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A New Legend: Act 1

by Primus

Chapter 7: Time to Hit the Bricks

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Remember to enjoy and criticize all you want. Hope that doesn’t open the flame wars. And enjoy the music, I know I did.

“Speaking”

‘Thoughts’


Lightning and the other ponies of the exploration are in the middle of the Crystal Mountains. All of them are wearing winter gear. Lightning himself was wearing his usual clothes and a black fur cloak.

Spitfire looks to the fur cloak. "I hope Rarity didn't faint from the sight of you wearing that."

"Why don't you ask her?" Lightning says as coming up behind them was the mane six along with Vinyl Scratch and Nikolai.

"Huh." Spitfire looks over to Vinyl and Nikolai. "Why are they here?"

"Somepony wanted entertainment." Lightning says dryly.

Spitfire raises an eyebrow. "Who exactly needs entertainment out here?"

"Somepony named Stone Sight I think." Lightning says.

"No, it was Rock Head." Nikolai joked causing Vinyl to laugh.

Spitfire groans as the others catch up. "Let's just get to the temple. I'm sure that the dig team is getting impatient." She rushed ahead to stay ahead of the babble. Soon they all arrived at the city and all of them looked over it and took it all in.

"So this is the city of my ancestors." Lightning says thoughtful. Looking over the city it was easy to tell that even though built into the mountain side most of the buildings were intact. Lightning passes the dig team waiting at the entrance. "Well, let's start excavating."

"The entrance has been uncovered already. We were just waiting for you." An earth pony says.

Lightning looks to them with a bored expression. "Don't you want to keep digging further and find valuable things that can be yours if touched first?” Lightning asks.

"My stallions are scared that it is haunted and I for one feel it would be disrespectful to both Commander Hurricane and Tactician Razorwind." The mare says.

"Respectful and thank you for respecting my ancestors." Lightning says.

The dig team sighs a breath of relief, while leaving some tools for everypony. Lightning and Spitfire each grabs a pickaxe and starts going into the temple.

It was pitch black in the temple that links to the tomb. "Can somepony give us a light?" Rainbow asked.

The unicorns of the excavation uses a spell to light up the area, giving light to inscriptions and pictures on the walls.

"From the looks of it it's telling the story of Equestria's founding. But wait, what is that?" An archaeologist pony asks pointing at a giant ice like monster carving in the wall.

Twilight takes a closer look at the picture. "Lightning do you recognize this creature?"

"It's an Ice Spirit of Malevolence. In ancient Stalliongrad history many used to exist. Very powerful and deadlier than most creatures you will find." Lightning informed.

Twilight hums in thought then looks ahead of them. "I think we found the tomb." She said to everypony slowly as she looks upon the giant door.

Lightning steps forward as several ponies try to push it open with no luck as it would not budge. "What's the problem?" Lightning asks.

The ponies step back as they contemplate the problem. "These doors are too heavy for us. We need more equipment for this."

"Or we could solve this puzzle." Pinkie said as she stood over a pedestal that has an inscription written on it.

"She's right this was made by pegasus so one must look from above." Lightning says taking off towards the ceiling and looks down to see the floor had a few different colored places. Lightning instructs several ponies to stand in specific spots and up rises five pillars to the side and the door opens. He flies to the pillars for a better look at them.

"It's hard to make out, but these four seem to be in code but this one. It looks like a message of support to future descendants from Tactician Razorwind!" The archaeologist said in surprise.

Spitfire and Lightning both fly up to the pillar. "Cooooooooooooool." They drone out.

"I can't make it out entirely but I think it is saying he was worried about all his future descendants. Which is very likely because almost all records point to him being a family stallion after marrying Hurricane." The archaeologist says.

"Looks like you got the family attitude." Lightning said to Spitfire.

"He said after marriage Lightning, I bet you'll be the same way." Spitfire says.

Lightning turns red and tries to choke the life out of Spitfire while shaking her back and forth. Everypony just shakes their head at the brother and sister relationship.

"Lightning." Rainbow says annoyed causing Lightning to stop.

Lightning huffs and let’s go of Spitfire, causing her to drop a few feet, yet still remain in the air.

"Ah, shall we continue?" Nikolai asks.

A sharp sound comes from inside the tomb as they look at the pillar some more. "What was that?" Fluttershy asks as she hides behind Applejack, pretending to be a mouse and, as you can guess, she failed miserably.

