A cool wind blows through the forest as the moon slowly rises in the distance, the wind sending birds high within the trees to shiver and plants to shake. Through this wind comes Cloudy, heading where she saw the object fall.
Birds tweet and lizards run as her hooves disturb the sleeping animals of the undergrowth, her horn lit up casting a little light in front of her.
She smiles as she trots ahead, pausing as she hears distant movement. Her magic grabs an axe from her side, keeping it floating up beside her head as she moves forward more cautiously.
The foliage in front of her begins to shake rapidly as a wolf runs through it. The animal passes right by Cloudy, and an entire pack follows behind it, all of them passing by her without so much as a drop of attention payed.
She watches the running wolves with caution, raising an eyebrow as the last, a pup, passes between her legs. A green glow comes from the forest ahead, and even more animals run by. Squirrels, birds, foxes and even a bear running from the light.
She looks at al the animals, and looks back at the green light, scuffling her hoof on the ground and reconsidering her choice. The light seems to both draw in her attention and call her closer, yet at much the same time also tells her to run away.
She jumps in surprise as a hydra roars from elsewhere in the forest, and she can hear its stomping feet shaking the ground and trees more. With the strength of the shaking increasing, it is obvious the creature is coming closer.
She absorbs her magical light’s energy back into herself, and slinks low to the ground up to the green light, watching her hooves to make sure they don’t step on any stray branch or crackling leaf.
She moves into the bushes surrounding the light, slowly poking her head out. There lays the source of the green light, a crater with something moving inside it. The trees all around it have been knocked over, and the grass burned.
She slowly trots closer to the crater, eyes straining to catch sight of the thing moving within, and axe floating alongside her head. However, she comes to a sudden stop as she sees the burnt bushes suddenly grow back alive, and then overgrow to form a barrier between her and outside the clearing. Then, new trees sprout from the stumps left behind, gigantic and thick, yet more blocking her escape.
She slowly trots closer, legs shaking and axe held more unsteady in her magic, still ready to swing with a simple command. The creature within the crater begins to move more, the green glow slowly dying down as it does.
Then, out of the crater pokes the head of a unicorn colt, with bright green coat and golden mane, and beautiful red eyes. Cloudy stops in her advance, floating down her axe, “Oh, a colt.”
The colt looks at her, and tilts his head, blinking once as he does so.
She smiles, and begins to chuckle, “Here I was thinking I’m about to face down some sort of star creature, but nope! Just a colt. Probably just misfired a spell.”
The colt then walks the rest of the way out of the crater, revealing wings on his back.
Cloudy instantly pauses, and gasps, “Oh... oh you’re one of them.” She floats her axe back up, and takes a step back, “I’ve heard of your kind before! You winged unicorn star foals always being misfortune and destruction to us!”
The colt tilts his head again, taking a step towards her.
She frowns as he gets closer, “Hey, don’t take another step.”
She pauses as the ground shakes beneath her, the sound of a hydra’s roar sounding closer than before. The colt looks around with fright, his wings pinning to his side as he rushes beneath Cloudy, ducking away from the noise.
Cloudy looks at him, her axe half heartedly held in her magic, “You’re... just a colt. A scared colt who happens to have wings and a horn.”
She looks at the bushes blocking her way back to town, raising her axe up high and swinging it down to cut through the foliage. The colt looks up as she does such, watching the plants be cut away.
Cloudy smiles, floating her axe down as she cuts through the last of the bushes, the hydra’s roar sounding closer than before and shaking the colt again.
She levitates the colt up with magic and puts him on her back, “Alright, I don’t know if you understand me, but hold on tight.”
The colt wraps his legs around her, holding on tightly as Cloudy begins a rapid gallop through the forest. The Hydra roars and stomps the ground, it’s many heads now visible above the tree line.
Cloudy doesn’t spare the beast a glance, running even faster. The Hydra roars louder as it reaches the clearing behind her, not finding anything to eat there.
Cloudy runs faster, and dives to hide behind a tree after the Hydra’s roar. It’s heads look around and scan the forest floor, giving one final roar and stomping away as it sees nothing.
Cloudy sighs and breathes deeply, standing and trotting back home, “Come on, colt, I’ll figure out what to do with you tomorrow.”