Equestria Wolves: The Pack is Family, The Pack is Life

by Lord Shadow Eclipse


Chapter 1: Waking as Wolves

Twilight woke up to the feeling of something sharp poking her in the neck. She woke to see what looked like a raven with bright green eyes looking down at her.

"Twilight! Twilight, wake up!" the raven cried in a familiar voice.

Twilight stood straight up with a start. She locked her eyes with the green-eyed raven that sounded exactly like Spike.

"Spike?! What happened to you?! How did you become a raven?!" Twilight cried.

"I don't know how I became a raven! And I don't know how you became a wolf!" Spike said.

That last exclamation caught Twilight's attention. She looked down at herself and saw not hooves, but large paws with toes, pads, and claws. She looked at her own muzzle and saw that it was longer and more canine. Twilight looked behind her and saw a bushy tail. Her fur was also colored like a wolf's, with silver and white and a bit of purple on her neck and head. She brought a paw to her head and couldn't feel her horn. Spike was right, she had become a wolf!

Twilight looked around and saw that she wasn't in her castle anymore. All around her, she could see nothing but compact soil above and below her. The walls and floor had claw marks, indicating that this was a wolf den.

And she could see that she wasn't the only one in the den. In the deepest part of the den, there were other wolves sleeping soundly in close proximity to each other. Twilight walked closer to the wolves and saw that they were her friends turned into wolves! She went up to Applejack, since she was the closest, and shook her with her paws.

"Applejack! AJ, wake up!" Twilight goaded.

Applejack looked not that dissimilar to a normal wolf with the exception being her neck and head having lighter fur. She opened her bright yellow eyes and looked at Twilight. Understandably, she shot up and looked straight at Twilight.

"Twilight?! What happened to you?! You turned into a wolf!" she shouted.

"So did you, Applejack!" Twilight retorted.

Applejack looked herself over and got the confirmation of Twilight's words. She looked at Twilight wanting some form of explanation. Twilight simply looked at Applejack with a tired expression.

"Let's wake up the others and then we can figure out what happened" Twilight said.

Twilight and Applejack woke up the rest of their friends. They all had the same reaction Twilight and Applejack had. The girls all looked to Twilight for an explanation for what happened. Twilight simply looked at all of them to see how they all looked as wolves.

Rainbow Dash had a light belly with a darker gray back, while her neck and head were a light blue. Pinkie Pie had a light gray fur with bits of black on her back while her neck and head fur had a dark pink streak. Rarity was a white wolf with a small streak of her dark purple fur lining her neck. Fluttershy had a light tan fur color with some light pink on her head.

Curiously, Fluttershy had a better time adjusting to being a wolf.

"Twilight! What happened?! Why are we all wolves?!" Rainbow demanded.

Twilight put a paw to her muzzle in thought. She tried to think back to what could have caused this to happened. Then, the memory hit her like an apple cart.

"I think I know what happened" Twilight said.

"What happened, Twi?" Fluttershy asked.

"I remember working on the portal to the human world, you all came to visit, and I must have activated the portal by accident, and sent us to a new world altogether" Twilight said.

The pack seemed to be satisfied with that explanation. But Rarity raised her paw.

"But why are we wolves?" she asked.

"The portal must've sent us to a new world where we're now sentient wolves" Twilight replied.

"How are we going to get back?" Applejack asked.

"I... I don't know" Twilight said. "I think the best thing for us to do right now is to get outside and view our surroundings"

The rest of the pack seemed to agree with Twilight's suggestion. It was certainly better than sitting in the den not doing anything. The walked out of the den and into the fading sunlight of dusk. All they could see around them was nothing but forest. The leaves on the trees on the trees were yellow, orange, and brown. There was a crisp chill in the air, too.

The wolves slowly walked out of the den to survey the surrounding area. Twilight turned to see that their den was dug underneath a dead tree. Twilight pointed her snout in the air and sniffed.

Twilight's eyes widened. She could smell things she couldn't even dream of. She was familiar with the smell of forests, but she could somehow smell more than simply the trees and soil. Every scent around her was somehow greatly enhanced. She could smell Spike perched in the tree above her. She faced her friends and sniffed.

She could make out all their individual scents. Their scents were like fingerprints, being unique to each of them.

"Uh, Twilight? Why are you sniffing us?" Rainbow asked.

"Girls! You have to sniff the air around you! Our sense of smell is stronger now!" Twilight replied.

The wolves sniffed the air around them. Their eyes instantly lit up at smelling the different scents around them.

"Wow! This is amazing!" Pinkie cried.

"Simply outstanding! Every smell around me is so clear!" Rarity said.

"All of our scents are unique, too!" Fluttershy interjected.

Twilight felt a set of teeth pulling her ear. She turned to see that it was Pinkie.

"Ow Pinkie! What is it?" she asked.

"What do we do?" Pinkie asked.

Twilight looked around. They were turned into wolves and transported to an unknown forest in a different world altogether. She got it!

"I think we should split into three pairs. Spike, you and Fluttershy will come with me and survey the North. Rainbow, you and Applejack will search the East. Pinkie, you and Rarity will survey the West" Twilight said.

They separated into their teams and ran off into their designated directions. They had to find out how to get back to their own world.