"Infestation most likely. In some ancient tombs in Stalliongrad giant spiders tunneled into them and made the place their home. Really hated those things." Lightning says as Nikolai shudders at the thought of them.

Fluttershy eeps and wraps around Applejack, making her wobble from the sudden weight. "Spiders!" She squeaks out.

"Yeah, huge things, the normal sized ones are a little bigger than Big Mac. Some even shoot poison. But the giant ones give a wyvern to fight over them any day." Lightning says shivering at the thought of them.

"Same here." Nikolai said agreeing.

Applejack chokes as Fluttershy tightens her grip. "We...should...probably...stop...ack...talking...about them." She manages to get out as she lost air.

"Yes, lets." Lightning says grabbing a sword he brought. Nikolai just nods. The others try to get Fluttershy off of Applejack as Lightning and Nikolai clear the tomb. Going in they checked the first room and even the ceiling but nothing was in there. "Clear!" Lightning yells.

"Clear!" Nikolai yells as well.

The ponies walk in as Fluttershy was no longer holding onto Applejack. "It might have been the wind, still keep an eye out for traps." Lightning warns.

Everypony nods as they look around for anything out of the ordinary. Pinkie then kicks a rock onto the floor ahead and several steel spikes raised up from the ground. Everypony steps back and stops from the sudden surprise.

"Ah, a trap for all non-pegasus." Lightning said dryly.

All the pegasus start to lift the non-flyers across the trap as they waited patiently.

"It seems that they wanted only pegasus to reach the chamber." Lightning says landing Twilight across from the spikes.

Twilight turns around as Lightning heads back for more. "Think that there will be a trap where we can't all cross?"

"Without wings to fly,” He sighs. "...most likely." Lightning says as they moved to get to the rest of the group ahead. In the next room they saw another sealed door but on the wall was a life sized picture of Commander Hurricane and Tactician Typhoon pushing a button together. Spitfire and Lightning look at each other then goes to the obvious ancient button on the wall. A beam flows down and traces them then nothing happens.

"What happened?" Spitfire asked.

"I think it scanned us. Maybe it's looking for somepony who looks kinda like our ancestors.” Lightning said, thinking out loud.

Spitfire looks at the picture again. "Well you fit Razor, but we need Hurricane." Her eyes then widen and she turns to Rainbow, making her confused.

"Rainbow come over here a second." Lightning yells at her, getting the same idea.

Rainbow slowly obeyed and came up right beside them. "What is it?"

"We are gonna try switching out you and my sister for this." Lightning informed.

Rainbow nods as Spitfire steps away. Rainbow takes her place as her and Lightning prepare to press the button again. The beam scans again. Nothing happened for several seconds until the part of the wall Lightning and Rainbow were touching swung around taking them to the other side, but closes the entryway behind them.

Rainbow smirks. "I might be a great ancestor and don't know it."

"Very funny Rainbow." Lightning said in a monotone voice.

"Lightning, Rainbow, can you hear me?" Spitfire's muffled voice came from the other side of the wall.

"We're ok sister." Lightning calls back.

They could shuffling from the other side. "I don't think we can find another way in. You will probably have to go on. We'll wait for you." Spitfire told them before they heard shuffling.

"Ok, we'll see you there." Lightning called be before turning to Rainbow. "So shall we see what's on the other side of this tunnel that supposedly opened for only Hurricane and Razorwind?" Lightning asked.

Rainbow gives him a deadpan look. "What do you think? We can't head back or wait for the others." She said sarcastically.

"I love that about you Rainbow." Lightning says. She huffs and continues onward. Lightning was left behind with a confused face. "What did I say?" He asks unknowingly. Couples all over the world suddenly had the feeling of shaking their head at somepony. "I compliment her and she gets mad at me." Lightning says out loud following her. Now the couples had an irritating feeling to shake their heads.

The two pegasus follow the tunnel and push open the end of the tunnel and see that they are at the resting place of Commander Hurricane and Tactician Razorwind. Looking around Lightning sees the inscription of the ancient language on a huge stone tablet behind the two coffins. Lightning walks to the coffins and looks at the tablet after taking a few seconds at the coffins. Rainbow looks to Hurricane's coffin as Lightning looks to the tablet.

