MLP meets the Pleistocene

in the city of Canterlot, the capital of Equestria, within the castle, Princess Celestia, the alicorn Goddess, co-ruler of Equestria Raiser of the sun, big sister to Princess Luna, teacher and mentor to Twilight Sparkle, Cake connoisseur, and aunt to Princess Cadence and Prince Blueblood, was just lowering the sun.

Satisfied with her work, she watched in awe as her Sister rose the moon, bathing the landscape in her art which was the night. Stars lit up the sky as well as the moon, Celestia smiled at this and took a deep sigh.

“This never gets old.”

After a few minutes, she left her chambers to meet up with her sister in the throne room. After a slight walk, saying hello to the various maids and guests around the castle who bowed to their Princess, she arrived at two large double doors. Two guards guarding them. Saluting their Princess, Celestia nodding in acknowledgment, they opened the doors for her and she was met by her sister Luna, along with her secretary and head of staff, Raven Inkwell, a unicorn mare with white fur, a brown mane curled into a bun, light brown eyes, wearing black glasses and a red ascot.

“Hello sister, wonderful night isn’t it, I was wondering if you would like to take a stroll around the castle with me, you know, to clear our heads a bit.”

Celestia smiled and nodded once more.

“That would be great, the last few day court sessions have been rather taxing on me, I’d like to get that tension out of my system and I think a nighttime stroll would be perfect for that.”

Celestia soon turned to Raven who was waiting on her word on what to do next.

“Raven, I’m sure you’ve had a long day, you're free to head home and get a good night's rest.”

“Thank you, your highness.”

But before any pony could go anywhere, a scroll appeared in front of the three in a puff of smoke. Due to the method and style of transportation, both Princesses knew it had come from Twilight. Celestia looked very confused, Twilight almost never sent a letter at this hour, usually Celestia always thought on the positive side but she feared the worst as this wasn’t normal for Twilight to do. Getting rid of the bands that bounded the scroll together, she unwrapped it and looked over its contents.

Luna and Raven looked at each other, unsure what to think. Celestia was a little worried but not to the extent that she thought she’d be.

Apparently Twilight’s friend Applejack, the Element of Honesty and her sister Apple Bloom, had an odd encounter with a large canine on their farm. Celestia was going to say it was a Timberwolf that had wandered towards the Apple Family’s farm, but what threw that idea out the window was not only was it not Zap Apple season, which caused Timberwolves to exit their domain which was the Everfree forest, but the description of this creature.

It did not match up with any Timberwolf she had ever seen or heard of. It had fur like a domestic dog, a long muzzle, one you’d see on a Timber wolf, and all in all it looked like a husky or coyote on steroids.

Celestia’s second thought was coyote but their range was for the most part limited to Appaloosa and as far as the badlands. But what really caught her attention was the size and speed of this animal. That and it had gone into the house of the Apple Family and eaten some eggs. Due to that nature, her third thought was a Hyena, possibly imported from the zebra lands, but that was a very far stretch, and Twilight was certainly smart enough to tell between species, she was taught her first hoof after all.

The creature was the size of Applejack, which would have to be the biggest dog in Equestria, if it was even a dog.

“Celestia, what’s going on?” Asked Luna, not liking that she was being kept in the dark. Celestia looked up to her, preparing herself for what she was about to say.

“Well… Twilight had told me the Element of Honesty and her sister had a close encounter with some sort of dog-like creature. What has me worried is that it went into their house, most wild animals, except bears, won’t do that.”

“What else?”

“This canine creature is as tall as Raven here and can run faster than your ordinary dog.”

Luna and Raven were taken by surprise, thinking this was some ordinary dog, but they had to rethink a bit.

“Now, it could be a regular dog or coyote of just enormous size and intense speed, or it could be something more, what I am afraid of is this creature will enter ponyville and could possibly pose a threat to the residents, as it is used to being around ponies.”

“Raven, before you head home for the night, I need you to send individual letters to some of the most well renowned canine and animal experts, I seek an audience with them in the throne room tomorrow.”

“Yes, Princess, of course.”

As Raven left, Luna looked at Celestia.

“Are you still up for that stroll or…”

Celestia chuckled. “Yes I’m still up for it, I’ll inform Twilight about this Tomorrow, as for now, I need to find a way to prevent the animal from entering Ponyville.”

Celestia pointed to a night guard on his night shift. There was a clear difference between the Night Guard and the Lunar guard. Night guards were regular ponies who specialized in working in the night and served under Celestia as a special operations force.

In short it was the night shift equivalent of the Solar Guard or day guard but was technically the same thing. The Lunar guard was a singular special forces and operations branch that served under Princess Luna and was fiercely loyal to her since they were formed. What set them apart from Celestia’s guards, Aside from their fighting style and tactics, was they were a race of bat-like ponies called thestrals or simply bat ponies.

