The next day came by quick. Prey had loaded a multitude of boxes onto a train cart, enough boxes to take the whole cart. After loading on the last box onto the train cart, he boarded the train heading towards Ponyville and sat in one of the train booths patiently with his sword underneath the booth’s table. He looked outside the window, taking in a few last looks of the changeling kingdom which was now his former home. The plateau landscapes and rocky mountains. It may have not been paradise, but it was his home.

Not noticing, All of his masters and the purple dragon started walking down the train cart looking for a place to sit. They found Prey sitting alone in one of the booths, they all looked at each other with smiles, nodding they all decided to join Prey’s company by sitting in the same booth he was in. He still didn’t notice them however as he was lost in thought, simply gazing out the window.

“Taking it all in huh?” Twilight asked with a gentle tone in her voice who sat opposite of him.

He didn’t see or notice them coming, he felt a little embarrassed to not greet them formally. “Oh um, Master Twilight Sparkle please forgive me for not formally greeting you.” He apologized with his head down as Twilight simply smiled at the changeling.

“Oh just drop the formalities. Though I am technically your master, I mostly just want you to treat me as a friend.” She stated as Prey could only feel confused about these strange orders and requests coming from his masters.

“Oooo Ooo OO can he call me Super Party Master Ultra Mega Mare Pinkie Pie!?” Pinkie asked with her hand waving energetically as all of her friends looked at her with unamused faces causing her to shrink back with a sheepish smile. “I’m guessing thats a no?” They all nodded and giggled at her response. “Then just call me Pinkie Pie!” She exclaimed pointing at herself with a proud smile.

Rarity then leaned forward and shook hands with Prey. “You can call me Rarity or ‘Miss Rarity’ if you prefer darling. I must say that it is quite the pleasure to properly meet you.” Rarity complimented which in turn gave a little bit of honor and pride for Prey to feed on unintentionally.

Rainbow Dash then stuck her fist out towards Prey leaving it in the air. “Name’s Rainbow Dash dude. Just call me Rainbow Dash or RD for short, your choice.” Prey then noticed her gesture and opened his palm, ready to slap her fist. “Wait, this is a ‘bro fist’. Basically just lightly tap a fist with mine.” Prey only blinked with confusion at the cyan pegasus as he gently tapped a fist with hers. Rainbow then nodded and smirked at the changeling, thinking he was ‘aight’.

He then turned to the butterscotch mare next to her and bowed his head. “Hajimemashite. Anooo What is your name?”

“F-Fluttershy.” She whispered.

“Um, can you repeat one more time?”

“F-Fluttershy.” She again whispered but only a tiny bit louder, almost no difference.

“Um, I’m sorry miss I cannot hear you. Can you repeat one more time?” Asking again with a hand to his ear.

“Fluttershy!” She blurted out as she soon covered her face with her wings and started to whimper. Seeing one of his masters shrinking back, he felt he had commited sin.

“Ah-Uh, Forgive me Master Fluttershy!” He pleaded as he bowed his head forward. “I should have heard you the first time.” He stated as Fluttershy looked back at the changeling with a sad apologetic look.

“Oh oh no please, I’m sorry for not saying my name loud enough.” She said bowing her head towards Prey.

“No no please accept my apology. I’m sorry for not listening percisely.”

“No no please, I’m sorry.”

“No no I’m sorry.”

“Please please I’m sorry.”

“Please no let me apologize.”

“Don’t apologize, I should apologize.”

“No please forgive me for-” He was soon interuppted as Rainbow shouted at both at them.

“STOP! Celestia above you’re both gonna give me a headache. Listen you’re both sorry alright!?” They both nodded. “Okay good, thats it! No more, you guys are done!” Rainbow exclaimed in a rough tone. Both Prey and Fluttershy looked at Rainbow Dash and slightly drooped their heads.

“We’re sorry Rainbow Dash.” They both said simultaneously making Rainbow Dash groan in annoyance, they just did what she specifically asked for them not to do. Everyone else simply laughed as a result.

