在接下来的这一天的剩余时间里，甜贝尔一直很烦恼，似乎每位小马都比她勇敢。没有小马会说她没有经历过那些令人兴奋的冒险，但即便她最亲密的朋友已经冲了上去她仍旧很害怕，到了晚上睡觉的时候她仍然在想这些。所以当她被一身哀嚎声震醒的时候，她试图说服自己这只是她脑子想象出来的。过了一秒后，越来越近的嚎叫使她确信声音这是真的。甜贝尔蒙在了被子底下，几乎都不敢呼吸。她听到外面的呼喊声和跑动的马蹄声。外面应该发生了什么可怕的事情。
甜贝尔只想呆在那里、头上蒙着被子，来熬到早上，但她仿佛听到在她脑中朋友们都说她是个胆小鬼的声音。于是她缓慢地从床上滑下来，走到窗前。她深吸一口气，强迫自己向外看。
瑞瑞正沿着街道向站在方糖甜点屋拐角外的苹果杰克和暮光闪闪走去。在满月月光的照耀下，甜贝尔看到甜点屋的前窗被砸碎了！尽管甜贝尔内心仍然害怕，但她的好奇心更强。她跑下楼，走到外面。她沿着街道往前走，但忽然从附近的一条小巷里走出来两个影子。甜贝尔吓得尖叫起来…阴影也在尖叫！当她们走到灯光下，甜贝尔才意识到那是小萍花和飞板璐。
飞板璐叫道：“别这样忽然吓我们！”
甜贝儿抗议道：“我吓你们？你们才是大半夜里躲在黑暗中吓马的！”她又说道：“呃，你们为什么大半夜躲在黑暗中？
小萍花脱口而出：“木精狼回来了！它袭击了方糖甜点屋！”甜贝尔顿时眼睛都瞪大了。
她紧张地环顾四周，问道：“但它现在不见了，对吧？”
小萍花解释道：“是的。蛋糕夫人把发生的事告诉了苹果杰克，她把其他小马都召集了过来。他们都去调查了，所以我们也跟着去了。”
“你们为什么不来叫我呢？”甜贝儿皱起了眉头，感觉自己被冷落了。
飞板璐说道：“我们……不想吵醒你！”甜贝尔有些怀疑地看着她的朋友们。
飞板璐承认道：“我们还以为你会害怕呢。”
甜贝尔确实很害怕，但她不想承认。她说道：“我是可爱标记童子军的一员！你们去哪，我就去哪！”飞板璐和小萍花笑了笑与甜贝尔互相高击了一下蹄子。之后他们沿着街道飞奔向甜点屋，当他们到达那里时，蛋糕太太正在跟暮暮、苹果杰克和瑞瑞讲了之前发生的事情，同时蛋糕先生则尝试把南瓜蛋糕和奶油蛋糕两个婴儿重新哄入睡。
蛋糕太太正在说道：“。。。当我下楼的时候，看到有个怪物在吃我柜台上的蛋糕！我没怎么细想，我只是抓起我的擀面杖来把它赶走了！”
甜贝尔在甜点屋角落的残骸现场周围仔细观察：陈列柜里全都是吃剩了一半的糕点，通常摆放着糖果的架子也被清空了，就连装饰蛋糕的裱花袋也不见了。这时她的蹄子碰到了一个粘糊糊的东西，她低头看了看。她踩在一个焦糖苹果上，苹果上有大量的咬痕。甜贝尔把焦糖从蹄子上弄掉时，不禁吓得发抖。
云宝黛西冲了进来，小蝶紧随其后。“我们在小镇的各个地方都找过了。”云宝黛西说道，“没有木精狼的踪迹，但木精狼的踪迹是很难隐藏的！”
“我还从来都没听说一只离群独行的木精狼会袭击商店。”暮暮若有所思地说道：“在我读过的每本书里，都记录着木精狼是成群聚居式生活的，更喜欢生活在森林深处。”
这时萍琪派打着哈欠蹦蹦跳跳地走下楼梯，当她看到聚集在店里的各位时，停了下来。
“各位小马们都在这里干什么呢？”她爽朗地问道，“是惊喜派对吗？是让谁惊喜呢？是我吗？”然后她担心地用蹄子捂住嘴。“我是不是破坏了惊喜的那一环？”她大声地叫道。“我保证我不会告诉我自己！”
“不，萍琪。”暮暮说道，“方糖甜点屋刚刚被木精狼袭击了。你是在说你刚刚什么都没感觉到？”
“我睡得很沉。” 萍琪派耸耸肩说。为了演示，她立马站起来睡着了，张着嘴大声打着鼾。
苹果杰克大喊道：“萍琪派！” 萍琪派瞬间又醒了。
她又问道：“各位小马都在这干什么呢？”边说脸上露出了灿烂的笑容。“我刚刚做个了非常非常非常奇怪的梦梦到你们给我开了个惊喜派对！”
小萍花想让当下的事情回到正轨上，说道：“我想我们应当去找一下线索！”
飞板璐又说道：“我们必须在木精狼再次出击之前找到它！”
甜贝儿又补充道：“同意！”，她试图让别的小马觉得她是认真的。
苹果杰克冲着童子军们说道：“你们几个哪都不准去，这是成年小马们的任务。”又补充道：“听到了没，小萍花？”
小萍花闷闷不乐地说：“好吧。但我们能帮上大忙的——”
苹果杰克深情地对她的妹妹微笑，说道：“我知道你可以的，小甜心。” “但是你现在能为我们做的最好的事情就是保证自己的安全。
甜贝尔顿时松了一口气，她绝对可以做到保证自己安全。
