edge- day 2 through 5- in the woods

its morning at.... whatever they are holding me in. i dont know if this is a mental hospital or just some part of celstia's castle i didnt know about. come to think about it... i havent really explored the place before, so maybe i am in apart of the castle.

 

*knock knock*

 

>come in.... its not like i can stop you.

 

in comes a half smiling twilight sparkle.

 

twilight: hay anon.

 

>... hay...

 

twilight: howed you sleep? they've told me that you havent been sleeping well lately.

 

>on and off really. but last night was okay i guess.

 

whats up with all the small talk?

 

is she trying to butter me up?

 

twilight: we have a release date for you. once your done explaining what happened they're gonna let you ou-

 

>kill me... they're gonna kill me.

 

twilight looked at you shocked,  and then she looked furious.

 

twilight: what would make you think princess celestia would kill you anon?! what makes you think we would want you dead?!

 

>im not saying you want me dead twilight, but think about it. im stuck here untill i finish my little story. they tell me im free to go. everyone is all happy go lucky. you all walk out. they kill me so no one knows what happened on the last day. have they told you that your not going to be able to see me on the last day?

 

twilight: no.

 

>then there you go.

 

twilight: anon... that makes no sense. why would NOT telling me mean your going to die?

 

>just watch... the last day... celestia will say you wont be able to see me.

 

twilight: anon you just so.... UGH!

 

that was an okay discription of you actually.

 

>see you on the other side of the mirror twi.

 

twilight looks back at you and tries to smile... but it falls just as fast.

 

twilight:..... yeah...

 

after that little bit, you are lead into the room again, but this time there is a couch and other furniture.

 

>i got an upgrade.

 

doctor: yes anon, we wanted you to feel comfortable. are you?

 

>no... i can still feel her here.

 

everyone in the room gasps.

 

celestia: why is that anon?

 

>i just do... just like how she could feel me when we were in the woods. i dunno... maybe its just that paranoid feeling you get like you think someone's watching you. oh well.

 

celestia: anon, this is not an "oh well" moment...

 

>.... oh well.

 

everyone in the room is still gawking from the last time you misplaced celestia's kindness. whatever.

 

>so do we want to continue my little story or what?

 

doctor:... please continue from when you left off.

 

>ill just breeze over the non-important stuff this time.

 

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you had just had a conversation with both of the princesses right after your little talk with edge. they were hesitant to let you go, but luna said that her magic had no hold on it. you made a quick joke about banishing it to the sun, but all that got you was sad looks. you didnt sleep that night, you needed to get some things packed. you got an axe, alot of your kitchen knifes, and a backpack full of fruits and vegitables that the princesses magicked that would not age until let out of the bag. it was almost 1pm.

 

>wake up you giant cunt.

 

you kicked the mass that was blocking the ponyville exit/entrance.

 

edge: hmmm? oh good morning honey. ready for the first day of the hunt?

 

>dont call me anything like that.

 

edge: well i do need a good nickname for you.

 

>just get outta the way so we can start this whole thing.

 

edge: aaaawwww... you waited for me.

 

>shut up and move.

 

edge finally made itslef smaller and you walked past it.

 

>so run it by me why your not.... doing whatever you wanted to do with me right when you had the chance, or even right now?

 

edge: then that wouldnt be fair to the game.

 

fucking cunt.

 

>how long of a head start do i have?

 

edge: only 20 minutes... take your time... please...

 

you get a jogging head start, your not going to blow all of your energy on a fucking sprint right now.

 

right now you are in a little far into the woods. not too far, but far enough that you passed up zecora's shack awhile back.

 

you dont think your 20 minutes are up yet, but you bet it is really close to it. you set up some missleading clues for edge, like marking trees in a way you would be going. leaving a piece of your clothing in a bush, shed a little blood and made a trail. all of this was needed and you knew it. after what you thought was 20 minutes, you headed in a completley different way and made sure you had no tracks left behind. you climed up a tree almost to the top (the trees in the everfree are huge).

 

after about 15 minutes of waiting, you started to hear rustling coming by.

 

it was edge, and she was on the misleading trail you had set up. she was in a form that you could call a preditor. she had 6 eyes played out on her head (two out front, two to the side, and two near those), she had herself hunched, had springy looking legs, and claws out and ready.

 

edge: hehehe... you started bleeding around here... in fact, your near. anon... your silly... i can f-e-e-l you.

 

what?

 

edge: i have a link with you... and soon, youll have a link with me. well be bonded no matter what, and then pretty soon, you wont be able to run from me. but then, you wont be.

