I was currently in my dorm room on my computer trying to finish a major project for school when a knock came to my door. I stopped typing and looked at my door waiting for another knock to come. I waited several seconds before turning back around and started typing again. Another knock came from my door and I stopped typing again and pinched the bridge of my nose with two fingers. I got up out of my chair and walked over to my door and opened it.
“Yeah?” I ask the person behind the door. It was my next room neighbor, Josh, he was tall short brown hair with green eyes. He was wearing a colts hoodie and blue jeans.
“Hey man did you get the French homework done?” he asks me with a hopeful look.
“No, not at the moment.”
“Well do you mind if I get some help when you do? I don’t understand what to do for this assignment.” he said scratching the back of his head.
“Sure.” I said simply starting to close the door. Before it shut completely he stuck his foot in the doorway stopping the door from closing.
“You are coming to the camp night tonight right?” he asked me.
“I don’t know, I don’t think so.” I said trying to end the conversation.
“Come on man. At least come and if you don’t like it then you can just leave.”
I sighed. “Alright, fine. I’ll come. But if I get there and don’t like it at all then I’m leaving.” I said.
“Good. See ya later man.” he said and he took his foot from the door and walked off. I closed the door, walked back over to my desk and sat down in my chair.
I started to work again before my stomach grumbled and I ignored it. My empty stomach made me pay attention to it however, and I tried my hardest to focus on my work. After several more seconds there was a louder groan from my stomach and I sighed in defeat. I saved my work, and turned off my computer. I got up and went and grabbed my grey hoodie and walked out of my room locking the door behind me.
I walked for a while heading for the closest place I could find to grab a bite to eat. Luckily the closest place to get something was Taco Bell. One of my favorite fast food places, McDonald's is a close second but you can’t beat their Mexican Pizza.
I walked inside and ordered the Mexican pizza meal which consists of the pizza, two tacos with meat, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, and tomato in that order, with a drink. I waited several minutes for my food to be made and my number finally got called and I walked up to the counter, grabbed my food, and walked over to an empty table next to a window and sat down. I ate my food and while I was doing so my phone in my pocket started to buzz and I put down my taco that I was eating and pulled my phone out of my pocket. I saw that the name on the screen said Lucy. I sighed and swiped the answer button to the center of the screen and put the phone up to my ear.
“Hello.”
“Hey Alex! Where are you right now?” Lucy said with her usual happy cheery voice.
“None of your business. Why do you want to know anyway?”
“Well I went to your dorm room and you weren’t there. So I called and asked where you were and…” she said but I cut her off before she started to ramble on like she always did.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you need?”
“I wanted to know if you were going to the camping thing tonight, and if you wanted to grab a bite to eat?” she asked.
“Well I guess I’m going. Josh already talked me into it… sort of. And I’m already…”
“Hey Alex.”
“Yeah?” I asked annoyed that she interrupted me.
“Look to your right.”
“Why would I need to... SWEET HOLY JESUS!” I yelled falling out of my seat from the sudden fright.
I landed on the ground with a thud and rubbed my back. I looked out the window and saw Lucy laughing her ass off. She had blond hair with blue eyes wearing tight light blue jeans curving around her curves and a skin tight plain blue shirt tight against her large breasts. She hung up the phone and walked over to the front door, I got up and put my phone back in my pocket and sat back down in my chair. Lucy sat down in the chair across from me and I picked up my half eaten taco and continued to eat. We sat there in awkward silence. I was never good with starting much less continuing one. Luckily Lucy knew this and knowing her she was thinking of one right now and will say it in 3… 2… 1…
“So how have you been?” she asked me. Called it.
“Fine. Classes are killer though. Uh, what about you?” I ask her attempting to continue the conversation.
“Good, good. I’m having a bit of trouble with my world language class though.” she says with a sheepish smile while scratching the back of her head.
“Same.” And welcome back awkward silence, why don’t ya fuck off.
“So hey, I was wondering if you would maybe… um, be my date to the camp thing tonight?” she asks me and I choke on my food from the surprise question. I couch and take a drink of my water and clear my throat.
“A-are you serious?” I sputtered with my words. She simply nods while looking away.
“Are you sure you want to go with me?” I ask and she nod again. “Uh, yeah. I’d love too.” I said and she looks up at me surprised at my answer and the corners of her mouth slowly twitch and turn into a huge toothy smile and she jumps out of her chair and brings me into a tight hug.
