“Are you sure we should bring this straight to the princess so quickly?” Shining asked as a frowning Echo led him and Flash through the halls.

For the last hour and a half, Shining and Flash had been running around the castle trying to figure out who the hay those “gardening hands” actually were, and for an hour and a half they had gotten almost nothing out of anyone that they had asked/questioned.

When they had questioned the actual gardeners they were told that they had ever seen the stallions that Shining described and it only got worse from there. None of their fellow guardsmen had seen the two stalking the halls and not a single maid or servant had witnessed two stallions running through the halls with a big sack on their backs… or so they said. Though they tried their best to hide it, Shining could see the nervousness in their eyes, see the way that not a single one of them could really meet his eyes when he questioned them.

This castle was secure, with guards roaming the halls twenty-four seven. No one could walk in here off the street without being seen or questioned…. but now it didn’t look like that was actually the case. From what he could gather, a heck of a lot of ponies had either been paid off to look the other way or these stallions had just up and vanished the moment they were out of his and Flash’s sight. And, since Shining wasn’t a moron, he figured it was the former.

It was this thought that made Shining a thousand times more nervous than he already was about the odd situation that he and Flash had found themselves in but he didn’t have enough evidence to do anything other walk around and ask questions. So he did the only thing that he could in a situation like this: go and see his captain and try to get her to help them.

It might have left a bad taste in his mouth, but Shining wasn’t a big shot captain anymore. He couldn’t go running around cracking heads and taking names, he needed to go to ponies with more power than him so they could give him the okay to crack the skulls and hang ponies over the proverbial fire. So, though he actually wanted to do anything other than this, Shining and Flash went to Captain Echo and reported what they had seen, witnessed, and what they thought was going on.

Echo, though more than a little skeptical, had listened to Flash and Shining’s report of the strange ponies carrying their giant sack of…something before going out and questioning the guard herself. And just like Shining and Flash she had gotten next to nothing, even when the mare started shouting and threatening and stomping her hooves. The Captain sure as heck didn’t like that fact that her guard “hadn’t seen” these stallions, nor did she like, and I quote, “That they were trying to feed her a load of horseapples and calling it pie,” but now she was suspicious, which for Shining was a good thing.

Echo, who looked like she was about to bite somepony, kept her eyes ahead as she addressed Shining. “I just want to see something, Private. If all is well with the princess then I want the two of you to go out and look around the city until you find these stallions so you can bring them in for questioning.”

She growled. “But I swear to Faust, if you two are just telling tales or this is some kind of joke and you have me running around the castle for no reason there’s going to be Tartarus to pay…”

“We wouldn’t lie to you, ma’am,” Flash piped up, hoping to sooth the oddly upset mare. “Shining and I just want to know why there were to ponies running around without anypony noticing.”

Echo growled again. “Yes… I’d like to know why too, Private.”

After another minute of walking the three found themselves in front of the princess’s bedroom. Knocking politely, Echo took off her helm and took a step back, waiting until Cadence threw open the door before saluting.

“Ma’am.”

Cadence blinked, looking at each of the guard. “Hello Captain.” she frowned slightly when she saw Echo’s face. “… Is there a problem that I need to know about?”

The bat mare looked past the princess and into the room for a moment before looking back at her. “I was just wondering, Princess, is Ares in that room with you?”

~_~_~_~_~__~_~__~_

As said before, the spell that Luna had cast was a prototype to its very core, and a dangerous one to boot. This meant that the moment that Luna had cast it anything could have happened. She could have sent herself to another dimension entirely, she could have teleported to the center of the earth, she could have summoned something she shouldn’t have, or worse. But, thanks to her skill and the skills of ponies that had had a hoof in making it, the spell had worked.

Mostly.

While it did send Luna to the Crystal Empire in one piece, and while it did teleport her within a few thousand feet of the castle (just like it was supposed to do) the spell had the unforeseen and negative consequence of being a little… explosive. Though to be fair with all of the magic that she had pumped into it it could have been much, much worse.

Instead of throwing Ares and the clan leaders across the room like rag dolls before they fell into each other in a groaning pile of pain and burnt hair/fur the place could have just up and exploded, which was something if one wanted to look at the silver lining. Though, honestly, none of the ponies or human particularly cared since more than one of them was now nursing more than a few broken bones.

BOOM!!!

