The creature was not intimidated at the least by my claws, in fact it looked it wanted me to fight back, I mean what's the fun in hunting weak prey? The creature made the first move by lunging at me with a claw ready for a swipe, I managed to roll out-of-the-way, but it had anticipated that and swung at my back and it left a wound AN INCH DEEP. Rarity is going to be pissed, it than pinned me to the ground while I was turning around to face it. I had managed to push it off me but that made it bite into my arm. I yelled out into the cold night as it was trying to tear off my arm, While it was eating my arm I slashed its eye and blinded an eye out. Bad new for me cause that made it bite harder.
I pushed it off me but that tore of a chunk of my flesh, soon it charged me again but instead of rolling I dived for the thing rolling under it. It wasnt expecting that as it gave me time to get in a cheap shot again. Then I felt a jab in my side, I looked at my ribs and saw a stinger half lodged in there. I pulled it out and I started to feel... angry. I remember hearing about Alex Mercer's infamous adrenaline rush, it was rumored when he came close to death witch is almost never, he would get into an enraged state becoming even more of a killing machine than he already is, I even heard rumors of him bouncing bullets of his chest! When the thing stabbed me the virus attacked the poison. The virus was immune to all other bacteria and viruses but this was an other worldly poison causing the virus to release an enzyme to make my heart pump faster to spread the enzyme increasing all muscle mass.
Soon my brain became a red haze and I saw crimson started to corner my eyes. Soon the creature I saw before me was just an insufferable mongrel. I slowly walked towards it, it lunged at me and left its ribcage wide open. I jabbed my elbow at it and punched it with my other arm, it launched a few meters in the opposite direction, Clearly surprised it knew it didn't have a chance at fighting me so it started running. I gave chase, it was fairly easy to catch up with it considering it had its breath knocked right out earlier. I caught it by the tail and yanked, I must have yanked to hard cause the tail came right off!
It began roar in pain giving me time jump in front of it and stab it in the stomach with my claws. I lifted it off the ground and it looked at me with terror in its eyes, I got used to that now, I encased my other hand on its skull... and crushed it. I began to consume where a lot of new perks came into effect, first off this thing had great eyesight. I had to wear glasses now but moment I consumed it my vision went blurry and when I took off the glasses and I realised my eyesight was improved 10 fold, I could see the bugs from 10 meters away! Another new perk was increased smell, Plainly obvious for a predator but still useful. Soon my body began a new change... I grew the creatures stingers from my arms, Suprising yes but my brain was just starting to run out of adrenaline from killing the thing.
When I observed the area I saw I consumed every part of it, there wasnt a drop of blood anywhere, even the tail I ripped off was consumed. Soon I collapsed from sleep deprivation, must not have slept for too long. I awoke in a bed of all places, my first thought was how long was it when I last slept in a bed. My second thought was why a bed shouldnt I be sleeping on the grassy patch of those woods? I noticed my legs were dangling off the bed and that the bed was half my size. Soon I hear footsteps walking towards me, My feet were already on the ground I did that ninja move where you are on the ground and all of a sudden are on you feet. I began to ready a fighting stance when I saw twilight with a certain pink and yellow pony standing next to her. They backed away scared of my sudden change in energy.
"sorry for the scare" I apologized,
"it's no problem" twilight said, when I looked at fluttershy she was on the floor in a cowering position
"sorry fluttershy I didn't know it was you guys" I said sheepishly.
She slowly got back up again, "So why am I here I remember passing out in woods?"
"you were in the everfree forest a very dangerous place to be in, especially at night".
So I had just wandered aimlessly to the most dangerous spot in this land of sunshine and rainbows, "how did you guys find me?",
"well it was Fluttershy who found you in the Everfree, and if what she told is correct she says she saw you fighting a manticore?".
"So that's what that thing was called" I tensed up when I realized she saw me consume it!
"yeah, she said you were stung by it! The manticore poison is very lethal how did you survive!"
"the virus makes me immune to all disease and poisons I think" I said this like I didn't know the answer I knew where this was leading.
"Then she said you managed to send it flying away from you!" I nodded, "than it ran from you!"
"yep" I confirmed.
"She said she later found you passed out in the middle of the forest", I completely forgot that I had managed to outrun rainbow dash no way she would've kept up with me!
"So what happened to the manticore?" she asked curiously.
I can't give her the "I lost the thing" to many flaws so I said something more probable "I gave it another reason not to come back but passed out half way through of chasing it" I choked on that last part. "Wait you got me out of there!" I looked at fluttershy surprised.
"y-yes"
"you braved that huge forest for me? why?".
