Chapter 5 - Creatures

Lots of questions ran through the ponies and the dragons mind as they entered Sugar Cube Corner in hope of seeing a friendly face.
"Hello? Is anyone in here?" Apple Bloom yelled, as they opened the door.
Apparently not.
Apple Bloom proceeded to the kitchen with Spike, while Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo checked the top. Nothing but a few hand signals to settle the plan.
"Hello?" She yelled again. She could hear the same thing, from Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle upstairs.
Where were Mr. and Mrs. Cake?
Why did they go to Sugar Cube Corner first?
Well, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were always very friendly. So they felt like they were welcome there.
And Sweet Apple Acres was outside the town, it seemed much more reasonable to enter a shop to see where everyone has gone.
A noise, an unexpected grunting noise of some sort. Which had come from a creature much greater than Spike. The noise sounded like it came from a mixover between a dog growling, and a bear moaning. Apple Bloom slowly turned around, terrified of what she could expect. As she turned around she could feel and smell the creature’s breath, standing only a few inches away from her. She now stood face to face with the wolfish looking creature standing in front of her, looking down at her, with a devilish grin on its face, and red piercing eyes without an iris, very dark almost black tousled fur, and what looks to be some of the sharpest teeth in all of Equestria. It was leaving a trail of black smoke wherever it went. It stood on its back legs and used his "hands" as a weapon. With very sharp claws. Suddenly Spike who apparently was unnoticeable for the creature that had been hiding somewhere in the kitchen, jumped the thing in an attempt to lure it away from Apple Bloom for as long as she needs to get away.
The creature did not expect anyone and stumbled back a bit, but quickly discovered how small the creature attacking him was. The creature grabbed Spike, and with a quick movement he threw on of his back on to the kitchen floor. Sliding him all the way down the floor, making him hit his head on the oven, creating a small crack in the glass. Spike was bleeding from the back of his head, like he haven’t been through enough already? But when he saw the creature move in on him he quickly found the motivation to follow Apple Bloom and run. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, who had heard the struggle was already at the foot of the stairs and followed Apple Bloom as she ran out the door. Apple Bloom ran and ran and didn’t even think twice about the girls, she needed to get back to Sweet Apple Acres where everything would be fine, and every pony was going to be happy, right?
The three ponies arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, exhausted. The front door was locked, they went around the back and surprisingly that door was locked as well.
"OH No...” Apple Bloom said to herself.
But then she remembered the basement entrance, on the side of the house. Nope, also locked.
"Ohhh NO! NO! NO!" Apple Bloom said and hammering her hoofs onto the basement door.
There was short moment of silence while Apple Bloom and the other ponies, were thinking where Granny Smith and Big Macintosh were.
"Apple Bloom? Is that you?" A friendly old voice said from the other side of the door.
"Granny Smith!" Apple Bloom shouted.
She immediately opened the door and Apple Bloom was greeted by a smiling Big Macintosh and Granny Smith.
"Granny Smith!" She yelled again, and hugged the elderly pony.
"Where have you girls been? We have been worried sick!" Said Granny Smith
"No time to explain, we have got to go find Spike. He's still in town with that thing!" Scootaloo then said, now remembering that Spike was hurt and needed medical assistance
"With those things, don’t you mean?" Granny Smith said
"Those things? There’s more of his kind?" Sweetie Belle Asked, starting to get nervous. The fear hadn’t really bothered her after they found Spike in the forest. But now it was getting to her.
"Yes my dear. There were some minor fires everywhere in the Everfree forest last night, and that lured creatures of all kinds in to the city. No pony knows who started the fires. At the first sight of the creatures, the town alarm went off, and every pony met in the town hall, locked the doors and prayed. We were too far away so we just hid down here"
"Come on! We have to go find Spike" Scootaloo said.
"I don’t think that it’s safe to go out there!" Granny Smith replied
"But Spike is out there, and he hit his head and is bleeding!" Sweetie Belle then said.
"Well... it’s no place for an old woman or three young fillies... But I guess Big Mac can go find Spike. What do you say Big Mac?"
"Yeup" He said. A man of few words, isn’t he?
"Then it’s settled." Granny Smith said, as Big Macintosh was leaving out the basement entrance
The girls entered the basement and Granny Smith closed the door behind them, and yelled
"Be careful, Big Mac!"
The room wasn’t very well lit, there were a lot of shelves and cupboards. There where some empty boxes they could use as stools, when talking.
