It was a sunny day. All the trees were filled with leafs of green. A slight breeze would roll in and cause them to make a rustling sound. Rarity and I were standing in a large meadow, filled with all sorts of flowers. I picked up a jade colored one with my teeth and took it over to Rarity."Yes that's the exact color of flower I was looking for Lightning." Rarity said as she rubbed the top of my mane, causing it to come out of it's warriors wolf tail. "Haha! Stop it sis! Your gonna mess up my mane!" I smiled as I tried to remove her hoof from the top of my head. She then put her hoof back on the ground and turned to the path that led to our house."Come on now little brother. We need to get home." she said. I was going to follow her. But then I noticed something. The meadow had been set ablaze. I was surrounded by fire.

        "Sis! Help me!" I cried out for Rarity.

    "Come on little brother, supper is probably ready by now." Rarity said this as if nothing was happening. The sky had become gray, the flames grew larger and hotter. Then the ground below me shattered into glass. I fell into a pit of corpses. They began to grab a hold of me. "Come now LightningRain." Said a corpse of a young unicorn, filly. "You can't leave us alone. We need you." There was something strange about this filly. I felt like i knew her as well as I did Rarity. It had a white coat. Its mane and tail were both purple with pink stripes. Its mane was slightly curly. Its eyes were missing. I wanted to help it with everything in me. I pulled it out of the pile and tried to fly away. But it was no use. The higher i flew, the higher the pile of corpses grew. The shrieks of these damned creatures began to ring in my ears. My wings turned to ash, causing me to fall down into the pile. "Why lightning?" Pleaded the young filly,unicorn. "Why would you let them take us?" Blood began to run out of the empty sockets where its eyes should have been. "I'm sorry!" I screamed "I would rather die alone than you dieing with me! I would kill myself a thousand times over if it meant you would be safe!" Why was I so intended on saving this young filly I didn't even know? The Corpses than began to claw at my body. Scratches from there hooves opened up fresh gashes, allowing blood to spill from my body. Tears began to run down my face. "I'm so sorry."

    "What the hell are you crying about?" said the dog as he smacked my cage against a tree. I opened my eyes. I was shaking. Tears still falling down my eyes. It had all been a dream. "Hay! Didn't you hear me you little shit?" The dog shook the cage more. "Its none of your damn business." I said.

       "You've really got a mouth on ya, ya know that?" The dog raised my cage up so he could see into it. His eyes were blood red. I stared into them, tears still falling down my face. I wasn't about to give him the satisfaction of seeing me cry. I raised my wings the where they would cover the slits in the cage. "GO TO HELL!" I said this in hopes of making him angry. "I swear I can't wait to get my payment and leave this place." said the dog.

   "Payment? What are you being paid for?"

  "I'm getting paid for bringing two new additions to The Arena's Silver Rite team."

  "Silver Rite team? Whats that?"

    "It's one of three teams in The Arena. I think I'll just let the rest come as a surprise to you." Normally, I would have argued with him. But the dream I had just had, I couldn't get it out of my head. Why was I trying to help that small filly. I resembled no one, and yet I was ready to have my own body torn apart in order to save it. I looked by at my cutie mark. I wanted so bad to know what it meant. I then turned to then looked out the slits on the right side of my cage. Night had fallen upon The Everfree Forest. Cold night air was pushing its way through the slits of my cage. From what I could see, we were in a swamp. Frogs began to sing. The smell of damp moss was lingering in the air. I had this eerie feeling. A cold chill ran up my spine. *SPLASH*"DAMN!" The dog yelled as pulled his foot from the slushy bog water he had stepped in. Some of the bog water from the splash flew into the cage and landed on my face. It was cold ant wet. I wiped it from my face with my hoof. "Gross!" I yelled. The dog began to mumble to himself as he trailed his way through the bog. Off in the distance, I could see what looked like a small flickering of light. It would disappear every few feet because a fog was beginning to roll in. It was getting harder to see from the inside of my cage so I gave up on trying to figure out where I was. I place my head back between my two hooves. Then from the other side off the dog, I heard a noise. It was SharpSphere. He sounded like he was in pain. "*sniff* Mister?* he said. "Can you *sniff* let me out of the cage for one sec? I need t-*blrp* I need to---*Blaugh*" SharpSphere wasn't making it easy for the dog at all. The dog then sat my cage down. I could feel ooze from the bog seeping its way into my cage. Id much rather it be swap water than what was in SharpSpheres cage. I looked out of my cage to see what the dog was doing. He had opened up the cage and had it in his left hand, letting all of the vomit fall out. In his right hand, he had SharpSphere by the tail. Sharp was still vomiting. The vomit smacked onto the bog water and caked on top of some moss. "Are you done yet?" Asked the dog in a sarcastic manner. "I can't have you to slowing me down like this all the time." He was now shaking Sharp by the tail. How could this man be so cruel? Sharp is sick. Show some damn compassion. "Sharp. Are you okay?" I asked. SharpSphere looked at me through the slits in my cage. He didn't say anything. I had a better look at Sharp at this time. i noticed more about him than I did while he was in his cage. He had a purple coat, Yellow mane and tale. I could make out if he had a cutie mark. A few more drops of vomit fell to the ground and then the dog put Sharp back in his cage.

"OK! Now that that's over, we can make our way to The Arena." Said the dog. "I think i saw lit torches a second ago. We must be getting close."