'Gray the Necromancer - The beginning'

Written by: Black--Soul

Chapter 1 - Prologe & beginning

Gabriel was a relativly normal guy, nothing to special about him, yet not normal enough to be boring. The human male enjoyed a relativly normal day, except that it was the last in his normal life on earth. Becoming displaced is a rather sudden thing and it didn't come for him with any warning to prepare him.
One moment on earth, the next on a world not quite... Earth.
Gabriel was of a general education, had a few jobs that didn't even hold him occupied a decade, yet teached him enough as to make quite the impact on his future new home he found himself in. In the near and far future.

Five things were noticed rather soon by the human:
First, he didn't longer had his original body, by the fact alone his body had a light gray color, was less muscular and apparently was void of any body hair what so ever, anywhere.

It was quite drafty upstairs, while his arms and legs feel kinda numb, without the input of his normaly lightly hairy bodyparts.
Second, his blood circulatory system would have not supported him for running almost for a hour from a literally bloody Rabbit, that for some god forsaken reason wanted to bite and probably eat him.

Third, his mind was changed, sharper reactions, more focused and for longer durations, faster to learn and longer to remember. One do not simply run for roughly a hour straight away from a nimbel Bloody Rabbit without noticing how many times he didn't stumble on oversized overground growing roots.

Fourth, his naked body sure was more resiliant, since walking over stones, wood and uneven grounds don't bother him that mutch as it would have in many way's than before in his life.
Fifth, he could last longer without water. Running longer times and distances, because ~~a fucking meat eating Rabbit~~ predators could be outlasted without suffering dehydration to quickly.

The human found conviniently water, in the form of a softly flowing river and rather odd looking fruits on trees and berrys in bushes. The water was cold, but refreshing him more than expected, perhaps the aftertaste had something to do with it. The light aftertaste, he could not quite place. For two examples: The fruits tasted rather sweet and he fear dental problems in the future. The berrys were rather spicey in his oppinion.
While he carefully eat different fruit and Berrys as to learn if they agreed on his digestion, he basicly invested his first day of many days for millenia to come, on eating fruits, berrys and Mushrooms.
The night was without event and he sleep troughout it, only bothered by his thoughts of insecurity about his near future survival.

The next day he woke up after a unsettling noise from the day before. The not so bloody anymore Rabbit had found him again. The human run for his bloody life once more. This Rabbit sure was persistent.

Perhaps humans smelled delicious to this little demon of cuteness, the human wondered why something so cute evolved to be deadly. After losing the Rabbit for deity knows how long, did he found rather fast food and water again.
The lucky human was apparently in very fertile grounds, what would keep him fed for the days to come without hunting for wildlife or fish.

Gabriel enjoyed the relative peace, while following the river to it's end. A huge sea was quite the breath taking sight. So where the tents visible in the distance. Civilisation!

When the human finaly walked around the cold as tits river, he didn't want to pass via swimming, ~~do to being a wimp out of a city~~, he was rather confused why there were little ponies around them without any shepards or fences to keep them safe.

The ponies were even stranger on closer inspection from a distance, because some had horns or wings, not to mension that they enjoyed all colors of the rainbow exception being black, brown or green that would have aided there survival. The human scratched his chin in confusion about evolution in this race.

When the human came closer to the tents, they become loud enough for Gabriel to hear them. Unexpected was all the sounds he could hear, as well as how mixed up there were in combination and strength of volume.

Maybe a hundred meters from the first tent away did the human eyes metaphorically bulged out of his skull as the rather frantic and unorganised large group of ponies seemingly formed up as a multilayerd battleformation. Earth ponys made up the front, while unicorn behind them looked in between the gaps with lowered horns, as if to suddenly charge him with intent to impale his skinny little ass.

The pegasus fly circeling around him, never stopping the circeling for even a minute.
Layered in a clear formation with opposent directions depending on height. The human found observing them disorderating his balance, a visual attack/defense to his sense of spacial awareness, so he tried to ignore them.

Further did the human noticed the battleformation attempting to keep him in focus. Did he would go left, did the formation go along with him. Did he run to the right, did they gallop to keep him in the formations same position.
After minutes of resultless attempts to come closer to the tents without getting closer to the battle formation and getting them to physicaly attack him did he give up.

The human sit down, after few minutes to his surprise did all the earthbound ponies, horn or unhorned mimic him.
The pegasus to his amazment landed on clouds and keep watching him.

He was most definitivly not on earth anymore... Or perhaps he had not be in his timeline?
Dr. Who would be most welcome right about now to save him...

When the human stand up, so did the ponies and the battle formation on ground and air resumed.
After standing still for minutes in silence and contemplation did the human sit down again.
The ponies resumed there prior observed behavior.
This was repeated fifteen times.
When the human growth frustrated about the ponies keeping him busy, would he have bet a month worth a salary that the ponies look proud and perhaps smug about there success.
The human Gabriel was surprised how expressive the ponies faces and body language was.

Also they clearly communicated with one another. At one point did he seem to observe two pairs of ponies in the sky to laugh. If it was a joke to pass the time or he was the joke was for everyone else to know and him to wonder. He wondered how all there noises made out a languages shared among them.

When Gabriel walked away from the ponies, did only the pegasus followed him. To be more accurate a group made of five pegasus. While the remaining large group keep looking in his direction from time to time, as to confirme that the watching pegasus on duty don't let him get any closer unnoticed.

The pegasus group of five pegasus were rather surprised that the hairless, on two mailformed hindhooves walking predator was eating fruits and berrys. Apparently this clearly predatory creature would become a long lasting annoying problem.

