"What's that?" Excaelum asked himself.

6 hours earlier, the train has just stopped at Los Pegasus and the first of the cargo has been delivered. Knight Storm and his team are on their way to Saddle Arabia. Since they had to watch for enemies, there were earth ponies pulling the cargo while Knight Storm watched the horizon.

"It's hot now. Whew, the sun just came up to." Hail whined.

"Dry Ocean was a lot than this." Echo replied.

"I can't believe how much I hated that place. Ugghhhhh. Just thinking about that place makes me sweat." Voyager added."What was it like 121 degrees Fahrenheit there."

"Add a couple more numbers and you might be closer. I just chugged those canteens that were given to us during the first few hours." said Echo.

Hail chuckled,"That backfired on you when you had no water left. I had to share some of my water with you."

"I was greedy with mine." laughed Cloudfire.

"I wasn't so generous either." Voyager said.

While Voyager, Hail, Echo, and Cloudfire were talking about their memories of Dry Ocean, Razor and Canon were going ahead of the convoy to see what's ahead. After a few minutes they came back.

Razor reported,"There is an abandoned warehouse up ahead Knight Storm, should we rest there for awhile before we continue?"

"It'll give some time for the earth ponies to rest from all that hauling they've been doing." added Canon.

Storm answered,"Why not. We can avoid that sandstorm coming."

Canon was shocked,"What sandstorm?"

"That one."

Storm directed his wings in the direction of the storm, it was behind them. It was moving slow but, soon enough it would impact them. When they reached the warehouse the sandstorm hit against the boarded windows, broken walls, and windows. The warehouse wasn't much, it was large and dusty. There were opened boxes that were filled by sand.

"It appears that nopony has been here in a long time." exclaimed Fencer.

"What do you think this place was used for?" asked Hail.

"Probably a post office or something like that." Voyager said.

"Not so much post office, I mean look at the size of this place. It's pretty big for a post office in the middle of this desert-like terrain." Echo argued.

After an hour the storm still hadn't died out so, Fencer and Storm went to look around just for the fun of it. They were searching the back to see if there anything of value. The warehouse was bigger than they thought, they went further in the mysterious warehouse. They walked between two tall polls and a smell overwhelmed their noses.

"What the heck is that stench?" said Fencer."Did something die in here."

They found something that startled them.

"GET OVER HERE!" shouted Fencer.

All the pegasi flew over to the calls.

"What is it?" Cloudfire asked.

"This is no post office, look." Storm turned his head down to what looked like a cargo bay.

They looked down and saw bodies, hundreds of them stacked upon each other. Most of them had what looked like stab wounds, some of the bodies had limbs missing. There was something that disgusted them all, not the stench but, the tools that were hanging on the walls. They were covered in blood, they were not cleaned. Hooks, chains, saws, nails, etc. That wasn't all.

"These kills were very recent, someone has been here within the past few days." Storm scolded.

"Is that what the residents at Los Pegasus were talking about? I remember they said that a whole town went missing about a month ago. Could these bodies be the citizens of that town?" Razor said while shaking.

"But the kills are still fresh and if it was a month ago then that means the......." Canon was speechless for a few seconds, his eyes widened,"....the killer tortured them before-"

Storm stopped him,"We need to get out of here."

Hail said,"The storm is still-"

"Would you rather stay here and meet whoever did this? That's what I thought, come on."

They went back to the main storage room only to see the earth ponies dead on the ground. One of the workers was still moving. Voyager flew over to the injured one.

"Who did this to you?" he asked worriedly.

"B......hind.."

"Tell me."

"Behind..............you." the worker stopped moving.

"Behind me?"

Voyager slowly turned around, the others looked towards the same direction.

Voyager looked at the others and said,"I don't see anything."

Suddenly there was loud pop from the direction he turned his back to, Voyager turned back to see what it was.

"GET AWAY FROM THERE!!" yelled Storm.

