Cherry was now sulking in her bedroom, even more than usual.

"Cherry?" Michelle asked. "Sweetie, are you okay?"

Cherry hummed and buried herself under her covers. Michelle was worried, she wanted to ask her daughter what could be wrong, but decided to make her something before going into Cherry's room, knowing how her daughter liked to be alone when she would be grieving or thinking about something. Cherry took a little nap as she cried herself to sleep, she was very emotional without her Element of Harmony.

She then heard someone tapping at her window. The perky goth sniffled, she wiped her eyes, rubbing them since they were rather weary at first. She slid on her eyeglasses and pulled back the curtains and rolled up the blind to see who was behind her window. And where she saw that it was Luna.

"L-L-L-L-L-L-Luna!?" Cherry's voice nearly strangled. She then opened up the window.

"You seem to be upset." Luna said.

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cherry went back to her bed and looked away from Luna.

"You can't keep your feeling bottled up inside." Luna said.

"Sure I can, I've done it all my life..." Cherry ignored her.

Luna came to her side and looked her in the eyes. Cherry felt herself shrink underneath Luna's gaze. The gaze seem to have done it's job as Cherry was now getting ready to let it all out.

"Oh, Luna, Penn was just so awful!" Cherry bawled. "I mean, Teller told me this very sad story and Penn just pushes him around like he's nothing! Sometimes, I just want something bad to happen to Penn! I mean, I like Penn and all, but he is such a jerk sometimes!"

"He was just over filled with the anger he had with Teller for what he did on the phone." Luna said.

"The phone?" Cherry asked.

"Penn called Teller earlier, but Teller was busy trying to help the Equestrian magic world being in jeopardy," Luna explained. "He really leads a private life outside of entertaining with Penn."

"I'll say..." Cherry flopped back against her pillows.

"Now we have a problem." Luna said.

"Penn and Teller are arguing, I think the world is screwed enough." Cherry said.

"This involves his soul and a certain shadow." Luna said.

"What...?" Cherry asked.

"Cherry, listen to me," Luna came to her side. "Teller is-"

"No, I'm not listening." Cherry said, covering her ears, not wanting to hear the D word.

"Cherry, please!" Luna pleaded. "Teller is-"

"Lalalalalalala!" Cherry ignored the princess of the night. "Can't hear you! Lalalalala..."

"Cherry! Teller is dead!" Luna told her.

"NOOOOO!" Cherry refused to believe it, she then started to cry hysterically. "He's not dead, he's just fine!"

"I'm afraid he isn't..." Luna took her face briefly to make their eyes meet. "Teller is a close friend of mine in Equestria, he's closer with me than even Celestia and Cadence was just a foal when we last hung out together."

"It's not true..." Cherry was in total denial. "It's just not true... That's impossible!"

"I'm afraid it's true, you also need to know that Dr. Faciler now looks like him." Luna said.

Cherry unfortunately did not hear that, she was too busy ignoring Luna, in denial of Teller's death.

"Cherry, listen to me!" Luna demanded. "Dr. Faciler has done something terrible, he-"

There was a knock heard behind Cherry's door. Luna then used an invisibility spell so no one else would see her.

Michelle came in with a plate of Oreo Truffles. "Now, I know it's not Christmas, but you look like you could use one of these..."

Cherry looked to her mother, she took one, and instantly ate it.

"Wow." Michelle said.

Cherry wiped her mouth with the napkin.

"You have a visitor..." Michelle told her daughter. "If you feel better enough, you can come see him..."

"Is it Teller?" Cherry guessed, she missed Luna's detail, so she was going to be lured into a trap.

"Yes, actually," Michelle smiled. "I was surprised to see a major celebrity on our front porch, but he's out there on the swing and he wants to have a word with you."

Cherry smirked back, she put on her glasses, fluffed her hair down, and went down the hall to meet him. Michelle smiled, then shut the door, knowing how Cherry liked her door to be closed.

Luna reappeared. "Cherry, NO!"

But it was too late, Cherry was already on her way down the hallway.

Luna released a long-suffering sigh. "That girl is going to get herself killed..."

---

Cherry opened the front door as Teller's figure was sitting on the porch and watching the sunset. "Y-You wanted to see me?"

