Peaceful Intermission
Chapter 33: Crusading in the Snow
*Poof puff Poof puff*
"Wha! oof!" Ken felled face first into the snow after tripping over something.
"Careful Ken, mommy said that there could be things under the snow!" Kira said, helping her twin brother up on his feet.
"Yeah, yeah... I know." He replied brushing off the snow from his orange hoodie and pants.
Suddenly the two hybrid's hearing perked up. Something was nearby, something that sure wasn't a pony. The sound rustled through the snow, and the two twins went back to back, their saiyan instincts telling them a battle drew near. Out of nowhere the ground poofed up slightly revealing lumps of white fur. The lumps then turned direction instantly toward three figures in the distance the twins knew too well.
"Watch out!" Both Ken and Kira yelled. Unsure if the CMC heard them, they took off in flight toward their friends, ignoring the cold air that strung their pale skin and the snow that attempted to blind them.
The CMC cuddled together in fear as the snow lumps around them circled them, suddenly one burst out, causing the CMC to scream at the sight. A animal, with the body of white wolf, and the head of a bull, with razor sharp teeth and claws, looked terrifying in the falling snow.
"Ahh!" Sweetie Bell screamed, her horn's magical aura shot forward and blasted the wolf in natural instinct. The White Bull Wolf fell on the snow, but quickly got up and with another white bull wolf, they circled the CMC once again. Nearby ponies in houses were too fearful to aid them, fearing for their own lives more than others.
*Grrr* The bull wolves growled as they hunted their small prey, one snorted, air coming out of it's nostrils, and jumped at them with the intent to kill.
Only to receive a Ki blast to the face, sending it spinning through the air and crashing into the snow unmoving.
Ken and Kira landed between the CMC and the remaining bull wolf, who roared at them for interrupting their hunt. Ken and Kira growled at the wolf, a stare down between the two predatory species began, neither of them backing down. But soon enough the bull wolf realized it was outclassed and backed away from the two saiyans before running off into the Everfree forest.
"Well, that wasn't so hard." Ken commented.
Kira ran up to their friends the CMC, asking "Hey, you'll alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine! I wasn't scared!" Scootaloo exclaimed, shooting a quick glance at Ken who was poking the seemly dead creature.
"You were as scared as the rest of us... " Sweetie Bell said to her.
"No I wasn't!"
"Yes you were." Both Applebloom and Sweetie Bell replied.
Kira giggled "At least you are all alright." She said.
In the distance, the purple unicorn, oh wait... Twilight Sparkle, along with Spike. Came running to them yelling.
"Hey are you girls alright!" She yelled worriedly.
"Yes Twilight." They all answered. Except for Ken, who wasn't a girl.
Twilight nodded and walked toward the fallen creature. Her eyes widened when she recognized it from one of the many books she had read. "This is a Bull Winter Wolf, it lives up in the Griffon lands, it should've not have appeared down here at all!"
"Maybe something forced it out of it's home?" Spike adviced.
"That was exactly my thinking Spike! Something, or somepony might have lead it here. By even so, why did it only attack Ken, Kira, Sweetie Bell, Applebloom, and Scootaloo?" Twilight pondered.
"Well, you girls." Sweetie Bell looked over to Ken and continued "And boy, want to head over to the Clubhouse?"
"Sure!" They all responded. Heading off toward the clubhouse to begin their daily fun and games, completely ignorant of what the meaning of the wolves in Ponyville actually was.
"Dr. Foreton, we have finished it."
A pony with a white lab coat stood up, looked to the other and said.
"Show me."
The two made their way down a hallway into testing chamber, where the two stood behind a magical barrier.
"Begin procedures!" He said.
Locked with leather strips and straps, a Griffin struggled to get loose, gagged and unable to speak, he watched helplessly as another Griffin and Pony in white lab coats and blurry goggles pulled out a syringe and held him down, they plunged it right into him, he screamed trying to get it out, but the liquid within coursed through his body. His thoughts...vanished, his instincts overcame him ten fold as he lose all right of ever being a sentient creature. His talons sharpened, his fur turned into a darker shade of brown and his teeth lengthened. Once the procedure ended, he was, in all rights, a wild animal.
Dr. Foreton grinned madly, a smile that would so say evil in every sense.
"It is perfect."
The scientist next to him spoke up.
"With all concerns sir, he's just an animal now, how can we handle that?"
Dr. Foreton turned to him, then took a leash out of the draw and said to the scientist.
"Animals can be tamed, no matter what species. We can use our new formula to control various amounts of carnivore and omnivorous species. First we'll start with the basic beast, such as timber wolves, then to more dangerous ones such as the Manticore and Ursa, then we'll move on to the sentient animals, and finally..."
Foreton went to another draw and pulled out some papers and a picture on top of a young boy and girl with tails wiggling around their backs.
"Finally, we'll tame the strongest of all of them...Humans. Speaking of which, how did the Bull Winter Wolves go?" Foreton questioned, looking at his Scientist.
"As predicted sir, the Humans easily defeated the wolves."
He nods "Then prepare, it's time."
"Time for the beginning sir?"
He looks toward a paper of Celestia, before tearing it apart with his dark magical aura. He grins madly, looking at the scientist who then looks with fear.
"Yes, it's time, time for Equestria to be ruled by an iron hoof, nothing will stand in EIOSES's way."