Chapters In Cloudsdale in the hoslital there is a couple who are eagerly expecting their firstborn the mare has been wheeled away to theatre for the birth and the stallion sits in the waiting room for the birth to be a safe and successful one.
After an hour a Griffin covered in hospital scrubs comes out and pulls the mask of her face and smiles at the stallion who runs up and asks her "how is she, is she safe, how is the..." the Griffin places her talons on the stallions mouth to shut him up and she replies with joy in her voice "Don't worry the birth went fine and the colt is fine you can see her in a few minutes as she is worn out from the birth.
After 5 minutes the stallion has calmed down and walks into the room and sees his mare laying in the bed with a smile on her face as her stallion walks up to her and gives her kiss on the forehead as he has all the weight of the situation of off his chest he sits down on the chair next to the bed and asks his wife "so where is the bundle of joy" "I Don't know they haven't brought him into me but have insured me he is okay and they are making sure there is no problems with his wings."
After they had a little talk about what they were going to call their colt they see the Griffin from before come in with a bundle of blankets in her talon and she hands it over to the parents they both look at the colt in the blanket.
He has a dark grey coat with a black mane which surprises the parents as they are neither this colour but other then that nothing is off from the sleeping ball of fluff in their hooves "he is different I'll give him that" says the father as she gives the colt a peck on the forehead and as to not leave her out he gives his wife another kiss and nuzzles her cheek, after the sign of affection the parents here a babbling and when they look down what they see shakes them to their very core.
Their son has bright yellow slit pupils and as he chews on one of his hooves they notice little fangs poking out from his short muzzle, as he babbles incoherently the mare puts him down and quickly wanders out to get the nurse from before "hello I think you gave us the wrong colt as neither of us has had anything to do with one of those horrid batponies" she says as the Griffin stares at her in shock "no, that is not mistake but you having the kid is the mistake you shelter a life inside of you for that long only to shun it the second you lay eyes on it" the Griffin says as she reads through another patient's file "no you Don't get it those monsters need to go back to the everfree where they belong with all the other freakshows. They are predators but unlike you griffins they are uncivilized brutes who do not even give vegetarian options for meals a chance" the mare says while her eyes twitch slightly, the Griffin quickly fires back "whether you like it or not your are his parents and you need to look after him and maybe the reason they don't eat vegetables is many they cannot stomach it I know some griffins can't handle anything that isn't meat."
meanwhile in the mare's room
He flies over Ponyville and into an deep parts of the everfree by a mountain he lands and unwrap the little colt from his blanket as the stallion flies off all he hears is the beast crying so the stallion flies off faster so nothing harms him but hoping that whatever it is harms that creature.
Baby Colt in the wilderness
Colt's POV
I slept well that night but I was awoken by a bright light shining straight into my sight so I do the only thing I can think of and cry, I wail out at the top of my little voice to hope that someone or something will be able to help me get this light out of my eyes as shutting them has little affect.
I cried for what felt like days which was ironic I was only a day old at this point. I heard a noise so I cried in that direction and I hear sniffing come from the bushes nearby and a weird creature comes out of them.
The creature looks like the big pony from the night before but it has the same colours as me but its hooves are armed with little claws and it is staring at me with big yellow eyes and as it walks towards me I start to get scared and start to cry again but the creature lays down next to me and starts to lick my side and under this gentle touch I start to lean into it and this helps me calm down as the creature stands up and looks at me like it is expecting for me to get up but my limbs are not strong enough so I cry to it again and it seems to understand it as it walks back over to me and picks me up by the back of my neck also like the pony from the night before but without the blanket I feel the teeth but it is not sharp so I stop crying and let the creature carry me away to its home.
3rd person
the wolf walks for some time and after 10 minutes it walks out onto a path and as it does it scares a earth pony mare who has a orange coat and a yellow mane tied into a ponytail, this is applejack apple and she leaps back in surprise as she was not expecting this path to be used by any other creature.
she notices that this wolf was carrying something and at first thinks it is a bit of meat that the mother wolf is taking back for her pups but as she has a closer look she becomes a bit nervous as she notices a very small bundle with 4 very little hooves hanging off of this. applejacks eyes start to water as she thinks the wolf has killed it but the wolf place this down and applejack sees the pony open its eyes and she notices it start crying and she looks into those slit pupils of the young colt and she watches the wolf place him down and watches in astonishment at the wolf as she lays down and lets the batpony nurse on her and the wolf turns its head back to applejack and lays its ears flat against its head and bares its teeth at applejack, applejack having a canine as her pet she knows that this is a protective stance and it dawns on her that this wolf sees the similarly coloured colt as another pup from her litter and she is trying to protect it from applejack so the pony slowly starts backing up without turning her back on the wolf as she knows that this will cause the wolf to charge her and attack her from behind.
The wolf keeps an eye on where the pony walks and the ears of the wolf twitch at every single sound and when the pony has walked away it removes the pony from on of the teats and licks its muzzle to clean any milk that stained it and it picks the thestral up in its maw again and continues its journey back to is den.
