expression on her face as she watched the sun slowly set. I sighed and turned around and head towards Canterlot Castle where we would meet Luna.

I flew to her balcony and her balcony door was opened like she said she would do, with a dim yellow light was shining out of the doorway. I flew down and landed and Azura hopped off of my back.

“Are you going to hide here dad? Or are you going back to the cave?” Azura asked turning back and looking at me.

“Actually I’m coming with you.” I said and she looked confused.

“But I thought you didn’t want anypony to see you?” she asked very confused.

“Well I met Luna while I was out and we agreed that I would be staying for a bit.” I said to her. That was the last thing I got to say and Azura opened her mouth to say something but Luna walked out and beat her to it.

“Awe, Azura, Shadow. We were wondering what was taking you so long.” Luna said walking out of her room.

“Luna!” Azura said and she jumped up and hugged Luna by the neck. Luna returned the hug and looked at me as they parted from the hug.

“How long will you be staying?” Luna asked me.

“Not long.” I said to her.

“Aww you're not staying dad? Where are you going then?” she asked me with pleading eyes and I saw Luna look down at her hooves saddened as I was about to answer her question.

“Well Azura the thing is… you're staying with Luna from now on.” I said to her and her confused expression turned to a very sad one.

“What?” she said in a whisper that made a mouse seem loud.

“Azura I can’t keep taking care of you. I was never meant to take care of you. I’ve… I’ve been looking for someone to take care of you for a while now and today I asked Luna if she would take care of you because a wolf is not meant to take care of a filly.” I said to her and every word I said tears started to form in the corner of her eyes and that only made the stake dig deeper into my heart.

“S-so you don’t love me?” she asked as tears started to roll down her cheeks.

“No that’s not it. I do love you Azura it’s just that… when I came here I wasn’t planning on finding you and taking care of you. And I came here for something that's important, and I didn’t want to keep you because then you would see things a filly should never see. When I found you beaten I didn’t want you to die, and the time I spent with you and you’ve grown on me. And I’ve never had anyone to love and anyone to love me and I want the best for you now.” I said to her almost tearing up.

She looked up at me. “I don’t want you to leave me!” she said jumping up and throwing her hooves around my neck. I put a paw on her back as I felt her tears starting to collect onto my fur as she cried into my shoulder.

“Don’t worry Azura. Luna will take care of you and will keep you safe. And I will always love and be with you. As long as you remember me and keep me in your heart I’ll be with you forever. And if you want I can come visit you.” I said and she looked at me and nodded her head rapidly. I put her down on the ground and I bent over and hugged her tightly.

“Do you promise to come and visit me?” she whispered in my ear and sniffled.

“I promise.” I said smiling and I let her go. I looked at Luna and she had started crying as well.

“Will you take care of her for me?” I asked Luna.

“Yes, and we will do more than that and teach her things, while she is with us.” Luna said with a smile.

I bent down and looked at Azura in the eyes. “Go in there and get some sleep Azura. I’ll make sure to visit as much as I can.” I said to her and she nodded and slowly walked off into Luna’s room.

“Where is thou going to make you have to leave Azura with me?” Luna asked me.

“Don’t worry about it. Just know that once I finish what I’m doing this world will be a better place.” I said to her. “Oh and keep this a secret between us. Okay?” I asked and she nodded with a smile.

I opened my wings and flew high into the night sky. I looked back and saw Azura walking outside and her and Luna waved to me and I stopped in the air and looked at them. I smiled and lifted my head and let out a howl that would be heard from miles away. I looked at them and they continued waving to me, I turned and flew off into the distance.

I flew for several minutes telling myself that I need to focus on the Element’s now and then I heard a train whistle and I looked down and saw a train chugging along and I thought that I could rest for the night from this day and let my mind and body rest. I flew down to the train behind the caboose and landed on top of the train car and there was a close hatch. I walked over to it and try to pry it open with my mouth but it didn’t budge. Steel Wings I thought and I felt my wings harden and I used my wings to cut through the hatch and used the claws in my paws to open it with ease now and I hopped into the caboose and canceled the spell and put my wings back to my side.

It was average size, I guess, for a caboose cart. There was a nothing in here but a seat in the back with a door behind me, and two windows on each side of me. Now is the time for some much needed answers.

“I Call Upon the One Who is Feared.” I said and there was a bright light and the image of M showed with his usual attire on.

“So it seems you’ve gotten rid of that kid. Good. Now why did you call me?” he asked obviously pissed at me calling him.

“I want to know what the Element’s are.” I said demanding to know.

“Fine, the Element’s are weapons of mass destruction that is power beyond imagine. It has power unlike anything you could ever think of. And it’s dangerous if they are in the wrong hands.” he said to me with a blank expression on his face.

“How so?” I asked confused as to why they’re called the Element’s of Harmony if they’re a dangerous weapon.

“Well for example they were used to send a pony to the moon for a thousand years until she finally came back but was once again defeated and she is now trapped on the moon again.” he said to me. 'Great now I have to be even more careful'I thought to myself.

“Yes you would most likely be considered a threat if they find out you are trying to steal them. Then they would most likely use the Element’s to do something to you. And we wouldn’t want that to happen now would we.” he said and I remembered that he could fuckin’ read minds or some shit. “And no I can’t read minds, I read your body language, and you’re an open book.” he said smiling maliciously at me.

“Whatever. Do you know what they look like?” I ask him.

“Yes I do. They look like just a piece of jewelry but they are not, one is shaped like a star that is purple, another is an orange apple, one is a red lightning bolt, a purple diamond, a pink butterfly, and a blue balloon. Any more questions?” he asked me.

“No that’s all.” I said to him.

“Good. Before I go, make sure you don’t talk to anyone else… or else. And remember to act like an animal.” he said and a chill ran down my spine. He raised his right hand and he snapped his fingers and the hologram of him disappeared.

“Fine whatever.” I said and I walked over to the seat in the back of the cart and jumped up on it and laid down. After several minutes of trying to fall asleep I finally started to drift off. Sleep took hold of me once again and I had one final thought. Good night Azura.

I woke up to a train whistle going off and I jerked up into a fighting stance and looked around and a bright light shined through the windows of the cart and then I remembered I was in the caboose of a train. I let out a breath and stood up straight. I stretched my legs and rubbed my eyes with my paws carefully as to not accidentally scratch my eyes out with my sharp claws. I walk over to one of the windows and squint my eyes still getting used to this much light. Being in a cave for so long can really mess with your eyes.

After a few minutes of getting used to the bright light of the sun, I saw that we were starting to slow down. I went to the window on the other side of the cart and saw that some kind of town or village off in the distance to my left. Is that Ponyville? Guess I’ll have to find out. I thought and I opened my wings, flapped once and flew out of the caboose and high into the sky.

There were buildings tall and short long and wide, that looked like ordinary houses, but they had hay for a roof top. There were ponies of all shapes and and sizes and color walking around going about their day not even noticing the thing flying in the sky. Next to the village on each side was a forest. The one on my left was brightly lit with the sun shining through the branches of the trees and I saw many animals flying jumping or running in the forest. And the one on my right was very dark, and damp, with no animals to be seen. Just my kind of place, quiet, dark, and best of all I can be alone in their. This place reminded me of Wormwood surrounded by the Quag. (It’s from a book called The Finisher and it was one hell of a book to read, I actually never put it down until I was done with it. Tell me someone out there know’s what I’m talking about.)

I fly down to the forest on my right and land with a solid thud and I look around and it was almost completely black but there were still small rays of the sun shining through small openings in the leaves. I thought of finding a place to sleep for the time I’m here so i started to look in trees and around the forest for anywhere to sleep at when I need to. But as soon as I started looking I had heard a scream of terror that seemed to be a good mile away. Hmm, if there are animals in here they wouldn’t be able to talk and if they were then I highly doubt they would be scared of the forest they live in. I thought.

I rolled my eyes and quickly opened my wings and flew through the forest. I veered and spiraled around trees and branches. Another scream was heard and I quickened my pace and followed the direction of where I heard the scream come from. A few moments later and I heard another scream that sounded to be 20ft away from me. I flapped my wings once more and I zoomed out into a vast open area of grass that had no tree and had sunlight shining down on me. I looked around and I saw a yellow pegasus mare with a pink mane and tail to my right with creatures I’ve only seen in books before to my right.

They looked to be Timberwolves .

Anyway the Timberwolves were exactly what they sounded like. They were wolves that were made of wood with green glowing eyes and wooden teeth and claws just like their whole body. There was a total of 13 Timberwolves walking towards the frightened mare with their teeth bared showing very sharp wooden teeth and glaring at her with their glowing green eyes. They had gotten fairly close to her and they had circled around her as she just sat there staring at them as she laid on the ground whimpering with tears rolling down her cheeks. I guess now’s the time for some action. Steeled Wings. I thought and I felt my wings harden and I shot off towards the Timberwolves and used my wings to cut off the head of the one of the Timberwolves and landed a good ten feet away from the others.