“其实，”暮暮说道，“我想我确实能有一份工作给你们三个做。”小萍花和飞板璐的眼睛顿时亮了起来，而甜贝儿有点退缩。“你们可以帮蛋糕先生和蛋糕太太清理一下他们的店铺！”小萍花和飞板璐顿时失望无比，而甜贝尔则喜形于色。
“与此同时，我们其他人会试图找到木精狼并阻止它再次发起袭击。也许星光熠熠和我能找到一个咒语来有所帮助。”暮暮小跑去找星光熠熠了。
当甜贝尔看着焦糖苹果上的那些牙印的时候，她很高兴能把搜捕木精狼的任务留给了暮暮她们。不过，她觉得也许她注意到了怪物袭击的规律原因。如果她的想法是对的…她以后或许不会再吃糖了。
英文版：
Sweetie Belle was troubled for the rest of the day. It seemed like everypony was braver than she was. Nopony could say that she hadn’t had her fair share of exciting adventures. But even her closest friends went out of their pony who always freaked out first. It was still on her mind when she went to bed that night. So when she was jolted awake by the sound of a mournful howl, she tired to convince herself it was just her overactive imagination. A second, closer howl convinced her it was real. Sweetie Belle ducked under the covers, barely breathing. She heard shouting and running hoofbeats. Something was happening outside. Something scary.
Sweetie Belle wanted to stay there, with the covers over her head, until morning. But she heard her friends’ voices in her head, calling her a scaredy-pony. Very slowly, she slid out of bed and moved to the window. Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to look outside.
Rarity was cantering down the street, toward Applejack and Twilight Sparkle, who stood outside Sugarcube Corner. In the light of the full moon, Sweetie Belle could see that the sweet shop’s front window had been smashed! Sweetie Belle was still scared, but her curiosity was stronger. She ran downstairs and stepped outside. She started down the street, but two shadowy figures stepped out from a nearby alley. Sweetie Belle screamed…and so did the shadows! As they stepped into the light, Sweetie Belle realized it was Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.
“Don’t sneak up us like that!” Scootaloo said.
