Awaken and Introduce

The rays of the Sun beamed through the window as it shined upon the Six Heroes. The first to be awoken by the Sun was the Hero of Fire, Vargas. His eyes opened slowly as he covered his eyes with his hand trying to adjust to the brightness. As the light dimmed itself, he noticed that he was inside a cottage of sorts. A smile formed on his face seeing the lovely… Wait, cottage? Vargas picked himself up and blinked twice just to be sure he wasn’t imagining it. To his surprise, he was indeed inside a cottage of sorts. Just from looking at the structure of the cottage, he can tell that this was built from the foundation of nature itself. The aroma of flowers reached his nose and he could not but admit that it was rather soothing to smell them. Looking around the building, he turned around to see his fellow friends and allies alive and well.

His smile lingered still, glad to his friends alive and well. Looking at his hands, he could not help but wonder about something. Who saved them from their deaths? He recalled being struck down by a lone knight and that his life was slowly coming to an end. His injuries were indeed fatal and they were far away from civilization to even be properly tended to. Even if they were nearby a city, they would not be able to heal their injuries in time and they would succumb to death’s throes. So… who saved them and what happened when all of them were unconscious? His thoughts were broken as he hears a groan from a waking person. He looked behind himself to see Selena to be the first person to be awoken, “Selena… I see that you have awoken from your slumber.”

The Hero of Ice was clutching her head trying to subdue her hurting mind, “My head… where am I?” She was looking around the location and noticed in order: her fellow friends alive and well, then seeing that she was in a cottage, and then finally seeing her friend Vargas awake, “Vargas? You’re… alive?” The Hero of Fire nodded. Clearly, she was surprised like he was himself as she was checking out her surroundings. She looked around for awhile before returning her attention back to Vargas, “I am shocked… to see that I am truly alive… but how?”

The fire hero could only shake his head on confusion. They were stumped about how they were alive despite their pressing injuries. They looked to see their fellow friends waking up from their state of rest. The first to pick themselves up and awaken was the Hero of Thunder, “Ugh… could someone get me a medic to heal my throbbing body?” He opened his eyes only to see that he was inside a cottage and was seeing his friends alive in front of him, “Wait, Vargas? Selena? You’re…” He let a smile form as he came charging at them. Both braced themselves as they were hugged by the swordsman and raised to the air, “You two are alive! You made me sick when you left back to your countries!”

Vargas could only chuckle seeing his friend act like this. As the both of them were out of Eze’s hug, their friend placed them back on solid ground gently. Vargas gently punched the thunder hero’s shoulder in response to his hug, “It’s good to see you in good condition too Eze.”

The thunder hero returned the gesture as he jabbed the fire hero softly on the shoulder while still wearing his smile, “Hey! Never felt better in my life!” He looked at Selena who was looking away from himself and behind him. He turned around to see his other compatriots alive as well, “Well, look what we’ve run into today.”

Lance picked himself up with Drevas as he removed the goggles covering his eyes, “Oh goodness, I don’t want to be a tree again even if it was rather comforting…” He opened his eyes to see his three friends staring at him, “What? You’re expecting me to… wait…” Slowly, he realized that he was indeed not a tree and his friends are alive.

Eze let out a loud laugh seeing that the nature hero was slow to realization, “Haha! Oh, I can’t believe you forgot about that didn’t ya!?” Lance could only grumble a bit from forgetting hearing his friend. This only prompted the thunder hero to laugh harder as he fell to the floor laughing.

Vargas and Selena looked at each other wondering whether to just watch the two or help the last two in need of assistance. The ice hero answered that question as she went passed the thunder and nature hero to assist both Magress and Atro. Vargas stood there watching both Eze and Lance. Selena lowered herself and put the light hero’s arm over her body, “Are you feeling well Atro?”

A knowing smile formed on his face as Selena assisted him up, “I am feeling well Selena, thank you for the concern.” The ice hero returned the smile of his with her own. Atro stumbled for a bit as he tried to stand with his own strength. After struggling and getting too many assist from Selena, he ends up using his sword, Urias, as a temporary crutch. Looking around, he alongside his fellow allies noticed that they were in a cottage of sorts. The light hero looked at his friends wondering if they knew. They shook their heads to his silent question.

Everyone focused their attention to Magress who seemingly managed to pick himself up fine despite the armor he was wearing. Magress noticed everyone staring at him oddly prompting him to ask all of them on question, “Dare I ask why all of you are looking at me strangely?” They all looked at each other from the question as silence fell upon the six heroes. Before long, they began to share in their laughter. It had been a long while since the six had something to laugh about. Even with what happened to them before, they could not help but be a bit glad to share a moment of joy with each other.

As their laughter died down to a level where they can chat again, one of them decided to bring up what had happened to them, “So… who managed to fatally injure the five of you? I almost faced my death at the hands of a lone knight… I believe he wielded two swords.” All of them were looking at Vargas with much shock about what he said. It did not take long for him to understand why they had such a reaction, “You all fell to the same knight like me? Did it involve him having an explanation about the Gods saving a portion of humanity?”

They all nodded to his question. They all were curious about the coincidence of them facing their demise by the same knight. Two questions however, stood amongst all of them as everyone wondered about it: Was he telling the truth about the Gods saving even a portion of humanity and what was the current state of the war now that they're alive once more. They both all wanted to know about this but they felt like it was all best not to talk about it for long for they just shared some joyous moment with each other. Seeing that they were Being less than positive right now, Eze decided to try to lighten up the atmosphere, “Hey now! So… um, where are we again?” It was a random thought but it did occur to everyone about that.

As they pondered about where they were, they hear a soothing voice humming with many birds chirping and synching with it. Selena was drawn by the beautiful voice as she looked around where it was coming from but there was also another reasoning to her search, “That voice… do you think that she saved us from our untimely demise?”

As she said that, they hear sound of a turning doorknob. All six were a bit tense but remained calm as the door begun to open, “Well, whoever it is, we get to find out now…” All agreed with the thunder hero as the door opened fully.

As the door opened wide enough for them to see the form in question, they were caught off guard when in front of their very eyes, was not a human that saved them but rather a beast of sorts. All six were looking at what they knew was one of the pegasi but the way it looked was vastly different from what they normally see with the pegasi race. It singing meant it can speak intelligently which is something theirs can do but the colors and the mark on her are what caused the most confusion. The pegasus closed the door and stopped singing as she turned to the six fully awakens. A look of surprise was etched on her face before switching to one of both concern and happiness, “Oh dear, are you six alright?”

