"Dear Celestia!!!" Twilight exclaimed angrily. "I can't believe he left me... us again!!!" She shouted. "He's going to get himself killed!" The girls (and Stormy and Fang. What, did you forget them?) had all left Unity's room and were now back in Twilight and Rarity's original room. They had all packed up what little they brought with them. (Which basically means the party cannon and that's about it.) They were supposed to sleep and leave in the morning, but none of them could find the peace of mind to rest.

"He can't help it. It's just who he is." Stormy soothed. The girls had been working themselves into a rage over Sharky's actions, but Stormy was doing his best to keep them calm. It wasn't really working.

"I DON'T CARE HOW HE IS! THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN KEEP ALMOST DYING!" Twilight yelled in Stormy's face.

"I agree! Sharky should be more careful!" Fluttershy added. "He isn't invincible!"

"Yes dear, he needs to look after himself. Celestia knows who he's trying to protect with his life now!" Rarity added angrily.

"Yeah! No matter how cool he is, everypony has limits! He doesn't need to keep running headfirst into danger!" Rainbow Dash raged. "He needs to quit thinking he's proving something by doing this!"

"HE DOESN'T THINK HE IS!!!" Stormy snapped. He was normally calm and collected, but everypony has a breaking point. He had been putting up with this for four hours! "HE WANTS TO PROTECT EVERYPONY! HE DOESN'T THINK HE'S SHOWING OFF, HE DOESN'T THINK HE'S INVINCIBLE, AND CELESTIA HELP ME, HE'D DIE FOR A COMPLETE STRANGER. IT'S HOW HE IS AND IT'S WHY FOUR OF YOU LIKE HIM!!!" Stormy screamed. Then his eyes shrank as he realized what he had just yelled. The girls quieted down eerily quickly, and formed a circle around Stormy.

"What did you just say?" Twilight asked.

"N-nothing..." Stormy stuttered.

"No, no dear, I insist you tell us..." Rarity said menacingly. The circle continued to tighten.

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Shadow and I had to walk for quite awhile. Apparently, Timber Wolves lived in a forest about half as far away from Appleloosa as Fluttershy's house is from Ponyville. We arrived at the forest's edge.

"Okay Shadow. Stay behind me alright?" I commanded. He nodded and we started walking into the forest. We crept around, not making any noise as we hunted. I began to scan the ground for paw prints. I saw many. There were what appeared to be deer, bunnies, and normal wolves in this forest as well. Eventually, I came across some wolf prints that looked different. Instead of the smooth bottom paw a wolf normally has, whatever wolf made this print had lines all along his paw, like the lines in wood! I sent up a silent prayer of thanks for the snow, I never could track otherwise, and started following the Timber wolf prints. I had been following them for about 2 minutes, when Shadow screamed behind me.

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"WAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!" Stormy was flying down the halls full-tilt. Luckily for him, Rainbow Dash's wings were still bound, and Pinkie Pie kept getting distracted by the 'pretty paintings'. For some reason, Twilight and Rarity hadn't thought to use magic yet. Still, He wasn't gaining much distance on them.

"WAIT STORMY! WE JUST WANT TO ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS!" One of the mares yelled. Stormy didn't bother to turn around and see which one. He burst through yet ANOTHER set of doors, and he was outside.

"YES! HOME FREE!!" He cheered to himself. He flew straight up to the very top of the building. Then, just a few seconds later, he heard shouting below him.

"Where did he go?" Rarity asked.

"Ah crud! He problably flew away!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed angrily. Twilight sighed.

"Well, we're never gonna find him in the dark like this. Let's go inside girls. Besides, shouldn't we work this out ourselves? I'd swear I've written a letter about this..." Twilight mumbled sadly. The rest of the girls all muttered agreements and trotted back inside. Stormy breathed a sigh of relief.

"WHEW. I didn't think I'd be able to escape all of them..."

"You didn't." Said a voice from behind him. He was suddenly knocked over so that he was laying stomach down on the roof. He turned his head to see who had hit him, and there was a very enraged Fluttershy standing on his back.

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I whirled around, axe in hand and faced whatever danger was behind me. I couldn't see anything though.

"Shadow, what are you screaming at?" I hissed. Shadow was shaking horribly. He pointed an unsteady hoof in the directon of a few bushes. I walked over to get a better look, but I instantly wished I hadn't. What Shadow had been pointing out, was a corpse. It was torn horribly, and hardly recognizable. What I could see, was it used to look exactaly like Shadow, but bigger. His cutie mark was a red heart with a white dove. Around his body lay about 5 shattered Timber Wolves. Now, I've only become truly enraged a few times in my life. You know, the rage where you see red and go absolutley berzerk? The one where for awhile you can't remember what happened until it comes back to you in your nightmares? Yeah, this was one of those times. My breathing got really deep, and each breath hissed out from my clenched teeth. All my muscles tensed, and I felt the intense desire to hit something. I swung my axe at the nearest tree, severing it in half.

"S-sharky?!" Shadow exclaimed in fright. The tree fell a few feet away from us.

