The Start of Something

Southern Whitetail Woods

Felix Woke up with Blue wrapped in his arms sleeping peacefully, when he saw this a smile appeared on Felix's face.

"Even I have to admit that's adorable."

He tried to gently pulled his arm out from under Blue's head, she frowned and then wrapped her forelegs around his arm and pulled it back into place.

"Okay slightly less adorable now."

He tried pulling his arm out again with a little more force but Blue just  pulled his arm back and curled up around it to make sure her pillow wasn't going to try anything else.

"Let go of my arm you little bastard."

Felix tried to pull his arm out again but Blue pulled down and once again forced his arm down.

"You know what? Screw this."

Felix stood up to his full height, causing Blue to slide right off his arm and hit the ground with a soft thud. She was jolted awake and sat up, Blue looked around for a moment before her eyes settled on Felix who stared back at her before saying

"Come on Blue we got to get you back to... wherever it is you live." Felix said as he got up and started walking, he stopped when he heard a groan and another thud. He turned around to find Blue laying on the ground pretending to be dead from exhaustion.

"Yeah cool story now come on let's go we're wasting daylight." When Blue didn't respond Felix just sighed and pointed outside.

Blue looked at him and then pointed her arms into the air at him, Felix stared at her for a moment before realizing what she wanted.

"Yeeeaaahh no." Felix said while shaking his head.

Blue stared at him for a second before saying "Educite me? Nimis sum defessus."

"Yeah yeah whatever you say- wait I actually understood some of that." Felix said with moderate excitement, he never was much of a scholar and almost never cared about learning new languages but it definitely would be easier to talk to Blue if they could understand each other.

"But for now.." Felix thought as he looked at Blue and then repeated.

"Let's go now." Felix said like an impatient child. But Blue just looked back at him for a moment and raised her arms again trying to get Felix to carry her.

"yyeeeaaahhhh no, I am NOT carrying you alright. And nothing you say or do is going to change that."

"How did I get roped into doing this... Stupid horses are supposed to be good at walking." Felix muttered as he carried Blue on his back like a backpack while trying to ignore the overwhelming irony of the situation, thankfully for him he only had too carry Blue for a few minutes before she started walking on her own.

After about an hour of walking and failed attempts at conversation Blue and Felix had finally given up when they heard a hiss, both of them looked down to find a Garter Snake. Felix opted to simply stare at the little snake and decide whether or not he wanted to eat it, but he was torn from his thoughts when he looked over and saw that Blue was on the verge of having a heart attack.

"Anguis facio is discedo!" Blue suddenly yelled before she turned and ran away as fast as she could go.

"Son of a... goddammit." Felix muttered before he took off after her.

Following Blue turned out to be fairly easy since she couldn't run as fast as Felix and in a few minutes he was right behind her yelling

"Blue get back here!"

Equestria: Whitetail Woods Campground

It was the perfect time of the year for camping, and so places like the whitetail woods were crowded with visitors hoping to get a break from their stressful lives  River slate and her friends were here for just that reason and they couldn't have been happier to be there. Their fun was interrupted when they heard the sounds of a young filly screaming in absolute terror.

They all turned their heads toward the source of the noise to find a small blue filly burst from the bushes and continue on her way while screaming.

"Make it go away!" They all sat there in confusion for a moment before the bushes started to rustle again ,but this time instead of another small foal out came some kind of monster.

The creature had a dirty orange jacket covering most of its upper half while the lower half of its body was covered by a pair of dark brown pants, the creature also had some sort of mask draped around its neck, it was running upright and quickly gaining ground on the small filly while it yelled something that neither River Slate or her friends could understand. In a few seconds both the filly and the creature raced through the clearing and, after recovering from their initial shock one of River Slates friend yelled.

"We have to help that foal come on!" Then they all took off in pursuit of the monster and the filly it had been chasing.

Felix had been chasing Blue for ten minutes before he jumped forward and then grabbed her, unfortunately he slid right into a cluster of bushes and then right down a slope that had just happened to have been hidden by the foliage. Felix and Blue were sent tumbling down the hill and into another patch of bushes below. Luckily neither Felix nor Blue were harmed beyond a few unpleasant scratches. Felix was the first to recover and when he did he picked up Blue into the air and half asked half yelled.

"What is WRONG with you?!" When he yelled at her Blue's eyes widened a little bit and she adopted an apologetic look on her face.

"It was just a stupid snake you damned horse why did you have to start running away!?" Felix started to feel bad when tears started running down Blues face.

"Sum ita ut ego adducam paenitet egestas serpentes non erat, ne insaniat, ad me paenitet." She chocked out before she started to cry.

"Crap." Felix thought as he looked down at Blue. He hadn't meant to make her cry, but that didn't change the fact that she was sitting in front of him crying her eyes out. Felix sat there unsure of what to do before he slowly reached towards Blue, put his hand on her shoulder, and said.

"Blue look I'm sorry alright I didn't mean to yell at you alright?" Felix said before he remembered she couldn't understand him.

"Paenitet." Blue mumbled as she slowly calmed down.

Felix hesitantly pulled Blue closer until she was hugging his chest, while they were sitting there Felix heard more voices from above.

"Quo ibunt?" One voice shouted.

"Aurora rubrum vocas praetorii et dices ad eos illic 'nonnullus monstrum discurrentes Whitetail Woods youll' custodiat nos vultus pro eis." Another voice said, Felix then heard a group of horses trot off in two different directions.

Felix and Blue sat there for a few minutes, Blue refusing to let go and Felix not wanting to throw her off. After Blue reluctantly let go of Felix and then she gave him a small smile, then they stood up and left to find another place to camp for the night.

Equestria: Whitetail Guard Station

In the commanders office a lone unicorn sat in his desk, his coat was pale grey with a mane and tail of pure white, his name was Iron shield. Iron Shield was sitting at his desk signing papers and sorting into piles of important and not important.

"When I signed up to be in the royal guard I was expecting an exiting life full of danger and adventure, while traveling throughout all of Equestria fighting off monsters and defending the masses from danger, but the most I ever do is sit around all day signing papers and deciding where to send guards so they can deal with some burglar who had too much salt or campers who thought they saw a monster".

He sighed and then returned to his silent rant. "What I wouldn't give to have something actually happen, I'm not saying I want  Equestria to engage in a war with the griffons or anything but is it too much to ask for one thief who actually knows how to run!?"

He then levitated another folder titled Monster Sightings over to himself.

"I wonder if anypony outside of the Everfree Guard has ever gotten anything in these files that actually was a monster and not a prankster or some pony who had too much salt." He thought as he opened the files. The first one he saw caught his attention, he saw a creature that appeared to be wearing a dirty orange jacket and brown pants with multiple pockets and around its neck was a mask with a large circular cap at the front where the mouth of the creature would go, the creature's face was blurred out meaning that the ponies who saw it didn't see it's face.

"Looks like some ponies are having too much salt." Iron Shield thought. "I hate having to give all of these stories the benefit of the doubt, lets see.. I'll send Red Dawn and Blue Dusk, at least it will get them out of my mane for the day." Iron Shield thought as he rolled up the letter and set it in another pile, ready to be mailed off...