Claymari slept on her back, her legs were spread out leaving her undercarriage in plain view. Philia who was asleep as well cuddles up next to her.

The door creeks open, Philia perked her ears at the sound. Perfect Image walks into the room and Philia smiles at her presence. She gives Claymari a look over as she approached.

“Wow she’s impressive,” Perfect Image remarks pointing at the mare’s udders with her hoof.

“They were fun to play with when I was a foal,” Philia yawns.

Perfect Image gives Philia a strange look.

“I mean I remember when she was breast feeding me,” Philia answers.

“I thought she found you?” Perfect Image points out.

“Yeah but she was still producing milk when her foal died. I wasn’t born much later,” Philia told her.

“I see how much do you remember from when you were that young,” Perfect Image asks.

“Oh, I remember being born even before that,” Philia answers.

“A little of my first year,” Perfect Image remarks.

Then they heard a scream. This caused Claymari to jump awake.

“What was that!” The mare gears for action grabbing her sword.

“That was from Zero’s room,” Philia notes.

Knives runs past the door and stops. “Something is going down.”

When they reached the room they saw that Honey Mead was fighting some kind of cat creature and that Zero was knocked back on his butt with a gushing gash in his shoulder. The buck was in a way that if there wasn’t a cat monster in the room it would have made the mares blush.

“Zero!” Perfect Image shouted.

“That thing, it’s Petty Kitty!” Zero shouts.

“What?” Honey Mead reacts dodging a claw swipe.

Philia spots the chocker around her neck. “It’s her, That thing, if it can suppress blood one way it could suppress blood the other way.”

“Shit, it’s a trap!” Claymari shouts.

Just then Bat Pony soldiers came running down the hall with Fang Flame behind them.

“Move out of the way!” Fang Flame shouted.

Her Bat Ponies started lassoing the wild Petty Kitty.

“You’re not attacking?” Claymari said in shock.

“Attacking?” Fang Flame replied.

“This has the hallmarks of a surprise attack,” Claymari told the half Bat Pony.

“Sorry but no, the talisman I gave your friend must have suddenly ran out of power and back lashed,” Fang Flame answers.

“I’ll sedate her,” Lady Dominatrix came walking up. She cast a spell that made the raging cat thing fall asleep. “We need to remove her from this place.”

“Yes, I have an extra talisman back at the castle but she’ll awake before then,” Fang Flame told them as her ponies took the unconscious cat out of the room. “I’ll be moving her to the jail.”

“We are coming along,” Knives demanded, “She maybe a ghoul but her blood base is an earth pony.”

“Philia stay here and heal Zero,” Claymari orders as she fallowed, “Perfect Image you stay back too.”

The rest of the group walked outside.

“Perfect, put pressure on that wound,” Philia order.

The Pegasus puts a cloth on Zero’s shoulder.

“Is she going to be alright?” Zero gasped looking pale from the loss of blood.

“I’m worried about you right now,” Philia told him as she cast a spell.

“Outside…”

The Bat Ponies where loading Petty Kitty on a wagon.

Knives looks around cautiously. Something didn’t seem right. Then he realized what it was. “Every pony civilian is in hiding!” He shouts as a pair of Bat Ponies tackle him and puts the pony in cuffs.

Claymari and Honey Mead was quick to react fighting off their grunt attackers. Fang Flame had to step in to fight Honey Mead. After a few clashes of weapons Fang Flame over powers the gold pony.

Claymari went up against Lady Dominatrix. Her speed ability allowed her to gain ground on the Elfen. But the Elfen managed to hit the Earth mare in the shoulder with a magic blast. Claymari swings and Lady Dominatrix barely dodge due to the help of a weak magic barrier. Claymari’s shoulder shrieked in pain and she falters. This gave Lady Dominatrix and opening to turn around and buck Sword Mare in the face. Well Claymari was stun the Bat Pony soldiers came in and cuffed and disarmed her.

“Back in the Daphne Inn…”

Philia ears twitch as she just finished casting the healing magic on Zero. The buck was out like a light.

“What is it?” Perfect Image asked noticing this movement.

“My mother is in distress,” Philia answers. She was feeling exhausted from the healing magic.

“You mean something happened?” Perfect Image reacts.

