One Hunt

Rarity was walking down the street, relaxing from a long day and a half of work. A very famous model had stopped by I Ponyville the day after the heavy storm because her ride was soaked and needed to dry and resupply before starting it voyage again. The model had found Rarity's shop and liked two outfits that Rarity had just finished and asked for two of each in different colors by tomorrow after noon. So Rarity had worked all day and into the night, doing some final touch ups this morning and had decided to walk because she could sleep. Not really knowing it herself, she was really hoping to see Spirit again. The stallion had traveled the world and she was very interested about other places outside of the Equestrian border. She had gone to the street where she had first seen him but he wasn't there, and she decided to go looked around town a bit.

She decided to quit at around 3. She had looked everywhere in Ponyville for the traveling guitarist and his wolf and she was somewhat dejected about not finding him. She subconsciously walked into the town market, and she heard a voice call her name.

"Rarity how are you doing? Where have you been, I didn't see you at all yesterday?" Applejack said when Rarity approached her stand. Rarity smiled thinking that she at least meet one of her friends today and said "Oh nothing much, just wandering around. I've been working all day yesterday and this morning and so I felt like relaxing a bit"

"Are you sure, you have that one look in yer ey' like you're looking for somebody?" Applejack said putting a hint of the childish crush. Rarity smiled at her and thought she might just tell her because she knew that she would blab to anyone, "Fine if you must know, I was looking for a guitarist. The one with the fedora"

"Oh yeah, he was here yesterday right next to this stand actually. Him and his dog were doing there act with the guitar"

"Wolf"

"Excuse me?"

"The 'dog' is a wolf"

"Really and how would you know?" said Applejack with a tone that you would use when trying to see if your friend was lying or not. Rarity smiled and said "Remember the day before yesterday, Tuesday. How it rained cats and dogs" Applejack nodded, giving some apple to a customer, "Well that was the day I took Opalescence to the vet. After the appointment it had begun to rain and he helped me get back home. We had a nice little conversation." Applejack smiled, loving the fact that her friend had a good conversation with someone who wasn't highly sophisticated and rich.

"And so now yer looking for him again because?"

"He is a very interesting person to talk to. Did you know he has gone all the to-" Rarity was interrupted by a familiar shriek of fear. Fluttershy was racing adown he road, screaming in fear. Rarity jumped in front of her and was nearly tackled by her. Fluttershy was as pale as she could get and her eyes were filled with unnatural fear.

"Fluttershy please calm down" Rarity said trying to hold her friend down. Rarity looked at Applejack and asked "Do you have some water?" Applejack took a bottle of water out of a small cooler next to her. Rarity took and unceremoniously dumped it on Fluttershy, which shook her enough to stop her from screaming. Rarity pulled her friend up and asked "Fluttershy, now that you calmed down please tells us what has frighten you so much?" Fluttershy took a while to answer "M-m-mo-mo-mo-mon-monster". Rarity looked at Applejack and they had the same idea.

(Some time later, around 10-15 minutes)

"Hi guys, wha- are you ok Fluttershy" Twilight asked. Rarity, Applejack ad dragged Fluttershy to Twilight because she wouldn't describe the monster. Rarity dragged Fluttershy into the house and said " Twilight, it seems we have a problem but Fluttershy her is to frighten to describe the beast that she has seen and we were hoping that you could tell what monster Fluttershy thought she saw"

"Ok, she won't need to describe it, I just learned a new spell that might help us out here." Twilight said and turned to Fluttershy, "Fluttershy, I'm going to need you to calm down ok?" Fluttershy calmed down by taking a few deep breaths. Twilight then placed her horn of Fluttershy's for forehead; a small glow appeared there when Twilight removed her horn. Twilight then said "Ok, now I want you to close your eyes and just remember what you saw. There is no need to tell us just remember". Fluttershy's face showed focus and from the glow on her forehead, a projection appeared on the opposite wall. What they saw scared them; even knowing that it couldn't help them. Fluttershy opened her eyes and fainted at the sight of the beast. Applejack and Rarity looked over at Twilight who was shocked and in disbelief.

"What is that, Twi?" asked Applejack

"Werewolf" Twilight said.

