The first rays of sunlight peaked through the leaves and branches of the Forest of Freedom as it rose above the mountains in the vast distance. Nighttime shadows that grew from the trees and morphed with one another shrunk back into the trees. It was as if the light being produced from the sun scared the dark patches, making them scurry back into the safety of the trees. Any part of the forest that was not covered by the trees was lit up by the warm light, being done so in a way that made the forest seem magical. Animals that were sleeping or up throughout the night paid little attention to the incoming day, even as they got up to start it. Birds were flying around, and tweeting, squirrels and rabbits were hopping and scurrying around, and the biggest ones were foraging on the vegetation they walked upon. To any lover of nature, or somepony that just loves the quiet outdoors, this would be the place to resign in. For there would be no other wilderness or forest quite like this one.

As peaceful as it was, the herbivores of this forest had yet to realize that peace would soon be broken.

Unaware to the biggest plant eaters, a lone figure was stalking through the brush, coming ever closer to choosing one of them as their unlucky victims. Barely a sound could be heard by the unknown carnivore as it slowly made its way through the undergrowth. It used the vegetation as camouflage, its dark frame melting beautifully in the dark shadows of the greenery. The only things that could be seen poking out of the grass and bushes was the tuft of purple and black on its tail, as well as the jet-black and royal blue fur making up its tail tuft. One other aspect of the creature were its palomino creamy paws. Both shaped in a way that was very much like a dragon’s, giving one an inkling of just what kind of predator this was.

Only, this carnivore was no dragon…or at least, it was not entirely a dragon.

The beast out a low growl as it crept through the brushes and quietly stepped over the grass that towered over the dark brown soil. The soft padding under its paws gave it aid in muffling sound to the point where it could barely be heard, other than the producer itself. It did its best not to step on anything that may trigger any alarm or give its presence away, like the crumbling of rocks, or the snapping of twigs, both of which would spoil its hunt. Its ears flicked back and forth, up and down, listening out for any sign that the quarry it was looking for had detected its presence. The wind blew in its direction, as if it was guiding the scent of the target towards the feline, and it hit its nostrils are they flared out to sniff the air. Sensing its prey was still near, the cat continued its search, knowing that it was near, and its changes to make a kill were becoming higher.

It did not take very long for the unknown beast to find what she was looking for, and the sight of the soon-to-be meal in front of them nearly made it give itself away. It was a large stag, and easily more than several times as big as any normal deer’s and buffer as well. Its thick albino white coat shimmered in whatever light was piercing through the trees, giving it a soft white glow within the shade it was grazing in. Its unusually antlers stood tall and proud, set with razor-sharp cut piercing tips while a curved one could be seen on top of its nose. These assets showed that it would not be an easy feat for its attacker, but this did not sway it. For it know that if it got it right, the rewards, would be huge.

Even more so since it had the right combination of tools and assets to do it.

The whiskers on the carnivore’s head twitched almost robotically as it crept over closer to the stag, who did not yet notice it was being stalked. At one point, one of the cat’s hind hooves stepped down onto a twig, and the stag’s head shot up in alarm. The predator froze in place, hunching its body as low as it could go as its tail tuft twitched back and forth more eratically. It only stretched on for a couple of moments, but it felt much longer than that to the hungry prowler, who sighed with relief when the stag lowered its head again. Once it was back calm again, it crept just a couple of inches closer, claws slowly unsheathing from its paws. A barely audible growl rumbled from out of its throat as its muscles hunched, ready for chase about to come. It sucked in breath, before it let it lose in a startling roar as it leapt in the air, claws fulling jetting out, and glistening fangs bared.

The deer let loose a bleat of alarm, before swerving to the side and taking off down the slope that it was grazing atop of. It winced when it felt the draconic beast’s claws slash into its flank, and it faltered just the slightest, before picking up speed. The beast lashed its tail out before taking off after the stag, letting out another roar as it did.

The beating of the hooves of the deer and the padded paws of the creature was the only thing that was heard in the forest as they both took down the same path. That was soon broken when a nearby flock of birds flew into the distance, chirping and screeching loudly as the hunt began to take place. The deer and draconic beast where nothing more than white and grey burs as they took off along the threes and flattened the grass beneath them. At one point, they came to a fallen tree, and the deer, thinking it had the edge, leapt over it with hardly any effort. It looked back behind it, thinking that it was able to outrun its sabered pursuer. That thought diminished immediately when it saw the supposed meat eater leap over the log with a determined growl. The deer felt its fur stand on the back of its neck when it saw what looked to be wings partially unfurling on either of the beasts’ side.

