"Finally off the blimp." Daring says.

Berry slides upwards near her. "Yeah, it felt like being squeezed to death in there." He said as his body mimics getting smaller and then crushed in a hug with a strange figure before returning to normal.

"You scare me sometimes." Daring says.

Dusk suddenly was near her. "That's him on a normal day."

"Ugh." Vinyl says walking up.

Rainbow smirks. "What's wrong? Had a long night with a special somepony? Is it a mare?" She asks while she held onto Arkon's arm.

"No, she kept me up all night with her snoring." Vinyl says glaring at Spitfire behind her glasses.

Spitfire shrugs. "It isn't my fault that you don't have earplugs or muffs. Oh, wait. You do with those noise cancellers around your neck."

Sentire read from a book as the two bicker on how the headphones are defined as. "Why him? There are many others to choose from." She mused to herself as she flips through her old entries on death.

"What are you up to?" Octavia asks.

Sentire frowns. "Something's been bothering me ever since the train. I need to go over my past life." She said still flipping to find the entry and Octavia can catch a glimpse of the black cloaked death himself.

Dusk perks his ears up slightly at that. "What's this about the train?" He asks looking over.

Sentire hums as she starts flipping wildly now. "Well the train was…" She stops, but still flips the pages as she remembers to not mention the attack from Arkon and a bit from her father. "Nothing. Not in here." She said closing the book and putting it into her bag before taking out three more of the same book and starts flipping through one.

"How many do you have?" Octavia asks surprised at the amount of books and pages in them.

Sentire looks to her. "Oh this? This is my recent batch. I got more at home."

Dusk takes one book she wasn't looking through and flips through it and was surprised at the amount of creatures and spirits and all the information on them. Even the ones he knew and…huh, there's one of Eris. So that's what her likeness is and what she hates. She hates a clock? Guess that makes sense with her chaotic lifestyle. And…she likes those fetishes?! How much information did Sentire get out of her and the others?

"Dusk, I am surprised at you reading such smut." Rainbow says acting snooty.

Dusk blushes heavily and slaps the back of her head. "Shut up. I'm just researching creatures and spirits."

"No you're not." Berry says.

Dusk glares at him Sentire plucks the book from him and quickly reads through it before putting it away and sighing. "I must have left it at home. I wonder how he's doing though?" She asks herself in a thinking pose.

"Probably having his tail chewed on by your dog." Berry says.

Sentire looks over to Berry standing on Dusk who wasn't even bothered. "Oh him? No, not him. I meant my mate." She said casually.

"Which one was this again?" Berry asks.

Sentire tilts her head. "Well none of you if that's what you mean. I meant my mate who taught me all the male needs and wants what the succubus can't."

Dusk and Berry looked confused.

Sentire becomes confused herself. "What?"

"You have a husband." Berry says.

Sentire blinks and then shakes her head. "No, he's not my husband. Whatever that is. He's my mate."

"She's been leading us on." Dusk whispers to Berry.

Sentire was still confused. "What are you talking about? He just taught me many things about males. Even others like ponies."

Both ponies didn't seem happy.

Daring clears her throat as she got in between them. "She has a mate. But in her mind, that probably means friends with benefits. So…she basically got a boy toy and he's been teaching her how to take care of a male. She isn't married at all or her father could have not told you to help her get a true husband or husbands." She explains before backing off to let them see each other.

The two still didn't look happy.

Daring steps up again and looks to Sentire. "They think you already have a husband and you have been mating with him without telling them and you have just been lying to them."

Sentire blinks. "But I haven't. I am just telling you now so I can't have lied about that and these are the truths."

"It's the way you said it that makes them think that." Daring says.

Sentire blinks. "Oh. I see. But I haven't seen him for almost five years."

They all look to her confused. "How old are you?" Daring asks.

Sentire hums as she looks up in thought. "Last they told me, twenty." She said looking to them again.

They all became wide eyed. "That's illegal." Dusk said. "You have to be eighteen."

Sentire becomes confused. "He told me thirteen is legal."

