Chapter 2: Who am I?

A/N: Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen rider or My little Pony: Friendship is magic. But of course, I do own my OC for the story.

Dark emptiness...

This was the only thing that Project D was thinking at that moment after that Daiki had shot him.

I can't forget his name...Daiki Kaito was what he said. When I get my hands on him, he will wish that he had never messed with me. But, something else was wrong. I...I'm not sure of what has happened. Where am I? What am I doing here? But more importantly, who am I?

Those questions were clouding his mind when he started hearing growls coming from right beside him.

"Who's there?" He managed to asked even though he was near exhaustion.

Project D slowly opened his eyes and what he saw surprised him.

He was looking straight at a creature resembling a wolf but instead of having fur like what Earth wolves have, it was made out of wood, twigs and a few leaves. Even its glowing yellow eyes was abnormal to him.

It continued to growl at Project D as he slowly got up from the ground.

With his memories all blurred, Project D started relying on his instincts and his blade extended out from his wrist, surprising him. He eyed the strange object in his wrist with admiration but ceased when the wooden wolf pounced on him.

Instinctively, Project D's guts kicked in and he grabbed the wolf in midair. Then, he clenched his hand into a fist and struck the wolf with force, destroying its face.

Seeing what he had done, Project D hesitantly dropped the headless body of the creature he had mercilessly killed and stumbled back. He started panting heavily and observed that his blade has disappeared into his body."What am I?"

He looked around at his surroundings, trying to figure out what kind of environment he was in.

From what he had found out, he was in some kind of forest and from his encounter with the wooden wolf-like creature, there were probably more than the one he had killed.

Project D looked at himself from a puddle of water beneath him and saw that he was wearing some kind of cloak as well. Before he could do anything, the cloak unfolded itself to reveal to him that it was a pair of golden insect wings.

Just then, Project D turned to see that the creature's head had formed back on its body and it growled at the Kaiju.

Knowing that he would not win against a creature that regenerates, Project D turned and made an escape with the wolf chasing him.

On the far end of the forest, lies a small town of ponies of all kinds: Earth, Pegasi and Unicorns.

And with the town, there was a castle, owned by the most well known royalty of Equestria, King Solaris and Queen Aurora and their two daughters, Celestia and Luna.

The ponies lived in harmony with the rest of the coexisting species among them but during the past few days, there have been disturbance in some areas of Equestria. Mysterious darkness and chaos has been slowly invading the peaceful land and with it, ties were cut between the inhabitants of Equestria in order to protect their own kind from the sudden appearance of evil forces.

The king and queen were both in the throne room of their castle until they sensed an incredible force of energy that made them shivered.

"Did you feel that, Aurora?" Solaris asked.

Aurora gave the black Alicorn a nod and spoke,"Yes, I did. Whatever it was, I hope it wasn't part of the darkness that has appear in our lands."

Solaris nodded,"I agree, my queen. Ever since we've cut our ties with the Changlings and the others, I felt as if we had done a wrong thing. It's as if we are being toyed with by this darkness. But whatever we just felt, it wasn't just a sudden burst of energy. It might have been from a creature or something. We have to investigate."

"We can't." Aurora said."We can't leave Everfree. You know if we were to leave, the barrier protecting us will weaken and anything could destroy it. We can't investigate the source of the energy."

The Alicorn king brought his hoof to his chin and thought for a moment before saying,"We can't. But maybe, a few of our guards may help us. What do you think?"

Queen Aurora gasped,"Are you serious?! I won't let our guards to walk into that forest of death! The guards are important for Everfree's protection. We can't afford to lose any of them."

King Solaris gave her a reassuring smile,"Don't worry, Aurora. I too won't let our guards perish. They will only investigate until we lower the sun. When night falls, all of them will be back."

"When you put it that way," Aurora said."I guess I can agree to that. But which of our guards are to be sent out?"

Solaris trotted towards the window and Aurora followed him. As they looked out of it, Solaris gestured his muzzle towards a group of Unicorn and Pegasi guards."We'll send our Elite Guards to the source. They have never failed us and I highly doubt that they will fail now."

Aurora smiled,"That's a good choice. Solaris, I hope you know what you're doing. I'm going to see how Celestia and Luna are doing."

The king nodded as he walked out to greet the guards while Aurora headed towards their daughters's room.

"Girls, is everything alright?" Aurora asked as she opened the door to the room.

Inside the room, a small white coated Alicorn with a matching pink mane and tail was reading a book while a blue coated Alicorn with a very light azure blue mane and tail was happily gazing out of the window.

"We're fine, mother." The white Alicorn filly spoke with a smile as she put down the book she was reading.

Aurora smiled,"That's good to hear, Celestia. What about you, Luna? Is anything wrong? You've been quite quiet lately. Is there anything you would like to tell me?"

Luna simply sighed as she turned her attention from the window to her mother,"I'm fine, mother."

The queen nodded,"Okay. Just to let you know, lunch will be ready soon. Anything you would like to have?"

Celestia smiled,"Anything will do."

Luna nodded in agreement and Aurora left the room.

Once their mother was gone, Luna asked,"Celestia, when do you think the barrier's going to be gone?"

The elder sister replied,"I hope soon, Luna. I wish that the darkness would just disappear so we can return back to our original peaceful lives. But what makes you so depressed about it? You were always happy with living in the castle."

"Sister, ever since that barrier was put up, we hardly ever get out of this castle. Don't you ever wish to get out of Everfree and maybe even explore the forest?" Luna asked.

