[POV Change: Sean]

I dodged another Fire Fist and threw my fist toward Ashley. It was coated in Haki, but it wasn’t complete Armament Haki. She dodged my attack and I quickly retracted my arm. We both stood there panting rather heavily. She’d managed to cause several small burns here and there and a few of my attacks had connected as well. I had no idea how long we were fighting, but it felt like it had been awhile. She suddenly charged forward, her fist alight in flames. I focused on my arm, trying to coat it in Armament Haki. It suddenly glowed and turned the familiar black color. Not wasting time, I charged at her. When we reached each other, we threw our fists forward and they collided. The ground cracked from the force of our strikes.

We were thrown back and we both hit the walls of the arena. We got to our feet and walked out of the dust clouds, staring at each other with determination. I then shot forward and began swinging my fist rapidly. "Gum-Gum..." She yelped and put her arms up with armament Haki. "...Gatling Gun!" I sent a wave of fists at my opponent with blinding speeds, making it look like my arms had multiplied.

Suddenly my attacks stopped. I looked at my hands and saw that Ashley had grabbed my wrists.

"Clever girl." She smirked and began spinning, causing me to lift off the ground as she turned. She then started slamming me into the ground before throwing me up into the air and sending a huge wave of fire after me.

I wasn't able to get my Haki up quick enough and I suffered some serious damage from the flames. I took in a deep breath and blew the fire away. I swung my head backwards and my neck stretched. "Gum-Gum Bell!" I shot my head towards Ashley and delivered a mighty headbut. My head stretched back into place and I smirked, until I saw that the spot I had hit had turned to fire. Her face reformed and she looked at me questioningly. "Right, forgot about the Haki for a second there."

She shrugged and launched two fire fists my way. A few minutes later we were both lying in the centre of the arena with our arms and legs sprawled out while we breathed heavily. I heard a few clashes and looked over to a platform not to far away from us in the sky. It sounded like someone was fighting with swords. "Well I guess we know where Symbol and my wife went."

Suddenly the sounds ceased. There was a cheer of victory that I assumed to be my wife cheering, and someone congratulating her, who I guessed was Symbol. "Sounds like those two are having fun up there." Ashley said as she sat up.

“My wife always did like to fight with swords. Though it was usually with ones that couldn’t cut you in half,” I said, sitting up too.

“Obviously,” she said. She glanced at me, “So you’re still calm, even though you figure that they’re using actual swords?”

Breathing deeply, I said, “I admit that I’m worried as hell that she might be injured, but there are going to be times where we either aren’t together or we’re separated and I need keep myself under control. If I don’t, others might get injured or worse. And I’m sure that Symbol would do his best to make sure that he didn’t hurt her to bad.” I winced slightly as I tried to stand, “Besides, I’m too sore to try and do anything.”

Ashley giggled before wincing as well, “Yeah, I’m not in much better shape.” Just then two balls of light appeared out of the middle of the arena. A ball floated to each of us and entered our bodies, our injuries healing quickly and our energy returning. "Well...that helps."

I got to my feet and looked up at the platform that my wife was currently on. "He was right." Ashley looked at me confused. "I need to learn how to keep calm when she's not around." I looked to her. "He's been acting different ever since he said the name 'Abigail', any guess on who this person was?"

She shook her head. "I'm guessing she was a close friend or relative, I'll ask him about it later. She was obviously important to him." I nodded and we began walking towards the exit of the arena. We began walking along a long spiral walkway. On the way up we saw my wife walking with something blue in her arms, Symbol was nowhere in sight.

"Hi honey." I greeted her as she reached us. I looked to the thing in her arms and found it was a small pony, which was just adorable with its little grumpy expression while she held it like a teddy bear. "Where's Symbol?" She giggled and pointed to the pony in her arms. Ashley and I just looked at the pony as it blushed slightly.

"It was the only way to get her to train." The pony just sighed. "Go on, get it out of your system." We both started laughing. My wife just punched my shoulder with a great deal of force which caused me to stop.

"Ow, what was that for?" I complained.

"It's just that Symbol told me a pretty tragic story from his past and you're laughing at one of his insecurities." She just stared daggers at me as she gently stroked Symbols mane.