Knowing that it needed to escape for its killer permeantly, the deer picked up its pace, heading straight down a bath that had large jagged rocks on either side. It made turns so sharp that it would’ve made anypony that wasn’t a pegasus fall in a tumbling heap on the ground. The beast however, had the edge, for it used it tail for counterbalance to prevent such a thing from happening, with its paw pads helping it get a flying start. As they stretched the distance from the rocks, the beast leapt at the deer’s hindlegs, and just barely managed to scratch at them. The deer continued in its frantic pursuit, going as fast as its slim legs could take it in a last-ditch effort to save its own life.

Against its own better judgment, the deer looked back, it nearly stopped when it saw that its killer was no longer there. It was as if it had suddenly vanished without a single trace of where it was, like it was never there in the first place. Although relieved, it didn’t slow its pace, wanting to make extra sure that the predator was gone for good. As it went up another slope, it didn’t notice the ambush planned up ahead, until it was too late.

When the deer looked in front of it again, it found itself looking into two twin orbs that reminded it very much of the sky. Only they were not the sky, but two eyes that very much reflected it; eyes that shone with hunger and desire. The next thing the deer knew it found the owner of those eyes slamming into it, and making them both tumble across the ground. Despite the force of the collision, the deer still managed regain its footing, only to feel something clamp around its muzzle as many sharp teeth piercing into it. Claws then grasped around its face, preventing it from seeing its attacker, but not from bucking and kicking for all its worth.

The deer stomped on its adversary, slammed it into nearby boulders and trees, and even body slammed into its foe, but the meat-eaters strength and will proved to be too much. It groaned and bleated right into the mouth of the one suffocating it, kicking its legs out for all they were worth. The overwhelming strength of the unknown carnivore was unfortunately too much, and it struggles slowly began to recede. The last thing the stag saw was the flashes of blue lighting its way from outside of the claws of its killer, before darkness enveloped it.

Once it was sure that the deer was down for the count, the unknown beast released the now motionless body, taking some time to recover from the hunt. Blood stained its paws and mouth from the wounds it inflicted on its hard-earned meal, his bodies attempting to cover from the rush. Once it did, swirls of magic appeared around the beast, letting nothing but their shadows being seen as it went into completely different form. When the magic went away, it revealed the last species any would expect to do something like this, as well as its size.

The pegasus colt shook his body like a dog coming out of water, wanting to get rid himself of any side-effects from his chase. His long jet-black mane fell over his eyes, the royal blue streaks brightly shining in the warm light of the golden sun. The tongue that protruded from his mouth ran over his lips and his fangs to lick off any patches of red, preventing anymore from dripping from his fangs. A shivered as the taste of blood coated his tongue, prompting him to go into his transformation again. Luckily, he managed to prevent it, and too a minute to keep his primal instincts from rising up again.

“I did it. I finally managed to catch a full-grown stag.” The colt said to himself as he looked down at the fallen deer. “I can’t believe that I had to go out that far in order to get it. Oh well…at least I was finally able to do it on my own.”

Looking up into the sky, the colt couldn’t help but stare into the sun that was basking him in its bright yellow glow. The wind suddenly rushed in, blowing at his mane and tail and making it flow in the breeze, and give a cool feeling to the colt. He closed his eyes, letting himself feel the gentle force of the wind combining with the warmth of the sun, as if it was greeting him on this fine morning. A soft smile came to his precious face as he inhaled the air, the breeze filling him with contentment as he exhaled through his muzzle. With a giggle, he reached down and hoisted the deer onto his back, beginning his trek back into the forest.

“Well, I guess it’s time for me to get this big guy in the fire! Oh, I know that Evening Glory ’ll be so happy I made my very own kill!” The colt said as he dragged the deer carcass along with him back down the slope. “I can’t wait to see the look on her face when she sees that I managed to get an Albino Elk, no doubt her jaw will drop! Hm…I wonder what she could be doing right now…”

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Evening Glory’s back hit the wall of her dark bedroom from within her bar as Wood Tavern pinned her too it, both of their lips locking together. The former moaned into the mouth of the latter as the stallion’s hooves roamed along her voluptuous body. The mare’s forelegs went tightly around the stallion’s neck as his tongue darted into her mouth. Evening let out a startled cry that was muffled by the lip lock, but relaxed as Tavern’s tongue ran across her mouth. She tried to reciprocate the action, but her friend was proving to be pretty dominant at the moment. Not that it was really bothering Evening; after all, there was hardly a time where Tavern wasn’t dominant when it came to their little romps.

Tavern soon broke the kiss, the need for air in his lung prevailing in in the battle of him wanting to make out with Evening more. He panted heavily with his tongue sticking out to the side as he stated lustfully into Evening’s eyes. The thestral mare stared back at him, an eager smile on her muzzle as her slitted yellow orbs sliced into his blue ones with just as much excitement. Before either knew it, both of them were kissing again, smacking sounds popping in the air as their tongues coiled and wrapped around like snakes.

