The Return of Doctor Whooves
Fairy Tales Part 1 (The First Casualties)
Load Full StoryNext ChapterA Constuction Site in Ponyville...
It had been over a year since the events of the adventure that had come to be known as "Frightmare Night", and no threats to Equestria had been seen since then. The Doctor had taken up a period of relaxation that he intended to live to the fullest, but he was unaware and he should have known in fact that his relaxation period was soon to be disturbed by a new threat. It was close to the Equestrian version of the holiday known on Earth as Christmas, here known as Hearth's Warming Eve. So far, everything was calm and quiet, but not for long as three poor construction workers were about to discover...
It was a simple construction site in Ponyville that the events which would bring the former Time Lord known as the Doctor out of hiding that were soon about to take place that very night. Three construction workers, brothers actually were having an argument about how to build their projects, a series of homes for Ponyville's newest neighborhood. In order, their names were Quick Build, Wooden Board and Brick Layer. One, Quick Build was brown furred with grey hair and a hammer for a Cutie Mark. His brothers were twins, with yellow fur and a jet black mane. They had respectively, a selection of wooden boards and a brick and mortar for Cutie Marks. Nearby, a sign said "Once upon a time, homes were built this way." and also on the sign was a model home that showed what the homes were supposed to look like when they were done. it was beautifully made, with white paint, green shutters and a brown shingled roof.
"I told you bro, those wooden boards you chose are absolute crap!" Brick Layer argued passionately to Wooden Board. "We should have gone with the bricks and mortar like I suggested!"
Wooden Board scoffed at his brother's statement.
"Oh please, didn't you read the sign?" He asked, pointing to the sign that showed the house, coincidentally built out of wooden boards. "Bricks, mortar, they're so old fashioned!"
Suddenly, there was a growling noise from somewhere behind a selection of metal pipes used for the home's future plumbing. Then, from out of nowhere, Quick Build was grabbed by a clawed and hairy arm and dragged behind the pipes. There was a scream, and a shower of blood covered the pipes soon after.
"What was that?" Wooden Board asked in fear.
"I don't know man, but we better run, or we're probably next!" Brick Layer exclaimed in equal fear and started running. His twin followed, but was soon grabbed by a shadowy figure and ripped from limb to limb, and was dead so fast and so quickly he was unable to scream as his ripped limbs showered some wooden boards with his blood and gore. And then, just when Brick Layer thought he was to be next, the figure vanished into the shadows leaving not a trace he was there except for his dead victims, who were what the Doctor was soon to find out to be the first of many casualties and the start of a brand new mystery for him, Twilight, Rainbow and Shining to solve. Brick Layer sighed in relief, before he began to sob. His brothers were dead, and he didn't even have time to mourn as he didn't even know who, or what killed them. Meanwhile, unknown to him, standing out of sight was a little filly with pure white fur, red blush on her face, and a jet black mane with a beautiful red ribbon in her mane, which was long in style. She smirked, which looked out of place on a filly of her age and beauty. The first of those lined up based on the tales she'd been read as a child were dead, and if anyone was willing to listen to what she was trying to say, no more were to follow...
Ponyville:
Snow fell on the ground in white flurries covering Ponyville's rooftops and streets in a sheet of white. The Doctor walked through the streets, completely relaxed by all that was going on around him and the snow covered town of Ponyville. He always loved this time of year, even if and when it turned into a crisis like his last few Christmases always seemed to. From the Sycorax invasion on Christmas Eve, to meeting Donna Noble, a runaway bride that suddenly appeared on his TARDIS thanks to some thought to be long extinct particles injected in her, to saving a Titanic replica with a Nuclear Storm Drive engine for power from falling on London and igniting it in a mushroom cloud. He just hoped this Christmas, or Hearth's Warming Eve as it was known here in Equestria didn't turn out like his last few Christmases. All around him, ponies in scarfs or hats, some wearing booties to protect their hooves from the cold winter snow sold their wares in stalls even despite the cold. Some, like a golden furred pony with an orange mane known as Golden Harvest sold things such as poinsettias or another pony, one the Doctor had seen before, one with grey fur, oddly set eyes and a yellow mane whose name was Derpy Hooves sold other things like mistletoe or even Christmas candy for stocking stuffers from a pony with a ruby mane and matching fur known as Berry Punch, who wasn't completely drunk on hard cider for once. The Doctor figured she'd save that for the Hearth's Warming Eve celebrations in a few days.
