The sentence of Hunger

Hunger was screaming inside... his head, he really didn't have time for this, he had a more important job to do, if he didn't take care of the demons daily, shit was going to hit the fan.

After the whole "I want to be a hero" from three elements of harmony, he managed to throw them in the cell of the place, since it had the purpose of being a guard post and the first line of defense against the demons and all that. Twilight was shocked at first and Rainbow was kicking and trying (And failing) to scream while they were dragged away, Twilight tried to reason whit him, "It seems this a misunderstanding, we only were trying to help!"

"Are you the guard?"

"No b-"

"Did you inform the guard about this?"

"Well, no, I-"

"Did you get permission to enter?"

"No, b-"

"Did you even knock at the door?"

Tears started to peek in Twilight's eyes, her ears drop and big eyes that could kill a lesser person appears, Hunger stops for a moment, "...No, we just thought that somepony-"

Hunger coughs and whispers, "Someone".

Twilight was too distracted with being close to having a breakdown to listen, "-Was in danger, so we had to act fast!

Hunger deadpan "I told you three times to stand down, you did not listen and escalated the situation, true that I did not help, but you shot first"

"B-but, If princess Celestia finds out about this, she is gonna send me to magic kindergarten!"

Hunger stood there, stunned, "That... One, that does not seem something that she would do, she probably gonna give you a medal for making my day worse, second, what?"

Twilight didn't seem to listen and started to panic, even more, Hunger looks around, rainbow was still trashing around, while applejack's eyes were white.

After that twilight was a murmuring disaster, and there were no other incidents on the way to the cell.

Hunger really hope that she was not going to get a heart attack because of all of these since probably was gonna blame it on him. After putting them in different cells and hearing how Rainbow was cursing him, he proceeded to go check into the animals, most of them were stunned by what just happened, others opened their stitches by moving quickly, and the worst of all was Panther, who fell to the ground breathing heavily after returning.

Hunger cursed under his breath and proceeded to walk over to him, taking a needle from his mouth, hunger poked him to get a drop of blood, and after getting it, he took it to his mouth. "Shit, many impurities.." hunger proceeds to put a hand over the head, stomach, and one hoof over one of the lower legs, then concentrates. Panther slowly starts to breathe more normally, "I just purify your blood again, I should able to buy the stuff to treat your kidneys and liver today." Hunger proceeds to take him in his arms and then put him on a stretcher, "rest for now, sorry for making you work when you-." Panther put a paw over his face, Hunger exchanged glances with him, his eyes showing no spite or hate against him, Just a look that says -Keep talking, and I will bite you-, then point his head at Gilda.

Hunger just gives a sigh "Fuking honor and shit, I swear to the god that you were a knight in your past life." Finally, he proceeds to check on Gilda, with whom he had left some of the animals with her in case something had happened. The two squirrels and Nevermore scamper away to give him space, "Let's see if I still remember griffon anatomy..."

"Normal pulse and breathing for someone unconscious, the wound was more superficial and the most blood in the ground was of my transfusion, she has a small bruise on her back and... a twisted wing? fuck, that doesn't look too good, but it was not made now... probably was me." In the part where the wing joints with the body were swollen and purple, he immediately connected to the fact that Gilda was running around town probably flying, which mean that she just made her injuries worse for him... "fuck me."

Taking her to the bathroom of the medic room, he proceeded to clean her of all the filth that she had gotten of the day, his movements calculated and without a or ulterior motives, after finishing and drying her up... and trying not to laugh when she becomes a small ball of fluff, he took her to her room where he treats the wounds that he could treat. He saw how her bed was not made, so he took care of it and then put her to rest, when he was about to leave, she woke up.

"H-hunger? where I'm?"

Hunger returns to her side, "In your room, you kinda over did it and you got shoot whit a stun volt"

"Buck... yea I can feel it, what happen whit the other dweebs?"

"Ho, you know... I arrested them, I kinda attacked them when I saw what they have done, but now that my rage is gone, I can say I overreact a bit."

Gilda relax in bed a little "I see..."

"I will-"

Gilda opens her eyes wide and sits up "YOU WHAT!?"

Hunger blinks "I-I arrested them?"

"A-are you the guard?"

"something like that, yea, apparently ponyville doesn't have a personal guard, so if I see any crimes committed by a pony, I'm bound to act accordingly."

"So what crimes did they commit?"

"Well... they forced entry into a structure not accessible to the public in normal situations, destroyed public property by destroying the front door with a powerful spell, then assaulted you even though they were told multiple times to stop... That's pretty much it."

Gilda looks fearful "aren't they like, national heroes?"

Hunger blinks, "Well yes, I had researched about the laws and discovered that there was nowhere where excluded the elements of harmony, I guess it makes sense since Celestia and Luna were the last bearers of the elements until all the nightmare moon happened, then no one was a bearer for 1000 years, so possibly Celestia didn't think to pass a law that would help them do this kind of thing." Hunger Look at the ceiling for a moment "although there was a law that said something about heroes in general, they are only allowed to break the law if the situation is a national disaster/dire and there was no one else who could do something about it."

