Author's Notes:

Sending off this story with whatever I have at the moment. So this will be the last bit of this particular story.

"Oh, can I come with?" Sentire asks.

"Clear it with Daring." Dusk says.

Sentire leans over to her. "Can I?" She asks with a big smile on her face.

"Fine, but don't destroy anything." Daring says.

Sentire laughs as she jumps for joy before bouncing over to the train.

Daring sighs as she sees them all settle inside the train. "Alright, who's ready for an expedition?" She asks everyone.

"Aye." They all said while holding their hands, talon, and paw up.

Daring smiles and walks down the car. "I'll go tell the conductor then."

Sentire smiles greatly as she looks out the window before feeling a weight on her seat and sees another stallion sitting by her that had on some clothes that were almost the same as Daring. "Oh, sorry. Is this seat taken?" He asks.

Sentire looks over the teal blue coated stallion with a shortcut red mane. "Oh no, it's empty or…rather not now." She said blushing slightly at the correction.

The stallion chuckles at the nervousness. "Good. The other cars were full and I'm still new to the team…a newish one all over. What's your name?"

Sentire smiles. "Sentire."

The stallion smiles. "That's a cute name. Tell me, what's your purpose on this trip?"

Sentire hums. "Well, I do know the many spirits and gods in this world. So I might be able to tell who is this new one. Did they tell you anything about it? I might be able to narrow it down."

The stallion thinks on that. "The most I can gather from the others and what we were given is that this one might be from a civilization before the ones that were at Skyhold."

Sentire tilts her head in thought. "Not much to tell from there."

The stallion smiles. "Maybe we can figure it out together. Where are my manners? I'm Nickel Bright." He said holding out his hand.

Sentire smiles and shakes his hand. "Sentire."

Nickel chuckles. "Yes, I know."

Dusk glares slightly to the stallion sitting next to Sentire. "Dusk, you okay?" Barb asks, noticing the glare.

Dusk growls like a rabid dog.

Applejack raises an eyebrow. "Dusk, calm down. You are not Winnona with fleas on her butt."

"Yeah, that is Dashie right now doing it at Daring." Berry whispers.

They look over to see Rainbow growling silently as Daring was talking with a stallion and even giving him an autograph.

"She mad that Arkon is sleeping next to her in the same seat right?" Berry asks.

Rainbow huffs. "Why does she get him close by?"

"Oh somepony is jealous." Elusive says.

Rainbow growls as she looks to him. "Shut up."

"You're not the only one unhappy. His bodyguard isn't too happy either." Berry says pointing out Spitfire.

Spitfire was grumbling as she was glaring at Daring who was oblivious to the glares.

"Oh you two should have a glaring party." Berry suggests.

Dusk was now growling again as he still held a glare to the stallion talking with Sentire.

"Throw a spear at him while you are at it." Applejack says rolling his eyes as Daring puts a blanket around Arkon.

Butterscotch clears his throat. "Maybe we should be happy they are both living happily now like regular ponies."

"She is too close and getting fresh with him." Rainbow growls next to Spitfire.

Spitfire huffs. "Want to go over there?"

"As long as she doesn't do anything in his sleep." Rainbow says.

"Why are you two whispering?" Vinyl asks leaning over the seat by their heads.

They both look to her. "Don't you go and mess with him." Rainbow warns.

"Why? He help me move some stuff around all morning. He needs his rest." Vinyl says.

"Hum, should your wedding dress have flower like parts?" Octavia asks Vinyl.

Vinyl looks to her. "Music notes."

Octavia stares at her before actually writing it down, making Vinyl pale.

Elusive smiles. "I can make a great dress for you dear."

"Not yet, communicating with my parents on the upcoming wedding. This is the first time Vinyl has given a preference for it." Octavia says smirking at her sister.

Vinyl frowns at her. "Shut up." She hissed.

"Oh who is the groom." Elusive asks getting Rainbow and Spitfire's attention.

Vinyl stares at them before sitting back down and grumbles to herself.