Daring looks surprised at her. "Thirteen…that's the old ages. But the only one is Arkon and he's…the mate is a spirit." She realized.

Sentire nods. "Yes, he is and father introduced me to him a long time ago."

Dusk's ear twitches at that. "Who or what is he?"

Sentire tilts her head. "The death god, Anubis."

The two stallions inch away now.

Sentire is now completely confused. "What is it?"

"You're just turning them off now." Daring says face palming.

Sentire was still confused. "Oooo…kkkaaaayyy." She said scratching her head.

"Shall we continue on?" Octavia says sighing.

Arkon was still not caring about that whole conversation. "Yes, now let's hope we can find a proper spot to rest or find the temple soon."

"Yes, now direct us." Daring says to him.

Arkon looks to her indifferently. "I am not the guide for this. I know the temples, castles and lands for Lord Artemis. Sentire is the one you should be following. Like now." He said looking ahead and they can see Sentire far ahead of the group as she looks through a map.

"Hum, good honey & baklava huh?" Sentire asks while also having a sandwich.

Dusk groans and covers his face with his hands. "We might be doomed." He said mostly to himself.

"What's baklava?" Arkon asks.

Daring shrugs. "It's like a type of exotic sandwich. Like a sandwich wrapped around your choice of a thick soup."

"I am not interested." Arkon and Rainbow says.

Spitfire chuckles. "Already like a couple."

"Maybe I should check out some of the fashion while we are here." Elusive says out loud.

Applejack chuckles. "Yeah, just don't make too bad of an example of us."

"Might as well meet up with the excavation team." Daring says.

Vinyl leans over. "Where are they?"

"We are to meet at the university of the capital." Daring says.

They all look to each other as they walk down the street before reaching a large fence off block. "So where to from here?" Arkon asks.

"Follow me lover." Daring says.

Arkon shakes his head lightly as they follow her inside and looks around the school as some student walks around while some were staring at them. Soon they ended up at a large anthropology department and walked into one of the rooms. "Guys?" Daring calls.

"Ah Daring, finally made it huh?" One of the pegasus asks.

Daring nods. "Yep, we got a general area and you guys ready?"

"How general?" A griffon carrying books asks.

"A hundred miles." Daring says causing most to face fault.

"We can't do that much yet!" One yells getting up.

"That is why I brought an expert in the texts to translate and narrow it down more." Daring says pushing Arkon forward.

Arkon frowns to her. "I translate, she guides." He said pointing to Sentire.

"Oh, I have such a good feeling about this." One of the crew says sarcastically.

Arkon raises an eyebrow. "What was that?"

"How much you want to bet Daring got duped again?" One asks.

Arkon slams his staff into the ground and grabs their attention. "What was that about having a good feeling?" He asks frowning greatly.

Sentire leans over. "I wouldn't get him angry. The last one who did…he got sent through a portal to the darkest place in the world." She said before leaning away.

"Also meet my husband to be." Daring says smirking.

They stare at him as he held a big frown to them. "Now where are those scriptures?" He asks looking around.

"Over here." The griffon says putting a lot of books onto a table.

Arkon raises an eyebrow as he walks over. "Sentire, help me narrow it down." He said opening one.

"Coming." She calls walking over.

"Can she even read that?" Elusive asks.

"Raised by spirits, she can read some of it." Daring figured.

"Um…what do all of these symbols mean?" Sentire asks.

"I'll try and translate and you try and interpret it into modern times." Arkon said starting to write it down.

"Gotcha." Sentire says saluting.

"By the way Dusk, you think that batpony will look after your home well enough?" Rainbow asks.

Dusk shrugs. "I'm sure he's fine. He is looking for a job so I might as well give him house sitter."

"How much are you paying him again?" Rainbow asks.

Dusk thinks on that. "About ten bits an hour."

"I'm going to need more quills, ink, and parchment." Arkon says.

"On it." One of the griffons said running off.

"This might take a while. Why don't you guys go off and enjoy yourselves while we do this." Arkon said still working.

