Disclaimer: I do not own ANY of the characters of My little pony: FIM. The franchise belongs to Hasbro! I do own Moonlight Dusk the Wolf-pony, though.
Moonlight shadow
The snow fell softly, the snowflakes taking form of tiny specks drifting down from the heavens like the delicate particles of frozen water vapour they were as they added to the already blanket of snow sheeting the ground.
The air was frigid and numbing bone-inducing.
It was so below freezing in temperature that it felt like the entire time one was outside standing in a cold lake with hypothermia without any clothes on whatsoever to shield one from the frost biting nip in the usually joyful atmosphere of Equestria.
Surprisingly, there was someone crazy enough to be out in this weather. Someone in the form of a yellow Pegasus who was as dainty as a rosebud with sweet teal eyes that twinkled in the moonlight and a long pink mane spouted from her head and she had a matching tail.
The Pegasus, named Fluttershy, tip-toed towards a darkened little building that stood in the corner of Ponyville. It was a tall, imposing building that made the Pegasus back off with fright. She squeaked fearfully, hiding shyly behind a nearby lamppost to try and evade the building that frightened her so.
Giving a small shiver of the body from the heavy moisture dancing in the winter atmosphere, Fluttershy muttered to herself "I...I can't do this! Oh, no, I can't!"
What brought her hear at such a late hour? It was all because of a notice that she found taped to her cottage door, asking her to meet her here in this place at around this time of night. She was confused as of why she was asked to be out here by the note that she decided to bring out from her saddlebags.
She dug around for the note and eventually held it securely in her right hoof, giving it a proper read once more so she could confirm that she was in the right place.
'Dear Fluttershy, upon my urgent plea, come to the real estate building at the edge of Ponyville at 9:40 tonight.
~a dear friend.'
Fluttershy cocked her head in confusion, feeling the pink scarf she wore around her neck bristle in the slight wind that brewed outside with the drifting snowflakes covering the ground and kissing the bottom of her hooves. She had to wonder if she was even at the right place even though the building had the sign saying "Ponyville Real estate agents" on the top.
It was also 9:41 precisely!
She thought that being a minute late would have been fine.
Looking around for this "friend" of hers, Fluttershy frowned timidly when she couldn't find a single soul out here in this harrowing night. Her ears pinned back when her ears suddenly caught the sound of something high pitched and strangely familiar.
She looked in the direction of the sound, opening her mouth and gasping.
Other than the light of the generator lighting up the outside, the world was pitch black so when she tried to discern what the sound could be she couldn't see what the source was. Her mind was reeling with confusion but her timid little heart was screaming at her to run away. She decided to listen to the former but she couldn't move her legs.
She stood there, trying to focus on the sounds for a while longer to try and get a sense on what it could possibly be.
From what she could make out, it sounded like...whimpering.
It was a distinct sound that she could have sworn she heard several times in the past. When she came to a conclusion to what it might actually be, she forced her legs to move. It must be a little pup in trouble!
Fluttershy had a soft spot for creatures of all shapes and sizes, this being proven with her cutie mark being some pretty pink butterflies, and she couldn't possibly forgive herself if a sweet little puppy died out here and she knew about it!
Galloping hurriedly, Fluttershy followed the sounds blindly until she found herself standing just outside an alleyway. She froze and all the confidence she felt before melted away upon seeing this dark and dangerous place. Her eyes were big and full of fright and she couldn't keep from shaking on her hooves, trembling from the fright instead of the cold like she ought to have been.
Her ears were flat against her head, drooping heavily on either side of her hair and lightly brushing against her rosy mane. Her wings were still and frozen, just like her heart was at this moment in time.
The whimpers were louder now, snapping the element of kindness out of her momentary trance and prompting her to look deeper into the darkness of the alleyway.
She couldn't see anything really solid to pinpoint the pup's location so she didn't really have any other choice but to go in.
Fluttershy slowly put one hoof in front of the other, taking a few cautious steps into the pitch black darkness of the alleyway.
"H-Hello?" She called out nervously, her soft-spoken voice quivering.
Her tail became tucked beneath her back legs as she cautiously entered the cold and dark alleyway which was thankfully partially sheltered from the snow. She could feel the clicks of her own hoof steps echo in the somewhat narrow space and she very slowly travelled into the alleyway and gazed around on occasion.
Her heart was pounding as the whimpering became louder and louder.
Fluttershy eventually came to a halt just in front of a little box that was tucked up against a cool brick wall. A few icicles hung above it although -thank Celestia- they weren't really sharp so if they fell down on top of the box most likely containing the pup, it wouldn't get injured.
The yellow Pegasus couldn't explain it but there was something odd about this. The letter most likely referred to this little thing being here but why was she sent to rescue a little pup? Upon closer examination and looking down upon the contents of the box, she found herself staring face-to-face with something that made her heart skip a beat.
