Blood, Guts and Necessary survival.by CombatProductionsChaptersThe Worst Night Ever!The Taste of BloodThe Transformation and The Five Mares.The Fist Ounce of Kindness.The Fires of The End.Epilogue: How Long is an Eternity?The Worst Night Ever!I woke up to the sound of rustling in my back garden, I had left my window open this night as it was extremely hot in my house. This unfortunately let the sound of the outside world in. I got up and looked out the window to see what could of made the sound. I didn’t see any thing at first, but then I saw what looked like a person. An extremely skinny and pale person at best I grabbed my flashlight and went out to confront whoever this was. I aimed the beam of light at them and saw. Nothing? Had I been seeing things? Maybe it was an illusion of the night like when you look at a pile of cloths on a chair and it looks like a person. Perhaps that was it. I walked back inside clutching the hoodie I was wearing. Then I felt something, a pain in the back of my head. It grew stronger and stronger until I collapsed on the floor. I wanted to scream but I couldn’t . my head throbbed and throbbed until all went black. I woke up with a jolt, gasping at the air. My head didn’t hurt as much as it did but still there was some pain. I slowly sat up and realized this isn’t my house, this is a forest? A dark one at that. It was still night and the forest was probably not the greatest place to be. I looked about for something, anything but all I saw was more trees. I got up on to my feet not exactly knowing which way to go. So I picked a direction an started walking. I looked about and still nothing but trees. I could hear the small animal scurry away from me in a panic but it didn’t bother me. Other than the occasional animal the forest was dead quiet, not a sound. I walked for what felt like hours but in reality was only thirty minutes. That’s when I saw through the tree line what looked like a clearing. I got a burst on energy and began to run for it. When I made it their I found what I was looking for civilization. I saw houses with thatch roofs and wooden beams. So these people must live a slightly different life style than what I’m use to, no big deal I assume they can still help me. So I began to walk in to the town in search of help. I when I entered the town the first thing that jumped out to me was how short all the doors were. “Strange?” I thought to myself as I continued across the town. I passed multiply houses, shops and bakeries. Most notably was a tree with what looked like a house built in to it and a building that looked like one of those carousel rides you would go on as a kid. I made my way towards what looked like a house next to a barn. Next to it there was a large amount of trees disconnected to the forest I came from. I walked up towards the house when I just barely heard a young female voice. “Shh quite Scootaloo I don’t want that thing to notice us.” The voice sounded awfully childlike. As if they were telling off one of their friends. “I’m sure it didn’t hear us look it hasn’t even looked our way” Another young squeakier voice whispered back. Were they talking about me? I turned to my right to find a tree, I looked up to see three small head looking down at me out of a tree house. Their eyes widened and they threw the curtains closed. “What the fuck?” I thought those weren’t people they looked like equines with the way their ears were set and the way their mouths were. But their eyes where extremely out of proportion with the rest of their body. I slowly walked toward the tree letting my curiosity get the better of me as I started to climb up the ladder that was built in to it. I could hear faint muttering coming from the tree house as I ascended. When I made it to the top the door was closed. I gently grabbed the handle and pulled it down before pushing the door open ever so slightly. I heard three distinct gasps from the equines in the small building. I continued to push the door until I could fit my head around. I looked to the far left corner and saw the three quines huddled together there. I could now clearly make out what each of them looked like. One of them was a yellow color with a bright red mane, the one to her left had a orange coat and a purplish mane and the final one was white with a purple and pink main split down the middle. She also had a noticeable horn on her head. The tree of them screamed at the site of me causing me to reel back out of the door. I could hear them crying and begging not to be hurt. My heart sunk and I felt a pain in my chest knowing that I caused three young fillies to cry like that. I heard yelling coming from the house next to the barn as I saw a orange quine with a Stetson hat and a large red equine running towards the tree, their eyes where locked on me with anger and slight bit of fear. The fillies where still crying so I decided to close the door quickly. I dropped from the tree with a thud and ran. I could hear their hooves behind me. Iran back through the town toward the forest I was almost their until I felt a rope snag on to ne of my legs. I tripped and hit the ground. I looked back to see the orange equine holding the rope in her mouth dragging me towards her. I tried to get the rope off but it was bound on tight. I looked back up at the orange equine and thought of a plan for a moment until I got it. I noticed the large red equine was gone so this would make what I was about to do easy. I got to my feet and rushed towards the orange equine. Her eyes when wide as I tackled her in to the ground. I sat over her punching again and again in to her face. Blood spurted out of her nose and mouth as I continued to throw punch after punch in to the mares face. I heard a crack and watched as the muzzle crumpled under that last punch. I could tell it was broken. She gurgled and coughed on her own blood. I quickly took the rope of my foot at last and stood back up. I looked down on the bleeding mare in anger and frustration. Why did they have to label me like this, why did they have to chase me. “APPLEJACK!” I heard a feminine voice call. I looked up to see five more mares and the large red equine. I quickly turned and sprinted in to the forest. I looked back to the mares only to see them looking at their presumable friend in horror. I continued to run through the forest. Only to stumble upon a fairly large cave. Not to big, not to small. I entered it and sat down against the wall and looked at my bloody hand. I finally began to process what just happened. I was chased my small equines. They were definitely not horses, so ponies would be a better description. I continued to sit there until I drifted off to sleep. Author's Note Hope this chapter sets the tone of this story. The Taste of BloodI woke up to a ferocious hunger, a hunger I have never felt before. It was painful I could hardly bare it. I clasped my stomach to try and make the pain go away, it didn't. I curled up on the cave floor trying not to wine in pain. "Cave floor?" My eyes shot open and I looked around. This was the cave I had hid in during that dream. Well what I thought was a dream. I looked at my still bloody hands as memory's of the mare I had beaten to a pulp flashed through my mine. I wasn't sure what I was feeling confusion, fear, anger? It was hard to pin down. It was at that moment my stomach began to throb again reminding me of my hunger. I was unsure on what I would eat as I had no experience on hunting or knowing what plants were edible. I looked at my bloodyed hands again and an awful thought crossed my mind. "No I couldn't. But what options do I have." I brought my fingers close to my lips and began to lick the blood off of them. It tasted sweet like an apple. I couldn't help but continue licking my hand clean of the blood until not a drop