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It was something about this day that made me feel sick to my stomach. I had a bad feeling about tonight. Something was coming and the forest seemed more agitated than usual. I clenched my long bow tightly in my hand. I felt the wind blowing strongly yet I could still hear the beating of wings right above me. I let them think I was unaware of their presence and grabbed one of the dragon tooth knives in my free hand. I concealed the blade in my sleeves and waited until the person had settled right behind me. Almost as quick as lightning I turned and held the dagger at my stalker's throat. To my surprise it was an Alicorn with a midnight blue fur. Looking at her I felt my blood stir and clenched the dagger tighter.

"Luna I presume. It isn't nice to creep on people." I chimed in with controlled anger. I wasn't really angry that she crept on me, no I just hated her almost naturally. It was weird, that I couldn't really say why I hated her only that I hated her very existence.

"We were just out enjoying the night when we came upon thee staring off into the night. We decided to meet thee for thine self." She said almost proud and indignant. She had a crescent shape of the moon as a cutie mark. Seeing her cutie mark made me clench my teeth as I could feel my anger rising.

"Well you've met me now. Now leave me be I have better things to do than prattle on with an lonely pony." I said with hostility, making it known that she wasn't wanted. Sadly she didn't move.

"We aren't lonely! We have many friends to talk to." She replied stubbornly. If she wasn't going to leave me in peace then i'd give her the worst first impression of me.

"Your servants don't count and neither do your guards that you ditched. Your alone with no friends and no one to talk to. Furthermore you're probably supposed to be working right now but decided to ditch work because it was boring. You should act a little more responsible, for a princess you sure are irresponsible and brash. No wonder the ponies don't like you." I say coldly containing my anger with the harsh words towards her. I looked at her to see tears in her eyes and a scowl on her face.

"That isn't true!" she replies weakly more like she's trying to convince herself than me. I smirk as I see the perfect way to send her crying back home.

"Face it you're not needed at all. All you do is take up room and cause problems for everyone around you. Even your own sister banished you to the moon because of your actions. I bet you she's too afraid to give you anything important because you might ruin it and mess up your sister's perfect reputation." I say adding more coal to the fire.

"Celestia trusts me! You're nothing more than a liar!" She says angrily getting more riled up by my words. She then glares hatefully at me as if that will hurt me.

"I may be a liar but i'm not the one who caused an entire civil war killing hundreds of ponies in the process." I say ending the debate and breaking her will to continue to argue. She openly cries and flies away as if realizing that all the deaths of those ponies were her fault for the first time. I smirk as I watch her fly away feeling successful in making a princess cry.

I turn back to the forest to see that its calmed down and has its same ominous feeling as usual. I turn to see a few wolves looking at me from a distance respectfully appraising me as the better hunter. Here in the forest its simple, the animals in it all respect one another as either prey or hunter. As long as you don't impede on another's territory hunters go along their way. I see a dark green plant that I can use for later and quickly grab it and stuff it in my pouch.

I hear a howl suddenly further into the forest and see the timberwolves race past me to join their pack. However i'm more on alert than before because that was a howl of attack. Curious to see what's going on I jump into the overhead trees and jump between trees quickly to the scene. Once there I see a huge pack of wolves fight black looking ponies. A better look confirms that they are actually bugs. They has to be at least 50 of them fighting of 35 timberwolves.

I decided to watch the fight to see how these bugs fight. The wolves are faster and separate a single bug before pouncing on it and tearing it apart. I admire the pack leader's strategy. I see the alpha sitting of to the side barking orders to the pack every now and then. The wolves are ferocious but the bugs outnumber them. Suddenly I see a few bugs horn's light up and shortly afterwards they fling fireballs at the wolves. The fireballs are extremely effective and kill a dozen dogs quickly. The alpha the orders the retreat and they slink away into the woods giving up the fight.

