A week ago, Fluttershy left a message for her animal friends to look over the cottage while she was away.

Something about helping Twilight with exploring.

But while she was gone, she left me in charge of taking care of the cottage, and her animal friends. I may be small, but that doesn't make me less than capable of doing things.

I wanted to go with her, but she explained that Dr Fauna would be at the sanctuary, and nopony else would be there to take care of the cottage. Well, except for her brother, but he doesn't count. It was up to me to make sure everything goes right. She even made a list of things to take care of.

I've known her since the day we met, and she may be quiet, but she works hard. She has her animal sanctuary that she, and Dr Fauna, works in, and they work to care for every animal in there... even a timberwolf, (timberpup), one time... blegh.

With everything in the list done for the day, I hop on my favorite place on the couch to rest, and with carrots to snack on.

Jeez, it's been crazy this past week, with all the animals asking to stay in the cottage these past couple of days and trying to keep the cottage clean. I asked about what's happening, but everyone says they hear a monstrous, unnatural roar in the Everfree. I thought it might be Harry, but he said it isn't him. Everyone is scared of it, and most of the animals come to hide under Fluttershy's bed, while these roars happen. Not only roars, but howls of timberwolves, angry, or frightened, and whatever is scaring the timberwolves is more dangerous than them.

Just when I was about to eat my carrots, a loud roar and some howls echoed through the trees of the forest. I jumped, and although I've heard it a dozen times, it still scares me. It also meant her animal friends were coming to hide in the cottage.

I hopped off the couch, heading towards the door, and braced myself for what's coming. Just as I open it, all the animals came stampeding in the cottage, and almost ran me over. "Watch where you're going, guy's!" I said, even if they can't understand me.

When all the dust settled, I counted all animals thats been hiding for these past few days. 3 birds, 2 beaver's, 4 mice, 4 chipmunks, 2 raccoon's, 2 squirrel's, a ferret, 2 badger's, 3 snakes, a weasel, Harry, and 3 rabbits, counting 28 of us, (including me) .

Now, I can't really speak, but I have made some paw signals for these past few days to say what to do in this situation. I told Harry to close and lock all windows and front door, signaled the squirrel's and chipmunks to close all curtains, have the bird's peek out the window and chirp for intruders, having the beaver's barricade the front door, and the rest to forage all food underneath the bed. Talking in the animal support group has really payed off.

With everything finished, and a bit of cleaning, we all hide under the bed, waiting for the roars to stop, but they didn't stop. It kept getting closer.

I peeked from under the blanket thumping my leg to get the birds attention, trying to ask what's going on, and after a few seconds they get it, but they just shrug, and turned back to peek outside.

After 10 minutes passed with no roar coming, I decide to get out from the bed and join the birds in watching. I heard nothing outside for a while, and it was starting to get to me. It was unnatural for everything to be so quiet, not a peep coming from nature.

Then a timberwolf came out of the forest after 5 minutes, and it looked tired, trying to take deep breaths with a fish in its mouth. After a minute of resting, it then looked at the chicken coop and started sniffing around.

Knowing it would hunt the chickens, I signaled Harry that the roars were gone, and to come out to protect Fluttershy's—

"GET BACK HERE YOU FUCK!" and Harry went back to hiding.

I was shocked when I heard it, and watched as a creature... no... monster, came out of the forest.

It was on 2 wheels, that was connected with some sticks of metal, coming out of the forest with great and silent speed towards the frightened timberwolf. The monster itself was big, and looked black on the upper body, but blue on what I assume to be leg's, ending with brown on its hind paws.

With great speed, they crashed into the timberwolf, with parts of it flying all over the place, and the monster itself went flying too.

"Shit—!" CRASH!

It was like watching everything in slow motion. The monster went over the front wheel and it flew flat into the fence of the coop, bending it like a big bubble. The metal thing with wheels slid across the ground, and when it stopped, the monster fell on it with its upper body.

"Oof! (Gasp! Cough cough!) oh.. (Groan)"

... what... just happened?