was left. I was ever so slightly sad it was all gone but at least my hunger died down quite a bit. I didn't want to enjoy the taste of another creatures blood but I did and I craved more of it. I stood up and made my way towards the cave entrance. The sun burned my eyes as I looked at the extremely blue sky. It was beautiful the sky of this new land almost no clouds. I began to make my way through the forest until a heard what sounded like water flowing. I followed the sound until I made it to a small river. "Finally water." I thought to my self as I kneeled down and scooped up the water in my hands before drinking it. It tasted wonderful, it was probably the cleanest water I have ever tasted. I then relisted how pale my hand looked. I don't remember it ever looking like that. I checked my other hand and yes that one was extremely pale too. I looked up from my hands across the river and saw... oh god it's the person that I saw from my window the night before. They were just standing there staring at me with hollow eyes that I could not read. Their hands resembled my own. I looked down at my reflection in the water and saw the person I had just been looking at across the river in the water looking back up at me. My head shot up to look across the river but they were gone. Was I going crazy, then again I did scare a bunch of small ponies in a tree house is that is no shocker. Something caught my ear, something crunched behind me then a gasp. I spun my head around to see two mares one was a turquoise with a mane of the same color with white streaked through it. The other a yellowish mare with a mane that was pink on one side and blue on the other. They looked at me in horror. As I began to stand up straight all the while staring at them. They began to walk slowly backwards before Turing 180 degrees and running in a full sprint. That is when I changed completely my mind was gone and all I could think was hunt, kill and consume. It all went a blur, it happened so fast. I chased the mares through the forest . They cried for help but none came. The yellow one was falling behind and that is when I saw my chance. I grabbed one of her hind legs and dragged her she let out a defining scream, she kicked and thrashed about. But compared to me she was out matched. "Pleas let me go, I just want to go home!" She cried but I didn't listen. I opened my mouth saliva creeping from it. "Pleas let me go I just want to be with Lyra! I want to tell her how I feel about her pleas!" She continued to cry. I cut off the pleads with a sudden bite to her neck instantly blood ran from the wound filling my mouth with it's sweat flavor. The mare gurgled and gasped at the injury, I must have bitten through her wind pipe. I withdrew my mouth and licked the blood off my lips before drawing my attention to the mares belly. I ran my hand over it until I thrusted my fingers through it tearing in to her stomach to find my target. The mares pained screams were drowned out by the blood she was gagging on. I peeled her belly open and reached in pulling out what ever I could get a grip on, mainly intestines. I ripped them out of her twitching body and bit in to them. It tasted extraordinary I took bite after bite. I couldn't stop. The mare by this point stopped making sounds and had stopped moving. I continued to eat what I found appetizing out of the mares body. My hands and the grass had been stained red. I heard gentle crying from in front of me, I looked up from my meal to see the turquoise mare staring at me her eyes wide with tears rolling down her cheeks I paused for a moment before looking down at the broken mare beneath me. Then time went back to normal. I reeled back from the dead mare. "What did I do, what is wrong with me!?" All these thought flooded my brain as I looked back at the still crying mare. "Bonnie I'm sorry, I'm so sorry we should never have come on this walk." She blurted out. She barely noticed me, she was totally fixated on the butchered mare in front of her. I took this moment to slip away back in to the deeper parts of the forest. Her cries echoed through the forest as the mare I killed pleads echoed in my head. She loved her and I took that away like a monster. Maybe that is what I am a monster. Even though I had eaten that mares insides a hunger still called out, still waiting to be quenched. Author's Note I want this story to get interesting and I want to make it good. This story is also being made up as I go along so sorry if it escalated so quickly.But if you have any feedback I would love to hear it. And thank you for reading if you made it this far. The Transformation and The Five Mares.It had been six days since I had killed that mare and left her friend in the forest. I wasn’t sure what I was feeling at the moment, a mixture of emotions maybe? Or was it just emptiness. My body had drastically changed over the course of the days, I had become paler, skinnier and my hair had started to fall out in massive clusters. My hunger had not died down at all, if fact it just got worse as time went on. I had been feeing on small animal in the forest, stripping them down to the bone and drinking all of their blood it did not quench the hunger. Over the course of these six days five mares had been roaming the forest seemingly looking for me, they talked about a monster that hospitalized their friend Applejack and ate a candy store owner called Bon Bon while her best friend watched. I would watch them from the trees never making a sound, I was always tempted to jump down and tear in to them. These five mares came out to the forest everyday for two and a half hours following my tracks and whatever animal carcasses I left behind. One of these mares spoke about me like I should be treated like an animal. She was bright yellow with a long pink mane and she had wings. She would constantly cry when she saw a dead animal that I had killed and would constantly worry about a rabbit she had at her home called Angel. Another mare would talk about wanting to beat me up for what I did to Applejack, she would zoom about and scout ahead looking for me. She also had wings and had a blue cyan coat with a rainbow coloured main. She would yell out for me to come face them and I quote “Like a real monster!” How could I blame her after all the horrific acts I had committed. There was a mare who constantly look repulsed by the world around her complaining about the mud getting caught in her hooves. Now this one really pissed me off. She was white with a curly purple main. She would also talk about how I almost hurt her sister in the tree house. I reckoned it was the small filly with the horn as this white mare also had a horn. The next mare was bright pink all around this included her mane it was big and fluffy she jumped about constantly with a huge grin on her face and talked abut throwing a catching monster party once they find me. But when the other told her to shut up all that happiness seems to vanish and her main deflates in to a straight curtain. She was annoying but I appreciate her happy go lucky attitude. The final mare was a lavender color with a deep purple main with two light purple streaks going through it. She also had a horn on her head. She spoke off wanting to capture and study me to find out what makes me tick. These mares where annoying to come across everyday but I had to shut up and deal with it. Day seven was rapidly approaching and I did not have a good feeling about. My skin felt tight and the hunger persisted. Was this my fate to turn in to some ruthless monster. Not that I had a choice in it. Day seven this was the day I dreaded. My body ached all over and a massive migraine threatened to split my head open like an egg. I quickly grabbed a small animal as a snack before scrabbling up a tree in wait for the five mares