All six were looking at the concerned pegasus with relative surprise. A yellow pegasus with three butterflies on its flank was a bit of a shocker for all of them despite having the race back home. Even Eze thought he was going crazy from seeing this, “Someone pinch me right now… I think I might be… OW!” The thunder hero grabbed his left arm with his right hand. He looked to his left to see Lance bringing his middle and index finger together while wearing a grin on his face. That did not please Eze as he begun to scold at his friend, “I was joking about that Lance!”

Lance could only chuckle hearing his compatriot arguing at him for pinching him there, “Well I’m sorry Eze, but you did ask to be pinched. I just complied and did as you requested…” The nature hero could not help but continue wearing his grin.

The thunder hero did not appreciate his compatriot’s actions as of now. Ignoring the pegasus inside the cottage, he pulled on his friend’s goggles and pulled them back a bit. By the time Lance realized what he was about to do, his head was in pain from the collision with his own goggles, “Ow! Hey!”

“You started it Lance! I just delivered you back what I wanted to do!” Eze could only laugh a bit from seeing the nature hero’s reaction.

While it almost provoked the nature hero to charge at his friend, he remained calm due to their helper watching them. Still he couldn’t help but let one thing escape from him, “Yeah? You’re lucky that the general is not around so she might scold at you for that!”

Eze froze a bit from the general being bought up. This prompted the thunder hero to bat a glare at Lance before pouncing on him and they begun to brawl each other. Magress and Selena just watch the scene while Atro and Vargas could not help but pinch the bridge of their noses seeing those two act like this in front of their alleged savior.

The dark hero, having seen enough, decided to end the fight prematurely. He separated the two of them from each other sternly looking at the two, “I believe that we have managed to ruin our first impressions with our yellow pegasus friend now…”

The pegasus that most of the six ignored formed a knowing smile, “Oh, it’s all right, I’m just glad to see you all awake and well.” All looked at her a bit surprised that she was fine with those two fighting out. The looks she gained from them made her almost shrink back, “I mean… if it’s all right with all of you…”

A smile formed on the light hero’s face, “Our savior is rather shy… I cannot deny that considering that we are foreigners to her kind…”

Vargas nodded as he stepped forward. The timid pegasus made an eep sort of sound as he extended a hand. The sound managed to get to Selena as she tried to not be awed by the pegasus being simply adorable. The fire hero waited as his hand was still outstretched waiting for the hoof to be extended as well. The pegasus noticed the gesture and extended her hoof to touch his hand. He gripped the hoof eliciting another eep sound from the mare. He assisted the mare in getting up from her position. A smile as well as a hint of a blush formed on her face as she rose with Vargas, “Thank you kindly sir…”

The fire hero let a smile form as he let go of her hoof, “It is my pleasure. Please tell us, what is your name so we may remember it?”

The yellow mare looked at the six who were eyeing her once more. She shrunk away again as she quietly told them her name, “I’m… Fluttershy…”

Despite the gentle mare being quiet in telling her name, the fire hero managed to pick up her name due to him being in close proximity of her, “Fluttershy is it? What a peculiar name…” He turned around seeing that every one of his friends managed to hear him loudly. Eze was scratching his head in confusion while the others gestured him to continue on. He obliged his friends as he returned his attention to the yellow pegasus, “But nonetheless, thank you kindly Fluttershy for healing us.”

Fluttershy smiled in return to Vargas, "You... you welcome..." She was rubbing her right foreleg with her left as she was having difficulty trying to speak yet she felt like she was forgetting something of importance. When she looked back at the six in question, she suddenly realized that since everyone was awake, she had to bring them to her friends as they wanted to have a conversation with them, “Oh! I… almost forgot… would you um… come   with me to my friend’s library? We’d like to… um… know about you six, if that’s all right with you?”

All six looked at each other wondering if they share the same sentiments. All five nodded to Vargas as they sheathed their weapons for now. A smile formed on the fire hero’s face, focusing his attention to the yellow pegasus, “Of course we will, but in return, can you and your friends answer questions we six have? We’d like to know what happened and where are we…”

Fluttershy’s expression lightened up as she flew up a bit in excitement, “Oh! Well, of course we will! Just um…” She went to the door and tried to open the door. She fumbled as she tried to turn the doorknob much to her embarrassment. The six could not help but let a small chuckle escape as she finally opened the door while sheepishly looking at them, “Please um… follow me? Oh, and don’t mind the ponies here, we’re rather kind towards strangers…”

Selena was the first to look at the timid pegasus with a look of surprise. Everyone else shared the ice hero’s surprise that there different race of ponies as Fluttershy referred to her kind, “Ponies? I thought that there was just the pegasi race like you?” Their healer being a pony was rather obvious for the six to notice. Even then, the idea of diverse ponies was rather interesting to know, “There is a diverse races of ponies? Not just the pegasi, like say unicorns?”

A smile formed on the yellow pegasus’s face, “Oh yes, So... you know about the um… pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies?” She saw all six nodded to her answer. She brightened up a bit to hear that they knew something about their race if only for a tiny bit, “Oh! That’s... um amazing, oh dear I should be getting you to meet my friends. I don’t want them to be worried about me…”

Atro shared Fluttershy’s sentiments as he took his first step, “Of course we would not want them to worry especially since, as I said, we are foreigners to you. Lead the way for us.” The yellow pegasus let out a small and quiet but rather cute at least to Selena yay as she stepped out first. The six followed suit as they lowered their heads to accommodate the small entrance. Upon taking their first step outside the cottage, they were greeted with a beautiful view of where they are.

All six were awed by where they are. Nature here was blooming with no sign of stopping as the flowers rose from the ground slowly. The breeze was gentle flowing pass their body as it eased them into the country they do not know. From afar, Atro noticed ponies smaller then Fluttershy playing around on a playground as they chased each other with glee. He can easily assess them being foals if the terminology of horses apply still. A smile formed on his face seeing children playing around joyfully. The light hero’s smile did not escape unnoticed, “Still smiling whenever you see children playing around eh Atro? Even if they’re not like us?”

Atro turned to see Lance was the first to notice him smiling. He still bore his smile as he heard the children playing freely, “Beast or not, I am always smiling whenever I see the children being joyful.”

Fluttershy smiled as well hearing that the light hero has a fondness for children, “You really love children don’t Mr. Atro?”