Colt's POV
I wake up to notice that mother wolf has left and that I am the only one who has woken and that all the wolves that surround me are very soft and nearly make me fall back asleep but I notice a long furred appendage in my face and being the innocent child I am I bat at it with my hoof and it flicks and tickles me under my nose and this makes me giggle so I keep repeating this until it tucks under the owner of it and I start to here a quiet padded set of hoofsteps walking towards me and the other wolf but it must be mother wolf as there is no way of any other creature sneaking into this den without mother wolf knowing.
Mother wolf steps into view and starts to wake us up by poking at us with her snout and licking the pups ears and snouts and as she licks the wolf pup closest to me on the snout it sneezes a very cute high pitch sneeze and the tail I was playing with earlier comes back and I giggle as I can resume playing with it as mother wolf walks over to me and she grabs me by the scruff of my neck and positions me in another place with made me sad as I was separated from my favourite playmate and I had nothing to do until mother positioned herself on her side and assumed the feeding position as we fought for access to the sweet and delicious milk and once again it lured me to sleep and I kept drinking without even realising.
Weeks passed as the little bat colt grew up as a member of the wolf pack and he started to adopt the instinct and behaviour of the wolves that surround him and he started to think of his body parts as that of a wolf's biology such as any word with hooves being replaced with paws and muzzle being referred to as snout.
Colt's POV
The Mother was a dark grey almost identical to my own coat colour and her eyes were a deep yellow just like mine so I could see more and more how she thought of me as one of her own pups, she was very protective as I am sure any mother is of her young and she was very good at keeping an eye on us as she sat above the den watching the horizon and I could just about see her ears twitching from other sounds.
The first pup who I had called Zeus was the leader of us pups he was always the first to feed and he was always showing off to the rest of us he had the same colour eyes as his mother but his fur was darker almost making him black.
The second pup who I could tell was female I had named her Serenity as she was shy and always trying to avoid any sort of playfighting so she would sit in the entrance to the den right bellow where mother would sit and guard us and she would always feel uncomfortable if she was removed from her spot for any length of time, her coat was a light grey and her eyes were a calm blue just like the sky.
The third pup was male when I called him Darkness as he would always try to blend in as his coat was almost a pitch black and if it wasn't for his dark blue eyes you would not be able to tell hi from the shadows around him. He was not veryvocal of the pups and was the least needy so he would just feed and sleep and play for a lift,e bit which made the rest of us sad as we all felt like he should play more. Him and Serenity seem to hold a bond as whenever Darkness would play he would always go and rest by Serenity and they would my together almost making a ying-yang symbol.
The final pup was called Mute as he was nearly completly silent but would only make noises when hungry but would not bark, howl or make any other noise, he always kept to himself he had a light grey and dark grey coat. The rest saw him as weaker and I later learnt it was his tail that I spent all those weeks playing with so I would always try to play with him and he would always join in as he was very thankful that I liked him even if the rest didn't like to show, but a pack has to stick together and we were a strong pack that when we grew up nothing would be able to stop us when we went hunting of if a creature would trespass on to our territory.
The day had gone very similar to many we had woke up and had our morning feed and we had just ran outside and we were just playing and all of a sudden we heard a growl and a shriek and all of our heads shot up and we all ran back tot he entrance of out den and Mother dropped down from her perch and her ears went back and she bared her teeth at the disturbance as a yellow pegasus with a pink mane flew out and following it was a timberwolf who was set on making this pegasus its next meal.
The wolf bared its wooden fangs at the mare and she sunk in fear with her hooves over her head and started to sob and cry and whisper in a language I didn't understand, as it sat there crying Mother walked in front of her and started tomcircle the timberwolf and they started to fight as both Mother and the Timberwolf fought the pony looked back up with tears brimming its eyes wondering why it hadn't met its end yet and it saw both wolves fur and wood batteling.
The timberwolf kept running in and was looking to get at Mother's forepaw but Mother lifted her foreleg and let the timberwolf go below her before she stomped on its back and bit behind its head which made it roar in pain that sounded like a tree falling down and she held on because if there is one thing us wolves have an advantage over over creatures it is our nice like bite that everywolf has even a shy wolf like serenity possess, mother held on as the timberwolf shook as hard as he could and was slowly starting to get weaker but all of a sudden it bashed Mother's head back into the rock and that caused Mother to release and go limp.
This caused us pups to all team up as me and Zeus jump on and grip onto where Mother had bitten and Mute and Darkness has bitten its front legs and had pulled them back forcing the timberwolf onto his snout, Serenity ran up to his face and bit down by his eye and pulled back tearing one of the timberwolf eyes out and she quickly went to work on its other eye as Mute and Darkness helped out get its neck torn up by our fangs and paws.
Eventually we heard a familiar growl and a familiar smell coming closer so we knew that Mother was back up so we all released the now blind timberwolf and she went to work and bit down hard on the snout that was bleeding a sticky sap like substance which we released so me and the other pups started to clean ourselves and out the corner of my eye I noticed the Pegasus was still there from earlier and as I started to clean one of my back paws.