“Heh, your skills at kissing are just as good as they’ve always been Evening.” Tavern said lowly as they both broke for air once more. “Even after all eight of these ears, I can sense that you haven’t slacked off in this even once.”

“Look who’s talking Tavern.” Evening hissed, baring her curved fangs at her friend. “This coming for the stallion who almost always takes the lead whenever we fuck each other anywhere we can. I swear, it’s like you’re trying to act like an alpha wolf each time we do this!”

“Well why shouldn’t it? I do come from a family that holds things like hierarchy to the highest standards.” Tavern grinned, one of his hooves reaching down to grope Evening’s rump. “If I don’t show my dominance where it’s needed, including here, it’ll make me look bad to the rest of the pack, and I can’t have that.”

“Is that so?” Evening crooned. “Well, why don’t you show me just how dominant, you are?”

Tavern growled compliantly. “Don’t mind if my do, my little Evening~.”

With a heave, Tavern threw Evening onto her bed and wasted no time in diving his muzzle right into her snatch. Evening gasped sharply as he began to ravage her pussy, and bit her lip to keep her moans from echoing about the room. Too bad for her, Tavern wasn’t having any of that, and grabbed both of her forelegs and pressed them to her sides.

‘Oh no you don’t, I wanna hear those sweet moans of yours.’ Tavern though as Evening struggled to keep her mouth shut. ‘I want every single thestral in this city and this bar to her your sweet sounds of glory!’

As if reading his mind, Evening eventually gave in and released her squeals of pleasure, her hindlegs kicking around Taverns head. A shiver went up her back as she felt his tongue press and pierce in her insides and send wave after wave of bliss throughout her body. Her wings flared out, the claws slicing into the sheets and the air as her mouth flowed with drool. Evening’s cries reached a new volume when she felt Tavern sucking on her folds, making her enclose his hindlegs around her head.

“O-oh Tavern, I love the feeling of your tongue in my pussy!” She panted as she looked down at the stallion. “You always know how to really get a mare where she really likes it~!”

Tavern growled into Evening’s insides, before he pulled out and licked the juices off his muzzle, presenting his teeth as he grinned. “You’re damn right I do Evening! If there’s one thing I’m good at other than asserting my authority, hunting, training, and building, it’s making a mare scream in a way that she loves! And I’m about to make you scream in a way that I’ve always made you do!”

The light grey pegasus crawled on top of the darker grey thestral, letting him get a glimpse of the rock-hard erection dangling between his legs. Evening only had a few seconds to view it, before she felt that rod impale her cunt and fill her right to her womb. A moan escaped Evening as she threw her head back, her hooves gripping the sheets, as she clenched down on Tavern’s cock tightly. The stallion wasted no time and proceeded to ram his way in and out of Evening, pinning her to the bed as it creaked and rocked violently.

Tavern growled and snarled in pleasure as he claimed the bat mare beneath her, who did her best to meet his thrusts with her own hips. Her lips found themselves meeting Tavern’s own as they roughly made out, their sweat mixing with one another as their fur pressed against each other. They ignored the sharp fangs that Evening had poking from her mouth; Tavern even going so far as to suck on them. Evening shivered in delight at this, and she grabbed the back of his head to press his lips even harder against her own albeit gently as to not cut his lips.

Tavern pulled his lips away from his beneficial friend, much to her disappointment, but it was soon by what he said next. “Oh yeah, I’m gonna cum, Evening! I am so gonna fill you to the brim!”

Evening squeaked in response, wrapping her forelegs around Tavern’s waist in an effort to keep him inside, not that it was really needed. “Do it! Do it Tavy, filly my little batty cunt with your doggy cream and mark me as your own! Shoot inside me and show me the alpha wolf you say you are!”

“You got it my gloriously beautiful bat!” Tavern barked, leaning down and biting onto Evening’s shoulder as he pounded her with all his might. Evening screamed into the ceiling as Tavern poured all of his remaining strength in his thrusts, his stamina helping it last. Before long, the stallion reached his peak, and with one powerful and rough thrust, he released his thick gooey sperm into Evening. Her screams of ecstasy and passion turned into ones of guttural moans as her womb flooded with Tavern’s cum, spreading a pleasant warmth through her beautiful body. Tavern howled as he buried himself inside of Evening, making sure that no drop was wasted and stayed inside of her.

“Ooooh fuck~…” Tavern sighed as he collapsed on top of Evening, panting heavily. “That was amazing, even more than the last time.”

