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// The Beast 
// Story: The Night Will Never Be The Same 
// by abramblett 
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All was quiet in the peaceful town of Ponyville. The moonlight shined down on the peaceful town while crickets began to Chirp and owls began to hoot. Ponies began to head to their homes, while others stayed out in the cool, breezy night. The select few ponies that stayed out looked up at the moon to enjoy its beauty, while others went to Vinyl's night club to party and rave. Tonight was a beautiful night, the kind of night you would want to stay up to look at and enjoy the scenery. Luna has perfected tonight with her wonderful stars and magnificent moon.

Ponyville wasn't quiet forever though, as a long, dragged out howl was heard towards the Everfree forest. This brought ponies to attention as they looked towards the forest, wondering what had made such a howl.

The Everfree has always been known as a dangerous place for ponies. Monsters lived in the Everfree forest, lurking in the dark. Monsters like Manticores, Dragons, Timberwolves, Hydras, and many more unspeakable things. That forest almost never allows any light into it, and that statement gets even more true if you were to head deeper into it. Many things could have made that howl the ponies heard, but they dare not enter the forest of fearing they might not leave the forest alive.

The residents of ponyville always heard this howl every night for the past few months. The howling started around mid summer, and the beast is still howling and it is going into the beginning of winter.

If one of the residents of Ponyville traveled into the forest, they would learn the horrifying truth of what keeps making these horrible howls at night. 

Inside the forest was a beast, but no ordinary beast, this beast resembled a pony in a few ways. Its teeth had grown into rows of fangs, for tearing off flesh and crushing bone. Its eyes were a bright yellow and like slits, it was able to see into the dark, gloomy forest. Its coat was as black as night and very thick and oily; this monster could have hidden in the shadows without anypony even noticing. Its ears resembled a wolf's ears but still had that certain pony curve to them. Its muzzle and nose also resembled a wolf's as well, exact copies if somepony could take a closer look at them. This beast had no cutie mark and no mane, but it did have a long, messed up tail, sharing the same color as its black coat. It still had hooves but its hooves seemed to be paws as well, having red claws on each paw. Its haunches were thinner then the average pony but it still resembled a pony. 

This Monster, this beast, this freak of nature.. was me. I am Charming Charmer and I turn into this beast every night, unable to control my lust for blood.

I forget how this started happening to me but right now, all I care about is not hurting any pony. I walk inside the Everyfree every night, from that point on, I let my transformation begin and then I start the hunt for food for my new body. 

This is how I spend every night of mine, running through this horrible forest, looking for something to kill and rip apart. You think the rumors about wereponies were right, you know, only transforming every full moon. Nope, I didn't get that lucky, I transform into this beast every night instead. Do I regret turning into this monster, yes and no. While the transformation, and the chance of hurting somepony makes it risky and makes me hate this beast inside of me, I can't help but enjoy it. The rush of the hunt, the cool air running through my coat, my claws sinking into the ground. I even enjoy making a kill, I just wish I could digest the food when I was a pony. 

I can't control myself as this beast. I could see everything, feel everything, breath when I wanted, look around, but my movements, my actions, my kills, wasn't up to me. When I see something worthy of a kill, my mind gets hijacked. I want to kill it now, I have no choice, it is if my body does what it wants and my mind encourages it too, even though I don't want it to. The blood lust for this beast is too great for me to handle, so, I let it hunt, I don't try to stop it.

I am currently running deeper into the forest, looking for something to snack on. I hear a twig snap and something run off, soon, my mind instantly looks towards the sound. Something did run off as I slowly start creeping towards the sound. My head lowered itself as I began to smell the ground. The smell was all too familiar, it was a deer. I kept sniffing and walking, finding deer tracks in the ground.

I start crawling through bushes and going around trees as I spot a clearing in the forest. This clearing had some moonlight shining through, some plants for a animal to snack on, even a pond to drink from. I saw a deer there, munching on some berries and grass as I slowly began to sneak behind it, my animal instincts taking over. My heart began to pump faster and faster, then with one, quick jump, I pounced on my prey. The deer tried to escape my grasp but I wouldn't let go. It started making some kind of yell for help but it needed to be silenced. I don't want some other animal to steal my kill or kill me instead. Soon, my teeth sank into the deer's neck, killing it. My body looked like it was about to eat it when my eyes started to turn red, and I lost all control. I lost conciousness, as my animal instincts took complete control like they always do.. 

Now, I rest till tomorrow morning...I have a mess to clean up then.