“I think she was attacked,” Philia tells her, “But I’m useless in this state. Bard the door. I need to rest and as much of it before they come.”

“My Bushwoolies are outside,” Perfect Image complained.

“Call them in and barred the door,” Philia replied.

Perfect Image stuck her head out the door and called her pets into the room. After shutting the door she put a chair against the door handle.

“I didn’t see Winkz anywhere I hope she’s okay.” Perfect Image notes.

“Back at the castle…”

Winkz dodges Lord Beerstein’s hoof attack. Energy flowed out from his attack as the talisman on his wrist glowed.

“A talisman that increase your power and speed,” Winks smiles, “You’re going to need more to defeat a Dark One.”

Beerstein opens his arms and shot lighting from the ceiling. It hit Winkz and she flies across the floor.

“Okay that’s a little better,” The Cristal Pony stood up wincing and exhaled a puff of smoke.

From behind a thick snake tail swung down at Winkz. At the last second a shadow jumps between her and Ester Song.

“You look like you need help,” Asrael smirks.

“Why are you helping me?” Winkz snaps at the Zebra as she defends a piercing winds attack from Lord Beerstein.

“The Zebra and Dark Ones are allies,” Asrael answers swinging a hook that rips into Ester Song’s arm pit. With a pull he rips out the hook and the half pony looses her vital blood and passes out.

Winkz puts up a forced barrier to block Beerstein’s attacks as Asrael leaps over her. Beerstein tries to do a defensive block but was too slow and Asreal slips in two cuts across his neck. Blood runs down the pony lord’s chest and he drops dead.

Winkz and Asrael turn to Ale who look like she was starting to sweat. Asrael then gives Winkz a look that told her the decision of what to do next was up to her.

“Now since you are the new lord lets rediscuss,” Winkz smiles.

Ale replied to her with laughter. “New Lord? Miss I was always lord.” Suddenly Ale’s eye’s flash shooting out force energy that knocks both Winkz and Asrael back.

Winkz slips and stumbles. In the second it took her to recover a blade strike bounced off her crystal hide. Winkz’s leg gives out and her body felt like pins and needles as her blood pressure dropped.

“I just took half of your life force,” Vanilla answers holding the Life Knife. “Your body is barely functioning at sustainable levels. If I take more of your life force then your body will start to break its self down and organs will fail.”

Vanilla then turns around and with the blade and a glow of her antenna heals Ester Song. The Lamia Pony still didn’t wake up.

Asrael lunges to attack Vanilla. She blocks his sharp wings with the Life knife. The wings started to rot and crack and the longer he contacted the knife the more it cracked. This force the Zebra to retreat from the attack.

“Leave the Zebra to me dear,” Ale orders.

The Bat Pony lunges at Asrael using her wings as blades. Asrael blocks with his own wings but his wings in their weakened state brake. Ale’s wings slice into the flesh of his chest.

Asrael stumbles back and watches as Vanilla gives the Life Knife to Ale.

“This is yours my lady,” Vanilla said kneeling to one hoof and the blade exchanged hooves.

Asrael smiles, “I understand now, what you are.”

Ale raises the blade.

“No need lady, I yield,” Asrael painfully kneels to the Bat Pony Lord.

“Good for you,” Ale said as she resurrects her husband.

Ester Song awakens holding her head.

“Ester good your awake, take this Zebra and Crystal Pony to the dungeons.”

“Umm. Yes ma’am,” Ester Song leads the two ponies out of the room.

“Petty Kitty awakes in a jail cell of Hard Peak Jail…”

“So, did you remove that thing on the Cat Pony’s wrist?” A mare voice snaps.

“No ma’am it’s locked tight.” The Bat Pony replied.

“We can’t leave it on her it’s magical,” Lady Dominatrix told the underling.

Petty Kitty only had one hoof cuff on due to her Pipbuck being too big to cuff. Her cuffed hoof was to the side of the bed. A bridle was around her muzzle and a bit in her mouth to stop her from manipulating things.

The Cat Pony picks her cuff lock with her claws and removes the bridle from around her head. She then reaches around and picks her cell lock. Petty Kitty slowly creaks the cell door open and walk out.

She found Knives and Honey Mead in the cell next to hers.

