Sentire hums as she goes over the maps. "Not bad a spot. Still unknown."

"Sentire, what are you up to?" Arkon asks as he and Daring came back while the others were asleep.

Sentire looks up and smiles. "Just going over the maps. Might be important."

"Sentire, we have a problem." Arkon says.

Sentire hums as she keeps looking over the papers. "What is it?"

"Your father ever tell you about the Dark ones of the old world?" Arkon says.

Sentire slams the papers down and gets up and walks over to him. "What happened?" She asks seriously.

"Where we are going is related according to Daring and their cult is already onto us. I just killed one not long ago." Arkon says.

Sentire sighs. "Protect them. I need to look at something." She said walking out.

"Doing a sweep for more?" Arkon asks.

"What else?" She asks back as she closes the door behind her.

"Get some sleep Daring. I'm keeping watch." Arkon says.

Daring didn't say anything as she got into a chair and faced the wall.

"I will watch over you." Arkon says.

Daring just stared at the papers on the table.

Arkon takes a seat next to her and rubs her head.

Daring eeps and freezes before slowly falling into the petting and leans into his petting.

Arkon then leans onto her shoulder. "Stop beating yourself up over it."

Daring slowly looks to him. "I'm sorry." She said quietly.

"Stop. What is done is done. Now we just have to deal with them." Arkon says before gesturing to his wisp to follow Sentire and watch her back.

The wisp flares once before flying off and through the door.

Arkon then waited for Sentire to return, keeping a close watch for more cultists.

"Hmm. Clean." Sentire said to herself as she walks around the cargo car. "Not one box out of place."

The wisp then flies through the door towards her.

Sentire smiles as she turns to it. "Hi there little one." She said somewhat petting it.

The wisp glows a bit. "Oh Arkon sent you, huh?" Sentire asks before it changed colors a few times. She giggles. "Alright, stay close." She said continuing on into the car.

They both walk along the whole car before coming to the end an Sentire opens it to the back of the train and checks outside a bit. "Nothing here. But I can't upfront." She said closing the door and makes sure it's locked. "How do mortals lock these?" She asks fumbling with the lock.

The wisp flies in front of her and touches the lock before she hears the tumblers move around. "Oh, thank you." She said before walking away again.

The wisp seems to give an eye roll movement as it flies around before flying after her. Sentire starts to smile as she checks the last corner. "Okay, that's it. Come on." She said to the wisp and looks behind to hear a click and the back door opening.

Sentire frowns as the door creaks open and she takes out her scythe. "What do you mean it is too big to use in here?" Sentire asks the wisp as it flies around her scythe.

The wisp changes to red before some of the boxes move away at the end of the car and shows three figures wearing cloaks and masks of some type of canine or canines.

Sentire frowns as she resides the scythe behind her and one of them rushes her before she swings and slices their head off, sending it tumbling and rolling back to the two.

The wisp flashes blue for a moment.

Sentire shakes her head a bit as she brings the blade up behind her before swinging it under her and hits the head as it flies out the door window and right off the cliff the tracks were on.

The other two, seeing this, start moving in sync.

Sentire goes a little wide eyed as they crisscross each other's path, mirroring each other before they were upon her and tries to grab her arms and push her to the wall and she can see the mask up close and sees it has thin features while having a long snout. She gasps wide eyed at the sight before frowning and pushes them off and makes them stumble.

"You dare disrespect him?!" She yells and kicks a box at one and smashes it on the hooded head and makes him fall to the ground.

The last one quickly got up and starts to run towards her and takes out a kuruni from the sleeve before trying to swipe at her and every time, she blocks it with her scythe that she picked up again.

Sentire growls and bends down quickly before reaching up and grabbing the wrist of the attacker and pushes the blade through his midsection before throwing him over her and into the wall, where he slumps down and bleeds profusely.

The wisp flashes a few times.

Sentire sighs as she looks over the bodies. "Yes, I know." She said starting to carry one and pushes the open door wide open and throws the body off to the side and off the cliff before doing the same with the rest.

The wisp flashes a few more times.