to pass. When they showed up something was off. I felt drowsy my head ache getting worse, my bones rattling under my skin. I could feel a pressure build up at the back of my head. I put my hands over my head in an attempt to stop the pain but something sharp gut my hands. I lost my balance on the tree and hit the forest floor. I could here the five mares hoof steps grow louder and louder as they quickly approached my position. " Well, well, well look what we have here." A prideful voice said. I could just tell it was that rainbow haired bitch from her tone. "Carful girls we don't know what it will do." A cautious voice said. "Ugh what a vile creature, just look at it!" Another irritating voice said. I began to twich on the ground as the pain became something unbearable. "Girls I think it is pain we need to get it secured then see what is wrong." A quite voice whispered. It was then my limbs stated to bend in unnatural ways as I felt my head peel open and two sharp objects began to putrid out of it. I opened my eyes to see the skinny man I had grow a custom to seeing. But something was off his face was that of a wild animal, a beast that I could not name. I closed my eyes and let out a scream as I felt my face be torn apart by this event. I could here the mares scramble away from me all of them screaming at the sight. My screams became growls as I felt my vocal cords being ripped to pieces. I thrashed about for a moment and then the pain was gone. I looked about and saw all the mares huddled together. Looking at me in horror. I was confused on what had happened to me. I placed a hand on my face just to feel a snout that was made of bone. I froze up grasping at my head. I could feel to large sets of antlers coming from my head. I rushed away to find a body of water so I could look at my reflection. I finally found the river I drank from and looked in to it. A horrible monster looked back. I couldn't even consider it human. A long head made of bone was razer sharp teeth and two antlers looked at me. The eyes where just dark sockets devoid of all life. I looked up to the sky and screamed but it came out as a horrendous roar that shook the trees. I looked about in anger until I set my eyes on the five mares. They followed me. I bared my teeth and charged at them. The purple one grabbed her friend's and popped out of sight in a bright flash. I slid to a stop breathing heavily. I was hungry more hungry than I ever felt before. But above all their was a coldness in my chest. It felt colder than ice. So thus was my fate to live out my days as a cold hearted monster. If so let the world throw everything it has at me. Author's Note The next chapter will get more interesting when I introduce Derpy in to it. Spoilers she will be fine. The Fist Ounce of Kindness.It had been 4 months since I completely no longer resembled a human, my predatory instincts where also becoming. This made me a perfect hunter but at the cost of me slowly loosing my intelligence. I had snuck in to the small town just outside the forest many times to collect different types of food just to keep my diet exciting. I had collected fruits, cakes, bread, vegetables, and some fish. The one problem was most of these did not help my hunger at all. It appeared that my body craved meat to survive. But I still took the food from the shopping stands just to taste their flavours once again. Winter was rapidly approaching and I needed to stock up on food from the town primarily fish. I was already cold as it is, but put me in winter then I would feel horrendously cold. I made my way in to the town that night using my impeccable eyesight. My eyes were much better adapted to the dark now. I could see almost everything in front of me. I passed by house after house until I stopped at one. A sweet scent came from it, a smell that was oddly familiar. I looked up the house to see one of the windows open. I climbed up the building using my claws to dig in to the stone and wood. I made it to the window and climbed inside being carful not to get my antlers stuck. Those things were cool and all but they could be really annoying sometimes. The first thing I noticed when I entered was that I was in a foal's room. To be exact a filly's room young very young. The room had bright colors plastered on the walls. I heard a small gasp from my right. My head whipped around to see a small purplish filly with a blond mane and a horn on her head. She stared at me in fear as I slowly approached her. She was practically shaking under the covers of the bed she was in. I crouched down to look at her, she was utterly terrified. I decided to leave her be, she was just a child after all and I couldn't bring myself to hurt her. I walked out in to the upstairs hall and followed the scent down the stairs. I walked just a small amount more before entering the kitchen. The scent was strongest in here I searched around the room until I found a bunch of freshly made muffins. I heard the gentle sound of hooves on the wooden floor behind me I turned around to see a grey mare with wings and a blonde mane. But what stood out the most was her eyes, they were facing opposite directions. She was smiling and slowly approaching me. It was like she didn't know she was looking at a monster. I saw the young filly cowering behind her. She looked worried for probably her mother, they did look very similar. The adult mare was holding a muffin in her hoof, she continued to approach me extending the muffin out as if asking me to take it. I gently took it out of her hoof being carful not to cut her with my claws, I took in a whiff of the freshly baked good and then took a bite. It smelled and tasted of blueberry, the taste was amazing I had to resist inhaling it just so I could saver it. The mare looked at me eating the muffin with a happy smile. It was also at this point the small filly come out from behind her mother and approach me. She was less scared but still very cautious, she came to a stop right in front of me and looked in to the lifeless sockets I called eyes. I looked back at her and leaned down to come face to face with her. I brought up one of my clawed hands and carefully patted her on the head. She immediately let out a little squeak before quickly nuzzling her face in to my hand more. After what felt like ages I pulled my hand away and stood back up. I heard a small whine come from the filly clearly disappointed that the psychical contact had stopped. I looked around the room finally taking in that this is the home of the first creature to care for my well being in this land. Despite not having tear ducts I could feel small tears running from what would be my eyes. After all this time my humanity is still here and still very much alive. I looked towards the mare wanting to say something but knowing it would only come out as a crackling screech. I decided to walk over to her and kneel down to be on eye level with her. She looked confused and sad at my actions. I very carful wrapped my arms around her in a hug. She froze for a moment before returning the gesture. My tears became to much as a began to audibly cry, coming out as a low screeching. But never once did the mare pull back from me. This is what I wanted, not to be seen as some rabid animal. But I knew for most of the town and that turquoise mare, thay would never see me as anything more than a monster. I pulled back from the gray mare, her hooves not wanting to let go. I stood back up and began to walk towards the back door. "WAIT!" A young squeaky voice said. I looked back to see the small filly run up to me with a basket of muffins in her mouth. "Please take these for yourself." The small filly insisted. How could I say no, I took the basket from her and nodded before making my way out the door. Those were the only words spoken to me