“You, guard, I need you to give word to Captain Shining Armor and have him dispatch a small squad of guards to Ponyville for only the entire night.”

“Yes, your highness, right away!”

The guard left and it was just the two sisters.

“Well, now that that’s out of the way, let’s take that walk shall we.”

Luna nodded with a smile and left, but had an uneasy feeling about this whole situation.
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Within the guard barracks which was under the castle, yet not as far down as the dungeons, many royal guards sat around at the mess hall, eating, chatting, or drinking, to those who were off duty.

Many of the conversations were regarding the recent changeling invasion, most were relatively unhappy about it, while some just let it slide, such as a Stallion by the name of Spear Head, a Pegasus guard.

He had light brown fur, tan irises, and a hidden white patch on his muzzle which was concealed by the helmet.

He sat alone, thinking things over.

“Hey, Spear, you okay?”

He turned to the voice and saw a mare in the same blackish armor with a white plume on the top of her helmet.

She had bluish silver fur, orange irises, and was a unicorn mare.

“Hey, Solar Spark, I’m just thinking about the invasion, I mean how could something like this just happen?”

She sighed and gave him an unknowingly look.

“Well they can shape shift so they were literally off our radar until the beginning of the wedding of our Captain, shame he’s only going to be captain for a few more weeks, first lieutenant Stone Hoof will be promoted to Captain when that happens.”

“Well, aside from all that, you were pretty great out there, I’ve never seen you fight that bravely before, I like that in a mare.”

Solar Spark blushed heavily, diverting her attention elsewhere.

“Uh, thanks, you were pretty good yourself…”

As she left, another guard came over, an old friend of Spear Head.

“So, you two have been at it for quite some time now, you two a couple yet?”

Spear Head slightly chuckled but shook his head.

“Not yet, Dynasty, I’m gonna ask her out though, not sure when or how.”

“The other guard took a swig of some apple cider. You better get to it before somepony else gets to her before you do.”

Before Spear could say more, the door opened swiftly to reveal Captain Shining Armor.

“Ten hut!”

All the mares and Stallions in the room stood at attention.

I have been given word by the Princesses that they want a small group of guards to patrol ponyville for the entire night, I will be selecting guards now.

“Dynasty, Spear Head, Solar Spark, please head to my office immediately!”

Spear Head along with his fellow guards and love interest were shocked to hear that the Captain had selected them out of all the other guards who had far more experience than they did, they weren’t newbies but they weren’t veterans either.

They walked down the many halls of the castle, all remaining silent until they reached Captain Armor’s office.

Spear knocked on the door and got a swift response.

“Enter.”

They did so and saw their Captain awaiting their arrival.

“You are probably wondering why I selected you and what you will be doing down in Ponyville.”

“Yes sir.”

Well to put it simply, there is a mysterious canine-type creature lurking around the Everfree forest and has entered one of the Elements of Harmony’s house.

“Would this just be a regular stray dog sir? With all due respect, I don’t see how this warrants a guard patrol within Ponyville’s borders,” Solar Spark asked.

“The Princesses, my little sister, and the Element of Honesty don’t believe this is a dog as it is the size of your lot and can run faster than most canines out there.”

“In short, if this thing gets aggressive, it could inflict some serious harm to any pony it attacks.”

“You are to keep this creature out of Ponyville until morning, in the morning you will be replaced by a few animal experts and the Elements.”

“Yes sir!”

“Perfect, the chariots are ready for your departure, good luck and stay safe.”

The team left Shining Armor’s office and headed down the halls with interested looks.

“What kinda creature are we dealing with, a wolf?”

“No wolves are made out of wood, rocks, and leaves, this thing has fur, it’s got to be some type of enormous dog.”

“Maybe it is a hybridization of both?”

Everypony turned to Solar Spark.

“What? It’s just a thought.”
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Back to me.

It was finally night and I had reached the edge of the field, and the worst part was, I was still hungry. Granted, I wasn’t about to eat these horses, if they were anything like humans, kill one, the rest won’t stop till they have hunted you down. So yeah… horses are off the menu. I wasn’t going to stoop to such low levels as to eat pets, that’s just as bad.

“Maybe I cou…”

I noticed movement near a moss covered shack, or whatever it was.

Deciding I had time to check out whatever this was, I moved closer to the odd house.

This house had perfect and newly washed windows so someone obviously lived here.

“Talk about a fixer upper”

I looked inside the house and saw something that made my hunger reach an all time high! Countless delicious looking forest critters slept peacefully in beds.

