Hunger was having a nice day, the sun in the sky started to go down, giving away his place for the moon.

He was thankful that he was having such normal days, it was a welcome rest after how much trouble he got into after meeting Gilda, now that everything was relaxed, he may get ahead with his plan. He was in the forest, making sure that everything was normal, he was starting to get short with repellant but he also was strong enough to deal with the rogue ones that dare to try to go hunt at the village.

But apparently, life heard how happy he was, and decided that enough is enough, having that one of his statues just tell him that 2 foals were seen close to the everfree forest, his eyes going wide he looked in the direction where the statue had given him the notification. Closing his eyes he saw through the eyes of the wood figure, there he saw one greenish foal with orange spiked hair, and a yellowish foal with a green squared mane, he could had swear that he had seen them before today, and it didn't take him long to remember that he saw this 2 foals with the traveling wizard.

He hoped hard that they will not be dumb enough to enter the forest, after all, he was too far away to intercept them, but his hopes were crushed since they looked like they would enter the forest in 2 minutes, so he as fast as he could run, started to try to arrive in time. but it was futile, when he arrived they were already gone, his heart beating faster in his chest and his lungs working overtime to keep up with it, he started to look around to see if they had left tracks that he could use to find them when he saw some, he started to try to find them before something else could.

But at some point, he lose the tracks, and cursed under his breath, next he tries to see if he could sense any appetite that is not a demon, that until he felt something in one of the hidden statues that he had watching the kings of the everfree. Confused, he looks through the eyes of his statue, and then looked dumbfounded, the foals were going to enter the cave of the Usar major and her cub... That is bad, so bad that he throws caution to the wind and runs even faster, dodging any demon he finds, he needed to stop them, the two creatures were sleeping, and if one were to wake up it would be in a bad temper, especially the cub.

But he was too late again since the foals already started to run with the cub in toe, Hunger when he arrived he looked at how the cub was pissed, running behind the foal and destroying all that it was on its way. They didn't have to do this on purpose, right? It can't be that their survival instinct is so broken that they made this problem just for a dare, right? But he didn't have to think, he needed to act, all the order that he had so hard to keep in cheek was being destroyed right in his eyes.

He Helped animals get out of the way of the falling trees and hide from the demons that came to see what was causing so much sound, he had to be thankful that they did not were in an area where a big demon was, the last thing he needed now as a fight for territory. The demons kept their distance from the Ursa Minor since they knew better than to fight something so big and fully awake, and the demons that felt daring were dealt with a stone to the face by Hunger's hands.

What happened to the foals? He could notice how they were running to the village, which was bad, not only because it would probably get in a rampage in there, but because the demons would probably follow it since they probably would like the scraps of whatever it killed. If they tested pony meed, he would have to kill them before they could get away, and he already had to deal with the one that wanted to follow them out of the forest.

When they get out, he stayed behind and put a hand in his mouth, in an instant he took 2 torches and started to burn them, when they were stable he started to scare off the creatures with the flames, and creatures started to creep out of the forest, they were least a dozen, their eyes following his every step he took, some of them were quadruped and others were in a bipedal stance, Hunger was sweating, his body was tired and overworked, his muscle sore and his chest on fire, taking both torches in his magic he started to fend the demons off, he could deal with the Ursa minor once he dealt with this creatures. He didn't know if he should be thankful that the demons were giving him their full attention, they saw him as easy prey, after all, he was obviously exhausted, they only ignore each other thanks to this fact.

Some of the creatures tried to take him by surprise, wanting an easy shoot by jumping by his blind spot, but his hands moved like had a mind of their own and proceeded to divert them with powerful punches, the ones that were too big for them Hunger just got out of the way and use one of the torches to scare them or burn them. Hunger stumbles at some point, managing to just dodge enough to not get badly hurt on his windpipe. When they started to notice that they were just wasting time, they decided to try to disengage, only to bring their attention back to him with a rock to their skull thanks to Hunger's magic.

The energy of Hunger was starting to deplete faster than he would like, but thankfully he was able to scare most of them since they were in open space they did not manage to take the terrain to their advantage, he thanked his lucky star that nobody had a distance attack, or thing would have turned for the worst pretty fast.

When there only was one that he had to take care of, he heard magic being cast at insane levels, when he looked back, he saw the Ursa minor floating toward the forest while it drinks from a water storage container, they are covered in the violet magic aura. he looked confused for a moment, then his eyes become pinpricks when he notices how sleepy was the cub and where was going, he imminently run even though his body was protesting, getting to spear point in the direction the cub was going.

His mind started to race, wishing that he had slept before doing all this -WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD SHE DO THIS-, the scream of his body getting ignored and proceed to do something that he had not done in a long time, the muscles of his body start to move unnaturally, the aura around his horns getting bigger while he opens his mouth, again his two hands reach inside of him while he starts to dry having, in an instant two short swords shots out and he grabs them in his hands and then in his magic.

His horns start to ache, reminding him that he should have invested more time in practicing magic or making his magic pools and horns stronger, but he did not care, he had to make sure that the cub make its safe way to the cave.

When he enters the forest he could notice how the demons that he just fends off are looking a the Ursa minor, not him.

Why is that? Why are not paying attention to the creature who just denied his meal? is it because the Ursa minor is more dangerous than him? no, is not that, is for something that the ponys think about how demons work.

Why are demons so active at night? because ponys fear the dark, when the light of the glorious day is not shining in the lands, when it gets cold and shadows make their way into the streets, they fear what the cold contains, but making it worst, they sleep at that time. All creatures need a form of sleep sooner or later, it does not matter when or how, it always happens, and when they sleep and their minds drift to a halt, is when they are most vulnerable.

It is only normal that they will attribute the nighttime to the creatures that they so much fear, and only makes sense that dirty cheating creatures like to prey on creatures that are weak and vulnerable, and what is one of the more vulnerable states that one can be? of course when they are sleeping. So when the giant bear was being held in a magical aura while reeked of tiredness and was at the brink of sleep, they couldn't resist testing the waters and seeing if they could get a bite out of the suspending creature.

Hunger was scared, not long ago the Ursa minor was doing a big amount of sound, scaring the animals and even killing by accident some of them, the grounds were infested with the smell of fear and some amount of blood, and without a doubt, the ruckus and the smell of this will bring attention to the more strong demons, and it had already been long enough to give them time to arrive to this meeting.

If it were not worse enough, now he had to make sure that the Ursa minor arrived with no wounds because if it were to get hurt not only that would bring even more demons, but also shall attract the brath of the Ursa major, and god saves us all if that were to happen.

He felt like something more was wrong, but what?... a territory was close, a territory of what?

Before he was prepared and thanked that the bear was an easy shot above the tree line, multiple shots are fired at the cub, he manages to cast a shield with his magic, but he was not fast enough to stop all of them, the spikes are inserted into the skin of the Ursa Minor, and his blood goes cold, and he knows very well what that spiked points are, The Ursa minor looks like it manage to scream and drop the water storage, and before it starts to struggle away, his cries dies and only her eyes start to move.

"Spike lizards..."

And so it started one of the worst days of Hunger.

His nostrils flaring, his senses sharp and his eyes open wide in attention, His body trembling with artificial adrenaline that he was making his body create, his muscles moving as like each of their fiber were alive, Hunger could only hope that he would not accidentally brake his body before he could manage this mission.

Then, when the world moved slowly thanks to the speed at which his mind was moving, he saw it, the first "stone", a demon jumped up and tried to latch into the Usar minor, without a doubt, one of Hunger's arms pick up a decent size rock and throw it with all his force to the daring creature, intercepting it in the air with enough force to stop it, but even when his attempt was met with failure, the others get bolder thanks to this act, and then chaos ensues.

Other demons tried to jump it, but hunger stop them with more rocks, but he still has only 2 arms, so using even more of his reserves, he halts them with his magic and drop them into the ground, the ones that are too big to grab are a stab in the skull with the sword floating in his magic, their body going limp and colliding with the unmoving Ursa minor, their blood raining in the dirt and his body being claimed by the other demons.

his thoughts running fast counts that he has killed to make sure not to kill more of them.

Some of the demons notice that the reason that they are failing is because of him, so they also decide to try to take care of him, jumping at him, he manages to multi-task enough to dodge most of them and later buck them into their heads, his muscles rippling with unnatural strength.

In the beginning, he is managing to take care of the situation, but slowly his reserves of magic start to end and blood starts to run down his nose when he has to process the raw magic energy that is in the air to keep casting a spell, even if later the mana poisoning tries to kill him later, he only cares for the now.

When he can see in the distance the cave of the Ursa Major, he noticed a small demon peeking his ugly head close, just by looking at it he can tell that it has a good portion of the aspect of strength, his muscular body ripple in the moonlight and his small head compared to his body look at him with hunger in his eyes. He was thankful that all the demons that he was dealing with before were small fries, but he should have known that he wouldn't be lucky enough to not find a strong foe, just by looking at it he can tell that it was a lot more capable than the others.

Wanting to finish tis fast, he throws one of the swords at it with a boost of the magical surge, making the sword start whistling to the air, the sudden fog in his vision telling him that using that much magic was a mistake, but keeping his mind straight, he managed to see that the blob that was a demon of strength... Jump at an insane speed out of the way. That confirms it, that thing is a lot more capable, trying to keep his eyes on the creature he tries to keep track of it, while he shields again the Ursa minor from an attack by another pair of demons, but when they hit the shields he feels how his horns groan in protest and he blinks by a moment.