She slowly walked up to me and when I noticed I dropped into a defensive stance with my fangs bared and ears laid back to show that I was threatened and I am not afraid to pounce and she jumped back and covered her eyes with her hooves and I noticed that this was scared behaviour so I got Serenity and nudged her with my snout and looked at the scared Pegasus and she noticed she was scared so we slowly walked over and sniffed her and she smelled of buttercups so I licked her behind the ear and she tensed up but Serenity nudged her hoof off of her eyes and when she opened her eyes Serenity licked her on the muzzle and she giggled as it tickled her and she started to offer her hoof to touch Serenity and she sniffed it in curiosity, after a snort sniff she move her head closer to the Pegasus and let the Pegasus rub her hoof along Serenity's back and she took a step back and got into a playful stance and I nudged the Pegasus's hoof to try and get a rub and she tried talking to me and I turned my head and was confused so I again nudged her hoof and gave a whimper and I heard some steps behind me and it was Mother she had moved Serenity back and was eyeing the pony up and the pony got the message and backed up as me and serenity howled a goodbye and the rest of the pack joined in but that was out of instinct, Mother didn't join in because she was watching the mare get out of her territory and the rest of the day was uneventful.
Months passed before we were able to go on our first hunt as a pack and I was growing just like my fellow pups so I joined them on this momentous occasion.
I was poised as a lowly buck drank from a stream and we were about to pounce on our prey but he heard a cry from a female deer and ran towards it so me and my pack slowly walked towards it staying in the shadows we were all low to the ground and after a little walk we noticed that the female deer had gotten a hoof stuck in the home of a rabbit and had snapped her leg so he looked at each other and took the moment and pounced.
Me, Darkness and Mute were the first as I landed on the back of the buck and sank my teeth in the flesh on the back of his neck and I eventually reached bone and while I was doing this Darkness and Mute had bitten down onto the back legs and was very careful as to not get bucked by the buck after a little struggle I increased the pressure on the bite and heard a snap and the body of the buck went limp.
After the buck went limp we looked over at Serenity and Zeus and we see that they had easily taken down the injured deer and Serenity is allowing Zeus to take the first bite which is how the pack works as we allow the most dominant pup to get the first bite in of a fresh kill and after the 4 months it had been since meeting that Pegasus Serenity had become a much more playful pup as she started to play with more of us and not just Darkness she was starting to become friends with very member of the pack and she was also outside of hunting the most peaceful of the pack as she would chase bugs and birds around but would never hurt them but her favourite things were butterflies and she would chase them around for hours until mother would call her back.
We had our fill of deer that night and we brought some of the meat home to have later as we were no longer nursing from Mother so we were growing up and I noticed that I was a little smaller then my fellow pups but I didn't care because they were the only family I had ever known.
Winter was slowly approaching and the nights inside of the den were nicer as we would all sleep in a pile like when we were all tiny pups and it would keep us warm. Winter was a fun time for us pups as we could be more rough when we would play and we wouldn't get to hot, hunting was also very easy during this time as the snow would make our nearly silent paws even quieter and the kills were a lot quicker because of us not having to chase our prey because of our silence.
The winter passed and we were all approaching 1 year old and we were doing the usual when we got a visit from the Pegasus mare from before but she was still sporting a scared expression as she approached our den and when mother noticed she leapt down and displayed an aggressive posture with fangs bared and ears laid flat on the top of her head, the Pegasus sits down and takes a few deep breaths and me and Serenity notice her and we run and jump on her licking and nuzzling her as she is the only friend we have outside of our pack she is scared at first but when she feels the familar sensation of the tongues against her head she calms down and when she opens her eyes she notices the Mother has left her alone and gone back to her overwatch of the den.
The Pegasus looks once again at me and while stroking me is really curious about me as she keeps trying to communicate with me but I do not understand me and Mute comes over to join us but Zeus and Darkness stay at a distance as Darkness has always been a bit separate from the rest of us and Zeus is just trying to protect his siblings as he is the closest thing to an alpha male in this pack and him along with Mother are responsible for the wellbeing of the pack, the Pegasus keeps stroking us and I notice she is treating me differently from the rest of the pups so I whine and nudge her hoof with my snout and I want her to stroke like she is doing to my sister and she looks over at me and I know that she can feel that I want to be petted so she gives in as I lean in to the hoof and pant and after she strokes me few minutes I get up to go and play with Mute.
Fluttershy's POV
Why was this colt not talking and how long had this colt been there? Had he always been raised by wolves? To think there are parents who are that disgusting that they would abandon their son in the everfree forest at any age but as a foal that is just unforgivable.
The small look I had the last time I was there I knew he was getting treated as an equal which is not how he would be getting treated if he was with his parents, he was healthy and developing like he should and he will be a lot bigger compared to a normal foal as I read that batponies grow up quicker to help them hunt as their instincts are still very preditorial and that is why ponies are scared of them but why? Griffins where predators they are half eagle and half lion for celestia's sake but they can live fine with ponies so why not thestrals, sometimes I think that us ponies are the worst creature on this planet.