Prey then turned to Applejack and bowed towards her. “I believe you still want me to call you Applejack, is that right?” She nodded as she quickly glanced away from Prey, trying to hide her small blush. “I must admit, this is my first time leaving the kingdom.” He said as he looked out the window, still admiring his former home.

The train whistle then blew as the train itself started to leave the kingdom. Prey could see his former home now slowly drifting away from his eyesight. He turned to Twilight. “Mast- Twilight, tell me. What is Equestria like? I have never been outside of the kingdom, or the Bad Lands.” He said as all the ponies looked at him in shock.

“You don’t know anything about Equestria? Do you even know about it’s history?” Rarity asked as prey simply shook his head.

“Well then,” Twilight’s horn started glowing as a large book then materialized in front of all of them. She set the book on her lap as she read the title. “I guess it’s time to read you the whole ‘History of Equestria’ book.” She made everyone groan, except Prey who was slightly more intrigued.

*6 hours Later*

The train was still moving in the direction towards Ponyville. The night was dark as the stars glittered the sky with it’s own magical beauty. Twilight was almost done reading her history book while the only survivors of her reading marathon were Prey and Applejack. Everyone else was asleep in their own rooms on the train. Applejack herself was slowly dozing off, barely awake.

“-and now brings us to the present modern age of Equestria. Now with four princesses with Princess Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and myself, all keeping Equestria’s nation intact.” She finally finished closing her book and releasing a long yawn. “So any questions?”

Prey had just gone over all of Equestria’s history, taking in all this information, he didn’t feel like hearing anymore. “I do not have any questions. Although may I make a comment Twilight?” She nodded as she raised her eyebrow. “Your eyes look a little tired, in no offense of course, but I think you need sleep.” He stated as Twilight gave another yawn.

“Yea I think you’re right. I think Applejack needs some too.” She said pointing to Applejack who was nodding in and out. Eventually her strength gave in as she passed out, plopping her head onto Prey’s shoulder. Prey looked at her in surprise and then looked at Twilight who in turn had a jaw dropped to floor. Twilight just stared at the two and blushed a little. “Well uh….I’m glad the others are already asleep. Especially Rainbow Dash.” She whispered giving a sigh of relief as she stepped out of the booth. “You two gonna be okay?”

“Yes. I shall stay like this for Applejack’s comfort, I do not want to disturb her sleep.”

“You sure? Are you gonna be okay sleeping like that?”

He nodded. “It is not the first time I have slept while sitting. I will be fine, you should get your rest Twilight. Should anything dangerous happen, I shall run to your position with haste to protect you.” He stated with a stern look in his eyes and a determined tone.

“Alrighty then. Goodnight!” She said walking away from the two. Prey looked over at the sleeping Applejack, her soft snoring and her hair drooping over her face was appealing towards Prey. He felt the same odd sensation from before, yet he still didn’t know what it was. He planned to ask Applejack or his other master’s opinions as to what the feeling was.

Suddenly he felt a little squeezed as he found himself being wrapped by Applejack as she wrapped her arms around him. She was still asleep however as she started to mumble his name. “MmmhhPrey…” She then now started to nuzzle her cheek against his shoulder causing Prey to feel the strange sensation again, this time with a heated feeling on face.

Nani? W-What is my master doing? And why am I feeling this feeling again. He thought to himself he could only stare and question at the mare’s odd actions. He then noticed that the mare started shivering, he did feel that it was a bit chilly in here. He had his robe on so it didn’t bother him, he would offer it as a blanket to Applejack but his arms were restricted from Applejack’s grasp. His next solution was simple, he extended his wing as gently wrapped it around Applejack.

Her shivering soon stopped as her soft snoring continued with comfort. He was relieved to know that one of his new masters wouldn’t catch a cold. He softly laid back and thought of today’s events. He learned all of Equestria’s history in a single day, sure he couldn’t remember it word from word, but it was information he would take in as a necessity. He could slowly feel his eyes tiring and his muscles relaxes. Before he would fall asleep he first turned to the sleeping Applejack attached to him. “Oyasumi, Applejack.” He said slowly drifting to sleep with Applejack beside him.