Evening nodded as she stroked the stallion’s mane with her hoof. “It was…it so was~.” She sighed, draping another foreleg over Tavern’s back. “You have no idea how much I needed this after the week that I’ve had. I needed to get myself laid so much.”

“I can tell. Hell, you were just about ready to bite my dick off if I didn’t take you.” Tavern said, resting his head into Evening’s chest fluff. “Those ponies from Woodland Village are really running you ragged with the food and drinks, huh? I’ve never seen you so close to snapping at somepony in my life, and that’s saying a lot.”

“Well, can you blame me? It’s not like they’re being particularly friendly to me and the other bat ponies underground.” Evening snorted, her muzzle gaining a bit of a frown. “I swear, I feel like the only reason that they’re even coming to my bar is to piss me off. Along with criticizing me about eating specific foods I serve with my customers. Just because I have a craving for meet that doesn’t mean that I’m suddenly gonna eat them like I’m a zombie!”

“Well, that’s just how some ponies are I’m afraid. Too much of assholes to really look underneath your families fierce exterior.” Tavern murmured as he rolled off of Evening and stared into her eyes. “At least Makino treats you fairly besides me and Meadowbrook, along with my little sister Luffyko. Otherwise I wouldn’t even bother even going to that village in the first place.”

“Same here, but, our sweet little Luffyko loves that place, because she gets to see Makino and she gives her all the food she wants.” Evening said, her frown turning into a smile. “Not only that, but because the Nocturnal Nation us under the Foosha Village, with the Forest of Freedom just behind the entrance. So, she gets to come and see me and Broly too, which is an added bonus for me.”

“Don’t forget that you can come to see me and Luffyko anytime you want too.” Tavern added, stretching out on Evening’s bed. “We pretty much established that when we found Broly and took him to Meadowbrook eight years ago.”

“Yeah, I do…I just wish I could go there without having to deal with the crap from a majority of the ponies in Foosha.” Evening muttered as she stared up at her bedroom ceiling. “I swear, ponies really need to stop being so judgmental all the time…and hypocritical. They don’t bat an eye when they see you and Luffyko go into different forms, but they all but attack me when they see me! Are they just that blind or what?!”

“I think they are...but it’s not like anything we haven’t seen before.” Tavern sighed, stroking Evening’s chest fluff. “Ponies don’t accept things that they don’t understand, and they’ll do all they can to make it known that they don’t want it anywhere around them. It’s just something that your family and others like you have to deal with.”

“Yeah, I know…still, I just wish I can go out of this city and met one pony who doesn’t mind me looking like a vampire, besides Makino and Meadowbrook.” Evening sighed dejectedly, before smiling. “At least I have you, your pack, Luffyko and Broly to keep me company and sane, especially Broly. I swear, every time I’m around him, I just feel so content. Even with all the difficulties I had raising him, he just…I don’t know, he completesme. I don’t know how, but he just does~.”

“Well, that’s just how Broly is.” Tavern chuckled. “He just has this air about him that makes ponies want to be around the pup, no matter who they are. Even those who reject Broly at first will eventually begin to grow fond of him. No matter how much they don’t want to admit it otherwise.”

“Heh, got the nail in the, wood tavern, on that one~.” Evening said somewhat jokingly, earning a playful punch to her shoulder by her bed buddy. “You know, I really hope that Broly stays the way he is, and keeps that side of him with him when he grows up. Something tells me that if Broly keep this little charm about him, he’s gonna gain friends that’ll stay with him through thick and thin. He did it with little Luffyko, so I’m sure he can do it with anypony else.”

“Me too Evening Glory.” Tavern murmured, wrapping a foreleg around the bat mare to pull her closer to him. “I do too.”

Broly skipped happily across the streets of Nocturnal City as he carried the albino deer on his back, greeting bat ponies left and right along the way. The carcass was currently tied in rope in a way that would make it a bit easier for the colt to carry his prize. He had made a bit stop to the village of Foosha up above the city for some rope after exiting out of the northern part of the Forest of Freedom. One of the ponies there, a pegasus mare named Makino, who owned the bar in the village, had kindly offered him some rope to help tie the deer within itself. Although he didn’t have any problems in carrying his kill thanks to his monstrous strength, he didn’t decline Makino’s offer in some extra assistance. It was getting a little tiresome to have to literally drag his prize over himself on his way back to the village anyway. Anything that can help him get back home to Evening Glory’s bar faster to show what he got; he was willing to take. Even if it seemed a little unnecessary to him and waste of good material.

“Hey there Broly, good to see you back!”

“Whoa, that’s a big kill you hauled in; nice work!”

“Is that an Albino Deer?! How the hell did you get that?”

