The Defender

I woke up to find myself in the same clearing with the fox on the stone. "Why did you send me here? Why did you want me in this clearing with the foxes? And finally why is there a barrier to Ponyville? That I and only I can't cross? And where did my horn go??"

"To answer your questions in order. You were overworked and about to die from overworking yourself. And you're a good soul and everyone was taking advantage of you. Plus I need your help and Equestra needs your help. Second is to change the foxes into fox ponies like you but you're an alcorn fox pony. They can either be a unicorn, a pegasus, or finally a fox fox pony. The answer to the third question is it's not time. Fourth question is your spirit magic. You see, while normal ponies can use magic fox ponies of all types can use their spirit as a connection to magic. But be warned the spirit magic has to always have some in reserve or you will die. It's connected to your spirit after all." Said the fox with a roll of his eyes as if it would be obvious.

"Now I need you to gather as many foxes as you can and build a home here. And before you say it's bad on the foxes. What you're doing makes it so the foxes can think on their own and make their opinions known. Not to mention the life of a fox in these woods is around one to two years. You will be increasing their lifetime by many years and making their lives easier. Also these woods, the Everfree, are unstable since nightmare moon. Portals to other versions of my little pony will open. I need you to contain these. I will train you so you can contain these portals. And if you want you can go into those worlds connected with this one and fix them. But be warned there's worlds with Solar Flare, and Nightmare Moon, zombie apocalypse, etc. Now I'm going to leave you to do what you can but I will always be here if you need help. By the way, I suggest you first learn magic to find safe food. Bye." and everything turns black.

When I open my eyes I see that the foxes have changed, all of them are of each race. But they did have similarities: all of them had fox slits and big pony eyes, And all had fox tails two. Now there were Two pegasus, two unicorns, and three fox fox ponies.

When I leave the cave they all come out with me. I look back at the fox ponies.

"do you have names? or will I need to give you names?" The pegasus foxs start with their names

"My name is: Blaze" Blaze has a bright orange like a campfire coat with dark purple eyes with a white tail tip.

"My name is: Sara" Sara has a dark purple coat with lime green eyes with a white tail tip with the leading tip of her wings being a light blue.

Then the unicorn foxs "My name is: Arora." Arora has a horn, blue green coat with pink eyes and has a dark brown tail tip.

"My name is: Wisp." Wisp has a horn, cyan coat with a dark blue eye. The other eye starts as red at the top and ends at a light blue at the bottom. The tail tip is a dark blue almost black.

Then the fox foxponys i think or thats what im going to call them at least. "My name is: Zeak" Zeak has a forest green coat with silver eyes. And a light brown tail tip.

"And mine is: Sofea" Sofea has an autumn yellow coat with rust brown eyes. And a white tail tip. I look over at the last fox pony for his name when he says nothing I ask.

"Well what's your name?"

“*sniff*” "I don't have a name."

This last fox foxpony is completely black coat with bright orange eyes with a bright orange tail tip. "How about I give you one? Is that ok with you?"

"Yes…."

"Hmmm. How about Zan?"

"No."

"Pip?"

"No."

"Shadow?"

"Yes, I like that name." Says Shadow while doing a little dance.

"Ok your name is now Shadow." "Now I think it is time to get to business. If we are going to survive in this forest. That is, I want Sara to help Arora, and Wisp in the air. Arora, Wisp I want you to go find good food that is edible for us. I know we're ponies now. But that doesn't mean we can only survive on grass. Also Blaze, I need you to find clean drinking water. And be careful we're in the Everfree-Forest. if you feel you're being watched then come back here. It's more important for you to be alive than your tasks. You can always get your task done. But we can't revive the dead. And that goes for all of you, stay safe."

Once the four of them were off I looked at the last three.

"Sofea I want you to clear land for farming with Zeak. I also want you two to make a moat around where we are staying. The moat needs to be three of you deep and seven wide. Me and Shadow will try to make the den bigger. And before you ask, a moat is a tunnel/hole that goes around a structure." And off we went. At the hole for the den:

"soo how was your life before you became a fox pony Shadow?” I asked while working on the entrance.

"Well for me it was surviving in the forest and barely getting any food. You know we all had to leave the den to get barely enough food to eat. I'm so glad that you came along to help us out to make our lives easier."

"You seem oddly accepting of this. Why are you and the other not fighting against me taking command? I mean I just came out of nowhere, slept in your den, and now telling you guys what to do. And that's not considering. I changed you all into ponies or some type of hybrid."

"You see….umm, What's your name?"

"There's another reason for you guys not to trust me. I haven't even told you my name."

"And your name is?...." says Shadow with a wave of his hoof.

"My name is well… I think it's best to call me FoxFire, But my actual name is Drew."

"Well you see FoxFire. The reason is because there was a prophecy. That a fox with pony features will come and help all of the foxes in the forest bringing them to safety. So we may live anew. This fox will either bring great good or great evil upon Equestrea. That's why we did what you asked, Because we wish to live without hardship and fear any more." Said Shadow turning to look at me with hope filled eyes.

"Ok let's finish this up quickly so we can check on the others progress." Time skip to three hours later…

"This looks nice."

We made more room in the main room and made a small storage room on the side. The room is now big enough to fit all of us inside and four more fox ponies. But the room is still cramped.

"Hey Shadow can you dig this deeper? I need to check on the others progress."

"Ya, see you later FoxFire." Came a happy reply from Shadow.

Once I was out of the den. I looked around to see the two other fox ponies Zeak and Sofea. They have just finished clearing the land for farming, and now started with the moat. I looked over to the left to see Blaze flying over.

"Hey boss…"

"Call me FoxFire, Blaze."