A moment was all that it took for the creature to disappear from his sight when he opens it again he tries to find it, then suddenly he feels an infernal amount of pain flare in his right horn, later a sickening crack it is hear, he wants to fall to the ground and puke of how much pain he felt, in an instant all the thing hold in his telekinesis drop in the ground, using the pain to wake up his tired mind, he manages to clear his sight long enough to see the demons having his right hand on his broken horn, the thing smile at him before doing another jump and going away.

Hunger knew better than to try to go after him, and he was not foolish enough to think that thing will leave with only that, so concentrating his efforts on only his left horn, he manage to take the sword and keep defending the Ursa minor.

He manages to see how the Ursa minor looks at him, probably knowing that his protector is getting too hurt to defend her anymore.

They were close to the finish, his lungs and muscles starting to fail, his sight blurry because of the little oxygen his brain was getting and the mana poisoning that he was suffering, and pain in his heart from how much pumping blood it was making flow, his eyes dilated and his body covered in blood.

He was going to make it, he was too close, once he was close enough to the cave the demons would chicken out thanks to the smell of the mother, and even maybe he can hide well enough on there until he can recover so he may go home, where surely Gilda was waiting for him, where the animals that he saves are and were Nevermore and Panther were.

He still needed to finish the treatment of Panther, he still had to fix Celestia, and he still had to keep speaking with Luna so she may talk normally.

There were so many things that he needed to do.

The mind is willing but the flesh is not.

A creature suddenly gave a jump and with the speed of a bullet manage to land in his back, making him buckle, the hands try to take him off of him, and when he looks back, he see the minor strength demon, smiling at him, grabbing the arms of Hunger before they could catch him, then proceeding to use his back as a platform to gave another jump while it still had his arms grapple.

The result is bloody.

Pain flares at the base where the arms connect to his body and in his lower back, he is shot forward and falls into the entrance of the cave, his body in a heap, his lungs getting filled with his own blood, unable to feel his back legs, he makes an educated guess that he has spine damage.

his body is in a terrible condition, looking up, he manages to see how the Ursa minors get wounded since he was not protecting it anymore.

"Fuck."

Suddenly the floor starts to shake, and rocks and dust fall off the ceiling of the cave, even if he can't hear very well in his state, he can hear the enormous bums getting closer, he first feels it rather than seeing it.

Death.

The Ursa minor manages to see him before he gets hit, her eyes filled with fear and worry, and her face looked like it wanted to scream to her mother to stop, but she is still unable to move most of her body.

He manages to cast a shield spell around him...

Then all the world becomes a blur when a giant paw hits him and he is sent flying over the sky.

At that moment he has enough lucidity, like his body knowing fully well that this was his last minute in this world, so wanted to show him the land in the sky before he knew his demise. But then he manages to see in the distance a big glow of violet magic... of a purple unicorn.

Twilight Sparkle had this great idea.

Of course, she was the one to put the Ursa minor over the tree line so it may be an easy shot, of course, she put the cub under a lethargic state so the demons may want to try their luck to attack it, and of course, she probably to concentrated in her spell to notice that the Ursa minor was under attack.

...His vision fogged again, the pain in his body is impossible to describe, the bones of his back were broken, and his heart barely managed to pump blood to his mangled body.

Maybe Gilda is going to save him? Maybe twilight sparkle notices a creature plummeting to his death and catches him in her telekinesis? maybe he softly lands in another place that is not the everfree? probably not, since he use most of his luck and magic to manage to not become a mist of blood from that attack.

He is tired, he wants to go to sleep.

But he stays awake by the rage of thoughts that pass through his mind.
X -I HATE YOU TWILIGHT SPARKLE, I HAVE TO FIX HER SO SHE MAY KNOW MY PAIN, I HAVE TO LET HER KNOW WHAT SHE DID, BUT I DO NOT WANT TO DIE, I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND? I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND? I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND? I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND? I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND? I AM THE SOUL OR THE MIND?
H E L P ...-X

But nobody comes.

So using the last little of his strength, he burns through his soul in hopes to survive the fall.

Then he hits the cold dirt of the everfree.

Gilda was trying to fall asleep, tomorrow was the day when she was going to ask Hunger out on a date and her anxiety was not letting her fall into her so much wish slumber. She was looking at the ceiling of the room, doubts coming into her mind and second-guessing if she really should do this, Was she going too fast? probably not, after all, they skipped many steps with the bold play of Hunger, would he be interested? she hopes so, he is pretty much a mystery in that department, will his job let him go on a meaningful date? if not, she is going to have to plan around it.

"...maybe is better if I wait another week... yeah."

Then suddenly she hears a crack in the distance, Blinking she looked in the direction of wear the sound came from, of course, since it was in another room she is unable to see something. Sighing, she proceeds to stand up, "I'm unable to sleep anyways", leaving the comfort of her bed she takes the lantern and goes to see what happened, when she arrives at a corridor, she sees Nevermore looking at a statue smaller than herself depicting... a goat? it looks kinda like Hunger.

When she gets close notes how the statue is cracked, ruining its visage with it and going deep into his whole body, Nevermore Looked transfixed with the statue and looked... worried? Gilda confused looks at the statue again, "what happened Nevermore? did you hit it or something?"

The crow shook his head and walk to the base of it, then he tries to push the statue, Gilda raises an eyebrow and look at him for a moment, blinking sometimes she gets close and pushed the statue in the same direction. When she manages to move it, a hole in the ground grabs her attention, "a hidden compartment?" Shining the light through it, she sees a lone book, blinking, she instinctively tries to grab it, only to give a small cry of surprise when she felt how hot it was.

Taking her claw out of the way she looks perplexed and looks at Nevermore, which looks like is about to cry.

Applejack later that day, when she was working on her farm, she noticed how many of the apple trees had one or two rotten apples in them, she was confused, she could swear that they should still be a good time before that started to happen.

When she is about to tell granny smith to see if she knew what happened, she notices how one of the healthy apples in the tree suddenly withers and starts to rotten... and then another goes back to normal.

She gulps, "That probably is not a good sign"

Celestia is resting in her bed after a long day, still thinking about how will she deal with the situation of Twilight sparkle, Should she just listen to what Hunger says? Probably not, since he probably planning something around that, why would he do that if he has nothing to gain?

She is half tempted to just-

She suddenly jolts awake and sits up, looking in the direction of ponyville she ponders a bit, then smiles, "Maybe I don't have to do anything at all", smiling, she hopes that the soul contract keeps weakening, maybe there will be some good news in the morning.

Pain, absolutely pure pain and agony, he feels how his organs had been destroyed, his bones shattered and his lungs failing, he feels the endless need to just give up, his insides slowly filling with blood, he doesn't remember landing, probably pass out for the shook, but now that his senses are back, he just wants to die.

Blood, why do you need blood? because is the thing that gives oxygen to your cells, because is the thing that gives all the nutrients to your body, and makes sure to move your antibodies around you. normally a creature with no blood shouldn't be able to survive, but technically if someone were able to give all the thing that the cells needs, it should be able to survive without blood.

That was Hunger doing.

He feels his mind slipping away from reality, his body telling him that his chances are worse, but he doesn't die, he keeps dancing with death, looking through his eyes, he has to feed every molecule of his body with his powers because his blood is unable to reach anywhere, sometimes he feels how he lose sensibility in one leg, sometimes the sight of one eye becomes black, his ears stop hearing moments at the time and he is barely able to keep his body together.

The feeling of not breathing is unreal, and the feeling that your heart not beating but that you are still alive is even weirder and painful, his body keeps telling him that there is something wrong, but he keeps ignoring it because if he loses concentration for even a moment, he would die.

In desperation he had to eat his own emotions, or else he would become crazy to fix his body.

Sometimes he feels he loses connection to his aspect, but he manages to get it back every time.

He keeps griping life, he has to, do or die, but he knows very well that he cannot keep this up, at some moment night will come again, and if he just "survives" then he only will be eaten by the demons.

So he needs to use enough of his power to heal himself but also leave enough to keep himself alive. he was so desperate that he started to leave part of his body to die, he did not need all 4 legs, and since his spine was broken, he leaves his back legs to die, he could manage with only one ear so he does the same.

Now he could understand how people against life support felt, he wishes so hard just to slip into the abyss, to forget all struggles that he is feeling now, to leave this dying body to its destiny, but he denied dead every time.

He is scared, he is so scared, if a demon were to find him, he would be dead and there was nothing he could do.

Sometimes he felt like he slipped, and when he manage to grab it again, he notice that almost another part of his body was about to die.

He hates this, but he does it anyways... because he does not want to die at the end of the day.

Is a new day, and the rays of the ever-burning sun are slowly gracing the land with its light, the everfree forest has little places where the sun can shine, but those places do exist.

A lone figure gets out of a hole and starts walking through the forest, at first sight, they look like a pony, but once you start to look at it, you slowly start to notice that something is wrong. They do not have any fur, not skin either, what they do have is black chitin, and around their body exits many holes, on top of her head rest two ears that have some semblance of antennas, and her eyes are totally blue and have no pupils, but they have 2 lights that resemble ones, in the back of her head and backside have a fin that acts like their hair, while in their back have an appendage called elytra, which of the color purple, under there hide a pair of insect wings which is a little more clear in color than her elytra.

