They're coming for me. Big mistake.

Jeff awoke after dreaming the same dream, a black and red dog with a humane smile. Jeff's smile widened at the fond memory. He got up and went straight to the river. He did the same as yesterday, catching the fish, putting more wooden wolves' bodies on the fire. He put a fish in to cook and decided to get a better look around.

He looked for the tallest tree he could find, climbed it, and took a good look at his surrounding. He also put his hood on to cover his eyes from the sun as he looked around.

To the east there was a small cloud of smoke, and to the other directions, endless forest. He sat there for a while deciding what to do.

Twilight awoke to a pulling on her foreleg. She looked and saw Spike with a tired look in his eyes and a letter in his claws. Twilight pulled it out of his grasp and read the letter.

Dear Twilight,

This creature might be trouble. I am going to send a detachment of guards to help you look for the creature. The leader of the detachment is your brother, Shining Armor. As soon as he heard that you were apart of this he wouldn't take no for an answer. They should be arriving around noon.

From,

Princess Celestia

Twilight read the letter again. Her brother was coming to help her. A smile crossed her face as she ran to the bathroom to comb her hair.

Time Skip

It was noon and Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack were waiting outside for the guards to come. Soon enough five carriages came from the sky and landed in front of them. The guards came out of each of them, one by one until there were about 20 guards, excluding Shining Armor who was the last to step out.

"Shiny!" Shouted Twilight as she have her brother a hug, it was then that the others noticed a large cage that was on the back of a carriage.

"Twily!" Shouted Shining Armor and hugged her back.

"What's with the cage?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"It's for the creature." explained Shining Armor.

There was a collective 'oh's, then Shining Armor asked a question, "How do you know it's in the Everfree forest, Twily?"

"Well the spell Lyra cast," Began Twilight, "summons the creature within a mile radius of the summoner. When Rainbow Dash did a fly over of Ponyville she didn't notice anything different, so that leaves me to speculate that it ended up in the Everfree."

Shining thought about it for a moment before saying, "It does make sense." Twilight beamed.

"Guards!" Shining Armor shouted, "We're going into the Everfree Forest to capture a creature. We don't know what it looks like, but we should know whether it belongs to the Everfree or not. Now, let's go!" The guards gave a salute before getting spears and swords. Once they were all equipped, they started towards the Everfree Forest.

Jeff was startled by a noise. It sounded as if someone was stepping on tree branches and leaves, and it was coming from below him. He looked down and saw a group of horses, some of which were equipped with weapons, going through the forest like they were looking for something.

He wasn't going to bother them until he heard someone talking, the voice sounding tomboyish. "Where do you think it'll be?"

Next came a timid voice, "I don't know, maybe hiding somewhere if it's frightened."

He quickly looked around for the voices when he realized that no one was around him, except for the horses. He cast another glance at them, taking a closer look. He realized that a majority of them had wings, while others had horns.

'What the fuck am I seeing? Am I high?' thought Jeff as he continued watching them. He then thought of a way to see if they would react. Despite what others would think, he would sometimes go to one of the libraries in his town and patrol anything that had to do with him, whether a police report or random fan stuff. He remembered one of the poems that a user made about him, and they all thought he was just a story.

He started the first verse, making sure the foliage keeps him covered, "Close your eyes, it's time to rest." His raspy voice carrying into the forest, everything went silent as Jeff continued.

"Your parents say that sleep is best.

You're drifting off as they sing a song." The horses were looking at each other, signaling that they are sentient. Jeff smile widened as he continued.

"But your parents, they are very wrong.

This is when I slip inside.

In the darkness is where I hide."

The horses then looked around the forest frantically while another voice came from them, "It's that creature! It's sentient!" Jeff ignored the comment and started it from where he left off.

"You feel me there, now you are shaking.

Your life is now mine for the taking.

You open one eye, then the other.

You start to cry and scream for your mother.

But that's the worst thing you could do.

Now I take your life from you.

I stab both your arms to start.

Then your stomach, then your heart."

The horses covered their stomachs, as if waiting for him to gut them. He laughed, and continued on.

"You reach your small hand out to me.

You find it's getting hard to see.

You think about the life you had.

You softly cry for Mom and Dad.

I can tell you're scared, looking at me.

My eyelids burned so I always see."

The last line made all of the horses wince, and something flashed across their faces. Pity? Jeff growled, not wanting pity, instead wanting them to fear him like he did with all the other animals.

"A smile carved in my face, too.

So they know that I love what I do.

