Ashley's POV

After meeting Celestia and explaining what had happened the best we could, the princess asked Abi and I to show her to Symbol. He was currently resting in a guest room if the castle while we walked.

"Princess, I can assure you that Equestria is safer with Symbol watching over it." Abi stated as she looked up to the alabaster mare.

"I sense no lie in your voice young one, but I must see this person for myself, I cannot just allow someone with such immense power to just walk into my kingdom without at least seeing them." Nodding in understanding Abi opened the door into Symbols room. We all looked in shock as the room was covered in claw marks and a few bits of furniture destroyed.

Abi ran over to the bed. "Symbol isn't here! Whatever did this must've taken him!" I walked over to the bed and found it empty.

"Who would want to take Symbol?" I asked. Abi looked around until her pupils shrank.

"Oh no..." She teleported away, leaving us confused.

"Do you know anything about this?" Celestia asked me.

"No, I'm just as lost as any of you. Geez, I really need to get Symbol to explain all this to me sometime." I shook my head and turned to Celestia. "If I do find him I'll tell him that you want to see him." The princess nodded and we all left the room that held a dark atmosphere. I knew that Symbol had some enemies, mainly due to his brother showing up earlier. If he does have many enemies then I'm gonna need to know about them, I don't want to be left in the dark anymore.

Abi's POV

I ran down the the hallway of doors until I came across a large door with a large green gem painted onto it. I burst into the room and saw Roden carving a small animal figurine from a piece of wood. "Roden! Something terrible has happened!" Roden just looked at me with a raised brow and spoke through his scarf which was always covering his mouth.

"And what would this terrible thing be?" He set down the freshly carved owl figure and picked up another piece of wood.

"Symbol has been kidnapped, I think it was Xram's doing!" He just looked at me with a neutral gaze.

"Really?"

"WHY ARE YOU NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AND SYMBOLS DEVELOPMENT IS INTERRUPTED THEN WE'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD!!!"

"Relax Abi, everything is under control. This was planned." I looked at him with a deadpan expression.

"Say what?"

"This was indeed the work of Xram, but he didn't take into account that I would completely disguise Symbols aura if he was forced back into one of his friends worlds. There he will reach a new stage in his development."

"What kind of stage, a higher tier demon state?" He got up and walked over to a locked chest.

"Something like that. Abi, do you know what becoming a displacer does to the body?" He asked as he opened the chest.

"No, I don't."

"That's because no one knows, it could have a number of effects on a person. However, I altered Symbols new body to take a... Specific, chain of development."

"What do you mean?" He pulled five black four pointed stars and snapped his fingers.

"Symbols current body is merely a vessel like his old one, as that body is no longer needed Symbols soul will break free and his true form will be revealed."

Ashley's POV

I returned to the log cabin when Abi reappeared saying everything was under control but Symbol would be gone for a few days. I don't know what she meant by that but if there is anything I've learned the pad two days is that I should trust what those two say. I changed into my orange silk pyjamas and set my gat on my armchair in my room. Climbing under the covers if my bed I lay my head on my pillow.

As I closed my eyes I felt myself being pulled from a dream and into somewhere else. I looked around and found the sky was blood red and the trees were black. "Did I just fall into Hellsing? Oh my gosh please let it be TFS Hellsing!" I got to my feet and ran to a cliff tags overlooked whatever was below.

As I approached the cliff I saw that the town of Ponyville was in ruin, the ponies all frozen in place. The red sky had large white glowing cracks in it.

"Ok I'm definitely not in Hellsing, something has to be wrong for the sky to be doing crack like that." I said as I looked up. I then heard quiet echoed laughter coming from behind me. I turned around to see a boy that looked like a younger version of Symbol, except his hair was short and everything on his body was pitch black save for his glowing red eyes, his body was outlined by a red aura.

"Well isn't this a lovely surprise?" The figure asked in a voice best described as psychotic. "I've been so lonely here ever since everything froze."

I took a defensive stance. "Who are you, where am I?" He laughed like a maniac and walked towards the cliff, looking out at the ruined town.

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Forge." He gave a playful bow before turning back to the view. "As for where you are, you're in a world that was previously home to a displaced Slenderwoman that goes by the name of Lisa, one of Symbols friends." This caught my interest.

"How do you know Symbol?" He laughed again.

"What, he didn't mention his dear brother? I'm hurt." He sarcastically grabbed his chest and winced. "Just kidding, I could care less."

Another brother? How many brothers does Symbol have?

"I take it after he defeated Xram he ran away to displace you correct?" He asked while looking at me from the corner of his eye.

"I... I don't know, he told me about that but I don't know his reasons for displacing me." He smirked at this.

"You wanna learn more about Symbol, don't you?"

I looked to my hands and over my new body before nodding.

"Alright, but don't blame me if this disturbs you." He put a finger to my head and images began to flash in my mind. I felt a blast of pain and backed away from Forge who was just looking at me with an evil smile. What I saw in those images... I-I can't even tell you, they were too... they were too... gruesome.

"No... no that couldn't have been Symbol."

"It was, he did all those things without mercy. That monster you saw was him, he did all of it." I put my hands to the sides of my head and fell to me knees.

"It couldn't... He couldn't..."

"Why are you denying it, you don't have any emotional ties to him and haven't known him long enough to- Ohhhhhhhhh." He held his sides as he started laughing at me. "You like him don't you?!" He ceased his laughter and brought up a screen. "Well I hate to burst you bubble missy, but it's called a crush for a reason!" I looked to the screen and saw Symbol in his old world as a pony dancing with Twilight, after the song ended and they stopped dancing they shared a passionate kiss.

For some reason this really hit me hard, it was true that I might have had a teeny tiny crush on him but it shouldn't have hurt the way it did.

"Here's a word of advice kid, you can't trust Symbol. He's a walking talking embodiment of hell, his sanity is slipping and he'll leave you whenever he has the chance." I looked to him with a glare.

"He won't leave, he can't leave." He shook his head.

"Hate to break this to ya lass, but Symbols with you temporarily." I looked at him with disbelief. "Once his body is finished developing and his training is done he'll take Abi and head back to his universe with his family and friends, you'll be left behind and be left as a distant memory. There's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. The Displacers Council have plans for him that need to be completed, he has a fucking kid back there as well as his family. What's left in your universe huh?! There's only you, you think you are so important to Symbol that he'll give all that up just to stay with you?! You best stop dreaming kid, you know what you are to him? You're nothing but a part of his training, a tool, a means of getting power!" The dream started to collapse and I woke up. "REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU!!!" Was the last thing I heard Forge yell before my eyes opened and I woke up in a cold sweat.

Author's Notes:

Well now Forge is in the picture, what did Ashley see? What are these feelings she is developing? And where in the wide multiverse did Symbol go?