sorry for the delay, but here is chapter two.
Enjoy.
It was a long walk home after a very long night for Applejack, but she finally reach sweet apple acres and found her brother and sister waiting up for her on the front porch.
"APPLEJACK" the little filly said as she bounded towards her sister.
"applebloom, how com' yur not in bed yet?. Big Mac how com' she's not in bed yet?" AJ asked tiredly.
"but, Big Macintosh said I could stay up till ya came home." Applebloom said with a sad look on her face.
"e'yup" Big Mac butted in
"alright, alright, now I'm home so its time for bed, and big Macintosh were gonna have'ta talk." she said hugging her little sister.
"ok,sis." little applebloom aswered before bounding off to her room.
After a few minute Applejack and Big Macintosh walked inside, and relaxed in the houses small living room and talked about the events of the day. Big Macintosh filled AJ in on the days work, which was not as good as she thought, and that the preparations for cider season are on schedule and they may actually have enough to extend it this year by three days. Then Applejack filled her bother in on her day, it was easy at first she told him about how boring it was for the longest time and how rarity never shut up about cantorlot and her newest projects as everypony else tried to drowned her out, this raised a chuckle out of her brother, but once she started talking about the diamond dog she saw and the looks on her friends face as he lumbered towards them in the bushes, she swore rarity was frozen in fear just by the site of it. When Applejack finished and looked back towards her brother she noticed his face went from its content look to more of a fearful one. There was a moment of silence from her brother, she was use to this but this time it felt different more dark and stowik.
However, just outside of sweet apple acres stood a rather short diamond dog only about half the size of a pony and had a sandy brown fur with several black spots on his arms. He had feature like that of fox mixed with a hyena and was missing his left ear making his head look a little off center, he adjusted the black cloak that was draped over his shoulders and back as he looked through a pair of binoculars made of what looked like bronze, when he removed them from his dark green eyes he scoffed.
"finally found this infernal farm, I would prefer some nice fresh meat but foods food." he said as put the binoculars away in a black bag under his cloak also revealing a bandalor with five short throwing knives.
The diamond dog snuck his way through the orchered climbing trees with surprising speed and grabbed as many apples as possible in his paws and then into a sack he pulled out of that same black bag, then he made it to the farm house where saw a light on in one of the windows and being naturally curious he went to look in to see the two ponies sitting there talking with looks of dread on their faces. Then something caught his eye, just in the next room was a large ice box that he was hopping was stuffed to the brim with all sorts of treats that made his mouth water just thinking about.
"lucky me a schoomorges board of who knows what little treats all for me, finally no sharing with that over-grown moron that is my companion." The little diamond dog snickered as he was intranced by his greed and lust for food.
Thinking quickly the little diamond dog dug through his bag and pulled out a round glass object about the size of an orange full of some sort of green liquid.
"thank you general." he said sarcastically.
He moved close to the front door of the house a pressed his body against the wall, then ever so carefully pushed the door open so the two ponies would not notice and shook the small glass orb causing the liquid inside to bubble. Finally when the door was opened enough he peered inside to see that nothing was disturbed and began to walk in, until he heard small hooves coming down the stairs and quickly tried to pull back outside. Too late he was spotted by Applebloom who let out a shrill shriek that alerted her two older siblings to come running towards her, the diamond dog quickly threw the orb towards the two older apples who side stepped out of the way. The orb shattered behind them in the living room releasing it liquid content that quickly began to eat away at everything it landed on.
"what in tarnations." Applejack said as she quickly looked back to were she and her brother were sitting.
"well I guess the acid grenade is not a total failure." the diamond dog said shrugging."now anyway I should be on my way."
he quickly turned and ran away from the home on all fours giving him some extra speed, but Big MacIntosh was right behind him and chased him right into the barn. The little diamond dog was trapped as Big Mac moved in on him, the diamond dog then opened his cloak and pulled two of his knives out and threw them at the rather large work pony. One missed completely, the other merely scratch the ponies side causing him stumble a little from the scratch. However, this only made big Mac angry which was rare for him and caused him to charge the small diamond dog. The hit caused the dog tumble off to the right of the barn, while he was trying to get to his feet big Mac readied him self for another charge. He watched the dog as he stood up and then began to ran to the door, but got tripped up and stumbled to his knees and began to crawl but to no avail. Big Mac smiled seeing his chance and charged again, but this time the dog quickly jumped over him and while starring in awe big Mac slammed full speed into an anvil.