With all of the grace that of an alicorn princess, Luna landed on her hooves the second that she popped into existence. Exhaling the breath that she didn’t know she had been holding, and ignoring the fact that she felt like she had just run a marathon, the Princess of the Night took a moment to check over herself to see if everything came along with her.

Her wings were there (thank the gods), as was her horn and all four hooves, and she could see out of both eyes and she could feel the weight of her saddle bag on her back. So, at least from what she could see, the spell had worked.

“HUZZAH! WE ARE ALIVE AND WHOLE!” Luna shouted, doing a little victory hop into the air as she surveyed the area…. which, for some reason, appeared to be a very dark and very quiet room.

“…Oh my, where did I teleport myself to?” Grumbling she wrenched open her saddlebag and started fiddling through it. “The spell was supposed put me in front of the castle, not… here..”

Slightly irritated that her spell hadn’t worked perfectly like she had wanted it to, Luna lit up the room with a simply light spell so she could properly take in her surroundings. What she saw both confused and frightened her.

There, across the room, were a bunch of… blobs... blobs that were making noises. It was at the end of the hall wasn’t really just a blob (hopefully), the shadows and the darkness ,made it the illusion of blobbiness. Though that still left Luna with the uncomfortable knowledge that she had teleported into a dark room where someone or something could be stalking her at this very moment.

Spreading her wings to appear intimidating, Luna pricked up her ears, straining to hear what whoever or whatever was at the end of the room was saying. She tried to put a bit more magic into her light spell, so she could actually see what the blobs actually were, but found that she was tuckered out from her spell and wouldn’t be able to do more than her current light spell. Which made her even more nervous, though she tried her best not to show it.

“Show thyself, cetin! We can clearly see thee!” The Princess of the Night commanded, stomping her hoof and lowering her head as if to charge. “It is I, Princess Luna: Mistress of the Night and Ruler of Dreams! So come out and make thyself plain so we know if thou art friend or foe!”

One of the blobs groaned in what suspiciously sounded like pain. “My… breadsticks!”

Luna gasp. Maybe whatever was at the other end of the room was hurt. What if her spell had ended up hurting a poor defenseless mare or stallion and they were laying in a heap in pain!...

Though it could have been a trap of some sort…

Now conflicted, the Princess of the Night lowered her wings and took a step toward the blobs. “...Creature? Art thou injured?” She took another step forward, then another, then another. “Could thou please speak up so we know whether or not to blast thee or take thee to the nearest hospital.”

From out of the darkness a voice, different from the one before, managed to rasp, “Hospital… please…”

~_~_~_~_~_~_

“As if this bucking day couldn’t get any worse,” I grumbled, pacing my room.

You know, if today hadn’t already beating the stuffing out of me I would have been a bit more worried when the captain told me that there was a good chance that somepony had just up and stolen Ares out of the castle. The castle that was filled to the brim with guards that were supposed to be guarding so something like this didn’t happen. In fact I would have been more horrified than worried, but right now I more irritated than anything.

Though, to be honest, the rage was starting to come on the more I thought about it. The shaky, “I’m going to burn down a castle and beat the stuffing out of everypony,” kind of angry.

They couldn’t have picked another day to do something this stupid?! Really, you’re going to go and take MY coltfriend after the bucking day that I just had?!

Well, no more mister nice princess!

“What do you want us to do, Princess?” Echo asked, her face a mask of duty and vigilance.

Growling to myself, I started to throw on my royal regalia. “You three can go back to the barracks if you’d like, I’m going to go out and find Ares.” I levitated over my table and gave it a few practice swings with my magic.

Yeah… this thing would hurt if I start hitting ponies with it…

A calm and sensible and nice Cadence would have gotten her guard to comb the city for her favorite alien, or maybe she would have asked one of the clans if they’d seen or heard anything happening (Faust knows they have enough of their ponies working in my castle), but right now I wasn’t sensible Cadence. Right now was a very upset Cadence.

Because today was such an awful day, I wanted to do a few things to make myself feel better before I go to sleep. I want to get something to eat, I want to do go bed early since I have work in the morning, I kind of wanted to read that romance novel that had been sitting on my shelf for weeks, AND I WANT TO CUDDLE UP WITH MY COLTFRIEND AND TELL HIM THAT I LOVE HIM BECAUSE I’VE HAD A BUCKING ROUGH FEW DAYS!

