Moonlight, Moonlight, Let my Fangs Gleem Tonight

Spirit walked out of the Blacksmith's holding a wrapped gift, tired and sooty. He had been working in their ever since he got back from his excursions into the diamond dogs caves. After the blood bath he had created down into the caves he went to a river to wash away the blood that almost covered him entirely. He wasn't proud of what he did but he did feel relieved, he hadn't killed something in a while aside from the deer, he hadn't killed anything that could fight back. For some reason he had a horrible desire to do this every once and a while. He would never give into it however but it would eat at him, when ever he was in large crowds for example. He felt relieved that that specific desire was silenced within his mind. Once he had cleaned himself off after the killings he went to the town blacksmith who let him work on the lazulite crystal. It took around 3 to 4 hour to perfectly shape the diamond into the shape he wanted, but he had done it. He was pleased of his work and the fact that he hadn't lost any of his talent for it either. He plan was deliver his gift to Rarity's friend and then leave town, he had written a not inside too just encase she went looking for him. She knew he would. The lazulite would give him away and the fact that he didn't do anything to her in the cave as well must have tipped her off. Spirit looked at wolf who had waited patiently outside and said "Well tonight gonna be our last night here. Hope you enjoyed the ride" the wolf puffed in a 'doubt it!' manner. Spirit laughed and he started down the road, he remembered where exactly where Twilight house had been because out of all they houses, it was the only on that was basically memorable, aside from Rarity's house which was now half a pile of ash. He got there and knocked on the door.

"Hello? Oh Spirit! You left so early this morning. I was worried, whats the matter?" Twilight asked.

"Sorry I worried you but I have a gift for miss Rarity. Please give it to her when she get to town." He said giving her the package.

"Wait how do you know Rarity will come back? we don't know who took her or anything." Twilight asked perplexed.

"Don't worry, she'll be back." He said, putting his hat on and tuning to the road. Twilight looked confused but shrugged and went back inside.

Before taking off Spirit decided to at least stock up on some food for the road. He went to the local supermarket and decided to get some bread. Once he purchases the items he starts to head out of town, and notices two guards tailing him. They weren't close enough to grab him but they kept a distance of around 5 to 6 feet. When Spirit tried to look back and see them, they would try to blend into the crowd but the wolf wasn't fooled so easily. Spirit decided to just ignore them, they couldn't possibly know that he was the Lycan but he knew that they couldn't take him anyway, at least not two.

He continued walking, getting closer and closer to the edge of town with less and less ponies around as well, except for the two guards that we tailing him. He was beginning to get exasperated with them because if they were gonna follow him, he would at least like them to give him a valid reason or just it over with already. After a bit longer, he stopped and so did they, he turned and they knew that hiding themselves was useless and so stood their ground. They looked at him through their visors and he looked at them, with the same intensity but adding his own ferocity with it. The he heard a noise and heard the wolf growl. He turned again to where he was heading and saw that there were three more guards, two of them pegasi and the other a unicorn. They looked at him like hunter would a prey.

"Trust Spirit Havenger. You are under arrest for being a Lycan" One of the said to him, in a solid tone. Spirit laughed for two reasons; one because the phrase didn't really make sense, being a lycan wasn't your choice so how could you arrest someone for something they cant choose to be. The second reason was the fact they had found their target but he knew that they wouldn't catch him.

"Please, lets just get this over with." Spirit said, stretching his limps out. They all attacked at once, but Spirit had one major advantage over them which was his brute strength. He took one by the scraps of his armor and chucked him across into the pond. He turned and hit another in the face, hard enough to dent his helmet. The last two jumped onto him, tackling him down to the ground. He threw on of but the one wit the dent helm replace him. Spirit thought that this was planed out and this was a capture thing which was why the unicorn wasn't doing anything, he was there to knock him out. Spirit also knew that the wouldn't be able to win this one. He had wasted to much energy in the caves, he didn't enough left to manage to get them off and escape. And turning into a wolf would only loss time and give the unicorn ample amount of time to fire the paralysis beam. He decided to just get captured and then break out later and so called out to the wolf who was keeping the unicorn busy by trying to bite him viciously "Brother go find sister. I shall find you later." The wolf barked in retaliation but Spirit just barked out "GO!" The wolf, after one last attack at the unicorn left. Spirit managed to throw off one of them again and then hit the one with the dented helmet in the ribs causing him to keel over in pain and lose of air. He then got up and threw the last one at the unicorn who dodge it and shoot out his paralysis beam which struck Spirit straight between the eyes, which also knocked him out cold.