This strange creature seems to be rather lethargic, and its chitin looks very devoid of life and it has cracks on it, her eyes are unable to be totally kept open and sometimes they stumble over their own hoofs, is quite the wonder how it still alive right now.

But suddenly one of her ears swear to listen to something in the distance, having nothing better to do, it starts walking in that direction... When it arrives it can not help but let out a gasp.

On the ground, in quite the stain in the dirt, is a crumbled figure of a bovine, is not moving, and judging by the form of the splash of blood, it probably fell out of the sky. When she sees this bloody scene, she can't help to get back to the land of the living for some time and go as fast as they could to the body.

While it gets close, she notices how its fur should probably be white whit grey in its hair, but of how much blood they are covered, is hard to tell, in his head is just one intact horn while the other is broken practically at the base, for some reason in their back appears to be 2 holes where are 2 bones inside the flesh. When they are close enough, they put a hoof on the neck of the creature... is quite warm, so trying to remember what her sister told her, she put him upside down and try to reanimate it, 1 2 3..., stopping she proceed to breathe inside his mouth, then start again with the compressions.

After some minutes their energy leaves their body and falls over the creature... She tried, but she is so tired, she just wants to fall and sleep, but know that her sister will not forgive her if she just gives up.

So trying again she stands up... And scream a little when she saw the face of the creature, his eyes are looking directly at her, and she could swear that he had the eyes closed before! she gulps and looks at him for a moment, waiting for something, when it blinks, she couldn't help to let a happy chirp "Ho my queen! I did it!" she is happy, she finally manages to save a life! perhaps now she can go back to the hive!

That was until she noticed something weird... it still not breathing, but its eyes are full of life, she just blink many times, later she put a hoof in the creature's nose... nothing.

Ho no! maybe he died again!?, but when she was about to do chest compression again she notices that his lips are moving, -Buck, I knew I should have taken the lips reading program!-. She gulps and tries to read it anyways while she read his emotions "W-o ar- y--?" and he feels doubt? She blinks and tries to think what he said... her face lightens, "Who I am?" the creature gave a small nod, "Well, my name is Lynn, what is yours?" The creature just blinks, he feels, amusement! and then Lynn blushes "S-sorry, maybe you are too weak to speak again?"

The creature just gave a small nod, she still weirded out since still is not breathing, but it seem to be in a poor state, and she was taught to heal things! she has to do something! "don't worry, we help you back together before you can say 'I broke my head!'" The creature blinks, hard, feeling doubt and confusion.

Not giving any mind to the deadpan that she just got, she proceed to carry it away, "Woah!, here I thought that it would be hard to move you, but you are pretty light!" it was true, she was very weak since she has not eaten for one whole week! but here she could carry him into the hiding spot that she use before her second wind could disappear.

When she managed to put it in the small hole in the ground where it can barely have two people inside, she falls again on top of him, "There... no place like home, I am right?" *It feels dumbfounded* The creature just looks at her, when she tries to stand up, her strength gives up again and she falls, her eyes blurry and one close more than the other, "ups sorry, I have not eaten in quite a while."

The creature blinks *it feels worrying*, and he closes his eyes, "Wait do not die! I promise that... Whoa!" Suddenly Lynn feels alert again, not like when her sister sneaks her love daily, but a lot better when she notices that she is being fed... Pure love!? it feels kinda artificial, but she feels better after what feels like forever, "Woah, I- well-, huu" she looks dumbfounded, and feels shyness take her form, "I... thanks."

Perhaps this is her chance? She was about to die out of Love starvation not long ago, but this creature just fed her, And she was in her true form! she had to save him... but she knew that she couldn't do much more, so maybe she can try to get him help from the ponys?

Hunger manages to keep himself alive, thankfully he is more stable than before, but his spine is still broken and he had to let many parts die to get to this point without dying, a changeling found him and tried to reanimate him, the problem is that he still does not heals everything, so his heart was a waste of resource, but also key to when his body was ready.

The changeling put him in a hiding spot so he decided to help her, and she may be the first changeling not to kill herself in his presence, which was a weird historical fact.

Since he could feel that she was starving and that she was going to die in 2-4 hours, he decided to feed her love, she looks very dumbfounded, and she is blushing... Then she proceeds to clear her throat, "I will go for help now".

-Wait what?-

And before Hunger could do something to stop her, (is not like he could do anything in the first place), in an explosion of harmless green flames, she transforms into a black cat with purple eyes, Hunger just blinks, the only thing that he can really do having in mind that most of his bones are broken.

And then the cat proceeds to leave the hole...

Hunger just stays there, concentrating on not dying, he feels safer now that he is in a hole, which is bad because if he falls asleep he will die. wich in the state that his mind is in, should probably the need arise in 16 hours more, he can only hope that the absurd amount of food that he consumed will help him stay alive long enough so his body may be stable. Which is hard since his body may very well be a fancy blood bag, is only thanks to the fact that he ate his own emotions that he is sane enough to keep going, after all, the experience of a dying body is not very pleasurable.

After may very well be an eternity, he hears sounds getting closer, he would say that his heart skip a beat, but sadly his heart still was not beating, "Wait please, this place is dangerous, you can't be here", Hunger could swear that he had heard that 'Wait please' somewhere. When he is about to ponder this even more, finally the changeling in cat form enters the hole, and when his eyes look up, he saw a butter color pegasus with a pink mane.

When Fluttershy looks at his state, her eyes go wide and almost move away, but when she saw who it was she manages to stay there mouth agape. Hunger started to sweat... mentally, his body truly was not working on its own, so wasting demonic energy in sweating was stupid, but the point was he was very nervous, he was pretty sure that if she were to do something now, he would be totally at her mercy.

"Ho my Celestia!"... that was the softest scream that he ever heard, but before he could think how that would work, Fluttershy proceeds to enter the hole, "Are you ok?" hunger wanted to do a sarcastic commentary, but he also didn't have any way to make noise for now, since his lungs were full of blood. She looks scared for a moment, "A-are you alive?"

Right, he was not breathing, for a good moment he thought of just playing dead, but then he remember that he needed to get out of there before night and also needed to eat something. Hunger gives a small nod, which causes pain to flare in his body, but he got used to it, and it helps him stay awake, Fluttershy seems to relax a little once she saw a response, but she really looked... worried? Hunger was confused, perhaps she has not heard from Twilight to stay away? "W-what happened? can you walk?."

Hunger is really getting tired of the questions... normally he would love them, but then if he nods he is wasting important energy that his body needs, and right now he is running on fumes, ho? it appears that he made enough so she may speak again, she looked a lot more assertive all of the sudden "Can... can you speak? one blink for yes two for no."

Hunger blinked two times, Fluttershy bite her lip in worry, "Are you in pain?" one blinked, "D-do you want me to help?" Hunger stay still for a moment, but later blinked one time, "ok, um, my name is Fluttershy, and I think yours is hunger, right?" Hunger looked perplexed, perhaps she did hear from Twilight? then why she was speaking to him? when she saw his doubts, she blush a little, "I-I mean if you are wondering, the animals tell me your name." Hunger manages to raise an eyebrow, "I-it my special talent" Hunger's face comeback to a neutral one, and he wonders if her ability to hear animals is less invasive, if so, he may have to ea- ok, apparently, he had eaten too much of his feeling, he was starting to talk like a psycho and he didn't like it.

Fluttershy clears her throat, "you can hear them too right?" hunger thought for a moment, but then blinked once, suddenly she smile very hard, and for some reason it kinda made him feel better, he also remember how some of the animals he took care spoke highly of her, made him feel in safer... hoofs, "So your name is Hunger right?" Hunger blinked one time without thinking too much.

She smiles at him, "nice to meet you, now let's get you out of here..." she looked conflicted, she could clearly see how broken his body was, and she didn't want to hurt him by accident, but she knew that she did not have many options, "may I try to carry you?" with some luck she thought that he may be light, if not she may need to find Rainbow.

When she felt his weight she was very surprised, "You are very light, kinda like a pegasus." He wanted to snort, but again, no lungs, so he smirked inside, the reason he was very light was his stature, the fact that his stomach was a pocket dimension with no weight and no fat... also he lost his two arms to that demon.

Fluttershy very delicately start to take him out of the hole, "does it hurt?", hunger was about to say no, but that would be a lie, and he did not want a backlash in this state, so he blinked once, "S-sorry, it is too much?" since he got used to it, he guesses that he can get away with this, so he blinked two times, Fluttershy gave a sight of relief, but anyways tries to take him with more care.

Putting him on her back, she looks how the cat is following her, she looked at Hunger "It is your cat?", Hunger looks at the cat, and the cat nodded, Hunger blinked, "H-ho my, so you can hear me? why do you not speak back? is your voice ok? Ho no, are you hurt?!"

The cat just blinks, perplexed, then looks at hunger and proceeds to jump in his head, Fluttershy looks like she was about to protest until she noticed that the mouth of the cat got close to the ear of Hunger, which appears to be listening to the cat, "I can't really speak cat, so she may notice that I'm a changeling, please do not blow my cover".