"GRAAAAAAAAAGGGGHH!!!!!" I screamed. I started charging off through the forest, making as much noise as possible in hopes of attracting the wolves. I got my wish. A Timber Wolf jumped out of the brush and clamped his teeth around my axe arm. I brought up my left fist and smashed it against his muzzle. His bites hadn't been severe, but I couldn't say the same for the bite of my axe. I swung it at the stunned wolf's head, cutting it clean off his body. (58) 5 more wolves appeared out of the trees, circling me. I pulled a 'Link' (Legend of Zelda main charecter) and spun around, axe outstretched. One of the wolves had been approaching me with open jaws, he was split in half along his jaw line. (57) The others had all recieved big cuts from the spin, but didn't die. Before any of them could move again, I brought the flat of my axe smashing down on the nearest one's skull. He went down and wouldn't be getting back up. (56) The others all collected themselves, and rushed me at the same time. I didn't have time to react, so one of them each latched onto one of my arms. With both my arms immobilized, the third one dove at my neck, going in for a quick kill. I wasn't having it. I smashed my head into the third ones muzzle as he jumped at me. He fell to the ground stunned, but I was too pissed to feel the pain. I brought my arms together, smacking the Timber wolves into each other. They both fell away dazed, and I took the oppritunity to kill all three of the while they were on the ground. (53)

"Whoa Sharky! You DESTROYED them!" Shadow cheered. He had just caught up with me. I ignored him, and charged off again. Striking trees and trampling undergrowth as I ran by. Before long, I was spotted by two more wolves. They both growled and jumped for me at the same time. I sidestepped them, and brought my elbow down on the wolf nearest to me. He hit the ground at my feet, and I stomped on his neck until I heard the wood snap beneath my feet. (52) The other one whipped around and snarled at me. He gave a huge howl, then I split him in half, right down the middle. (51) Then, I heard a noise that sounded something like thunder. I looked around, trying to find the source of the sound. It seemed to come from everywhere.

"Shadow! RUN!!!" I yelled out. I didn't know where he was, but I knew he didn't want to be here. Then, out of the darkness of the forest, seemingly countless amounts of Timber wolves started charging at me. The first one reached me and bit into my leg. Because of my armor, I didn't feel a thing. I gave him the 'bitch, please' look, then kicked him into the next wolf. Another wolf jumped at me, but I held up my axe and let him impale himself on it. He hit it and died, but his body was stuck to the axe.(50) I growled in annoyance, and another wolf smacked into my chest. I stumbled backward, but didn't fall. I heard another wolf growl as he jumped at my back, but I remembered I had spent so much time with Shadow that I most likely had wings now. I snapped them open behind me, hitting the wolf and sending him flying into a nearby tree with a sickening--

*CRUNCH* He hit the ground. (49) I returned my attention to my front. Three more wolves had seperated themselves from the pack, and were trying to rush me. As they approached, I gave my wings a flap, sending me just over their heads. I spun horizontally and swung my axe with the momentum. Luckily, I swung at them with the side of the axe that DIDN'T have a body on it, and all three of them were sliced open. (46) I swung my axe at the growing crowd of Timber wolves as a challenge, and the body on my axe flew off and hit the first few in the front. They fell backward with the impact of the body. I rushed them and started swinging wildly. I lopped off the head of another wolf,(45) just as I slammed my fist into another wolf's eye. In retaliation, another wolf leapt up and slashed his claws across my face. He got me just above my right eye, which was suddenly blurred by my own blood. I howled, my rage renewed. I slammed my axe into the offending wolf's back, killing him instantly. (44) Another wolf bit into my axe arm again, and I reared my arm back and beat him off with my wings. I brought my axe arm down again, killing two wolves in it's path. (42) I was amazed at how well this axe was preforming! This was just awesome! I brought up my hand and force-palmed away another wolf. I got some splinters from that one, but I didn't care. I swung my axe again, catching another wolf in the jaw. He didn't die, but he was flung away. I dashed over to him and stomped on his chest. I brought my axe down on his neck. (41) Behing me, I could hear the wolves rush at my back, and I waited. At the last second, I swung around and brought my axe swinging around. I sliced through another wolf,(40) and the one right behind him jumped up and bit into my chest burns. I howled in pain and fell forward, crushing the wolf beneath me.(39) I rolled back to my feet as fast as I could, and another wolf smacked into my shoulder. I tilted to the right with the blow, but I swung back forward as he fell away from me and chopped into him with the back swing.(38) I spartan kicked another wolf that was charging me, and sent him flying backwards into his companions. I'm not gonna lie, things were starting to look bad. I was taking some serious injuries, and I had sent Shadow away... Which of course was the exact moment he came charging in.

"YAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" He screamed. He threw a little bottle at the wolves, and it exploded all over about 5 of them. Before my very eyes, they began to squeal and whine as they shrank and shrivled. The turned black with decay and fell to the ground. (33)

"What the hell was that?!" I screamed. He grinned at me.

"The opposite of my life elixer. You didn't think I'd let you handle this alone, did you?"

"I'd hoped for once, somepony would!" I yelled back at him. I turned back to the wolves and started attacking with renewed gusto. I chopped the first one I met, killing him instantly, then slashed through two more as the rushed me.(30) I laughed. This was going to be easier than I had thought. Then, a mighty roar came from behind the crowd of Timber wolves. They all parted at once, and a Timber wolf twice the size of the violent manticore stepped into view. "Uhhh... Shadow... You have more of that death potion?" I asked.

"I-I had two more vials... but..." He pointed towards the shrivled bodies of 6 more Timber wolves. (24)

"Crap."

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This moment of bad-assness was brought to you by me. Because of all of you neigh-sayers out there that dissed his fighting skills. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.