And I was still going to do all of that too, even if I had to go out and break a couple of skulls with my favorite oak table for it to happen.

“…Princess, what are you doing with that table?”

I stopped just shy of the door, turning around and giving Flash a smile. “Oh, I’m just going to go and have a nice conversation with a few ponies around the city,” I told him sweetly. “And this table is going to go a long way in getting a few of my subjects to tell me where my coltfriend is.”

Shining, Echo, and Flash all looked at me like I was crazy (which might not have been that far off at this point) as I turned back toward the door.

“…Don’t you think you’re overreacting just a little bit Cadence?” Shining asked, taking a step toward me as I wrenched the door.

Humming a happy tune I trotted down the hall, giving my table a few more practice swings.

“Me? Overreacting? Don’t be silly!” I’m going to hit somepony SO bucking hard with this that they’ll STAY hit! “I’m as calm as a mare that was just told her coltfriend was coltnapped can be!”

“…And do have any idea who would have taken Ares?”

My guardsponies trotted out of my room and followed me as I made my way toward the castle’s entrance. Once or twice the four of us passed a maid or servant that would look at me oddly as we walked by but I wasn’t worried about that. I was just humming a tune to myself, with a big regal smile on my face, trying my very hardest not to blow a hole through one of the castle walls out of frustration.

I swear if they hurt ONE hair on his head I’m gonna make Nightmare Moon look like a SAINT!

“ No, but I’m going to find out,” I told Shining before my mask of calm and collectiveness cracked and I growled again. “And I’m going to bucking find out quickly! Even if I have to beat the hay out of half the ponies in this city!”

Flash looked over at the captain before looking back at me. “…Princess, maybe you should go back to your room and let the three of us handle this?” He gulped when I stopped in the middle of the hall and turned around to eye him. “You’re becoming a little hyster…”

I don’t know if the anger and frustration was starting to show on my face, or if it was the fact that part of my mane was on fire (which, for the record, would have freaked me the buck out if I wasn’t so bucking upset), but the Pegasus took a hasty step backwards.

“No, I think I’ll handle this my—“

“There thee are, Niece! We hath walked these walls for almost an hour trying to recall where thy quarters were!”

And just like that I no longer wanted to beat somepony to death with my table (mostly). I knew that voice, and I also knew that there was no way in Tartarus that she’d be able to come to my kingdom without me knowing.

She’d have have to take a three day train ride, then walk half a mile through an icy tundra, and finally pass through the barrier that was around the city twenty-four seven, a barrier with a load of guards patrolling it by the way, so there should have been no way that she was here…

“Cadence? Did thou hear us?”

But, against all common sense and logic, there my Luna was, a great big happy smile on her face as she trotted toward me. And, to make this… whatever the buck you want to call it, even more confusing apparently Luna had found Ares and was now carrying him on her back.

Because things couldn’t get any weirder today, right?

Poor Ares looked like he had been in a tornado, his shirt dirty and torn up,his face smudged with what looked like dirt and even a little bit of blood. His eyes were half-lidded, and it looked like he was having a hard time keeping his seat on top of my aunt, swaying back and forth, and almost falling off, until Luna used one of her wings to push him back into a better sitting position.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see Ares as beat up and tired as he was. He was okay! Nopony was selling him on some black market, they hadn’t cut him into little pieces, or any other horrible thing, and!...

Is… he missing his shoes? I thought before shaking my head, tossing the table over my shoulder and charging toward the two.

“ARES!” I shouted, picking the human off Luna’s back and gently sitting in front of me. “Are you alright?!” I wrapped him up in a hug, placing my head on his shoulder and trying my hardest not to cry.

“I’m alright,” my human muttered, holding me close while I sniffled. “Luna just up and appeared before anything really bad could happen.”

Even though I wanted to keep hugging him a until that made everything all better, and then carry him back to our room so I could bathe him and put the two of us to bed so we could forget about this bucking awful day, I broke the hug. Before I did anything else I needed to know who the heck took my human so they would be taken in, questioned, and punished. Oh sweet Faust were they going to get punished

“Who took you? Why’s Luna here? What happened to you? What--”

Ares shushed me before hugging me again. “I got taken by two stallions that just appeared out of nowhere,” he said into my ear, so quietly that only I could hear it. I didn’t know why he was being so secretive, but I decided to keep my trap shut and listen.

“And where did they take you honey?” I asked, wrapping a wing around him protectively. I swear when I find who the buck did this… I thought, rage once again filling me.