 

she can sence me? does she know where i am? does she know how close i could be?

 

edge: if only i could learn faster, then i would be able to pinpoint where you were. i can sence you, but not too well..... yet.

 

she continues on the track you had set for her.

 

edge: awwww.... he stopped bleeding, must have covered it up.

 

just.... just go already...

 

she slowly heads in a direction she thinks you would take.

 

thank god.... she's gone now.

 

after about 15 more minutes, you feel yourself becoming hungry. you grab an apple out of the bag you have.

 

apples...

 

you remember all the times you used to hang out with applejack. you used to work with her family at one point. she was allways the one telling you the truth about things, weither they be about her, her friends, you, good stuff, bad stuff, pretty much anything. i guess thats why she's the element of honesty. at one point before all of this, it felt like she was going to ask you to be her special somebod- somepony. you think she stopped because you still werent so happy about "being in a world of stupid talking ponies". youd never say anything like that to her face, but she probably caught you yelling at yourself one day. maybe after all of this is over, you can go back and ask her abou-

 

*grumble*

 

right.... food now, day dreaming when this stupid monster is either gone or dead.

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>that was pretty much the second day.

 

doctor: good... well we will see you again tomorro-

 

>now hold up there doc... who said i was finished?

 

doctor: but anon, you said you would only describe a day per da-

 

>i didnt say that.... i agreed to that.

 

celestia smiled a bit. she remembered how you would work around things like that. like you had a constant loophole for everything. she did say that would come to bite me back in the ass one day.... oh well.

 

>now....if i remember correctly... the third and fourth day werent too spectacular or interesting but-

 

celestia: are you saying that those days bored you anon?

 

>thinking back on them.... a little. i was scared out of my mind, yeah... but spending your days not being found is a little boring... so i followed her.

 

doctor: excuse me... you followed edge?

 

>i didnt stutter did i? yeah... i followed her, i kept my distance mind you, but i followed her.

 

doctor: why would you do such a thing?

 

>ever heard of the term "under your nose"? if i was close, but not seen, she couldnt find me, because i wouldnt let her. if i moved away from her, she would probably have found me.

 

thinking back on it.... it was the only thing keeping her from not finding you. there were a few hicups here and there, but she didnt find you.

 

>now... getting back to my story...

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day three was nothing but following edge, getting to cover when needed, maybe covering up a bloody spot or two, and eating. every time she slept, you would make that time to start ways ahead of her and make more false trails. when she slept, she didnt really sleep. it was more like she was just taking a rest... from 7pm to 1pm.

 

by the end of day three, you had ran out of food. honestly, you didnt think you were going to make it this far... the thought that you were outsmarting an alien hunter thing was breath taking to you.

 

during day four you started to look at your suroundings. there was no animals... not even big ones. anywhere. wherever all these things where, they were far away from edge.

 

all the constant running, climbing, and waiting had made it so that you were constantly reminded that you didnt have enough protien in your diet. you were out of food, your hunger was rising, and edge's bed time was coming close. it was about time to go looking for food.

 

you started from 7 all the way to 9 searching for anything edible. you were tempted to try some mushromms, but you didnt know anything about them, none the less about the ones in equestia, so you had to pass. after only five more minutes, you gave up on looking for food... but it seemed that something else wasnt.

 

a manticore about edge's size popped out of nowhere. it rawred and snarled and hissed at you. you knew this thing meant business.

 

you took out your axe and got ready for anything.

 

the thing charged you and knocked over some small trees like a tank. you began to run from it for a little while, but you couldnt run forever. it got you cornered in a dead end. it started to move towards you slowly, almost like it was playing with you, taunting you even.

 

it leaped for you.

 

you dodged at just the right second, crawlled up its head and stabbed it dead center of its skull.

 

you would have been yelled at big time for doing such a thing if fluttershy was there, but she wasnt, so she couldnt have worked her magic on it.

 

just as the thing died, almost like it was on a schedule to do so... you stomache rumbles.

 

you had been a forced vegitarian for so long, you didnt even remember what it was like to eat meat. you considered what your friends would think of you if you did it... but your mind and body told you otherwise.

 

you made a controllable fire and set up a rack to cook it on (or pieces you cut off of it, like i said, it was a huge manticore).

 

your meal filled you up, but you had left overs. you put the remainding ones in your bag for later, right now was bed time.

 

you hiked to where you had left edge- or more like where edge was where she wanted to be- and set yourself up on a tree like before.

