I awoke with a start as I heard somepony scream from somewhere nearby. I looked around to find the source but couldn't immediately find it. I made my way into town but I heard the scream again and found out that is was coming from the direction of the forest and headed in that direction myself, but when I passed by a clock tower I saw that it was already one in the afternoon. "Damn I must have been more tired than I thought yesterday I usually never sleep in until six, and usually by then it's my nightmares that jolt me out of my sleep. . . . .weird, but I can't focus on that right now, I need to head to the forest and see what's up." I say to myself as my horn lights up in its red aura and starts channeling magic through my body and felt the area under my feet glide seamlessly under me as I broke the sound barrier.

Using that speed I quickly found to source of the screams, which appeared to be emanating from Fluttershy as she was being encircled by. . .by. .

"TIMBERWOLVES!!!?" All three of us shouted. I quickly sprung into action seeing the one behind her about to pounce on its prey.

"GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BASTARDS!!" I growled as I unsheathed Blessing and flung it at the beast as soon as the chain from the gauntlet on my right arm attached itself to the hilt. The timberwolf managed to dodge my attack, but just barely, and the rest had turned towards me when I landed in the area behind the one I had thrown my blade at. I quickly recalled Blessing back to me as another one of them tried to make a go at me only to find itself skewered through and through.

I wasn't allowed to admire my handiwork or make some smartass remark as I had two more lunged at me from the sides and trying to catch off guard, also probably thinking that I couldn't use Blessing with their buddy still impaled on it, but I wasn't about to let them get a chunk out of me as I whipped out Cursed with black magic already coursing through it and slammed ii into the earth, sending out a small energy wave to knock them back.

I booted off the timberwolf I had skewered from Blessing so as use it properly and took up my fighting stance while the rest of the pack stalked away from Fluttershy and surrounding me, snarling and growling like the stupid vicious creatures they are. Releasing my own growls before swinging both my swords towards a group of four of them and releasing a dark and light slices of energy from their respective conductors and manage to get all but one of them as they were clean cut went through them before falling to the ground. The last one remaining was whimpering and backing away from me before it turned around and tried to make its way back into the Everfree, but was stopped by Cursed as it pierced through its left hind leg and implanted into the ground, effectively trapping it in place.

I uncuppled the gauntlet on my left arm and slammed that too into the ground in front of me to make sure it couldn't run should the timberwolf manage to get Cursed out of the ground, which I doubt. With Blessing still in my grips I went for the one behind me so as to catch it by surprise speared it in the head which left three of them left, the one that was secured by Cursed, and two more that still didn't seem to get the message that they weren't going to kill me, especially since they were the only ones left.

"You finally realize how outmatched you pathetic creatures are, or are trying to actually think of a plan to overpower because let me tell you there's no way thats ha-" I was cut off as one of the remaining timberwolves howled in the sky and I noticed a faint green glow coming from behind me afterwards.

I took a glance back to see that scattered remains of the their fallen brothers were glowing an eerie green and began floating in the air. "Ahhhh crap." I had completely forgotten about how they can piece themselves back together if you don't sufficient damage to their bodies but, by the looks of things, they weren't interested in piecing back into their individual forms as they forming into a gigantic timberwolf.

So here I stand with now four timberwolves in front of me, the one that was still trapped, two normal-sized and free timberwolves, and one gigantic timberwolf whose mouth was big enough to chomp down me down whole in one bite.

"Hey Dark Heart, I think wolfy here wants to play." Shadow joked.

"Well I don't care if these three want to play, but if the other one that's pinned does I'll be more than happy to accept, so I'm just going to get of these guys." I use the magic fusion to send both light and dark energy through Blessing, even though my dark magic won't be as strong flowing through Blessing, and allowed the energy to build up within it. While doing so I called upon the darkness of my heart and started shifting into my Darkness Form so that I could give these mutts a special surprise should they annoy me at all.

