Evolution

Morning had finally come and washed over the chaotic night before. At the hospital, after Twilight woke spike up to send the notes from the book to Celestia, Applejack and Pinkie Pie burst through the doors carrying an unexpected visitor.  Applejack searched and demanded the doctors to save the near-death victim of what looked like a savage animal mauling while Pinkie tried every move she had up her sleeve to keep the victim awake; it was the first time she came close to running out of moves. When they finally found her a room and began surgery, the situation slowly died down. Rarity was with Pinkie trying to keep Gilda awake and Fluttershy awoke from her dreams and cowered next to Twilight and Spike. When the scene finally died down and everypony had settled down, Twilight eagerly waited for her reply from Princess Celestia. She would never get it.

As morning came and sent the moon to the other end of the planet, It brought with it an alive and slightly aggravated Rainbow maned girl.

"What happened? Why is she in there!?!" All six of the girls stood by Gildas room, Spike had left when morning came. Rainbow Dash awoke from recovery to find her has-been jerk of a so-called friend in the room adjacent to hers. She did care that she was badly hurt but she still didn't like her being there.  "You'd think that after almost dying from sudden heatstroke, she'd be a little worn-out." commented Rarity. Rainbow Dashes face was pressed up against the window through which she could see Gilda wrapped in casts and connected to machines  "But seriously, why is she here?" She asked in a less aggravated tone. Immediately, their attention turned towards the ones who brought her here. "I'm not sure how ta say this?" she said indecisively. "What more needs to be said?" said Twilight  "It looks she's been attacked by a rabid animal."

"Kind-of." said Pinkie meekly. For the first time shes been rather calm then usually. A thought sparked up in Twilights' head. Pinkie Pie has actually been growing incredibly less random and spontaneous, though she has been disappearing a lot. Twilight tried to remember when this trend started and couldn't quite pinpoint the exact time. She remembers it was after the earthquake and possibly when Tavo showed up. Twilight couldn't know for sure. The thought of Pinkie Pie being not-so random was a calming one, but it was also a frightful one.

"Why's that?" She asked. They both exchanged glances Before Applejack responded "I-It was sort of like an animal but more like us." The hallways seemed silent just for this response.

"Who was it?"

"...Tavo."

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When she had finished her first obligation, Celestia retired to her bed room. Her vision became blurry and she gained a terrible Migraine. She then decided it would be best to rest a little while.  Luna passed by her sisters room and wasn't sure enough if she wanted to wake her up.  She continued down the corridor towards her room. As she made her way, she began thinking about Celestias failed plan to against the false hero. But unlike the regular thought process of regular ponies, with hers, it sometimes gets interrupted.

I knew that plan was a Failure.

It was a sure-fire plan, how were we to know that the creature had forgotten about her.

Its been nearly a hundred years, of course its going to forget.

He was in a different body, that may have been why he forgot.

Does that even matter, i mean you still retain my memories.

We're technically the same pony so that doesn't really matter.

It does to me!

"Luna, your thinking out loud again, please stop." Celestia's groggy request snapped Luna out of her Thought-conversation with Nightmare.  "Forgive me Sister, i was just out here wandering if i-"

"Yes, you can come in Luna." Luna slowly hovered in. She didn't want to aggravate the migraine any further. Celestia's bed was empty. Instead the sun goddess lie on a mound of pillows. "Forgive me for losing myself Luna." Luna walked over to a window.

"It's alright, i read the letter and hold nothing against you." Luna Unveiled the curtains, letting the suns ray shine on Celestia. The light eased her pain a little. "But it's written in his language, How could you read it if he never taught it to you?" Asked Celestia. "Well i didn't read it, i merely found a word that looked like something he wrote." She snickered. Celestia then decided to bring up her failure.

"My plan was foolish wasn't it?" Celestia smiled trying to make her failure entertaining. "It was both our faults, neither one of us shouldn't have tried the same trick on the same animal with a different personality."

"I thought it would remember us. It was still in the first stage and it hadn't eaten any flesh yet."

"It did take a bite out me though."

"And we were lucky it didn't completely turn, or we would have had a much more worse fate then this."

"But with all of the worlds inhabitants turned human and some more turning still, what can we do?"

