Scootaloo and I were back in the castle. I turned to her.

"If I die, stay where you are. When I fight, hide somewhere, and dont move until I say come out. Do you understand?" I say gently. I dont want her getting scared.

"If you die! Why would you die?!" I chuckle, and move towards the door out the throne room.

"Because sometimes, an enemy can get the better of you. I have learned this countless times, since I first awoke in Yharnam." I then pulled out my Saw Cleaver, and prepared for the enemies I knew would come.

Entering the foyer again, I could hear snarls, most likely from the wolves. Scootaloo must have heard them too, cause she immediately shrunk up, and was scared.

"Timberwolves." She said. I looked to her, and back at the front door.

"I'll take the Timberwolves, and the Caribou. Again, if I die, just stay put. I will be back shortly. Now, hide." I say. She nods, and she then looks around, before running over to a wall, climbing it a bit, and hiding in a little niche that had been broken when this castle was abandoned.

I then move to the doors to the castle, and open them. The doors are heavy, and it takes me a moment to get a good stance to push, but the doors open with a long, loud creak. I knew the wolves heard it, as they howled.

Immediately after I opened the door, I saw a wolf leap at me. I dodged backwards twice, and swung my Saw at the offender. The Saw bit into its wooden face, and ripped it apart. Sap spilt instead of blood, and the same stench as before overwhelmed my nose, but I held firm so as to not pass out.

Dodging again, I was able to avoid the second wolves attack, and brought my Saw up and over, and my Cleaver came down on its back, cutting it in half, and shattering it into kindling. I immediately picked up my Cleaver, and spun around and brought it sweeping upwards into the third wolf, wounding it badly.

The wolf was thrown away, and I was on it quickly, bringing the Cleaver back down into its body, spliting it in half down the middle.

When I was done with that, I took a moment to breath. Looking at the kindling of the last Timberwolf I killed, I saw the glow of light that showed some sort of usable loot. The light, a gift from the messengers, always told me of something good on the corpses of enemies I slay.

Kneeling down, I look through the kindling for the item. The glow seems to be coming from a sap covered rock. Picking it up, I look at it, before seeing a messenger appear from the ground, with a note. Taking the note from it, I read.

"Timberwolf Blood Sap Rock.
Used to cover weapon in Timberwolf Blood Sap. Has a chance to make Coldblood Dew from any enemy, except other Timberwolves."

I nod. Thats a good piece of usable equipment. I poke through the kindling of the other wolves, and find three more from both, giving me five in total. I call Scootaloo out of hiding, and we head through the door of the castle.

"This is the Everfree Forest. Its the most unnatural forest in Equestria, but its also the safest place to run into to flee the Caribou. Thats why I was here, to get away. But the Caribou used the Timberwolves to track me. I dont know how they did it, because Timberwolves are usually the most aggresive creatures in the Everfree. They dont exactly cooperate with anypony." I nod. That is useful info. I look ahead, and see a messenger puddle. Heading for it, I see the messengers appear, holding a note.

"This castle is the safest place for survivors. Clear the forest path, and incense will be provided."

"Understood, little ones. Tell Doll thank you for the info." Scootaloo just looks at me funny.

"Who and what are you talking too? Nothing is there." She says, pointing with a hoof to the messenger puddle. I see the messengers giggle, and I giggle too.

"Come close, Scootaloo." I say, and grab a special object from my inventory.

It was a skull with knowledge in it. The messengers had named it Madmans Knowledge, and I agreed it was an appropriate name. Scootaloo came close, and I grabbed her hoof, put the skull under it, and had her stomp and break it.

I could see an ethereal haze surround her head as she gained the knowledge from the skull, and she grew woozy, wobbly.

I steady her, and say. "Now, look at the spot you pointed at. Do you see them now?" I say gently.

She looks at the spot and sees the messenger puddle, and gasps at the four messengers in the puddle, top hats on and looking nice and proper.