"ah, just as I thought all brawn no brain." the diamond dog said with a laugh.
Then as he began to walk away the dog heard a noise that caused him to jump back pulling a knife ready to throw, but then stood down as he saw that the sound was the anvil cracking in two.
"well, not any more." then he made his way back towards the door.
He made it out of the barn without any further delay only to be stopped by a loud yell from the house yet again.
"stop ya no good varmint." Applejack yelled towards the small dog.
"crap, forgot about you." the small dog replied.
He then quickly bolted towards the orchered to head back to the forest, but was quickly stopped as a rope caught around his legs. He looked up to see that applejack was holding the rope between her teeth, then applebloom joined her and the two ponies began to pull him towards them and most likely his doom. The diamond dog quickly pulled out a knife and began to saw through the rope, but the knife he had was dull and was not doing anything to the rope.
"damn it, that idiot didn't sharpen my knives guess its time for plan B." He said as he reached back in his bag and pulled out two more acid grenades.
Quickly shaking the two small orbs he lined up his shot towards the two ponies that were dragging him then threw them. The two earth ponies quickly ducked trying to avoid the attack, then applebloom looked up.
"HA, missed us." the little filly shouted as her sister stood up.
Then the two started to hear something and looked to either sides of them to see that the dog did hit his targets, the supports of the awning they were standing under.
"awww, pony feathers." Applejack said as the awning toppled down on top of them.
"well, that was easy." the dog remarked as he released the rope around his legs.
Then without hesitation he grabbed the sack of apples that he greedily filled earlier and headed back towards the forest.
Deep in the everfree forest a small camp sat, two diamond dogs sat around a fire one looked at a map that sat on a make shift table, the other was sharpening the railroad spikes on his huge wooden club. As the two sat they heard something coming from the forest, the large dog lifted his club ready to charge the other pulled out a single shot pistol ready to fire, but when a small diamond dog walked out of the woods they put down their weapons. The large dog bounded towards the smaller one while the other went back to his map, before the smaller dog cound react the sack that was thrown over his back was grabbed up and he was knocked out of the way by a huge back hand.
"what the hell is this?!" the huge diamond dog said as he pulled out a hand full of apples that he quickly crushed.
"I was told to get food so I got it." the small dog said as he got to his feet.
"shadow you stupid mutt, when daggers said get food he meant meat." The huge dog yelled at the smaller one as he threw what was left of the apples at the him.
"sorry bones, but maybe if some imbecile sharpened my knives like he was suppose to I could have killed those earth ponies, and maybe we would have some meat if that same imbecile didn't try to kill a dragon and force him towards that cottage with all of those animals." shadow said as he blocked the apple left over's with him cloak.
"shut it the both of you." the third finally yelled.
This caused bones to let out a low growl and shadow to bow in respect, the third in their group was about average size for a diamond dog, had pitch black fur and wolf like featured. He wore a long black duster, and a brown leather belt that held two black powder pistols, a horn that held powder and a bag that held shot. He glared over his left shoulder revealing a furies look from his golden eye, this caused the two other dogs go their separate ways and sit.
"now you two get some sleep." Dagger said as he walked towards the fire.
"why boss?" bones asked.
"because, you two have a big day tomorrow."
"and what, may I ask, do me and that moron have to do?" asked shadow.
"simple, our note didn't work," he said looking over at bones "and since to night they now know there is most defiantly more than one of us," he said looking towards shadow "we must now use drastic measures."
"like what?" bones asked as he lade next to the fire.
"we take a hostage." dagger finished rolling on to his side.
The other two dogs did the same not bothering to ask questions and closed their eye readying for the morning.
please relay if I missed any spelling errors or if there is any thing I could do to better my story.