My name is Alexander Blaze, and I've got one really weird story for you all. It all started as I walked out of the theatre after having seen Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I was walking near the mall when I was slammed into the ground - hard. Before I knew what was happening, my wallet was torn out of my pocket and I heard someone sprint off. Getting up, shaking my head to re-orient myself before going after the fucker.
Running after him, struggling to catch up, as I had never been athletic. However, I knew my local area rather well, and I took a shortcut that enabled me to gain a lot of ground, enough for me to snatch at his clothes in desperation.
Then he turned and pulled a gun on me, I stopped in shock and frantically tried to get away from the weapon, before three loud bangs rocked my world. There was a terrible pain in my chest, and I collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath for a while before I lost consciousness.
Waking to utter blackness, I looked around, seeing nothing.
'Where am I? Am I dead? Is this the afterlife?' I wondered.
Suddenly, out of the darkness, a little, bright light appeared in front of me, then began dancing around my palms, as if it wanted me to touch it. Tentatively, I brushed a finger over it, and was blinded by a moment of agony. It felt like I was being boiled alive, every fiber of my body screamed in protest, pleading for the pain to stop. Instead, my mind was just overloaded, and I lost consciousness. Again.
Groaning a bit as I returned to consciousness, after a moment I panicked, my eyes opening wide in shock. I'd just been shot! My hands shot to my chest, frantically trying to feel the bullet holes. But... there weren't any. Instead, I was introduced to a very different problem. Instead of my regular arms, I was graced with the slightly terrifying sight of black-scaled arms with three fingers that ended in long-taloned claws.
I won't lie. I screamed when I saw that I had scaly limbs instead of my normal arms.
"What... what happened to me?!" I yelled, feeling something hanging off my lower body and realizing that it was a tail.
Recent memories of something I had watched just several hours ago passed through my brain. It took a moment to click, but I soon realized that I was an Indoraptor. My brain froze as that registered, and I started to freak out even more. How had this happened?! What would happen to me? Would I be hunted down by the army and killed? Captured and put in a zoo? Forced to kill people against my will?
Eventually, my brain just decided 'no', and shunted all of those problems to the side, which allowed me to slowly take in my surroundings and become... not 'satisfied' with my situation. Just simply acknowledging that it had happened, and that I was, for better or worse, stuck like this.
Looking around, I noticed that I was laying in the middle of a large ravine. There was a large forest above me, nestled on one of the sheer cliffs that trapped me down here. Twisting my head to a degree that was impossible for a human, I looked straight behind me. The top of the cliff to that side was bare, although there was a large cave at its base.
Struggling to get up on unstable, unfamiliar legs, I attempted to take a step... only to faceplant into the ground.
"Ugh," I groaned, before getting an idea, resting a moment, I waited before making another attempt to stand again. This time, I used my new tail to balance myself, taking a small step using my tail as a counterbalance, and it actually worked!
Slowly making my way towards the cave entrance when I noticed a familiar crystalline tree inside it, It looked uncannily like the Tree of Harmony from My Little Pony. Cautiously entering the cave to get a closer look at the crystalline tree, keeping a close eye on my surroundings in case of danger. Slowly approaching the tree examining it, finding two marks near the base of the trunk of the tree.
"It can't be!" I exclaimed in shock, only now noticing that my voice was deeper than before, shaking my head lightly and checked again.
It was definitely the Tree of Harmony. My brain froze, and I started to freak out again, backing away from the tree I turned and ran out of the cave tripping over something. Looking down I noticed a tiny golden key of some kind.
Picking it up, I saw it had a picture of a sun and moon on one side, and some kind of floating island on the other side. Odd.
Looking up, I noticed the sky was getting darker, the sun was setting, and I saw something that made my heart stop for a minute. Looking up at the moon, I saw the Mare in the Moon.
"... Well, there's no denying it now." I mumbled to myself, I was in Equestria.
"This must be before the show, as Luna hasn't been redeemed yet," I mumbled to myself quietly, now knowing that there are other things here more deadly than me.
Over the next few weeks of learning how to use my new body. After almost starving, I learned how to hunt, being extremely careful to only kill non-sentient life. Almost everything in this world was self-aware, and I was not a murderer; but if I had to defend myself, I wouldn't hold back.
