At the entrance of the cave the three friends stand scared out of their wits, all of them thinking the same thought; "notagoodidea-notagoodidea". None of them like the idea of wondering into caves, but they have to do it. In the name of Celestia they have to do it.

The wondering passage sways, the dark dripping tendrils reek of death and decay. Something is in here, and whatever it is isn't good. Something appears to be spread all over the walls and ceiling but only the people outside could have the stomachs to guess what it was.

The three just walked slowly huddled together in the hallways of this seemingly endless labyrinth of one hall. No splits or cut offs, just a one way street to the end of the cave. But that's all this cave may need when even the stench could fight off any pony with any sense at all.

They reach the end of the hallway and into a large dimly lit room. Spikes with some sort of goo and ooze on them from whatever victim lay there last. The fog seems dense enough to cut with a knife. The room looks almost like some sort of old torture chamber. Many assorted torturing devices; tables with latches and hooks, wall hanging set ups, tasers neatly arranged against the wall, and next to the tasers was a rather impressive but unused sword rack.

A rather confusing room, but the sword rack had given its purpose away. This was not for physical torture, but for mental. Whatever group they have stumbled upon must be hiding secrets that they would need to keep hidden. Or perhaps they needed to learn others secrets.

The groups anxiety calmed a bit as they realized that the room was not a physical torture chamber. Meaning that perhaps the users were not as violent as first feared, but perhaps just a secret society of some sorts.

"Hey, hey, I have an idea!" An over excited blue Rain Dancer begins to cheer up herself. "What if this place isn't even used? Maybe it's an ancient ruin of some sort?" A wink and an awkward grin try to suppress the shaking and scared pony.

"That would be nice, but how would an ancient ruin have tasers?" The multicolored unicorn questions back, trying not to be too harsh as all three of them are still scared of this cave system.

"Umm… maybe it's just for protection? Maybe this group just uses it to scare away anyone that tries to come close to them?"

"That's a better idea that would explain why nothing seems to be used. But what's confusing me is this stench, why does it stink so horridly?"

"Perhaps it's one of those magical spells you unicorn's like to use?" Peach decides to break her own silence, "You know, you can enchant stuff to look differently, maybe they made this room smell this way to add that special effect?"

"Hmm, that makes sense I guess."

Unlike the rest of the cave there were a few doors in this large chamber. One had some bank like latch system on it that unhooked with magic. Lucky used hers to open it easily, no code or key was needed so whatever group using this place must not have planned being found so soon. Behind the door was an extremely clean, all white lab room. A few tables up against the walls with various sized beakers and text tubes like any pony would see in a lab. What startled the three was what was in the middle.

A small table and chair sat in the middle of the lab. On the small table sat a simple black box, something one would remember as a jewelry box or something of the sort. Next to the lab table was a very large, strange circular carving on the ground in the cold hard stone of the lab. It had some sort of scribbles or symbols on it. In the middle a simple but hideous metal table with a belt to hold down each of a pony's legs and neck.

"Well, this is all very disturbing and everything… but we can't simply expect every pony to believe us can we?" A pale Rain Dance mumbles at her two friends.

"Hmm, you do have a point. I guess this box will do better than anything else in this stingy lab room." The black box levitates towards the unicorn of the group as they turn around and head back into the less clean parts of the cave system.

A long and scary trek back out of the cave later and the three are back in town. They had spent more time in the cave than they had planned and it was past midnight, a long restless night in their rented house gave them a little comfort until morning.

Back to Dream Dancers tent they went, if any pony were to know about the strange box and symbols in the floor of the cave she should. It all simply baffled the three as they hadn't seen anything like it before. They box so simple and the symbols so… so… strange.

"Hello! Any pony home?" The three seemingly ask the inanimate house door again. This time they are greeted by the pony herself, invited inside shortly after.

"So, what brings you three to my household so early in the morning?"