“Oh I’m so glad you said yes. I was afraid you were going to say no but you said yes and I’m so excited now and I can’t wait until tonight…” she said while choking me to death between her large melons.
“Lucy.” I said breathlessly tapping her shoulder with a finger while she suffocated me.
“So we can have fun, and play games, and hang out by a fire.”
“Lucy.” I said tapping her shoulder a bit harder this time.
“Ooh and we can eat together too. Oh it's going to be so much fun!”
“Lucy!” I yell and she finally heard me.
“What?”
“You’re… suffocating… me.”
“Oh I’m so sorry.” she said and she lets me go and I instantly take in as much air as my lungs would allow me to take in and hold.
“It’s *pant* alright.” I said and we sat back down and I went back to finishing my food.
I ate in silence as Lucy just sat there watching me eat with a smile, I finished my last taco and crumbled up the paper and put my trash on my tray and went over to a trashcan and dumped it into the trashcan. I walked back over to the table and sat back down. Lucy started up another conversation and we talked for several minutes before I had told her I needed to get back to my project and she made sure that I was going to the camp thing tonight and I said that I promise and we went our separate ways. I walked all the way to my dorm room without any more interruptions and I started on my project again. I worked on it for a few hours before stopping for the day and I saw that the time was an hour away from 10 o'clock. I had one hour before having to be at the camp out. I got up and turned off my computer right after saving it and got some things that I would need for the night.
My phone in my pocket buzzed and I pulled it out and saw that it was a text message from Josh. I opened it and it said that I should bring my daggers so we can throw them at some targets. I thought it was a stupid idea but I walked over to my closet and opened it. I searched through the top of my closet moving aside boxes of things I can’t even remember what was in them and I finally found what I was looking for. My three daggers that were sharp and cleaned. I pulled them out and put the two daggers that looked like just a normal combat knife in my backpack on top of my clothes and I held my favorite dagger in my hand. It was curved and had holes in it that made it look like a Christmas tree with ornaments on it. I held it in my hand remembering where I had gotten it from.
It was a gift from my father and the convenient thing is is that he gave it to me on Christmas. And I’ve had it ever since I was 12 so I’ve had this for about 11 years now. And every day it reminds me of him, and when he died. He was shot a dozen times in the middle of the night on his way home with me with him after we had both gotten off from work and he stopped to get some things from the store and I stayed in the car but when I saw him walk out of the store with bags in one of his hands a man in a hood walked up to him and pulled out a gun and shot him a dozen times. And every night I would lay awake remembering that one night and hearing the gunshot till this day like it's happening over and over again.
A knock came to my door making me snap out of my flashback and I quickly put the dagger in my bag and zipped it up and walked over to the door and opened it. Josh was standing in the doorway with a bag slung across his shoulder.
“Ready to go?” he asked me.
“Yeah hold on a sec.” I said and I walked over and grabbed my bag and walked back over to the door. “Alright let's go.” I said and I walked out and closed my door and locked it behind me. Even though I had a car to drive myself I didn’t like driving all that much.
We walked out to the parking lot and it was very dark with streetlights and the light of the moon for light. We walked over to a red truck and got into it. Josh started the car and pulled out onto the street. We drove for half an hour to wherever this thing was taking place. Several minutes passed and Josh pulled into a dark and creepy forest. We went down a road for a minute and finally reached an opening. It was a rocky opening that had several other cars here. We parked next to a white car and got out of the truck and I followed Josh down a small grassy path with my bag on my back. We walked through the forest for a minutes or two and I saw a bright but low light not too far away from where we were now.
We entered a small area with leaves scattering the ground and logs surrounding a campfire that was burning brightly with variant colors of red orange and blue on the wood as the beautiful flames danced away in the night. I saw many people here some I knew most I didn’t. I saw Lucy sitting on a log watching the fire burn, I also saw some of my friend I met in class. There was Julian, Evan, Levin, David, Douglas, and Fariel sitting on the logs with four other people I didn’t know. I sat down next to Lucy who still didn’t notice me until I sat down. She looked up and smiled at seeing me and gave me an awkward hug. We started to talk for several minutes before others started to join in on the conversation about current events and things we did when we were younger. After what felt like hours of talking Josh asked me a question but I didn’t know what he said.
“What?” I ask turning to him.
“I said, get out your daggers and let's throw them at some targets.”