However, I was not alone, I'm almost sure that I was spotted by Zecora a few times, but I never saw her outright. There was only the rustle of branches and leaves when there was no wind, and the occasional flash of black and white. Was she studying me, maybe?
I also discovered that, unlike the Indoraptor in the movie, I had the camouflage ability of the Indominus Rex. It wasn't straight-up invisibility though, It only worked when I kept stock-still, and even then, it did better while I was still hidden somehow. Standing around in broad daylight? No, that wouldn't work at all. Still, once I had discovered it, I did my best to train until I was fairly capable of using it.
Before I knew it, a month had passed, and after much thought I had decided to take on the name Night Talon instead of keeping my old human name. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and all that. Somedays I had used my camouflage ability to sneak to the edge of the forest from time to time. Yesterday, I made the trip to the edge of the forest camouflaged and had overheard that it was nearly time for the one-thousandth summer sun celebration.
And so, I sat near the edge of the Everfree forest, waiting for things to happen. After some time, I saw Twilight and Spike's carriage land, and the guards leave shortly after.
Now all I had to do was wait until Nightmare Moon returned. Turning I slunk away into the trees, knowing that I had hours and hours until anything interesting happened, so I had enough time to hunt. It was late in the night when I returned with a full belly, I only had to wait a few hours before I noticed the Mare in the moon disappear and heard Nightmare Moon's maniacal laugher in the distance.
Soon I spotted Rainbow Dash as she tried to fly after her, and I knew it was game time. Seeing the mane six approach and then enter the forest, I crept after them, keeping to the shadows as much as possible. It took all my nascent skill in stealth to keep hidden, especially from Pinkie Pie. Wincing as I saw the cliff collapse, sending the mane six tumbling down the cliffside.
Things went normally until the manticore. I could easily tell that something was off, as events started to deviate from those of the show. As Rarity bucked it in the face, instead of roaring, it took a swipe at her with its deadly claws. Twilight was able to pull her away with magic just in time. I knew that their only chance was if I intervened to save them. So, while Applejack and Rainbow Dash took their shots at it, I snuck up behind him and was prepared when Fluttershy yelled "Wait!"
That's when the manticore took its chance, charging Fluttershy while she had her back turned. Taking that as my cue, I rapidly closing the distance between myself and the manticore in a bolt of black lightning, my camouflage dropping. Tackling the monster, the two of us rolled away into the trees, clawing at each other, and allowing the mane six to cross unimpeded.
Separating, the manticore struck out at my left side, seeing the strike coming and dodged to the right before backing up and trying to form a strategy. However, I'd forgotten about the manticore's tail, while I was distracted it snapped out and stung me in the thigh, making me yelp in pain.
However, committing to that attack had given me an opening I could use. And so, I did, punching it twice in the face as hard as possible, stunning it. "That should keep it down for a while," I thought to myself. A small part of me wanted to end the hunt and feast on my prey, but I knew I had to catch up with the mane six, as something was interfering with the events of the show.
Quickly making sure the manticore wouldn't follow us, I turned to start making my way back to the main cast, but my right leg gave out and I collapsed. The sting hadn't been as light as I'd thought, and my entire leg was numb and practically dead weight. Thankfully, I still had full control over my three other limbs, allowing me to limp off after the mane six.
I quickly found the mane six at the trees a few minutes later. Thankfully, nothing exciting happened outside of Pinkie Pie's song. Not looking where I was going, I tripped over a hidden root and muzzle planted into the dirt.
"Urk!" I let out a groan of pain while I struggled to get back up.
There was a collective gasp from multiple people nearby, and I heard some quiet talking off to the side. I just lay there for a bit, letting the pain fade slightly.
"Oh my gosh, you poor thing!" Said a vaguely familiar voice.
Looking up and I saw none other than Fluttershy looking in horror at my injured leg, glancing down to look at my leg and I saw blood was leaking out of the wound and running down my right hindleg. Honestly, it looked worse than it felt, but not being able to move the limb probably contributed to the 'injured animal' look.
Looking back up at Fluttershy and I saw she had run back to the others and started ordering them around while I just lay there. After a few minutes, the ponies hesitantly approached me with various items, such as vines and huge leaves. I saw Twilight's horn light up, and felt a fuzzy feeling coming from my hindleg, drawing out what I assumed was the manticore's venom.