Gilda looked dumbfounded "soo... what now?."

"To be honest, I would like to do nothing about this and just let them go with a warning, but if I do, something bad will happen to me for turning a blind eye. So I will have to find an unbiased jury, then make sure they attend court, Celestia will probably lose her mind knowing that I arrested her student, but considering it's her fault, I doubt she'll try to kill me."

Gilda blinked, then proceeded to rest her back on the bed, she flinched in pain when her back touch the bed "B-buck, can you like, heal me?"

"I'm sorry, but your cells are already at their limit, maybe I can try to do something once you rest, but now all I can do is give you painkillers"

"Well... that is kinda lame." Gilda settled down to rest on her stomach.

"Yea, now I have to check with them, I have to make sure that one of them had not had a heart attack by now, but first I should send a letter to Princess Celestia." He stood up and proceeded to leave.

Gilda just sigh, "Dash is gonna hate me for this."

~~~
Dear Princess "I do not need a lawyer", Do you remember the part of the contract that said, "-If you see any pony breaking the law, you must subdue them without killing them and bring them to justice, you do not have the right to judge them privately or interrogate them against their will, you must bring them before an impartial jury of ponies so they may be judged fairly, until them you should keep them under arrest at possible under your supervision."?

Do you also remember that I warned you that in a contract of this magnitude everything is very literal and that you had to be careful how you wrote it? Do you also remember the part where I told you to rewrite that part because it was such a terrible idea? Do you also remember that I warned you that in a contract of this magnitude everything is very literal and that you had to be careful how you wrote it?

Because I do, I also remember the part where you told me to "stop trying to trick you" or "I can't trust your opinion".

Now guess what, that specific line just came back to bite you in your giant solar butt and my little goaty ass.

3 elements of harmony (including your pupil) entered the base by force and attacked a civilian who was there, If I hadn't been there to witness it, I might have turned a blind eye, but since they did it right in front of me, I have to deal with this. I can assume that it was all a misunderstanding and honestly I do not have the energy to want to deal with all this, but since you forced me to do those terms, now I am forced to do all this literally.

This means, I can't turn a blind eye without a large portion of my soul being destroyed, that is if it doesn't kill/destroy me from existence. On top of that, I have to find a jury that doesn't know them so that it's "impartial", in other words, once more you've put your horn up my ass.

I informed you of this since the contract had written the part "-Just contact me if something important happens", and I think this enters the world of what is important.

The only loophole I can think of would be to send a jury blindfolded, with some kind of spell that doesn't allow them to hear the voices as they should sound, then I'll read the crimes they committed and have them sentenced.

Then technically I'll have fulfilled my end of the contract and you can deal with them... but it's not that I expect you to take me into account since you know, this happened because you ignored me more times than I would like to remember.

If you want to discuss the contract again to fix the more "literal" cases, I would gladly accept it, maybe since I don't look like a child now you will take me seriously... probably not, because that didn't seem to be the problem in the first place.

With love, apparently your personal goat horn sheath.

Pd:(send a letter to your student saying that everything will be fine and not to worry, that you will not send her to magical kindergarten, she is literally spitting foam from her mouth).
~~~

After sending the letter whit the magical candle, Hunger proceeds to walk into the cell room again.

When he just enters, Rainbow dash starts screaming at him. "HEY, there you are! let us out so I may kick your ass!, Who do you think you are!?"

He just looked at her... then proceeds to ignore her and walk to twilight, the cell room is quite standard, being recently built and never having been used before, it is in good condition, unlike the corridors of the place, this one does have light in the 4 cells that the place has. Twilight was still panicking a little, "Twilight? are you fine?"

She didn't seem to listen, to him, from his back he heard rainbow, "Fine!? just look at her! she is like this because of you!"

Hunger looked at her, "If you do not shut up, I will gladly use the "Shut up" rune that is around every cell here".

The face of Rainbow was one of defiance, "You are only doing that because you know I'm right!"

Hunger shook his head, "I said more for the fact that screaming when someone is having a mental breakdown is usually something that doesn't help"

"AND SEEING THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM IS B-?" before she could continue, The Horns of hunger glow red, and the hidden runes in the cell of rainbow glow in a soft yellow aura, effectively cutting her off.

Hunger looked back to Twilight, but she didn't look she had noticed something, Hunger concentrated on her, noticing how her mane was disheveled, her eyes were of different sizes and were screaming -Crazy person-, her smile was forced and she probably was in her little own world. Hunger knew very well that being in that state for too long probably wouldn't be too good for the mind in the long run, so before it was even later, he decided to take more drastic measures, he would have to eat her emotions until she was in a manageable state of mind, where he would have to make her stay more naturally.