Rarity was walking leading Sweetie Bell through the forest at a moderately fast past. She knew that they should be going slowly due to her state and Sweetie Bells but she needed to find somepony. She had to ask that specific pony a very important question that would solidify her emotions and make sure that she was right about it. She also knew that this specific pony was a bit of an idiot with his emotions and following them so he would need help understanding them. She figures that she could drop Sweetie Bell at Twilight place because she was probably closest to the forest seeing as her library was almost at the literal edge of town. She knew that she should be worrying about her own well being but she knew she wouldn't be able too sleep easy without that one questioned answered.

The town was surprisingly quiet for it being in the middle of the afternoon. There was almost no one in town and the people who were were running in the direction they knew to be where home was. Rarity was beginning to feel tired and she knew that she had to get Sweetie Bell to Twilight's.

"Who is it?" Twilight asked, as she began to open the door. She stopped upon seeing Rarity and her eyes filled with tears, she hugged Rarity and said in a loud wail of happiness "We were so worried about you? Rarity, What happened?"

"Whats with all the racket?" Spike said in an annoyed tone. Then he saw Rarity and stopped half way done the stairs and his eyes grew with obvious joy as he jumped the final steps as he ran towards Rarity and bear hugged her leg. He was wailing something but it was completely incoherent because of the wailing and because Rarity had begun to realize that her loss of energy was greater than what she would have thought and she began to sway violently. She only barely heard Twilight's yell of surprise and Sweetie Bell worried calling of her name was nothing more than a very soft whisper. She was passing out and she knew that, the only thing she could remember from arriving at Twilight's house was seeing a package on the coffee table with her name on it.

Spirit woke up in a cage, with not much light but a small candle outside the cage. Not the first time eh! Spirit got up and stretched his aking muscle which did hurt him a lot, stretching muscle right after use was not a good idea. After a bit more stretching he went around to check the bars on his cage. Cages were a very interesting concept seeing as it was supposed to keep somepony in and at the same time keep somepony out. He decided to check the bars seeing as the was usually an inconsistency that guards tended to over look when setting up the cage. He hit the one in the middle of the sides, the ringing suggested that they were pretty thick. He gave the corner bars a good thwack, the sound that reverberated off of them was even weaker then the ones in the middle, suggesting either a different more durable metal or was thicker then the other ones. He figured that he would have to bend open the middle bars to escape, he then reached up to straighten his hat. But there was only air. Dammit, he thought. They could at least kill me with my hat really! Give me some dignity at least! He decided that he would try the bars again, this time he listened in more carefully and he heard something, a small hissing. He looked at the bar and saw it glow very faintly. It was magically repairing itself.

"Hah these guards have thought of everything haven't they!" Spirit said out loud, expressing more of his surprise to this precaution.

"Well looks like the beast has risen" a voice had said from the darkness. Spirit turned to see the commander of the Hunters; Boulder Strong.

"So what do I call you? Commander Strong or Commander Boulder?" Spirit asked more out a cheesy joke then an actually question.

"No, you can call me Commander."

"Well, commander, are you here to ask me some question or are you going to read me my rights before you execute me?"

"No, we aren't going to be executing for another two days now. But I am here to listen to you beg for you life before your death."

"Wait, I am supposed to plead for my life? I thought you were smart"

"Oh were smart all right, how did you think we found you?

"Helpful tip" Spirit said, with a deadpan look, "But if you were smart you should know that breaking out of this place is easy"

"Of course it would be, but you wont because your not going to be leaving here and seeing as your not I might as well torture you for what you have done to me"

"Done to you?" Spirit said in a exasperated tone, "I don't even know who you are? I am pretty sure we have never meet"

"Oh is that what you believe?" Boulder Strong said, "Tell me if this doesn't look a little familiar". He pulled his cloak off of him revealing a very large scar in parallel from one another. The scar was all to familiar to Spirit and he thought hard on to who he might have attacked during his transformation.