Fluttershy looks puzzled, "D-does it only speaks to you?" For now? yes, so he blinked once, Just like a dog, Fluttershy tilted her head, "Why is... right you can't speak now, can you tell me why later?" probably, when he is recovered or when Lynn let him tell the secret, so yea, he blinked once, Fluttershy gave him a soft smile and proceeded to walk again.

"I can't believe that I have met another pony-", Hunger deadpan at the back of her skull, which she did not notice, "That can speak with animals just like me! it made me sad when you run away from me, but I can understand you, after all, I'm quite shy too." Hunger blinked, -she was quite vocal right now, maybe she is like this when she gets hyped up?-, he does not have time to ponder it anymore, since she keep going, "I-I'm sorry if I startle you when we meet the other times, it was not my intention to scream, I just wanted to talk to you." Scream? that times were more of a whisper-shout, the only reason he manage to hear her was probably to his keen sense of hearing.

"When I heard from Mr.Nevus that you heal his wounds, I was quite intrigued, and when more of my animal friends started to tell me that you had to take care of them I wanted to tell you my thanks." -She... really is not very shy if she is speaking of animals- She looked at him by the side of her vision, "I-I wish I had met you in better condition though" she looks at his wounds, she grimaced, "Did you got attacked by an animal? if so I will have to have a real talk with the bully that did this to you."

Hunger questioned himself if she is speaking so much to make him feel better, kinda wish he could spare some of his powers to read her emotions, but right now he is running out of hopes and dreams, which are not much, "Don't worry, just try to stay awake please, I fear that your wound is very bad." She looked at him with a worried face, -Ha, the classic "Stay awake so you may not die" thingy, makes sense, she has to have some experience if she knows this-, he blinked at her once, she smile, "You seem quite awake though, so it may not be so bad."

Hunger did the only capable thing he could do in this state, he swole his saliva and thought to himself, -Ho boy, you do not have any idea how bad I'm fucked-, he manage to see that they just left the forest, he did not know if to be thankful to the Ursa major to send him flying so close to the exit, or if should proceed to eat her when he can, maybe both.

Animals of all types were around the cottage of Fluttershy, he could also hear a lot of people(?). weird, he was a little surprised, he sometimes look at this place from a good distance away since he didn't have a good reason to come here, but he had to admit that this was a nice place compared to his base... is that a bear? Huh, kinda neat that he is not eating a bunny or something when he had this buffet here.

Something strange was that he was not hearing animal sounds, only voices of... -Fuck me, please no.-

When Hunger moves his ear, he confirms it, that were not people, that were animals, since he heard many speaking of things that didn't make sense, for example, someone telling that he would eat a fish for dinner, or how they were waiting for the food of Fluttershy to build a dam.

Hunger was getting scared, he hated his animal's ears for a good reason, no matter where he was, no matter how low or loud they were, they always hear like they were next to him with his ears if he could hear the minimal sound they made.

You don't think is annoying? well think it like this, you are in the middle of the night and you start to hear like someone is getting murdered when you go to see is just a fly and a spider,

Fluttershy enter her home, it was quite... interesting design, if he were to describe it, he would be called 'Animal friendly', the woods was pleasing to the eyes, and the little details that it had were too, When he was looking around at a weird structure in the ceiling, he noticed how a squirrel had come out of the hole and walk through the structure... a special catwalk for the animals? that was kinda nifty, he guessed it was a good way to prevent animals from getting in the way. He also saw how there were some stairs to a second floor and the furniture was quite minimalistic, he liked the fireplace, but he would probably be too scared to set the place on fire to use it.

While he was busy admiring a frame of two butterflies, he heard a voice that sounded annoyed, with was quite different from how happy was the ambient, "Have you come back Fluttershy?" Fluttershy looked in the direction of the voice, at this angle he couldn't quite manage to look at the creature speaking, "it was time for dinner a while ago!"

Fluttershy put Hunger on her sofa, in his new spot of sight he tried to find the speaker, he really hated the fact he couldn't difference between an animal and a person when he had these ears, "Ho, Angel, I'm so sorry, but I really need to help Hunger over here, I have to make sure he will be fine, can you wait for a moment more?."

That... do not narrow it down, he sounds quite authoritarian, so maybe a pony? maybe his coltfriend or something? he hopes that he does not get mad for ruining his morning, he really does not have the energy to deal with this, quite literally. He heard the voice get closer, "Well actually no, so can you please tell HIM to wait while you feed me?" that... is quite rude, but he really did not mind.

Fluttershy just looks at hunger with some doubt, "w-well, is quite urgent, I couldn't ask him s-something like that" Hunger raises his eyebrow, -Does she think because I can't speak I can't hear them speak?-

He heard a huff of annoyance, then the perpetrator got into view... a rabbit? "I bet is not that b-" The looked of indignation that Hunger met was melt away when he saw in the sorry state he was, The rabbit stayed silent for a moment and then gave a sheepish smile, "... ho, it is"

Hunger blinked, he would let out a snort if he could, but being quadriplegic it was not that amusing, but when Fluttershy saw the understanding of the rabbit she visually relaxed, "Thank you, I will try to finish this very fast."

Fluttershy proceeded to walk away outside of Hunger's vision, when she got away the rabbit proceeded to jump on the couch too, and jump to his head, then he looked at Hunger's eyes for a moment, he just blink, and the rabbit just frowns, "I can swear that I have seen you before", Hunger raises an eyebrow, he would like to say that he remembers every animal that he sees, but unless he gives them a taste, his memory is not perfect.

Suddenly the Bunny starts stomping on Hunger's head, He silently winces but does not show his annoyance, suddenly they hear a hiss, angel jumps in surprise and looks at Lynn, which is glaring at him, angel blinked, "woah!, don't look at me like that, I thought he may be a demon, he didn't even glare at me, so I guess that he is not." Hunger just raises an eyebrow at the bunny, he sometimes forgets how sharp are animals to detect his species.

Angel sees Hunger's eyes for a moment, touching his chin with his paw, Hunger blinks, "This is weird, it almost feels like you know what are we talking about... wait, are you that Hunger?" Hunger raises his eyebrow, Angel looks annoyed, "hello? can you speak" Hunger decides to shake his head, he blinks and gives him and points at him accusatively, "You can understand me! So you must be him!"

They wait for a moment, Angel not moving, The looked of intrigue disappears from Hunger's face, and gives a deadpan to the bunny, who suddenly looks very mad, "Why did you run away from Fluttershy so many times!? She felt terrible afterward! she was even baling her eyes out on one occasion!" Angel grabs his face and made him look with his two eyes at him, Hunger's face morphs to one of pain which angel ignores, "You better have a good reason, Fluttershy may act like she did not get hurt by that, but I know in how much pain she was!"

Hunger can not stop him from thinking how low he has fallen if a bunny is trying to intimidate him, and the worst part is that is working, The Bunny was so immersed in glaring at Hunger, that he did not notice how Fluttershy had arrived while they were glaring to each other before she could do something, Lynn jumps beside him and grabbing him from the scruff of the neck, "Woah, wait, Don't you dare."

The head of Hunger falls painfully onto the soft cushion, Fluttershy gets closer with a doctor's bag, and her face morphs to a more stern one, Angel loses a little of his valor, "Angel bunny, I know that you are very hungry, but you can't treat some pony like that."

"B-but!"

"Angel please, please, I promise it would be quick, is only to see if I can bring him to a doctor later." Angel looked like he wanted to keep protesting, but then gave up, Fluttershy looked at Lynn, "Can you please make sure he does not interrupt us?" Lynn nodded and got down from Hunger.

Fluttershy taking a stethoscope out of the bag and putting it on proceeds to put it to Hunger's chest, "Now this will take just a sec..." Hunger thought for a moment to make his heartbeat but then decides to not do it since his body still is not ready to start circulating blood.

Fluttershy blinks expecting some sound, but when she does not listen to anything she looks confused, then proceeds to try in different places of his chest, not finding anything she got a little pale and look at his face, expecting that he passed out while she spoke to Angel, to only see that very lively eyes, "hmm, this may sound weird, but do you have a heart?" Hunger blinks once, and Fluttershy looks even more confused, "Should... should I hear it beating?" Hunger stay still for a moment, -Well having in mind that my heart is not beating, I would say that I should be worried if you heard it.- Hunger blinks twice, and Fluttershy looks relieved, "ho... O-ok then."

Later Fluttershy proceeds to take his temperature, only to see that he is 3 degrees lower than normal, she gasps and sprints for a bed sheet, putting it on him, Hunger just blinks, -I guess that I should have kept my body in a good temperature too, "there, tell me if-..." She stops when sees the deadpan of Hunger, she clears her throat, "S-sorry, do you need more sheets?" Hunger blinks twice, and Fluttershy smiles.

Later she proceeds to prove her bones, noticing how many parts of his body are absolutely shattered, but when she arrives at his back legs she yelps in surprise, his back is stiff and cold, she looked worried at his face, "D-do you feel this" she proceeds to poke him in his flank, but Hunger blinks twice, she gulps, "H-Ho no!, this is worse than I thought, I knew that your back legs felt weird when I carried you, but it never occurred to me that they were like this!"

Hunger looks at how she proceeds to do a little dance of nerves, he would be amused if he could feel feelings right now, but for now, he conforms to look at her, "I- we need to go to the doctor right now! fit this keep ups you could lose your legs!" she proceeds to move an unexpectedly fast pace upstairs.