Sentire sighs as she picks up a dropped mask and looks it over. "Don't ever disrespect him." She said before breaking it in half and throwing it out before looking to the wisp. "What? They are gone now." She asks the wisp.

The wisp does a bright flash towards the back.

She quickly looks over and sees a figure trying to sneak past behind some crates. Sentire frowns and quickly the kicks the crate he was moving behind and was pushed to the wall as he tries to get the crate off of him as Sentire sits down on it.

The wisp flashes again.

Sentire huffs as she puts her scythe up to the cultist's neck. "What do you want here?"

The wisp flashes again.

Sentire glares at the cultist. "Won't huh? Then what do you want?"

The wisp flashes again.

Sentire huffs and pulls the blade away. "You will never join him." She said getting up and ties him up before starting to leaving.

The wisp flashes again.

Sentire sighs and picks up the cultist before throwing him out the back and makes him roll down the cliff before she closes the door. "There, happy?"

The wisp flashes once more signaling it was.

Sentire shakes her head before walking back to her bed. "Ungrateful wisp."

The wisp flashes furiously.

Sentire looks to it. "You are."

The wisp was flashing all kinds of colors now.

Sentire looks proud of herself as she looks away from the wisp as it keeps flashing colours. Until she felt a shock to her rear.

Sentire yelps and holds her hands to her rear and glares at the wisp who seems to look away from her. "Cheat."

The wisp starts sparking.

Sentire huffs and tries to stay ahead of the wisp. "You don't even respect me."

The wisp flashes again, saying "Need to earn my respect." with sass.

Sentire rolls her eyes. "What did Arkon do to get you?" She asks herself.

The wisp flashed again.

Sentire raises an eyebrow as she looks to it. "First one huh? Not bad."

The wisp flashes purple.

Sentire nods and walks back to their car. "Let's go."

Arkon watches the door as Sentire comes back inside and the wisp disappears as it heads to him. "How many?" He asks seeing the blood on her clothes.

"Four." Sentire says.

"I see." Arkon says.

Sentire sighs as she settled into a chair and starts to take off her bloody clothes. "They even had to nerve to disrespect the one I trust to my heart."

"Huh?" Arkon asks.

Sentire sighs. "Nothing."

"So you going to get some sleep before we get to our blimp?" Arkon asks.

"I have studied what I can. I need to sleep to let me know the information." She said getting into bed.

"Ok, I'll keep watch." Arkon says.

Sentire hums as she pulls the blanket around her and closes her eyes.

Arkon kept watching till they pulled into the station at four in the morning.

Daring groans as she lifts her head. "What happened?"

"You fell asleep." Arkon says getting up.

Daring yawns as she tries to look around. "Where are we?"

"The train station. Time to go to the blimp." Arkon says as he goes over to wake up Spitfire and Rainbow.

They both snort awake as Arkon shakes them awake. "Wha…what's going on?" Rainbow asks.

"We arrived in station." Arkon says as Sentire and Daring start waking the other's up.

Dusk snorts awake. "Wha…are we there yet?" He asks as Berry snores with a snot bubble above him.

Sentire rolls her eyes and pops the bubble.

Berry shot up awake. "Huh, what? Who took my sleeping bubble away?"

"Blimp time." Sentire says before continuing.

Arkon stood over Octavia and Vinyl's seats before starting to shake Octavia lightly.

Octavia sniffs awake and looks up. "Oh Arkon. We are here?"

"Yeah." Arkon says before shaking Vinyl a bit.

Vinyl still snores before Octavia pinches her nose. "Wait for it." She said still holding Vinyl's nose.

Arkon waits and watches and couldn't help but think Vinyl looked really cute like that.

Vinyl 's snoring stops before she snorts and trashed around and wakes up. Octavia giggles as she lets go and Vinyl glares at her. "Not funny."

"Come on sleeping beauty, time to go." Arkon says.

Vinyl blushes. "Right." She said going for her suitcase.

"Daring, lead the way." Arkon says now that everyone was awake.

Daring smiles and leads them out as they met up with the team and heads outside to see a few landing platforms near a cliff and a few blimps. "Here we go." She said leading them to a far one.

