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// Chapter 4: Beginnings 
// Story: My Little World: Friendship is Indomitable 
// by Revan 
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Twilight Sparkle flew over the Everfree forest, Spike riding on her back. She scanned the treetops, looking for any sign of a predator.

She saw a massive trail torn through the trees, Ursa Major paw prints clearly visible. She descended, landing towards the trail's beginning.

Spike dismounted, and they walked in silence over the ground, scanning for footprints.

There were two other sets of tracks there. One was readily identifiable as being left by an Ursa Minor.

The other, however, was strange. A foot with three sharp-tipped claws had clearly left this trackway.

It was then that Twilight remembered reading about creatures that had lived in the distant past on the world of CHS. She paled, and she whirled around to face Spike...





I move silently through the forest, questing for prey. The tree creatures prowl alongside me with almost as little noise.

I suddenly detect a scent, one that I have smelled before.

It belongs to the striped quadraped.

I move towards it, and the pack follows...





Zecora was sitting at her table, meditating quietly. She opened her eyes as she smelled a very distinctive scent.

Timberwolves.

She ran with practiced silence over to her stacks of potions, grabbing flame and magic-dissipation potions. She then suddenly flung the door open, ready to engage.

But instead of timberwolves, she encountered a giant set of jaws that lunged down at her with surprising swiftness.

She dodged out of the way, chucking a magic-nullification potion up into its mouth at the same time. She ran, and heard the thing below in anger. Timberwolves emerged from the shadows, chasing her. She flung all her potions behind her, hearing them go up in a massive whump.

She sensed the thing chasing after her, and she redoubled her efforts, accelerating as she ran for her life...