I shake my head and think back to the colt and notice that he is acting like a wolf so he must have been there his whole life I start to wonder if he could even be raised in ponyville as they tend to run away from things they do not understand and also the Mother would not be very likely to let him go so I am going to make sure that him and his pack will never be hurt.
I go up to the mother wolf and I ask her a question "um mrs wolf if you're okay with it could you move your pack closer to my cottage because I am worried for your pack's safety and I am curious about you and your pack" she eyes me suspiciously and proceeds to sniff around me for anything suspicious I allow her without sinking back as i need to look and feelmsure of my decesions for the Mother to treat me seriously.
Now I am close to her i can see she still has a few wounds from the timberwolf and I notice a couple are infected so I get my bag and grab some water and a cloth and start to wash one of the wounds and as soon as I apply pressure she flinch and bares her teeth at me but I remain calm and let her sniff the cloth and loom at her wound and she relaxes but still tenses up when I apply pressure which is to be expected as it must hurt as it has been infected but she must have attempted to clean it in a stream but I was using a very mild painkiller as to try to alleviate some of the pain that she was proberly feeling right at this time.
After I finish treating the Mother wolf she nuzzles me as a sign of appreciation and she barks out to her pack I don't exactly know what she was saying but I understood "kind, pony" and "safe with pack but live elsewhere" and she looks at me like she waiting to lead them somewhere and at that moment I realise they are going to move closer to me for the safety of her pups as I can heal if they are injured or unwell and i brighten up but i keep my composure as if i was to lose the trust of the mother i would most likely never get to the bottom of this.
I also knew that I was going to try and hide this colt and the wolves from my friends for as long as possible because they will react negatively to them.
Applejack was to headset on her views that ever since thestrals started to come back after nightmare moon was turnt back into princess Luna, she has not accepted them and will probably run the colt back into the everfree forest and they will never trust ponies again.
Rarity was too much of a drama queen she will just faint or act to brash and try to attack the poor colt if she got the chance.
Pinkie was not coming near them but with pinkie she probably knew I was here and had already planned the next 5 years of everyone's life. I swear that pony I am glad she likes everyone because if she didn't she would the greatest weapon in equestria.
Rainbow dash is too egotistical, she would fly in to try and save me or so would do something heroic like save the colt from the 'vicious, wild beasts keeping him hostage' plus like applied if she thinks one way she is very difficult to get on to a different idea but she is properly the one I would trust the most as I have known her longer then I have the known the other 4 so she might not be so easy to attack.
Twilight was the big worry with the amount of power she had and because she looks at the facts in books then what goes on around her. Another reason is because of her connections to all 3 of the other princesses one bad situation and these wolves will not be allowed near a pony settlement for as long as they live.
What was I going to do with them?
Colt's POV
We walked in a rows of 2 with Mother and the Pegasus up at the front with Darkness and Serenity at the back and I have started to notice that they are getting closer and closer with each day as Serenity is nothing like what she used to be because she is so friendly but if something tries to hurt her pack she will not stop until it has left or is dead.
After 10 mins we all hear a noise and when we look in a direction we notice it is a Manticore and we all stand in front of the Pegasus which felt weird at first as that is how we protect helpless members of the pack and I realise we are starting to treat the Pegasus who was shocked as she probably knew what this behaviour meant but she jumped in front of us and spread her wings and began to speak with the Manticore and after a while the Manticore looks at us as wwe all have our ears laid back and have all of our fangs bared and it slowly begins to walk away with the Pegasus stopping is from hunting it down and Mother looks at her and turns her head to the side and the Pegasus says something which puts Mother at ease and when I move up and loom at her she licks my neck to tell me it is safe so I lick her back as a show of affection and the Pegasus watches this and squees I walk up to her and lick her muzzle to show her some affection like she deserves as she is the newest member of the pack and Mother quickly makes me get back in position and we continue to follow the Pegasus.
We continued walking until we approached a small building it was like our den but not hidden and there was a nice little stream with some rock going over it I smelled a lot of new scents from birds and fish to bears and more scents like the Pegasus who I might as well give her a name if she is like a member of the pack, after a little thinking I decided I will call her Butterfly.
She looked at Mother and proceeded to ask her something in that language, we will have to get her to speak like us if she is a member of the pack. After the small talk between Butterfly and Mother she points to her house and leads behind it towards a hollowed out tree and she points at that and then at us as if to tell us that is ours.
It clicked that she was moving our pack towards this cottage so she can remain near us a lot more which is good as a pack has to stick together.
Our life continued like this for a while and was very repetitive apart from Butterfly having to leave and never joining us on hunts she must be hunting elsewhere as to allow us to get more from our hunts which is kind of her.
By the time I was 6 I was really growing up and Butterfly was out one day and me and my pack had just come back from a hunt to the sound to the creatures and Serenity immediately rushes to play with the small animals who seem to like her as they had stopped running away and let her chase them except for this little white bunny who was not very ice to Serenity as he would always kick her in the snout when she would get one of the squirrels or other rabbits and this would cause Darkness to come up and growl at him and he would sprint away back into the little house and after the rabbit had left Serenity would lick Darkness's muzzle and playfully nibble on his ear, this was because they had become mates and seemed to be getting closer and closer together and I was hopeful that they would have pups because I would love to have new members in the pack.
