Bark Back laughed, "Ha! Even more food! I'll tell you what female: if you can land even one more blow on me, I'll fulfill our deal. But if you fail, you must tell me how you dodged my pounce before."
Twilight jumped right back into the fight, having much more trouble than before.
Every swipe she made missed wide, and every time she tried to close the gap she was left in the dust. Bark Back made no further attempts to strike her, instead maintaining his distance and allowing his opponent to wear herself out.
Twilight was getting desperate. She was tiring much faster than her opponent, and in a contest of speed and agility that meant failure.
Although she could just teleport again she was wary of doing so when he was likely already expecting her to do it again. She looked around her environment for anything that could give her an advantage.
"Perfect!" She ran towards the towering Timberwolf, but this time when he dodged, she kept running, straight through a hole left by the portion of the pack that was now occupied with holding their newest prey.
She could hear the surprisingly agile bounds of the wolf following her.
She ducked under the lowest branches and darted between the narrowest trees, attempting to put more distance between her and her opponent. Her plan was so far succeeding...
When the sounds of her pursuer's footfalls were all but in-audible, she dove into a bush.
She quickly flopped on her back and shimmied as much as she could in the soft dirt. Standing back up, she teleported into the tree that overhung directly above the bush.
Now all she had to do was wait.
And wait...
And wait...
...
...
... Ah! There he is!
The hunter was now the hunted. She watched as her prey sniffed her trail through the woods. She had made her path difficult, but not so unreasonable that he would lose her scent. He approached the trap.
Nose inches from the bush, Bark Back let his disfavor be known, “Come out female! You run from a challenge? You hide in a bush like a common hare? You disgrace your pack!"
His yelling actually made things even easier for Twilight, it allowed her extra time, and even cover-noise as she adjusted her position on the branch.
"I said COME OUT!" Bark Back shouted taking a bite out of the bush with his wooden-stake teeth.
Now!
Twilight jumped from the branch, falling paws first right onto the head of the unsuspecting wolf.
He reared back, and she tumbled off, falling harmlessly into the bush.
A choppy guttural sound filled the area. For a second Twilight was afraid that her decision to trick her way to the winning blow was a bad idea. That thought died though as the grumbling turned to uproarious laughter.
"-Gra Ha Ha! You tricked me well female! Fine! You win the deal! But please, tell me your name?"
"I am Twilight Sparkle." she said as she righted herself and dismounted the bush.
"Well, Twilight Barkle, I must admit, you truly had me fooled with your scent trail. Tell me, how did you climb the tree without leaving a scent on the bark? Surely you did not jump so high?" he nodded to her springboard branch a long ways out of reach, even for him.
"The same way I dodged you before," she goaded, “and it’s Sparkle.”
"Fine, a deal's a deal. Let's go back to my pack, and give you your prize." he turned and began trekking back the way he came.
Twilight followed close behind, not wanting to get lost. Although she was confident she could find her way back to, say, Ponyville by way of celestial navigation that required the use of the stars, and in the dense forest that would require climbing a tree. She could teleport again, but magical exhaustion, brought about by physical exhaustion, was quickly becoming an issue.
When the two reached their destination, Twilight was relieved to find that her friends were all still unharmed.
"Release the young ones!" Bark Back barked.
The ones holding Sweetiebell and Apple Bloom complied. The fillies scurried over towards Applejack.
"What about the others?" Twilight asked, watching the fillies cry into the legs of the still captured AJ.
"Our deal was for the pups only."
"You said-!"
"Our deal was for the pups only. I'm not going to offer up our entire food supply over a simple bet. You won my challenge and have your food, run along."
"But they're not-!"
"They are ours now; our food is none of your concern! Now run along!"
"Big sis!" Apple Bloom cried as she clamped around her big sister's leg.
"Apple Bloom, I need ya’ to go with Twilight." she pointed a hoof to the purple wolf, "She’ll take ya’ home."
"Big sis!" she cried as a wolf put a massive paw around her whole body. She cries as the wolf pulled her off, carelessly casting her aside. Tossing her before Twilight's paws.
Twilight had had enough.
Frustration, exhaustion, and distress she had only felt once before welled up inside her like waters against a dam. A dam that then burst.
The violet wolf exploded in a flash of crimson flame.
Fire licking around her body, she walked straight for the wolves holding Applejack and her friends.
The wolves bolted at the sight of an embodiment of their natural enemy. As beings of wood, a fear of fire was instinctual, but the fear they felt at the sight of the burning wolf was much deeper than that.
The infernal wolf began to glow a darker shade as the formerly captured ponies were lifted from the ground, surrounded by the same light.
In an instant the event was over as one last great flash engulfed the forest. When the pack managed to regain their senses, the fire wolf and the ponies were gone.
Safely depositing her floating friends on the library's reading couches, Twilight finally felt her body relax, relief washing over her before she passed out.
Back in the Everfree Pine paw approached his commander. "Sir? Was that...?"
"Yes, I believe it was."
"Then-!"
"Yes, tomorrow we'll find her."