"Everything for you all loaded already I assume?" Arkon asks.

They all look to their carry on as some workers placed more suitcases into the blimp cargo hold.

"Yeah, I loaded all my gear maps and research equipment into a room on it before I came to get you." Daring says.

"So this blimp has rooms and beds?" Arkon asks.

"Yes." Daring says.

"I know where I will be soon." Arkon says.

Daring blinks at that before heading to the blimp. "Come on guys. It won't wait for us that much."

They all soon follow as Berry bites back a comment. 'Remember your contract.'

Sentire yawns as they enter the bunks and she immediately flops down on the bed.

"Ok, anyone want to share a room with her?" Daring asks.

Applejack sighs. "I got it. Figure might as well learn a thing or two about her since she is going to stay with us."

"Ok, just keep it down so some of us can go back to sleep." Rainbow says tiredly.

Applejack blushes. "I'll assume that was for the talking."

"You know what it is for." Daring says leading the rest away.

Applejack frowns. "Uncharismatic louts."

After a bit, Arkon finally went into one of the rooms. "Ok so…" Daring stops seeing Octavia and Vinyl still with them.

They both look to each other confused. "What?" They both asked.

"They ok or in this bet now?" Daring asks Spitfire.

Spitfire shakes her head as they smile while Vinyl grins. "Not even close."

"What bet?" Vinyl asks.

Rainbow yawns. "The bet for who can sleep with Arkon first. Has to be consented." She said before yawning again.

"Rainbow, I thought we agreed that was between us." Spitfire growled.

Rainbow blinks to her before going wide eyed. "Oh shit."

Arkon blinks in their direction after he hears arguing, but the soft sheets call to him and he goes in without a word.

Daring sighs. "So now you know. You want in?" Daring asks.

They both smile. "Sure. Might fun." Octavia said.

"And I'm going to win." Vinyl said chuckling evilly.

Daring holds up a finger. "Now who will stay with him as a roommate for the trip?" Daring asks.

They all look to each other and was about to have another contest before Octavia walks past them. "I'm the only out of all of you to not molest him in his sleep in any way."

"Whoa, sis going for a stallion, that's different." Vinyl says only half joking.

Octavia smirks. "Unlike you at your raves every time with a mare over your DJ enjoying some time with you."

"You're one to talk miss has ten mares and not one stallion in her little black book." Vinyl says.

"Ensemble." She calls back.

"Little black book?" Rainbow asks.

"A record of all she has slept with and dated." Vinyl says.

"Lies." They heard Octavia call in the room.

"She scopes out every mare including you three." Vinyl whispers to them.

Rainbow was still sleepy. "What?"

"She probably already made notes of you three in her little brown book. Like your bust and hip and the way you walk and dress as she considers whether to seduce you or not." Vinyl whispers.

Daring watches her carefully. "You have to be kidding."

"Nope." Vinyl says smirking.

"Come on V, we can share a room like the old days at camp." Spitfire says after a while of them staring each other down.

"So that means we are sharing the last room." Rainbow says very wary of Octavia now.

Daring nods as the other two walk off. "Yeah, let's get some sleep. We can enjoy the flight once everyone is rested."

Rainbow nods and follows her to their room.

Sentire groans as she rolls around in her sleep and Applejack was watching from the other end of the room in a chair. "Anu…" She said in her sleep.

Applejack raises an eyebrow. "Anu?" He asks before getting up and goes to her and shakes her awake.

Sentire groans a few more times before quickly shooting up in a cold sweat. "An…!" She stops as she realizes that she wasn't in her dream and Applejack was near her.

Applejack looks at her in slight worry. "You okay?"

Sentire blinks a few times and gets her bearings. "Yes, I'm fine."

Applejack looks away a bit. "You always sleep without clothes?"

Sentire nods slowly. "Yes, the heat bothers me slightly."

Applejack sighs. "Get dressed or cleaned up first. I'll wait for you outside." He said heading to the door before stopping and looking at her slightly. "What does Anu mean to you?"

Sentire looks at him shocked a bit before shaking her head. "Nothing."

