One night, Sapphire and her husband Aura Moon were at a fancy restaurant for their date. "Aura, you didn't have to do this for me." Sapphire said, not feeling right for her husband spending a lot of money on her.

"Now now, honey. It's alright." Aura reassured. "I like spoiling you, Princess." Sapphire blushed in embarrassment. "Aura, you know I don't like being called Princess in public." It was true. Sapphire didn't feel right whenever her friends called Princess. It made her feel indifferent.

Aura chuckled, "I'm just teasing you."

Sapphire sighed and the waiter brought over their dinner. "Thank you." Aura said. Sapphire nodded and the two dug into their dinner.

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Outside the restaurant, there were three rather large wolves. One was black, one was silver and the other was brown. The black wolf looked through the window and snarled, keeping it's eyes on Sapphire. The black wolf turned to it's pack members and gave a small growl. The two nodded and the went off into the night.

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When their dinner was done, Sapphire and Aura were walking out of the restaurant. "Thanks for the outing, Aura." Sapphire stated with a hand on her stomach, "I'm stuffed."

"Nothing's too good for my Princess." Aura stated with a small kiss on Sapphire's cheek, making her go 'eep'. Suddenly, something pounced onto Sapphire and knocked her to the ground. "Gah!"

"Sapphire!" Aura cried. He saw it was a black wolf. He prepared to tackle it when the silver and brown wolves blocked his path. "Hey!" Aura leaped over the two and changed into his wolf form and tackled the black wolf off of Sapphire. Sapphire got up and saw the two fighting each other; biting, snarling and tackling as well. Finally, Aura kicked the other wold off of him and it slammed to the ground. The silver and brown wolves regrouped around the black wolf. Aura snarled at him and the black wolf snarled at him. The three wolves then turned into the night.

"Are you alright?" Aura asked.

Sapphire nodded, "Just some scratch marks. Who were they?"

".... My pack." Aura stated.

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The Next Morning

"YOU'RE PACK?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock.

Aura and Sapphire explained what happened last night to Sunset, Lightning and all the others who were deeply shocked. "Why would you're own pack attack Sapphire?" Lightning asked.

"It's because they forbid me falling in love with her in the first place." Aura said in a serious tone.

"Forbid?" Celestia repeated.

"Yes, it's Pack Law that a wolf cannot fall in love with a human." Aura explained.

"But Sapphire is a hybrid so she's technically a wolf." Pinkie Pie stated.

"I know but the pack still sees her as a human and nothing else." Aura said. "And with the attack last night, I'm afraid they may come back and try to finish the job."

"Well let them try." Rainbow stated. "We'll be ready for them."

"No.. you can't get involved... their my pack.. I have to confront them." Aura stated.

"Aura." Sapphire said with concern.

"I'll be fine." Aura reassured. Aura exited the mansion and changed into his wolf form before dashing into the forest where his pack resigned.

When he got to his packs territory, the three wolves from last night were there to confront him along with the other wolves. All together the pack was twelve wolves strong.

"Ahh, so the little traitor has returned." the black wolf said.

"You know why I'm here Blacktail. You, Silver and Whitetip attacked my girlfriend." Aura said.

"Because it's against pack law to date another human." Whitetip growled. "She's lucky she had you by her side."

"Well I'm not gonna let you threaten her." Aura snarled and gave a wolf growl to emphasis.

Blacktail laughed, "You really think you can stop us?" he challenged. "You can't be around her 24/7. Next time she's alone... we'll make our move."

Aura was burning with anger. "You're not gonna harm her while I'm around." Aura then swiftly turned and ran off back to the city.

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The Next Morning,

Sunset and the others were in their classes with Sunset Twilight in biology class. Professor Brain was doing roll call and he came to.. "Sapphire Sunlight?"

.....

"Uh, Sapphire?" he called again. Sunset leaned near Twilight , "Where is she?" Sunset asked.

"I don't know." Twilight replied. Then the door opened, "Ah miss Sap- Holy Elburn!" Professor Brain exclaimed and the class gasped in horror. Sapphire was a complete mess. Her hair was very messy, her clothes and backpack were shredded, she had claw and teeth punctures in her arms, legs and face. She was breathing heavily. Sunset and Twilight came to her side just as she was about to collapse.

"Let's get her to the nurse." Sunset said.

"Right." Twilight agreed and the pair rushed her to the nurse.

Soon, everyone was in the nurses' office where Sapphire had multiple gauze's and bandages placed on her. "Ow." she winced.

"Easy honey." Dr. Penny stated. Her injures were so bad the nurse had to call in Dr. Penny to treat them. She disinfected the puncture wounds, gave her some painkillers and some antiseptic. She placed the last gauze on her. "There we go."

"Will she be alright, Dr. Penny?" Sunset asked.

