Arkon was happy holding Vinyl till his head shot up and he wore a glare under his hood.

Vinyl moans at the slight loss of warmth. "What's going on?"

Arkon sighs as he gets up. "Trouble. I need you to go to your home and lock yourself up."

Vinyl looks confused before getting up as he walks away before she shivers and tries to cover herself up. "Did it just get cold?" She asks herself as she walks home, unaware Arkon casted a spell to protect her before leaving.

Sentire sighs as Arkon approaches her and starts walking with her. "Cannibal." She said as they walk toward the forest.

Arkon raises an eyebrow. "The buffalo's type?"

Sentire nods and takes out her scythe as it grows bigger while Arkon looks over his staff and prepares some magic through it.

Sentire sighs. "How long can you stay still?"

Arkon narrows his eyes as he touches the gem on his staff. "I have been trained to be still for an immense amount of time."

Sentire then smiles. "Good, because you haven't noticed it is quieter than usual during the day?"

Arkon frowns. "Yes, there are usually three colts making a ruckus around town."

Sentire grimaces. "Dusk has told me of a male zebra who lives in the forest. They must have gone to him."

Arkon shakes his head. "I fear for the little ones."

"And so do I." Caligo said coming up to them as he sheds the construction clothes. "Those three have grown on me. Asking me about what I have seen. They are supposed to be looking for their cutie marks if I remember correctly."

"You know how to kill these things?" Arkon asks channeling his magic into his staff before sending it out in a shockwave to try and scan for how many.

Caligo sighs as he stretches a bit. "Okay, how many?"

Arkon glares to the forest. "Six."

Sentire frowns more as she makes the blade sharper. "Let us deal with the threat." She said now walking into the forest line with them.

Arkon hums before making a fireball appear before them. "They have a hatred of fire, isn't that correct?"

Sentire nods. "Yes, they tend to stay astray from it."

"Caligo, we can't kill the spirit that possesses them so can you find a large iron cauldron?" Arkon asks.

Caligo nods and walks off back to town. "I'll break into the antique store. Maybe the prince would give us a pass on that."

They both nod and continue walking deeper into the forest before they start to see frost on the ground. "The coming of winter." Sentire said as she looks around.

"Ask Berry, I'm sure he can get one. Tracks." Arkon said pointing to some elongated hoof steps and claw tracks.

Sentire holds her blade out as they follow it before seeing more than one set. "Seems they have a hunting route." Sentire said bending down to check the tracks.

"Something must've had them contained somehow." Arkon says.

Sentire shakes her head as she stands up again. "We can stress the information later. The best to do is deal with the creatures." She said following where the tacks were all going.

"Or we could have them fight each other." Arkon says getting an idea and smirks.

Sentire rolls her eyes. "I sincerely doubt of that happening."

"Actually, they can only see movement. Like a frog so if we don't move, they will attack each other." Arkon says.

Sentire sighs. "And then what of the spirits? We would have lost them to some poor unfortunate soul."

Arkon frowns. "Good point." He said following her again before they see a hut carved out of a big tree.

Sentire tilts her head and knocks on the door. "Hello?"

The door quickly opens to a male zebra wearing some tribal clothes around his waist. "Ah, the strange mare within the strange forest now? How do you…"

"No rhyme." Sentire interrupts.

The male zebra sighs. "As with everypony."

Arkon looks inside and sees three colts looking into a pot in the middle of the tribal adorn room. "Ah, the three colts."

Sentire raises an eyebrow at them. "What are they doing here?"

The male zebra holds up a hand. "Potion making, again."

"Again?" Both Arkon and Sentire asks.

"Cutie Mark Cavaliers, Potion Masters!" The three colts cheer and the three grownups were thrown back from the force of the cheer and into the wall and right outside.

"Tell me shaman, does the buffalo legend of the windigo ring a bell?" Arkon asks.

The male zebra looks to him. "The cold. That explains a lot. Can you please take the little ones home?"

"I would, but we are in the middle of their hunting grounds." Arkon says.

The male zebra frowns. "I was hoping of not taking these out again." He said before heading to the back of the hut as the colts walk up to them. "Windigo?" Apple Buck asks.

Sentire shakes her head. "Please stay inside little ones."

"Yeah, things are about to get…" Arkon stop before shooting a fireball into a tree.

There was a high pitched shriek as the fireball hits and a disfigured pony with long limbs crawled out and jumps from trunk to trunk. All three colts yelp as they hug each other before heading back deeper into the hut and hangs around the pot.

"Here we are." The male zebra said coming out with a two tank backpack and a weapon of some kind. "We have laws against certain kind of herbs and spices. Use these to burn them quickly." He said giving Sentire the tank and weapon.

Arkon then spins his staff around before hitting the shaft against the hut and the whole thing was covered in a glow.

Sentire sighs as she puts the scythe away. "Let us deal with the problem." She said putting on the tank. "How does this work?" She asks before accidentally pulling the trigger and makes a flame spit out of the nozzle and hits a head peeking around a corner and makes it cry out in pain with a loud shriek and run off. "Never mind." She said smiling.

The male zebra smiles. "Have fun." He said before closing the door.

Arkon frowns as he hears more shrieking coming from all over. "Is there an old temple in this forest?" He asks to the zebra.

"The Castle of the Two Brothers. Just head deeper into the forest." The zebra said through the window of the door.

Arkon pulls Sentire along as the creatures now give chase and she lights up the path behind her to give them time before after a long chase with many fireballs and flame throwing, do they reach a wooden bridge. "No fire." Arkon said running across it and leaves a light ball at the start.

