//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Ducks and wyverns // Story: Sparking duo // by SeiryuofEast //------------------------------// A year later... May's POV My name is May Brown, I am 9 years old and now I am a zinogre, I live with my older sister Alice, who is a stygian zinogre, we both live in a cave that used to belong to an arzuros. Before that we used to be humans but due to a strange wishing stone I found in a river, my sister and I ended up in the world of Monster hunter and we were turned into zinogres. Alice has been teaching me a lot about this world, about the dangers we have to watch out for and what our species can do. In all the time that we have lived in this world, my sister and I have been training, according to what she have told me, the zinogres are a species of wyverns with great ability for acrobatics and Alice, who previously practiced karate and judo , she has been trying to adapt her techniques with what he can do with her body while also teaching me how to fight. I don't know how much time has passed since we were transported to this world, but the truth is that I have changed a lot compared to how I was when we got here, my body has grown and now I am as big as a big jaggi and Alice well, she is already almost twice as big as before, I still remember the arzuros from that time when it stood up on its hind legs, it was quite intimidating, but now that bear is short compared to how big my sister is now, without even standing up on its hind legs. Since Alice grew to such big size, hardly anyone dares to fight her anymore, even so my sister says that she wouldn't dare to fight things like a Deviljho or a silver Rathalos. Our routine was kind of humble to the point of being boring, by the mornings we got up to hunt for our lunch, we trained, we took naps and at the evening my sister would go hunting at night to have something for breakfast. Today, as always, my sister will wake up late in the morning due to her night schedule, so today an idea come to my mind, I wanted to show my sister that I could also hunt on my own, so while Alice was sleeping I sneaked out of our cave to start my first hunt alone. My hunting objective was simple: A garwa, I don't think I'd have a problem hunting one, as Alice have told me, they are the easiest prey for us, so I started my search for garwas using my senses as Alice have taught me. After some time of searching through the forest while looking for the trail of my soon to become my prey, I finally smelled a small group of garwas very close behind some bushes in front of me, three I think, also there was something else with them, It didn't seem to smell like anything I've ever smelled before. Carefully and slowly, I move forward taking care of my walk to not step on a branch or leafs that could make my presence known, as soon as I was ready I took a great leap behind those bushes and as soon I fell to the ground with my legs standing firm to not lose my balance, ready to peform another jump this time against my prey, but I stopped dead when I noticed what was in front of me. "Huh?" I said surprised and perplexed with what my eyes saw. "Eeeek!" exclaimed Fluttershy, who stumbled with her back on the ground and quickly took a seat and look at me. "But what? How is it possible? Fluttershy?” I thought motionless and surprised seeing the yellow pegasus who looks terrified of me. "Dra-dra-dragon!" Fluttershy screams in fear as she closes her eyes and covers her body with her arms. Some hours earlier, Fluttershy's cottage... Fluttershy's POV My name is Fluttershy, this day I gotten up early to attend all my friends in my cottage so I could go to the farm of my friend Applejack, there we will meet with our other friends, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and Pinkie Pie, we were preparing several things there to celebrate the birthday of our friend Rainbow Dash. After finished doing everything in my cottage, I went to the front door of my home, there my bunny Angel was waiting for me to say goodbye. “Okay Angel, I'm leaving now, you're in charge of everything in the cottage, okay? I'll be back when Rainbow's party is over.” I told Angel to which he replied to me nodding. After leaving my home, I walked in the direction of Sweet apple acres, Applejack's farm, by some coincidence at the crossroads to go to Ponyville I met my friends Twilight and Rarity as the three of us continued on our way to Applejack's farm. After we arrived at Sweet apple acres, we could see how Applejack, along with her older brother, Big Mac and our friend Pinkie Pie were setting the table, were preparing everything near the barn for Rainbow Dash's party, it was at that moment we approached with Applejack and the others to greet them. "Good morning Applejack, I hope we aren't late to help with the preparations." Twilight said as she smiles to Applejack. "Good morning everyone, no Twilight, you girls arrived just in time, in fact I was waiting for you and Fluttershy to come, something happened here early this morning in the farm." It said Applejack with us. "Nothing bad happened right?" I asked to Applejack, worried about what have happened here. "Not quite, come I'll show you, Applebloom is watching them right now." Applejack said to us as she began to walk. Strange we look each other faces for a moment wondering what is happening, then Twilight and I followed Applejack, Rarity decided to go and help Pinkie with the decorations. After a while Applejack took us to a pen which it seemed that it doesn't have much time of being builded, there