The others had noticed this as their companion fell to the ground with no head and was certainly dead. They all looked at me and growled in anger as they had forgotten about their prey and started walking towards me. I still had the spell on and I waited until the Timberwolves were now circling me. I looked over at the mare who was still shaking in fear and had covered her head with her hooves. In the corner of my eye I saw one of the Timberwolves pounce on me and he was fast too. But I was even faster. I lowered myself low and ducked in time for the Timberwolf to fly behind me and I quickly turned around and bit down on it’s neck with my sharp teeth and something sticky oozed out of its neck. I let go and saw that it was tree sap oozing out of the Timberwolf’s neck.

Another two jump at me and I flap my wings and go into the sky and I look down and see that they had crashed into each other and were lying on the ground. I dive down towards them and they started to get up but I landed on top of both of their heads and sent them back into the ground with sap oozing out of their head. The other started to growl even louder than before obviously getting more pissed by the second.

A message popped up in front of me like how it had done before when I got my new spell. It read, ‘New Spell Unlocked’ It went to an option of two spells, Whirling Tornado or Dashing Speed I had to think quickly before another Timberwolf attacked me so I pressed on the screen and it disappeared and just in time too.

Three Timberwolves jumped at me and I used my back legs and kicked one of them in the snout smashing him, and I clawed the other with my claws, but I didn’t turn quick enough and the last one that jumped at me bit down on my right back leg and I howled in pain as he bit down harder onto my leg. I used my free back leg and kicked the Timberwolf on my leg off and sent him flying to the ground and he died when I kicked him. I looked at my injured leg and saw wooden teeth in my leg and blood spewing from my leg. Damnit! Let’s wrap this up already. Whirling Tornado. I thought and I wrapped my wings all the way around my body covering everything but my face and started to spin fast. After a minute of spinning and somehow not getting dizzy the air around me started to spin out of control and I saw the Timberwolves starting to float off of the ground. After several seconds I stopped spinning and opened my wings up and sent all of the Timberwolves flying away from me and they all hit a tree and busted into a pile of sticks and twigs.

I landed on the ground and looked around at the now dead and smashed Timberwolves. I look over at the mare who is still on the ground and I try to walk to her but I forgot about my injured leg and I tumbled to the ground in pain as I stepped on it. My vision started to blur mostly due to the fact that I must have been losing too much blood. I started to fade away but before I blacked out I saw a yellow blur walking up to me. And it stopped in front of me and I blacked out.

I woke up to sounds around me and something wet and cool on my leg and I was laying on my side. I open my eyes and looked at what was on my leg and see that my right back leg had a white and red wet rag on my leg and I remember what happened before I blacked out. I was saving a yellow mare from Timberwolves and one of them had bit my leg and left wooden teeth in my leg and I was bleeding horribly. I hear hoofsteps and I look to where it was coming from and I see the yellow mare walking towards me with something in one of her hooves.

I jump off of the couch I was laying on and landed on the ground but once again I forgot about my leg and fell to the ground as soon as I landed on the ground and searing pain shot through my leg. The mare ran over to me and did something with her hoof and I saw a bear walk toward me and I growled at him and the bear hesitated but picked me up and put me back on the couch and she thanked him and he went off somewhere else. I tried to get back up again but the mare pushed me back down.

"Don't get up or you'll hurt yourself even more." she said in a soft, quiet, and caring voice.

I was about to say something but M's voice talked in the back of my head. "Do not talk, act like an animal or you will face the consequences." he said and i just sat there and she took my leg in her hooves and touched my injury and I yanked my leg away from her and growled.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you. I'll be extra careful this time, please let me see your leg." she said quietly as she looked at my leg.

She put the thing that was in her hoof on the couch and removed the wet cloth from my leg and the bleeding sort of stopped and the teeth that were once there were now gone and I looked at my leg in surprise as to how she had done all of this. She put the cloth next to her and picked up the thing that was on the couch and unrolled some length from it and it looked like gauze. She ripped it off with her teeth and started to wrap it around my wound very carefully and after a minute of this she finally had wrapped it around my leg and tucked it under a piece of the gauze so it wouldn't unwrap by itself.

"There all better now. try not to walk on it for a while please?" she said to me with a smile. Sounds like Azura. I thought as I remembered the day I twisted my ankle and Azura had told me not to walk on it for a week.

"Would you like something to eat?" she asked me and I thought about it and my stomach growled and she giggled at me. "I'll take that as a yes." she said and she took the gauze back on her hoof and walked into another room which I assume to be the kitchen.

(I'm not explaining what Flutter's cottage looks like since you already know. If not then go to here.))

A few minutes later and she comes back with a steaming plate of... MEAT!!! My mouth hangs open and my tongue falls out and drool comes out of my mouth from seeing the delicious looking meat. She giggles at me and hands me the plate and I instantly scarf it down in just a few minutes. After I finished I looked at her and her jaw had dropped to the floor, and she starts to giggle at me again and she takes the plate and heads back into the kitchen. She comes back in and stands right in front of me.

"You should get your rest so you can heal faster. If you don't mind that is. Oh I almost forgot, my name is Fluttershy. What might your name be?" she asked me. I've heard of talking to animals but this one is taking it to a new level. And her names Fluttershy? Hmm nice name, I guess. "Hmm how about I name you Shadow." she said. Wow, big ass convenience. Well at least I don't have to answer to two names. I thought and she put a pillow behind my head and kissed me on top of my head.

"Now get some rest Shadow. I'll see you in the morning." she said and she walked up the stairs that were beside me. I was confused as to why she said I'll see you in the morning and I looked out a window and there was moonlight shining through the window. Well might as well sleep since it's night time and I have a place to stay now. I put my head down on the pillow that Fluttershy had got me and closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.

5- Going Soft

I woke up to something rubbing against me. I think it’s just Azura and just laid there trying to go back to sleep. But then something made me open my eyes, whatever this was it was purring and it definitely isn’t Azura. I look at what it is and it’s a white cat with a blue bow on top of its head and it was rubbing its side up against mine. Grrr, I hate cats! I thought in my head. I growled at the cat and it just stared at me blankly. I picked it up in my mouth and dropped it on the floor. I laid my head back down and closed my eyes. A second later I felt something jump up on the couch and started to snuggle into me. I opened my eyes and saw the cat again. I picked it back up in my mouth and dropped it to the floor again and it once again jumped back up. This kept happening for a few minutes before I just gave up and let the stupid ass cat lay next to me.

I laid my head back down and the cat snuggled back into me for the hundredth time and I tried to go back to sleep. Then I felt another thing jump onto the couch and felt something patting my good leg softly. I opened my eye and lifted my head to look at whatever was doing that and there was a white bunny there kicking me. I used my good back leg to kick the thing off and glared at me. It did something with its paw as if saying ‘I’m watching you.’ or something like that. I put my head back down and finally started to fall asleep but then I heard the sounds of animals and then I just gave up on sleep. Then I heard the sound of clip clopping and Fluttershy came down the stairs with a smile dawning her face.

“Hello everypony. Did you all sleep well?” she asked as all the animals that ran out of where they were sleeping and up to her. Wait were they there the whole time? I thought to myself. Fluttershy turned and saw me lying on the couch with the cat and giggled. I growled and pushed the cat off of the couch.

“Now that wasn’t very nice Shadow. Are you alright Mr. Fluffykins?” she asked the cat as she picked up the cat.

The cat answered by rubbing her cheek on Fluttershy’s. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes and just laid my head back down on the couch and closed my eyes. I heard hoofsteps starting to get closer and closer to me, I cracked an eye open and I see Fluttershy looking at me with a saddened expression. The next thing that happened caught me off guard, Fluttershy had wrapped her hooves around me in a hug.

“You poor little thing, thank you so much for saving me from those Timberwolves, even though I wish you didn’t kill them. I still thank you, but why did you do it?” she asked me pulling her head back to look at me. That’s something I didn’t know either, why did I save her? Did I do it out of instinct? Or did I do it because she reminded me of how scared Azura was of me? I thought about these questions for a bit before Fluttershy started talking.

“Let’s put new bandages on and then we’ll get you something to eat. And maybe I can find something about what you are from Twilight.” she said as she walked off, wait who’s Twilight? If she can find out what I am then she surely must know what the Element’s are. A minute later she came back with the gauze in one hoof.

She took off the bandages that were on my leg and threw them away then she put new ones on. “There we go, now I have to put new ones on three times a day just incase so your wound doesn’t get infected. Now you stay here while I get you something to eat. You’re going to need your strength if you want to get better.” she said as she walked into the kitchen with the gauze in her hoof.

Wow, I didn’t expect her to be this kind. Even though I just look like an animal I thought she would just help me clean up the wound and send me off, but instead she’s letting me stay here. I thought as I sat up in a sitting position a dog would sit like. Still not talking is going to be hard getting used to. I thought to myself as I remembered the day Azura and me met. I smiled at that moment and it quickly vanished as something had jumped up on the couch. I looked over and saw that same bunny from before that had tried to kick me. He looked over at me and glared as he sat down laying himself out as much as he could. Even though he did that he was so small he hardly took up any space. I looked around and thought that I should look around the place since I’m here. I got up carefully as to not put any weight on my back paw as I got up.