"Yes..." Teller's voice said, turning the head with the evil purple eyes. "Come here, my child..."

Cherry walked over, she then stepped back a little. "You don't seem like you... Luna visited me... She said you were... Dead..."

"Oh, did she now? Well, she just likes to exaggerate." Teller's voice said.

"Umm... Yeah..." Cherry backed up.

Teller's hands grabbed hers and he pulled her closer to him. "Whatya say we get out of here?"

Cherry looked into his eyes and saw something that no one normal could simply see, she then got out of his grip and backed away, she put it together on her own. "Y-You're not Teller!"

"How can you tell?" Teller's voice asked.

"I-I-I need to go..." Cherry backed up.

"I don't think so, little lady!" Teller's voice sounded demonic now as he grabbed onto her arm and held her backside close to his front with her arm behind her back and he covered her mouth with his free hand.

Cherry struggled, trying to get free.

"Don't struggle..." Teller's voice whispered in her ear. "I wouldn't want you to end up in Hell too... You're a vampire... All vampires die and go straight to Hell if they are murdered..." He was then encountered with a vase to the head, showing Michelle glaring at Teller. "Your mother..." Teller's voice grinned darkly and he dropped Cherry flat on the floor.

"Get out of my house!" Michelle demanded.

Teller's body grabbed the vase. "Yes... But first..." he then hit the vase to Michelle's head, making her drop to the porch floor, unconscious.

"MOM!" Cherry cried, going to her.

Before he could even grab Michelle, he was pushed away by a powerful magic force.

"Mom..." Cherry whispered, trying to wake her mother up. "Wake up, Mom..."

Teller's body growled, it then jumped off the porch and ran off. "I'LL BE BACK!" he said in Dr. Faciler's voice.

Cherry kept trying to wake her mother up, but Luna and a cloaked human-sized figure came behind Cherry. Luna gently let Cherry move so she could cater to Michelle with her guest.

"Will she be alright?" Cherry asked, worried about her mother.

"She needs to rest now, but she should be just fine by tomorrow morning..." Luna told Cherry.

The cloaked figure then opened the door and carried Michelle in her arms to bring her to bed.

"Um... Do I know you?" Cherry asked the figure.

The figure dropped the hood, to reveal an elderly red-haired woman with graying and whitening hair.

"Aunty Eglantine..." Cherry whispered. "But... How did you know?"

"Luna contacted me and I'm going to make a healing spell that only I and your grandmother could conjure, my dear..." Eglantine told Cherry.

Cherry hugged her tightly.

"It's okay, Cherry, it's okay, everything will work out fine in the end." Eglantine comforted her.

"They usually do..." Cherry said as her hair was gently stroked now. "I miss Grandma a lot too..."

"She misses you too..." Eglantine soothed. "You get some rest now, I'll take care of your mother."

"You'll do that?" Cherry looked up.

"Of course, she's the daughter of my best friend," Eglantine stroked her face now. "Run along now... Let Aunty Eglantine fix this..."

"It's for the best, Cherry." Luna agreed.

Cherry did not want to leave her mother, but she agreed to them and left her parents' bedroom. This was getting rather intense and where it would only get more intense.

---

Atticus and Mo were now in the Fudo yard with Patch between them.

Patch kept trying to transform into his Equestrian form, but he just couldn't do it. "Nothing!" he whined about not being able to use the Equestrian magic he was blessed with from Princess Celestia herself.

"Atticus, I hate to say this, but we have to destroy that device that Sci-Twi's been having around her neck." Mo said.

"No, she needs it!" Atticus defended.

"Atticus, it's taking away the Equestrian magic that we have!" Mo defended. "Teller told me!"

"It even took away my magic!" Patch added in.

"No, Sci-Twi needs her magic," Atticus insisted. "I'm sure things will be just fine."

"Indeed they will..." Teller's voice said.

They all looked up to see Teller sitting on a high branch in a tree. "Teller!?"

Teller dropped down and walked over to join them.

"But, Teller, you said-" Mo spoke up.

Teller put his hand up. "I've made a mistake... This is all part of the plan."

"What plan?" Patch asked.

"This is going to not only help the Friendship Games, but Equestria as well," Teller grinned to them. "Twilight and Atticus need to harbor the magic together so they can get what they want! It'll be a good thing! Have I ever lied to you before?"