“Alright.” I said getting up and picking up my bag that I had set down behind the log I was sitting on. I unzipped my bag and pulled out my three daggers. Everyone oohed and awed at them and I saw David walk off to go get what I guessed is the targets. A few minutes later David comes back with a target in his hand and he puts it down in front of a tree that's a bit away from the fire.
“Alright who’s going first?” Josh asked while I stood next to him holding my daggers.
“I’ll do it.” Julian said and he walked over to me and I handed him one of the other daggers keeping my favorite to myself.
He took it in his hand by the handle and walked in front of the target and walked backwards 10 steps about 2 feet away from the fire. He took aim at the target and then threw it as hard as he could and it went straight through the target like a hot knife in butter. It hit the blue line and he hunched over disappointed he missed the red dot. Everyone clapped for him and then Josh asked who was next and it went on like this for a while before everyone got a bit competitive and started to gloat and rub it in the others face when they got closer than everybody and I stayed out of it while I was sitting silently on a cold log watching everyone with my favorite dagger in my hands. Josh walked over to me and sat down right next to me. I sat there awkwardly while we just watched the others and he was panting.
“Why don’t you go up and show us what you got?” he asked putting a hand on my shoulder.
“I don’t think I’ll be very good. Besides it's not like I’ll do any better than you all.” I said still looking at the others throwing daggers.
“Come on. At least give it a try.” he said. I sighed and rolled my eyes.
“Fine.” I said and I stood up.
“That's the spirit man. Hey guys Alex is gonna show all ya’ll up.” he said with a smirk on his face.
“Good luck trying to get closer than me Alex. I’m the only one that's gotten closer to the center than everyone else.” Evan said crossing his arms triumphantly.
I walked over to where everyone was throwing the daggers and I looked down at my dagger that was in my hands. I gripped the handle and looked at the target. I brought my hand behind my head and looked at the target and took aim. I let out a breath and threw the dagger at the target as hard as I could and it went soaring through the air and time seemed to slow down as we all watched it soar through the sky and finally hit the center of the target. Everyone was silent for several seconds with wide eyes before they all started cheering and I smiled a bit as everyone walked over and congratulated me. Evan looked a little defeated but nonetheless congratulated me and patted me on the back.
Naw, that's not what happened at all.
I threw the dagger at the target as hard as I could and it soared through the air and went right past the target and farther into the forest. Everyone started to laugh and I looked at them and saw that Lucy wasn’t.
“Dude that was an awful throw.” Julian said as he laughed harder than before.
“You might want to go get that man.” Josh said still laughing at me as he wiped a tear from his eye.
I looked down at the ground and walked into the woods behind the target and started to look for the dagger halfheartedly. I pulled out my phone and pulled my hood over my head and I tapped the screen twice and the screen turned on and I went to my flashlight app and turned it on and pointed it at the ground. As I walked farther into the woods I could still hear their laughs and remarks at how horrible I was. I sighed sadly as I continued to look for my dagger. I walked right next to a tree and ran into it. I rubbed my head and looked at the tree and saw my dagger stuck deep into the hollow tree. I put my hand on the handle and pulled on it and it didn’t budge. I pulled harder and got the same outcome. I put another hand on the handle and a foot on the trunk of the tree and pulled with all my might. It finally came loose and slid out of the tree and I fell backwards stumbling with my feet and fell to the ground flat on my ass.
I held the dagger in one hand and rubbed my ass with another trying to get rid of the pain from landing on a rock. I stood back up and dusted myself off and noticed something very strange. I couldn’t hear the others off in the distant anymore, I couldn’t hear anything at all which is the strange part. I looked back and didn’t even see a fire anymore. I jogged back to where I thought the camp was at and I didn’t find any sign of a camp being around here. I looked around frantically trying to find anything to let me know that they somehow didn’t pack up and leave me here all alone just for some sick joke. I felt my anger starting to boil and I looked down at my dagger in my hand and tightened my grip around the handle and walked over to a tree and started to swing at the tree for several minutes that seemed to feel like hours.
I stopped swinging at the tree and panted heavily and put my back on the tree and slid down and sat on the ground. I put my elbows on my knees and put my hand on the opposite shoulder and put my head down on my arms. I slowed my breathing down and closed my eyes and leaned my head up as if looking into the sky. I opened my eyes and stared at the starry night sky for a few seconds and looked down at my dagger. I was confused, angry, and most of all… I was saddened. I started to think that I could just kill myself right now and nobody would know or care. I’ve thought about that many times after my father’s death. And every time someone finds me right before I do anything and then I don’t do it for a month and then it just keep playing out like that all the time. But this time no one can find me and stop me, so why not do it now. Besides I’m just another useless life.
