p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;"strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strong Rainbow Dash started awake, then groaned./p
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p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""I remember a story about this happening and what not. The story goes that there actually is a lone pony controlling span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"everything/span in the Everfree. No-pony knows her name, but it goes to say that she battles those Timberwolves, and keeping every pony safe. Says that she howls right back at 'em." Rainbow heard the wind, she had started to call it, howl back at the Timberwolves'. She got out of bed, curious./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Is it true?" She wondered aloud. She boldly (or was it foolishly?) got up and flung her wings out dramatically, in a way that Rarity would be proud of. She was about to leap out of her window when she heard anotherstrong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strong. She flinched. She built up courage (or again, foolishness?) and leaped out of her window, towards the Everfree. Then the responding strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strong launched her back a bit. It sounded like more of a wind howl then a Timberwolf cry. As she adjusted her direction, she wondered aloud "What would make such a loud sound if it wasn't just the wind? How big IS this pony?" She spotted a clearing close to where she thought that the sound was. She slowed and stopped on top of a tree, and marveled at what she saw. An tan earth pony was making wind circle around her in a dust devil of some sort. Then the Timberwolves strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howled/strong at the mare. The dust devil type thing strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"howled/strongback./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;"em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;""What - the - heck?"/em Rainbow whispered in awe. The sun crept up the sky, and the Timberwolves backed off, giving one more strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strongbefore running in fear(?) of the terrifying strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"HOWL!/strong that was given in response. The pony sagged from, what Rainbow thought, the stress of howling what Rainbow thought all night, and almost fainted after they left. Rainbow lightly touched down behind the...mare! What Granny'd said was true so far. The mare turned around, and was startled by Rainbow. The mare's green eyes widened with fear. Rainbow gawked at the mare. She was tan all over, even her mane was tan, although it was extremely flat against her, but Rainbow assumed that it was because she was working so hard, probably all night. Her saddle bags were covering her cutie mark. The mare backed away slowly from Rainbow. Rainbow was about to assure her that she was a friend, but her hooves were stuck. She looked down, and saw that the ground was crawling up her legs! She looked up at the mare to plead that she help, when she saw that the mare was sweating, concentrating on what was happening, not backing up anymore. SHE was the one doing this. The ground stopped at her flank. The mare sat down. She was gasping./p
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p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Never mind." The mare said, relieved. She looked Rainbow up and down./p
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p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""I'm Rainbow Dash, and I'm sorry that I startled you, but that was AWESOME, what you did there!" Rainbow replied, exited./p
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p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Nothing you could help with." She sighed. Rainbow couldn't tell if she was annoyed, or just tired. "Good bye now." She walked towards the edge of the style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Whoosh!/em A dart shot into the mare. She fell. Rainbow looked at where the dart had come from. Two stallions decked in green came out of the bushes. Rainbow didn't even think, she just acted as she scooped up the mare and flew across the forest, towards the Friendship Castle. The stallions tried to follow, but they were earth ponies and soon got lost in the forest. As Rainbow flew across Ponyville, Pinkie looked up and saw the new pony instantly. "Somepony NEW!" And then went into party mode./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""It's three in the morning!" She grumbled. The Timberwolves were howling for the third night in a row. They'd been acting really strange this year. She wondered why. Then she thought of what had happened yesterday. The six were at Sweet Apple Acres, trying to figure out what was happening. The six had heard another howl in the distance. "This howlin' ain't letting me sleep a wink." Applejack'd said. "The only thing that I can think of is that a year ago after those horrible plants of Discords came, the same thing'd happened. But why now?" Granny Smith had over heard this, and had come closer to say her two bits on the subject./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""I remember a story about this happening and what not. The story goes that there actually is a lone pony controlling span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"everything/span in the Everfree. No-pony knows her name, but it goes to say that she battles those Timberwolves, and keeping every pony safe. Says that she howls right back at 'em." Rainbow heard the wind, she had started to call it, howl back at the Timberwolves'. She got out of bed, curious./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Is it true?" She wondered aloud. She boldly (or was it foolishly?) got up and flung her wings out dramatically, in a way that Rarity would be proud of. She was about to leap out of her window when she heard anotherstrong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strong. She flinched. She built up courage (or again, foolishness?) and leaped out of her window, towards the Everfree. Then the responding strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strong launched her back a bit. It sounded like more of a wind howl then a Timberwolf cry. As she adjusted her direction, she wondered aloud "What would make such a loud sound if it wasn't just the wind? How big IS this pony?" She spotted a clearing close to where she thought that the sound was. She slowed and stopped on top of a tree, and marveled at what she saw. An tan earth pony was making wind circle around her in a dust devil of some sort. Then the Timberwolves strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howled/strong at the mare. The dust devil type thing strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"howled/strongback./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;"em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;""What - the - heck?"/em Rainbow whispered in awe. The sun crept up the sky, and the Timberwolves backed off, giving one more strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Howl!/strongbefore running in fear(?) of the terrifying strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"HOWL!/strong that was given in response. The pony sagged from, what Rainbow thought, the stress of howling what Rainbow thought all night, and almost fainted after they left. Rainbow lightly touched down behind the...mare! What Granny'd said was true so far. The mare turned around, and was startled by Rainbow. The mare's green eyes widened with fear. Rainbow gawked at the mare. She was tan all over, even her mane was tan, although it was extremely flat against her, but Rainbow assumed that it was because she was working so hard, probably all night. Her saddle bags were covering her cutie mark. The mare backed away slowly from Rainbow. Rainbow was about to assure her that she was a friend, but her hooves were stuck. She looked down, and saw that the ground was crawling up her legs! She looked up at the mare to plead that she help, when she saw that the mare was sweating, concentrating on what was happening, not backing up anymore. SHE was the one doing this. The ground stopped at her flank. The mare sat down. She was gasping./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Did span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"he/span send you?" The mare asked between breaths. Rainbow sensed a mixture of admiration, respect and repulsion when she said 'he'. How that was possible or how she sensed it, she didn't know. She turned her mind to the question./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Who?" Rainbow asked./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Never mind." The mare said, relieved. She looked Rainbow up and down./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Who are you?" She asked./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""I'm Rainbow Dash, and I'm sorry that I startled you, but that was AWESOME, what you did there!" Rainbow replied, exited./p
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p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Just the last few howls. How did you span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"do/span that?!" Rainbow asked in reply./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Good." The ground crumbled away. "She's not a threat. Just let her be and she'll leave us be." The mare whispered. Rainbow strained to hear the whisper. The mare then turned to walk away, but then Rainbow stopped her./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Can I help you?" Rainbow asked the mare. The mare weakly chuckled./p
p class="indented" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; text-indent: 3em; color: #333333; line-height: 17.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;""Nothing you could help with." She sighed. Rainbow couldn't tell if she was annoyed, or just tired. "Good bye now." She walked towards the edge of the style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"Whoosh!/em A dart shot into the mare. She fell. Rainbow looked at where the dart had come from. Two stallions decked in green came out of the bushes. Rainbow didn't even think, she just acted as she scooped up the mare and flew across the forest, towards the Friendship Castle. The stallions tried to follow, but they were earth ponies and soon got lost in the forest. As Rainbow flew across Ponyville, Pinkie looked up and saw the new pony instantly. "Somepony NEW!" And then went into party mode./p