-man, I hate mind fukery things-

Taking the key to her cell out of his stomach, he enters, even whit the silent runes that he had put in the cell of Rainbow, he could hear her protests, but he didn't care. When he was at his range of effect, he sits down, and open his senses, in an instant he regrets it.

insecurity, fear, anger, hope, despair, raging emotions that hit his mental walls like a bullet train, all of them trying to be hosted in his mind, one of the many drawbacks of this trick of his, you want to change something? then prepare to be changed in exchange, it was not for the many mental walls that he had, he would have ended up just like her. After reaching out with his power, he concentrate enough to make sure to not overeat her emotions, the last thing he wanted was to make her hollow for a few hours, and when he was ready enough he started to eat pieces of the emotions she felt there.

All of them tasted awful, even the hope tasted sour, but that didn't matter, he had to make a unicorn back to normal, and he would do it carefully and tactfully. Very slowly, Twilight starter to breathe more normally than before, some of the hair on her mane come back to its original state and her dilated pupils start to go back to normal, they still had different sizes, but baby steps.

"Twilight Sparkle" The eyes of Twilight flicker in recognition "Please come back to your senses, panicking over the situation will not help you at all".

He felt a sudden spike of worry in her mind, which probably didn't help that much, "B-but-"

"No buts, Twilight Sparkle, how do you expect to get control over the situation if you can't even regain control over your feelings?"

He felt some sanity come back somewhat, "B-But how i would do that?"

"First of all, you shall start by taking deep breaths, please follow my lead"

"B-but!"

"Deep breaths!" Hunger proceed to make a big show of taking a deep breath, after a while, Twilight did the same, and then he proceeded to exhale, twilight with some doubt, did the same again. After doing it for some time, Hunger didn't need to keep eating her emotions anymore, "see? it was that easy, now with a more clear head you can tackle the situations at hand."

Twilight mumbles, "Hoof."

Hunger raises an eyebrow, "what?"

"You said hand... and is hoof"

He was about to admonish her for pointing out something like that, but then he stopped himself, this probably was her form of coping with the situation, perhaps trying to keep her mind busy would help. So deciding that, he proceeded to raise one of his hands on his back. "You are somewhat right, but since I have a hand, I feel like is stilt somewhat accurate."

Twilight looked at his hand whit some curiosity with a tinge of fear, "So that is a hand? no, a claw?"

Giving her a reassuring smile, he nodded, "Right, they are kinda like the hands of the minotaurs, but thinner and more fragile, look" showing her the hand that knock unconscious applejack, he showed the knuckles, in the middle of them, there was a purple bruise with some swelling, Twilight looked interested in the impromptu lesson "I used this hand to knock your earth pony friend unconscious," Twilight flinched but he kept going "but even when I had not left any noticeable mark in her jaw, my hand got some fracture knuckles in exchange".

when she heard that, Twilight relax a little and looked a little closer, taking her hoove from her side, she was about to poke it, but stopped, "May I?".

Hunger smiles "You may, have in mind that I still feel pain thought."

Twilight proceeded to touch it whit her hoove, Hunger flinched a moment without thinking, and Twilight stopped again "sorry" when she saw a reassuring smile on Hunger's face, she proceeded again, this time Hunger managed to hold the flinch. Getting bolder by the second, she continues to probe it and felt it whit the frog of her hoof, at some moment she started to use the front legs, "They feel kinda soft and squishy, I was expecting them to be rougher."

"Yea, I prefer them this way, they are more useful this way when I have to give massages to patients"

Twilight blinked, "Are you a medic too?"

"Kinda, I also treat animals, so I do not know what that makes me."

Twilight put her hoof on her chin "Mhmm, I guess a doctor in general."

"makes sense, but I feel a doctor should have a Ph.D., so probably I'm more close to being a nurse" Noticing how relaxed she was, he proceeded to go to the problem at hand "so, are you feeling better?"

Twilight seems to break from her stupor "K-kinda... in How much trouble are we?"

Hunger thought of giving her what probably her sentence should be for the crimes committed but his head throbbed, he blink once, before deciding to dodge the question, "That is not my place to say, but I shall make sure you have a fair trial, and for that, I will need you to tell me your side of the history."

She seemed to contemplate this for a moment, looking behind Hunger, judging by the direction of her looks, probably she was looking at her friends, one unconscious and the other probably screaming obscenities "I understand, can I ask some question myself later?"

"You may, some of them I probably will not be allowed to respond, but I shall keep my mind open" Hunger looked behind but made sure to keep Twilight at the edge of his sight, when he saw Rainbow frosting at her mouth and looking at Twilight whit a disapproving stare, he looked back at her, "Do you prefer to stay here or you want to go to my office?"

Twilight looked doubtful "I think I prefer to stay here."

Hunger looked at her with a more stony look "Ok, give me a second" Hunger stood up and close the cell door for a moment, then proceeded to take a quill and paper, and some paperwork, then he come back "I may interrupt your history to ask for some details, Let's start by the beginning them, why did you go here?"

"Well I was practicing some spells with my assistant when Rainbow enter the library, she was out of breath and at first I didn't understand her-."

While Twilight spoke, the hands of hunger were writing on their own while he looked at her, when she noticed this she looked a bit perplexed and stopped talking "You may ask this later, but first, you were in a library?"

Twilight spoke "Hah, yes, I live in the local library"

"I see, please continue."

