"Sharky? Are you awake yet?" Fluttershy trotted up to the bed. She tugged the covers off to reveal an empty bed. "Oh no! He's left again!" *sigh* "I guess I should just leave him be... He'll come back when he wants to... No, I'm gonna go get him! I need to tell him the truth! Even if I am scared..." With that, Fluttershy set out to Ponyville to see where he had gone. Little did she know that she was going the wrong way.

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I had been walking for at least three hours on the edges of Everfree forest. I was trying to find a river. Forests grow around rivers, and if I were to follow a river long enough I'd reach civilization. Basic knowledge. Unfortunately, I'd yet to find a river heading out of the forest. I sighed and continued walking. I focused my thoughts on my footsteps, feeling the sensation of each step. It was the only way I could keep myself from thinking about what I was leaving behind. I found myself wishing anything would happen. I'd prefer a monster attack to this boredom any day. Then I noticed something peculiar out of the corner of my eye. It was a shadow a few feet away from me. It resembled a bird shadow, but It had upper limbs as well as legs. I looked up, and saw a gryffin.

"Leave me alone!" I called out to the flying figure. The figure faltered in flight for a moment, as if startled that I had noticed them. Then it started on a gentle fall to the ground. It landed next to me, and I jumped in suprise as I recognized Gilda.

"What are you doin' all the way out here numbskull?" She asked gruffly.

"Heh, insult me all you want, I don't care. Mind explaining why you aren't the least bit suprised to see something like me?"

"Because I keep up with the news idiot. You raced the Wonderbolts right?"

"Yeah, wow... I can't belive that made the news."

"Ha yeah! Epic way to lose lame-o!" At this, I back-handed her.

"That one was for Fluttershy." Gilda gave me a shocked look.

"D-did you just HIT me?! That's it, lets go!" She took some sort of battle stance and hissed at me.

"Bitch bring it. I hunt monsters for a living."

"Yeah right! Tough talk, let's see how you fight!" She jumped at me and I bitch-slapped her out of the air.

"Bitch please, I took on an Ursa Minor. You can't touch me. Even while I'm this injured." She was laying in a heap on the ground where she had landed. "Huh, didn't think I hit her that hard..." I crouched down next to her. One of her eyes flew open, and she scratched my face above my eye with her talons. I didn't bat an eyelash. "Do your worst. It doesn't matter."

"Y-you aren't even gonna wipe away the blood?" The blood from the cut on my head was starting to drip into my eye. I didn't care.

"No. Not worth my time. Speaking of which, neither are you." I stood up and turned away from her. She stood up and followed behind me.

"Hey! You can't just walk away from me!"

"I believe I am. Now leave me alone."

"Oh yeah? What if I stay huh?"

"I'll ignore you."

"... You know, you're a lot meaner than I thought."

"Look who's talking."

"You're kinda cool."

"Great, the almighty Gilda thinks I'm cool, now my life is complete."

"... How do you know my name?"

"RD told me." I lied.

"Who?"

"Rainbow Dash idiot."

"You know Dash?! ... Umm... How... is she doin' huh? I mean... not that I care or anything..."

"... You care about Dash?"

"What?! No! That's a stupid thing to say!"

"You know it's ok to care right?"

"Pfft! Whatever dude! I guess you aren't as cool as I thought!"

"That's ok, I don't care what you think is cool."

"... Fine, I guess I might care a little... but don't tell anypony about it. It could ruin my rep ya know?"

"Whatever."

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"Hi Twilight." Fluttershy said as she trotted into Twilight's library.

"Well, come right in Fluttershy." Twilight offered sarcastically. "Aren't you supposed to be taking care of Sharky?"

"Oh... Sorry Twilight... I was taking care of Sharky, but when I woke up this morning he was gone! Have you seen him?"

"No, but it doesn't really suprise me. Knowing him, he'll show up soon with more injuries or a new friend... Maybe both."

"Well... could you check for him with a spell? It'd make me feel better..."

"Yeah, good idea Fluttershy." Twilight focused on a scry spell to locate Sharky. It took a suprisingly long time to locate him, which meant that he was near the edge of the spell range. An image of Sharky shimmered into view in the room.

"Huh, I didn't think I hit her that hard..." The girls watched as Gilda reached up and slashed him over his eye. They both gasped. "Do your worst, it doesn't matter."

"Y-you aren't even gonna wipe away the blood?"

"No, not worth my time. Speaking of which, neither are you." The girls watched Sharky stand back up and walk away from Gilda. The image distorted and faded out of view as Sharky exceeded the range of the spell.

"T-twilight! Why can't we see Sharky anymore?"

"W-well I've got longer range scrying spells, but they take time to prepare... What happened to Sharky? Why is he so far away? Better yet, why is he with GILDA?!"

"I... I d-don't know..."

"Fluttershy, what happened before he left?"

"I don't know... He must have left after I fell asleep last night..."

"Well, what happened the night before?"

"..."

"Fluttershy..."

"Nothing..."

"Tell me. Sharky could be in trouble! All the information we can get can help us!"

"I... I m-might have... k-kissed him..."

"... WHAT?!"

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"So, what do you do for fun?" Gilda asked. I have no idea why she was still following me.

"Whatever the f*** I feel like doing." I'll be honest, Steven's attitude was kinda taking over here.

"Wow, you sound like my kinda... whatever you are."

"Don't associate me with you. I'm a human by the way."