was Applebloom watching what was inside in the pen, when we went closer to look in we found that there in the pen were three strange birds, they have a yellow plumage, they do not seem to be a flying bird species, they were somewhat chubby, they have a beak like of the ducks and they were the size of chickens, the strangest thing about these birds was that they had a kind of crest on their heads, they chirped like young chicks, both Twilight and I were amazed by these strange birds. "Aren't they cute? Right?" Applebloom said with a small smile on her face as he look the birds. "Yes as along they are locked up like this, this morning we surprised them eating the vegetables from the orchards, luckily they didn't go to the apple trees and they were very slow to flee, what do you think they are?" Applejack asked to Twilight and me. "Well, the truth is that I never seen this kind of birds in any of my books, what do you think Fluttershy?" Twilight said to me as she turns to look at me. "Well, from the shape of their beak, I would say that they are ducklings." I said doubtfully as I looked at the trio of birds. "I don't think they're 'ducklings', Fluttershy, they're the size of a hen to be ducklings." Applejack said to me. "Believe it or not, they are, the sound they make is only made by young chicks." I replied to Applejack. “Wait a minute Fluttershy, are you saying that these…Ducklings are just chicks? If that's true how is the mother of these three?... ”Twilight asked a little dismayed for a few moments but then she smiles excitedly. “Girls, do you know what this means? We have discovered a new species!” Twilight said with everypony as she pointed to the ducklings with her right hoof. "In that case Twilight, what should we do?" asked Applejack to Twilight. “Honestly, I would like to take them with me so I could study them.” Twilight replied to what she turns to look the ducklings. “But girls, aren't these little guys chicks? Shouldn't they be with their mom?" said Applebloom with us a little distressed for the ducklings's sake. "Uh...Well, I think you're right sweetie." Said Applejack who smiles to Applebloom. "Find the mother of the ducklings?..." Twilight said to us as she placed her right hoof under her chin. "It wouldn't be a bad idea to see how it looks an adult specimen, but do we even know where to start looking?" Twilight asked. "Oh, maybe these little ones know where to find their mother..." I said, smiling a little as I turned around with the ducklings. "Right little ones?" I said with the ducklings in the pen, they then look to each other for a moment and then they nod with me "Great!" I said glad about it. "Well, now the problem is who will go with these ducklings to look for her mother?" asked Applejack to Twilight and me. "We could go together Fluttershy, well, if that's okay with you of course?" Twilight said to me. "Well, if that's okay with you Applejack, won't you be too busy setting up the party without us here?" I asked to Applejack. "No problem, in fact it helps me more if these three ducklings are not here, that leaves Applebloom free to help us, you two can go but don't be late there, remember that we have to finish the preparations for the Rainbow's party.” Applejack said to Twiligh and me. "Alright, let's go then." Twilight said willingly as she turns to me which I nod to her. After saying this, Applejack released a trio of ducklings who stayed there waiting as I told them if they could guide us with their mother to which they nodded to me and they began to walk in a single straight line and while Twilight and I followed them closely. We left Sweet apple acres as we followed the ducklings and we passed the crossroads with Ponyville as the ducklings followed the path that leads to my cottage. Later the ducklings continued on their way to the forest while we followed them, luckily I had already explored this part of the forest so there will not be any problem if we keep looking in this place. Twilight was getting a little worried, perhaps under the experience that she suffered with the cockarice a while ago, but I assured her that here there won't be any danger here like, unlike the everfree forest. It was a little further that we heard the sound of running water, we are probably closer to a stream, then we continue following the ducklings on their way to where the sound of the water is coming from, when suddenly at that moment I stopped and turned to my right looking towards a bush, Twilight noticed that I stopped and approaches to me. "Is something wrong Fluttershy?" Twilight asked to me with concern. "No nothing, it's just that I thought I sense something coming from that bush." I replied to Twilight as I pointed at the bush I mentioned with my right hoof. "I see, so-Hey!" Twilight said to me as she turned around with the ducklings. As soon as I turned my gaze in the same direction as Twilight, we both noticed that the ducklings were getting ahead of us, leaving us behind. "Wait! You guys can't leave without us!" Twilight exclaimed at the ducklings as she trotted to catch up with them. I laughed a little of Twilight's reaction with the ducklings, but just as I was going to follow my friend, suddenly, something jumped out of the bush from before and it fell a few meters near of me. When I turned around, I noticed that what have come out from the bush, walks on four legs, it have a long tail, claws, green and yellow scales, a white fur, it has horns on its head, its figure, it didn't took me much long to realized that it my greatest terror, then it look up at me making