through out my entire time here that weren't pleads for mercy or screaming. I made my way back to the forest and taking one final look at the town before disappearing in to the trees. I returned to my cave about half an hour later. I sat down on the caves floor and opened the basket given to me. Immediately the smell of muffins hit me. All different smelling flavours. I tried to smile but couldn't, I didn't care. That is when I felt it. A warmth I my chest, a warmth that I have not felt for weeks. I usually just felt cold but this was new and beautiful. But as soon as I noticed the feeling, it vanished and I went back to being my cold self again. Maybe one day I will feel that warmth again. Author's Note Sorry this chapter took a while to come out I have just been extremely busy with real life lately. I hope the next chapter doesn't take as long. So sorry for the wait. The Fires of The End.It had been a few days since I met the gray mare and her filly, her muffins had tasted extremely good but they did little to quench my hunger for flesh. my days just seem to be on an endless loop of hunting everyday, eating what I find, then returning to my cave to rest. Until this one fateful day that would all change, guards had entered the forest looking for me. They wore gold armor and they all had a white coat. They looked like copies of each other. I watched them from the trees, my antlers blending in to the branches. I got to know their scent and followed the. "We should set up camp here for the night and continue our search for the beast in the morning." On of the guards suggested. This was perfect for me I could easily take them out in their sleep and I would have enough food to last me for weeks. I sat in the trees watching them set up tents and a fire place. I had grown very patient while in this new land, it helped me to hunt and focus on my target. Finally night fell and they sat around their little fire, telling stories and laughing. It sickened me for some reason, to watch the creatures that hunt me laugh and joke about. But thankfully for me I could cut their fun short and have some fun of my own. "Ok guys before we go to sleep I got to take a leek I shouldn't be to long." One guard stated. "Alright hope you don't mind if we all hit the hay while you are away." Another jokingly said. I watched the guard leave his group and trot around and behind the tree I was sitting in. Perfect, an easy target. I dropped from the tree landing on the guard back with a loud crack as my weight broke his back. I quickly but down in to his neck so is screams could be muffled out by the blood pouring out of his mouth He very quickly passed away from the injury's I had given him, I snuck around the tree very slowly, being carful not to make any noise. I began to make my way towards one of the tents, I poked my large head it to one of them only to find nothing? "GET IT!" I heard a voice yell from behind me, quickly whipping my head around to see the guards running at me. It was a trap they knew I would find them, I was to focused on the one leaving the groups that I didn't even notice the rest had gone of to hide in the bushes. I thrusted my head forwards catching one of them off guard, my antlers pierced through his body body impaling him on my head. I reared my head up before shaking it to get the guard off, he was creaming for help as every shake of my head made the antlers ripping in to him more. I finally threw him from my head and just in time to catch another guard across the face with my claws, Ripping off half his face. I dispatched the rest of the guards easily they were to shocked at how easily I killed the first two that they were not prepared for when I lunged at them. The final guard tried to run away but I grabbed him by is hind leg and dragged him back. I got reedy to rip his face apart with my teeth when he spoke. "Wait we were sent by Twilight Sparkle to capture you!" I paused starring at him. That is when I spoke my first word in months. "Where?" My voice was gargled and twisted. But I could make out word. "In Ponyville in the golden oaks library, that is where she stays!" He rushed his words out, But I understood. I got off him and sprinted towards Ponyvlle. Once I got there I went straight to the to the literal tree house. I could see the purple mare looking at me through the window, she looked horrified to see me running towards her home. I crashed through the door letting out an awful shriek of anger and rage. Twilight looked at me from across the room with a mix of horror and rage. "Your quest of violence ends here you... you monster!" She yelled at me. I merely stared her down right before pouncing towards her. She ducked out the way, I crashed in to the book shelf with an audible crack. I lifted my head up and saw one of my antlers fall from my head, blood spilling out of where it would be. I roared in frustration and hurdle towards the mare again, she rolled out the way as my claws impacted the wall. I will give it to her she is agile. I saw her horn begin to glow before a circle of fire surrounded me. The flames hurt just to be near, my skin felt as if it was boiling away. "I know what you are and I will free you from this suffering life!" She yells at me again. I didn't understand, all I felt was anger and the hunger. She made a run for the door letting the fire grow in the library. The books lit up in flames fulling the fire more. I looked out a window to see almost the entire town standing there. The turquoise mare I had traumatized, the three fillies, Twilight and the rest of her friends and finally the last ones I recognized was the grey wall eyed mare and her daughter. The warmth I felt before returned to my chest at the sight of them. Then I understood what is happening this town is freeing me of this life. A life of endless hunger, I tried to smile but couldn't. The flames didn't burn anymore so I welcomed them letting myself fall in to them as the tree crumbled around me. I felt at peace which is strange considering I wad dying, but was I really living when I changed fully in to the beast? I closed my eyes hearing the flames crackle. I didn't open them again, them all was quite. No sound, no feeling and no sight. Finally peace. The End. Author's Note So that's that. The story is done. I am sorry for the short ending and sorry it took so long again. I highly enjoyed writing this story despite how strange it is. I have put up a blog post on my account asking what I should write next out of two ideas I have if you want to check them out. But for now thank you for reading. Epilogue: How Long is an Eternity?How many years? That was my question how many years had it been since my death, I couldn't tell anymore. I lost count at about year twenty. All that remains of me is an empty skull devoid of all life, sitting in a empty room. I could still hear and see, but I could not speak and I could not move. She sometimes visits me... The mare who burned me, Twilight Sparkle was it? It doesn't matter, she has done well for herself. Becoming a princess and being given the throne to rule this land. Her friends have grown old, while she stays the same... Soon it will just be her and I. But she won't know that, she doesn't know I'm alive and she doesn't need to know. It will just fill her with guilt. Every time she visits she will always say how she is sorry. I forgive her... But I can never apologise to her due to my condition. It may be possible I am stuck like this forever, unable to live a life of happiness. If I could go back I would never have ran from Twilight and her friends, I would have waited for them to kill me or imprison me. Anything is better that living this hell, forced to see the world in front of me go on while I am forgotten in a small room. So tell me how long is an eternity? Author's Note Just a short ending I wanted to add even though the story ended. So surprise! And thank you all for reading.