“Hi Broly! Do you wanna come have a sleepover at my Mom’s house?”

The young colt gave a little smile to every bat pony he passed, returning the greetings that he was given as he walked along the streets. He couldn’t help but blush when he saw some of the fillies waving at him, smiling sweetly. Broly did his best to respond back to them and politely turn down their request, but his words came out in little stutters instead. Thankfully, none of the fillies seemed bothered by it, finding themselves to be more amused than anything, and finding his actions rather cute. The pleasant distraction caused him to stumble and nearly drop the kill that he was carrying but managed to catch it just in time. Although he did get a faceplant of the black ground he was walking on, earning a few laughs from some nearby thestrals. Broly propped himself back up and shook the dust from his face, snorting it from his eyes as he continued down to his destination.

Before long, he had finally made it to Evening’s nighttime bar, smiling when he saw the glowing sign and bat pony mare glowing in the center. With a bit of speed in his step, he galloped towards it and all but tore through the doors. As he did so, the deer he had successfully killed ended up getting wedged in between the doors.

“Oh shit…it’s stuck in between the doors, dammit!” Broly cursed, trotting over to the tied kill, his forelegs turning into claws. Gaining a firm clawful of the deer, he began to try to yank it out of the door. “Come on…c-come on big guy…get…in…t-this…door, rrgh!”

As Broly tried to get his prize inside of the bar, Wood Tavern and Evening Glory came from the other side of the bar’s interior. When they saw the colt and what he was doing, the latter blinked and asked, “Broly? Is that you sweetie?”

The raven-haired colt gave a jolt at the sound of his name being called, the act giving him the extra strength he needed to get the deer inside of the building. He then found both himself and the dead deer colliding with Evening, who somehow managed to stay where she was and not get flattened. Tavern as not so lucky, and the deer that Broly caught collided with him, sending him crashing right into the shelves full of drinks with a resounding crash.

“Faustdammit Broly!” Tavern shouted angrily, a comical tick mark appearing on his head as he shot up from the floor. “Watch where you throw that thing!”

“Evening!” Broly exclaimed as he looked up at the thestral mare. “You’re…in the bar!”

“Well of course I’m in the bar baby, it is where I work.” Evening replied. “What’s that you got there?”

“Oh, it’s an Albino Deer that I got while I was out hunting in the Forest of Freedom!” Broly replied, smiling as he turned to face Evening. “I had gotten up early in morning and took the closet route to the forest so I can try to get one!”

“Awww, you did?” Evening cooed, smiling back at the colt before looking back at the deer that Tavern had hoisted on the table. “Oh Broly, I’m so proud of you! You managed to get one of the most abundant herbivores in the forest! All by yourself too!”

“Yeah, that was honestly pretty impressive.” Tavern commented, looking he dead deer up and down. “What’s with the rope you got around it?”

“Oh yeah, I had gotten it from Makino while I was going through Foosha village.” Broly replied, nonchalantly. “I was having a bit of trouble carrying the deer back down here, Makino offered to help me tie it up in a way as to where I can carry it a lot more easily. I did have to go through the village to get to the cave entrance so.”

“Ah, I see…that does make sense.” Evening muttered softly, nodding as she affectionately rubbed Broly’s mane spikey. “You did great work today Broly, you’re hunting lessons are getting better and better with each day. At this rate, you’ll be able to wrangle with the biggest animals in this entire forest of abnormality.”

Broly promptly blushed, his palomino cheeks turning pink as he looked away. “W-well…I did learn from the best, which is you. S-so I was only following the lessons in hunting that you showed me, e-even if you weren’t there to see it.”

“I didn’t need to be there to see it, at least not this time.” Evening cooed softly, lowering her head to plant a kiss on Broly’s forehead. “This right here tells me just how much you’ve improved, just like how you are in your training with Emerald Jade! By the time you’re up to me and Tavern’s level, you’ll be able to take on practically anypony here.”

“Thank you…” Broly said quietly, nuzzling into Evening’s chest. “I know I get there someday.”

“Oh, you better believe you will.” Evening nodded, hugging Broly close to him. “I can see it happening already~.”

It had been over eight long years since Broly had come to the Forest of Freedom and became a part of the Nocturnal Nation. Or, more specifically, when Evening Glory and Wood Tavern had found him in on the night of the Full Lunar Moon. Of all the things that she expected to be thrust upon her, finding a foal that was from the most powerful family ever to grace the Four Seas was not one of them. It was honestly something that the thestral mare didn’t think would ever happen to her, let alone to Wood Tavern or Meadowbrook. Nor did she think she’d be the one to take care of such a pony and raise him within a species hated and feared by all who see them. Despite this, there was not one instance that she ever regretted taking in Broly, even if it was under the urging of her bed buddy and doctor friend.

