Jeff the Killer

-New York City

   It was an unusually quiet and peaceful night in the  city, with barely any cars on the streets or people cluttering the sidewalks. A sleeping woman in her early twenties, wakes up in her city apartment to a loud 'thump'. She briefly recognizes the sound as something hitting a brick wall.

  Startled and annoyed, she listens in silence for a few seconds, but does not hear anything worthwhile to lose sleep over.

 'Must have been my imagination or something,' she thought. She tries go back to sleep, but isn't successful.

She could not let go of this strange... uneasiness...

  After several restless minutes, she thinks back to what could have caused that noise from earlier.  A bird? She thought. A freaking raccoon? What animals are big enough in the city to cause-

She hears more noises. Then, a knock , someone's at the door she thought. Now fully awake, she gets up from her bed and looks through the eye hole. She groans as she fails see anyone in it.

Is this some type of joke? She thought. It being past twelve, maybe someone thought it was funny to wake her up in the middle of the night?

Yet, her unusual feeling of uneasiness returns.

Slowly, a figure walks into her view in the eye hole, and slowly faces the door. She relaxed a bit when she had a good look at the figure. It was a kid. Maybe a sleepwalker? The city is a strange place, after all. Her mind reassured her that she was not in any real danger; just her imagination overworking itself in this ungodly hour.

  Yet, why did this kid's presence all of a sudden disturb her so much? She just wanted the kid gone.

   Alas, just standing still, she decided to quietly study the figure, as if the kid was the source her seemingly irrational feelings. She wasnt completely sure what gender the kid was because the figure was looking down and a white hood covered most of its face from her, but if she was to guess it was probably a male. She watched "him" for almost a full minute, as he stayed still as a statue, until she started to hear a faint snickering that slowly became louder as seconds passed.

Within seconds she hears outright laughing, then sees as he pulls out a large knife seemingly out of nowhere and starts to do something to the door. Startled, The woman quickly trys to orient her body downward to try to see, but gives up and looks back at the hooded figure. He then pauses on whatever he was doing, looks straight up to the eyehole, and grins. The woman could not stay quiet any longer. It was then that the woman knew true fear, the face of the person who kept her awake that night, and froze. It was horrifying, with eyes of a psychopath, completely white facial skin, and a smile much too big to be physically possible for a human being, she quickly backed up and started to silently sob, not knowing if the door would be able to keep that boy, no, MONSTER, from entering the tiny apartment.

Suddenly, with a big bang that was surely heard by the entire floor, It kicked the door down and stood there, giving the woman Its horrifying smile, before hissing:

"Go. To.  Sleep!"

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-Canterlot

"Your Majesty," Captain Shining Armor stated, "In order to protect ourselves, we must destroy the changeling problem at the source!"

"But is it truly wise to attack the changeling hive for the act of one?" Princess Celestia asked with a questioning tone.

"But princess, it was not one changeling! They are obviously working for Queen Chrysalis to weaken and destroy Equestria!" Shining replied fevorishly. "The only way to avoid this is to finally go on the offensive and destroy them first!"

"But the changelings were just defeated a few months ago," Celestia said, with slight smug. "They cannot possibly have regained enough power to even consider another invasion, at least not this soon. Especially," Celestia paused, "since procedures YOU commanded were issued to prevent them from infiltrating our cities and stealing love from our ponies."

Shining Armor did not reply, finding the floor very interesting all of a sudden.

Princess Luna, almost always being ignored from these important decisions, decided to speak.

"Sister, I must agree with Captain Shining Armor in this." Luna spoke. "The changelings must pay for their foolish actions against us and, if thou sees it necessary to exterminate them from this very earth, so be it."

Celestia, shocked that her sister actually spoke up during court, and further shocked when she realized she was arguing against her, asked,

"And why does it not occur that maybe the changelings deserve a second chance? How about the ignorance to the fact that changelings might have not even been responsible for the murders that this entire court is based on?"

"This is something that should have been done a long time ago!" Luna suddenly screeched in the Canterlot Voice.

Shining Armor backed up from the two Princesses, with Celestia and Shining wide-eyed from the change in volume.

"The changelings have been a thorn to the pony civilization for centuries!"

Luna spoke with rage. "We should have wiped those abmonimations from existence immediately as retaliation right after their invasion and attempted coup!"

