“1,985 bottles of beer on the wall, 1,985 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 1,984 bottles of beer on the wall~”

I sang the beer song for the… Two-hundredth time since my imprisonment in stone from the last… what four thousand years? Anyway, I'm stuck here for as a statue in a cave under the old castle and let me tell you that being a piece of rock kinda sucks. One of the issues is that it's so boring, I already went through all my adventures that I have done so now I'm singing songs to pass the time. You know after being a statue for a long time would have made me insane huh, well after what I have seen all the nightmares I had to deal with I believed that I already lost my sanity, hell I didn’t think I had one, to begin with.

Oh, you don’t know who I am, I apologize about that. My name is Jace Belaguard, you may know me as the Hunter of Ash, the kingslayer or just The Hunter. But I used to be known by a different name Nick Smith, and I use to live a normal life until I went to Pax Prime. Just to keep this short I met someone that looked like the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 and offered me a deal for some Bloodborne weapons and I took them and then I got sent to the Land of Equestria from the show My little Pony, Friendship is Magic, yes I know of the show and it’s enjoyable, but there’s a lot of differences to this place than the show.

For one they are humans instead of ponies or anthro ponies and there’s are monsters from the games Bloodborne and I was fighting them for a very long time. I don’t know where I am in the story line but a few years back I felt a dark magic pulse coming from above me so I guess that would mean that was Nightmare Moon… I wonder how those two are doing? Tia and Lu I mean.

Now that I’m still stuck at a statue it’s time to go back to what I was doing, now where was I… oh yes.

“1,984 bottles of beer on the wall,1,9845 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 1,983 bottles of beer on the wall~”

Twilight

“Run Spike! They are gaining on us!” I yelled as I ran for dear life. We ran from Fairgate into the Everfree from the Plunder vines, at times Spike will blast them with his flames but they kept coming.

“They just don’t quit!” Spike yelled as he sprinted forward. I had to dodge or teleport through some trees just to keep ahead but I was running out of breath.

“I need… to… work out… some more.” I panted as I pushed my legs to run further.

“Twilight I see light up ahead! I seeEEEEEEEE-!” I heard Spike yell out and before I could look where I was going I stepped out of the trees and saw that there was no ground. I blinked a few times as I saw some birds flew by.

“AHHHHHHH!” I screamed as I fell down. Luckily my landing was soft, kind of. “Oww, what did I land on?”

“Vat vould mee by ead.” I heard someone talk under me. I looked down and saw Spike under me. I quickly got off him as he pushed off the ground and spat out dirt. I looked up to see the vines are coming down from the cliff and heading toward us. I looked around and saw a cave.

“Spike in here!” I said as I pulled him off the ground and we both enter the cave. We headed into the cave to get some distance out of them.

“Hey Twilight, their not following us,” Spike said as he looked behind. I stopped and looked back. It was true they were at the entrance of the cave, what’s more, weird is that they look… afraid to come in.

“What’s wrong you overgrown plant, to scared to come in and get us!” Spike yelled as he threw fire at them.

“Spike, I don’t think antagonizing them is going to help, also I think they're either scared of this place or…” I looked down the pitch black cave. “They're scared of something in here.”

Spike gulped at the thought. I looked around the place but the only way back where we came from and deeper in the cave.

“I think there’s maybe an exit deeper in the cave, let’s hope there’s is one,” I said.

“If not maybe we are gone long enough for the plants to get bored and leave,” Spike said to me. I smiled and we head deeper into the cave.

As we head down into the cave Spike found an old lantern that still works when he lit it. It shines brightly as we walked.

As we walked I thought back at what the rest of my friends said to me. They only saw me as a princess and not as a friend that knew them for three years.

“Twi, are you ok?” Spike asked me. I looked at him and gave him a small smile.

“I'm fine, just a lot has happened.” well it wasn't a lie but it's not the full truth. He came up to me and give me a hug. Before I turned into an alicorn Spike was a little bigger than me two years ago since one of the reasons that he didn't grow because he wasn't eating everything thing he needed.

"Don't worry sis, everything is going to be ok.” He told me “We just need to find an exit and then we-”

"STOP!!” I heard someone yell out. We both stopped where we are and looked around. We didn’t see anyone here. “Don’t take another step!”

“Wh-who are you? What do you mean?” I asked out.

“Look down.” The voice said. I looked down at the ground and with the light from the lantern, I saw a trail of ants right where I was about to step.

“Ants?” Spike said.

“Yes ants, they're the only company I have since I was stuck here. Oh, look! One of them has a leaf!” The voice said. I looked around to see where this voice is coming from.

“Who are you, where are you?” I asked the voice.