The windigos shrieks as they back away from the bright light as both Sentire and Arkon run across the bridge to find the castle around an empty moat. "This has to be where the creatures escaped from." Arkon said looking back as the light ball faded and the windigos now rush for them across the bridge.

Arkon just sits smirking.

Sentire becomes slightly confused before seeing the wendigoes reach at the end of the bridge and made a fire glyph activate and made fire blow up everywhere around the area and made them all screech out.

"Inside." Arkon said opening the big doors and pushes Sentire inside before leaving it open slightly. "We have to lead them to somewhere where they would be contained as spirits."

"Dungeon. Dusk told me that the old cells houses ancient spells and glyphs." Sentire said rushing to find the stairs as they heard the screams rush inside the castle.

Arkon pulls on her arm and makes them head down some stairs as they heard some scuttering and sees one of them crawling across the ceiling. Arkon just throws a fireball at it to which it jumps off the ceiling and lands behind them to which Sentire fires the flamethrower at it and makes it be covered in flames and run off.

They both rush down the stairs and soon come across a heavy metal door and quickly open it to find the cells. "Go, I will lock the door." Arkon said hiding behind it as Sentire runs off and makes sure they see her.

The windigos scream as they reach the door and see her and starts running at her as she went deeper into the cells and Arkon starts to close the door behind them before hearing a clang and looks down to see something sharp and red block the door.

Sentire pants as she fired the flamethrower behind her and hits a few, but they shrug off the flames before she sees the end coming up ahead. Sentire heard the clattering and screaming coming to a stop and stops at the end of the last cell and turns toward the assembled horde of creatures.

"We are not trapped in here with a hoard of wendigoes. You are all trapped in here with us." Arkon says behind them as he has a fireball in hand and somepony behind him with a large blade at the ready.

Sentire glares at them as she fired the flamethrower and makes them back up into one of the cells as they all scream and Arkon starts to chant as he fired his own flamethrower from the fireball.

Soon, they all had the wendigoes inside the cell and Arkon closes up the door behind them with his magic. "Guess we didn't need you." He said to the pony behind him who relaxes at the sight before suddenly twisting around and slices behind him and makes two body parts fly past them.

"You missed one." The pony said coming out of the dark shadows and shows himself as Elusive with a red blade that seems to resemble half of a scissor.

Arkon quickly makes a shield form around the spirit rushing out of the body and traps it inside. "Need a more stable form of a trap."

"Just wait for it." Sentire says waiting.

"Got it!" Caligo calls with a large cast iron cauldron. "Had to break the store window." He said placing the cauldron on the ground and opens the lid.

"I told him I had the key though." Berry says coming out of the pot and hops out.

Caligo shrugs. "Wasn't fast enough and it was in the window display." He said as Arkon puts the spirit into the cauldron.

"Hold the lid open and Sentire, please kill the rest." Arkon request as he creates something like a magical whirlpool leading into the cauldron.

Sentire brings up the flamethrower again and fires it into the cell and makes all the creatures scream out in pain before they all starting falling to the ground limp and cracks formed on them and an orange light came from inside and the spirits of them lights up and comes out as heads and Arkon starts leading them down into the whirlpool after Sentire opened the cell door. After the sixth was sucked in, Caligo slams the lid shut and Arkon uses his magic to start to weld the lid shut before putting wards onto the cauldron.

Elusive sighs. "How is my brother?"

"Safe, I put a barrier onto the hut he was in before any of these came after us." Arkon says.

Elusive smiles. "Good. These things can't touch a hair on brother without facing me." He said hefting the large blade over his shoulder.

"Alright, that should do it. To the library." Arkon says picking up on side of the cauldron as Caligo got the other.

Sentire sighs as she follows behind them and noticed the red blade. "What is that?"

Elusive smirks to her. "Scissor blade. Great for cutting cloth and the occasional intruder."

"You are more violent than I originally thought." Sentire says.

Elusive chuckles. "Anything for my little brother."

"So tell me, you said I wasn't your most troublesome customer. Who is?" Sentire asks.

Elusive sighs. "Rainbow Dash and Vinyl Scratch. The biggest things next to a tornado."

"Oh tell why." Sentire says.

Elusive just waved her off. "They are just plain trouble. Able to mess with almost everything I have."

"And they are so tomcoltish, Elusive doesn't know whether he is coming or going." Berry adds.

Elusive glares at him and blushes. "At least I'm not the one organizing orgies."

"So if either of them came up to you and asked you to make them a dress?" Sentire asks.

Elusive sighs. "I have to make them. I do have an obligation as it is my job." He said fixing his jacket.

"And if they asked you to decide how to make it to make them look good for their coltfriend?" Berry asks making Elusive nearly trip.

Elusive groans. "I would have to make them the dress." He grumbles.

"Really, nothing else?" Berry asks.

Elusive sighs. "The amount of things they ask for on their dress, atrocious."

"So if they went all feminine with their orders?" Berry asks.

Elusive frowns at her. "I make the dresses and suit to their desires. They ask and I will make. It's just their attitudes on me."

"You're no fun." Berry says walking away.

Elusive shakes how head and looks to Sentire. "So, what are you like personally?"

"Barb told me it is funnier to keep the stallions guessing." Sentire says walking away.

Elusive huffs. "Dang it Barb. At least tell me your personality." He calls out to her.

Sentire just laughs as she runs.

Elusive grumbles after her. "Can we at least try a date?"

"A little early for that lover boy." Sentire calls, repeating what Barb told her to say.