As I was getting ready to release the energy I had stored up I heard a voice in the distance, several voices actually, and they had sounded familiar which meant it could only be them.
It's about time they got here, it wasn't like Fluttershy's scream was as quiet as her normal speaking voice." Shadow said, sounding annoyed.

"Yeah, but look at where we are. The closest house to the Everfree forest is that cottage over there, which I'm sure that she lives in, and it much take awhile to get here, though I do find it strange nopony else came sooner. They sure are lucky that you were here otherwise who knows what could have happened to her." I heard a groan that obviously came from Shadow and I understand why he did.

"Nova, why are you defending them? I believe it's pretty damn clear what would have happened to her if wasn't here, but I do agree with you on the fact that nopony got here sooner to check up on Fluttershy to see if she was alright, though none of that matters now. As soon as they know that she's okay, they're going to run away again to take her to safety because they're probably still scared of me and act like the assholes I had to deal with while I still lived in Neighburg." I said begrudgingly.

I snapped out of the conversation when I heard what sounded like something was hitting a magical force field and noticed that the three wolves that were in front of me were gone. I looked to my left, where to pounding was coming from, to see that they were striking a translucent, purple barrier and I when I took a closer look inside I saw that Twilight's horn was glowing with the same color aura as the barrier.

"Alright that's just messed up," I said annoyed at the the timberwolves actions. "I mean come on, they just decide to ignore me and go after them, when I'm the one who's been hurting them. That's just not cool man, now I'm not playing nice anymore."

After that was said I sheathed Blessing in exchange for full usage of my claws. I stalked up to one of the normal-sized timberwolves and snatched it by one of its hind legs and hung upside down in front of me. "This is what happens when you ignore me." I thrust my claws into its lower jaw and started slicing up to its torso and ending just short of its groin area. I withdrew my claws only to thrust my arm through it midsection of impaling it on my arm though it was to be there for a minute or so as I started building up the fire inside me until I felt it at the back of my throat and spewed out a gout of black flames directly over it, my flames were hot enough to incinerate instantly.

"Dark Heart you be careful about using your fire breath, it's extremely dangerous to any other creature in close proximity to it." Nova cautioned me.

"Yeah yeah, I know why do you think I just used it?" I swear it's like she doesn't even know me sometimes.

"I was talking about the girls, remember your flames have enough magical energy in them to easily bust through Twilight's shield spell without any difficulty." Oh yeah that's right, thanks to the dark magic that enables my shift, the flame breath I've been granted is imbued with a large portion of my own magic but doesn't really hinder me in any way.

I was going to offer up my argument when I felt a sharp pain emanating from my right leg. I looked to it to see that the other timberwolf had latched onto it and leaving the giant one to its own devices. I let a smile on my face when I came up with an idea to help me enjoy this a little more as I reared back the leg with a timberwolf attachment and launched it towards the gut of the other one, sending them both flying in the air. I look to the bite marks on my leg to see that the wounds had already been patched up; I move towards the last two victims of today as I called upon my flames yet again, spewing them out once I felt that they had reached optimal temperatures, and instantly incinerating them like the first.

"Well that was fun but I think I should probably go out and hunt me down some lunch." I turned towards the forest and was going to head in, but I saw the trapped timberwolf that had given up struggling and looked like it was accepting its fate. I walked over to it, kneeling down when I was right beside it, and looked it up and down.

"What are you going to do to it DarkHeart?" I heard Fluttershy ask, her face barely within my sights. She looked concerned for the creature that I secured here.

"I'm not sure, I kinda feel like killing it would just be cruel at this point and I know it wouldn't dare attack if I let it go, but I feel like that I maybe I would be dooming to a slow and painful death with the injury to its leg, especially if that was its entire pack then it definitely wouldn't stand a chance." I sighed as I scratched my head looking for answers.

"Why don't you keep it?" Nova asked.

"What, are you crazy, I couldn't keep it. Odds are I wouldn't be able to, it would probably bailout as soon I take Cursed out of its leg , despite whatever pain it may feel.Plus with no home, or even an basic understanding for its diet how would I keep it fed without going and slaughtering every animal I see, I just think this is a-" Before I could continue Pinkie Pie interrupted me as she just burst out of the ground wearing a miner's helmet, and the light shining directly in my face.