Rainbow touches the coffin of Commander Hurricane. The coffin lid suddenly started rumbling. Lightning twists around with his weapon drawn as Rainbow backpedals away from the coffin. The coffin lid shot up suddenly and a specter like mist flowed from the coffin. It had glowing silver eyes which looked at Rainbow first then looked at Lightning. The mist suddenly floats up to Lightning as fast it could making him reel backward from the sudden rush. The mist looks at him for a few moments before it flies to Rainbow and then right into her. Rainbow then groans as she falls to the ground. Lightning rushes to her as he keeps a lookout for the mist. Suddenly Rainbow's head shot up with her eyes glowing silver.

"This is an interesting feeling." Rainbow's voice now sounds otherworldly.

"Rainbow or are you a spirit?" Lightning says his eyes narrowed.

Rainbow turns to him. "You, you will learn lover." The now not-Rainbow said cryptically.

Lightning recoils back. "What?"

"Oh why so surprised, we are married lover." The possessed Rainbow says with a smirk and dripping with lust.

Lightning's mouth is left open at what the possibly possessed Rainbow said. Rainbow smiles sweetly. "Close your mouth darling, a fly might make a nest in there."

The possessed Rainbow closes his mouth with her hoof. Lightning quickly backs away. "Look I think this is a case of mistaken identity." Lightning said as he starts to sweat heavily.

Rainbow gains a frown. "Whatever do you mean? We have been married for a long time and have a foal together. How could there be a case of mistaken identity?" She asks bewildered.

"Ok, what do you think my name is?" Lightning asks trying to get a grip on himself. 'Who knew that a possibly ancient ghost can make me blush by just a mistaken identity?'

Rainbow looks at him funny. "You have to be joking dear."

"Seriously what is my name?" Lightning asks getting more redder on his cheeks.

Rainbow raises an eyebrow. "Okay..." She said slowly. "Well, your name is Razor."

Lightning blinks a few times. "My name is Lightning Bolt." Lightning says dryly now realizing what's going on.

Rainbow raises a hoof. "No, your name is Razor."

"What year do you think this is?" Lightning asks picking up lines from books he read on possession.

Rainbow looks up in thought. "About almost two decades after we colonized the new land."

"That was almost 4000 years ago." Lightning said as his blush went down.

Rainbow looks at him weirdly. "No, I'm sure it's..."

Lightning grabs her head and makes it face the coffins and giant stone tablet.

Rainbow looks at him again. "So?"

"You came out of the one with the lid off." Lightning says.

Rainbow looks at the tombs again and goes to Hurricane's coffin. Looking inside she gasps as she sees the body inside which had been reduced to bones. "No, it can't be possible." She said in disbelief as memories came back to her.

"It is Commander Hurricane." Lightning says placing a hoof on her shoulder.

Rainbow, or now Hurricane, turns to Lightning. "So I'm actually...actually..."

"A ghost." Lightning finished and places his hoof back down.

Hurricane looks to him as best as she could. "How could you be calm about this? I'm a ghost."

"Not the first one I dealt with. The place where I grew up we had incredibly dangerous monsters: giant spiders, spirits, ghost, etc. But truth be told I'm on the verge of an internal panic attack." Lightning says trying to keep calm as his heart hammered in his chest.

Hurricane looks over her new body. "Who am I?"

"You possessed the body of my marefriend, Rainbow Dash, although she looks a lot like all the paintings of you." Lightning says looking thoughtful.

Hurricane looks at herself more closely. "Now you mention it, I kind of do." Her eyes then widen. "Marefriend? That must have been...awkward."

"Not really." Lightning says.

Hurricane finally calms down. "You do realize that you are talking with your possessed marefriend like this is normal."

"Yeah I do, because you and I, Commander Hurricane, have a connection." Lightning says.

She looks at him curiously. "And that would be?"

"I'm your direct descendant by how many generations I can't say." Lightning says.

Hurricane smiles. "Finally, I'm a grandmother. I've always wanted grandfoals.”

"Actually you were alive when your three foals had colts and fillies of their own." Lightning says.

Hurricane turns to him with the biggest smile on her face. "I just love grandfoals, especially spoiling them while the parents try to stop me."

"Hard to stop the great Commander Hurricane, one of the founders of our country." Lightning says laughing a little.

Hurricane laughs with him as her multiple echoing voice channels throughout the tomb. "You got that right, grandson."

"Unfortunately, besides me and my sister, our line is dead." Lightning says sadly.

Hurricane than gains a downtrodden expression. "Well...that's disappointing."

Lightning then looks to Razor's tomb. "My grandfather won't pop out and get me too, right?" He asks as he stares at the tomb.