"Well, we once again are in need of something we cannot answer." Lucky begins to open her saddlebag and levitates out the black box setting it in front of Dream.

"It has been very long sense I have seen one of these… I thought we were past these dark days but my hopes were too high once again." As the unicorns brows express her disappointment and anger towards society itself.

"So… you know what this box is?"

"Sadly yes, it's used to seal away magic that has been drained from something. The last usage I have seen was by cults and dark magic users to steal magic away from unicorns. But those days should have been long gone as it is a lost magic and a lost cause."

"Well, some pony doesn't think so…" A saddened look approaches the three's faces "We found this and a large number of lab equipment in the cave on the outskirts of town. Which we are now assuming is for this ritual you are talking about."

"You must take me there; hopefully we still have time before they do any damage. I hope that the users of this are only fools who have stumbled upon it, and not some force that will endanger Equestria."

The three head back to the cave, this time with a new and more experienced pony that can light up the cave easier. Upon examining the rooms their fears have been confirmed, this is no novice. Whatever pony or group is doing this has been doing this for years.

Dream confirms the analysis that the first torture room is a mental and not a physical torture chamber. The weapons have never been used and there is no evidence of blood anywhere. Upon opening the lab room doors Dream instantly begins to analyze the circle and equipment. Down on her knee's she stares down the symbols like she is trying to scare them away.

"Yep, seems we were right before coming here. Some pony is catching other ponies and stealing their magic energy then sealing it away in that box or as a liquid in vials for later use. The circle activates which sucks the magic out of whatever victim is on the table in the middle. Not a pleasant experience for any pony to say the least…"

Closer examination of the passageways reveals a new passageway leading outside, the lack of lighting last time made the ponies miss it. The four charge outside and they are awe struck by the sight, a large black castle. Black shining pillars circling it made of the same obsidian the castle itself is made from. As the four walk closer they are stopped by a large brute of a guard.

Regal masquerade, a large brute unicorn surrounded but large axes, swords, and a large number or weapons and spikes. His magic level was above anything ever felt by the three friends, and he silence that came forth from this pony's mouth could never be explained with words. It is not simply silence. But it almost sucks the life out of you, almost makes you depressed and makes you want to give up simply by standing near him. His whole body is gray, almost sickly looking, eyes that radiate emotionless pain and sorrow, knotted up mane and tail that hasn't been properly washed in no telling how long.

"Wait, how do we know his name? I don't remember you telling us princess?" The scared Rain Dancer stammers hoping the guard wouldn't hear.

"It seems as if he is mute, communicating through our minds. He must have considerably large amount of magic, telepathy requires quite a bit of energy, along with the fact that he is the only one guarding this castle." Dream tries to inform her new younger friends in their time of fear, one she is sharing "One can't help but feel for him though; talking is one of the bases of our society."

One of the huge axes starts to levitate behind Regal; it flings towards the unicorn as if to say "shut up" but stops inches away from her face, her magic stopping it from getting any closer from them. As a drip of sweat starts to swell up on Dream's face as another weapon starts to fly towards the group, this time a sword and at a faster speed.

The axe flies upwards hitting the sword and both fall towards the ground falling deep into the ground, showing their true weight. Another axe starts to levitate but Peach charges full speed at Regal causing him to put up a force field in front of him and the weapons to fall, Lucky teleports Peaches to the side of the unicorn and outside of the range of the force field. She then quickly turns and gives the unicorn a bone crunching kick to the ribs.

Slowly another sword rises and flies towards the earth pony, this time not alone, four more axes and swords are flying with it and terrifying speeds. The impact from the pony's kick apparently having no effect on the unicorn aged in battle.

Out of fear for her friend being harmed Lucky quickly teleports towards the guard and head butts him full speed into the side. The frightened Lucky Dream screams at the top of her lungs as she rams the war aged unicorn, magic energy oozing out of her horn like poison into his veins.

"I thought we had him, what in the hay happened?"

