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// a dash of apple. 
// Story: Monster of the Nightmare Night. 
// by ezio dementay 
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It had become morning and Rex woke up first to smell of a smelly jagi.
"Fluffy wake up." Rex pocked fluffy and woke him up. "Fluffy, go have a bath, you smell." fluffy jumped in the lake with a loud splash with some of the water getting on Fluttershy, waking her up. "Sorry about that, fluffy needed a bath." Rex smiled.
"No it's okay. Though if you woke up dash over there, you would be upside down by now." said Fluttershy nervously.
"Ah she doesn't scare me." fluffy got out of the water and licked Fluttershy again. "He really likes you."
Fluffy looked at Rex oddly. "No I don't like her that way." fluffy tilted his head. "I swear fluffy don't worry."
"What did he say?" asked Fluttershy. "He asked if I had a crush on you." Fluttershy blushed. "Do you?" Fluttershy still blushing.
"Nah, I don't have one. Last time I had a relationship, she got eaten by a ludaroth." Rex sighed. "But that's the past."
Fluffy gave a smile to Rex. "Ah you always know what to say fluffy." Rex stroked fluffy on the head.
"He didn't say anything though." said Fluttershy. "Sign language Fluttershy. A face has more words then a library."

After a while, everyone woke up and got ready. "okay everyone he's what's going to happen: rainbow dash, pinkie pie and apple jack, I spotted a royal ludaroth a day ago so that will do for practice with your weapons, twilight and rarity, head back to town and gather some missions and supplies. Fluttershy and fluffy, go and scout the area. Best not to fly, rathian kill easy flying prey." Rex said in a reassuring tone and with that everyone went off.

Fluttershy and fluffy went to a cliff area connected to a cave and a waterfall. Fluffy looked at one half of the area and Fluttershy looked at the other half.
"This place is really nice. I wouldn’t mind living here."
While Fluttershy was looking around, a group of jagi appeared and started to attack Fluttershy. "Please don't hurt me." 
They didn't listen with one going to bit her and missed but another snuck up from behind and bit her in leg. Fluttershy let out a loud scream. Fluffy came along and fought them off. One attacked fluffy but fluffy hit him off a waterfall with his tail, scaring the others off.

Fluttershy tried to stand and she did but she was limping, so fluffy just put her on his back for the rest of the scouting.
"Fluffy please can we go back to camp? This hurts a lot." fluffy turned around and went back to the camp, with Fluttershy on his back.
At the camp Rex was making something. "Howdy fluffy an-" he saw Fluttershy and fluffy placed her on the ground.
"What happened?!" Rex was worried. "I got bitten by a smaller version of fluffy." Rex got out some bandages and herbs.
He crushed the herb and rubbed it one bandage. "This will sting a bit." he wrapped the bandage around her leg which made her whimper a bit. "There, it's all done. Rest up here for a while, I’ll go with fluffy." Rex was stopped by Fluttershy.
"Go check on everyone else. Please." Rex sighed. "Okay I will. Fluffy were off."

Rex and fluffy went to the area were the royal ludaroth was sighted and quickly saw apple jack, pinkie pie and rainbow dash though no royal ludaroth. "Guy’s go back to the camp!" Rex yelled. "What for? You said fight the luda-"
"Just go back to camp, I forgot to give you some stuff." Rex said and everyone went back including Rex.

They arrived at the camp and rainbow saw Fluttershy and her bandage. "What happened?" asked a worried Rainbow dash.
"Some jagi's attacked and I got bitten, though fluffy saved me. Besides it has healed up really well though." Fluttershy smiled and walked over to Rainbow dash, though she limped a bit. "Well it's good to see you've healed up so well. I forgot to give you guy's Armour though I left it at the village. Fluffy, go get the Armour." fluffy nodded and went off.
"Fluttershy, rest up. Jagi’s bites can be more dangerous the they appear." Fluttershy went off to sleep.

20 minutes later...

Fluffy returned with a cart of armour and rarity and twilight. "Were back with some missions." said twilight. 
"I've got some jewels that are supposed to make your armour fire proof." said rarity.
"Excellent! I’ll dish out the armour: some heavy armour for apple jack and these jewels to make your armour lighting proof."
Apple jack put on armour and looked like medieval knight.
"Pinkie this armour and jewels will improve your shooting." pinkie smiled and put on the armour in a second. "How? Never mind."
"This armour is made from qurapeakco's that I've hunted. It’s fire resistant, light and it makes you more resistant in dearests."
"Awesome!" said dash as she put on the armour. The feathers on the armour made dash look funny, making apple jack laugh. "What’s so funny?" asked an irritated Rainbow dash. "Oh nothing." dash rolled her eyes. "I’m going to go practice."
"Excellent idea rainbow. Apple jack, you need some practice as well." said Rex. "Pinkie, do you want to go as well?"
"Sure! It’ll be fun!" pinkie bounced off with applejack and Rainbow dash behind her.