He could clearly spread the time, until he had to feed on pony flesh like a Griffon or a Blood Bunny. That would mean there rather peaceful life would be rather eventful, until they decide to kill it with a rock to the head, once it become more than a annoyance or it actually wounded one of the herds members.
Surprisingly this predator had similiaritys to ponies and other sapient beings, since it try to hide from the pegasus when it needed to release it's bodily waste.

The pegasus groups leading mare proposal of attempting communication was swiftly approved.
When the pegasus assigned to ask permission as flying voice return from the tents, did the squad lowered there resting clouds to about twenty ponie lengths from the ground and shouted to the predator.

It was discovered that it was unable to understand there different languages used in there attempts of communicate with it.
Pony-ish with all accents, Griffon-ish and even Yak. None of it was understandable to it, but it clearly understanded the attempts. It even seem to do the same!

Yet, both side could not understand each other.
When the relief squad come, did they informed the new arrivals that the predator was in fact sapient and highly dangerous, since it was like a grounded Griffon. Smart and probably extreamly deadly once in claw's range.

The relief squad thanks their friends and informed them that the herd mares leadership wanted to see them as soon as possible to make a assessment of the situation.

The herd mares leadership was very concerned about the predator. It and it's kind was never before encountered, let alone observed. It came out of nowhere and it was apparently sapient! Just like Griffons would it hunt their herds members for it's diatary needs, no question about it.
Killing it outright was to dangerous. It's pack must be nearby and killing it would without a doubt aggrovate them. Eventually leading to a attack, hunger not accounting.

So the decision was made. Observation would be 15/7 all night, twilight and day. Once all it's pack was accounted for, they found there camp, if existing, would observe them and once they become a threat, kill every mare, stallion and foal of the pack.

No matter if Griffon or Abesinian, that tactic never had failed them ever before.

Gabriel tried the next day to get to the tents again.
After the battle formation completion, did he try to talk to them. The ponies were chattering excitingly with each other, since not everypony know this predator had been sapient.

While some sedatedly and in hushed wispers ask if they should kill it the coming night with Thestral's, others reason it would be possible to make it leave without killing it and risking it's species members wrath.
Some ponies tried to communicate with it verbaly in a group, others with hoove languages in a group as to make it easyer to make out from the distance. When it was not giving viable result, did a rather suicidel pegasus landed only fifteen ponie lengths away from it.

To everyones amazment, did the predator didn't try killing that featherbrained mare.
Matter of factly did the predator sit down on the ground and entangeld it limbs shortly after that, in a way that many wondered how it didn't break its hindlegs.

The air left everyponys lungs when this airheaded pegasus slowly got closer to the predator.
It watched with high focus, probably anticipating it coming meaty meal. Some ponies fall over in surprise, when one ponie length away the hairless predator did the same with it's forlegs in a contemplativ guesture.

Some Unicorns outright fainted, when this absolutly braindead mare turned her back on the predator, lay down and closed her eyes.
She was as good as dead... it was a predator after all outside designated neutral trading areas, for prey and predator goods to be exchanged for mutual benefit.

The human was very surprised how trusting the pegasus mare was.
She landed fast about fifteen meter before him alone. While it starteld him at beginning, did she seem to relax after that sudden entrance.
Her wings lowered to the ground in a streched way that was not natural and would have cost her at least a full second when attempting to flee, should she need to take to the air.

When Gabriel sit down, did she come slowly closer. When she stopped, did he cross his legs as to signal her that he could'nt jump at her.
When she bravely come shakingly closer, did he cross his arms as to show he would'nt try to grab her.

She in turn took many deep breaths, slowly turn her back to him and... Laying down in a extreamly woundrable position.
It felt like eternity, but wasn't longer than a toilet break would last, when she slowly got up again. Her relaxed wings again streched low to the ground in submission or something in that intension, when she slowly walked backward toward him.

When the human didn't react other than continue to observing her closer coming rump, did the mare get more daring. She turned around and booped him on the nose.

Seconds that might have felt like years to some quadrapet's observers didn't easy any tension, when the absolutly lunatic mare give the predator all the chances to slay her. This was impossible. Yet it happend anyway!

A predator not killing prey outside marked trade areas. What in creations history was going on, did everypony wondered.

The human could'nt belive it. That pegasus mare just booped him on the nose with a hoove.
This - meant - waaarrr!
So he did the only thing sensible.

He slowly uncrossed his arms, resulting in the mares huge eyes to shrink to pinprics. Than as to not scare her to mutch, he extended his pointing finger on his right hand, moved ever so slowly closer to her muzzle aaannnddd...
Booped her back.

Faithful Wings heart almost stopped, when the predator untangeld his forelegs, extended a strangely looking claw aaannnddd...
Booped her on the muzzle.

After what most have been guessing lasted hours, rather than seconds did Faithful Wings moved her right forhoove to her muzzle aaannnddd... Scratched it.

Getting booped on the muzzle by a claw tickeld.
After some time past did the brave pegasus booped the docile predator again. Second later did it booped her back.

This continued for literally minutes.
Ponie booping human. Human booping ponie.
Repeating only interrupted with the occational scratching of the itch the booping produced.
Also it was really relaxing for both of them to have the most peaceful booping war in history everrr.

Author's Note

Finished script for the story.
Minor edits will be done over time. My proofreading support offered advice i will add later.
Thanks to all dedicated and occational proofreaders ♡

I did a overall manual grammatic check, again. I do my best, but english isn't my only additional language...
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Thanks to everyone giving me you'r time and advice to improve my grammar prowess. Google docs isn't always what i want it to be.
Did a better formating for the autoread function.
Also known as Text to Speech.

Thanks towards my readers for their educational advice in grammar

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Last time edited:
11.04.2024