Hurricane looks to her husband's tomb. "No, and if what you say is true then he possibly up there at the tavern enjoying a good drink and storytelling with his friends and family."

"I bet he feels a little lonely because he's missing something." Lightning says.

Hurricane turns away from the tomb to look at him again. "What would that be?"

"You." Lightning says.

Hurricane goes quiet for a few moments before looking up. “You are so like your grandfather. He said something like that before we left for the new land."

"I guess it runs in the family." Lightning while smirking.

Hurricane then looks around. "So how do we get out of here?"

"Let me see." Lightning says before chanting a few words and a path of light appears with hoof steps leading the way out of the tomb.

Hurricane smiles at him. "Impressive."

"You're not curious how a pegasus can use magic?" Lightning asks.

"I'm a ghost, which I didn't think was possible when I was alive, so who is to say there are other things in this world that we think are fact, but turn out to be untrue." Hurricane says.

"I think I'm starting to get where some of my logical thinking from." Lightning says a little surprised.

Hurricane walks onward. "And your grandfather has the hotheadedness. Perfect match, don't you think?"

"Weird, the stories had it the opposite. You were the headstrong one and Razorwind was the cool and calm tactician that was one of the smartest ponies of his time." Lightning says.

Hurricane laughs loudly. "They just love their commander."

"So grandmother, what are your plans? The world has changed dramatically since you were alive." Lightning says.

Hurricane looks at the temple walls as they walk. "I don't know exactly."

Lightning peeks over at her. "So in other words, you are going to plan this along as you go."

Hurricane turns to him with a smirk. "You got that right."

"Sounds a lot like my sister." Lightning says with a slight smile.

The two soon came to the exit of the path and the room is pitch black only the path of light provided any light. Lightning noticed a liquid in the platform beside the entrance upon smelling it he reared back. "That’s oil. I wonder." Lightning says before a small fireball appears on his hoof which he drops it into the oil. This causes a chain reaction that illuminates the entire room revealing huge piles of gold, jewels, statues, and art.

"Ah so this is where it ended up. I remember that Razorwind worked hard after we founded this town to bring it great prosperity. This resulted in all the treasure here. So this is the result of all of Razorwind's hard work." Hurricane said.

Lightning stood before a pile of gold and jewels. Past experience telling him that something will happen if he at least touches it.

"I already know what I'm gonna do with this, but first what traps would he put in?" Lightning asks bluntly.

"Oh, only one. The one that would ensure no one but the family would get this. The quick sand trap." Hurricane says and pushes a brick on the wall and as the brick goes into the wall a quite audible locking sound was heard throughout the room.

Lightning looks to where she press the button. "Hope that disables the trap." He says to her as he reaches for a gold coin to confirm how much it's worth today.

"This is probably high quality gold." Lightning says as the metal shines bright from the fire.

Hurricane comes up beside him and gives him a jeweled necklace. "We did find a large deposit of gold and other valuables in the past."

"I'm gonna use this to restore this city." Lightning says.

Hurricane just smiles and says nothing. She then looks around for a way out while Lightning tries to pick up a few samples of the treasures in the room. He then sees a gold necklace with several colored jewels in it sitting on a pedestal. Lightning walks over to it the pedestal.

Hurricane then sees Lightning approaching one of her jewelry. "That would be what your grandfather gave me."

"I see. Grandmother how long are you gonna possess Rainbow Dash?" Lightning asks as Rainbow's health came to mind.

Hurricane looks at herself. "Let me try something." Hurricane closes her eyes and then she slumps down on the ground, a mist coming out of her mouth.

Rainbow’s body then struggles to get up with a groan. "What happened?" Rainbow's real voice asks.

Lightning looks at the area curiously until he sees the same mist floating right behind her. "You were possessed by my ancestor Commander Hurricane." Lightning says as the mist formed into Commander Hurricane.

Rainbow looks around until her eyes widen and she looks behind her. She scrambles back from the sudden shock. "What the buck?!"

"Ah...Rainbow look what you're leaning on." Lightning says as Rainbow hits a pile of gold.

Rainbow looks behind again and sees the gold. "WHAT THE BUCK IS GOING ON?!" Rainbow yells.

"I'm the ghost of Commander Hurricane and we are in the treasure room." Hurricane says. Rainbow's breathing quickens as she tries to process everything but fails and faints. Lightning sighs as Hurricane looks on in surprise. "This is who you chose as your marefriend?"

