Red like Blood

Have you ever wondered what kind of animal the Royal Princess of the Night would have as a pet? Twilight has Owlowiscious. Celestia has Philomena for sure. Cadence, well she has her own animal named Shining.

It appeared one night, in a tough storm. A slender dark purple cat with a scar on it's eye, chest and ear. Hiding in cover in one of Canterlot's walkways, it slowly progressed to the Royal Castle in the darkness. It was a excellent climber, it climbed many buildings and royal houses to get to the fortress. Once there, it sneaked by tired guards like nothing. Luna not doing her regular nightly duties usually walked around the Castle in silence, maybe in grief, maybe in fun.

That is where she meet the cat, waiting by the grand kitchen. Waiting for the late-night cooks to leave silently. She looked down at the feline, the cat's bright red eyes were odd but she didn't mind it. She talked to it with a smile "Why are thou here, feline? Food perhaps?" It nodded it's head, it could understand english. Luna spoke again "Odd feline, it is almost midnight." The cat stood there, looking into Luna's eyes. " Hmm, if it is food thou want, you will receive." Luna went into the Kitchen and grabbed some fish.

"Here you go, you devil." As it ate, Luna walked again in the pale light of the moon. The cat soon followed the slow princess down the halls, the corridors and into her room. The Princess turned around to see the same dark purple cat looking at her. "The same scoundrel i see. Hmm. I never had a animal with this kind of persistence Before." She stopped for a moment and then grinned. "Very well, come in feline. You seem to like me much and i could always use guard." She slept that night with the cat watching her and the door. It kept to her side that morning and she royally declared it was her pet, she was never keen on cats but she felt this one was different.

She never had a pet and this one was strange. It never meowed, and Luna liked it that way. It never really slept either, it seemed to always be awake even when it closed its eyes. She uniquely named the cat, Aver (Ah-vear) and Celestia congratulated her on finally having someone to keep her company. So it was the royal cat, it walked around the hallways at day and night, listening closely into conversations and staring at the panels as well as walking with Luna. Rarely, it walked with Celestia and even the guards. Celestia knew this cat was very unusual from the start, that's why she always grinned when she saw it was watching her. Celestia nicknamed it "The Royal Listener" Because of it.

The Royal Listener viewed and listened to practically everything people had to say, be it about the economy, soldiers, water prices. It did not really matter to it, as it's tail wagged like a grandfather clock.

Soon enough, Princess Twilight Sparkle witnessed the bizarre cat as she was talking to one of the guards. Twilight was startled as anyone was and quickly talked to Celestia about it. She abruptly asked "Uh, you guys notice.. the cat in your halls?" Celestia responded "Oh don't be worried Twilight, that is Luna's new pet. Aver." The Princess of Friendship soonly made relations with Aver after that. "Well hello! I'm Princess Twilight." The cat stared as it licked it's dark paws, it seemed like it was through this conversation hundreds of times. "I've never had to make friends with a.. cat before!" The cat didn't seem impressed with Twilight, but she continued with spirit "I hope we become great friends, you are very interesting, you know that?" Even with the cat's strange traits and red eyes it went well enough and now the feline watched The young Alicorn as she walked through the corridors of Canterlot.

Celestia's majestic bird, Philomena was another animal that Aver always watched in the castle, though it wouldn't harass it like most cats would. It watched her cycle of life and rebirth, seeming to always be interested in the Phoenix.

Twilight and most of the royals decided the cat had magical power such as silent teleportation and the ability to see through walls, making Aver more weird and special in the Pony world. Sparkle believed it was from another dimension as she never seen such power from a non-castable being before and probably couldn't again, and she might have been true. Luna loved Aver like family and would usually feed it fully grown fish and other royal foods daily as it ate all the meat and bones, as well as come with her on her adventures into the Dream World and places outside of Canterlot.

One day though. Aver disappeared from the castle, from the whole of Canterlot without a single trace. Luna wasn't so ashamed at this, she loved that she had something to care for while the time it was here. She felt happy inside knowing she had a pet of her own, something that loved her.

A beautiful sunset took Equestria by its grasp on that day, as Twilight and Celestia watched it from the royal balcony. Twilight was worried and confused, and asked Celestia a question. "We have looked everywhere for it! Sigh what a strange cat. Do you know where it could have went?" Celestia laughed as she looked apon the blazing sunset."The thing is, Twilight. It was never a cat. It was a seeker and watcher. It wanted information and it got what it needed here. It must have been in thousands of worlds before it even got to ours and i suggest it's in even more now. Those scars, they were from sharp blades of killers, not from simple bushes and branches."

Still no one knows where the cat came from, and nobody questioned it much. But everyone agreed on one thing, it didn't come from their Equestria.