 

the fifth day, you were woken up by the sound of a tree falling over. you hurried to find out what was going on. it was edge pushing over trees. she fucking knew now.

 

thinking about what you could do, you had little choice.

 

so...

 

you went for it.

 

before edge could knock down your tree, you shimmied down right before her.

 

edge: oh? beinging yourself to me? so you DO love m-

 

>break day.

 

edge: oh... and you had me in a good moment too.

 

>doesnt matter.... break day.

 

edge: fine... fine... so what then?

 

>we are heading into ponyville... i need to pick up a few things.

 

edge: ah! so you do remember the rules. good.

 

>how did you know i was in a tree?

 

edge: i had checked everywhere else, and besides... i couldnt find any trails. that meant you had stayed in the same spot.

 

damnit... you had been careless last night.

 

your walk into ponyville wasnt so good, you were constantly being asked questions by edge, some childish and some adult.

 

you got to ponyville without a scratch on you. the ponies were all still in their houses. good. the second you got to your house, you were met by celestia.

 

celestia: what are you doing back with... it?

 

she sounded both scared and angry.

 

>she wont harm anyone today... i called a break day... i only have 6 more left though.

 

celestia: why are you here anonymous?

 

>i need suplies, i ran out of them in the woods.

 

you had eaten the rest of the manticore that you had left in your bag on the way there.

 

celestia looked at you, and then to edge, and then back to you.

 

celestia: im sorry anon.

 

>for what?

 

celestia: that this is forced onto you. we cant use our magic against it.

 

edge: edge.

 

celestia: what?

 

edge: thats my name... use it... or im going to call you an it.

 

edge used a very dry and serious voice then.

 

celestia: you eat my people and ASK ME TO CALL YOU SOMETHING OTHER THAN AN "IT"?!

 

you pushed celestia away from edge and into your home.

 

>... celestia... i dont know how long i can keep this up... magic wont work agaist her... i cant hide for very long... and frankly... im starting to get tired.

 

celestia: anon... there was a day were i felt the same... i felt tired and defeated. it felt like there was nothing i could do with my life then... but you said something to me anon. you said "if im not allowed to give up, then neither are you". do you remember that anonymous?

 

you do. that was around when luna wasnt around. every year you would see her getting more and more sad about it.

 

>heh... yeah... but your problem got fixed.

 

celestia: and that means so will yours. please anon... promise me youll continue.

 

>... i promise ill try and stay alive and keep her away from anything sentient.

 

celestia: thats all i ask for.

 

celestia looks at your brused, cut, and battered self. she takes her horn to your forhead and with a great light make all of your injuries go away, and you dont feel as sleepy as you did.

 

celestia: anon... have you learned anything about... it?

 

>edge can sense me. she knows if im near or not, but doesnt exactly know where i am. each time she eats something she gains not only mass but all the things insights. her sprint is normal now, but she still fucks up on some words. she cant fly yet and i dont wanna know when she can. she can expand and contract herself when needed. thats about it... she doesnt seem to have any weaknesses, and when i find something exploitable, she can allways adapt and remember.

 

celestia: no weaknesses? what about when she sleeps?

 

>she doesnt sleep more as just rest her body. she is litterally awake, she just isnt mobile and wont cunsume anything or try and get me.

 

celestia:... anon, before you go, id like you to take this pendant, it will allow you to comunicate with me when you deem fit.

 

>celestia... i would... but think of it this way... i would only be able to talk to you from 7pm to 1pm. and  even then, im still in the everfree.

 

celestia: even then.

 

>*sigh*... okay... but if you get a message of me getting eaten, dont come crying to me... because you cant... ill be dead.

 

celestia makes a half smile. i guess you are just able to make something good outta bad times.

 

that day you made edge stay at your house while you went to twilights to see what was up, everyone had gone back to their families and stuff so i would need to visit them individualy. twilight is trying to study up on anything shapeshifting related even though the only thing that pops up are changelings.

 

after talking to twilight and letting her know whats happened, you go to rarity. god... you wish you hadn't. all that happened while you were over there was her fussing with your clothes and demanding you wear something new, my arguement was that even the new clothes would get torn up and dirty.

 

i went to pinkie's and she loaded me up with good ol' doughnuts.

 

rainbow hit me up herself... litterally. she crashed into me. the usuall "hay what happened?" and "glad to see your still alive/not raped by a shapeshifter.".

 

i went to applejacks to check up on her and her family. they have been a little recluse since what has happened, but she let me know that her family was praying for me the whole time. along the way you started getting hints that applejack was trying to awkwardly flirt with you. you know... seriously... should you get with her if you make it through all of this?