That near decade of raising him was some of the most rewarding years of Evenings life, as all as the rest of her home. Sure, there were some rough patches here and there, a couple learning what it was like to raise a foal that had unfathomable bucketloads of power. That was okay with her, since Evening and just about every other thestral in Nocturnal Nation was devilishly powerful as they were attractive. It even served to make the experience all the more pleasant for her, even if she spent more than a few sleepless nights in the process. While she didn’t know what the future held for Broly, she knew he was on his way to something great. Evening was just not aware of how great that thing would be.

“Well, it looks like I know why you weren’t in your bed this morning now.” Evening murmured, stepping away from Broly. A frown came to her fanged muzzle as she looked at him with utter disapproval. “Why didn’t you tell me that you were out in the forest today? I was getting really worried that something may have happened to you.”

Broly’s chipper smile turned into bashful frown, his bangs covering his eyes as he lowered his head to the floor. “I…I’m sorry Evening. I didn’t mean to make you upset…you just looked so peaceful when you slept, and…I didn’t want to way you. I guess that wasn’t my smartest idea.”
“No honey, it wasn’t.” Evening shook her head firmly. “Honestly, I was just about ready to tear this whole bar down looking for you! You’re lucky that Wood Tavern was here to tell me where you had gone, otherwise I really would’ve gone crazy.”

“Hey, don’t be so hard on him Evening, he didn’t mean it.” Tavern said, coming to a guilty-looking Broly’s defense. “Not that he shouldn’t have just let without telling you anything, but you and I both know he frequently goes into the forest. So, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise where he went, since he almost always goes there.”

“Well, even so he should’ve warned me, that way I wouldn’t have felt like I was going to slice this entire place down.” Evening said, glaring sternly at her bed buddy. “And don’t think you’re so innocent in this either Tavern. I am so going to kick your wolf-tailed ass during out next sparing session this afternoon.”

Tavern winced as he shrunk a bit, not out of fear, but embarrassment. “Oh joy…”

Huffing, Evening turned to look back down at Broly, taking a small mouthful of his ear and tugging lightly. “And as for you, young colt, don’t go running off like that again, you hear me?” She said, her tone still gentle, yet firm. “I know you want to test out the new powers you’ve awakened, but you should always make a point to let us know where you are beforehoof. The last thing I want is to be pulling at my mane and biting my hooves till they bleed wondering where you are, understand?”

“Yes, I understand Evening, I’m sorry.” Broly replied, wincing a bit at the sharp teeth that nipped at his ear. “I’ll let you know when I’m going into the Forest of Freedom next time.”

“You’d better…or else you’ll be getting a good dose of my Crimson Glare.” Evening said, frowning at Broly for a bit longer. She sighed as her eyes softened, and she wrapped a wing around the colt and pulled him close to her again. “I’m not that mad at you Broly, I promise. It’s just, I’m always concerned about whether your safe or not when you go off on your own. if anything were to happen to you, the I’d…”

“I know…I’m sorry, really I am.” Broly said, nuzzling into his mother figure. “I swear, I’ll make sure to not run off so carelessly. Like the last few times that I had done it.”

“I’m glad to hear it.” Evening nodded, kissing Broly in his forehead. “So, how was it today out in the underground city today? Any of the bat ponies give you any trouble after you came back here from your hunt?”

“No, they haven’t! They’ve actually been really nice today, a couple even offered to help carry my deer over to your bar!” Broly replied, his chipper mood coming back. “They didn’t really need to do that; I’m already strong enough as it is. I’m only going to get stronger the more I grow up!”

“You have no idea…” Tavern muttered; his voice so low that only Evening could hear him.

“That may be true, but you shouldn’t underestimate us thestrals Broly. We can pack quite the punch as well.” Evening winked as she guided Broly over to the table of her bar. “You’ve seen it happen yourself whenever me and Tavern have our daily afternoon spars together.”

“Yeah, when we’re not in a clearing or in your bed going at it like rabbits in a field.” Tavern chuckled, earning him a tail slap to the face from Evening.

“I know that you’re plenty strong Evening Glory, and so is Wood Tavern!” Broly replied, smiling merrily. “You’ve proven that plenty of times whenever you destroy some of the clearings you two spar in. Hell, I remember one time I was watching you to fight, Evening Glory released a fire technique so powerful that she nearly caused a wildfire, heehee!”

“T-that was in the heat of the moment!” Evening said, blushing as Tavern laughed. “B-besides, I was trying to get back at Tavern for trying to cup a feel when I was trying to recover from nearly getting clawed in the face!”