“Me? You’re the ones hiding in the dark in the middle of the night!” Sweetie Belle protested. Then she added, “Um, why are you hiding in the dark in the middle of the night?”
“The Timberwolf is back!” Apple Bloom blurted. “It attacked Sugarcube Corner!” Sweetie Belle’s eyes went wide.
“But it’s gone now, right?” she asked, looking around nervously.
“Yep. Mrs.Cake told Applejack what happened, and she rounded up the others. They all headed over to investigate, so we tagged along,” Apple Bloom explained.
“Why didn’t you come get me?” Sweetie Belle frowned, feeling left out.
“We…didn’t want to wake you up!” Scootaloo said. Sweetie Belle looked at her friends suspiciously.
“And…we thought you’d be scared,” Scootaloo admitted.
Sweetie Belle was scared. But she didn’t want to admit it. “I’m a Cutie Mark Crusader! Where you go, I go!” she said. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom smiled and high-hooved Sweetie Belle. Then they galloped down the street to the sweet shop. When they got there, Mrs.Cake was already telling Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity her tale, while Mr.Cake tried to rock the babies, Pumpkin and Pound, back to sleep.
“...And when I came downstairs, there was the monster, eating my eclairs! I didn’t think; I just grabbed my rolling pin and chased it away!” Mrs.Cake said.
Sweetie Belle peered around the wreckage of Sugarcube Corner. Half-eaten pastries sagged in the display case, and the normally candy-packed shelves were stripped bare. Even the cake-decorating sugar sprinkles were gone. Her hoof touched something sticky, and she looked down. She had stepped on a caramel apple with massive canine bite marks in it. Sweetie Belle kicked the confection off her hoof and shuddered.
Rainbow Dash flew in, with Fluttershy a wingbeat behind. “We checked everywhere in town!” Rainbow Dash reported. “No sign of the Timberwolf. And those things are pretty hard to hide!”
“I’ve never heard of a lone Timberwolf attacking a shop before,” Twilight said thoughtfully. “Every book I’ve read says they usually run in packs and prefer the deep forest.”
Pinkie Pie bounded down the stairs, yawning. She stopped in her tracks when she saw the huge crowd gathered.
“What’s everypony doing here?” she asked brightly. “Is it a surprise party? Who are we surprising? Is it me?” Then she put her hooves over her mouth in concern. “Did I just ruin the surprise part?” she whispered loudly. “I promise I won’t tell myself!”
“No, Pinkie,” Twilight said, “Surgarcube Corner was attacked by a Timberwolf. You mean you didn’t hear any of it?
“I’m a heavy sleeper,” Pinkie said with a shrug. To demonstrate, she immediately fell asleep standing up, mouth open in a loud snore.
“Pinkie Pie!” Applejack shouted. Pinkie jumrped awake again.
“What’s everypony doing here?” she asked, smiling brightly. “I just had the straaaangest dream that you were throwing me a surprise party!”
“I think we should look for clues!” Apple Bloom said, getting things back on track.
“We have to find that Timberwolf before it strikes again!” Scootaloo said.
“Yeah!” Sweetie Belle added, trying to sound like she meant it.
“You there aren’t doin’ anything. This is grow-up pony business,” Applejack informed the CMCs. “You listen’, Apple Bloom?” she added for good measure.
“Yes,” Apple Bloom said sulkily. “But we’d be a big help—”
“I know you would, sugarcube,” said Applejack, smiling at her little sister fondly. “But the best thing you can do for us right now is stay safe.”
Sweetie Belle gave the tiniest sigh of relief. Staying safe was definitely something she could do.
“Actually,” said Twilight, “I think I do have a job for you three.” Apple Bloom and Scootaloo brightened. Sweetie Belle winced. “You can help Mr. and Mrs.Cake clean up their shop!”
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo sagged. Sweetie Belle beamed.
“Meanwhile, the rest of us will try to find that Timberwolf and stop it from attacking again. Maybe Starlight Glimmer and I can find a spell to help.” Twilight trotted off to find Starlight.
