A Wolf's Story

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.”