I jumped down off of the couch and started to try and walk on three legs again. Even though I walked on three legs before I had to get used to not walking on by back right leg now instead of my front right leg. I walked around slowly getting used to walking like this, it took me a few minutes but I finally got the hang of it and I walked around and saw things that I guess were the animals homes in here. There were a lot of bird houses hanging above me that’s for sure. They were hardly above my head when I stood up straight. I walked around for a few more minutes before Fluttershy started to walk into the room with something on her back. She looked at the couch and looked confused and started to look around. She spotted me and her eyes widened and she looked scared.

“You’re… you’re so tall.” I heard her whisper. I walk over to her slowly and she looks at my back right leg as I put it close to my side while walking. Any fear that were in her eyes were now gone and she went back to her usual self and she walked the rest of the way so I wouldn’t have to walk the whole way. Remember when I said I needed to compare my height to a ponies, well I’m much taller than her, I’m at least a foot taller than her and she had to look up at me. I looked over her and saw a plate of steak on her back and I did the same as last night. I opened my mouth, my tongue came out, drooled, and I started to wag my tail. She giggled at me and she set the plate down and I started to eat as soon as she set it down on the ground. I scarfed it down and while I was eating she started to pet me on my head and I somehow never felt her hoof and I just devoured my steak while this was going on. The steak was very good and exactly how I liked it somehow. Medium rare, with coarse ground black pepper, crushed fresh garlic, and she for some reason put hot pepper sauce but hey I wasn’t complaining. Why did she put this much effort into a steak that's for an animal?

After I finished my steak and licked the plate clean of the juices I finally noticed that Fluttershy was petting me. I started to walk away trying to get hr to stop petting me but then she pet me behind the ear and I stopped mid step and fell to the floor and rolled over onto my back with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. She looked at me scared thinking she had done something wrong and then she noticed that I had a smile on my face. She giggled at me and started to rub my tummy and for some reason her hooves didn’t feel hard at all and the belly rub was amazing. I know this is degrading and all but this is too good to be true. I thought as Fluttershy rubbed my belly in a circular motion slowly.

After about ten minutes of Fluttershy petting me she told me that she had to feed the other animals so I went back over to the couch as she went back into the kitchen and I thought about what had just happened. Great I really am going soft. Well that belly rub was amazing, and since I have to act like an animal I can get more belly rubs. Wait what the fuck am I thinking about? I thought to myself. I heard animals running around in the kitchen and wondered why they were all in there instead of here. Maybe they were just waiting for Fluttershy to feed them. I thought as I just sat there on the couch.

So about six hours has past and Fluttershy had made all the other animals food and after they had ate they started to come into the living room but made sure to stay far away from me. Heh, guess they’re afraid of me, good. Then Fluttershy had replaced the bandages around my leg like she had said and was going to sit next to me on the couch but that bunny was sitting there still and I had found out the that the bunny was a guy and his name was Angel when Fluttershy had asked him to scoot over very nicely and he crossed his arms and shook his head. He doesn’t seem like a fucking angel. And after I had moved Angel over and him glaring at me I had mostly just slept through the day.

After I woke up Fluttershy was outside and I got up off of the couch, went over to the door, pushed the door open with my snout, I went outside and closed the door behind me. I walked around and saw that the house looked like it was underground or something. There was a chicken coop out here as well with holes in the ground, I guess it’s for for animals, and a stream coming towards the cottage as well.

“Shadow what are you doing outside? You need to be inside resting. You want to be all better right?” she asked me and I resisted to roll my eyes and just continued to walk around for a bit and she stayed close to me the whole time. Soon animals had walked up to Fluttershy not noticing me and when they did notice me they ran away.

“Don’t be scared everypony he won’t hurt you all.” Fluttershy said walking up to the frightened animals. That’s what you think. But I’ll be nice since they’re weak.

They looked to be thinking about what Fluttershy had said and a brown bunny that looked to be female slowly hopped out from where she was with the others and hopped up to me. She poked my leg and instantly ran off and after a few seconds she poked her head out of the hole she was hiding in, confused as to why I had not chased her and she came back over slowly. She poked me a few times and seeing as I had not done anything she finally hugged my leg. I again resisted the urge to roll my eyes at this and just let them do what they wanted, but if they hurt me I’m eating them. Fluttershy had watched this little scene with a small smile on her muzzle.

After they had started playing again they weren’t scared of me anymore and I was surprised at how Fluttershy had gotten them to not be scared of me and how she had done it so easily. And the same bunny who had poked my leg was staying close to me for some reason. Well when I say close to me I don’t mean right next to me, I mean near me.

I walked around the vast field of grass and I felt something around my legs and I look down and see animals running around my legs playing. This went on for about ten minutes before they started to jump on me and over me. Then I heard loud stomping and I looked to my right where the sound was coming from and saw a bear running towards me. Oh fuck me. I think in my head as the bear runs into me taking me in his arms and we go rolling on the ground, thankfully he didn’t grab my wings. We stop rolling about ten feet away and the bear starts to laugh or something like that. And I heard the other animals and Fluttershy starting to laugh and it started to get to me too and I started to laugh like it’s contagious. Then the other animals ran towards us and me and the bear look at each other and then the animals jump on both of us and we go rolling for another good ten feet and the laughing starts all over again, and again they didn’t land on my wings. This is the first time I’ve ever had fun. I thought as we all got up and Fluttershy came over.

“Are you alright?” she asks all of us and we all nod our heads in unison. “Alright, well I think that might be enough fun for today Shadow. You just healed and your still going to need your strength.” she said as she walked back to her cottage and I walked behind her. I felt something crawling up my tail and onto my back. I look back and see the bunny from before smiling at me. Eh , whatever. If it wasn’t for my love of animals then I would never be nice to them, but I am any way. I think to myself as I continue walking behind Fluttershy. Fluttershy looks back behind her and sees the bunny on my back.

“I see you and Bella have gotten close.” she says giggling.

We go into the house and I go back to laying on the couch and Bella lays on me and snuggles into my warm fur. Fluttershy walks in front of me and smiles. She slowly takes off my bandages and throws them away after she took them off and puts new ones on. She sits next to me and Angel hops up and she takes him in her arms and I lay my head down. After a few minutes I fell asleep.

No this went on for a few days just repeating the same process, I would wake up Fluttershy would replace the bandages on my leg. Then she would feed everyone and then go outside and somewhere into town, the first day she walked out and was going into town I tried to walk out too but then she stopped me and said that I need to rest so I can heal. And while I was here Fluttershy started to grow on me and I actually started to like her.

And on the third day I had forgotten about my leg being wounded and not having to walk on it and then I had walked on it and Fluttershy had seen me and was very surprised and scared and she thought that I was hurting myself. And when she had tried to tell me I shouldn’t be walking on it I looked at my wound and went and sat down and Fluttershy was going to change the bandages again but when she took them off of my leg, well we were both surprised by something. My leg was completely healed and I had gotten up and she let me walk around. She smiled and hug tackled me to the ground.

“Oh I’m so happy you're all better. Now you can go home to your family.” she said and at those words I felt my ears splayed back on my head at that word ‘home’. I never have had a home to call my own, well maybe a house but I never had anyone I had cared about. And ever since Fluttershy has been showing me this much kindness I didn’t want to leave her, just like how I didn’t want to leave Azura. She saw me with my saddened look and then her ears splayed back.

“Oh, you don’t have a family, do you?” she asked me and I just look at the ground trying not to think of what happened three years ago. “Well then, you can stay with me if you want?” she asked hugging me, and I slowly nodded. Then Bella hugged me, sort of, and then I yawned and Fluttershy giggled at me. “Get some sleep Shadow. I’ll see you in the morning.” she said and she went upstairs and into her room.

I laid my head down and Bella snuggled back into me and we both fell asleep.

I woke up the next morning feeling energized and for some reason happy. I got up off of the couch and bella hopped back on my back and I stretched my legs. Fluttershy came down the stairs with obvious bed head and saw me and smiled at me.

“Good morning Shadow. Would you like something to eat?” she asked me and I nodded and I saw Bella in the corner of my eye jump and and flailed her arms in the air. “I’ll get you something as well Bella.” she said giggling.

So Fluttershy went and got breakfast for everyone and herself and we ate. After that I went to the door to go outside and Fluttershy walked to the door as well with Angel on her back. I walked outside with Fluttershy behind me.

“Shadow I’m going to be gone for a bit to see my friends, would you like to come?” she asked me with a hopeful expression. I shook my head not taking the chance of any others finding out that I’m here. I may be nice around Fluttershy and Azura, and sort of Luna, but I’m not going to be nice with any other ponies that’s for sure.

“Well alright.” she said and walked off to wherever she was meeting with her friends.

I walked into the field and looked into the sky and thought that I should fly since I haven’t for a quite a while. I open my wings and I see Bella jump off of my back and looks at me. I smirk and flap my wings once and take to the skies. I look around me and see the town not far from here with ponies outside wandering around going about their day. I’ll need to go during night when they’re asleep. I think to myself.

In the distance beyond Ponyville I see Fluttershy and what looks like her friends. But being as far away as I am I can hardly see any of them. Let’s see if I can still go fast. I think to myself as I turn around towards where the dark forest was and I flap my wings and propel myself over the forest with that same black thing coming off of my tail as I flew. After ten minutes of flying I fly back to Fluttershy’s cottage and see the animals running around like always. I landed on the ground softly and walked over to the cottage and went inside and Bella hopped under my legs and inside. I close the door and go over to the couch and lay down.