It is official Darkness and Serenity are mates and Serenity must be carrying a litter in her so I hope this goes all right but because of this Darkness seemed to take over as the alpha male of the pack as only the alpha male is allowed to breed with the other females in the pack, after they officially became mates Darkness would only ever spend time with Serenity and he became really protective of Serenity just like Mother was when we were all pups but he would allow us to see our packmate but he would stand up behind her while we were there just in case we decided to do something which we wouldn't do because packs run on loyalty and if a wolf betrays the trust that is between they are exiled and if they are found on their previous pack's territory they are deemed an enemy.
One month had passed since Darkness and Serenity mated and we had started to notice the bulge on Serenity's belly and one day Butterfly had come to check on us as she hadn't seen Serenity in a while and with me and Darkness we walked into the den and found Serenity with her large belly which must have been holding at least 5 pups which would make our pack a big and busy pack. Butterfly looked at her belly and gasped she then looked at Serenity and then at Darkness and be nodded to her and she placed her ear on the belly and she gasped and I saw her start to tear up so Serenity licked her tears away and she proceeded to nuzzle Serenity until she heard a loud k coming on her door so she quickly ran to see who it was and I followed as I was curious what would make a loud noise that would have needed to be addressed immediately.
Fluttershy's POV
She was laying on her side with her belly hanging very low and looked at the black wolf and he looked proud but also very, very protective so I looked at hi and then to the female and he nodded so I put my ear up to me belly and I heard very faint heartbeats and my heart grew 3 sizes that day as she was with pups and I will be hear to see her grow up and have her pups like a member of the pack and I released that is what the rest of the wolves saw me as a member of their tight knit pack, this thought brought a tear to my eye which the female was quick to lick away so i replied in a way I knew the wolves would understand so I nuzzled her congratulations and while I was doing this I heard a knock at my door and because these were still meant to be kept a secret I quickly ran out to answer it.
I quickly got to the door and composed myself and it just turned out to be Rainbow Dash. "Hey flutters where have you been, you have been spending a lot more time around your house then usual, and when you do you smell like meat and dogs did you get some new animals or something?" She asked with some confusion as she judged me trying to get out the answer before I even answered.
"Uh" I stammer not knowing what to answer back as she continues to stare at me and I quickly think of something "Yeah new Wol- I mean dogs yeah new delivered from Manehattan need training you know little puppies wanting to play and give kisses" I say hoping that she would fall for that. "Really" all of a sudden I hear a crash and a black speck run away and I hear another crash this one bigger and louder then the last a few seconds passed and I start to hear whimper and this kicks in the carer in me and I run and notice it is the batpony he must have followed but know he has ran into a bookshelf .
He didn't seem too bad but there was some blood on his front left hoof as he was licking at it to try and clean it up over my shoulder I hear rainbow dash in the other room call to me "hey fluttershy is everything alright was that just Angel being angel" a hear a clip clopping of hooves and she walks in next to me and her eyes narrow as she notices the batpony behind me half under a bookcase whimpering like a dog. "Fluttershy why is there one of those freaks in your house because if he has hurt you I swear to celestia" I quickly cut her off and stand in her path "he is not a freak he is only a child and right now he is in pain" I quickly turn around and try to lift the bookcase of off him "Yeah he might be a colt but him and his whole race are just a big batch of mistakes that Luna couldn't fix" Rainbow quickly spat out as looked like she was going to trample the poor colt.
After she said that I felt my blood boil and a lifted the bookcase of off him and went right up into rainbow dash's face "how dare you, he is a child who is not much different from you he is properly more life, then you would ever be because he doesn't judge ponies based on their appearance you racist" I spat as I almost went into stare mode I continued "I thought I would've been able to trust you with finding out about him but no you are just like the other ponies and you are just like the ponies who abandoned him."
Rainbow sat back in shock and tried to talk but nothing came up I just started to walk back to the colt under the bookcase and I eventually lift it off of him and I quickly pick him up and nuzzle him and he licks my muzzle and I take a look at his front hoof and see that it is sprained but one of his back hooves is cracked and needs medical attention which I can luckily provide, I look at rainbow dash and I quickly shake her back to reality "rainbow dash if you want to make it up to me listen to me now, he has cracked a hoof but I can heal it but I need you to grab something from my bedroom" I say putting on my animal carer mode. "O-o-oh yeah what do you need" she replies shaking her self back to normal "the bandages and medical hoof cream in the top draw of my bedside table quickly" as she flies of I go back to stroking the head of the colt and he starts to calm down and relax and the realisation hits me that I haven't given him a name, I mentally face hoof and think of what would suit him as I look at him "I know lets call you Howling Moon that is a fitting name for a batpony of your upbringing." Rainbow dash quickly comes back with what j asked as I sat there with Howling Moon calming him down as i could tell as he was panting just like a wolf but he would help when anything touched his hoof and rainbow quickly gives me the stuff and flies out quickly. As I try to apply the cream to his hoof he helps and starts to growl at me but I quickly nuzzle him and check if rainbow is around and I lick his muzzle like he does to the other members of his pack.