I stand up slowly and take my dagger and grab it with both hands tightly around the handle and I start to send it straight at my heart but stop as I hear something growl behind me. I turn around quickly and saw bright green glowing eyes that seemed to stare deep into my soul. It growls even deeper and more green eyes appear in the pitch black forest and soon it seems that thousands of eyes are staring at me. I slowly take my phone out and turn the flashlight on and shine it straight at whatever was there. I saw many wolves standing there growling at me and I saw something strange about these wolves. They weren’t like any wolf I’ve seen before, these wolves didn’t have fur on them at all, instead they seemed to be made out of wood. I took a step back and in the corner of my eye I saw one of the wolves jump at me and I duck just in time and the wolf snapped his jaws at where I had been and I spun back around and dashed off away from the wolves. I heard a howl and then crunching leaves as the wolves were chasing me no doubt.
I kicked it into overdrive as I felt the adrenaline in my veins give me a speed boost and I pump my legs like an engine and run like the wind. But the wolves were right on my tail, escape seemed to be inevitable now. But I kept going out of fear not knowing that a second ago I was about to kill myself and now it seems I’m running for my life. It’s like destiny doesn’t want me dead just yet. I run even faster trying to outrun the wolves and they were staying the exact same distance away from me the whole time I was running. It seems like they're playing with their prey, great. Like being humiliated and abandoned wasn’t enough.
I keep running for what seemed like hours running around trees and ducking under low branches before I saw moonlight starting to break through the trees. I thanked the heavens and ran faster than before and broke through the tree line into and open field of grass and collapsed on the ground tired from over exerting your muscles. I laid on the ground and looked at the forest and saw the green eyes still in the dark forest. It seemed like they either didn’t want to leave the forest or like something out in the open was going to kill them. I instantly became worried but pushed it aside and see pairs of green eyes starting to disappear one by one. Soon all of them are gone and I let my head fall back to the ground and look up into the sky.
I see something in the corner of my eye and I thought I saw a light go out. I sit up using my little remaining strength and squint my eyes to see some sort of town off into the distance not too far from here. I take out my phone and see that I have no service. I put my phone back in my pocket and I stand up on weak legs and heard my stomach growl loudly. I held my stomach and looked at the town. I started to walk toward the town and after walking several minutes I walked into the town and instantly got a weird feeling. I slowly walk towards a door and knock no it hoping that they wouldn’t mind letting me use their phone, now that I’m getting a better look, I don’t see any telephone poles. So hopefully they wouldn’t mind taking a complete stranger into their house for the night. I could hear whispers coming from inside the house.
“Hello? Is anybody in there?” I asked knocking on the door again. I could hear them whisper again about a monster.
I raised an eyebrow at this and I walk away from the door and try another door. The same thing happened every time I knocked on a door, I would get no answer just whispers behind the door. I walk away from the last door I tried and saw a car of apples across the road. I run over and take an apple off the cart and I devour the whole apple, core and all, without even tasting it. I grab another and devour that one two and leave about three bucks for them and I walk off with a sort of full stomach. I walk away from the cart and down the road to see if anyone was outside still and wondered why they were all inside hiding from me. I heard something loud coming from an alleyway. I turn and hesitantly walk towards the alley. I get close to it and I hear whispers and when I turned around the corner I heard a voice say something.
“Get him! Now!” I heard someone say in a raspy voice and I didn’t see what it was but felt something very hard hit me in the side of the head and sent me flying to the ground. It felt like a freight train had just hit me as i tried to look at what had hit me but everything went dizzy and very hazy once the thing hit me. My vision was blurry as I tried to look at what... or much rather than who hit me. I tried to use my arms to push myself up but didn't have any strength left in my body. I heard another voice say something.
"Go get Twilight now before it tries to run away Dash." I heard someone say in a southern accent.
"Alright! I'll get her in 10 seconds flat!" I heard another raspy voice say and a gust of wind blew past me. I laid on the ground fading in and out of consciousness and tried to move around and gain my strength back. But couldn't and I thought that this would be my last day alive. I finally got my sight back to normal and I looked up at the orange figure and my eyes widened.
I saw something that resembled a pony but with big green eyes. the pony looked to be a girl and she had an orange coat with a blond mane and tail with bands at the end of them. She had freckles on her nose and under her eyes. I tried to stand back up but then i fell to my knees from my muscles giving out.
