Chapter 01 - Bag Of Bones
Perspective: Fluttershy
After a nice day at the spa with rarity, I was almost finished walking home when I noticed it, a Timberwolf lying by a tree on the edge of the Everfree near my house.
"Oh... um, hello?" I asked.
Its' head lifted in response to hearing me, looking at me with those glowing blue eyes, with something different from the others I'd met, all I saw in the other’s eyes was hunger and aggression but this one, this one had a look I couldn't quite pick out. As I slowly started to move towards it, it began glancing between me and the tree it was next to.
'No, that's not right, it's not looking at the tree, it's looking at something behind it.' I thought to myself, and with one last glance it darted into the forest. 'Oh I wonder what that was about, I’ve never seen a Timberwolf act like that before. Maybe I should have a look at what it was looking at... but what if it's dangerous, what if it attacks me or worse one of my friends... no, Fluttershy, you can do this, just one quick look and then straight home.'
As I neared the tree I started to hear it, breathing, it was really quiet but it was there, and then I saw it, a creature like nothing I'd ever seen before, pale skin, no fur besides a mane and some on its face and wearing what looked like clothes on its' lower half but what was exposed was horrifying, the poor thing looked like it was starved and dehydrated near the point of death.
After thinking about it quickly I decided to run home and get my friend Harry the bear, we then returned and he carefully carried the creature to my cottage where I had him put in my bed for the time being, I then proceeded to make what i presumed to be a him some broth that I could feed him while he was unconscious. Once fed I decided to examine him in case there was anything else wrong with him.
One blush later I found out that he was indeed male, I opened one of his eyes to check them and they seemed fine and also they were a lovely shade of blue, I noticed while feeding him that some of his teeth were sharp which meant that he may be an omnivore along with a strange mark on the back of his right hand.
With all that done it was getting late so I fed myself and my animal friends and got ready for bed even though I was going to sleep on the couch, I decided that the next day I'd ask for Rarity and twilights' help; Rarity to make some clothes for him, to replace his worn and torn ones whilst recovering and Twilight to see if she had ever seen anything like him in any of her books.
Perspective: Unknown
Later that night.
"Damn that old bastard, how did I miss this, one book, one stupid little book and she has it, of course she'd have it. How is he able to mess with my games after long since turning to dust, I don't get it, how did he manage to plan this far ahead?" I asked myself before sighing deeply. I turned to face the changeling in the room "Alright, I want you to go to Ponyville, anything out of the ordinary by Ponyville standards I want you to report and if you can, find out which book she has acquired and how she got it, you may leave now."
The Changeling nodded its approval before donning its' disguise and leaving.
As I leant back in my chair I couldn't help but think to myself, 'I wonder what he put in that book, if I didn't find it then it must have something important in it, more important than his greatest spell books he made for Celestias’ private collection, hmm... I guess I should re-read his old journals, never know what I might of missed, though it still annoys me that I'm missing the last few he made.'
Perspective: Fluttershy
"*Yawn* morning guys, I’ll go get everypony's' breakfast ready," I said while slowly removing myself from the comfort and warmth of the couch. After feeding myself and my furry friends I re-heated the last of yesterday’s broth and took it upstairs. I gently knocked on my bedroom door and waited the polite amount of time before opening it and peering inside, seeing the creature still unconscious I made my way to him, putting the bowl of broth on the bedside cabinet and carefully lifted him into a sitting position. I slowly began feeding him small sips of the broth using one wing to lift the spoon and the other to massage his throat to help him swallow safely.
"Alright angel, can you look after him please," *thump thump* "thank you, I’ll be back as soon as I can and I’ll pick up some carrots for you," *thump thump thump* "OK well I’ll be off now." One cute bunny salute later I left home and started my walk to town.
'Okay, I need to get Twilight and Rarity but which should I get first? I'll go for Twilight, she might be able to stop Rarity from going overboard about getting to see and make clothes for a different species. I think I can manage Twilights' outburst if I handle it just right but when it comes to Rarity and fashion I don't stand a chance, though they are my friends so I probably shouldn't doubt them.'
"Hey Fluttershy," *eep* "oops, my bad," Rainbow Dash said from her new spot by my side, sporting the most apologetic smile she could muster after having made me fall on my back.
"Oh Dash, please don't do that... that is, if you don't mind," I said, getting up and resuming my walk to town with one Rainbow Dash now at my side.
"Heh, sorry about that 'Shy, guess I didn't notice you were in the zone, so, what's got you thinkin' so hard?" She asked as we started walking into Ponyville proper.
"Oh, well I... um... I don't really want to tell the same story more than twice today so can you wait till we get to the library... if that's okay with you?"
"Oh sure, I can wait, patience is my middle name."
"I thought it was-"
"Oh hey look the library race you there 1 2 3 GO" *Zoooooom* and like that, she was gone.
'Well, I like it.'
A few minutes later I arrived at the library, just in time to see Twilight finish scolding Dash for crashing through the door and knocking most of her books off their shelves... again.
Twilight shook her head at Dash and turned to look at me, "what can I help you with today Fluttershy?"
"Well..."