"What are they?" She asks.

"Messengers. Now, we dont have more time to talk to them, we need to move. This spot isn't safe. My objective for now is to clear this road, so that some incense will be brought in, and hold off the beasts." Scootaloo just looks at the messengers, and then we move on.

There is a fairly straightforward path through the forest, but it is semi overgrown, and hard to see unless on it. That would change soon.

Walking down the road, I was warry. I had yet to see the four Caribou from before. They had to be around somewhere. And thats when I smelt it.

Blood.

"Scootaloo, hide, now. The four Caribou are back." She scrambled away to hide, and I looked around. And then I was shot with a crossbow bolt.

I grunt in pain, before looking around, ripping out the bolt from my chest, a chunk of meat stuck to it. I tossed it down as the four Caribou appear from the trees.

"Well well, fresh pussy. Boys, were in luck. Screw finding that Pegasus git, we got a fine doe here to fuck." One of the Caribou says. I ready my Saw Cleaver.

"Oh ho, feisty this doe. Fancies herself a fighter, does she? Put down the fancy saw and come suck my cock like a proper bitch." I kill him first, bullet to the head as he comes close, and then plunge my beast hand into his stomach, gripping his organs and bones, and ripping them out of his body.

Blood, splashes over me, as I inhale deeply. Blood.

"Beasts all over the shop. I guess I need to clean up." I say, inhaling the scent of blood, my own blood running through me roaring for more. The Caribou are worried by the tone of my voice. It helps that I sound a lot like the fake Doctor Iosefka, who sadly killed the real doctor.

I look to them, my beast blood boiling through me, and I am positive my Sky blue eyes are now glowing. I ready my Saw, and start hacking away at the four. One tries to run, only to take a quicksilver bullet to the leg, busting open through his knee, and almost severing the leg. Another Caribou, his flesh got stuck on the teeth of my Saw, and it ripped his head off when I pulled to get it off. I had to smack another in the torso with both, before the head came off. I then killed the Caribou I hit.

Finally, I swung my Saw up and over, and the Cleaver came down on its head, pulping it, his eyes popping out of his head. The blade lodged half way through its body. I kick the corpse off of my blade, before switching it back into a saw.

"Scootaloo, come on out." I say, as I start looting the bodies of anything useful. I find a map, some gold coins, and collars of different colours. I keep looking, finding a couple of bear traps, and lots of rope. Also, a bottle of Alcohol. I take it, and make a Molotov out of it using a strip of bandage stuck inside.

I then start setting up items I can reach quickly on my belt, and just put my hand lantern on my hip. In order of importance from front of body to back, each one takies a moment to reach for. The more important things that I would need quickly, get hooked to the front of my belt, and least important, but still necessary, towards the back.

I had one of the three ladies blood vials, Adella's if I wasn't mistaken. I had the beast roar, bold hunters mark, molotovs, antidotes, and poison knives. I was ready as best I could, not knowing whats ahead.

Scootaloo was next to me now, and I saw a couple of messengers rise out of their puddles with some lanterns, and when they lit them, they were green. I smiled, as it was to help guide a path. I also smelt some incesne, but my senses where never to keen on incenses smell.

"Scootaloo, can you smell incense?" I ask. She nods.

"Yeah, it smells odd though. I've never smelt anything like it." I nod.

"Thats fine, I just needed to know if it was there. It will protect the path, and will guide anyone that we send along it." Scootaloo nods her understanding, looking at one of the Litte Ones who was sitting near a lantern. He waved at her, and she giggled.

"Can anypony else see them, or is it just us?" I tilt my head side to side at that.

"It depends on if their mind can handle the knowledge it would require to see them, and the ability to conceive the notion that they exist. I am surprised that you can see me, given how powerful I had become before I came here." I say. She just looks at me funny, but I shake my head, and start moving through the forest.

"Do you know the way to the nearest town? I am new here, as you know." I ask Scootaloo. She nods enthusiastically.