Almost an hour pass’ and I hear Fluttershy’s voice. I heard her and somebody else talking. Great, company. I think and I strain my ears to listen to what they were talking about. And I hear them… singing. Why the fuck are they singing? I think and I listen closely. They were singing about a pet or something for the one I didn’t know and didn’t want to, and also that she wanted something that could fly and something that was cool. I also heard Fluttershy said rainbow Dash which I guess is the other ponies name. About halfway through the song I saw Fluttershy’s hooves reach in and grab the white cat that wouldn’t stop cuddling with me, and she pulled her out.

A few minutes go by and they finally stop singing, and something about a race to see who the best pet is or something like that. But then I hear something that made my heart stop. I heard Fluttershy say that she has one more animal inside that she might like, and I knew that I was the only other flying thing in here since all the other flying animals go outside after Fluttershy feeds them. I start to hear them getting closer and I look around frantically trying to find someplace to hide but there were no places I could fit into, much less stay hidden. Welp, I’m fucked. I think and I hear the door open and Fluttershy walks in and a blue pony with a rainbow mane and tail with magenta eyes.

“So where’s the other animal that you think would be the best fit for me?” the rainbow one says with a raspy voice, and I guess that’s Rainbow Dash. Whats with these fucking names? I ask myself as she starts to look around. She spots me and her eyes become pinpricks.

“F-f-fluttershy what’s a w-w-wolf doing in your h-h-house?” she asks Fluttershy as her legs start to wobble.

“You mean Shadow? Don’t worry Rainbow he’s harmless.” Fluttershy says looking at me with a smile. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. Yeah you should have seen what I did to Azura’s ‘father’. I thought to myself as I remembered what I did do to that guy. That memory was interrupted as Rainbow started to walk towards me. I just sat there on the couch and I started to growl and she stopped walking and she stopped breathing. Heh, I guess that’s enough teasing for now. I think as I stop growling and she steps back next to Fluttershy.

“Are you sure he won’t, you know eat any of the other animals?” she asked Fluttershy.

“No, never. In fact he actually likes them. Well at least he doesn’t hurt them in any way.” she said putting a hoof to her chin.

“Yeah I don’t know if he should be an option to be my pet.” she said rubbing the back of her head with a hoof.

“Oh please let him race, he doesn’t have a family and I want him to be happy. Ever since he saved me from those Timberwolves and I found out he doesn’t have a family I’ve been wanting to find him somepony to take care of him. I mean I would but I already have everypony else here and I can’t love all of them all the time.” she said to her.

“Well alright… wait a minute. You mean to tell me that this is the wolf,” she points a hoof at me. “that you told me who saved you?” Rainbow asks surprised and Fluttershy nods.

“Well then he can definitely race if he can defeat a pack of Timberwolves!” she said flying in the air with a smirk on her face. Damnit. Was all I thought. “Well what are you waiting for lets go!’ she screamed as she flew out the door.

“Come on Shadow.” Fluttershy said as she walked out the door and after Rainbow Dash and I hopped off the couch and followed them outside and I closed the door behind me.

6- A Race

We get to Ponyville town square, I think, and Fluttershy’s friends and her watch from the pavilion's ground porch with the animals flying/standing counting the wasp, duck, eagle, flamingo, bat, ladybug, toucan, falcon, butterfly, goose, owl, and hummingbird from Fluttershy’s counting me, and plus one… the tortuous. The five friends cheer for us and stare at me worriedly, and Rainbow Dash somehow got a baseball cap, some shades, and a whistle while coming here and she blows the whistle and starts to pace down the line.

“So you all think you’ve got what it takes to be my pet, do you?” she asks leaning into the flamingos face. “Well we’ll just see about that.” she said and her lung pushed the flamingos head back hard enough to put several kinks in the long neck. the flamingo swallows hard and follows every zigzag bend down its gullet.

“If any of you don’t think you can handle it, bow out now before you humiliate yourself in front of your peers.” she says.

“This competition isn’t for the weak!” she said looking at the butterfly. “You’d better be prepared to step up your game!” she said as she leans into the butterflies face.

Then she went on with some non-sense and I mostly zoned out of what she was saying. I could care less if I was a pet for her. Although it would be good cover to find the Elements, and maybe she might have something on them. Maybe I should actually try in this pointless thing. I think to myself and now we finally come to what she needs to say. After her rambling in the corner of my eye I saw Fluttershy fly down with the turtle in her hooves.

“Now you just pay attention and try your best, and-” she said and she was cut off by Rainbow Dash.

“Seriously, Fluttershy! The turtle? What did you bring that thing here for?” Rainbow asked her and Fluttershy pulls out a handkerchief from somewhere, licks it and rubs it on the turtle's shell.

“Technically, he’s a tortoise, and he’s always dreamed of being somepony’s pet. He just wants a chance to compete. He won’t get in the way. You won’t even know he’s here.” Fluttershy said and rainbow gave her a questioning look. And then it went to a sort of arguing fight about the turtle competing and finally Rainbow Dash gave in and let him compete.

“All right. Now these games will determine which one of you has the most important qualities I’m looking for in a pet.” Rainbow says. “Speed! Agility! Style! Coolness! And radicalness!” she said doing tricks on each word she said and it would be different. And now we leave to go somewhere else.

Now we’re in an oval running track in the park; we’re are at the starting line, Rainbow stands by the inside lane, with her hat, whistle, and shades off.

“Speed!” says as she gets into a racing position. “On your marks… Get set…” she says and I open my wings slowly and I heard gasps from the audience of 5 ponies and after several seconds Rainbow blows her whistle and just like that we’re off.

I don’t see anyone in front of me and I look behind and see Rainbow talking to the animals mostly about how slow they are but the falcon starts to catch up to Rainbow and I cross the finish line and flap my wings once stopping me from flying further and land. I look back at the finish line and see Rainbow speeding towards it and the owl behind her but then I see the falcon catches up with a shrill cry and blasts ahead, its wake stripping the owl clean before it crosses the finish line and stops.

“Yeah! That’s speed!” Rainbow holers and then she notices me and she looks confused for a few seconds and then her jaw drops and I see the other winged races come in and the owl’s feathers are back on somehow. Rainbow shakes her head from whatever she was thinking and she looks at the finish line and sees the turtle and she walks over and clicks her tongue disparagingly.

“That’s just sad.” she said to the turtle. And we’re off to another place.

We arrive at an obstacle course set up in the park and the other five ponies are still here. While I was waiting to get the next thing going I heard them whispering something about me but I couldn’t catch what they were saying.

“Agility!” I heard Rainbow say and I look at her.

Then the butterfly goes through a hoop and a set of uprights. “Sorta agile.” The flamingo slips off a seesaw. “Not agile.” The toucan through a crazily bent pipe. “Pretty agile.” Tortoise watches forlornly from the ground; bat through the uprights. “Could be more agile.” I see the turtle doing something which I guess he was trying to jump? He gets to his tiptoes but the weight shift causes him to topple forward.

“Want to know the opposite of agility? That.” rainbow said above the upside down turtle.

I see the humming bird starts darting around the contours of an arrow, a crosspiece on which the toucan has perched, and around the interior of the hoop that now holds the tangled up flamingo. Out to clear air, across to a finish line banner, and down safely; the butterfly smacks into the banner and falls down, and the other cheer.

Rainbow does a loop-the-loop. “Yeah, baby! Now that’s what I call agility!” she says to the humming bird and she holds up a hoof to the humming bird.

“Don’t leave me hanging!” Rainbow says and delivers with one wing, only to drop due to not using that wing for lift, then rises sheepishly back to her level.

“I’m gonna have to shave a point off your score for that.” she says and she produces a clipboard and makes a note with a pencil in her teeth as the hummingbird slinks away and then turns to me. “Let’s see what you’ve got Shadow.” she says watching me expectantly.

I look around and see one of those things you would see on a dog show to where the dogs would run through the sticks and would go in and out and in and out, until they finished it. I walked over to those and started to run through them like I had done it a million time and finished it in about three seconds. I look over panting and see that everyone's mouths were hanging open. A few minutes later and I see Rainbow with a pet carrier in her teeth, and sets it down.

“Okay! Which of you has the guts to try and get Opal’s favorite toy away from her?” she says and I see two glaring yellow eye coming from the carrier and a white cat emerges from it and extends one set of claws. This tiny thing? Peace of cake. I say. I look over at the five other ponies and see that they locked up with fear. I see the butterfly fly up to the cat and stops in front of Opal’s face. As she brings up one paw to slash it apart, it spreads its wings and swiftly hypnotizes her with the patterns of orange and black. Then toy mouse is hoisted away and carried back to an impressed Rainbow.

“Ha! Now that takes guts!” she says.

And now we have to move onto ‘Style!’ and it's just taking photos. (I’m not going into details.)

After all the photos of the others are done Fluttershy comes over and puts something on me. She puts some red shades that go farther out and are pointed. “Alright you're all ready.” she said to me with a smile and I go out and Rainbow looks at me, and she flies into the air and motions for me to come up there with her and she tells me that we’re going to fly towards each other as the white one which I found out her name is Rarity, and she going to take the picture. So we get away a good distance and then we count down and on three we fly at each other and then meet up at the camera and Rarity takes the picture.