"Then why don't you have a problem with Ashley laughing?" I asked gesturing to the girl that was now on her back laughing.

"Personal reasons." Symbol dryly stated. "I'm not telling the story again, let's get you two back to your world." He jumped out of my wife's arms and transformed back into his normal human form. With a snap of his fingers a door appeared and he held it open for my wife and Ashley. As I was about to walk in he closed it and looked at me.

"Hey! Open the door." I was starting to lose my patience with him. He just inspected me and shook his head.

"Still no improvement." I quickly realised what he meant and I backed off. "This needs to change or you're going to cause more harm than you prevent Sean." He ordered in a stern voice. With that he opened the door and walked through. I walked behind him, thinking about what he had said.

[POV Change: (Sean's wife) Ashley]

As Ashley and I walked through the door, it suddenly closed behind us. We glanced back at it in confusion, but after a minute it opened and Symbol walked through with a stern look on his face.

Sean followed behind him and muttered, “Damn it. This is going to be harder than I thought.” He sighed and stood next to the rest of us. I was somewhat confused about what he was talking about, but decided leave it be.

Symbol held out his hands and we were enveloped by a bright light again. We were back in Ponyville, exactly where we had left from.

“How long were we gone?” I asked.

"Just about three hours." Symbol looked at us. "Be sure to keep practicing your magic and sword skills Ashley." I smiled and nodded. "And Sean, you know what you need to do." My husband nodded and looked at me with a slightly concerned look. "Remember to summon me if another Nightmare shows up. I'll be checking in with you guys a few times in the future. Also, I'm going to go kick the Merchants ass for you two." We both smiled at him and thanked him. "I just want to ask you something before we leave." We looked at him with confusion. "If I kill the Merchant, which I've been meaning to, I can take responsibility for your displacement."

"You don't mean?" I looked at him wide eyed. He smiled and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Yes, if you want, I can become your displacer."

Sean smiled, “We’d be honored Symbol. You’ve helped us a great deal and you brought something really important to my attention.” He held out his hand, “I hope that we can be friends despite the rocky start we had.” He took my husband's hand and shook.

"Ok, when I have killed the merchant you will receive a purple band on your right wrist with a blue sun gem. This will let other displacers and displaced know you are under my protection so they won't mess with you, they'll most likely try to help you out." Ashley looked to her wrist and saw a band appear. "Ok, I need to get Ashley back to her world, I'll see you two in a bit." He was about to snap his fingers when he stopped. "Oh, and if someone called Epidemic passes through this world you hide the bands and if he asks you if you know me you say no." We looked at each other confused before nodding. "Good. Goodbye for now."

"Goodbye you two." Ashley gave us a little wave before they vanished.

We began walking back to Ponyville, a few minutes later the bands appeared on our wrists and Symbols voice could be heard. 'There we go, the Merchant that displaced you is dead and I am now your displacer. If you ever need me just use my token or speak into the band while pressing the gem.'

The voice ceased and we were left to think about what had happened during the last few hours. It was nice to know someone like Symbol was watching over us, he was very mysterious and threatening, but from what he told me earlier his actions are pretty much justified.

"Well I'm starved after all of that, wanna go get a bite to eat?" Sean asked as he wrapped an arm around me.

"Yeah, that workout really took a lot out of me." He smiled and we made our way to the nearest restaurant in Ponyville.

Abi ran through the forest as fast as she could, a Nightmare tailing her as she went. "No no no, I can't let this happen!" Soon she head the sound of a portal opening.

"Ok Ashley, find Abi and then use this gem to teleport yourselves to Canterlot. I'll just go kill the Merchant then I'll be right back." She ran towards the sound of her brothers voice, hoping to catch him before he walked through another portal. She was too late, he had already closed the portal.

"Ashley! Run!" Ashley turned to Abi and looked to the creature perusing her. Ashley then started running alongside Abi until they were backed up against a large cliff. They looked back to see the Nightmare slowly walking towards them with a wide grin. As it lunged forward it was knocked to the side by a blood red blur. The Nightmare slid across the ground and growled at its attacker. Abi looked at the figure that now stood in front of her. "Oh no..."

Author's Notes:

Guess who's joining the party

Again, this was a crossover with Wang-Tangs Ponies, Pirates and Navy

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