"Yeah, it's just down this path." She then skips ahead, but I call for her to stay near. I dont know what is in these woods, but I cant afford for her to get caught and hurt before I can react. She understands, and stays close.

And after three or four minutes on the path, I smell a horrible stench, like the Timberwolves.

"Scootaloo, hide." I whisper to her. She nods, looks around, and then goes and climbs the nearest tree about a quarter up. I get ready for the dogs.

They all come running out the forest at me, five of them. Two leap at me, and I roll left out of their way, and take a swipe at number five as I land. Three and four lunge at me, and i move away. But my foot catches a root, and I am thrown slightly off balance. Thats all the dogs need to grab my ankle, drag me down, and tear into my shoulder. I scream in pain, and try to roll away, only for one to stop me on my back and lunge for my throat. I feel it bite into it, its teeth severing my arteries and blood soaking my body. The Wolf then shakes its head, and my throat is ripped out. I pass out, and my body fades.

Scootaloo was shocked that the Hunter lady had died. She was so strong, and fast, and skilled. She was amazing. Yet now Scootaloo was alone, and apparently the Timberwolves had her scent. They rushed the tree she was in, and started bark and roar up at her.

She was scared. She couldnt run, the wolves would get her, she couldnt call for help, the only thing it would bring would be Caribou, who would try to put their filthy penises inside her. All she could do was wait for the wolves to go, but she knew that wouldnt happen either, as they had easy prey, and they just had to wait for her to fall. Scootaloo was scared.

Suddenly, one of the wolves got smart, and tried to climb the tree to get to her. It made it about four branches up before it fell, but it made it, and that was all the other wolves needed to try and climb themselves. Scootaloo was panicking, now they were going to pull her from the tree, and eat her. The wolves kept climbing closer and closer, and Scootaloo started to cry.

"Please, somepony help me?" She begs quietly, wishing her sister Rainbow Dash was here to protect her, or maybe the Hunter lady. The wolves were just a branch away, and were growling, snarling, frothing, and dying. Scootaloo took a second to process that last one, and whipped her head to look.

The Hunter had arrived, and was killing the wolves. This time, she was able to kill them all with out trouble. Scootaloo had been crying, this time with a bit more joy.

The Hunter looked up the tree she was in.

"Scootaloo, you can come down now. I'm sorry it took so long to come back, I was getting some more supplies to use." Scootaloo practically fell out of the tree and into the Hunters arms, and cried into her coat.

The filly was scared, and I couldnt blame her. She had been about to die, and dying isnt fun. I know from experience.

"How are you alive? You had died, I saw them rip your throat out!" She asks me with tear streaks through her fur.

"I am not normal. As the new Great One of the Dream, I wont ever die again. The Dream will always sustain me, and the Doll will always be with me." Scootaloo doesnt fully understand, but I understood why. She didnt have enough Insight to truly comprehend all I said. She could only get the basics, that the Dream kept me alive.

"Come, the incense is burning, and we must get to Ponyville to help the others, and tell them to head to the castle here." I say, reminding Scootaloo that we still have to help her town. She gasps.

"Thats right! My sister Rainbow Dash provided a distraction for the Caribou so I could run, and Sweetie and Applebloom helped her! They are probably getting punished for doing it." She says, slowly mellowing out, and a horrified and disgusted look covering her face.

"I can guess what they do to those that disobey." I say, and stand and move forward.

I have a job to do, and a world i can actually save now. As long as I am here, I will make sure that these Caribou don't cause any more harm.

I say this, on my Honor as a Hunter.

Author's Note

Hey guys, how do you like these two gift stories? I decided to put these two stories out, this and "I am the Queen" because it wasnt fair that I havent been posting anything at all. I have chapters going for all previously posted stories, as well as another for Queen, so expect them to come eventually. Also, expect the announcement chapter on my main story to be taken down soon.

Remember, Fear the Old Blood.