Howl at the Moon

by Failsafe99

5 Days Later

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It had been a business week since I had gone out hunting for steak. I at that time had been able to catch a bugbear and a hydra, though I had gotten a little bruised from the hydra. I had been able to take both creatures, with Cy's help, to Ponyville and get them cut up into steaks by the only Griffon butcher in town. I took most of the steaks home, and a job along with it. The butcher offered to pay me 300 bits for every creature that I hunted and brought in. Seeing as I wouldn't be able to eat all of the meat myself, I agreed, and let him have over half the bugbear and hydra, taking some of the meat home for free.

The next day, I had gone to Sugercube Corner to see if their was anything else that I could do when not hunting, and Mrs. Cake gave me a dishwasher position. It wasn't that bad, as most of the time Pinkie or one of the Cakes would help me in doing them, putting them away after I had washed them and dried them. It beat some of the other dish jobs I have had. I was paid 20 bits an hour, which wasn't bad in the grand scheme of things, as I made up for any slack in it by hunting.

On Tuesday, I went to Twilight's librarby and talked to her some more on Ponyville, how it came to be and all that, and told her more about myself. We also rearranged the shelves, which gave me some money, but it didn't matter. All that matters is getting a stable job.

On Wednesday, I finally gave up on finding a job, and decided to let hunting and janitorial work would suffice for now, as Ponyville wasn't a quiet town. On Wednesday, I had to fight a demon. Yes, because apparently earlier in the year, Cerberus had left his post, and some demons had gotten out. So yeah, fought a demon. Didn't kill it, no. Just had Cerberus take it back.

Cerberus didn't look like your typical three headed dog. No, he walked bi-pedal, and he looked rough. I didn't like the fact that he looked like he could kill me just by barking. He scared me. As I said, he was bipedal, but it was digitigrade, like dogs normally walk. He was buff, and his muscles were prominent under his brown fur and skin. His faces were skull like, stubby, and eyeless, the black holes of his eyes as dark as the pit he guarded, Tarturus. Cerberus's hands where giant, bigger than a car tire, which he could probably grip with ease, and ended in wickedly sharp claws. He had a chain around each neck, and he had hair that covered him like a loincloth,up on his arms, and on his heads behind each one.

I was happy when he took the demon and left. I felt much safer after he was gone. Hell, I felt safer with the demon than him, but that was just me. Apparently, Fluttershy has met him a few times for tea, and he was a very nice and gentle dog. I only believed it because Fluttershy.

Thursday was better. I got a good run and hunt in, and I got started on training with the golems that Twilight had made for practicing. I found out that I pretty much had the durability of a Faunulis, from the show Magi, who were able to withstand just about anything. I also had most of the strength to match. I went a few kickboxing matches with Applejack, and we both were stumbling home afterwards. It was a good day.

Friday was when things started to take a turn for the worse, though it didn't happen in Ponyville. It happened elsewhere on the continent. I wasn't there, but reports made after the upcoming events say that a few creatures where found to be shriveled up of all magic, and most of their souls. No one was able to get a good description of what creatures, but they died after being in hospitals. It was two weeks later that I would be hearing this, but I had a boring Friday.

Saturday was alright. The CMC found me on a hunt, and they followed me in the Everfree, which if I hadn't sent Cy to follow them, they might have died from another manticore. He was able to fend it off while I got the girls to their homes safely. Each of their sisters thanked me for saving them, and then turned and shouted the girls ears off. I got out of those yelling's by saying that I needed to do some things, and left for the Everfree to see if Cy had killed it.

What I found was a little better. I found Cy at the manticore's nest, "helping" the nice lady that had tried to kill the CMC. I left them to it, and went home for a shower. The shower was different than the first time I had gone in. Now, it looked like an ocean. It was beautiful. I was speechless. I swam for what must have been an hour. I didn't keep track of the time. The sea critters where the most amazing things ever. Most all the fish were unrecognizable by me, while a few I was able to identify.

I stepped out the shower, and requiped my pajamas, moving to my small library. I picked up the last book I had been reading, and continued from where I had left off. After three hours of reading, I noticed another part of the house that I hadn't noticed before. That probably was because it hadn't been there before. I found a note near it, saying.

"I am getting closer to your dream home. The speakers are as you have wanted, in every room of the house. Pound away. The Bluetooth is HOUSE.

I decided to take the Shaman up on the offer. I pulled out my music phone. It was 2:09 P.M.. I typed that into to my password, and pulled up the Bluetooth, and looked for HOUSE. Pairing it, I put on my music.

If you didn't understand what I said in the last few paragraphs, let me give you some context to help you figure out what the Shaman had meant, and why I currently was pounding out some heavy dubstep and rock music from speakers in the corner of every room in the house.

A dream of mine had always been to get myself a house out in the middle of nowhere, but decently close to a town, and wire a bunch of speakers into the corners of every room in said house. That way, I could put my music on, and still listen to it wherever I happened to be in the house. That is what has happened, and I currently was enjoying myself on the couch in my library.

After I finished listening to music, I made some food for Cy and I, and waited for him to come home. He did, and we ate and went to bed.

Now we continue the story on Sunday. I walked out my house and went for a stroll in the woods. I liked the Everfree forest, and how it was untamed by the ponies. I liked the adventure that it gave you each time you went in. It didn't take me long to start finding tracks of something. This was different from other creatures in the forest. It didn't make any tracks that I could identify to a creature. I decided that it might be worth investigating.

Tracking the thing for half an hour finally caught me up to it. When I finally saw it, I didn't bother with it. I don't take on Ent's. I went to town and reported it to Twilight.


Author's Note


This is what Cerberus looks like. Also, I know I am slightly uping my power, but it is in the still in acceptable nerfed range. She is not overly OP. The main reason I added the strength is because she has to wield the God-Eater somehow. The sword is massive, as big as Dragonslayer. It requires great strength to hold. Anyways, tomorrow I fight a demon.

Have a Jivin day!

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