Angel looked annoyed, "B-but my food!" Hunger just rolls his eyes, Angel manages to free himself from Lynn's grasp and jumps on top of him again, and grabs his head "Don't you roll your eyes at me." Hunger deadpans at him, "I know that is something wrong with you! you better don't do anything to Fluttershy, you hear!" Hunger would nod but his head is trapped under the small creature's paws.

In hope that he may relax, Hunger proceeds to use his powers to feed him, thankfully rabbits do not need a lot of food so he does not need to forfeit his life doing this, Angel trembles a little and then looks confused, Then he blinks, "W-why do I feel full?" Hunger blinked once, then proceeded to smirk, -next time don't get so close buckaroo.-

Which made him remember that he should probably eat more of his emotions, he was still in a dying body and if his real emotions got a hold of him, he would probably start shiting through the asshole that he did not have. Angel drops his head, "W-what are you?", again, at the sudden movement his neck screams at him, but his emotions were too drain to feel mad... or scare for that matter.

Before Angel could ask another question Fluttershy come back with a saddleback and some sheets, before he could process what she was doing, he got wrapped in the sheet very much like a burrito or a baby, then Fluttershy proceeded to put him on her back with some rope and run as fast as she could, Before going he heard "Wait!" but it was already too late, they were gone.

Hunger wish that his horns work at that moment, he knew very well what will happen in the hospital, one, They will use that "law" or two, they will tell Fluttershy that literally his heart is not beating and would dissect him to see how he is still alive, which probably would help since his insides were full of blood that were not on his veins.

After a while, they manage to go to the Hospital of ponyville, Wich was good, being like this was making him sleepy and his body still was not ready to be left alone. Fluttershy enter the reception while she was short of breath, the room was quite busy, and she tried to stop people to speak, "E-excuse me, w-wait, c-can you help me?" nobody stop to help her or the half-dead goat, so she goes to the front desk, "e-excuse me nurse Redheart, I h-have an emergency, I think the back l-legs of this pony are suffering from n-necrosis or they are dying, he also has several broken bones and a horn."

"W-what?! what happened?! it was the Ursa attack?" he heard fast clops and later the sounds of wheels of a gurney coming in their direction, in the range of his vision he saw an earth pony mare with white fur and pink mane, she had a nurse gat and he mane was in a bum.

When she saw his face she flinched, but perhaps Fluttershy not noticing, proceeded to lay him in there, then she opened the bed sheets, showing his broken body, Nurse Readheart opens her mouth wide open, "H-he seem to have many fractures in his body, I can't hear his heartbeat or breath and-"

"Fluttershy" When she heard the solemn tone of voice of Nurse Readheart, Fluttershy did a little *eep* and hide behind her mane, the face of the nurse was filled with sadness and a little fear, "We cannot treat him here."

Fluttershy looked confused, but then she got a little pale, "I-It is because his w-wounds are too bad?"

Redheart shook her head and looked at the ground in shame, "There... there is a law that medical practitioners cannot treat Rams."

Fluttershy looked dumbfounded while Hunger would have given a huff of indignation if his lungs were working, "W-what?"

Redheart continues, "not long ago a higher up send us an old law that we can't treat his species, they told us that since one of his species was going to come live here, we needed to know..."

Fluttershy suddenly lose all her shyness, she looked perplexed, confused, and furious, "Are you telling me that you would let him die?!"

Redheart flinched and keep looking away from Hunger and Fluttershy, Hunger looked surprised too at how much livid this made the mare, -W... why did she care so much?- he thought, was so maybe she could use him later? o it was coming from the bottom of her heart? he did not understand... but it remember him of how they acted 450+ years ago, it was confusing, it was the first time that somepony was so worried about a Ram.

"I-if we try to help him, our medical license would be revoked and we would be taken to jail..." It was funny, it was true and he would have to do it when he was able since technically they breaking the law in front of him.

Fluttershy looked like she was about to keep screaming, that until she noticed how all the sound in the room had stopped, even in his pitiful state, ponys were trying to keep all their distance from him, while others gave her judgmental or ashamed eyes, very little of them were of pity. She froze, she gulped and tears started to roll down her eyes, she proceeded to wrap him again and she shoot to her cottage again.

While Fluttershy couldn't believe this, Hunger was expecting it, since he had to study the laws to actually apply them, he also saw the old laws that were still on, he still remember the first time he tried to get medical attention for her adoptive daughter, she was in so much pain and he didn't know what to do, he never gave birth to a child, he was a nurse, so he wanted to go to the professionals... who called the guard on them, on a pregnant woman.

Hunger started to grit his teeth, but that was enough to remember what he needed to do, he still needed to fix that bitch, he needed to show her what she did...

When he manage to get his bearings back again, he looked to the forest, in the distance he notice a brow p... wait that is a griffin, that is Gilda!, why is she flying around the everfree forest?... is she trying to find him? He wanted to scream very bad, to tell her that he was ok, that he would be back very soon, but he already was on the edge of death and if he wanted to do that, he would need to get some fuel first.

He hoped that she would give up before the night, he manage to give her a quick class in the areas dangerous to flying creatures, but at night nothing is predictable.

When they arrive at Fluttershy's cottage, he expected to be left on the sofa again, but they started to go up the stairs, he was confused, he would make confusion know if he could, but before he could ponder it for too much, he was left in a bed, in a very soft bed. He would have moaned in pleasure if he could, but then he noticed the distressed pegasus to his side, she was crying, her eyes red and puffy, when she looked at him, she looked even more hurt, "I-I'm s-sorry, I d-do not know why would they do something like that..."

Like expecting an answer, she look at his face, she wanted maybe to see if he was mad? or maybe sad? he didn't feel anything for now, before he was angry but now he just accept the fact that the world didn't like him after all. Like feeling his inner thoughts, Fluttershy proceeded to hug him, which was a bad idea, if he had air in his lung he would have screamed in pain, was this why she wanted him alive? to torture him? But then he hears more pitiful whimpers, "Finally I find someone who shares my special talent but I would lose him the same day I truly meet him."

That... didn't make a lot of sense to him, he felt the tears fall on his shoulder, why she was so sad? maybe he shouldn't have eaten his feeling, now he doesn't understand what is going on. Hunger sat there for what seemed forever, his body tired and mind wanting to sleep, that until some of his feelings started to come back, -A PONY IS HUGGING ME FUCK, I'M UNDER A PONYS MERCY AAAA- he started to tremble and he was a little to panic to eat his feelings right away.

Fluttershy started to console him "I-it is ok, all is o-ok, you have my promise that I will help you recover or in the worse case, give you a warm place to have your last moments.

Hunger still was trembling with fear, even though what she said was true, his irrational fear of them was getting to his nerves... normally he could control it, but she was literally hugging him, which was too close for his comfort.

When he blinked for a moment he could see a dark room with several instruments of torture, his own blood coring the floor-

He took the proverbial mental ball and kick it to the back of his mind, the last thing he needed was to lose concentration.

Fluttershy stopped hugging him, her eyes puffy and filled with worry for a stranger, losing all her shyness because of how worried she felt, in her beautiful blue sky eyes, he could see the truth to her statement, but when he blinked he saw the face of a pony who was smiling at him while he was cover in b-

GUH, Fluttershy hugged him again once she saw how he tremble again, Hunger finally noticed how unstable he was, so he ate his emotions once again, his face went a little green, he always hated eating himself, it always tasted like shit. When he stop trembling, she stop hugging him and stood up, "I-I will make y-you some soup to see if you can eat, we will s-see from there ok?" Hunger blinked once, she smile at him, then proceeded to go downstairs.

That was awkward, well now it was anyways, he was just about to just concentrate on healing himself, when he heard someone jump into the bed, it was Lynn, her purple eyes looking at him, "Do you mind if I stay with you? I mean, do you mind feeding me again when you can?" Hunger understood why she was following him because she needed to eat somehow, he kinda wanted to eat her to know more about her species, but she was the first one not to kill herself and explode, so he will try to contain himself.

Hunger blinked once, hoping she remember his way of temporal speak, when the cat smiled he confirm it, and after some seconds, the cat put herself over him, it kinda hurt in his broken body, but she was very light... maybe their body weight also changes when the change forms?

After a while, shy comeback with a bowl of red soup which still was steaming, she smiled at him and help him sit up, Lynn falls down on the bed and curiously look at them, thankfully, Hunger was still feeling hollow and his phobia did not come back, "o-open wide and say A" he kinda wanted to use his magic, but he knew better than to try to use magic after a serious mana poisoning, his horns still ache.

So opening his mouth and exposing the normal teeth of a pony, he took the spoon which Fluttershy was offering, when it hit his mouth he wanted to moan so loud, but nothing came, he only swallow.

-How long has it been since someone had cooked for me? Too long probably- Fluttershy looks dumbfounded, "I-its b-bad? I c-can do a-" before she continues, Hunger shook his head, feeling the pain but feeling also the strength of his power coming back since he was testing the food made of another person... he was crying, that was very awkward but he did not care, he was so happy to be eating this food, for him the taste was infinitely better than his food If he could move he would have pounce at the bowl long ago.

