~~~~~~~Princess of Friendship POV: 20 min. ago~~~~~~~

"... and I told you that is impossible." I say to Rainbow as she was looking between me and the Everfree forest.

"I told you that's what I saw. It was real, we have to evacuate Ponyville before it's too late." Rainbow had trying to convince me that a strange creature has appeared in Everfree that is able to breathe fire at a timberwolf and had managed to defeat it with it.

"Twilight, that is true I saw it too." Clear Sky says standing behind Rainbow looking worriedly at the forest.

"And I told once aguain, girls. No creature that small can produce fire and defeat a timberwolf, one of the most dangerous creatures in the Everfree forest. Only the fire of a big dragon is able to burn a healthy Timberwolf as you describe me. And if it was a big dragon, I am pretty sure we will be able to see it from here. Besides, why is there a timberwolf so close to the edge of the forest? They are way too smart to attempt doing something like that" I say throwing an unamused look at the two pegasi. "When is the drizzle going to stop by the way?"

"Twilight I am totally serious here. That thing freaked me out. It was like anything I saw before. I couldn't see it that well but... it walks on two legs and... and have big claws and fangs and.... and I am sure if breath fire. I- no, we saw it with our own eyes. It was with this small explosion and all." Rainbow eyed Clear Sky as a cue to nod. Sky nodded.

"Ok, Rainbow, If it makes you happy. I will send a group of guards tomorrow morning."

"By that time it will be too late. You have to trust me on this one..." Rainbow and I continue discussing the unprovability of the existence of such creature but we stop when we saw Fluttershy running this way.

"Twilight! Twilight! We have a problem!!"

"What happen Fluttershy?" Rainbow was the first to approach the yellow pegasus.

"Oh, thanks, Celestia I found you girls. There is was monster attacking. One that I have never seen before. It wanted to break into my house. It even broke one of my windows and I think it is coming this way. What do we do?" Fluttershy said breathing heavily for all the running.

"Don't worry Fluttershy we will call the other girls to deal with this. Meanwhile, go and tell Mayor Mare this to help you inform everypony else and tell them to hide in my castle, they will be safer in there or at least that they get inside their homes and lock the doors." Fluttershy nodded and start running towards the town hall with Clear Sky not far behind. "Rainbow, you go ahead and call the others. We may need there help... What?" I ask as Rainbow as she was watching me with an angry expression. "You didn't believe me when I told you about the monster but you believe Fluttershy?"

"What? She is the animal expert. Is very weird if she gets afraid of an animal in the forest. We have seen her fight stronger creatures. I even saw her wrestling a grizzly bear once. If she gets scared by a creature then there is something to worry about"

"Hum... I'm starting to believe you don't trust me very much."

I just put a hoof on her shoulder, smiled and said: "Rainbow, Rainbow" well moving my head from left to right. Then I start running towards the Town Hall.

"Wait, why didn't you answered? what does that smile mean? ... and I still don't believe the bear wrestling thing you know"

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The words of a monster going to attack Ponyville spread quickly thanks to my friends. Very few hides in their own houses but many others take refuge in my castle but I believe they took this as an opportunity to see it more thoroughly. Spike, Starlight, and Rarity help calming down everypony in their meanwhile Rainbow, AJ, Pinkie and I stay in the Town Hall looking for any sign of danger.

"There. I see something approaching." Rainbow said from up in the cloudy sky pointing the edge of the town by the direction of the forest as we predict. I fly up to her with binoculars. It was indeed a strange creature, One I have never seen or read about it before. He was walking in two like a minotaur but smaller and it didn't seem to have fur on his body unless he was hiding it under those strange clothes. The only sight of any kind of hair was its light brown hair on the top of his head.

"Aughhhhh Oh no." Pinkie inhales deeply with a look of terror.

"What Pinkie what is wrong?" I ask flying down to her.

"The Cakes!!!"

"Pinkie this is not time for desserts"

"No, a cake. Mrs. and Ms. Cake. look" Pinkie point at Sugar Cube Corner. The lights were still turn on and shadows of ponies moving were seeing inside.

"What are they doing? Pinkie you forget to tell them?" Pinkie just looks at me with a sheepish smile. "Ough Pinkie, AJ can you two go and tell them to go to my castle with the others.

"Sure thing" Applejack nodded and started galloping towards the house with Pinkie not far behind.