“Where is Philia, Perfect and Claymari?” Petty Kitty asks.

“Philia and Perfect Image was never picked up,” Honey Mead answers, “Claymari was taken away, I believe to the castle.”

“Okay give me a minute,” Petty Kitty starts to pick the lock.

“Please don’t do that,” Fang Flame walks up with a shamed look on her face.

“Get away,” Petty Kitty hissed.

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Fang Flame warned.

“What you did to me was cruel,” Petty Kitty snaps.

“I was just fallowing orders,” Fang Flame cried.

“An excuse of the broken,” With a flick of her paw the cell door was unlocked.

“I said stop!” Fang Flame lunged.

Petty Kitty slips into SATS. She attacks the wolf pony’s leg making deep bleeding claw marks. Fang Flame replied by biting the Cat Pony’s side.

Fang Flame suddenly takes a buck to the face from Honey Mead. There was a crack from both the Wolf Pony’s face and Petty Kitty’s ribs as the hooves hit both of them.

In her moment of stun, the Cat Pony rams full force into Fang Flame. She hits the wall with a thud as Petty Kitty yelps in pain from her ribs.

“Guard! They are escaping!” Lady Dominatrix shouts.

Petty Kitty removes the bridle from around Honey Mead’s mouth. That allowed the pony to reach into Fang Flame’s saddle bag for her cuff keys. In a quick motion she release Knives who tosses a few hidden blades at some incoming Bat Ponies putting then out of commission. Then Knives unlocks Honey Mead.

A magical energy blast hits Knives in the shoulder. He screams in pain as two more hits him in the side. Honey Mead pulls him out of the way as more energy shots came down the hall.

“Give up, I have you pinned,” Lady Dominatrix shouts.

Honey Mead held Knives he was barely conscious and was shaking with pain. She looked at Petty Kitty who was holding her side.

“We are not going to hold out are we,” Petty Kitty gives a sad concerned look.

“Don’t worry little one I’m sure we will make it,” Honey Mead replied with a smile that confirmed she was lying.

“You, Go down there and flush them out,” Lady Dominatrix orders one of her Bat Ponies.

The Bat Pony quickly started to do what he was told but half way down the hall he stops. After about thirty seconds Lady Dominatrix speaks again.

“I told you to go down there!” She snaps.

The Bat Pony spun around and toss the spear he had. This took Lady Dominatrix by surprise. It was then she noticed the pink glow in the Bat Pony’s eyes.

“Magical Mind Control! The Elfen spat.

It was then that Lady Dominatrix was tackled from the side. Philia swiftly casts a magic disable spell on Lady Dominatrix’s gem. Because of that the skirmish between the two mares quickly turned into a hoof boxing match. After about a minute Philia got her magic around the Elfen and lifted her off the ground effectively ending the fight.

Philia locks Lady Dominatrix and Fang Flame into a cell.

“Petty Kitty, hold up here with Knives, I’ll have Perfect Image join you,” Philia orders, “Honey Mead and I will head to the border of Hard Peak and Soft Peak.”

“Why?” Honey Mead asks, “We can’t enter the castle can we?”

“Well actually I can cast the spell to allow us to walk on clouds,” Philia answers, “I looked it up in my spell books once we got here.”

“Then we should help Claymari,” Honey Mead points out.

“We will but we have to be level headed about this,” Philia tells the Earth Pony, “More of their enforcers are bound to come after us. You’re the only fighter active. We can be on the defensive and stand our ground here at the jail but with the forces we got that’s not going to last long. We can storm the castle taking the offensive to free Claymari but we don’t know the layout and there’s bound to be an enforcer near her. Best choice is to draw their strongest out into the open defeat them there and stroll into the castle once their forces are weakened.

“I see,” Honey Mead replied.

“Claymari stood in the ritual chamber… her body bound by chains…”

“Why are you keeping me alive,” Claymari mutters to Beerstein and Ale.

“We are keeping you alive to… to…,” Beersteir turns to Ale. “Why are we keeping her alive again?”

“We are going to summon a monster from beyond the moon. It will need a snack and live meat is the best. Our Sword Mare here is a plum sack of meat,” Ale smiles, "And by the size of the udders marbled."

