So here is where I was now. I was lying on my back looking up at a hole in the ceiling I made and I was trying hard not to scream. That knife got shoved deeper into my back when I landed………….it hurts like crap man! I struggled to a sitting position and reached around to my back and grabbed the hilt. Please let the pain go away fast! I pulled the blade out and I felt a large wave of agony wash over me. I screamed as loud as I could and also threw in some profanity to make it more effective. It was really not as effective as it should have been. This is so irritating man!

When I was done screaming like a dying animal I got up and started to fumble around the building I was in. It was really dark and I was having a hard time adjusting to the light. This is a pain right in the keister! I am going to blow up if I don’t find a way out of here soon! I found a doorframe and walked through it, it wasn’t much different other than there being a window that was covered being in it. I walked over to it and started to peel away the boards. God dang it, this is going to get on my nerves! This whole trip was a bust, I hate it here!

After endless ranting and ripping of boards I finally could see out the window. I was looking over what appeared to be the center of the city or something. I was weighing my options on whether or not to just jump out the window again and thought, well why not? It isn’t like I didn’t hurt myself a bunch before! I will not forget that I can fly this time though! I took a few steps back and then took a running start towards the window. I jumped out of it and then floated in the air as soon as I could.

I was floating there and I saw a guard walking on the street below me look up and yell ‘there it is, get him you fools!’. Oh shit, time to fly away with gusto! I took off through the air away from the griffon and towards nothing in particular. “Suck my eight foot long Shpungshtucker!” I yelled to him as I ran. I will get out of here or my name is Christopher Walken…..and it’s not. Ha, courage the cowardly dog reference, not sure if gusta.

The griffon was flying after me and I was trying so very hard to lose him, but it was really annoying. GTFO griffon, can’t you take a hint! I kept flying and saw the griffon gaining on me and I was beginning to think that I was going to be caught, then it got worse than that. I kept looking forward dodging trees and buildings, trying to forget the griffon that was trailing me. I need to try to get rid of him, this is going nowhere!

The griffon took out a bow and one arrow and took aim to shoot. Kyle was still flying and didn’t pay any attention to what his tracker was doing. The griffon pulled the string back and fired the arrow at the flying human, and it connected with the back of his thigh.

ARGH, Stop it with all of the shit hitting me and giving me flesh wounds! I am getting really depressed now! I kept on flying and the arrow eventually fell out of my leg and I just kept going, trying to fight the almost unbearable pain I was feeling. I looked back to the griffon to flip him off, but got taken off guard when I saw that the griffon had stopped. HAH, THAT IS GREAT, GO HOME YOU FEEGET!!!

I took off again and saw that I had made it out of the city, but I went towards a large group of mountains. I then suddenly, felt myself falling towards the ground. DAFUQ is going on here? Why am I falling? HOW COME I AM FALLING? Fly dang it, fly! I fell towards the ground and I could tell that this was going to hurt. I hit the ground and slid across the gravel.

I laid there after I finally stopped sliding and went over what I was going to do next. Ok, so I managed to escape, I fell into a building after getting a knife thrown at me, I got chased through the air by a griffon, got shot by an arrow, and then somehow managed to fall through the air into a mountain range! I am going to blow up! I laid there and felt the pain flow through me in waves. “I’m going to get up, and walk out of this mountain range like a boss and get some help. That, or I will die trying!” I said to myself as I slowly got up AGAIN!

I got up and walked down what looked to be a trail and I tried to fly again, but I couldn’t for some reason. Then my eyes grew wide as I realized what possibly could have happened, that dirty little mother fucker! He shot me with an arrow that was poisoned with something that disables magic or something! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!! *explosion heard through the fabric of time and space* I frowned massively and continued shuffling my way towards nothing. “I have no idea where the heck I am, I can’t fly, and I am injured for the 100th time! What could possibly happen now?”

I managed to walk to a cave and I sat down near the front so I could see out of it. I stared off into space and soon found sleep tugging at my mind. I welcomed it to take hold of me and I soon was out cold. I am going to get out of here; I will not die in some place that is not my home.

Twilight and Pinkie had rounded up all of the others and they were now back at the library, all of them curious as to what was going on. When RD came she had to bring Stratus along with her, so Spike was watching him upstairs while they talked.

“Twilight, what in the hay is goin on here?” Applejack said to her, her curiosity showing on every word.

