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// Chapter 1 
// Story: The Wolves in the Moonlight 
// by AppleJackSparrow 
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Twilight turned around to Spike. "Spike?" she asked. "Can you-" before she could finish, the sleepy dragon fell to ground, asleep. Twilight sighed and used her magic to levitate Spike into his bed upstairs. "I really have to make another helper," Twilight told herself as she came back down the stairs. An idea hit her. "Another helper! Brilliant!" she screamed. Twilight pulled out one of her favorite spell books and flipped through the pages. Then, she lied her hoof down on one page. Twilight read aloud: "For one helper I have is not enough, I need another that is tough?" It seemed like a weird spell, but the minute after she said it, another talking critter appeared under her feet. 
The critter was a small, baby dog. It walked on all fours and it pawed Twilight's legs. "Wut dwo ywo need Miss Twylwight?" it cried. Twilight gasped and levitated it into the air with her magic. The puppy barked happily and licked Twilight's face-before a loud howl from outside broke their celebrating. The puppy whined and dropped to the floor, racing upstairs. Twilight turned her head to the window and watched as the bright moon outside was covered with silhouettes of... wolves. 

This wasn't good at all. Twilight paced the floor until an idea hit her. "That's it!" Twilight said. "I'll just go out there and scare them away." She raced outside and waved a plastic sword at them,  trying to scare them. The wolves raced away, except for one. The wolf crept towards Twilight. It was black with a scar across its face, and a dark red stripe across its belly. Twilight screamed at the wolf's look and ponies had to open their doors to see what the matter was. "SHUT UP, WE'RE TRYING TO SLEEP!" one pony shouted. Twilight winced and tried to use her magic to levitate him back into the Everfree Forest. Like a force field, the forest reflected the wolf, causing a scream in pain from the wolf's mouth. 

The wolf growled at Twilight when she put him down. Twilight winced again, saying, "It's alright... I won't hurt you. HELP!" The wolf charged at her, clawing her back leg. Twilight collapsed on the dusty ground and turned to look at the wolf. It approached closer and closer, leaving claw marks and yanking every living thing out of it's path. Twilight screamed again, causing another hush from a house. Twilight realized it was useless, and she closed her eyes.