"Alright you lot, I'd say I expect everything to be exactly as I left it, but I know at least one or two things will be broken while I'm gone." I said to the group as I held my suitcase in my hand as I was about to walk out of the Den. "While I'm away Moonlight is in charge."

"What? Why?!" Pyro complained.

"Because she is far more mature than you three, so behave yourselves. And Moonlight, don't you do anything stupid either." I said with a stern expression.

She gave a sultry smile and looked at me with half lidded eyes. "Now why would I ever think of doing something like that? I know you'd just punish me if I did."

I groaned and facepalmed. "No wonder your last group treated you like a whore..." I spoke quietly to myself.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, just talking to myself." I quickly countered. I then looked outside and saw my carriage waiting for me. "Well there's my ride. See you lot in a week." After one final wave I left the building before looking back and saying to myself. "Yeah this place is gonna be destroyed while I'm gone." With that I walked up to the carriage outside and said hello to the two pegasui up front before boarding. I placed my bag on one of the seats and put my feet up, knocking the side of the carriage to tell the pegasui up front that I was ready to go.

Soon the carriage began to move down the street before taking to the skies, rising above the clouds and making me reminiscent about taking the plane to the Mediterranean back on earth with my family. "Ah, memories, forcing me to miss my crappy home world."

Meanwhile

Deep underground lay the Changeling Kingdom, made up of various cave systems and a large black castle built in a large cavern, with changelings bucking around by the thousands, going about their duties. Inside the castle sat Queen Chrysalis, a look of rage on her face as she continued to replay the message Gray had sent her in her mind before he killed one of the Royal Changelings.

"He dares to mock me before killing one of my children?! He shall pay dearly for this!" The queen yelled in anger, bringing her hoof down on the black crystalic floor, causing it to crack under the sheer force of her rage. "GAURDS!!!"

Two armoured changelings rushed in and stood at attention.

"Bring the Royals to me! At once!"

"Yes my queen!" They both answered before buzzing off, both sweating in nervousness as Chrysalis raged.

Chrysalis then began pacing back and fourth impatiently waiting for her remaining Royals to arrive. "I swear Lone Wolf, you will all burn in Tartarus for this!"

Two hours later

As the carriage landed on a small island off the coast of Equestria I immediately jumped out and waved to the pegasui who nodded and flew off, they would be returning in a week after my vacation was over. "well, I might as well get checked in and then check the place out."

As I walked towards the resorts main building I looked around with a content smile. It was like anything you would see in a normal tropical resort on earth, palm trees along the path, people in flower shirts, a few families arguing over who forgot what, kids running about whether or their parents sorted out everything, the smell of the sea in the air and of course the sun shining brightly down on the island, on,y a few small clouds cycling the small piece of land in the sea.

I got a few looks, but that was to be expected. A good few of these ponies, Griffins and dragons were from other parts of the world and would have never seen a human before. I'm sure a good few of them just decided that I was some kind of Minotaur and looked the other way. "Nope, not letting the stares get to me, I came here to relax."

As I walked into the main building I was immediately greeted by one of the staff with a genuine smile. After getting checked in at the main desk I was given my room key and headed straight for it to get out of my merc gear and into my swimming trunks, sandals, flower shirt and just relax by the pool and drink whatever fancy named drink I could find on the menu. And I did just that.

Half an hour later I was lying on a sunbed under a large parasol drinking a piña colada to keep things simple. I just lay there with my sunglasses on and a smug smile on my face. "Man this was way overdue." I took a sip of my drink before placing it on the table beside me and lifting up a leaflet that had the times of various activities, trying to see if there was anything to do here other than relax, if there wasn't I was fine with just relaxing anyway, it's what I came here to do after all.

"Let's see, anything to do with old people is off the list like shuffleboard or bingo. Wait a minute this place has a strip club? Eh, if I feel like it I'll go check it out. Scuba diving, poker, etc etc." I shrugged and placed the leaflet down, taking my drink again while enjoying the peace I could get before a bunch of kids would come diving into the pool and start screaming their tiny hearts out.

"Gray? Is that you?"

I smiled at the familiar voice and turned to see none other than FireFlight walking up to me. "FireFlight, what a pleasant surprise! You here with your family or what?" The red unicorn smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, my wife convinced me to take us all on vacation, so she's back at the room with the kids while I check everything out. I'm actually here with my sister and her...coltfriend, as well." That last part was spoken dryly and with hate.

"Wait, is she still dating Metric Ton?!" He nodded. "The one that beats her?! I thought she ditched the prick months ago."

"Hello gentlecolts." The mood then changed to happy again as another friend showed his pure white face.

"Broblood! What're you doing here?" I greeted as Blueblood reached us.

"I heard that you were coming here on vacation, so I decided to join you and keep you company." He then looked to FireFlight and noticed his expression. "Is something wrong?"

I looked to FireFlight and he nodded. "Come on, let's go somewhere private to talk about this."

Author's Notes:

Seems as though Gray can't go anywhere without drama following him. This is a sort of mini-arc in the story.