"Damnit Pinkie. . . . turn off that damn light, you're gonna make me go blind!" I yelled out trying to keep the offense light out of my eyes.

"Oopsie, sorry about that Dark Heart." She said as she turned off the head lamp.

"Thank you, now mind telling me why you're bursting out of the ground and attempting to blind me in the first place?" I asked blinking away the spots that were left in my vision.

Oh. . I just wanted to say that I think it would be a great idea if you kept a timberwolf as a pet." She said as bubbly as ever.

I raised an eyebrow "Really?" I asked skeptically to which she simply nodded her head.

I let out a chuckle at her answer, but not because I thought she was being ridiculous for saying that I should this timberwolf, but because I was actually going to agree with her. Though judging by the confused look on her face she didn't get at the same conclusion I had.

"So you really think I would should keep a timberwolf as a pet, even knowing how dangerous they are?" I had to ask again to see if she would still say yes after my seemingly unsettling chuckling.

"W-well yeah. . . . they might be dangerous but it seems like that they are scared of you just as much as we were yesterday after we found out you were carnivorous. I think you would be able to train it to not be so mean, even if it does need to eat meat to be healthy." Wow. . . just wow I seriously can't believe she manage to say all of that without hesitation, I guess she's being genuine, and she's making me believe that I should keep this timberwolf but first.

"So tell me girls. . . do still want to be friends with a creature such as myself, or would you rather you to not have anything to do with me and want to leave because if you do I could and will leave if that is the case and we'll probably never see each other again." I asked with my back turned to the rest of them. I got up and turned to face them, to show them that I wouldn't have any hard feelings towards them should they decide they want me to go.

I was waiting for longer than I thought would be enough time to came to a decision so I decided to give my attention back to the lone timberwolf that was still here, or more specifically its leg that my katana was still lodged into. I gingerly tugged on Cursed and was met with pained howls from the helpless creature. I had to admit I was feeling a little guilty for doing this to it.

"I'm going to remove my sword from your leg, okay, so don't move around too much." I said while I petted its head to try and calm it down. I kept petting for a couple of minutes before I felt it start to relax, I looked into it's eyes and saw that it was scared but that it also trusted me and I made sure that it didn't doubt me with a warm smile.

I reached out to Cursed but as soon as I wrapped my hand around its handle I heard the timberwolf whimpering. "Don't worry I'll try to be quick and gentle so that it will hurt less, but unfortunately it is still going to hurt, just try and strong and it'll be over before you know it." I said soothingly, just before put a strong grip on Cursed on yanked it with all of my might so as keep my promise and make sure that it didn't hurt too badly though that didn't stop it from yelping.

I have to say that saying that what happened next shocked me but that would be an understatement. The moment right after it yelped, the timberwolf lurched towards me and stuck its head right into my lap and pawing at my stomach, almost like it wanted me to comfort it and eb the pain away. Its reaction may have shocked me but doesn't mean that I wasn't going to fix what I had done and so I wrapped my arms around its torso and pulled it up closer to chest, cradling the injured creature almost as if it were a small child.

"I'm so sorry that I did this to you, and if you stick around, I'll make it up to you." I said as I stroked its back.

"You know this timberwolf is girl right?" I heard Pinkie say.

I looked up at her with a raised eyebrow as she almost seemed to not care what kind of scenario we're in right now.

"No. . . no I did not Pinkie, thanks, but shouldn't you be over there with your friends trying to decide on whether you girls want to have me around or not?" As soon as I finished I heard her start giggling and again I was seriously questioning the intelligence, and the sanity, of this mare.

"Why you think something like that." I was about to say something but she continued on."I would have thought me being here would be all the answer you needed to know that I want you to stay here."

"But aren't you scared of me?" I immediately asked without even thinking.