The morning came by slowly as Prey woke up hours later taking a glimpse of Celestia’s sun slowly crawling over the horizon. He turned to his right to find Applejack still sleeping on his shoulder. He found it slightly amusing, chuckling a bit, he gazed outside to see a whole new landscape he’s never seen before.

A massive pallet of multiple shades of green was all he could see. Large trees that grew tens of feet high, massive ponds and lakes that he thought never existed, and mountains bigger than the changeling castle itself. “Sugoi…” He whispered to himself taking in all of the lush landscape in front of him.

He then felt Applejack’s grip loosen as she started stirring from her position and slowly opened her eyes. “Ughhhhhh. What in the hay happened last night.” She said in a fatigued groggy tone. He then realized that she was still in the booth from last night. She looked around herself in an extremely embarrassing position. Her arms were wrapped around Prey, one of his wings was wrapped around her, and she fell asleep on him….again.

“AHHH!” She pushed herself back away from the changeling with her face turning into a deep color of red. “Ah Ah’m-” Before she could apologize, Prey quickly cupped his hand over her mouth suppressing her speech.

“Shhh, I know you want to apologize. But the others are still asleep.” He whispered pointing out the silence of the whole train, excusing the train’s noises itself. “If you are going to apologize, it is okay. I already forgive you. I understand that you were tired yesterday.” He slowly released his hand from her mouth as she continued blushing at the changeling. “Now, are you okay right now?”

She nodded and took a deep breath. “Ah’m still sorry though. Ah shouldn’t have slept on you and instead should’ve slept in mah room.” She said with her head low.

“Applejack it is fine. I did not mind it, really.” He assured as he looked outside the window. “I must say though, all of this looks…..pretty.” He said with a smile. Suddenly his relaxing mood came to a stop as he saw multiple figures in his view outside. He saw 7 moderately sized dragons all who looked the same size as his pony masters. All of them had weapons such as clubs, knives, swords, and axes on them. “Applejack,” His tone became serious. “I request you go to your room immediately.” He demanded as Applejack looked at him with a concerned look.

“Why? What’s going on?” She looked outside to see the dragons. “Who are they?”

“I don’t know, but they are armed. Please, go to your room, lock the door until I come back.” He said standing from the booth. The two of them started to feel and hear the ear scratching brakes of the train as it made a full stop. “Tell the other masters to do the same please.” He said as he soon left the train cart with his sword by his side.

“Wait.” He stopped and turned to Applejack. “Try not to kill them, please.” She begged as Prey gave a sigh.

“I will try Applejack. Should mine or other’s lives are in danger, I must take action. I hope you understand.” He said as he they felt a few loud metal thumps on top of their train cart. Soon broken glass and screams were heard from the other cart. “Applejack, please.” She nodded as she left her booth and ran down the train carts and reached the cart were her and her friends were sleeping in.

All of her friends exited their rooms with annoyed morning faces. “What’s going on here?!” Rarity demanded with her hair frizzled and eyes bagged. “I was enjoying a beautiful sleep!”

“Girls there’s no time to explain. Get back in your rooms and lock the door. I think there’s dragons trying to rob the train. And they’re armed.” They all looked back at her in shock.

“But what about the staff and other passengers?” Twilight asked.

“Prey’s gonna take care of it. Before anyone asks, I asked him to try not to kill them, I least I hope he won’t.”

Before Prey would go through the door the lead to the cart containing the dragons. He gave a heavy sigh as he reached inside his robe. He pulled out a small face mask that covered his nose and mouth which would replace it with the image of demon like teeth. He made sure his hair was still tied in a pony and took a good look at his sword. He was ready.

He opened to door as he saw the scene of beaten and bruised pony staff and civilians. Broken glass and litter everywhere due to struggles, but most importantly, he found the seven dragons that had boarded the train.

He examined each and every one of them individually. All of them had scales, that’s a given, yet some were wearing armor stronger than the others. The first three of them had barely any armor, just a simple shoulder pad or two. Clumsy cheap weapons, clubs and wooden shields. The next three were more armored and armed, more leather armor and better looking swords and shields. The last one had worn a few metal plates on his chest and arms, he had a big broadsword.