"because I didn't want you to get hurt in the forest"
"well thank you so much I would've died there if it wasnt for you".
"why did you wander there in the first place?" twilight asked,
"I thought I could sleep there I mean who would want to have a freak sleep in their house?"
"I would've had you sleep in the guest bed" she told me,
I felt stupid that moment, I mean I could' ve asked for advice of where to sleep for crying out loud.
"hey where are your glasses?" she asked,
crap "they fell off in the forest, but they were cosmetic anyway" I said.
"okay then" she knew I was lying,
"say what did you do after the party?" I asked,
"well first I gave a piece of my mind to pinkie for the hole in the wall, then I had spike send a letter to the princess about you"
"oh okay... WAIT WHAT!" I screamed
"gah whats the problem!" she said concerned,
"you told your ruler about a species you only met yesterday?"
"Yeah isn't great!" she said jumping.
"I uh um" I couldn't think of a reason this wasnt good, dammit "when did she say she was coming?"
"she said she would be here in a couple of hours"
DAMMIT, my stomach growled like a thunderstorm
"WHAT WAS THAT" oh so that freaked her out.
"It was my stomach I had only those cupcakes at the party remember",
"oh right well let's get something for you to eat" she insisted. We left the library and came to what looked like a market place where a lot of the ponies I had seen yesterday were. I was very happy to see that instead of the towns staring at me in fear I got hoof shakes left and right, I couldn't help but smile. Then a pony I hadn't seen before approached me with wonderous eyes, she had a mint colored coat with a cyan mane. She just stared for a good minute while twilight was getting some fruits and vegetables.
"Um uh hi" she said nervously, she seemed intimidated so I decided to crouch down to lessen it.
"Hello who might I have the pleasure of meeting",
she blushed and answered "Lyra Heartstrings" she giggled a little after she gave her answer.
"Well hi my name is Gordan" I replied "I never saw you at the party yesterday why werent you there? And why aren't you freaking out?"
she didn't answer my question of why she wasn' t screaming in terror and instead said " I didn't know that a handsome man like you was coming so I didn't want to go" was she hitting on me!?
"um thanks"
"could I please shake your hand?" she asked with puppy dog eyes,
"sure why not" I said. She blushed when my fingers wrapped around her hoof
"thank you" she said, when I began to walk away my new hearing picked up her saying "I am never washing this hoof again". What the fuck just happened? Twilight came back with a satchel full of an assortment of fruits and such, she floated an apple to me and I picked it up and took a bite. We wandered the market place for a little when I noticed that everything had gone quite, no words were muttered not even the birds chirped and then I saw that everyone was looking in one direction.
As I walked towards the source everyone began to kneel, me and twilight got to the front and she had a surprised look and kneeled aswell. When I turned back in front of me a horse who could actually stand at eye level to me was looking at me with curious eyes. Twilight rose up and said
"princess celestia it's so unexpected to see you at this time"
celestia spoke very calmly even though I stared at her with eyes that were sharper then ever before "pleasant to see you twilight but may I ask who is this?"
"oh i'm sorry this is Gordon the person I told you about",
"I see so what are you exactly Gordon?" she asked
"I'm a human" I replied.
"well I am very sorry to say but you must be quarantined for a set amount of time to ensure that my people stay safe" she said in a serious tone
"WHAT" I exclaimed genuinely scared,
"gotcha" you fucking troll, she giggled saying "well I must ask as a formality, do you come in peace?"
"Well considering I was brought here against my will I would assume yes"
"I see, Twilight did tell me you were conjured here exclaiming she saved your life am I correct?".
"Yes if she was one second late I would have been a pile of mush, I owe her my life from now on",
"it's really no problem Gordan no need to make it a big deal" twilight said embarrassed.
"So why did you want to see me?" I asked
"well I must tell you that I will be taking you to canterlot for a while" she said
"WHAT! but princess celestia why do you need to do that?" twilight said surprised.
"Dont worry Twilight he may return if he wishes to"
"how long will he be gone?" why does she want me to stay? why was she fighting so hard?
"Only a few weeks so you do not need to worry about his safety" she said,
"okay but at least give him time to say goodbye to everypony".
"Of course Twilight simply tell me when he is ready" she walked off,
"so I guess I should tell everyone the news" I said.
"Yes I will go tell everyone else" she said,
after everypony knew about my departure they had reaction of depressed faces and a crying seminar from Lyra I told the princess I was ready to leave. she placed me on a chariot led by 2 armored pegasi. the flight started rocky hence my first time on a fucking chariot but as I looked at the city in the distance I knew only bad things could come from a city like this. Like digging up a hole expecting a body, my life here was going to start and it wasnt going to be good for anyone.