"Hey FoxFire I found water you see," Blaze points toward the north with a hoof. "There was a river about a mile in that direction and it was safe to drink. Also why are Sofea and Zeak digging a hole around us?" Asked blaze with a tilt of his head.

"They're making a moat and we could divert the water from the river and use it to fill the moat and help the crops. You know when we get crops. Anyways, can you help them and tell them my name? That would be appreciated."

"Ok FoxFire see you then." said Blaze with a smile before turning and flying over to help Sofea and Zack.

"Ugg today is going to be a long day." I say while placing a hoof on my forehead. I watch blaze fly over to Sofea and Zack and start to think how are we going to survive long term in the EverfreeForest? I mean there's things in this forest that can kill in one swipe or eat me in one bite. The moat will help with the local fauna and maybe some animals but they can swim over. I might be able to make a wooden wall but wood is very breakable and can burn. And from the show a good amount of the local creatures can cause fire and can break it easily. I can try for a concrete wall but to make that i first need cement which is hard to make. I could go for an iron wall but I will need a way to keep it from rusting. But first I need iron deposits to do ether.
I go to fly and see a nearby mountain.

It takes me 12 minutes to get there. It's a small mountain only peaking over the trees by 30 feet. When I get there I look at the stone to see if there's any iron or copper ore in the mountain. What I'm looking for is rock that's a color from rusty red, deep purple, yellow, and dark gray to find if there's iron. I hope it will be more visible because of the bright cartoon colors. When I get to the mountain there are red spots here and there and it looks like the mountain is iron rich. I turn around and go back to the den.

Back at the den… Sara, Arora, and Wisp just got back to the den "So Arora how are you faring with the changes?"

"It's been fine. I mean the horn is new and the weird. since has some getting used to. When I close my eyes I can still see but besides that I'm good. how bout you sara? How are those new wings treating you?"

"It is odd for me that I can see these small currents in the air and I can fly without my wings. By that I mean I can fly with my wings closed. See Look."

Arora looks over to Sara and sara starts to float. Sara closes her eyes and sees Sara flapping her wings then opens her eyes and sees her wings against her body. "You are flying with your wings but not."

"How? What do you mean?"

"Well when I closed my eyes I can see you flapping your wings but when I have my eyes open there up against your body."

"We need to ask the boss about this but back to what we were doing before, do you think he will accept the food we got?"

Wisp finally decided to speak up. "You'll just have to wait and see until then, Who knows?"

Back with me: I was just flying above the din area. It looks a lot like a military camp. I look around and see the food group. I fly towards them to see what they have collected. "Hey FoxFire what do you think?" Said Wisp looking at the food they have collected.

The food they have collected was: one zap apple, 10 apples, 3 garlic, 8 carrots, and 3 potatoes.

"Good haul umm give half of each and give them to the fox foxponys and let them know to plant them over there." I say while pointing at a cleared patch of land. I was about to leave to check on the den when Arora and Sara came over.

"Hey FoxFire, I and Sara were experimenting." Then they informed me of what they did earlier.
"Do you know anything about it?"

I put my hoof to my chin and thought about it. I looked over to Sara and Arora. "I will let you know later. I have to think about this." I head to the den when I get to the den I lay down to think about their abilities. In the den shadow has finished the carving of the den making it bigger. I go to a corner and lay down and close my eyes and fall asleep.

I open my eyes and see that. I'm back in that place with the fox on the rock. "I have some questions for you umm. fox what's your name I don't want to be calling you fox."

"My name is Willo and I want to start your training here. Every night you go to sleep I will train you and teach you of your abilities and how to lock down portals. So you had questions?"

"Yhea what's up with pegasus fox being able to fly without their wings and unicorns seeing things?"

"So to answer your question the three pony tribes have their own type of magic earth ponies can grow food super fast and are very strong. Pegasus are able to fly and manipulate the weather. And unicorns have a magic that is more malleable. Since you're going to be closing these portals, and maybe if you can fix what's wrong in the other worlds. I see in the future you will be fighting a lot so the foxpony’s have battle orandid abilities. Well they have what the three have. They also have a secondary ability that's separate from there cutemark. Soo well normal ponies have their main magic and their secondary with there cutemark. Fox ponies with have there main, secondary then there cutemark."

"So the abilities of the earth fox ponies or fox foxpony you called them is: the ability to heal themselves from near fatal wounds. can see the flow of water in plants like x-ray vision. And have the regular abilities of earth ponies."

"The Fox Pegasus has the ability to fly without using their wings, By using their spiritual wings, Fox Pegasus can see the wind as wisps in the air or dust. They can turn the ability on and off."

"And last and not least the Fox unicorn's abilities are that they can see and manipulate the spirit of things, and can only change the shape of another spirit if the other is willing. And can heal the wounds on other spirits. And more but it's risky. And has the abilities of a regular unicorn and magic exhaustion is less dangerous because it will pull enough from their spirit reserve to keep them alive. Makes it less fatal to get magic exhaustion but it will still put them out of commission."

"Now there's one more race type to talk about and that's you. The Fox alicorn you have the abilities of all three and more by more I mean you hide your horn not using its magic. You're wing’s can be cut off and still be attached with spirit magic. Your organs can still work after being stabbed through with anything. That means nerves and all. And all it will look on the outside is a see thru blue glow where cut or stabbed thru. You cannot see thro the glow unless you want it to be seen thru otherwise. it is like there are spirit versions there. And inside is like thick blue fog so you can't really see anything. But I do remind you to get healed if you're injured because you will still have the pain from the wounds, and will still bleed from said wounds. We will start training tomorrow night. We will start with a sword. See you tomorrow night." When he said that everything turned to black.