Subject of Faith: A new Paradise

Twilight Point of view

It was still late at night when I am looking at the stars with my telescope.

Princess Luna did an amazing job as always with the night, she was after all the princess of the night itself.

I was still gazing trough my telescope when I heard somebody call out my name.

"Twilight! Are you still looking at the stars after all these hours?"

It came from my assistant and baby dragon Spike.

He and I had become great friends, I was the one who hatched him out of his egg after all.

"I know Spike, but I am trying to figure out what I have been seeing out there." Spike gave me a confused look

"And what exactly have you been seeing out there Twilight?"

"I don't know, I see some sort of small crimson coloured hole."

Suddenly something shot out of the hole, it was too small for me to know what exactly it was.

"Twilight look! It is a falling star!" Spike said with much joy.

I looked into the telescope again and found something odd.

"Spike, I don't think this is a falling star because it doesn't have the same moving pattern a falling star has."

"Ummm Twilight?"

"Not to mention a falling star gives off way more light then this object does..."

"Twilight!!" I flinched from Spike's sudden outburst.

"What was that for?!" I said in annoyance

"That *thing* is heading straight for us!!" Spike yelled in a panicking tone.

Jack's point of view

I woke up with a slight groan.

My entire body was in pain and I could feel the chains piercing into my skin.

I became aware of my surroundings and opened the hatch of the escape pod.

So I climbed out of the escape and decided to do a bit of exploring.

But what I saw kind of surprised me, I was in a dark forest and strangely it felt so.... Alive.....

I gathered my weapons and decided to find for any sign's of life.

'I had best keep my guard up, who knows what of horror this planet contains..'

But ironically enough that last thought shoved away after what I saw next.

There 3 creatures looking for something, but they were made out of wood.

'Wood?! There must be sorcery involved into this, perhaps the caster is still around so I had better check my surroundings more often.'

The 3 wooden creatures suddenly noticed me and started approaching me while growling.

'Just because they are made out of wood doesn't mean I should lower my guard, I am familiar with the art of deception and know when I see one.'

Pulling out my revolver I aimed at the first one's head, and then I pulled the trigger.

Its head exploded and small wooden parts were scattered all over its corpse.

His comrades must have noticed their fallen friend because they started rushing towards me with a decent speed.

For a minute I panicked and shoot at one of the incoming creatures without even taking the time to aim.

Luckily even aiming I somehow managed to kill the second one, wich surprised me a lot.

Unfortunately, I was too busy being surprised that I didn't notice the last one was already too close.

He jumped at me and managed to bite me in the arm.

The pain wasn't too bad but it managed to boost my adrenaline by a mile.

With building rage, I grabbed the creature's throat and rip it apart from its body.

The creature died within seconds wich was weird because his body was made out of wood.

I checked my injury and my arm was bleeding, but for a reason, I couldn't figure out I liked how the blood was flowing.

Quickly dismissing the thought I continued to explore the forest.

I have walking for what seemed like hours, my body felt like it was going to collapse any moment and only by sheer determination was I able to keep moving.

After a few minutes, i suddenly noticed movement behind me, I quickly turned around and saw a big creature that would face a serious threat.

The creature was large, and I know by knowledge that his tail would be able to poison me.

The big creature started to charge for me while I drew my knife.

He tried to strike me with his paw but I was able to dodge by the last second.

But the creature suddenly attacked me with his tail heading towards me with insane speed.

My senses kicked in and I dodged the incoming sharp end of the tail, I grabbed his tail and dug my knife deep into its flesh.

Suddenly I felt runes starting to glow in my knife as the creature screamed in agony as its tail fell on the ground.

It seemed that the blade didn't completely cut trough the tail but decided to burn trough the bone and flesh, hence why the runes started glowing.

Yet the creature for some reason still had the guts to attack me despite his own tail being brutally burned down from his body.

While he was charging, I got a strange feeling.

It was the same feeling back when I was 10 years old when I and 7 other survivors stared in the jaw of death itself.

Where we fought like wild beast against hundreds of darkness cats swarming to our position.

I looked into the eyes of that creature and it reminded me the same way the darkness cats looked at us before they were trying to claim us.

Something snapped inside of me, I could my adrenaline shooting upwards like a rocket.

Filled with fury I sprinted towards the creature and literally drilled my knife in its face.

The knife went so deep it contacted its brain, killing the creature instantly.

But for some reason I could not figure out, I still get attacking it.

I stabbed it like 5 more times and even went so far to rip out its paw from its body. its bones coming with it.

After a while the feeling started to go away and there I stood panting like crazy, I had a blurry vision.

I suddenly heard slight movement from close to where I was.

I turned around to locate the source and for a second my heart skipped a beat.

There close to me was a four-legged creature wich had black and white stripes all over its body.

It also wore what seemed to be like rings around certain parts of its body.

But what surprised me the most was how it reacted.

It didn't have that murder ish expression, it had a shocked but also slight expression I couldn't really make out.

I looked closely into its eyes to see if I could find any trace of familiar emotion, I saw... sympathy?

It was hard to make it since its eyes were vastly different than that of a holycat's one.

But from what I could gather it didn't seem like it was going to kill let alone attack me.

All that hatred and rage I showed a few minutes ago was now replaced by worry and uncertainty.

Zecora's point of view

I was gathering ingredients for one of my potions when I suddenly heard a hard growl, it sounded like a manticore.

I quietly went to see what it had found, a mare/stallion that was lost in the everfree forest? Celestia knows what.

When I arrived at the scene I saw something wich I had never seen in my entire lifetime.

The manticore's tail was cut- no burned off from its body!

But that was not what shocked me.

It was the creature who did it.

In front of the manticore stood a creature I have never seen before, the everfree forest contains lots of different and mysterious creatures but

this something that has never been seen in Equestria before.

It stood on 2 legs and seemed to have a tail, it reminded me a lot of Rarity's cat.

In fact, it was almost like a cat but instead of 4 legs it has 2 and it was way bigger.

The creature has scars all over its body, with lots of dried up blood and burned skin.

It also seemed to be wearing some sort of chains that were pierced into its skin and it looks like he has been wearing it for a very long time.

It had 2 big blue eyes, it also had a knife but it looked something otherworldly compared to that of the design the royal guard used.

The manticore charged the creature with the intent of shredding it to pieces.

I was pondering whether I should intervene or not, but it seems the creature already had made its choice.

He charged the manticore with a murderous intent in its eyes.

The creature then drove the knife so far into the manticore's head that it died instantly.

I stood there mouth agape because of the sheer force that knife had managed to pierce into the manticore.

The creature, however, was for whatever reason stabbing it like a mad man.

It even went so far as to rip the manticore's paw from its body, it was a gruesome sight to behold.

The creature eventually seemed to have calmed down, but with a fast reaction, it turned my way.

I quickly went into a defensive position until I noticed the creature's behaviour.

Instead of intending to attack me it just stood there with a scared expression looking at me.

Moments ago the creature just brutally murdered the manticore with a look that would put any Equestrian criminal to shame, but here is now being afraid of me?

Something is not right here.

"Are... Are you sentient?" the creature asked out of nowhere.

I was about to use my daily rhyme way of speaking but then I went against it.

'I know nothing of this creature and it might be best to make him understands me, you can never be too sure.'

"Yes I am sentient, why do you ask?"

"So he didn't manage to wipe out all civilisations in the galaxy... I just can't believe it. This is too good to be true.." The creature muttered silently even tough I still managed to hear it.

"Wiped out? Galaxy? What do you mean by that?" I asked with a puzzled expression.

But before I could get an answer the creature passed out.