“I don’t know where; they blindfolded me so I couldn’t see where we were going, and I didn’t bother to look when Luna carried me out there, but I knew who they took me to see.”

My wing tightened around Ares’s body. “And who did you see, Honey?” I asked, barely able to keep the anger out of my voice.

“I saw Mrs. Higher’s face and that one stallion that beat the shit out of my and Flash and a couple of other pony were there but they were hidden in the dark.”

That bucking WHORSE! I’M GOING TO BUCKING--

Taking a deep, deep breath I looked into my coltfriend’s eyes. “And do you know where these ponies are right now?”

It might have been a worthless question because Higher and her conspirators could have left the city by now if they wanted, (if they had any sense in their bucking brains that is) or they could be hiding out somewhere where even I couldn’t find them, but I felt I still needed to ask it.

To my surprise, Ares smiled. “They’re still back at the building that Luna dragged me out of. And you might want to go and get them some help ‘cause they’re a hell of a lot worse off than me.”

!()()##()()!

It was almost an hour after Ares had been found and the castle was still a flurry of activity.

Guards were running back and forth, maids had been called in to clean up a bit of the carpet that had caught on fire from Cadence’s tail, doctor Stitch and her nurses were rushing to and from the Ward with medical supplies, trying to fix the broken clan leaders in a far off room in the corner of the castle since Cadence wouldn’t let them anywhere near the royal section of the castle, and in the middle of it all was Cadence and Ares, still in the middle of the hallway, with Cadence holding and murmuring in Ares’s ear while the human held her and murmured right back.

What a BUCKING day, Shining thought, pulling his helmet off his head and just letting it fall onto the ground in exhaustion.

While such an act would have never been acceptable for a guardspony under normal circumstances, everypony was either too tired or two shell shocked to even look in his direction when the helm hit the floor with a clang.

“You might have come at a bad time, Princess,” Shining said, looking over at Luna.

The Princess of the Night nodded, staring solemnly back at him. “We believe that thou art right, Shining Armor.” Her lips twitched into a half-smile. “Though We are still happy with how the teleportation spell worked out… Mostly.”

“Speaking of, we managed to find all of the ponies that you… “damaged”,” Shining told her while Cadence whispered something into Ares’s ear.

The human whispered something back with a smile, earning him an indignant squawk and a wing slap to the back of the head.

Though Cadence still looked as mad as he had ever seen her, Shining could see that Ares was doing his best to keep the mare as calm as possible, which was appreciated since he was sure that Echo still wanted to question the prisoners, not find them burnt to ash or blown up.

“They’re beaten up pretty badly but they’ll survive now that we’ve gotten the doctor to look at them.”

Picking up Shining’s helm, Luna took a moment to inspect it. “We are glad. We wouldn’t want anypony dying because of our folly.”

With a flick of her horn Shining’s helm landed back into his head. “Though We do not know if we should be apologetic to their injuries.” Luna frowned. “We do not know what happened between Ares and those ponies but We do not believe it was good by the way our niece was acting…”

Shining eyed Ares as the human, now laughing, tried his best to block Cadence’s wing strikes, which were raining down on him with increased frequency. Cadence was smiling, nuzzling the human’s cheek in between each slap, her expression lighter and happier than it had been for the last few hours. And, to his surprise, Shining found himself smiling at the happy little scene.

“That still doesn’t explain why the human over there looks pretty alright considering what happened to him…” Shining mused. “Some of those ponies are going to be holed up here for a week or more.”

Luna chuckled. “When We found him, young Ares was laying on top of a middle aged mare whose mane was partially on fire.” She chuckled again, harder this time. “From what We gathered she must have broken his fall.”

She eyed her niece and the human, both who were now rolling around on the floor. If she strained her hearing hard enough she swore she could hear her niece whispering something to Ares from here, and, though it might have been her imagination, it sounded a little bit… risque.
.

“…Our old Sergeant told us that those two had a difficult day.”

Shining twitched slightly as Ares and Cadence shared a kiss, but still managed to keep a smile on his face. “I heard the same… Though it looks like they’ll be alright…”

()()@@()()

“Will you quit hitting me?!”

I let out a playful growl, rolling Ares around before booping him with a wingtip.

“I will as soon as you say you’re sorry!”

“I’m not apologizing for what’s true!”

