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// Teamfight 
// Story: Tonight, We Hunt 
// by ShadowFall 
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	Pebbles vibrated on the ground, buildings and houses shook, and the echoing sound of gigantic feet pounding the ground resonated throughout Ponyville. 

Applejack held her spear tight with her hooves as she could barely peek from behind a house to bear witness to the monstrosity that was to enter the town. The ungodly sight of the defenders' adversary kept approaching. The more it drew towards the town, the seemingly bigger and bigger it towered over them all. As if it could get even larger than what it actually was. 

Fluttershy still hid behind the tree that she was leaning against, taking deep breaths that seemed to get even more and more rapid as the towering hydra rampaged closer and closer. The spear in her hooves shook, not only from the shaking ground, but from her shaking fears. She could barely see the tiny hole where the poison was to be injected out of at the tip of the spear, and once again, she closed her eyes.

"I... I cant do this..."

She set the spear down and curled up next to the tree she was hiding behind. However, deep inside, she knew that she had to play her part. Ponies would die in Canterlot if she didn't help kill the hydra, as Twilight could only warn one location before the hydra would have arrived. Ponyville was the choice, as the hydra would have reached there first, and it would become their only line of defense.

The line of defense that Fluttershy had to be a part of.

Then, she heard the rattle of the spear getting picked up, then opened her eyes to witness Rengar, standing over her, and holding the spear so she could take it.

"Listen to me. I know that you are an animal caretaker. You seek to help beasts. Even I can respect that. But here, this is different. More than just your friends are depending on us to succeed. The entire structure of your village depends on us, and the citizens in the castle do as well. I can understand your fear. I can understand it very well."

Rengar continued to speak as he looked back, knowing that the hydra still had a bit to approach the town.

"But, I have heard stories about you from Zecora. You, out of all of your friends told a dragon to pack its belongings and evict him from a cave. You were able to out-stare a cockatrice, and even counter its petrifying gaze."

Fluttersy swallowed and took the spear back from Rengar.

"If a pony can stand up to a dragon, then I believe that they can take on this hydra. As a team."

Rengar held out his paw.

Fluttershy looked up and placed her hoof within it, and shook it.

"Good. On my signal, you will find the opening we have created and you will inject your share of the poison.", Rengar said as he hurriedly turned to regroup with Rainbow Dash.

"Rengar?"

His ears turned to meet the noise, as did him as a whole.

"T-Thank you. And... I'm sorry. I misjudged you. I misjudged you the most out of everypony else."

Rengar's blue eye blinked.

Then, Fluttershy could see his mouth slowly shift into the slightest of smiles. His sharp teeth didn't protrude from his mouth, but the smile carried the aura of... not pride... but... something else.

"As did I.", Rengar spoke as he turned around to meet up with Rainbow Dash. Arriving back at the town square, she turned to the other pegasus, who pointed towards the borders of the town.

"Here it comes..."

*stomp...*

*stomp...*

*stomp...*

*STOMP*

*STOMP*

The ponies' eyes grew wider and wider as the hydra approached...

"Holy bu-"


"GRAAAAWWWWWW!!!"


The titanic monster stopped Rainbow Dash's curse as it gave its massive bellow of hunger, rampaging towards the village that just happened to be in its way for its main course: Canterlot. Bracing herself and getting ready for the flight of her life, Rainbow's wings uncurled and could catch the air heating up slightly as the largest head of the hydra opening its maw, revealing what appeared to be a natural furnace burning deep within its throat.

Her eyes were trained on the gigantic beast as its footsteps were felt even more so in the earth below them. 

Giving another massive shriek, the hydra had entered Ponyville.

Houses were smashed to pieces, trees were simply flattened to splinters, and the streets were now covered in footprints that spanned entire buildings. The hydra's heads seemed to be looking for its next meal, scanning in every possible direction for signs of food.

Then, the lead head turned towards the east of Ponyville. It could smell the ponies that had already made it to the town's borders, fleeing the area in mass hysteria. Snarling, the other heads turned to see what the lead one was communicating to them about, then converged on the similar interest. 

Right as the hydra decided to head off for its snack, Rengar shouted with the power of a lion's roar.