 

last but not least you went to fluttershy's. she was tending to animals like always, but these animals were the lucky ones. the second she saw you she glomped you. i had to tell her everything i told celestia. god, remembering shy during the begining of all of this... you wouldnt blame her for wanting the thing dead, even if it was against her nature. i let her know that the second i find any kind of weakness i would let her know so she could come help me kill it.

 

after everything was said and done, you went back to your house to find edge fidgiting with all the stuff you had.

 

>stop that.

 

edge: why? its gonna be both of ours soon.

 

>no... its mine... leave it alone.

 

she gently puts down a lamp.

 

you didnt like seeing her in her human form. it was like a giant lie in front of you. it was a giant lie in front of you.

 

>why do you do this?

 

edge: hm? do what?

 

>make yourself look like a human.

 

edge: does this not look apealing to you? dont you want to see another human?

 

>not if its fake.

 

edge:but i can be a real human...

 

>... what?

 

edge: all i need is just a bit of your hair, and i can be human.

 

>... would you still be able to shapeshift?

 

edge: yes.

 

>then no, you wouldnt be human. simply having the DNA of a human doesnt make you human. you could give an elephant the DNA of a human, but it wouldnt make it a human.

 

edge: hmm... i guess so.

 

>so why do you do it then?

 

edge: well... i want to look my best for when you l-o-v-e me.

 

>im not going to l-o-v-e you. im not even going to like you. i hate you edge.

 

edge: all couples fight... its normal.

 

>oh what... did you learn that from someone you ate?

 

edge: yes!~

 

you hated edge.

 

you hated her with all your soul.

 

but...

 

at the same time you were also starting to bond with her, like she said.

 

dont get me wrong.. i hated her and wished every bad thing apon her... but at the same time i wished that we met during different sircumstanses. maybe if she didnt eat things... living things... then just maybe you would like her.

 

but she is a monster... and you cant love a monster.

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celestia: i think now is a good time to stop.

 

doctor: tomorrow is your day off anon... you can do whatever you like untill wednesday.

 

>why's that? got someone else with a better story? sorry mine is so boring to you.

 

doctor: neither me nor celestia can be here tomorrow.

 

celestia: gryphonia wants a detailed report on this creature as well.

 

>they do know edge was the last of its kind right?

 

celestia: they would like to have reasons to believe that if there were to be another like it, that the information you give us will help.

 

>knowing those freaks over in gryphonia, they'd want it to rape them.

 

celestia puts on a half smile. i still got it.

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you walk to your room in this place, when suddenly celestia appears.

 

celestia:i heard what you said to twilight.

 

>and?

 

celestia: we aren't going to kill you anon. what made you think that?

 

>the factthat you havent told me where i am, the fact that i was in a straight jacket day one in this place, and the fact that you said "let go" instead of discharge when you were talking about when i would be leaving.

 

celestia: i never pegged you for the conspiricy theorist, but considering what has happened, i dont blame you.

 

>.... tell twilight im sorry. i would have told her myself but apparently none of them were here today.

 

celestia: they all have outside lifes too anon.

 

>... yeah.... i guess they do. tell luna i said goodmorning... or goodnight or whatever.

 

celestia: you can say either one.

 

>... night princess.

 

celestia: night anonymous.

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you are about to go to bed untill:

 

rainbow dash: yo anon! sorry i couldnt make it today.

 

>so you showed up at...9:59.....well, 10 now... 10?

 

rainbow dash: thought you'd like to see me.

 

>... i guess i would.

 

rainbow dash tells you about everything thats been going on in ponyville and cloudsdale. ponyville has been completly rebuilt. there is a new restruant there for when you go back. rainbow dash says that they are making a movie about what happened.

 

>but movies just got introduced here.

 

rainbow dash: well thats the thing, ever since you showed us that... what was it... your laptop? yeah, ever since you showed us those movies and games and stuff, twilight has been taking notes and sending them to princess celestia... so... we might be getting video games here soon as well.

 

>... im totally beating your asses at whatever fighting games you ponies make.

 

rainbow dash: oh whatever... id totally be better than those people that go to those human turnies.

 

you give her that look.

 

that look that you only used when you seriously hope they dont do that.

 

shiggy diggy.

 

she skoffs and then goes on some kind of rant about how she beat you in one game before.

 

ONCE.

 

oh well... the company with rainbow dash was good, but you kicked her out so you could sleep. you have a whole lotta nothing to do tomorrow, so you want to sleep in.