“Who I am is not important, where I am well taking a few steps forward and you will see. Don’t step on the ants!” The voice said. I looked at Spike and we stepped over the ants and walked forward. I saw crates and weapons all over the place and right at the back of the room what I saw was a statue of a being. We walked up to it and I got the feeling that’s it’s looking at us.

“Oh look, my old lantern I was wondering where I put it.” The statue said. I looked at Spike and back at the statue.

“You're… a talking statue.” Spike said to it.

“Yes I am and you’re a talking purple and green lizard.” The statue said to him.

“Hey! I’m a dragon!” Spike argued.

“They are also talking lizards.” The statue replied. Spike crossed his arms and huffed a bit. I took a step closer to the statue.

“Why are you here?” I asked him.

“Hmm… honestly, I don’t remember, it been so long since I was imprisoned that I might have forgotten.” The statue said.

“Well my name is Twilight Sparkle,”

“Princess Twilight Sparkle,” Spike commented. I glared at him.

“Princess you say, well I would greet you properly but as you can see I can’t I’m stuck in a rock and a hard place.” The statue said as he started to laugh at his own joke.

“That was terrible,” Spike said to the statue.

“Anyway, do you have a name?” I asked.

“Hmm… well since I’m a statue you can call me… Hunter.” The statue said. I stopped and thought about it, Hunter, where have I heard that before?

“Alright Hunter, is there any other way out of here other than the way we came?” I asked. Hunter didn’t say anything for a couple moments as he thought.

“I believe there’s a hidden door on the left side, your right side, the wall that leads to the great tree.” He said. I went over to the wall and started to check the wall. Sure enough, there was a rune there, I put my hand on it and felt the magic activate and a door opened beside me. I heard Hunter chuckled a bit. “My sister loved secrets and hidden passageways, she installed them all over just for the hell of it.”

“Thank you for the help,” I said to him.

“It’s my pleasure, dear princess.” Hunter said. I eyed him for a second then headed into the passageway with Spike. After some time walking I started to hear voices coming from ahead.

“Well it was your idea to send her home Applejack!” I heard Rainbow yell.

“We all agreed that it was for the best, it was to protect her.” Applejack retorted. Me and Spike came to an opening and saw the Tree of Harmony being wrapped around by the plunder vines, also the fact that the cave was huge.

“Well let's just say that we had good intentions but I do have to say we might need Twilight for this.” Rarity said to them. I heard Applejack sighed.

“Ah thought sending her back home would be the best but-” She was cut off when the ground shook. They all looked around to see where it was coming from. “WHAT IN TARNATIONS IS THAT!”

I looked at where Applejack was looking at and my eyes widen at what I saw.

(Curse-Rotted Greatwood)

It was a living tree that was walking towards the Tree of Harmony, it had plunder vines all over it. In the blink of an eye, I saw the vines shot out and grabbed each of my friends. Fluttershy and Rarity screamed. Applejack and Rainbow tried to break free but couldn’t.

“Twilight look out!” Spike yelled as he pushed me. I was knocked to the ground and looked up to see Spike, my adopted little brother gets grabbed and pulled into the air. I screamed at him and saw the vines coming towards me. I panicked and scrambled to my feet and ran down the passageway.

I ran as fast as I could back to the room with the statue, as I came in I fell to my knees and started to cry. I just watched my friends and brother get taken away from me and I can’t do anything but run away.

“Twilight? What’s wrong?” I heard the voice of Hunter asked me. I looked at him with tears in my eyes.

“M-my friends have been taking from me by… by a walking tree.” I told him.

“A walking tree? Tell me what did it look like?” he asked. I wiped my tears away and described the tree to him. After I was done I heard him curse a bit.

“The Curse-Rotted Greatwood, I thought I took care of it back then, listen Twilight I wish I could help but I’m stuck here there’s nothing I can do.” He told me. I looked at for a moment then around the room, I saw weapons lying around. I got up and went over to them and started to pick them up. “What are you doing?”

“I’m going to save my friends,” I told him as I picked up an axe.

“This is a very bad idea.” Hunter stated. I frowned at him.

“Look my friends and little brother are going to die, I’m not going to sit here and let them die,” I told him.

“No, I mean it’s a bad idea since you have no idea how to use that.” Hunter said.

“It can’t be that hard, you swing it around and try to hit something with it, what’s more, difficult than tha-” I moved my hand over some button and pressed it. It made the axe extended quickly. I yelped as it happened and the axe swung down into some crates.

“Told you.” He said. I glared at him and was going to say something until I heard something fell onto the ground, it sounded like a bell. I looked over and saw a small bell on the ground in front of me.

