Tyrant Bird King

Fluttershy awoke with a start, hearing a scream in her dreams. Realizing she was fine, she placed a hoof over her heart, trying to calm her heart. Once she did, she looked around her tent, seeing Rainbow Dash sleep next to her, mumbling a few things in her sleep. She smiled at her, before slowly getting up, yawning, stretching her wings out.

She carefully exited her tent, looking around. It was just becoming light outside, the sun having yet to rise. Guards were asleep on the ground or logs, snoring peacefully. Some were awake, preparing food for when the others awoke, but, Fluttershy looked over to the woods, straining her ears.

Hearing the peaceful sounds of nature made her smile, as she was a shy one who preferred quite areas. He started to walk forward, intent on finding a river of big stream to wash herself in.

Once walking into the trees, she heard a stream, making her smile. She started to trot towards it, her wings rustling a few steps, a few loose feathers making themselves known.

However, she stopped, giving a small frightful whimper, seeing something that would make anyone else cry in fear; a large creature, resembling a Komodo Dragon, was eating a carcass. However, the crcass drew some attention as well, it appearing to be a dead Manticore.

Fluttershy slowly backed up, hearing it tear a chunk of flesh out, then hiss as it ate. She pressed her back against a tree, trying to control her breathing. She turnned, only to come face to face with another large Komodo Dragon.

This one had no blood on it's snout, and looked like it was trying to sneak up to the other one to steal a bite. It gave a surprised hiss, then backed up a little, confused, as if it never saw a creature like her.

It, however, quickly shook out of it's confusion, giving a deep hiss, lowering it's body to the ground. Fluttershy realized that it was preparing to pounce, and quickly dodged to the side, the creature ramming it's scale covered body into the tree, giving a deep growl.

This caught the attention of the other Komodo Dragon, giving a hiss, blood leaking from it's maw. It started to follow Fluttershy, who screamed in fear, galloping away from them.

The duo creatures slammed past trees and logs, hissing loudly into the air as they followed. Fluttershy ducked into some roots of a large tree, creating a protective cage around her. They snarled, one of them slamming against the roots, lodging some free.

It hissed at her, it's claws scraping against the roots, then gripped the ground next to Fluttershy, who backed up. She shivered in fear, before realizing only one was in sight, so, where did the other go?

Suddeny, she looked up, seeing the hollow tree's top, which has the blood covered maw of the giant Komodo Dragon. She screamed, seeing it enter into the tree, clawing and biting. Fluttershy quickly squirmed through some of the roots, coming out of the other side.

One followed, the other staying back, trying to get out of the tree, which made Fluttershy whimper in fear. She quickly went into a empty log, the creature following, slamming it's head in, trying to bite her with it's venom filled jaws.

It's serpentine tongue, which reminded her of Spike's, slithered out and licked the air, it's piercing, red eyes glaring at her. It's slitted pupils trained on her as it started to crawl in, breaking the tree, it's cracking heard clear as day.

The other Komodo tried to get in, hissing and growling angrily, before it was shrugged off by the one in front of Fluttershy. It opened it's blood covered jaws, showing needle like teeth, hissing loudly, ready to kill.

However, a loud snap was heard, making the Komodo dragon give a startled and painful yelp. It dug it's claws into the log, it's eyes almost bugging out of its skull as it was dragged out by something powerful. It was lifted into the air, a loud, bone crushing snap was heard as it went still, before being lifted into the air.

Her saviour was out of sight, but, the other Komodo, watching from the sidelines, gave a frantic hissing noise and started to slink into the bushes.

Fluttershy shivered, and after a moment, she peeked her head out, looking around. She sighed, then got out of the log, shivering a little.

"Thank Celestia..." She said to herself, before a deep, rumbling growl was heard, making her stop in her thoughts.

She turned around, before seeing the bird like feet of the creature that took Spike, who had saved her life. In it's jaws was the dead Komodo, it giving her a curious stare. It dropped the carcass at it's clawed feet, then leaned forward, inhaling through it's nose, inches from her face.

