I awoke to the creature staring at me from the mouth of the cave, "Good morning," which meant she didn't kill me in my sleep, a good step, pushing myself from the ground, I took stock of what was around me a few pieces of jacket laid strewn about the floor.
"Where did these come from?" I asked feeling my saber on my belt.
"Food, I eat then they walk away, I don't know what they do after," she said looking to outside of the cave, "Sometimes I find them laying on the ground cold I killed them I know it," her eyes focused on me, "but not you, you went to sleep and continue to talk to me; now we must go," she said and left the cave, I followed keeping an eye on her.
As we walked through the forest, I realized she probably didn't know what feeding did to the ponies she used, she was ignorant of her abilities. But she had been starving even if she was directly responsible for the deaths of those ponies, I don't believe she could be blamed at least wholly. When we got deeper into the forest I watched her combust, I fell to the ground in a panic looking for a mage in the trees.
"Are you okay?" I looked at where she burst into emerald flames, a mare stood in her place similar to the one I saw last night but a different coat color a puzzled look spread across her features, "I just changed how I look, ponies don't like seeing things like me, monsters," I frowned at her words.
"I'm still not convinced you're a monster," I told her, she tilted her head before moving forward. I caught up to walk at her side, "I never did get your name," she didn't answer just kept moving forward, "do you have a name?" I asked, she just shook her head. As we got further into the thicket she took the lead propper leading me into another cavern.
As the darkness enveloped me echoes bounced from the walls and I felt the hunger, "Stay close to me the cavern dwellers keep their distance from me," I followed closely behind reaching out with the force I was able to see where the hunger was and true to her words they kept their distance backing away and circling waiting for me to fall behind. I placed my left hand on her hind-quarters and unclipped my saber. We continued walking through the dark before she suddenly stopped, "We need to turn back I didn't know she moved," I turned around to head back when the exit collapsed.
"Well, well, well," a feminine voice echoed through the chamber followed by clicking, "what have we here, the bug pony and perhaps a sick minotaur?" several mushrooms began to glow a light blue reminiscent of those from old nuclear reactors. A large spider slowly lowered her legs reaching out striking bones creating a melody.
"Every time the light shines,
I see snacks clearly,
Several ahhs reverberated off of the walls.
The fear betters the taste
I had enough I used the force to strike her with a rock, "OW!" she screamed as the music stopped abruptly, "Why would you do that I wasn't finished with my song," one of her legs rubbed her mandible, "I hadn't even reached the A section yet."
"You have two options here let us pass," I ignited my saber to punctuate my sentence, "or the forest loses a predator today,"
"I won't die to abominations," she dropped to the floor with a thud shaking some loose earth to the ground, "I am the Apex Predator,"