"Pinkie! get over here it's getting' up!" she said and in the corner of my eye I saw another pony that had a pink coat with a poofy mane and tail thats a slightly darker pink.
I saw something on her butt that looked to be a tattoo of three balloons. She zipped up to me and put a hoof on my back and the orange one did as well, and if it wasn't for me being so tired then I would have pushed them off of me and ran away but I was just a door matt to them. I stayed laying on the group while the two of them glared down at me. Well the orange pony did, the pink one just kept giggling every time I tried to move and just ended up squirming.
"I got her!" I heard that raspy voice yell far away. I shut my eyes and tried to let my body rest for a bit so I can run off. There were sounds that sounded like hoof steps and they kept getting closer and closer until they stopped right next to me.
"What is that thing?" I heard a new voice say.
"Ah don't know but it just showed up here and everypony hid from it." the country voice said.
"Is it dangerous?"
"We don't know. But it seems that it wants to run off."
"Well lets get it back to my house and see if it can say why it's here?"
I felt hooves wrap around my arm and I was lifted up and onto one of their backs. Now all I have to do is wait for the right moment to run. I thought and they started walking to somewhere, and I just laid there waiting.
Author's Note
Thanks for reading my first story! I hope you all like it and read more. I’d like to give a big thanks to ZexFireWolf109 for being my editor and a close friend to me and check his story out, it’s amazing and I just wish I could be as good as him one day. Anyway depending on how much this is liked then I’ll definitely make more but we’ll see what happens I guess. Again thanks for reading!
I was still being carried to wherever these ponies were taking me too and I was still very tired from running away from those wooden wolves and lashing out at a tree. I had barely regained any strength so I’m going to have to kick it into overdrive. The ponies around me were talking about something and I didn’t focus on it. Mainly because they were talking about me and something about the possibilities of the knowledge I could hold. Hey even though I wasn’t paying attention I’m still right next to them so it’s kind of hard to block out everything.
But while they were talking I wondered something. How is it that just a few hours ago I was just a college student and then I get abandoned in the woods and humiliated and then I come here and I couldn’t even move from being too tired. Its lie the universe is playing another sick joke on me. I opened my eyes to see the starry night sky and I felt that they weren’t pinning me down for some reason but I didn’t care it’s just easier for me to escape. I also felt my dagger in my hand still while my arm hung limply. I looked around me and saw that there were many buildings and that could be useful for cover or for out running any of these ponies.
I still couldn’t move when I heard the sound of a door opening. I cracked my other eye open and looked around and saw that we were going into a building. The lights came on and I shut my eyes quickly from the harsh light that burned my eyes. They kept walking and another door opened and I could feel that we were going down some stairs from the way gravity was pulling on me. It started to get colder the more we went down and I thought that this must be a basement or something. I was set down on something cold and was strapped into whatever I was set on. I finally opened my eyes back open and saw that I was indeed in a basement, there were concrete walls around me and I looked at what I was set on and it was a metal table with buckle straps around my wrists and ankles.
“Thank you girls. Now let's find out what this thing is. Oh it’s awake.” a voice said and I looked toward where the voice was originating from and I saw a purple pony with a indigo mane and tail with a dark purple and pink stripe going through her mane and tail. She had a butt tattoo of a purple star with smaller white stars around it.
“What? Where am I?” I asked my memory becoming fuzz for some reason.
“You’re in the Golden Oaks Library in Ponyville. What are you exactly? I’m not picking up any magic from you so you can’t be from this world.” she says putting a hoof to her chin and humming in thought. All of a sudden she gasps loudly and gets a huge smile on her face. “This means that your from a different world! Your an alien that's right here in Equestria!” she says and she squeals.
“Uh wait what? I’m in Equestria? Where’s that at?” I asked clearly out of it from blood rushing to my head.
“Well Equus of course! I mean where else would you be?”
“What is he some sort of spy?” a rainbow maned pegasus pony asked flying up right into my face.
“Ah don’t think he’s a spy. If he was one of em’ then he would be better at sneakin,’ well that's what Ah think anyway.” the orange one with the stetson hat on said.
“Let me run some tests and research what he might be. Oh I should send a letter to Princess Celestia about him. He could hold secrets that could help with science!” the purple unicorn said with a much too creepy smile ear to ear. I mean seriously her smile went from ear to ear.
“What are you going to do to me?”
