Author's Notes:

Part two of my thank you gift.

-Till next time.

High Moon

Ch. 22: Moving on

Back in Ponyville, Frost and Quill landed back on the ground while Spike slowed to a stop. After getting his breath back, he looked out to the empty grassy meadow for any sight of something that could be Rainbow Dash’s house, however the only thing out in the field was a few rocks and a small lake.

Nothing that could even resemble a house for the daredevil mare. That’s when Quill walking under where a massive cloud casted a shadow over the green hills did he finally realize that Rainbow’s house wasn’t on the land but rather above it.

“You have got to be kidding,” Spike stared breathless, not from running across Ponyville on all fours, but from looking up at Rainbow Dash’s cloud-house. Over the years of him living in Ponyville, not once has he actually been to Rainbow’s house, or even thought to. The massive cloud ground casted a shadow over the three of them while Quill got ready to fly up there. “Since when did Rainbow have this kind of money to have a cloud-house?”

“Well where else did you expect her to live,” Quill retorted with an eye-roll, not really impressed with the cloud-house any more as she have seen it many times before. “I mean, we’re talking about the Rainbow Dash, Spike. That and apparently Rainbow’s family is sort of rich, or, was rich before most of the money went to her.”

“Wait, what?”

“Okay look,” Quill started, turning around to face Spike so she could somehow explain everything to him without breaking the promise she made with Rainbow six months ago. “Rainbow’s great-grandfather was like the inventor of cloud-construction. But she never wanted to tell anyone because she wanted to leave her own mark on the world.” Suddenly, Frost started to feel empathy in Quill’s words as she continued. “That’s why Rainbow tries so hard at everything she does, she never wants to miss her chance, but she keeps selling herself short.”

Spike blinked a couple of times, as long as he knew Rainbow, she had always been the one to never sell herself short. Headstrong, always bragging about some new trick, or looking for someway to get noticed. That’s all Spike knew about the mare, which was...nothing really. Not once have he took the time to actually hang out with her. Sure, they could share a laugh or two every now and again, but not much else.

While Quill spent much more time with her than even Twilight would. So she was bound to know more than he would think. “Oh I see,” Spike finally said after realizing that he knew nothing about Rainbow Dash.

“Right, but that’s also why I think that it is a good idea to find her. If anyone can pull the elements back together it’s Rainbow Dash.” Quill turned back around and started walking until she was underneath the cloud-home. Spike and Frost watched as Quill launched from the ground and through the bottom floor, which soon closed on itself after she passed through.

That’s when Quill’s words finally got through to Spike’s head. “Hey wait! I thought Twilight usually pulls everyone together?” Of course Quill didn’t hear, or pertained to, Spike’s question as she started to walk on top of the cloud-floor, and noted that everything was normal.

Fountain cycling rain-water, arched-walkway, and the front door itself was all fine. Quill soon walked through the archway to reach the front door where she tried to unlock it only to find it already opened.

That’s not good. Quill pushed the door open and started to look for the rainbow manned mare or at least her pet turtle. However, the large two-story cloud-house was completely vacant, and any traces of her ever being there was gone.

She check every spot Rainbow usually was in, her master bedroom, a study where she would plan out her tricks on paper first, and the workout room she had. But nothing. Not her living room, game room, or even the indoor pool she made herself. Rainbow was nowhere to be found in her large, almost mansion, house.

Quill started to become slightly worried as Rainbow would never up and leave without writing out a note telling somepony where she was. “Rainbow, Tank, where are you two,” she shouted around the empty cloud-house. Quill flew back down the stairs and ran into the kitchen only to find a note sitting on the table.

Quill recognized the neat handwriting as Rainbow’s, she hates to write so normally it would be near impossible to read her handwriting, but this was neat. Too neat, like she had to fight herself to write it. Quill slowly picked the letter up and started to read before letting out a small puff of black smoke as the letter read:

Dear Anypony,

If anypony is wondering where I am, stop. Tank and I are taking a short break for a little while and we should be back in a month or so. I’ll be staying in Baltimare with a cousin of mine while I work out a few things. What happen with the twins got me wondering about a few...personal things and I need some time to work them out. Alone. Twilight, if you read this, I’m sorry for all the things that has happen with the twins. Rarity, if you read this, know that it isn’t all your fault. And if somehow Celestia reads this, you need to spend more time with them.

