Author's Note

sorry about the wait I was involved in a crash me and my buddy got T-boned on my driver side in my jeep we got sent rolling a few times and I've been looking at trucks and dealing with the insurance and medical bs but everyone is ok for the most part little banged up but ok anyway i hope you enjoy this chapter and as always if you liked it leave a thumbs up leave a comment good or bad or if you just got an idea that I can try to work with through out any of my stories later

Lupus catulus nix

The sun was just starting to peek over the horizon when Hunter came to a clear area in the white tails woods ( as he has come to know it by from all the white tail deer in the area and a young colt who had been playing in the area that told him the name and the spots the everfree borders the woods.) where he stopped to breath and check his pulse before doing a few exercises and then continuing with his run. Hunter unplugs his earbuds hitting play on his music while laying down in the grass.

Before he could start doing his crunches he starts to hear movement behind him, as he sits up to look behind him to find nothing and the noise stopped, laying back down and starting his crunches the noise starts up again, sighing he stops and looks around again to find nothing.

"Hello? Whos' there?" but no answer.

Laying back down Hunter closes his eyes focusing solely on his hearing, Hunter didn't hear anything and was about to just get up and leave until he felt a weight being applied to his chest, opening his eyes and looking down he is met with two emerald green eyes and a wet little nose.

"Well hello there." Hunter says while sitting up to get a better look at the animal. The animal got off of Hunter and sat at his feet looking up at hunter. Taking a look at the small animal hunter realized it was a wolf pup more specifically a tundra wolf pup.
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"Where did you come from little fella?" the wolf just simply tilted its head at Hunter and looked back at the forest while giving a low whimper.

"Lost huh." The wolf giving a small bark in response.

Looking at his phone to check the time seeing it was only 715 he put his phone back standing up and looking back at down at the wolf

"Come on bud I want you to meet someone that could help." The wolf jumping to his side giving a bark in response his tail wagging.

Walking down the dirt road to fluttershys place Hunter couldn't help but laugh at the pups curious and energetic nature as he watched it run around sniffing everything and rolling around in the morning dew covered grass. As hunter made his way up to the front door to the little cottage the wolf hurried to join him at his feet. Hunter knocking on the door Hunter didn't hear anything except for a few thumps and the door unlocking, before he could think about it the door opened to reveal a little white rabbit looking up at hunter with a displeased look on its face .

"Umm.. hi is fluttershy here i need to ask her a few questions about this here pup." Hunter asked getting more confused as the rabbit looked at the pup next to him.

just as Hunter was about to leave the rabbit made a come in motion before hopping out of sight. Hunter walked inside with the pup following close behind, looking around he found the house to be filled with cages bird houses, and animal beds with a few bags of feed against the far wall. All in all the house was fairly cozy looking Hunter was about to sit down when he heard hoof steps coming down the stairs looking up he saw Fluttershy rubbing her eyes like she just woke up and from what she was wearing she must have. She was in a large t-shirt and short shorts making it look like she wasn't wearing anything under the shirt at all, as she looked up at hunter she eeped, and ran back upstairs a few mins later she came back down still wearing the shirt but with sweatpants on this time and sporting a noticeable blush.

"G..good m..morning Hunter what brings you by at this hour? If you don't mind."

"oh um well while i was out working out i found this little guy seems to be lost and just stuck with me so I brought him here wondering if you could take a look make sure its alright.

"Oh of course where is the little pup?" She asked looking around.

"Come on out this is the friend I told you about." Hunter says as the wolf came out from behind him with its ears splayed back.

"Oh my a wolf pup, come here its ok I'm a friend I just wanna make sure your not hurt anywhere." After hearing that the pup perked up and ran up to fluttershy jumping into her arms.

"Oh my she certainly is full of energy." Fluttershy says giggling from the pup licking her face.

"So the pups a she well that's good to know."

"yes and from what i can tell she is in perfect health and maybe around 2 or 3 months old she is going to get very big."

"yea i kind of figured as much my world has these specific wolves in the colder climates which brings up the question why is she down here."

"Oh you have white wolves on your world as well, well idk about your wolves but these guys can live in both warm or cold they are pretty common in the deeper parts of the whitetail woods."

"Well we call them tundra wolves they are pretty common in colder places like Alaska but they can be found in warmer temperatures."

"Oh that's very fascinating I wouldn't have guessed there were similar animals like that in your world."

