Anthro

Hunter stood at the doors to the large building, a look of confusion and slight disgust on his face as he said to himself, "Gross, she's a horse and I'm a person. That's jut wrong."

He slowly turned around, facing the dark moonlit woods once more as he said, "He may think I am helpless, but he doesn't even know me yet." He then bounded for the nearest tree one more, grabbing onto it and quickly begun to swing himself from branch to branch, sometimes running and jumping gaps while doing mid-air flips for the fun of it. The freedom that Hunter felt was intoxicating, giving him a high like never before. He swung from branch to branch with ease until a small red light began to shine once more, breaking his concentration and causing him to fall from the somewhat high branch onto his stomach.

After groaning for a bit, clutching his stomach, he quietly grunted, "What do you want now?"

"Hunter," a woman's voice spoke back to him, "Hunter is that you?" The voice began to cry on the other end, obviously one of joy for the sound of him being alive. She quietly wept to herself for a few seconds before sniffling and saying, "Hunter, I miss you so so much. We've all been so worried about you!"

Hunter's eyes widened with surprise when he realized who it was, he took no time to respond and said, "Liara, I'm so sorry I haven't sent you anything in the past few days."

Liara gulped down her emotions, she sounded happy to hear Hunter's voice once more as she said, "Pinn has been telling me of your new hobby of getting kidnapped."

Hunter gave a small laugh, leaning up against a tree and sitting on the ground to preserve whatever energy he had as he went on to say, "Yeah well, there are a lot of things that we don't know, and from what I can tell there are a lot of answers here."

There was a long pause, Hunter worried if he had said something that could have affected her, or put her off, she lowered her voice over the communications systems as she said, "Y-You're not saying anything are you?"

Hunter was quick to respond, he could feel the worry in her voice and spoke with confidence, "Nope, the only things that I am telling so far is what's obvious. Like my body type and such."

"You aren't going into too much depth are you?"

"No," he began after another pause to think, "these things are intelligent but they don't speak English thankfully. Otherwise I would have spilled the beans by now."

Liara's voice became worried, "Hunter," she began with a slight shakiness in her voice, "don't joke about that, we can't risk losing you. You are important to us."

"I know, I know," he began, "but what if there is more to life than what I do?"

"Hunter," she started, "you are my mate, I've chosen you and once I have a child you can run off and do this sort of thing."

He took a few seconds to breath, memories of how the two of them had chosen each other when they reached of age and were given the pressure of having a child at such a young age. "Fine, I guess you're right. Anyways I'm glad you still remember me and I'm happy to let you know that I will be coming home by the end of the week."

Liara sighed with relief, "Good," she began, "I can't wait to see you soon!"

Hunter quickly responded with a smile on his face, "Yeah, I can't wait to see you too." WIth that, Liara disconnected and her voice stopped ringing in his head.

There was a moment of silence that hung in the air as Hunter got up onto his lower set of hands and began to gently walk around the tree. His eyes fixated on the night sky as he smiled brightly, he felt at peace until a voice broke the silence, "I dreaded the day I would ever see one of you again."

Hunter followed the sound of the voice to a creature that was in a open area, laying upon a makeshift hammock made of clouds that was suspended between two trees. The yellow eyes of the creature fixed their red pupils on Hunter as he said again, "So, when will it rain fire and brimstone?"

Hunter immediately got into a fighting stance, his hands wrapped around missing guns and weapons and only after a few seconds did he realize how silly he looked. He stood upright when he noticed the creature, that appeared to be a cross-breed of multiple animals, wasn't making a move on him but was instead laying down in the hammock. Hunter began to feel hot in the face as he said, "How long have you been listening?" He was beginning to feel embarrassed as he thought of this creature looking at him talk to himself out loud.

The creature began to shake his hand, as to mean that he was there for a while as he said, "Well... long enough to know that you aren't all crazy."

Suddenly it hit Hunter that he was speaking perfect english with this monster, and that the monster was able to understand him. Hunter began to back away slowly from the monster, without taking his eye off him as he said, "So... what are you doing here?"

