A commissioned piece for  Lead Walker as a companion to an upcoming story he is writing about this very scene!

Lead Walker is a member of a a large enclave of ponies, as well as a few noneponys, that have sworn to destroy every monster in Equestria and make the world more safer for ponykind. Which makes the fact he is friends with Stage a bit of a complicated matter as Stage, being a half manticore who eats ponies on the regular, is by their definition, a monster himself. Lead, however, is hoping that he can introduce Stage to others of the Hunter clan and hopefully they will see that he is not just a savage monster as they may think, and could maybe even warm up to him.

Even Titan Guard, the largest Hunter of all, whose specialized prey happens to be…. Manticores…