Each of the boys found their way to a place where they could relax after the excitement died down. Erex found himself on a large rock not far from the clearing. Lucas was in a hut in the clearing by himself taking a nap. Darragh was in a tree looking around, taking in the beauty of the forest in the evening. Alex was a good ways away from the clearing, looking over the side of a cliff over a large area with a river cutting through it. High places always seemed to calm his nerves. The reason he was so scared was that he would be leading an army of four against demons and their legion of green glowing soldiers. Alex had already lost to them once, and he would make sure it would not happen again. He turned when he heard hoofsteps to find his wife and Chrysalis joining him.

"Alex, we have to talk." Luna said.

"Okay, I'm open." Alex replied.

"Me and Chrysalis have been catching up, and she has told me some things, some things that I am offended by. It's about your PTSD." Luna said.

"Wow, Chrysalis. Nark much?" Alex asked.

"This is not her fault. She cares about you too. The reason why I am offended is that you didn't come to me first about this." Luna said, walking up to him and making him take a step back.

"Look, Luna, you may not notice it, but I see the way you sleep. I can tell that you're always waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, I know how much sleep you're missing. I just didn't want my little issues concerning you." Alex said, taking one step away from the edge of the cliff.

"Alex, I'm your wife, I'm supposed to be concerned about your problems, just like your supposed to be concerned about mine." Luna said.

"I know. Well, now that we are being a little open about things, there is something I have to tell you." Alex said.

"What is it?" Luna asked.

Alex glanced past Luna at Chrysalis. She understood and left them.

"Tomorrow is a big day, I know you're ready for it, but I just wanted you to know that there could be a chance that I won't come back. There is one thing I must ask of you. No matter how long me and the boys are there, no matter how many days pass, you and the girls must not come after us." Alex said.

"What!? That's madness! I am the queen and have the right to go looking for my king if I please!" Luna yelled angrily.

Alex looked down at the ground and put his hands on Luna's shoulders.

"L-Luna. P-P-Please-" He said but trailed off.

"Alex, is everything alright?" Luna asked, trying to look at his face.

Luna could see the faint shimmer of tears rolling down her husband's face.

"Luna, please. If I die, and you come looking for me, you could fall too. I will not have Alexieus living without his parents." Alex said, regaining his composure.

Luna bent down and licked the tears away from Alex's eyes.

"Please don't cry, my love. I have the faith in you that you will win this." Luna said.

"Okay, look after our son while I am gone. But first, I think we have to start casting some magic." Alex said, straightening up.

"What do you mean?" Luna asked.

"What is a horseman without his horse?" Alex asked.

Alex lead his wife back to the clearing where he called for the boys. Darragh was the first to show up, stumbling out of the trees like he had fallen out of one. Erex walked in a little after Darragh did, and Lucas came out after a little while of stretching and yawning.

"Okay, now where are the girls?" Alex asked, looking around.

"I'll go get them." Luna said, walking off.

"Okay, so what's going on? Are we leaving now?" Lucas asked, yawning again.

"No, today the four us will be making the bond with our partner." Alex said.

Alex bent down and grabbed a long stick and began to draw a large symbol in the ground. First he drew and triangle and a square inside of it. He scribbled some symbols in a circle around the shape and the girls arrived when he was done.

"What's all this?" Celestia asked examining the symbol in the dirt.

"This is the symbol to connect the horseman to his horse." Alex said.

"Wait, what?" Celestia asked.

"I don't mean actually connected. I mean connected as in their minds will be connected and such." Alex explained. "So, who's first?" Alex continued.

Darragh volunteered to go first. Cadence and him walked into the circle and looked around, expecting something to happen.

"What now?" Cadence asked.

"Okay, I'm gonna need Erex and Lucas to find a point in that triangle and stand on it." Alex said.

Erex and Lucas stood at the two bottom points while Alex stood at the top. They were ready to begin.

"Now what do we do?" Darragh asked.

"I need you to kiss her." Alex said simply.

Darragh and Cadence looked at Alex in surprise. Cadence blushed and Darragh just stood there.

"Um, come on you two, we don't have all night." Alex said.

"Well, um, I'm not sure if I can-" Darragh said but was interrupted by Erex.

"Hurry up already, lets get this done and dusted." Erex said.

Darragh looked at Cadence who was already sitting on the ground looking up at him. Darragh glanced around one last time and bent in and kissed her. Alex said something in some strange forgotten language and the circle began to glow gold. One enormous flash of light later, and Darragh was staring up at a larger version of Cadence. She was in full pink and red body armor and was at least double her normal size, if not triple.

