The Wolf and the Rainbow

Chapter 4

-The Next Day, Ponyville School House-

“No way! He actually gave you his necklace and said that your part of the Vlka Fenryka!?” Sweetie Belle asked, eyeing the familiar fang necklace.

“Why in tarnation would he do that? Ah mean, it makes no sense.” Applebloom said, raising an eyebrow. “He just met us yesterday.”

Scootalooo blushed a bit, and tried to hide it by smiling… Failing horribly. “I-I kind of told him somethings… That I told no pony else.” She admitted, her hooves feeling rather weak. “And I don’t know why I did, either. Something in me just said it was ok… That I could tell him anything, that I was safe around him. That I-.”

“Were standin’ next ta yer Pa?” Appleboom interjected, making the pegasus filly’s eyes go wide.

“W-What are you talking about? Like you said, we just met him yesterday!” Scootaloo stuttered, her face turning a darker shade of red. “I don’t even know that much about him.”

“Sometimes, Scootaloo, you just get those feelings and know when something is right.” Sweetie Belle said, the other two fillies looking at her. “A-Atleast, that’s what Rarity told me! And also my dad… What you described, is how I feel around him.”

“And Big Mac maybe mah big brother, but he’s like mah own Pa.” Applebloom noted, agreeing with the unicorn filly. “That’s how ah feel around’em.”

Scootaloo thought about it for a moment, a smile creeping on to her cheeks. “M-Maybe you girls are right…” She said, before a thought suddenly hit her. “Hey! Maybe I can visit him in the Everfree Forest! Who knows, if you girls are right, he might help me get my cutie mark!”

“Wait, you know where he lives?” Sweetie Belle asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Oops… Did I forget to mention he told me that too…?” Scootaloo asked, embarrassed that she completely forgot. “But yeah, he lives in a-?”

“Well, well, if it isn’t the only three blank flanks in Ponyville.” Diamond Tiara said, walking up with Silver Spoon right behind her.

“Yeah, and look at that atrocious neckless miss flightless is wearing!” The gray filly said, giggling.

Diamond Tiara looked at it, and rolled her eyes. “I have to agree… Though, such a barbaric piece of jewelry suits her.” The filly said, smirking.

“And what is that supposed to mean?” Scootaloo said, glaring at Diamond Tiara.

“Easy? It’s no secret that you live in an orphanage, blank flank. Not to mention, why you’ve been there the longest, what pegasi family, in their right mind, would want you as a daughter?” She answered, making even Silver Spoon gasp, and go wide eyed.

“Whoa, now that is taking it way too far!” Sweetie Belle said, Applebloom nodding, while Scootaloo remained quiet.

“Yeah, Diamond Tiara… That was a bit much.” Silver Spoon said, looking at the purple filly.

“I’m only telling the truth.” She responded, before Scootaloo spoke up.

“Shut up! How would you know anything, when you have everything you could want!” She yelled, tears in her eyes, before holding up the fang necklace. “And for your information, this is a sign of one belonging to the Vlka Fenryka! Those chosen to be the children of the legendary Wolf King! Moon-!”

Scootaloo was interrupted when Diamond Tiara actually walked up and ripped the necklace off. “You mean this tacky, barbaric, thing? Please, it looks like old rotted teeth with some red rock.” She said, keeping the pegasus filly back with her hoof.

“Give it back! Y-You’ll break it!” Scootaloo said, frantically, while trying to get back the important artifact… A treasure that was important to one of her two heroes.

“You want it?” Diamond Tiara asked, able to move away from Scootaloo. The filly nodded, rapidly, while she got a devilish smirk. “Then go get it!” Scootaloo’s heart just dropped, when she saw Diamond Tiara throw the necklace on to a nearby tree’s branch… One far out of the filly’s reach.

“Diamond Tiara! Wut did ya do that fer! Ya know Scootaloo can’t fly that high!” Applebloom shouted, knowing how important the necklace is, especially to Scootaloo.

The pegasus filly just looked up at the tree branch, tears still in her eyes. Without a word, she sprinted away from the group! “Scootaloo! School isn’t over yet!” Sweetie Belle yelled, but it seemed like the filly didn’t care.

Silver Spoon, when normally was on Diamond Tiara’s side, shot the other filly a glare. “Ok, now you’ve gone way too far!” She said, making Diamond Tiara look at her, in surprise.

-Friendship Castle-

“I’m telling you, Rainbow Dash. There’s no place called ‘Fenris’, a group called ‘Vlka Fenryka’, an animal called the ‘Fenrissian Wolf’, nor some pony named ‘Wolf King’.” Twilight Sparkle, the local alicorn Princess said, while she looked through some of her personal books on Pony History and Animals. “They just don’t exist.”

Rainbow Dash scratched her head, confused. “But how does that explain those teeth, story, or that Charger; Scootaloo told me about? She doesn’t lie to me.” The pegasus mare said.

“If I had one of those teeth, I may be able to figure out what it belongs to.” Twilight said, raising an eyebrow. “Or even talk with this ‘Moon Howl’.”