Fluttershy look surprised, she was taking care of Hunger, and many animals spoke highly of his care, in the sense that they always manage to heal right away when he took care of them, and since the return of princes Luna, the attacks of the monster were a lot more frequent and she was thankful that he was helping her animal's friends to get better, she always wanted to speak to him, but every time she tried, he run away, it made her think that there was something wrong with her, was she that ugly? -Ho pony feathers, it is fly school all over again-

But the point was more the fact that even if Hunger looked incredibly lethargic and the light of his eyes appears and disappears, he now looked truly happy... at the beginning she tough that he was crying because of how bad was her food, but he now was giving a small smile while he ate, the first smile that he gave her.

Before she could look him in his face like this was one of her animals she could see that he looked scared most of the time, but now he looked like the only thing that existed was her bowl of soup and him.

Ok, Hunger started to notice that he may be acting a little weird, probably his soul trying to create emotions fast to present the ones that the had missing, but he did not care now, he was full and he was in a cocoon of warm, he had the pleasure of actually making his cell rest of making heat, and he concentrated in actually healing his body.

Fluttershy smiled and leave him to rest, his instinct to run away relax once she started to feed him, but now that he did not have food in his mouth he was starting to freak out, again, he gave a bite to his feelings, he really hates how his soul tastes so awful, probably an evolutionary trait to deter him to literally eat himself.

The cat got close, "You were very happy when you were eating." Hunger just look at her, he really should fix his lungs so he may speak again, but first, he had to fix his circulation so he may able to sleep for a minimum of 2 hours... he really hated how he had to micromanage everything so he may actually survive, he feels like at some point he will forget to eat his emotions and he would go crazy because he was in a dying body.

But for now, he just concentrated on resting, with some time he would be able to manifest to one of his statues so he may tell Gilda that he was fine, If not, one of the pieces of his soul should arrive in two days, with that he could send a message.

For now, he proceed to make his body small again, by making his cells eat the dead ones and making new ones, since they died long ago, his potential was not very good, but he should be able to make a new body again.

Later he heard a lot of people speaking on the down floor, he guess it was feeding time... He was starting to lose his head because having 20 people speak what it felt beside his ear made for a terrible disorienting experience, he truly think was going to lose his mind or focus, but slowly they departed and Hunger could relax again.

That is until two familiar squirrels appear in front of his face, Hunger blinked, and the first one to speak sounded like a male, "Hunger?" he just blinked again.

The other sounded more female, "Probably he is not, after all, Hunger had 2 horns, this one only has 1"...-Rude-

"But he does have his eyes..."

"Yes, that is true, and he looks like a goat too"

Hunger was feeling a little annoyed that they were speaking like he was not there, but he just rolled his eyes and looked up again, "Fluttershy did say that she was taking care of him though."

"And Nevermore was asking around if we have seen him"

Hunger looked at the squirrels again when he heard that name, They blinked at him when they saw how he reacted to the name, "and he does look like he understands us..."

The squirrels exchange glances, "Yes, we probably should tell him, he was very worried." and then they proceed to scamper off.

He heard Lynn move again, "Well, that was weird."

Then there was silence again.

After a while Fluttershy feeds Hunger again, he ate all the food, thankfully he had made a lot of progress with his body, good thing too, as he was starting to feel like his mind was falling apart, when the sunset happened, Fluttershy walked to his side.

"H-hi Hunger, you seem to be better" Hunger looked at her and blinked, Fluttershy cleared her throat, "Now that I think about it, you are covered in blood, so d-do you want me to bath you?" Hunger stopped for a moment, then he remember that he was unable to smell, so he couldn't say if he was smelling bad, so for her host's sake, he blinked once.

Fluttershy smiled and proceeded to take him to her bathroom, where he took the sheets of, She looked a little surprised, "Hu... I could swear that you were bigger." Hunger blinked and Fluttershy become nervous, "I-I mean, being s-small is not bad, it just thought it was strange..."

Hunger blinked once and Shy took him to the tub where she already had put water, once she put him in there his disheveled fur full of blood slowly started to lose the dirt and grime of his adventure, Fluttershy started to rinse his body, water was pleasantly hot and even if his body hurt when she passed in the fracture places he didn't mind too much, she was really giving her best to not hurt him and he could feel her intentions, but even now he felt the need to run away and he made sure to keep those thoughts at bay by eating them.

The blood was harder to clean, but it did come off eventually, all the while Hunger looked at her host who was humming, her movement with all the professionalism of a medic, it made his discomfort lessen... but when he closed his eyes suddenly he was in a pool of acid, even if he knew that he was not breathing he was able to feel the smell of melting fur and flesh, the red of his blood combining with the colorless acid trying to eat him whole, the only thing keeping him alive was the speed which he had to make his cells work.

He would have flinched if he felt his body, thankfully for Fluttershy, he was unable to flinch away when he opened his eyes, but the fear was not lost in her when she looked at his eyes, she smiled, "don't worry, I will not let you drown." this word not helped too much, but it made him feel a tiny bit better... even if he not needed to breathe.

When was time to clean his head, she was about to put a hoof in his eyes, but he in response opened them even wider, fear evident in his face, Fluttershy blinked in surprise, "I-it is so water may not enter your eyes." Hunger wanted to protest, but Fluttershy did not stop, he would wish to bite her hoof, but when that thought got in his head, it throb, so he finally close his eyes by instinct.

He was scared, all sorts of the image showed in the shadows of his eyelids, normally he would be more relaxed since he could open them any time, but even then he felt unnerved, but now that something was completely obscuring his vision he wanted to scream in panic, his mouth opening wide trying to scream, but in his not responding lungs he only opens his mouth in fear.

Water started to fall on his head and the signing intensified... It help to bring him to the now, but even then the void claims him, what felt like an eternity passed, and then the hoof was out of his eyes, and his body relaxed again when he saw the light and the face of pure worry of Fluttershy, "S-sorry, was it too much?" Hunger blinked once, he was not sure if he was crying or it was the water that was dumped in his head, "S-sorry...D-do you fear the dark?" Hunger was not sure if he should tell her, but maybe if he did, she wouldn't do this again, so he blinked once.

Fluttershy looked more guilty now, "S-sorry, I fear it too, but u-usually, I'm ok w-when I bate, so I guessed that it was the same and..." Fluttershy took a deep breath and whisper under her breath, "Sorry." She was like that for a while, Hunger really started to feel cold, so he made his body start trembling, Fluttershy gasped and proceeded to take it out of the tub, while she dry him, she apologize profusely.

In an instant Hunger was again in Fluttershy's bed, this time under her covers, it smelled like her, which made him more fearful, so he had to eat his feelings again so he may relax again, when all was done shy feed him again and he manages to tune out the world in a wonderful bliss for some minutes, once the food was finish she sits beside him to make him company while she read a book to him, she still seems apologetic for the shower things, maybe so much that she didn't notice the fact that he had no genitalia, that or she didn't want to clean close to that place, which made sense.

He kinda tunes her out, the history was kinda cute and all, but prefers concentrating on the task of keeping his body alive, thanks to her he was empowered but that wouldn't help if he didn't use the energy.

He manage to make a lot of progress in his body, in theory, he thinks that he would be able to survive out of life support for 4-5 hours, which was enough to recover his mind and some of his body vitality so he may keep going like this. The good news is that he manages to drain his lungs enough and fix them so he may breathe in the morning... He really hate it to used this method, If he were in better condition he would just have stabbed his side to drain them enough to manually breathe again, but alas his body was in a bad shape, and also his powers were drained, so he can't take that luxury.

Suddenly he felt something fall on the bed, when he looked to his side, look how Fluttershy had fallen asleep and her upper body fell into the bed, she also left some candles in the room... did she do that because of his fear of the dark? If so, he would feel guilty if they died on a fire... wait, there still was Lynn, when he looked at his other side she saw the changeling turned into a cat, who was already sleeping, -fuck-.

Fire hazard is shit, he looks up to his broken horn and to his good one... ¿Maybe it was long enough?

He tried to use magic...

He screams, in his head, but he screams nonetheless.

A magical drawback, is if you use too much-unfiltered magic, your magical 'veins' become incredibly unstable and hurt a lot to use it, it is the equivalent of popping a blood vessel, except that blood vessel is full of nerves so you may control your magical flow to cast spells.

Normally the body of a normal unicorn would stop them from using ambient magic and will use all the available 'fuel' in the body to filter magic so they may use it, but Hunger in his desperation deactivated that part of his body so he may protect the Ursa minor, and having in mind how he didn't hear chaos ensues or saw how the village was destroyed, he could guess that he was successful in the quest to not make her go in a rampage.

after stopping screaming from the inside, he proceeded to accept his destiny of rolling a die...

"What... what did just happen?" he looks to his side and looks that Lynn had woken up, "W-why suddenly were you filled with pain?" Hunger blink, -That... is handy.- Hunger proceeds to indicate to the candles with his eyes, and after a while, she looks too, "t-the candles?" Hunger blinks once, While Lynn looked confused for a while, then her face become one of understanding, and stood up and extinguish them with her mouth.

When she finishes she sits by the side of Hunger, "C-can... can you give me more love?" Hunger blinked, then proceeded to feed her an amount that should last her for the night, Lynn's eyes flutter a little while her ears do the same, she then slumped by his side, "Thank you, my king." Hunger looked confused, but he didn't have the resources to ask, and before he knew it, she was asleep.