They went to an area with a river and a decent amount of grass and bugs, perfect for small plant eaters and bugs.
"This place is nice, don't you thinks apple jack, and I think it's nice but that might be the funny herb I ate a while ago but oh well. Dippy do DA!" pinkie was ether very hyper active at this point or just eaten a poisonous mushroom. First option is most likely.
"So what do you want to practice on?" asked Rainbow dash. A large creature with a sponge like mane around its neck appeared and saw pinkie pie. It roared and started to attack. "PINKIE!" shouted applejack.
Pinkie pie turned around and saw the large creature. "Hi there." the monster attacked pinkie pie but she jumped back.

Rainbow charged at the creature and slashed at its yellow mane. The sword went into the mane but did nothing to the beast.
"What the hell?" rainbow was shocked that her sword had so little to it. "Here it is! A royal ludaroth!" said pinkie pie excitedly.
"The yellow thing is a sponge and it's very hard to kill this thing unless we let the mane dry out. So in other words..." pinkie got out some unusual shots. "Let’s set it on fire!" pinkie fired a couple of shots at the mane and set it a light. 
The ludaroth got angry and fired a ball of water at pinkie pie and hitting. "Pinkie!" said apple jack and rainbow in unison.
"I’m okay!" said pinkie who fired a dozen more shots at the ludaroth. Applejack went in and chopped of its tail while it was still on fire and being shot at. The royal ludaroth roared in pain and was really angry now. It swiped at apple jack who blocked with her sword. "Rainbow, finish this thing!" rainbow dash jumped 10 feet in the air and stabbed the creature in the head, killing it. The beast fell to the ground. Dash pulled her blade out of its head.
"We...we won?" dash was shocked. "We won and no one got hurt... except pinkie." they all cheered and gathered what they could of the royal ludaroth which basically meant the mane and tail.

They returned to camp and Rex was over joyed at what they've done. "Well done my friends. Nice kill, the mane's intact and so is the tail. Hmm... we can use the mane for a bed and the tail for food. Don’t worry it tastes like fish." 
Rarity looked at the spongy material. "So soft though it does have rough feel to it. I’ll help with the bed."
"Twilight could you go with fluffy and gather some fish?" asked Rex. "Fine. It’ll give me something to do."
Fluffy picked up twilight and went off to the coast of the island to fish.

A few minutes later...

"Um... Rex?" Fluttershy said quietly. "Yeah Fluttershy?" Rex replied with a smile. "What do you need?"
"I wanted to ask if you something." Fluttershy said quietly again. "Could you teach me how to tame monsters... if you want to of course?" Rex smiled and gave Fluttershy a nudge on the shoulder. "Of course Fluttershy! I’ll gladly teach you. But not this week though. I would need to get some stuff ready for you." Fluttershy smiled. "Okay then." Fluttershy yawned and went off to sleep. 

Twilight came back with a catch of fish and Rex cooked it up and got out some vegetables for everyone else that didn't want to eat fish. "Good catch twilight. I hope you guys like the veg I brought." Rex said as he fed some fish to fluffy.
"Oh it was easy. I just used my magic and fish for dinner." said twilight eating a salad.
"Hay Rex, what's with fluffy? How did you get a 10 foot lizard thing?" asked rainbow dash.
"Yeah I’m curious as well." asked rarity.
"Well one day while I was hunting, I came across fluffy here injured and dying. I took him home and raised him as my own."
"Really that's it?" asked Rainbow dash. "I mean he's a giant raptor! I thought there would be more to It." added Rainbow dash.
"Nope nothing else. Fluffy go to bed now." fluffy got up and went to his bed for sleep.
"I’m going to get some shut everyone so I’m off." apple jack went over to her bed and went to sleep.
"Same here." pinkie said as she went off to bed and one by one everyone went off to sleep.

Rex stayed up and kept watch for anything out of the ordinary. He saw a shape on the moon of the ruthian from the attack on the village. He looked at his new friends and sighed. He went off to bed to sleep and think this over for tomorrow.