A guy Dressed up as Shendu gets transported to Equestria right as he is about to tear a Brony a new one and accidentally tears a PONY a new one. Now the most evil thing in Equestria he has to solve this problem. his answer? Burn it all to the ground.
I had heard the rumors about the disappearances. I thought they were a hoax. You see there is a rumor about people dressing up as villains at conventions that suddenly vanish in a flash of light. So what. that's impossible just a gimmick the convention promoters use to make people feel hardcore about going to conventions. Boy I was wrong. One moment I am about to tear a Brony a new one the next I'm about to tear A Pony a new one. Now I look like and sound like a cartoon villain and I'm being treated like one too. My solution Burn everything to the ground and have a good time doing it.
Drip. Drip, Drip, DripDrip. “76 million, 999 thousand, and 654” I count to myself as another pair of water droplets hit my forehead. “I now understand how water drop torture can be so powerful. Just having it hit my head constantly is annoying enough on its own how fortunate I am that I can't feel it hit me. If I did I would of gone crazy by now. ” Oh who am I kidding. I wish I could go fully mental then at least I would have something to entertain myself.
Curse you Tiger Talisman! I've been stuck in this cave with nothing to do except count water droplets and look at my own reflection. The Cave has some mushrooms, glowing moss, and a giant pool that is as reflective as a high quality mirror. And that's it. I almost wish Celestia found me. Then at least I would be able to make fun of her or maybe insult some tourists or something.
But being alone isn't the worst part. Oh, not even close. The worst part is that my key to freedom has been right in front of me the entire time. You see, at the very bottom of the pool, are not just one of my talismans but THREE OF THEM! Mocking me! I know that one is the sheep, but I’m not sure of the others. Either way, when I get my sheep I will be able to leave this place and take my Revenge against Celestia for her betrayal.
You see this pool has interesting properties. If you look into it and recite a strange nursery rhyme, you can duplicate yourself. However, only duplicates can enter and exit the pool safely. To add insult to injury, the pool will only duplicate female Earth ponies that have no malicious intentions. I am thoroughly screwed. Of all the talismans I managed to keep, I really pulled the short end of the stick. I have the Snake, Monkey and Tiger talismans. Wonderful, I can shape-shift stuff and go invisible. Whoop Di-Freaking Do. They don't help me much, but at least it's something. I sighed. "I wonder where my informant is. He’s late. For a very important date. HAH!” I chuckled at my little quip.
He better have a good reason for being late this time. Considering his abilities, it shouldn't be difficult for him to be punctual for once. Three years ago, he had the nerve to steal me from the Canterlot Museum vault, which I must admit, is a pretty amazing feat. He avoided the guards, Celestia's security and even left perfect replicas of me and my talismans. Although, that klutz misplaced half of the replicas and swore to retrieve the rest of the real talismans later. He had decided to use this place as a hideout until he could steal the rest of the talismans. The clown hung me up on one of the walls of this cave like I was some kind of decoration and proceeded to insert my talismans into their hexagonal slots. I woke up just as he was reaching for the fourth talisman.
"Who dares, disturb my slumber!?" I hissed. He was so shocked that he dropped the rest of the talismans as they all rolled into the pool. "Fool! The Talismans!!!" In desperation, he flew into the body of water only to be repelled with a flurry of magical energy. The fool hit the jagged ceiling causing his rabbit foot necklace to fall off and he crashed right in front of me. He looked at me and started to sweat. The magic enveloping the enchanted waters began to seep into his wounds inflicting the thief with excruciating pain. For you see the mirror pool's magic rejects 3 things; males, greed and non earth ponies.
I offered to save his life if he was willing to become my servant and spy on the populace. He surprised me when he said he would reject my offer unless I promised to never command him to hurt one specific mare. I was curious, so I asked him why. “Because I gave my word that I would always protect her and be her guardian angel. If you can't accept that then let me die. I would rather be dead than break that promise." he replied through gritted teeth. I accepted his terms and saved him using the monkey talisman, for once he changed forms, the magic would no longer effect him.
