My Little Pony: Adventures in Tyria.

by Mehnlo

The monster is caught.

"So. . . Are you sure the mushroom can only be found in the Everfree Forest?"

"Yes, I am absolutely sure, what are you scared?"

"Well, Frankly, yes." Both of the Ponies, Carrot Top and her sister Pacific Rose stood at the edge of the Everfree Forest. "Well, if we have to get this stupid mushroom for your fiancee then let's go." Carrot Top states, as she takes a tentative step forward. Pacific Rose lets out a sigh as she trots forward. Suddenly, the two ponies froze, seeing something in the bushes move.

"What was that?" Pacific Rose asks, more to the world than to Carrot Top.

"Uhmmm, maybe we can go find your Fia-AAAARGH!!" Carrot Top lets out a scream of agony as her chest gets pierced by a shaft of wood with a pointed end, and feathers on the end. Upon seeing this, Pacific Rose is overcome with fear, and turns tail, running as fast as she can back to Ponyville. She only barely notices as a few more arrows fly past her, lodging themselves into the ground with a low *thwump.* However, before she can make it all the way to safety, Pacific Rose is shot with pain, as an arrow lodges itself into her back left leg. She falls down, screaming at the top of her lungs, as she looks back she sees a monster leave the cover of the forest and approach her friend Carrot Top, who is still letting out whimpers of pain. The thing has fur all over its body, like herself, but it stands up on two legs, not four, and has two more appendages, one of which it was using to hold a bent piece of wood, connected on each end with a string. The beast is hunched over, with its mouth ending in a snout, like herself, but with huge sharp teeth. He leans down, putting his bow on the ground as he places his hand on Carrot Tops head, and pulls out a vicious looking knife, with which he uses to cut her throat, ending her pain. As he sheathes his knife, and throws the dead pony over his shoulder, Pacific Rose lets out a new round of screams, hoping that somepony will be able to hear her as she tries to limp away with her three good hooves.

After Drub throws the first pony he shot over his shoulder, he hears the second one screaming again. Upset that it took him three shots to hit the pony, and that when he finally did hit it, it was only on her leg, he trudges forward. Ready to end her screaming, and finally be able to eat something more substantial than a few chickens. He slowly makes his way towards the annoying pony, knowing that every step he takes only increases its fear. He picks up both of his arrows that were lodged in the ground, and when he finally makes his way to the pony, he kneels down and yanks the arrow out of her left hoof as hard as he can, grinning at the shriek of agony that it produces from the pony.

The pony tries to look up at him, upon seeing this Drub takes its muzzle in his hands, bringing its head the rest of the way to look him in the face. "P-please. . . Don't. . . Don't kill me." The pony pleads to Drub.

"Pathetic. How your kind ever survived in this place is beyond me. You're even weaker than the pink-skinned humans." Drub bares his teeth, as he slowly grabs his knife. Taunting the wounded pony by going so agonizingly slow. However, as he grasps his hand around the knife, the pony desperately pulls in its good right hoof, and pushes back as hard as it could, right into Drubs kneecap. The pain that shoots through Drub hurts, but not enough to cause him to show it. Instead he merely grins. "You have some fight left in you I see. Good, it makes the meat more tender." He takes hold of the ponies head, as he brings his knife around under it's neck. However, before he is able to slit its throat, the pony, in one last desperate move bites down hard on his hand. This time, Drub did show the pain, surprised at the amount of force that the equine creature is able to muster up in its . Gritting his teeth Drub's eyes show fury at the small furry thing that was laying pathetically before him yet still able to hurt him. He puts his knife away and stands up. "That's it, You don't deserve a quick death." Drub grabs the pony by its throat as he lifts its whole body up, choking off its air supply with both of his hands.

Suddenly, Drub hears a loud *Fwump* as he sees a spear embed itself in the ground next to him. He drops the pony to the ground as his warriors instinct take over. Upon looking around, he quickly sees a pony with a pure white coat standing before him, this one with a horn, and adorned in purple armor. Noticing that this pony is all around more bulky than the other ones he has seen, Drub makes a mental note that this one may be a male. Clearly a warrior from the armor it is wearing, however it is still only a pony, and unless it has the strange demonic powers of that winged pony, then Drub is confident in his abilities to best this one in a fight.