Suddenly, he heard a loud scream of fear. The Doctor's heroic instincts took over just then, just as they always did when somepony was in trouble. He always loved this bit, saving ponies. It always brought him a sense of satisfaction to know that ponies were in trouble, and he was the one to save them from whatever trouble that they'd found themselves in.
"Well, as I always say... Geronimo!" He cried, and immediately started running towards the source of the screams. He ran down a snow covered alleyway where he found a pony with jet black fur and a matching mane he knew to be Good Eats, the owner of the restaurant known as the Hay Burger being menaced by a tall hairy figure with grey fur, long sharp claws and glowing yellow eyes.
"Well, who are you then?" The Doctor inquired, fascinated by this strange being that looked almost like the Big Bad Wolf from the Grim Brothers Fairy Tale he knew as The Three Little Pigs. Little did he know it, but this was the same exact being that had killed Quick Build and Wooden Board the night before and had nearly killed Brick Layer as well. It seemed this Big Bad Wolf wannabe had a new target, but the Doctor wasn't going to let him claim another victim, not as long as he lived.
"Well, aren't you a fascinating sort. You know mate, you almost look like the Big Bad Wolf." The Doctor commented, completely in love with this strange being, just like he was with all the monsters he faced. "What, have you jumped out of a fairy tale and started killing for real now. Well, what's next, Little Red Riding Hood and her dear old Granny?"
"Will you stop commenting on this thing and just save me, you idiot?" Good Eats exclaimed in fear and anger at the Doctor's fascination for the creature.
"Er, right... Sorry." The Doctor apologized. "But this is so cool! Me, meeting the Big Bad Wolf!"
"Just stop gabbering on about your love for this monster and stop the damn thing!" Good Eats yelled at him. But just as the monster appeared, it vanished back into the shadows from whence it came. Evidently, from what the Doctor figured, it didn't want to deal with him, or it just felt outnumbered. But if the Doctor had known it's previous killings of Wooden Board and Quick Build, he might have been of a different opinion. Right now, he honestly didn't know why it left or what the Big Bad Wolf was even doing out of a story book, and the Doctor didn't like not knowing things.
"Well, a big fat load of help you were." Good Eats muttered angrily towards the Doctor. "You let the damned thing escape!"
'Weeeellll excuse me, but at least I attempted to save your life!" The Doctor responded. He always hated rudeness, at least he tried to save this very rude pony's life, even if the monster had escaped into the night. "You could have at least attempted to thank me. I mean, rude!" The Doctor continued, quite offended by Good Eats's rudeness. With that Good Eats marched off into the night, still,not even thinking of thanking the Doctor for saving him.
"Well... That was an interesting experience, to say the least..." The Doctor muttered. "Still wished I had been thanked though..." he continued, still miffed about not being thanked for attempting to save the pony's life.
"Well, there goes my Hearth's Warming Eve I suppose." The Time Pony muttered to himself. "And here I was hoping for a nice peaceful one for once." He continued, before realizing something. "Oh who am I kidding, all of my Hearth's Warming's are like this...."
The Doctor, with a long sigh wandered back to the Ponyville streets. Maybe at least he could buy some gifts before the Big Bad Wolf, or something worse popped up to ruin his night any more then it already had. But that just wasn't the way his luck worked wasn't it. He knew he was going to need some help, and he knew just where he was going to get it...
(To be continued...)
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