Ever since, he has faithfully reported to me once a month. Suddenly I heard a noise from the entrance and instantly turned invisible. I saw a small shape appear from the entrance. It put down a basket full of berries and hopped in front of the wall that I was on and proceeded to tap 'Shave and a haircut' with its paws. I uncloaked and ask in a annoyed tone. “You better have a good explanation for being late.” {Sorry master, I had to convince her to let me go alone. But I have good news sir.} I became intrigued and asked “What good news?” } He hopped up closer and said {I over heard Pinkie Pie and Twilight talking about the mirror pool and it seems that Pinkie Pie plans to use it and is on her way here as we speak.} I laugh and say” Yes, my chance has come at last. Good job, you are forgiven, now go before your cover is blown.” He nods and says {I'll head back to the Picnic now.} and scurried out of the cave. “Soon, Celestia, I will have revenge for the wrongs you have done to me and my comrades. I will come for you and rescue Futs-lung. And when I do I will show you The Rage of a Real Dragon!” I say this and then do a classic evil villain laugh. Man I got good at that.
Third Person POV
Fluttershy was looking around nervously worrying her head off “He should of been back by now, it shouldn't take him this long to get berries. Oh I should have gone with him.” Just then a bush rustled and Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind a tree. She timidly looked towards the bush and immediately relaxed when she saw it was just a white bunny carrying a basket. “Hi, Angel Bunny, what took you so long?”
A few minutes later I hear the sound of someone approaching the cave and a minute later a pink spinning thing face plants into the dirt. I choke back a laugh and turn invisible. Now that it got up I notice that it's an earth pony. Thats good, Its a mare. Almost there I listen close to check what her intent is. She starts the chant and to both her and my joy a clone steps out of the pool. . Finally, I have a chance but I must be patient. The way she prattles on about being in two places at once guarantees she will come back thinking she will need more clones. That will be when I will strike. Sure enough she and the clone come back and make more clones than the clones start to think it is fun to make clones so soon there are dozens of clones running amok and causing chaos. The original Is trying her hardest to reign the copies in. And It is hilarious.But eventually she succeeds and they start to follow her out, Now is the time to make my move. As the last clone is leaving the cavern I Say “Hey do you want to play a game?” Immediately she rushes back to the pool looking rapidly from left to right and she says “Oooh is it fun? Because I love fun!” I swear her voice is going to crack my statue with how high pitched it is.
I decloak and say “Oh yes it is lots of fun. Its a Scavenger hunt.” She cocks her head and asks “A scavenger hunt? Is that fun?” “Yes its lots of fun especially when you have to swim for it.” she jumps and says “wait I get to play a game AND SWIM!? this is the best game EVER! How do I play?” I laugh and say ”Okay the items you are looking for are three octangular stones at the bottom of the pond get them and place them in the slots of the statue. Its as easy as that.” She nods her head and she immediately jumped into the pool. Now this is the moment of truth. Only two things can happen. The first is that she will be reabsorbed into the pool or the second is that she will reemerge with my talismans. My fears are put to rest when she resurfaces with something in her teeth, If I could move my face I would be grinning like a madman. For in her teeth was my salvation My Talismans. “Excellent now put them in the statue and you win.” She bounces over and takes the talismans from her mouth and starts putting them in. First to go in is my personal favorite, the Dragon talisman, the second is the Rooster, and finally my key to my salvation. The Sheep talisman. After it is added I start laughing and then she starts laughing with me. I finally say “Congratulations you win the prize.” The Clone gasps and asks, “What do I win?” “Eternal enslavement.” She stops bouncing and says “Well that doesn't sound ni-. “ I Blast her point blank in the face with the dragon talisman and she crashes into the opposite wall out cold. “Now I do believe it is time for a change in scenery.” I activate the sheep allowing my spirit to be free. I fly into the clone and the instant I enter the clone is when the Screaming started.