Ares tried to grab me but he was too slow and I was too determined, pinning him onto the ground after another playful scuffle.

Was what I was doing maybe a little childish(especially out in the hallway where everypony could see me)? Probably. But I had been through a heck of a lot more embarrassment and headaches today to even remotely care whether or not ponies saw me playing around with my coltfriend. I was happy that he was okay and I wasn’t going to bucking be afraid to show it by giving my human as much affection as I could.

After the two of us had had our fun I was going to have to personally apologize to my entire cleaning staff for the mess I made, I was going to have to deal with my aunt, and I was going to have to go and have a… nice little conversation with a certain group of clan leaders.

All of this was probably going to take all night, and at the end of it I was going to have to hit the hay to get hopefully an hour or so worth of sleep before I had to get right back up and start my day as the ruler of the Crystal Empire. So I was going to enjoy what little free time I had for Faust’s sake!

“It’s not true so say you’re sorry!”

“No.”

I pressed my nose against my human’s, doing my very best to stare him down. “Say it!”

Ares just crossed his arms. “No.”

“I will strangle you in your sleep!”

One of his hands tried to snake around toward my backside but I slapped it away with a wing.

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having a big butt, Candy.”

I snorted, lightly tapping the sides of his head with my wings until he was squirming underneath me.

“Say it!” I commanded.

Finally, Ares threw his hands up. “Alright, alright! I’m sorry!” He shielded his head with his hands. “You’re ass is small! Tiny! Small! You can’t even see your ass in the right light! Now will you quit it?!”

Smiling from a victory well earned, I hopped off of him and carefully pulled him to his feet. “Alright then,” I said, dusting the two of us off with my wing. “Now you go down to the Ward and get the doctor to have a look at you while I get everything finished up here.”

Straightening up his torn dirty shirt, my Ares glared down at me. “I already told you I’m fine, Candy. Someone back at that compound place cushioned my fall.”

I pushed him forward with a wing. “I’m sure you think you’re alright but that doesn’t mean you’re alright. Now go to the doctor; I’ll be down there in a little bit.

Ares was about to open his mouth to say something but I shut him up with a look. “...Alright,” he grumbled. “But if she kicks my ass for coming to her twice in one day it’s on you.”

I twitched but managed to keep a smile on my face. She better not touch Ares!

I don’t know what it was, I knew that the doctor would never hurt Ares, but I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was going to happen to my human if I left him alone. He had already gotten hurt enough today, and I don’t think I want to test just how bad his luck really was. I wanted to take him to The Ward myself and watch over him, but since I had to lay down the law with some nobles that messed with the wrong mare, I decided to do the next best thing.

“Flash, could you escort Ares here to the Ward please?” I looked over at Shining and hummed. “Actually, Shining, could you help Flash with that?”

“You heard the princess maggots!” Echo said, pointing a hoof at my coltfriend, who was now rolling his eyes. “Get over there and get that monkey to the Ward asap! And drag him if you have to!”

Ares frowned, pointing that one finger at her. “Well fuck you too mango horse…”

Echo frowned while Flash and Shining walked toward Ares. “And remember, since you’re taking him to the doctor’s you can beat the hay out of him all you want if he refuses! She’ll just fix him up!”

Before I could (and sweet Faust did I want to) open my mouth and chew my captain out for her poor choice of words, Luna cuffed the mare on the back of the head. “They will do no such thing, Echo!” She glared at my poor soldiers. “At least if they do not wish nightmares unending whenever they slumber.”

I spent a moment eyeing the captain before giving Ares one final nudge. “I’ll see you in an hour or two, honey.”

“Do I have to bring these two with me?”

I nuzzled his side. “I’m worried that somepony else might take you away.Could you please just do it for me?”

Leaning down my human wrapped me up in a tender hug. “Alright; I’ll do it for you,” he mumbled, not looking happy about his babysitters.

Giving me a kiss on the cheek, he stood back and and walked over to Flash and Shining, who then escorted him down the hall.

Luna took a step toward me. “Could you perhaps tell us what happened, Cadence?” For a moment, she looked absolutely furious. “Did those ponies that we accidently injured wish harm upon Ares?”

That anger that I had felt before, the anger that had gone away when I was holding Ares, came right back in full force. It made me grit my teeth, it made the vision turn slightly red, and he made me want to take all of that pent up aggression on the ponies that had the audacity to try to take my human away from me.