The pony lets out a growl as it speaks up. "Filthy beast! I know not what you are, or from where you came. But I shall see to it that you harm nopony else!" With that, the ponies horn starts glowing, as a purple glow surrounds the spear in the ground, causing it to move out of the ground and stab at Drub all on its own. Drub, recognizing the fact that the pony is using magic, dodges out of the way in time to get a single shot off with his bow, before dropping it and taking out his bastard sword and charging the pony, trying to get close to render the spear ineffective. As his arrow bounces off the ponies armor, he closes the distance within a few strides, bringing his sword down on top of the ponies head.

Instead of trying to dodge, as Drub expected the pony to do, the pony runs forward, headbutting Drub right in the stomach and piercing his flesh with its horn, causing him to loose his grip on his bastard sword somewhat. Unfortunately for him, that was enough to let the pony back up just enough to cast another spell, this time on Drubs bastard sword, causing it to emanate a purple glow just like the spear did, and yank out of Drubs hands. The sword then turns around, and now being aimed at Drub, jabs forward. Drub gets ready to jump out of the way at the last second, however just as he prepared to dodge, the blade rotates, and moves with an agility he would never have expected from a weapon. Drub dodges right, not being able to adjust where he was moving in time as the blunt end of the blade knocks him right on the head.

"Damn you!" Drub yelled, as he jumps at the pony, despite being severely disoriented by being hit on the head. However, before he can even touch the pony, the sword comes around again and knocks him with all the power the pony can put into the sword, right on the same exact spot as before, causing the flesh crack a little from the repeated pressure on it. This second time, Drub couldn't stay conscious. He slumps forward as his body hit the ground, blacking out.

"What do you want, meat?" Pyre Fierceshot asks. After becoming the de facto Charr 'leader' despite his protests, Pyre was the Charr Mehnlo went to talk to. Standing at seven feet four inches, Pyre towers over Mehnlo and yet is forced to listen to what this human says. Pyre listens with only partial interest as Mehnlo describes what has been going on, with the portals and the other magical stuff that Pyre didn't care about. Pyre doesn't even half listen, he has already had encounters with them, and knows that they act as portals, both to and from. He had heard about Drub, who had never come back, from Daghar, and was there when his Warband came across a strange beast, with the head of a lion, but the wings of a great flying animal, and a scorpions tail. As far as Pyre is concerned, the portals are a boon, they provide exotic creatures to hone the Charrs fighting skills. Upon realizing that Mehnlo has stopped talking and is now looking annoyed, Pyre speaks up. "You done yet meat? I knew all of that already, you merely wasted my, and your, time."

"If you already knew all of this then what have you done?" Mehnlo asks impatiently.

"Nothing."

"Nothing? Why have you done nothing? Can you not see the threat they pose to us all?"

"No, I cannot. All I see is a source of exotic prey to hunt and meat to eat. Now if that is all, go away, before I decide you will make a good meal." Pyre challenges, and waits to see how the human will react. Sadly, the human does not rise to the challenge, and merely turns and walks away. Pyre leaves the meeting place, returning to his Warband.

After bringing the pony, Pacific Rose, to the hospital, Shining Armor arrives at his sisters library, upon hearing his sisters voice inside, he smiles as he knocks on the door.

"I'll get it." He hears Spike say.

Shining Armor looks at Spike as the door opens. "Hello Spike, it's good to see you again."

"Hi Shining. Come on in, everyones here, we're all really worried about what has been going on." Spike tells Shining Armor, as he lets him in. "Twilight! Your brothers here!"

"Shining?!" Twilight exclaims, as she gallops into the front room. "Oh, Shining, it's so good to see you again! But what are you doing here? Hows Cadence? Did Celestia send you?" Twilight asks, along with many other questions in a short ten second period, however Shining Armor puts his hoof up to get Twilight to stop talking.

"I am here to help with the problem with the portals. She's fine. No Celestia did not send me, but I couldn't let my sister go into a potentially dangerous situation such as this on her own now could I?" Shining answers. As he looks around the room, he notices the four guard ponies, Swiftflight, Regal Mask, Full Trust, and Summer Darling, all of whom are saluting him with respect. "At ease ponies. Thank you for watching over my sister, but I can handle it now. You may go back to Canterlot."

Swiftflight, however, speaks up in defiance of the politely worded order. "With all do respect Captain, we were ordered by Princess Celestia herself to watch over your sister. You may be in charge of us, but the Princess is in charge of you. We will stay with our given duty until Celestia tells us we can leave. Besides, I want to see this through to the end."