"Well, when she managed to catch her breath she explained to me that her friend Gilda was seen in town covered in blood and she must be up to no good" Hunger could swear that manage to hear Rainbow scoff when she called Gilda her friend, Hunger winced internally for a moment "So, of course, I had to help."

"I see, not to be rude, but why not try to contact the guard?"

Twilight gave him a sheepish smile "It may have slipped my mind"

Hunger scoffed inside, but keep his stone face "Understandable, so after that, you proceeded to go to this place?"

"Well, first we asked around if somepony had seen her when we heard that she was gone here, then we come to this place" she looked like she had finished, but then said, "We found Applejack in the way here when she saw our rush, she asked what happened and Rainbow explained the same, then she came along."

"I see, when you arrived, why did you choose to blow up the front door?"

Twilight looked at Rainbow for a moment, Hunger raised an eyebrow, "I decided in the haste of the moment after we saw some blood in the entrance."

When Hunger looked behind him, she looked at a dumbfounded Rainbow dash, then she looked guilty, "...I see." He looked back, "Then after you enter, what happened?"

"Well, after some time I cast a spell to find if somepony was inside, after that, we arrived a the room where we found you"

"Very well, one last question, why did you not obey me when I told you to stand down?

"Well..." Twilight looked Hunger up and down, "You do not seem like a guard, Mr?"

"Hunger, and just call for my name please."

Twilight eyes open a little wider, "...D-Do you have a brother?"

"I had 7, yes"

"Ho, bec-... wait, had?"

His expression turned a little somber. "Yes, they were killed a long time ago."

"B-but I saw a little kid just yesterday! it looked just like you!"

Hunger made an O expression, "Right, you saw me, not my brother"

Twilight looked dumbfounded "What!?, but you look a lot older!"

"Yes, I had an accident that made me look like a kid"

Twilight blinked hard, "Then how?"

"Well, I kinda speed up my growth process, I was left sorta short tough, I should stop growing once I hit seventeen years old." The base of the horn of twilight lit up for a moment, but the ring made the magic disperse, she frowned her face but tried to grab some of the paper from Hunger, Raising his eyebrow, Hunger took his papers out of her reach whit his magic, Twilight mouth open wide, "Did you need something?"

"D-did you just cast magic?"

Hunger Blinked, he felt like a headache was coming, "Yes, yes I did,"

"h-How-"

"Some goats and a lot of Rams can cast magic, the problem is that they were nearly extinct not long ago, so they aren't probably many papers that inform of this fact." Twilight close her mouth, "also They are very reclusive whit ponys since-", A little blood starter to flow over Hunger's nose while he looked in pain "... forget about it, yes, we can do magic."

While Hunger cleaned his nose, Twilight looked preoccupied "A-are you ok?".

"I will be fine after we fix this headache." Hunger cleared his throat "Since I already took your statement and I only felt like you told me one lie-." Twilight's eyes widen a little, "I shall keep you under arrest, the good thing is that my duty didn't tell me in what kind of arrest, so you should be fine in house arrest."

Twilight looked hopeful, "Really!?..." She stopped herself and frowned, "that doesn't sound like official procedure."

"Because it is not, if I'm honest I have other duties and I can't keep you, girls, under 24/7 surveillance, and I doubt it's a good idea to leave you alone in a base without a front door or person to help you if something happens."

"Hoh... that makes sense." Twilight gave him a sheepish smile "sorry."

"Do not worry, I had to replace that door anyways", he was suspecting that door wouldn't hold against a true attack, it was true that she was the pupil of princess Celestia, but he would prefer if that door was strong enough to hold against the two princesses themself, "anyways, you shall have free reign between noon to midnight, after that hour you shall stay inside your home, not your friends home, your home."

Twilight looked even more confused now "that doesn't sound right."

"Twilight, look at me", she does so, "I'm the only one at the base and if were for me I would drop the charges after a fine or a warning, but I can't do that because that would probably kill me, do yourself and me a favor and accept this terms."

She blinked for a while "ok... Thank you?"

Hunger deadpan at her "you are welcome?", he took some paperwork and passes it to her "I hope you know how to write without a horn because I can't legally take it from you until you firm this."

She took the papers, and after reading them, she proceed to firm them using her mouth, "Done I think."

Hunger took the papers "Good" Hunger proceeded to take off the magic suppressor and then free her, "You are free to go, the front door is 'unlocked'."

"C-can I wait for my friend?"

"You are free to stay for now, yes, now I will proceed to unmute your friend." The horns of Hunger sparked to life in his red magic, and the runes stopped glowing.

Instantly she spoke, her voice tainted whit regret, "IT WAS ME."

Hunger blinked, "Excuse me?"

She had tears in her eyes, she was giving a pleading look. "It was me! I told Twi to blow up the door! do not charge her for that!"

Hunger close his eyes and took a deep breath, then he looked at Twilight and opened his eyes, Twilight was giving sing to Rainbow to stop talking, when he saw Hunger stop and gave a sheepish smile "Very commendable, but I could guess." He clears his throat, "I cannot force you to answer my questions, but-"

Rainbow looks surprised, "wait, you can't?"