“I’m just going to run some tests on your blood and your magical ability. Although I don’t sense any magic coming from you but my machine might be able to pick some up.” she said walking over to a big metal machine.
It had all kinds of wires coming from it with red and green lights with a console that had many buttons on it. She took something that looked like a draining bowl that had wire running from the top of it and levitated it over to me and put it on top of my head. She went back over to the console and pushed some buttons and the machine came to life as it sputtered and kicked as it started working. An electrical bolt went up the wire that lead to the thing on my head and I felt my senses immediately starting to fade away.
Then a surging pain went all throughout my body and I screamed in pain as I tried to force my hands out of the buckle straps strapped around my wrists as I pulled on them trying to slip out of them so I could pull this thing off of my head. But my intentions were useless since it was very tight to where I couldn’t get enough space to pull them out and I laid there screaming in pain. The pain strengthened and I screamed even louder as I could feel my bones and flesh starting to turn. I heard one of them say something but there was so much pain that I didn’t care and I just screamed while hoping this would stop.
My flesh felt as if it was being moved around with my bones moving inside my body all around and it felt like more bones were being formed and put into place all throughout my body. In the corner of my eye I saw fear in all of their eyes as they all went to the machine and started to push buttons trying to turn the machine off but they couldn’t and it sent out a shockwave and they fell to the ground unconscious as I still laid there screaming in excruciating pain.
Soon I couldn’t take the pain anymore and my body started to feel cold as my eyes started to feel heavy and slowly started to close. My head drooped down and the last thing I saw were my clothes being torn apart and then it all turned to black.
I woke up to the sound of something clanging on the ground and hoof steps I think. Th last thing I remembered was blacking out from the pain I was in because of that machine. I slowly opened my eyes and saw black spots all over the basement with the three ponies laying on the ground and groaning in pain. I looked all around the room with a horrified expression and I noticed something else too, I wasn’t on the table like I was before, now I’m on the floor without being strapped down to the table. I looked around slowly and saw the table broken in half and leaned up against the wall on the side of the room. I placed my hands on the ground and tried to push myself up but my body felt so sore that I just fell straight back to the ground.
I could feel my body slowly convulsing and bones moving around quickly like it had before I blacked out. I sensed a strength in my body I never felt before and I tried to get up again and I did so shakily at first but jumped up onto my feet. I looked at the ponies that were still lying on the ground and they started to stir awake and I looked over at the stairs and slowly started to walk towards the stairs. I heard them starting to stir even more and I looked back and saw them starting to stand up and I tried to walk faster and I felt my bones move around in y legs and chest and I could walk better now and I started to run up the stairs. I looked down at my feet while running up the stairs and saw that i didn’t have my shoes on anymore and I saw that my feet had very long claws where my toenails should be. They were at least a foot long and they were very sharp to the point and I almost lost my balance but caught myself before I did so.
I made it to the top of the stairs and opened the door and I was met with a bright light and I brought my hand up and shielded my eyes and I saw another alien thing. My hand was completely black with purple veins showing as it pulsed and pumped blood throughout my body. I looked at my hand closer and saw that my nails were sharp as well and weren’t as long as the nose on my feet but still very sharp. I clenched my hand into a fist and a large blade came out of my arm as fast as lightning and it was about five feet long and I almost stumbled back but I used my other hand and waved it around in circles regaining my balance and stood up straight. I heard voices coming from the basement and I decided to study my body even further once I find a place to hide.
I run to a door and opened it and moonlight invaded the room and I ran outside not bothering to close the door behind me. I ran as fast as I could with my renewed energy and it seemed like I was even faster than before as buildings zipped past me like streaks of light. In the distance I heard hoofsteps and I turned my head and looked behind me and I saw the three ponies that were in the basement with me chasing after me. I ran even faster and I could feel more bones in my back shifting and I started to lower myself to the ground and ran on all fours and I was getting away from them. But the rainbow maned one caught up to me and flew right beside me and was yelling something but i didn’t pay any attention and I ran faster and turned a sharp corner and she flew and ran into a street light post head irst.
I ran off with no ponies behind me and I saw a first off in the distance and I made my way towards it hoping to finally get away from all these dangerous things. After a few minutes of running I broke through the tree line into the forest and stopped running and my bones shifted and I stood up straight on two legs again. I was panting heavily from running so fast and I was confused and very scared at what I had become and what I could do. I need to find something to show what I look like. I thought to myself as I looked around and I knew that I wouldn’t find any mirrors in this place so the best option is to find a puddle or pond.
