7th July, 485 BNM

Early Morning

Indo-Burmese sub-continent

Megheleya Provincial Kingdom lands

Malabutu Valley Jungle

Temple Ruins, Central Chamber

The sight finally grew, and at long last, Siral knew he was not dreaming for certain. The pain in his vine restraints told that enough.

Unknowingly, Siral had been unconscious for over 24 hours, though what he saw as flashes of more vivid dreams were in fact times he was awoken for sustenance, force fed by strange, orange eyed, wood skinned creatures.

The Overlord did not wish this Unicorn to die of dehydration or hunger while he probed his unconscious mind.

All around him, he saw the dank, green moss and vine covered stone, and a few collapsed corridors leading off, with one intact corridor off to the side of the chamber's centre. He was bound by the torso atop of what looked like a former alter table, in the middle of the chamber.

A ray of bright morning sun slivered through part of the roof openings, the roof itself 4 triangular sides arching up to form a pyramid shaped top.

His groans echoed as he tried to break from his bindings, made of thick, mossy vines. As he tried to use his magic, he found the vines seemed to tighten in response, forcing him to stop suddenly so he could still breathe:

"I have had it with my magic being restrained!"

His protest echoed through the temple, and in response, a breeze seemed to pick up all of a sudden through the temple. Walking methodically through the only non-collapsed corridor, a group of 4 of the creatures, like lanky apes covered in rotting wood skin fragments and mottled fur locks from their arms and shoulders, entered the chamber. The 4 sets of fiery orange eyes silenced Siral for the moment, though in the faint morning light streaming in, he at least could look at them better so as to not be so fearful.

Then, instead of clawed footsteps, hoofsteps of all things, echoed from the hallway, right as the 4 creatures bowed slightly as they backed away. Even higher up, some smaller creatures Siral only just noticed stared down from the sun soaked openings in the ceiling.

Striding through, hooves slightly chipped but still whole, a lanky pony emerged. The orange glow from both its eyes, and a longer than normal Unicorn horn, formed a trifecta of burning lights coming from this equine.

But on this equine, a regal cloak had been formed, a poisonous green velvet like cloak that did not quite mask what lay beneath. On the large pony's back was a set of unusually large Pegasus wings.

Siral was silent as he saw the Alicorn, with both orange eyes and magic, and a sandy brown coat covered in what looked like light green painted markings akin to tattoos.

As the Alicorn quietly walked up to the alter where Siral lay bound, he was clearly regarding Siral with a look of both interest, and amusement.

Stopping short, off to Siral's side, the Alicorn asked as if it was an innocent question:

"Hello Siral. Do you like my home?"

"How do you know my name?" Siral nearly barked, and this caused the Alicorn to give an innocent shrug, before he began to pace in a circle around the alter he was bound to, like a predator circling a wounded animal:

"It's easy to learn a lot about someone when you read their mind. Even easier to read their mind as they're not awake. You have been through a lot it seems. Time travel, finding these exemplary beings that conform to that prophecy Starswirl the Bearded was told, letting them, and this is amusing, be set an example somehow."

The Alicorn gave a derisive chuckle as he continued to circle the alter, while Siral turned his head, the black unicorn always following the sandy brown Alicorn where he went, unable to escape his bonds. Siral remarked with some mild insult:

"You find what I and Starswirl were on amusing?"

"Starswirl? No, he was the one who got the prophecy. I find it amusing that YOU tagged along with him, out of what can simply be described as, curiosity, and a desire to not let Starswirl get too big for his boots."

"No, I wished to help my friend." Siral denied, to which the Alicorn gave him a truly annoyed look, remarking bluntly:

"We are in my domain; I have no reason to lie about what I saw in your mind. And if you're going to deny it, try and put some effort behind your lies."

"You still haven't told me who YOU are, so why should I tell you anything you want?" Siral remarked, straining only slightly against the vine bonds. Raising an eyebrow, the Alicorn remarked bluntly:

"You already know my name, my old name and my current one, following me simply trying to get out from under the controlling hooves of those Oracles. I exceeded them the moment I became an Alicorn."

Wracking his mind, Siral reached one name he'd read on the archive scrolls, of the emergence of the Alicorn in Equestria during their travels. Of one who rebelled:

"Geldrath."