"Now do you girls care to tell what you were up to earlier today?"
"Wow... Where do we start?" Scootaloo asked.
And then she began to tell about Spikes disappearence, the letter, how they found Spike, Apple Bloom fainting, Zecora finding them, the first encounter at Sugarcube Corner and running back to Sweet Apple Acres, like all hell had just broken loose. Scootaloo wasnt very shy around Granny Smith, or Big Macintosh. she knew so well, and was always visiting. When she was finished with the story she asked
"That pretty much sums it doesn’t it?"
"Right." Sweetie Belle said.
"Apple Bloom?" Scootaloo said
The ponies looked around, when Granny Smith yelled
"Gosh darnit, Apple Bloom!"
Meanwhile at about 50 meters outside of Ponyville.
Big Mac was running as fast as he his hoofs could carry him, he had forgot to ask where they last saw Spike. But was expecting to find him in the center somewhere-
What was that? Another set up hoofs was running catching up behind him. He slowed down and turned around, to find an exhausted filly. Apple Bloom had been trying to silently keep up with him, but was still tired from running all the way to Sweet Apple Acres. Now that he had slowed down, she had been running to fast and had caught up with him.
"Apple Bloom?!" Said Big Macintosh
"What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at home?"
The young pony stopped, to catch her breath. And then finally said.
"Oh, I’m sorry Big Mac. I just really wanted to help"
Big Macintosh thought for a while, while Apple Bloom kneeled trying to rest for a moment.
"Well okay, you can come with me. If you can keep up" He said and smiled.
"But if I tell you to go back, or tell you to run and seek cover, you will do it" He then said with suddenly very serious voice.
"Alright..." Apple Bloom then said.
Actually bringing Apple Bloom wasn’t such a bad idea, she knew where Spike was last seen, and she knew she had to show him.
When they arrived at the town, it was still quiet. Big Macintosh had expected to be assaulted by now, but apparently the creatures were searching through the houses. Destroying or looting. Apple Bloom led Big Macintosh into Sugarcube Corner, which is where the struggle had found place. There were no evidence of Spike being there but a crack in the oven glass, and a few drops of blood on the floor leading to the back door. The trail led out the backdoor, which looked like it was ripped off, and teared apart. Apple Bloom knew that is spike had tried to run out of the the backdoor and then the creature would then forcefully tear open the door and follow him. But where did Spike run away to? Apple Bloom looked out the back door for a brief moment but it just led out to more streets. She then walked back out the front door with Big Macintosh.
As the brother and sister walked out the door, they were greeted by two of the creatures, which were standing on each their site of the door.
Big Macintosh looked at his terrified little sister, she did not look back at him. Instead she starred into the creatures red eyes, and it also starred back at her.
This made Big Macintosh, loose it.
With a quick movement. He pushed Apple Bloom a couple of feet to the right making her fall over, and making the creatures eyes follow her. The creature which had starred at her quickly turned his head at Big Macintosh with an angry face, just in time to see two back hoofs nearing in on him. Big Macintosh had turned around, jumped up on his front hoofs and thrusted his back hoofs into the creatures face, which made it spin around and then fall over. The other creature looked amazed at his partner now lying dead still on the ground. Big Mac could have sworn he saw a tear on the devilish creature’s cheek. But this only made the creature angrier. He swung his arm whilst turning himself, as an unexpected attack on Big Macintosh. He had miscalculated the distance between him and the mare, and missed. This was a fatal mistake for the creature and he knew it, he had given to mush power into the swipe, and had expected to hit him head on, but sadly he was now turning with the same power he had tried to strike with. And then a plan started to appear in the creature’s head, when his hand had reached the stopping point he could use that power to swipe back with the back of his hand. Hand slice up the murderer standing before him. But no... It was already too late, Big Macintosh had jumped back up onto his front legs and was already leading his back hoofs into the side of the body on the creature. Pushing it longer back. Big Macintosh could feel some of the ribs break on the creature’s body. The creature was rolling further back than his companion.
The creature now lying on the floor holding its side, as in hope that it wouldn’t hurt so much, let out a scream, a high pitched wolf like sound only more roaring. Apple Bloom who now have gotten back up and stood beside her big brother, and Big Macintosh would soon find out what the sound was for. Big Macintosh looked around and saw multiple Shadows and more of these creatures standing around them. Surrounding them and cutting of every possible exit.

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