3rd Person POV Ponyville
All over Ponyville Pinkie Pies suddenly started releasing Blood Curdling screams creating a sound straight out of Tartarus. They all fell to the ground writhing in agony. The original was no exception. As she fell in agony she could feel a great wrongness. within her, a darkness that shouldn't exist. With their eyes glowing Bright crimson, eight of the duplicates exploded, their energy flying to return to the pool. While the rest started rampaging chanting Fun Fun Fun desperately trying to blot out the pain through distractions. All the while the Original slowly was able to stand up as the pain receded to a faint dull ache with only one thought on her mind. “What just happened?”
Shendu’s POV
When I open my new eyes I notice that all I can see on my right side is pink. I raise a hoof to see why and I realize it's hair. “Strange, just a minute ago it was all poofy but now it hangs like a popped balloon.” I walk over to the pool and get a good look at my new body. I have a long flat mane and tail that for some reason puts me on edge. My teeth are sharp and my pupils are a bright red all of which are what normally happens when I possess someone. What I didn't expect to happen however was how I had a different Cutie mark than before. Her cutie mark before I possessed her were 3 balloons but now they were gone. and in their place was the Chinese symbol Li. “I guess somethings are just too important to hide.” I say to myself and right before I look away I sense something in the pool that wasn't there before. I stare more intently into the pool and to my surprise I see a black sphere right dead in the center the size of a large beach ball. “What in the world is that?” I say it right before 8 bursts of pink energy fly into the pool. As soon as they enter the pool I feel intense agony surge through my soul and I start screaming. What is this? Why am I in such Pain?! I writhe on the ground in agony and after around a minute passed the pain finally ceased. I get up and groan. “What was that and what caused it?” I look into the pool and I see that the sphere has shrunk to half its size. “Wait a minute. before the attack the orb was larger and then those bursts of energy entered the pool and now it is smaller.” I Thought about it for a minute then I realized.
“That's my CHI!” If that's my chi and it got smaller when those bursts of energy entered the pool must mean that if more enter I could be ejected from this body! I growl angrily “NO! I WILL NOT LOSE MY BODY JUST BECAUSE SOME MISSFIT CLONES GOT DISPERSED!” I go to my statue and take out the Dragon and Rooster talismans and use the dragon to blow up one of the stalactites off the ceiling and then use the rooster to lower it down slowly. I use it to begin drawing a magic circle around the entirety of the Pond and I write the symbol for Imprison on the top part of the circle, energy to the left, Soul to the right and control on the bottom. I then fill in more draconic and demonic runes in the spaces in between and after 45 minutes of work it is done. I begin the chant filling the circle with my power and by the end of it it is glowing a satisfying mix of orange and red. I sit down panting from the exertion in creating the spell and look over it again to make sure everything was done correctly. “Now we wait.”
After about 5 hours have passed and I finally see another one of the pink bursts head toward the pool. “Its showtime.” I begin chanting again and the circle glows brighter and the energy is drawn to the center of the circle sitting halfway between the ceiling and the surface of the pool. Soon more bursts of energy are swarming toward the pool and I continue pumping energy into the spell as more and more of them are sent to the center.This continues for an hour until at last, the final burst of energy finally makes it to the center. I then utter the last part of the spell and the circle lifts off the ground and circles the sphere before shrinking and forcing the sphere to shrink down from a giant boulder to 4 ft in diameter. I fall down exhausted from the amount of magic I used to capture the clone’s energy, After I catch my breath I get back up and stare at the sphere of energy and say “Now that I have captured it what do I do with it now?” Its so much energy yet it is so pure that If I try to use it for anything it will just blow up in my face. I “If only it was bad chi than I could have done so much with it!” In my anger I kick my leg in frustration and some dirt flies into the pool clouding it for a second before a pulse of magic from the pool removed the dirt. I stare at the pool and kick some more dirt in and just like before it clouds it for a second than the pool cleanses it.I use the Rooster to pick up a lot of dirt and drop it in and it takes a few more seconds to remove it all. “Wait a second, if it is good chi all i have to do is put in enough BAD chi that it corrupts it.” I begin to smile “and if I can corrupt the Chi from the clones I could also corrupt the Chi in the pool because only clones can enter the pool and I could take over the Pool from within.” I grin evilly. “and If I do that all of the Pools powers would be mine to command as I see fit!” I begin laughing and use the rooster to grab the sphere and bring it to my face. “Oh yes This just might be the edge I have been looking for.”
