User blog:Repter/Manticore WWYD/ WWYD by Breakaway Republic

You have urgent business to conduct two towns over and are in a hurry. Despite the dire warning of a man-eating manticore who dwells there, you're willing to take a shortcut through the mountains.

At around the halfway point, you feel something whistle past your ear and see some sort of quill embedded in a tree inches from your head.

"Ah...missed. Pity- you would've been better off feeling my venom before I devoured you." A sultry voice calls out. Before you is a beautiful but vicious-looking manticore blocking your path, her tail swaying menacingly.

Wanting no part of whatever designs she has on you, you turn to flee but almost immediately stumble and fall down a steep embankment. Perhaps it's your imagination but you could've sworn she yelled out "Oh no!" as you went over.

At the bottom of the embankment, you're in great pain and your vision is blurred, but you can feel someone shaking you and calling out in a sorrowful and concerned tone.

"Please! W-wake up! Come on....are you all right!?"

It's your manticore assailant.

What Do You Do?

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While I'm looking at her eyes only partly open still realing from the pain, the only thought going through my head 'she was just trying to attack me and now she's holding onto me for dear life?'

"Ugh...what happened?" When she hears me, her eyes gleam and she pulls me into a bear hug crushing me a little and causing more pain then I was already feeling. "Please let go of me that hurts." I tell her while grunting through the pain.

"OH...I'm so sorry are you ok?" she asks me, I'm more confused now she was just trying to attack me and eat me I do believe, and now she's concerned if I'm ok what going on here did I hit my head more then I thought or was she just acting?

"I'm fine, my heads hurts and my leg is in pa..WAIT A SECOND you were just trying to attack me why are you concerned now!?" She seems shocked and stands up, she starts pushing her furry digits together and looks away shyly, ok when I first met her I thought she was hot and now that I see her like this I can't help but admit she's really is cute, for a monster said to attack and eat people.

She kneals down and hugs me again, this time she's gentle. "I'm sorry about that I had been watching you for a while and I had got so caught up in trying to make you mine I scared you, I'm sorry."

Ok now she's pulling at heart strings, she's crying I hate seeing women cry I try to stand and fall a little, I check my leg it's not broken but I can tell it's badly bruised, my head still hurts and now I notice the pain in my side and clench it, she notices and grabs me just as I was about to fall over.

"Don't move I'll take care of you, I know where you live hold on to me." She grabs me and I can feel the air around me as she takes flight, now I'm clinging on to her for dear life, we land outside my home in and she drags me inside and lays me on my bed. "You need to rest, I'll take care of you."

Wow this monster is really sweet what happened to the I'm going to devour you monster I met earlier, then I remember the business I needed to take care of in another town. "Wait but I have business in another city what am I'm going to do about that!?" I yell from my bedroom, she looks back in with a questioning look across her face.

"What business would that be?" I really don't want to answer that but she has been taking care of me and it does seems only right, and now that I think of it I never got her name, I'll ask her later.

"My brother wanted me to help him with his roof, I better call him to let him know I won't be coming for a while until I recover." When I tell her that a bright gleam comes across her eyes again like the one she had when she found out I wasn't dead.

"Go ahead and call him I'll go grab a doctor." she leaves me alone, so I call my brother up. After informing him about what happened and how I won't be moving for a few days he tells me to get well and he'll hire someone to do the job, with that I decide to take a nap.

It was only an hour later that I hear the back door of my house open again, in walks the Manticore with my neighbor who was in fact a doctor at one of the local hospitals, I remember that his wife is a Unicorn and she followed right behind them.

"Hey Repter, your girlfriend here told us about what happened, let me have a look." Girlfriend, really she told them she was my girlfriend, this women is up to something, I just can't place my finger on it. "Ok looks like you suffered a small concussion, nothing to worry about, your leg will heal in a few days and that pain in your side is from the fall nothing broken."

"Thanks Greg, I owe you big time." I tell him, he nods in agreement and stops at the door.

"When you get better, buy me a beer then we're square." he leaves, his wife tow leaving the manticore and me alone, she sits on the bed next to me, and lays down next to me pulling me close to her.

"Repter I'm sorry about what I did can you please forgive me." she whipsers into my ear, personally I can't stay mad at her after taking care of me and looking out for me, dispite all the things they say about them.

"I forgive you, it's kind of hard to stay mad at you anyway." she brightens up and bears hugs me again, after about five minutes of her hugging me and crying into my shoulder, I pet her and get a purr out of her, when she notices she pushes my hand away and blushes I do the same.

That was almost four months ago, Iris has been staying at my with me ever sense we met on that mountain pass, we've set the date a month from now for our wedding despite the fact she married me in her own way.