“Hey, it’s not my fault that I was so mesmerized by your ass!” Tavern defended sticking his tongue out at the thestral mare. “Plus, I always like it when you get it running, it jiggles at that much better when you do it just right, just like Meadowbrook and all the other mares here.”

Evening threw one of the knives she was using at Tavern, watching as he lazily dodged and let the knife hit the nearby wall. “Do not make me fucking kill you, you ass!” She growled with a tick mark.

“Tavern’s not an ass Evening, he’s a pegasus.” Broly corrected innocently. “He doesn’t have rabbit ears, a tail skirt, and he’s not super short like me.”

“It was a vulgar insult Broly.” Tavern explained patiently, walking over and taking the knife out of the wall. “She didn’t mean I was an ass literally.”

“Oh, right.” Broly said bashfully. “Sorry.”

“Anyway, so you had a good walk around the city hm?” Evening asked as she began to chop the deer up in giant pieces. “Did you run into any cute little fillies along the way?”

Broly jumped, his cheeks turning pink as his tail flickered back and forth. “U-um…m-maybe?”

“Oh, really now?” Evening cooed, smirking knowingly. “Did you say anything to them? No, wait, did they say anything to you? Maybe…offer to do something with you?”

“Well…Martha asked me if I wanted to spend the night over at her house tonight.” Broly said, running his hooves across the table. “I…didn’t really say anything to her.”

“You didn’t accept it?!” Tavern shouted, slamming his hooves on the table as he hovered in front of a surprised Broly. “Are you fucking nuts?! How could a colt your age not accept an invitation to stay at a cute little filly’s house?! Each and every single thestral filly and mare in this city are all drop dead gorgeous in their own right for both stallions and colts! Any colt or stallion would have to be an idiot not to accept staying a night with them?! How could you let an opportunity like that slip by so easily?!”

“She’s right you know Broly.” Evening nodded, smiling slyly at the colt. “You have a lot of adorable little fillies practically throwing themselves at you~. Maybe you can take some time out of your day with us and Meadowbrook and spend some time with them~.”

Broly blushed even harder, both of his wings coming to cover his face as he whimpered. Evening was right; he did have thestral fillies fawning over him from time to time. It was nothing on the romantic scale, far from it, since he wasn’t quite at that age yet. The fillies just found his bashful sweetness to be really cute and couldn’t help but playfully tease him about it. As much as he appreciated the kindness, he couldn’t help but be pretty embarrassed and nervous of what would happen if it happened around the parents. It wasn’t that he was scared of what their mothers would thing, since they practically did the same thing. Tt was the fillies’ more…protective parents that he was concerned about.

“I…don’t really know about that.” Broly said shyly. “I-it’s not that I don’t want to. It’s just that I really don’t know if I’d be okay for me to stay with them…at least with the fillies. I-I mean, what if one of their dads think that I might do something to their daughters? I do have the powers of a dragon after all, and the last thing they’d want is to see the fillies with second- or third-degree burns.”

Evening and Tavern burst out laughing, the latter nearly dropping her knives as she held her stomach. Once they managed to calm down and keep themselves from getting injured, the latter finally spoke. “Oh Broly, is that what you’re worried about? That the fathers might bring the wrath of an overprotective daddy down on you for even touching their little girls?” She asked, wiping at her eyes. “Baby, you are nowhere near the age to be even try to do something like that, so they can’t threaten to suck you dry…yet.” She mumbled the last part so Broly would be able to hear it, but the shiver he gave let her know he did. “And if they try to, you don’t have to worry…you’ll have me to make sure that they don’t even try, lest they get their balls drained.” A small dark smirk came to her face. “And not in the good way either.”

Tavern shivered, his eyes going white as he clenched his hindlegs together. ‘Scary!’

“What bad way is that Evening?” Broly asked curiously.

“Nothing baby, I’ll tell you when you’re older.” Evening replied, winking at the colt. “Anyway, back to the topic at hoof. I understand our concern, but you shouldn’t let the fear of a father’s wrath stop you from making more friends here in Nocturnal Nation. A lot of the thestral mares, stallions, and foals here love you already, so it shouldn’t be too hard. Besides, you do need much more friends other than me, Tavern, Meadowbrook, Jade, Luffyko.”

“But Luffyko’s the same age as me.” Broly pointed out. “You said that I needed friends my own age and I have her, and she’s just a few months younger than me.”

“Yes, she is, but that’s only one friend that you have your age Broly.” Evening explained. “I’m saying that you should expand your friend circle, and not just one friend. It’s not very healthy for you to say in solitude all the time and not have a social group. It’ll help improve your health if you get more than one colt or filly to be with you.”