It kept smelling her, before snorting, blowing her mane back a little, then shook it's body. It quietly then grabbed the carcass and stepped over her, giving a rumbling growl as it did so.

Fluttershy opened her wings, quietly going to the air. She saw where the creature was headed, giving a gasp, then started to fly as fast as she could.

It was heading towards it's home.

Right towards camp.

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Spike yawned, quietly stretching as his joints popped, causing him to growl happily. He looked around, blinking, trying to clear his eyes, which were blurry. He rubbed his eyes, and looked down, to see he was sleeping on a rock. He grumbled, standing up, scratching his back.

Blaze, who was next to him, started a fire, since they were in the middle of a clearing, which made the smoke easily visible in the slowly brightening sky.

Spike sat next to her, seeing that she was chewing on something. Spike looked up at her, before turning his head away in disgust, feeling bile rise into his throat, before swallowing it down. She was eating a charred rabbit, greedily eating it's soft, juicy meat.

Spike, who was a vegitarian, looked away, giving a grumble of disgust. She gave him a confused look, then swallowed down the chunk of meat she was chewing on.

"Want some?" She asked, making him shake his head in disgust. She shrugged, then spoke, "More for me."

He looked up, seeing the sky slowly turn blue, the night ending. However, the sun was only starting to rise, which made Spike sigh.

"We better get ready to go back..." Spike said, making Blaze look at him, then nod.

"Aye, we better go back to tha village an'-" A scream interrupted her, making Spike perk his ear frills up.

"That was Fluttershy!" Spike exclaimed, standing up, before hearing something that would make his body freeze in fear.

Blaze grabbed Spike, getting on all fours, snarling. "Hang on!" She yelled, before starting to run, her wings tucked at her sides. She gripped the ground with her claws, digging long gashes as she started to run.

Spike hung onto her back for dear life, his worry growing for his friend. The trumpetting roar of the creature echoed out, along with the yells of guards.

"Must go faster." Spike yelled out, causing Blaze to run faster, snarling past the wind.

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Captain Fair knew they were in trouble once they heard that sound. That sound. How would one stallion describe it? It was terrifying, a scream from another world.

Most of the guards awoke once they heard it, and to be honest, the sound made most of them want to run to the hills. But, they stood their ground, readying their spears.

Suddenly, Gear rushed back, panting, his blue eyes full of fear, "Sir, we spotted it!"

Fair looked over to him, then asked, "How close?"

As if to answer him, the creature slammed through the trees, a reptilian tail in it's mouth. It looked around, before spotting the group. It threw it's head back, swallowing the tail in and instant, then gave a snarl.

As if a monster from Tartarus awoken, a trumpetting roar escaped it's throat, giving even the bravest stallion nightmares. The sound mixed with the natural chaos, as if a monster had been found and was ready to kill anything that moved. It's bone crushing jaws tore open the very sky and shook the earth to pieces. Truely, if Faust had a truer monster, it was this; the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It ran forward, roaring, crushing a stallion under it's large, three toed feet. It headbutt through a tent, a couple of guards following with it.

"That close!"

It's jaws bit onto a stallion, crushing him instantly, then it stomped, killing three more under it's weight. At this moment, Twilight had awoken, she and Rarity poking their heads out of their tents, only to see the mssive creature that had taken Spike. It gave it's hellish scream, snarling at those who has surrounded it.

"We're gonna need a bigger net." Rainbow Dash sluggishly said, appearing out of her tent.

Fluttershy suddenly flew down, sighing, then looking at the others. Applejack and Pinkie Pie came out of their tents, trotting towards Twilight, both having confused looks on their faces.

Suddenly, nets wrapped around the creature's maw, making it give a rumbling growl, which everyone felt in their chests. Claw appeared out of nowhere, shooting another net, wrapping arround the creature's maw. It shook it's head, before ropes started to wrap arround it's neck and legs.