"And now we are acquainted. Though from what I gather in my domain, many in the valley simply call me the Overlord." Geldrath remarked, revelling in the status he had as a mysterious ruler of the Malabutu valley, the leader of the orange eyed creatures. As he walked, Geldrath offhandedly began to pace around the alter again:

"Yes, a much less constraining life than I once had. 64 years since I left Equestria, 64 years since I gained my freedom. Those blind, inward focusing fools, the Oracle, their aides, all of them. They refined their power, never shared or used it. The Wizards and Mages at least were willing to use their power, in service to the Alicorn noble families that emerged. I wanted to simply be the leader of the Oracles, keep them independent, and all it would take was a more active expansion of the power of the Oracle guild. But instead, they saw me as a power monger."

"Yes, I heard they punished you harshly. I heard your new name was partly inspired by the fact that they gelded you as punishment, in hopes of settling you down." Siral remarked, not at all hiding the contemptuous humor in his voice. The castrated Alicorn stallion turned to offer a very suppressed glare at Siral, at which the Black Unicorn then gulped as the vine bindings tightened ever so slightly with a slight orange glow from Geldrath's horn.

"A failed, but shaming punishment. I wasn't going to stand by, they made their point of being too self-obsessed. Let their power stagnate as the Alicorn noble families gain in power. I had this power, I knew that, as has already happened, the Oracle Guild was forced to disband, their counsel being less and less used as the Alicorns gained Oracles of their own through a handful of the Wizards, Mages and other magic users that served their miniature, play-kingdoms."

As Geldrath finished, Siral soaked this in. The Oracles, the ones that set Starswirl on his path which Siral followed, were gone, disbanded in their guild or dead by age. But Geldrath finished:

"I saw the future that even the Oracles could not, my own actions knowing my power alone should have shown them. I wished to use my power to ensure the Oracle guild would not fall to emerging greater powers, but they refused to listen, and so why not let them fade? I endure while they have fallen, as of 25 years ago. And now only the Alicorn noble families and their own kingdoms remain. Even if one family is of true Royal blood, the fact is that the growing power of each and every province in Equestria, with Alicorns as their leadership, will come to blows. Power corrupts after all, I myself just happen to be aware of this, which protects me from its enticement compared to them."

"Yes, you being uncorrupted by power is clearly on show with this jungle, and those creatures you concocted." Siral remarked dryly. Geldrath shook his head as he tutted Siral, wandering over to one of the orange eyed, ape-like creatures.

"Don't be jealous Siral. They are my creations; a tribe of monkeys I grew to know upon my arrival here 54 years ago, after a decade of travelling, searching for a secluded place to make my domain. Within a year, I moulded them into an earlier form of what you see before you, made them better as time went on. Magically altered them into perfect servants, the fiercest of predators in the valley. The Cobra tribe that kept to themselves in the valley reminded me too much of the Oracle guild, so I displaced them. Only a few stalwart, wild ones remain, not a concern for me."

"And yet you hide in this valley, keeping to yourself like the Oracle guild did. Hypocritical, is it not?" Siral remarked, to which Geldrath merely shook his head, remarking:

"They were blind, and so maintained the status quo for themselves. I on the other hand, I am biding my time. When the Alicorn noble families come to blows when their collective power and influence grows, and they will, I will re-emerge with an army at my command, and as they weaken each other, I shall re-establish the Oracle Guild better than ever, under my rule, a true player in Equestria once again. I need only wait, as I have for 64 years already."

As the silence reigned in the temple room, and Geldrath began once again to walk over to the alter, Siral asked the obvious question:
"So why did you bring me here, read my mind?"

"A cunning mind gains any knowledge one can, particularly on Equestria, my country of interest. The moment I heard a pair of Equestrians, magic horned ones, were being sacrificed by those paranoid villagers to the beasts of the jungle, I had to intervene. I needed only one though, and you were the one still restrained by their glue sludge on your horn. I took the liberty of cleaning it off, but the vines will tighten and stop your magic, as you noticed."

Geldrath finished the statement as he came right up next to Siral, who couldn't help but be thrown off by the next words from Geldrath's mouth:

"Getting back to the topic of you however, I know you only came with Starswirl because you're an academic, and curious without morals holding you back. The lust to see what Starswirl would inevitably see on his travels through eras, and with no family or truly strong friend ties to hold you back in your time, the desire to tag along was too great. And already you have seen a great many things besides the exemplar beings."

