I don't know how to feel right now, how should I feel? I just tore a wooden wolf's head away from its body, how many people can say that they did that in their lives. Back to the matter at hand, I tore my knives out and rolled over to get up. when I got up I felt my leg cramp up, I ignored it and looked up. I felt my eye's widen when I saw the the same kids on their asses.
'Why are they still here?' I questioned in my mind, you'd think that they would be far enough to reach that sign that lead me in this direction. I walked to them, panting with hungry breaths and covered in whatever that wolf bleed, my body isn't fit enough to handle that amount of endurance.
"Why didn't you guys run?" I questioned in between breaths, they seemed to be out of breath themselves as they didn't answer the question immediately. "Hey can you all hear me?" I asked kneeling down and wiping the 'blood' off my face. They seemed to have heard me this time and nodded their heads simultaneously.
I nodded as well and offered them my hand, the one without the blood, to help them all up. The first one that took it was a boy with messy green hair, he was wearing a purple, unzipped jacket along with a light green shirt. He was wearing cargo pants the same color as the jacket, there were tears on some areas of the pants, his shoes were purple and look like it had a scales .
The next kid I helped up was a girl with long, bright, red hair with a pink bow on her head. she was wearing a blue, short-sleeved jacket with a red shirt underneath. Her legs were covered with a pair of brown shorts, and on her feet were red boot that went up to her mid calf.
The next one was also a girl, but her hair looked like a mess of pink and purple. she was wearing a simple light blue sweater with tears in the arm, and a black skirt and some purple flats. a fairly simple look for someone with hair like that. And the last one was a girl that looked like a tomboy with short, purple hair. She was wearing a black sweater with a flaming wheel on it. Her lower half was covered with a pair of blue jeans, and she had black running shoes on her feet.
All of them were sweaty and covered in dirt, most likely because they were running from the wolfs. When all of them were off of the ground I didn't waste any time and turned and started to walk down the path, not wanting to question them any longer if they were only going to gawk.
"W-Wait!" I heard the boy in the group call and heard him along with the others jog towards me, I didn't stop but I did slow down enough for them to catch up. They walked right beside me along the path, stepping around the wolves broken bodies. "Who are you?" The boy asked. I raised an brow.
"You know you're supposed to introduce yourself before asking for someone for theirs." I stated, bending down and rubbing my hands in the dirt to get rid of the wolf's blood. I saw him and the others fluster for a bit, before shaking their heads and answered.
"I'm Spike." the kid in the purple jacket said, I nodded, the next one stepped up
"Applebloom." The red head said, I stopped rubbing my hand when she said her name. Before I could question it the next one talked.
"My name is Sweetie Belle." The multi-haired girl introduced, I looked at her as if she grow another head. The last one stepped up before he could ask.
"Scootaloo." the tomboy introduced confidently, I finally got my chance to talk.
"Are you all using a nickname or something?" I asked, pointing at the the girls and ignoring the boy. His name was at least normal, these three sounded as if they named themselves. They looked confused at me with confused eyes, before shaking their heads. "Those are your actual names?" This time the girls nodded, I brought my hands to my face, which was still sticky. Some of what was on my face got into my mouth, is this sap?
"Are ya' alright mister." Applebloom asked, concern in her eyes, I only nodded my head and kept walking forward.
"Wait a second man, you still haven't told us your name." Scootaloo said, pointing her finger at me accusingly at me. They looked at me expectantly, I rolled my eyes to this.
"Sombra." I said, deciding to only give my last name. They stopped in their track, and their eyes seemed to have widen when I said my name. "Did I say something?" I asked looking back a them, they looked at each other nervously before looking at me.
"N-Nothing." Spike said, walking forward along with the girls. I didn't believe his answer, it was almost as if he didn't even try to hide it, but I decided not to point it out and walked right next to them.
"Alright then." I shrugged, we walked for awhile in silence. I used this time to see if I could get any information in where I am. "Hey can I ask you guys some questions?" I asked, once again, they looked to each other, Scootaloo got a mischievous grin.
"Does that count as one?" She said, her friends rolled their eyes along with me.
"Good joke kid, how long have you been waiting to use that one?" I shot back, she looked at me as if I actually shot her.
"One week." She mumbled, I actually felt bad for the kid. I reached out for her and rubbed her messy head.
"Only a joke kid don't take it personal." She didn't seem to appreciate me rubbing her head and showed that by shewing my hand away and crossing her arms. I laughed at her little show, before I could say something else sweetie belle spoke.
"Okay, we'll answer you're questions," She started, but I felt that there would be a 'but' in there. "but you have to answer ours." there it is.
"Fair enough." I shrugged, "You guys have any idea where we are, as well as the country and planet?" I asked, they all nodded.
"You're in the Everfree Forest, in Equestria. the planet is named Equis" Applebloom answered, confusion present in her eyes. I tried to act normal on the outside, but the inside of my head was working in overdrive.
'Okay, so right now I'm in a forest and a country that I had no Idea existed. What should I ask about next? Has anyone heard of a place called America?' I thought, combing my finger through my hair. I was so focused on what I should do that I didn't hear the question that was directed at me.
"Hey did you hear me?" I heard the tomboy ask, breaking my thought, I looked to her.
"Sorry, what was that?" I asked, Scootaloo rolled her eyes.