“Yes Miss Fluttershy, I always had a fondness of seeing the children being so carefree. It was part of the reason why I chose to fight, to see the children alive and carefree like before without the hindrance of war.” The word war managed to make the timid pegasus shudder almost like it was an instinct to do so. It baffled all six seeing her shudder like so.

One can argue that since she’s shy like her namesake, she’d be afraid to see fights arise. They all looked at each other while walking pondering about her being shaken. The only armored knight decided best to ask for them all, “Fluttershy, why did you shudder upon hearing the word war? Is it uncommon upon this land?”

Fluttershy stopped and looked at the three. Her eyes hold a sense of fear within them like the word was something to be feared, “It’s… better for my friends to explain that… I can say that… it’s been almost forever since war ever was initiated.”

All six looked at each other surprised about this revelation. An eternity of peace without war looming over this land? This would have been a utopia come true but they knew that utopias never come true because battles would always be consistent. Perhaps they may be a few conflicts here and there, but no signs of war? They find this hard to believe. They wanted to ask Fluttershy ask more about this but they decided to wait until they met her friends.

As they make it pass the school and into the town proper, many of the ponies looked at them curiously and were whispering to each other. This made the six concerned about how the ponies will perceive themselves not wanting bad rumors to come by, but Fluttershy assured them that they would always do this. Afterwards, they’d be willing to accept all of them into their town after one big party. This slightly bothered them but not by much. Passing through they finally reached their destination, “Well, here we are.”

The six looked at where they were meeting. The location in question was a library built from using the foundation of the tree. Lance couldn't help but whistle as he was impressed they utilized the very foundation of the tree to make the library, “That’s impressive! Literally using the tree as the foundations  of the library…”

A smile formed on Fluttershy’s face as she knocked on the door, “Thank you, you can thank the ponies for doing something like this.” A loud coming was heard as footsteps were slowly getting louder.

The timid pegasus backed away from the door as it opened. In front of the door was a baby dragon opening the door. A smile formed on the little dragon’s face as he waved to Fluttershy, “Hey there Fluttershy!” The dragon looked at the six who were caught off guard by another mythological creature being here. Their surprise slowly faded seeing that there was only so much they do not know, “Yo! I see that you’re to see all of us right?”

All six nodded to his answer as the little dragon moved out of the way for them to enter inside the library. Fluttershy joined in as she hugged the dragon, “Thank you Spike. I do hope the others come…”

Spike smiled as the timid Pegasus let go of him, “No problem Fluttershy! Twilight is getting them all, you’re just a bit earlier than expected.” He stepped up towards the six and extended his hand out, “Hi, I’m Spike though Fluttershy already said the name out loud so yeah…”

Vargas reached out and grabbed his hand and shook, “You are a brave dragon for coming towards us even though you never seen us Spike.”

Spike scratched his head as he let a small chuckle escape, “Yeah, I get that a lot sometimes…” He cleared his throat as he let go of Vargas’s hand, “So, you okay to tell me your names?”

Atro let out a chuckle a chuckle of his own. He was rather surprised to see a young dragon like Spike be ever so curious about him and his friends. It did warm his heart to have someone’s curiosity though, “As much as we would like to, perhaps you can wait when Fluttershy’s friends come here? You can hear our names as we introduce ourselves to them.”

Spike snapped his fingers as he understood the basic idea, “Right, gotcha! Well if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go upstairs to eat up some gemstones. Goodness am I hungry!” Spike waved at the six as he went rushing upstairs. The footsteps begun to get quieter as all six watched him ascend.

As the steps become quiet, the whole library went silent. Selena looked at her friends and decided to break the silence as they waited for Fluttershy's friends to come, “Such a well-behaved dragon even for someone as young as Spike don’t you think?”

Eze could not help but agree with the ice hero there, “For once I can agree, I mean sure we have our fair share of dragons that can be generous if they wish too but that kid? That kid would make all of our current dragons jealous as a pack of goblins…”

All five chuckled hearing the analogy used there, “Ha, well there’s an analogy I did not expect to hear from Eze himself.”

“It’s the truth Magress and you know it!” The dark hero could only just shrug to his response not wanting to debate about this with the idiot swordsman. A title like that would make anyone mad but for the thunder hero, he took it proudly and went with it. Eze took notice of all the books that were here. Of course, he wasn't too surprised since they are in a library but the amount of books here was still staggering to say the least, "Sheesh, look at all these books... I'm not much of a reader but goodness, someone sure is quite a bookworm if I says so..." He looked into the shelves that were arranged in alphabetical order. One book caught his attention however as he pulled it out. Just as he saw the cover, he was having trouble stifling his laughter, "Are... Are you kidding me?" All five looked at him, wondering what was making him almost laugh, "T-There's a beginner's book for sleepovers?!" He opened the books and immediately exploded into laughter. He was having difficulty speaking out the words as he was choking from his laughter, "I-I can't believe... they would put... so much detail... into something as basic as sleepovers!"

Vargas picked up the book his friend dropped when he collapsed. Looking into the book itself, he too was also trying to stifle his laughter but unlike his compatriot, he was successful in trying to not collapse into a laughing fit, "Wow... That's... a lot of detail for something like a sleepover alright... there's even a step by step process for sleepovers?" Eze was laughing even harder from hearing such a thing. Vargas could only chuckle as he put the book back in its rightful place, "Well... I wonder if someone actually read the book... probably someone who was a shut-in..."

Fluttershy chuckled while she put back a strand of her mane into place, "Well, um... one of my friends was actually what you described mister..." As Eze was struggling to keep his laughter in check, the rest went to hear the rest of what Fluttershy had to say. The attention did make her shrink again but knowing that they are gentle however, eased her for the most part, "Well um... She didn't know about sleepovers due to being so focused on her studies until she met me and four others... When we became friends, she wanted to try all that out since she never did do it once in her life... Oh and um... that's not the only book too. She's even got books about other basic things like um..."

"Like how to do something like say, performing a task such as being a lawyer in a day or so?" A nod confirmed the question. By the time Eze managed to recover and heard that, he exploded into laughter once again. Atro could only sigh as his friend being like so, "Excuse my struggling friend here, apparently he finds it funny..."

"That... That's because it is! I-I mean, who writes a book about becoming a lawyer in a day?! Everybody knows... that you'd have to take a decades worth of learning to even be considered... a lawyer! What, did it have these words in it too? Smite thy prosecuting knave and make the whelp feel thy wrath of the glorious voice of justice?" When he saw Fluttershy meekly nod, he was very close to bursting to laughter once again. The thunder hero barely managed to stop his laughter. He placed his hand on a table and used it as support to bring himself back up. He wiped away a few tears of mirth as he was taking a few breaths from his laughing spree, "Oh by the Gods... I'm never going to forget this moment..."