I’m sorry if I’ve made anypony worry about me or caused some inconvenience for anypony. Don’t worry about the weather team, I had about nine months of leave build up anyways, and I might as well use them some time. Don’t try calling either, if you really need to talk with me, the you can come to Baltimare to do it.

Only come get me after a month has passed, I really need this time alone with my cousin to work things out, but if its something to deal with the elements only then come and get me. However, if Tank and I aren’t back by a month’s time, then come find us in Baltimare, and I’ll explain everything there.

Until then this is goodbye.

Finally, an unwanted connection was made in Quill’s head about Rainbow’s ‘disappearance.’ “Nopony even looked,” Quill faintly said after reading the note several more times over, still not believing that nopony thought to even look for Rainbow, and were quick to say she disappeared. “Why those…well looks like we will be talking to the elements. Just not the kind of talk you think Spike.” Quill folded the note up and placed it in her pant’s pocket before running out the door.

Back on the ground Spike and Frost looked up to see Quill soaring straight towards the center of Ponyville and noticed that she didn’t even pay them any kind of attention. “This can’t be good,” Frost said, sensing a large amount of rage streaking off of Quill as she tore through the skies. “Come on Spike, we better catch up with her before she hurts somepony by mistake.”

Frost and Spike took off after Quill, knowing that she could in fact hurt somepony by mistake if she isn’t took careful. However, Quill was a faster flyer than Frost, and already had a head start on them. Luckily, Frost was able to use her shape-shifting ability to make her wings grow twice their normal size so she could catch up with the ill-tempered dragoness.

Quill’s anger was so high that she failed to notice Frost flying above her until it was too late. Frost suddenly swept down towards Quill and wrapped her arms around her smaller body, forcing Quill’s wings shut.

“Frost let me go,” Quill shouted, struggling against Frost’s surprisingly strong grip as the changeling kept them in the air with her amplified wings.

“First, I need you to calm down, sweetie. Whatever you have to do, nothing will come good from you doing it in anger.” Frost’s soft words worked in getting Quill to start calming down but she could still feel slight rage from her. “Now, you want to talk about it first? Maybe it’ll help calm you down more.”

Quill started to breath slowly to gather her words so it didn’t sound like she was yelling at Frost. “Okay, I’m okay...Frost, they never looked for her.” Quill’s anger was slowly replaced with sadness and regret. “All this time, the elements just thought Rainbow was just gone, but not a single one even thought of going to her house. What kind of friends just think that their other friend just abandon them?”

Still in the cover of the clouds, Frost started to nibble on Quill’s ear-frill, and rub her abdomen through her light-green shirt. Quill groaned from the soft touch as it was severing to further calm her down. “I don’t know Quill, the best way is to go to the source, but not with the kind of anger you had.” Quill sighed, being calm down even more by her lover’s touch, and nodded her head. “Good, now don’t you think that you should talk this out with your brother? He at least deserve that much since it was his idea to come here.”

“Fine,” Quill started in a low moan, enjoying Frost’s breath on the back of her neck, and finding that she was right either way she looked at it. “You can let me down now Frost and thanks.” Frost kissed the side of Quill’s cheek before slowly letting her down to the ground again. Spike ran over to where Frost had landed to see what was up with Quill.

“Quill, what’s the matter?” Quill reached into her pocket and pulled out the folded note Rainbow left behind for somepony else to pick up. “What’s this,” he asked, taking the letter from Quill, and quickly reading over it. From the drop in his emotions, Frost could tell that whatever was written on the note wasn’t good. “Wait, she’d been in Baltimare this entire time? Why hasn’t she came back or even sent out a letter.”

Quill started to chuckle a little and shook her head. “Because maybe she doesn't want to be found.” Spike look towards Quill, who had a flat defeated look on her face. “Maybe, she doesn’t want to come back. And maybe, just maybe, she wants to live out her own life.” Spike tried to find someway to argue with Quill, anything to say, but nothing he could think of would sound right.

