Blood, it is everywhere. I’m holding a woman’s body in my arms almost lifeless. Her body breathes in pained gasps. She isn’t dead but the pain that she is in she must want to be. I can feel my stomach churn at the sight of her. My arms are shaking with rage, my eyes barely noticing anything else around me. My body trembles with untold rage that’s at its boiling point. The woman in my arms reaches out her hands to touch my face, but I don’t feel her anymore. My eyes go unfocused, my arms tensing up as I ball up my fists. My breathing becomes erratic as it can only be described as feral. The woman says something that doesn’t register in my mind. I focus my eyes long enough to see the damage done to her. Her eyes are gouged out and blood seeps from them. Her legs cut off leaving bloody stumps of its remains. Her teeth lie on the ground in a bloody mess. Her left arm that is touching me is mangled and has hand prints engraved in them. Her right arm is broken dangling in a sick fashion. Her fingers twisted backwards with the bones sticking out. My rage cannot be held check any longer. I let out a bestial roar letting go of all reason and letting my anger rule over me.

“Ahhhhhh!” I shout awakening from the dream, drenched in cold sweat. My heart pounding and my hands balled up into fists. My entire body shaking with rage as the scene replays over and over in my head. I put a hand on my chest to steady my breathing but my hands still shake with anger. I breathe in and out slowly to steady my nerves. Slowly I stop shaking and my breathing returned to normal. Suddenly Twilight barges in the door along with Spike.

“Are you okay J?” She asks her voice full of concern. I barely catch my hand as it snaps behind me for the stone dagger by my pillow I sleep with. I almost snapped the dagger at her out of instinct but thankfully my hand stops just short of the dagger.

“Yeah I’m fine just had a bad dream. You were cooking.” I shudder at the thought of Twilight cooking. Quickly destroying the mood, Twilight glares at me while Spike laughs at my joke.

“I hear ya, never letting Twilight cook ever again.” Me and Spike both laugh while Twilight stares us down. Spike quickly getting the hint shuts up while I remain defiant by still laughing. She silently storms away sending death glares at me every few steps. Spike smiles at me as he leaves and once again I’m alone. The scene flashes through my mind and I clench my fist again. Then I feel warm tears falling down my face. I quickly shake away my feelings and wipe my tears away. I find my bag full of clothes made by Rarity and pick out the darkest ones without any gems. There weren’t that many of them that didn’t have any obnoxious gems. I made a mental note to ask for a sweatshirt, I missed not wearing one. It was still early and I decided to take a late shower to relax a bit. After the quick shower I returned to the basement not really feeling in the mood to do much. I laid back down on the mattress that only half my body could fit on. The blanket was rather small too. I quickly rolled over to the wall and leaned against it. I draped what little of the blanket I could on me. I stared out into the dark basement thinking nothing as I waited. Slowly I fell back to sleep.

“Do you think we should wake him now?” asked Spike. I heard from outside the basement.

“No I think it’s better to let him rest for now. He looked really pale when he woke up from that nightmare. After hearing this I was unfortunately wide awake. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and begrudgingly got up. I climbed up the steps quietly and snuck up to Twilight reading at the table. I decided to play with her and tapped her shoulder and quickly sidestepped to her blindside. She whipped her head back surprised at the touch then went back to her book with a frown. Spike saw what I was up to and was about to say something but I put a finger on my lips towards him. He just shook his head and gave Twilight the pancakes he had just finished. Just as she was about to dig in I blew lightly in her ear. She whipped around to see if anyone was there but all she saw was the library. I took that time to quickly snatch her plate away. “Spike did you leave any windows open last night I just felt a breeze.” She said as she was turning back to her plate of pancakes to find they were gone. “Hey! Where did you put my pancakes Spike?” she asked a little irritated that Spike had taken her pancakes.

“What do you mean Twi? Man Twi, I didn’t know that you were that hungry to eat the plate and the pancakes” Spike said smirking and sending me a sly wink that wasn’t very subtle and Twilight saw through it.

“Who are you winking to?” She turned around to see me with half a pancake in my mouth. “J are those my pancakes?” She asked with a sigh.

“Nph, I fphnd iff.” I said with a mouth full of pancakes, looking around the library suspiciously on purpose. I swallowed the rest of the food in my mouth and set the plate down in front of Twilight.

“No it’s fine you go on and eat that I’ll just have Spike make me some more.” She said in a defeated tone.

“Ohh I see how it is too good to accept food from me because I’m black huh?” I say to her playfully.

“Huh?” she responds clearly not getting the joke.

“It’s because I’m another species that you won’t accept food from me. That’s pretty racist of you Twilight I expected more from you.” This time I said in a serious tone as if I really was disappointed in her.

“What? No I’m not racist at all it’s just that you already ate off that plate.” She stammers trying to recover herself.

“Ohh, because I ate off the same plate you're too good to eat after me now? Racism at it's finest.” I say to her in a condescending tone. Twilight looks at me flabbergasted as she tries to say words out of her mouth.

“I- you- but- stop messing with me J” Twilight replies angrily embarrassed. I smirk at her as she takes the plate away and starts to eat the pancakes. I quickly snuck out of the library while they distracted. As I closed the door I looked to see all the ponies nearby stop what they were doing and stare at me. It was then I noticed that I hadn’t been introduced to the town yet. I silently cursed underneath my breath at my brashness. I counted the seconds that went by before the inevitable would happen. One… two… three.