As Sweetie Belle looked at the fang marks in the caramel apple, she was glad to leave the Timberwolf hunting to Twilight. Still, she felt like maybe she was noticing a pattern to the monster’s attacks. And if she was right…she was giving up sugar forever.
甜贝尔只想呆在那里、头上蒙着被子，来熬到早上，但她仿佛听到在她脑中朋友们都说她是个胆小鬼的声音。于是她缓慢地从床上滑下来，走到窗前。她深吸一口气，强迫自己向外看。
瑞瑞正沿着街道向站在方糖甜点屋拐角外的苹果杰克和暮光闪闪走去。在满月月光的照耀下，甜贝尔看到甜点屋的前窗被砸碎了！尽管甜贝尔内心仍然害怕，但她的好奇心更强。她跑下楼，走到外面。她沿着街道往前走，但忽然从附近的一条小巷里走出来两个影子。甜贝尔吓得尖叫起来…阴影也在尖叫！当她们走到灯光下，甜贝尔才意识到那是小萍花和飞板璐。
飞板璐叫道：“别这样忽然吓我们！”
甜贝儿抗议道：“我吓你们？你们才是大半夜里躲在黑暗中吓马的！”她又说道：“呃，你们为什么大半夜躲在黑暗中？
小萍花脱口而出：“木精狼回来了！它袭击了方糖甜点屋！”甜贝尔顿时眼睛都瞪大了。
她紧张地环顾四周，问道：“但它现在不见了，对吧？”
小萍花解释道：“是的。蛋糕夫人把发生的事告诉了苹果杰克，她把其他小马都召集了过来。他们都去调查了，所以我们也跟着去了。”
“你们为什么不来叫我呢？”甜贝儿皱起了眉头，感觉自己被冷落了。
飞板璐说道：“我们……不想吵醒你！”甜贝尔有些怀疑地看着她的朋友们。
飞板璐承认道：“我们还以为你会害怕呢。”
甜贝尔确实很害怕，但她不想承认。她说道：“我是可爱标记童子军的一员！你们去哪，我就去哪！”飞板璐和小萍花笑了笑与甜贝尔互相高击了一下蹄子。之后他们沿着街道飞奔向甜点屋，当他们到达那里时，蛋糕太太正在跟暮暮、苹果杰克和瑞瑞讲了之前发生的事情，同时蛋糕先生则尝试把南瓜蛋糕和奶油蛋糕两个婴儿重新哄入睡。
蛋糕太太正在说道：“。。。当我下楼的时候，看到有个怪物在吃我柜台上的蛋糕！我没怎么细想，我只是抓起我的擀面杖来把它赶走了！”
甜贝尔在甜点屋角落的残骸现场周围仔细观察：陈列柜里全都是吃剩了一半的糕点，通常摆放着糖果的架子也被清空了，就连装饰蛋糕的裱花袋也不见了。这时她的蹄子碰到了一个粘糊糊的东西，她低头看了看。她踩在一个焦糖苹果上，苹果上有大量的咬痕。甜贝尔把焦糖从蹄子上弄掉时，不禁吓得发抖。
云宝黛西冲了进来，小蝶紧随其后。“我们在小镇的各个地方都找过了。”云宝黛西说道，“没有木精狼的踪迹，但木精狼的踪迹是很难隐藏的！”
“我还从来都没听说一只离群独行的木精狼会袭击商店。”暮暮若有所思地说道：“在我读过的每本书里，都记录着木精狼是成群聚居式生活的，更喜欢生活在森林深处。”
这时萍琪派打着哈欠蹦蹦跳跳地走下楼梯，当她看到聚集在店里的各位时，停了下来。
“各位小马们都在这里干什么呢？”她爽朗地问道，“是惊喜派对吗？是让谁惊喜呢？是我吗？”然后她担心地用蹄子捂住嘴。“我是不是破坏了惊喜的那一环？”她大声地叫道。“我保证我不会告诉我自己！”
“不，萍琪。”暮暮说道，“方糖甜点屋刚刚被木精狼袭击了。你是在说你刚刚什么都没感觉到？”
“我睡得很沉。” 萍琪派耸耸肩说。为了演示，她立马站起来睡着了，张着嘴大声打着鼾。
苹果杰克大喊道：“萍琪派！” 萍琪派瞬间又醒了。
她又问道：“各位小马都在这干什么呢？”边说脸上露出了灿烂的笑容。“我刚刚做个了非常非常非常奇怪的梦梦到你们给我开了个惊喜派对！”
小萍花想让当下的事情回到正轨上，说道：“我想我们应当去找一下线索！”
飞板璐又说道：“我们必须在木精狼再次出击之前找到它！”
甜贝儿又补充道：“同意！”，她试图让别的小马觉得她是认真的。
苹果杰克冲着童子军们说道：“你们几个哪都不准去，这是成年小马们的任务。”又补充道：“听到了没，小萍花？”
小萍花闷闷不乐地说：“好吧。但我们能帮上大忙的——”
苹果杰克深情地对她的妹妹微笑，说道：“我知道你可以的，小甜心。” “但是你现在能为我们做的最好的事情就是保证自己的安全。
甜贝尔顿时松了一口气，她绝对可以做到保证自己安全。
“其实，”暮暮说道，“我想我确实能有一份工作给你们三个做。”小萍花和飞板璐的眼睛顿时亮了起来，而甜贝儿有点退缩。“你们可以帮蛋糕先生和蛋糕太太清理一下他们的店铺！”小萍花和飞板璐顿时失望无比，而甜贝尔则喜形于色。
“与此同时，我们其他人会试图找到木精狼并阻止它再次发起袭击。也许星光熠熠和我能找到一个咒语来有所帮助。”暮暮小跑去找星光熠熠了。