All Spike knew about the mare that she was loyal to the very end. Anytime somepony needed her she was right there to help out and never quit until the job was finished. She was a shoulder to cry on, one that was reliable enough to keep friends together in a tight pinch, and she would never abandon anyone. “Rainbow wouldn’t just leave her friends like that.”

Quill took the letter from Spike’s hand and folded it up again. “No, she didn’t, but the elements did.” Spike cocked his head at Quill’s words and was going to convince her otherwise before she continued. “Two months, they had two months to get over themselves, and they couldn’t even do that much.”

After remembering what kind of state they found Twilight in, Spike had to agree with a sigh. “You want to know why she just left a note instead of telling one of them? She wouldn’t be able to take their pleading, Rainbow is way too loyal for that. So she just up and bailed thinking that they would be worried enough to actually look for her.”

“And it seems that they didn’t,” Frost spoke up after gathering enough emotions the two had about Rainbow and the situation to be able to freely speak as well. “By my guess, they were hoping that she or someone else would come to their rescues.”

Quill nodded her head towards Frost, not surprise that the mare was able to pick up on what’s going on. “Exactly, the one time Rainbow needed them, and they all sit a home wallowing in their own despair.” Silence overtook the meadows as the gentle autumn breeze betrayed the storm going on in Quill’s head. She should have guessed that none of the elements would actually do something about Rainbow disappearing.

Hump, some friends alright.

“So what you want to do,” Spike asked breaking through the stillness of the green hills. “Yelling at them would only make things worse but we can’t just keep this to ourselves.” Quill closed her eyes for a moment, yelling would make things worse as much as they need someone to do it, but she wasn’t sure if she could take seeing them realize that they forgotten about their friend for two months.

“Alright,” She started, coming up with a plan that was sure to work. “Frost can you make something like a bow and arrows?”

“Sure,” the mare answered, sparking her magic, and creating a frozen longbow by freezing the air around them. Spike again was mesmerized by the flexibility of Frost’s magic, to not only be able to create a halberd and use it to freeze whole objects, but to also create something a fickle as a bow and arrow. Seeing the mare’s magic in work, made him wonder what else he could do with his water-magic. “Why?”

“We’re going to send them a massage.” Without another word, Quill opened her wings, and started again for Ponyville. Frost looked towards Spike, hoping he would knew what the dragoness was thinking, but he was just as confused as she was.

Whatever Quill had planned, it was sure to slap some sense into the elements. Soon, the three found themselves standing on a roof-top overlooking the wrecked town hall. Quill didn’t questioned what happened to the building as she did managed to catch some of Dusk explanation of what happened the other day.

Fortune would have it as not only the elements, but also Celestia stood near with a familiar looking diamond dog talking to her while two unicorns and a zebra mare examined the metal suit of armor melted to the wall.

Quill’s eyes looked over the battle scene, noting parts of the ground was cursed, other buildings had cracks and other types of damage to them, and that the suit of black armor was fused to the stone wall of town hall. Quill had to admit that whatever power Dusk was hiding away from them must be very dangerous and also made sure not do anything to piss him off.

She reached into her pocket to pull out the note from Rainbow Dash and hand it to Frost. “Tie it to an arrow and shot it somewhere that will catch their attentions,” she said, knowing that she would absolutely flip if she heard a single confused word from the elements.

Frost nodded her head and took the note from Quill. She then did the same thing as before and created a frozen bow and arrow. After tying the letter carefully to the arrow, Frost got into a firing position, and drawn back the thin thread of frozen line on the bow. She took aim at a spot on near the suit of armor’s head and fired.

Thanks to her wind magic, the arrow was able to pierce the hard stone, and embed itself within it. Suddenly, the elements, Celestia, and solar guards turned around to see Frost, Quill, and Spike standing top of a building. Quill’s eyes stared straight at Celestia, still holding distrust in the mare, but somehow was able to hold herself back. Obsidian caught the death-glare Quill was shooting Celestia, quickly recognizing it as one of animosity, and knew why she was giving Celestia the look.

“We’re leaving,” Quill said with a sharp turn of her head before opening her wings to take off back to High Moon. Frost and Spike quickly followed the dragoness but not before Spike gave one last look towards Celestia before jumping off the roof-top and running after the other two.