"Considering all that just happened to her I think this reaction is natural." Lightning says.

Hurricane pokes Rainbow a few times. "When will she wake up?"

"In a few seconds." Lightning says with a mischievous smirk as he lifts his hoof and it glows slightly as a sphere of water starts forming over Rainbows head. The water ball drops, making Rainbow sputter as she woke up. Rainbow's mane was dripping wet and Lightning just stared at her. He gains a blush on his face as Hurricane looked on curiously.

'Interesting.' She thought with a smirk.

"So what happened?" Rainbow asked and Lightning points to Hurricane who waves.

Rainbow sighs and faints again from seeing a ghost. Lightning looks annoyed and this time shakes Rainbow awake. Rainbow finally wakes up and hangs on to Lightning's forelegs. "I'm awake! I'm awake." She said.

"You gonna faint for the third time?" Lightning asks.

Rainbow looks around and then turns to him deadpanned. "What would a normal pony do in this?"

"Faint, but you're not a normal pony Rainbow." Lightning says.

Rainbow gets onto her hooves as Hurricane finds a way out and Lightning helps Rainbow up. "Easy there." Lightning tells her.

"So what now?" Rainbow asks.

"We find the others then we start getting out of here for now. But how do you feel after being possessed?" Lightning asks concern in his voice.

Rainbow turns to him shocked. "I was possessed?" She said shocked.

"Yes, by my ancestor. Thankfully all she did with your body was walk around on it. So you remember nothing because that’s a common side effect of it." Lightning says.

Rainbow looks over herself to make sure that Hurricane did nothing and sighs in relief. "At least she didn't harm my body."

"I am too." Lightning says.

Rainbow smirks at him. "I can see that you care about me and wants first dibs."

Lightning suddenly hugs her. "I truly do Rainbow."

Rainbow gasp as Lightning hugs her. "I'm not all for mushy and lovey stuff, but..." She hugs him back and closes her eyes. "...I think I could get use to this."

Hurricane smirk watching this. 'So like me and Razorwind.' Hurricane thinks. Hurricane then points her hoof to some bricks on the wall and clears her throat causing Lightning and Rainbow to separate with blushes. Lightning eventually walks up and starts pushing against a few brick until a click was heard and a wall opened up.

"Well..." Hurricane asks with a smirk as voices are heard from the opened up wall, now a hallway.

"They're getting closer, want to wait for them or go and see them?" Lightning asks.

Hurricane looks around and to the treasures. "Want to show them all this? I'm sure they can place it under your name."

"I think the entire team should get credit, but I wonder, you and Razorwind were very specific on a lot of things. One would think that you would plan and leave an armory in this place just in case." Lightning says thoughtfully.

Hurricane just lowers her head to the floor. Lightning stays thoughtful as Hurricane smirks before turning back into a mist and disappears overhead as the rest of the team walks in. Spitfire walks in first and then faints at the sight of the treasures, followed by everypony else.

"Oh for the love of...!" Lightning yells before walking over as he and Rainbow wake up the others. Soon the whole group spends their time looking over the whole room as Lightning looks around for the weapons room. Then he remembers that Hurricane looked down before leaving. Looking at the floor Lightning sees an ancient symbols for love and wife. Lightning then looks over at the pedestal with Hurricane's jewel encrusted necklace. "Is it that simple or is their more?" Lightning asks to himself.

One of the archaeologist moves a few gold piles away and reveals a second pedestal. This one held a diamond in the shape of a heart. A third pedestal was found behind some art. Lightning takes a closer look at the second pedestal. He looks at the pedestal and touches it too hard causing the pedestal it to move. Lightning looks around again and sees multiple spots on the floor with crevices connecting them. The others were curious at what Lightning was doing until he placed the pedestal he had onto one of the markings and it sank down slightly and a click was heard.

He then goes to the other pedestals and moves them along too. Yet the first one he looked at didn't budge. The last pedestal had a bust of Hurricane on it. Lightning touches the chin and the entire head moved upwards with any resistance. Underneath the head was a switch. Lightning presses it and the room starts rumbling and part of the floor starts sinking turning into stairs.

Everypony in the room gets closer as the stairs hits its final place. Lightning starts down the stairs. "Don't wait up for me." He told them starting to walk down the stairs.

"Oh no you don't, you're not going without me." Rainbow and Spitfire yells in unison before turning to each other staring.

