Three nights before Spirit and his friends visited her, Zecora entered her basement and found a barrel. She dragged it up the stairs and pulled it outside. She looked around to see nopony around, but she opened the barrel anyways. A foul smell rushed out of the barrel and entered the clean air around the hut. Fillies and colts, they were all cut up and flung into some nearby trees. Many animals appeared and began to feast upon the bits and pieces. In an instant, they all stopped. The bears, wolves, baby hydras, cockatrices, and even parasprites froze where they were. They all tried to flee, but they were all grabbed by black tentacles that shot out from a pitch black tree. Zecora wasn't merely throwing parts of fillies and colts into the wild. She was feeding animals, and helping a greater monster feed. A bear, three parasprites, and a wolf were all sucked into the black tree, they seemed to have just disappeared. The tree moved towards Zecora, and lowered itself to be as tall as her. A faceless being gazed into Zecora's expressionless face. Zecora merely glanced off to her right and nodded. The faceless specter turned to it's right to find a creature with no eyes and very long claws. They both tilted their heads.

"Leave my master's domain." The faceless on said in a plain voice. They tilted their heads in the other direction.

"Why?" Questioned eyeless one. "Why should I leave these parts?"

"Because my master wishes to be that way." The faceless one said flatly. Immediately after finishing it's statement, they both lunged at one another. The faceless one shot multiple tentacles at the eyeless one, who managed to slice off the tentacles. Before the eyeless one could get any closer, it was sliced to pieces by extra tentacles that it hadn't noticed. The faceless one retracted it's tentacles and faced it's master.

"You knew it was coming tonight." It said. Zecora nodded. "Shall I stay on guard?" it asked. Zecora nodded. again. When day had arrived, Fluttershy discovered that one of her bears had gone missing.

Author's Note

Don't like it? Oh well. I'll get to work on the next REAL chapter even though no one reads this. Hope you like it.