The creature gave Hunter a look of exhaustion as to say that he has nothing to worry about while saying, "I don't know, the rest of this boring city is asleep so I just do what I want. I heard some commotion come from the forest and then I find you."

Hunter began to feel a little more relaxed as he asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

Discord hopped off his cloud hammock with a slight grunt, "Where are my manners," he began as he approached Hunter with his talon extended, "a rough translation from Hoovian to English would make my name Discord, Lord of Chaos."

Hunter paused, looking at the talon and then looking back up at Discord meeting his red and yellow eyes. After a few uneasy seconds, Hunter stuck out his hand to meet Discord's as he spoke slowly, "Name's Hunter, I haven't anything else to add to my name. Just Hunter."

Discord and Hunter quickly shook hands before returning their hands to themselves, the mixed creature began to float around Hunter as he asked curiously, "I've always been fascinated with you creatures, knowing a lot more about you than simple scripture, but I have never come to understand why you wear clothing for no reason?"

Hunter was a little caught off guard by Discord's sudden inquisition as he floated around him, disregarding the fact that his wings weren't even moving to keep him afloat seeing as the ponies could do whatever they wanted with their magic. He slowly followed the beast with his eyes as he responded, "Why do you care, you just said you're the god of chaos, why aren't you destroying everything?"

Discord slowly swooped down next to the biped, with his paw and talon on Hunter's bare shoulders and his face almost pressing up next to his as he spoke with his low hypnotic voice, "These ponies, these citizens that inhabit this world, they are powerful. It was one self-proclaimed god and her sister that froze me to stone for the first time." Discord let go of Hunter and turned to face him as he continued his story, "But the source of their spell was carried to a new host, and thus I escaped. It wasn't another cataclysmic event that followed, instead it was six citizens from a country town that sealed me once more. They let me escape a little while afterwards and changed me, made me obey them and realize the importance for companionship."

Hunter gave a suspicious look to Discord, "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that these ponies, the mortals, control the very forces that once ruled them. Soon there will be no gods, only the truth and blood." Discord turned Hunter's head to face the castle, making him look at the only lit room where the white unicorn slept, "You're the last piece to a big puzzle," he said in a grim voice void of any emotion, "you are the crossroad to a world void of hope and filled with knowledge, or a world built upon lies and peacefulness where order lives on."

Hunter broke free of Discord's grip and backed away from him as he said with worry in his voice, "I'm simply in a bit of a confusing situation, just on a mission to learn about these creatures." Hunter was beginning to feel uneasy of Discord's presence, fearing his words and how he could be right. Yet he still didn't understand how simply being here in the garden could bring an entire world to an end.

Discord could see the confusion in the small creature, narrowing his eyes to intimidating slits as he growled, "Like I said earlier, I know a lot about you creatures, I know that no matter what you will always think of yourselves. You are ignorant and oblivious to the damage you are causing, every living thing here is too, the scripture tells them that you are dangerous, but it is they who are a danger when with you. The farther you go on, the more you leave behind in your wake, and the more you leave behind, the more curious the fearless will get, and the more curious the fearless get, the closer the world comes to an end."

Discord began to walk away, looking at Hunter who had a look of fear and depression on his face. When the creature reached a clearing in the trees where the moonlight covered the ground in soft light, he looked at the biped while slowly floating away. His white eyebrows furrowing into an angry look as he hissed, "They are in danger simply by your presence, you will bring chaos with every step you take. I suggest you leave immediately." With that, he took off. Leaving Hunter to himself once more with serious confusion.

Hunter stood there in silence, his eyes staring into the distance as his mind delved deeper and deeper into the ocean of thoughts and confusion. "What just happened? I can't leave just yet, I made a promise, but apparently I can't stay." He began to pace back and forth, his hands on his temples as he tried to relax himself, "Hopefully this will all be solved by the end of the week once they are finished studying what I am, I'll tell them that I have to leave and be gone back home in an hour. I'll be with Liara, Pinn, and everyone else within the week, but what will I leave behind? How did I get myself into this?"