The bugs shuffle about for a minute and then they start to move once more towards Ponyville. I arm my bow with three arrows and quickly let them fly. As soon as I see the three bugs drop dead I quietly jump into another tree. I see the bugs scramble about trying to find me but i'm well hidden. I arm five arrows this time and let them fly into five different bugs in flawless precision. Each arrow burrows deep into their head and I quietly jump into another tree. I arm my bow with another five arrows and five more bug drop dead. I jump into another tree and then decide to play with my prey. I let my body fall back into the dark and let the darkness envelop my body as I become one with the darkness. I land softly on the ground and leap to the cluttered group of bugs. There are 35 bugs left, perfect enough to warm up.

I grab the nearest bug and twist its head cleanly off. I then grab two daggers in each hand and jam them into the the throats of the two nearest bugs. I slice the necks in half and jump onto the back of another stab his eyes out. The bug's scream was exhilarating and made me more excited to slice the rest of them open. I twist the daggers further into his skull as he dies and launch off of him into another bug. I cut his forelegs off in one quick sweep of my blades and throw him into a group of his allies. I twirl around in a whirlwind of blades slicing up the four nearest bugs to me. I then throw the daggers at two random bugs and throw two more at two fleeing bugs. I quickly grab my daggers off the nearest bodies and dance around the bugs killing them quickly. Soon all that's left is a weeping bug in front of me. The bug has already shit himself and is trembling before me. It has a crooked horn like a unicorn but no cutie mark.

"Do you know why I kept you alive?" I say with no remorse. The bug looks up at my pathetically sniveling and mumbles something I can't understand."I can't hear you." I say as I reach to grab its horn to snap it off but it changes into a manticore. It raises its paw to swipe at me but I quickly punch its nose and it reverts back to its original bug form with a bloody nose. It screams and moans in pain. "What are you?" I ask with little patience. It's still crying over its bloody nose so I grab its horn and snap it clean off and its shrieks were loud enough to wake the whole forest. "I asked you a question if you don't answer the next thing that goes is an eye." I say with malice. The bug looks up at me and pisses itself.

"I'm a changeling please don't hurt me anymore." It begs me pitifully.I look at it in disgust and grabbed the knife and its head and pushed the knife right next to its eye.

"Who is your ruler?" I ask eager to plunge the knife into its eye.

"Queen Chrysalis please just let me go." It continues to plea desperate to live. I however was not moved by its pleas and plunge the knife into its eye and fish out the eye and pop it in my mouth munching on it. It's squishy and juicy but has a slimy taste to it. The bug wails as its eye is now missing and it's future looks more grim.

"I've had better. What's your name? Never mind i don't care i'll just call you Steve. Now Steve tell me your new name." I say putting the dagger by its other eye waiting to pop the other one out. It cries from its one lone eye as it stammers.

"Mmm- my name is sss- Steve."

"Good Steve now tell me how you communicate with the hive and don't stammer this time I just might take the other eye if you do. So take a deep breath and say it clearly." I say smiling at the tortured bug as if to give it hope that I might spare it. Steve takes a few deep breaths trying to calm itself down.

"We talk through telepathy with our horns." It manages to say clearly. Though just for good measure I punch its muzzle and a tooth flies from its mouth.

"Now where were you going Steve?" I ask it playing with the dagger in my hand.

"We were heading to Ponyville to scout the area for food. We use the ponies to feed off of because we eat their emotions." Steve says to me. The last part was actually interesting but it sounded inconvenient to eat emotions.

"So your Queen decided to try and steal subjects from Ponyville and replace the citizens with sleeper agents hmm. Smart planning but you changelings lack any power at all and you don't weigh much either. Still nothing magic can't help with right. Can all of you use magic?" I ask it curious to find out as much as possible about them. Then I grab the changeling and use the holes on its leg to nail it to a tree.

"What are doing to me?" It asks not wanting anymore pain. I backhand Steve hard enough for it to spit out more broken and chipped teeth.

"I asked you a question Steve and you didn't answer me. It's rude not to answer a question someone has asked you. Continue to be rude and I may forget my manners and start hurting you more.

"Please don't. Not all of us can use magic, very few of us can only the Queen's guard can. Everyone else is either broken down to either a worker or a soldier."

