"FIII" After my newly learned and not at all used whistle just to show off, though I'm alone... four modified timberwolves appeared in front of me and right in the middle was my Beta, a simple combination of two timberwolves that looks a bit like a Rek'sai, but only because of the arms that protruded, it was something that I created to serve as a mount since the timberwolf and I are almost the same size so I fall easily and we were going to be riding for a few hours to Canterlot

As soon as the night fell we left at full speed without stopping for a second, advantages of your servants not being made of meat I suppose

I think we reached the walls a little before the two hours of travel had passed, the six of us were glued to the wall and I was covered with a hood that Zecora lent me, obviously I didn't tell him what it was for

With my drones I could see about two guards passing through the top of the wall and one looking sleepy in a watchtower, as the guards passed through the wall my drone came in through the window of what appeared to be the kitchen , he searched through the upper pantries until he found a tower of stacked pans and knocked them over the edge

With another of my drones I could see the lookout jump and almost fall off the edge of the tower. Is it wrong to feel disappointed that it didn't happen?

I shook my head at the thought, later I would worry about that, as soon as the guard entered the tower I ordered my drone to go out the way "Btt" came in. As soon as another of my drones gave me the signal that the guards already had passed I ordered the group to climb in absolute silence

Honestly I was a bit disappointed, the level of security was quite poor, although I shouldn't be surprised since in this city the wall doesn't even cover all the land where it was built, it was enough to climb the mountain to avoid it, although it was to be expected if it is chosen to build on the edge of a mountain Who was the genius?

No matter how majestic the view is, it's not worth it if you can't protect it and as if that weren't enough once you passed the wall there were practically no guards, at night the streets were deserted so it wasn't hard for us to sneak up to a few blocks from the royal palace entrance

The only place in the city with activity, the carriages did not stop arriving, days before I had eavesdropped on a conversation between one of the noble couples while they were having lunch and I found out that a meeting was going to be held, it was a type of party to raise funds for to help another country that was going through a crisis, the rule was that any noble who donated could attend and apparently no one misses the opportunity to enter the royal palace, I include myself of cource

Me and my team sneaked through the alleys to the fence of the royal garden where once again security proved to be almost non-existent and this one I almost say to be polite it seemed like all the guards were standing guard at the party or the castle for what areas like the garden were easily accessible, with a nod to my beta he put his front paw under my barrel and threw me over the fence

I fell with the grace of a stone, but it didn't hurt as much due to the number of times I had rehearsed it in the forest.

I quietly slipped into the bushes and cast a spell the only spell I've had time to learn since I got those books, a pretty basic shapeshifting spell, when the book said dark magic was mainly focused on offense it seemed to me great or at least until I find out the drawbacks, the 'focused on offensive magic' also translates to 'you'll be bad at everything else'

This shape-shifting spell is the most basic of all, which means a higher expenditure of magic and a simple hit is enough to disable the illusion, still, I had to admit that the details suited me quite well.

Now I was a different pony my fur was dark blue, my now orange mane grew and now resembled that of a lion, my horns were replaced by a curved one and I had scales covering my cheeks, legs and my skinny, I was a kirin or at least how the book says they look

The kirins were an apparently legendary race, a kind of dragon/pony hybrid, but it is known that they existed, although nobody has seen one for more than a century, which is perfect, if by accident I run into someone and prove to be ignorant, I can blame to the fact that I come from a faraway place and that's the cherry on the cake in one of the stories I read about them, rumors were mentioned that they can become beings of fire, although another said that they were different types, even so I decided that it was worth the risk since it seemed like the perfect disguise

As I walked around the garden of my hair and saddlebags, what seemed to be insects of all kinds came out, only those who looked closer could notice that they were actually made of twigs, I still do not dare to send my drones inside the castle since this one was quite guarded with guards in each corner and what I suspect were magical protections of different types, but I don't know which ones since I haven't reached that part of the book yet, even so that didn't stop me from guarding the whole Exterior

I slowly approached the banquet area, I couldn't release my insects in one place, I needed to spread them around the outside of the castle if possible, I saw that some guards were looking at me strangely so I tried to look natural when approaching the table of the snacks where I grabbed something and put it in my mouth without thinking… I want to vomit. What kind of thing is this? While resisting the urge to spit it out on the floor, I looked at the banquet plates. Is that hay?

It looked toasty with some things on it but it was definitely hay, I took a quick look at the other things on the table and realized something I should have noticed much much sooner

The ponies were herbivores, right? I never noticed it, maybe because I'm human, but now that I think about it, it's rare that I can eat meat, in fact, now that I realize it, the meat tastes even better than it did at home and that here I have no spices of any kind, I just heat the meat and eat it

“Btt”

I shake the thought and swallow the hideous piece of crap to pay attention, apparently some of my bugs found something interesting, that was faster than I expected actually

A few hundred meters from me a deer of colossal size appeared, although it was surely half the size of a normal pony and it looked that way because I was looking at it from the perspective of an insect, apparently it was somewhere in the garden near where I entered, I'm lucky I got out of there fast

Suddenly I feel a shiver that runs through my entire body, although I don't know if it could be called that since I could feel how the sensation oppresses me with force to the point of not being able to move, I feel how my body temperature drops, my breathing slows. shortens to just enough to keep me alive, my stomach churns and makes me want to throw up

