Dog Catcher's Mill Company

Fluttershy and the puppies traveled together and they saw the fox running forward, they followed it and arrived at the town again, they saw various puppies at one house, they began barking and a unicorn stallion came out of the house, he had a dull purple coat, short white mane and tail, a moustache, dark green eyes, and his cutie mark was a brown dog. The stallion ran to them,

"Are they from one of Dog Catcher's puppy mills?" the stallion asked,

"Yes." Fluttershy replied,

"Bring them in." the stallion said, and they went to his home.

Fluttershy and the puppies looked around and saw various statues of dogs in the house,

"What are those?" Fluttershy asked as she pointed to the statues,

"My family have worshiped dogs since ancient times, they protect us and serve us loyally." the stallion explained, a transparent dog in ceremonial robes appeared to his left, Fluttershy and the puppies looked at it,

"So you can see him, what you see here is an inugami, they serve my family loyally, each member of my family gets their own." the stallion stated,

"Oh, um, you still didn't introduce who you are." Fluttershy stated,

"Oh, right, I'm Canine Warrior, it is my family's duty to protect dogs while they serve us in exchange." the stallion replied,

"Where is the rest of your family?" Fluttershy asked,

"They all already passed, I'm the last one left." Canine Warrior replied,

"Oh, well, I'm going to explore the town and see if there's anyone else here." Fluttershy spoke,

"Okay, make sure you don't bother the animals." Canine Warrior replied, and she went outside.

Fluttershy headed outside and walked around town, she saw pretty much all of the ponies were gone, and there were only animals there, she saw felines, pigs, boars, horses, reptiles, and birds all in the town and looking after puppies, she walked around while looking at the animals and they all looked back at her for a brief second shortly before going back to tending to the puppies. She kept walking around and soon saw wolves, foxes, coyotes, and jackals carrying puppies on their backs and walking around, they smiled at her and kept walking while the puppies panted with their tongues out and tails wagged. Fluttershy kept walking and saw various puppies roaming the streets, she stopped when she saw one limping, she gasped and trotted to it,

"Come on, it's okay, where are you staying?" Fluttershy asked, the puppy nudged its head to give the directions and they arrived a litter of kittens and a mother cat. She let go of the puppy and kittens rubbed their heads against the puppy while the mother cat walked to it,

"Hello there." Fluttershy stated as she walked, the cats got defensive while the kittens growled and the mother cat hissed,

"I'm not with Dog Catcher." Fluttershy commented, the mother cat hissed again,

"Can I see the puppy? Please?" Fluttershy begged, the mother cat growled until the fox arrived and the felines bowed to him. He did a nudge with his head to let Fluttershy near the puppy and she did, she petted the puppy while it laid on the ground comfortably, she left afterwards and the mother cat began cleaning it.

Fluttershy flew forward and saw a shrine to worship the inugami to her left, she went there and saw the fox and black dog praying to the shrine, she soon heard lightning crackling in the sky and looked up, she looked in awe when she saw a dark gray canine-like creature in the sky with yellow lightning around it,

"A raiju? Here?" Fluttershy asked, and it came down from the sky and prayed to the shrine with the fox and black dog, she decided to go over and prayed with them. The four prayed until they heard walking and saw Canine Warrior and his inugami coming over, the fox bowed to it and inugami bowed to him. Canine Warrior and his inugami walked to the black dog and souls flew out of it and into the sky,

"There, there, hold still, let my inugami relieve you of some of your pain." Canine Warrior spoke, and the souls went high up into the sky until they were out of sight,

"There, hopefully, that'll make your quest easier." Canine Warrior said,

"Um, excuse me. Canine Warrior, what did you just do?" Fluttershy asked,

"My inugami just relieved some of the souls within its body, you may have figured out already, but this black dog here is an apparition, the souls of the dogs and theirs families that Dog Catcher and his minions have killed are absorbed into it, it is a spirit of vengeance created from their souls, until Dog Catcher and his minions are stopped, and the puppy mill company is shut down, their souls cannot rest." Canine Warrior explained, Fluttershy looked and saw the black dog walking around faster and more like a normal dog, it was also smaller,

"Come, Fluttershy, I need help tending to the puppies at my house." Canine Warrior stated,

"Of course." Fluttershy responded, and they went to his home.

