"What WAS that thing, Fluttershy?" Lyra shouted.
Lyra had been watching the monster by peeking through one of the windows. She had made absolutely sure not to make a sound until the monster was gone. Now, however, there was nothing to stop the two from talking.
"I... um... I don't know." Fluttershy whispered back.
"It was like almost as big as your house!" Lyra shouted in panic
"I saw. But, um--"
"I mean, did you see it? It's face was horrible!" Lyra interjected.
"Lyra--"
"And his eyes! They looked dead!"
"But, Lyra--"
"But the absolute worst thing about it had to be--"
"LYRA!" Fluttershy shouted.
The green unicorn turned her head in surprise at Fluttershy's sudden boldness. Realizing what she'd done, Fluttershy lowered her head a bit.
"Um, sorry. But it didn't do anything to you, did it?" Fluttershy asked , her face half-hidden behind her mane.
"Well...no. But you saw it, right? It's like it had the top half of a monkey, but the bottom half of a pony!" Lyra exclaimed.
"Yes... I saw. But Lyra, how long were you with it before I opened the door?" Fluttershy continued, "I mean, I heard you scream, but it was only a few seconds after you left, and you look alright to me."
"Well," Lyra paused for a moment to think, "It was only a couple of seconds at best. Now that I think about it, all it really did was stand there."
"Lyra, remember when you were convinced a dog outside of your house was trying to eat you?" Fluttershy asked.
"It ran towards me every time it saw me!" Lyra reasoned.
"He just wanted you to pet him! You did feed him some treats, after all."
"Okay, okay. What's your point?" Lyra said exasperatedly.
"What if he's just misunderstood? The poor thing might be suffering..." Fluttershy looked saddened at this possibility.
"Fluttershy, it's a monster. There's no way that thing is just 'misunderstood'. " Lyra said, making air quotes with her hooves at the word 'misunderstood'.
"But remember how I told you about the time my friends and I were attacked by a manticore? The whole time it was only angry because it had a thorn stuck in its paw."
Lyra paused to considered this, and then huffed. "Fine. I'll give this monster a chance." she said. "But just one!"
Fluttershy smiled softly at this. "Thank you. Did you see which way it went?"
Lyra looked down and held her hoof over her mouth in thought. "I think it went..." Lyra paused for a moment to think, before looking back to Fluttershy in a mix of realization and horror.
"Fluttershy, it went towards Ponyville!" Lyra shouted.
"Oh no..." Fluttershy's face began to show hints of doubt. "I hope i'm right about this."
Lyra rushed over to the door, now unlocked and no longer blocked by furniture, and held it open. "Come on! There's no time to lose! We've got to try and stop it! Even if you're right, I don't think anyone's gonna take too kindly to him."
"I guess you're right." Fluttershy said with some nervousness. "Let's go."
Together they galloped out of the cottage to hopefully intercept the monster before it could cause a panic.
Short chapter. Oh well, it was still good.
636589 Wow, you read fast! I put that up literally thirty seconds ago!
636597 I have a lot of practice.
Whaaa? I was on the site the whole time and I miss the new chapter by almost an hour?! OUTRAGEOUS!
And great characterization of Fluttershy, even if the chapter is too short to say much more :p
quick chapter updates: short, sweet and always leave you hungry for more
just one thing. Gotta remember to change the silly ponies words to thinks like somepony, or anypony.
636678 Not quite. You'll find out more after U-3's mind clears up.
636791 Thanks! I'm always worrying about not getting the character's personalities right, so i'm glad to see I hit the nail on the head with this one.
636903 They're like chips. Once you eat one, it's hard not to eat another. And another. And another.
637139 Ack! I completely forgot about that! Although don't expect the chapters from U-3's perspective to have them (barring anything said by the ponies), as he grew up using the regular words, unlike the ponies.
637246 no no no, it's fine. It's possibly one of the most common typos out there. no need to apologize.
kinda racist, isnt it? Ironic, as well. the human species actively and diligently avoids excluding those of other race, yet we have very few races that are defined by anything other than their skin tone or accent (and when I say 'define,' I don't mean in literally.) When it comes to ponies, at several points in the show, the characters say everypony even with spike present. They seem to be blissfully ignorant to the fact that they are one of many races of sentient beings.
637273 I've noticed that, too. Although I'd blame it more on the same reason I used the word 'anyone' instead of 'anypony' here: force of habit. They use it so often that they just forget to say something differently when the situation calls for it. Although that beckons the question of how the use of words like 'everypony' got popular enough in the first place to warrant every-day use, what with all the different species around.
636155 a.deviantart.net/avatars/o/k/okayfaceplz.png
636678 You never played RE4 have you? It isnt an alien its a biological experiment learn more of resident evil its actually a good game/movie series.
Resident evil 4 was the best. BY FAR
he maybe a monster but doesn't mean he have to act like one
Awesomeness, eheueueue.
Wait... what happened to Rainbow? XD Or was that her in the first chapter anyway?
Nice job again.