He just roll his eyes and use the last of the mental power that he had to make sure he would survive the night, after giving a little oxygen to his blood and an anticlot, then he proceeded to make his heart beat again... it hurt a lot, the heart was not made to stop beating for so long, and taking the first breaths was a nightmare, is true that he took all the measures so no important part of his body would die, but still hurt a lot.

Bloodvessel were cut, the internal wound was healed, the blood of his insides that weren't to be there was drained using his aspect, and even having blood running through his body made his pain worse, but it was manageable. But this was a welcome kind of pain, finally, his body had gotten back to being 'alive' and all the signals of his body telling him that he was dying were turned down a little, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Then he proceeded to sleep... But he forgot something very important, which was to drain his emotions again.

Hunger started to dream, but suddenly his dreamscape was tackled before his mind manage to conjure a dream, Luna bodyslam him HARD, and he was thankful that physicals wounds do not translate to the dream world, because if that were true he would proceed to pass out in his dream.

Luna gave him a bone-shattering hug, "HUNGER!, Thou is fine!"

Hunger was thankful that he was able to move his body, even if he felt the pain of the real world in his dream, it was a lot duller, "Luna, it is 'you', no thou, and yes, technically I'm alive."

Luna proceed to ignore him, "We thought you were dead! there was news from all over Equestria that food was starting to rotten and some going back to being good to eat!"

Hunger thinks for a moment, "A yes, probably that were the times I slip up and almost got dragged out of my dying body."

Luna stops hugging him and grabs him by the shoulders, "Dying body!? what Th- you mean!?... wait, It is really hard to perceive your life force! are you dying right now?!"

Hunger was thankful that she remember not to use the royal Canterlot voice, "Technically yes, bu-"

Luna's eyes widen a bit more, "We shall send help in this instant! Were a-"

Hunger put his hoof on her mouth, "Luna!, I will be fine, I should survive long enough to wake up and keep healing myself."

This relaxes her somewhat, but she still seems desperate, moving her head back she continues "b-but-!"

Hunger fallow her mouth, "Really, I will be fine, and technically if a doctor sees me they would have to get arrested or license revoke."

Luna slows down at this, then blinks, then looks confused "W-what? why would that happen?"

Hunger blinks, "There is an old law that says that anyone that treats a ram will get that penalty."

Luna blinks, "W-why sister would let that pass?"

Hunger looks at her, then he opens his mouth, then he closes it, he tries again, "Is an old law, maybe she forgot to take it out."

Luna narrowed her eyes, "Yes, but that doesn't explain why she would pass such a law... and you also dodge the question."

Hunger looked to the side, "I can't neither confirm nor deny any allegations, and my body is not in any condition for me to try."

Luna looks like she wanted to protest, but then closes her mouth, then narrows her eyes even more, "I see, then I shall see into this matter myself." Luna took a deep breath then look at him once more with a more neutral look, "May I see the state of your body?"

Hunger blinked, "Sure, how?"

Loona gave some hoof steps away, "Just concentrate on the form that th-you have with wounds and all, then will it to existence"

Hunger took a deep breath, and concentrated on his mangle body, when he will it to the existence, he let out a groan of pain and crumbled to the ground, his horn broken, the ribs wobbly and uneven, his back legs looking paler and going stiff, and several minor cuts that seem that already heal, "Fuck me..."

Luna took a deep breath, her face still full of worry, "That... that does not look so bad."

Hunger made his body back to normal, "Yea, at first glance, since most of the damage was internal, my organs were the equivalent of a smoothie." Hunger was thankful that his pain was duller, "I guess that happens when you fall over 100+ hoofs of distance onto the ground."

Luna opened her eyes wide, "And how did this happens, do you really don't want medical attention?" Hunger was about to answer, but Luna continue, "we are sure if we gave a royal decree we could send a doctor able to treat you."

Hunger was about to deny it again, but then close his mouth, and spoke, "Do you have a medic able to create organs from scratch?"

Luna open her mouth, but close it, after biting the inside of her cheek she speak, "I think there is someone, other than my sister, that is, but I doubt that Celestia would let me send them to you."

Hunger groans, "Figures, then I guess I gotta rest."

Luna looked confused, "can you do that?"

Hunger bites the inside of his cheek, "I can, Only if I arrive before the organ was damaged though."

Luna frowned for a moment, "That... does not sound very useful."

"I guess not, but I can sure do a pretty bit doing organ insurance, after all, you only need to see me once you are healthy and I can grow you back an organ that has failed you."

Luna blinked, The frowned even more and look at Hunger, "What type of magic it is."

Hunger smile, "I can only say is not... black magic?"

Luna scrunch her face, "are you asking us?"

Hunger shrugs, "Dark magic is magic that is tabu to use, so I guess is kinda black magic, except that technically is not magic at all"

Luna keeps her look, "what is its cost?"

Hunger snorts, "Just good food, I could create a fleshy kidney just by eating cotton candy."

Luna's face changed to one of disbelief, "That... that does not sound like dark magic at all... and also sounds too good to be true."

Hunger shrugs, "I guess that the drawback is that if you don't know what are you doing, you only will create an organ that will fail sooner rather than later."

Luna raises an eyebrow, "Do you know that most healing magic requires that you are familiar with the anatomy of the subject to work? if not you may put bones and muscles in the wrong positions"

Hunger shrugs, "Something like that, but I prefer my methods as it requires much less energy"

Luna shook her head, "we are losing the point, how did this happen to t-you?"

Hunger thinks for a moment, "who begins the situation? Ponys, who did it? I think it was an Ursa major and some demons"

Luna's eyes go wide, "W-what? wait, does it have to do with the Ursa attack in ponyville?"

Hunger nods, "Yup, I will have to start making 'GO AWAY' runes, that or put more statutes to scream at children."

Luna gives him a stern look, "This is not time to make jokes, we didn't hear that the mother attacked!"

"It didn't, but I did have to escort her through the forest full of demons while she was being telekinesis away above the tree line in the territory of Spikeds lizards, I was worried that her mother would have gone on a rampage if her cub got hurt, so I had to take a lot of punishing"

Luna blinked, And face hoof, "Even I know to not fly so close to the everfree."

With hatred griping in his words, Hunger spoke "Congrats, you are smarter than Twilight sparkle, which is not very hard, also technically she was violating curfew... well I really don't know, at the moment I was too worried about not dying to know the hour"

When Luna hears how much venom Hunger uses to say her sister's disciple, she flinched a little, "I am sorry that ended like this, I'm sure she meant well."

Hunger snorts, "Send him my hospital bill, oh wait, they deny my service."

Luna flinched even more, "I... will see that law is repealed."

Luna expected to hear another jab from Hunger, but this just sigh, "Please, if they are not extinct, they may appreciate it."

Luna looked confused, "what?"

Hunger shrugs, and looks sad, "Before I was sealed away, there were about 67 left."

Luna's eyes widen, "T-that... have to be wrong."

Hunger just looks in the distance of the black void, "the aspect of life confirms to me that there where that little, my town was the only one in existence"

Luna looks dumbfounded, "But are you not a demon?"

Hunger looks at her for the first time with ire and resentment, "Did I stutter?" his eyes narrow, daring her to ask more.

Luna bites her lips, wanting to ask more but not wanting to get Hunger madder, so she decides to change the theme, "Anyways, We have sent your squad back, they should arrive later in the night."

Hunger's eyes open wide, "What!? but they d-"

Luna cuts him off, "They shall listen to every word you say, or be severely punished." Hunger look like he wanted to protest, but Luna continues, "Hunger, your state today is proof enough that you can't deal with this alone, now that you are hurt, ponyville does not have even a temporal guard."

Hunger falters for a moment when he heard Luna's solid arguments, "B-But-!"

Luna silents him once more, "If they are not capable of doing the delicate task, they may still learn, after all, they are quite fresh and I'm sure that you are far more experience with the true art of 'demon control', even than me, having in mind that my experience is only on killing them, not managing them."

Hunger bites his lips, and the sigh in defeat, "fine, but if they die, you will have to make sure that your sister doesn't make a big fuss about it."

Luna smiles, "We are quite sure that thou will keep them safe."

"I wouldn't, if they doubt even little things may get ugly, having in mind that soon the devils will show up."

Luna raised an eyebrow, "Devils?"

Hunger shakes his head, "Probably you can't differentiate between them, they are far, FAR! worse than demons an-"

Luna looks worried, "Hunger? why are you trembling... and crying?"

Hunger looked confused, "No I am not, W-" he stopped when he saw his own hoof, he was trembling, "L-Luna, how long have we been sleeping?"

Luna blinked, not knowing what that have to do, "You have been sleeping for 3 hours and 2 minutes."

"W-what?, but then why" Hunger backs legs fail to hold him because of how much they are trembling, "S-shit, I think didn't eat my emotions."

Luna looks more worried and tries to get closer, "W-what? what thou mean?"

"Luna I-" The dreamscape starts to get unstable, "shit, my mind is too stressed! I have to wake up and drain me!"

Luna shook her head, "If thou are doing what we think thou are doing, then we can't let you."

Huner was making himself a ball, trying to hold his wits together, "Luna!, if I lose grip on my mind my body will die! you HAVE to wake me up"

Luna's resolution falters, "B-but that is not healthy at all!"

