So.... Manehattan. I'd assume it was a play on words to Manhattan, from Earth. However, I have no idea what the fuck that is, aside from the name. Eh, looks nice, I guess. That is if you like crowded streets, dark back alleys and groups of ponies with white tails and suits walking around, other ponies shying away from them. I wonder why...

"So," I asked Ardiente, "anything we need to do before we go after the Blancas?"

"Well, we should probably drop by my old casa. Mi madre told me, before she passed, to head there and find mi herencia, my inheritance, from her should the familia get into a bad spot. This seems like a bad enough spot to go looking."

I nodded once and picked the two back up, "Tell me where it is, and we'll go."

"It is a small shack, actually, just outside of the city, near the entrance. One of the reasons I escaped so easily." With another nod, I was off. In a matter of minutes, we were outside the city, and I could easily spot the house with my keen eyesight. The only problem was the white tailed, suit wearing pony I saw circling the house. There were most likely more inside, too.

Hiding in some of the bushes, I set the giant wolf down next to me, hoping to see him in action. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear, whispering to him, "Alright boy, I want you to take the bastard out when he's furthest from the house. Do it silently." I got a nod of confirmation, and watched as the wolf deftly maneuvered it's way to where the stallion was. After shadowing him for a scant thirty seconds, the beast saw it's opportunity and burst silently from the bushes, startling the pony.

He never got a chance to scream though, as the dog's jaws snapped over his muzzle, silencing him briefly before crushing his skull and killing him. I should probably mention the dog's size by now. He's a good three and a half to four feet tall, larger than most ponies by almost double, and could swallow a pony's head whole if it wanted to. My kinda dog. I'll call him Feral from now on just seems fitting to me.

As Feral stalked back to me, pony in his maw, I patted his head and smiled, "Good job Feral," He perked up at the new name, "now let's get any inside, then retrieve Ardiente's stuff." I turned to face the door and slowly pushed it open, revealing a small, two room shack, the other pony thankfully in the other room, looking through drawers and not paying a bit of attention to me. Good, cause I wanted to try something.

My genetic reworking by the dicks at A.N.G.E.L. left me much stronger and faster than the average human, the Wraith thing only increasing that. So I wanted to try something out. Holding my arm out, I summoned my claws, then firmly planted my feet to get ready. To make sure this worked, I shouted, "Hey asshole pony!" He whirled around, surprise clear on his face, the last expression he would wear.

You see, I developed a little technique to evade test fighters back at the facility. I would build up strength in my legs, then kick off the ground in a rapid fashion, my increased strength propelling me forward at blindingly fast speeds. What I did to the pony incorporated this move. To anyone outside, they would see a black blur, and hear stomping and slicing sounds. To me, I was jumping around the pony quickly, slashing at different spots on them.

I landed in a crouch, just past the pony, with my claws, now gleaming with fresh blood, held in front of my face. As a spur of the moment thing, I named my attack out loud:

"Tell Tale Heart."*

Right after I said this, thin red lines appeared where the pony's neck and legs attached to it's body. This was swiftly followed by the body falling apart, blood spewing from the cuts. God Damn love this claw. I wonder how it would feel to masturbate with it.... Getting sidetracked. Ardiente, who had picked her jaw up from the ground, moved swiftly over to the drawers the pony was searching through. Throwing them aside, she searched along the wall, finding a loose tile and discarding it. This revealed a hole in the wall, which she promptly put her horn in.

I giggled a bit, "Heh, kinky."

Either I was quiet enough, not that I gave enough of a shit to be so, or she wasn't paying attention to me, because she just sat there for a second, her horn glowing. After pulling her head back, there was a sound like rocks scraping together followed by a hidden panel in the wall opening up. "Stay here, I'll be back in a minute," she said as she entered the passage. Sure enough, she came out a minute later, only now she was wearing a three piece, black pinstripe suit and fedora. As she walked into the room, I saw two blacksmith's hammers float under her suit jacket and out of sight, followed by a small crossbow of sorts. "Alright, I got everything."