Fluttershy helped Canine Warrior and the inugami feed and clean the puppies, they all licked Fluttershy's face and she rubbed her snout on them,

"Wow, Fluttershy, you're actually very good at taking care of them." Canine Warrior spoke,

"Thank you, I actually have a sanctuary back at home where I tend to almost every kind of animal there is." Fluttershy responded,

"Well, that explains a lot." Canine Warrior said,

"Wait, you didn't know?" Fluttershy asked,

"Sorry, but I am not one to pay attention to worldly events." Canine Warrior replied,

"Oh, well, I'm famous throughout Equestria and beyond, and take care of animals in the Everfree Forest." Fluttershy explained,

"Ah, well, that explains why you know how to take care of animals, come on now, I need to walk them." Canine Warrior stated, and they went outside.

Fluttershy and Canine Warrior walked the puppies and took breaks whenever they were tired, they all stood up after several minutes,

"You all ready to continue?" Canine Walker asked, the puppies barked,

"Let's go then." Canine Warrior said, and they walked more. The two walked the puppies around the town while the various animals joined them and walked the puppies that were living with them,

"Do you all do this together, Canine Warrior?" Fluttershy questioned,

"Yes, I start the walk, and they all join." Canine Warrior replied, and they all walked across town and walked back while the animals separated from them when at their homes and Fluttershy and Canine Warrior arrived back,

"Phew, I haven't walked that long in a while." Fluttershy commented,

"You'll get used to it, when you've done it as long as I have, it'll feel like nothing." Canine Warrior replied,

"True, I have to go now, Canine Warrior, I have puppies from Dog Catcher's mills to take care of back at my home." Fluttershy stated,

"Go on then, and if you can, bring them here." Canine Warrior replied, and she left while they said bye to one another.

Fluttershy began to head home but soon heard wolves calling for help, she flew and saw them, they began running and she followed them. She flew and saw a shack in the middle of the woods, she saw a puppy mill and Dog Catcher, Chain Link, Searcher, and Tracker were there, Tracker had a cast on his neck. She heard a puppy yelping loudly inside the shack, the door opened and a unicorn stallion with a whitish-gray coat, short gray mane and tail, black eyes, and his cutie mark was a cleaver. She gasped when she saw the puppy he was carrying had its legs, tail, and teeth missing,

"Next puppy." the stallion requested,

"Here you go, Butcher." Chain Link responded as she handed him the next puppy, it struggled to break free and Butcher had a gray aura on his horn and restrained it as he brought the puppy in. Fluttershy heard loud thuds and a puppy yelping, the door opened and Butcher came out while holding a bloodied cleaver, and the puppy had its legs, tail, and teeth missing,

"Good work, Butcher, just a few more of these attempting-to-escape parasites, and we'll be done." Dog Catcher stated as he handed the next puppy over to Butcher,

"Good, I can't wait until all of these dogs are torture subjects." Butcher stated,

"None of us can." Tracker replied, they chuckled as Butcher got ready to amputate the next puppy. Fluttershy flew away and she began doing various calls of helps to alert the animals, the fox, black dog, raiju, and various predators came, she directed them to the butcher shop and they began attacking. Fluttershy stood back and watched while Dog Catcher, Chain Link, Searcher, Tracker, and Butcher fought back. Dog Catcher and Butcher cast spells that made the animals turn into skeletons and their souls fly into the sky, Chain Link and Searcher picked up animals and tried dropping them to the ground while Tracker wrestled with them. Fluttershy continued watching and Canine Warrior, his inugami, and the various animals from his town arrived to help,

"Fluttershy, me and the animals will fend them off, you and my inugami go in the shack and rescue the dogs." Canine Warrior ordered,

"Got it." Fluttershy responded, and she and his inugami entered.

Fluttershy looked around the shack while the noises of fighting outside distracted her, the inugami rubbed its head on her leg to get her attention and she focused. She flew around and gasped when she saw severed legs and tails' on the table, she kept looking around and found teeth lying around on the floor alongside several dead puppies. She flew around and did not find any puppies, the inugami called for them and they answered from under the floor, she gasped loudly at realizing they were buried alive. The inugami went through the floor and Fluttershy looked for something to pry the wooden floor with. She got startled when lightning struck through the roof and destroyed the floor, the raiju ran down and the black dog appeared and went under the floor. Fluttershy began helping the three get the puppies and they headed outside, they saw Dog Catcher teleport away while Chain Link and Searcher tried to fly away but the birds pecked them, and Tracker ran away while the animals chased him. The raiju made another lightning strike happen to burn the shack down and Fluttershy saw Butcher was dead, she gave the puppies to Canine Warrior and he and the other animals began taking them to their homes.