"NOW!"

Dust was blown in every direction around her as a stream of her signature rainbow trailed her. Taking to the air at incredible speeds, she barreled right towards the hydra. Turning right in front of every single one of its six heads, she hovered in front of the monster, causing it to stop in its tracks as it now focused on a new target in front of it.

"Hey! Uglies! You want something more lean? Try and catch me!", the pegasus taunted as she flew down underneath the hydra's hulking legs, exiting behind the monster. Shifting its heads around, the hydra's heads each gave a terrifying roar as it now turned away from the fleeing ponies and after the one that flew right in front of their faces.

Oddly enough, this pegasus seemed to have far more magic that pegasi held than any other of the ones it could detect. Satisfying on the new meal, the hydra turned towards the pegasus and began to stomp after her, snapping at her with each of the six mouths.

"Down here!"

Rengar suddenly burst from a building's rooftop, hurling a bola at one of the heads. The small weapon simply bounced off the head's scales, but now, two other heads, including the one that had been dinged by the bola now focus their attention towards the lion hunter. Their attention now divided, Rainbow Dash circled around her three heads to keep them distracted, while Rengar lead the other three on a goose chase around the town square.

Two nearly caught Rengar as they approached the ground and snapped their jaws at him, but Rengar simply leaped ahead and kicked a swath of dirt into one of the hydra's mouths. Furious, the one head opened its jaw, and suddenly, Rengar could feel the air heating up behind him. 

Rolling to the right, he narrowly avoided the massive stream of fire that washed over his side, one of his dreadlocks escaped being singed. The other two heads suddenly got the idea to rear up, and release a stream of incineration in front of the lion. The flames washed over the ground in front of Rengar, cutting off his path and getting him cornered. The three heads that were focused on him opened their jaws to barbecue the lion that was in front of them, seemingly helpless and with nowhere to run.

Then, Rengar shouted.

"Twilight! Now!"

Her spear gripped in her magic, she suddenly burst from behind a building into the air, leveled the spear towards the beast, and gave it a hurl.

The spear thrown by her magic sailed true through the air as the head homed in towards is destination. One of the hydra's heads could not detect the imminent danger approaching it, as it had already opened its jaw to release another jet of fire to kill the lion.

Instead, the spear impacted straight into its tongue, the force of the arrival shoved the poison deep into the hydra's tongue, and soon, into its bloodstream. Crying out in frustration more than pain, the hydra shook its head to remove the spear from its tongue. However, the more it shook the spear, the more the poison washed around in its tongue, and the more the poison worked its way into its nervous system. The creature as a whole, furious, roared and each opened their mouths to incinerate Rengar.

Sensing the danger, and now that the flames had dissipated, Rengar suddenly roared as he leaped away from the flames that impacted behind him, running underneath the hydra. Looking at the belly, he knew that he couldn't have a repeat with the cragadile. The belly was also covered in the same scales.

Then, while in the sky, Rainbow Dash could see one of the heads began to follow the others a bit more slowly...

It could hardly roar like the others, and it was the only one that didn't breath fire at Rengar when he juked them again.

Instead, the head hung low. It gave a roar of defeat as it collapsed on the ground, brain-dead.

"I... I think we got one!", Rainbow Dash exclaimed with tremendous victory.

"Alright! It worked!", Twilight cheered.

"Wooohooo! Heroes: 1, Hydra: 0!", Pinkie pumped her hoof in the air as she bounced up and down with glee.

Then, the hydra did something that stopped all celebration.

It stopped the celebration very effectively.

Noticing that its now brain-head appendage was of no use, and would only serve to drag it down, the other five heads opened their jaws, and each tore a chunk out of the neck of its fallen head. Blood sprayed as they cannibalized on its own head, tearing apart its scales and the flesh underneath in a gory display.

"What the... is it... eating itself?!", Applejack knew that this moment definitely beat what the mantacores were doing to their own species.

Rarity nearly vomited on her spear as she turned away from the scene.

Even Rengar couldn't look straight at the monster as it did this to itself.

"What kind of sick and twisted world have I set foot in...?", he muttered to himself.

Then, the hydra was done indulging in its own head, the missing head now replaced itself with a nub of flesh, and quickly grew new scales to prevent any sort of new position to apply the poison.