"Here is a hint, its been five years and almost most three month since I've had it." He said smiling. Spirit froze, if he thought back, that was when he had murdered an entire town.

"How did you survive?" Spirit said in a very soft voice.

"Well I thought my name gave it away." He replied with a chuckle, "I guess you thought one well place slash would finish me off but, well, I am pretty sturdy if you ask me."

"Well I am sorry that I didn't kill you" Spirit said.

"Which is exatly why I am going to keep you here, torturing you for everypony from that little town that you slaughtered. But i do have one question"

"Which is?"

"Who was in control? I assume the beast but if you had guided it..." He didn't finish. Spirit took a deep breath and said "I cant say that the beast slaughtered the town, because I controlled the beast, that time." Boulder Strong laughed out loud and continued so hard he began to cry.

"Now that I know that. You shouldn't be alive after the torture I am going to do to you" He laughed. Great, Spirit thought, so much for the element Honesty. Boulder strong took four small orbs from a pocket and rolled them into the cage. Spirit looked at them with his hairs on ends. Then they all propped themselves up on a tri stand they came out of them. Then one of them glowed a bright red, which then stopped after about five seconds, the glow went out as a blast of flames was emitted from the orb, burning Spirt who screamed in pain as the fires continued to burst out in a steady stream for around thirty seconds. Then another one of the orbs glowed a deep blue, which then also went out within five seconds, emitting a globe of water which surrounded Spirit for around a minutes. Spirit tried to move from the bubble of water that surrounded him but the bubble moved with him. Once that one was done, the third orb glowed a bright yellow, which went out after emitting an electrical pulse through the cage's metal bars, electrifying Spirit in the process, sending his nervous system ary. The last one glowed a dark purple color which when extinguished, caused Spirit to feel a massive pressure upon him, forcing him down to the ground. The entire time Boulder Strong was laughing at him.

"How do you like em? I thought of it myself, specifically for you. And the best part is that they will keep going until i feel like stopping them." He said walking out of the room. Spirit got up before he was electrocuted again. He screamed in pure agony.

Rarity woke up in a fright, bolting straight up. She had a very intense and realistic nightmare that caused this sudden reaction. The dream involved the Lycan going around destroying everything in sight, and then without warning the Lycan would transform into Spirit and he would continue on the rampant destruction. The dream had woken her up when Spirit was half way turning into the Lycan as he was above her a killer intent in his eyes, his hoof raising up into the sky. That where the dream had ended leaving Rarity a bit traumatized. She looked around the room she was in not remembering what had transpired over the day before. She tried to remember watching Spike snore as he leaned on one of the couch legs. She looked around the room again this time taking in her surroundings. She was in a library, which led her to believe that she was at Twilight's house. Then she saw the package on the table and everything came back to her in a blast of images and emotions. She remembered the diamond dogs capturing her and forcing her to work in the caves, she remembered the Lycan coming in a saving her and her sister. She remembered the bloodbath he had created, she remembered the question that she wanted to ask Spirit. She got up quietly, being careful not to wake Spike. She went to the package and took into the kitchen to which she bumped into Twilight.

"Oh Rarity, are you OK? You had quite a fall once you arrived and we thought you where sick or something" She asked

"Oh no Twilight, though I am very famished. Do think that you could wipe up something hearty?"

"Of course, anything specific?"

"No, just please make it hearty"

"OK then, I'll be finished in about 30 minutes." Twilight said turning to the stove, summoning things from the fridge and cabinets. Rarity sat down on the table and opened the package to find a large box and rolled up piece of paper. She looked at the rolled up then decided that it couldn't be bad to look at it. She opened to see that it was a letter from Spirit, it made her heart speed up and at the same time retreated into the depth of her mind. She knew something about him yet she wasn't sure of it, there was also the question that she wanted to ask him. She thought that maybe this would carry the answer that she wouldn't want. She put the not down, not knowing what to do.

"Aren't gonna open it?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know if I want to know whats inside" Rarity replied.

"What if its good news?"