I stared at it for a moment, I felt the energy coming off it that I never felt before. It felt old very old.

“Twilight, do you want to save your friends?” Hunter asked me. I stared at the statue as his tone changed. “Well do you?”

“Of course, I do.”

“Well take that bell and ring it.” I blinked at him and looked at the small bell. How can a bell help?

“I… I don’t understand, how can a bell-”

“Twilight just shut up and ring the damn bell, lives are on the line!” He yelled at me. I blinked at him and looked at the bell again. I then picked the bell up and looked at it, it looked like a simple bell.

“I hope this works,” I said as I rang the bell. It made an echoing rang that bounced around the room. At first, nothing happened but after a minute, I heard it. The sound of something cracking. I turned to ask where that sound was coming from but the statue exploded. I covered my eyes so that the dust that was blown away from the explosion. I opened my eyes to see the axe in front of me and someone standing over it. I saw a clawed hand reached down and pick it up and set it on his shoulder. I looked him and saw that his face is covered up with a hat and facemask. All I could see is his eyes, they were dark blue.

“Well Twilight, it looked like it worked.”

Jace

I took a moment to stretch and move around a bit to see if anything is asleep. After that was done I started to look through the crates to see if I have anything to help in this fight. Out of all the weapons that are in somewhat good condition, there were three, the Hunter’s axe, the saw cleaver, and the Threaded cane. I frowned at this, a rifle spear would be nice but mine is back at the workshop. I went with the cane, had to go with the classics.

Next, I went to see if I could find a firearm of sorts. Sadly I couldn't find any and if I did I couldn't find any ammunition, I did find some firebombs so that’s something. I even found some fire paper, against a being like a giant tree zombie would be handy.

I turned to Twilight as she watched me and I gave her a nod saying that I was ready. We both headed into the passageway, after a few minutes we came to the room of the great tree. I looked over to the Rotten one and saw the vines that hold the rest of the mane six and Spike who was trying to blast the vines with his fire.

“Alright here’s the plan, I’m going to go down there and deal with that thing and you are going to stay here and-” I got cut off by Twilight.

“What no, I’m not going to sit here and watch, they are my friends and I want to save them, I may be a princess but I don’t want others to protect me because of it.” She told me.

“You didn’t let me finish, I want you to stay here and if you get any change start blasting the Rotten tree and it’s vines, also the catch your friends,” I replied. She just stared at me for a moment.

“Oh… wait what do you mean by-” I stood up and walked back a bit and stopped as I moved to the sides a bit to get the angle right. I flicked my wrist to make the cane transform to its second form when I did I sprinted forward and jumped into the room. I was heading towards the tree, I swung the whip at one of the arms of the tree and ride it Indiana Jones style. I landed on the ground in front of the Rotten wood and the other tree and looked at the Rotten wood. Taking the cane and hitting the butt end on the ground to make go back to its first form, I look at the monster I smiled a bit.

"Let’s start this hunt shall we." I said to it. It responded by trying to crush me with its foot. I dashed to the right of it and swiped at one of the boils on its legs. It took me two swings to make it burst, eww. I jumped back as it tried to slam at me with it’s… hand? I could never tell if it’s a hand or another foot. I moved around the back of the tree to get to its other boils as it started to shake. I looked up to see orbs starting to fall I had to move quickly to dodge the acid filled orbs.

Luckily I dodge all of them but it have me ended up in front of it as it swiped at me. I didn’t have time to dodge it so I braced myself. I got sent into a wall which knocked the air out of me. I blinked a few times and shook my head.

“I’m out of practice,” I muttered as I stood up. I grip my cane and flicked my wrist, I took one of the fire papers and rubbed it on the cane it set it ablaze. “Let’s see if you like this.”

I went to one of the other boils and saw that it was on one of its arms, it is a hand! I swiped at the boil and set that ablaze. I hear it scream which made me smile as I went after the other two which didn’t last long. Now that those are done I can deal with the ones in front of it. As I got there it tried to squash me but again I dodged it and went back into tearing at it.

As I saw doing that it started to lift up from the ground. Looking up I saw what it was doing.

“Oh for fuck sakes,” I said as I dashed away from it, it slammed back down spraying acid all over. If I keep my distance the acid will dissipate and go to a non-lethal state but what won't stop would be the smell. Lucky I have my mask enchanted to block all bad odors, I can't say the same for the others.

“Oh, Celestia that's dreadful!”

“Oh… my…”

“I think my going to be sick…”

“And ah thought the pig pens smelled bad.”

“HURL!!!!”

“Ahh! Pinkie, not on me!”

“Ugh… sorry Spike.”

