Fire Works
I am the newest commander of the Anti Monster Society or AMS for short.
I used my talent for explosives to fight monsters when I was a field agent.
Now I was mostly a pencil pusher.
For now though I was taking an file with an assignment to one of our best agents.
As I approached the training grounds I heard the tell tale signs that she was there.
Entering the training ground I saw agent Sweetie Drops throw three heavy metal balls into the air before bucking them towards a set of training dummies.
Not only were the dummies smashed to peices but the wall behind them to.
I sighed when I saw all the damage.
Don't get me wrong I did my far share of damage in my day but now that I have to deal with it I really understand why they considered me a problem child.
When she saw me she asked me if there was an assignment for her.
The monster she was after is called the Boitatá a fire snake who lives in a river habitat.
When ponies first moved to the area their actions caused heavy damage to the local habitat.
This caused the Boitatá to become enraged and it began to attack the ponies.
It had initially been sealed away but now that the seal has decayed it is back.
Sweetie Drops' mission was to locate it and ensure that it was not a threat to ponies.
And if it was a threat she was to deal with it at her discretion.
She said that she would handle it and left.
Some may worry about sending a single young mare to handle such a dangerous monster, but she takes after her father when it comes to strength.
Honestly I sometimes worry more about the monsters than I do her.
Sweetie Drops
The most difficult thing about the Boitatá that I will have to deal with is that despite it's aquatic it was proficient in fire.
As I collected the supplies I felt that I may need an agent by the name of Pretzel Stick came by to chat with me.
She was pretty good with a spear if you asked me but she was just to soft for this kind of work.
She was inviting me to a party with some of her friends but I had a job to do and couldn't stick around.
Eventually I made my way to the area where the Boitatá was located.
Just upstream from the local town there was an area of dense foliage.
Before I entered the foliage I drank a potion that would protect me from fire.
As I carefully walked through the foliage I noticed a slight movement below the waters surface.
I reached into my saddle bag and as the Boitatá latched out of the water I pulled out a large ball of cottage cheese and kicked it into the mouth.
The Boitatá choked on the cheese and I pulled out an axe and chopped it's head off.
I pulled the body out of the water and found that it had recently layed eggs.
After drinking a potion that would let me breathe underwater I investigated the area for it's nest.
When I found them I smashed each and every one of them.
As I emerged from the water I saw Nightlight.
He was a member of the night guard and a friend of my dad.
He liked to keep an eye on me.
I asked what happened to the mate.
He explained that Boitatá were solitary creatures most of the time.
The female would have stayed to it's territory but once the eggs hatched the male would have led them downstream to the ocean before returning to it's own territory.
They would have been a problem for all twenty one of the settlements that would have been in their paths.
As for what he did to mate.
Well he relocated it already and had already prepared a draft for the report that I would have to write.
It effectively said that Nightlight had already been at the location and had already made preparations to relocate the Boitatá.
He then said that he was going to get rid of any evidence of the nest and asked me to prepare the female for him to remove once he was done.
I started to curl it up before I started to write my own report.
As I finish the first section of the report I heard Nightlight emerge from the river water with a container.
I asked if he got what he wanted.
He did but just stood there.
When I asked if there was anything else he needed he sighed and said that I knew that he would not be able to cover for me all the time.
I knew this and told him that I knew it.
When he managed to dispose of the female Boitatá body and container he said his goodbyes and left.
Whatever I didn't need anyone and I won't lose anyone.
I decided long ago that I would not let anyone else suffer like I did.