Several years ago, Equestria was a different place with monsters ruling most of the inner land. The ponies stayed at the capital city Canterlot, but every now or then, a small group decided they would try their luck with living outside of the capital. These groups made themselves nice towns. But eventually, in one little town, the worst case scenario happened.
Buildings were on fire. Ponies were running for their lives. In the madness, a unicorn filly became separated from her mother. Two red pairs of eyes stared out at her as the filly trembled in fear. The monster approached her. It looked almost pony-like except the black fur coat. It had a wolfish face, white claws, and fangs. The unicorn screamed as the monster ripped her to pieces.
The last of the ponies went to the town square in hopes that the monsters would leave them alone. But they were proven wrong as four sets of red eyes bore down on them, one of them coming in close. . It spit out a filly head, which rolled to a stop in front of the frightened ponies.
Suddenly, a zipping sound came out of nowhere and something hit the monster right in the forehead, causing it to fall to the ground. Then the ponies saw the fallen monster disintegrate as fast as the river could flow. A second zip hit another monster but that monster reacted quickly and got hit in the side.
The ponies and monsters looked up at the rooftop and saw two hoodies ponies with crossbows. Suddenly, one pony ran to another rooftop. Meanwhile, the other reloaded his crossbow.
Then one of the monsters hollered and many more red eyes glowed in the dark. The group of ponies ran inside the nearest building. Arrows begab flying into several monsters. One of the hoodie ponies said with a gentle voice, "If I'm going to guess, I’d say there are about twenty of these Wereponies.”
"So, twenty Wereponies against two hunters. I might cry for them," said the second hoodie pony in his deep voice, who was on the tallest building in the burning town.
Then the battle began as several Wereponies started to climb the buildings. Every last one had hunger in its eyes. But that didn’t matter; the hunters had the high ground, and they fired one arrow after another. As some of the Wereponies advanced upon the nearest hunter, instead of reloading, the hunter threw three daggers; every dagger hit a Werepony. Then she pressed a button on her crossbow.
The gears in her crossbow started turning until the crossbow transformed into a sword. The hunter charged the two Wereponies that were left. With a quick swing, she killed both monsters. The hunter looked up to see her partner finishing off the last of his ten Wereponies.
For some reason, the monsters had split into two groups of ten. When the two hunters came down, the ponies that had run into the building came out to greet them. The town mayor said, "We would like to thank you for saving most of our town."
The hunters said nothing.
The mayor continued, "Is there anything we can do to repay you? Do you want anything? I mean, you saved the ponies of this town. We don't even know your names!"
In response, the two hunters raised their hooves and threw down smoke bombs, which temporarily blinded the group of ponies. And under the cover of the smoky cloud, the hunters ran away.
As they entered the mouth of a cave, the hunters stopped to catch their breath. One of the hunters removed her hood, revealing a mare Chiroptera with a red rose mane and a yellow coat. She spoke in a small voice, "That was too close."
Her partner said, "Hey, don't look at me. it was your idea."
"I know, and I should have plan for every outcome." She looked down and continued. "But I think this is my last night of doing this kind of work." She placed a hoof over her belly.
"What do you mean, this is your last night?"
The huntress looked at her partner and said, "I'm pregnant, Night Glider. And I plan to leave the hunt. For good."
Night Glider was silent for a good while. Then he said, "Congratulations." He hugged Night Breeze, but she wasn't expecting her partner to handle the news so well.
"So who's the father?" Night Glider asked.
"You're not mad?"
"Why would I be mad? You get to live the quiet life now. I couldn’t be happier."
"Well I thought-”
"Hey! As much as I enjoy your company on these missions, you should not be fighting every night. And don’t worry about me. I was born to do this. I will ask again, though. Who's the father?"
"His name is Gentle Breeze."
"Hm, I don't know any Chiroptera with that kind of name."
"Well, that's because he's a Pegasus."
"Wait, what?" said a very concerned Night Glider. He continued, "Does he know that you are a... you know? I mean, how do you plan on keeping that a secret. You're a Chiroptera."
The huntress pulled out of her saddlebag a golden pearl necklace. One of the pearls had a sky blue mark on it. As she put the necklace around her neck, her Chiroptera body changed into the body of a mare Pegasus.
She turned about. "Well, how do I look?"
Night Glider’s jaw dropped, but he recovered quickly and replied, "You could fool everypony in town with that rune."
Night Breeze took off the necklace and changed back to a Chiroptera. She placed it back in her saddlebag. Then the two Chiroptera started to run deeper underground.
Night Glider said, "It was fun to go on one last killing spree with you, Night Breeze." And the two disappeared into the darkness of the cave.
Present day at Fluttershy’s cottage.
As the last of her friends walked out, she began to wonder. Was this whole ordeal just a freaky accident or was there something she needed to know.
Just a few hours ago, she had transformed into some weird bat pony, according to her friends. But she didn't recall the time she spent being that.
"Well, I am planning on writing to my mother, so I better let her know what happened."
She made her way to the table. A small, white rabbit hopped his way to the table with an envelope, a blank piece of paper, and a pencil. As soon as he got to the table, he dropped the items in front of the buttery yellow Pegasus.
"Why, thank you, Angel. You know just what I need."
But the rabbit gave her a look that said You’ve been arguing about it for at least nine months.
"Oh, I know. It's just that my mother can get worried about me. And I never understand why, really."
Angel looked at her as if to say like mother, like daughter.
Then he slid down Fluttershy’s pink mane and hopped outside.
Fluttershy started to write on her blank piece of paper.