He approached the first three lesser armed dragons. “Hey!” They all turned to him as they gave him a simple smirk. “What you are doing is wrong. I shall give you two choices, leave now or die.” He stated placing his hand on his sword’s handle. They all laughed, mocking his lone position as the first three dragons started walking up to him. “I am warning you.” He pressured his claims towards them, but they didn’t listen.

The first dragon swung his club at but, but in swift haste, Prey pulled out his blade. In one swift strike he sliced his sword through the dragon’s club and in the same motion decapitated the dragon. He set his eyes on the other two dragons as he thrusted his sword into one of the dragon’s chest, through his heart and out his back. He then pulled out blade out of the now deceased dragon and quickly used the back of his blade to deflect a swing from another club wielding dragon. Now open, he swung his sword sideways slicing the dragon’s neck open as his blood soon gurgled out and him falling to the floor, slowly choking on his own blood and struggling to breath.

“W-What the… I thought our scales couldn’t be penetrated!” He said looking at the axe wielding dragon who in turn had a shocked and horrified look on his face.

“I-I DON’T KNOW! Get him!” He commanded as the three sword and shield dragons charged toward Prey. One of them tried to swing his sword at him, but Prey was too quick as he quickly slash his through his armor like butter and left a massive deep cut across his whole torso. The other two both raised their swords and brought them down on Prey at the same time. Prey took the side of the blade and caught both strikes above him. With his strength, he pushed both blades away and in one wide swing, he sliced open the stomachs of both dragons, letting their blood drip to the ground as well as their internal guts.

Last was the more armored one. The dragon huffed and spewed flames onto Prey who in turn, quickly picked up one of the shields from the dragons and blocked the flames of the dragon. He started to pushed towards the flames as he bashed the shield against the dragon’s snout making him stop breathing out fire. He quickly shimmered his horn making his fist holding his sword glow orange. He then took the blunt end of his sword and jabbed it onto the dragon’s head, causing his to scream in immense pain and blur his vision.

He then took this opportunity by getting behind the stunned dragon, taking the flat side of his sword and slamming it against the dragon’s scalp knocking him out cold. He huffed heavily giving a sigh of relief and he gently slid his sword back into its scabbard. He looked around him to find that staff and other passengers who only look at him with shocked faces. “You...you defeated them.”

“I apologize for the….mess…” He said pointing out the bloody mess he made. “Are all of you okay?” One of conductores stood up and slowly limped towards the changeling.

“We’re all okay, nobody here is dead. I’m guessing these were thugs or bandits trying to steal from us pony folk. Or worse.” He said with a shiver to his back. “I still can’t believe you killed all of them.”

“Not all of them.” He said pointing to the last dragon. “I only knocked him out. I want for him to be judged by my masters. Could one of you tie him up and watch over him? I’m going to clean up the mess here.”

“I’ll do it.” A unicorn stallion volunteered. He he took out a silver badge from his pocket and issued it to the changeling. “My name is Silver Cuff, I’m a police officer on vacation from Ponyville. I’ll hold him steady until you’ve cleaned up.” Silver then materialized handcuffs with his magic and tied the dragon’s hands behind his back, along with his wings cuffed as well.

“Arigatoo.” His eyes widened as he almost forgot something. He turned to the conductor. “Hold on, before I start cleaning I must inform my masters that it is safe...and to not come here. If they require services, could you deliver anything to them?” The conductor nodded as he left the train cart and towards the cart where his masters were staying.

Upon reached the cart, he knocked on all the doors of each of his master’s rooms. “Masters, it is now safe!” He exclaimed through the walls as they came out of their rooms. “I’d recommend not going into the next cart.”

“W-Why?” Asked a timid Fluttershy.

Prey gave a heavy sigh. “It is quite messy. I did what I had to do to make sure nopony else was hurt. And they intended to hurt me and the staff. Six of them are dead.” He dropped with a low tone. He dropped his head towards Applejack. “Forgive me Applejack, I told them to leave peacefully, but they retaliated. I did however leave one alive.”