"Rainbow in what direction is the creat... Rainbow?" I look up to only find a Ranbowless sky. I fly trying to see where she went and find out she was now near the creature on the roof of a nearby house. I carefully fly towards her procuring for the creature to not heard me or see me. luckily it was still dark and it never thought about looking up.

"Rainbow, are you crazy? Don't go solo with this. We don't know what it is capable of."

"You worry too much Twilight. Now that I look at it more closely, it doesn't seem that big of a deal." We whispered to each other as we look at the monster approaching the market near the apple stand.

"Yes, and I don't see any claws or fangs on that thing," I say giving her an incredulous look. Rainbow just laugh nervously.

"Ok, maybe I exaggerate a bit, but the fire thing, I'm pretty sure I see it doing it." I look at her in disbelief. We both continue staring at the creature now being in front of the apple stand graving an apple.

"Don't worry I will pay" We heard the creature saying something before he bite the apple and swallow it. We were far to be able to understand completely what was said.

"What? did - did it just talk? Maybe we can reason with it after all."

"Yea, I heard it a couple of times before you arrived too but I wasn't sure if they were words but now..." Rainbow said slamming her front hooves together putting a war face. "I am sure. I clearly heard that thing saying that we were going to pay... or something."

"Wait. What? Are you sure? Did the apples offend it somehow?" I ask out loud, more to myself as I saw the creature munching apple after apple. "Rainbow, if it can talk we can reason with it. We don't need another 'Zecora' incident again. But it seems like I was talking whit a wall as she just laughs a little showing a determined and somehow diabolical expression.

Then we heard it. The slamming of a door closing shut that echoes through the now quiet Ponyville. Seeing where it had come from, I could see Pinkie smiling nervously next to the door of sugar cube corner. I look back at the creature and it seems it heard the slam too as he was running towards it, luckily there were some houses in between so he had to go around it to go there.

"Ough, Rainbow. don't do anything rash, ok? I will go and see what happened." I said not sure if Dash heard me or not and then I concentrated in my horn getting ready to teleport next to Pinkie.

*Poof*

"What happened? and the Cakes?" I ask nervously Pinkie looking at Mr. and Ms. Cake holding their babies just outside the door.

"Sorry Twi. The door didn't want to fudge. You know, we need to fix that. is a fire hazard or... a monster attack hazard for that matter." Pinkie said scratching the back of her head.

"No time for that. The creature heard you and is coming this way. Where is Applejack?" I ask looking around. I stop when I saw her hidden behind a tree looking the other way and weaving her hoof in the air at us. She was telling us to get inside the house

"Pinkie, everypony let's go inside and try the back door, now!" I demanded. Pushing them inside and closing the door behind me, we carefully skipped trying to not make too much noise.

"Hello, is anyone there?!" We herd as the creature slams the door and speaking in perfect Ponish. I was about to tell everypony to stay calm and to be quiet but Pinkie bet me to it.

"Quick, hide. It is outside." The pink pony says pushing the Cake family and me into the kitchen followed by taking her party cannon out from who knows where ready to shoot it.

"Wait. Pinkie we don't know if it is a threat or not?" I whispered through the kitchen door but then all heard the lauds screams of the creature.

"Ok, that's it!! I am seeking tired of this!!. I had a really bad day to not only you try to play hide and sick with me but also to dare call me 'it' " We all heard the creature saying sounding very angry follow up by the sound of the door forcefully open by a strong hit.

"Ok, maybe it is a threat after all". I say as I took the Cakes out if the back door and walking them towards my castle. As we were running we heard the sound of Pinkie's cannon and the sounds of somepony struggling along with Rainbow's war cries.

~*~*~

When we finally arrived, I found Rarity by the entrance of my house. "Oh, Darling. are you guys ok?" She asks worriedly.

"Yea we are fine but I think Pinkie and the others are trying to subdue the creature."

"Oh, my. We need to help them then. But first. Mr. and Mrs. Cake, babies. why don't you come and join the party "

"Party?"

"Oh with pleasure." The Cakes nodded happily as Rarity open the doors. As soon as she does that, a loud electronic music escape from the inside. When we enter, Rarity quickly closes the door behind us to not allow the loud noises inside to came out. After that, she told me she will be right back in a minute, that she needs to do refresh herself. She quickly gallops and gets lost in between the see of dancing ponies.