Sentire smiles. "Found a starting path, maybe about a country or so away from the destination. It's a start." She said getting maps.

"Let's see…that is Cartiltles, that itself was a port city destroyed by a natural disaster and no one can agree where is was." Arkon says.

"Cartiltles?" A research asks interested.

Arkon nods. "Yes, famous port city that was gone and barely any trace of it remained other than the word of the population nearby and even they had a time telling the story."

"Did I also mention he was frozen in time with a town by a monster for over a thousand years?" Daring asks dropping the bomb.

"What?!" They all yell.

Both Arkon and Sentire try to clean their ears. "Do all mortals scream at a revelation?"

"Ummm…sometimes." Arkon says.

Daring smiles as she looks over their small data. "We'll we be around town. We'll come around later in the day and check up on you and try to save you guys some rooms."

"I'm fine." Sentire said looking closely at a map.

"Same." Arkon said flipping through some rough translations by other translators.

"I want to try that food Sentire mentioned earlier." Rainbow says.

Daring sighs and leads the rest out. "Come on guys. I'll get you guys some great food here."

"Find me a bed first." Vinyl says tired.

Daring smiles and gives them a travel map. "Here. I marked out the hotel. There is a card in here and you can give it to them and get a few rooms."

"Ok. Octy, help your sister won't you?" Vinyl asks.

Octavia sighs. "Fine." She said tearing herself away from messing with Spitfire's mane.

'She is lucky Arkon is here or I would have ripped off her tail for that.' Spitfire thinks.

Rainbow looks back at her. "You okay?"

"I dislike that mare right now." Spitfire says trying to fix her mane.

Rainbow smiles. "You are going to love marriage life."

"And how would you know miss 20 year old?" Spitfire asks.

Rainbow shows her flank. "Talk to the flank sister."

Spitfire smirks before smacking Rainbow's flank surprising her.

Rainbow trod and glares at her. "Cheat."

"You present and I smack." Spitfire says.

Rainbow huffs. "At least you are not a molester."

"Yeah, Octavia has that role down." Spitfire says.

Rainbow rolls her eyes. "She is crazy, isn't she?"

"No, she isn't." Spitfire said.

Rainbow shakes her head. "You want to see the sights?"

"They have scheduled tours." Spitfire says adjusting her sunglasses.

Rainbow grins. "Let's take one then. It is going to be a while." She said looking back at the university.

"Ok." Spitfire says.

Dusk frowns as he stared at his coffee in a cafe with some of the others as the translation and mapping was still going on for a few days now. "Still mad huh?" Elusive asks.

Dusk scoffs as he slams his cup down on the table. "How could she not tell us that she is already mated?"

Applejack raises an eyebrow. "You sound like a possessive dragon."

Barb clears her throat as she sat nearby and reads a comic while having some emerald cake.

Applejack rolls his eyes. "What I mean is, you are being too controlling of her life the way I see it. Besides, she said that she didn't see him for five years. I think that part of her life is over."

Dusk huffs. "I doubt that. He could still be with her and we are just passing remarks in her books."

Butterscotch clears his throat. "She doesn't think of us like that." He said quietly like always.

Dusk rolls his eyes. "Just watch, first sight of him and she leaves right off the bat."

Berry hums as he measures Dusk's head with a pincher. "Nope, not big enough yet." He said writing it down in a notepad.

Daring raises an eyebrow. "Yeah, you have to be overreacting. Besides, it was probably done by her father and the whole getting them together thing. She doesn't know enough of our culture so what do you think she will know about spirit ones at that time?"

Dusk huffs. "I sincerely doubt that. She will leave at the first chance and…"

"If she wanted to leave, she could have done it at anytime." Applejack said interrupting him.

Dusk frowns. "Just you wait. It will happen."

Elusive rolls his eyes. "I wonder how long this would take?"

Daring shrugs. "A week at most. Maybe a half added if it still needs to be mapped."

Berry hums as he looks through a brochure. "Oh, there is a dancing event and everyone is invited. If you pay your entry fee." He said the last sentence as a hoofnote.