“Jack stop being a pansy and lets go!” I yell to my roommate as I put the finishing touches to my costume. Me and my roommate have been planning for this con for months but now he wants to wuss out. “Cory I’m telling you this is a bad Idea, to go as a villain is just asking for you to vanish too!” He yells from the bathroom. “And I’m telling you its just a publicity stunt.” I call back as I put on my mask and finally Jack comes out of the bathroom. He’s dressed up as Jackie Chan from Jackie chan adventures with a blue v neck shirt and tan work pants and his haircut to look just like Jackie’s. Add that to the fact that he’s Asian and a martial artist make the costume so much more authentic. Jack comes over and says “You know, if you take away the Paper mache mask,and Tyrannosaur feet and replaced the loincloth with wrecked Jeans you could go as the Hulk.” I give him a deadpanned stare and say. “No way, It took me forever to get the feet and face to look right, and spent over 70 bucks ordering those replica talismans. Besides ,If I went as the Hulk our cosplay wouldn’t nearly be this awesome.” I look around and ask. “Hey speaking of which where are those things? I payed good money for them.” Jack sighs and points at the table I walk over and lo and behold there is my package “It arrived an hour ago.” Jack says as I open up the box. and smile. “Ah yeah this is going to be awesome Look at these babies.” I pull them out and show Jack. twelve exact replicas for the Talisman and the last thing for my costume. They sit next to a belt with twelve holes to fit the talismans and I put them in and put it over my chest. I turn and go into the bathroom and look at myself. What stares back is a 6ft 2 buff stud covered in green body paint wearing a blue waist cloth and a belt with twelve egg shaped parts going across his broad chest,,big Tyrannosaur talons as feet and with a Paper Mache mask covering the face. Over all I look awesome. I exit the bathroom and start walking towards the door when Jack steps in front of me blocking my path with a frown on his face. “Cory come on this is serious there have been over 30 accounts of people dressed up as bad guys vanishing without a trace and all that remained were their Con passes. What if you’re next?” I laugh at him and push him aside and say, “Really ,Jack, you still going on about that? It's a Hoax, a farce, a publicity stunt to make people feel hardcore for going to conventions. Besides I’m huge and I know how to fight . How the hell am I supposed to vanish?” I open the door and head out toward my car. I look back at the door and yell “Well, are you coming or what!?”
1 hour later at Lore Con
Me and Jack start walking around the Con and just like I thought people think our Cosplay is awesome and they take our pictures, and we are having a blast. Unfortunately, Jack wasn't the only person who believed the rumors and I have to deal with more and more people asking if I was worried about the disappearances. I had to explain again and again that it was a hoax and after the 16th person, I was tired of it. “Shut up! Holy S*** Do you people believe everything you hear on the internet?” They walk of insulted and Jack looks at me and says “Whoa Cory,calm down. They are only concerned for your safety. There's no need to snap at them.” I glare at him and say. “I don't care. It's annoying hearing people constantly tell me that I’m making a mistake and I’m sick of it!” I walk away and say “Ill meet you at the food court in an hour I need to be by myself for a while.” I walk around the Con and look at some of the stuff the vendors are having for sale and while I’m trying to calm down , I hear a gruff voice say “Nice Shendu Costume.” I turn and see a dude dressed as the merchant from Resident Evil 4 sitting at a booth that looks like it came straight from a horror game. I walk over to him and say “Thank you. It took forever to get the mask and feet to look good.” I Look at his booth and I see that he has a bunch of replica weapons and models from all kinds of media and I ask Him “How's business going?” He sighs and says “Terrible. Thanks to those stupid rumors about disappearances No one one wants to buy any of my stuff because it's all villain stuff.” I look over the stuff he has for sale and man they are impressive. he’s got Sephiroth's sword, Majora’s mask, a statue of Envy in his monster form, and many other cool villain memorabilia. I sigh and say “Those stupid rumors are so annoying. I can’t go 10 minutes without some smuck questioning my sanity and trying to convince me to go home.” Me and him chill