It almost resembled a sleeping foal, actually, but there were a few abnormalities that confused Fluttershy.
The infant was far more fluffier than any normal foal and it had a brown shaggy fur coat with a pale brown spiky mane. It had fuzzy cheek fur that stuck out on either side of its face and it had two paws sticking on each end of hoof-like appendages. It also had pointed large fuzzy ears that stuck on either side of its head.
Opening its large honey-coloured eyes, the infant widely opened its pony-like muzzle wide and gave a yawn although when it opened its mouth a little canine fang turned out to have been sticking out from its upper jaw and probably stuck out of the left side of its muzzle.
Judging by the round shape of its eyes, Fluttershy made the assumption of this little one of being a colt...if it even should be classified as a colt.
It looked very much like a wolf pup mixed with a pony!
Gasping in surprise, Fluttershy leaned down and scooped up the little whimpering foal-like creature and rocked it in her forelegs. From underneath a fold of the blanket the infant wolffish pony was wrapped in, she could see a waggling dog-like tail. She could also see a little pair of wings growing out of this pup/foal's back.
"Oh my..." Fluttershy trailed off, whispering in a softer voice then before. She had a look of disbelief on her face as the foal pup reached up towards the earthbound Pegasus' face with his little paws flailing about aimlessly in the air. He was clearly trying to reach her cheeks with little playful growls escaping his throat.
Fluttershy couldn't help but feel somewhat confused but then she smiled gently at the creature and gently adjusted the being in her forelegs, sitting down on her haunches so she could better cradle the creature nestling in her embrace.
"Hello there, sweetie, are you lost?" She cooed, gently poking one of the foal/pup's ear and making it twitch in response. She actually had to refrain from poking the fuzzy appendage anymore as to irritate the little infant. But she was confused because there never has been such a pony hybrid to even exist.
There have been rumours of reckless young unicorns inadvertently transforming innocent creatures into deformed things. This foal looked like it had been taken and twisted by some dark magic, making it somewhat wolffish in appearance yet still retaining some pony features. She guessed that this foal's appearance must have been a result of some over abused magic.
She never expected to see a wolf and pony hybrid, though.
The little one yipped, his doggy tail still wagging happily at having been found. However he abruptly ceased his display of happiness when a grumbling sound filled the air and the pup/foal shivered suddenly, its little muzzle pulling into a crinkled frown to make it look as if it had bitten a copper coin.
Its big fuzzy ears drooping, the wolf-pony foal started to break into sobs and then a full blown wail burst forth while the little one opened its mouth as wide as it could and cried at the top of his little lungs.
Startled, Fluttershy held the creature closely and shushed it repeatedly.
"Awww, don't cry, sweetie. I'm here..."
The pony pup's cries dulled into soft puppy-like whimpers as he looked up at the Pegasus with big glassy eyes that were very teary. Sniffling sadly and shifting his little paws so they could clasp on to the pony's shoulder, making the element of kindness draw him closer.
The infant continued to whimper whilst in the Pegasus' embrace whilst he nuzzled against her soft thin fur with a shred of affection.
Fluttershy was hesitant but she wrapped her hooves around the little creature, making sure to nuzzle his brown shaggy fur coat in order to calm him down. Her heart warmed up towards the abnormal little ponyish wolf pup and she finally held him at arms length but still keeping her gentle eyes locked with his curious ones.
She could tell that the infant was hungry and cold. Despite the extra layers of fur covering every inch of his little body, especially the breeze bristling his cheek fur a little, it would seem that it done little to protect him from the harsh cold weather of the outdoors in a late winter night.
The little infant sniffed at her curiously, his little muzzle wiggling with each intake of oxygen as he tried to discern what she could possibly be even though her scent was familiar.
Smiling, Fluttershy proceeded to place the pony pup inside one of her saddle bags and she planted a soft kiss on his fuzzy forehead whilst being careful of his Mohawk of a mane.
She climbed up on to all fours and proceeded to walk out of the alleyway with the little creature slung in one of her saddle bags and she carefully trotted into the midwinter twilight where the snowflakes deftly fell on the unsuspecting world around them.
"C'mon, little one. Let's get you fixed up at home." She murmured softly.
A/N: Hi, everyone. This is my very first MLP Fanfiction and I hope it was done alright. This is about our favourite animal-loving Pegasus having a wolf-like son and raising him just like she would with any of her animal friends...except this isn't quite an animal she'll be taking care of.
Anyways the questions that arise with this are: who on earth is this friend that was mentioned in the letter Fluttershy received? How did a half-pony-half-wolf even come to exist? What challenges lie in front of Fluttershy? And how will the rest of the mane six react to the Element of kindness' new foal...or puppy?
Stay tuned and find out soon!
Reviews are adored by me!
-Chloemcg