"Berry, you can read Greek?" Butterscotch asks.

Berry looks up from the brochure. "What's Greek?" He asks before going back to reading again.

"The language you are reading." Dusk says sweat dropping.

Berry raises an eyebrow. "I'm not reading Greek." He said still reading.

"Yes you are." The rest sitting at the table says.

"Huh?" Berry asks.

Dusk groans. "I don't think we can get through to him."

"Wait, why are the letters different now?" Berry asks.

They all facepalm.

Arkon groans as he looks over the many sheets of paper. "How much more text do I have?"

Sentire holds up a short scroll and points to the stack of books. "Just this and those books over there." She said while doing the map work.

Arkon quickly snatches it out of her hand and starts translating. "You know, you have been silent for most of the translations and map work." He said trying to work out the symbols now easier after all the work he did.

"Have I?" Sentire asks.

"Yeah." Arkon says looking at the large stack of books remaining.

Sentire hums as she measures the lines on the map. "There was no need of it."

Arkon raises an eyebrow. "Does it have to do with your spirit mate, Anubis or the fact you revealed it and they now resent you?"

"I told it wrong, correct?" Sentire asks.

"Don't ask me. I am still learning about such relationships." Arkon says.

Sentire sighs. "I don't understand what is wrong with this. I am…was his mate but that was because father sent me to him for what they called my heat. All mortals get them and he was to bring it down without, in my father's words, taking my innocence. Still have no idea on that and I am still waiting."

"That sort of thing is not so simple to us. One of the things that separates us from wild animals." Arkon says.

Sentire hums. "Guess so. Do you think it would be better if I explained it to them?"

"Um…you might want a little help from one of the mares." Arkon advises.

Sentire blinks. "Oh, I will try. Though it is strange they see it this way. Do mortals of any culture see what they want to see?"

"I don't understand the question." Arkon says.

Sentire looks to him. "Do mortals only see the world the way they want to see it or is that a rumor?"

"Ah…half and half most of the time." Arkon says.

Sentire nods and looks back to her maps. "I see."

Arkon watches her for a bit. "Do you miss the death god?"

Sentire stops writing for a bit. "Sometimes." She said quietly.

"Tell me, is he a prick like legends say?" Arkon asks.

Sentire smiles a bit. "No…he's actually…really nice and uses that for his job. Most mortals just used him for their own gain so that's why he acts like that."

"Uh huh." Arkon says before eyeing the biggest one of all the books with a bit of apprehension.

Sentire sighs. "But he did teach me and that was the truth. I never knew being with somepony in that way was a hard life."

"Should we try the biggest and thickest book next?" Arkon asks unsure.

Sentire shrugs. "If it gets it out of the way."

"We aren't sleeping tonight, are we?" Arkon asks.

Sentire nods. "I slept worse."

"I mean we won't get to sleep because we have to work." Arkon says.

Sentire nods. "Yes, that is true."

Arkon groans. "This is going to be a long week."

"It has been three days." Vinyl whines.

Daring rolls her eyes. "Relax. You have been having fun around the city. Can't you take the fact that you are here at least?"

"Yes, but I want to spend time with my stallion." Vinyl complains.

Daring groans. "Don't remind me. I want to as well, but he and Sentire are still working on the directions."

"So he has at least been eating well Spitfire?" Vinyl asks.

Spitfire shrugs. "I don't know. I'm not the waiter for his food."

"You're the one we have been sending." Rainbow says.

Spitfire blinks. "Oh. Well he does seem invested in his work…again…I think? He did work himself to exhaustion, right?"

"And guess who he is doing it for?" Octavia asks before they all look at Daring.

Daring blinks as she looks at them. "What?"

"He is doing it for you." Rainbow says.

Daring sighs. "Guess so. Still…" She thinks to herself.

The door soon opens and in walks Arkon barely conscious.

The mares goes wide eyed at the sight. "Arkon?" Rainbow carefully asks.

Arkon walks over to the bed and just collapses onto it.

Sentire moans as she walks into the room as collapsed onto her own bed face down.