for about 20 minutes talking about how gullible and stupid people are and then out of nowhere he says “You know what, I like you. How about this? If you promise to promote my booth, Ill let you have one of my replicas free of charge.” I look at him in surprise and say “Sure, but how am I supposed to advertise your booth?” He chuckles and reaches underneath the booth and pulls out a large roll of stickers and says “It's simple. All ya have to do is give these out to people and tell them about my shop.” I look at the logo on the stickers and it's has a black background and a white outline of a dude in a trench coat and hat with glowing yellow eyes and one of the arms pulling it open with the words {Back Alley Bargains} printed inside the coat. Wow, With a name like that now I know why no one is coming to shop here. I smile and say “Deal.” We shake and I put the stickers in my waist cloth pocket while he asks, “Now what would you like from this humble shop?” I think about it before asking “Do you have anything from Jackie Chan Adventures?” He smiles and says. “I think I have just the thing.” He reaches underneath his booth again and starts rummaging through something for a solid minute before saying “How about this?” He then pulls out an replica of the Pan Ku Box and places it on the table and I pick it up and look at it. Its amazingly well made and when I try to twist it, it actually twisted. I spend a few seconds just messing with it. He asks “Well do you like it?” I ask back. “Did you really make this by yourself? “ “Of course everything you see before was made by yours truly.” I turn to him and say “Then I am getting this and don’t worry, once I show people how well made this is people will start to flock to your booth.” I turn around and start walking to the food court to show Jack my awesome new Rubix cube, unaware of the giant grin the Merchant was making before his eyes glowed yellow and the entire booth vanished in a puff of black smoke.
As I walk into the Food court messing with my Pan Ku box the whole time. I bump into someone and we both fall to the ground and I drop my new toy. I get up and I hear a guy complain in a nasally voice, “NO! my signed Twilicorn Figurine has fallen on the dirty floor and now it's Ruined! ITS your fault you piece of S***!” I get up and get a good look at this guy and I can only say one thing. Furry. This guy is wearing a Blue onesie with a fake tail sticking out of his a**, wearing a bright wig and both are bright yellow. I look down at the ground and I see what he is freaking out about and OH you gotta be kidding me! He freaking out about some kind of Pony toy and it's not even broken. The only thing wrong with it is that it’s hair had some crumbs in it from the floor. I look at the guy and say “Dude are you freaking about a purple girl’s toy?!” He glares at me and yells “That toy is worth more than your entire costume combined and is far more than just a “girl’s toy” That is a replica of Twilight Sparkle that was signed By Lauren Faust herself and now it has been desecrated and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!” I lean down and pick up my Pan Ku box and say “Well I’m sorry that your girly doll was dirtied by a few crumbs in its hair now if you'll excuse me I got a friend to meet.” I walk to go around him and he goes in front of me and snatches my Pan Ku box from me. I glare at him say, “Give that back.” He sneers at me, looks at the box and says, “No! Since you ruined my figurine, it would only be fair if I ruined your’s Too!” He then throws it on the ground and starts stomping on it and then kicks it into a wall behind me. He goes to grab it again but I grab him by his onesie and hoist him in the air and I glare at him. “You piece of Furry trash! Give me a good reason not to shove that wig down your throat and pull it out of of your A**!” I threaten him and pull him up higher. He starts to answer then stops and starts staring at something behind me with a look of shock. I hear someone yell “Cory Behind you!” I start to turn my head and say “What are you talking abo-” before I feel something slam me in the back and suddenly all I feel is pain. I scream and throw the Furry into a table and and everything turns green and I feel the pain grow more and more and all I can do is scream. The pain is so intense I swear the air around me is in agony. My head hits against something and I hear something crash to the ground. Suddenly I feel this suction pulling me from behind and I let out one more ear piercing scream and fall backwards. All I see is swirling Orange then Black.