当甜贝尔看着焦糖苹果上的那些牙印的时候，她很高兴能把搜捕木精狼的任务留给了暮暮她们。不过，她觉得也许她注意到了怪物袭击的规律原因。如果她的想法是对的…她以后或许不会再吃糖了。
英文版：
Sweetie Belle was troubled for the rest of the day. It seemed like everypony was braver than she was. Nopony could say that she hadn’t had her fair share of exciting adventures. But even her closest friends went out of their pony who always freaked out first. It was still on her mind when she went to bed that night. So when she was jolted awake by the sound of a mournful howl, she tired to convince herself it was just her overactive imagination. A second, closer howl convinced her it was real. Sweetie Belle ducked under the covers, barely breathing. She heard shouting and running hoofbeats. Something was happening outside. Something scary.
Sweetie Belle wanted to stay there, with the covers over her head, until morning. But she heard her friends’ voices in her head, calling her a scaredy-pony. Very slowly, she slid out of bed and moved to the window. Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to look outside.
Rarity was cantering down the street, toward Applejack and Twilight Sparkle, who stood outside Sugarcube Corner. In the light of the full moon, Sweetie Belle could see that the sweet shop’s front window had been smashed! Sweetie Belle was still scared, but her curiosity was stronger. She ran downstairs and stepped outside. She started down the street, but two shadowy figures stepped out from a nearby alley. Sweetie Belle screamed…and so did the shadows! As they stepped into the light, Sweetie Belle realized it was Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.
“Don’t sneak up us like that!” Scootaloo said.
“Me? You’re the ones hiding in the dark in the middle of the night!” Sweetie Belle protested. Then she added, “Um, why are you hiding in the dark in the middle of the night?”
“The Timberwolf is back!” Apple Bloom blurted. “It attacked Sugarcube Corner!” Sweetie Belle’s eyes went wide.
“But it’s gone now, right?” she asked, looking around nervously.