The hydra suddenly reared up, all five of its remaining heads giving a furious shout as each one of them snaked around to find its next target.

This time, they settled on Twilight, as she was the one that had sprung the trap that killed one of the hydra's heads. The heads slowly growled as they began to snake over Twilight. The princess looked up in horror as one began to open its mouth. Fearing for her life, Twilight managed to teleport as a massive arc of electricity incinerated and blew the house she was hovering above to pieces. Static filled the air, causing everypony's and Rengar's hair to raise on their ends. Furious at missing its target, the monster stampeded through the town square, smashing apart houses and uprooting trees as it went along.

Thinking fast, Rainbow Dash swooped down in front of the monster, flew right up the the largest head, and gave it a nice firm buck. Her hooves hardly had any effect on the thick and extremely strong scales the hydra possessed, but nonetheless, the hydra opened its maws to unleash another jet of fire. The pegasus's aerial expertise payed off once again as she simply dove down to avoid the column of fire. 

"Hah! You gotta try better than that you overgrown gecko!", Rainbow Dash taunted the beast as she once again managed to take advantage of the hydra's slow agility and glide underneath its body.

The heads rotated around, furious that they had been avoided again.

However, the alpha head seemed to remain calm, despite its other heads shrieking and roaring as the pegasus simply flew around them.

Opening its mouth again, Rainbow Dash expected another column of fire that she would simply have to avoid again. However, instead of the air heating up like it should have, the temperate began to lower. A shiver ran through everypony's spines as it suddenly dropped to winter temperature.

Then, the alpha head fired out a beam of frost, pinpointing itself at Rainbow Dash. The icy blast traveled far faster than the jet of fire, and as such, Rainbow Dash wasn't able to dodge it in time.

"What the-"

"Rainbow Dash!"

Pinkie's cries were drowned out as Rainbow could barely dodge the incoming attack, clipping her on her right wing. The wing suddenly froze over in a formation of ice, the massive change and displacement of weight bringing her crashing to the ground. Smacking straight onto the ground, her wing kept her grounded as the ice, though it did not break on impact, had far more weight than normal ice.

The alpha head hissed as the hydra itself advanced on the easy kill. Stomping towards the injured pony, Rengar would know that it would simply ignore other distractions, as it had grown frustrated with a lack of a meal and the loss of one of its heads.

Rainbow Dash struggled to look up as the body temperature dropped in her body, her beginning to chatter her teeth and barely able to speak coherently from her shaking. One of the heads angled itself, ready to deliver the killing blow to the pegasus that had tried to play them for a fool.

"Rainbow Dash! Catch!", Rengar opened his pouch, snatched ahold of the hourglass that was nestled inside, and gave it a hurl towards Rainbow Dash. The pony was barely able to look over to her right as the hourglass sailed towards her. Once she caught it in her hooves, the hunter roared again.

"Turn it over! NOW!"

Rainbow Dash flipped the hourglass on its bottom, letting the sands run down the tiny sliver of a hole inside. 

The hydra lunged its head, ready to bite Rainbow's head off.

Suddenly, when the first grain hit the bottom of the glass, a bright flash of golden light exploded out of Rainbow Dash. An incredibly loud humming sound emanated from the glass as Rainbow Dash suddenly was completely frozen and encased in a golden skin, the sands of the hourglass still ticking away.

When the hydra attempted to bite at the golden statue, energy coursed through its teeth, and rebounded itself. A spray of blood later, and its front teeth had been torn straight out from the golden aura that encased Rainbow Dash. Roaring in pain, the head's mouth filled with blood as the gigantic teeth fell to the ground.

"Don't you dare hurt my friends, monster!", Pinkie suddenly leaped from the corner of a house, and bounded towards the distracted hydra. With the spear gripped in her tail, she leaped on top of a small market stand, then bounced straight off, using the somersault in the air that she preformed to hurl the spear filled with poison right at the injured head.

It didn't impact on its tongue, however, it impacted somewhere that was made just as viable from Rainbow Dash's stasis.

The gums.