The chickens started clucking all over the place, and some got out the coop, but went back inside when they saw the monster.

"(More groaning)"

This is what all the animals were afraid of?

They started to move, but rolled slowly on its... back? It then did something strange... it was unzipping... itself... and underneath the thick black coat, was a thin white coat. It covered its whole body except for its front claws and head. They also took off its weird black claws, a black scarf(?), that was hanging off its neck now, and a black hat, and I can see there's more underneath, what I now know is clothing. Hairless, but hair on top of its head. It was brown with black hair, and small, black, sunglasses were on its face. This monster sure loves black clothes.

they were still lying on the thick jacket, and I told Harry to come and look.

One by one all the animals came up to the window to see this monster. The monster then dug something out of its jacket. A bottle with some clear liquid, and a rolled up bandage.

I turned to see all the animals were talking to each other, and asking so many questions.

"It's huge!"

"What is that thing?"

"Is that the monster?"

"It's bleeding!"

I stopped to look back at it with that statement. The monster was now sitting up, like how harry sits in a picnic, and sure enough, it was bleeding on its left claw, but not a lot. It took the bottle with its other claw and it sprayed it on its wound.

"(Hiss), Urg—! Arg—! (Haa)!"

They did the same thing with its leg, took off its left horseshoe and did it again. It took a small thing out of its lower clothes and flicked it. It was a knife.

All the animals started chattering loud, but when the monster looked in our direction, we all stayed quiet.

The monster looked our way for a few moments, but turned away to cut the bandage, and everyone sighed in relief. They cut enough to tie all its injuries, and moved every part of its body. It looked satisfied, put the bandage and spray away, and got up on its hind legs to get their wheels. The monster stood the wheels up, and used its leg to move a stand on the wheels. It straitend something that looked like handles, which was connected to the wheel, then nodded their head.

The monster now looked where the timberwolf dropped the fish, picked it up with the tips of its claws, shook its head, and was walking to the front of the cottage.

Once it was out of sight everyone started chittering, while I hopped to look out the front window. They tossed the fish in the stream, and went back where it walked, and everyone was silent again.

Climbing onto Harry's head, I watched as the thin, but tall, monster, was putting on its horseshoe, and all of its clothes, but stopped to look at the fence.

After a few moments, they grabbed the fence and twisted it to be straight again. It wasn't pretty, but it's fixed now. It then got some chicken feed from a nearby bag, an tossed some in the coop. The chickens, slowly, one by one, got out to eat, not minding the monsters presence.

I dont think this is a monster anymore, with the things they did, but I don't want to get close to it.

After they were done it put its jacket on, but didn't notice the wood floating past it. The chickens started to cluck loud, and flapped their way back into the coop.

The timberwolf, now fully formed, and unnoticed, prepared itself to pounce, and when the tall thing put its hat on, and turned to look at the cottage, the wolf jumped.

But as soon as it was close to latching on to them, it kicked so fast, I barely saw it. The timberwolf was now in bits, and I changed my mind about this dangerous monster.

"That's a first." it said.

It stood over the wood pile, and after a minute the timberwolf formed again. The monster stomped its horseshoe, getting close to the wolf's face and roared.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!"

Hearing it was one thing, but seeing where it came from, was terrifying. Everyone in the cottage stood still, and while we were quiet before, now, you could hear a pin drop.

The timberwolf whined and yelped, running back into the Everfree, and the monster got on its wheels and went in the forest, but a different direction from the timberwolf.

After about 15 minutes, the chickens got out again to eat, and everyone in the cottage asked if they could stay the night.

Knowing what's out there, I agreed.

I cleaned a bit of the mess that happened when the monster was visiting, and soon it was nighttime. I wished everyone a good night, but after what we witnessed... (Shudder)... I don't want to think about it.

There were a few roars and howls, but it got quiet after a bit. Tension was high, and some went to sleep later than the rest. I was the last one awake, but eventually went to sleep.

As long as they stay in the forest, theres nothing to worry about.

Author's Note

been a while lol