Turning around, Geldrath said as he had his back turned to Siral: "The libraries of Romane's metropole, acquiring the vanished medallion of Ghung-Chian from that Sorcerer dragon in Pandina, while the exemplar of Magic, Hinai, unlocked, and taught you and Starswirl, self-teleportation. And yet, because you follow Starswirl, who is slave to the prophecy of these Exemplars, and the 7 beings to come as threats to Equestria, the world, you often do not linger to learn, to indulge, to master, what can be found in each era."

Siral wanted to say he was lying, but it was true. He said nothing, as they learned respectable amounts on each leg, but each time he felt that they could have afforded to stick around and take in knowledge and culture, and possibly magical refinement, before they moved on. Starswirl was slavish to the prophecy, while it was he, Siral, that looked beyond that scope.

"It must hurt, being a lackey, a follower, to the one you claim is your friend. If he was your friend, he'd have told you about the Prophecy in its entirety. About why he wished you hadn't come at first."

In Siral's head, he recalled the exclamation Starswirl had thrown at him when Siral pushed a little too hard for coming with him:

"My life is forfeit to this destiny, yours is still your own to decide! Don't throw it away by caving to your curiosity, form a life beyond the withdrawn one you already live! You can be involved in affairs as I am and still be as skilled as you already are!"

As if hearing this, Geldrath seemed to indulge in this doubt Siral was having, as with his horn, he began to write in orange letters in the air above Siral the Prophecy as he knew it, only missing the last line of the first half, as the warnings of the 7 beings to threaten Equestria and the world had their last line omitted, beyond Siral's knowledge.

"He is slave to the Prophecy, to the point where he didn't trust you coming with him, his closest friend. He trusts an Oracle's tale over you, to which he didn't tell you this line. By leaving you behind, he hoped to not let this part threaten his quest, as you continuing to be near him kept you close to his heart."

In brighter red letters among the orange, fiery text above the alter for Siral to see, the last line of the first half of the prophecy were revealed. The part Siral had never heard, the only part of the prophecy Siral had never been told.

Beware the enemies that lay closest to your heart, though not yet enemies they themselves may be.

Shaking his head, Siral growled: "Liar."

"As I said, this is my domain. I have no gainful reason to lie, and being in the Oracle Guild let me see records kept. I heard tales of you, spread among the Eastern Dragon clans of magicians by Hinai, so I knew Starswirl was out there, confirmed to be with you. And let me just say, the Oracles themselves were distressed you tagged along, it didn't conform to their wishes, as if they'd be willing to go out and actually do something about it."

At this, Geldrath openly laughed at the entire scenario, the laugh echoing through the temple.

Settling from his laughing spell, Geldrath then came to look at Siral with a degree of thought going on:

"But now, we have an impasse. Tell me, do you think Starswirl will come and try and save you? Or will he be obsessed with the Tiger that seems to have decided not to eat him? A protector in the jungle is a smart move I'll give him that."

Siral would have sat up at this, as Geldrath remarked: "Unlikely that it is the exemplar of honesty. This is a jungle, where everything is honest by nature, as all beasts are, if they are not eaten or dead that is."

"How do you know?"

"I am the Overlord. Not a twig falls in this valley without me sensing it. I have eyes and ears everywhere; my creatures there and elsewhere are merely more direct servants."

The 4 orange eyed apelike creatures creaked as their wood 'armor' shifted with their shuffling steps, while Siral then proclaimed boldly:

"You won't keep me here for long."

"Starswirl is slave to the prophecy, so if I told him that the Oracles interpreted you coming with him as they found out later, a threat, he may leave you willingly in my domain."

"He wouldn't!" Siral protested, to which Geldrath leant condescendingly over Siral's head, the Alicorn's ragged brown mane hanging slightly over the Black Unicorn's head.

"He already sees you as a potential danger, as the prophecy says a one close to his heart would be. How much closer than the one who travels with him through thick and thin, with no reason to come other than to help, and outperform him as a Wizard. Starswirl fears what you could become."

Geldrath then backed up slightly, remarking darkly: "I think he'd see leaving you in my care is for the best. He gets to travel alone as he wanted, and I get my way from it too."

"What do you want, even if that goes ahead!?" Siral remarked, straining against the vines, inadvertently using his magic, making them tighten slightly yet again.