"I have no clue… there is something strange going on."

The wound left from all their attacks have healed. A one sided battle, one versus four and the four are losing. How could this be?

"We haven't even made it inside yet…"

This time a large rock spike levitates into the air and quickly gains altitude, then plummets down towards the group. Dream Dancer stops it with her magic as Regal charges a sword right towards them. Lucky, knowingly unable to stop it head on, smashes the sword into the ground with a rock right before it hits the group. As the smoke clears Regal appears right behind them, ready to strike them.

A flash of light blinds every pony and shoots straight through Regal sending him sideways. After their eyes re-adjust they see Lucky, her right eye becoming almost holy. Her entire eye shines brightly with a white light but then calms down to a holy white color with aqua blue iris. The guard stands back up but falls again. After being poisoned by the unicorns horn earlier, and now being struck by some unknown and unseen force his body cannot heal.

They had finally beaten the behemoth guard. But with this much trouble simply getting in, what would happen if they opened the doors into the obsidian castle? The unicorn's body turns to ash and blows away with the wind, his apparently immortal body unable to cope with the wound given to him this time. A mighty warrior has been lost.

Moments later the strange change in Lucky's eye disappears like it never happened.

The group huddles together next to a fire they built in a cave a ways away from the castle. They stood no chance unless their wounds healed overnight. Hopefully the group would have their full strength by morning and be able to put up a fight against the empire inside of those obsidian doors. Knowing that more fights, hopefully less frightening than today's, would be ahead.

"Hey Lucky?"

"Ya Peachy?"

"There just feels like something is off about that castle. Like something's in there that shouldn't be in this world. Like in that cave..." She is just testing the water; all three of the ponies want to ask Lucky the same thing.

"I know what you mean."

"So, uh, about the fight earlier…"

"I don't know." Lucky interrupts her friend, knowing where the conversation is going. She has no clue on what has happened, it has never happened before.

"Excuse me? You don't know what? How could you not know anything about your eyes going all crazy on us and you killing that guy?" The orange pony pokes her hooves on her head flattens her ears backwards and makes a funny face.

"The truth is, I don't know. This is the first time that has happened."

As the group wakes in the morning they are all still in some pain, aching all over from the fight but a lot better off then yesterday. They creep out of the cave and work their way back to the castle. The only way in seems to be the front gates, or the numerous vents towards the top of the castle. The gates would be easier but would just invite another attack. But how would the group get inside the vents when only one of them can fly? Luckily levitation spells are no problem to the two unicorns of the group.

Rain Dancer picks up Peach Sprinkles while the two unicorns levitate and they quickly fly their way up through the vents in the top of the castle. Even the inside of the castle seems to be made of some sort of hard black glass, what the ponies guess is obsidian enchanted to be harder than normal. Incredibly clean looking compared to the cave system. There is the feeling that something is watching you, alongside the eerily quiet silence of the castle.

The clicking of hoof steps quickly fills the hallway the ponies were about to enter from the vent. They stop their movements and cling to the walls. What appears to be a female changeling walks under them in the halls. She is an alicorn shaped changeling much like the one that attacked Canterlot during the wedding; just the voice is a bit more sinister sounding as she seems to be talking to a shadow that circles her.

"Raven horn, I thought I told you that there should have been guards or some sort of defense in that cave..." Echoes a strange otherworldly voice

"I know I know, but I thought you said that no one notices that cave system." hisses back the changeling shaking her head back and forth towards the shadow as it shifts across her body.

"I didn't account for those stupid foals."

"You have such a wonderful way with this world's creatures…"

The soft clicking of her hooves dissipates down the hall and the ponies assume they have left out of hearing and sight distance. Dream Dancer cast a slight levitation spell on everyone so they don't make any sounds while walking, creating a small air cushion around their hooves. And they begin to explore the obsidian castle.

