Hunter rested against the trunk of the tree, his hair flowing gently in the wind as his back kept warm from the sunset. With the last few seconds of sunlight dropping behind the mountains, he watched from afar as the large white alicorn dropped from the sky towards the large white castle. Along her descent, she passed by the black and blue alicorn, most likely her sister.

Hunter watched as the next alicorn took off into the empty sky, her horn glimmering with magic as bright as the stars that twinkled in the night sky. He watched as the bright white moon slowly began to rise from the horizon opposite of the sun, slowly rising towards the bright night sky and bathing the world in the light of the new night.

Puzzled, Hunter tilted his head as he said to himself, "Since when is that the way it worked." His pondering did not last long though, for he noticed as the citizens of the city below began to turn out their lights. Soon enough, Hunter was watching as all of the ponies fell asleep in their beds, not aware of the true dangers that surrounded their precious little world. The boy waited, standing in silence as he watched the city sleep, making sure he would be safe from all the ponies that still walked in the night.

After waiting what he felt was long enough, Hunter took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and jumped. The wind began to fill his ears, the deafening sound of wind passing by was almost soothing to the acrobat, it put him in a state of harmony. With timed precision, Hunter sprung his hands open and grabbed one of the hanging vines, turning his quick descent into a graceful swing. He felt gravity tug on his legs, prying him away from safety as he tried his best to hang on. He kept his grip, though, and followed through before letting go at the desired angle which sent him soaring through the air above the trees.

From one vine to another, Hunter swung like the monkeys he closely resembled, he always knew this was what he would be best at. Such quick means of travel wouldn't last long, for the edge of the forest grew near, leaving way to the sprawling royal city of Canterlot. Hunter prepared himself for this, and let to when his body was ready, using the gravity to pull him towards the ground where he would do his best to slow down himself. As soon as he touched ground, though, he remembered that physics weren't on his side. He quickly rolled like a rag doll across the ground before flopping off an edge into the small bushes below.

It was nearly flawless, and Hunter was no longer in the forest, but now he need to worry about the citizens that would raise alarms at the mere sight of him. Hunter shook his head rid of the stars, standing up to quickly regain his balance and orientation.

"If I remember correctly, my caretaker's house should be southeast a couple hundred meters." Hunter monologued, looking around the corners to see where exactly some of the monuments were.

Taking no moment to rest, Hunter was back to climbing and jumping, the city's rooftops offered a completely different challenge from trees, but it was fun nonetheless. The free-running boy jumped, ducked, and rolled across the rooftops and between walls. The texture of the shingles made it so much easier for Hunter to grip, especially compared to that of the tree branches. To Hunter, this was a breeze, he ran across the roofs flawlessly and smoothly, until his luck wore out. Hunter unfortunately underestimated the height of the drop in front of him, and did not jump far enough, causing him to clothesline his stomach on the roof before tumbling down to the alleyway below him.

*****

The five ponies gathered around in a circle, their dark hoods cloaking their visages. As they approached each other, in the safety of the alleyway invisible to the rest of the streets around them, they pulled small various objects from their cloaks.

One unicorn turned to the other as he said with a hush, "Did you get the feathers?"

The earth pony to his right whispered back, "Yeah, I got it this time, just like the book says."

Slowly, the ponies gathered a little closer in a circle, planting candles around them in silence and lighting them to bring a faint glow to their surroundings. The black cloaks hid them from the night's watchful eyes as the largest of the ponies began to draw a star in the centre, all five tips pointing to each five ponies as they planted their various objects before them. The leader, pulling back his cloak to reveal his face, whispered in a hiss, "The scale of a dragon, the feather of a griffon, the venom of the manticore, the tears of an orphaned foal, and the book of Faustism. With these five pieces we can complete the recipe, and on this night of a full moon we read from our book of truths."

The leader turned opposite of the candle-lit star, pulling a larger black book from his saddlebag, the word, "Equinomicon" carved into the very face of the cover. He slowly pulled the book open, the spine cracking under its old age as the leader began to whisper the words of the book, "From below you stand, to above you rise, return oh demons, with"

Before he could finish, one of the smaller ponies whispered quickly, "Hey, Leafgreen, can we hurry up a bit, my mom might find me gone soon."

The leader, known as Leafgreen, pulled back his cloak in frustration, his green hair covering his right eye while his left eye looked at him through the black makeup, "Dude, just shut up, or we'll all get in trouble."

One of the other ponies piped in as well, "Leaf, it's a school night tonight, my dad is gonna ground me for real this time if he finds out."

Leafgreen turned his angry eye towards him, blowing his hair from his face before whispering with a tone of impatience, "Dude if you guys just shut up we can get this over with, cancel school tomorrow so we don't have to take that test, and be done with it."

"Oh man, Ms. Crabtree is gonna probably cancel school for the week if we summon this demon," one of the thicker foals whispered, "I'm gonna spend tomorrow playing video games with my friend down in Ponyville, eating cheese puffs, and"

"Just shut up," Leafgreen snapped at the fat one, "your extra chins flapping are making more noise than you, if we get caught my mom is gonna ground me for a week." Before long, there was silence once more, and Leafgreen restarted his spell, "From below you stand, to above you rise, return oh demons, with vengeance in thy eyes."

There was a pause, the foals waited for something to happen, but nothing came. Leafgreen sighed, "I can't believe this book of demons didn't work, I wanted to be so edgy and cool. Well… better clean this pla"

His thought was cut short when a voice from above made a strange noise, and a body fell before them. The colts jumped back in fear, realizing what had just happened. They watched in horror as the demon from the book, exactly like the ones from both the book of Faustism and Equinomicon, rose up before them.

The creature turned to face them as it grunted and in its demon tongue it spoke, likely casting a curse upon the demon-summoners.

Leafgreen, now shaking in his boots, turned tail and ran out the alleyway screaming, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The other foals soon joined him, running for their lives as a demon has now been brought to life to end the world.

*****

Hunter lifted himself from the pavement, his head was spinning and his entire body hurt from the fall. Just moments ago he slipped from the top of one of the houses and fell into an alleyway, falling flat on his stomach on the cold hard ground. Quickly, he regained awareness and looked at his surroundings, realizing that he had ultimately failed in his plans when he realized he had accidentally tumbled into some foal's party with his friends. They had set up candles, a few books, had soda, and various items all in a nicely drawn calk drawing, most likely some art project. Hunter did his best to reassure them as he groaned, "Don't worry little horses, I'm fine. Sorry I ruined your art project."

Strangely though, the foals simply screamed and ran away, leaving everything behind them like they were running for their lives from something. Hunter quickly dove behind one of the buildings, whispering to himself, "Oh crap, they spotted me, I'm in so much trouble now!"

Leaving no time to waste, Hunter climbed up the side of the nearest house and resumed his journey across town, hoping to avoid another situation like that. His mind panicked as he climbed the wall, he thought to himself, "What if they spread the word of my existence, what if others start looking for me, what will I do? Where will I go if this city isn't safe, cause home isn't safe any more…"

When the boy reached the top of the house, with the wind blowing through his hair again, he had a moment of clarity as he whispered, "Home…" With no time to lose, Hunter began to sprint towards his destination as fast as he could, a bright and brilliant idea had popped into his head.

Author's Note

So this chapter came out late for a few reasons:

A) I have less time
B) I'm in an art program at college, so I have less time
C) I have a wonderful girlfriend now (Wuvs Yuh Nami), so I have much less time
D) I have an addiction to masturbating and lying about excuses as to why things are late.

So enjoy this chapter and the next one to come out asap