Celestia stood up and turned to her worried sister "The most we can do now, is wait For Twilight and her friends to find way to revert to our pony forms and keep the Dead King from the public's view."

After that Luna decided to check for any more news  and rumors of dragons turning and bid fare well to Celestia. But just as she was about to leave, celestia added one more thing to the moon goddesses troubled thoughts.

"I just hope that the corruption hasn't started yet."

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Another thing Twilight noticed was Applejack suddenly withdrawing her southern accent. Though it was a small thing to worry about, she can't shake the feeling that something else might be wrong. But their was another matter to attend to; Tavo's sudden bursts of violence.

"It doesn't make sense, how can someone who just a couple of days ago wouldn't even hurt a fly, goes and does something like this." She gestures to Gilda. She wondered why that in only a few days, so many events happen. She wondered why Tavo became so violent and almost evil, she wondered why pinkie pie suddenly became more bland, she wondered why Fluttershy kept her head buried in her arms, and she wondered why so many things keep happening. And above all these things and all theses changes, she wondered why Princess Celestia still hasn't answered her letter.

"I don't care what he was, right now hes nothing but danger." Applejack spoke and only Twilight seemed to realize that her voice was becoming less her, though it might be because there's still a lingering southerness in her voice. "I swear, the minute Tavo looked at me i thought he was gonna tear me a new one, literally."

"Shes right, he nearly killed me all because i wouldn't let him leave." Rainbow Dash spoke up and Twilight felt a faint hint of fear in Dash's voice, though it still seemed that only she could perceive it.

"What are we going to do about him then?" when Rarity spoke, there were sounds of disgust and vague secrecy in hers.

Twilight kept wondering why she was the only one to perceive these little things.

"I say we leave him be, hes too dangerous to be in Ponyville. Its a lot safer if he just doesn't come back."

"Well i say we find him and make sure he never comes back. He can't beat all of us at once right?"

They both looked at Twilight, like she had the answer. With everyone wanting an answer, Twilight couldn't keep track of her thoughts and began having headaches. "I-I-i don't know what to do, this is all too much." she couldn't focus and she felt short of breath. She nearly fainted when all of a sudden, a loud bang came from the window of Gilda's room. Then Gilda's door suddenly flew open. "CAN YOU DWEEBS KEEP IT DOWN, I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!" she furiously yelled but soon coughed up blood and collapsed at the door. The girls gasped and carried Gilda back to her bed. Rainbow Dash knew that she could still be angry enough to yell even though her lungs were punctured.

When she finally woke up Twilight walked next to her "Hi Gilda, how are you feeling?"

"Like i was smashed against a tree, how do i look." she said in a sour tone. Twilight ignored it and asked the second question "Why was Tavo Chasing you?"

"And why were you sneakin around my farm?" They all stared at Gilda, which seemed to put her in a worse mood.

"...Fine, you wanna know why? I was told to."

"What!" Exclaimed Rainbow Dash

Gilda Than told her story:

"I was told to come here, back to Ponyville by my Dad. Not in a nice way either. He said i had to go back to Ponyville and drop some very specific things off at very, very specific places, and at very VERY specific times. When i asked him why he said  ''Its none of your concern." well i want to know why i'm dropping cloths and sacks full of gold in alleys and farms so if i don't know why, i ain't going. He then slaps me...really hard and Yelled at me to obey him. I didn't want to get another back talon so i said fine. If i had known i was gonna get killed because of this, i would have taken a ton of beatings then then tossed around by some overgrown jerk."

"So you were the one who dropped off those packages at my farm." said Applejack.

"Yea and your buddy should have been great full for what i had to put with."

"So that means you don't know anything about Tavo?"

"I didn't know why i was leaving stuff there in the first place."

Tavo became more and more difficult to understand and with all these things happening, Twilight still has no clue who Tavo really is. She just hoped nothing else would happen.

"AAAAAHHHH!!"

A loud scream hit the girls like air horns and it sounded like it might have come from town square. And they weren't the only ones to hear it. With out another word all six ran towards the exit.

"Darn it!"

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Tavo was laying under a tree when he suddenly heard a familiar breathing pattern.

"I thought i killed that thing already?"

A/n: After a year and a half of writers block and procrastination i finally published this chapter.