“Monster!!!!” came the cry from one of the ponies. It was then they all scattered like cockroaches. I have to say it was pretty amusing to see them all scramble for home and barricade themselves inside. Almost made me want to bust in to see what they would do then. Sadly I knew nothing good would come if it and decided to go to Sugarcube Corner. I had already walked around the town at nights to see where everything was beforehand so I knew exactly where I was going. I took quick brisk steps towards the shop and before long I was there. The place looked like a gingerbread house. I could see Glib trying to eat the house if he ever saw it. I opened the door and a little ting of a bell welcomed me into the shop.

“Be with you in a minute” came a voice from the kitchen. It was one I had never heard before. Knowing this new meeting wasn’t going to end well I stood calmly by the counter waiting for the pony. “So what can I get for yo-…you’re…you’re a-“ came from the small plump pony staring at me.

“yeah don’t finish that. I’m here for the small pink one calls herself Pinkie Pie, kinda crazy, never shuts up. You know her?” I ask in a bored tone. She nods her head clearly flabbergasted and unable to talk. “Go get her and tell her that J is here for her will ya?” I ask to which she nods again and speeds out of the room. With a sigh I sit down at one of the tables and rub my eyes. I look up to see Pinkie staring at me with those giant eyes of hers with a huge grin. I sighed deeply before responding to her presence. “Yes Pinkie you wanted something?” I ask eager to get this over with.

“Hi J how are you?” she asks me instead of answering my question.

“You didn’t answer my question.” I say a little more than irritated.

“You didn’t answer mine.” She replies with a big grin. Only further annoying me.

“I do not have time for games Pinkie either say what you want or I’ll leave.” I say in a defeated tone.

“You’re no fun J.” she says with a frown. I silently stare at her for her to get the hint. “Why did you kill that dragon?” she asks me in a serious tone. I looked at her still face and could tell that she was needed to know this.

“I killed him before he killed you.” I say in a neutral tone. My face an unreadable mask and my arms crossed across my chest as if challenging her to say otherwise.

“Did you have to kill it though?” she asks quietly that I almost didn’t hear her.

“Would you rather be dead and it still alive? What if it killed your friends too? Would rather it take all your lives just so it wouldn’t die?” I ask her. She looks at me unsure of what to say. “You have a life here and are needed here. Don’t let it bother you, I’m the one who killed it and I will take responsibility for it. I do not regret my decision and neither should you. People depend on you so smile, and let it go.” I say to her. She sits there unsure of what to say and I leave her like that. I quietly leave the shop and walk back into the town. The ponies are still inside their homes and the town almost looks barren. I make my way to the park to see if Rainbow is there. Sure enough I see her rainbow tail on a cloud above the park. I snatch a random stone on the ground and flick it at her with amazing precision.

“ow, who did that!?” Rainbow asks flying away from her cloud to see me. “Oh J, it’s just you.” She says as if dreading the moment when we would have to talk.

“You know I could just leave if you don’t want to talk. I get the feeling that I’m not wanted around her and I do have other things to do so we can talk another time or whenever.” I reply hoping that she would drop it and leave me be. Unfortunately things have a tendency to not go my way, at least with social interactions.

“Wait, can you teach me to fight like you?” Rainbow asks me.

“No” I respond with lack of any feeling.

“Why not?” she asks angry at me denying her.

“Are you willing to kill another being?” I ask her in a serious tone.

“No.” she responds appalled at the idea.

“Then I cannot teach you to fight like me nor will I.” I reply almost annoyed at her response.

“Why not?” she asks yet again. I sigh and explain to her.

“I fight to kill. If you don’t wish to kill then teaching you otherwise would be a moot point. I don’t have time to be wasting on trying to teach you something you won’t do. Is that all?” I respond.

“Wait, can’t you teach me something?” she asks desperate for something. I groan audibly.

“Fine I will teach you one thing.” I say. She lightens up after that and looks at me hopefully. “Stay hydrated. That is all.” I say concluding her one and only teaching. She looks at me incredulously. I take that moment to slip away into the forest. I quickly find the path to my cave that I made for the ponies. As I approached the cave I see Glib playing with one of the traps I made. Deciding to surprise him I snuck up behind him and tapped his shoulder.

“Ah!” he yells out surprised setting off the trap and getting a slap to the face with a branch. He looks at me with contempt in his face as I laugh at his blunder. “Ha ha laugh it off while you can. It was a bitch to move that dragon, so I had to break it off into pieces that I could actually move. Remind me to never work with you again, freaking slave driver.” He says to me mumbling the last part.

“come on we have to check out the borders of Everfree, its best to know your surroundings. Oh before we go what kind of weapons did you find in the horde?” I ask curious to see what new objects I might have gotten.

“Well I know for certain that you got this really big red sword that’s pretty long. Everything else was either gold or red but you got lots of swords and a few axes. Other than that not much other than a weird looking earing. I wouldn’t touch it if I were you I tried messing with it and it almost lit my whole hand on fire.” He says with a shudder. I decide to check the weapons that he is referring to which are just off to the side in the cave lain haphazardly all over the floor. I see the sword he’s talking about and notice that it’s a claymore that is rather taller than normal. The weapon already has a sheath but it’s about as tall as me. I decide to take the blade with me and strap it on to my back. I toss another golden claymore at Glib to hold on in case we get in trouble. I see pair of silver gem studded knives and decide to take those along as well. Glib looked happy to be doing something and kept jumping around looking at different things. I swear he’s worse than Pinkie. Hopefully we don’t find anything too dangerous in the forest. Little did I know that soon I would be fighting for my life.

Author's Note

Yea this is really late...We'll be back into the fray with J next time! Hey I rhymed...I feel successful.

CA/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter i know i did and more is to come.