Lance let a sigh escape after his laughter charade, "Like you would really forget it that easily..." Eze's answer was a simple shrug. A smile formed on the nature hero's face though as he looked at all the books gathered here, "Still, I think I might go for a read or two since we're here early... I don't think the librarian will mind right?"

Fluttershy nodded seemingly conforming his question before putting a hoof on her chin thinking about the answer carefully, "Well, I don't think she'll mind, as long as..." Just as she was about to say the requirement, someone was beginning to open the door. Fluttershy looked alongside the six before she smiled seeing that Twilight managed to gather everypony, “Twilight, um… welcome back to the library?”

A look of surprise dawned upon Twilight before a smile emerged upon her face as she turned to see Fluttershy with the six humans here as well, “Thanks Fluttershy, but… I didn’t expect you to bring them so early; I just got our friends to come.” As she said that, everypony arrived through the door as she moved out out of the way. The only pony who didn't do so was Rainbow who decided to dramatically enter through the window. Twilight gave a questionable look seeing the cyan mare doing her acrobatics. She couldn’t help but fathom what was going on in her thoughts right now, “Rainbow, is it really the best time to do that?”

The athletic mare put her two forelegs on her waist and puffed her chest, “Of course it’s the best time to do it! I want them to be awed by my flying skills!” She looked towards the thunder hero who was looking at her with curiosity. It made a bit giddy seeing that she got the attention of the hero that made her curious as well. She continued to stay afloat as she turned her attention towards Twilight, "Besides, I like to be a bit dramatic with my entry!"

Rarity and Applejack could only sigh with their bombastic friend, "Ya know, it wouldn't hurt t' be a l'il bit not bombastic fer once in a while Rainbow... Some o' us would rather just get t' the point? Like Ah said before? Back in Canterlot?"

Unfortunately for Applejack, while she acknowledged it, she decided to start an argument of all times, "Aw come on! You know I gotta do a good first impression! I just gotta! Rarity, back me up here please?"

She raised a hoof over her chest looking a bit flabbergasted, "Why me? Couldn't you handle this situation on your own Rainbow, surely it's not too much trouble right?" Twilight stepped in and was trying to stop the ensuing conversation between the four of them but to her regret, she was too late as she ended up joining their argument soon after.

Meanwhile as they were chatting with Rainbow, the six humans with Pinkie, Spike and Fluttershy just watched them bicker. They looked at each other wondering if this was normal routine for them. The thunder hero decided to switch the topic as he leaned in next to all of them as he whispered, “You know, I like that rainbow-maned pegasus.”

The five of them chuckled when he made that statement as they all can plainly see why Eze would like the cyan mare. Lance decided to gladly point it out for him, “That’s because all of us including you can see her being your pony counterpart if you ever had one friend.”

“Hey that’s…!” Eze fell silent as the thought echoed in his mind. Relenting with a sigh, he let a smile form while he was scratching his head, “Yeah, I guess that can be true…” They turn to see that four of the mares were still arguing with one another. They saw Fluttershy was the first to try and stop the argument. Sadly, she couldn't due to her being too quiet for her friends and the fellow humans to notice. Pinkie tried to as well but they were more focused on the argument then the party pony herself. One small sweat bead escaped from the thunder hero seeing them act like this, “I know that friends can argue sometimes whether it goes by quickly or not but... Is this supposed to be this long?”

Everyone was very confused about this whole charade with those four, “You're just thinking that they're taking long Eze but I have to agree on one thing, this is getting ridiculous...” Magress turned to see everyone nodding in agreement. Atro shook his head seeing that this was getting nowhere with their conversation right now. He turned to Spike who just came walking down the stairs and even he agrees that this was getting out of hand. Magress dropped his shield and lance as he begun to walk up, “I’ll see if I can separate those four now…”

Before he did though, the armored knight felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Lance stopping him in place, “Wait, let me try something…”

Although the nature hero could not tell whether he was smiling or not behind the helmet, he can tell it was there now as he stepped back for him, “I will not stop you Lance, do as you must though I am predicting that you want to see if the power within your pike is still there?”

The adventurer smiled seeing that his friend got the basic idea, “You always know what we are thinking don’t you Magress?” He just shrugged as he crossed his arms wanting to see the reaction of those four when he does it. Lance chuckled seeing the dark hero being a bit mischievous. Looking at the four first before shifting his attention to the Demon Pike, he closed his eyes as he tries to call forth the spirit residing within the pike, Drevas, are you alive? I wish to speak with you…

Silence within the pike was his answer as he waited. Lance was a bit worried for the spirit and tried to speak with him again. As he was about to speak though, a loud yawn was heard only to the nature hero. He couldn’t help but let a small chuckle escape hearing Drevas of all spirits yawning, Hello Lance, I see that you are not a tree… Another yawn escaped from the spirit. A few seconds into the yawn though, the words he said clicked within the spirit. Shock was the last thing Lance expected from Drevas, Wait, you are not a tree anymore? But how can this be? I thought the curse had already taken affect on your body…

Lance shared the spirit’s reaction. He too was surprised that he was not a tree anymore but comparing to his spirit friend, he was not too concerned with the detail. What did concern him was how he and his friends reverted back to their base form when they were at full strength before. Everyone probably had shared his thoughts but again, it did not bother them much. He returned his attention back to the four mares still arguing, Drevas, I wish to be sure but do I still has the power of the earth with me?

The spirit let out a small chuckle hearing that, Of course Lance, you still have the ability to utilize the earth below you but there is something else that concerns me. The adventurer raised an eyebrow at that remark, It is about the Demon Pike’s curse, for some reason I cannot fathom, I have partial control of the curse…

Lance’s eyes widened a bit from hearing this revelation but was also confused with his friend saying that he could partially control the curse, You mean that if I were to tap into the Pike’s greatest strength, the curse will not consume regardless of me using it constantly? That is a good thing to know! But... what do you mean by partially?

The spirit immediately answered his question though he tried his best to hide his sorrow, Like what you said, the curse will not consume you even if you tap into the full strength of the pike. However, I am still stuck in this form... Lance was a bit distraught hearing that from Drevas. The spirit shared his feeling but was able to share some of the nature hero’s joy with one thing he now had, Don't worry Lance, I'm fine with this condition. If there is one good thing about this is that we have time on our side to research for a remedy for my ailment, that should be enough for you to smile yes? Lance did indeed smile hearing that from his friend. Drevas chuckled before returning back to the topic at hand, I knew you would smile... Now what do you wish to do?