"Well, no, but still, why did it really have to take our magic?" Patch asked.

"It's just part of the plan..." Teller bent down to his height.

"But... That doesn't make sense... You said to us that-" Patch tried to back up.

Teller took out a dog biscuit. "Who wants extra bacon?"

"Extra bacon!?" Patch's eyes lit up.

"See? Even Teller says it's safe." Atticus said.

"But..." Mo wasn't so sure.

"Listen to your old firend, won't you?" Teller snaked up behind her with a smirk. "Have I ever steered either of you wrong? Led you astray? No! ...But, Cherry..."

This caught all of their attention.

"What about Cherry?" Atticus asked.

"Poor girl..." Teller sighed. "She's changed... I think she's gone a little batty with her own magic... She's a curious case in the magical world... What with you all being honored guests to Canterlot... Her mother was a mortal, but her grandmother was a witch, and now she's a vampire with Equestrian magic.. Tsk, tsk, tsk..."

"Well, yeah, but she's still the Cherry we know and love." Atticus said.

"I'm afraid not anymore..." Teller slyly told them.

"What do you mean?" Mo asked.

"I'm afraid Cherry's going to the dark side..." Teller told them, showing them the busted down sphere. "She can't be trusted anymore... She freed Dr. Faciler..."

"Cherry wouldn't do that!" Atticus argued.

"Yeah! There must be another reason why that's broken." Patch said.

"I'm afraid it's true..." Teller told them. "Trust me..."

Patch pouted. "Cherry would never do anything like that unless it were an accident though..."

"How do you expect her to be honest with you when she doesn't want to see any of you again?" Teller asked.

"Okay, who are you and what have you done with the real Teller?" Atticus asked.

"Whatever do you mean?" Teller smiled slyly to them.

Patch growled, he ran over to Teller and was about to bite him, knowing this could not be the stage magician they were friends with. Teller turned around, then lifted his hands up and zapped Patch with some shadow magic. Since Patch's medallion did not work, he was instantly zapped and he let out a painful and low whine, instantly falling to the ground.

"PATCH!" Atticus and Mo yelled.

Teller laughed darkly at them, his laugh faded into Dr. Faciler's laugh.

"Dr. Faciler!" Atticus gasped.

"Silly little Wiccan Mermaid Boy..." Teller said in Dr. Faciler's dark and velvety voice.

Atticus growled and lunged for him. Dr. Faciler made Teller's body jump to the tree and cling to the top branch, avoiding him.

"That's cheating!" Patch growled.

"LIKE I CARE!" Dr. Faciler taunted as he made his escape.

Mo, Atticus, and Patch growled.

"We're so gonna get him when this is all over." Atticus promised with a growl.

"You said it," Mo agreed. "But what about the Friendship Games?"

"We're still going to compete." Atticus said.

"Oh, this is getting crazy..." Mo sighed.

"I know, but we'll all get through it." Patch looked sleepy.

Atticus picked up Patch to take to bed. "I better let him get some rest, we had a big day, I'll see you at school tomorrow." he then walked off into his house.

Mo sighed as she got up to get herself home. "Alright... See ya."

---

As soon as Atticus got up to his room, he saw that Patch as already asleep in his arms.

"Night, Patch..." Atticus whispered as they went into his bedroom.

Darla now knew something had to be up. "I have to do something..." she whispered to herself. "He may not be my real brother, but Atticus is my family now... He didn't have to let me stay with him and his family, but he did, I should go and let nothing stop me!"

"Darla, your grandmother is here!" Patrick called to his adoptive daughter.

---

Darla came downstairs and met the elderly woman from her biological family who made occasional visits to spend time with Darla since they never got to when she was much younger. "Nana, now's not the time for a Mall Day, Atticus is in trouble and I must help him!" she told Charlotte urgently.

"I know, Mama Odie told me everything." Charlotte told her granddaughter.

"She did?" Darla asked.

"Come on..." Charlotte took her hand, taking her out of the house and putting the coat on around her.

"I had a feeling something was wrong," Darla said and extended her arms so her grandmother could put her coat on around her. "I just knew it... But I don't know how I knew, I just had a feeling."

"You can thank Mama Odie for that feeling." Charlotte smiled.

"Oh?" Darla looked puzzled.