Twilight gulped as she asked, fearing for the worst. “What do you intend to do to him?”

“Nothing. I shall leave him to you so you can decide his punishment. I will honor your choices as best as possible.” He said with a bow. “As of now he is tied up by a police officer from Ponyville.” He then realized another problem, Spike. The dragon was so little, but innocent. “Twilight, I must tell you to make sure Spike does not see the contents of the next cart.”

“Don’t worry, right now he’s still asleep. And if he wakes up I’ll distract him.”

“Good. Now I must go and help the staff clean up. As for the captured dragon, it is your choice to decide what to do with him. I will respect your choices, now I must be off.” He repeated as he retreated back into the previous cart.

After a couple more hours the whole cart was clean as if no fight had ever occurred, that is unless one doesn’t count the broken glass and debris. The corpses of the dead dragons were bagged up and were later going to be decided by the police station and Twilight herself on what to do with them. Twilight and her friends all chose to let the last dragon go. They kept his armor and weapons while only giving him a bag of food and left him in the middle of nowhere.

“Ah’d still say that’s being a little too generous.” Applejack slightly judged looking at Rarity who was the one that gave the dragon food.

“Well just because he’s thug and a ruffian, doesn’t mean we should treat him as such. I’m hoping that this is going to be a wake up call for him.”

“Still, I think we should’ve beaten the snot out of him!” Rainbow suggested with her teeth clenching and her fists scrunching.

“Now Rainbow Ah don’t think Ah’d take it that far. Ah think jail time would’ve been better.”

The speakers of the whole train then buzzed on as the conductor got on the speaker.

“Attention all ponies and passengers, the next stop is Ponyville. I repeat the next stop is Ponyville. We will arrive in an hour, please make sure your luggage and baggage is taken care of by yourself or our staff. Thank you very much.”

“Ah’m gonna go check on Prey, see if he’s done cleaning up. I don’t like being cooped up in here any longer.” She said as Rainbow gave her a mischievous grin.

“What, you gonna sleep on him again?” She teased making Applejack blush heavily. “We all saw you AJ, I woke up just to use the bathroom and found you sleeping with his wing wrapped around you. Here check this,” She pulled out her phone and showed a picture of the two sleeping together in the booth. “This is hilarious!” Rainbow said through her laughter as Applejack placed her hat over her face, trying to hide her embarrassment.

“I mean she’s not wrong darling, at least about us seeing you. The ‘hilarious’ comment however is a little bit rash and childish don’t you think Rainbow? It is quite rude of you to laugh at our friend’s feelings.”

“I don’t know if this is okay for me to say, but you two do like um….cute together.” Fluttershy commented as she tried to her own blush. “I’m...I’m sorry Applejack. But it’s just that you two look good together, you look...umm...I think I’ll stop right there.”

“No it’s alright Fluttershy.” Applejack assured. “I guess I do kind of like him, mostly because he saved my flank from the hydra and a few other…..accidents.” She then realized she admitted to more mistakes that made the others wanting to hear more about. Rarity got closer to Applejack’s ear, mostly to pressure her.

“What kind of mistakes? And don’t try lying Applejack.”

To hay with my honesty! She screamed inside, cursing herself. “Well….back in the caves he was coming out of a hot spring and I saw him mostly exposed and caught a good glimpse of his muscular...uh built chest.” She admitted remember his well built chest, she couldn’t remember if she saw a six pack or not. Rainbow then leaned closer with an evil looking smirk across her face.

“Did you see his d-” Her mouth was immediately shut as Twilight literally replaced her mouth with a zipper, keeping her shut.

“Rainbow! That is extremely uncalled for!” Twilight screamed, trying to hide her blush. “That is extremely private and naughty, you know that!”

“Ugh Ah’m just gonna go check up on him alright? Ah don’t wanna hear no more about me and him together alright?” They all nodded, minus Rainbow who was forced to nod thanks to Twilight’s magical grip. “Thank you!” She said leaving the cart in a huff and slamming the cart door behind her.