Shining armor smiles at the loyalty of his guard ponies, if not to him then to Celestia, who is indeed his boss. "Very well. However, we don't have much time. I found the beast that was terrorizing the villagers and incapacitated it. I then tied it to a tree with magical bonds, but I don't know how long it will stay there. We need to get back there and detain it as soon as we can.

Upon hearing this, everypony suddenly becomes very alert as they gallop out of the door, following Shining Armor. When they get to the scene of the fight, they gasp at the murdered Carrot Top, and Rarity and Spike cringe back at the sight of the bestial creature that is now squirming as much as it can to try and break free from its bonds. Pinkie Pie just sits her rump down as she starts crying at the despai-

"No I don't! Stop making things up!" Pinkie Pie shouts at the world, startling everypony else.

Rainbow Dash flies up to the beast's face. "You monster! How could you kill a living pony! You will pay! Carrot Top was my friend, sort of, and you killed her!" She half shouts half sobs, as she rears up to kick the beast right under his chin. However Shining Armor uses his magic to hold Rainbow Dash back, preventing her from kicking the beast, knowing that it would probably be with enough force to snap its neck. "Hey! Lemme go! This thing needs to pay!" Rainbow Dash exclaims, as she squirms in Shining Armors magical grip.

"I know it does. But we cannot pass judgement on it yet. We need to find out what it is, if there are more of them, why it is here, and why it killed Carrot Top." Shining Armor explains, as he carefully lets go of Rainbow Dash, ready to hold her again if she tries to strike the beast. However she doesn't. She lands on her legs and sulks away. "Twilight, is there anywhere we can keep this thing in Ponyville? Or would it be safer to keep it out here?"

While Twillight Sparkle starts thinking, Applejack speaks up. "We could keep it in mah barn. Secluded an' many places tah tie it up in. Bahsides. If'in it breaks free there, then ah'll be glad tah make sure it don't escape. 'An I'm sure Big Mac would be able to take it on."

Shining Armor nods, as he whacks the beast over the head with its discarded sword enough times to knock it out again, he then starts levitating it. The group heads over to Sweet Apple Acres. Hopefully going to find some answers.

The beast laughs as he looks down at Fluttershy, cowering in the corner, unable to do anything to stop it. It snatches Angel Bunny away from her, and raises him above its head. It's eyes staring at Fluttershy,the beast slowly lowers the squirming rabbit into its mouth, where it slowly chews the rabbit alive, smacking its lips open and closed very loudly, making Fluttershy watch as the last thing she ever loved was being eaten in front of her. She let out a scream.

"Nooooooooo!!!" Fluttershy wakes up, crying into her pillow, however she lets out an altogether different yelp when her pillow moves, she then notices that her pillow is red, which is odd because she doesn't own any red pillows.

"Fluttershy, what happened? Was it a dream? Are you okay?" Her pillow asks, it is when Fluttershy looks up, to see Big Macs face does she remember what happened last night.

"Yes." She responds meekly, trying to hold back the tears brought on by her dream.

"Don't worry. Ah'm here for you." Big mac says soothingly, as he rubs his muzzle against her. "Well, since we're both awake, hows about we go downstairs and get something to eat, okay Fluttershy?" Big Mac asks.

"Well. . . Okay. But, I don't have much. I've been meaning to go shopping but. . . I haven't been able to." Fluttershy says guiltily, as if it is a crime to not go shopping, afraid to disappoint the stallion who is being such a good friend.

"Well tha's alright. Why don' we go over to Sweet Apple Acres, and ah can fix you a big breakfast and what not? Try an' get your mind off recent events." Big Mac suggests, with a friendly smile on his face.

Fluttershy looks up at him. "Yes please."

Shortly after, with Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo sent home, Big Mac, Fluttershy, and Applebloom set off towards Sweet Apple Acres, for a huge breakfast that Big Mac promises them both.

Unbeknownst to everypony in Equestria, and everyone in Tyria, something was watching. Playing them like pawns in a game of chess. Silently influencing their actions, but not enough to let them catch on. Soon, his master plan will be fulfilled, his prison bars will break. Soon, he shall be able to leave his past behind, and start anew, in the world of Tyria. A world he shall make into a paradise. A paradise of Chaos. Not even known to him though, is even he, was a mere pawn in an even greater individuals plan. . .