The Worst Night Ever!I woke up to the sound of rustling in my back garden, I had left my window open this night as it was extremely hot in my house. This unfortunately let the sound of the outside world in. I got up and looked out the window to see what could of made the sound. I didn’t see any thing at first, but then I saw what looked like a person. An extremely skinny and pale person at best I grabbed my flashlight and went out to confront whoever this was. I aimed the beam of light at them and saw. Nothing? Had I been seeing things? Maybe it was an illusion of the night like when you look at a pile of cloths on a chair and it looks like a person. Perhaps that was it. I walked back inside clutching the hoodie I was wearing. Then I felt something, a pain in the back of my head. It grew stronger and stronger until I collapsed on the floor. I wanted to scream but I couldn’t . my head throbbed and throbbed until all went black. I woke up with a jolt, gasping at the air. My head didn’t hurt as much as it did but still there was some pain. I slowly sat up and realized this isn’t my house, this is a forest? A dark one at that. It was still night and the forest was probably not the greatest place to be. I looked about for something, anything but all I saw was more trees. I got up on to my feet not exactly knowing which way to go. So I picked a direction an started walking. I looked about and still nothing but trees. I could hear the small animal scurry away from me in a panic but it didn’t bother me. Other than the occasional animal the forest was dead quiet, not a sound. I walked for what felt like hours but in reality was only thirty minutes. That’s when I saw through the tree line what looked like a clearing. I got a burst on energy and began to run for it. When I made it their I found what I was looking for civilization. I saw houses with thatch roofs and wooden beams. So these people must live a slightly different life style than what I’m use to, no big deal I assume they can still help me. So I began to walk in to the town in search of help. I when I entered the town the first thing that jumped out to me was how short all the doors were. “Strange?” I thought to myself as I continued across the town. I passed multiply houses, shops and bakeries. Most notably was a tree with what looked like a house built in to it and a building that looked like one of those carousel rides you would go on as a kid. I made my way towards what looked like a house next to a barn. Next to it there was a large amount of trees disconnected to the forest I came from. I walked up towards the house when I just barely heard a young female voice. “Shh quite Scootaloo I don’t want that thing to notice us.” The voice sounded awfully childlike. As if they were telling off one of their friends. “I’m sure it didn’t hear us look it hasn’t even looked our way” Another young squeakier voice whispered back. Were they talking about me? I turned to my right to find a tree, I looked up to see three small head looking down at me out of a tree house. Their eyes widened and they threw the curtains closed. “What the fuck?” I thought those weren’t people they looked like equines with the way their ears were set and the way their mouths were. But their eyes where extremely out of proportion with the rest of their body. I slowly walked toward the tree letting my curiosity get the better of me as I started to climb up the ladder that was built in to it. I could hear faint muttering coming from the tree house as I ascended. When I made it to the top the door was closed. I gently grabbed the handle and pulled it down before pushing the door open ever so slightly. I heard three distinct gasps from the equines in the small building. I continued to push the door until I could fit my head around. I looked to the far left corner and saw the three quines huddled together there. I could now clearly make out what each of them looked like. One of them was a yellow color with a bright red mane, the one to her left had a orange coat and a purplish mane and the final one was white with a purple and pink main split down the middle. She also had a noticeable horn on her head. The tree of them screamed at the site of me causing me to reel back out of the door. I could hear them crying and begging not to be hurt. My heart sunk and I felt a pain in my chest knowing that I caused three young fillies to cry like that. I heard yelling coming from the house next to the barn as I saw a orange quine with a Stetson hat and a large red equine running towards the tree, their eyes where locked on me with anger and slight bit of fear. The fillies where still crying so I decided to close the door quickly. I dropped from the tree with a thud and ran. I could hear their hooves behind me. Iran back through the town toward the forest I was almost their until I felt a rope snag on to ne of my legs. I tripped and hit the ground. I looked back to see the orange equine holding the rope in her mouth dragging me towards her. I tried to get the rope off but it was bound on tight. I looked back up at the orange equine and thought of a plan for a moment until I got it. I noticed the large red equine was gone so this would make what I was about to do easy. I got to my feet and rushed towards the orange equine. Her eyes when wide as I tackled her in to the ground. I sat over her punching again and again in to her face. Blood spurted out of her nose and mouth as I continued to throw punch after punch in to the mares face. I heard a crack and watched as the muzzle crumpled under that last punch. I could tell it was broken. She gurgled and coughed on her own blood. I quickly took the rope of my foot at last and stood back up. I looked down on the bleeding mare in anger and frustration. Why did they have to label me like this, why did they have to chase me. “APPLEJACK!” I heard a feminine voice call. I looked up to see five more mares and the large red equine. I quickly turned and sprinted in to the forest. I looked back to the mares only to see them looking at their presumable friend in horror. I continued to run through the forest. Only to stumble upon a fairly large cave. Not to big, not to small. I entered it and sat down against the wall and looked at my bloody hand. I finally began to process what just happened. I was chased my small equines. They were definitely not horses, so ponies would be a better description. I continued to sit there until I drifted off to sleep. Author's Note Hope this chapter sets the tone of this story.
The Taste of BloodI woke up to a ferocious hunger, a hunger I have never felt before. It was painful I could hardly bare it. I clasped my stomach to try and make the pain go away, it didn't. I curled up on the cave floor trying not to wine in pain. "Cave floor?" My eyes shot open and I looked around. This was the cave I had hid in during that dream. Well what I thought was a dream. I looked at my still bloody hands as memory's of the mare I had beaten to a pulp flashed through my mine. I wasn't sure what I was feeling confusion, fear, anger? It was hard to pin down. It was at that moment my stomach began to throb again reminding me of my hunger. I was unsure on what I would eat as I had no experience on hunting or knowing what plants were edible. I looked at my bloodyed hands again and an awful thought crossed my mind. "No I couldn't. But what options do I have." I brought my fingers close to my lips and began to lick the blood off of them. It tasted sweet like an apple. I couldn't help but continue licking my hand clean of the blood until not a drop was left. I was ever so slightly sad it was all gone but at least my hunger died down quite a bit. I didn't want