Hunger blinked, "Didn't you listen to me when I told you your rights?"

Rainbow thinks for a moment, then makes an O whit her mouth, "Well... I kinda was busy." But suddenly she slams the bars "But that is not the point, we come over here to help you! Why would you throw us into jail!?"

"Because-." Hunger's head throbs a little, at this, he looked annoyed, which makes Rainbow more annoyed than she already is, "I cannot say, the important part is that you acted harsh in a misguided try to be a hero, but in the end, you acted in a misunderstanding"

Rainbow's frowning expression gets even worse, "Misguided?! MISUNDERSTANDING!? what is there to even misunderstand!? Gilda was covered in blood for buck's sake!"

Hunger blinks sometimes, "Yes, she was, but she also was covered in sweat and piss." when he says this, Rainbow looks confused, meanwhile Twilight looked like she was thinking "but that is not the point, the point is that she was trying to help me heal my wounds."

Rainbow scoffed even harder "Heal you!? She literally just buy food-related stuff! how that will help you heal wounds!?" Hunger was about to respond, but she continued. "And knowing her, I BET that she made that wound to you!"

"That... is technically true, bu-"

Rainbow looked furious. "SEE!? And why she is not in jail and we are just here for trying to help!?"

Hunger waited for a bit to see if she had finished, when she was just huffing, he decided to speak "well that is-"

Then she started to speak again "I bet that she is sucking your dick o-"

Twilight looked a gasp "RAINBOW, plea-"

Before she could continue or Twilight could reprimand her friend, Hunger horns glow red, and the runes activate shining a sickly yellow, with that, one of his arms reach to the bars and grab Rainbow wich who was already close to him, "Listen here you the bad excuse of a sentient bird, first, when someone is trying to explain something to you that you literally ask, you FUKING LISTEN, I do not care how far of stick you got in your ass and how mighty you think you are, it is called basic courtesy, you bloody dickhead." Twilight and Rainbow flinch at every true swearword, Hunger kept the pressure on the bars, making her squirm in pain and fear, in exchange, blood started to get out of his nose, while Twilight looked surprised at the outburst of the "pony" that was so patient whit her, she was too surprised to act, "Second, you can tell all you want about me, I do not care if you say that I sacrifice children in my free time or that in secret I'm a fan of princes Celestia, what I do care if when you say stuff like that of people I care about when you do not even know if that is even remotely of the true."

Rainbow looked exponentially nervous by the second, moving her mouth around but being silenced by the runes of the cell, Twilight dare to speak "S-Sir, you are hurting her."

Hunger didn't even acknowledge her, "Third, you call yourself the element of loyalty when you fully give your back to your ex-friend who just had broken ties less than a day ago!? I understand that you believe that your friendship can't be rekindled, but have a fuking respect for your once harbor friendship, you fuking cunt!" Hunger huffed, because of the pain and how his rant had taken out of him, is true that keeping exerting his soul was not a good idea, but he did not mind having some memory loss if that means he could make his point clear.

After that, he deactivated the runes and hear how Rainbow was gasping for breath after having the front of her chest crushed a little and the panic of the situation getting to her, her face flush whit fear, when Twilight was about to say something, her face change for pure fury, but she did not dare to speak her mind again, Twi saw this and talked to Hunger, "That..." she stopped for a second when Hunger looked at her and licked his blood out of his nose, his tongue... was unnaturally large, after clearing her throat, she continued, "T-that was not very nice of you-".

"Neither is speaking ill of others."

Without acknowledging him, she continued, "I understand your outburst, but you shouldn't resort to violence"

Hunger smile "Do you mean as you all did?"

"W-well-"

"I do understand your point, but your friend hit me like one who prefers actions over words, having in mind how you all got into this situation." When he just finished his words, Rainbow looked guilty again, and they heard a loud moan over the cell next to Dash after a few seconds of silence, "Perfect, I do not have to deal whit the rude rainbow gay flag for a few minutes more."

"HEY!"

Hunger ignores her and walks to the cell of Applejack, "Good... evening I think, how are you feeling? all physical pain in your jaw should have been healed thanks to my power, but hearing a confirmation is always nice."

Applejack stood up, looking a little confused "I just feel my body ache for resting on the cold floor, but I reckon I would be fine in some time."

Hunger shooked his head, "Nah, I should be able to fix that too." Hunger got closer to the cell and extended a hand, after concentrating for a second, Applejack suddenly tremble a second before being fully awake, "Better?"

Applejack blinked for a second or two, then she moved her body, "Actually yea."

Twilight blinked, "what did you do?"

"Body ache after sleeping on something hard is usually for bad circulation or dehydration, they also disappear with time in the day, so I just use these three factors to fix it."

Twilight raises an eyebrow, "That... That doesn't explain a lot of how you did it."

"let's leave it at magic, I should probably get this over whit so your friends can get out of prison."