I do a U-turn and land next to rainbow and rarity who look up at me with a bit of fear from how much taller I was. She takes the picture off and shows us what it is and it looked like me and Rainbow were going to crash into each other as we were flying on the picture.

And we’re back to being lined up and Rainbow in her coach outfit. Now it’s “Coolness!”. Rainbow walks up to us starting with the owl and the owl, hoots when she points at it. “Sorta cool.” points to the duck; it quacks. “Not cool.” points to the bat; a shriek. “Pretty cool.” points to the toucan; squawk. “Could be cooler.” She points to an empty patch of space, then down to the buzzing wasp. “Not what I had in mind.” points to the butterfly; it opens its mouth but produces no sound, and she leans in close. “I can’t hear you!” she screams. She points at the tortious and only manages a few strangled grunts and Rainbow glares down at it and then I hear the falcon next to me cries and gets rainbow’s attention quickly.

“Now that’s a cool sound!” she says flying up to it. “Now you Shadow.” she says pointing at me. I think of what to do and I lift my nose in the air and take deep breath and let out a howl that makes Rainbow squee after I finished.

“Now that… is awesome!” she said flipping in the air.

Now we move on and we all look at the bat who was hanging from a tree branch and flicking its ears in various directions using its natural sonar. “Sorta awesome.” The toucan flicks out its tongue. “Not awesome.” A squawk; the flamingo balances on one leg. “Could be more awesome.” the owl turns its head 360 degrees. rainbow starts laughing and says. “Yeah! That is awesome!” she said still laughing. She finally stops and waits for me to do something.

You know what let's skip all this and get on to what I was waiting for and what you must be waiting for too. And mostly because I started to get bored of writing all this.

“So the final, tie breaking contest is going to be…”

Rainbow says to herself. “Pause for dramatic effect.” she grins. “...a race against…”

Rainbow flies up to us “...me!” she says all too excited.

“And we’ll be racing through… Ghastly Gorge!” she says again all too excited.

“Actually, Ghastly Gorge isn’t scary. It’s fun. Heh. I’ve flown through it a million times myself, so, uh… obviously I’ll be at the front of the pack. But whichever of you make it across the finish line with me will have proven you can keep up with me, and will have earned the honor and glory of getting to be my pet.” she said.

“Ready?” she asks and we all line up and prepare to take off. I guess if I want to be her dub ass pet so I can keep my cover then I suppose I should win this dumb ass race. I think to myself.

“Set, go!” she says and I flap my wings as hard as I could and I go hurtling off with Rainbow. I hear her laughing and I look over and I she looks like she's having a ball while she barrels along a straightaway. “Try to keep up!” she said to the animals behind her. Luckily she didn’t know I was next to her so I flapped my wings harder and I speed ahead through a series of hairpin turns and the four pursuers push furiously to stay after Rainbow and they haven’t noticed me yet either.

I go through a gap between some trees and the wall, into a curve, around an outcropping and another tree, and into a dark tunnel I go. In here, the wind gusts are so strong that I have to fight to keep my forward momentum going, and I break through to daylight and I see that I’m covered in dust. I keep flying as not being bothered by the dust and I come up on dense tangle of thorny vines blocking my path, I fly up above the vines to get a bird’s eye view and see a path that I can take and I dive back down and I go through the vines dodging and turning as to not get cut up from the thorns.

I get toward a narrow defile between two high walls, one of which is pocked by several large craters. I head in and something comes out and snaps at me. It looked like question—huge, red hide, purple underbellies and head fins, light pink spots—lash out of the holes and do their best to snag an appetizer of wolf on a plate, but without the plate. I veer around every strike and I get myself into the clear thankfully unharmed. Why the fuck didn’t she say anything about that! I scream as I slow my breathing from almost having a heart attack from the surprise of the first eel trying to bite my head off.

I pass a rock wall and a few seconds later and I start to hear rumbling coming from behind me and I stop in the ar still flying and I look back and see rocks have fallen down and the other animals are flying out. As they fly past the fallen boulders I hear someone yell ‘Hey!’ the others past me but Rainow never did. I fly towards the fallen boulders and I hear Rainbow say “No! Wait! Come back! Don’t leave me!” and I fly faster. I again hear her say something, this time she says “Somepony! Anypony! HELP MEEE!!” and the last two words echo, I land on the ground near the rocks and there’s dust everywhere so I can only see about five feet in front of me. I get to a clearing and just see rocks and Rainbow nowhere in sight.

Then I hear hoofsteps or something close to it and I hear Rainbow say “Woohoo! My prayers have been answered!”

“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank—” she says and abruptly stops talking.

“You?” she says and sighs disgusted. “Oh, no! Now I’m not only gonna be stuck here forever, I’m gonna be stuck here forever with the most annoying turtle in the world!” she screams from the other side of the rocks. I walk around the rocks and see that the turtle was slowly walking up to Rainbow. Rainbow covers her face with her front hooves and doesn’t notice the tortoise has reached the boulder and started to dig out a bit of the earth at its base. He digs enough to where it would accommodate his head, he shoves it in and Rainbow gives a dismissive wave.

“I’m doomed! Doomed, I tell you!” she says and I walk over to them without a sound and Rainbow has her hooves to her face as she silently cries.

The tortoise strains mightily against the immense weight and I figure out what he’s trying to do and I walk over and quickly dig my own hole and use my body to push the boulder up with the tortoise. We manage to lever it up mostly due to my leg strength and free of the ground, catching Rainbow’s attention after a moment.

We get her out from under the rock and I look at the turtle and he slowly points to his back and I lift her off the ground with my wings and put her on the turtle's back carefully. We start walk slowly and I sigh as I have to take a step every few fucking minutes! We finally get to a clearing and I see the other five there watching us as we walk slowly to the finish line. They start to walk towards us and I let out a thankful sigh that I don’t have to walk slowly any more. There was also a purple dragon with them this time.

“Huh! Way to go, little guy!” the purple dragon says.

The purple pony sighs with relief. “Thank goodness you’re not hurt, Rainbow.”

“Just my pride.” she says and starts to dust herself off.

“I...certainly hope all of this dreadful dust was worth it.” the white pony says.

“It sure was if’n it means Rainbow gets to have her own little critter just like the rest of us from now on.” the orange one says petting a brown dog who was staring at me.

“Uh...thanks. What you did...I owe.” she said getting down to the turtle’s level.

“Rainbow… your new pet is over here waiting for you.” Fluttershy says and I look over and see the falcon standing on the ground. He flies in the ir and cries and lands onto Rainbows back.

“Oh...right...yeah. That.” Rainbow says looking back at the falcon.

“Well, what’s the matter?” the dragon says confused.

“You got your perfect pet, right?” the pink pony asked Rainbow.

“The best of the best like you wanted, remember?” Fluttershy asked her.

“It can fly and it’s not a squirrel! Should we sing about it again?” Fluttershy said.

“A falcon sure looks good on you, Rainbow.” the orange pony said. I don’t see why this is such a big fuckin’ deal. JUST PICK A FUCKING PET! I was screaming in my head as this played out.

Rarity pulled out a camera and took a picture of Rainbow Dash and the falcon. The flash spooks the turtle and he yanks his head/legs/tail into his shell and Rainbow leans down and pets him on the shell.

"Easy, fella. Nothing to be afraid of." she says and looks at the falcon still on her back. "The falcon sure does look cool. He's absolutely everything I wanted in a pet." she says and bites her lower lip and lets out a sigh.

"Yay?" Fluttershy said and Rainbow smiles.

"But I said, whoever crosses the finish line with me gets to be my pet." Rainbow said and the pink one zips up to her.

"You did! You did say that! She did say that! That as the rule!" the pink one says jumping and zipping around.

"And the only racers who crossed the finish line with me... were the ones who stopped to save me when I needed help." Rainbow said and the last two words deflated the falcons pride.

"The tortious and Shadow!" The turtle extends his head, legs, and tail and smiles. The falcon lets off a dejected squawk and jumps off Rainbow's back.

"So who's the winner?" Fluttershy asks.

"Oh... that's going to be hard. Well I guess it would be Shadow..." she starts but I lean down and push the turtle with my snout closer to Rainbow.

"I think he's trying to say that the tortious should be your pet." Fluttershy says with a smile.

"Really? But he can't fly, how is he going to be able to keep up with me?" Rainbow asks.

"I think I can help with that." the purple pony says with a smirk.

"Well if you say so. Well buddy looks like your the winner." Rainbow says smiling at her new pet. He smiles back and the falcon lands on the ground in front of him and the falcon extends its wing gravely to congratulate the surprise winner. The tortoise puts out a foreleg, the two shake, and the bird of prey walks away with bowed head.

And then after that Rainbow had told the dragon, Spike, I finally found out what his name is, to take a letter and was giving it to someone named Celestia and it was some kind of letter about what had happened and what she did wrong and shit like that, and she mentioned me as well but only said she had made a new friend. And a few hours later they're back at the hill they were all at earlier on in the day and I'm with them this time. We walk up the hill with the five other's pet's running up the hill in front of us and Rainbow flies above me as I'm walking behind the other five ponies with no injuries from Ghastly Gorge. She stopped and called behind her.