"Well maybe a little but I can over that. I can see that you're a really nice pony and that you don't like hurting others as much as you let on, but you still do it anyway that we're scared of you so that nopony will try to hurt the ones you care about." For a hyperactive ball of joy she sure can be sagey sometimes and I could only imagine how her friends must be whenever she does this kind of stuff.

"You know you sure are a strange one Pinkie Pie, but I would imagine that just about everything you said is true. I do whatever it takes to protect anypony that I care about, both my family and, if I had any, my friends. The best way that I've found to do that is by the thing that others should be of in the dark, the monster under their bed as of sorts, but it gets the job done." I told her, not really caring what she may say to that.

"Ah think it may get the job done a little too well, that's the problem that ya need to understand." Applejack said she came around in front of me with the rest of the girls.

"Believe me, I perfectly understand that but tell me would you have me act any other way considering all the danger that I've faced. You do remember yesterday right, with Spirit, it's because of crap like that is why I must remain like this otherwise I risk those very creatures going after the ones I love and care about. I would rather appear to be a major asshole to everypony and have them despise me than have them get captured by any enemies I make in the future and that reigns true even now for all I know Spirit could be watching us, or he has a laky doing for him." I explain this all to them because I couldn't, in good consciousness, let them believe that it was okay to be around. I needed them to know of the dangers of being around me.

"It sounds like you think that we can't take care of ourselves in dangerous situations, like we're just helpless mares who can't fight." Rainbow Dash said accusingly.

"Compared to me, you are, to everypony else probably not so much." I replied jokingly, though they didn't seem as amused at it as I was. "What?"

The only response I got was a scowl from four of the six mares that were in front of me. I didn't say anything to apologize and instead looked to the timberwolf that was laying on my lap. "So girl, you think you feel strong enough to walk on your own?" I watched as she tried to stand up, only to see her collapse back onto my leg. "So I take that as a no then *sigh* alright then I guess I'm going to have to carry you then." But as I went to pick up the timberwolf, a pair of orange hands nabbed her before I could.

"I think ah'm gonna carry her over to Flutter's. That is unless Mr. Stallion here thinks that I'm to weak and girly to do that." Applejack jeered.

"Wow I think you might have pissed her off there Dark Heart, and by the looks of it, she's not the only one." Shadow mocked.

"Don't you think I know that you fucking moron, I do have eyes after all." I retorted back.

"Yeah you do, but not much of a brain." I could hear him holding back his laughter as he spoke.

"What are you talking about, and what the hell is so funny?" I asked him, somewhat irritably.

"Uh Dark Heart, you do realize that you're saying all of this out loud, right?" Nova pointed out to me, and as she did I looked to the girls and saw that they were all looking at me with bewilderment, even the timberwolf was staring at me like I had just grown a second head.

Actually would I be able to regrow my limbs with my dark magic, I mean I know I can regenerate certain parts of my body like I did yesterday after I had intercepted that spear from that prick Spirit, but would I actually be able to regrow my an entire like my arms or legs. Guess I'll find out should that situation ever arise." I thought to myself while the others were already on their way towards Fluttershy's house, in fact they were well out of my sights by the time I came back from my thoughts and saw that nopony was nearby.

"Where the hell did everypony go?" I asked to pony in particular.

"They left while you were off in lala land there bud." Shadow insulted.

"I wasn't 'off in lala land' jackass, I was thinking about a legitimate problem that could arise in the future." I snapped back.

"It doesn't matter what you were doing you just need to go catch up with them." Nova cut into our conversation before the two of us could start an argument, that will most likely turn into several arguments about other things and last the rest of the day. (Because lets face it the three of us got nothing better to do outside of fighting, or training, besides argue with each other like a dysfunctional married couple, except there's three of us in it instead of just two.)

"Alright, but which way did they go cause I got no fucking idea." I asked, and could have sworn I heard one of them facepalm right afterwards.

"You fucking moron, if you had been paying attention you would have seen that they went down the path to your left, along the borders of this stupid fucking forest!" Wow, just wow, Shadow sounded piss, well more pissed than usual I wonder why.