Lance looked towards the four ponies who were still locked in their argument, See those four ponies? They have been constantly arguing to each other for some time and I want us to be able to introduce ourselves, I wish to stop them with the very tree I’m standing on...

A whistle came out first before a chuckle escaped from the spirit, Feeling a bit mischievous aren’t we? Hmm, it is rather interesting to see two unicorns, a pegasus and an earth pony argue to each other and having different coats and mane, both in color and design. Lance raised his eyebrow again from hearing that Drevas knew about this already. The spirit chuckled from the adventurer’s reaction, Come now Lance, you forget that we share the same eyes and minds so of course I can see. That and the races I had already knew, it is just the colors that throw me off. I believe we have chatted long enough, shall we begin?

Lance let a smile form, Yes, let us begin Drevas. He looked at the four bickering as he imagined the tree coming to life below them. As he closed his eyes, he felt the very earth below him shift itself as the roots begun to grow below the four. Both Fluttershy and Pinkie noticed and turned their attention to Lance who was smiling. Although Fluttershy was worried that he might hurt them, Pinkie let a small giggle escape seeing him do this and promised that they will be alright. A small smile formed hearing Pinkie's words thus she decided to trust her words and let the nature hero do what he was doing.

Five of the heroes noticed the roots of the tree were beginning to sprout below the four ponies. They looked at each other before letting a little chuckle escape. Lance soon then opened his eyes as he saw his handiwork coming to fruition. A grin formed as the roots begun to grow slowly until it was big enough to entangle the four of them. Having had enough time preparing it, he tapped Drevas on the ground once. The tap was quiet but the results spoke for themselves as the roots begin to develop.

The roots of the trees were rising slowly below the four arguing mares. Twilight, in her heated argument with Rainbow, noticed the roots beginning to grow. Her becoming quiet for a split second was noticed by the other three mares. They were about to ask why the silence before Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity were being lifted into the air and getting entangled by roots, “Ey! What gives!? Why am Ah bein’ wrapped by roots!?”

“I don’t know Applejack! Just get them off of my coat and mane!” screamed Rarity as she was struggling to get out of the roots that wrapped her.

“Really Rarity? You’re freaking out over your mane and coat getting caught by roots? I’m freaking out over how roots are managing to entangle us!” Twilight was struggling to get out of the roots alongside her other two compatriots.

Rainbow suppressed a laugh before she herself got wrapped in the roots. She was not pleased with being a part of what three were dealing, “Hey, what gives!? Who’s tying me up with roots now!?” She tried to fly out of the roots but her wings were bind together preventing from flying. All four were struggling to get out of the roots that bind them in the air. Pinkie and Eze erupted in laughter as they collapsed to the ground, their hand and hoof pounding away at it. Spike joined in their laughter as he fell backwards and was shaking his legs around while clutching his chest.

Twilight was not amused by their laughter, “Not funny you three! Get us out of this predicament please!” Just as she asked that question, the roots begun to loosen and lower the three mares save the pegasus as if by command. Their hooves touch the ground and the roots returned back literally inside the tree.

The roots binding Rainbow released the cyan pegasus. She backed away from the returning roots just in case. As she saw them return back inside the tree, she moved around freely, “Finally! I hate having my wings wrapped like that…”

Applejack couldn’t help but snicker a bit from that respone, “Yeah, like we haven’t tied up yer wings like that before…” That earned a glare from Rainbow. The apple farmer just shrugs much to the cyan mare’s annoyance though she was still bothered by one thing, “But never mind that, what or how in tarnation did ‘em roots do that?”

Twilight was bothered about that as much as Applejack was. She was rubbing her head confused by how this came to be. Fluttershy poked her back trying to get her attention. She turned to her fellow friend wondering if she knew about the roots, “Fluttershy? You know how did those roots do it?”

“Um… yes?” Her answer made Twilight’s eyes widen. She shrunk back a bit waiting for her to tackle her down and ask her quickly. When it didn’t come, she decided to answer not wanting to make the smart unicorn wait any longer, “Um… the answer’s in front of you four…”

Twilight was baffled by what she meant with her answer. All four did respond to her answer and looked in front of them. They saw Lance pulling his pike out of the tree. The nature hero looked at the four with a smirk, “I believe I have managed to catch your attention now right?”

Three of the mares gaped hearing that he performed that feat. Rainbow on the other hoof did not enjoy that as she flew extremely close to his face and was scrunching, “Not… Cool… At… All…! You know I hate having my wings tied up like that!”

Atro could only sigh seeing this pegasus was not thinking straight. He can see the similarity between her and Eze clearly. The light hero stepped in front of the cyan mare, “Forgive me there Miss, but you have forgotten that we haven’t even introduced each other to all of you. So how are we supposed to know that you do not like your wings being bounded?”

Rainbow raised her hoof and opened her mouth as she was about to protest against the light hero’s words. As the words clicked though, she lowered her hoof and let out a sigh of defeat. Atro smiled seeing that the cyan mare was able to see sense, “Thank you for seeing sense miss…?”

A sincere smile formed upon the athletic mare’s face, “Heh, the name’s Rainbow Dash… I hope you guys don’t forget my name because I’m going to have to knock some sense into ya!”

Eze chortled hearing her say those words, “Wow, definitely might be my pony counterpart hearing that from her, so Rainbow Dash eh? The Rainbow definitely fits considering your mane and tail but the Dash makes me curious...”

She let a smile form as she informed him about her last name, "Isn't it obvious? I'm the fastest flyer second to none! No one could match my speed ever!" She then flew closer to the thunder hero’s face as they stared at each other, “As for the Rainbow, my parents gave me that name! You got anything else funny to say about my name tough guy?”

The swordsman was gripping his sword tightly as a smile formed on his face. His five compatriots knew that look plastered on his face. All five backed away a bit waiting to see what will come now. The five ponies mimicked their actions wanting to be cautious about this, “Not really much Rainbow, but I can say this. You're fast? Well guess what? I strike fast like thunder! Poof, gone in a blink of an eye! So how about this for a start?! Wanna fight you and me?!”

Rainbow backed up from his face, a bit surprised about suddenly being challenged. She can see that the challenge was not only about who was the fastest but it would be an actual fight. A grin formed as she inched herself closer to Eze, “Yeah, I’d like that! Think you can hit the fastest flyer in Equestria!?”