Rainbow walks over and pokes Arkon.

Arkon doesn't move, but then grabs onto her hand. "Sleep." He mumbled.

Rainbow smiles and hugs him before pushing his entire body onto the bed so it wasn't just hanging half off the bed.

The mares smile at that as he wraps his arms around Rainbow's waist. Rainbow smirks seeing this and sticks her tongue out at the other mares. They all roll their eyes as Arkon seems to nuzzle her in his sleep.

"Go see the translation, ok?" Spitfire asks.

Daring sighs. "I'll see what they have at the moment." She said walking away as Rainbow sits down and let's Arkon nuzzle her.

"I am happy now." Rainbow says as Vinyl climbs into the bed.

Spitfire shakes her head. "Oh Rainbow." She said before looking to Sentire who was just haphazardly on the bed. "She needs to get with the boys sometimes."

"Like you need to get with me?" Octavia asks.

Spitfire rolls her eyes. "Shut up. At least I don't molest everyone in sight."

"Not everyone…just the mares I like." Octavia says.

Spitfire scoffs. "Yeah right. You like to molest almost every hot mare that passes by."

"And here in Greece, they don't mind." Octavia says smirking.

"And now I think your part Greek." Spitfire says.

Octavia just grins. "Mine." Octavia says hugging Arkon from the back.

Rainbow frowns. "Get your own."

"I did." Vinyl says.

Rainbow grumbles.

"You still have his front." Spitfire says.

Rainbow then grins. "I think he's having the best dream ever."

Spitfire frowns. "Don't molest him too." She said getting into her own bed.

"Who is molesting him?" Vinyl asks smiling.

Spitfire just tossed her a glare as she gets into bed.

"Now you rest Arkon." Rainbow says petting his hair.

Arkon mumbles in his sleep as he wraps his arms around her tighter.

"Hey guys, they finished." Daring says.

Everyone looks up from their meal in the restaurant. "Where is it?" Dusk asks putting his spoon down.

"In the room, but my team gets to look over them first. That means get your lazy flanks moving." Daring growls at her team.

All of them rush up from their table as they leave some bits in a hurry as they run out the door. "Shall we?" Daring asks calmly to the rest.

"Nah, let them be buried." Berry says reading something.

They all looked confused to him. "What?" They all asked.

"They are going to be buried under papers." Berry repeats.

Shut up and let us work.

"Okay." Berry calls looking up.

Everyone just looks at im weirdly before they all heard a high pitched female scream.

Dusk immediately stood up and pay for the meal. "What was that?"

"Sounds like Horus." Daring says.

Dusk raises an eyebrow. "I thought Horus is a male."

"He is, only a manly griffon would scream that feminily." Daring says.

Elusive sighs as he gets up. "Let's get going then. Maybe we would find the two sleeping on the tables after all that work."

"Actually they managed to make it into their beds before crashing." Daring says.

They all start to get up and grab their things. "Well, that map isn't going to see itself." Berry said hopping out.

"All this from those notes?" One asks in disbelief.

A griffon moans as he was still buried and the others were digging him out. "I regret having taken this expedition."

"Ok, wha…holy mother of the gods." Daring says after a pause to take in the site of all the notes translated.

The dig team waves. "Hey sir." They said in a knee high sea of paper.

"All of this from what we gave them?" Daring says sweat dropping.

They all groan as they to dig and wade themselves through the sea.

Daring groans and slouches. "We have our work cut out for us."

Dusk picks up a random paper. "I don't even know where to begin." He said looking it over.

Daring groans even more. "Let's just try." She said picking up some papers.

"We can't do this!" A team member yelled as he threw some papers.

Daring groans as she slams her head onto a table. "We need them to help us or we would be at this all day and night for the next week."

Dusk sighs as he puts some papers down. "They are asleep. I doubt they would be waking up anytime soon. Why don't we get to bed? It is late now." He said looking out the darken window.

"Let's just try and figure what goes with what at least." One says before noticing the letter R and the number 87 beside it.