"What if its bad?" Rarity almost snapped. Twilight said and sat down in front of Rarity and said "Rarity, no matter what you do, your going to read it because you want to know what Spirit thinks of you."

"How did you know?" Rarity said surprised.

"You just seem like your having some fairy tale related problems" Twilight said, "You want to know if he feels for you the same way that you feel for him. The worst that could happen is that he rejects you but do you think that would happen? And if that the case you will be able to move on and go forward with your life. Life is meant to be lived to the fullest with who ever you want, be it friends or family. You will read it." She finished, setting up the table using magic. Rarity sighed and opened the letter. It read;

'Hello Ms Rarity. I am sorry for contacting you like this. I am sure that you are a bit shocked by the Lycan coming in and rescuing you. I am also very sorry for those images that you must have seen coming out of the cave. I am very sorry for all of this. As you can probably guess I am the Lycan. I didn't mean for anyone to know this but seeing as you saw both of my forms there was probably no way of keeping it a secret any longer. I didn't mean for you to figure this out like this but it is impossible for me to continue to live here without someone else knowing. This brings me to my conclusion, I know i can't be with you. This isn't my choice but I must, if not I but you want to survive. If I could choose i would choose to stay with you but I don't want to put your life at risk as well as the others. Please don't follow me, by the time you read this I will probably far away. Don't send anyone after me as well, they will probably be hurt trying to find me. Please. I am very sorry about this. Have a great life.

From the Beast, Trust Spirit Havenger'

P.S I have made smaller crystal garments out of what remains of the lazulite. They should be worth enough to get your place back with the craftsmanship alone'

Rarity sighed in exasperation. Even while leaving he couldn't give her a straight answer to her question. Why was he so hard?

"Not the answer you wee expecting, I supposed?" Twilight said, serving Rarity an omelet.

"Worse." She replied. "He didn't even give an answer!" She almost yelled. "DO you think stallions know how our minds work but just don't listen to it or are they just oblivious?"

"Rarity if I had known that answer..." Twilight said chuckling to herself as she left the sentence hanging. Rarity began to eat the omelet, fuming at the stupidity of this Stallion's mind. Did he think that a bit of money and gems would woe her over him and make her forgive him. As she ate using her hooves she took the package and began to open it. What was inside made her mouth drop which was most un-lady like considering it was still full of food.

What was inside was a bust of Rarity. But it was no ordinary bust. Looking at on closer inspection it was a bust that was made with extra care and precision. Rarity head was in front of what was a large flame which surrounded her head like a mother would hold her child. The diamond was perfectly smooth, unlike most diamonds or crystal they had geometric like shape so that they have a face there attached to another face. This little statuette wasn't like that, it was smooth and detailed. It gleamed with a strange shine that didn't seem natural.

"Wow, what is that?" Twilight said. Rarity shook her head is disbelief. She tried to magically hold it in the air but something interesting happened. The magic that she used to try to levitated the statuette was absorbed by the statuette to which it glowed brightly with an soothing orange glow. Out of the statue came the sound of a guitar strum. Then it continued to a song that was very familiar to Rarity. She began to cry, remembering him clearly. His mane, his size, his sense of music.

"Its alright Rarity. Its alright" Twilight said.

"No it isn't!" She sobbed. "Spirit has left with out talking to me. I am now alone. The stallion I love had left me to keep me safe from himself. How can it be alright?" Then there was a thud on the door. Rarity stopped crying as she herd another thud on the door.

"I got it!" she herd Spike said. There was the sound of the lock opening then the sound of door opening. Then there was a yell of "What the b-" and then sound of Spike crashing to the ground. Rarity and Twilight walked into the room to see a familiar wolf on top of Spike. The wolf got up and shock itself as if he were wet. Then it turned to Rarity and barked happily running up to her began licking her face.

"What? Wolf!" Rarity yelled. The wolf stopped and howled in delight bouncing around at something Rarity couldn't understand. But then she thought, if Wolf was here then that would mean that Spirit had to be near by. Which could mean that he could be found.

"Is that Spirit's Wolf?" Twilight asked.

"Yes it is Twilight! That means that Spirit should be around" Rarity said her excitement growing.