Impacting, the spear pushed the venom straight into the head, causing it to feel even more pain than what it had already experienced. Right as the golden skin burst off of Rainbow Dash, she slumped down to the ground, exhausted and injured from her frozen wing.

As Pinkie was trying to help up Rainbow Dash, she bared witness to another one of their enemy's heads beginning to roar weaker, until it collapsed onto the surface of the town, its brain no longer functioning.

Thankfully, Rainbow Dash had slipped into unconsciousness before she could see a repeat of the hydra's "feast" from before. Tearing off scales and skin, and coating the houses around it in blood, the hydra's heads once again cannibalized on one of its own dead heads, removing the dead weight.

This left four.

Twilight managed to fly down to Rengar's side as the hydra ate away.

"I wonder why it's not growing two heads back...? If you remove a head of a hydra, wouldn't two replace it?"

Rengar nodded.

"That is true. But the head must still be well alive at the time of separation. This is why the poison is the best chance we have at this creature. But our chances are fading. Rainbow Dash is out of commission."

"Then I'll fill in. Applejack and Rarity are hiding behind the Carousel Boutique over there."

Rengar nodded and grabbed his knife.

"Then that's exactly where we will take it."

The monster had finished tear off its own head, and scanned around the area. At this point, the hydra had realized that it might actually not be able to make it to Canterlot for its main course. Roaring, the beast turned to stomp in the opposite direction of the boutique. 

Canterlot.

"No! The thing's headed' away!", Applejack galloped after the monster, spear resting on her back. Rarity huffed of exhaustion as she tried to keep up with the much more athletic farm pony. Twilight managed to teleport to cut off the hydra's path. 

Stomping her hooves on the ground, her horn glowing an ominous purple light, a gigantic barrier of magic arose from the ground, acting as a wall to stop the hydra's advances.

However, she had a different plan to stop the hydras. She knew the wall wouldn't block them...

Then, the hydras stopped at the wall, opened their mouths, and the magical energy began to drain out of them. Twilight had just given the monster a free meal.

All part of her plan.

The hydra had now stopped to absorb the magic from the wall, and had become too occupied to notice the two ponies galloping behind the hydra, getting ready to get into position to hurl their spears.

Twilight strained as she kept feeding magic into the wall to keep the hydras busy on it. Struggling at the immense mana that she was dumping, she began to sweat profusely. More and more of her energy was dumped into the wall, struggling to keep the hydra in one place.

Then, Applejack and Rarity raced in front of the wall, stopped to a grinding halt, and took aim with their spears. Gripped in her magic, Rarity could see the numerous heads that had their maws open, absorbing the magic directly. 

She noticed that the alpha's head had its jaws completely open, gorging on the magic that was seemingly offered to it for free. Narrowing her eyes, and with the pinpoint accuracy of a needle, her magic enveloped the spear and was hurled straight at the alpha.

The largest head was quick to notice and clamped it jaw shut. The spear would have simply bounced off or broke on the head's scales, but Twilight, through the immense strain that was being put on her, redirected the spear with her own magic to send it crashing down on another head's mouth. The spear jabbed straight into the tongue, applying the poison.

"I... wow! What great timing, Twilight!", Rarity cheered as her town had just gotten a little bit safer thanks to one of her best friends.

"T...Thanks..."

Twilight collapsed on the ground, completely exhausted and drained after her efforts had gone into the magic barrier that she desperately tried to keep up.

The hydra seemingly didn't even notice that one of its heads had been defeated as they licked up the last of the magic feast, growling in satisfaction.

However, its hunger still grew, and it needed more.

Then, a spear flew out of nowhere with incredible strength and speed towards a head that still had its maw open after eating the magic barrier. 

Rengar looked in astonishment as the spear flew straight through its tongue and right into the bottom of its jaw flesh, filling the mouth with blood, but pushing the poison deep into its bloodstream. And soon, its nervous system.

Applejack simply kicked her front hoof over the other, then tipped her hat over her eyes.

"No one's gonna mess with mah' friends. And ah'm gonna make sure of that. Monster or not, you get what you deserve.", Applejack bluntly muttered as two of the hydra's heads fell to the ground, braindead.

Rengar, at this point tightened the grip on his knife.

