A Wolf's Story

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.