"You should not have gone, and I myself agreed with the Oracles on that one count, among only a few in the end. Like the Alicorns, you two could become very powerful, and like all powerful beings, they come to blows as they seek to improve their power."

"As I said, I have goals to return and reclaim part of Equestria for a new, improved, progressive Oracle Guild. For that, I may as well not let what you gained in your unsanctioned travels go to waste."

Magically pulling out a silver medallion on a chain, imbued with a blue/grey crystal in the centre of the pendant, Geldrath gave a small smile: "Something you picked up for study in your time within Pandina, from a defeated Sorcerer. But, before anything else, I won't waste a good test subject on some new spells I have been practicing."

"No. I won't, ngghhh! You will regret this!" Siral gasped, as he felt the alter loudly creak and rumble, as the stone he was tied to rotated upwards, making his face standing up towards Geldrath, as the Alicorn pulled out a set of makeshift parchment scrolls of self-made spells.

"Some of these spells, the animals I caught for testing them did not survive. But, I'll ensure you do, I'll need you alive for when I use the medallion you picked up in your travels. I'm sure Starswirl will let what happens here go."

"You assume he'll just let you do this!?" Siral barked. Geldrath remarked offhandedly as he readied the first spell, whatever it was, on his glowing horn.

"He'll know you fell victim to the creatures, who merely kept you alive until now because they were curious. Not far from the truth. And this way, even if he is a loyal friend, we still both get what is probably for the best, for him, and me. It'll be too late for him to do anything by the time he gets here."

The orange spell fired from the Malabutu Overlord Alicorn's horn, and the temple vaguely lit up orange, the 4 ape-like creatures watching soundlessly as the upturned alter bound Unicorn was engulfed in light.

It was after a few seconds it began that the first of Siral's screams, mixed of pain and defiance, began to echo in the temple room, lost even if they echoed through the temple's sunlight inlets over the normal ambiance of the jungle outside.

Later that morning

7th July 485 BNM

Malabutu Valley, Chai's cavern

Despite his misgivings about sleeping in a cave that housed at least a dozen king Cobras, and a Python queen big enough where Starswirl thought she wouldn't eat him because he was not big enough to be worth a meal, he awoke the next morning ready to be off.

Besides, the jungle was most dangerous at night, even for a Tigress escort like Nahia, because the Demon creatures were most active then. Daylight was their ally.

And in any event, as Starswirl awoke, the few King Cobras that were awake gave pleasurable nods towards the Unicorn.

During the night stay, to pass time, they exchanged stories of their pasts or history and lore they knew. Starswirl told tales of Equestria, and of his travels in Romane, Pandina and Pahrii, not stating they were separated by decades.

The King Cobras in Chai's cave were stalwart descendants of those who resided in what was now the Overlord's temple, a monk like cult of Sun god worshiping snakes that lived alone in the Valley in peace.

That was 54 years ago, until an Alicorn of sand brown fur came, to learn, and settle. But soon after he appeared, a tribe of monkeys vanished, turned into those demon creatures by their transformations mutating and growing them in size and shape immensely. The King Cobra tribe didn't stand a chance, and the Cobras left the Valley, or if not killed, took shelter. Chai had been relatively young, but old enough to be of size worthy of intellect status among the Cobra tribe.

As she grew, her status among the Cobras did too, and she protected them in her territory as they did her. In a jungle Valley where the Demon creatures resided, predator conflict became much more frequent, meaning lines of territory became all the more important. The Demon creatures had been an impact on the valley where prey were rarer than they should be naturally.

Chai's influence was one of few sanctuaries that was reliably safe for its members, and in Starswirl and Nahia's cases, guest and acquaintance. Nahia was not the only case where Chai proved much more useful an ally and wise consultant than an enemy.

Outside the cavern, the light was beginning to grow brighter, and Nahia was keen to get going, though while she waited, she soaked her left forepaw inside Chai's centre pool. The large python let the Tigress do this, as she knew the paw gave Nahia constant pain for the last near 10 years now.

As Nahia waited while she soaked her paw, on the other side of the cavern pool, Starswirl finished checking his magically shrunken assets in a very small pouch, the artefacts, potions and even one or two journals all shrunken for easy carrying in a neck pouch hidden around his chest amulet, not just a mere decoration.

A sound of slight water ripples caught his attention, as he saw Chai's immense scaly head coming up beside him slowly:

"A word in private Ssstarswril?"

