"He's coming ready yourselves, everyone get ready. 3, 2, 1.....NOW!"...................

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Naga walked the path roaming throughout the forest of Everfree, it had been years since he had met Twilight for the first time here. He trotted on the earth that had greedily drunken his blood that fateful night, now it flourished with flowers of every variety. He smiled at them glad that this spot was now a place of beauty and not one of horror. A rustling behind him caused him to turn and he came face to face with a hooded figure. Removing the hood it revealed the face of a zebra, "Zacora, long have we not seen each other, did you know Twilight's a mother." She smiled at his speech pattern he adopted when she was around. "True true my friend on night so blue. And mother you say, well hooray."

Naga smiled "Walk safe my friend, my your path not bend." He said as she walked across the clearing toward the path to her house. "I shall and look out at this hour, amiss something is and evil it instills." He nodded with a solemn face knowing the Zebra was not one to be easily scared, and if she was it was best to move swiftly and quietly. They headed in opposite directions Naga choosing to walk and see if he could scout out the source of Zecora's uneasiness. He walked a ways looking in all directions using a spell that allowed the user to see in all directions. After a few minutes the spell began to give him a headache so he cut it his vision returning to normal.

He looked to the sky and his mother's moon, it gleamed brightly giving the world a surreal feeling in the low light casting twisting shadows that small pony's would misconstrue as monsters or menacing creatures. He chuckled himself remembering his own childhood, he spent most of his awake time at night so the shadows were never really menacing to him as they were to others. To him they offered a quiet and serenity that was rare to find in the daytime. He shared his thoughts with Twilight and she had understood and let him show her his world of the night. They took a trip into the forest one night and spent it gazing up at the stars. Sometimes Naga wished the night could last forever when he was a foal, he had told his mother this and she had laughed and said "For you I would create Nighttime eternal."

He smiled as he remembered all the fond memories of his time at the castle, he was happy Twilight had agreed to move there and leave the house to the Dr. Now he could give his son the same experiences he had growing up, well, aside from the war he hoped. As he walked the path towards Ponyville, seeing as how they had yet to move, he allowed himself to lose his attention on his surroundings for a trip through his memories, "NOW!" a voice screamed from the darkness. A group of morphling's descended upon Naga scythe's in hoof. The group now surrounded Naga their blades sticking through his body in several places. They stood there until they were all thrown back by a kinetic blast, Naga's voice filled the empty night air with laughter. "If I were a thousand years younger that would have worked." He gathered himself into a fighting stance and spoke all the while "Unfortunately that is not the case."

One of the morphlings charged his scythe hoof extended but was met with a hoof and swift snap as his neck was broken. Three more came at him but he finished them by decapitation and disintegrating there body's to prevent resurrection. He turned to the remaining three and looked at them, "So who's next?" One of them charged forward screaming but was incinerated before he got within even a few feet of him. The other two looked at each other and ran screaming from Naga, not that it stopped them from incineration they just tried to run away. Naga continued down the path until he was stopped by a pony with a mechanical leg chest and portion of his face on the top left side. "Sir I'm going to need some idetifi.... Sir! My apologies I mistook you for a civilian please forgive my mistake your highness. And also thank you sir for the other day on the battlefield I hear you teleported me to safety after the mortar fell on me." Naga laughed, "No problem Commander Glare, and would you happen to be looking for a group of Morphlings?"

"Umm yes sir. How did you.." Naga raised a hoof, "Attacked me a while back, killed them burned the remains now walk with me I have a proposition for you 'commander'.

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