"Good Steve now that wasn't so hard now was it? Now playtime is over it's been fun Steve it really has." I say and before it can open its mouth I grab its throat and painfully rip him off the tree making it near impossible to stand up on his own. "Now go and warn the Queen that a beast will rip apart any changelings that stray into the forest." As I finish up what i'm saying I see Steve painfully stand up and open its wings and fly away.

I grab all my knives from the dead bodies and the tree and quickly make my way back to the cave in high spirits. Today looks like it just might be a good day. I stop by a creek to wash off the blood of me and I notice that the changelings blood is green just like a bug. Afterwards I head back to the cave and find Fluttershy waiting by the entrance to my surprise.

"Well isn't this a pleasant surprise what can I do for you today Fluttershy?" I ask not really caring what she wanted.

"Well umm J I was talking to some of the animals in the forest and umm they told me that you lived here and umm I wanted to apologize to you and umm say that i'm sorry for giving you the stare." Fluttershy said meekly and almost too quietly for me to hear.

"ok" I say curtly trying to end the conversation quickly.

"Ohh and Applejack and Twilight wanted to talk to you also. I guess i'll go now." I quietly watch Fluttershy walk away and retreat into my cave when she's finally gone. I then drop off my bow and arrows and most of my knives and change into better clothes. After changing I start to walk to Twilight's guessing that she wanted to apologize.

As soon as I arrived at Twilight's I stood in front of the doorway and knocked. I waited a moment and then turned to walk away to see Twilight looking up at me with a bag full of paper and ink. She smiled up at me as if pleasantly surprised to see me.

"Hey J looking to check out a book?" Twilight innocently asks me.

"You know damn well that you told Fluttershy you wanted to talk to me and sent her to my cave. You could have just went to see me yourself you know." I say a little irritated that she sent Fluttershy of all people to my cave.

"Well i had to pick up a few things and Fluttershy was going to head out into the woods to check on the animals anyway so I asked if she could check on you too." She says as if that would make it alright to send Fluttershy.

"So i'm an animal now that you have to check up on every now and then to see if i'm behaving?" I remark sarcastically.Twilight then opens the door and we continue the conversation inside.

"That's not what I meant J and you know it, stop trying to change my words around."She says already seeing through my plan to mess with her.

"Anyway where is Spike?"I ask kind of missing the small dragon.

"Ohh he's hunting for gems with Rarity." she says dismissively.

"So we're all alone are we?" I say with a devilish smirk.

"Yeah I suppose we are, why?" She asks cautious of my question.

"Well you look a little tense there Twilight you should relax a little." I say as i walk up to Twilight and grab her.

"Wha- What are you doing J?" She asks worried about what i'll do to her.

"Shhh just accept it Twilight." I whisper to her in her ear.

"We can't do that J! I mean i've never done anything like that before with any pony iv'e never even had a special somepony before and-" She starts to panic and babble on as well as turning her entire coat red.

"Calm down Twilight i'm just going to give you a massage but if you want to get more intimate then who am I to say no." I say playfully in Twilight's ear. I then nibble on her ear for good show and she moans just as the door barges open. In the doorway stands Applejack with a shocked expression and then a mischievous smile.

"I reckon y'all want some alone time." Applejack says haughtily. Twilight's whole body turns violet red.

"It's not what it looks like Applejack!" Twilight yells

"Sure it ain't" Applejack responds dryly.

"You jealous Applejack?" I ask teasingly. Suddenly Spike runs up out of breath.

"Fillies in trouble in the Everfree." Spike says. Suddenly everyone is running out of the door and on there way to the Everfree. I go at a full sprint and don't hear Twilight or Applejack telling me that we should go in all together.

"Stay out of the forest you'll only agitate the creatures let me handle this." I say and don't wait for them to respond as I sprint quickly past them and rush into the forest.

I stop for a second once inside the forest and open up my ears to any noises. I hear a scream and I bolt in the direction of the scream. Soon after I see three fillies huddled up by a tree scared out of their minds and looking behind me pointing at something. As soon as I turn around I regret it. Standing high above me is a hydra and it roars at me.

"Today must be a Monday. I hate Mondays." I say to myself.

Author's Note

It's been too long since I've posted a chapter but here it is. Things are going to start to heat up and the action is just starting to get good.