Fluttershy walked with them and they all arrived at their homes, she checked on every puppy and the animals greeted her warmly, she smiled and checked every animal to make sure they were alright, she also saw the fox, the black dog, and the raiju checking them as well, they also paid respects to their dead companions while the souls of the dead puppies from Butcher's shack got absorbed into the black dog's body. Everycreature got on with their days and Fluttershy got ready to head back home, everycreature heard an explosion at the shrine,

"What now?" Fluttershy asked, and she flew there. Everycreature arrived and looked at the destroyed shrine,

"It has to be Dog Catcher's doing." Canine Warrior stated,

"I think so, too." Fluttershy responded, the puppies yelped as they began to suddenly disappear, they all looked around and saw Dog Catcher floating in the air, he shot a beam at Canine Warrior's house and set it on fire. Fluttershy gasped at seeing the blaze,

"Come on, the puppies are inside, let's go." Canine Warrior stated, and they did.

Fluttershy and the others went to Canine Warriors house and saw it was on fire, they heard barking inside the house and scratching the surfaces. Canine Warrior teleported into the house and blew the door away, Fluttershy's jaw dropped when she saw wooden boards and realized the doors and windows were barricaded from the inside,

"Fluttershy! This way! Hurry!" Canine Warrior hollered, she got startled and ran into the house. She entered and coughed from the smoke and the heat from the fire made her hot instantly, she saw the various animals from around the town inside the house and looking for the puppies, she heard loud yelps of pain and she ran and gasped when she saw some of the puppies were pinned to the floor with nails in their paws'. She looked for something for the puppies to put in their mouths and bite on, she found a piece of wood on the floor,

"Here, bite on this." Fluttershy instructed, and the puppy did. She bit onto a nail with her teeth and pulled it out of the puppy's paw while it yelped in pain,

"I know, I know, please bear with me." Fluttershy spoke, and she removed the other three nails while the puppy yelped loudly in agony,

"Okay, I got you, hang on." Fluttershy said as she picked it up and flew outside. She went back in and saw the various animals carry out many puppies, she flew back in and went over to help, she found a puppy tied to a pole with rope. She grabbed the knot with her teeth and pulled on it to undo it, she had trouble and she heard running, she glared but saw it was the two cadejos, they helped her undo the rope and the male cadejo carried the puppy out. She flew through the burning house more and soon saw Canine Warrior shooting blasts,

"Canine Warrior!" Fluttershy hollered, she then saw revived dead ponies trying to catch the animals carrying the puppies and kill them, she saw the fox helping him fight off the revived ponies and Fluttershy tried to go over to help them, the fire burned the ceiling and made part of it fall and land between her and Canine Warrior,

"Leave me! I'll hold them off!" Canine Warrior said,

"No! I'm not leaving you behind!" Fluttershy retorted,

"Go! I'm ready to die! Make sure the puppies make it out safe!" Canine Warrior hollered, Fluttershy watched as Canine Warrior shot zaps at the mind controlled corpses as tears fell from her eyes,

"Go, Fluttershy! Kill that puppy mill owner!" Canine Warrior ordered, she then watched the fox running to her and orange flames came out of his body, they disappeared and she looked on in surprise and awe, he has transformed into a nine tailed fox, he phased through the burning debris and went to Fluttershy, she then had a vision in her mind.

Fluttershy saw a vision of wolves, foxes, coyotes, and jackals standing on a hill which were black like shadows and in a light tan background,

"I was called here by our canine relatives of your land." the fox spoke in a distorted male voice, she heard the canines howling and making calling sounds, Wepwawet was among them. The picture changed to the nine tailed fox meeting with another nine tailed fox sitting on the throne, it had a crown and cape on,

"I was sent to this land by my home island's emperor to investigate what was going on and put a stop to it." the nine tailed fox spoke as the vision changed to him running through the sky. The vision changed to him meeting two nine tailed foxes, one a little smaller than him, and one was a pup,

"I bid farewell to my wife and son before I came to this land, they are now awaiting my return." the nine tailed fox continued and the vision changed to him running through the sky, the vision changed to him arriving into Equestria,

"I was quickly informed and shown what the problem was...", the nine tailed fox said as the vision changed to him seeing dead dogs and puppies in a puppy mill,

"...I now work to put an end to these mills and stop the ones running them." the nine tailed fox added, and the visions ended.