Trace was going to go after them when Obsidian stopped him by the shoulder. “Sargent you can’t-”

“They’re not our mission any more Trace.” The unicorn gritted his teeth in frustration as he was one of the many soldiers that wanted to keep looking for the twins to bring them back. As much as he hated it, Obsidian was right. They long since made their choice and it was unmistakable that they were given the chance to come back.

Obsidian let the stallion's shoulder go and walked over to the arrow that was shot by the unknown dragoness. Still wearing his work-gloves, Obsidian pulled the arrow from the stone wall, and was surprised that much of the arrow-head was embedded in it. Once he was able to get the note that was tied to it off, Obsidian tossed the arrow aside knowing that it would serve any other further propose.

Celestia and the elements walked towards Obsidian as his eyes quickly scanned over the note, growing more confused with each letter. “Sargent Obsidian, what is it,” Celestia asked, seldom ever seeing the bewildered look on Obsidian’s face before, and coupled with the twins’ sudden appearance and disappearance it couldn’t be good.

After reading the letter several more times to make sure that he wasn’t somehow missing something, Obsidian looked straight towards the elements standing behind Celestia. “Um...girls, you said that Rainbow Dash has been gone for a whole two months now right?” Since she was the last on to speak with the mare after the events two months ago with the twins, Fluttershy nodded her head while the others look towards each other with a confused look on their faces. “Did she say anything about how long she would be gone.”

“N-no, in fact Rainbow barely told me anything,” Fluttershy started, remembering how quite Rainbow Dash was after they all were back in Ponyville two months ago. “I asked if she was okay but she just said that she needed to work something out. I-I had let it go because I thought that we all needed to be alone for a little while.”

Obsidian again glanced back to the letter to confirm something before continuing. “Okay...so after, oh I don’t know, a week or two of not hearing anything from her, you tried to go talk to her right? Specifically, at her house.” Fluttershy turned her head away as she didn’t thought of doing that, and from the downward cast looks on the other four elements, neither did they. “Oh that’s not good. Um, girls, Celestia, you all might want to read this.” Obsidian handed the note over to Celestia, who took in in her magical grasp, and held it in front of her so the elements could read along with her. “And you might want to read it over a few times,” Obsidian added as Celestia’s eyes scanned over the letter quicker than his eyes did.

Once she was sure the elements had read it a few times themselves, Celestia turned towards them, and saw the blankness that only comes from realizing they all have missed up. This whole time, Rainbow had been in Baltimare with her cousin, and she was only supposed to be gone a month.

But instead, two whole months had passed and not once have they at all thought of looking for her, yet they were so quick to go looking for Spike and Quill, even getting the entire solar guard involved.

Before Celestia could question their choices, Obsidian sighed, and gained everypony’s attention. “I think I know where Rainbow is,” he said, nodding his head with a knowing smirk, and feeling like he should hit himself for being so dense. “About three days after the twins had moved to Everfree, Sky sent me a letter saying her cousin was staying with her for the month, and I think Rainbow is that cousin.”

Celestia closed her eyes and took in a deep breath to calm her nerves after seeing how much both Quill and Spike had grown over the two months. She slowly opened her eyes again to see Obsidian looking her straight in the eyes. “Obsidian, are you sure?”

“Best I could think of. I could go and check for you, it might be best if I go anyways.” No one was sure how Rainbow would react to her friends showing up a month late, and since she was Rainbow’s cousin, Obsidian could count on Sky to keep them in touch with Rainbow.

“Unfortunately, I need you here while your team oversees this operation until we can get a trace on that mysterious unicorn.” Obsidian sighed but still nodded his head, they top priority was getting the location of the occultist unicorn, and learn about his plans. “However, I do agree with you, but we simply can’t just drop everything and go to Baltimare.”

“Actually…” Everyone turned their heads down the street to see the familiar purple fur of Dusk with his mares right behind him. “Whatever you need done in Baltimare I can do it,” he continued as he and his mares started to walk towards the group. “We just got a letter a few hours ago from a friend from the republics, who’ll be arriving at Baltimare in a few hours, and I was just getting ready to take off.”