Miniature pillars of black glass hold the sides of the inside of the castle. The whole inside of the castle has a black luster or shine to it. Elegance is one word to describe it, but sinister is another. Much like an ancient civilization, the way it's made has its own sort of beauty to it.

The hallways are chaotic, no, more like madness. They continue for what seems like forever. Twisting and turning, up and down. It's easy to get lost. But their searching comes to an end when they reach a large wooden door. As it opens the familiar stench of blood, death, and decay fills their nostrils. They have found a cavern that leads back to the cave which had lead to the castle. After a few stairways a large door presents itself. Creaking as it opens a large room with dozens of ponies are inside.

The ponies look like mindless zombies. Their eyes have no coloration to them at all. Mouths hanging open and half starved. Clearly they are all in need of medical attention as soon as possible, covered in wounds clearly from being tortured. They all have some sort of amulet around their necks, pulsating with some sort of magical energy keeping them insane.

"Hang on, we came from the village across the cave! As soon as we get these things off of you we will bring you back home where it is safe and get these wounds cleaned up..." The nurturing Rain Dancer tries to fumble with the amulets around their necks but gets an electric shock back and is stunned for a few moments.

"They must be connected to the owners of this castle somehow, or some sort of power source" Dream Dancer, a few moments too late though.

"Oh thanks..."

And off once again they go, being sure to replace everything they touched and the doors back in place. One false move and they would be overwhelmed with the army that the other side has. They find themselves walking through yet another hallway. One after another the hallways lead to dead ends or large rooms, some of which housing large amounts of cult members. Anything from sleeping areas, large empty rooms, or eating areas with large tables is found in the large castle. This is clearly a sophisticated society of some sort, except for the torturing part. All being housed in one single castle, a cult, an evil cult that is bringing insanity and torture to the towns ponies that have nothing to do with whatever they are doing here.

Into another hallway they go, this time it leads straight upwards, a large number of stairs and vents lead to a large empty room with one simple glass circle in the middle. With what looks like Canterlot painted realistically in the middle. The female changeling and smoky creature are here as well. The glass painting suddenly starts to move as it fades to show lord Ornament, the royal guard, and he begins to converse with the changeling and fog creature.

"I hope you're doing well my little Ornament?" An otherworldly voice echoes

"Why I guess you could say that, have you heard anything of those scoundrels I sent your way? I figured they may give you guys something to do for a short while."

"Oh, you mean the little ponies? All they have managed to do is steal a box" chuckles the female changeling. "So is the portal ready on your side yet?"

"Why yes, it is ready whenever you are."

"Excellent, we will teleport now then. But before that, why did you send the ponies that thought they were detectives?"

"Oh, I figured maybe it would be funny to see the looks on their faces if they figured out that we caused this plague they are so worried about."

The group of four ponies exchange glances and get ready to charge in after them. They know what is coming next. A full on war against these three, and if they are anything like that guard they had outside, it will take everyone's help to defeat them.

The changeling and foggy thing jump into the glass, like a pool of mercury, and then the ponies rush in after them. They arrive in the large throne room of Celestia's castle. Celestia and Luna are still there like nothing is happening out of the ordinary though.

"Come on Princess! Do something!" Lucky tries to reason with the blank stares of her mentors and friends.

Blank stares are all she receives.

"Luna?"

Nothing.

"Celestia?"

Once again nothing in reply

"Do not worry; peace has been obtained in the name of me" Echoes the voice, once again eerily making every pony scared out of their wits and angry at the same time that it would have the nerve to say such things.

"You…" A stomp of her hooves onto the cold hard ground and the charge of her horn show the unicorns anger "what have you done!" She screams at the top of her lungs as she charges towards the shadowy figure.

The whole room turns black as a night without Luna's stars, moon, or guidance. The four ponies are lost in a sightless world and have no idea where they are. A voice rings in their minds "None shall impede on the reformation of my Wretched Darkness" they all think it to be the changelings. Once they regain their sight they realize that they are once again in the throne room, but rather this time it's a copy in the obsidian castle.

