Galen Anon monster hunter and delivery man. He hails from a small village in the mountains that is unnamed on the map. There are stores, a guildhall, homes, a farm, and of course the ever present training hall for where young hunters go to practice. Galen has lived there for several years being the guardian of the town after waking up from a failed hunt. They villagers nursed him back to health and gave him work and ever since, he has stayed in the town. His renown has reached worldwide putting him on the list with other G-class monster hunters. Taking on Guild quests for rich clients with a taste for the exotic, the village person who is plagued by some trouble, or the occasional call to arms for all hunters to defend a large population from being wiped out by some gargantuan beast. Recently though there have been reports of a Tigrex terrorizing a nearby village even taking one of the children right out of the fields in broad daylight. The tigrex unlike its other wyvern brethrens, they have limited flight capabilities, usually only being able to glide. However, what makes them dangerous is there speed on land. Able to close any distance within seconds and its reach is notorious for catching hunters unprepared to face its viciously long and pointed tail. The matter of fact is, Galen always hated these beasts considering it was one of the tigrex that destroyed his career and stuck him in the village currently. Galen prepares immediately for the trip taking the quickest airship towards the last known location of the monster. The dark jungle, also known for its location of the large tower in the middle. Ready to avenge the death of the young one for the family. Galen travels for several days to reach his destination. He passes over the sweltering desert, filled with dunes, and many large rock formations. Below he knows of the caverns where water wyverns hide in the underground lakes and that creatures hide under the sand below traveling through it as if like water. He then reaches the mountain area he knows so well. That is where he found the tigrex on the mountain. In addition, the place of where he hunted many elder dragons and simian like creatures that often plagued the villagers in the mountain areas. He remembered the days he spent in the cold gathering materials being blasted by the icy wind. Finally after days of travel Galen reaches his destination. A large carpet of thick jungle canopy hide the multitude of creatures below. Sticking out of the carpet is the large black tower which is his ultimate goal. Feeling full of energy and ready to go, Galen lands ready to go on his quest little does he know another adventure ensues within itself. It started like any hunting quest, go find the wyvern and kill it. It was not even a very dangerous wyvern at all. It should have been easy job for Galen Anon. He was confident enough to only bring supplies for one day. He had his pickaxe, bug net, long sword, whetstones, tranquilizer balls, and other sorts of hunting equipment. With his green rathian armor on and MK.III long sword, all he had to do was set up camp. Simple enough except his location was by the mysterious dark tower. Said to be created by the ancient wyverians and held many secrets even today. It is a prime nest for wyverns and dragons, which also makes a great place for hunting. Luckily, Galen did not have to go that far. Obviously that’s the first placed he looked. Along the way, he ran across some velociprey, ioprey, and genprey, which was of course no trouble to the experience hunter as he sliced his way through in several minutes, taking time to carve off some materials from the raptors to use later in his hunt. Galen is a hunter of very little words, he believes in using his actions more, but do not let him fool you, he can very well talk out a problem if he had to. Ascending the steps of the tower was relatively easy, only some remora wyvern whelps and shakalaka tribe’s members or little mushroom like inhabitants. “God I hate stairs!” whines the armor clad Galen. “Why can’t they have lifts, or at least fixed the stairs especially since hunters have to go up here often just to chase dragons or wyverns or other silly little creatures….” Galen continues walking up ranting to himself nonstop to keep the loneliness away. “I wish Jake was here, great fellow and pretty handy with a bow. I remember the time when he shot down a fleeing elder chameleos. Ha what a shot that was, he weakened it enough for us to capture alive and he barely had a scratch on him!” Galen finally reaches the top and finds that his prize was not here, in fact, there was no sign of any creature that could be see that has either disturbed the place in what looks like for weeks. However, something strange was in the middle of the tower, what looked like a hunting horn, but was fashioned out of a material he has never seen before. Being curious as Galen always is, he goes to pick it up. Keeping note of the scorch marks around the area he carefully wipes the ash and soot off the horn. With a shrug and without thought he blows into it. The sound produced was like anything he heard before, worse than several Vian Garugas screaming at once without earplugs. Galen screams out in pain clutching at his helmet