I looked at the acid and saw that it was going to its safe state so I took another fire paper and went back at it. It took a few tries and some dashes to get out of harm's way but I got the last boil, now for round two. The front of the tree opened up and a giant arm comes out of it, I also saw the vines move to a more aggressive state. The ones that were holding the others let them go and sent them falling, luckily a purple aura went around them and moved them to just outside of the cave.

With them out of the way I can do some real damage to it. I jammed the cane into the ground and started to pull out the fire bombs. I lit one of them and throw it at the arm, I watched it hit the arm and bounced off, I looked at the other one in my hand and saw that the fuse wasn’t there. I cursed as the arm tried to hit me. I dashed around the attacks that it did plus the vines that were striking at me. Looking around I saw my cane and had a dumb idea, rushing for it I rolled into it to dodge a vine. I took it and set it to the second from and saw flames coming off it. I took all of my firebombs and threw them at the tree and swung the whip at one of the bombs.

It caused the bomb to explode which spread to the other which caused the space above me to fill with fire and burning plants. The Rotten Greatwood took some steps back and groaned in pain. I took the cane with my left hand and focus on my right. I felt my magic building up as sparks of electricity came off my clawed hand. I grip down on it which made a spear of lightning, I looked at the Greatwood and aimed.

“Eat This!!” I yelled as I threw the spear at it. Have you seen a lightning bolt hitting a tree? Well imagine that but a hundred times stronger. The spear hit the Greatwood and went right thru it, if trees could scream in pain I think it would be a low growling sound since that what it was doing. I watched it slowly turn into dust and felt the souls come into me, or is it blood echoes? I turned and saw the others come into the cave, I then saw a cyan blur that came right up to me.

“That. was. AWESOME!” Rainbow yelled in my face.

“Yeah! The giant tree monster was all like ‘Grr I’m a giant tree monster’ and you were like ‘Hiya! Whaa! Fire whip!’” Pinkie said as she was doing action movies, which were in my personal space which Rainbow was also was as well. I put two fingers on each of their heads and pushed them back.

“Personal space please,” I told them. I saw Fluttershy and Spike trying to get Twilight down as Applejack was standing away from the group, she didn’t look happy. I saw Rarity tying a bandana on to keep the acid smell, I guess she has perfume or something. I looked back at the Tree of Harmony and saw that the lightning spear missed it just by foot to the right, whoops.

“So now that over with, what now?” Twilight asked.

“I don’t know, we have to cure the Tree of Harmony but how do we do that?” Fluttershy said. I looked at the tree for a moment.

“Do you have any idea mister?” Pinkie said. I eyed her for a moment and thought on my answer.

“No.” I lied to her. I saw Aj looked at me and frowned, if I was anyone else she would have known that I was lying but I was a hunter, I lied to a lot of people so I got really good at it. I then turned and started to walk out of the cave.

“Wait where are you going, Hunter?” Twilight asked.

“I been a statue for who know’s how long so I want to go and look around, I know you can figure out how to save the tree,” I said to her as I walked out of the cave and out of earshot. “And to see an old friend.”

I walked through the forest at a brisk pace, this place used to be known as the forbidden woods and some other names but I liked the name Everfree, it has a nice ring to it. After navigating through the place I finally found the town Fairgate, I frowned a bit as it reminds me of the one place that used to be here but that’s the dream now, Neb saw to that.

I walked over to a tree and looked into town and saw Discord laying on a pink cloud, I frowned at this remembering the fights and contests we had back then. I took out a pebble that I had in my pocket and started to walk towards him. I looked down at the pebble, these things creep me out sometimes.

I walked slowly behind him being as quiet as I can, I got about three feet from him and again frowned. I took the pebble and flung it at him, it hit right in the back of his head.

“Ow! What was that?” He yelled as the pebble floated up to his hand. “A pebble? Why would anyone throw a pebble at me?”

“If you still had your skills from back then you could of dodge that,” I said to him. He froze for a second then got off his cloud and turned to me. He blinked at me for a few times.

“Jace? Is that really you?” He asked me.

“It is old friend looks like you're not crazy anymore,” I told him with a smile. He frowned a bit and rubbed his lion arm.

“It been so long yet you still treat me as a friend after all I did, I almost killed you.” He told me.

“It’s in the past and you were under the hunters bloodlust but now you’re better,” I reassured him. He looked at me and smiled.

“Jace It’s good to see you again.” He said.

“It’s good to see you too Gascoigne, it’s good to see you too.”

Author's Notes:

New revamped story :)

If I missed something and an error that I missed.

Oh! and for those who are wondering about what he's wearing, here you go:

see you all in the next chapter :)