”Well… they are forest animals and prone to predation so I suppose it wouldn’t be wrong to eat them as it is just nature.”

I saw a lake nearby and decided to finally take a look in the mirror. The two things that confused me though were the shorter ears, more robust body, and shorter fur than most gray wolves had. That and the fur color was incredible odd, I had to think about this more.

I walked up to a door and used my human brain that I somehow retained in this canine body and pawed at the door handle multiple times but I couldn’t open the damn thing. “So much for my human brain, this was an absolute waste of ti-.”

I saw multiple doggy doors, each of different sizes. One was the perfect size for me, and I slapped my face with my paw.

“Boy, from intellectual to acting like a complete dunce, oh well, it doesn’t matter now, I’m hungry, my ribs are showing, my deepest condolences to whoever’s animals I'm about to slaughter.”
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Fluttershy was sleeping in her room, snug and cozy in her bed. She dreamt about being on a picnic with her friends and enjoying the crisp air blowing against her face.

Her eyes opened in milliseconds, her pupils as small as pinpricks.

She shot up from the warm covers to hear the sounds of her animals shrieking in fear and pain.

Not even being able to imagine what could be causing this, she quickly made her way downstairs. Usually Fluttershy would be hesitant on even going down there, but her animals were in danger and that was the main drive for her.

Reaching the bottom of the stairs, she was met by a grizzly sight. Animals lay dead, their insides torn open, blood and entrails strung out everywhere.

Her animals had just been completely mutilated.

The few that had survived were cowering in corners and hiding places.

In the middle of all this was what Applejack and Apple Bloom had encountered.

A large, hairy, robust canine was eating the last of the killed animals, and Fluttershy noticed this was Angel bunny.

It was the same creature without a doubt.

Fluttershy was stuck in fear as the creature looked up at her as if it were a foal who had been caught stealing from the cookie jar.

Right behind her came Mr. Bear, a large grizzly bear. He stood up at his full height which towered over the canine and let out a ferocious roar. This, as Fluttershy expected, made the creature turn tail and run out the door.

Fluttershy didn’t know what to do, but there was one thing she knew she had to do, and it was to inform Twilight immediately.

She knew it was in a wolf’s nature, as she had no choice but to identify it as a wolf for the moment, to hunt and kill its prey, but it was not in their nature to enter pony settlements and houses and eat the animals they lived with.

She knew if this continued, a pony casualty would not be far away, especially a foal.
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Back to Izaac’s POV.

“Holy crap, those animals could talk, I could literally understand them, more so than those wooden wolf things!”

I ran away from the mossy house as I got my fill. I tried to erase the idea of those animals’ ability to speak English and communicate with me, but I was a wild animal as well so I guess it makes sense.

I made my way into the town and by god was this place colorful, even at night.

I mean this was like the damn Swiss alps, these houses were made of wood and straw for the most part, some stone foundations here and there.

But there it was, the most bizarre house in this town, a house that literally looked like it was made out of candy.

Better stay outta there, that place could be my Kryptonite if dogs are anything to go by, I’m not taking chances, but maybe a gummy or two.

I kept hearing the sound of flapping wings, I looked up to see… nothing. I felt like someone was following me but as long as they didn’t follow me back to that castle I’d be fine, I don’t need this entire town after me.

I found a… well… I wasn’t sure what the heck it was, it looked like a tree but it had windows, a door, a balcony, and a freaking giant telescope on it.

“That’s some hobbit style shit right there.”

I took this into consideration that these horse creatures were not only intelligent enough to build houses and a civilization, but could understand constellations or something of that sort.

What I didn’t like doing was underestimating potential opponents. I didn’t see these creatures as an imminent threat to me yet, as I would defend myself if absolutely necessary, but I couldn’t be naive either.

I began to squint as a bright light began to approach my path. Avoiding detection, I ran behind the treehouse thingy and took a peek at what had rounded the corner.

It was another horse, but this one was different.

Not only was this one more bulky than the female ones I’ve seen earlier, not saying the orange one was muscular in some way as she was, but this one wore a suit of blackish silver armor.

It didn’t take a genius to figure this out.

“Oh crud they have a damn military, that could be a major thorn in my side if they decide to use it against me, I’m one dead man- I mean wolf.”

As I had to be more careful than usual, in order not to be mounted on a wall, I went off to explore the rest of the town.

It was mostly the same stuff over and over again, I found some sort of merry go round house thingy and a wooden structure in the middle of town. I soon reached the outskirts, not near the forest and that little grass covered hippie house, but the opposite end of town.

It was fairly empty up here, but I noticed one house I didn't see at first. I wonder why such a house would be secluded from town. It was a nice house I’ll say that.

