Predator Privilege (or, writing in present tense is hard) by Goat Licker.
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Honeydew drops a 100 bit coin at the bazaar, and watches with desperation as it rolls into the shadow of a rutabaga stall.
“Oh darn,” Honeydew says. She’s about to ask Honeybee if she can see it, when Lero walks into the bazaar.
Honeydew gasps as Lero gazes at her, hunting her with his eyes. Her body goes stiff, and the rest of the bazaar goes silent as ponies realize Lero is victimizing them with his predation.
“He’s coming right towards us!” Rose shouts, and she, Flower Wishes, and Lilly stampede away from the bazaar, neighing in fear. Doors and windows slam as neighing ponies hide from the oppressive hunter.
Lyra breaks through a window at Twilight’s castle, forgetting her training, while the atavistic flight instinct overtakes her. Spike jumps after her, claws snickering, reptile tongue lashing through his slavering fangs. Inside a bookfort, Twilight whinnies her distress while Owlowiscious perches on the roof, hooting derisively.
At Sweet Apple Acres, the cows and the Apple family are herded into a stall by Winona, as she snaps and snarls at legs and hooves. Applejack, Big Mac, and Granny Smith form a protective circle around Apple Bloom.
On the periphery, the howls of Diamond Dogs echo through the town as they bite into cute woodland critters, causing nearly all of the animals on Fluttershy’s land to flee in screaming panic. The otter family fishes on its own, tearing into fish with no remorse, as Fluttershy makes a note on her clipboard and says, “That’s interesting.”
Meanwhile, Angel terrorizes the garden, his maw stained red with the blood of an innocent family of tomatoes.
Lero comes closer and smiles, showing his fangs. Ponies who can’t escape faint dead away. Berry Punch loses her long battle against the death drive and rolls onto her back, exposing her tender belly.
At Carousel Boutique, Opal swats a dead mouse as Rarity and Sweetie Belle huddle together on a chaise lounge, weeping with dread.
Lero unleashes his claws and picks up the coin, as Honeydew whimpers.
Above, Rainbow Dash looks down and makes an emergency crash landing into a nearby cloud, as her wings instantly spring erect at seeing her mighty hunter. She peeks over the cloud and watches with heavy breath and twitching tail.
Lero offers the coin to Honeydew, who exposes her neck as she waits for the kill. She accepts the coin and, thoroughly exhausted, manages to say, “Thank you.”
As meat-eating violence gushes from his very being, Lero whispers, “It was my privilege.”