Celestia smiled at Dusk kind and polite offer as she had little time to get to know him or his mares that well, it was good to see that he was willing to go out of his way a little to help out. “Only if it isn’t too much trouble Mr. Flare.”

Dusk rolled his eyes and waved a dismissive hand towards the alicorn. “Pfft...trouble, trouble is my middle name, and Dusk will do just fine princess.”

“You should listen to him,” Sketchy cut in before anyone could speak. “Mister ‘tough’ guy over here gets himself caught in so much that he would save the world the trouble by wearing a target on his back.” Jinx started to laugh at Sketchy’s joke while Dusk rolled his eyes in mild annoyance.

“Ha, ha, ha...Sketchy you are the funnies mares in the world.”

Both of his mares wrapped their arms around him to get him to stop pouting like a little pup but Sketchy had more to add. “I try,” she whispered in Dusk’s ear with a smug look on her face, which only added more fuel to Jinx’s laughter, and more to the boiling pit in Dusk.

“Anyways,” Dusk paused to shot a glare towards Sketchy, who was trying to act innocent, before turning back to Celestia. “I’ll be happy to help out with...what do you need done in Baltimare?”

Celestia, who knew that Dusk had already met the twins, and knew much of what happened two months ago, passed the note from Rainbow Dash over to Dusk. “There’s a mare named of Rainbow Dash that supposed to live here but have been staying in Baltimare for the last two months and we need someone to check up on her. However, we’re not sure how she would react if the elements came a month late.”

Dusk nodded his head and put the note in his back pocket. “I’m taking it that it has something to do with the twins,” he asked in a low serious tone that was near polar from the one he first was speaking with. After noting the tone he had about the manner, Celestia gave a slight nod to the halfbreed. “Right, go to Baltimare, pick up Arctic, and find Rainbow. Anything else?”

“Nah half-blood,” Obsidian started with a shake of his head. “You should be able to find her in a house that near the sea-port on a street called ‘Seawinds Avenue.’ It’ll be the last one right before the street for the sea-port.”

Dusk nodded his head towards the dog, making sure not to forget the directions he was given. “Got ya,” he said giving a mock salute before planting a kiss on both of his mares’ cheeks, catching them--and everyone else--off-guard, which got them to let him go, and started to walk off. “I better get going, got to make sure about a few surprises for date.”

A bright blush came over Jinx’s face while Sketchy’s cocked her head slightly. “Surprises, what surprises Dusk?” The halfbreed turned to answer his mare but closed his mouth with a knowing smirk. “Dusk, what surprises are you talking about?” Instead of giving an answer, Dusk flared out his wings, and took flight towards a small cloud above him. Sketchy, who hates being left with little information, started to run towards the cloud in hopes of getting the halfbreed’s attention.

However, she was too slow as the cloud started to spark with Dusk’s purple electricity, and was helpless to stop Dusk from using the build up of his magic in the cloud to rocket himself towards the direction he was given earlier today of Baltimare.

Everyone covered their ears from the thunderous shockwave that was created from Dusk’s sudden take-off. All that was left was a few sparks of purple electricity. While everyone stared at the impressive display of Dusk’s ability to control his dragon-magic, Jinx started to slowly tip-toe her way away from her other packmate, but still got caught.

“Jinx,” Sketchy started with a low tone. Jinx, who barely took one step away, jumped slightly from Sketchy questioning voice, and dared to look back towards the stern look on Sketchy’s face. Simply looking in the flatness in Sketchy’s black eyes was enough to send a slight chill down her spine as she remembered why she was called ‘The Queen of Mean’ back home. “What kind of ‘surprises’ Dusk was talking about?”

“Uh...oh will you look at that,” Jinx stated, looking down to an invisible watch on her wrist with the fakest grin imaginable. “Well, I better be getting some things ready for our date.” Before Sketchy could stop her, Jinx teleported away from the scene.

Sketchy stared at the spot Jinx was just in, burning holes into the ground before throwing up her hands in defeat. “I give up.” Sketchy’s horn sparked an off-black before she too teleported away to finish some things of her own for the date-night Jinx had wanted to do. An awkward silence overtook the square as everyone blinked a few times in mild-confusion at the lover’s antics but soon thought best to further question it.