"After you letting us stay overnight, of course." Starswirl came to respect Chai, as many did. She was wise, even for her great age.

Heaving an upper part of her coils onto the rock shore of the pond, Chai laid her head low on the ground as she spoke, conserving energy as grey Unicorn stallion sat beside the immense python's bulk.

"I can't promissse your friend will be unharmed, even if they took him captive inssstead of death inssstantly. You might not like what you find."

"I was having thoughts like that myself." Starswirl remarked sadly. Looking to Nahia out of the corner of her eye, Chai made a low remark:

"Her cubs were killed by the creatures; she couldn't save them due to her paw slowing her. I am the only one she told this to outside her family. You understand now why she strives to make, back up, and ensure such exaggerated and even false threatening tales about herself?"

Starswirl nodded in understanding, as he realised the sad truth: "She spreads such tales, lies even, to ensure her and her new family's safety."

"And it worked this time, her cubs are nearing adulthood now. But I always sense her sadness, and fear, about what may happen if the truth, that she is not anywhere near what she says she is, is true." Chai remarked. At this, Starswirl wondered:

"What, is she really a gentle soul?"

"No more than any predator like a Tiger can be. There is no sense in killing except for food, and she had to spread tales of her killing for sport or threats to back up her status as it stands. She likely killed perhaps only a fraction of the senseless kills her reputation puts on her, but her temper is not as exaggerated. Tread carefully with her Starswirl."

"Believe me, I am. But I don't wish to lose her as an ally yet." Starswirl remarked. At this, Chai then added:

"If you find the creatures' lair, where they sometimes deposit their kills, do not be surprised if either you, or Nahia, finds something, or someone, left there. Tales of a boneyard are the best I can give you, my servants to give me insight are outnumbered by the Overlord's."

Hanging his head slightly, Starswirl merely said bluntly: "Hopefully we can avoid too much trouble. We're not looking to fight anything."

"Just remembr that Nahia, smartly in this valley, relies more on threat than actual act. She cannot back up her notorious status, so be wary of your acts that may draw too much violence."

"Thank you Chai. When I leave this place, with Siral, I'll be sure to spread tales of your wise rule."

Giving a scaly smile at the Wizard, Chai waited until Starswirl stood up, nodding to Nahia that they were ready to be off, before she stopped him one last time:

"I hope your next venture through time shall be to a place less troubling than this has been for you."

"How do you know?" Starswirl suddenly looked oddly at Chai, who merely slithered slowly back into the large pool, remarking: "I have only one magic myself, refined enough that even you cannot sense it. Minds are more open for me than any book. Good luck Starswirl, and tell Nahia the same."

As the Python slipped back into her underwater pool area, Starswirl blinked a few times, before a slight growl from Nahia up ahead in the cavern's darker walk towards the entrance echoed. Trotting up, Starswirl shot a few nods to a pair of King Cobras that saw him off, as he caught up with the Tigress that awaited him.

2 hours later

Malabutu Valley, lowland rainforests.

Stepping through the undergrowth and dense leaves, following a worn trail, Starswirl was accustomed to the usual faded jungle ambience that came with Nahia's reputation in the jungle striking fear all around.

As she walked on, Starswirl still couldn't help but shoot the odd look at her front left paw, and how she ever so slightly took less time stepping when it was her left forepaw that took all her front weight, giving a barely noticeable limp. So slight enough that it was nearly an unconscious habit of hers.

"So how will we find the creatures' lair? It's in the temple right?"

"Supposedly its underground, but yes, in the temple. That's why we're following their scent. That mix of decayed wood and flesh with a burning tinge to it is unmistakable."

Nahia's remark as she sniffed the ground followed back through the jungle to Starswirl's ears, as he couldn't help but gaze around. Chai said the Overlord's spies outnumbered her own by far, which could mean they were being watched right now.

If the Overlord was smart enough, he'd already know they weren't coming to fight.

As they came further down the trail, Starswirl couldn't help but remark: "Why are these vines so much denser around the creature's game trail?"

"The vines started really growing when the Overlord came, another creation of his. Legend is that the vines are one way he spreads his influence across the valley, that he draws on it through them, that the vines feed him like roots do a tree. And where the vines are densest, the creatures most travel in."

