Later that day, after Symph had gathered the group together having finished the days workload with Twilight, the group began to get ready to leave. Symph just watched as the mares began to walk towards the train station with their beach supplies and cleared his throat to get their attention. "You know, we don't have to take the train. I have a way that will allow us to get there in a matter of seconds."

The group looked to each other begore Twilight spoke up. "And how would you do that?"

Symph smiled and his body became all black, save for his eyes. His body fell apart into the black liquid which rose into the air and began to form a small black vortex of some sort. Symph's eyes appeared in the centre of the vortex before it expanded, an image of a beach appearing in the centre. "Hop through the portal quickly, I can't hold this for long."

Twilight took a careful step forwards, cautiously approaching the portal. Rainbow Dash groaned, flew forward and pushed Twilight through the vortex and out into the beach that had been shown. The rest of the group soon followed, giggling as they came out the other side to see Twilght with her face in the sand. Once everyone was through, Symph collapsed the portal and popped back to his normal self behind the group while wiping some sweat off his forehead.

He noticed Twilght and grabbed her hind legs before pulling gently, pulling her face out of the sand. He looked to his left hand which became black and turned to liquid which wiped across Twilghts face to remove the sand in her eyes, mouth, nose and fur. Once she was clean the liquid spat the sand out in a little ball on the ground which collapsed into a small lump on the ground. He returned his hand to normal and smiled at Twilight, who was shaking herself from the shock of the weird sensation. "Are you alright Twilight?" He asked, concerned to whether or not he had scared her with the action.

Twilight blinked and looked up to Symph nervously. "O-Oh, yes, I'm alright. Just...give me some kind of warning before doing something like that ok?"

"Of course." Symph clapped his hands together and looked about with a smile. "Now, shall we get set up?"

With a nod from the other mares, they all began to set up their own places on the beach, laying down towels and pulling whatever else they had brought with them out and placing them to the side,

As Symph wiped some sand off a towel while the mares either sunbathed or were playing in the water, he approached Rarity with curiosity. "Miss Rarity, if you don't mind me asking, where is Spike?"

Rarity took off her sunglasses and stared at the symbiote curiously. "He's away gathering rare gems by Canterlot, why?"

"Oh, I was just wondering, I assumed that he would be accompanying you during this. Nevermind then."

As Symph turned away Rarity used her magic to stop him and turn him back around to face her. "You wanted to talk to him didn't you?"

Symph just frowned and looked over to Twilight, who was laughing as she splashed water at Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. "I just feel that I have to talk to him about all this, not to see if he's ok with it, but to make sure he knows he can trust me. The last thing I want is for a growing dragon to be breathing down my neck one day in a rage over something small."

Rarity just bummed in thought, tossing his words around in her head for a moment before smiling. "Well, I think this is a good thing for you."

"How so?"

"You want Spike to know that he can trust you right? Well you're showing genuine concern and from what I have seen you care about Twilights well being. If that does not prove to Spike that you can be trusted then I don't know what can. Besides, Soike is a very open dragon darling, he understands that Twilight needs someone to help her, he's ok with it I promise you." She replied with a happy sigh. "Now, since we've gotten that out of the way, would you mind rubbing some lotion into my back for me?"

Symph was unfazed by the request and merely nodded, but not without wondering why a pony with fur would need sun lotion in the first place. He took the bottle of lotion in a tendril and got to work.

As Symph lay down on a nearby hill in a patch of green watching the clouds go by, his Twilghts went back to the girl he had saw. Why did he react the way he did? Who was she? Why was she here? These were questions that he would find the answers to in time.

Then his thoughts went back to his conversation with Rarity, was she really right about what she said? He could only wait to find out when he would finally meet the young dragon face to face. He didn't doubt that Spike would be understanding and knew there would be no anger as long as he chose his words carefully, but a part of him was worried as he has seen many universes, many Spikes, and a good few of them seem to be kind, helpful and understanding at first, but soon turned out to be very, very angry and violent beings.

He sighed and closed his eyes, ready to take a nap and recharge when suddenly he heard the faint flicker of flames. Opening his eyes he saw a small purple flame floating above him. It expanded and formed into a sealed letter, the seal being a silver sun symbol. Breaking the seal and taking out the letter he began to read into himself.

A smile made its way to his face as he saw who it was from. "A letter from father, I wonder what he's doing right now."

As he began to read down the page with great joy he suddenly found his smile faltering and his eyes slowly widening in shock. He grabbed both sides of the letter and brought it closer to his face to pick up on every detail. Once he was finished he slowly set the letter down, his eyes wide and a worried expression in his face.

"Oh no..."

Author's Notes:

Yeah, I love ending things on cliffhangers, sue me.

Also, a good friend of mine might be turning this into a reading on YouTube, nothing is confirmed at this point, just thought I'd let you know. He did a reading for me awhile back with the first chapter of Symph's fathers story.