So that's exactly what I did, I started to walk around in dead silence through the forest I had come out of from being chased by those timberwolves. Hey that’s a good name, I’ll start calling them Timberwolves from now on. I thought as I came to an opening in the forest.
I looked around and didn’t see an animal in sight. Not even those glowing green eyes were anywhere near me, I also noticed something strange, when I had entered the forest all sounds of animals stopped and there were a lot of sounds going on when I was running towards the forest. I stopped thinking and saw a big pond in the center of the opening and I stepped out into the opening and I saw that my pants were torn to shreds and my whole leg was black. I walked over to the pond and prepared myself for what to see. I slowly leaned over the edge of the pond and saw nothing but a dark figure. I noticed that my hood was over my head and I lifted my black hands and slowly took off my hood. I gasped in horror at what I saw and stared in shock at what was showing me in the reflection. The reflection looked like me but also not me, instead of my green eyes I had dark red eyes with cat like pupils replaced them and I didn’t have a nose either just two holes to allow me to breath. I still had my hair but it was much shorter than before and it was black instead of brown. My ears weren’t rounded like before either, instead they were pointed and had holes in them. The worst part was my flesh that was once tanned was now black like my hand and leg. I opened my mouth and I had very sharp teeth that looked like it could tear through anything with a snake like tongue in my mouth replacing my other one.
I stumbled back horrified at my reflection and tripped over my feet and fell to the ground. I slowly crawled back over to the pond thinking it was playing a trick on me and I see the exact same reflection. I scream in horror, agony, and in fear at what I had become, and I screamed a terrifying roar that even scared me making me think something was here. I was nothing but a freak, a beast… a monster. I crawled into a ball and started to cry but I didn’t cry tears at all and I just weaped with no tears flowing down my cheeks or even collecting in the corner of my eyes.
Why did I have to become a monster? Why did it have to happen right after being abandoned by my friends? Why did it have to happen to me!?
I thought to myself as I just laid there on the cold damp ground huddled into a ball thinking that this was a nightmare and that I would take up any second. I waited minutes and even what felt like hours just waiting for this horrible dream to end. But I never woke up, the dream never ended. I was stuck like this in a planet I don’t know anything about and with beings that want to experiment on me and most likely tear me apart just for science.
I felt my eyes becoming heavy and the last thing I saw was the moon shimmering almost like it was winking to me as I fell into a deep sleep. All I wanted at that moment… was to be killed quickly for this nightmare to end.
I woke up to the sun blinding my eyes and the sound of a cool breeze blowing past me. I slowly sat up with my eyes shut tight and my hand covering my eyes. I slowly opened my eyes and saw a black hand and my eyes widened as memories of last night flooded my brain. I let my hand drop back to my side and I slowly stood up and looked around at the scenery before me. Even though I had looked around at the scenery last night I didn’t get a good enough look from the moonlight although having enough light for me to see I couldn't see everything that was around me just the pond and some other things.
There weren’t any animals around me, that's to be expected, and there wasn’t much around here to tell about. There were a few plants around the edge of the pond on the other side and one patch of them looked blue and very small with lighter blue spots on the petals of the flower and they seemed to give off some sort of odor that smelled strange and I could also see the odor coming off of the flower itself. I walked over to them and tugged one out of the patch and I stood up straight and brought the flower up to my nose and sniffed it a bit. I could feel something moving around in my body, it wasn’t my bones for some reason and I felt a familiar sense rising up in my stomach. I puffed out my cheeks and belched a huge one and instead of it just being gas it was fucking blue smoke.
I stare at the strange smoke and reach my hand out to touch it but it felt like my body stopped me from touching it and it floated away from me and over to the blue flowers and right on top of them. My eyes widened at what happened next, the flowers all white and turned black and died, the smoke wasn’t just gas, it was poisonous gas. The smoke dispersed and I bent down and poked the flowers and they turned to dust when I poked them. I wondered what made me do that and if I could do that again.
There was a howl that made me jump back to reality and I looked towards the direction it came and didn’t see anything yet. Then after a few seconds a timberwolf jumped through the treeline out into the sun. Three more jumped out and made their way around the pond while growling at me. I looked at them and then remembered the blades that came out of my arms yesterday and I clench my hands into fists and a blade came out through each arm and the wolves didn’t slow down or even flinch when they came out, they just kept their eyes on their prey. They came over to me and started to circle around me and I waited for them to try and pounce on me.