Celestia nodded with a sad look,"Yes. But with the darkness around, we're not allowed to leave because of what it is capable of doing. But I want to know what is your true intention for wanting to get out of Everfree."

Luna locked the door using her magic and she leaned in closer to her sister,"Sister, I'm sure you have sensed the energy that had just appeared a few minutes ago." The white Alicorn nodded and Luna continued,"Well, I want to find out what it is."

Her sister's eyes widen and she gasped,"Are you really going to do that?! Luna, as your elder sister, I can't let anything happen to you. And that means that I won't let you go!"

"But...but Celestia, aren't you as curious as I am?"

Celestia shook her head,"As much as you think I am, I still won't let you go. That energy could have been from something that the darkness has created."

Luna quickly placed her hooves on Celestia's shoulders,"Please, sister. Our parents have been keeping us in here for too long. Just, this once, let me go see it."

As she put on her 'innocent pleading' face, Celestia cringed at it,"Fine. But as long as I follow you, you won't have to worry about anything."

The blue Alicorn started cheering as she hopped around Celestia in a circle.

Outside of Evergreen, the four Elite Guards that Solaris has sent to investigate were making their way to the location of the energy.

"Guys, what do you think it could be?" One of the Pegasus guards asked.

The other Pegasus guards replied,"Not sure. But as long as it is peaceful, we won't have a problem with it since it won't harm anypony."

Soon, they reached a few kilometers away from Evergreen and they started surveying the area.

"I think I've found something!" The leader of the group cried.

The rest of the Elite Guards made their way to him and they looked at what he had found."It's a bunch of twigs from a Timber Wolf. If I know anything, getting a twig from a Timber Wolf isn't easy unless you have fighting experience. Whatever we're looking for, it must be at least good at fighting. And judging from the twigs, the Timber Wolf must have regenerated itself and must have chased the creature we're looking for and even dropping a few of its twigs along the way."

"Wow! Where did you learn that from?" The first Pegasus guards asked.

The leader looked at him, unimpressed,"You should know that from training. Clearly, you can see that the Timber Wolf has left paw prints and it's leading straight ahead. But what's interesting is that it's chasing a creature that may possibly run on two legs judging by the size of the creature's paw print."

"But how can you be sure if it's a paw print?" The second Unicorn guard asked.

"There's only one way to find out. And that's to follow the trail." The leader said.

Still being chased by the Timber Wolf, Project D was left with no other choice but to eliminate the wooden creature. But the problem now is how he was going to do it.

He turned around to face the Timber Wolf, who had stopped merely meters away from Project D and started growling at him with its claws unsheathed.

Project D looked down at his wrist and saw that his blade had extended out again and his other wrist had a shield growing out of it. He raised his blade up and pointed its tip at the Timber Wolf while holding the shield in front of him to defend himself.

The Timber Wolf then howled as it pounced at Project D, who dodged the wolf's attack and kicked it. The wooden creature lost its balance and it fell on its side.

Project D continued to keep his stance as the Timber Wolf got up and charged at the Kaiju.

Looking up, Project D leaped up, dodging the Timber Wolf yet again as he landed on top of a tree branch. He looked down at the Timber Wolf and saw that it was snarling at him.

Instinctively, Project D's mouth plate split open and it revealed his jagged teeth while his cloak unfolded to flare out his golden wings, which suddenly had the image of a pair of giant sinister eyes on them.

The Timber Wolf immediately stopped snarling and started whimpering at the sight of Project D's wings's 'eyes' and it curled up in fear.

Seeing this, Project D started having a very unwelcoming feeling emerging from his heart. He was feeling Forgiveness.

Project D jumped down from the tree branch and slowly walked up to the Timber Wolf, who was still whimpering as he got closer."It's alright. I won't hurt you anymore." Project D spoke.

The Timber Wolf hesitantly looked up at the Kaiju and it nuzzled Project D's chest.

Suddenly, Project D felt something slithering around his shoulders. He looked at his right shoulder to see a tentacle making its way towards the Timber Wolf's forehead.

As soon as it was an inch away from it head, the tip of the tentacle slowly morphed into the tip of an arrow and it pierced through the Timber Wolf's forehead, causing it to howl in pain while Project D's eyes glowed intensely red.

Now, in his mind, he was not seeing his memories but the Timber Wolf's memories instead.

He saw that the Timber Wolf has been kicked out of its pack after it wouldn't mate with the pack leader, indicating that it was a female. Not only that, it seems that she wasn't able to search the forest for any food or another pack to live in. She had a hard time just getting a good night sleep during the five days since she was abandoned by her former pack. But what caught Project D's interest was that after a dark purple cloud of dust had flew overhead her pack before it all happened.

When he removed his tentacle from the Timber Wolf's head, he gently petted her head,"You poor thing. I bet you're really hungry and tired."

The Timber Wolf nodded and something in Project D's mind clicked. He started remembering that there was a chemical in his blood that was flowing around his body to keep him from getting hungry.

He extended his blade out and he made a small cut on his arm and held his bleeding arm in front of the Timber Wolf,"Here. This will keep you alive for now." The Timber Wolf hesitantly licked his cut and it soon dried up.

Before long, the Timber Wolf smiled and she started giving affectionate licks to Project D.

The Kaiju smiled before he petted the Timber Wolf's head and said,"I think I'll call you Thorn."

Now, the Timber Wolf, or Thorn, smiled at her new master and curled up under his warmth.

A/N: Done! What do you think? Please review.