A spear was shot from a giant bow concealed in the boxes and cranes. The spear pierced Voyager's neck and stuck him to a wall. His head was hanging by only a thin piece of skin. The blood was pouring out from his head.

"HOLY SH- VOYAGER GET AWAY FROM THERE!!" screamed Razor.

In all the panic something stopped them, a cry. It was coming from the entrance they came through. A pony wandered inside sobbing, it was wearing a black hooded coat.

"Grab the pony and let's go!" Storm ordered.

Fencer flew to grab the crying pony, it wouldn't move. The crying stopped and turned to a laugh. The doors were slammed shut, the walls and windows were being closed by magic. The pony looked up at Fencer and said,"Where are you going?"

Fencer fell over with a dagger jabbed in his side. The hooded pony looked up with a sinister looking smile. The hood was taken off and they all saw it was a unicorn, it performed a spell knocking out the ones closer to it first, Storm was near the back, he heard the voice of the murderer. And he had a glimpse of what it looked like as it walked closer.

"More things to play with." it laughed hysterically. Storm passed out.

Echo and Cloudfire woke up, they saw that they were still in the main storage area only chained up to the wall along with Storm, Razor, and Hail.

Echo was out of energy but managed to ask,"Where is Canon?"

"I don't know. Where did that bastard go? She's going to pay for what she did"

"We can't get him if we're chained up like this."

The looked down and saw their weapons were taken form, the chains that kept them from escaping were not rusted but, new and strong. Razor tried breaking it, he didn't leave a scratch.

"My, my. You aren't trying to leave are you? We just got started." the unicorn returned with blood on her face and carrying a bag. She threw the bag and a pair of wings fell out.

"What have you done?" asked Cloudfire.

"I killed one of your friends, isn't that obvious. I feel bad for the other two I killed," she looked up, she was looking at the bodies of Voyager and Fencer hanging above them."I never liked killing ponies instantly, it was never any fun so I thought if I was going to kill anyone instantly, I might as well be creative. That bow I used to kill the first one, I made that. First I ha-"

Cloudfire was angry,"Shut your mouth."

"That's not a way to treat the one who has your life in their hooves. I'm going to have to punish you."

The unicorn walked over, looked at Cloudfire, and levitated a brick and hit Razor in the head.

"This is what happens when you disrespect me."

She kept on hitting Razor in the head with the brick again, and again Cloudfire heard the impact it made on Razor's head. Razor didn't make a sound, he was dead. The unicorn dropped the brick and left snickering. Cloudfire was speechless.

After a few minutes, the rest woke up.

"What's going o-" Hail saw the body of Razor and started screaming.

"Canon, Razor." Storm was sad, the last of his personal team was killed. A tear fell from his eye.

Echo felt a drop on his head, he looked up and the saw the bodies. Voyager's head fell and landed right in front of him."AHHHHH!!"

Cloudfire was silent, he didn't know what to do.

"I see you are all awake. You know it's rude to fall asleep when you're visiting someone, it says that they're boring and nothing they do interest you." the unicorn returned and Echo's screaming stopped.

Her coat was clear of blood and the jacket she wore was hung by a hook. Her coat was a dark yellow, her mane and tail were dark violet. Her eyes were light green. Her eyes, her eyes were bloodshot and they looked menacing.

"Speaking of rude, I have not introduced myself yet. My name is Lacoden(la-co-den). And yours?"

She was looking at Echo. He answered,"You are going to die."

"You are ungrateful, I show you the finest hospitality and this is how you repay me. With words of hate. You must be insane if you have the guts to say that. That's good though because....."

She levitated a broken pipe from the ground, both sides were jagged. She took it and stabbed Echo in the stomach.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

"I hate your sanity. Don't worry we're not done having fun. If I pull it out now you'll bleed to death, let's go to the back where we can have some privacy."

Storm was trying to stall Lacoden,"How did you kill the workers without us hearing their screams?"

Lacoden was surprised at what he asked, she figured it was odd for him to ask that in a situation like this, "Those two polls there, I put on spell on them so that when you pass in between them you can't hear what's happening from the side you entered, I cast another little spell that blocks the fragrance of the bodies also. I'll take the spell down so you can hear us have fun."