"Yea everything from rabbits to mountain lions but nothing like manticores or hydras that's all in myth and legends like dragons."

"Well if that's all I'm gonna head on out and back to the castle before twilight starts to worry about me." Hunter says as he turns to leave.

"Wait what about the pup?" Asks Fluttershy standing up to stop him.

"What about her I thought I'd leave her here so you could help her find her pack or something."

"I think she would prefer staying with you, she seems very connected to you." as she says this the pup ran up to Hunter and sat down at his feet looking up at him.

looking down at the pup Hunter chuckles and asks.

"Is this true you wanna go with me?" The pup gives a bark standing her tail wagging.

"She says she would love to go with you."

"You know what she said?" Hunter asks looking up at the mare.

"Oh yes i can talk to all of my animals its part of my special talent."

"Huh neat that must come in handy when checking up on their health."

"Yes well it can unless they are unsure of what's wrong."

"All right well i need to head on out come on girl." Hunter says opening the door for the pup.

"Ok well good bye have a good day Hunter."

"You to shy."

with that Hunter and his new furry companion walked back into town and to the castle, as they walked the residence that were setting up the stands and opening up shops would smile and wave to hunter with the occasional sideways glance of distrust. He had only been here for a few days and everyone has started to warm up to him fairly quickly which was surprising to him that everyone would be so open to him being there.

taking a left onto the path heading to the castle Hunter could see his truck with his atv still in the back strapped down.
'gonna have to unload that here soon.' Hunter thought to him self. looking up to the steps of the castle he could see a mare sitting looking off at his truck, to Hunter it looks like that girl that was with her mom from the other day.

"Hey waiting on Twilight?" Hunter calls out to the young mare making her jump slightly.

"Oh um no was just wondering if I could talk to you." she asks keeping her hands behind her back.

"Yea sure you mind if I do something while we talk?" he asks while heading to his truck

"Yea that'll be fine." she says while following him.

"Your name was Diamond right?" Hunter asks opening his truck door.

"Yes Diamond Tiara."

"Come on girl up." Hunter says to the wolf pup patting the seat the wolf jumping inside and sitting down.

"So what did you want to talk about?" Hunter asks grabbing the ramps to unload his atv and setting them up.

"Oh um well I was just wondering if you were busy tonight?"

"No not that I'm aware of why?"

"Well my father wanted to talk to you and clear the air about what happened between you and my mother."

"Oh well yea that shouldn't be an issue honestly I'm not to concerned about your mom considering that I've dealt with people like her before." hunter says while getting on to the atv.

"hey would you mid making sure the tires stay lined up on the ramps please."

"uh sure."

"And it might be a little loud so don't freak out."

"Ok."

After she said that he started it the engine coming to life making diamond jump from the small pop the exhaust gave off. slowly Hunter backed the atv off and down the ramps making sure to stay as lined up as he could on the ramps after he was all the way down he gave Applejack a text asking if he could store it in her barn. putting his phone away, and turning the atv off, he looks over to Diamond.

"Hey I need to take a real quick shower if you wanna hang around i need to run to Applejacks to put something in her barn then I can walk you to your house to know where to come tonight." Diamond thinks about it for a few seconds before responding with a small smile.

"Yea that can work should I just wait out here or..."

"You can wait out here or inside doesn't matter." With that he walks inside the castle but before he opens the door he looks down to the pup.

"Go wait at the atv alright." Hunter says pointing at the mentioned Vehicle making the wolf bark and run to the atv before laying down next to it.

"And would you mind shutting the door to my truck since she isn't gonna be inside?" Hunter asks looking to Diamond.

"Yea I can do that."

"Thanks."

With that Hunter walks inside closing the door leaving Diamond out side with the wolf pup.

As Diamond sat to wait for Hunter to come back she couldn't help but eye the strange contraption that he had been on just a moment ago, that is until the small white pup jumped up onto the seat of the thing and laying down. Walking up to the small pup to get a better look at it.

"Your in interesting looking dog where did he find you?" Diamond says as she reaches up to pet it.

"she's a wolf, a tundra wolf to be exact." Hunter says making Diamond jump.

"oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to mess with her I didn't know."
Hunter gives a small chuckle walking up to the pup and rubbing her head making her tail wag.

"It's fine I found her this morning, and she just stayed with me since."

"Does she have a name?"

"No not yet haven't thought of one yet how about... Nix."