trying to dull the noise, soon his vision fades to black and he feels something warm running down his armor. Just great he relieved himself is all he is thinking before the darkness overcomes him like a comforting blanket from the pain. “Oh god my head….” Galen shakes his head still dazed and awakening. “What the hell happened?!” looking around him he mind still in shock not being able to articulate well. “Where the hell am I?!?!?” Galen hops up quickly but falls down for some reason not being able to balance on his two legs. He looks around to see a river and a forest, quite different from the tower and the heavily dense forest around it. He does not remember ever walking down. It must have been that blasted horn he thinks to himself. Unable to walk on two legs he crawls over to the river to waken himself up further. Several minutes later he reaches the river bank, still on alert for any monsters that might sneak up on him or pull him under the water. Look in to take a drink of water is when Galen Anon, monster hunter, receives his second shock of the day. “AHH WHAT THE HELL!!??” Galen reels back, swearing that he saw a more horse like face staring back at him instead of his reflection. Creeping back towards the water slowly making sure it is not some underwater monster he checks again this time feeling his face. Instead of hands coming up there are hooves, “the hell….” Those words were all that he could manage before passing out again. Several hours later Galen wakes up at night checking himself once more. Yup, he’s a horse now for some reason. Moreover, he can speak. This day continues to keep getting stranger, as Galen figures out how to maneuver with hooves instead of legs. He found that by placing the hilt of the blade in his mouth, he can grip it and he figured his center of balance while standing on his back two hooves. Everything seems to have changed according to his new body even his armor, which curiously have a new addition to them on the side. Wings are what he is looking at. But how could this be? With careful practice and trial and error, he can manipulate the winged appendages with ease all Galen has to figure out is how to fly. He has seen many wyverns, dragons, and other winged beasts fly, so why can it not be simple for him as it is for them. And with a goal set in his mind he heads off towards the forest running through and avoiding anything he sees. So far no monsters, but that does not mean there are not there. All he has seen were small herbivores like squirrels and such. Occasionally owls or other birds flew away before he could get a closer look. Galen skids to a halt almost running off an edge of a cliff overlooking a valley. Down in the valley he sees a small town, with buildings and lights and the whole works. His luck has finally turned. “Hopefully I can get an explanation about why I’m a horse….” Galen says with some hope in his voice. With a grim look on his face and determination written across it, he opens his wings and dives off the cliff angling at the small town. The wind catch underneath his wings and surprisingly his armor does not weigh him down. Nevertheless, his is steadily increasing in speed when only several kilometers away from the nearest building which looks to be made of bread and other sweets. “WOAH!” and with a loud thump and several clanks from his armor he crashes into a roll tumbling into the side of the building hitting his head against its side knocking him out. “Wakey wakey Mr. Sleepyhead.” Calls out a female voice. “Ugh what happened?....” Galen replies rubbing his head and opening his eyes slowly. “You seem to have hit your head Mr. Knight.” The voice replies back giggling slightly. Galen’s eyes bolt open becoming instantly aware. In front of him are pastry treats, cupcakes to be exact that seemed to be talking on their own accord? On closer look, he finds hooves to be holding the treats up. “Okay enough fooling with me who are you?” Galen responds quiet quickly and harsher than he intended. With a loud harrumph the voice answers back quite annoyed, “Fine no more games,” As a pink pony with even pinker mane and tail pops up. “My name is Pinkamena Dianne Pie, but friends just call me Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie replies practically bouncing with each word and smiling at Galen. “Oh okay thanks Pinkie…” Galen replies slightly creeped out by how by how happy this pony is. He notices a several balloon images on her flank and points them out, “Hey what is that there on your flank?” Pinkie stops mid-bounce almost as in shock then recovers quickly with a giggle that would make a hunter smile, “Silly Knight that is my cutie mark, it tells you what your purpose is and what your specialty is also. You have one also look.” Pinkie points at Galen who finally finds out with shock that his armor his gone and he is fully exposed. On his flank, he sees a shield with a skull and shovel on it which was not there before. “Oh… that… and would you stop calling me knight and could you please tell me where my armor is?” Galen says much slower than his previous responses and with more manners. “Sure thing Gale. I put it over there next to Gummy. Boy that stuff is heavy how could you ever fly with that on?” Pinkie asks quite