She started walked to the same cart where she fell asleep on Prey and check around, he wasn’t anywhere to be seen. She found one of the staff members and asked where Prey was at. “I think I saw him in the other cart where he fought those dragons. Although I think he’s asleep, he was cleaning a lot so it must have tired him out.” She thanked the staff member and proceeded to the other cart which contained more booths, but some were busted, chipped and burnt.

“This must be where the fight was. Now where is-” She found him rather quickly as he was simply sleeping in one of the booths. His robes were a dark dry red color possibly due to all the cleaning of the blood. She couldn’t help but giggle a little bit at the changeling’s slumber. She sat down in the booth with room , opposite of him, and simply gazed out the window at the landscape, slowly letting the time pass.

It was almost time to stop in Ponyville and Prey was still asleep. He soon woke up to Applejack gently shaking him awake. “Prey wake up, we’re almost at Ponyville.

He stirred and mumbled a bit before his eyes fully opened. He gave a yawn as he exited his booth standing up. “I see, I shall get prepared soon.”

After a few minutes the train soon stopped in the town known as Ponyville. Twilight volunteered to teleport all of Prey’s luggage to her castle, which he was thankful for. They all parted their separate ways going home as Prey followed Twilight to her castle. Twilight gave Prey his own room which was fully furnished with a bed, a couch, a table, a wardrobe, a drawer, had it’s own bathroom, a window facing outside.

As promised, Prey’s luggage was already present in his room. Only a few boxes contained clothes and essentials, but most of the boxes contained weapons and full suits of samurai armor. Started setting up the suits of armor on stands until a knocking came from his door. He opened the door to reveal Twilight who was holding a few books with her armsand levitating a teapot and tea cups. “Hi prey, I was wondering if you wanted to have some tea with me?”

“If you want Twilight Sparkle, I would not mind having tea with you.” The two sat down at Prey’s table as Twilight placed her books and tea on the table. Prey recognized some of the books in Twilight’s possession, they were from the samurai library. “Those are samurai books Twilight, did you want to ask me questions about the samurai?”

“Yes, if you do not mind.”

“I am sworn to do your bidding. And would be honored to answer your questions, please ask away.” Prey said taking a sip of his tea.

“Well it’s not exactly about the samurai in general,” She opened the books to reveal japoneighs characters. “ but it’s more about japoneighs as a language. These books do not seem to have an english version, and I’ve checked. Do you mind if you can translate these?”

“I do not mind at Twilight.” Prey picked up the book and started examining it. “Ah, Ee, Uu, Eh, Oh….nani? These are basic letters arranged clearly, unless.” He checked the cover of the book. “Hiragana…..Ahh. Twilight this is nothing about the samurai, it is um...how can I say this?” He started scratching his head. “It is an alphabet book for japoneighs.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up as an idea came to her. “Really!? Can somepony else learn japoneighs? Is it possible?” She as with her hands squeezing the table in excitement.

“With enough practice and knowledge, yes it is possible to learn Japoneighs.”

“Then can you teach me?” She asked as she started making a pouty face. This face started to make Prey feel weak, for some reason he’s never felt this feeling, almost feels like he was slowly dying on the inside.

“Well if you want me to I can, but I must warn you. Japoneighs is extremely complicated, I myself have struggled with it in the past. If you wish to learn it, you’ll need to know that it takes years to practice and become fluent.”

“Oh don’t worry,” she said with a smug grin. “I’m quite experience when it comes to practice.” She said with with a smug grin and materialized a pencil and paper. “Now where do we start?” Prey could only feel a sense of laughter from the mare’s determination, he smiled at her.

“Well, we need to start with basic vowels.”

Author's Note

If you can't get the reference between Fluttershy and Prey. Here's a hint.

Nani = What? Or What the?

Oyasumi = Goodnight (casual)

Sugoi = amazing

Hiragana - is one of the three alphabets or styles of characters the japanese use.

Ah, Eee, ooo, Eh, and Oh, are all the first five vowels and letters of the japanese letters. Though they are not literally spelled like that in any form of Germanic spelling, that is how they are pronounced. At least from my perspective. They are spelled as A, I, U, E, O.

But translations and cultural barriers aside, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.