After convincing Isis to follow him out of the tomb so she could live with the rest of the pack, Wolf and the others finally started to walk through the fallen city, and wondered what the sphinx could do for High Moon. It was obvious that she had a plan to rebuild the city ruins and also tell them what they needed to know about the past. But something told Wolf that she would be doing something much more than that.

Blaze truly was happy for the sphinx, it was still worried to hear her call Wolf ‘master,’ but in the end she guessed it couldn’t be helped. She also wonder what kind of knowledge she had from the past that she could share with them now.

Lily sympathized with her misplaced attitude. All what Isis knows was severing others, so the best way for her to cope with being abandoned by Celestia and Luna was to find a new master, and there was no one better suited for that than Wolf.

While the three held to their own thoughts, Isis looked over the broken land that was called her home, and was only glad that the final battle during the Nightmare Rebellion didn’t take place there. She then turn her attention to Wolf, who was gazing over the lands with a look of thought.

Over the eight years of watching him and the other two do their best to care for the broken lands, Isis had grown attached to the way they would push past the odds to get things done, and silently yearned for the bond Wolf held with Blaze. Her eyes then trailed over the mare, wide hips able to give him the alpha cub that was already growing inside of her, large breasts to feed the cub, and--by what she had sensed--a powerful mage.

That’s when she thought of taking a form that would please her new master. “Hey Isis,” Wolf started, turning around only to see the sphinx be bath in golden and blue light, and standing up on her back legs. Wolf stopped walking as Isis started to shift forms, causing the other two to follow his gaze, and were dumbfounded by the sight as while.

Once the light had faded, Isis was now standing on her back legs like the rest of them. Her front paws had turned into five-digit fingers while her back ones stayed the same and her wings seemed to be larger. However, what also remained the same was her not having any clothes on, and Wolf’s eyes couldn’t do much from trailing up her long slender legs to her curvy hips and up her tone abdomen to her full chest.

A shift jab to the rips from Blaze, gave enough reason for Wolf to avert his eyes away from the stunning sphinx’s body. “Um...Isis, just what did you do?” Isis cocked her head at Wolf’s question, not aware of what she had done.

“I simply shifted forms, master,” she answered with a flex of her wings. Over a thousand years, she had not once changed into this bipedal form, and she would need a moment to get used to walking like this again. “I thought it would serve you better use, I didn’t do anything wrong, did I?”

A quick sigh came from Wolf as he removed his large black shirt and toss it toward Isis. The sphinx looked down to the black stained fabric, she noted every small detail of the dusty shirt, but couldn’t figure out why Wolf have given it to her. “No, but put that on. We’ll...um, have to find something for you to wear.”

Isis did as her master told her to do, still unable to see the point, but didn’t question. Luckily, Wolf’s shirt was large enough to cover Isis’s body all the way down mid-thigh. “Like this master?”

“Yeah, come on the twins and Frost should be making their way back here, and I want to introduce you to them.” Isis nodded her head, already knowing of the twin dragons from the short two months of watching them learn, but still knew little of Frost. Wolf and the others started to make their way back to the mansion, where Lily gave Isis some of her old pants to tie around her waist with a piece of white cloth.

When the four made it through the tunnels to the temple, Wolf spotted Quill playing with the phoenixes while Frost and Spike sat at the table, talking about something amongst themselves. The three soon gave him their attention when the slab door moved back into place and quickly questioned the new face.

Knowing that they would have questions, Wolf quickly started to explain everything that had happen while they were away. “Twins, Frost, I would like you three to meet Isis,” he started, waving a hand over to the sphinx, and continued. “From what we’ve been able to tell, she’d been here in High Moon for much longer than either Blaze, Lily, or myself, and now she wants to be apart of our little pack.”

Frost and Spike started to walk around the table and towards the four adults while Quill landed back on the ground with the phoenixes on her shoulders. Isis quickly bowed her head towards the three, getting them to do the same, and smiling towards all of them.