The detail of location escaped the thunder hero but not his five friends. They looked at each other wondering about this Equestria Rainbow spoke of. They decided to ask after Eze’s little chat with the cyan mare. Looking at the swordsman, they noticed thunder clouds slowly forming above his head as they continued to stare at each other. The five ponies noticed as well as they were wondering whether to panic a bit from this or not, “Oh I’m not worried about not hitting, I’m more worried to see if you can avoid my lightning strikes with my sword Batootha!” He raised his sword to his shoulder while still grinning proudly. The gray cloud begins to fully develop as lightning rained down around the two of them.

The show of raining thunder did intimidate Rainbow alongside her friends a bit but it also confirmed what the princesses said about them being able to manipulate their respective elements. To actually see it only made the cyan mare more determined and excited to fight Eze having been curious about how powerful and fast he really was, “Oh yeah!?”

“Most definitely deserving of a yeah Rainbow!” Both stared down at each as the cloud above them continued to grow and rain down thunder. The bearers backed away with haste as one of the lightning strikes almost hit them. They were beginning to panic seeing that this might go bad.

Twilight looked at the five heroes seeing their expression not showing even a single hint of panic. In her panicking state, she questioned why they were not reacting to this predicament. All ten looked at the human and the pegasus staring down each other still waiting for something to happen. For what felt like minutes passed, the cloud hovering above the two staring began to shrink to almost normal levels. As it shrank, a small snicker escaped the both of them. By the time the cloud disappeared, both Rainbow and Eze erupted into full-blown laughter, “Oh man, was that epic or what?!”

Rainbow was on the ground clutching her chest as she was trying to stop herself from laughing, “Yeah… that was… diabolically epic!” She continued laughing with the thunder hero as they were rolling around on the floor.

Applejack did not take that lightly from the cyan mare, “Now wait just a darn tootin’ minute! Ah was ‘fraid that y’all were goin’ t’ actually fight each other within the library no less! Ah mean those thunder clouds!”

As she was about to continue, she felt a… hand? She turned to see the light hero behind her. That caused the four sans Pinkie to react a bit from his sudden appearance, “Trust me miss, this is something that me and my friends have grown accustomed to with Eze. It’s best to not question it right now…”

The apple farmer was about to retort to that but thought better of it and let it slide for now, “If ya insist mister…?”

A smile formed upon Atro’s face, “Please, no need for the formalities between us, just our names will do.”

Applejack let out a sigh she didn’t realize she was holding onto. She was glad to have at least someone who wasn’t into formal stuff, “Well ain’t that swell! Ah don’t like bein’ all formal an’ all that habaloo…”

A chuckle escaped from the light hero as he stood up. A small but bright flash formed around as he returned back to his friend’s side. Twilight noticed and couldn’t help but bring it up, “You can teleport?”

A smile formed upon the former squire, “Yes, I can teleport. I am to assume that you can teleport as well if you are asking that question?”

Twilight quickly nodded and was smiling with glee seeing someone that is not a unicorn or an alicorn can teleport, “Oh this is a major discovery! If you can teleport, I wonder if you all…” A sound of a throat being cleared knocked her out of her stupor. She looked to see Vargas clearing his throat, “Oh! Hehe, sorry…” She was wearing a sheepish grin as well as scratching her head.

Vargas could only smile seeing the purple mare being silly, “No worries, it is in the past. I believe we have held off the introductions for too long yes?” All twelve currently here nodded to his question. His entire crew of compatriots looked at the six ponies and one dragon as they stood there, “Do the rest of you wish to introduce yourselves to us first? We already know Spike, Rainbow, and Fluttershy leaving the rest of you mares left.”

They all saw where this was going. The bearers looked at each other wondering who wishes to introduced themselves first. They all look at Applejack who let a smile form on her face, “Well if Ah’m going first, might as well get it over with…” She stepped forward looking at the six with a smile as she raised her Stetson high, “Howdy there y’all! Mah name’s Applejack an’ Ah hope t’ please y’all with some delicious apple treats someday!” She put her Stetson back and spat into her hoof. She extended towards them.

Although some were bothered by the spit gesture, a smile formed on all six. Selena came first as she extended her hand and shook her hoof. Unbeknownst to Applejack, the ice hero froze her saliva and broke it into icy chunks. As Selena stopped shaking the apple farmer’s hoof and returned back to her compatriots, she leaned next to all five and whispered, “Do not worry, I froze her saliva and shattered it without her noticing.”

All of them let a quiet chuckle escape as they all went up and shook Applejack’s hoof. After all six managed to shake her hoof, the next in line was the fashionista. She walked towards them in a professional manner. This made three of the heroes look at her questionably. Rarity noticed that Vargas, Eze, and Lance, were the ones looking at her oddly. She let a little chuckle escape from embarrassing herself like that, “Was it a bad idea to try to be professional about this?”

Applejack facehooved from hearing and seeing Rarity do something like this. If she were to be track of how many facehooved they did currently, she would have about their recent one and more counting if things were to go bad again. To her surprise, the three were chuckling seeing Rarity’s antics. Vargas decided to take note of this, “Not really, it just a bit both questionable and amusing is all.”

Rarity let a smile form, she never expected that three of them to be gentle in their words. She cleared her throat letting her true self be shown, “Well then, perhaps I should retry that again this time without the mannerisms. Hello there darlings, my name is Rarity. Sorry for all of that, I tend to get a bit... excited I guess.” She extended a hoof waiting for the new arrivals… appendages... whatever replaced their hooves.

All shook her hoof and patted her head gently trying not to ruin her mane. She couldn’t but let a little squee escape seeing them being gentle with her mane. She backed away and gestured the rest to introduce themselves. Applejack and Rainbow couldn’t help but chuckle a bit seeing Rarity trying to be subtle. After the white mare returned back to her friend’s side, Pinkie came up and did her usual antics, “Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! Oh, where are you from? Can you adapt to Equestria? Can you all fly, oh so many questions! I can’t decide which one to ask!”

All six looked at each other trying to understand what the party pony said. The only thing they were able to understand with her speaking fast was her name, “Uh yes, hello Pinkie… good to see you?” It was all Vargas could only say to end this conversation quickly.

Before Pinkie got the chance to ask more questions at an almost impossible speed for the six, a magenta glow enveloped the party pony as she was moved behind the other five bearers. She pouted a bit before returning back to her cheery outlook. Twilight stepped up, nervousness clear in her eyes, “Sorry Pinkie, but you know that they'd have a hard time understanding when you speak that fast right?”