“Y-yeah, what is going on? Did something happen?” Fluttershy piped in.

“Quiet, now I’m sure you all are wondering what it is I brought you all here for. Pinkie came to me this morning saying that she had another one of her ‘Pinkie Senses’ and she wanted me to help. She said it was bad and that all she knew was that she knew something bad happened near Stalliongrad” Twilight said to the group.

“Now why in Equestria would Pinkie get a sense that told her something happened out there? It seems awfully suspicious if you ask me” Rarity piped in next.

“Wait, so something bad really did happen?” Fluttershy squeaked.

“Ah don’t know why she’d get ah sense from out there, we aren’t even close ta that place!” AJ said next. She was scuffing a hoof across the floor.

Rainbow Dash was standing as still as a statue. She heard the name Stalliongrad and her blood started to run cold. He couldn’t have……could he? She knew Kyle had to go out there to deliver some stuff for Vinyl, but surely he didn’t get into trouble. She was brought back to attention by Twilight waving her hoof in front of her face.

“Rainbow Dash….RAINBOW DASH! What is it? Do you know something that we don’t?” Twilight asked curiously. She knew that if Kyle had anything to do with it RD would at least know a little about it.

“Yeah, I’m not sure if this is true though. I know that Kyle had to go to Stalliongrad to deliver some stuff to Vinyl’s producer and that he left yesterday, he said he would be gone for about a day or two, but seeing as he could fly, he probably should be back tonight.” Rainbow Dash paused and saw that all of the ponies’ eyes were on her, she took a deep breath and resumed from where she left off. “I know that that place is right on the border with Grydon, I know that from when I was friends with Gilda.”

“Kyle went out to Stalliongrad? Maybe Pinkie was right about something happening to Kyle! “ Twilight said with a gasp.

“NO, I don’t believe it! Kyle is going to come home soon and everything is fine!” Rainbow Dash blurted out. She was getting worked up at the thought that something happened to Kyle on the way there.

“RD, I’m going to send a letter to Princess Celestia about what we have found out. If you think he will be back soon, I believe you. We will wait another day, but if tomorrow by sundown he isn’t back, something will have to be done” Twilight said to her friend as she patted her on the back with her hoof.

“Ok, I just don’t want anything bad to happen to him anymore. He is such a magnet for it, it makes me feel awful when something happens to him. I can always help him, but I never have the ability to, he cares too much for me to do so” RD said as she choked back a tear.

“I-I know how you feel Dash. I know Kyle helped Shadow take me out on a date, Kyle didn’t do much, but I guess he was just giving Shadow some moral support or something” Fluttershy said in her small voice, blushing a little as she said the pegasus’s name.

RD laughed a little and then Twilight brought them all back to attention. “Ok everypony, we are going to wait one more day for Kyle to come home. If he doesn’t by tomorrow night, I’m sending word to Celestia about it. Now go home and try to get some rest, tomorrow will be hopefully a better day” Twilight said with confidence.

Everypony left and Rainbow Dash took Stratus home. He was already asleep on Dash’s back as she walked up the stairs of the house. She opened the door and took Stratus up to his bedroom and tucked him in for the night. Then she sighed and walked into her and Kyle’s room and lay on the bed. Sleep didn’t come easy for her though.

Rainbow Dash tossed and turned on the bed as she thought about the possibility of Kyle getting in trouble on the way. She was in a cold sweat from it and was starting to fool herself into thinking that something did happen. What if he is in trouble? What if he is hurt? That place is really close to the border of Grydon, Celestia knows what would happen to him if they saw him that close to the border, they never seen a human before! If he’s in trouble than I want to be there to help him, Celestia knows that’s true.

Rainbow Dash fidgeted again and stared up at the ceiling. She just wished that she would hear the door open downstairs and the creak of the stairs as her lover walked into the room unharmed. I know Kyle, and if he gets into something nasty, he doesn’t go down without a fight. I just hope that he comes home tomorrow and we don’t have to go looking for him. She began to doze off and when the embrace of sleep washed over her she had a dream about her and
Kyle going away for a few days to unwind from all of this craziness. But it was a bittersweet dream.

A/N: It’s getting good isn’t it? I am not going to be having another update by the end of the night, but I will have one up tomorrow, again I may have two, but I might not. I just hope you are finding this arc to be simply smashing! Next update in a while!

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