"Oh she is too embarrassed to say." Octavia says.

Elusive chuckles. "Don't worry. I'll have a base dress ready for you."

"I'll just say she may be joining a priestesshood." Octavia says smirking.

Both Rainbow and Spitfire lean over the seat and glare at Vinyl.

"Priestesshood?" Elusive asks confused.

Butterscotch sighs. "They are all going after Arkon." He said looking to the sleeping Arkon now leaning on Daring.

"Wait, when did he lean on Daring? I thought he was leaning against the window." Elusive says.

Spitfire growls. "Daring." She growls lowly as a spit of fire comes out of her mouth.

Barb hums as she crosses her legs and tries to read her comic. "She is now living up to her name."

"Is Rainbow turning a different color?" Dusk asks.

They look and see Rainbow was turning red as she grates her teeth. "Now Rainbow, please calm down." Butterscotch pleaded.

"Hey Rainbow." Daring calls.

Rainbow growls. "What?" She seethed.

"I'm going to check the stuff in the back, you mind watching this one?" Daring asks.

Rainbow blinks as the red anger seem to steam away. "Uh…sure." She said as she went over.

"Ok, switch on three. One, two, three." Daring says holding up Arkon before Rainbow takes her place and let's him lean on her as she smiles.

Rainbow sighs in relief. "Okay, got him."

"Ok, I will leave him to you. If you need it, there is a pillow under the seat." Daring says walking towards the back.

Rainbow smiles as she moves Arkon's mane out of his face. "Not bad looking still." She said to herself.

Spitfire, seeing this, was now fuming a bit.

Octavia sighs and takes Spitfire's hand and leads her to where Arkon and Rainbow were sitting before setting her down on the other side of Arkon. "Make sure he doesn't hit his head on the window." Octavia said before heading back to her seat.

Spitfire just blinked a few times at what just happened.

"Sorry little sis, you will have to try for him." Octavia says.

Vinyl huffs. "Great."

"Oh, what was that?" Octavia asks slyly.

Vinyl frowns and looks away. "Nothing."

"Elusive, can you make some concept drawings for possible designs for my little sis's wedding dress?" Octavia asks.

Elusive smiles. "Sure. I can come up with something."

Octavia smirked as she knew she was really getting to her little sister.

Dusk sighs. "How much longer?"

"Well after the train, we have to board a public blimp to get to the next transit location." Berry says.

"Wow, you saw the temple of Raja-Naga?" Sentire asks and they all look over to see her with a happy look on her face.

"Huh?" Berry asks.

Nickel chuckles. "Yeah, that big dragon, a creator of the world. Hard to believe considering it could be a story. But there is always some grain of truth to it. Every story does. So yes, what were you saying about it?"

Sentire smiles. "Oh he's…" She stops as she remembers to not tell much. "It is just the biggest thing around. I wonder what other big things there are." Sentire then giggles. "Oh there are many great things. Like I said, I studied most of the spirits and creatures out there. There are a few with Raja-Naga's size."

Nickel smiles. "Well then, I think this expedition will be more fun than ever with a pretty mare like you around."

Dusk growls as a ball of magic appears in his hand.

"Why are you getting so possessive over her?" Applejack asks.

Dusk blinks and let's the magic fade away. "Sorry. I just got a bad feeling from that guy."

Butterscotch looks a bit confused. "Um…aren't you a bit jealous?"

Dusk blushes. "No I'm not. It's nothing. I just think this guy is bad news."

"Uh huh, so you haven't even noticed the little pairing war going on over there." Berry says.

Dusk blinks at him. "Pairing war?" He asks confused.

"Take a look." Berry says pointing to the three.

They all look over to see Arkon snoring quietly as Rainbow and Spitfire glared at each other. "Wow, so thick you can cut it with a butter knife." Elusive said quietly.

"Not yet it isn't." Berry says trying to do that.

They all watch as Berry waves a knife around trying to cut the air. "Um…Berry, maybe you should put the knife down before someone gets hurt." Applejack said.

"It's a butter knife silly." Berry says.