In front of the deer there is a pony much larger than any that I have seen, with wings and a horn, completely white and with an almost ethereal multicolored mane that fluttered despite the fact that there was no wind, the view was not bad at all until I could recognize that She was beautiful despite not being of her kind, but there was something about her that terrified me, like when a prey has the misfortune to be face to face with a hungry predator ready to devour you at any moment and before me was without a doubt the alpha predator

"Good evening, King Aspen, it's a pleasure to see you after so long" "Likewise, Princess Celestia." Although his pronunciation was impeccable and his face showed no emotion, it was obvious that he was upset, in fact I would dare to say that he was angry, but that It was not what struck me the most, but it was the simple fact that the deer spoke

I slowly walked away from the party to a less busy place as the conversation continued.

“Is something wrong King Aspen? He hasn't answered my letters and from what I'm told the deer have completely stopped trading with Equestria." Aspen's face finally betrayed him and showed a part of her barely contained anger. "You told me we'd be safe, that my people would not be affected by your decisions”

At the unexpected tone of reprimand the princess freezes for a second "Is this because of the Everfree?"

“!!”

That really got my attention "You told me that it won't affect our way of life, you even told me that it might become safer, nearly thirty deer have been eaten!" Although his tone was high, he managed to hold back his scream as he hit the ground hard with one of his hoofs.

Celestia took a step back and some guards peeked out from behind, but receiving a signal from their princess they backed away “W-what do you mean? What kind of creature could do something like that?

After a second of silence, he answered confirming my fears "Timberwolfes" suddenly Celestia tensed "Timberwolfes are you sure?"

“At first we thought it was some new type of predator that you had accidentally awakened with your little cleaning up in the woods, but recently the son of one of our guards who luckily received some training from his father managed to survive the attack on his group. that he had gone away from the village to amuse himself. He told us that at first everything was normal, they laughed, they played, until one of his companions went far away and disappeared, another of his friends went to look for him, but he did not return either by the time they realized that something was wrong, it was already too much. Later, they were surrounded, the wolves separated them and finished them off one by one, even the ones who managed to react fast enough and managed to get away from the wolves only headed into an ambush… does Celestia sound familiar to you? since when do timberwolves know advanced hunting strategies? This had never happened in history until you decided to mess with the forest "

This time Celestia was not intimidated and calmly spoke "How do you know about the hunts?"

"The fact that you have decided to forget the dark times of Equestria does not mean that all the rest of us agree and do not change the subject" It seemed that the princess wanted to say something else, but she held back "I am very sorry for your loss, King Aspen, I know that you will never I can make it up to you, but I promise to do what I can-"

"You can let my troops march to the Everfree to clean up your mess." Aspen no longer seemed to hold back from showing her discontent.

"I'm very sorry Aspen, but I can't do that, I trusted you Aspen, but you know that the nobles would never accept that a non-Equestrian army marches through our lands like nothing happened" His sadness seemed genuine

"Then send your guards" If looks could kill Celestia would have been mutilated and killed dozens of times by the look she was receiving from the deer king

"It's more complicated than that and you know it, in the first place, nobody would agree to send an entire army to finish off some timberwolves and in the second-"

“Then what the hell are you planning to do?!” Finally, I can't stand it I think I almost hear it from here wherever I am...

"Give me time, with that I could convince the nobles to send a small force that can work together with the ones you have settled in your village and-"

"How long?" He was really mad if he didn't even have the patience to let her finish her sentences

"About four weeks or so" He didn't say anything else he knew it would be useless

"Four weeks in which my people are defenseless and could be massacred even as we speak" Celestia was going to say something, surely an apology, but Aspen turned around without giving her a chance "Good night princess" Although her voice returned to her neutral tone didn't make it any less threatening

There was nothing interesting to see anymore so I cut the connection , walked over to some bushes and finally threw up everything I had eaten since breakfast yesterday. The problem was not only the fact that I ate the meat of another intelligent being, but that it was my favorite, it was the tastiest I had ever tasted, so I ordered my wolves to hunt them, especially the deer

As soon as I got control of myself I signaled my wolves to stop hunting deer and start avoiding them like ponies.

"Excuse me, who are you?" I froze at the sudden voice, I slowly turned to see a white unicorn with black mane and glasses, only then did I realize where I was

Somehow I had gotten into the back of a stage, I admit I was always clueless, but since I didn't see it it was beyond me

"Would you be Spirit?" He approached me without fear asking questions that I was not prepared for!

"Ehh yes" I said it more out of inertia since I had decided to call myself by the name Zecora Flaming Spirit gave me

"Perfect! I thought you weren't going to make it, you're lucky I recognized you, if I hadn't read that your way of presenting yourself is something... eccentric I would never have spoken to you” Now I was sure he was talking about someone else, but he didn't give me time to explain myself As I started to crawl, what the fuck did I just get myself into?

Author's Note

Proofread and edited by Underrated Drake

I do not know much about the deer in mlp, although if I have investigated them I have not read the comic, if anyone knows any information that they consider interesting, do not hesitate to put it in the comments.