"Wow, that was a great plan" Peach thinks aloud.

"Well, it was better than doing nothing I guess?" The hopeful Rain tries to cheer everyone up while holding back her own tears.

"Don't you think this lovely room would make a great battle field," taunts the changelings "too bad you can't take it back."

The shadowy creature forms into a foggy alicorn. Its wings the largest any pony has seen, the appearance of fire created by its shadowy form. It's voice like a devil's, it has no eyes yet it still stares into your soul.

"I'm sorry but do you want your precious princesses back? Well, perhaps you should forget about them and look towards the ones in front of you?" The shadowy figure points towards to the princesses behind it.

"Wait, what are you talking about, aren't they right there?" Confusion on Peach's face tells it that she has no idea what it is talking about.

The shadowy figure then continues to form into another shape, this time a changeling shape. "Oh why you don't seem to have the brains to support your brawn, do you my little pony? Those are my changelings… One would expect you to see that…"

Peach face begins to twitch but she feels a hoof on her shoulder. "Don't let it taunt you too badly; what can some stupid smoke do to us besides make fun of us anyways?" A familiar and caring blue Pegasus calms her friend down.

Lucky then continues to smash the shadow with a large piece of rubble against the wall while the changelings form back to their normal forms. Two black, sickly looking, hole filled, alicorn shaped things with insect like wings. Exactly like the regular changelings and their queen, Chrysalis. Except these ones seem a bit, different. The other changelings looked not quite so "sickly looking" as one may describe these ones. The two changelings have been filled with energy like Chrysalis had been feeding on love.

"Now Lucky, I calmed down Peach just for you to smash the stupid shadow thing?" Rain points at the "shadow thing" and stares down her friend.

An axe and a sword crash through two of the windows. The shadow pony reforms as if nothing happened. "Oh, now I am a shadow thing? You four simply do not give me any flattering names do you?" The strange figure flows behind its two changeling subjects giving them the nod to handle the new intruders. It goes to the corner and reforms in the shape as a unicorn. It pulls a box out of its side and sets it on the throne which lights up upon receiving the box.

"I have but one wish, to regain my true form, and for that I need to sacrifice these two alicorns I have in this box. Is this wrong what I am doing? It was them who made me this way, now it is them who will turn me back!"

"What?" The young unicorn snaps back "You have no right to steal other people happiness just so you can gain more power!"

The two large rock weapons turn to face the group and swing towards them stopping at the magical force of Dream Dancer yet again. The two changelings taking on the same tactics as Regal did the day before. Lucky and the other two ponies charge straight at the changelings as they are now open to attack. But as they go to head butt Raven Horn Ornament kicks Lucky off the raised throne stair case. Rain Dancer quickly catches her before she plummets out of the broken windows and flies back inside where the unicorn uses her magic to throw the broken glass at the changelings. Temporarily stunning them as Ornament puts up a force field and Raven Horn brings the two large weapons back towards them.

For some reason though Dream Dancer is still focused on something, even though both sides seem to be on the defensive. Then a loud crack fills the room and every pony's attention goes to the large floating axe as it crumbles to the ground as shards and dust.

"You... What have you done?"

"Oh, sorry about that." A smirk on her face, Dream Dancer shoots back "a simple aging spell rotted your poor weapon, I'm sorry; it looks like now it's a more fair fight!"

"But How? No normal pony should be able to use an aging spell!"

"Oh your right, I guess that's what happens when you use ancient weapons isn't it? It's a bit easier to destroy something that's already half aged to dust."

The other weapon slowly crumbles to the ground, the changelings furious with their precious weapons being destroyed. Anger takes over their faces as a bolt of white light shoots from Lucky's horn towards the changelings at blinding speed. Shooting Ornament against the wall, it barely phases the strange being as he smirks to himself. Her eye becomes the same as before while fighting regal, a white light shines from it. After the light fades it shows the almost purifying white and an aqua blue iris.