"LUNA, Dying is not healthy at ALL, so be it for the mind or the body! I need to wake up NOW"

Luna was about to say no again, but she bit her lip when she saw the state in which Hunger was, then her horn sparks to life, "Thou better know what thou is doing."

Then Hunger woke up.

Scream, Hunger was screaming with all the might that his hurt lungs let him, he just experience death so close, he was so close to dying again, the worse part was he had no failsafe to save his soul, he would truly be dead since he was bound to this body, the only things that would have gotten left would be the other pieces of his souls that he had to trying to find gula, pieces of souls that were already feral and when he died, they would have done what he did when he was just born.

Kill and eat, devour it all, millions of people dead because he would have been gone, All because of the stupid ponys, all because of the soul contract, all because of Celestia. His lung ache for the oxygen that he was losing, but his mind was too busy suffering to care for the needs of the body, -I HATE CELESTIA, I HATE TWILIGHT SPARKLE, I HATE THE FUKING PONYS.-

When he arrive too that last part he notice how he was in the care of one, at the mercy of one, and this only made him panic even more, all the emotions that were being eaten were coming in full force, he was overworking an already In bad state body, he wanted to go back in control, to hold all the cards, but all he had was a seal, a lot of old fragments of his old soul, and a broken body that he would lose again because he was blacking out for lack of oxygen.

Then he felt it, the powerful slap at the face that gave him enough clarity of mind to eat his emotions again, slowly he relaxed and took a deep breath, and when he was aware of his surroundings he looks at Fluttershy, her face full of worry, regret, and panic, she hides behind her mane, "S-sorry, I d-didn't know w-what else to do and-"

Hunger blinks and drops his breath, he felt like he was close to destroying his vocal cords, they hurt like crazy, but he thinks he should be able to speak before his caretaker kill herself out of regret and shame, "It is fine." he voice sounds raspy and sore, "I kinda needed that."

Fluttershy was too busy kicking herself to notice that he finally had spoken to her, "B-but I h-hit you!"

Hunger looks at her and smiles, "And I thank you for that."

Hunger manages to hear something very small climb the steps "What is going on here!?"

At the voice of Angel Hunger try to look down, but he is unable from this angle, "Ho Angel, I think Hunger got a nightmare, please forgive him if he woke you up."

He hears Angel getting annoyed, "Fluttershy, I gave him enough leeway by obeying you not to come here.

Fluttershy frown, her expression remaining soft somehow, "Excuse me for a second Hunger."

Hunger snort, he was kinda missing that, "I doubt that I will be going anywhere Fluttershy."

Fluttershy again was too busy focusing on another thing to notice, she stood up from the bank where she was and go in the direction of the stairs, even from there Hunger could hear a gulp.

Hunger looked to the side, "so... A changeling huh?"

Lynn blinked, "Y-you knew a-about us?"

"Yes, only rumors and speculation though, having in mind that every time I tried to speak to one of you, you would commit suicide and then erupt in fire." Lynn blinked, "Yes, is not a joke, what is up with that?"

Lynn look dumbfounded, she tried multiple times to speak but gave up every time, then she took a deep breath and continue, "T-that sounds kinda t-the things an infiltrator w-would do, not any evidence behind when you get caught." Hunger blinked, "A-and I'm more of a worker or drone."

Hunger blinked, "And why are you following around and not trying to silence me or something?"

Lynn made circles in the bed with her paw, without taking a breath she proceed to explain "Well I kinda got expulsed out of the hive because there was not enough love and when you found me I was starving and you feed me and I kinda own you my life sooooooo."

Hunger barely manages to catch all that, he looks a little confused but continues, "I... what about this, I house you and feed you, and if you prove yourself I employ you, plus if you let me do some test on you I would give you a bonus."

Lynn looked delighted at that, "Really!? I kinda do not care about the money, so can I have more love exchange?"

Hunger blinked, "Sure, I will make sure you are stuffed once I get better."

Lynn's eyes sparkled with happiness, before she could respond, he heard hoof steps on the stairs, she shut up immediately and make herself like she was sleeping. In a few seconds, Fluttershy appears, "I'm sorry Hunger, I spoke with Angel and he says he is sorry." she gets closer and looks at his face, "Are you alright? was it because of the pain? I don't think I have pain killer for ponys, but I can check."

Hunger stared at her for some time, debating if he should speak about this, deciding for the path of a middle ground he spoke, "no, well, in part, yes, but it was more for the fact that the weight of the situation hit me pretty hard, just look at me, At worse can't even move without feeling insufferable pain, and at best I can only move my head, and to at more salt to the injury, I feel if I lose consciousness for too long, I will slip and die."

Fluttershy's face becomes one of empathy, "I'm sure you will get better, after all... wait! you are talking!" She smiles at him.

"Yes, I Kinda got good enough to talk, but my throat is starting to kill me, so do not expect me to speak eloquently."

Fluttershy gasped, "Do you want me to make you tea with honey?."

Hunger was about to deny her, but then he close his mouth, then he open it again, "actually, yes, that would be quite lovely."

Fluttershy smile, "I will get right back!"

Hunger look the mare go, he was quite confused about how nice she was, perhaps he wouldn't freak up so much around ponys with her help... or that was his drug state speaking, probably the second.

He thought to keep speaking with Lynn, but it was true that his throat was killing him, so he stayed quiet, after a while Fluttershy come into view, leaving the tea on her nightstand, she was about to touch Hunger, when she stopped, "I-Humm, m-may I touch you to sit you up?"

Hunger blinked, "yea sure, go ahead." She did just that, leaning him on the head of the bed, Hunger still finds kinda amusing and terrifying the fact that he was wrapped like a newborn baby, so he ate more of his emotions.

Fluttershy smiles at him, and took the tea, "here, I put it in a straw so you may drink at your pace."

Hunger blinked, there was a straw with a pin of a bunny on it, "I... Thank you." She proceeded to hold the tea for him while he drinks it, all the while she hold a patient smile.

When he finishes, she takes the cup, "Do you want more?"

Hunger stared at her for a moment, his voice already feeling better, he spoke, "I... no thank you, I'm fine now."

Her smile widens, "I will leave this in the kitchen and I will be back."

She proceeds to move away, now that he was sitting up he could see how minimalistic was the room, the only personal possession there was is a photo of a pegasus couple, with Fluttershy and a stallion, -Maybe his brother? clearly, the couple are their fathers, I can see the colors on them- Then suddenly Fluttershy climbs the stairs, he didn't feel like he was peaking so he had no guilty expression on him.

She then opened a drawer in the nightstand, took a sheet and a pillow, and looked at Hunger, "If you need me I will be on the first floor sleeping on the sofa."

That... was nice of her, but that would probably be worse for him, "actually, I don't mind if we share a bed, having in mind how small I'm, there shouldn't be any trouble."

Fluttershy looked at him for a while, she blushed a little, "I-I couldn't, I mean, that would be inappropriate, right? B-"

-Inappropriate? well that is kinda adorable, but that won't do- He cleared a little his throat, "Do you remember that I fear the dark?" Fluttershy open her eyes wide and looked at the candles, but before she could offer, he kept going, "I also fear to be alone."

That stops her tracks right away, and then she murmurs under her breath, thankfully the only good ear of Hunger was quite sensible and he manage to hear her, "I... know that feeling." She then shook her head to wake up from her stupor, and blushed a little more, "Are you sure it is alright?"

Hunger smiled at her, and even if it was with a little force, he manage to make a joke, "Don't worry, I won't try anything."

Fluttershy looked like she didn't get it at first, but then she saw his state, and she laugh very softly, then she looked a little guilty for doing so, "W-well, I guess if you don't mind."

Before they said something to Lynn, she had already vacated the bed, and after a while of maneuvering, Hunger was still wrapped up in the sheet, and he and Fluttershy were under the covers, He felt a lot better being able to have her in his sight all night, but it was not quite enough, "Actually, do you mind wrapping yourself up just like you did with me?" Fluttershy blinked, but she smile and proceeded to take the sheet she was going to use on the sofa, then proceeded to wrap herself the best she could.

Now there was two wrap up like a baby, Fluttershy looked happy, "Like this?"

Hunger this time gives a sincere smile, "Yes, thank you." he couldn't believe how accommodating she was, and now that it would take her extra time to get out of the sheet, he felt safer.

The next while was kinda awkward, Hunger looking at her without blinking and probably Fluttershy was not used to having another person in bed, even if he was an injured person, she still saw him as a creature of the opposite gender... or that she thought since his voice was not a big pointer of what gender he was.

But after a while, the consequences of abusy day caught up to Fluttershy and she proceeded to fall silently to sleep.

Hunger stop smiling and proceeded to look at her face, he was really questing him his phobia of ponys, he already knew that there should be nice people in every species, but it was the first time he saw she someone so sincere... she kinda reminds him of someone that he cared with all his heart, he hopes one day he can find the reincarnation of that person, but this one was pretty close.

He thought of sleeping, but first, he would have to stabilize his body enough to actually go to sleep... and eat his emotions before sleeping.

After a while, he manages to do so and falls asleep.

Little did he know that he was very close to losing his bet with Luna since the nightmare of this time was the softer of all... The day he meet her and her brother.

The day he was able to go be sane again and got his body... The original owner of the body he was on... and her sister...

He misses them so much...

Author's Note

I feel that this chapter was a bit boring, but deleting a 17k chapter I don't know if it's a good idea