Dusk raises an eyebrow at a few papers and noticed the letter and numbers on top. "I can do that. I have a few ways to organize. You guys can head out and I'll deal with this." He said starting to make piles of the papers with his magic.

"Ok, that is easier." Daring says.

Dusk frowns as he started to gather all the paper in the room. "Just go and get some rest. It's late and one can be bound to mess up."

"Let's see. Let's start with the smallest one." Daring says grabbing the smallest book and saw it started with S and goes to find an S pile despite what Dusk had said.

Dusk frowns heavily. "Daring?" He calls.

"S. S. S. Ah, here…they are." Daring says stopping as if she caught herself seeing how big the book's pile was.

Dusk shakes his head as he walks over and takes the book from her. "Go to sleep." He said almost like a command.

"I will have questions for Arkon in the morning." Daring says walking away.

Dusk scoffs as he keeps organizing. "The rest of you too." He said not looking.

"So how many papers is the smallest stack?" Applejack whispers to him.

Dusk looks to him with a blank look. "Go to sleep or do whatever."

"Oh, someone is sore about being asked a question." Berry says.

Dusk groans as he covers his face with his hand. "Just go and do whatever and maybe we'll get this done tomorrow."

"Tell me the number." Applejack says not talking too kindly to Dusk's tone.

"Fine. 138 pages." Dusk answers.

Applejack blinks. "That's a lot."

Dusk frowns. "Especially when I have to sort through all of them and make sure they are in order."

"And that's for that small book she had?" Berry asks.

Dusk nods grimly.

"Oh boy. How long will it take to shift through all of this information to find what we are looking for?" Elusive asks.

Dusk groans. "Days at most."

"I'm going to bed." Butterscotch says.

Dusk groans as he steps out of the room and sees it past one. "Dang. So much organizing. Bed. You called and I shall come." He said walking almost zombie like to his room.

Something escaped his notice as several shadowy figures were sneaking through the halls. The door slowly creaks open as they look to Dusk who yawns and smacks his lips without noticing them head inside.

The eight shadowy figures start rummaging in the room looking through the papers. "Check the large map and around it." One whispers as it rummages through a desk drawer and pulls out an old moldy pizza which it quickly shakes off and goes back to searching.

"I can't find a map." One says.

The original one looks around and raises an eyebrow. "This is a direction to a temple. Why wouldn't you have a map?"

"John, you find anything?" One asks but gets no answer.

"John?" He asks again and looks to where he was, but nothing was there except for the piles of papers.

"Guys, where did John go?" The one asks.

They all look around. "John? This isn't a good time to play around." Another said trying to find him.

"Ah, there he is." One says as one of them was just standing in the corner.

The original shakes his head and walks over. "Man, tell me you found something." He said grabbing his shoulder and turns him around to see that his eyes were wide and bleeding blood and he weakly offers. "Help me."

The original yelps and quickly runs off with a girly high pitched scream out the door.

John then drops to all fours and starts making a clicking noise.

"Um…guys?" Another tries to ask as they all back off.

They then watch in horror as John's head starts to twist upside down.

"Run?" Another asks grabbing a nearby chair. Before they could run, the door slams shut.

"Oh come on! He gets a free pass?!" Another yells as he points to the door.

Then to their horror, his back starts to bulge and soon tendrils of darkness erupt from his back.

They all drop what they are doing and start good by anywhere where they can leave, but find that the closest ones were captured and dragged off into the darkness behind the creature before some squelching and red liquid squirted out from the area as the tendrils start to cover the room. The last few remaining cower in the corner on the other side of the room as it reaches for them.

"You know, I never did get that piece of mare." One said knowing it was the end.

"You son of a bitch. That was my sister." Another says.

One looks at him frowning. "Got to have something hot and good on my mind before I die."

"I'll kill you myself." The guy says starting to strangle him.

One gurgles as he tries to hold him back. "Admit it. She's hot." He ties to say through the strangling.

"I'll kill you." The other growls as the tendrils cover them up and soon recedes with nothing left behind as the body slowly goes into the corner and moonlight hits the corner to reveal nothing.