After she was done, she immediately backed off, smelling of what I assume was fear. I was then treated by Fluttershy, who placed the leaf onto my wound and wrapped the vines around my hindleg, making a makeshift bandage.
"Thank you…" I said softly, looking up at Fluttershy. There was another loud gasp from everyone.
"You… You can speak?!" Twilight asked. I glanced over at her standing off to the side.
"Yes?" I said glancing around nervously looking for any threats.
"We need to keep moving! We are running out of time!" Twilight said to the other ponies.
Struggling to get up to follow as well, getting some strange looks from the ponies, they look at each other before looking back at me nervously.
"What… what are you doing, mister?" Fluttershy asked shyly.
"I am coming with you. I don't like how that manticore attacked you and want to make sure you ponies get to wherever you're going in one piece." I said, getting to my hands... err... paws.
"Uh…" Twilight looked nervously at the other ponies.
"I could help protect you from the other inhabitants of the forest. Not many of the other creatures will want to attack me." I said softly, trying to convince them to take me along.
"Uh… okay?" Twilight said, looking at Fluttershy.
The ponies started making their way deeper into the forest while I limped behind them at a slight distance. All of them looked at me over their shoulders from time to time, probably as a mix of concern for my wound and fear of me. Shortly afterwards, things took a turn for the worse when I heard a scream of terror up ahead. I ran ahead and found Steven Magnet, the sea serpent, brutally ripped apart.
There was blood everywhere, turning and I saw the mane six frozen in terror. I was about to try to get them moving when I spotted a small pack of Timberwolves sneaking up on the stunned ponies.
Quickly, I tackled the nearest Timberwolf, before yelling, "Run! Get out of here! I'll keep them busy!" They jumped and got moving.
Biting into the neck of the Timberwolf, while, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the mares run across the river. Shattering the Timberwolf, I had in my jaw, I turned to find another target when one attacked me from the side. The Timberwolf tackled me to the ground, slashing my side open. I let out a small roar of pain and slashed the Timberwolf, shattering it. It took me a good ten minutes to finish off the pack when I realized that I would never catch up with the mane six while in the forest. Fortunately, I knew some shortcuts and went straight to the castle, arriving in the room where Twilight would confront Nightmare Moon well before anyone else did.
Utilizing my camouflage, I hid in a dark corner of the room, doing my best to see everything while remaining unseen. I didn't know how long I had to wait before I heard the mane six enter the other room. Soon enough, I heard a commotion in the other room, and saw Nightmare Moon appear with Twilight.
I could feel something wasn't right with Nightmare Moon, the look in her eyes wasn't how the show had displayed it. Watching as the two ponies charged at each other, trying to find an opening to help. It was just after Twilight teleported that I saw something was wrong, Nightmare Moon charged a mana blast with her horn, aiming at Twilight.
I knew that Twilight had no hope of surviving such a blast. Moving to save her I felt something surge inside of me as I moved as fast as I could, dropping my cloak, tackling twilight out of the way, twisting myself so that I would land on my good side.
Letting out a roar of agony as I crashed into the wall hard, while Twilight landed off to the side. Blacking out for a few moments before I groggily awoke to Nightmare Moon blabbering to Twilight about how she had killed Twilight's pet lizard.
Feeling really woozy when I thankfully heard the rest of the mane six run into the room. Knowing she was going to be safe, I blacked out during Twilight's speech about the Elements of Harmony.
When I woke up, I was in the corner of a room, but I couldn't tell how big the house was. Peering out the window that was conveniently placed near my corner, I saw it was daytime now. When I glanced down at my body, I saw that I was wrapped in various bandages, which stretched all across my sides and right hindleg.
"G-Good morning" A familiar voice said softly from the stairway.
Looking over to where the voice was, and I saw Fluttershy on the stairs looking at me. She hesitantly walked over to me and checked my bandages before redressing them.
"What happened?" I asked her, confused.
"Well, when you tackled Twilight out of the way, she landed on your bad side, which only made the wound worse," she told me.
"What happened next?" I asked.
"After that, the rest of the ponies arrived, and Twilight made a big speech about friendship, before summoning the elements of harmony. We blasted Nightmare Moon with the elements and saved both princesses..."
And so, she continued to explain what happened during my impromptu sleeping session. When she had finished telling me, I noticed that it was getting dark outside. Still feeling woozy from my injuries, I laid my head back onto my paws and fell asleep.