to enjoy the taste of another creatures blood but I did and I craved more of it. I stood up and made my way towards the cave entrance. The sun burned my eyes as I looked at the extremely blue sky. It was beautiful the sky of this new land almost no clouds. I began to make my way through the forest until a heard what sounded like water flowing. I followed the sound until I made it to a small river. "Finally water." I thought to my self as I kneeled down and scooped up the water in my hands before drinking it. It tasted wonderful, it was probably the cleanest water I have ever tasted. I then relisted how pale my hand looked. I don't remember it ever looking like that. I checked my other hand and yes that one was extremely pale too. I looked up from my hands across the river and saw... oh god it's the person that I saw from my window the night before. They were just standing there staring at me with hollow eyes that I could not read. Their hands resembled my own. I looked down at my reflection in the water and saw the person I had just been looking at across the river in the water looking back up at me. My head shot up to look across the river but they were gone. Was I going crazy, then again I did scare a bunch of small ponies in a tree house is that is no shocker. Something caught my ear, something crunched behind me then a gasp. I spun my head around to see two mares one was a turquoise with a mane of the same color with white streaked through it. The other a yellowish mare with a mane that was pink on one side and blue on the other. They looked at me in horror. As I began to stand up straight all the while staring at them. They began to walk slowly backwards before Turing 180 degrees and running in a full sprint. That is when I changed completely my mind was gone and all I could think was hunt, kill and consume. It all went a blur, it happened so fast. I chased the mares through the forest . They cried for help but none came. The yellow one was falling behind and that is when I saw my chance. I grabbed one of her hind legs and dragged her she let out a defining scream, she kicked and thrashed about. But compared to me she was out matched. "Pleas let me go, I just want to go home!" She cried but I didn't listen. I opened my mouth saliva creeping from it. "Pleas let me go I just want to be with Lyra! I want to tell her how I feel about her pleas!" She continued to cry. I cut off the pleads with a sudden bite to her neck instantly blood ran from the wound filling my mouth with it's sweat flavor. The mare gurgled and gasped at the injury, I must have bitten through her wind pipe. I withdrew my mouth and licked the blood off my lips before drawing my attention to the mares belly. I ran my hand over it until I thrusted my fingers through it tearing in to her stomach to find my target. The mares pained screams were drowned out by the blood she was gagging on. I peeled her belly open and reached in pulling out what ever I could get a grip on, mainly intestines. I ripped them out of her twitching body and bit in to them. It tasted extraordinary I took bite after bite. I couldn't stop. The mare by this point stopped making sounds and had stopped moving. I continued to eat what I found appetizing out of the mares body. My hands and the grass had been stained red. I heard gentle crying from in front of me, I looked up from my meal to see the turquoise mare staring at me her eyes wide with tears rolling down her cheeks I paused for a moment before looking down at the broken mare beneath me. Then time went back to normal. I reeled back from the dead mare. "What did I do, what is wrong with me!?" All these thought flooded my brain as I looked back at the still crying mare. "Bonnie I'm sorry, I'm so sorry we should never have come on this walk." She blurted out. She barely noticed me, she was totally fixated on the butchered mare in front of her. I took this moment to slip away back in to the deeper parts of the forest. Her cries echoed through the forest as the mare I killed pleads echoed in my head. She loved her and I took that away like a monster. Maybe that is what I am a monster. Even though I had eaten that mares insides a hunger still called out, still waiting to be quenched. Author's Note I want this story to get interesting and I want to make it good. This story is also being made up as I go along so sorry if it escalated so quickly.But if you have any feedback I would love to hear it. And thank you for reading if you made it this far.
The Transformation and The Five Mares.It had been six days since I had killed that mare and left her friend in the forest. I wasn’t sure what I was feeling at the moment, a mixture of emotions maybe? Or was it just emptiness. My body had drastically changed over the course of the days, I had become paler, skinnier and my hair had started to fall out in massive clusters. My hunger had not died down at all, if fact it just got worse as time went on. I had been feeing on small animal in the forest, stripping them down to the bone and drinking all of their blood it did not quench the hunger. Over the course of these six days five mares had been roaming the forest seemingly looking for me, they talked about a monster that hospitalized their friend Applejack and ate a candy store owner called Bon Bon while her best friend watched. I would watch them from the trees never making a sound, I was always tempted to jump down and tear in to them. These five mares came out to the forest everyday for two and a half hours following my tracks and whatever animal carcasses I left behind. One of these mares spoke about me like I should be treated like an animal. She was bright yellow with a long pink mane and she had wings. She would constantly cry when she saw a dead animal that I had killed and would constantly worry about a rabbit she had at her home called Angel. Another mare would talk about wanting to beat me up for what I did to Applejack, she would zoom about and scout ahead looking for me. She also had wings and had a blue cyan coat with a rainbow coloured main. She would yell out for me to come face them and I quote “Like a real monster!” How could I blame her after all the horrific acts I had committed. There was a mare who constantly look repulsed by the world around her complaining about the mud getting caught in her hooves. Now this one really pissed me off. She was white with a curly purple main. She would also talk about how I almost hurt her sister in the tree house. I reckoned it was the small filly with the horn as this white mare also had a horn. The next mare was bright pink all around this included her mane it was big and fluffy she jumped about constantly with a huge grin on her face and talked abut throwing a catching monster party once they find me. But when the other told her to shut up all that happiness seems to vanish and her main deflates in to a straight curtain. She was annoying but I appreciate her happy go lucky attitude. The final mare was a lavender color with a deep purple main with two light purple streaks going through it. She also had a horn on her head. She spoke off wanting to capture and study me to find out what makes me tick. These mares where annoying to come across everyday but I had to shut up and deal with it. Day seven was rapidly approaching and I did not have a good feeling about. My skin felt tight and the hunger persisted. Was this my fate to turn in to some ruthless monster. Not that I had a choice in it. Day seven this was the day I dreaded. My body ached all over and a massive migraine threatened to split my head open like an egg. I quickly grabbed a small animal as a snack before scrabbling up a tree in wait for the five mares to pass. When they showed up something was off. I felt drowsy my head ache getting worse, my bones rattling under