Pinkie let a giggle escape as she waved a dismissive hoof, "Of course I know silly! Maybe I should write down the questions for them? Oh, I almost forgot! I got to get the party ready soon!" Just as she said that, she left immediately leaving a dust silhouette of her before it dissipated away.

All the humans were left questioning what just happened. Twilight noticed the look and tried to rectify it for them, "It's Pinkie Pie, don't question it. Trust me, I tried and it left my mind in pain from understanding her." A sincere smile formed around all six. They gave the purple mare some time to compose herself as she breathed in and out. At her final breath, she looked at the six with dignity, “Hello to the six of you, my name’s Twilight Sparkle. It’s a pleasure to meet all six of you…” Twilight let a small chuckle escape seeing how silly that introduction was.

Despite how silly she thought her introduction was, the others still wore their smile. It was almost unbelievable that six unknown creatures would continue to smile even with beings they don’t even know. Oh sure Twilight and her friends have seen crazier things but six entities continuing to smile? It was almost unheard of with the exception of Pinkie. Having done the introductions for her friends, she backed up and gestured the Six Heroes to introduce themselves, “We’re done with our introductions, care to introduce yourselves to us?”

Five of the heroes looked at Vargas and gestured him to represent for them. A small laugh escape as he stepped forward, “Guess I shall be the one to represent the six of us then…” The fire hero cleared his throat as the words came to him, “We are known to many of our friends and allies as the Six Heroes. I am Vargas, Hero of Fire from the empire of Agni.”

Everypony looked at each other seemingly sharing the same thoughts about what Princess Luna noted back in Canterlot. Hearing one of them say so confirmed what the spirits said for them. Selena stepped forth after Vargas moved out of the way. A sudden chill was felt in the library like the very room was undergoing winter itself. While it befuddled the dragon as to why the sudden temperature change, the bearers know about it however. Just feeling the chill of ice from Selena stepping forward made them awe at such capability of their respective elements. They decided to focus on that for another time as the ice hero spoke, “I am Selena, the Hero of Ice. I was the chief of the traveling Savat people and the former leader of my kin before... before…” At those words, Selena looked upon her ancestral sword seeing the reflection of herself and her allies. From her closest friend Lucina, to the prince of the Sama kingdom Arius, all of them were seen with her reflection. She closed her eyes and lowered her sword trying to not remember the pain of not knowing what was going on back home, “I am sorry about that, but I am feeling rather homesick…”

Hearing those words urged the six bearers to comfort the ice hero. They were about to until they were stopped by Lance. They were about to argue why stop them when his words spoke his intentions, “I can see that you sympathize with her, but I would advise just giving her some alone time if you know what I mean. We want to comfort her as well but we know her well enough that she wishes to be left alone for now. She’ll tell all of us if she needs someone to comfort her in her time of need. Let’s just get the introductions over with. I’m sorry if I sound rude though…”

The bearers were reluctant at first to listen to the nature hero’s advice. From looking at Selena who was alone for now, it was making them feel bad for wanting to break his advice and embrace the ice hero. In the end, they accepted his request and backed away, “Alright, but only because you wished to give her some time to be left alone.”  

A smile formed upon Lance’s face, “Thank you Twilight for understanding and again, I’m sorry but for Selena’s sake, it’s best to wait until she asks.” They nodded as they sat down waiting for the nature hero to introduce himself, “Okay then, I am Lance, Hero of Nature. I come from the country of Vriksha where the Great Tree said to originate from…” He showed the pike held within his hand to the seven in front of him, “This is my weapon Drevas. While it may not look like anything special, it actually is because within the pike, a spirit named after my weapon resides in it…” Twilight was about to ask if she can make contact with the spirit within the pike but Lance’s answer silenced her quickly, “And no Twilight, only I can make contact with the spirit, sorry if you wanted to speak with him.”

The curious mare was left a bit distraught over not being able to make a telepathic connection with the spirit within the pike but if what Lance said was true then there was no point in continuing. Still, to actually hear it from him made Fluttershy a bit saddened over the pike's current state. The nature hero moved out of the way for Eze to step forth, “Thank for the long introduction Lance, really appreciate it!”

The nature hero could only shrug to the thunder hero’s usual sarcastic lines. Now it was Eze’s turn to introduce himself to the bearers. He was going to be a bit idiotic in his first impressions. He knew that but hey, he wasn’t called the greatest idiot swordsman for nothing, “The name’s Eze…” He put his right index finger on his head and tapped it three times as if to put emphasis on remembering his name, “Got it memorized?”

A chuckle escaped from Vargas, “You know, for someone who is called the greatest idiot swordsman who ever lived… that action proves it otherwise. Besides, they already knew your name thanks to us mentioning it a few times...”

The thunder hero looked at Vargas with a look of displeasure, “And I didn't like it when you did that! I wanted them to tell them and help them remember my name!” His look however gave way to a smirk as the title the fire hero said clicked in his head, “Oh and thanks for saying the title of the greatest idiot swordsman out loud for me, I really appreciate it!”

Vargas could only shrug much to his amusement. Rainbow was laughing over seeing Eze being like her in a lot of ways. The others were a bit confused about it. Atro could only sigh as he stepped forth, “Forgive Eze for that, he’s known to be a klutz at times…”

“Hey! I am not a klutz! There’s a difference between an idiot and a klutz Atro!” Lance could only facepalm seeing Eze shining as being the idiot now.

The light hero sighed and shook his head in disapproval, “Again forgive him there, he can be a bit hard-headed…”

“A bit?” Twilight covered her mouth back trying to take back her words she said.

Atro covered his mouth trying to not a laugh escape, “Yes a bit… but enough of that. Though Eze already said my name out, I’ll say it again. My name is Atro, Hero of Light. It is a pleasure to introduce myself to you seven.”

Spike, much to his surprise, was being addressed with the bearers. He couldn’t help but bring it up despite it being a good thing, “Wait, why am I a part of this all of a sudden, I didn’t do anything extravagant with the six here… I’m normally am the bystander…”

Atro smiled as he put a hand on the baby dragon’s shoulder, “Ah but that’s where you are wrong, for you see, I can see that you have potential to be something great Spike. The time will come when you will get the chance to do something grand…”

Twilight let a smile form as she put her hoof on his left shoulder, “See Spike, even Atro himself seems to share something I can agree with. You’ll get the chance to shine, just maybe not now like he says.”