It was time for him and Fluttershy to make their kills.

While the two remaining heads split the other two dead heads evenly among themselves, Rengar rushed towards Fluttershy, who was still trying to gallop to assist in the fight.

"Fluttershy! Are you ready?!", Rengar looked back at the hydra.

"Y-Yes! I'm ready!", she responded, gripping the spear as tightly as she could in her hooves.

"Okay. I'm going to go for the alpha. You take care of the other head. We'll both strike at once. Now follow me."

The lion had motioned for Fluttershy to run with him towards the hydra, knife and spear in paw and hoof. As the hydra continued to eat away at its heads, suddenly, half way through their meal, a volley of what appeared to be crossbow bolts impacted on the hydra, simply bouncing off harmlessly on the heads. Turning towards the attack, the hydra could bare witness to a fleet of pegasi dressed in golden armor hovering in the skies, loading and firing off crossbows at the monster. 

"What the...what are they?!", Rengar pointed at the pegasi.

"They're Canterlot Royal Guards! They must have seen he beast and have come to help!", Applejack managed to finally break a smile through this whole ordeal as soon, unicorns and earth ponies began to gallop through the streets, swords and shields at the ready.

However, Rengar still stood back, furious.

Military interference would only cause more situations to arise. The plan that he had was sure to work.

Then, a larger stallion stepped in front of the two. Tapping his spear on the ground, he held a hoof up.

"Ponyville has already been evacuated. No civilians-", the guard looked at Rengar, "...or lions are to remain here. The guardsponies have the situation under control."

Rengar could not believe what he was hearing. His plan had been going along so well, and they managed to weaken the hydra to just two heads. But now, the blasted ponies' military had to show up and basically tell him "buck off".

Rengar took a step forward.

"Out of my way! You know nothing of what your men are fighting!", Rengar moved to bump the guard aside, but was stopped when a sword was pointed at his throat.

"I don't think so."

Fluttershy could sense the anger in Rengar rising further, and further.

"Out of my way!"

"Alright, lion. I am Captain Golden Might. I don't know where in the name of tartarus you came from, but I very damn well outrank you. Put that knife down, and you will let us handle this matter.", the captain nudged the sword on Rengar.

Then, to Fluttershy's horror, the hydra had finished with its heads, and the monster bellowed again. This alpha and other remaining head suddenly sweeping around, smashing aside the earth ponies and the unicorns that were trying to keep a phalanx on it, and began to incinerate the pegasi above with twin jets of fire.

Rengar could see as well, and tried to break past the guard to deliver his share of the poison to the hydra, but his head was suddenly bashed by the hilt of the sword that Golden Might held.

Then, a massive roar burst from Rengar as he drew his knife, and slashed upwards at the guard. Holding his sword to block, the two blades clashed, causing Fluttershy to be able to slip away from the guard, just as Rengar had distracted him. From the corner of the lion's eye, he could see the pony make a beeline towards the hydra, just as he planned to distracted the captain.

Then, the guard tried to strike back. His sword came down...

...and suddenly fell in two.

Golden Might's eyes grew wide as the half of his blade clattered onto the dirt.

Then, Rengar took a hold of his neck, his sharp feline teeth protruding as he growled in the guard's face.

"Listen here, pony. I am a Champion from the League of Legends, outranking every military official on my world, and looking at you, it sure as hell is a title that towers over a petty guard like you. Now you will stay out of my way, or I will mount your head in my den...

...come to think of it, you aren't even worthy as a spoil from battle."

The lion threw the guard aside as he raced after Fluttershy towards the hydra, knife in paw. Looking up at the battle above, pegasi were beginning to retreat as the hydra pushed them off with multiple volleys of fire.

Eyeing a building to his side, he could see Fluttershy attempting to move in closer towards the monster while it was distracted with the guards. Rengar could feel the uneasiness and the fear building in her. But she was still approaching the hydra, spear ready to inject the poison.

The captain had recovered from the rustle that Rengar had given him as another guard approached him.

"Sir! The artillery have arrived! Shall I order them into position?"

The guard narrowed his eyes at Rengar, off in the distance.

"Do it, now. And hurry."

