Equua Mangia hummed quietly to himself as he sat on a dark raincloud. It seemed that the ponies were scheduling some spring rain, the last before the summer, and he rested above Ponyville as clouds were situated below him. He outstretched his wings and laid on his back, sunning his belly and relishing the power he had drawn from the frail pegasus' severed wing.
"Did you hear about what happened to Fluttershy?"
"I did! Poor thing, couldn't have happened to a nicer mare..."
"And her wing--"
"I hear she's in the hospital now."
Equua looked over the side of the cloud to see two pegasus mares, one with a pale coat and green and purple mane, and another with a purple coat and blue and purple mane.
They shook their heads and continued their work, pressing clouds together. Equua Mangia thought a moment, then looked momentarily at his body. He noticed his ever-so-slightly buffer muscles, and wondered how much power he could gain from devouring a whole pony and not just one measly little wing. He pulled himself to his feet and trotted across the wavy, hilly cloud landscape. He whistled gleefully and spread his wings, taking flight and scanning the ground for the hospital the mares were talking about.
He perched in a window, flapping his wings for balance briefly before settling. He had to think, where was that poor, weak mare hiding?
He stepped off the windowsill and looked around, noticing the room he was in. There was a bed-ridden mare to his left, her belly round from pregnancy. She was a gray pegasus with a long blue and black mane. He sniffed the air briefly, smelling blood heavily laden with the scents of woman.
Equua Mangia trotted down the hall, and slowed when he heard soft crying. He stopped and peeked into the room, seeing a pale yellow pegsus in her bed, torso bandaged tightly. Her face was buried in her hooves, and over the sound of her crying she could not hear the door open and Equua's hooves against the ground. She didn't hear him until his fangs were digging into her shoulder and pulling her out of bed. She screamed as she hit the ground, her arm dislocated and useless. With another tug Equua ripped it off, causing blood to pool on the floor. Fluttershy screamed in pain, her other hoof rushing to meet her shoulder. As she panicked he crunched it, devouring it quickly before digging his teeth into her stomach, ripping away muscle and organs. Fluttershy screamed, writhing in pain as a doctor and security guards rushed into the room. He took that as his cue to leave and turned, snatching up the screaming mare in his mouth and leaping out the window, spreading his leathery wings and taking flight.
His body dipped slightly from the sudden weight of the girl, but he caught himself and flew into the Everfree forest.
After a short time he touched down, dropping the sobbing, bleeding mare to the mud. Her cries we growing annoying, he thought, and it was time to put her out of his misery. When he knelt to bite out her throat she unexpectedly kicked him, driven by fear and desire to live. He reeled, but then quickly dug his teeth into her neck, forcing her to be still. After a moment of sharp shakes he began to devour her, swallowing hunks of flesh and organ, snapping bones between his more powerful jaws as he sapped her life energy. He felt his body gaining strength as he ate hers. He flipped his tail and hummed happily, the taste and smell and sensation of blood and body over his senses was nearly a sexual experience for him and all he wanted was more. He raised his head, grinning over the body he had dominated and absorbed, proud of the empty, faceless THING on the ground before him. He licked the blood from his chops and left the corpse, flying away for the forest animals to finish whatever else was left.