It was very busy in Ponyville. As always, they were in a good mood and greeted nicely to everypony. The young filly and her grandmother stands by their flower shop and sold many flowers to their satisfied customers.
Although Rarity's store was famous for her generosity and her sense of fashion, they were better known for their bouquet skills. But they were also known to show a pony's personality, which was especially the filly's speciality.
Today was very queit, which was good. She and her grandmother have already sold the orders, but decorated new bouquets for the next orders. And it's lunch now, so the filly put a small sign on the booth. After lunch, her grandma was a bit tired and would take a nap. She told her granddaughter that she can visit her friends. The filly nodded and the elder pony walks gently up the stairs to settle down. The filly has already decided to visit her friend after breakfast, or rather; Her secret friend in the woods.
She quickly packed and locks the door so her grandmother wouldn´t be disturbed. She checks on her food basket if the sandwiches and apple juice was there. She was going to take it to the draconequess so he could have something to eat too. As she walks the half-way street to the path to the forest, she heard someone call..

"May! May!"

She turns back and sees a slender little unicorn filly like her galloping to her. "Oh, Jewel." the unicorn said happily. The little unicorn, Jewel was the daughter of the famous Rarity and of course the little sister to Diamond Dust, who was one of May's friends.
Little Jewel asked her where she´s going. May couldn´t tell her that she´ll meet her draconequess friend, so she told a little white lie that she takes a walk.
"Can I come?" Jewel asks innocently. But May told her that she needed to be alone. Jewel seems to be disappointed, but tells her that she must hurry back so they can decorate bouquets together. She promises her that and went into the woods.
As she galopses, she thought what to do before returning. She was already at their usual spot, where she saw the draconequess sitting and waiting. They greeted eachother with their password. She asked him if he had been waiting too long, but the draconequess replied that he already got here. The young filly smiled and showed him the sandwiches for lunch. The draconequess was so overwhelmingly happy that he snatched one of them and gobbled. The filly chuckled and they sat on the hilltop almost all day.

As days has passed. May and the mysterious draconequess has become closer and more comfortable to each other. But as days turns into months, they began to meet regularly and didn´t even use the password anymore.

Then, a peaceful beginning of a summer day, Princess Twilight called ponies in Ponyville to a meeting. She wanted to discuss about their safety from a wolfpack near by.
You see, after May and the draconequess became close friends, everything has changed. One day, a wolfpack appeared to the area of Equestria and found a cave from a mountain to settle in. The same mountain, that the draconequess and his mother lives in, but luckily it was in the west side of the mountain. But something terrible has happened, where a wolf hunts down a pony and was just getting caught, but fortunately she escaped.
That was a big problem for everypony, esspecially their leader, Princess Twilight. So she had created a magical barrier where they were protected from the wolves and invisible to them. But Princess Twilight even tries to find more solutions from their wolf problem. But she also found out that their biggest problem was the autumn that's coming soon and can be a major problem for the barrier.
May tried to sneak away from the crowd. It goes as planned as always, but unfortunately she was soon discovered by a peach colored earth pony. Her name is Apple Lily and was May's very best friend. She even asked May, where she was going. But May hesitated and stared at her friend.
"Oh, you're up to something, aren´t you?" Lily said very suspiciously. But May denied it. Then, her other friend, Dusty (a nickname of Diamond Dust) showed up and asked Lily what they were talking about. "May was going somewhere else." she explained to him. Dusty asked her why. But May can´t do nothing but telling the truth (with a bit of a lie, but was truthful) that she´ll meet her friend at Breezy Patch.

"Breezy Patch!" Dusty and Lily shouted in shock.

Dusty reminded her that it was the same patch, where a wolf chased poor little Candy and was almost eaten. "You know what it called now? Lunch Patch!" Dusty ended with a serious expression.
He tells her that it is dangerous to go alone and not to break Twilight's rules. But May suggested that it was an important plan for her to meet her friend. But when Dusty asked her who her mysterious friend is, May couldn´t tell him that her secret friend was a draconequess (although she really hates lying to her friends). But Lily gave her a mischivious look and asked her if she´s seeing him alot, but May hesitated.
Dusty suggested that they should come for her safety, but May declined the offer until her grandmother showed up. "May they are right. You have my permission, but take your friends with you," she said compassionately. May tried to deny it, but her grandmother shushed at her. She reminded her that she promised to take care of her and she would fail her mother and fall in despair by losing her.
"So please May. Take Dust with you. It's for your own good." She concluded concretely. "Yes grandmother..." May responded quietly.
She knows her grandmother tried to protect her, but with her secret, it can be very difficult. Dusty has already decided to come along, and so does Lily too. May's grandmother tells them to take care of her granddaughter, who Dusty with a loyal face holds his promise.

Dusty, Lily and May galopered to Breezy Patch, which was only 5 miles from here. Dusty proclaimed himself of taking many classes of protection and knowledge about wolves. But May didn´t listen to him and seems quite depressed. She fears that if they discovers her secret, there would be major consequences.
"Oh come on May, your friend can´t be that bad..." Dusty implied, who noticed her sigh almost a couple of times. May didn´t say anything and looked down while Dusty said again that there may be danger around them and that they must stick together until they reach the patch.
In the meantime, the red draconequess had just arrived at Breezy Patch and was waiting for his friend. Then, he noticed three figures from the small hill. He could see that his friend was down there, but the other two was unknown to him.

