Medusa first thing she felt was something warm and soft was she dead? No just asleep and waking up she curled like a baby but as her eyes opened up not to be blind by any bright light but a soft red light. Where was she? Looking around her hood opened up as she saw the much alien room, red light flooded the whole room along with black metal all in a strange pattern she got up she saw froze a large black wolf was curled up next to her as it laid on the large furs that was covering her like a blanket. The wolf's ear moved as she slightly moved the wolf got up and looked at her, its gold eyes looked at her as she didn't move. Expecting the wolf to strike her it did the opposite it moved its paws up to crawl over to her like a puppy as it wined. Medusa confused at what to do she slowly reached for the wolf which the wolf saw this and push its head into her hand with a happy growl.

Then the door to the strange room opened causing the two to turn to the doorway to see a maskless predator holding a try with food and a drink as he looked at the viper. Medusa was shocked at what going on but the wolf jumped from the bed over to his master waging his tail at the predator, slowly sitting next to the confused viper and handed her the tray. Not wanting to upset the thing that can rip her own head off she took the tray and looked down at. It was all meat something she hadn't have in so long since join OSD it was all Vegan plates no protein or iron something that caused her to be lightheaded half the time. She wasted no time eating the meat it was strange and familiar but good and unlike snakes she could chew her food thanks to the extra teeth but she need to be careful of her fangs when eating. After inhaling the food she grabbed the drink and look down at liquid, the liquid was a glowing blue something that would make anyone causes of what it was. She turned to the hunter as he held a hand in 'drinking' motion to tell it was safe to drink, looking at the drink she took a gulp tasting a cotton candy and fruit it was really good.

"That was great!" Medusa said with a smile.

"Glad you enjoyed it," A new raspy voice said from next to her.

Slowly turning her head to the predator as he tilted his head to her.

"Did you...did you just TALK!?" Medusa said in shock.

"Yes I did," Medusa was right the predator just spoke to her.

"You can talk!" With that she screamed with glee with her hands like a happy little girl.

The predator's eye her with confusion.

"I could always talk but you couldn't understand me," the predator spoke.

The viper was confused.

"The drink it had nano machines that altered your brain to understand my clicking and growls to speech," The predator pointed to his head.

She looked at the cup and back at the predator and freaked out.

"YOU PUT ROBOTS IN MY BODY!" no she was beyond freaking out.

Her tail was sparing out of control and all over the place causing the wolf to hit the deck as the predator wasn't he was trying to claim her down.

"Hey Hey claim down they only-" He jumped out the way before her tail hit where he was standing.

"-It was only to-" He donged another attack.

"-CLAIM DOWN FOR ELDER'S SAKE!?" with that he hit her head as she turned to him with a slight blush.

The predator head the gap between his eyes as one would usually hold their noise as if upset.

"Are you done destroying my room?" The predator ask flinging his hand out.

The viper blushed even harder.

"Y-yes sorry," Medusa said.

The predator sighed but looked at her.

"Its fine nothing was broken but besides from that what is you name Viper?" The predator asked.

medusa like a shy little girl meeting her hero for the first time placed her forefingers together shyly.

"Its Medusa," The viper introduced.

The predator looked at her like a dog cursorily.

"Huh didn't expect a name like that...well I can't be the one talking for a name like dark," the predator said.

Medusa stop with her fingers and looked at the predator now named 'dark'.

"Wait you name is dark," The viper asked.

He nodded 'yes'.

"That's not what I expected to be honest," Medusa told the hunter.

The predator gave her 'really' look.

"What do you honestly think it would be zenda or something like that," medusa did a 'kinda' look causing dark to sigh.

"Well since you awake come on i show you around," with that medusa snaked her way off the large pile of furs that were a 'bed' and followed dark into a large room.

"Welcome to my home Medusa,"

Twilight panted he wing's burned in pain she was almost their, her pain was so much that she almost pasted out a few time but she pressed on. Then finally after all night she made it...counterlot, she didn't have time to land properly she must warn the others about OSD and the predator's escape.

She flew in straight though a window not caring if the glass sunk into her skin she must warn them, she crash landed in the middle of the great hall shocking the guards around her.

"PRINCESS ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" The guards ran to their newest rule in worry.

She grabbed the first guard that was closest to her.

"The princesses where are they?!" her bleeding hand staining the stallions white coat.

"Um...their in the dinning hall but-" She let him go and run though the castle like a bullet and threw the doors to the dinning hall open to ravel her surprised friends.

"Twilight is that-" Her mentor was cut off by her former student flying into her looking her right in her pink eyes.

"CELESITAITGOTOUTTHEOSDTHEYHAVESOMETHINGIDON'TKNOWWHATBUTITHASTODOSOMETHINGWITHTHEPREDATOR-" Luna pulled the bleeding twilight off her sister and into a hug.

"Claim down Claim down-" Luna tried to coo her fellow princess but twilight wasn't having it.

"Claim down CLAIM DOWN!? ITS OUT! ITS FREE!!! THE OSD-" She was stopped when luna used some sleep and healing magic to claim her down causing the glass in her flesh to fall out and the wounds heal up along with her body to cool down.

"Its OK we got you twilight now claimly tell us what happen," twilight looked up at the shocked mother-like princess of the sun with teary eyes.