"But I-"

"Do you remember?" Luna questioned. "Do you remember how that wretched queen, Chrysalis, disgraced you in front of your subjects? Ponies that saw you as an unbeatable protector of Equestria will start to lose faith in you... Unless you  destroy Chrysalis and prove once again that there is none more powerful than thou."

Celestia, for once, was speechless, struggling to argue against what she had heard.

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-Ponyville

Fluttershy was excited. With her plans to make a new animal friend of the creature she "provoked", she flies off of the cloud she was laying on and starts to land in the middle of market square.

    She decided to walk to the library, where her friend Twilight Sparkle lives. Her preference of walking over flying has been an enigma to her childhood friend, Rainbow Dash, for years. As she lands, though, she gets an unexpected shock of pain from her left hind leg. She looks at her leg in fear, to calm down as she realizes the cut wasn't severe. Not bad enough to need a trip to the doctor, at least. She wonders, though, if the cut will scar when it heals.

While im there I should also ask Twilight about any spells that prevent scarring, Fluttershy thought.

As she painfully limped, earning the stares of many ponies, she finally decided to fly the rest of the way, to her displeasure.

  Its not that she hated flying, but Fluttershy enjoyed her life connected to the ground, where all her animal friends were. Most animals could not reach pegasi exclusive areas such as Cloudsdale, making it a very undesirable place for fluttershy to be in. What if her animal friends needed her and she wasn't there?

She landed once again, wincing, as she knocked on the door of Twilight Sparkle.

The door opens with Spike greeting her.

"Hia, Fluttershy!" Spike smiled.

Spike was the only dragon that Fluttershy was comfortable around. Fluttershy did not truly vision Spike as a dragon at all, but more like a baby brother, but she would never say that to him.

"G-Good afternoon Spike. Is Twilight he-"

"Hey Fluttershy!" Twilight stepped into view, startling the poor mare. "..Fluttershy?"

"S-S-Sorry.. Twilight can you please help me if you can?"

"Sure, Fluttershy!" Twilight beamed, "what exactly do you need me to do?"

"Um.. I saw an animal from the Everfree Forest.. it was almost double our height and is very fast. Please, can you check if there is any books on animals like that?" Fluttershy pleaded, making Twilight a bit uncomfortable.

"Okay, then. Fluttershy, I am going to need to know a lot more about the animal you saw before we could do anything. There are plenty of large, fast creatures that roam the Everfree."

"Um..." Fluttershy studdered, "its top half was almost completely white, and its bottom half was black."

"Fluttershy, is that really everything? Come on, think!" Twilight pushed. As time passed, She started to secretly grow a curiousity for this creature as well. An animal that Fluttershy has never seen before, and to top it off has a bizarre discription that she never heard of.

"I-I think it was running on its hind legs." Fluttershy said. "It had four limbs. I think its fore legs each had a large sharp claw, but I am not sure."

Spike, now returning to the room the mares were in, spotted Fluttershy's left hindleg.

"Fluttershy, what happened to your leg? It looks like it hurts a lot!" Spike exclaimed.

All attention suddenly went to Fluttershy's left hind leg, where the injury resided.

Fluttershy, momentarily forgetting about her wound, replied, "Oh no, it is okay. Its just a scratch, it will heal just fine if I clean it later."

"It does not look like JUST a scratch, Fluttershy." Twilight states. "It looks like something-" Twilight goes wide eyed for a second, "Fluttershy, did that animal hurt you?"

"Y-Yes, but it was my fault!"

Fluttershy quickly retorted. "It is my fault, I probably threatened it by mistake. Animals don't attack people for no reason, Twilight."

"But if this creature is around Ponyville right now, what will happen if other ponies made it feel threatened?" Twilight questioned.

"If what you said was right, a large, fast creature with claws, lurking just outside of Ponyville, its presence will be a danger not only ponies, but to itself!" Twilight shouted, not realizing how loud she was talking until afterward.

"Oh, oh no. I don’t want that." Fluttershy starts to get tears in her eyes.

"Its okay, Fluttershy, I have a plan. First, I am going to write a letter to the princess. Then we are going round up the girls and safely and painlessly capture the creature."

 Fluttershy, upon hearing this, cheered up a bit.

 "If it is truly a creature never seen before, just imagine what we could learn from it!" Twilight hopped excitedly. "Spike! Get ready, we need to notify the princess and see what she says about this."

 *ahem*

"Dear Princess Celestia..."