“You’re the master mind,” Claymari smirks at Ale. “And your daughter’s part in this?” Claymari asks glaring at Vanilla who was preparing some kind of altar.

“Both of us?” Vanilla answers.

“I came up with this plan after she got her free will,” Ale told Claymari.

“The monster needs a willing virgin sacrifice,” Vanilla adds, “One closely related to the caster. I’m not sure possessing one's body counts but you got to work with what you got.”

“Once I summon the beast I can break up the Zebra Empire allowing the world to take it's natural cores,” Ale continued.

“With you as the over seer,” Claymari snaps.

“Someone has too,” Ale said coldly.

“Your sword, your blade where did you get that?” Claymari asks.

“Ale looks at her Life Knife… And her mind wonders to the past…”

A Pegasus starts coughing as he stumbles around in the dark. The light turns on.

“Sir please go back to bed,” Ale in a nurse’s outfit grabs the Pegasus’s arm.

“Don’t touch- ack!” The Pegasus coughs up a bunch of snakes that drops to the floor and slither away.

“Your illness is getting worse,” Ale ushers the pony to bed, “I need to bleed you right away.”

The Bat Pony cuts into the Pegasus’s arm with a knife. She inserts a surgical tube into the Pegasus’s arm. Blood flows down the tube and into a bucket. As the blood hits the air it starts turning into snakes.

The snakes started out small most of them black. Some of the snakes were black with white markings. They slithered in the blood growing larger.

Ale lights the bucket on fire before the snakes grew large enough to clime out of the bucket.

“Now that should hold your illness back for a while,” Ale told the Pegasus his face now looking paler.

A hansom Bat Pony walked into the room fallowed by a not as good looking but still pretty attractive other Bat Pony. By the look of the two stallions they wore related.

“Doctor Beerstein they are getting worst,” Ale points her hoof out at the room full of sick Pegasus ponies coughing. Some of them coughing up snakes.

“This Zebra illness is starting to get fatal,” Logger points out.

“Fret not, We will find a cure,” Beerstein starts coughing.

“Dear,” Ale said concerned.

Logger sees some slithering lumps. “He has snakes!” He shouts.

Ale quickly pokes him with a knife. Snakes slithered out of the wound and Beerstein makes a sigh of relief.

“My love, your-“ Ale starts to say.

“No need for that,” Beerstein snaps.

Ale takes on a professional demeanor. “Yes sir.”

“Week passes…”

A Bat Pony crashes into the cloudy astroturf. A spear was in his side and snakes were leaking out of his gaping wound. Ale runs up to him.

“What happened to you!” Ale helps the pony up.

“No, I’m dead anyway,” The Bat Pony gasps. “The peaks are infected as well. A Pegasus contention is coming into all the villages in the area. They are being quarantined. Everypony will burn.”

The Bat Pony takes his last breath body dissolving into snakes. Ale shakes the snakes off and rushes over to the bedridden Beerstein and his brother. Blood was draining from their arms.

“It’s terrible news!” Ale cries, “The Pegasus are going to come in and kill us all!”

“There’s nothing you can do,” Beerstein moans, “Ale, your uninfected save yourself, run.

“No, my heart is bound to yours by our love,” Ale takes Beerstein’s hoof and cries in it.

Just then the door crashes open. A group of Pegasus in armor stomps in.

“Kill them all,” Their commanding officer

“No!” Ale screams and got smacked in the mouth with the blunt end of a spear for her trouble.

First the blades went into Beerstein’s and Logger’s chests. Then they moved to the others sick in the room systematically stabbing them.

“No! No! if he dies now then I’ll lose his body,” Ale clutches Beerstein’s snaking body.

“What about her sir?” A soldier asks, “She appears uninfected.”

“I said kill them all,” His commander snaps.

The soldier raised her spear then suddenly starts coughing. The Pegasus throws up blood. Snakes started growing up out of the blood.

“Sir!” A soldier runs into the room. “Our men are coming down with the illness.”

“We need to get them to beds right away,” Ale told the commander.

“You’d help us?” The commander said shocked.

“I can’t watch ponies suffer and die no matter what they did,” Ale answers.

“Just then… a pink streak of light that was wondering the sky at the time turn it's direction…”

“The streak of light hits the cloud city… Ale was the epicenter of that impact…”

Ale found herself floating in a deep dark blackness. With in the blackness a voice calls out to her.