Jack’s POV
I’m talking to this hot girl that’s dressed as Viper that I had met a little bit after Cory left. We were hitting it off, when I hear this High pitch scream from the other side of the food court. I turn my head and I see Cory arguing with some dude in a onesie with...is that a tail coming out of his butt? He must be a brony considering how he’s screaming about his “Signed Twilight figurine.” Sheesh no dignity. I excuse myself and start walking toward Cory. I see Cory trying to walk away holding something in his hand. Good for him. It's nice to see him try to not start a fight with everyone who pisses him off. Wait. I see the Brony take something from Cory and now he’s stomping on it and threw it. Oh no not again. I see Cory lifting the dude from the front of his collar and judging from what I am hearing as I get closer, he plans on mutilating the guy. I start to walking faster but right before I call out to him, I see something that makes me stop dead in my tracks. “Wait, is that a Pan Ku box?” I say in confusion as yes a Pan ku box is floating right behind Cory and is doing its whole Rubix cube thing. Wait, doesn’t it do that before it summons a Portal! I scream out a warning and Cory turns his head just as the box stabs into his spine. He screams and throws the Brony at a metal table and its crushed underneath the Brony. To my further shock, I see green energy start to cover Cory entirely, all while he is screaming in agony. I run toward him while everyone else is running in the opposite direction and as I get closer it seems like he’s getting bigger. No wait! He is getting bigger! I reach the Brony and I see Cory grow bigger and bigger all while covered in Green energy. “Cory! Cory what's wrong!?” I yell at him and then I see twelve different lights light up around his chest and I see the lights get absorbed by the green light. Then there's a crash as his head slams into one of the light fixtures in the court and I hear a sound that makes my blood run cold. From Cory I hear a roar that sounds like it came from Jurassic Park. I look at him and his eyes snap open glowing bright crimson and then an orange portal straight out of the show opens and starts sucking everything into it. I barely grab onto the Brony and hold onto the remains of the table, as the portal starts sucking everything into it including Cory. With a final roar, he is pulled into the portal and the suction ceases and we all fall to the floor. When I get up, I see that the whole court is destroyed and where the portal was. there was a little blue box just laying there on the floor and where Cory was standing, there was now a scorch mark with a sticker on it saying {Back Alley Bargains}.
[Shendu’s POV/center] I hear voices above me and stop and quietly walk over to my statue. I take the snake before going invisible and going to check on what's going on outside. I get outside and hide behind a tree as a Purple unicorn, Pinkie Pie, and a big red earth pony go to the entrance.”So this is the entrance Pinkie?” the unicorn asks as she looks into the hole. Pinkie Pie nods her head and suddenly a huge rock is lowered into the entrance sealing it off. I scowl and wait for them to leave again. A few minutes after they leave, I turn visible and use the rooster to lift the boulder off the entrance and place it next to the hole crushing some brambles. It seems that they were trying to seal the entrance to the mirror pool with a big boulder. “As if a mere Boulder would be enough to stop me.” I turn away from the boulder and notice that there are brambles and thorny bushes everywhere. I glance at the bushes then start to grin. “Oh nature, I have missed your beauty. However...,” I take a big breath and release a torrent of flames engulfing all the bushes and trees around the entrance burning them all to ash. “I mostly missed the smell you make as you burn!” I laugh and start walking in the direction that the ponies went, crushing the remains of the bushes as I pass.
Third person POV
As Shendu walked out of the clearing he had created with his flames, the boulder started to shake. Out of the crushed brambles, a small batch of the brambles changed shape and took on a lupine shape, the size of a chihuahua. It started to whine and howl. Out of the edges of the clearing, multiple sets of glowing green eyes opened and glared at the back of the retreating pony. Then, as one, they started to follow the Defiler of the forest, intent on teaching it why the Everfree was a place to be feared.