"She'll be fine Sunset. Though she'll need to rest for a few days." Dr. Penny prescribed. Everyone nodded and watched as Dr. Penny exited the room. When she was gone, everyone turned to Sapphire, "Sapphire, what happened?" Applejack asked.

"Uh.. some wolves jumped me on the way to school." Sapphire winced.

"Wolves?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock.

"I thought Aura talked to them." Twilight said.

"Obviously, they didn't listen." Rainbow growled.

"So now what?" Fluttershy asked.

"We have to tell Aura, Mr. Grandruler and the others about this." Sunset stated.

"Right."

Later that day, when their classes and homework were done everyone met up at Celesto's manor and explained everything. No doubt the adults were horrified while Aura was outraged. "I can't believe they would do such a thing." Celestia said.

"I do. They did it as a threat to me." Aura growled.

"A threat?" Fluttershy gasped.

"Yes. If I stay with Sapphire, they'll continue to hurt her... or worse." Aura said. "I have to end this. Now." He got up and headed to the door, "Aura, no." Sapphire called. Aura turned back and went over to Sapphire who was laying on the couch to rest.

"Sapphire... I have to do this... it's for your protection." Aura said.

"But you can't face them alone." Sapphire said.

"Don't worry sugarcube, we'll go with him." Applejack said.

"No.. it's my problem." Aura rejected.

"Aura, anything that has to do with you and Sapphire, involves us. And we're not letting you fight this battle alone." Celestia said.

Aura sighed and Sapphire grabbed his hand. "Please honey... let them come with you." she pleaded.

Aura sighed, seeing Sapphire wasn't going to let this go. "Alright... they can come."

Sapphire smiled. "Do you know where your pack is now?" Rainbow asked.

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"I would say they're here." Fluttershy said nervously.

The gang looked out the windows and far the pack of twelve wolves outside snarling and growling. “Time to face the music guys.” Aura said. The gang nodded and they went outside. Luna stayed with Sapphire while her sister and brother in law went with the others.

Blacktail came forth, “Looks what the traitor brought us.” He hissed.

Aura wasn’t in the mood. “This is your last chance, leave Sarah and us alone.”

Blacktail laughed, "And what if we don't? What are you gonna do about it?" Aura growled and turned into his wolf form while the others said,

"STARFLEET MAGIC!"

"HARMONY HOUR, FRIENDSHIP POWER!"

"Hmph, Impressive, but not a match for my pack. Get them!" Blacktail exclaimed. The twelve wolves charged the gang and they charged forth. Celesto whacked two wolves away with his cane while Buddy unleashed, "LEAF SWARM!" and a barrage of leaves slammed into three wolves.

Rainbow Dash zipped back and forth from four wolves causing them to eventually slammed into each other. While Aura and Blacktail were really battling it out. They were biting each other and slashing each other with their claws and slamming each other into the ground. Finally, the pair broke and they stood on either side of the street. "You're out of your league pup." Blacktail growled.

"It's you whose out of your league, Blacktail." Aura growled.

"Why do you insist on staying with this.. humans?" Blacktail asked.

"Because they're my friends and Sarah's my mate." Aura stated. "And I protect my own!" Aura snarled and charged Blacktail, grabbing him by the neck and tossing him, sending him skidding across the pavement. Blacktail growled and he staggered to his feet, injured from the throw. "You've made the biggest mistake of your life." Blacktail threatened.

But before he could lunged at Aura, Pikachu launched a Thunderbolt at him. "GAHHH!"

Pikachu landed near Aura. "PIKACHU?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"What are you doing here?" Celesto asked.

"Pika Pika." Pikachu said, pointing nearby. The gang looked and saw Sapphire, Luna, Lucy and the pokemon present as well. "Sapphire!" Aura cried. Aura bounded over and her and nuzzled her, "You should be resting." he cooed.

"I'll be fine, honey." Sapphire stated. Blacktail and his pack regrouped. "Ah, our target has finally appeared."

"I'm not your target. Now leave my friends and family alone." Sapphire said in a serious tone.

"Hahaha, what can you possibly do to make us leave?" Blacktail challenged. Sapphire concentrated and clouds began to roll in from behind her. She then used the Roar on the wolf pack and sent them flying far far from the city and into the forest. "Alright, Sapphire!" Rainbow cheered. Sapphire stopped the Roar and smiled. Aura changed back into his human self.

"I don't think we'll see them again." Sunset smirked.

"Hoepfully." Celesto said. Celestia came over and hugged him... before smacking him on the head. "OW!"

"That's for scaring me!" Celesta scolded.

"Hehe... sorry." Celesto said.

Aura and Sapphire smiled at each other. "Thanks for protecting me." Sapphire said.

"Why wouldn't I? You're my wife... and your folks would kill me if I didn't." Aura stated.

"No we wouldn't!" Celestia, Luna and Celesto said in unison, making everyone laugh.

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