“Ale, I heard the kindness in your heart and I’ll grant your wish to save lives but with a price,” The voice tells the Bat Pony mare.

“What is your price?” Ale asks.

“I could heal the Pegasus or kill them and resurrect the Bat Ponies.” The voice answered.

A tear streams down Ale’s face. “The Bat Ponies!”

There was a another flash of light and Ale found herself standing where she was but all the sick Pegasus in the room not just them but all the Pegasus in the Pegasus City were alive again even the ones that turned into snakes.

“It’s a miracle,” Beerstein stands up out of bed and walks next to Ale.

“What happened here?” The commanding Pegasus looks around confused.

It was then that Ale realized she had a small sword at her hip. The mare absentmindedly pulls it from its sheath with her mouth.

The blade flashes shined light into Ale’s eye for a moment. After that moment the commanding Pegasus gets a blank look on his face.

“Are you okay?” Beerstein asks.

Ale looks around and all the Pegasus had that look. Suddenly they sink through the cloud floor.

Beerstein rushes for the sinking Pegasus commander but couldn’t reach him.

“But Pegasus only do that if they are dead?” Beerstien said in shock.

Ale had an even more shocked look on her face.

“I did this,” The mare mumbled.

“What,” Beerstein turns to see his love.

“Suddenly Ale clutches her chest… The mare’s heart beat became erratic as a piece of darkness penetrates it…”

“As the Bat Ponies… They were saved… But at cost of Lady Ale’s kindness and Pegasus lives…”

“Ale’s mind came back to now as a Bat Pony guard came running into the room…”

“Lord Beerstein, Earth Pony villagers have started walking off the cliff!” The Bat Pony shouts.

“What,” Beerstein said in a loud commanding voice.

Claymari smiles, “That’s my girl.”

Ale and Vanilla glare at the orange Earth Pony.

“They are being forced to jump one by one by some kind of magic,” The Bat Pony guard continued, “We dispatched men to patrol the under cloud for droppers but it’s putting considerable strain on our numbers specially since that group that went to the Daphne Inn never came back.”

“Well if I know my daughter she’s trying to draw you out,” Claymari told them.

“It’s working,” Beerstein walks out of the room.

“Yes, take Ester Song with you,” Ale adds.

“Down in the Castle dungeon…”

“You’re the real Beerstein?” Asrael remarks to the Bat Pony in the cell across from him.

“Yes,” He replied with a grunt, “The Beerstein you been seeing is really my brother. My wife been having an affair with him for years.”

“I’m not very interested in your hang ups,” Asrael snaps.

“Then you can stay then,” Doctor Beerstein’s cell door creek open. He walks over and lets Winkz out.

“Impressive,” Asrael opens his own door. “Nothing, I can’t so better.”

“Okay we need to stop Ale from sacrificing my daughter,” Doctor Beerstein told them.

“You go do that,” Asrael response, “I think my efforts are better put elsewhere.”

The ponies and Zerbra split ways.

“Outside the castle…”

An Earth Pony in a trance slowly walks toward the cliff at the edge of Hard Peak. The pony without flinching steps off the rocky face. He drops through the clouds where at the other end a Bat Pony catches the tranced pony.

At this point in time the Earth Pony’s trance is broken and he became aware of his surroundings. This did not make things easy for the Bat Pony trying to save his life.

Logger meets up with the Bat Pony as she puts down the cursing Earth Pony.

“Can you report?” Logger orders the Bat Pony mare.

“Things are hectic sir,” She replied.

“Well good work, Me and Ester Song will try to hunt out our enemy.” Logger told the underling.

“Please hurry,” The Bat Pony sighs before flying off.

Ester Song watched the trance Earth Pony walk down the street. She was assuming they must be nearby or have to have eye contact with her target.

The Snake Pony found the most likely house that the pony she was looking for could be in and snuck inside. Finding nothing she sneaks back out.

Ester Song had to dodge a spear strike as Honey Mead swung at her. The half snake pony had to quickly spin around and swing her tail.