"Can still kill if aimed right." Applejack pointed out.

"How would you know that?" Berry asks before gasping. "Are you secretly a killer?"

Applejack leans to him. "I had to go to the butcher shop a few times. They showed me how to kill quickly, but only the spots."

Berry was now on the other side of the car holding a tower shield in Applejack's direction.

Applejack raises an eyebrow. "Berry, I'm not a killer."

"Stay back you." Berry says.

Applejack sighs and just sits down again. "Why do I even bother?"

"Right, everypony watch out for Applejack if he wears a hockey mask." Dusk says.

Applejack glares at them. "Hey, I'm not a killer."

Arkon starts to yawn as he awakens.

"Commander, I see you are awake." Spitfire says.

"Yeah, how long was asleep?" Arkon asks groggily.

Rainbow smiles. "Just a few hours. We still need to get to a blimp to head back to Skyhold. They actually made more accessible than just walking a mile or two just to get to the bridge."

"Um…Dash…we are heading out of Equestria on the blimp." Spitfire says.

Rainbow still smiles as she stared at Arlon. "I thought Daring said that they found something in Skyhold?"

"Yeah, the records that survived." Arkon says.

Rainbow keeps smiling as she clenches her hand. "Spitfire?"

"What?" Spitfire asks.

Rainbow starts to grin. "What would you look like if I start choking you?"

"Dash." Arkon says grabbing her.

Rainbow stops and stares at him as she blushes. "Um…yes?"

"None of that." Arkon says.

Spitfire grins as she leans over. "Whipped."

"And you, no instigating." Arkon says leaning to her.

Spitfire blinks at Arkon's forwardness. "Wow." She whispered to herself as she blushes.

"Now why am I sitting in between you two?" Arkon asks making them freeze and sweat a little.

"Well…" Rainbow starts.

"You see…" Spitfire says.

"I am waiting." Arkon says.

"They just wanted to be with you." Berry said leaning over their seat.

"Berry!" They both yell and punch him away into the seat behind them.

"Owie." Berry said while caterpillaring over back to his seat.

"I see and where is Daring?" Arkon asks.

"Last we saw, she was in back. Must be checking something or doing more research." Spitfire says making Dusk's ear perk up in their direction.

"I see." Arkon says before leaning back into his seat.

Rainbow smiles. "So…what are you going to do on this trip? If this is a temple, it certainly isn't going to be your line of faith. I mean, Sentire is more qualified for this. No offense."

"But most of the notes and stuff she has is in one of the ancient codes that my priesthood knows and she said this temple is lost." Arkon says.

Spitfire raises an eyebrow. "So you're translator?"

"More or less." Arkon said.

"And eye candy if need be." Daring jokes having heard that as she came back.

Arkon blushes as he pulls up his hood and the two mares beside him glare to her while blushing on their own.

"I don't hear you two disagreeing." Daring says.

"You better sleep with one eye open." Spitfire warns and points a finger menacingly at her.

Daring just raises an eyebrow and pushes the finger down. "Right…any case, it is getting late so I suggest that you all get some rest. If the train keeps going, we should make it to the blimp by four in the morning."

"Right, you two sleep." Arkon says getting up.

They both stare at him as he leaves before looking to each other and has a rock, paper, scissor contest to see who gets him.

"You both sleep. I'm going to get something to drink." Arkon says heading out the cart.

The two mares were still in their contest as Daring just shakes her head and follows Arkon out.

Dusk sighs and sits up and stretches. "Come on guys. Shut eye time." He said before looking over to Sentire still talking with Nickel.

'STILL!' Dusk yells in his head.

Barb leans over his shoulder and puts her head next to his. "You did want her to make friends." She pointed out and makes everyone stop.

Dusk growls before sighing and stops growling. "Yeah. Guess she needed some archeologist before moving on to regular ponies. Too bad Daring wasn't around that time."

Barb smiles. "Give her time. It'll be fine. Besides, we still got the whole trip."

"So you think Daring and Arkon are going to get drunk?" Dusk asks changing the subject.