The captain ran towards the borders of the town, where ballistas were being rolled into their firing position. Surveying the artillary, he also noticed something else. 

A glaive launcher. An artillery piece which launched a massive razor disk at its target. With its special Celestium blades, this disk could even travel through buildings if that was its intended target.

"Alright! Ballista crew! Take aim at the monster! Glaive crew! Follow up!"

The bolts of the over-sized crossbows were loaded into their slots, and the giant razor disk was fixed onto the launcher. The crews took aim with their artillery, aiming at the massive beast ahead of them.

"Open fire!"

The rapid succession of the ballistas' bolts pierced through the air, the giant arrows streaming towards the hydra. Rengar and Fluttershy looked up the see the massive bolts arrive at the hydra, simply bouncing off as the normal crossbows had done before.

Then, they saw the spinning glaive.

Fluttershy's eyes widened as she, as very few ponies would know about that happens when a hydra's head is sliced off.

However, at the direction the disk was hurtling, it would have been a complete miss between the two heads that were attacking the guards.

If only the alpha didn't notice the blade.

A smile bore its face.

It leaned in front of the disk.

"NO!", Fluttershy screamed as the disk tore straight through the scales, and the flesh, as well as the bone of the neck. The head fell off in a bloody shower, smashing onto the ground and covering the entire area in a thick red soup.

While the head ceased to move, the neck still held itself up rigidly.

To Rengar and Fluttershy's horror, the neck suddenly split down the middle in two, bringing two identical copies of the alpha's heads along with it. The transformation had become complete.

The hydra had gone from two heads to three.

And Rengar and Fluttershy had only two chances of applying their poison.

Fluttershy began to cower down with her spear.

"H...How are we going to stop it now...?"

Rengar took a look at the machete at his waist.

"A very good thing I brought this...let's go. We still have two doses of poison."

Fluttershy nodded as the two dashed towards the monster, with Rengar once again looking at the machete.

"It's been weeks since I have last used it... I know this isn't Summoner's Rift, but please. In any sort of name, I hope this blasted blade's cooldown has been refreshed by now...", Rengar thought in his head as his knife was poised, ready to deliver a killing blow.

The hydra suddenly turned to face its attackers, opening all three of its mouths to release a stream of electricity at the lion and the pony. Predicting its attack, the two split off in different directions, causing the hydra's aim to shift off balance and fire the arcs of lightning into two trees that they quickly ran behind. 

Dashing again to keep the heads distracted, the two alpha heads tracked Rengar while the one normal head followed Fluttershy. As they were going in different directions, the body of the hydra couldn't dedicate itself to moving with its targets, as it would loose the other one.

Fluttershy had never galloped as fast in her life as she was running from the head that was following her. Spewing a beam of ice again, she narrowly avoided it by kicking herself to the left. Falling down on the ground, the spear dropped from her hooves and landed on the dirt a few feet away from her. Coughing up the dust that had entered her mouth, she opened her eyes to find the hydra's head, coming at full speed towards her, jaws extended for the kill.

She reached for the spear, but it was just out of her grasp. Looking up, right as the hydra was about to clamp down on her, she rolled to her side, picked the spear up, and held it straight up towards the hydra.

"HAAARRRAAAAHHHHH!"

"ROOOOOARRRRRR!!!"

The monstrous head impaled itself on its tongue against the spear, causing blood gush out and leak onto Fluttershy herself. Drenched in the blood, she could see the hydra groaning in pain as the spear still held itself in its tongue, still injecting its load of poison.

From the blood that had now covered her, to the exhaustion she had experienced throughout this whole ordeal, to once again defeating her own fears to save her friends and the lives of other ponies, she collapsed on the ground.

As Rengar was still trying to avoid the two other alpha heads snapping for him, he could notice that the other normal head had died.

Rengar couldn't believe his eye.

But deep down, he did.

"You've earned that one, Fluttershy."

As Rengar had said this to himself, he could see the other heads turning to its fallen. Instead of feasting on it, they simply ripped the head off to rid themselves of the weight, and caused the empty neck to become another nub of scales. Turning back to the lion, the alphas roared again as an arc of lightning blasted Rengar off of his feet, sending him rolling on the ground.

