Watching eyes
by Knetch
Running.
Running, it’s something an athlete do to win a medal, something the foals do while playing or to put it simple, something you do when a simple trot it isn’t enough. Like when you are running for your life, and depending on your lifestyle, for how long can you maintain the speed.
That was Fluttershy though, when she was running from a timberwolf in the middle of the Everfree forest. She was used on dealing with animals, to the point that even full grown predators accepted her as part of the natural balance in the forest, but the Timberwolves where another thing entirely, magical constructs made of wood, made hundreds of years ago that guarded the powerfull relics hidden on the forest, they stalk their prey waiting for chances to attack, capable of rebuilding themselves once defeated, merging with others to take on the stronger prey and the only known way to dismantle then was destroying their core, some say its a cristal but its very dificult to hit with a spell
let alone crush by hoof, making them almost invunerable to blunt attacks.
It a started as a normal day, she waked up checked on the animals just so se that the new duck, that she was caring for was sick, met her friends for lunch and then when to a quick strolling to the forest to speak with Zecora about some medicine for the sick duck, but on the way she was getting the feeling of being watched, at first she just shrugged off, but the feeling persisted like a bas smell,what could be the only predators that thought of her as a trotting meal where Hydras, but they never leave the swamp and she wasn´t that deep into the forest, but the feeling was still there. It was when she heard the crush of a twig that she saw a timberwolf stalking her, she didn’t need a second warning and started running and getting deeper and deeper into the forest.
Fluttershy keep running through the trees and rocks with the Timberwolf in hot pursuit, this has keep on for several minutes and her legs where burning begging for her to stop running, but if she even thought of listening, she knew that the Timberwolf would kill her.
So she keep running, fear and adrenaline fueled her gallop and a beam of hope flashed over her, there was a narrow passage just twenty meters ahead.
“Just a little longer, and I am safe” those thoughts were flashing on her mind to keep her running, the passage was approaching and in a leap of faith she pounced to reach it giving an opening to the timberwolf, just as she jumped the wolf lunged at her with her claws made of wood, managing to claw her back, the pain of the wound mad her to roll on her back while bruising one of her wings as she hit the floor, feeling dizzy she opened her eyes watching the Timberwolf.
The Timberwolf, without any expression, approach her slowly as in savoring the moment of a fresh kill, then it readied to pounce on her prey and bite off her throat.
“So this is it? I die in the forest? And my friends will find my corpse probably a week from now,heh, and just when twiling was visiting” with this thoughts on her mind, she watched the Timberwolf flying towards her, they were like under the water, she could see every movement, hear every sound,watch every falling leave and even that green light on the corner of her eye that keeps growing towards the Timberwolf.
“Wait, what is that?” she said still dizzy as the estrange beam of green light hit the Timberwolf at the base of the neck, and then watching in shock as the timberwolf broke apart in branches and just as the last branch fell, time and pain returned to the pony in the floor, the burning sensation of her clawed back and the bruised wing made her scream. She sit there sobbing for a time, but then she remembered where she was, so she forced herself to regain her composture and think about what to do. She would had to flee that place, the Timberwolf could be reforming any time now, so she started limping away from the pile of branches, the wound on her back was worrying her and she didn’t have anything on her when she leave ponyville, and most importantly, in which direction was the town she never learned how to tell the cardinal points by the sun not that she could see it with the thick cover of the trees
.
So now at a safe distance of the Timberwolf branches she sat, it was still about noon so she weighted her options.
“I could wait here for help, but in this state I cannot have another Timberwolf pursuing me again and there is the fact that the other timberwolf could reform and seek me out, but I haven´t heard a howl, or I could try to find ponyville but …” she thought as some frustration was setling in because reality hit her, she may have eluded death, but she was still in the middle of the forest, her right wing hurt too much to fly, she was stranded, didn’t know where ponyville was and of top of all there were these weird green lights in some bushes on the corner of her eye.
That stopped her thoughts cold as she watched directly into the lights, they were like green glowing orbs, at a small distance between each other looking almost as a pair of eyes watching her every move.
" EEP" She panicked if it was another Timberwolf, she would be done for, but then why the orbs aren't moving,maybe they are just some glowing rocks with some curiosity stared the orbs trying to guess, if they really where eyes and then they blinked.
She did the most normal thing for her and simply passed out.