Pinkie leans over to Twilight. "Awkward." She said quietly.

Spitfire and Rainbow walks down the stairs after Lightning. The others just shrugs and looks around the room some more. Lightning walks carefully down the stairs as the lights sources start to decrease. He reaches the bottom and walks around before smelling oil again. Lightning throws a fireball at the smell and the room lit up like the treasure room. Only this time an assortment of weapons and armor is lined on racks and walls. But what caught Lightning's attention was the symbol on the wall. "How can this be here?" Lightning asks with wide eyes in amazement. Looking around he notices that some of the weapons and armor are just like back in Stalliongrad.

“What does this mean? Could both Hurricane and Razorwind have been members or was it just one of them?" Lightning thinks out loud.

"Your grandfather did like to hunt." Hurricane said to him as she appeared near him, looking at one of the weapons and armor.

"Do you know what that symbol means?" Lightning asks.

Hurricane didn't look away. "He said that the one on the wall is for the one who slew the Ice spirit of Malice."

Spitfire and Rainbow finally made it to the bottom of the stairs seeing Hurricane, but thankfully Spitfire didn't react like the fainting goat when she saw her grandmother.

"Oh Spitfire, by the way meet our ancestor, Commander Hurricane." Lightning says when he noticed her and Rainbow.

"Hey there." Spitfire didn't pay no mind to her as she has already noticed the interesting armor.

"Really you see a ghost and you don't really react?" Lightning asks with disappointment from not seeing her freak out.

Spitfire turns to him deadpan. "After hanging with you for a while and in Ponyville, nothing is normal."

Lightning shrugs as Rainbow walks over to an armor. It was a black and red armor cloak with silver bracers. "Found something you like?" Lightning asks.

Rainbow feels the armor with her hoof. "Can I take this?" She asks to thin air or rather Hurricane as she appears right beside them.

"I don't see why not. You're going to be family one day." Hurricane says with a smirk.

Rainbow blushes, but then sighs as she can take the teasing now. "Yeah...one day." She looks over to Lightning as she thinks about it, but he was looking at another armor to notice.

Under it the inscription said it belong to Razorwind. "Hey grandma." Lightning called. "What is this armor?"

"That is the armor Razorwind wore." Hurricane says floating over to him.

Lightning lightly touches the armor, feeling the material. "Made from...?" He asks.

"Durasteel, probably the last armor of the tacticians from my time." Hurricane says.

Lightning puts his hoof back under him. "I don't think I'll be wearing this for a while or ever."

"I think that Razorwind would be happy to know his armor is being taken care of by family at least." Hurricane says.

Lightning smiles. "Yeah, and if you are going up there too, make sure to buy a drink and tell him it's from his grandson."

"You're not going to get rid of me so easily. I'm sticking around until I am sure you don't need me around." Hurricane says with a slight frown.

Lightning turns to her. "I wasn't even thinking about it." He looks around the whole room. "The move might take a while though."

"Good luck getting those diggers to come down here now that we know Hurricane's ghost is haunting the tomb." Rainbow says

Hurricane turns back to her. "I could have a little fun." She said as she giggles a little.

"We need to move this out of here Grandmother and scaring them will not help us do that." Lightning says with a sharp gaze.

Hurricane gains a downtrodden expression. "Aw, can't I have a little fun?" She pleaded giving the puppy dog eyes.

'Oh no, the mare's greatest weapon. Must resist, must resist, must re..., dang it.' Lightning thinks before sighing. "Ok a little but just down scare them off." Lightning said.

Hurricane then jumps and floats up a little. "Yay! I have been wanting to try out some haunting tricks that I have seen. You mares want to see me in action?" She asks Rainbow and Spitfire.

"I could use a few laughs." Spitfire says.

"Me too." Rainbow added.

Hurricane grin increase and starts laughing menacingly while rubbing her hooves together.

Lightning sighs and starts for the stairs to bring everypony else down. "Mares." He just said.


The other ponies were impressed with all the weapons and armor there was and nearly died of fright from Hurricane and her fun. Rainbow and Spitfire try to hold in their laughter, but couldn't hold on any longer when Hurricane showed herself to everypony on the room and nearly gave some of the ponies including Applejack a heart attack. Luckily Lightning asked Fluttershy to remain upstairs and told her they were going to be pranked. Fluttershy giggled a little as she heard the plan. Lightning just smiles and helped with the most important items. By the time the sun was setting they barely had removed half the treasure and only a few weapons. The team decided to stop for the night and get some sleep.

