Twilight opened the sack.

She didn't even care what was in the sack, as long as it tasted as good as it smelled.

Examining the contents she realized there were features of this chicken that did not fit the norm, namely the four hooves and purple mane.

"Scootaloo?"

She looked down on a shivering, wide-eyed, frozen filly.

"We thought you'd like this one!" the wolf who brought the sack forward began, "That is, after we saw how much you wanted those little snacks yesterday."

"You said it was chicken..."

"Nope! Better! We were going to get you a chicken, but we found this little one inside the coup with them! Pony seasoned with chicken!"

"No you idiot!" another wolf, who she did not recognize from before jumped up "It's obviously a pony-chicken half-breed! Why else would it have been living in a chicken coup? And if it were just a flying pony it would have flown off! It had to have gotten those wings from a chicken!"

Twilight looked back down at the filly. The bickering timberwolves could wait. This was more important...

She leaned over the terrified filly. It was true, she did smell like chicken.

She leaned closer and closer to the little filly's neck, getting a good whiff of that wonderful aroma.

The sight of the filly brought Twilight that same warm tingly feeling that she had felt almost exactly twenty-four hours before in the presence of another bite-sized filly.

Unlike that filly though, this one was awake. Much more awake.

The wide-eyed unable-to-process-the-fear phase had passed, and once again regaining control of her body, Scootaloo was making her displeasure known.

"HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLP!!!" she cried.

*CRASH*

Before the cry had even finished Twilight recognized the ever memorable sound of a library window breaking. A sound she recognized from the many surprise visits of a certain rainbow-mained speedster, she was not surprised when she turned to see Rainbow headed for them. Headed fast for them

"No! They're not-" Twilight shouted in defense of the seemingly docile timberwolves, but very quickly she realized that there were two flaws surrounding the logic of her statement. First, Rainbow couldn't understand anything she said anyway, and second, she wasn't aiming for them.

The force of impact knocked her into the crowd of timberwolves, but Rainbow stayed on her.

"I knew it! AJ told me you might have gone predator!"

Rainbow's attempts to hold down the much larger Twilight were quickly undone as the previously docile timberwolves jumped in alarm.

Bark back swiped Rainbow off of Twilight.

"Are you alright burning one?" he asked.

Twilight did not respond. She just blankly stared at the concerned pack leader, then turned to Rainbow.

"She told me to watch out! And she was right!" Rainbow yelled as she took off to avoid the angry timberwolves stalking towards her.

Wide eyed, Twilight continued to stare at her.

"What?" Rainbow continued, "I ruin your meal predator?" She spat the last word with utmost malice.

Twilight was in shock. Rainbow's words snapped her back into the reality of what had just (almost) happened.

I just tried to justify killing- eating a filly!

And it didn't even seemed strange!

I'm-

She turned and ran, the pack of timber wolves following behind her.

Bark Back gave one last growl at the flying pony who distressed the burning one, before turning and following the pack away.

Rainbow landed on the library's front stoop before opening the door.

The girls had followed Rainbow up the stairs after the scream, but had stopped before venturing outside and into danger. They trusted Twilight with their lives, so If she wanted them to stay out of harm's way, then they were not going to go outside and put themselves in the line of fire unneeded. They mostly accepted that, other than with the use of the elements, they'd only slow down their time-bending, monster destroying, goddess-trained friend.

...That is all but Rainbow.

Applejack had not been fast enough to grab the overeager Rainbow's tail and she had left the library against Twilight's request. Shortly after, Scootaloo had run in crying, and Rainbow returned shortly after that.

"Is it over?"Fluttershy asked.

Rainbow Dash gave a nod.

The group loosened up at the news.

"So what was it this time?" asked Applejack conversationally, "Dragons? The Changelings again? The timberwolves come back? Did the- Uh... Where's Twilight?" the apple farmer looked around for her purple friend.

"She's gone." Rainbow said.

Rarity fainted on the spot. No dramatic head-over-hooves fall. No fainting sofa pulled from nowhere. She just collapsed where she stood, hitting the ground with a thud.

Fluttershy and Pinkie were in each other’s hooves, embracing.

Applejack just stared, disbelieving, at the Rainbow pegasus. "She's... passed?"

"Might as well have. You were right Applejack. She's gone predator. Had to chase her off before she ate Scootaloo."

"No! Twilight would never!" Fluttershy shouted. Defending her friends was one of very few things that could make Fluttershy loud, and this was definitely one of those times.

"What did you see her do?" asked Fluttershy, directing it to both Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

"Well, I didn't see her do anything, but I saw how she was looking at Scoots."

"Looking at her? That don't sound like much..."Applejack scoffed.

"You're the one who said she was tasting your sister!"

Fluttershy spoke up again, "She what?"

"Applejack told me about how she walked in on Twilight trying to make a snack out of Applebloom."

"Now hold on there missy, I only said that she was lickin' 'er. Winona does the same thing all the time. I joked around but I didn't really mean-"

"Did she bite her?" Fluttershy interjected.

"Huh? Did Winona?"

"No, has Twilight bitten anypony?" she asked again more forcefully.

"No."

"Then she has not "gone predator"! It has to be hard for Twilight to be fighting her new instincts without warning, or even knowing them, but she is! Mr. Bear is the sweetest guy in the world, and even he struggles to play nice with Mrs. Deer and the chickens! And he's only an omnivore! Twilight's body is constantly telling her to eat meat, and if she still hasn't taken a bite out of anypony or any animal, she still must be Twilight on the inside!"

"Oh... Then we should probably go get her..." Rainbow meagerly spoke.

"Where is she?"

"Last I checked? Running into the Everfree forest with a pack of timberwolves."

Author's Notes:

I don't like writers who just post a "chapter" that's actually an update on the state of a story, so in turn I don't, but when there is something I want to throw by the readers for review I do a blog post asking for opinions. Good idea right? It allows me to get feedback without doing the aforementioned not-chapter updating, Right?

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