my skin. I could feel a pressure build up at the back of my head. I put my hands over my head in an attempt to stop the pain but something sharp gut my hands. I lost my balance on the tree and hit the forest floor. I could here the five mares hoof steps grow louder and louder as they quickly approached my position. " Well, well, well look what we have here." A prideful voice said. I could just tell it was that rainbow haired bitch from her tone. "Carful girls we don't know what it will do." A cautious voice said. "Ugh what a vile creature, just look at it!" Another irritating voice said. I began to twich on the ground as the pain became something unbearable. "Girls I think it is pain we need to get it secured then see what is wrong." A quite voice whispered. It was then my limbs stated to bend in unnatural ways as I felt my head peel open and two sharp objects began to putrid out of it. I opened my eyes to see the skinny man I had grow a custom to seeing. But something was off his face was that of a wild animal, a beast that I could not name. I closed my eyes and let out a scream as I felt my face be torn apart by this event. I could here the mares scramble away from me all of them screaming at the sight. My screams became growls as I felt my vocal cords being ripped to pieces. I thrashed about for a moment and then the pain was gone. I looked about and saw all the mares huddled together. Looking at me in horror. I was confused on what had happened to me. I placed a hand on my face just to feel a snout that was made of bone. I froze up grasping at my head. I could feel to large sets of antlers coming from my head. I rushed away to find a body of water so I could look at my reflection. I finally found the river I drank from and looked in to it. A horrible monster looked back. I couldn't even consider it human. A long head made of bone was razer sharp teeth and two antlers looked at me. The eyes where just dark sockets devoid of all life. I looked up to the sky and screamed but it came out as a horrendous roar that shook the trees. I looked about in anger until I set my eyes on the five mares. They followed me. I bared my teeth and charged at them. The purple one grabbed her friend's and popped out of sight in a bright flash. I slid to a stop breathing heavily. I was hungry more hungry than I ever felt before. But above all their was a coldness in my chest. It felt colder than ice. So thus was my fate to live out my days as a cold hearted monster. If so let the world throw everything it has at me. Author's Note The next chapter will get more interesting when I introduce Derpy in to it. Spoilers she will be fine.
The Fist Ounce of Kindness.It had been 4 months since I completely no longer resembled a human, my predatory instincts where also becoming. This made me a perfect hunter but at the cost of me slowly loosing my intelligence. I had snuck in to the small town just outside the forest many times to collect different types of food just to keep my diet exciting. I had collected fruits, cakes, bread, vegetables, and some fish. The one problem was most of these did not help my hunger at all. It appeared that my body craved meat to survive. But I still took the food from the shopping stands just to taste their flavours once again. Winter was rapidly approaching and I needed to stock up on food from the town primarily fish. I was already cold as it is, but put me in winter then I would feel horrendously cold. I made my way in to the town that night using my impeccable eyesight. My eyes were much better adapted to the dark now. I could see almost everything in front of me. I passed by house after house until I stopped at one. A sweet scent came from it, a smell that was oddly familiar. I looked up the house to see one of the windows open. I climbed up the building using my claws to dig in to the stone and wood. I made it to the window and climbed inside being carful not to get my antlers stuck. Those things were cool and all but they could be really annoying sometimes. The first thing I noticed when I entered was that I was in a foal's room. To be exact a filly's room young very young. The room had bright colors plastered on the walls. I heard a small gasp from my right. My head whipped around to see a small purplish filly with a blond mane and a horn on her head. She stared at me in fear as I slowly approached her. She was practically shaking under the covers of the bed she was in. I crouched down to look at her, she was utterly terrified. I decided to leave her be, she was just a child after all and I couldn't bring myself to hurt her. I walked out in to the upstairs hall and followed the scent down the stairs. I walked just a small amount more before entering the kitchen. The scent was strongest in here I searched around the room until I found a bunch of freshly made muffins. I heard the gentle sound of hooves on the wooden floor behind me I turned around to see a grey mare with wings and a blonde mane. But what stood out the most was her eyes, they were facing opposite directions. She was smiling and slowly approaching me. It was like she didn't know she was looking at a monster. I saw the young filly cowering behind her. She looked worried for probably her mother, they did look very similar. The adult mare was holding a muffin in her hoof, she continued to approach me extending the muffin out as if asking me to take it. I gently took it out of her hoof being carful not to cut her with my claws, I took in a whiff of the freshly baked good and then took a bite. It smelled and tasted of blueberry, the taste was amazing I had to resist inhaling it just so I could saver it. The mare looked at me eating the muffin with a happy smile. It was also at this point the small filly come out from behind her mother and approach me. She was less scared but still very cautious, she came to a stop right in front of me and looked in to the lifeless sockets I called eyes. I looked back at her and leaned down to come face to face with her. I brought up one of my clawed hands and carefully patted her on the head. She immediately let out a little squeak before quickly nuzzling her face in to my hand more. After what felt like ages I pulled my hand away and stood back up. I heard a small whine come from the filly clearly disappointed that the psychical contact had stopped. I looked around the room finally taking in that this is the home of the first creature to care for my well being in this land. Despite not having tear ducts I could feel small tears running from what would be my eyes. After all this time my humanity is still here and still very much alive. I looked towards the mare wanting to say something but knowing it would only come out as a crackling screech. I decided to walk over to her and kneel down to be on eye level with her. She looked confused and sad at my actions. I very carful wrapped my arms around her in a hug. She froze for a moment before returning the gesture. My tears became to much as a began to audibly cry, coming out as a low screeching. But never once did the mare pull back from me. This is what I wanted, not to be seen as some rabid animal. But I knew for most of the town and that turquoise mare, thay would never see me as anything more than a monster. I pulled back from the gray mare, her hooves not wanting to let go. I stood back up and began to walk towards the back door. "WAIT!" A young squeaky voice said. I looked back to see the small filly run up to me with a basket of muffins in her mouth. "Please take these for yourself." The small filly insisted. How could I say no, I took the basket from her and nodded before making my way out the door. Those were the only words spoken to me through out my entire time here that weren't pleads for mercy or screaming. I made my way back to the forest and taking one final look at the town before disappearing in to the trees. I returned to my cave about half an hour later. I sat down on the caves floor and opened the basket given to me. Immediately the smell of muffins hit me. All different smelling flavours. I tried to smile but couldn't, I didn't care. That is when I felt it. A warmth I my chest, a warmth that I have not felt for weeks. I usually just felt cold but this was new and beautiful. But as soon as I noticed the feeling, it vanished and I went back to being my cold self again. Maybe one day I will feel that warmth again. Author's Note Sorry this chapter took a while to come out I have just been extremely busy with real life lately. I hope the next chapter doesn't take as long. So sorry for the wait.