"I asked where'd you learn to fight like that?" She repeated, pointing down the path. I saw nothing when I looked down it, but I assumed that she was pointing at the wolves. "It was like those fights that you would see in a comic book." she added, eyes glowing with anticipation
"Oh yeah, we've been wondering that to." Sweetie Belle said, putting her finger to her chin and looked up to the trees. "We don't know many people that would take on a pack of timber wolves. My sister and her friends can alone, but only with their exalted weapons or magic." she explained. I perked up when she said magic.
"Magic?" I asked to no one in particular, but sweetie Belle seemed to have heard as she nodded.
"Yeah, magic. You haven't heard of magic?" She asked, tilting her head to the side.
"No, we don't use magic where I come from." I explained.
"What?!" she yelped, voice cracking. "You guys don't use magic where you come from? Where do you come from?"
"I come from a place called America, it's really far away so I doubt that you even heard of it." I said, they seemed muddled by what I just told them.
"Yeah, we never heard of such a place. I should probably ask Twilight about it." Spike wondered aloud.
"You don't need to do that." I said. "It's not really important right now." I said, trying to turn the subject away from what it was,I looked to Scootaloo. "So you asked where I learned to fight the way I did." I said, she nodded her head. "Well it's a really long story, one that we might not have time for. But long story short, when I was ten or so, I was living on the street. I had no one to take care of me and it was really tough. But I happened to be really fortunate one day, as a old man came up to me and asked me if I wanted to really live like this and gave me a offer. I accepted it and next thing I now, I'm fighting grown adults and training from dawn til midnight." I told, leaving out the parts about becoming a mercenary. They all seemed interested in the story, but I stopped it there.
"That's it?" Scootaloo ask, disappointed. "That's all you're going to tell us."
"Like I said, the story is long, so I shortened it." I explained, adding a shrug to the end. "Now my turn for a question." I looked towards Sweetie Belle. "You said something about exalted weapons, what are those?" She scratched her head.
"Well, I don't know how to really explain it." she said, closing her eyes and humming. "Rarity said that a it had something to do when someone is able to conjure the magical energy that is inside everyone and forge it to become a weapon that is unique to only them." she explained. the others nodded along with her.
"I have a question." Applebloom called, finally deciding to speak up. "What's your cutie mark." She asked, pointing to my gloved hands.
"Cutie mark? You mean my birth mark?" I asked, she shook her head. "What's a cutie mark?" I saw her eye's widen when the words left my mouth.
"You don't know what a cutie mark is?"
"If I did, I wouldn't be asking." I retorted, She blushed in embarrassment
"What else don't you know?" I heard Scootaloo mumble
'Well I'm sorry that I come from another planet that doesn't have magic, exulted weapons, or cutie mark. I almost said out loud, but I kept my lips clamped.
"A cutie mark is a mark that appears on on the body, usually the back of the hands, when they discover their talent and the cutie mark show that talent." she explained.
"Do you all have one?" I asked, They shook there heads.
"No we're still trying to find ours." She said, I looked towards spike.
"I'm different, I don't get a cutie mark." He shrugged, I didn't question any further.
"Well I doubt that I have one." I said, taking of the glove from my right hand. "See nothing." I said, showing them my blank backhand.
"What about the other hand." Scootaloo asked, I rolled my eyes, but still removed the glove and showed them my hand, I saw their eyes squint as they looked at my hand.
"See, it's bla-"
"What kind of symbol is that?" Scootaloo said, my eyes widened and I flipped my had around. She was right, there was indeed a symbol on the back of my hand. It was a symbol that I recognized back on Earth.
'What the hell! That certainly wasn't there before.' I thought in surprise, gripping my wrist and inspecting the symbol.
"Hey, do you know what that symbol means Sombra." I heard Spike say, he hesitated with my name.
"Yeah, it's an old symbol where I come from that represents a hunter or something like that." I explained, still eyeing the mark.
"Oh, so does that mean you're a hunter." Sweetie Belle asked.
"I don't know, maybe." I looked ahead and saw the end of the forest. "Well it looks like we'll reach the end of the forest soon." I said, putting my gloves back on. When we got out of the forest, I saw a village that looked like it belonged in the mid-ages. I looked to the side of the entrance and saw what looked like a cottage surrounded by various animals. I decided not to pay too much attention to it. "So do you guys feel like walking to the village together?" I asked, putting my hands in my pocket. They looked to each other, sending a telepathic message to each other before deciding.
"No thanks, well stay here. we need to do some thing before we go." Applebloom said, I shrugged my shoulders.
"Suite yourselves." I said, and with that, I walked down the path to this 'Ponyvile' and hopefully try to get more information on where I am.
(Spike's P.O.V)
We watched as the guy who saved us, Sombra, walked to Ponyvile. We didn't know weather we should feel relived or scared.
"What do we do guys?" Applebloom asked in a uneven voice. "Should we tell them about Sombra?" We looked at each other as if our eyes held the answer we were looking for.
"I think we should." Scootaloo said. "He doesn't seem to be much, but he also did kill three grown timber wolf. And his name, he's named after the shadow mage himself." She pointed out, We all nodded.
"Alright, I'll tell Twilight and see what happens from there." I said, we all nodded once again and made our way down the path. But we all immediately stopped as we saw all the girls sprinting down the path, and none of them looked happy. When they stopped in front of us, I asked one question "We're all in trouble aren't we?" They all nodded, I gulped, along with the girls.