Spike felt a small smile form as he hugged both Twilight and Atro, “Thanks you two, I really needed that.”

Atro was not so sure on how to respond but decide to return the gesture back, “It is nothing young Spike; it’s Twilight who you should be thanking.” As the young dragon let him go, the light hero backed away letting the two embrace each other. It was a heartwarming scene that everyone within the library can agree with. He looked to Magress who was the last one to be introduced.

The dark hero noticed that all five of the heroes were looking at him. Though his helmet hid his face, a small grin formed behind the mask. He stepped forward, his armor clanking loudly and his steps foreboding as Fluttershy could attest to. As he revealed himself, the six mares did take one small step back over seeing the only one of the heroes who was clad in armor to be a bit terrifying. Before he got the chance to introduce himself, Rarity let a small scared laugh escape, “Uh darling, why don’t you take off your armor so we can see your… um, beautiful face behind the helmet?”

Magress shook his head, much to Rarity’s surprise. Before she got the chance to insist him to take off his armor, he spoke with a rather calm tone that betrayed his dark appearance, “I cannot Rarity, for you see, beneath the armor, I am not human like my friends behind me anymore. I am become a being that neither is human nor god…”

All seven were baffled by what he meant. Selena managed to step up, her expression before of grief, now to one of calmness, “Magress speaks the truth, not even the five of us know what he looks behind the armor but his body is stained of the blood of Gods who fell before the Hero of Darkness.”

Rarity was very much surprised to hear that blood from enemies he faced stained his very body and armor. She pulled out a couch bought thanks to Pinkie as she fainted dramatically. Though the bearers did share Rarity’s surprise, they also share one other surprise that Applejack bought up, “Y’all killed yer enemies? All six o’ ya?”

All of them nodded before Vargas decided to step up, “Where we originated from, we are at war against Gods who ordered our extinction…” The word extinction echoed with all seven of them causing them to flinch from the use of the word, “Thus, we had to kill to survive… I am sorry if it bothered you especially since this Equestria we are standing on has been known to have relative peace.” He looked at his compatriots seeing if they shared his thoughts about Equestria. They all nodded and agreed on one thing, Equestria was a diverse universe separating itself from the war torn Grand Gaia. Alternate worlds was not foreign to the six of them as many warriors came from other worlds whether by call or because of untold riches.

The bearers glanced at each other now getting to at least know the Six Heroes. They were still a bit shaken over the idea of these beings, gentle as they are, being able to kill enemies. The idea of their world being torn by war and the amount of bloodshed caused by that war was enough to make them concerned. Twilight made one glance at her friends before looking back at the six, “So… your world is under turmoil by Gods… then why are you here if your world is still fighting?”

They looked at each other seemingly lost as well. The ice hero spoke for them, “We do not know Twilight, during our time there, all of us fell to the same knight. At that moment, we all thought to have supposedly faced our fate and were heading to the afterlife.”

All seven widened their eyes to this revelation, “Wait… you all… died where you originated from?” They all nodded in agreement. Twilight gestured all of her friends to come upstairs for now not wanting to let them know, “Um… could you excuse us for a moment, I want to chat with my friends here, is that okay?”

“We are patient, take your time…” Atro said. He looked at his friends as they decided to chat with each other about this world.

Twilight smiled as she gestured everyone to head upstairs. By the time, all the bearers plus Spike are upstairs, she looked at them with panicked eyes, “Dead! In their world, they were going to die!”

“I know right!? I’m freaking out over this as much as you are Twilight!” Rainbow was flapping her wings harder then usually due to her panicked state.

Fluttershy was shivering from hearing about this, “I… didn’t know that they were going to die, poor them, having to face their fates when they were needed the most…”

They all looked at Fluttershy with a look of sympathy; they can see why she was feeling like that for them even though she just met them. Applejack lowered her hat seeing the reason, “Poor them… Ah wonder how their family members an’ friends, if they’re even alive at that point, feel ‘bout losing them t’ the war.”

They all looked down on the floor seeing where the apple farmer was getting at. With the sudden change of topic, they thought best to think about how their friends and family would react. Something did click within Rarity’s mind though she still was feeling the sympathy that everyone was sharing, “It does explain why they were injured to the point of death as both princesses said…”

Pinkie was downcast like the rest at first before becoming her bubbly self and trying to lighten up their hearts, “Yeah, but come on girls!” Spike cleared his throat trying to get her attention, “Oh silly, of course I didn’t forget you Spike! Anyway, let’s not all be sad and let’s try to cheer ourselves up! if what they said is true, then we might as well make their lives here as good as they can be!”

Those words managed to get everyone out of their stupor and they begun to feel a bit positive, “You’re right Pinkie, if what they said is true, then we might as well make their lives worth being here!”

“Yeah Twilight! Now come on! I need to prep up the library for the Welcome to Equestria party for all six of them!” All six chuckled seeing Pinkie being herself as usual.

Twilight went out first to check up on the Six Heroes. To her surprise, they were reading up on the history books about Equestria. She can tell they were immersed in it save probably Eze though she can’t tell as they were reading without even noticing the clattering of hoofsteps going down the stairs. By the time everyone was downstairs, Vargas lowered the book seeing them, “Oh you’re here, sorry we didn’t hear you coming down.”

They stopped reading the books and put them back in the correct bookshelves. Twilight had to thank them personally for that but decided to wait that for now, “It’s no problem, it’s good to know you six and for us to introduce ourselves to you.”

Magress was the last one to put away the book and the firs to respond to it, “Indeed it is, I think that is a good thing to know you all as well.”

The bearers all smiled, “Why thank you darling…” Before she got the chance to say anything else, someone was banging at the door clearly impatient, “Oh who could it be at this time to interrupt us now?”

“I don’t know Rarity…” Twilight opened the door with her magic as the bangs begun to get louder and she was walking up to it. As it fully opened, to Twilight’s surprise, it was the mayor, “Mayor Mare? You look so frazzled, what happened?”

The mayor was gasping for breath as she managed to deliver the message, “Trouble around… Ponyville… the creatures… from the Everfree Forest, they’re coming this way!”

The six bearers heard that and after sharing a few glances, immediately went out of the library to meet the danger head on. Twilight stayed a bit though looking at the six, “Well, you all are coming to help us?”

Eze jumped from his sitting position clearly excited about this, “Heck yeah we are! Finally some actual action!” They all chuckled as all six followed Twilight. Today was great for them but the town was in need of help and they’ll be glad to lend a hand.