Turning a corner, Nahia's fur bristled as she suppressed a growl, as the scent of the creatures, presumably from last night, was stronger on this part of the trail. The ground was covered in vines, making it look like netting of some sort was covering the ground and trees.

And there were a few claw marks on the bark of one larger tree that was less overgrown, the creatures sharpening their claws on it. The clawmarks were above Starswirl's head, from a tall creature obviously.

"We're getting closer. Stay with me. These creatures don't fear me like most in this valley do, or should."

As Nahia hissed back, and the Tigress led on, Starswirl heard the once again need for exaggerated, flat out deceiving reputation she pushed on herself.

He only wished the creatures not fearing her was a deceit too.

The sooner they got there, the sooner he could try and possibly save Siral, and the sooner Nahia could get her insight on the overlord for the better safety of her territory and family.

Malabutu Valley Jungle

Temple Ruins, antechamber

Geldrath exhaled as he took his hooves off the large node of vines, within what looked like a ball cage of vine growth in the centre of the temple's antechamber room. Here was his throne, and from here, he could use the vines to have a vague sense of anything they touched. He could draw on the energy of the jungle for his own gain.

He wasn't exaggerating when he said he'd know if a twig fell in his jungle.

He reclined in the throne slightly, resting from a more exhausting set of spell trials. He had what he wanted, and he'd rest before he began the second round of spell tests. Then, after another rest, he'd finish Siral with the same magic and life absorbing medallion he'd recovered in a previous time period, and take the Wizard's magic, and intellect, for his own.

Siral's knowledge, skill and magic would be well served in this ready and waiting force to reclaim a place in Equestria, when the inevitable infighting of the Alicorns emerged as a result of all their growing power.

Temple Ruins, Central Chamber

Guarded by 2 of the large apelike creatures with burning orange eyes, wood and mottled skin 'armor' and spikey locks of hair extending from their arms, the alter was still upright.

Siral lay facedown, tired, aching, and stinging. The spells had varied wildly, from transformation of his limbs, to mutilation and restoration spells, he had become a dummy for anything that wouldn't kill him for this Alicorn.

He, a Wizard, and a time travelling one no less. Only Starswirl maybe was better now, and that may well not always be the case, which was the ONLY thing Siral knew Geldrath was perhaps onto.

All he knew, as he seethed through the cuts and gash on his face, which Geldrath had left as Siral hurled one too many insults at him near the end, was that he'd be scarred by this, and the next session, before Geldrath finally finished him off with the very medallion he'd been studying.

But when Siral had earnt the ire of Geldrath from his insults, he knew he had a chance. He'd studied the medallion of Ghung Chian enough to have formed a workaround, but Geldrath had read his mind.

But the fact was, Siral prided himself on just how much his mind had.

He didn't care that he'd been potentially scarred for life, as he could not use his magic by the vine bonds to heal his magically inflicted scars before they became permanent. Magical scarring was too hard to undo by magic.

He had a chance to see this Alicorn suffer and more in turn, if he played his tactics right. One more session of spells, and then the final act, where Siral had his chance to turn his potential doom to his advantage.

Geldrath had been right, and was proving himself. Siral knew it now, Alicorns were proud, arrogant.

Prideful, Wrathful when insulted, Lustful, Greedy and/or Gluttonous for power, even Envious of others, and Slothful to sit by and wait for a chance to come.

As he was left to fester, Siral couldn't help but think of how traits of those 7 beings to terrorise Equestria and the world in the Prophecy, after the 6 exemplar beings emerged, were being exemplified by an Alicorn, and by the sounds of it, others in the future power struggle.

And he had some issues with a certain friend who, given what they were searching for in this time, was needing to prove himself Honest as well.

Such thoughts were all Siral could dwell for now as he lay restrained in the temple, flanked by the 2 demon creature creations of Geldrath.

Author's Notes:

The first encounter with an Alicorn by either of the two Wizard Unicorns is far from pleasant.

And some seeds of doubt about the grand scheme of many events have been sown into Siral in the long run.

Meanwhile, Starswirl, at Chai's warning, keeps wary of Nahia's past and present temperament and reputation getting ahead of them, even if it's a form of defence. It doesn't hold up against the demon creatures, though she has a personal score with them for killing her previous cubs, as she was wounded by Bull skin hunters when defending those same cubs the same year they were killed. So she hates the bull villagers and the creatures equally.