After several seconds of waiting one of them finally pounced on me. It was the one behind me and I spun around and used my blade to cut through it like a hot knife through butter. The wooden wolf fell to the ground in a pile of sticks and twigs. The others growled even louder and two more pounced on me and I ducked before they could get me and I heard them collide and I felt my bones move upward and i could feel them come out of my back and I heard a gurgling sound and then I felt something sticky on my back. I looked back and saw that I had metal bones sticking out of my back and it was like a fish fin. They stuck through the timberwolves as their blood oozed down my metal bones and onto my back. instead of their blood being, well blood, it was tree sap. My bones immediately sank back into my body and the two now dead timberwolves started to fall and I rolled out of the way before they came tumbling down on me.
I looked at the last one which was giving me a death glare from mie killing his comrades. He gave me a blood shivering growl and he lowered himself and readied himself to pounce. After a few seconds he finally pounced and in one quick motion I brought my hand back and put as much force into my swing and as soon as my hand was close to him and I brought my blade out at the last second and it went through it’s mouth and deep into it’s body. I sheath my blade back in my arm and let the body fall down while tree sap oozed out if the limp body of the wolf.
I looked around me at the body that laid on the ground with puddles of tree sap around them. They all had incisions on their bodies from my blades and I looked down at my hands and I was confused, and mostly terrified. How did I even do that? Was it out of instinct, or was that actually me? So many questions were going through my head at the time but there was one that stuck out the most. What have I turned into?
I felt tears starting to form in the corner of my eyes and I wiped them away and I heard a twig snap. If that's anymore Timberwolves then I don’t want to face anymore so I best get out of here while I can. I started to sprint in a random direction trying to get away and still wanting to wake up from this nightmare. But I didn’t know a certain purple unicorn stepped out into the open area and caught a glimpse of the creature running away.
Twilight Sparkle sat in her living room sipping on a cup of tea while staring at her basement door. Spike had brewed her some tea for the night soon after waking up and finding out what had happened to her machine, and had stayed up and it was now around 9 o’clock. Well that's what she thought the time was as of now. Even though she didn’t completely know what happened to the creature that had came here she knew that it didn’t have any magic, but now it had magic that was off the charts. It also looked completely different than from when she saw it at first.
She took another sip of her tea and she let out a deep sigh. She decided that she wouldn’t be able figure everything out without that creature and she got up and sat her cup of tea back on the silver platter and walked up the stairs that led to her room. once she got up to her room she grabbed a satchel and started to grab scrolls, ink wells, feathers she used for writing and many other things she thought she may need. Once she was satisfied with what she had she walked back down the stairs and into the living room.
“Spike I’m heading out!” she yelled throughout the house to her assistant.
“Alright see ya!” the dragon yelled back from somewhere within the tree library.
Twilight walked over to the front door and opened it with her magic and walked out and closed the door behind her. She started to make her way towards where she saw the creature the last. After a few minutes of trotting to her destination she made made it and stopped at the edge of the Everfree forest. She took a deep breath and took a step into the forest and started to make her way around hoping to find the creature.
After several minutes of walking, which felt like hours for her, through the thick and dense forest she was about to give up on finding the creature. then she heard a noise off not to far from where she was at. She didn’t know what it was but it was a clue to what she is looking for. She slowly made her way to the direction of the noise and after a few minutes of walking she came to a stop at the edge of an opening in the forest.
What she saw was something of a nightmare. It was the creature fighting off timberwolves, breaking and dodging their every move that they threw at it but it was so agile that their attempts seemed to be useless. She watched the scene play out with bated breath as the strange creature tore the timberwolves to pieces. After it had finished the last timberwolf off she blinked a few times from not being able to take her eyes off of what was happening. The creature just stand there for a few minutes before running off into another part of the forest and she tried to cry out for it to stop but she choked on her words and watched as the creature broke through the tree line and off into another art of the forest. She stepped out into the opening and looked at the bodies of the timberwolves and covered her muzzle with a hoof from the smell that seeked through her nostrils.
“I need to report this to the princess.” she said to herself as she made her way back to her house. It seems our little friend will be having trouble soon. Or will he have an ally?
Author's Note
Hey guys thanks for reading this chapter and I’d like to give another huge thanks to ZexFireWolf109 for helping me with everything in this chapter and many further chapters that will be coming out soon. Once again I hope to see you all soon!