Elusive hums. "Does Arkon even drink?"

"I'm still amazed at the containers for drinks nowadays." Arkon says getting a drink from a vending machine. "How does this work?" He asks pressing buttons.

Daring chuckles and takes out a bit. "It's like a bartender or a merchant." She said buying a can and giving it to him before popping the top. "There. Just be careful and don't cut yourself."

Arkon nods before taking a sip. "So Daring, what was the real reason you called us. I doubt it was to get me to translate. You're smart enough to figure out the code yourself." Arkon says.

"Well I want to ask you something first. Ever heard of the dark ones of the old world?" Daring asks making Arkon turn serious.

"How do you know that title?" Arkon asks.

"From what I translated." Daring says a little surprised.

"I see. Well it is better to leave those type of things alone." Arkon says surprising Daring.

Daring tilts her head. "Why? What do you know?"

"Don't dig into this hidden secret Daring. It isn't worth it." Arkon says.

Daring now frowns. "What is so bad about it?"

"Well you see…" Arkon suddenly stops and puts down his drink and grips his staff.

Daring raises an eyebrow. "What are you doing?"

Blitz doesn't say anything before suddenly casting a spell that barely flies by her head and a wet squishy sound was heard.

Daring blinks and turns around and goes wide eyed at the sight of a body slumped against the wall while the head was blown up and only the flesh in the shape of flower leaves remend. "Oh, that's what."

"No, that isn't the reason and I am surprised that cult has survived till now." Arkon says.

Daring looks to him in confusion. "Cult?

"Yes and I kill people like this." Arkon says searching the corpse as Daring noticed the unusual clothing of it.

Daring walks over slowly. "Who is he?"

"Don't know, don't care. Get the window." Arkon says.

Daring quickly goes over to a window and opens it. "Okay, got it."

Arkon then picks up the body and throws it out the window before shutting the window.

Daring eyes the body rolling down the land as the train passes by. "Who was he?"

"A part of a cult and a enemy to Artemis and those who follow him." Arkon says.

Daring looks back at him. "How bad are they?"

"Death cult." Arkon says before cleaning up the mess.

Daring looks around. "We are safe, right?"

"They know what you are looking for Daring. Who did you tell about the dark one?" Arkon asks.

Daring shakes her head. "No one. Just the papers."

"They had to find out someway." Arkon says looking at her hard making her sweat.

Daring gulps as she backs away slowly. "Look…I just found them mentioned in the papers."

"And did you get drunk?" Arkon asks.

Daring quickly shakes her head and keeps backing away. "No, I barely drank during the whole trip."

"And after you found out about this?" Arkon asks.

Daring gulps again and quickly runs off.

"Daring, back here now." Arkon says firmly. Arkon frowns as he sees Daring run into another car ahead and sighs. "Oh Daring. This is why I stay alone." He said to himself. "Find her old friend." Arkon says summoning the wisp.

The wisp glow for a bit before flying off where Daring went.

Arkon followed the wisp till he cornered Daring. "You were saying?" Arkon asks.

Daring tries to grip around for something to get herself out. Arkon rolls his eyes before wrapping his arms around her. Daring eeps and tries to squirm away. "Talk now." Arkon says letting her know there was no escape.

Daring tries to push him away. "I…I…I did get drunk." She finally said as she fell limp.

"And?" Arkon asks.

Daring looks away. "I talked." She said quietly.

"Thank you for telling me…is this position awkward?" Arkon asks.

Daring closes her eye and blushes. "You have your legs around me, so yes."

"Are you uncomfortable?" Arkon asks confused.

Daring still doesn't look at him. "Why are you mad?"

"No." Arkon says.

Daring gulps. "You're mad."

"No, I am not, but you have put yourself in a lot of danger." Arkon says.

Daring keeps looking away. "I'm sorry." She whispered.

Arkon starts petting Daring's head. "Shhh, it will all be ok." Arkon says.

Daring sniffs. "I'm sorry."

Arkon just stood there holding her.