“Hello, as master have already stated, I am Isis, and I’m also a sphinx. It is a pleasure to finally met all of you in person,” Isis said with a soft gentle voice. “I’ve been dwelling here since its construction ten centuries ago and I hope that we all could live here together in peace for a considerable time.”

“Heh, hi, I’m Quill Dragul,” Quill started with a friendly smile, not questioning the sphinx’s sudden appearance that much after seeing weirder with the elements. “This sack of coals right here is my twin brother Spike,” she continued waving a hand over Spike, who was rolling his eyes at Quill’s ‘introduction.’ “And this lovely mare right here is my marefriend, Frost.”

Frost started to giggle with a sly blush on her face. “Hello it’s nice to met you.” Isis nodded towards the changeling. Suddenly, Wolf clapped his hands together to get everyone’s attention.

“Alright everyone,” he started, walking towards the center of the room where Blaze’s table was, and placed his hands down it. “Since our pack is growing, I thought of a little renovation project is in order. Blaze, Lily, and twins you already know about us rebuilding the city so this is directed towards Frost and Isis.” Both nodded their heads as they knew Wolf was taking the opportunity to get everyone’s main role are. “Isis, since you know more about High Moon, I’m trusting you to work with Frost here, and do what you two can on getting things done.”

“Of course master.”

“Alright, this should be easy enough.”

Wolf nodded his head towards the two, knowing that the city ruins were in good hands. “Great, now if you two ever need any help, don’t hesitate to ask. Spike, in light of recent circumstance, tomorrow we’ll be heading out to the nearby river to get you fishing.” Spike nodded his head with a thumbs up showing his support of Wolf’s plan.

Wolf knew that if anyone can catch some fish, it was him, and if anything the role change should help with his new weight training. “Quill, you keep hunting out there, something tells me we’re going to need a few more pounds of meat to add to the winter storage, but be careful out there. Predators get desperate the closer the winter comes.”

Quill scoffed at Wolf warning and snapped her fingers to create a small fire-ball above her hand. “Like they got something on this,” she said in a smug voice that got some laughing and others rolling their eyes. “But seriously, I’ll keep my eyes open.” Two months, and Quill had learn being cocky when it come against other predators is a really dumb and costly thing to do. The last thing she wanted was Wolf worrying that she couldn’t handle hunting on her own.

“Right, Lily and I will be doing some exploring soon.” To this Lily tilted her head, not in objection, but in mild surprise as she didn’t see where it was coming from. “I can only imagine what things we’ll be needing for the city and I want to start doing some more trading with the nearby towns that close to Everfree. Also the ones within.”

“Whoa, wait,” Spike started as he and Quill were caught off-guard by the new bit of information. “There are towns in Everfree?”

Wolf furred his bow then suddenly remembered that he hadn’t told them about the few small towns that are set up in Everfree. “Oh right, I haven’t told you two about them just yet. Well, in all honest, ‘town’ isn’t the right word I would call them, but yes. There are a few newish settlements out here, most of which are somewhere around a few centuries old, and their our ticket to getting a few things we need.”

“Cool, think we can tag along,” Quill asked, wanting to see these towns for herself. “We might as well since I’m guessing that we’ll have to anyways.”

Wolf chuckled from Quill’s ever so brash way of thinking and nodded his head. “Sure why not, I had plans for you two to do so anyways.” Quill and Spike started to smile at the thought of exploring more of their home while Wolf turned towards Frost. “What about you Frost, you wanna tag along?”

Frost placed a finger on her chin in thought, she already knew how to get around Everfree through the tunnels of her old hive, but unless she wants to start a war, she’ll have to learn the route the old fashion way. “I might as well, I’m only used to traveling through the tunnels, and I have no idea how to get there from here.”

Wolf nodded his head, thinking that was enough for the impromptu meeting, and stood up from the table. “Alright, if that’s everything,” he paused to see if anyone had something to add to the new agenda and continued when no one did. “Let’s all head to the falls for a bath before dinner.”

Everyone nodded their heads and started for their clothes in their separate living areas while Lily let Isis continue to borrow her clothes. There was much to do before winter, or before the birth of Wolf’s cub in the few short seven months. But if things continued on the path they were on now, there would be nothing to worry about when the time come.