"They grow up so fast." Celestia said mockingly. "Oh my, your flank got bigger too." Celestia said even more mockingly than before.

Cadence glanced behind her and then at the ground. It was true, it was bigger.

"Don't say anything yet, Celestia. You're up next." Alex said.

Cadence had never really liked Alex, but this one little assist had made her at least look at him as someone that did not make her want to throw up the minute she saw him.

Erex walked in the circle and Darragh took his position where Erex was standing.

"Okay, lets get this started-" Erex said but was jumped by Celestia who knocked him to the ground and jumped onto him, kissing him passionately. Alex repeated the ancient words again and this time the circle glew white.

When the flash of light was gone, Erex felt like he had about 1000 pounds sitting on his stomach. A larger version of Celestia was looking down at him talking about something but Erex could not focus because his guts felt like they were being squeezed out of his ass.

"Hey, Celestia. You want your new found horseman to die?" Alex asked.

"No! Of course not!" Celestia said.

"Then would you kindly stand up and get off of him?" Alex asked.

Celestia looked down at her partners face which was now turning red and blue. She quickly stood up and back off of him. Erex gasped in air and laid there, panting for a minute or so. When he got his strength back and his organs back in place he stood up and walked over to Luke's spot as Lucas walked in the circle with Twilight.

Twilight was looking around bashfully when Luke bent down and kissed her. The whole process repeated with a flash of purple light. This time Twilight was on the ground, blushing up a storm and stuttering something none of the other could hear. Twilight looked smaller than the other so far, but that was not much of a surprise.

Finally it was Alex's turn. Luna and him walked into the circle. Luna sat down and looked right at her husband. Alex kissed her like he had so many times before. Lucas mumbled something that sounded like what Alex said and the two of them were surrounded by jet black light. When the darkness vanished, Alex was sitting atop Luna, looking like he was ready to ride into battle.

"Okay everyone, armor up. We have some demons to kill." Alex said.

The boys ran off and put their armor on quickly, grabbing their weapons as well. Alex did the same. When they came back the girls were ready to go. Each of them had their own armor. The girls wanted nothing more than for the boys to stay with them and stay out of danger, and the boys wanted nothing but demon blood to spill. They were ready.

"Okay, the spell connected you to your partner, which means your ability to use magic should have been activated too. Try it out." Alex said.

Erex concentrated as hard as he could and white hot fire burst from his hands, lighting up the now dark forest with light. Erex looked at his hands in wonder, amazed at what he saw. Darragh did the same and he felt his eyes change. He was able to see in the dark and he seemed to be able to focus on things better. He aimed his bow at a tree and pulled the magic string. He let a magic arrow fly and it hit the tree dead center. He also leaped to the side and ran around a little bit at incredible speeds. Lucas focused and his hands glowed with gold and purple light. He held his hand up and a blast of energy shot from his hands and shattered a nearby boulder. They each looked at each other, they were definitely ready.

Each oth the horsemen mounted their horse and quickly took off into the forest. They rode through the forest at full gallop, even the girls were surprised by their own speed. They bursted out of the forest and into Ponyville. Some green guards attacked them and they were knocked aside with ease. Nothing could stop a horseman while him and his ride were together. They galloped through town and began their climb up the mountain. They looked at Canterlot and it had changed. Instead of there being one castle, it looked like one big castle with three extra parts built on to it. At the front of it was a sign that pointed in different directions. The entire place looked dark and morbid.

"Okay boys, end of the line. This is where this ends." Alex said, jumping down from his mount.

"Wow, this place has changed." Erex said.

"What have they done to my precious palace?" Celestia asked, almost angry.

"I don't know, but they won't be alive much longer. After the fight we can work on fixing it." Alex said.

"Boys, we wish you all the luck in the world. Come back to us alive, please?" Cadence said.

"Don't worry, we won't die. I believe in us. We're ready." Alex said.

Each of the boys said their final goodbyes and began the trek to the castle. The girls turned back, though they wanted to stay more than anything.

"Well would you look at this." Darragh said, pointing at the sign in front of the castle. "They went and told us where to find them." He continued.

It was true, the sign did point to where each demon was residing. It seemed Ulthane was on the far left, while Felix was on the far right. Vulgrim was on the inner left and Samael was in the center, the original castle.

"We will have to split up. Darragh, you take Ulthane. Lucas, you take Felix. Erex, you take Vulgrim. Samael is mine." Alex said.

The boys agreed and went their separate ways. Each of them entered, walking to meet the dark and evil that awaited them.