Howling Moon's POV
Serenity's pregnancy had been progressing as what I assumed as normal as Darkness would stay I front of the den and only leave to bring food to her and this had started to get into a routine until one day.
I had woke up and immediately noticed that it was colder then it had been recently and this confused me at first but j assjmed that it was just the weather being different and nothing special and when Zeus and Mute woke up we went on a hunt while Darkness assumed his normal spot and we went and hunted.
We stalked through the bushes as we walked we got near the edges of the trees and we noticed something something which was strange, the ponies were flying everywhere trying to cover the sky in cloud and they were doing this but I quickly look back to the rest of my pack and we continue our hunt. We get towards a clearing and we hear some screams and a loud almost feline growl so we use our smell and notice 4 different scents and that 3 of them are very similar to Butterfly so we assumed that they were ponies so we jumped to take care of what the other scent was and we leapt out in front of the creature.
It was a large feline with a large amount of fur around its head except that was a different colour as it went from an orange like leaves in the Autumn to a red almost like the setting sun before the night time. It had a very feline body until we laid our eyes on its back as we noticed 3 very nasty surprises, 2 of those surprises were wings that looked very similar to what laided on my back but they did not threaten me what did was the tail which stood high and threatening as we separated to try to surround the creature we knew to take out the tail first so we looked at each other, during hunts we would look at each other and would be able to tell each other what to do with little flicks of our ears and small body movements, I was going to go for the neck and Zeus and Mute were to go for the tail and to try and avoid the legs as we did not want to try to see if this creature could buck like a deer.
We leapt Mute went first as he dived to try and grab the upper portion of the tail and we tried to bite it but it seemed to be covered in scales so his fangs couldn't penetrate so we regrouped and figured we would have to go for a quick kill to the neck while avoiding the tail so we spread out and completely surrounding it. We all leapt in a once and I went for the usual tactic which was the back of the neck and biting through the spinal cord, Zeus went for the throat trying to get the jugular and let the creature to make it bleed we wrestled with it until we thought we had won as Zeus managed to sink his fangs in completely so we thought we were taking this beast down but all of a sudden the tail swung around got Mute as we heard a loud whimper and we look back to see the tail stinging him right on the right hind leg and this beast has seriously messed up as the one thing you do not do is just a member of the pack as me and Zeus just start to claw and dig our fangs into it deeper and deeper and eventually it starts to wobble and eventually just falls and passes out from blood loss as Zeus goes for the kill I look to see how Mute was. He was starting to look pale as the sting zone had swelled and had stated to change to a more black colour which was the opposite of his usual coloration and he keeps whimpering in pain and I know we need to get help quick.
I look a the ponies who the beast was attacking and notice that they are all young and must be about the same age as me mabye a little older I look them over and discern that they are curious but also frozen with fear as I look them over and notice that one is injured so I knew we had to get them help as well as Mute, I pick Mute up and lay him on my back and Zeus takes the lead and I loom back at the ponies and motion with my head to follow and they start to follow if keeping a little distance but a rustle of leaves behind them makes then hurry up and stick close to me.
During our walk one of the ponies a white pony with a horn comes up and speaks to me I stop and look at her and sniff her to make sure she is no danger to my injured pack mate we resume walking and she looms at me really confused I hear her say some things and I look at her and cock my head sideways as I do not understand what she is talking to me about I need to get Butterfly to help me understand this language and she goes back to her friends and we eventually get back on stone path and start to follow back to Butterfly's cottage.
I get to the edge of Butterfly's cottage and I howl to attract her and the rest of my pack and I see Butterfly run out knowing why we howl and she gasps as she sees both the ponies and Mute in pain.
Fluttershy's POV
My peace was disturbed by a howl from Howling Moon as I had learnt his pitch and the little things that made his howl different so I run to see what it is and I see Howling Moon with the black and white wolf with the dark one watching the forest behind them and I noticed that the pack was not alone.
During their hunt they had ran into the CMC and by the looks of it applebloom was injured but it looked relatively small compared to the injury on the wolf. On his right hind quaters was a sting wound so it was obviously a manticore attack but the venom had attacked the body of the wolf differently then it had to a pony, normally it would have just paralysed them but this time it had not only paralysed him but had swelled up and started to turn black as the fur around it was the our white sections of his fur.
I run out after grabbing a first aid kit for both and I check on both but prioritising the wolf over applebloom as her injury was not as serious I help get the wolf into my cottage and lay him down as i see his shallow breathing so the venom is defiantly acting different as it would to a pony so i first try to use a plunger to suck the poison out of him and I manage to get a little bit out and significantly reduce the pain but I quickly start to dab around and on the sting zone and keep an eye on his condition as he could get worse in the blink of an eye.