When he recovered, the hydras were right above him, snarling menacingly.

This time, the alphas would not take any chance.

They opened their mouths for two pillars of fire that would surely incinerate the lion to a crisp. 

Rengar had other plans.

He muttered to himself.



"Focuuussssss..."



Then, the lion seemingly materialized away from the hydra's view as they scorched the earth in front of them. The massive inferno swirled around the ground, creating a massive tornado of fire that drilled at the area, incinerating everything around it to ashes.

However, Rengar had already avoided this attack. He was far, far away. They hydras scanned around them to find where the lion had gone off to, as the military was still keeping their distance away from the beast.

Completely invisible to the naked eye, Rengar moved through the town, unseen, and unheard as he had entered invisibility. Light rays bent around him, leaving the only trace of footprints that the hydra could not have noticed at its current size and height of its head off of the ground.

Drawing the knife, Rengar suddenly turned around and began to head back towards the monster. As he was invisible, something inside him brewed. Something inside him boiled.

The thrill of the hunt was arising in Rengar, talking hold of him. His heart pounded in his chest as his primal instincts began to share themselves with his deadly cunning, merging into a deadly duo.

As he was still hidden, the ferocity grew, and grew, and grew. 

His grip on his knife couldn't have gotten any more strong. He could have just crushed the handle to pieces if it wasn't his Hunting Knife. His growls deepened and his eye narrowed.

With his one eye, he had always had vision of his surroundings, even with just one. His smell, hearing, and sight combined together once again to reveal every single object around him.

His teeth bared.

His knife was ready.

Rengar leaped.

The roar of the lion echoed through the town as he flew straight towards the hydra's tail. The beast itself couldn't realize what was happening as Rengar had uncloaked from his invisibility. He ran up the hydra's tail with his knife in between in teeth, dropping to all fours to maximize his speed and run up the hydra. 

The guards suddenly stopped firing their weapons from afar.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing?! Open fire, damnit!", Golden Might ordered again. However, he caught the sight of the lion racing up the back of the gigantic monster.

He just stood there, a tiny smile growing on his face.

"Let's see Mr. 'Champion' get eaten alive..."

Rengar's brain was becoming overloaded with the ferocity that Rengar had developed, sending him into a massive frenzy as he was beginning to climb the neck of one of the alpha's heads. Knife in his teeth, he quickly made haste towards the hydra's head, his primal senses still intermixing with his agility and logic.

It was too late for the hydra to realize what was about to happen.

The head turned around in astonishment as Rengar roared, leaping straight onto its face. The hydra opened its mouth in an attempt to bite the lion off, as the lion simply would not be shaken off. 

Then, the hydra managed to snap, and close its jaws around Rengar's entire figure, disappearing into the mouth of the hydra.

The guards gasped, Applejack and Rarity who were still escorting Twilight away from her exhaustion had opened their mouths and eyes wide in horror, and Golden Might gave a little chuckle.

As well, Fluttershy had managed to come back awake after a short amount of time, just in time to witness Rengar disappearing into the hydra's mouth. Her eyes widening, she shouted at the top of her lungs.

"RENGAR!"

The alpha head gave a twisted smile, having just eaten the lion who had directed this assault on it.

Then, the smile disappeared.

Inside of the mouth, Rengar was still very much alive. He had stayed near the back of the throat where he could not be chewed.

While inside, he roared inside:

"NICE TRY, BEAST!"

His ferocity suddenly surged through his body as he took his Hunting Knife, aimed it above the tongue, and slammed it down into the hydra. The monster roared in agony as the giant knife put an equally giant hole in its tongue. Keeping his grip on the tongue with his claws, he repeatedly jabbed the knife over and over again into the hydra, pushing more and more poison into its system. Blood sprayed and splashed inside the mouth as the hydra couldn't shake Rengar off due to his entrenchment inside with his claws.

The alpha head roared one more time as Rengar sliced the teeth into an exit, sliding down its neck and using his claws to scratch himself a slower descending speed.

The ponies all gazed in astonishment as the lion emerged from the mouth and managed to land back on the ground, his knife still in hand. 

Behind him, the head collapsed on the earth, dead.

As much as a thrilling kill that was, Rengar was far from out of the woods.