"Don't care. So, you never told me where you were goin'."

"Wherever the wind takes me I guess. Just away from Ponyville."

"Dude, that's so rocker. Wanna come back to the gryffin empire with me?"

"Not interested."

"Oh come on. You're trying to get away from Ponyville, and everypony at my town bores the heck outta me. You could at least give it a shot. Will you come?" I paused for a moment. Did Gilda just ask me something... relatively nicely?

"... Do you have to fly to it?"

"Well, It's partially on the ground and the sky. Mostly the sky though."

"Well, It'll be a little while before I can fly. Maybe I'll care enough to go when I grow wings."

"Wow, you kill me with your sarcasm."

"Not sarcasm. Gimme about an hour, maybe two of you following me, and I'll have wings."

"Dude, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

"Just wait."

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"Well, at least you didn't win the competition..." Twilight muttered.

"What?! Yes I did! He kissed me!"

"No, you just said YOU kissed HIM. That's against the rules."

"B-b-but... no fair... Wait a minute, that doesn't matter! We need to get Sharky!"

"Oh, yes you're right! Well, there's no way for us to tell which direction he went... Let me write a letter to the Princess, I'm sure she could help!"

"Good idea Twilight! Princess Celestia could help for sure!" Twilight magically grabbed a quill and inkwell, and got to quickly writing her letter to the Princess.

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"See? Told you so." Gilda was staring open-mouthed at my new eagle wings.

"H-how?"

"Magic." *Snort* *snort* (That was just for you. You know who you are.)

"Dude, you sound like a nerd."

"Well, isn't someone a walking streotype."

"What?"

"Nothing, now, which way to this 'Gryffin kingdom'?"

"Just follow the wind." Gilda leapt into the air and let a gust catch her wings.

"Ohhh I see what you did there." I jumped up and caught the same draft. We flew next to each other for awhile, coasting on the breezes. After flying for about three hours, a HUGE cloud came into view. We had reached an ocean, and over it was a gigantic cloud continent. Yeah, CONTINENT. The cloud stretched over the ocean as far as the eye could see. "Hmm, so that's the Gryffin empire?"

"Just figuring that out?" Gilda asked sarcastically. I rolled my eyes.

"You know, you'd be a lot more fun to be around if you were less of a bitch all the time."

"Eh, bite me."

"Why, you into that kind thing?" Gilda blushed and tried to smack me, but I rolled out of her reach. "Whoa, take it easy, it was a joke. Didn't expect it to be right."

"Shut up."

"Make me. Oh wait, you can't."

"... Just fly to the cloud."

"If you say so milady."

"DON'T call me that."

"Whatever milady."

"Are you trying to get on my nerves?!"

"Yes."

"F*** you."

"No thanks, we just met milady."

"DANG IT!" We landed on the continent cloud, and I got a few gasps from nearby gryffins.

"Ah, nothing makes my day more than... terrifying... a few........ strangers...." Right in the middle of my sentence, I noticed that the gryffins that had gasped were running towards me. "Huh, odd." Right before any of them could reach me though, a buch of heavily muscled gryffins in shiny silver armor came out of nowhere and surrounded me. They all had pikes pointed at me, 12 in total. "So, this is a welcome from your kind?" I asked Gilda as I swung around and kicked the talon of the nearest guard, causing him to drop his pike right into my hands. I swung it around like a Bo Staff around my front, knocking away the pikes of the guards in front of me. Then I hit the ground as the five remaining pikes behind me stabbed forward. I rolled over, pike outstretched, pulling the pikes into the cloud and lodging them there. All the guards stared at me, stunned. I looked to Gilda. "Not the best fighters huh?"

"T-they were m-my royal guards!" I frowned.

"Excuse me, did you just say royal guard?"

"Oh yea, I forgot to mention, I'm a princess..."

"... WHAT?!" I would've gotten my answer, but the gryffins that had gasped earlier had forced their way to me.

"Hey, did you really race the Wonderbolts?"

"I heard you took out a whooole forest's worth of Timber Wolves in an hour!"

"That's nothing, this guy was partying with Daring Do, right?"

"You fought the Ursa Minor right!? I'm a big fan of yours!"

"Wh-what?! How do you guys KNOW all this stuff?" I asked in suprise.

"Don'cha know? It's all over the news!"

"What news!?" One of the gryffins handed me a news paper. I read the headline. "New creature takes Equestria by storm... What the buck is that supposed to mean?!"

"It means that everypony who's anypony has heard about you!"

"Where the buck are they getting this information?! I go to nearly empty frontier towns to fight usually!"

"Luna's mission reports! Didn't you know about those?"

"..." I whipped out my iPhone and called Luna. "Luna! You tell everypony about my missions?!" Luna flinched back at my sudden outburst.

"W-we submit a report of all completed and failed missions to the press, yes."

"Why?"

"So our subjects may be aware of possible monster threats and know when areas are safe."

"Oh... Well, that makes sense. Oh, hello by the way."

"... Hello to thou as well Sharky." I heard a door burst open from Luna's side.

"Luna! Have you sent Sharky on a mission?! My student says he's gone missing!" I heard Clestia yell.

"Nonsense, we are speaking with him currently." I hung up the phone without another word.

"Ok, so where to Gilda?" I pushed my way through the growing crowd of gryffins and still-shocked guards.

"Well, first we should show you to my dad and make sure he's good with you being here."

"Who's your dad again?"

"The gryffin king."

"... Meep."