"Good. Question though... You ever killed anyone?" Her paled face and shrunken eyes gave me my answer, "Whelp, guess we're prowling the back alleys to look for some asshole pony for you to kill. Or not, I can't force you to do anything. I'll just kill em instead, if that's the case." Before she could argue, I picked her and Feral up then ran out the door, making my way into the city. Again.

Luckily, we landed in an alley after my jump. Even more luckily, I heard someone shout at me as soon as I did.

"Hey you, tall freak!" This should be good...

I turned to face a small group, five to be exact, of ponies in white suits. Blancas, triple lucky. Putting on my friendliest tone, I asked, "Who, me?"

"Yes you, who the hell else?"

"Uh alright, what did you lads need?"

He got real angry all the sudden, and shouted, "One of your human friends thought they could kill some of our boys! They were in the middle of collecting when this bastard comes right up outta nowhere and kills all but one of them! I thin he was mockin' us too, wearin' a white suit like that."

I put my hands up in defense, my bone arm freaking a few of them out, and said, "Look, I don't know who that was, or where he came from..." I frowned, "However I do know he's doing my job for me, and I won't stand for that."

"Wha-" The stallion at the head of the group didn't get enough time to speak as I cleaved hes head in half with my claws, his cranium falling to the ground with a wet smacking sound.

"Feral, let's do this." The wolf growled and jumped over the group, blocking off the remaining exit. One of the ponies, a unicorn, pulled out a crossbow in panic, shooting me in he stomach. He grinned triumphantly for a moment, but that was replaced by a pained grimace as I pulled the bolt out and threw it at his eye. Heheh, it popped. That's two down alrea- Oh, Feral just got one. Three down.

I sauntered up to one of the remaining two and deactivated my claws, watching gleefully as he thought I would spare him. Nope. Instead, I forced his mouth open and slowly shoved my right arm elbow-deep down his throat, choking him. That's not all though. I activated it again, but concentrated on the spikes that appeared on the bone, rather than the claws. To my joy, the spikes were effected instead, instantly growing to five inches each and impaling the stallion from the inside. Cool.

"Alright shitface," I said as I turned to the last pony, "I want to know some things." I picked him up and slammed him against the alley wall. "Firstly," I activated my claws again and trailed one down his torso, "I want to know where your family is based at, and where the boss is."

"I'm not telling you anythin- Ack!" I suddenly, too suddenly for him, stopped dragging my finger and stabbed him in the stomach. "S-still not- AH!" I twisted my claw, then stuck another inside with it. "Y-you won't get anything from me...." Annoyed, I held him up with my right arm, then pinched my index finger and thumb around one of his teeth.

"Tell me." I punctuated it with a tug, ripping his tooth out painfully.

"N-no.."

Rip. "Tell. Me."

"N....N-no..."

I clasped my hand around several teeth and pulled them out, "Fucking tell me, or I'll shove these in your eye and disembowel you with your dead friends horn!"

"Hah... Hah... Alright." his breath was heavy, and his words were slightly slurred by the blood and ripped up gums. "T-there's a mansion, on the other edge of the city. It's big, painted white, and has a large metal gate with the word Blanco witten in gold. The boss, as well as the rest, are there. I told you, so please..."

I put on a mock thoughtful expression, "Hmmmm.... I know I said or, but.... Ah to hell with it, in the eye." He tried to scream as I shoved a fistful of teeth into his eye, squishing the white and green orb in a gooey mess. I say he tried to  scream, because doing anything vocal is hard when a woman with razor sharp teeth is forcibly making out with you. Well ,I was mostly chewing his muzzle off, but whatever. Asshole deserved it.

After discarding the body, I picked up Ardiente and Feral, then jumped off. I decided to wait until night to attack, hide easier when I sneak inside.

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