"Atlaaas! I need you!" Applebloom began to call out in a more worried tone. She feared that while she might get humiliated by the humans lack of appearance, she was far more concerned with the poor creatures safety. After all there are so many things bigger and meaner than him out in the Everfree, though even as these threats were brought into her mind Applebloom herself drew closer to the wood line.
"ATLAS!" she called out once more, now at the very edge of the dark woods.
"Applebloom, come away from there now. It's okay if your special human isn't real, just come back away from the Everfree." Ms. Cheerilee spoke, her eyes darting across the trees as she trotted towards the young filly.
"But Ms. Cheerilee, Atlas is real and I know he'll come he just needs more time." Applebloom's voice now ripe with her own worry.
They were both startled by the snap of a branch within the brush, for one it was the sound of a gentle giant coming to help. To the other it was the sound of a predator breaking a bone.
Applebloom had begun to move into the brush itself to welcome her friendly human, but Ms. Cheerilee had snatched her up and running back to the schoolhouse. Her swift actions were not a moment to soon as a maw of thorns and splinters snapped shut where the young pony had been just a breath before.While the other school fillies had begun to scream as they were frozen in place, Applebloom cried for help one last time,
"ATLAS!"
Yet still he was not there...
The teacher of these young ponies was pushing herself as hard as she could, pumping every muscle she could to get the filly to safety, screaming for the others to get inside all the while. It was not enough however as the monstrous jaw clamped down on her hind leg and bore her to the ground. As Applebloom was hurled to the ground, she heard Ms. Cheerilee cry out in pain and terror. Driven into action she leaped over her fallen teacher and bucked the approaching wooden-wolf in the snout, stunning it for just a moment before its' eyes began actually glowing with fury. Then Applebloom said the only thing she felt appropriate for this situation, something she only heard her elders say when faced with a dire situation.
"Oh buck."
Then all the gathered ponies and those that had heard the previous screams bore witness to a sound that chilled them to the bone...
A human war cry.
With a scream so Primal and Guttural that made those who heard it feel as if the weight of a mountain was coming down upon their souls. Echoing such raw feelings of Wrath and Destruction that made all who felt it fear for the gods protecting whoever it was directed at, and it felt like it was coming for the whole world. The whole world seemed to stop for a brief moment as silence reigned over the area, then many assembled children and a few approaching adults felt a trickle run down their legs as the next cry came only this time much closer.
Then those that were gathered in the clearing heard a mighty crashing come from the woods as the destructive entity called out its' dirge of annihilation. The timberwolf had already begun backing away from the downed ponies, but it had made the mistake of not already running as what those who witnessed would call an Avatar of Rage, (if most weren't children,) crashed into the beast at great velocity.
Propelled by hate and the desire to crush what posed a threat to his only friend in this new world that he found himself in, Atlas began tearing the beast asunder with little care as to the splinters pricking his skin or the claws of the wooden wolf. First he slammed the skull of his foe into a nearby rock, stunning it, and then pushing it's jaws far enough apart that they split with a mighty *crack*. Then almost methodical in his passion and fury, he tore the limbs from the still moving monster and threw them far away. It was then after suffering many of his own wounds that he began bringing a large stone down upon the already battered head of the beast, finally bringing his instrument of death to rest upon the splinters of what used to be the head of a wooden wolf.
The large human had time to turn and see that the one he came to protect was safe and slowly approaching before he succumbed to his wounds and promptly collapsed to a cry of concern from Applebloom. As the young pony rushed to the aid of the fallen man, the first of the approaching townsfolk arrived and began to help Ms. Cheerilee and the terrified children. After some light explaining, Atlas was taken to the nearest clinic with Applebloom and her sister Applejack following close behind. The elder sister unwilling to let go of her sister, but also unable to sway her to stay put.