Win the Game

**Location: Everfree forest

Perspective: Koshka**

“Hey, are you alright?” I asked Fluttershy. I noticed that Fluttershy didn't look at me for the whole day, whenever we would make eye contact she would immediately shift her eyes away from me and look down onto the ground or up in the trees. She had done this several times before I asked her.

Fluttershy sighed and spoke,

“Well I'm just thinking about what you did to those two changelings.”

I just huffed and said,

“They got what they deserved, they were changelings after all.” I grabbed a bunch of sticks and leaves out of a bush and started building a small shelter.

“I-I know they were changelings but…” She paused for a moment “...but why did they deserve to...die like that?”

I put one of the sticks in my mouth and continued working.

“Because bad things happen to bad people when I'm around.” I said through clenched teeth.

“Oh...right” She said in a quiet voice.

I took the stick out of my mouth and placed it in it's proper place.

“there we go!” I said with a hint of pride in my voice. “What do you think?” I asked Fluttershy with a smile on my face

“Oh well, it looks nice”

I looked at the shelter and smiled. The shelter was big enough to fit an adult and a small child.

“Now all we need Is a fire.” I grabbed a couple of sticks and rocks and started working again. As I worked, Fluttershy spoke up again

“Koshka?” Fluttershy gently asked

“Yes, Fluttershy” I responded whilst attempting to start a flame with my claws.

“Well this has been on my mind lately and I hope you don't mind at me asking but…” There was a moment of hesitation "...What are you?"

I stopped what I was doing and looked at her. Fluttershy immediately covered her face in her hooves "YOU DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO!!" She frantically yelled.

“No it's fine, but you don’t know what I am?” I looked at her with raised eyebrows. Fluttershy removed her hooves slowly from her face and and spoke again.

“N-No I don’t, I have never seen a creature like you and I’ve worked with animals my whole life.” she said quietly.

“Okay” I was skeptical but I answered her question, “Well I’m a Human”

“A houman?” Fluttershy repeated quirky.

“Human” I repeated

“Hu-Human” She correctly said.

“Yes human.”

“I’ve never heard of humans before and I’ve worked with all types of animals.” she said

“Hmm, well I never knew that pegasis really existed”

Fluttershy looked up at me in shock.

“Wait you’ve never seen a pegasus?”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“not where I’m from” I picked up the sticks and rocks again and started working on the fire again, I looked up onto the sky and saw the sky was starting to get grey.

“Where are you from?” Fluttershy asked.

“I’m from my home village Catalysian” I said.

Fluttershy cocked her head locked very confused.

“I’ve never heard of a village called Catalysian in Equestria.”

I looked over my shoulder and asked.

“Again, with that Equestria, what are you talking about?”

Fluttershy looked at me and sighed.

“*Sigh* Okay let's talk.”

**Location: Canterlot armory

Perspective: Red Fang**

“Okay men stand up!!” I barked out to my squad, they all stood up and gave salutes. I looked over my soldiers one by one to make sure they were all here.

“Okay men we have two targets!” All of them looked at me “One of the targets are presumed to be the sixth element and the second target is an unknown creature that killed two scouts in Ponyville” I charged my horn and displayed a picture of the two corpses on the wall” I looked over my squad and saw different reactions on their faces, disgust, anger, fear. Even I got a bit sick when looking at them. “They were last seen entering the everfree forest so when we are entering the Everfree forest you all need to be extremely cautious and only travel in a minimum group of three. Do you understand.”

All of my soldiers responded “SIR! YES! SIR!”

“Alright, armor up men!” I barked.

**Location: Everfree forest

Perspective: Koshka**

“So this is not earth?” I asked, Fluttershy nodded “... and this is planet is called Equine?” Fluttershy nodded again. “I’m no longer in halcyon fold, but a land called Equestria?” Fluttershy nodded for the third and final time “Oh...” I simply said, It was all I could do other then call her a liar or think i’m insane. I’ve just been pulled from my own world and into a different world were intelligent ponies, pegasi and unicorns exist, what were I suppose to do?

“Are you okay?” Fluttershy asked worriedly. I didn’t respond. I felt one drop of water fall from the grey sky and onto my nose, I didn’t react, I just sat there not knowing what to think.

“Koshka, Are you alri-” Fluttershy didn’t get to finish before I stood up and started walking away “I’m going for a walk” I quietly said. “Oh, okay” Fluttershy responded.

1 Hour Later

I wandered around the forest contemplating the new information I had been given. “Another world? That’s crazy!” I said out loud “But I’ve never seen a real pegasi or weird bug creatures before” I looked up to the clouds and saw they were a dark grey color and a few drops of water fell every second onto my face, I sighed.

“I should probably get back the the ca-” My words were cut of as I felt my foot get snagged on something, My body tumbled down face first into the cold and muddy ground, with a loud “Umph” on my part. I landed on my stomach. I quickly shoot to my feet ready to attack, but when I turned around I saw the perpetrator to my fall, a root. I sighed once again and turned around again, I saw something I didn’t see before, a hut, the hut was adorned with tribal masks and a few spears here and there, there were also windows on the hut but there was no light emanating from them. I stepped closer to the hut quietly and gently pushed the door open, The door opened with a small creck. I looked inside and saw a huge pot in the middle of the room, different bottles adorned the walls and even more tribal masks was laying on the ground.