"Come on. Tank! We're gonna be late for our very first pony pet play date!" she said and I started to hear a buzzing sound behind me and Tank comes flying with a magic powered helicopter propeller strapped to his shell, and he wears a pair of old style aviator goggles.

How do I know it was magic powered? Well I saw Twilight, yeah I finally learned all of their names, use a spell and I guessed that was how it was powered without electricity. We get to the top of the hill and the other pets were playing with each other and I go and sit down under the tree that was on top of the hill and I just watch the others have their fun. Shit I remembered what I had forgotten about. I WAS GOING TO FIND A PLACE IN THE FUCKING FOREST!!! I scream in my head as I slap myself metaphorically speaking and I let my head drop to the ground and look at the others playing and Fluttershy comes walking up to me. She lays down next to me and nuzzles my neck softly.

"I'm sorry you didn't get an owner today Shadow. Don't worry your welcome to stay with me until you get adopted. Luckily there's a few ponies coming in a few days to pick out a pet, maybe then you'll get adopted." she said and I slap myself again for not thinking of staying with Fluttershy, again metaphorically speaking here. Oh well, I guess I'll be fine until then. I think to myself.

"Why don't you play with the other pet's for a bit?" she said a getting up and walking over to her friends. I shrug my shoulders and I get up and open my wings up and look up into the sky. I look back down and I flap my wings once and I go flying high into the sky. I flap my wings a few hard and go even higher into the sky and I stop in the air still flapping my wings so I don't go hurdling toward the ground... yet. I look down and see everyone, even the pets, looking up into the sky at me curiously.

I smirk and I stop flapping my wings and now I go hurdling towards the ground with my wings close to my side but still opened to where I would glide straight down without spinning out of control. I close my eyes and after several seconds I open them back up and I flap my wings at the last second and I glide across the ground and I hear cheers as I flew across the ground. I flapped my wings once and I went into the sky a bit and stopped in the air and I look at the others cheering and calling my name.

I smile and I did the same thing and I flew past them with a smirk on my face. Soon I heard wings flapping and a buzzing sound and then I saw Rainbow and Tank on both sides of me and I look at both of them and Rainbow smirks and nods her head and I flap my wings harder and flew off into the distance as the sun started to set.

7- Adoption and Returning

After flying with Rainbow Dash and Tank yesterday Fluttershy and me had walked to her cottage and as soon as I got into the house and onto the couch I had instantly fallen asleep. I had found out that Twilight ran the library in Ponyville so now all I have to do is find out where it is. While I was asleep I dreamed of someone that I’ve actually missed. And that's something from me, I’ve never missed anyone ever in my life. I dreamed about Azura and me in a home that was secluded in the forest and we were inside as she read to me reading and then she wanted to fly with me again. And then I was flying with Azura on my back and I did all sorts of flips, spirals, and other tricks and I was having a blast. But then the scene changed to a blank void. I looked around and then a bright light shined in front of me and it made me jump back. The light faded after a few seconds and M appeared, and it wasn’t a hologram this time either.

“Hello again Shadow. I need to speak with you.” he said to me with an evil smile knowing that he pissed me off from interrupting that dream.

“What do you want?” I asked annoyed by him. His smile disappeared and replaced it with a serious look.

“I understand you’re taking this task carefully but you need to find a way to find out more about the Elements. And if you have to get adopted in order for that to happen then make it happen. Just hurry it up.” he said.

“I know what I’m… wait how do you know that I might have been adopted?” I ask him.

“I’ve been watching you while you’ve been slacking off.” he said glaring at me and I glared back at him.

“Whatever. Then I guess you know that there's going to be a few ponies coming in to adopt some animals right?” I ask him.

“Yes, and if you have to then act nice just do whatever it takes to get adopted. I don’t care what you have to do just do it.” he said.

“Alright it’s a done deal, I’ll get adopted. What are you planning on doing with the Element’s?” I ask him.

“That is for me to know.” he said.

“Fine. Is that all?” I ask him.

“Yes that is all. Now wake up.” he said and the world around me vanished and I was back to dreaming of now nothing.

I wake up from that stupid ass dream and I open my eye and see sunlight instantly and I shut my eye. That’s odd, the sunlight usually wakes me up when it rises. I thought to myself. I slowly opened my eyes and after a few seconds my eyes got used to the light. I got up and stretched my legs a bit and jumped off of the couch. My wings started to feel like how a limb starts to fall asleep and it starts to grow more and more. Then my wings drooped down to the ground and I tried to move them but instantly stopped from the fuckin’ pain you get when it’s really bad. I sighed and walked over to the door with my wings dragging next to me as I walked. I opened it and walked out and closed the door. I walked out into the field looking up into the sky wondering if I should really act like a pet. I looked towards the dark forest and I sensed something from within. And it seemed to be something that would help me, but what?

I shake my head from the stupid thought and look up into the sky. I tried to move my wings again and had the same pain but pushed through it and flapped my wings for a few seconds and they were no longer asleep. I flapped my wings once and went high up into the sky. I flew around letting the wind push against my snout and feel the sensation of it going through my fur. It was unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. I looked down and saw the dark forest below me and I started to think about M in my dream. I can tell that he’s keeping information from me, but I don’t know anything about that either. There’s so many things that I don’t know and I need to find out. I shook he thought from my head again and decided to worry about that later tonight. I guess if I am going to be able to find anything on the Elements then I need to find a place to stay in the forest instead of here. I flew back over to the cottage and landed on the ground and folded my wings back to my side. I walked back inside and walked over to the couch and jumped up, laid down and fell asleep again.

Today is the day that some animals here get adopted. I remember Fluttershy telling me about some ponies coming to adopt some animals here but I can’t remember how many she said she said was coming. I think she said somewhere around three ponies maybe. Whatever, I just need to get adopted for this stupid shit. I was sitting on the couch while Fluttershy was running around the place trying to make sure the animals were all fed and happy so when the ponies arrive she wants them to look their best to have more of a chance to have them get adopted. I mean that’s just a guess but whatever.

There was a knock at the door and Fluttershy gasped and said ‘That must be them!’ with a squee afterwards. She ran over and opened the door. There was a family of four with a grown mare and stallion with a filly and a colt and Fluttershy let them in. She asked them what they are looking for in a pet and they told her what they wanted and they wanted something that is small so that immediately takes me off the list. I decided to get up and walk around for a bit since I’ve been staying on this couch longer than I should. Once I had the family started to look at pets that had ran inside and from various places around the house and up to them and the family was startled but quickly realized it was just the animals.

The kids looked like they were having a hard time choosing and when they saw Bella they thought she was so cute and ran over to her and Bella ran away and up my leg and onto my back. Why the fuck you comin’ to me? There not gonna hurt you you fuck. I thought to myself as I looked back at her and resisted to roll my eyes. The two kids ran into my leg not expecting Bella to do what she just did and they just bounced right off f me when they did and fell to the ground. They looked up at me and when they saw me they’re eyes became pinpricks and they started to shake. The parents had noticed this and ran over and picked up there kids and turned their backs to me thinking I was going to attack them. They had screamed what I was doing here by calling me a thing.

Fluttershy had told them that I was harmless and that I had never attacked any ponies and how I’ve been here for almost a week now and that I’ve never hurt her. They had calmed down after that and the kids walked up to me slowly and started to pet my belly since they couldn’t really reach any higher and I just stood there. I layed down and just let them pet me all they wanted and they chuckled and giggled while doing so. Soon their parents told them that they needed to pick a pet and Fluttershy got a big goofy smile on her face. They said they wanted to adopt me and I thought that this was too easy and then I was right about thinking that. The parents said that they were going to have to pick something small and that I would cost too much to take care of. I mean not really. I can see how but I don’t really need much but something to eat and I’ll be good. I thought as the filly and colt awwed and decided to pick a rabbit that wasn’t Bella or Angel. Even though I wish it was that fuckin’ bunny Angel.

They had left and Fluttershy thanked them for coming and picking out a pet for them and shut the door. She looked at me with a sad expression and a small smile.

“I’m sorry that they didn’t adopt you Shadow.” Fluttershy said walking up to me and petting me on the top of my head as I still laid on the floor.

About an hour had passed and I had gone outside and started fly around until more ponies came by to adopt another pet. I started to see ponies walking towards Fluttershy’s cottage and I watched as they went inside. I flew down and walked inside and there was a stallion and a mare and a filly standing there. The stallion had a dark green coat with a brown mane and tail with a yellow star and smaller white stars around it as his cutie mark. The mare had a light blue coat with a pink curly mane and tail and a pair of scissors as her cutie mark. And the filly was had a pink coat with a purple mane and tail that was in pigtails with two on her mane that went to each side of her head and one on her tail and she had a plate of cake with chocolate frosting on it as her cutie mark.

“Hello! I’m so glad you came to adopt a lovely pet today!” she said excitedly with a big smile.

“Thank you for letting us come and pick out one of your animals for a pet.” the stallion said.

“I have many animals here for you to decide from. Is there anything you’re looking for in particular?” she asked.