"You know, May. I have read one of Princess Twilight's books that there is a rare bush with dark yellow flowers that they call "stinky bush," he heard the purple-maned and weird-looking unicorn telling to his friend down there. He heard him say they can hide in there before her friend (the draconequess) arrives.

"Because... No wolves can smell us, right?" says the peach-colored pony.

"See May! Lily knows what I'm talking about." He heard from the unicorn.

He immediately discovered that they were coming to his spot and hurried to hide, but the only place he could hide, was the stinky bush.
May and her friends had already reached Breezy Patch, but luckily there was no sight of the draconequess, which she was relieved and worried.
"Looks like he's not here yet?" Dusty said and she chuckled by nervousness. But then something shakes in the bush. She quickly looked and sees that the draconequess was hiding. She was then interrupted by Dusty, who asked her if something was wrong. She stuttered no with a nervous tone and backs a bit off. Dusty starts again to talk his opinion about wolves and how disgusting they can be. "I have seen some of them after they came here!" he said completely confident and then began to tell how their eyes were completely creepy to look at, and how unaccompanied their mouth are or how their wet snouts feels like slimy snails. May didn´t listen and watches carefully at the bush. But she noticed that her strange friend was not at all satisfied with what he hears. He wrinkled his eyebrows by insult. Sure the wolves were not completely hygienic or have good manners, but they were not so bad when he met them.
"I'll show you how "scary" they can be!" he thought angrily and howled. Dusty and Lily were a bit frightened, but Dusty makes a superficial fart noise.
He told everypony, that he will kick their behinds when they're coming near them. He starts kicking from side to side, but was very careful not hitting Lily or May. He even tried to impress May to prove that he´s not afraid of anything.
"If I see a wolf coming here, he can have one on his head and then one of these!" Dusty pluckes completely confidently.
May got shocked when he back-kicked the bush and even hit the draconequess's forehead. Dusty stopped and seemed quite confusing of what he was hitting. May seems worried. The draconequess growled in pain and anger at the same time. Then he jumped up from the bush in the shape of a wolf and roared at Dusty. Dusty screamed out of fear and ran off. Lily followed him and shouted for help.
May was the only one left behind. And the draconequess pets softly at his forehead and he even asked her if friends ever do like that.
"I´m terribly sorry, but Dusty didn´t do it on purpose, honest." she apologises, but the draconequess was okay with that and thinks they seems okay enough. "But it seems like I scared them," he implied, causing May to giggle at Dusty's expression. But she explained to him that her grandmother suggested that her friends should come along and she didn´t know what to do. But then she reminded herself of soemthing important, "Oh yeah, I'm always forgetting it. My name is Maybeth, but everypony calls me May."
"May..." the draconequess mumbled surprised and said that it was a nice name. May was a bit touched by his words. He also regrets that he didn´t introduce himself before. "Anyway, my name is Anubis."
May seems surprised and liked his name. It seems quite funny that they haven´t introduced their names until now. But they immediately walked into the woods to reach the great lake, as Anubis mentioned before.
"I hope Dusty and Lily weren´t too worried, but can you imagine how their faces would be if they knew, I was friends with a carnivorous draconequess," May chuckled by the thought of their faces. "Then I guess, we're in the same situation," Anubis said a bit down and telling her that he couldn't tell his mother or the wolfpack that he was friends with a pony. But it's not like he was hiding from his mother, he just wanted to tell her in the right moment.
"Then I guess we have to keep it as a secret," May suggested with a confident smile. But Anubis actually admits that sometimes it makes him nervous, but even asked her if it's okay for her to be friends with him. She giggled like it was a joke. But she told him that she doesn't care about looks or species and will always be his friend, no matter what. But she asks him if he's comfortable enough to be friends with her. He replied that he does, but they had to make sure that their friendship remains a secret. May knows that, but she was just glad that she could spend more time on her new best friend. They chuckled, but they had to reach the lake before sunset.

One sunset later...

Dusty and Lily suddenly appeared to Breezy Patch and stood completely silent behind a tree to see if the coast was ready.
"Dusty, your nutskull! Why did you ran off and leave May behind!" Lily scolded at Dusty, but he denied it and said that she just stood there like it was nothing. But Lily reminded him that he said he wasn't afraid of anything. Dusty knows, but got a flashback of the wolf's big mouth. "Didn´t you see how sharp its teeth are!"
Lily groans annoyed and told him, that he promised May's grandmother to keep her safe. "I know! What are we gonna do?!" Dusty whines in panic. "We? What are "you" gonna do about it!" Lily responded in an annoyed tone. She later discovered that she saw May galloping down the patch. Dusty seems surprised by seeing her, but Lily was just happy to see her.
"May! You're okay!" Dusty shouted and was overwhelming happy to see her. But May told them, she's okay but even took a quick glance behind her...

Author's Note

The end of chapter 3.

The chapter was inspired from the drama cd from the beginning and a bit of the anime through the story. Also now their names finally was revealed, but their story isn't over yet. :-)

And I changes the title instead of one cloudy day, since there's no clouds in this story. But if you have better names, please write it down in the comments. ;-)