Short Sighted
When I learned that I was talented in optometry my family celebrated.
But it was still too early for me to really focus on advance studies since I was still young.
Not that I minded being able to continue goffing around and having fun.
One of my favorite places to have fun was the wooded area of trees in the park.
It was one of the only places in the park where there was a decent amount of shad, or at least one that is not regularly visited by other ponies.
Sometimes I would use the shad to take a nap during the day.
When I went to it today though I felt some pony watching me
Looking around I noticed that it was just a large crow.
I must have been new to the area.
As I left though it seemed to keep watching me.
Though I never did see the nest it must have been living in the wooded area because it was always there.
Sometimes I would bring a little bit of corn in my saddle bags for it.
It had no problem with me hanging around with it but whenever I would bring a friend or some pony else was around the crow would not show up.
Since I didn't want to make the crow uncomfortable I had decided to keep it as my little secret from my family and friends.
When I would spend time in the wooded area where the crow would be I noticed that it would come out of the shadows.
When I say that it came out of the shadows I mean it.
It walked out of the ground as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
When it did this it would have wisps of shadows would come off of it.
This got me thinking.
So one day I looked at it and asked if I could see what it really looked like.
Suddenly it's body melted into a mass of shadows and turned into some kind of large pitch black iguana.
The biggest difference was that it had long jagged teeth.
Well besides the other stuff.
As I continued to observe my shy friend I noticed that it would start acting strange the later it was in the day.
It would get a nervous twitch randomly and occasionally make a growling or gurgling sound.
I was starting to get worried that something was happening to it when I was not around but I had to be home for dinner.
Maybe I could sneak out without my parents knowing.
When I was on my way home I was offered a sample from the cream colored mare who had gotten a part time job at the candy shop.
My parents wouldn't want me to spoil my dinner but it looked really tasty so I took one regardless.
After my parents had put me to bed I had decided that it was time to sneak out.
As I made my way to the park I thought I saw the shadow of an adult but I couldn't see any pony.
Shrugging I continued to the park and saw the trees.
When I approached the tree line I heard the growling.
When I made my way into the trees I saw my shadow friend but something about them was different.
They were standing on their hind legs and far larger than before.
As it hissed in me while drooling.
Before I realized it my shadow friend slashed at me with long sharp claws.
But before they made contact everything went black.
Sweetie Drops
After getting her filly out of the way and knocking her out I started to fight the monster.
Nightlight had called it a nalusa falaya.
While they were docile during the day once night fell they became highly aggressive and territorial.
As it slashed at me I made sure that the filly was safe from it's claws.
Since it did not have a physical body I would have to use a item Nightlight had given me.
It was a wooden bottle with a cork tied to it.
When I shoved the opening into the nalusa falaya and said the activation code.
When I did the nalusa falaya was sucked inside and the cork sealed it inside.
As I made sure that the cork would not come loose Nightlight walked towards the filly saying that he would erase her memories from the last five hours before returning her home.
Before he left he said that he would relocate the nalusa falaya when he finished.
Or would he?