Chrono Cross: Scars of Time

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Lightning was laying atop a building using a knife to carve the bone of the Alpha Chamleonsaurus into a flute. When he finished he started to play, sending the music all over the land and camping ground. Rainbow lands behind him but didn't say anything as he continued to play. Then Hurricane appears beside her as he continues to play. "Razor was something like this, you know." She said to Rainbow.

"How so?" Rainbow whispers.

Hurricane smiles as the memories come back to her. "He would play music to our children and grandchildren. Even the public loved it so much that they suggested that he be in a musical group."

"Lightning is certainly a pony of many talents." Rainbow says

Hurricane brings a hoof to her chin. "He certainly is."

Spitfire flies in behind them. "Where did Lightning get a flute?" Spitfire asks.

Hurricane smirks. "Lightning is almost as resourceful as his grandfather, using whatever is around him to his advantage. I saw he made the flute from just a bone."

"He truly has changed. He no longer needs me to watch over him does he?" Spitfire asks downtrodden.

Hurricane places her hoof on her shoulder, making Spitfire look at her. "Family always need each other, whether they know it or not."

"Maybe, but when I found out he was still alive I expected him to be the same little foal he was when he disappeared not the stallion he is now." Spitfire says.

Hurricane turns and walks away, but not before saying, "Time changes everything."

"That’s exactly what Lightning said. Maybe it is time I start growing up more and start thinking about the future." Spitfire says before following.

Rainbow chuckles before heading for her bedroll. "You need a stallionfriend first." She said as she wandered off.

"Like you have my little brother?" Spitfire teases.

"Normal for me, not for you." Rainbow didn't even turn around.

"Haha." Spitfire says sarcastically before disappearing.

Rainbow roamed around for a few minutes before she heard the music change and went to see Lightning Bolt again. When she came back to him the music made her feel like she was in a brightly lit flower field and not near a temple in the dark.

Lightning finishes the song and she walks up to him. "Shouldn't you be sleeping?" Lightning asks.

Rainbow doesn't even question Lightning's knowing. "Shouldn't you? I doubt that there is anything around to harm us."

"I find the night calming and soothing. That's why I'm out here relaxing." Lightning says as Rainbow lays down beside him.

Rainbow turns to him. "Are you going to take everything from here or only the important parts?"

"No, I'm gonna restore this city back to its former glory." Lightning said as he looks at the flute.

She turns back to the darkened view, showing a moon that lights the landscape. "And live here maybe?"

"Maybe one day, but most likely not, cause I want to be close to you Rainbow." Lightning said fondly.

She smiles as she leans against him. "How close?" She said as she smirks.

"Well, I'll let that be a surprise." Lightning says with a smirk before wrapping his wing around Rainbows body. Rainbow laughs as she starts to rest up against him. Lightning only smiles at her as he wraps a hoof around her, keeping her close.

From a length away, Hurricane watches with a smile and walks off. "He is so like his grandfather." She said to nopony.

Rainbow moves her head a bit to him. "Can you play that flute music again?" She asked sleepily.

"Alright." Lightning says picking up the flute again and starts playing it.

Suikoden V: Moonlit Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcL-kstkZXA

The music starts to carry across the area, making everypony feel at ease. Rainbow soon fell asleep as she listens to the soothing music. The ponies at the camp below fell into a rhythm as the music reaches them. Vinyl is lying next to a fire with her assistant Nikolai. "This isn't my usual music, but it's ok." Vinyl says. Nikolai picks at his bowl of his food. “He always did like to play." He said to himself quietly. Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Twilight are laying in their makeshift beds when they hear the music. Fluttershy brings her head up and then moves her head from side to side to the music. "My, this music is so lovely." Rarity says sleepily. Applejack brings her hat down onto her face and lays down again and enjoys the music. Twilight doesn't say anything as the music puts her to sleep with a smile on her face. Pinkie sighs and flops down onto her bed with a great smile on her face. Spitfire is walking to the makeshift beds she and Lightning will sleep in when she hears the music. She smiles slightly and sits down on her bed as she listens in.

As the song ended Lightning smiles at the sleeping mare. "Sleep well Rainbow." Lightning whispers and kisses the top of her head making her smile in her sleep.

Author's Notes:

A/N: And that's another chapter for you.

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