I'm not a freak, I'm not a creep.

I just want you to, Go To Sleep!"

It was then that a butter yellow horse pointed at the tree Jeff was in, shouting, "It's in that tree!"

Jeff let out a growl before saying, "I don't like people spoiling surprises. You are no different!" Jeff jumped down from the tree, in front of the yellow horse. Pulling his knife out he got ready for a slash when something collided with him. It felt like something small had hit him in the chest, it knocked him off balance, making him fall backwards.

Jeff managed to turn the falling motion into a backwards somersault and stood at the ready with his knife out and in an ice pick grip. He saw where he was standing was a horse, a cyan blue color, with wings in the air, it's hind legs forwards as if it just kicked something.

Jeff laughed and said, "If you want to hurt me, your going to have to hit harder." He looked around and noticed that he was surrounded, except the way towards his camp. Knowing he couldn't win this fight by himself, he went for the opening and ran off into the forest.

Fluttershy was frozen in place, have come an inch away from death, only to be saved by Rainbow Dash. "Come on!" shouted Rainbow, "We need to go after it! Nopony tries to hurt Fluttershy!" Rainbow then took off into the air and flew after the creature.

"Wait! Rainbow!" shouted Twilight. Fluttershy, then promptly fainted. Twilight sighed before asking a question to the nearest guard, "Do you mind taking Fluttershy back to her cottage?" The stallion guard nodded, picked up Fluttershy, and carried her back the forest path.

"Let's go." said Twilight, as she followed the path the creature made.

Jeff was lying down in tall grass, waiting for the horses to pass. A little while ago Cyan Horse flew past him, not noticing him hiding. He then heard the sound of leaves crunching and dry grass crackling.

He watched silently as they passed and he looked down the path. He noticed that the next one to go past him was the last one in the single file line they made. He grabbed the horse when it passed and slid the knife across it's throat while holding it's muzzle closed. Jeff waited until the horse stopped squirming before uncovering it's muzzle.

It was then that he heard the voices again. 'Kill them all. They want to take you away because you're to beautiful.' started the voices inside his head. 'Kill them, they will give you the enjoyment of the kill if you look into their eyes.'

His head twitched slightly before following the horses.

Reflection, a unicorn guard that was assigned to capture the creature, noticed something strange. "Iron Defense, you there?" asked Reflection as she looked behind her to find nothing. She then rushed to the front of the line and reported her missing guard.

"Maybe he wandered off down the path, take Steel Defense with you." said Captain Shining Armor when Reflection told him about Iron Defense's disappearance.

She went to the pegasus known as Steel Defense, Iron Defense's brother. They wandered back down the path when Steel Defense noticed something, there was a red liquid on the ground. "Reflection! Over here!" shouted Steel Defense.

Reflection rushed over before she was grabbed by the horn and was muffled. She was then pulled to the side and heard a voice whisper in her ear, "Go to sleep." She felt something cold and sharp drag across her throat. She squirmed a bit, before she felt herself getting tired. Slowly she stopped struggling and drew in her last breath.

Steel Defense went to investigate the red liquid before coming across a body. It was his brother's. Iron Defense's throat was slit and was still bleeding out slightly.

Steel Defense almost vomited, he backed away and was getting ready to run to where the others were at, before he felt something cold press against his stomach. "Tell me where the others are, and I might spare you."

Steel Defense thought about yelling for help, before he felt the cold object push deeper into his stomach, sending pain through his body, "Don't even think about calling for help." The voice said again.

Steel Defense didn't say a thing, and was surprised when there was laughter, "Then I'll just add this spear I took from that body and stick it through one of your legs. The question is, which one?" Steel Defense felt something sharp against his left foreleg. "How about here?" said the voice again, Steel Defense felt white hot pain course through his leg. Steel Defense let out a scream, and was silenced immediately, with a slice to the throat.

The group heard a scream of agony, then silence. All the guards looked at each other worriedly before Shining Armor said, "It's over there. It got Reflection, Steel Defense, and Iron Defense. It's my fault." Shining Armor looked at the group sadly, "We still need to find Rainbow Dash and the creature, though." It was then that Rainbow Dash appeared in front of them.

"It's over there! Let's get it!" said Rainbow Dash, getting ready to take off before being covered in a purple aura.

"We're going after it as one group, as long as we surround it and outnumber it, we can get it." said Twilight.

Letting Rainbow Dash go they all started towards where the scream came from.

Author's Note

So. What do you think? Jeff already killed three guards, more to come soon!