While I am doing this the CMC are just sitting watching me while Howling Moon sits by the wolves head and I see tears brimming in his eye as he nuzzles the wolf with affection he has never showed anyone I have seen before and he lays down just like a wolf and cuddles up warm placing his tail over the wolves and cooling it up in an attempt to keep him warm as he lets out a whimper and licks his ear as it gives a slow flick in response. I finish treating the wolf the best I could and leave him to get some rest as I finally notice how weirded out the CMC are from what has happened, so I let the questions come as I move them away from the wolf and start to treat applebloom while I am able to him in the background.
As I am checking over Applebloom's foreleg Sweetie Belle asks "Fluttershy who is that and why is he so close to that wolf?" I pause and wonder 'how am I going to explain this to them " He is- uhhh. Oh forget it so that is Howling Moon and he is a batpony who I found living with that pack of wolves since he was probably a child as he says more selfish then pony" scootaloo quickly chimes in "so if he is still young that means he hasn't earned his cutie mark yet" she starts to think but I put a quick stop to that by putting a hoof on her shoulder "Scootaloo you are not and I repeat NOT taking howling moon out on a crusade" she answers back "why" "because he doesn't act like a pony you saw how he acted around that wolf he was acting just like a member of a wolfpack would act around an injured packmate." I look back at howling moon and he was still laying close to the other wolf, my gaze falls onto my calender and I remember what I was doing before I spotted the CMC and the wolves and I realise that I am going to have to get the female wolf into the house because the sound of a storm as big as the pegasi have planned could cause the wolf to give birth and it is not the safest place for that to happen so I look at the CMC "stay here a storm is starting soon I need to get more of my animals into my cottage just stay there" I ordered they quickly gave me mock salutes and remained sat down while I ran outside as the rain started.
I saw the black wolf standing outside the den he was watching all of the surrounding area around his mates den I looked at him and signalled to the sky and he noticed and looked back at me I nuzzle him and point to my cottage he nods and allows me to follow him to the pregnant wolf.
This wolf must have been due any day now the wolf was huge she must have had a big litter inside of her, I make my thinking return to getting her inside I lay down next to her and signal the wolf to place her on my back he struggles to get her but eventually manages to do so. I run or briskly trot back to my cottage as I see the mother see me and the 2 wolves approaching and looks at the pitch pack male and he barks once and the mother follows us in as a loud bang of thunder and a flash of lightning strikes the ground not too far from where we were standingwhich makes us all jumps as the wolves bare their fangs at an unknown threat and when I check all of them are here I look at the pregnant female and notice a clear fluid running down her legs, my eyes widen any wider and they would pop out of their sockets, I rush to make a makeshift bed for the female as she lays down and begins one of the most exciting moments of my life as I watch this pack that I am a part of expand and increase in numbers and being a non alpha female means I am going to get to look after them when they emerge from the den.
The wolf begins to push and the father of the littler stays away as males can be aggressive to the newborns so it was just me and the mother of these pups I lay down by her head and nuzzle her as she whimper in pain as we start to see pups coming out surrounded in the membrane and all their fur matted down, one came out, then another, and another one and kept going until she had 5 new pups 3 of which seemed to have the same colour scheme as the mother here I see her relax and start panting as she guides the new born to her tears as they partake in their first meal in this world.
Howling Moon's POV
I hear a whimper come from Serenity so I quickly walk and see her and Butterfly laying down with Serenity giving birth to her pups and my eyes widen as our pack as just expanded, I see the 3rd pip co e out and notice she still has a bit of a bulge so I know to expect more as I see Butterfly nuzzle Serenity to help her through this and before she knows she had given birth to 2 more pups.
5.... 5 new pups to join our pack I start to jump around and I walk up to Butterfly and Serenity and look at the pups with my tail showing my happiness as I lay down and lick Serenity on the muzzle as a congratulations for a successful birth as the 5 pups nurse on her just like we had done to Mother when we were all pups.
I notice Darkness wall over to inspect the litter as he is the alpha he can decide he quickly looked at me so I knew to move out of the way and he allowed Butterfly as she laid there comforting the newly christened mother. I hear a help and look at Butterfly and notice that one of the pups had tried to nurse from her but she wasn't producing any milk so she quickly moved the pup back to Serenity and the pup continued nursing and we all just stayed together as Butterfly moved Mute over here and she went back to the three ponies she was treating and the rest of us rested as a pack would long into the night.
I had become a uncle to 5 new pups I was jumping for joy Serenity had given birth and all the pups looked healthy, but my attention had gone off of Serenity's first litter and back to mute who was still asleep and I licked his snout with mine to see if he was awake and he barely reacted I could see him panting as he was cold and shivering so I tried tk get him warm by laying almost on top of him so that i could provide him with a source of heat and hopefully get better as I already miss playing with him and it hasn't even been 1 day i start to cry as I do not want to lose the member of my pack that I am closest to I started to sleep as I saw Butterfly provide the 3 small ponies with blankets and she came and sat by me and nuzzled me so I licked her back as I yawned she started to stroke my head and It was such a soft touch that I quickly became engulfed by sleep.