politely but still as energetic, “Plus from the way you were dressed you looked like a knight.” The pink pony goes over next to what looks like a small alligator to retrieve the armor but Galen calls out worriedly. “Watch out that thing might bite you!” with genuine concern on his face and in his voice. “Silly that’s Gummy my alligator. He doesn’t have teeth and is perfectly harmless.” Pinkie replies full heartedly as the alligator opens its toothless mouth and latches onto her tail. Pinkie returns to Galen with his armor and weapon and other gear in saddlebags. “Well knight stuff coming right up.” She says with a hop and a skip she drops the things off next to Galen who is still keeping his eye on the alligator toothless or not. “Thank you very much Ms. Pie” Galen says as he puts his things back on and bows courteously. The pink pony giggles more and blushes, “Oh no problem I just haven’t seen that many knights around here as much. Plenty of guards come and go, but not knights.” Galen looks surprised to not hear anything about monster hunters, “Well I’m not a knight. I am a monster hunter. And you wouldn’t happen to know where a library is?” Pinkie sticks her tongue out playfully and points out her window in the direction of a tree house like building, “That is where my friend Twilight lives. In the town library, maybe she can help you out for whatever you’re looking for.” Galen nods his thanks and bows once more before heading out. Behind him, he hears the Pinkie yell out, “Welcome to Ponyville Pegasus. Always nice to meet a green monster hunter.” Galen ever confused remembers that he is green now, much like his Rathian plate armor…. And with random thought in head he trips over his armored hooves and hits the door of the library with is sheathed blade which keep in mind is around 5 feet long. “Ow….” Galen mumbles while trying to get up. He keeps forgetting that he is lighter than before and he has hooves now. Still in thought, the door suddenly swings open showing a tiny purple dragon. Galen jumps back in surprise covering his face to prevent from being burned. “Uh what do you want?” The purple dragon asks in a boyish voice not really caring why the green Pegasus in front of him is acting so weirdly. “Spike who is at the door?” calls a female voice from inside the library. “Just some weird Pegasus wearing armor I’ll just send him over.” The purple dragon calls over motioning Galen to move along towards the end of the library. Galen marvels at the number of books in one place. Covering every wall seems to be a bookshelf. He then stumbles over one open book but catches himself harrowingly missing a stack of books in front of him. Suddenly the stack of books levitate out of the way revealing a lavender unicorn who’s horn appears to be glowing then stops as the stack of books are set down. “Woah….” Galen says almost breathlessly. “Yeah I know it must seem like a lot of books at first to most people. I was just finishing that up and moving on to another stack.” The purple pony replies. “No not the books, well partly the books, but it’s just… Didyoujustmovethatwithyourhorn?!” Galen asks hurriedly obviously amazed. “Well yeah, it’s just a simple thing us unicorns can do. It does not even take much work. Are you okay? Oh wait how rude of me! I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Twilight. Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight extends a hoof to shake Galen’s. He returns the shake almost robotically still distracted by the magic he just saw. “Nice to meet you uni- I mean Twilight. Pinkie Pie said I should go here if I needed help finding something.” Galen says recovering his composure. “Ahh pinkie. Wait you are the new Pegasus she was talking about. A knight I think she said?” Twilight says obviously have heard of Galen already. “Wow she gets around fast. Oh and I am not a knight. I’m a monster hunter by trade, and also part time courier.” Galen says not annoyed by being called a knight. “Well Gale, that’s what pinkie calls you anyway and I hope you don’t mind. Nevertheless, it is my pleasure to meet a monster hunter. We have not had a monster hunter here before in Ponyville. I have so many questions to ask.” Says the lavender pony practically bubbling at the thought of learning something from this mysterious new Pegasus whose profession she has never heard of before or seen. “Well Gale what brings you to the quiet town of Ponyville?” She asks ever so holding back a flood of more questions. “Well the thing is I don’t know…. I am not even from here at all. I think I was taken to this world for some reason….” Galen says sheepishly embarrassed and not sure how Twilight would react. This world is all that needed to be said to catch Twilight’s attention. Immediately she is thinking of letter to send to Princess Celestia right away. However, she had to get rid of the strange Pegasus for a while to write. “Well that seems interesting. I’ll look into it as soon as possible” Twilight says putting a bit of mock interest into her speech to convince Galen. “Why don’t you go talk to Rainbow Dash, she’s a Pegasus also and one of the best fliers in all of Equestria next to the Wonderbolts. You can’t miss her she has a rainbow mane and you can usually find her on a