me tripped and I fell on my back as I quickly took a seat while staring at the newcomer. "Dra-dra-dragon!" I exclaimed in fear seeing the green dragon in front of me. I thought this dragon would do something to me but the dragon just stood there in front of me and stared at me with an expression... Puzzled? In any way I was so terrified that I couldn't move a muscle, it was at that moment when I heard Twilight yelled my name. "Fluttershy!" Twilight exclaimed concerned about me. Shortly after, a familiar purple ray of magic hits the dragon at side of it, knocking it to the ground, this made me reacted and I got up quickly and I hurried my way with Twilight and stood at her side while she was in position charging her horn to shoot again at the dragon, when suddenly. “Ouch! That hurt!" exclaimed the dragon complaining with the voice of...A filly? "Huh?" Twilight and I said puzzled in unison seeing the dragon on the ground. "You didn't have to shoot me..." the dragon said irritated as she stood up. When she stand up, Twilight and I noticed that this dragon was quite big, she could be a little taller than Big Mac and she's only standing on 4 legs, I don't want to imagine her standing on her hind legs. "Who are you?" Twilight asked to the dragoness keeping her position and still charging her magic. "My name is May, I'm 9 years old, I'm sorry to scared you, I really didn't mean to." May said while smiling at us. "May? Wait, you said you're 9 years old...?" Twilight said astonished with May which she is nodding to Twilight. "It's not possible, how can you be such a big dragon with only 9 years old?" Twilight asked to May again. "I'm not a dragon, I'm a wyvern." said May to Twilight, standing with a proud bearing. "Wyvern?" I said surprised, she's not a dragon and she's just a filly, if that's the case I shouldn't be afraid of her right? "Wyverns are flying reptiles and they are family of the dragon species, dragons have 4 legs and a pair of wings, you go on fours legs and you don't have wings, you can't be a wyvern." Twilight explained doubting of May. "I am a fang wyvern, fang wyverns are like that." May said to Twilight. “Fang Wyvern?” Twilight and I said puzzled in unison as May nods to us. "And what were you doing here?" May asked to us with a curious look on her face. "Well we were following...The ducklings!" I exclaimed worried while I look around for the ducklings. "Ducklings?" said May confused. After that I began looking for the ducklings, Twilight looks around as well and the young May joined in the search helping looking for the ducklings, unfortunately there was no trace of them, what we did found was a small stream from which the sound of the running water was coming from. "Maybe they already found her mother Fluttershy." Twilight said to me. "You may be right Twilight, I think we should go back to Sweet apple acres with the others." I told to my friend who nodded in response. "Where are you two going?" May said getting our attention. Both Twilight and I turned to May who was giving us a curious look as she smiles to us. Some time later... “Are you sure about this Twilight? I mean, May doesn't seem like a bad pony or wyvern to me, she seems like a good filly, but don't you think the girls wouldn't get mad about this?" I said to Twilight in a low tone as she walks next to me. “Well, we couldn't leave her behind, right? We just have to tell the girls about May first before we introduce her." Twilight replied to me with a small smile on her face. After what happened, May found out from us about the party that we were prepare for Rainbow Dash and asked us if she could go to the party, Twilight was curious about the kind of wyvern that May is, May then agreed to tell her as long as we took her with us to the party that we were preparing at Appejack's farm so we decided to bring “little” May with us to Sweet apple acres. May on the other hoof was quite of jovial as she follow us closely behind us while humming a song. As we continued with our walk we went back to the crossroads to Ponyville and later we could see the apple trees as we arrived at Applejack's farm, when we turned with May we noticed that she was amazed looking around her, I think that she has never seen an apple farm before. "Okay, we are here..." Twilight said as she turned to May. “May, will you stay here with Fluttershy while I go and tell the others about you okay? Then I'll come for you." said Twilight with us. "Okay, Miss Twilight." May said as she nods to Twilight. "We will wait for you Twilight." I said to Twilight smiling a little. "Okay, I'll be back in a while." Twilight said to us, turning around and following the path towards the farm, leaving us alone. Then I turned to May who were looking at me curious with a smile on her face, she looking me in that way was making me nervous, that was until then I noticed how her tail was waving from one side to the other, like the dogs usually do when they are happy. "So...what are you hobbies, Miss Fluttershy?" asked May smiling to me. Meanwhile at some place in the forest... 3rd person's POV A large quadrupedal figure stood among the trees who seemed to be carrying something between its jaws as it began to walk, after a while, the creature reaches to a cave's mouth with bamboo trees around it, it was those moments when the creature it releases to the ground what it was carrying, the lifeless body of an adult garwa, the creature who was in front of its prey puts a claw on the corpse of the garwa to which it lifts up its head and lets out a howl that is heard through the forest .