I woke up and was surprised that we were all inside of Butterfly's cottage and I quickly remember why and place my head back down only to immediately shoot back up to check on the pups and Serenity. The pups had slept nicely as we had not woken up once during the night and they had woken up and were starting to drink their milk I got to have a good look at each one but I couldn't give them names yet as they did not really have any sort of personality at this age and their eyes are closed so they couldn't see and I noticed one of the black pups was walking more like 'flopping' away so I went to keep an eye on them, they were adventurous but I gently picked them up by the back of their neck and bring him back his mother's side I nuzzle him, I am going to like him when he grows up.
I look over to Mute and he is breathing faster but is still out but his colour has returned and he is not panting as fast but I am still worried, i notice Mother is over there this is properly messing with her maternal instincts as she cannot help a member of the pack that is in pain so I go and nuzzle Mother as she is properly going through a lot and I wish I could thank Butterfly more but I do not know how to speak her language so I try to move my tongue to make different sounds but it just sounds like different tones of growls I think back to when Butterfly talked to me the first time and I remember the last word she said I try to say the word "Po...n...i" I say and wagged my tail as I have just said a word that the ponies use and this could be useful if I can learn more and more words and mabye I can teach my pack to talk like the ponies so Mute can tell Butterfly thank you.
Over the next hour I had managed to learn 3 more words as I could say "me" "wolf" and "word" and I got hungry so I went for a walk to try and find some food I go to the edge of the forest and find some squirrels I quickly pounce on one and eat it it wasn't a big meal but it would keep me full until we went hunting later.
I went back in and decided to explore the house as I and not managed to when I was being chased by the colourful pegasus so I walked around and found a way to go up to another place so I walk up and I smell Butterfly so this must be where she sleeps I look at her and notice that she is sleeping on something white so I lay with her by her hind legs as to not disturb her and manage to fall asleep this thing was softer then anything I had ever touched before and I never wanted to get up off of this, sleep takes me as I sleep at the foot of Butterfly's bed.
Fluttershy's POV
I open my eyes and immediately notice that my bed is being weighed down, my breathing speeds up before I look and it is Howling Moon just sleeping calmly I try to get up without waking up but i fail and he opens those yellow eyes I see him concentrate on something so I look at him curious and I hear something I thought I would not hear and that is the word "pony"come from his mouth.
He pointed at me and called me a pony he is actually learning how to become a pony we said a word in equuish for the first time in I wish I could capture this moment as I give him a hug and he licks me and points to himself and says "me, wolf" well someone was busy learning some of the equuish language he is trying to have a conversation with me he points back at me and says "word" he wants me to talk so I quickly point at him and then at me and say "me and you friend" as I keep moving my hoof from pointing at him to pointing at me and he nods and concentrates for a little while and repeats with a roll of his Rs "you, me friend" his tail starts wagging and he starts jumping around like a member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders when they get a new idea for how to get their cutie marks I give him a hug "good job Howling Moon" I say congratulating him for this achievement.
We spent 30 more minutes teaching him words and he was learning quick but only short words but had learnt that his name that I call him is Howling Moon, after the 30 mins it was time for me to go and feed my animals and also to check on the new pups as I needed to make sure that she was not early and the pups were in danger of being premature, when I approached the mother i saw her ears flick and she looked at me and allowed me to check the pups this must be an aspect of wolf pack's that I am not aware of because she was sleeping separate from the males and even started to growl when Moon tried to walk closer to the pups as some males can be really aggressive towards and the pups and can eat them if they are left alone for too long, I approach the pups and gently nudge one with my muzzle as to be gently as my hoof could possibly press to hard and the little wolf nuzzles back and my heart explodes from cuteness as I see the mother watching over her pups guiding some of them to her teats and allowing them to feed.
Moon's POV
I was just sitting by the pups and studying them so I could see what kind of personality they have when all of a sudden I hear a knock at the door and I hear butterfly walk to the door and open it and it turns out to be the colourful Pegasus from the other day and this angers me as she tried hurting me so she might try to hurt the pups so I take a defensive stance infront of the pups to protect them.
3rd Person
Fluttershy opens the doors and finds Rainbow Dash contemplating something so she waits for her to finish as it would be rude to interrupt during her thought process, eventually Rainbow Dash shakes her head and notices Fluttershy looking at her and nervously laughs "Oh hey Flutters and just wanted to come talk to you about. . You know HIM" Fluttershy stands her ground and says "I will only allow you in as long as you promise not to scare him or his family and you also have to be quiet and dont make any sudden movements as I am gonna tell you one of the wolves has had pups so just stand by me and dont move towards them as the mother is very defensive of every wolf in the house." Rainbow Dash gulps and readys herself and nods "Ok" and she shakes herself down and follows in Fluttershy.
Author's Note
Sorry about long wait I always have trouble progressing stories and as I also have a job which requires me to be working most of the day so I apologize but I also do not write on a schedule so updates will kind of just be when I get the ideas to continue the story