Lacoden dragged Echo to the back. Storm heard something coming from the entrance, it wasn't the sandstorm it stopped. He focused his teared up eyes and saw Knight Black Soul. She quietly came over, she walked to Cloudfire and wondered why he was silent, she walked to Storm.

"We're going to get you out of here."

"What about Echo?"

"I hate to say this but, we have to leave him. I'm going to use his screams as a cover to break these chains."

Soul had her sword ready.

"You can't just leave him." Hail whispered.

She heard a scream and hit Hail's chains to set him free.

"Shadow and the others are outside go."

"I'm sorry Echo." Hail said, he went outside.

Soul waited for another scream and broke Storm's chain. Lacoden heard a faint echo coming from the storage bay. She got suspicious, she looked over at Echo, she got closer to him, she stabbed him with the same dagger she used to kill Fencer, and right before he screamed she covered his mouth. Lacoden heard a clear sound of metal hitting each other.

"I told you, you are going to die."

"Still so rude." She jabbed the dagger into his skull."Have you learned your lesson?" she stared at the body,"Good, you have. Now I have to greet your friend." She walked to the front humming a cheery tune.

"Cloudfire we need to leave. Can you hear me?"

Cloudfire didn't respond.

"I'll have to drag you out then."

"I couldn't save him."

"Look at me it wasn't your fault. Now we have to leave before she comes back, are you with me?"

Cloudfire looked up at his commanding officer, he stuttered,"Y-yeah. We can kill her later."

Soul had a small grin,"That's the spirit. Get up."

"Well that's touching. I killed five of your friends and yet you still have the motivation to live. If I kill her," Lacoden looked at Soul from one of the polls,"maybe you will be more damaged." She launched a spear at her with her magic. It was too fast for Soul to react. There was a loud sound that stopped the heart of Cloudifre. Soul was still standing without a scratch on her. Soul looked back.

"Sorry I was late."

"Seng what're you doing here?"

Seng's sword broke and the sword fell on the ground with a clang. He stopped the spear but, he had no defense now. His hoof was shaking.

"That hurt more than I thought it would." Seng chuckled."Shadow is preoccupied outside, you should go check on him before he gets himself killed."

"Thank you." Cloudfire said.

"Don't thank me yet, we're not out of here yet."

Seng looked at the two,"What? I never said I was going to stay here, look at her she's crazy!"

They flew out, Lacoden didn't stop them.

Outside Shadow, Lancer, and Aero were outside. They were just finished killing a few Changelings.

"I'd never thought I would ever fight a Changeling before." Lancer panted.

The bodies of the Changelings were laying on the ground as there normal form.

"We need to get back to Canterlot." said Shadow.

"Not so fast." Lacoden was at the entrance."I have to say hello to my friend. Shadow I missed you"

"How are you alive?"

"Great Tear had my life spared and I became immortal."

"You are merciless I suppose."

"No I'm hate. Now it's time for me to awaken."

Her horn, eyes, mane, and tail were giving off a black light. A beam of black shot out of her horn, this continued for 3 seconds.

Excaelum was on the moon,"What's that?" he asked himself.

Back on the ground, Lacoden fainted.

"This is our chance to kill her." said Hail.

"She's immortal, you can't. And if we take her with us she'll only break out and kill more of us."

When they returned to Los Pegasus they saw that the cargo had been stolen.

"All this for nothing." Aero sighed.

Lacoden woke up, she was sunburned.

"I can't wait to kill her. The bitch that left me to die."

Lacoden was laughing her lungs out.

Author's Notes:

http://azndragon123.deviantart.com/art/DAWN-1-of-3-Main-Enemies-concept-art-402924537 Lacoden in a hood, I'll make more detailed drawings of the other characters and her if I have the time and the patience to make something good. It says i didn't come up with a name yet because this was drawn before I finished this chapter.