It was a beautiful Saturday morning. Cheerilee had come over to play and help me with the last of my chores today. She wore a sundress and had her hair done in a ponytail held by a hair clip. We were playing by the creek near the Everfree Forest when Cheerilee decided to have a race. "Come on! The last one to the bend is a rotten apple!" She challenged me before racing along the creek bed into the forest.

"Oh, you are so on!" I answered her challenge before racing after her. She may have had a head start, but my legs were longer and stronger thanks to all that apple bucking. "I'm gaining, Cheery!"

"You wish, Johnny!" She taunted back as we kept racing. When we neared the bend, she tripped on a root, slamming me into her and causing us both to tumble. "Oof!"

"Ow. Are you alright?" I asked Cheery as I helped her up.

"Yeah, I think so." Cheery stood and brushed herself off before noticing her mane was loose. "My hair clip!" She looked around frantically for it with me joining. "Oooh! That was my mom's! If we don't find it, she'll kill me!"

As we kept looking for it on the ground, I looked at the stream and saw her clip float downstream. "Cheery, I found it!"

"You did!? Where?" She asked while getting up off the ground.

"It's heading down the" I was about to tell her where the clip was going, but a paw grabbing it from the water stopped me.

When we both looked at what picked it up, we saw that it was a wild Diamond Dog, actually, three diamond dogs, armed with knives and the one who had Cheerilee's hair clip had a tomahawk around his belt. I saw them giving Cheerilee looks that were creepy and she didn't like it one bit.

Cheery hid behind me while I put on a brave face and held out my hand. "Give it back," I demanded from who I thought was their leader.

The dog smirked at me before bouncing it in his palm. "Take it," He challenged.

"I said give it!" I demanded, feeling more courageous.

"Can you believe this boy?" The leader asked his buddies, making them laugh. He then takes out his tomahawk. "Tell you what. I'll trade you, for... this!" He then throws the weapon at me.

As the weapon drew near, I thought mine and Cheerilee's life were over. But as it drew ever closer, I had another vision, one where I was more animal than anything, with heightened senses and fighting wild animals.

When the visions stopped, the reflexes in my arm worked independently and caught the tomahawk. Suprise struck all of us, but none more than the diamond dog leader.

I heard him growl before commanding his two lackeys. "Kill the boy. Take the filly." With that, they charged me and Cheery.

The first dog tried to slash my face with a knife, but with quick thinking, I dodged under the blade and stuck the tomahawk in his gut, spilling his blood into the water.

The second dog tried to get at me with an overhead stab, but I had other plans and cut off his arm that held the knife.

With his friends dead, the leader growled before brandishing his own knife. "I'll skin ya alive!" He threatened me.

Griping the tomahawk tight, I reeled it back before launching it. The weapon sailed through the air before sinking into the leader's chest, making him drop to his knees and drop Cheery's hair clip.

Walking up to him, I picked up the hairclip before grabbing the handle of the tomahawk. "You should've given it back when I asked." With that, I pulled the weapon out from his chest and blood poured down, killing him near instantly.

When I finally took a moment to breathe, everything I just did came rushing to me and I dropped to my knees. I stared into the blood-filled water for what must have been hours as my body shook in a trance. It wasn't until I felt a pair of arms wrap around me did I come out of it. I turned to see Pa was holding me while Cheery was by Ma. Guess she went to get them While I fought them.

As Pa held me, I cried in his chest while he did his best to calm me down. "C'mon, son. Let's go home." Pa picked me up in his arms while we all went to the house.

Ma and Pa set me and Cheerilee on the couch while they went to go get her parents. Granny wrapped us up in a blanket and made us hot cider to help ease what happened. As we both warmed up next to the fire, I held out Cheerilee's hair clip and put it back in her hair. "There. All better."

Cherilee just gave me a quick smile and held my hand as we cozied up by the fire before our folks finally got back. Needless to say, her parents were shocked after hearing about what happened and hugged their daughter.

"My precious baby!" Cheery's mom cried while holding her close. "Thank Celestia that you're okay!"

While her mom was busy cuddling her, her dad walked over to me and he did not look very happy. "So you fought those three on your own?" Not really knowing what to say, I just nodded my head. His frown quickly turned into a smile before he took my hand and shook it to the point I thought he'd take my arm off. "Thank you for saving her! You have no idea how thankful we are for you! You're welcome to our place anytime!"

"Come on, dear. You're going to take the poor boy's arm off," Cheery's mother told her husband, making him stop shaking my hand. While shaking the feeling back into my arm, her mom kissed the top of my head, making me blush. "Thank you again, John."

"You're welcome, ma'am," I told her as she put her daughter down.

"We're going to get going now. Cheerilee, honey, tell your friend goodbye." Cheerilee's dad told her.

Cheerilee ran up to me and wrapped her arms around me. As I returned the hug, she whispered in my ear. "Thank you." She then surprises me by giving my cheek a peck before leaving with her parents.

As I sat on the couch, thinking how that was the second time she kissed my cheek, my little brother jumped on the couch and started to tease me. "John and Cheerilee, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"Why you little!" I went to grab him but he jumped off the sofa while screaming in delight.

"First comes love, then comes marriage! Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!" Mac kept singing as I chased him around the house.

Monday

"I'm sorry, I must have something crazy in my ear, 'cause it sounded like you said you fought three Diamond Dogs all by yourself!" Filthy shouted as I told him what happened to me the other day.

"When have you ever known me to tell a lie?" I asked him as we ate lunch.

"Weren't you scared?" He asked while I fiddled with my lunch.

"I was terrified..." I admitted. "But when I saw that axe coming at me, something just snapped and everything just became a blur...next thing I know, I was looking at their leader lying in a pool of his own blood..."

"Wow... so I guess that makes you a hero then," Filthy surmised.

"More like an animal that needs to be caged," Filthy and I groaned as our least favorite pony and his cronies came to greet us with their presence. "Won't be long before he kills the entire class or even his family."

I had enough of Cedar and grabbed him by his shirt and slammed him on the picnic table. "Maybe I'll just kill you so I don't have to listen to your crap!"

"Mister Apple!" I and everyone else looked over to the front of the school to see Miss Ruler. And she did not look very happy. "Come inside and see me."

"Off you go~." Cedar teased before Miss Ruler shot him a glare.

"I will see YOU later mister Cedar." She told him before I walked into the classroom ready for what was probably going to be a long lecture.

"Don't expect me to apologize, because I won't," I said with my arms crossed and I had no intention of apologizing to that prick even if the fate of Equestria depended on it.

"And I don't expect you to." Miss Ruler said, surprising me. "Cherilees parents told me what happened the other day."

I looked down at my hands before saying, "And you still want a killer like me in your class?"

"John." Miss Ruler got up and came around her desk. She placed her hand under my chin and had me look up at her. "You're not a killer. You were just in a dangerous situation and defended both you and Cheerilee from three dogs that wanted to kill you." She then smiles and brings me into a gentle hug. "You were very brave, both for yourself and Cheerilee."

I started to tear up again as I returned the hug. "Thank you, Miss Ruler."

"Anytime, John." She lets me go before looking me in the eye. "Now, I won't tell your parents about what happened today. But I want you to promise me that you won't threaten anyone again. Even if they do start it first."

"I promise," I told her while drying my eyes.

"Good boy. Now, enjoy the rest of recess." I nodded before going back outside.

Author's Note

Alright, finally some action you've all wanted. If you guys start to understand what the visions are, feel free to put your theory in the comments.

Now, time for the clip.