“I’ll tell you later, Luna,” I said, voice laced with pure, unadulterated rage. “Right now I need to go and have a talk with those ponies…”

~-`-`-`-`-`-`-`~

In his long life Skulltaker had seen and done many, many things, some of them good and some of them bad, but, all throughout his years, he had never found himself sorry for very many things.

He had led his clan well, fought for his country with honor, and had done his best to protect the ponies of the empire from the tyrant during his reign. So what if he made a few ponies mad or stepped on a few hooves? He had done well by his family and to him that was all that mattered.

Even now, bruised and burnt as he was, the stallion still had his head held up high… or at least as high as one bed-ridden could raise their heads. And, unlike his fellow clan leaders, he still did not fear retribution from the princess. They might have taken her bed warmer for an hour or two but it was for the good of everypony involved. And if that blasted Equestrian princess hadn’t blown them all into a bloody wall no one would have gotten hurt in the process! So—

“Did… it just get colder in here?”

Skulltaker looked away from the window that he had been peering out of to glare at Smelter, as bandaged and bruised as he was. The old was looking around the room like something was about to jump out of the shadows.

Hump, coward. The princess hadn’t even seen us yet and he’s ready to wet himself, Skulltaker thought with a sneer.

“What are you on about?” he growled, eyeing his rival with dislike. He was about to say more when he noticed something horribly odd.

The air was colder; almost frigid, so much so that he could see his breath as clear as day.

The metal around his bed was slowly being caked with ice and the room was getting darker and darker by the second, and the silence that had suddenly descended upon the room was thick; heavy and thick and... frightening. The lights flickered on and off for a second, and Skully swore he could hear the light bulbs starting crack from here.

Clip clop clip clop clip clop

Without meaning to, the old war horse found himself pulling his blanket over his chin, almost as if trying to hide from this unknown and sudden terror that filled his belly. His fellows didn’t seem to be faring any better, every single one of them frozen stiff in fear and wide-eyed.

Not one to lie down when faced with a foe (be they in front of him, imaginary, or… whatever this was), Skulltaker tried to rise out of his bed, tried to let out a shout of defiance, tried to do anything other than just lay in his bed shaking, but found that he could not.

Clip clop clip clop clip clop

There was a knock on the door, light but forceful. For everyone in the room, it was louder than a thunder. Skulltaker wiggled backwards, trying to get as far away as he could get from that door. He didn’t know what was on the other side but whatever it was felt… wrong.

Everypony watched as the door opened (the door knob was not turned; it was almost like the door no longer could stand to be held by the frame any longer) revealing a smiling and cheery-eyed Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.

“Good evening, my little ponies,” she said, taking a step into the room with the door closing right behind her. If the princess noticed the cold in the room she didn’t show it, eyeing each and every one of them before standing in the middle of the room.

“I am very relieved to see that none of you are seriously injured.” The mare bowed her head almost apologetically. “I want to apologize for my aunt’s actions, even though they were accidental they still caused you undue pain and suffering and I will not have that.”

The second that the princess said that it was like the tension evaporated out of the room. The mare before them wasn’t the wrathful princess that they all had been expecting, but the kind one that each of them knew. And seeing this kind, regal mare, each of the clan leaders wondered if they were going to receive any punishment at all. Ares could have explained to her why they had done what they done, and, though even now it felt like a long shot, Cadence might have understood and even respected them for what they did.

Skulltaker smiled, and was about to tell the princess that it was no bother and that she really didn’t need to come down here to check up on them, when the temperature in room grew even colder.

“But there is something I’d also like to talk to all of you about while I’m here.”

And in the blink of an eye the kind, caring ruler that had come in the room to see if he and the others were faring well was gone. In her place was a very powerful, very angry alicorn, her iris’s gone and her face twisted up in a snarl. Even the color of her coat seemed different; a deeper, darker pink than it usually was, and her mane appeared to be flying wildly around her hair almost as if she was in a hurricane.

And, as he looked at what his princess had become, what he and his fellow clan leaders had turned her into, Skulltaker couldn’t help but let out a very quiet whimper; because the sight before him had brought along an emotion that he had not felt in a very long time—

“We’re going to talk about why coltnapping my coltfriend was not one of your best ideas.”

Fear.

Author's Notes:

Once again sorry if you find any errors. I'm kind of in an in-between editors since the last one is nowhere to be found.