Honey Mead stabs the end of her spear through the meat of Ester Song's tail. Ester did not like this and shrieked shaking off the Earth Pony from her spear. Then with a slam of her tail brakes the weapon leaving only it’s blade in her.

Honey Mead lunges for the small piece of hilt sticking out the Lamia Pony’s flesh. As she grabs it, Ester Song stomps her forehoove down on Honey Mead’s flank. Honey Mead yelps just as she grabs the spear head. With a swing of her neck, she makes a gash across Ester Song’s belly.

The Lamia holds her bleeding side and just as Honey Mead came in for another strike puts her hoof out.

“I yield!” Ester Song shouts.

“Fine, the jail is that way,” Honey Mead motions with her neck. “You’d get fix up there. Head anywhere else or show your face again and I’ll kill you.”

Ester Song nods her head and slithered off for the jail house. Honey Mead watched her long enough to see the Lamia had made it to her destination.

A moment later there was a loud crash. Logger had busted through one of the houses and with his bat fang mouth had taking Honey Mead up by the neck. Blood trickles down the Earth Pony’s chest.

Logger slams the unconscious Earth Pony to the ground.

“Well come out and fight me!” Logger shouts as he puts his hoof on Honey Mead’s neck.

“Leave her alone,” Philia steps out in the open with a nervous angry look on her face.

“Where are the others” Logger raises an eye.

“Back at the jail,” Philia answers, “They are too injured to fight.”

“I see, they should make easy picking then,” Logger smiles.

“You have to get through me first,” Philia snaps.

Logger gives a smile. His talisman activated. The next thing Philia knew that his hoof punched her stomach. The filly coughs up blood and kills over.

“Perfect,” Logger smirks at the mare rolled up into a ball.

“How about you fight somepony your own power level!”

Logger turns as a black thing with yellow glowing eyes slams into him.

Philia opens her eyes to see Asrael standing over her.

“Watch, I want you to see how weak you are,” Asrael smirks.

“What ever, gift horse and all,” Philia says at she weakly stands up.

“Back at the castle…”

Ale opens her eyes. “Beerstein.”

“I can’t let you do this,” Doctor Beerstein walks into the room.

“It’s too late!” Ale shouts.

Vanilla kicks a lever, the roof of the chamber falls open showing a star filled sky.

Ale tosses the Life Knife to Vanilla. Vanilla grabs the blade and holds it up to the sky. Her antenna glows white. Its glow covers the Life Knife. A moment later a blast of energy shoots up to the sky.

“No!” Beerstein lunges at Ale.

The Bat Pony dropkicks the buck. “You are weak.”

“You loved me once,” Beerstein replied with a wheeze.

“And it blackened my heart,” Ale replied.

Meanwhile, Winkz sneaks around and starts loosening Claymari’s bonds.

There was a loud roar that shook the building. A black blue starry wave splashes into the room. Vanilla screams as the dark energy sucks into the Franken pony's body.

Claymari’s bindings let loose and the pony dropped to the floor. She scans the room.

“I have your sword,” Winkz answers giving Claymari Crimson Bond.

Claymari takes the blade.

Vanilla screams as her body distorts. Ale turns and smiles at this. This gave Beerstein a chance to get away.

Vanilla suddenly explodes into a leviathan like creature. The direction of the explosion was aimed at Claymari. Beerstein pushes Claymari out of the way allowing the monster to swallow him up in one gulp.

The massive beast turns to Claymari and moves in for another attack. Claymari blocks the creature’s fangs with her sword and with her super strong Earth Pony power pushes the monster back.

“Outside the castle…”

“Asrael and Logger clash powers…”

The energy rickashay across the air as the force energy between the two ponies fire off. Philia puts Honey Mead around her shoulder and slowly moved out of the area as the powers destroy their surroundings. Then the ground shakes and with a bang a whole wall of the castle collapses.

This gave Asrael the chance he was looking for. The Zebra turns his back toward the Bat Pony. He folds and thrusted his wings backwards. Both points pierce Logger. With a flex of the artificial muscles. Asrael rips out his rib cage.

“Killed you twice,” Asrael smiles.

Asrael then turned and headed for the space monster.

Claymari was riding on the neck of the massive monster when Ale jumped at her. The Bat Pony’s wings sparks off of Claymari’s blade. The wings slide off and Ale with a spin the Life Knife in her mouth. She nicks Claymari’s foreleg.