“Yep. Mrs.Cake told Applejack what happened, and she rounded up the others. They all headed over to investigate, so we tagged along,” Apple Bloom explained.
“Why didn’t you come get me?” Sweetie Belle frowned, feeling left out.
“We…didn’t want to wake you up!” Scootaloo said. Sweetie Belle looked at her friends suspiciously.
“And…we thought you’d be scared,” Scootaloo admitted.
Sweetie Belle was scared. But she didn’t want to admit it. “I’m a Cutie Mark Crusader! Where you go, I go!” she said. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom smiled and high-hooved Sweetie Belle. Then they galloped down the street to the sweet shop. When they got there, Mrs.Cake was already telling Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity her tale, while Mr.Cake tried to rock the babies, Pumpkin and Pound, back to sleep.
“...And when I came downstairs, there was the monster, eating my eclairs! I didn’t think; I just grabbed my rolling pin and chased it away!” Mrs.Cake said.
Sweetie Belle peered around the wreckage of Sugarcube Corner. Half-eaten pastries sagged in the display case, and the normally candy-packed shelves were stripped bare. Even the cake-decorating sugar sprinkles were gone. Her hoof touched something sticky, and she looked down. She had stepped on a caramel apple with massive canine bite marks in it. Sweetie Belle kicked the confection off her hoof and shuddered.
Rainbow Dash flew in, with Fluttershy a wingbeat behind. “We checked everywhere in town!” Rainbow Dash reported. “No sign of the Timberwolf. And those things are pretty hard to hide!”
“I’ve never heard of a lone Timberwolf attacking a shop before,” Twilight said thoughtfully. “Every book I’ve read says they usually run in packs and prefer the deep forest.”
Pinkie Pie bounded down the stairs, yawning. She stopped in her tracks when she saw the huge crowd gathered.
“What’s everypony doing here?” she asked brightly. “Is it a surprise party? Who are we surprising? Is it me?” Then she put her hooves over her mouth in concern. “Did I just ruin the surprise part?” she whispered loudly. “I promise I won’t tell myself!”
“No, Pinkie,” Twilight said, “Surgarcube Corner was attacked by a Timberwolf. You mean you didn’t hear any of it?
“I’m a heavy sleeper,” Pinkie said with a shrug. To demonstrate, she immediately fell asleep standing up, mouth open in a loud snore.
“Pinkie Pie!” Applejack shouted. Pinkie jumrped awake again.
“What’s everypony doing here?” she asked, smiling brightly. “I just had the straaaangest dream that you were throwing me a surprise party!”
“I think we should look for clues!” Apple Bloom said, getting things back on track.
“We have to find that Timberwolf before it strikes again!” Scootaloo said.
“Yeah!” Sweetie Belle added, trying to sound like she meant it.
“You there aren’t doin’ anything. This is grow-up pony business,” Applejack informed the CMCs. “You listen’, Apple Bloom?” she added for good measure.
“Yes,” Apple Bloom said sulkily. “But we’d be a big help—”
“I know you would, sugarcube,” said Applejack, smiling at her little sister fondly. “But the best thing you can do for us right now is stay safe.”
Sweetie Belle gave the tiniest sigh of relief. Staying safe was definitely something she could do.
“Actually,” said Twilight, “I think I do have a job for you three.” Apple Bloom and Scootaloo brightened. Sweetie Belle winced. “You can help Mr. and Mrs.Cake clean up their shop!”
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo sagged. Sweetie Belle beamed.
“Meanwhile, the rest of us will try to find that Timberwolf and stop it from attacking again. Maybe Starlight Glimmer and I can find a spell to help.” Twilight trotted off to find Starlight.
As Sweetie Belle looked at the fang marks in the caramel apple, she was glad to leave the Timberwolf hunting to Twilight. Still, she felt like maybe she was noticing a pattern to the monster’s attacks. And if she was right…she was giving up sugar forever.