2473511 AHHHHH! I fell!
2473520
2473520
And you have been caught by epicness. Though I have to admit that the fact that both chapters of this section (If it's only a two part bit) were uploaded in the same day (If in the western hemisphere) is quite nice.
"Sir was that a pokemon?"
"yes get my pokeball"
I think you mean wary...
2473681 Fixed! Thanks!
2473673
in norse mythology Skoll chases the sun in an attempt to eat it while Hati chases the moon, when they succeed the world will end, originally skoll and hati are male but perhaps the author is taking some well deserved creative leeway.
So... all wolves bow down to your new queen and goddess.
2473520 Wolves of the Beyond?
And then the Timberwolves accepted Twilight as their queen.
People need to remember not to piss off Twilight.
2473778 But Fenrir is their father, and he's supposed to kill a god. Where is that?
2473909 He's a little tied up with Gleipnir right now.
2473909
Under lock and key until Ragnarok
2473542 Liar jack started early
2473936 Sure, because the sound of a cat's footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird are great materials for a MAGICAL RIBBON.
2473741
I'm just your friendly, neighborhood Grammar Nazi! (And stalker, but that's a secret)
2474202 Yeah, in fact, I think Zecora might have all those just laying around her hut. Rarity should ask her to forge some for her. She could make some nice (ultimately indestructible and yet inevitably fashionable) robes with it.
2473778>>2473909
NO. NO. SHAME.
Fenrir is the one to eat the sun, but only during Ragnarok. The ribbon was successfully used to tie up Fenrir to stop him from eating the sun during Ragnarok, using Tyr's right hand as bait. I know my Norse Mythology. Especially because I am a follower of that pantheon. (My personal patron is Thor. The Redbeard, not the Marvel Hero)
Why did I give you all this information?
2474255 It was probably because of tarantulas. Btw, Zirnitra rules, even though nobody knows him.
2474254 Zecora's not a dwarf.
2474255 well we must have two different sources because every thing I found says that skoll eats the sun and that fenrir kills odin
source
2474387
Found the point of contention. I follow the Old Norse. This is the 'New' Norse, as it were. The mythology was changed slightly in the Icelandic regions. It is the same reason for the differences between the Elder Futhark (which I can read and understand) and the 'Neo' Futhark, created a few centuries later.
2472989
Pretty sure she's used magic at some point in the story.
2474426
so both answers are technically correct?
yeah so we have no reason to disagree
'have a cuteness coma
Fire wolf twilight?
New favourite fanfic!
2475406Yea I thought she couldn't do magic, Well on the light of this new knowledge I rescind my previous statement and leave it as Twilight is epic.
2475412 On that we can agree.
Also, I'm all for Twi; Goddess of the Timberwolves.
Wait, does she still smell like her pony self? If so, wouldn't the Timberwolves be able to find her once she turns back to continue with their worship?(If they don't regard her as a demon or something.)
2473853 Psh.... Naw.... nope..... Nope, no Fao- I mean, gray gnaw wolf here. Nope....
that was... pretty awesome actuely
2474645
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Why, yes, depending on the beliefs of the individual author, as it we- OMG, IT'S SO CUTE!!!
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2472989
I have one thing to say to you.
LOOK AT THE COVER PICTURE!
hah! awesome, now she have to deal with the timberwolves coming into ponyville though
2472989 you didn't look at the cover art did you?
2473542 "Yes, tomorrow we'll find her." Welps that can only be good....
after reading that part, this was all i could hear and think of.
2476754 It's a town next to the Everfree Forest, I think they know how to keep away timberwolves.
Unless they attack enmass...
2474255 If you don't mind me asking, why'd you pick Thor? Or did you not get to pick. I don't know much about Norse mythology, just that Thor is cool; cocky, but able to back up his own cockiness.
No, I don't mean Marvel's Thor, though he's cool, to. I heard about the real Thor on the history channel. From what I understood, he's a badass.
2493753
It wasn't so much that I picked him, it's just that I was 'picked,' so to speak, when I was an infant. I always knew my patron was Thor, and I used to be able to make the rain stop. And I am not lying. When I was eight, at a camping event, I actually willed the thunderstorm to stop, and it petered out and died not two minutes afterwards. So, yeah. Anyway, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with Marvel if they had given their character a beard, and red hair. That would have actually made me accept their Thor as a cool character, instead of having to see their movies and comics as based off of an entirely different universe. Although that is technically what it is... Sigh...
2496949 Awesome. And I agree, he needs a beard
( eh... close enough)
WE NEED ARTWORK. NOW. Twilight Sparkle... as a wolf... on fire... the awesome cannot begin to be described.
huh, i was thinking this fic was going to be a lot more slapstick humor and comedy.
2511170 refer to==> 2475412
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I gotta admit. That was epic.
Fitting song is fitting? Surely I wasn't the only person who thought about this song at that moment.
ホノオカミ (Honookami) needs to be a Pokémon! MAKE IT HAPPEN NINTENDO!
Honoo = flame
Ookami = wolf
Twilight Barkle. I lost my composure at that. XD Good 5 minutes before I could resume reading. XD
5131889 Yup, totally needs to happen. Though maybe it would be more likely to happen if it were in a place Nintendo might actually notice it?
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