“Well we’re going to let our daughter pick her own pet out.” the mother said.

“Oh Ok. So what kind of animal would you like today?” Fluttershy asked the filly.

“I don’t know actually. I wanted something that is nice and would be fun to play with.” she said and she looked absolutely adorable.

I don’t think about any ponies being adorable except Azura but this was the first time I saw another cute pony. If I want to get adopted I’m gonna have to act like a… nice pet. I thought and I shivered at the thought. This is gonna suck. I thought and I walked kicked the door close with my back foot and they all jumped from the loud and unexpected noise and looked back at me. The exact same thing happened like the last family but this time they went into a fighting stance, for a pony which they basically spread their legs and they looked like they were about to charge me if I moved even though they were scared. That takes some fuckin’ guts. I thought as I just looked at them as their daughter was behind them trying to see what came inside. She jumped up and saw me and her eyes widened as she landed back on the floor. She ran around her parents and over to me and looked up at me in astonishment.

“Lily get over here now!” the mother said. (By the way it's Lily Longsocks.)

“Oh don’t worry he doesn’t hurt anypony. He’s actually a sweetheart once you get to know him.” she said with a reassuring smile.

“W-well be careful then.” she said as they both stood up straight.

“Everypony we have more visitors!” Fluttershy said and all the other animals ran into the room and up to the new family that had arrived. They went through with playing with the pets and asking questions about the ones they liked but every time Lily’s parents asked her if that animal would be a good pet for her she would say ‘I guess.’ and look down. While this went on I had tried to act like a good pet and just look good. Even though I always do, even if I’m a wolf now. Lily kept taking glances at me when I had done something either from chasing my tail or just scratching which I actually did have to scratch, she would giggle at me quietly. Finally they had finished looking at all of the pets after about a half hour.

“So Lily what animal would you like to be your pet? I you don’t mind me asking?” Fluttershy asked her.

“Well… I like all of them but~...”

“But what?” her father asked her.

“But I don’t want any of those animals. Not to be rude I mean. I want um… him.” she said looking down at the ground and pointed a hoof at me. In my mind I fist pumped and did a fucking awesome back flip from being victorious. Then I kicked myself at actually achieving at being good. I walked over to her and the parents stiffened up as I got close.

“Are you sure you want that one? There are many other animals here that could be a great pet.” her mother asked her.

“They are great animals but none of them are for me.” she said shaking her head.

And now for the embarrassing shit. I thought and I walked over next to Lily, bent down and rubbed my cheek on hers and she did the same. Man this fuckin’ sucks. I thought as Lily stopped rubbing her cheek on mine and moved to my side and started to pet my side much like the first two kids did. I laid down and let her pet me more and she came back to my head and stopped petting me. I looked at her and tilted my head to the side and then she hugged my neck. And it hurt. It’s like she had some kind of super strength. I started to cough and wheeze and she quickly let go and looked at me with tears in her eyes.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to.” she said quietly as tear streamed out of her eyes.

This reminded me of Azura when she had woken up in the cave and was scared of me. My eyes softened as I could breath easier, I leaned back down and slowly licked her cheek. I thought that it was going to taste awful but it wasn’t… like at all. Instead of it tasting and feeling like hair it felt like a honey bun when you lick it but without the stickiness and her coat tasted like peaches. I kept licking her cheek as tears that were once running down her cheeks had stopped. A few seconds later and she started to giggle while I licked her. Man this is so fuckin’ weird. I thought as I stopped and looked at her. She hugged me again and I went stiff and this time she didn’t squeeze me to death like before. Instead she hugged me with much care this time. She let go of me and looked at me with a sad expression.

“I guess I have to pick a different pet.” she said and she started to walk over to the group of animals.

“Wait… if you really want him. Then I suppose you can.” her mother said defeated.

“Really!? I can!?” Lily asked turning back around quickly and she had a huge smile dawning her muzzle. Her mother simply nodded and Lily jumped up and yelled ‘yay.’ She ran over to her mother and tackled her to the ground in a hug while saying ‘Thank you’ over and over again. Fluttershy walked over to me.

“It looks like you have a family now Shadow.” Fluttershy said as she looked a the two on the ground and the father had joined in shortly afterwards. Lily looked over at us once she heard Fluttershy say my name.

“His name's Shadow?” Lily asked as they all stood back up with a smile.

“Oh yes. But you can change it if you’d like to.” Fluttershy said.

“No. I like that name. It suits him.” she said with a smile.

“Goodbye Shadow. I’m going to miss you.” Fluttershy said wrapping her hooves around my neck. I heard her sniffle and felt something wet starting to collect on my shoulder. She brought her hooves back around and back onto the ground and backed away. I saw her cheeks had been matted down from tears. I looked at her surprised she was crying that I was leaving her. I sighed and leaned forward and licked her cheek and she giggled in result.

“I’m sorry to interrupt but… what exactly does he eat and do?” the mother asked Fluttershy.

“Oh he eats meat, but don’t worry he won’t eat any ponies. And he loves to fly and that's really all I know about what he likes.” Fluttershy said putting a hoof to her chin.

“Oh um… you wouldn’t know where to find anywhere to buy meat would you? And does he run off?” she asks.

“Oh well I usually go to the market and buy some meat from a griffin that comes here every week. And no, well I’ve never seen him run off.”

“Well that's good, I suppose we’ll have to go to the market later on today. Well let's go and show our new family member where we live. Come on Lily… and Shadow.” she said and Lily started to walk and I walked off behind them all and looked back at Fluttershy while walking. She waved to me and I walked outside and closed the door slowly.

The door clicked indicating it closed and I turn back around and walked behind my new family to wherever we were going. We walked through Ponyville with ponies looking at me curiously and fearfully. We walked all the way to a house that seemed like all the others. (You all know what the houses look like.) We walked inside into a living room and there was the standard setup for a living room. There was a couch with a large oval rug under it with a few other chairs in the room with paintings strung up on the wall of the family and just other things. There was a staircase behind the couch and a doorway on the other side of the room.

“Come on Shadow.” the mom said to me. She walked to through the living room and through the doorway and I followed through a kitchen. She opened a back door and held the door open and motioned for me to go outside. “You’re staying out here until we get back with everything you're going to need if you're going to be staying with us.” she said. I walked out and there was a white fence that had a pretty big yard and the door slammed shut and I turned back and saw through the window of the door and saw her walking back. Hmm wonder what they’re getting for me? I thought as I looked around.

I waited several minutes waiting for waiting to hear the front door open and close and it finally does. I wait several more seconds just in case they're still close to the house. Might as well try and find the library so I can go straight to it once night time comes. Alright, Blending Colors. I thought to myself and I got light headed and I opened my wings and flapped them once and took to the skies. I also need to try and find ways to fight in this new form, and maybe find a way to get more spells. I wonder if I can get any elemental spells. (Fire, water, earth, or air. Tell me what you would want him to learn out of these four or others you can think of. I know someone out there does, not gonna point fingers but you know who you are.) Now lets see where this library is at. I look at the ground below looking for any signs or buildings that would be for a library. I scan the ground for several minutes and I pass over a huge tree and I got a strange feeling when I passed over it. It was like something was pulling me down.

After looking for a library for several more minutes I give up and head back to the house. I’ll have to wait until tonight when I can search on the ground, it’ll be easier that way. I thought to myself as I pass over the library again. I got the same feeling as before but this time it was much stronger. I look at it and decide to fly down and see what it could be. I land right next to the tree. I slowly walk around the tree as for ponies not to hear me, and I walk next to something that was in the ground with a gold sign hanging off of it. I walk around it and saw that it said ‘Golden Oaks Library’... Fuck me. I sighed at finally finding the library and slapped myself for passing over it. Wait how can a tree be a library? is it like super hollow or something? I thought to myself as I take off into the skies again and head home.

I land in the back of the yard with a thud and fold my wings up back to my side and I hear the back door open. I cancel the spell and i turn around and see Lily standing there looking around the yard for me. She spots me and smiles, she motions with her hoof to come inside and I walk over to her and she walks in and I follow behind her. I close the door with my back paw and I could see the father with a hammer in his mouth hammering something in. I walk through the kitchen and into the living room and saw that he was hammering nails into a dog house. Looks like I’m going to be an outside dog. I thought to myself as Lily walks up next to me with something in her hooves. I look at it and see a red collar and a red leash in her hooves.

“Let's go for a walk Shadow.” Lily says as she reaches to put the collar around my neck but was too short to reach me, even on the tips of her back hooves she still wasn’t tall enough. I resist the urge to roll my eyes and lean down and she slips the collar on and tightens it to where it's not loose. She hooks the leash on the part where it goes too and I hear a clanking sound and I look down and see a dog tag hanging from my collar that had my name on it. She tugs on the collar and walks towards the front door and I follow along.

“Mom I’m gonna take Shadow for a walk!” Lily yelled to her mother.

“Be safe and be sure that he doesn’t try to eat anypony.” she answered back.

“Okay!” she said and she opened the front door and walked out and I shut the door behind me.