Fluttershy came back to reality while the nine tailed fox stood by her side, she watched Canine Warrior fight the revived dead ponies until debris fell on them and killed Canine Warrior, the nine tailed touched Fluttershy with his paw and led her out of the house. The two arrived outside and looked at the animals, the inugami looked down, she comforted him and he soon began howling as the house burned, all the animals paid respects to Canine Warrior while the puppies whimpered. Everycreature finished grieving and the house continued to burn, they all went back while the inugami followed Fluttershy around,

"Go on, you should keep him company in the afterlife." Fluttershy stated, and the inugami left, she walked around and birds calling her flew to her,

"What is it?" Fluttershy asked, one bird did several caws and told her her sanctuary was on fire,

"*gasp* Go help the animals! I'm coming!" Fluttershy exclaimed, and she flew quickly.

Fluttershy flew to Ponyville and gasped when she saw her home and sanctuary on fire, she flew quickly and saw her friends and other animals getting her pets out. She flew down and went to her friends and Cutie Mark Crusaders,

"Where are the puppies?" Fluttershy asked, they all looked around and did not see them,

"What? They were right here." Apple Bloom replied, Fluttershy flew to her house and the fire,

"Wait! Fluttershy!" Twilight Sparkle hollered as they went after her. She went past the hot flames and looked around for the puppies, she called out for them and soon heard barking and she looked up and saw Chain Link holding one while flying in the air while Dog Catcher was behind her and holding himself and the other puppies up with his telekinesis,

"Looking for this?" Chain Link asked,

"Give them back!" Fluttershy demanded,

"Go get them." Chain Link said, and she threw the puppy at her home and into the fire. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle screamed while Dog Catcher threw the rest into the fire with his telekinesis,

"Spike!" Twilight Sparkle called out, and he flew into the fire to get them while she used her telekinesis to bring them out. Fluttershy flew closer to the fire and quickly began getting the puppies out of it while Rainbow Dash helped her, Rarity also used her magic while Pinkie Pie and Applejack tended to them alongside the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Dog Catcher teleported himself and Chain Link away while they were distracted. Fluttershy and her friends tended to the puppies while they whimpered,

"Don't cry, come on, cheer up, look." Pinkie Pie said, and she made funny faces and noises,

"I don't think that's going to work, Pinkie." Rainbow Dash stated,

"Yeah, Ah agree." Applejack added,

"Are they going to be okay?" Sweetie Belle asked,

"Well, they weren't there for very long, so burns shouldn't be very serious." Rarity responded,

"Still, where were you all of this time, Fluttershy?" Scootaloo asked,

"Traveling, Dog Catcher has minions and mills everywhere." Fluttershy answered,

"How did ya find 'em?" Apple Bloom questioned,

"A nine tailed fox led me." Fluttershy replied,

"A nine tailed fox?" Twilight Sparkle asked, they heard running and he came to the puppies,

"Wow, I've never seen anything like it." Spike said,

"That's because they're not native to Equestria, Spike, they're from an island to the northeast." Twilight Sparkle explained,

"What are you going to do now, Fluttershy?" Pinkie Pie asked,

"I'm going to put a stop to Dog Catcher and his company, he has gone too far this time." Fluttershy declared,

"I agree, I say we look for his other mills and minions." Rainbow Dash answered,

"It's fine, Rainbow, I have other animals to help me." Fluttershy replied,

"Ya sure about that, Fluttershy, it's winter and it's gonna start snowing soon." Applejack stated,

"I'll be fine, I promise." Fluttershy responded, and they tended to the puppies and put out the fire. Fluttershy called all of her animals and instructed them to investigate all of Equestria for Dog Catcher's mills and destroy them alongside stopping those working for him, she also told them she was going to shut down his main mill and they all began searching while she looked at the nine tail fox,

"Lead the way." Fluttershy instructed, and he did while she followed him.