Claymari takes a few steps back. Her leg turns blue and the mare cries out in pain. Ale moves in for a another strike when Asrael blocks the attack with his wing. The wing rots to bone.

“How about you take the easy one,” Asrael smirks.

“Easy one?” Claymari answers.

“The space monster,” Asrael rolls his eyes.

“Yeah, I’ll go work on that,” Claymari runs for the head of the monster.

Asrael turns back to Ale, “Now we should talk.”

“I have nothing to say to you Zebra,” Ale snaps taking a swing at Asrael.

“Oh, I’m talking to your blade not you.” Asrael smiles.

“Claymari searched the skull cap of the monster for a weak spot…”

It took Claymari a couple takes to see. At first she thought it was a horn but as strange as it was it appeared to be Ferngully’s antenna only calcified and much larger.

The monster breathes white flames onto the towns below. Claymari had to make her move now before some pony got hurt. The mare takes a calming breath before making a leap toward the monsterfied antenna.

“Sonic Sword Boom!” Claymari shouts releasing her attack point blank on the antenna. The four force of her sonic attack traveled through the antenna and down into the monster’s brain.

The space monster roars in pain. Claymari stabs her blade into the creature’s forelimb stopping her from plumitting to the ground. The pain in the monster head was causing it the fall.

“I know why you seeked out this mare!” Asrael shouts to the blade as he dodged Ale’s strikes.

“You have the ability to save lives!” Asrael shouts.

“Like you should talk,” Ale snaps.

“No, not save, trade, I trade lives,” The Life Knife replied in its mystical voice.

“Good, we are making progress,” Asrael remarks, “You can stop this. Stop this beast from killing.”

“She wants to stop the Zebra, start world peace,” Life Knife replied.

“Are there Zebra below us?” Asrael points at the white burning town.”

The Life Knife paused as the monster crashed into the side of the mountain.

“No,”

“When Claymari awakens… She was in the middle of a decaying rib cage…”

Claymari glances a look at the ribs. The meat was burning away cell by cell. On the other side of the opening Ale was dissolving in the same manner. Oddly Claymari thought she looked like a Zebra.

"I knew you were one of us," Asrael stood over her, "Preprogrammed to cause chaos and death with no knowledge of the truth."

The knife drops at Ale's feet. “You betrayed me you bitch!” Ale snaps as the last of her breaks away.

“Ferngully?” Claymari says as she walks up, “Does this mean that she’s dead.”

“Yes,” The magical voice answers. “There is enough life energy to save her but I need a wielder. One with kindness deep in their heart.”

“Who?” Claymari asks.

The blade of the knife moves pointing at a Bushwoolie who was climbing over the monster’s bones. Beyond the Bushwoolie stood Perfect Image.

“Why is everyone looking at me?” Perfect Image looked confused.

“Moments later…”

Perfect Image had her eyes closed. The Life Knife floats in front of her. It’s blade down toward the ground then drops embedding it’s self into the soil. There was a flash, Ferngully emerges from the ground.

After this event was done. Claymari and the others noticed that Asrael was gone.

“Three days later…”

“Perfect are you sure?” Zero asks.

“I’m not a traveler and fighter like you,” Perfect Image answers.

“And you have my castle to live in,” Ferngully smirks.

“Now are you sure you want to leave?” Zero asks the Bat Pony.

“You guys need a flyer on the team,” Ferngully points at Zero’s still injured wing. “Be sides I need some unicorns to teach me how to use magic.” She points at her antenna.

“Are we ready to go?” Claymari shouts back at her group.

“Give me a minute!” Philia shouts.

The unicorn blushes, and looks Perfect Image in the eye. She then kisses the mare deeply on the lips.

“Be seeing you sweetie,” Philia blushes.

“Did you know about this?” Zero whispers to Honey Mead.

“Are you implying something,” Honey Mead gives the buck a glare.

Zero looks at Knives.

“Not going there,” Knives shook his head.”

Petty Kitty snuggles against Zero. “Why should you care?”

“Yeah I shouldn’t,” Zero kisses the Cat Pony.

“Okay,” Claymari starts riding off causing the others to fallow. “Next stop Earth.”