Inside in the main hall, there was indeed a party going on. All the lights were turn off having smoke machines, blinking colors lights and lasers instead. At the top of the main stairs, there was DJ Pon3 with all her instruments and subwoofers playing her tunes with ponies in the middle of the main hall dancing and enjoying the music. I never really notice that crystal walls were really good in acoustic insulation.

"Cupcake, why don't we see how the bedrooms in here are. I always wanted to know how the castle really looks on the inside." Mr. Cake said eyeing the rooms on the sides giving Mrs. Cake a lust look. A look that Mrs. Cake gives back "Oh, *ahem* Princess Twilight, It wouldn't be any trouble, right? The babies need her nap in a quiet room."

"Ah, what ... yes, yes by my guess... Spike? Spike?!!" I say running as I saw Spike with a food tray with some sort of beverages on them. "Spike, what is all this?"

"Oh, Twilight. Hello. Do you like the party?"

"No, I don't like it. Who's idea was this? Pinkie? And what are you serving?"

"Well, you say that you want everypony to stay calm and Nothing better than a party to do that Or at least that is what Trixie said. This was her idea. She and Starlight are making food and drinks in the kitchen. Did you know Starlight can make a cake like in 15 seconds? That is awesome.Oh, And this well..." Spike says lowering the tray, not before Fruit Punch took the last five little cups Spike had on it and ran off." I think these are Jell-O but Trixie said that they weren't for me. She made them herself and her Special brownies everypony are enjoying too. Those aren't for me either. But who would want Jell-O in such little cups? It wouldn't be better to serve them in big cups?" Spike asks confused picking up an empty plastic shot cup from the floor.

"Ough... of course she was. I don't have time for this. Spike, tell Starlight to come outside in the main hall as soon as she can. We may need her crystal spell to capture the beast... and don't eat anything Trixie makes, ok?. Spike just salute.

I quickly go and look for Major Mare to make sure anypony else needed help. I find her dancing in the middle of the hall with the others, she told me that everypony who wanted to come to and I quote: Twilight's party has already come with the Cakes being the only exception.

"Great, Is official. I am hosting the biggest party since Rainbow Dash birthday party and I wasn't even aware of it" I thought. I quickly alert her that the whole town was already inside and to not let anypony out. She just nodded and continue to dance like nothing. "And she is the Mayor of Ponyville, unbelievable." I quickly find Rarity getting out of the bathroom and we get outside to help our friends as quickly as possible.

We run as fast as we can arriving just in time to see the creature crashing at high speed into a wall. We stop our track as we heard the sound of 'Oooh'-ing everypony watching, including us, made at seeing its face slamming on the wall.

"That didn't sound good. Ahm... Rarity, can you please go to Fluttershy's? I think she went around back to her cottage to make sure her animals were ok. She may know how to treat it." Rarity, with one last pitty look at the beast, take a turn towards Fluttershy's cottage.

*Poof*

"Ok, I am here. is everything o-k? Oooh. what did you girls do to that poor thing?" Starlight had teleported just next to the others. She flinched at seeing the strange bipedal creature laying down next to a wall with a trail of blood showing the way his face took before laying down on his back with blood all over him.

"Yea Applejack. what did you do?" Rainbow came flying from the sky. I, on the other hoof, couldn't handle to see it and I stay far from that sight. I am ok with what I can see from here, thank you.

"Ah didn't do anything. Ah swear. Ah - ah think it was trying to hit me with that circus trick it did back there but it moves away from me at the last second. That right there could be me." I could see Applejack pointing at the creature as it tries to stand up. "Ah think this creature is just afraid of us."

"Oh!!, that doesn't look good." Even Pinkie's face flinches at watching the bipedal creature trying to standing up. "I don't know much about this thing but I am sure his leg isn't supposed to bend like that."

All were looking in horror how the creature tries to take steps with blood oozing from its leg and nose only to stumble a little and grabbing the bloodied wall to just scream at us. "And-d dthersd mord whered dthat comfddomd!!!" It said what looks like words. I think it jaw was injured too as he crashes on the wall or at the very least, he had bitten his tongue.

"Starlight, use your crystal spell on it or it will injure itself more!!!" I scream from far where I was. I really didn't want to see blood up close. Starlight looks pitifully at it before closing her eyes and unleashes a beam of magic at the creature.