Interestingly enough it had a two toned style to it. One side of the house which was nearest to me was a vintage wooden design, most of it was just bricks, I couldn’t tell what color due to the night and all.

The other side was a light color that looked a little more excitable, not like I really cared.

I was going to turn back until I heard the most beautiful noise, I instantly knew what noise could produce something of that class and that was a cello.

I was secretly a fan of the cello, although I never really got around to take lessons, I made my way to the window. I was interested that someone was awake at this hour.

I looked into the window and saw not a human but a rather elegant mare with gray fur, a charcoal black mane and tail, and a treble clef tattoo on the side of her butt, physically playing the cello.

Yeah, I forgot to mention these things have tattoos on their buttocks, I mean like what the heck! But that wasn’t important at the moment.

I was just astounded that this creature could play a cello without any hands and could do such a beautiful job, yeah I was a sucker for these kinds of things, but hey, sue me!

As she opened her eyes, she unfortunately saw me at the window watching her. But she didn’t shriek or cower like I thought she would, she instead showed a little bit of interest as she put her cello away and slowly walked over to the window.

We made eye contact, I looked into her very pretty purple orbs which happen to be her eyes.

“Are you what all the fuss is about?”

I didn’t want to nod my head as that would make me seem too intelligent and would most likely raise alarms that I was no normal wolf, more so than usual.

“Huh, well you can’t be here, not with the guard patrolling, I don’t want to get in trouble for harboring you.”

I gave the best puppy dog eyes I could, hoping I could at least make some sort of Ally who could defend me if possible, can’t just make enemies constantly.

The mare tried to avert her gaze but I guess it was just too much as she went to the door with a groan of frustration.

“I’m going to regret this,” she grumbled.

Opening the door, she noticed just how big I was. She was taken by surprise but soon shook off her shock.

I oddly didn’t really notice the pink bow tie and neck piece until now.

“You can’t stay here, but I can get you something to eat, i assume your just going to keep coming back if I feed you so please for Luna’s sake come back at night, my roommate will most likely be available due to her night raves, she’ll let you in and what not.”

I let out a soft bark in acknowledgment, at least there was one gesture I could do.

“I’ll take that as a yes.”

She walked over to the kitchen and prepared some food. I assumed she had no dogs, seeing these horses actually had pets, so she wouldn’t have dog food.

I wanted to call them something other than horses as they really didn’t resemble them too much.

I couldn’t call them donkeys as that would just be degrading and wouldn’t be accurate as they looked nothing like donkeys.

Mules wouldn’t work either.

“I got it! I would call them ponies from now on. It fit, they were small, had smaller muzzles, well, more cartoonish muzzles than anything else.

Of course there were parts of their body that were out of proportion like their giant eyes, I mean I’m not sure how their brains fit in there but okay.

She brought over a bowl of food, which was not really a dog bowl but a regular bowl.

I sniffed it to make sure there was nothing dangerous that could hurt me such as poison, you can never be too sure.

Not smelling anything that could give me a hint of poisoning, I slowly began to eat. After I was done, I had to say I was full for once.

“Well, get to wherever you live.”

I left the house and looked back at her, silently thanking her for being the first pony to not run me off or attack me.

I made my way down the hill and into town once again, in case I had missed anything. Not seeing much nor anything new, I was about to leave until a blinding light engulfed my vision.

“Son of a-!”

“Hey, Guys, there it is!”

I looked to the side of me and saw more of these armored horses and they did not look happy to see me.

“Damn it, I better get the heck outta here!”

Running for my life, I darted through the town, trying to escape my pursuers. I noticed these odd lighting strikes on the ground, as I had no idea where they came from.

“What the devil?”

I made it to the edge of town and rushed as far as I could into the forest. They didn’t seem to be following me so I slowed my running.

But there it was again, that strange smell. This time I really felt like I wasn’t alone, more so since I entered this freak show of a world.

I felt like there was a huge presence in the vicinity. Hearing heavy snorting, my ears fell and I slowly turned my head to see two glowing eyes connected to what appeared to be a huge creature that stood somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 to 14 feet tall.

This thing was monstrous and I did not wait around for this thing to make me its meal.

I dashed off as hard as I could go but realized this thing was not following me.

“Regardless, I was at the castle once more. Honestly, with all the predators out here, I’d like to be nice and cozy in the pony’s house with free meals and belly rubs-.”

“Whoa whoa whoa, Izaac, you’re a human, not a dog, or at least in the inside, you can’t give into such temptations!”

Forgetting all that, I layed down on the bed I found in the castle, it wasn’t comfortable but it would have to do.

It soon began to rain and there was holes in the ceiling.

“Damn it!”