"You think that holy magic would really work against someone that has grown on Celestia's power and city?"

Lucky's left eye begins to cloud over with a black fog. The whites of her eyes become black and her pupils become dagger shaped like a dragon's and her iris bright yellow like a black cat's. Her horn sparks with what seems like black electricity and a bolt of pure black magic shoots towards the changeling. He falls to his knees gasping for breath as the unicorn strikes him over and over with the same bolt after bolt of pure black magic. With no physical effect to the changeling, pushing and pushing him to the brink of exhaustion, cracking the bricks behind him until the wall shatters and Ornament falls off the castle like his name sake off a tree.

Raven Horn is standing alone by the throne, awe struck by the pure power struck against her companion. "You… What the heck are you!" fear struck into the changeling's eyes as she stares into the unicorn with two different eyes, one black with pure evil, one white radiating holiness.

"Are you just about ready Wretched Darkness?" As the changeling looks towards the shadowy figure in the corner.

"If I was ready I would have said so"

"Come on don't be that way, we are getting a bit of a situation here!"

"Don't you ask for help after what you have done to all those ponies!" Yells a franticly charging Rain Pegasus, slowly getting frozen into obsidian as she gets closer and closer to her enemies, as she turns to stone she murmurs "it's not fair... It's not fair... I just wanted…"

"Peach, come here." Dream motions for Peach Sprinkles to come to her as she levitates the now frozen Rain Dancer out of harm's way. "You remember that weird machine we found and the ponies from the town?"

"Yep, sure do. Remember how to get to them and everything."

"Alright, I want you to go free all the ponies and then go destroy that machine. Meet us back here afterwards."

"Will do!"

Raven Tail has now put up a strong force field around herself and the shadowy figure, now known as "Wretched Darkness" apparently. Lucky has needed some time to recharge after her assault on the other changeling, who has not come back yet.

Both unicorns begin to throw whatever spells they have at the changelings. Lucky her new holy magics and dark magics. And Dream Dancer tries to throw in a few spells here and there but is mainly trying to increase Lucky's capabilities and magic potential with spells used for training and non-combat ponies.

Meanwhile back deeper inside the obsidian castle. Peach has managed to find the large room with the machine and slaves. Now that the changelings and Wretched Darkness are occupied the aura in the room is not as strong as before and the amulets come off the ponies who now remember who they are. After grouping them all safely outside the castle Peaches chaotically dismantles the machine. It beats like a heart on the inside and looks living. Almost like a real creature, but contains gears and moving parts connected to the castle itself. A fragile machine, without the protection of the guards it falls apart easily.

Raven Horn lets out a sickly cough and her magic decreases. The feeling in the air lets the ponies know of that much. Peach must have succeeded at her task. The final stretch is finally here in their fight, hopefully.

Lucky strikes the force field around Raven Horn and it cracks, leaving an opening for Dancers lighting to find its way to break the force field completely. This sends shards in every direction as they splinter and evaporate into the air before landing or hitting anything.

"Look at us fools fighting like this, is it really necessary that we do this sort of thing?" Dream Dancer tries to reason with the Changeling "We may be different, but why sacrifice another just to gain something. Why kill to be killed?"

"Because it's what he wants, nothing more and nothing less. Do I have a choice?"

Raven Horn faints onto the ground, her magic power exhausted for the sake of another. With the enemy fainted the pegasus turned to obsidian melt to normal. Peach runs in the room out of breath but none the less on time.

"I see that neither of my guards were worthy opponents, such a shame. I should have known that they were worthless like the last ones." The shadowy figure flows large appendages out through the gap in the wall were Ornament fell, retrieving the corpse of its guard. Then sending out the same appendage and retrieving the fainted Raven Horn, both changelings disappearing into the strange creature's body.