"How do you know that?" Spike asked in somewhat of an disbelief and annoyance.

"Since when has Spirit ever been away from Wolf here without a good reason" Rarity said. "Come on Twilight!" She screamed with renewed vigor zooming out the door with Wolf and Twilight behind her.

"Wait!" Spike yelled thinking that he should tell them what he had done.

"AAAAAAArgh" Spirit yelled in pain as the electricity jolted through his mind. He was lucky that he had a small 30 second break in between the separated torture orbs or else it would he would have died a long time ago. Spirit felt that sometimes that dying would be easier and faster then trying to wait for the best time to break out. Yet the curse insisted on keeping him alive, feeding him magical energy which kept him going. Spirit tried to think which was crueler. The torture or the idea of keeping him alive through it. Boulder Strong wouldn't let him die and Spirit knew, he would come around at least three time every 5 hours. Spirit knew that he didn't want him dead yet, it would look like he killed a random person for no reason. Spirit did wonder why he waited two days for his execution, it would be easier to just turn up the voltage or publically stab him. That would easier, efficient and wouldn't cause much of a scene, well at least one of them anyway. Spirit couldn't tell how long he had been in the cage and how long he had been tortured for because where ever they where keeping him was under a tarp that was died black and didn't let any light in. He was forced to be keep awake do to the abnormal torture, and due to both the electrical shocks and what Spirit thought to be a gravity intensifier he was extremely tired cause both made him use his physical energy to a point of exhaustion. He had found a way to pass the time however, talking to the curse. He wouldn't give his name but he had let Spirit ask question about him and answered most.

He had figured that the curse was just about three thousands years old and he has had over two hundred host. However he never like allot of the host because their body structure had already been set due to allot of them adults or old stallions and mares. This surprised Spirit because it meant that he has had hostesses. He had asked if the feeling was any different and the only thing the curse had said in return was that the experience was different due to the fact that the mare were usually slender and less muscle mass meaning that it was harder to break through things due to the lessen muscle mass. He had said that he was his favorite host yet because had become a host at such a young age meaning that he had liberty to alter his body as he growed, turning him into the large Stallion he was now. He also told Spirit about the places he had destroyed and the people he had killed. He had killed many people and strangely enough has had duel with what was the Knights of the Round. He said that he had killed three of them before they cheated in the last duel and managed to kill him. Of course, he added, the downside to that was they were now dead. The curse had a surprising amount of honor, meaning that he would listen to people before killing them and agree in to duels. To Spirit it was strange, to have a curse have its own sense of honor and sense of respect. The curse had said that has respect of some people, Knight Lancelot was one of them as was Spirit for confronting him when transformed. Spirit was drowning when he saw the guards come in.

There was more then just one, there was two unicorns and three earth ponies. They came in and surrounded the cage. Once the orb water finished, a unicorn removed the orbs and then stored them away in some sort of storage container. Then the two unicorns levitated the cage as the earth ponies made a sort of formation around it. They walked out of the tarp and Spirit saw that it was night out. Then he saw the crowd of people waiting by some sort stage as he heard the last lines of Boulder Strong's speech which ended with the obvious "Here is your beast! In a cage where he belongs! Your beast who decides to kill he who he pleases him without any remorse for what he does! Your beast! Your Lycan!"

They brought the cage with Spirit in it onto the stage and shown light upon him to show his face to everyone. So it has been two days already? Spirit thought. Huh? Might as well play along. Spirit got himself up after one or two tries, and faced the audience and smiled apologetically.

"Sorry guys" Spirit said "I didn't mean to stay here for as long as I did. And I really had no intention of killing anyone. The time some pony did see me transform was when I was hunting for some meat. You guys do know that I don't own any money and that day I didn't get a good haul so, when life gives yo lemons make some lemonade. I didn't mean to scare anyone of you and I certainly didn't meant to hurt any pony. I wanted to leave after a two days but lets just say that I found my beauty as I was the beast. I am very sorry and I say-" Spirit stopped because of a very familiar feeling. A very bad feeling. Something that he dreaded every time he felt it but now he dreaded as he realized Boulder Strong's plan and saw an important flaw within.

"RUN!"