The Equestrian Monomyth - Book 1 - Be a Good Brony or Die Trying

Zecora managed to get to her house and locked inside. Then she looked for the window and gasped, scared, as a blurry
shadow quickly passed by. Then, a scratch on the other side of the house, making her to gasp again. She hid under a
table and covered herself with her raincoat, trembling.

Then, suddenly, the door got a thud, and then other, and other.

" Mwahahahahaha! " An evil laugh could be heared from the other side.

" Oh nooo... " Zecora almost passes out.

POM! The door almost cracks open with the last thud.

" Ahhh! " Zecora yells. " Somepony, please heeeeeelp... " She cries, desperate, and covering completely with her
raincoat.

After a while that looks like years to her, the noises stopped. She still spend some more time hidden under the table,
before she had enough courage to check out. She firstly looked cautiously for the window. Nothing at the right, nothing
at the left. The woods seems as quiet and peaceful as always.

Zecora gulped:

" Could that monster have gone and let poor Zecora alone?
I hope it don't get back to eat me to the bone. "

She then risked to half"open the door. Well, it looks like the danger is go...

Suddenly, a claw enters for the open door, impeding it to close!

" Mwahahahahahahahaha! "

" AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! " Zecora's scream was so high and loud, that it made a bird flock to take off.

I could hear it and, seeing from where the birds go flying, spotted where it came from. So I rushed in the right
direction. Luckily, I already had taken precautions, casting a stun gun from the VR google's database.

When I arrived, Predator Seymour already had entered Zecora's house, and had her cornered.

" Mwahahahahaha! I wonder how zebras taste... "

" Ahhhhhhhhhhh! "

" Mwahahahaha....! " He couldn't continue laughing as I shot him and took him down.

Then, I asked Zecora:

" Are you allright, girl?! "

She ran to me and jumped to hugging me.

" Thank you, thank you, whatever you are
you've got in time to save this mare! "

I took her out from her house and put her somewhere near:

" I have to capture the monster now. Wait here until I finish, Ok? "

" Watch out! " She raised a hoof, scared.

I almost haven't time to turn and I've already had the predator over me. However, I managed to grab his arm and, using
my judo skills, threw him away. Then, I put my stun gun in good use, shooting him all the mag with a burst that
definitely took him down.

" Damn it! He was stronger than I thought! " I cursed.

Then, when I was going to reload the gun:

" Oh, crap... "

All my left arm was bleeding. I knelt, stunned. My sight was leaving and coming. I've never had an injury this bad.

" Oh no! My savior is badly wounded!
Quick, come to my house to get you healed! " Zecora trotted to me, horrified.

She practically dragged me to her house, as I was unable to even think.

After a while of applying healing potions and bandages, my blood pressure finally stabilized and the wound cicatrized,
even still hurting a bit.

" Do you feel better, my savior?
I hope it doesn't hurt so much, my warrior. " She smiled while finishing to bandage my arm.

" No. It doesn't. " I threw a pious lie. Then, how I didn't really want anything between Zecora and me, I added:
" Well, it seems that you saved me too, so we're even. "

" How can you say that, my hero?
I am not even close to zero. "

I made an annoyed gesture, realizing that it was pointless to argue about it. Then, I moved and twisted the arm,
checking if it was able to get back to work.

" Whoa! Great job you did with this! " I cheered her.

" Thank you, but it was nothing compared with you, who are so awesome
defeating that fearful monster and being so handsome. " She smiled with coquetry.

I raised a brow: I didn't like were this was going:

" All right, all right. Look, let me take care of the monster. Wait for me here, Ok? "

She happily nodded, and I get out from the house, closed the door and walked to my unconscious pred"I mean friend.

" Well. How I'm supposed to turn him back to his old self? " I tried to reach his VR googles, but I couldn't find it
anywhere on his head. I was touching the monster body and I couldn't believe it: it was solid, and my hand couldn't pass
thru. All this was real? Wasn't a joke of the senses?

Then my lightbulb turned on. I put my own VR googles on him and pressed: "Remove character". Inmediately, Predator
Seymour became just Seymour. I shook him off:

" Seymour, dude. Are you all right? "

" Eh... Gus? Where... where I am? What happened? "

" You almost ate Zecora. Don't you remember? "

" Me? Damn! " Then, he stood up, stumbling. " This was your idea, remember?! " He pointed to me, very angry.

" Yeah, and you almost killed me. " I showed him my bandaged arm.

" Oh? Oh, man, I did it again. I'm sorry, dude, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... " He stuck to me like a toad again, crying like
a... crying baby.

" Don't worry man, don't worry. No hard feelings. " I cheered him with some pats in the back.

" You're the best, man. You're the best. "

" Ok, ok, now let go. " I broke the unconfortable toad"hug. " Look, Zecora can't figure out that you were the predator,
Ok? So, hide somewhere around and try to figure out how to get back to Earth. I'll be back for you in a while, Ok? "

" Yes, dude, whatever you say. " He agreed and turned to hide, drying the tears and swelling the muccus.

I returned to Zecora's house and knocked the door:

" Zecora, open up, it's me, the hero. "

She opened the door and also jumped to hugging me:

" Oh, my hero, I am so happy that you have come back,
Zecora now are going to make a tasty meal to regain your strenght lack! "

Well, that doesn't sounds too bad...

After we had the dinner and talked, knowing each other, I told her:

" Hey, Zecora, I need to get out for a while, so... "

" No! " Zecora interrupted me, raising her forelegs to me.
" If you leave Zecora alone,
and another monster happen to come,
it will eat me for sure,
please do not leave poor Zecora unsecure! "

I looked at her, annoyed:

" Zecora, I DO REALLY need to get out! "

Zecora didn't answered inmediately. She just sat in her haunches, put her forelegs in front of her, like praying, and
launched me a pleading look that talked by itself:

" Please... do not... " She barely mumbled, eyes quivering and dropping ears.

The scene was heartbreaking, so I decided to do something about it:

" Look, Zecora. I've already taken care of all the monsters, and, from now on, if you want to stay safe, keep your
distance from strangers and angry arguing voices, and you'll be fine. Remember that the curiosity killed the cat, or in
this case, almost killed the zebra. " I pointed with my index in her muzzle, causing her to squint her eyes " And I
still have to make sure there's no more threats around and... I might have to kill one or another critter. That's fine
with you? "

By judging Zecora's facial expression, she didn't like too much the idea, but, surprisingly, what did she told me was:

" All right, my hero, do what you must to make it better,
as the experience I had today will last forever. "

I got out from Zecora's house and got ready my arsenal: A lifeform detector, a sniper rifle and two submachine guns,
all silenced, and two laser pistols from Star Wars. And the lightsaber, of course.

" Heh, 'One or another'. " I smirked. " This is gonna be an one-man massacre! "