“Evening’s got a point.” Tavern said, throwing a foreleg around the mare. “Although Luffyko is definitely a filly who anypony would want to befriend, you shouldn’t just stop with her. There’s plenty of other ponies, thestral or otherwise, that you can hook up with. Sure, they may be put off by your powers, but they’ll eventually grow to accept it. As real friends should do, which is accept others for who and what they are.”

Evening smiled in approval at Tavern. “That’s right, and if they don’t…well, then they’re not the right ones to click with, simple as that.”

Broly stayed quiet as he listened to his mother and father figure converse with him, taking in their words like a breath of fresh air. He looked down at his hooves, then at the entrance of the bar as bat ponies both big and small roamed around the town. His piercing blue eyes took in their happy expressions, the foals mainly as they laughed and giggled, either playing, hugging, or just talking with one another. Broly then thought back to the small chit-chat he had with some of the thestral fillies, and how a couple of them offered to let him play with them. He turned back to Evening and Tavern, looking at his palomino hooves for a second, before he looked back at his older fellow flyers.

“You know…it is still morning, even though it’s gonna go into the afternoon.” Broly said softly, his mane falling in front of his eyes. “I still have some time to maybe play with the other foals, and even Luffyko if she comes down to visit. So, I suppose I could try to expand my friend circle, if not here, then maybe up above.”

“There we go, that’s the spirit sweetie!” Evening gushed, smiling widely. “Don’t worry, it may not look it now, but you’ll be able to gain ponies that you know will stick by you thick and thin. All the foals here have taken a liking to you. So what’s to say that the other foals up above in Woodland village won’t either?”

“Hey there, let’s not get too optimistic there Evening.” Tavern said warningly. “The thestrals maybe cool with Broly and Luffyko, but that doesn’t mean all the ponies will either. So it’d be wise for Broly to choose his friends carefully, lets he get himself into some…heated situations.”

“I know I know; I’m just saying that Broly shouldn’t be completely doubtful in his efforts in making suitable friendships.” Evening snorted rolling his eyes. “You never know when those few friends are right around the corner, just waiting to be sought out.”

“Yeah, that’s true.” Tavern sighed. “Hopefully it’ll go better than your own attempts before you had met Makino and Meadowbrook.”

“Don’t remind me.” Evening shuddered violently, breaking away from Tavern and turning back to preparing. “Anyway, let’s get this deer cooking and ready to eat! Then, after we’re done, we’ll take Broly over to see Luffyko and see if she wants to go to Martha’s house later on tonight. I’m sure that little sweetheart would love for that to happen~.”

“Well, knowing Martha, I know that’d be something she’d absolutely love.” Tavern replied, looking over at Broly. “You don’t for that little buddy?”

“Sure.” Broly nodded, smiling brightly as his blue eyes gleamed. “I haven’t really seen much of Luffyko in the last few days. So it’d be really nice to see a familiar face here again to help me try to relax and kick back.” He looked back at the Evening Bar entrance again as his expression became inquisitive. “Hmmm…I wonder what she’s doing right now.”

“Probably stuffing her face with a cave full of buffalo or some other poor animal she’s caught today.” Tavern chuckled, shaking his head. “After mom and dad are done getting their asses kicked by her during training. I swear, that filly has a stomach like that of a void and the relentlessness of a hellhound.”

Evening giggled. “Isn’t that the truth Tavey!”

Author's Note

First off, let me just start off by saying that the beginning of the chapter with the deer chase was something that I had thought up from the movie of Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, because I had no idea of how I should star the beginning of this chapter. I did originally think of adding a little training scene between Evening Glory and Broly, but I deiced to same something similar to that sometime later in the next chapter, especially for something special that I have planned between Evening Glory and Broly. As for the rest of the chapter, I wanted to show how Broly is treated within the Underground City of Nocturnal Nation, which will be a complete contrast to how he is treated up above with in the village of the Forest of Freedom, along with another foal that I will be introducing in the next chapter. I won't give out any spoilers, but let's just say that this filly will be more or less like a certain straw hat captain that many of us may or may not know, and will probably help in bringing some comedy relief throughout this story.

This chapter was, as stated in the last note is a bit of a glimpse into the daily life of our draconic colt, and more will be reviled as the story progresses. I'll try not to make this story sound too much like the canon One Piece since that's the area I'm mainly focusing on, with the little addition of Dragon Ball Z, but there may be some things that're familiar in this story, while a few other things might be a little bit different. Whatever the case, I'll stick to that route as best I can, especially since I'm combining three crossovers in this entire thing, which I know will be one hell of a hassle in some areas.

Anyway that's all for tonight; tune in next time for the introduction of a chipper and optimistic filly who is one hell of a wolf on the inside!