Twilight looked like she wanted more answers, but when Applejack heard those words, she spoke first, "Wait an apple-pickin' minute, wha' did you say?" She looked around her, to confirm she was in a prison cell, "How in tarnation did this happen?"

"Basically you broke into a not accessible area for the public and assisted in the assault of a civilian."

"W-what!?"

"Is not as bad as breaking property of the crown, breaking in and-"

Suddenly a scroll appears in front of Hunger, one of his hands grabs it before it made contact whit his face "w-what? that looks like a letter from Princes Celestia!"

Hunger broke the seal, "It sure it is." Hunger murmurs under his breath, "and looks like is not written in blood like that time, that is a good sign."

Twilight Blinked, "what was th-"

Rainbow peers over the bars of her cell, "Finally, I bet she found out that you are doing something stupid or illegal and will get us out of here in no time!"

Hunger opens the scroll, "I sure hope so, I need to go buy some stuff to 'cure' failing kidneys and a liver"

Twilight blinked harder, "What-"

"Let's see, Hunger, this part is for your eyes only as dictates the **keep s-**, ok I better stop reading this thing aloud."

Hunger read to himself.

~~~

Dear scum in my shining sun.

I do not know how you did it, so be it harassing them in some way to break into the base or finding a way to fool them into doing this, I do not care, what I do care about is that you release the charges, and that is an ord-"

(Hunger smirked when he saw the little drops of blood in the paper, probably got the backlash of trying to go against a rule that she made him firm)

I order you to r-

(More blood in the paper, Hunger just raises an eyebrow, but then settles it down when he saw that she gave up)

You can guess what were my orders, so do them, Do not test my patience.

If I found out you hadn't released them of your cells by the start of my sister's night, you shall be severely punished.

I do not have the time or mood to deal whit your little games little demon, so better do what I say.

The text back will be erased once you finish reading it, now give the rest of the scroll to twilight, DO NOT READ THE TEXT MEANT FOR TWILIGHT.

(Hunger rolled his eyes and the text that he had just read disappeared, leaving a blank place where it stood. later he checked if the part of Twilight if it had magic on it and when he was sure it didn't have any traps he proceeded to read it anyways, the range of orders that Celestia could give him was very limited, and not reading something was not one of them)

To my faithful student, Twilight sparkle.

Do not fear, I shall not punish you for this mistake since I'm probably sure that you had a good reason to do this, and do not worry, I will deal whit this trouble myself if necessary.

Please send me a full report of how this situation happened, and make sure to not leave any detail out, since it may help fix the problem if nothing else to make sure that this was just a misunderstanding.

I shall also warn you that do not be fooled by Hunger, he may look like a foal, but he is a demon, a vile and treacherous creature, sorry for not warning you about his presence in ponyville, I'll be more at ease if you keep an eye on him, of course, putting your safety first.

And remember, his words are lies at best and his intentions should always be questioned.

The only reason I allow his presence there is because he seems to be doing a decent job of keeping his kind at bay.

As much as I would like to make his presence widely known, I am concerned that this will cause panic, so please, keep this information close to your heart, and do not let your friends know for now.

Your teacher and your mentor.
-Princess Celestia.

Hunger's expression gets dark, his eye twitching and he es barely managing to contain himself from ripping the paper apart.

His mind raced.

This bitch dares to not only kick his idea of fixing this problem fast but also dare to tell his true nature to his fuking pupil WHEN SHE LITERALLY MADE A FUKING BIG DEAL NOT TO TELL HER, one thing is trying to be vague and giving hints that he was of the Ram species, one thing was to tell that even if his powers were odds, but they were documented at some point and all the thing that he had given to her fits in the description of a "Hunger pact."

His idea of giving her enough information so she could check this species and his past so it may quench her thirst for curiosity with the wrong answer was thrown away, he was furious, because not only that, but she had asked her pupil to keep an eye on him, why was that very bad? because this stupid mare was literary having a panic attack for failing her "teacher" not more than half an hour ago. In her weakened state of mind, she was going to take these words if it were the holy bible itself, she had to know, right? she couldn't be this oblivious... RIGHT?!

If she was as cunning as everyone he meet made her look, she had to do this on purpose, which means that SHE MADE HIS JOB EVEN HARDER IN BLOODY PURPOSE THAT FUKING CHEAP WHORE.

Where are the things of "keep her away from the dark side of the world", and "make sure that the elements do not be contaminated", WHERE ARE THEY, SHE LITERALLY PUT THEM IN THE CONTRACT... Wait, this can not be... if the person that is "breaking" the rule by making the other party part harder does not know that they are doing that, then they are not punished... then she does not FUKING KNOW WHAT SHE JUST DID.

-DEMONS ARE NOT CLEAN BUSINESS YOU FUKING TWAT- he wanted to grit his teeth but he contain himself, the last thing that he wanted was to give away his state of mind to the three mares... also not giving them tinnitus was important. -IF I FOUND A BODY AND SHE SAW IT FOR THIS IS YOUR FUKING FAULT YOUR FUKING PIECE OF TRASH BAD EXCUSE OF A MONARCH.-

Hunger was mad -HOW SHE CAN BE SO BRAIN DEAD.- he screams in his mind... But he did not change his expression, He didn't want to let Twilight know that he had read her part in the letter, and all his racing thoughts didn't take more than 2 seconds to pass over his mind, he didn't care that he was wasting mind pawer on this, he was pissed and he needed to vent in some way, normally he would swear at someone, but this time himself would do.