Applejack raises an eyebrow at the obvious lie before heading out. "Fine then." He said closing the door behind him.

Sentire sighs after he left. "I have to control those better." She said to herself before getting ready.

Applejack taps his hoof as he waits outside the door after he saw almost everypony else walk past him in the hall. "Where is that girl?"

The door opens and he looks to see Sentire in her usual skimpy outfit. "All right. Come on, it's almost lunch." He said making her follow and they find everyone at one of the large tables.

Arkon smiles as he notices their last guests coming over. "Ah, good. Now what were you saying about the temple Ms. Daring?" He asks turning to her.

"Well…" Daring stars, but pauses.

"You have no idea on it and only have a vague idea, don't you?" Arkon asks.

Daring blushes. "Guilty."

"Oh great." Spitfire says facepalming.

Dusk groans. "Now we are blind in this."

"Temples usually follow the culture floor plan. One look is all that is needed to tell which." Sentire spoke up as she pokes at her strange soup with a fork.

They all stare at her as she kept poking away. "You do remember that she isn't your usual skimpy mare, right?" Agilis asks leaning towards them.

Dusk goes wide eyed and quickly turns to him shocked and sees the dog and Barb on the dog's back standing there. "How long have you been there?"

Agilis frowns. "Seriously, did everyone just forgot about us?"

Berry chuckles. "No, they just don't have anything good to place you in so only the big events are you guys good enough to write about."

"Speaking of events, someone want to explain how a lesbian became my roommate?" Arkon asks annoyed.

Octavia frowns. "I am not a lesbian. I am a respected mare."

"I saw how you looked at the other mares." Arkon says.

Octavia frowns. "Stay out of my business and I'll stay out of yours."

"Wait, you could tell my sister was a les by just the way she looked at others?" Vinyl asks.

"Yes…I am very observant." Arkon admits shyly, his hood covering his face making Octavia smirk.

Octavia sighs and plays innocent. "So you have been observing me. What have you noticed?"

"Ok, I can't even see his face and know he is blushing like crazy." Vinyl says.

Octavia giggles as Arkon blushes harder. "Why me?" He whispered to himself.

"You know sis, why are you interested in Arkon?" Vinyl suddenly asks freezing Octavia.

Arkon peeks a bit up as Octavia stutters. "Well…that's just preposterous."

"Uh huh? Who was the one who doctored his eye again?" Vinyl asks.

Octavia frowns. "Shut up."

Vinyl smirk as she leans against her. "Oh, what is that? Have you taken a interested in a stallion sis?" Vinyl asks.

Octavia just takes her bowl of food and throws it at her.

"Hum…you haven't been this defensive since you first fell in love with that…" Vinyl suddenly stops and smirks at Octavia.

Octavia growls. "Shut up."

"Elusive, forget the dress for me. My sister is the one who will need it." Vinyl says shocking Elusive.

Octavia frowns. "Vinyl, shut your mouth or I will tell mother."

"Tell her what you are interested in a stallion…" Vinyl stops before shivering. "Never mind, I just pictured how she would react."

Octavia huffs. "Good."

"Wait, you are interested in me?" Arkon asks confused.

Octavia groans. "Yes." She said quietly.

Arkon turned away and mumbled only where Octavia could hear him. "I find you cute as well."

Octavia's ear perks in his direction, but doesn't say anything.

"So does that mean I don't have to be on guard anymore so she doesn't molest me?" Rainbow asks.

Vinyl smiles. "Yeah, she is so into stallions."

"Who says?" Octavia says before realizing what she said a few moments later.

Vinyl chuckles. "Yeah."

"Wait, no, I mean…" Octavia stops trying to defend herself and lets out a long groan and puts her head down on the table making everything on it clank. "Dang it."

Sentire shakes her head a bit. "Just live with your choices. Everything has a place. Now let us know what we have on the temple." She said trying to eat.

Daring sighs. "There is nothing much we know. Just where it is and that's it."

Sentire hums. "Then let us enjoy our time on board."

They all seem to agree with that and try to enjoy their time on board.