"What the hay? Did you just eat some other pony?" Peach yells at the shadow trying not to throw up onto the floor. "I have no idea what you just did but that was WEIRD!"

"Oh, you ignore the fact that I build a device disguised like a castle that emits synthetic love for them to feed on? They came to me as simple changeling workers and I made them into mighty warriors. Too bad it came with a slight price, as one may say... and no I did not eat them, why would you think that? I got them out of harm's way much like you did for the Pegasus when she was frozen."

"Oh, gosh, ok I guess that's better than I thought…"

The shadowy figure forms back to the form of a unicorn, but not for very long as it seems like some pony is getting antsy. Lucky lets out another holy beam towards the strange creature. As it hits the shadowy figure it just passes right through it like the smoke it is.

"Oh I almost felt that. Try again later?"

"This has gone on long enough!" Dream Dancer interrupts "You are the one leading that cult! You are the one that has waged this war against us! It ends now!"

"I hardly think that a fight between two changelings and a group of ponies is a war…" the shadowy figure tries to joke once again.

"Something is very off about this thing, I would like to say it reminds me of Discord but he is reformed now and never stooped to this level. This thing keeps changing shape, we can't harm it, and it has weird comebacks… what's the deal?" Peach tries to rationalize the situation once again.

"Oh now I am a weird thing? You ponies are hilarious! Maybe we should make you all insane next! Nothing is more fun that insanity, especially when it fuels something productive, oh like me…"

Dream lays out an amulet shaped like an Alicorn, chants a few time and the air around her beings to shift. Bringing in the shadowy figure, which alarms it greatly. As it turns to flee glowing red chains clench onto its squirming body. A smirk appears on Dreams face and the battles end is in their sights.

The smoke creature lets out a bursting laugh. "Oh so now I see the irony, this is your way of giving me a physical body just like I wanted is it not?"

"Oh shut up you stupid, smoky, foggy, shadow thing."

Before departing back to the village Dream makes use of Lucky's mysterious eyes and they free the two princesses, Celestia and Luna from the box the shadowy figure was holding. They fear the worse and have to quickly head back, leaving the care of the newly made "alicorn amulet" to the care of Dream Dancer as she was the one who made it.

Back at the town of Verre Dream Dancer had the amulet sealed into a glass case. Everything was becoming more peaceful and happy as more and more of their troubles subsided and most of the town's ponies came back from their insanity filled slave trip.

On the train ride home the three ponies are talking, when suddenly Peach Sprinkles and Lucky Dream begin to stare at Rain Dancer with somewhat questioning and teasing looks. "So... what was it you were saying when you were turned to obsidian?" the two ponies grin and ask The Pegasus. Her face turns a bright red and she hides behind a bench. The ride back home will surely be better than the one to the town. Maybe not for the rain loving pony though, she has a long ride home if she wants to keep her feelings to herself. The feelings of happiness and love are cut short. As the ponies realize that they had grown closer to each other than what they had thought.

"So, what do we do now? I don't really have a place to return to after this…" tears swell up in the blue pony's eyes. "No pony in town likes me, there's no need for a weather pony that can't catch up with the other Pegasi."

"And my peach stand isn't doing very well were I came from either…"

"I never realized that every pony was in the same boat as me. No one needs a pony like me in a farming town. My parents are gone and I can't afford the rent of any places around." The multicolored unicorn begins to cry as the memories of a childhood without parents fill her mind.

A group hug later and some silence settles all three down. They all agree on a plan, report to Canterlot then go from there. Either head back to the town of Verre were it all started, their new friends are there anyways. Find some other town to live in, or they could even travel to other places around Equestria. Lucky's main idea is to go back to Verre and learn magic from Dream Dancer; she desperately needs it as this new "ability" she has gained may cause chaos and destruction wherever she goes if not properly cared for.

A few weeks later back at Dream Dancers tent like house the alicorn amulet has gone missing...