"What the fuck went up your skirt and died. . . . is it your time of the month again?" I asked while I started down the path he was referring to. Though I didn't get the response I was trying to get out of him.

"I don't what it is but something those mares rubs me the wrong way." Hm, now that is rather curious, especially considering that we just met them yesterday and had been fine with them up until now.

"Well they haven't really done anything but be nice, and terrified, of us, or Dark Heart at least, even when he keeps digging a bigger hole for them to jump into and beat him, so what could they have possibly done to get you so angry at them all of sudden?" Nova asked him.

"I already said I don't know. I would say that it's because they're being too nice but then I would have felt this way back at the castle or on the train and considering I was still in good mood just a few moments ago before they left I doubt that that's the case." Just a few moments before they left, . . . wait a minute.

"You're right, it's not the fact that they're too nice, but I think what is making you angry," I said, Shadow sounded like he was going to say something but I continued on before he could say anything. "You said that you were in a good mood before they left right?" I asked.

"Yeah, but what are y-" He started to say before I cut him off.

"And you watched them as they did?" I asked him another question already knowing the answer.

"Well yeah, we both did. I wanted to make sure you know which way to go so that we could watch over that timberwolf. I mean I do like the idea of keeping her by our side as pet and it would make you, us, look even more of a badass in the eyes' of other ponies, but what does that have to do with why I'm so angry all of sudden?" I rolled my eyes at the part about 'us' looking like a badass if I keep the timberwolf but I quickly put a serious face after he asked his question.

"Well what I'm thinking is that you felt so angry because something you want is being taken from you and you can't do anything about, with you being stuck in my body and having no control and all that mess, which must have brought up the anger you felt when you were sealed back into my mind after you tried to takeover and that's why you're so fucking pissy now." I stated as though as was an expert on this kind of crap, which I might be all things considering.

"Well . . . that actually sounds like a legitimate theory to my sudden mood swing. That's rather impressive, especially considering that it's coming from you." Well it sounds as though we got him out of his little funk temporarily.

I decided to let him have his moment and not give any rebuttal, mostly because he's kinda right, I'm not exactly the type of pony that can really understand what causes the emotions others feel just that I'm able to pick up on them, but that doesn't matter at the moment, what does matter though is that I make on over to Flutter's and check up on the timberwolf.

"You know you should probably come up with a name for her if you're going to keep her so that you aren't calling 'timberwolf' all the time." Nova pointed out to me.

"Yeah I know but I'm not sure what I should call her. I want to call her by something that would do her some justice, plus I'm not that good with picking out names for animals anyway." Which is the nice way of putting it, but in all reality I'm just straight up terrible when coming up with names. So bad in fact, that I have had to use a memory eraser spell to forgot them and even then they still linger, and it's not because I fucked up the spell, which I didn't.

"Why don't you tell her the names you have picked out and see what she likes instead of turning it into one of your observational research bullshit that you use to figure a ponies emotional status." Shadow offered up his suggestion.

"You know that actually sound likes a good idea, and definitely sounds easier than picking out a name that'll have her bite me every time I call her by it. Oh, and by the way, don't fucking ridicule the way I go about getting into a pony's head. My observational research has saved me a lot of hassle from trying to find ways to have the right ponies misplace their trust in me and gotten to the bottom of things. So you sir can go suck a fat one." I argued which is really no surprise to any of us by now.

I walked down the path in silence, none of us were saying a thing not even those two morons bickering at each like usual, and just enjoyed the scenery before me. Man is Fluttershy lucky to live somewhere with this kind of view. I thought to myself as I saw a small cottage come into view just ways away with rainbow-colored hair in front of a window and blocking the view inside.

Looks like a found her home and none of them have left. I wonder if they're still mad at me for my unintentional jab at their pride in being a mare. I wondered as I was just a few feet away from the door but stopped when I heard Rainbow Dash say . . something . . . . something that that I thought I would never hear from any pony ever again.

"I know that this is fucked up but I kinda wish that Dark Heart wasn't born."