Applejack galloped out of her tent, a rope in her maw, Pinkie Pie bouncing along next to her, giggling. Suddenly, the net exploded off of the creature's maw, allowing it to give a hellish bellow. Applejack spun her rope, then threw it up, wrapping it around the creature's neck, making it give a trumpetting roar of surprise.

"We need to take this thing down!" Twilight yelled over the bellowing roar of the creature. As if to answer her call, Blaze appeared, Spike on her back. She clawed the dirt, trying in vain to slow down, before slamming into some boxes, then into a crumpled heap into a tent.

Spike was the first to rise, clutching his head, looking dizzy, then said to the Trottish dragon, "I think you need to work on your landings..." Spike suddenly had the air knocked out of him as a sobbing Twilight hugged him tight, kissing him all over his face. He blushes and hugged Twilight back, smiling. "I missed you too, Twi..."

Suddenly, the angry bellow of the creature was heard, everyone turning their heads to see Rainbow Dash flying around the creature, it biting at empty air as it tried to catch her. It roared angrily, more ropes wrapping around it's head as it walked forwards.

Spike looked around, noticing a lack of laughing and bone crushing hugs, and asked, "Where's Pinkie?"

As if to answer him, Pinkie was bouncing around, inbetween the creature's legs, it somehow missing her as it crushed guards left and right. In her mouth was a rope, that she was slowly tying around the creature's legs, it not noticing over all the confusion.

Claw fired another net, closing it's jaws, making it give a crocodilian hiss in reply, glaring at him. Fluttershy suddenly appeared, flying in front of the creature, distracting it for a moment.

Twilight gasped, then smiled, saying, "I have a plan!" Rainbow appeared at her side in a flash, everyone but Applejack and Pinkie Pie were listening.

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The pesky mammals were annoying. Everytime he squished one, two more would appear. It was annoying him to no end, and he was ready to start eating everything and crush their hatchlings to ensure no more came after him.

The orange one kept it's strange vines around his neck, making him angry. "Let go of me!" He angrily shouted, only for it's strange, neighing sounds to echo back in reply.

He snarled at them, then shook his head, trying to free the spider like web encased around his snout. He felt their sticks poke and jab at him. Onne managed to stab hinto his thigh, making him give a snarl, stomping the small mammal. Suddenly, more vines wrapped around his foot, pulling him. He roared angrily at the hooved animal, before feeling a tap on his snout.

He looked up, seeing a strange, multicolored blur fly around him, before tapping his snout. He snorted in annoyance, before breaking the strange, metal web, biting at the blur. He felt only air, seeing the creature that had fliers wings and a multicolored head and tail. It started to fly, becoming a blur, making him chomp at the air.

He gave a bone chilling bellow, before feeling a burning sensation in his chest. He looked down, his pupils shrinking at the sight; the thief mammal. He roared angrily, before seeing the hatchling and the flower smelling mammal next to them. He attempted to walk, only to be pulled back in place, vines wrapping around him.

He felt a pain in his neck, roaring in pain, before his limbs screamed at him to rest. He felt his eyes go heavy, him giving a tired bellow as he looked around. More pain in his neck, making him snarl tiredly at it. Suddenly, three strange auras hit his chest, the burning increasing. He looked down, seeing three mammals, two of them having blue streams, one lighter than the other. The thief mammal was shooting out a purple stream out of it's horn, causing him to snarl.

He felt the vines tighten around his legs, but what would happen next would change his views about the mammals.

BOOM!

The sound startled the Tyrannosaurus Rex, making him move his feet, only to feel the world slowly get closer to his snout. Looking back as he fell, he saw the pink mammal with a large, metal tree trunk. So, the mammals commanded the power of thunder, and frightened him. That was respected.

He felt the soft dirt as he landed, digging a small gash in the terra as he snorted. He opened his eyes, seeing the blurry images of the thief mammal and the hatchling, making him give a croon, his eyes feeling heavy.

"Good night, Rex."