Shendu’s POV
I keep walking, following the tracks of the ponies, intent on finding the town they had come from. “When I find the town, I will go invisible and scout the area for clues about where I could find Dark chi. Once I have some idea of where I should go, I will get into contact with Angel and-” I hear a bush crackle behind me. I turn around and blast the bush with the dragon talisman and right before it connects. the bush jumps out of the way. When it lands, it's in the shape of a wolf made entirely out of wood and growls at me.“ So that’s a timberwolf?, I thought they would be more intimidating.” I smile condescendingly and say, “ Am I supposed to be impressed?” It howls and suddenly six more timberwolves come out of the woodwork, surrounding me on all sides. I glance around me, taking note of where the wolves are located, adjacent to where I was. “You know, if I were just a pony, I would be at a major disadvantage.” I grin evily ,while my eyes glowed red causing the wolf in front of me to back up a step, before it growled again and lunged at me. I take a deep breath and just before the beast reaches me, I scorch it with flames. It hits the ground screaming in pain, as it is burned alive. “BUT I AM NO PONY!!!!!” I roar as I use the rooster to lift it into the air. I slam the burning wolf into another one of its kind, and they both go down. Two more wolves rush me from both sides. I turn invisible and they slam into each other. While they are tangled up in each other, I turn visible a few feet away and blast them with the dragon talisman . They are blown to smithereens; burning pieces of wood raining down from the sky. I turn around to face the other 3 wolves and yell, “IS THAT ALL YOU GOT!?” The three other wolves look at each other and then combine into a wolf the size of a 2 story building. My jaw drops. I’m starting to think i might be in trouble. It roars at me and charges. I turn invisible and get out of the way right before it smashes it ‘s paw where I was standing, leaving a small crater. I hide behind a tree, still invisible, trying to catch my breath. Okay, think. How can I fight something that big? I’m used to being the big one not the other way around. I take a glance at the behemoth and it starts to sniff at the ground. Wait its a wolf so doesn’t that mean… It suddenly turns towards me growling. “HOLY DUNG!” I scream as I dodge out of the way turning visible in the process right before it flattens the tree I was hiding behind. I start running away in the opposite direction with the Wolf in hot pursuit. I need to find a way to smash it into pieces. Then I can just burn it all before it comes back together. I run back to the clearing I made over the Mirror Pool and start looking around for something, anything I can throw at that overgrown Chia pet. I turn around and see the Beast charging at me at full speed. I finally see something I can throw at it. I use the Rooster and throw the boulder straight at the Timber wolf’s head. “HAH! TAKE THAT YOU FAT CHUNK OF DRIFTWOOD! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE TASTE OF THAT?” I jeer at it., only to realize that it caught the boulder in its teeth and proceeded to crush it into teeny, tiny pieces. “Oh, apparently you do like it.” I stare at the wolf in its eyes and we have a staring contest for a solid minute before I jump down the hole into the cave. I barely make it before the wolf slams into the hole and starts trying to dig its way toward me. I Scream and Start Shooting it in the face repeatedly, with the Dragon talisman, all while yelling, “DIE DIE DIE!!!!” I keep doing this until I cannot fire any more shots, I’m panting heavily. “Did I get him?” I ask myself as I slowly climb out of the hole and look around searching for the wolf. I turn my head and come face to face to the wolf. I scream and duck back into the hole. But to my surprise, it didn't follow me. I poke my head out again and I realize that half of its head was gone and it was in pieces on the ground. I breathe a sigh of relief and get out of the hole, only to see a green glow start to cover the pieces of the wolf. It started to come back together. I quickly take a huge breath and focus all my remaining chi and release a torrent of flames that engulf the remains of the wolf. The green glow fades away until it falls apart completely and does not come back together. I laugh a tired laugh and say, “That will teach you to mess with Shendu, The Demon Sorcerer. Nothing could defeat me.” I let out a yawn and my vision starts to blur. I lay down drowsily and I start to lose consciousness . The last thing I see was a piece of the boulder, that for a split second, under the glow of my flames, looked like a piece of Diamond.