Whit out losing a beat, he passed the rest of the scroll to Twilight, it was true that he could destroy the scroll so the information would be lost, but getting back it would be trivial for Twilight, and of course, it only gives her more paranoia that her teacher kindly gave her. "Here, my part was confidential so it was erased once I read it, the next part is for you."

Twilight took on her magic and Hunger looked at applejack, but in the side of his eyesight he could see it, when she read the scroll, her eyes went wide for a moment, then she looked at Hunger with fear, all her wonder, and doubts, all her questions that she probably wanted to ask him, all of that was gone in exchange for pure fear, her back legs tremble, her ears flatten, her pupils the size of pinpricks. Of course, she probably united all the points now, after all, ponys were taught since they are foals how they have to fear demons, like these are creatures of pure evil, all the legends of stories where the demons deceive the protagonists, to then steal their souls and all their possessions in the best of cases, and in the worst of them, that they always gave a worse fate than death.

It was kinda funny, if they had listened to him before, that had noticed that they become like this only thanks to their fears, because they think that they were like this, and so the demons change to become the worse nightmares that they could have a dream, all because they thought it was a good idea to create legends like that. All after that was a blur, how he asked if Applejack wanted to give her side of the story, only to have Twilight say it was a bad idea and that she should say no, How Twilight expect him to leash out at them only for him just calmly give their paper-work so they may go to house arrest, how Rainbow bitch about this, and how Applejack was not happy since she wakes up with the sun.

But he couldn't do anything about this, so he said it was the best offer he could give, and they accepted in the end, later he thought for a second about asking rainbow if she wanted to make peace whit Gilda, but it was a bad idea in her state... that and his mind was tired, AGAIN, and he did not want to get too tired, or... That would happen.

His mind was still racing, no matter what he did to relax, he was on edge, he had total control over his body, but he did not have control over his mind... that was partially a lie, he could control his mind, but the result would cause more harm than good. After checking on Gilda and giving her 'painkillers', he proceeded to send another letter to Celestia.

Dear pain in my side.

I have made them go into house arrest and that is the best I can do, if I tried to do something like "drop charges" I would die, I will not die for something this dumb, so, NO.

If you know what is best for you, you will not try to prevent me from doing my part of the contract, since it also counts as a violation of the contract if you prevent me from doing it.

The headache is a warning, the nosebleed is a minor offense and your soul will not be harmed, killing me just to prevent me from doing my job, either directly or indirectly, is a definite offense and you will die.

And believe me, I want you to live so you can see the consequences of your actions, aka, kill me.

Now if you mind, I have to put back one king of the jungle.

Your apparently your instamigraine maker.

-Hunger

Whit ire he threw the scroll into the fire and walked to the town before the store closed, Buying all the things he needed, he noticed how a glimmer of light shine in his eye, using his peripheral vision, he managed to look at the tree library, were that purple pony lived, Sighing in annoyance, for a moment he thought of breaking line of sight, but he guesses that transparent business what the best path to take for now.

Walking to the base he prepare for the operation, he needed to concentrate, he was good at cheating life, but his powers were running low, he couldn't do miracles... but he had to save him, he needed the balance, and -Panther- was one way to get it. Writing runes on the ground in the spare room that when he started only had a chest, he began his work. He hated runes, they were never his strong ground, runes were like making line codes in a computer, if he were a programmer, he would be nothing more than a beginner, but the catch was that his fortitude of mind was a lot stronger than a creature whit physical body, so he could write around things that he didn't know how to do, He could only be thankful that runes used mental strength more than anything, he didn't even need to use his mana banks, he could use any trinket or gem for this task.

Breaking apart some magic trinkets and putting some gems around the rounds, he proceeded to charge the rune work. While that worked he prepared a table and all the things he needed for this, then he walked up to panther, and they exchange glances, "it is time, if you have to say goodbye to someone here, said it now" Panther gave him a deadpan look, Hunger gave one back, then looked around and scream, "NEVERMORE, you told me before that you wanted to tell Panther good luck! come here!"

Panther looked dumbfounded, Nevermore landed in the head of hunger after some seconds, and he gave a somewhat bittersweet smile, he croaked imitating a little the voice of hunger, "good luck!", he looked around the room and the crow spoke to the animals, the animals stop whatever were they doing and looked at Nevermore, the all-stater to chitter away, Panther looked even more stunned, he shooked his head and purr something, hunger did not need his especial ears to understand what he said, "And what will I eat when I recover now? after all I cannot eat my friends.", he gave a smile, and said something, then nodded to Hunger.