“I don’t know how to do either of those things! Scootaloo seems to cherish that necklace… And there’s no telling where this Moon Howl is.” Rainbow Dash said, rubbing both temples with her hooves.

“I can’t tell you anything without evidence, or facts, Rainbow Dash.” Twilight explained, shaking her head.

Before Rainbow Dash could say anything else, Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Silver Spoon, and Ms. Cheerliee; rushed into the room. “Rainbow Dash! We have a problem!” The magenta school mare yelled, her voice filled with concern.

“Cheerliee? What’s wrong?” Rainbow Dash asked, before noticing one less filly. “W-Where’s Scootaloo?”

“We don’t know! We looked all around Ponyville.” Cheerliee said, looking around at the fillies.

“Girls, what happened?” Twilight asked the fillies.

“Scootaloo was telling us how she met Moon Howl again, yesterday, and got his necklace from him!” Sweetie Belle said, worried about her friend.

“Then Diamond Tiara said some really mean things to her, and ripped the necklace off-!” Silver Spoon said, before Rainbow Dash suddenly yelled.

“She did WHAT!?” The pegasus mare yelled, so loud that those outside could hear her. “Do you have any idea where she could have gone!?”

Applebloom looked around, Sweetie Belle nodding to her, before she looked back up to Rainbow Dash. “She might be in the Everfree Forest, lookin’ fer Moon Howl.” She announced.

“Why in the name of Equestria would she do that!? Scootaloo doesn’t even know where he is!” Rainbow Dash yelled, grabbing her mane in panic.

“S-She told us… That he lived in the Everfree Forest, but Diamond Tiara interrupted her before she could tell us where, exactly.” Sweetie Belle admitted.

Rainbow Dash suddenly launched out of the door, a trail of rainbow colors right behind the mare… Her direction being, obviously, Everfree Forest. Instead of questioning her friend, Twilight looked down at the fillies. “Do you girls have that necklace?” She asked, Sweetie Belle using her magic to hover said item in question towards the lavender alicorn.

-Everfree Forest-

Scootaloo didn’t stop running, her eyes filled with tears. She knew the cave that Moon Howl talked about, she saw it during one other stray adventure into the forest. When she arrived at the cave’s mouth, she stopped… Her mind was racing; the filly couldn’t figure out what to say. After all, his necklace was ruined and she couldn’t get it back.

Only one real answer came to mind, and the filly decided to act on it. With a deep breath, Scootaloo let out her best imitation of a wolf’s howl… Sounding more like a squeaking one. “I hope he’s home…” She thought, taking a few breaths.

After a few seconds, her thoughts were answered by a loud, powerful, howl come from the cave. The stallion she hoped for, slowly walking out of the cave, his armored head tilting. “Scootaloo, what’s-?” Before he could say anything else, the filly sprinted over, and clamped on to his front right hoof, and started to ball her eyes out. “Scootaloo?! Scootaloo, what happened!” He asked, seeing the filly in such a state, his parental instincts suddenly taking over and he wrapped a hoof around her frame.

“Y-Your n-necklace… Sh-She… Broke it!” The filly managed to say, between her tears. “And I-I… Couldn’t g-get it out of the tree. I-It was too high.”

Moon Howl looked down at her, whoever she was… Had pissed off the wrong pony. However, his wolf instincts demanded that he stayed with Scootaloo until she calmed down. “Come on inside, little pup… Tell me what happened.” He said, picking the filly up with his mouth, and carried her inside.

Once they were in the cave, Moon Howl laid the filly down and soon circled his larger body around her. The position they were in, made Scootaloo feel the way she told her friends. Not too much longer, she started to tell him all about what happened at school and with Diamond Tiara.

It took every bit of willpower Moon Howl had, not to go charging out and giving this filly a piece of his mind… Vlka Fenryka style. Though, once she calmed down, Scootaloo was fast asleep against his larger body. “The pup must have worn herself out, running here.” He thought, looking down at her… Laying his head down around her, completing the protective circle. “Already done my exercises for today… What the Helheim, a nap would do me some good.” The stallion allowed himself to drift off into a peaceful slumber.

-Over Everfree Forest-

Rainbow Dash soared through the untamed skies of Everfree Forest, scanning for the pegasus filly the best she could. “Horse apples! I can’t see a thing from up here!” She shouted, contemplating the hardest thing she could possibly do. “For the squirt… I’ll fly into Tartarus.” She thought, before flying down into the forest itself.

When the cyan mare landed, she could hear the groans and moans of nearby creatures. Rainbow Dash did not want to admit it to anypony, but the Everfree Forest actually creeped her out. Mostlyecause of how everything did things on their own, and that was just plain weird.

“Scootaloo!” She called out, looking around. “Where are you squirt!” Rainbow Dash couldn’t see anything, nor a sign of either ponies. “What pony in their right mind would live in a place like this?” The mare thought, continuing her search.

Unknown to the mare, there was a pair of large yellow cat eyes, locked on to her.