Chronicles: Chapter 1
A/N I have decided to add several short stories to MLP: Horizon. Hence, the chronicle chapters. Enjoy!
"Zecora? You home?" Josh called, flexing his Alicorn wings. The Zebra's house sat about a mile into the Everfree forest, and Josh didn't dodge through three patches of Poison Joke to say hi. He needed a healing potion to help Spike. He had the Dragon Flu, which had no magical cure.
"I am in this direction," Zecora called from the edge of the clearing that housed her cabin, "Stay away for your own protection."
"What's wrong?" Josh could barely see her striped coat through the foliage. She appeared to be dragging something.
"I found this injured creature. There is, however, one little feature." She walked backwards into the clearing, dragging an unconscious Timberwolf.
"What?!" Josh exclaimed. He morphed to his human form and ran over to her. The Timberwolf looked familiar, but not in the Equestrian way. It had several deep gashes on it's, or rather, her side. In her front paws was a baby Timberwolf, barely a foot long.
"It was being attacked by it's pack for defending her child." Zecora said, dropping her rhyme. "Ran into a patch of Poison Joke, now my rhyme keeps switching on and off."
A howl pierced the air, waking the two wolves. They had pale blue glowing eyes, and Josh realized why they looked familiar.
"They look like Huskies." He said.
"Huskies?" Zecora raised an eyebrow.
"A dog breed from my world. They are close relatives to wolves."
Another howl, closer.
"The pack is getting closer." Zecora took a step back. The mother Timberwolf set the pup on the ground and struggled to it's feet. It glanced at Zecora as if to say Thank you.
The puppy ran to Josh and hid behind his legs as five normal Timberwolves burst from the forest. Josh drew his MR38 combat rifle, a souvenir he had kept from the Battle of Ponyville. Zecora picked up the pup and ran to her cabin, and the Timberwolf mother took a battle stance.
Josh fired at one wolf, causing it to burst into a pile of wood. The mother pinned one down before two more tackled her. She slung one into a tree, shattering the wolf. She quickly destroyed the two that were fighting her, and Josh defeated the final one.
Josh relaxed, but the mother stayed tense. Josh found out why when the dead Timberwolves reformed into one, large wolf. The puppy whimpered from the window, and the mother gazed back sadly. She then looked into Josh's eyes, and he could see the intelligence she possessed, and what she was planing.
"I'll take care of him." He said. The wolf gave a small smile as she ran off, the massive wolf following her. Josh slung his rifle on his back, and walked to Zecora's hut.
"I was going to help, but I needed time to create a good potion." Zecora sighed. "The pup needs a place to stay."
"I'll take him. I can train him to be a good friend." Josh said, scratching behind the pup's ear.
"Friend?"
"Of course. Pets are friends, right?" He said, picking up the pup. "I'll name him Timber." Josh turned to leave.
"Wait." He said, stopping. "Do you have a cure for the Dragon Flu?"