"Are you sure this is a good idea Twi, Isn't that spell would, you know, hurt it?"

"Don't worry Applejack," I say finally convincing my guts to not let go of its content as the creature's injuries weren't that visible inside that creature. "The spell just is uncomfortable at most, believe me, I know" I stare at Starlight who gives a nervous chuckle. "The crystal around it will work as a cast all over its body. It will work until Fluttershy arrive. She will know what to do next."

But this seems to be useless. As we were talking to each other about what we think that thing was and what he has done, a white palpating light start envelops the beast from inside the crystal prison as little cracks started to appear.

"What? That isn't possible. Not even Twilight had managed to escape from this spell that quick." My pupil screams out loud. It was true, Starlight's cristal spell isn't one you could scape easy from. Not in all zoology books I have read of a creature capable to do that, I even doubt Princess Celestia or Luna could do it that fast. But there it was, in front of my eyes. A creature with the strength enough to break free from a hexagonal crystal formation.

"Hahahahahaha" We heard a loud crack making the crystal finally to give up and break in little pieces as a maniacal laughter of the beast was heard. A laugh so menacing, not even Queen Chrysalis could give it justice. Every pony there took steps back, all besides AJ and Dash.

We saw with wide eyes not only he had freed himself from the crystal but it looks like all his injuries were cured including its bad looking leg as he was jumping with it probably testing if it was ok.

"Quick!!! Seized it before it hurt anypony!" I scream waking the girls out of her trance. Soon all start closing up to him. The creature scared started to throw Rose's pots from her windows at us, She had several of the small ones still without any plants and with only the dirt which was used to blind us. The beast had mostly blainded almost all of us including myself.

I scratch my eyes traying to ease the burning sensation while I heard Applejack screaming "Ah retract everything ah said about you!!!!" When I finally was able to see again I saw Applejack being all tied up and threw at Rainbow in midair.

I take a look at Starlight who was close to me ready to tell her something but she started running towards it too. "Yes, Pinkie. Get it distracted I will I try to crystalize it again." She said shooting beams while Pinkie started to shoot cakes out from her cannon. The two had managed to corner him under a tree. If the two are able to contain him enough time I could probably teleport it in the friendship dungeon.

I let those two handle the situation as I saw Rarity coming with Fluttershy. "Girls, Over here" I signal them from behind some tree.

"Twilight, what happens? Is that creature ok? I heard it was hurt really bad. I bought my first aid kit just in case. Oh-uu I just hope this wasn't my fault." Fluttershy responded raising a bag with her wings showing it at me.

"Sorry, Fluttershy but a change of plans. It seems this creature is stronger than we believe."

"What?" Rarity asked out aloud. "Can that thing still move after that injury?"

"Well..." *Boom* Twilight was interrupted by an explosion. All three mares watch how Starlight, the mare that rivals Twilight if not exceeds her in magical talent, was sent flying into some bushes as the creature was standing with one of his appendages raised emanating smoke.

"I-I am afraid so. This thing is immune to magic for all we can tell. We can't capture him. I-I I don't know what to do."

"Why don't we start by helping Apple Jack, Darling?" Rarity point at applejack that was struggling with the ropes around her.

"Oh right, good call" We nodded and quickly started running towards Apple Jack. That was until I saw I shadow figure looking from within the shadows. I couldn't really tell what it was but by its size, it was no pony. I stop without Rarity or Fluttershy awareness to trying to figure out where it was watching. Then I realize what was it watching, by this time Rainbow have recovered and was now facing the creature pounding the ground both ready to ram into each other.

It seems that the creature has noticed this too. The creature takes a step forwards what allows me to figure out what it really was. "Rainbow, wait!!" I scream but she didn't listen.

Haaaaaaaaa!!
Haaaaaaaaa!!

I heard the two screaming at each other as they run shearing a determined glare. I see how the figure in the shadow moves at an incredible speed towards the screaming fighters."Wait, stop!!!" I try one last time to warn the prismatic mare but it was too late.

*Whomp*

Author's Note

Uff, finally a new chapter. Just to let you guys know that I have not forgotten about this one. I just... hum... I procrastinate a lot and I am terribly slow when I am not. It took me a whole day just to write 200 words. Haha... haaaa

I promise more chapters regularly, next one at the very late will be at mid-February, and I hope this one was worth the waiting.

Thank you once again and as always have a nice day.