A Wolf's Story

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.