"Princess-"

(Back with Dark and medusa)

Unlike twilight, medusa was having the time of her life. All her life research couldn't prepare her for what she was seeing, she hit the jack-pot. The ship she was in had hieroglyphs all though out the ship, tools, recorded data INTACTED mind you, technology working technology. A researcher's dream come true, dark took her though the ship showing her everything it had a bedroom (which she woke up in), Cockpit, a golden rec room, bathroom that held a strange black liquid for water, and then their was the armory/trophy room. Weapons of different types were on every part of the room besides one wall, masks and armor pieces landed on what looked like a work bench.

"Amazing," Medusa was dumbfounded as she held up a mask that belonged to 'chopper' a old friend of dark who died in glory.

Dark 'smiled' at the viper acting more and more like a little girl, he watched her place the mask back on the rack as she slither overed to his trophy wall. Their was so many skulls dragons, ponies, and diamond dog almost every species that lived on equis and others like a strange long skull with a second mouth. All these skull but she saw something that confused her, their was no viper skulls anywhere...wait was she going to be on this wall?! With hesitation she was about to ask dark why but saw something that made her eyes go wide, she reached over to the wall and pulled it off it was a old flint lock pistol one that belonged to her people. Black wood with sharp teeth on the bottom of the barrel, a clawed grip, and sliver trimming with a print on it. Here eyes widen...Xenom of the fang clan this was he grandfathers pistol the one that her grandfather told that he gave a fellow hunter long ago.

"Dark how did you get this?" She asked as she showed him the gun.

Dark looked at the weapon and took it into her hands as he 'smile' at the weapon a memory so long ago but one that he could never forget.

"A viper gave me this a long long time ago," Medusa eyes widen.

"Wait what?!"

(Over a 100 years ago)
(the thick forest of the viper fang clan)

Dark sat in the trees looking for prey to claim as he was going to give up for the night he heard something, using his superhuman strength and speed he climb/ran though the forest like it was made just for him. Stopping right above a clearing he saw it, a viper, a warrior viper fighting among his dead comrades against caribou sex slavers that was trying to raid his village.

"FOR LORD SETH!" A caribou shouted holding out a sword.

"GOD OF WAR GIVE ME STRENGTH!" The warrior viper said slashing at the caribou as the predator watched.

'FoR loRD SetH'

'GOd Of wAr GiVE me STREngTH'

The blacked armored snake warrior fired his pistol at a attacking caribou, behind the viper a caribou tried to stab the warrior in the back. Seeing this Dark threw his spear to the caribou's gut as he jumped down and pulled out a sword as he came out of cloak.

The viper saw this and looked at the predator as dark looked right back before nodding as the got back to back and began to the slavers.

"COME ON! YOU BASTARDS" The viper roared.

"COME ON!" Dark spoke in a record darker voice of the viper taunting the caribou.

The viper stabbed a caribou with his blade not seeing the caribou on his left but dark did slicing off the caribou's hands before the head of slaver.

The two fought as one.

When ever one was in trouble the other had the other's back the warrior and the hunter fought off the horde of slavers with the fight with the might thousand men. Dark slashed at caribou with a flint lock firing at the predator but the bullet bounced off him as another caribou prepared to cut the predator's head of, but the yellow tail of the viper wrapped itself around his neck snapping it.

And after a long battle the two stood their panting, tired, and covered in cuts and blood as dawn began to break it was done the battle was over the slavers dead. The two looked at each other panting the viper studied his partner closely as dark did the same. Both with tribal armor, both wearing trophies of hunts, both killers, both ready to strike.

"So...what now we fight and you take my head," The viper said holding his broken sword.

Dark looked at the viper then shook his head and got in a more relax state as did viper, dark plopped down on top of a caribou body as viper sat down next to him.

"By the goddess I didn't want to have fight a ally," Dark looked at the viper.

"One hell of fight right brother?" The viper asked dark.

"Brother?" Dark spoke back.

The viper placed a hand on his should.

"Of course you help defend my village and my love that would take a true warrior to fight for whats right," With that viper got up as did dark.

Viper pulled out his dagger and cut his hand causing blood to flood out and held it out for dark, the predator looked at the vipers hand then back to the viper before using his claw to do the same to his hand and took his hand.

The two had become blood brothers.

As dark turned to leave the viper stopped him.

"Brother here take it," Dark turned to the viper and grabbed what was thrown to him.

Dark looked at the pistol and back to the viper looking at his broken blade, the predator took his and threw it to the viper.

"Take it,"

And with that the predator vanished before the vipers eye's, the viper smiled looking at his new sword then back to the forest.

He had a story to tell his village.

Dark watched his 'blood brother' enter his village from a tree as he played the vipers recording.

"-a true warrior to fight for whats right,"

"Your grandfather inspired me to not hunt just out honor but what was for right as well," Dark said with a chuckle as he placed the gun back onto the rack.

Medusa had stars in her eye this was mind blowing, Dark placed a hand on her head and petted her.

"When I saw your eyes I knew that I couldn't hurt you even if I tried," Medusa blushed at the predator's touch.

"That and this," He waved her over to the cockpit.

The two entered the cockpit where the hard drive was hooked up to the ship's main computer, dark pushed some buttons on his wrist computer and on a red holo panel the image of what looked like a map popped up.

"Hey that is the map the OSD gained over 400 years ago," medusa pointed out.

Dark nodded.

"Yes but a part of its missing and that is way I need you help to decipher it," Medusa cocked her head.

"What do you mean isn't this your language?" She pointed to the hologram

"That is it but its encoded and since your the only other person on this plant that can read it I think we could find the location of the temple of the abomination queen,"

Author's Note

Theme song!

Also story behind 1718 pistol