cloud.” Twilight says hurriedly eager to send her report to the princess. Moreover, with that Galen walks out of the library feeling even more confused but has another goal in mind. Go find this Rainbow Dash pony and hopefully learn how to fly or at least how to stop. He walks around looking up at the skies hopefully for a cloud that might hold that Dash pony, but the trouble was, there were no clouds in the sky that he could see. Still walking around the clop of his armored hooves hitting the ground growing repetitive Galen almost gives up, until he sees a lone cloud right by the bakery where Pinkie lives. With nothing else to try he yells out, “Hello is there a Rainbow Dash here?” Instantly a blue head pops up from behind the cloud with a rainbow mane. The pony calls back, “Who wants to know?” in a rather smug tomboyish voice. This better be her Galen was thinking when he said, “Well twilight said I might be able to find you because I need help flying….” A few seconds pass until the blue Pegasus bursts out laughing, “BAHAHAHAHA! You must be kidding me, you look old enough to fly by yourself already! Were homeschooled or what. Well you came to the right Pegasus. I’m the best flier in all of Equestria and the only Pegasus to do a Sonic Rainboom twice. So I guess I could teach you. Let’s see what you can do.” Galen figuring that is the Rainbow Dash pony Twilight was talking about he decides to show her what he has learned so far. With a nod Galen starts flapping his wings desperately hovering only a few feet. From above Dash does a facehoof that can be heard from below, “Wow you got a lot to learn…. Okay let the expert show you how it’s done.” The blue Pegasus hops off the cloud with ease, spreading her wings, her lean beautiful body outlined in the sun. Galen watches in awe as Dash dives down towards the ground wings outspread and with quick pull upwards catches wind and is brought several feet into the air in just a few seconds. It looks effortless for her, leaving Galen to think, ‘why can’t I do that, I’m way stronger than she is!’ but on the outside he still looks awed. Eager to show that he could be just as good Galen takes a running start and takes off wings extended armor and all. It took only a few seconds for him to get the hang of it but with a few mishaps, such as some missing shingles on the rooftops. Soon he was next to Rainbow dash going at the same speed as her while in his armor, “How’s this teach.” Saying it with a smug look. Dash looks to her right surprised to see the green Pegasus already in the air after the performance she just saw earlier on the ground. “What wow you’re a fast learner!?” Dash calls out the wind blowing through her rainbow mane and tail trailing behind her, “But let’s sees what you can do!” With that Dash turns into a series of loops, barrels, and dives all looking effortless. Galen just gives a smirk and executes the actions perfectly with only a little mess up near the end, which was the landing. It ended up with Galen rolling into a small lake right next to a house outside of Ponyville and for some reason a large abundance of animals near by the house. “See ya later hotshot!” Dash calls out as she speeds back to Ponyville a I-told-you-so look on her face, “Let’s see what you can do next time.” The only thing Galen saw as he surfaced was a rainbow streak heading towards Ponyville. A loud squeak is heard from the shore ahead as he sees a yellow and pink pegasus run out of sight behind a bush. Galen not sure what scared the pegasus off, he goes to ask and hopefully ease her. “Uh excuse me, but what seems to be the matter?” he asks calmly and worried approaching the bush slowly. “please go….” Sounding only like a whisper from behind the bush. “Oh I’m sorry if I scared you.” Galen being genuine and truly sorry for scaring the pegasus. He removes his helmet, armor, and weapons to try and calm the yellow pegasus down. “There better I’m just like you….” He says more slowly and not as loud. “o-okay thanks… It’s j-just that weapons are scary and you just c-came out of nowhere… eep!” Says the yellow pegasus her voice a little bit louder now, but just above a whisper. A yellow pegasus with a pink mane walks out from behind the bush slowly still hunched low and quivering slightly. “m-my name is Fluttershy….. I think your that new pegasus Pinkie was talking about…. Not that I was talking about you or anything… I would never talk behind anypony’s back…. I think she said your n-name was Galen?....” her voice soft and gentle. No, wonder the animals liked her Galen thought; she is almost like an angel. Noticing how quiet and soft spoken she is he decides to keep the conversation short. “Well you’re a friend a Twilight’s right. It was nice meeting you but I really must be on my way.” Galen says hurriedly. “oh okay then…” Fluttershy smiles meekly and waves a little as Galen starts to walk away glad that she does not have to talk much longer. A long the way he sees a huge apple farm, larger than anything he has ever seen in his entire life. “Whoa…. Who could possibly harvest all these apples…” said Galen quite in shock just by the sheer number of apples. “Well I guess it won’t hurt just to take one…” He says while slowly diverting his path towards the orchard.