The Fires of The End.It had been a few days since I met the gray mare and her filly, her muffins had tasted extremely good but they did little to quench my hunger for flesh. my days just seem to be on an endless loop of hunting everyday, eating what I find, then returning to my cave to rest. Until this one fateful day that would all change, guards had entered the forest looking for me. They wore gold armor and they all had a white coat. They looked like copies of each other. I watched them from the trees, my antlers blending in to the branches. I got to know their scent and followed the. "We should set up camp here for the night and continue our search for the beast in the morning." On of the guards suggested. This was perfect for me I could easily take them out in their sleep and I would have enough food to last me for weeks. I sat in the trees watching them set up tents and a fire place. I had grown very patient while in this new land, it helped me to hunt and focus on my target. Finally night fell and they sat around their little fire, telling stories and laughing. It sickened me for some reason, to watch the creatures that hunt me laugh and joke about. But thankfully for me I could cut their fun short and have some fun of my own. "Ok guys before we go to sleep I got to take a leek I shouldn't be to long." One guard stated. "Alright hope you don't mind if we all hit the hay while you are away." Another jokingly said. I watched the guard leave his group and trot around and behind the tree I was sitting in. Perfect, an easy target. I dropped from the tree landing on the guard back with a loud crack as my weight broke his back. I quickly but down in to his neck so is screams could be muffled out by the blood pouring out of his mouth He very quickly passed away from the injury's I had given him, I snuck around the tree very slowly, being carful not to make any noise. I began to make my way towards one of the tents, I poked my large head it to one of them only to find nothing? "GET IT!" I heard a voice yell from behind me, quickly whipping my head around to see the guards running at me. It was a trap they knew I would find them, I was to focused on the one leaving the groups that I didn't even notice the rest had gone of to hide in the bushes. I thrusted my head forwards catching one of them off guard, my antlers pierced through his body body impaling him on my head. I reared my head up before shaking it to get the guard off, he was creaming for help as every shake of my head made the antlers ripping in to him more. I finally threw him from my head and just in time to catch another guard across the face with my claws, Ripping off half his face. I dispatched the rest of the guards easily they were to shocked at how easily I killed the first two that they were not prepared for when I lunged at them. The final guard tried to run away but I grabbed him by is hind leg and dragged him back. I got reedy to rip his face apart with my teeth when he spoke. "Wait we were sent by Twilight Sparkle to capture you!" I paused starring at him. That is when I spoke my first word in months. "Where?" My voice was gargled and twisted. But I could make out word. "In Ponyville in the golden oaks library, that is where she stays!" He rushed his words out, But I understood. I got off him and sprinted towards Ponyvlle. Once I got there I went straight to the to the literal tree house. I could see the purple mare looking at me through the window, she looked horrified to see me running towards her home. I crashed through the door letting out an awful shriek of anger and rage. Twilight looked at me from across the room with a mix of horror and rage. "Your quest of violence ends here you... you monster!" She yelled at me. I merely stared her down right before pouncing towards her. She ducked out the way, I crashed in to the book shelf with an audible crack. I lifted my head up and saw one of my antlers fall from my head, blood spilling out of where it would be. I roared in frustration and hurdle towards the mare again, she rolled out the way as my claws impacted the wall. I will give it to her she is agile. I saw her horn begin to glow before a circle of fire surrounded me. The flames hurt just to be near, my skin felt as if it was boiling away. "I know what you are and I will free you from this suffering life!" She yells at me again. I didn't understand, all I felt was anger and the hunger. She made a run for the door letting the fire grow in the library. The books lit up in flames fulling the fire more. I looked out a window to see almost the entire town standing there. The turquoise mare I had traumatized, the three fillies, Twilight and the rest of her friends and finally the last ones I recognized was the grey wall eyed mare and her daughter. The warmth I felt before returned to my chest at the sight of them. Then I understood what is happening this town is freeing me of this life. A life of endless hunger, I tried to smile but couldn't. The flames didn't burn anymore so I welcomed them letting myself fall in to them as the tree crumbled around me. I felt at peace which is strange considering I wad dying, but was I really living when I changed fully in to the beast? I closed my eyes hearing the flames crackle. I didn't open them again, them all was quite. No sound, no feeling and no sight. Finally peace. The End. Author's Note So that's that. The story is done. I am sorry for the short ending and sorry it took so long again. I highly enjoyed writing this story despite how strange it is. I have put up a blog post on my account asking what I should write next out of two ideas I have if you want to check them out. But for now thank you for reading.
Epilogue: How Long is an Eternity?How many years? That was my question how many years had it been since my death, I couldn't tell anymore. I lost count at about year twenty. All that remains of me is an empty skull devoid of all life, sitting in a empty room. I could still hear and see, but I could not speak and I could not move. She sometimes visits me... The mare who burned me, Twilight Sparkle was it? It doesn't matter, she has done well for herself. Becoming a princess and being given the throne to rule this land. Her friends have grown old, while she stays the same... Soon it will just be her and I. But she won't know that, she doesn't know I'm alive and she doesn't need to know. It will just fill her with guilt. Every time she visits she will always say how she is sorry. I forgive her... But I can never apologise to her due to my condition. It may be possible I am stuck like this forever, unable to live a life of happiness. If I could go back I would never have ran from Twilight and her friends, I would have waited for them to kill me or imprison me. Anything is better that living this hell, forced to see the world in front of me go on while I am forgotten in a small room. So tell me how long is an eternity? Author's Note Just a short ending I wanted to add even though the story ended. So surprise! And thank you all for reading.
