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Timberwolf Study, Part Six

By Hearthsong
Created: 2025-12-22 22:50:12
Updated: 2025-12-22 23:09:23
Expiry: Never
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    Part Six:
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    >You got some leaves stuck in your mane, your tail is knotted from wandering through some very clingy brush, and -
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    >Wait, hold that thought for a minute there
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    >Just gonna resonate your horn a bit harder and...
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    >Success!
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    >The pile of leaves condenses, atoms shift, and you're now the proud owner of a sentient bean bag
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    >The perfect companion for Spike 1
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    >Poor guy's been lonely lately, you can tell
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    >But man
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    >A transfiguration spell and a Locomotion enchantment combined into one cast?
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    >You fucking rule
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    >And thus surely, (You) are Hermitnon
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    >You wipe the sweat off your brow, satisfied with another display of your magic
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    >Studying up how to force those spells to work together seamlessly was like trying to shove a rock all the way into your brain
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    >But there's nothing quite as satisfying as it all coming together successfully
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    >This calls for a break
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    >Bit of sight-seeing, maybe a nice drink - it's probably past 5 O'clock, you never did get around to stealing Purple Smart's alarm clock so who could say
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    >Just as you're about to consider your options, as if just waiting for their cue-
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    >"Anon! The Manticore alphas are getting rowdy, I think there's going to be another territory dispute. Want to watch?"
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    >A puzzling pony asks as it enters your cave
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    >Clearly equine, but... rough around the edges
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    >Hooves just a little too sharp, eyes faintly glowing
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    >A lot more leaves in its' mane than yours
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    >That is to say, it's mane is made entirely of gold and red leaves
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    >A Timberpony
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    >Not the most imaginative name you'll admit but that was never your strong suit
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    "And now how could I say no to such a good time, Ember Brush?"
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    >With a quick cast of your Chameleon spell and a sensible chuckle, you set off with your leafy companion
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    >The past few months have been busy, to say the least
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    >Princess Celestia was all too eager to join in on your project
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    >One part guilt over the binding in the first place, one part just eager to be able to spend some time with you
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    >Whatever got her raring to go, having her cooperation would certainly be easier than having to manually unchain each and every Timberwolf from the geas
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    >You'd probably get better at it with time, spend a lot less time leaking your precious lifeblood out of your face and waking up on the floor, but...
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    >There was something in your heart
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    >A feeling, half-remembered like a dream you were rudely awoken from
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    >That feeling that urged you to put aside your reclusive nature and pride and just take the help
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    >That made you realize, these Ponies had spent the past centuries stuck outside of time
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    >Forced to patrol forgotten artifacts and ruins
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    >Not alive, but not dead either
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    >Just... golems, put to work until presumably the end of days
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    >Purgatory
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    >They deserved a bit of expedience
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    >But first, some pit stops
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    >Unchaining the Timberwolves from the geas would just have them all rush out of the Forest and start chewing up Ponies
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    >They needed more than to be slipped off the leash
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    >They needed purification
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    >Though even if the Elements of Harmony hadn't been fed back to the Tree, you doubted they could make a big enough Rainbow to hit all of them at once
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    >So, the next best thing
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    >Someone hitting the Rewind button a bit
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    >As you expected, Discord was pretty miffed by your treatment of Fluttershy
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    >Fortunately he still felt pretty bad about the whole 'killing you in a heinously gruesome way' debacle
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    >And you were flanked by Celestia, so he was even less eager to turn you into a potted plant or the color purple
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    >(That is to say the concept of the color purple, rather than changing your coat's color)
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    >But, yes
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    >Even better, he was willing to help out
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    >Set the scales more evenly so he'd have an easier time looking you in the eye
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    >Or in his case act like it was perfectly square and start brazenly acting like a bit of a prick like he did everyone else
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    >The things you put up with for ponies
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    >So much power in his claws and he chooses to express it by basically emulating Carrot Top of all comedians
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    >Prop comedy is lame as shit, man
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    >With his bullshit 'snap my fingers and get what I want' general spell it was foal's play to gather up the packs
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    >And during the process of draining them of the Chaos Magic you got the chance to learn more of it and about your now former subjects
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    >First off? Chaos Magic, for all its' seemingly phenomenal cosmic power, was still weaker than Harmony Magic
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    >The Elements would've surely cleansed the Timberwolves entirely, reverted them fully back to their original forms
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    >Discord was... mostly successful at best
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    >Their wolfish visages cleared to make way for more equine faces, and their limbs were there
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    >But the little things were stubborn
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    >Some had sharp, cloven hooves reminiscent of their former claws, manes and tails littered with foliage, if not outright replacing their hair, and eyes that glinted in the dark like the predators they once were
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    >A real grab bag of donut steels in the audience
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    >You were surprised to find that one of your earlier hypotheses were right... in a way
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    >The Timberwolves had been using the magic rich in their nests, but not to sustain themselves
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    >As you found out from the very distressing sight of some of the wolves just blinking out of existence
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    >Not all of them were "real"
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    >Formed purely of magic to shore up the numbers needed for the terms of their geas
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    >Some of the smaller nests were purely fictional ponies
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    >The majority of the Mirror Pool and Castle Ruins packs, genuinely cursed
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    >It left you with a much smaller contingent of Timberponies to deal with
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    >Still quite a bit, but not nearly as daunting before
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    >And deal with them you had
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    >Much like Luna, these poor souls were tremendously out of date
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    >You got plenty of 'Annons' and 'Princes'
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    >But blissfully, they were a lot more understanding of your situation
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    >Probably something to do with none of them being related to you by blood
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    >In a way, they felt like kindred spirits
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    >Ponies, out of time
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    >You, out of place
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    >With an appreciation for nature - real nature, not the bullshit outside the Everfree
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    >So it wasn't to any real surprise when the Timberponies elected to remain within the forest
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    >Things made sense here, and it's not like they were big on civilization centuries ago
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    >A society that had an even more aggressive stranglehold on nature without their Prince to direct the seasons and cycles managed to be even less appealing to them
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    >It was a pain at first
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    >Paths that were empty now featured Ponies
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    >Retreats into the parts of the Everfree that approached the concept of 'serene' now had the chance of being interrupted by being stumbled upon
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    >But the Timberponies didn't push
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    >They didn't insist that your time was theirs to tread on
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    >At best they would offer, and...
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    >You started joining them
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    >Stargazing, observing dominance plays by predators, birdwatching
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    >The kind of thing you'd enjoy alone before when destressing from magical studies
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    >But now with enthusiasts who knew when to simply enjoy the silence and when was a good time to point out facts about the constellations, or call when one Manticore was about to strike, or correctly identify a blue jay call from a red jay call
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    >Just like now, with your friend on the way to watch two apex predators try and rip territory from each other
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    >Ember Brush caught your eye and you shared a smile despite being mostly intangible
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    >And you felt a feeling of contentment in your chest that you knew wasn't entirely your own, but was very welcome
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    >Yeah
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    >Maybe company wasn't so bad after all

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