“Hello?” No answer. I stepped inside and looked around a bit more, “Is anyone here?” Still no answer. I noticed a wall and the far end of the hut and I stepped inside,  I wandered over towards the wall that adorned a good amount of bottles, each bottle were noted with different names such as, Jump potion, cloak potion, healing potion, along with many other things, but the healing potion was what I was interested in. I pulled up my two vials that luckily was still attached to my side, I pulled of the cap of the two vials and carefully poured the liquid into the vials.

“There we go” I said smiling.

**Location: Everfree forest

Perspective: Fluttershy**

I’m sitting inside the small shelter that Koshka had built and listening to the sound of the forest, well, trying to. “I hope Koshka comes back soon, it’s starting to get pretty dark now.” I looked up to the sky and saw that it was starting to become darker and darker.

By this time I had noticed that there were very few sounds coming from the forest, the occasional sound of the wind or the sounds of crickets where the only thing that kept me from falling asleep from boredom.

**Location: Everfree forest

Perspective: Koshka**

I made my way out of the strange hut and starting making my way back towards our camp, I hadn’t noticed anything else in the hut except for more potions but these didn’t have any labels on them so I left them be. I looked up and saw the sky rapidly losing light so I started running back to the camp.

I got back to the camp in a few minutes and saw Fluttershy sleeping in the shelter, the sky was almost black and the cold was starting to set in fast. I swiftly sparked a fire with my claws and put it next to the shelter. I got down onto my hands and knees and started crawling into the small shelter, I stopped in my tracks when I noticed “Light?” I said out loud. There was a light faintly emanating from between the trees. I set my sights on it and started heading towards it. The light got stronger and stronger the closer I got to it and eventually I started hearing a voice.

“Listen here ya weird dragon, worm...thingy, I don’t know what ya want from me so can ya just leave” his request was countered by a weird gurgling sound. I swore I could recognized the voice from somewhere but I couldn’t recall it. The voice was gruff and and was muffled by something and definitely belonged to a man. I got closer to the light and realized it was a fireplace with two figures each sitting their separate logs with just the fire separating them. The first figure was just how the man had described it, a worm looking dragon thing, but when I looked at the second figure I lost my breath, I knew I recognized that voice from somewhere and why the voice was so muffled “Saw!?” I practically yelled out of confusion and joy. Saw quickly shot his head up at me upon hearing my voice “Koshka?” He said in a less joyful and more in a confused tone. I stepped out from the bush I was hiding in and confronted him.

“What are you doing here?” I asked, Saw Chuckled and responded “I could ask the same thing about you.” I proceeded with my next question “Do you know how we got here?” Saw simply responded with “No idea, I was in the lane taking care of that chick with the bow, and then all the sudden everything went white and I was falling, then ended up here.” He finished. I shifted my eyes towards the Worm-dragon next to him and then back to Saw. “Is that your friend?” I asked, Saw looked up from the flames and unto the creature. “I don’t know, the creature have been following me around and bugging me since I arrived” The creature growled at him. Saw looked at me, except he looked at my feet “Is that your friend?” He asked. “What?” I looked down to my side and saw Fluttershy with her mouth agape.

“Fluttershy! What are you doing here? How did you even f-” My sentence was cut of by “OH MY CELESTIA IT’S SO CUUUTE!!” Fluttershy darted over towards the dragon creature and started petting it “...find...us.” I finished “Huh, I didn’t know horses could talk” He said in his regular gruff voice. I stared at him in shock “Wait you’re not freaked out that it’s a pegasus and the fact it can talk” Saw chuckled again “I’ve seen weirder things.” Fluttershy was sitting next to the dragon-worm and seemed to be talking to it. “Fluttershy!” I called to her she looked up at me “Why are you talking to that thing?” Fluttershy got and angry look on her face as soon as I said thing. “It’s not just a Thing, It’s a dragon and his name is Skaarf!” The tension in the air got heavy and we all went silent. Fluttershy sighed and spoke “I’m sorry, I’ve worked with animals my whole life and I have a deep respect for these creatures.”

A smile formed it’s way on my face. “I understand.” I responded. Saw looked Fluttershy and Fluttershy immediately froze upon meeting his gaze “H-H-Hello” Fluttershy squeaked out. Saw didn’t look away “greetings ma’am, so can you communicate with dragons?” Fluttershy looked nervous, I made my way over to her side and put a clawed hand gently on her shoulder and she calmed down enough. “W-well yes, Even if I find the big ones scary I still learned how to speak dragon so I could talk to the smaller ones.” Saw looked down into the fire again “Well can you translate what this thing has been trying to say since I got here?” Fluttershy nodded and looked at the dragon again, the dragon growled and hissed for a few seconds and Fluttershy got wide eyed, me and Saw looked at her for a few seconds until I decided to speak up “Well, What did he say?” Fluttershy slowly turned her head towards me and silently said

“...”

“...”

“It’s coming”