Hunger took the stretcher away to the un-pronto operation room, He was giving a smile, he had to reassure his patient, even when on the inside knew his chances were slim. All have their price, and no matter how much time Hunger buys by cleaning manually his body, his organs still are starting to fail, he cannot fix something that cannot regenerate itself... if were not for Luna, he would have stolen the things he needed tonight, the time has its price and Hunger didn't have much to give.

He entered the room, his horns started to glow, and the runes activates, Panther's eyes started to feel heavy and the last thing he heard was "Good luck."

Hunger started work, some runes sterilizing the air, He doesn't have to worry that the incisions he would make now will get infected... his arms move up and he clean them with his saliva, once they were dry he begins the operation. hands moving fast, With experimented ease, they started opening the creature before him, skin and muscles were opened, main veins were avoided and the blood dripping out was drunk by Hunger, he seemed to know what he was doing, like he had done this many times before, but he was supposed to be just a nurse in his past life, where all this experience come from?.

-I can taste death- He thought while he injected something to stop the little bleeding that there was, Death did not like to be tasted, it tasted horrible and unnatural, but he always made sure to keep his tongue sharp trying to find it.

To say the truth, he panic a little when he tasted it, bad memories coming forward to the front of his mind, but before he could panic he grab them and crush them, to later throw them to the back of the sphere where his soul was. all had cost, and the cost of this was a sudden loss of sentiments, which was good on certain occasions, but the feelings he lost were what made him "Human", it is true that he would return to normal once those memories stabilized, but having an equivalent of a psychopath doing an operation is never a good idea.

He cut the circulation to the organs that he was about to extract and made sure to keep count of the time so that it wouldn't get necrosis. walking fast he opened the lone chest in the room, to find the body of a still-breathing creature there... Hunger was not a good person, he wanted to be, but he knew life was not fair, so he had to take once in a while, take from who? anyone that pissed him off... That he would like to say, but life was not always so indulgent, so sometimes he had to improvise. Taking the body of the white creature, he started to open the way to the already opened panther, this time, whit less meticulous tactics, he did not care, he just needed what was inside after all, and he only made sure it stayed alive since an alive body is better than ice to preserve organs.

Meat and skin were ripped off, and major veins were destroyed, the dropped blood was ignored, staining the tile floor, and the only thing he took whit care of was the bounty he wanted, 3 organs, why? because he couldn't heal what was already broken, he could create something new, but then he would have to have eaten it before it was broken, Hunger was adaptable and could save a life in dire cases, but he couldn't do miracles.

All had its cost, A life for a life, was the price this time.

Of who was the life? Can a body without a soul be called alive? can a soul without its body? in the end, it did not matter, he did not care, not this time anyways.

Organs were taken out and other organs were put inside, veins connected, blood injected back from the stomach of Hunger... then he finish closing his patient... he felt it was not enough...

Chances were too slim, and he hates throwing dice and hoping for the best, he liked to stay in control, because when he is not in control, bad things happen, like now, all because he was under Celestia's control', bad things did happen, but that did not matter... He knew of some way to secure the chances, from a miserable ten percent to a ninety-nine percent, he needed another life, one whit more soul on it, an animal won't do, but he couldn't use a pony, the contract bound him to protect them... But it was to only protect 'ponys', and in some way, he knew this was going to happen.

He did not give painkillers, he gave her sleep aids, and he did not do it on purpose, but his soul moved on his own, he was the mind, and the mind is not the same as the soul... Just like 'he' was doing now. The soul knew that it needed the mind to work, one thing was losing pieces of the soul that he could get back by just creating new ones, but a mind lost was not a good idea, because a newly created mind was never the same as the last one, and a soul without a mind, can not usually work, meaning that it couldn't create another mind.

Which are you? the mind or the soul? a normally abstract question for sure, but for hunger, it was literally.

His mind was racing, mere seconds for a person were hours for him, he knew he needed to stop, but he had to do his "best" to save the ponys, if that meant using something that was not a 'pony', that should do.

As like smelling dead, Nevermore flight to him, the sound of the crow sounded distorted whit the speed that his mind was racing, like the earth to the sun, the raven turned very slowly, then it sits on his head, and proceeded to look down to the eyes of Hunger... he was crying, he did not want to do this, but he had to, he had to live, he had to do it out of spite, he had to secure the chances, hE hAd to, he hAd to, He haD to, HE HAD TO STOP...

Nevermore pecked at his head, and pain flared, but this time was different because now it was extended for hours for his mind, he was used to pain, but used to pain does not mean immune, he kinda wished he had slept less, this would be a lot easy if he was more tired... but alas he was not.

-I HATE SOUL CONTRACTS I HATE SOUL CONTRACTS, STOP, STOP NOW.-

He saw, where Gilda was sleeping, then he enter and looked at her, she was so peaceful... and so easy to take.

He o so ever so slowly walked, one of his arms extending, tears started to roll faster, but he couldn't stop, his soul was bound to move, even if that meant scarring his mind, a scarred mind is better than no mind at all, after all.

A distorted sound come from his head, it was hard to make out, but it sounded like him, "I'm sorry."

And then all went to darkness.