Spirit was walking down the street with the look on his face that you would associate with someone who had had a great feast. Spirit was in a considerably good mood, this morning and the wolf was walking with a satisfaction in his walk. What made them happy as the fact that their bellies where full with food that could be considered good. Spirit hadn't had a good haul in yesterday and so could only buy one thing today. He decided to buy something for the wolf but he started barking at Spirit when he picked up the can of dog food. Spirit went outside and asked the wolf he wanted, the wolf responded by asking if they could hunt this morning. Spirit didn't want to admit it but he wanted to go on the hunt to. One problem about having some control over the beast inside is that you begin to have a hunger for meat. Needless to say Spirit had missed the taste of meat, and felt that he should feed to keep himself alive. After the sun had fully risen he finally agreed to the hunt. He left his stuff in his tree and him and the wolf went into the woods. When he was sure that he was far enough in the wood and was sure that no one would see he him. He transformed into the beast. Once he was transformed, he and the wolf went on the hunt.

Most of the morning was spent on the hunt. They had hunted two rabbits and one full grown buck, the wolf at the two rabbits while Spirit ate the buck leaving only the fur and some of the bones. He had thought that someone had seen him but he didn't believe it because he was so deep in the woods. The hunt had filled both of them up and made them feel warm inside, walking down the road looking for a good place to set up for today's performance. Though something wasn't right, the people were heading toward the town hall. He decided to follow out of sheer curiosity, and went on with the crowd.

"Is everybody here?" the mayor was saying "Good. Everyone please be quite, I have a very important announcement. I regret to inform you that there is a werewolf somewhere around or here." At this everybody in the crowd resonated fear. There were muttering everywhere, people whispering about werewolves, what they did, who they might be.

"Everyone, everyone please, calm down. We are taking precaution to ensure our safety, a curfew shall be installed, and the curfew start once the sun goes down. You will be warned once the sun hits the horizon. We ask you all to accommodate anyone who can't reach their house in time. Princess Luna and Celestia are both sending their elite guards to protect us in this dangerous time. Anyone who is still out after the sun is down is asked to go into questioning and the guards have been authorized to use force if you defy them. Now we ask you to go home seeing as the sun is almost at the horizon, unicorn guards will set up wards around our homes once they arrive. Please remain calm and have a good day."

The place wasn't safe anymore. Thought Spirit, remembering the first time a town had found out about the werewolf. It was a full moon and Spirit had transformed at almost reached a town, the moon was gone before he reached it but someone had seen the werewolf and warned the town. Once Spirit had entered the town he was thrown into questioning. Spirit denied being the werewolf but they seemed to know it was him. They tortured him, trying to get him to confess to it so that they could erase him from the world. They did many in human things; submerging him in freezing water for minutes, pouring burning charcoal over him, shock him with electricity, letting the people beat on him for hours on end. They never went too far, stopping just before he could die but making sure he stayed there. Eventually Spirit knew that they would never let him go, and so he did the one thing that still haunts him to this day. He slaughtered the entire town, every stallion mare and filly, leaving none alive. He knew that leaving just one alive would mark him as a wanted man. After he made sure everyone was dead, he burned the whole town down to the ground, making sure that no one would ever know about the town. This was something that Spirit wished he had never done, something that was still haunts him today, making him wake up screaming in the middle of the night.

"Spirit, are you alright?" a voice said, breaking him from the clutches of his dark and horrible memories. Spirit turned to see the mare that he had walked home two days ago, looking at him, worried. The mare looked him closer and said "You seem to be crying, are you alright?" Spirit hadn't realized that he was crying, he wiped his eyes and nodded. He gave a salute like gesture to the mare and began to walk away.

"Wait, do you have a place to stay. The last time we meet, you said that you are a traveler and I don't believe travelers usually don't have a place to stay." Spirit and the mare laughed at this and Spirit said "Well you are correct miss; I don't have a place to stay and thank you for caring. Now if you will excuse me, me and my pack brother will look for a nice alley way to fall asleep in"

"You've been sleeping in an alleyway! Ugh! Come with me" the mare said in a tone that made Spirit obeyed. She summoned up some magic and turned it into a lasso like thing, which she wrapped around Spirit and dragged him with her to Rarity's place.