The very last alpha head, furious at its other heads had been slaughtered by the ponies and by Rengar suddenly shot a pillar of fire into the air out of rage, and rushed after the lion with an undying bloodlust.

Forget Canterlot.

It was going to murder that lion.

Rengar barely avoided a blast of ice that was sent his way, him looking down at the machete on his waist.

"Come on you bastard blade! Work already!", he roared as he unsheathed the machete.

The hydra pursued, smashing apart buildings and guards that stood in its way of the lion. Rengar couldn't go invisible again, as his primal surge was no longer present within him.

Looking down at the machete, he slid into an alleyway to juke the beast, but it simply blasted apart the tight space with his giant foot.

"Damnit! Work!", Rengar unsheathed the machete, continuing the dodge the hydra's stomps and numerous ranged attacks that it was throwing at him non-stop.

Running as fast as all four of his paws could carry him, he took the machete in his teeth as he tried to bring himself away from the chasing beast.

Alas, the alpha head was not going to let this lion escape. Not as long as it was still breathing. And by hell, it was going to make the hunter's death all the more painful.

Running into the completely destroyed space that was the town square, Rengar looked left and right for any place to put between him and the hydra. While he searched with increasing desperation, he found a tiny glint in the dirt near a demolished house.

The hourglass.

Making a break for the hourglass, the hydra had just about caught up with him, ready to tear the lion in half. Diving ahead to break away from the hydra, he took the machete from his teeth, held it with a grip that would splinter a tree, and turned over the hourglass in his paw.

Another bright flash of golden light burst from him as he become completely encased in the magical golden aura, unable to move as the golden statue that he had become. Instead of futilely chomping down on the seemingly indestructible golden statue that lay before him, it simply waited.

The lion was indestructible, but there was a massive drawback.

He was completely immobilized. He couldn't move, he couldn't see, he couldn't even think.

He was in stasis.

As the humming grew louder and louder, it signaled that the hourglass's magical properties would wear off soon.

The hydra angled its head above and opened its mouth.

Rengar suddenly broke out of the statue as the magic disappeared, looking up above to see the alpha, head raised high and ready to strike.

Then, he heard something.

Looking down, the machete began to glow in runic energy, beginning to build up in Rengar's body as the droning sound of the rune began to get louder and louder.



"FINALLY!", Rengar suddenly dropped the machete.

He took his right paw and clenched it into a fist.

A bright orange light began to escape from the gaps in his hand, and the sky began to shift above him. Clouds instantly circled above, a harsh orange energy beginning to take center of the swirling clouds in the sky. The energy grew in size and in power in mere miliseconds.

As Rengar saw the hydra's head lash down to finish him off, he threw his energy-filled fist down.

A blinding explosion smashed onto the hydra's head as a massive pillar of pure energy erupted down from the sky, pile-driving straight into the hydra's head. Every single pony held their hooves to their eyes as the blinding light surged from the hydra.

As fast as the pillar of energy had struck the hydra, the light faded to reveal the head of the hydra, still holding its jaw at Rengar, ready to kill him.

However, something was different.

A massive smoking hole protruded from the top of the alpha's head, straight through to the underneck where the blast of energy had exited.

The smite had finally killed the hydra.

The head collapsed on the ground, the burning holes too burnt to a crisp to expel any blood. The massive body lay there, completely limp as pure magic began to leak out from the body.

The guards and the Elements gazed in shock at the massive beast, finally slain.

It was all over.

Rengar panted, dropped to his knees, and finally smiled.


"Aced."






It didn't take the tiny dragon to realize something had happened while he was away looking for gems for Rarity. From the burnt and demolished houses, the guards attempting to sort something out, and finding that blood covered the area, he uneasily ventured into the town.

"Woah...what the-?"

Upon walking into the town square, he bared witness to a massive lion, standing on top of the body of a gigantic monster, the largest he has ever seen in his life. The lion seemed exhausted, clutching a giant knife and a machete in its paws. The beast was something that made the ursa major look like a guppy compared to a shark. And it was laying dead in the middle of Ponyville.

Dropping the gems that he had collected, he shouted:

"Oh come on! What did I miss this time?!"