The night was cold and the breeze blew rustling the leaves of the trees. Coming upon Ponyville was a tall black figure walking slowly with hooked chains dragging on the ground.
A young stallion was heading back to his house after a long night of hanging out with his friends. Opening the door the figure was in the view from his window.
"Gwah!" The stallion jumped startled, not noticing the figure standing in the view of his window," Are you lost?" The figure didn't speak a word, it just stood there like a statue.
The figure opened his eyes revealing two blood red, pupil less eyes and he out stretched two large hand like appendages from his back.
"What are you?" The stallion said in fear. Around the corner Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and Applebloom (Who snuck out because they thought it would be fun.) stopped staying behind a wall of a nearby building
"That looks like Aeon," Applebloom said in a low tone.
"It does but why does he have those things coming out of his back?" Scootaloo said in a low tone also.
With a small movement of the figure's arms the chains moved like snakes grabbing the stallion's legs and lifting him into the air.
"HELP ME!" The stallion screamed.
It stood staring at the stallion with its blank eyes, then with a flick of its wrist the chains pulled away from each other tearing the stallion in two. Blood spilled out like a water fall from the lifeless stallion. Dropping the bottom half the chain holding the top half lifted the carcass towards the figure. It drank the last remaining drops of blood from the carcass before dropping it.
The cutie mark crusaders were traumatized by what they saw, never had they seen such murderous intent of death in front of their eyes. They were so fueled with fear that they were to scared to move, Applebloom looked into its eyes and saw no remorse in those blank eyes, just hatred and the satisfaction of the smell of death.
Though they were infatuated with fear, the figure turned around and went back into the forest where it came out from.
At the moment the figure went back into the woods, the three of them darted back home as fast as they could. Sweetie Bell got to her house and slammed the door behind her. The sound woke Rarity up and she came downstairs to see what was going on.
"Sweetie Bell, what's going on?" She asked Sweetie Bell who was panting like a dog.
"I don't know, but I saw Aeon or something that looked like him..." She stopped herself still shocked by what she saw.
"You saw Aeon or whatever it was do what?" She asked in a concerned tone.
"I saw it kill a stallion!" Sweetie Bell screamed still in fear.
"Are you sure? Cause Aeon wouldn't do such a thing."
"I don't know... but it almost looked like him but it had red eyes."
"Red eyes?" Rarity was confused by what Sweetie Bell just said," Well that's odd because he has green eyes but don't fret Sweetie Bell I'll talk to him tomorrow."
"Okay," Sweetie Bell composed herself.
It was the next day and the mane six and Aeon were passing by where the stallion's body laid. There were guards around the place and Aeon walked over there.
"What happened here?" He asked one of the guards.
"A ponycide, some pony found his body right in this spot, poor guy was ripped in half," The guard replied.
Aeon looked at the body, still freshly killed but drained of blood," Any markings of hands?"
"Hard to tell if he was dug up or drained dry, but one pony said they heard a scream last night but couldn't see whom it came from."
Aeon looked at the wall next to him were markings written with blood," these don't look like claws but it must have been something with really big hands."
"Huh, I never thought of it that way," The guard said," Do you know what it says."
"It says- death shall come in the shadows for it stalks through the night," Aeon said reading the markings.
"So it's saying that it attacks at night."
"Maybe."
"Aeon," Twilight said," Can we talk to you?"
"Of course," He walked over to them," What is it?"
"This way so they don't hear us."
"Okay," They walked far enough to where the guards wouldn't hear them," Okay so what is it?"
"Rarity why don't you go first," Twilight said.
"Last night Sweetie Bell came home acting like she had just seen a ghost, she said that what killed that stallion looked almost like you," Rarity explained to him.
"Me? But I wasn't even out last night, why would she think I did it."
"She doesn't know, the only thing she said it looked like you, but it had blank red eyes."
"Red eyes?" Aeon began to ponder grabbing his chin with his thumb and pointer finger," That's odd."
"Applebloom said the same thing too, that what killed that stallion looked like you Aeon," Applejack joined in.
".... this doesn't make sense, why do they think I did it?."
"I don't know but she said it was also a black color."
"black skin?"
"Yeah, and something about hands coming out of its back."
"Hands?" Aeon was confused to the point of fascination.
"Aeon do you know anything about something that looks like what we just said?" Twilight asked.
"Not in the slightest," He pondered," I've never heard of any kind of creature like that."
"Maybe we could look through some books."
"Maybe but just give me sometime to think."
"Alright."
Aeon began walking trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, but nothing was adding up. It could be something from the old legends. He though. Yet there were many legends he's heard of things that kill others, so it would be hard to know.
He arrived at Shoeshine's place (since it was where he was staying.) opening the door walking upstairs to see what she was doing. She was sitting on her bed reading a magazine not even paying the slightest attention that Aeon was back. He leaped like a frog and landed on the bed scaring her.
"You scared me," She whimpered.
"Well that's what you get when you don't pay attention," He joked with her sitting up.
"So, now how was it?"
"How was what?"
"Your time helping Applejack."
"Oh, it was fine."
"I just heard that there was a killing last night."
"There was."
"do you think those gargoyles are back?"
"No. if they were there wouldn't even be a body," He paused moving closer to her," I think it's something else."
"Really, do you know what it is?"
"If I knew, I would have told you."
"That's true," Shoeshine rested her head on Aeon's chest," But whatever it is I know you'll take care of it."
"And you know I will," He chuckled, then laid down," I just hope it's no army setting a plan to make an ambush or something in that nature."
"Let's hope not then."
She sighed and Aeon ran his fingers through her mane, she could feel the tips of his claws rubbing against her head. They felt so good and so relaxing that she quickly fell asleep.
Aeon noticed and began thinking again Whatever this thing is I won't let it terrorize Equestria.