We walked through Ponyville for several minutes before a trio of fillies walked up to us. There was a filly pegasus with an orange coat and purple mane and tail. Another that didn’t have wings nor tail with a beige kind of coat with a red mane and tail with a pink bow on her head. And the last one was a unicorn and she had a white coat that resembled Azura’s coat, and she had a violet and pink curly mane and tail. I stared a bit too long at the unicorn one and looked away quickly before any of them noticed.

“Hey Lily! What’cha doin’ with a… wolf?” the one with the bow asked with a southern accent or whatever kind of accent that is. As soon as she asked what Lily was doing with me her eyes became pinpricks and she started to shake, the others looked at me and didn’t expect for me to be so tall and they looked up at me and they did the same as the first one.

“Oh hey. Uh don’t worry he won’t hurt you.” she said shyly.

“A-a-are you sure?” the white one said. I resisted to roll my eyes and I laid down on the ground thinking that my height is why they might be scared of me. They stopped shaking but they stayed close to each other as they slowly walked over to me. They all reached out a hoof and I just stared at them with a bored expression. They all touched me and jerked away in unison with their eyes shut tight. They all opened an eye and stared at me as I just sat there. They let out a breath and came closer slowly and started to pet me. They noticed my wings and went to touch athem and I let them. In all honesty I thought it was going to feel weird or maybe hurt but it didn’t at all. It actually felt kind of nice. Dammit I’m doing it again. I thought and I stood back up and I thought I heard them whimper but I pushed that thought aside.

“So what are you three doing?” Lily asked

“We were trying to find a way to get our cutie marks by climbing trees but that didn’t work. So we just decided to find something to present to the class for show and tell tomorrow. Do you have anything for tomorrow?” the orange one asks.

“Well... no.” Lily said and she slumped after she said that.

“Hey why don’t you bring your wolf with you!? He would definitely impress everypony if you did.” she said.

“Well I suppose I could.” she said.

“What's his name anyway?” the white one asked.

“Oh uh, it’s Shadow. His name's Shadow.”

“Shadow huh? That's a cool name.” the orange one said.

“Well we’ll catch ya later Lily. Come on Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo! We gotta go find somethin’ for tomorrow!” the country one said.

“Bye.” Lily said as the three fillies ran off. Lily looked a little saddened and she looked up at me.

I tilted my head to the side and she sighed and looked back down. I leaned down and nudged her cheek with my snout and she giggled. She rubbed her cheek on mine and i did the same. After several seconds of that we stopped and continued walking. After several seconds of walking around the sun started to set and we started to walk back to the house.

We walked inside and there was something in the air that smelled delicious. I knew the smell all too well and my tongue fell out of my mouth as I started to drool. I heard Lily giggle at me as she looked at something behind me. I craned my head back and saw that my tail was wagging side to side quickly and I didn’t even notice that I was doing it. I closed my mouth and walked into the kitchen with Lily behind me.

“Wait Shadow.” I heard Lily say. I stopped mid-step and she came around and unhooked the leash from my collar. “There you go.” she said and she walked into the kitchen. I followed behind eager to find out what smells so good. I walk in and see the father sitting at the table and the mother cooking something. I went over to her and saw that she was cooking meat, terribly if I might add. Oh well, meat is meat… I just hope it won’t get burnt. I thought to myself and she finally noticed me.

“Ah! Oh Shadow you frightened me. Go lay down your food will be done in a minute.” she said shooing me away with a hoof. I walked over to Lily who sat down at the table and saw a dog bed with toys on it. I went over and moved the toys off with my snout and laid down and closed my eyes.

I started to think about something I should have been thinking about a long time ago. Like if I’m a wolf now wouldn’t I be acting like an animal out of instinct or would i start to act like an animal as time goes on. the second option would make more sense since I wasn’t acting like an animal the first day I was here. So I might act like an animal as time goes on, not much to be worried about, I’ll just ask M if there is a way to stop it.

“Shadow. Get up boy.” I heard Lily say. I opened an eye and saw her face right in front of mine. I stood up and saw a steaming plate of meat on the table. I walked over and leaned forward to take a bite, but was stopped.

“Not yet mutt.” I heard the father say. (Okay everybody in the comments tell me what you want the mother and father’s name to be.)

The mother took something out of the oven and put it on top of the table gently as to not spill any of its contents and sat down at the table. The mother told us all to dig in and I did so by scarfing my food down like always and licked my lips and snout once finished. They all stared at me mid bite surprised at how fast I ate. I could swear that I saw the father turn green, well greener than usual anyway. It didn’t even seem to be possible for him but it seems that it is.

I went and laid back down on my new bed and waited for the others to finish their dinner while they chatted away about their day. I thought more about some things while they did so. Io thought about things like my powers, and what others I can unlock and how to do that. I need to ask M a lot of questions soon. Hopefully he’ll be in another dream again, even though it's kind of creepy. I also thought about finding a way and place to be able to train and strengthen my skills somehow and find a fighting technique.

I was pulled out of my thoughts once again by the sound of hooves getting close to me. I cracked an eye open and saw the father looking down on me.

“Alright mutt, time to get outside.” he said and he went and opened the back door and motioned with a hoof for me to go outside. I stood up and went outside thanking that I can get something done tonight other than sleeping and doing nothing all day.

I saw that the dog house he was working on was finished and put outside and looked perfectly built and colored red with a black top. I walked over to the dog house and saw that there was a dog bed on the inside as well and laid down inside. The door slammed shut and I heard voices coming from inside. I recognized the voices as Lily and the father arguing… about me. Lily was asking him why I had to sleep outside and from that I zoned out and waited for them to go to bed. Several minutes later they stopped arguing, well more like the father stopped talking, and they went to their rooms and their lights turned off. Blending Colors. I thought and I got light headed and it passed and I opened my wings up and took to the sky. I flew directly towards where I remembered seeing the library.

After several minutes of flying I finally arrived above the library and saw a window and a light still on. I waited there in the air for several seconds and the light went out thankfully. I flew down to the front door and folded my wings back to my side. I walked over to the door and used my snout to slowly and carefuly open the door. I walked inside and closed the door silently behind me. I walked around and I instantly saw books every where covering every crook and crany the eye could see.

I walked around and thought about what the book might be under. I wonder if it's like Earth, or if it's in alphabetical order? I thought to myself as I walked around. I confirmed my suspitions and saw that the books were indeed categorized alphabetically. I scanned through the books looking for H and after several seconds of searching I finally found the H section. I scanned through the books and didn’t find a single thing. I walked over to the M’s hoping the book might be in some kind of myth book but found nothing. It must be somewhere else in the house. I thought as I looked around and saw a flight of stairs leading to another floor. I slowly and silently walked up the stairs and into a room and heard something. I looked towards where the sound was coming from and saw a basket with a scaly purple tail hanging out of it with a blanket over the body. Huh I didn’t know Spike lived here. I thought as I walked around and made sure not to accidentally bump into anything as to wake him.

I heard snoring again but this time it wasn’t Spike I heard, it was more feminine and different. I looked towards the new snorer and saw a bed with blue blankets and stars on it. I walked over slowly seeing if it was Twilight and once again I confirmed my suspicions and saw twilight there sleeping soundly in her bed with a smile on her face and she snored lightly again. She’s cute when she sleeps. Wait what the fuck was that thought. I thought to myself as i shook my head and continued my search.

I walked around the room and there were more shelves of books on the walls and I walked over and saw that these seemed to be pretty good books. And I mean that they seem to be history and magic books. I scan through them looking for the H section again found it and scanned through the H’s. I didn’t find anything here and I went and searched through the M’s instead. After several minutes of searching again found what I was looking for. It was a book called ‘Equestrian Myths and Legends.’ I grabbed it with my mouth and walked down the stairs slowly and out the door. I closed the door slowly and it clicked shut. I opened my wings and flapped once and went into the sky.

I flew straight towards the house and passed over some kind of house or something that looked way too fancy to be here. I saw a pony walking towards it and I squinted my eyes and saw that it was Sweetie Belle. Her snow white coat shining in the moonlight, it brought memories of when I told Azura about the stars. I turned my head around and saw Canterlot of in the distance and thought more about Azura. I actually do miss her, I never thought that I would miss her like this. Now I know what it’s like to miss somebody. I have to see her. I thought and I turned around and flew straight towards Canterlot.

I arrived above Canterlot with my Blending Colors spell on and I flew towards where I remembered Luna’s room being. I followed the train tracks to here until I got to the mountain. I flew above Canterlot and to the castle. I saw Luna’s room and light coming from the inside and I flew towards it.

I landed on the balcony and I still had the book in my mouth. I need to get rid of this. I thought to myself as walked over to the curtains and put it behind them. I went to the door and looked inside and saw Azura with her mane and tail combed neatly sitting on a chair in front of a table with Luna sitting on the other side of the table. I scratched the door with my claw and Luna looked towards the door. Her eyes met mine and she smiled warmly at the sight of seeing me. She got up out of her chair and walked over to the door and opened it.

“Hello Shadow. It is nice to see you again.” she said and I could tell that something was different about her but I couldn’t tell what it was.

“Hello Luna. Can I come in?” I ask her and she smiles and nods her head. I walk inside and I’m instantly tackled to the ground by none other than Azura. She rubbed her head on my chest as I held her close to me.

“I’ve missed you daddy.”

“I’ve missed you as well.”

8- Classes