Cozy Glow was unconscious in the area the group was last at and before they escaped her. She suddenly started to slowly open her eyes as she groaned and got back onto her hooves. The filly look around and saw that Lightning Twister and the others were now gone. She got very angry.
“AAAHHHH!!” She shouted angrily, “Why must this always happen?! And why doesn’t Lightning see that ruling Equestria is his true destiny?! We were meant to be together, not with that orange dragon! He’s the Storm King! The grandson of The Storm King! But yet, he still chooses to be with Fluttershy and believe that “friendship is magic”. Ugh! Darkness is not gonna be happy again, and I bet he doesn’t have these kind of problems before.”
Suddenly, the voice of Darkness was heard as it made Cozy Glow jump in shock.
“Did you just talked with your mouth full?”
Cozy Glow looked around in fear. Just then, a dark corridor appeared in front of her as it disappeared to reveal Darkness while he said, “And it is rude to talk with your mouth full.”
“Darkness!” Cozy Glow began to shook nervously as she said, “W-What a lovely surprise! I was uh…about to return since I wasn’t able to see Twilight or any of those other goodies go by.” She laughed nervously while sweat started rolling down her face.
“Is that so?” Darkness crossed his arms, “Then why did I hear you talking about Lightning Twister still ignoring his true destiny and saying how you think I never have problems like before in the kind of words of you saying you’ve failed to capture the boy?”
“Well, I-I was uh…I was…” Cozy Glow knew she couldn’t fool Darkness with her lies, so she sighed in annoyance before grumpily saying, “Okay fine, you got me. I failed to capture him.”
“And didn’t I tell you not to use your powers after sending you to where you needed to be? Hmmm?”
“That wasn’t even my fault!” Cozy Glow shouted angrily, “They made me do it! And Lightning blamed me for what Sandbar and his friends did that got me kicked out of the school!”
Darkness furiously summoned a knife and angrily points it at the filly making her gasp in fear as her anger look turned into a scared one.
“And I would think twice, if I was you, before using that tone on me,” said Darkness angrily, “Don’t make me send you back where you were imprisoned.”
Cozy Glow knew he was on about the land that was unescapable and was the same place she was banished to, with Chrysalis and Lord Tirek, as she shook in fear while saying, “No! Please, please! Not the desert prison land!”
“Now don’t make this mistake again, and I may keep my promise of giving you the boy once I have his darkness,” said Darkness as he moved the knife away from the filly and made it disappear in a dark grasp.
“Yes, Mr Darkness sir,” said Cozy Glow in a scared tone, “I won’t do it again, Mr Darkness sir.”
“Good. And you better keep it that way, otherwise the deal is over. Now get back to the castle and wait for further instructions, and DON’T think about leaving till I say so!”
Darkness reached his left arm out to the left as a dark corridor opened near them. Cozy Glow did what she was told and walked towards the corridor, but she then stopped close to the corridor before turning to look at Darkness since he didn’t follow.
“Aren’t you coming back too?” She asked.
“Let’s just say I got a little business to sort out first,” answered Darkness, “Business that ONLY involves me.”
“Can I at least know what you’re planning?” Cozy Glow put on a cute face hoping that will get him to explain his business to her.
“No!” He shouted, making her jump in fear, “Now get back to the castle!”
“Okay!” Said Cozy Glow in fear as she zoomed into the corridor.
Once the dark corridor disappeared, Darkness crossed his arms behind his back while looking up ahead to where he knows where Lightning Twister and the others have ran off to.
“They can try and escape from me as much as they want,” he said to himself, “Little do they know, I’m also after another child that has the power I need. The power of anger. His father refused to accept it, but his son might. And the king’s enemies are what I need to help get those boys. But first, the king’s son.”
Darkness walked away to where the king and his son will be to begin feeding the child’s head with nightmares which will make things more difficult for both the king and the heroes from my point of view.
It was soon getting dark after Princess Luna raised the moon, and everyone was now in the tent which was strongly held on a sandy desert where the wind was slowly getting strong during the night. Luckily, Doctor Strange magically made the tent pegs strong enough to stick into the sand without being blown away by the wind.
“Wow, that wind’s getting stronger every second,” said Sonic.
“Guess that’s how the wind works during nighttime at deserts like this one,” said Tom.
“Ugh! Being in another desert remains me how we were all getting hot and sweaty in a desert being finding Klugetown!” Rarity winced causing Rainbow to roll her eyes in annoyance.
“And yet, you were still upset when you saw Klugetown didn’t have a spa there,” said Rainbow while grinning playfully as Twilight and Applejack giggled.
“Well, it was a horrible place filled with bad people, so I don’t argue about not having a lovely spa there.”
“Pfft…whatever.”
The six girls and Spike saw Fluttershy walking towards them.
“How’s Lightning doing?” Twilight asked.
“He was starting to get cold after we put the tent up,” answered Fluttershy, “So I placed over him to keep warm before dinner, but he is doing okay so far.”
“Good,” said Twilight with a happy smile.
“Do you think he’s going to be okay during the night?” Rainbow asked, “I’m worried the wind might turn into a storm if it gets too strong.”
“I’m worried about that too, Rainbow,” said Fluttershy, “Especially with the nightmares still happening. But I’m sure he’ll be okay during the night. Besides, he has us and his friends to help him get through the night.”
“That’s true,” said Rainbow with a smile.
“Speaking of which, what’s for dinner anyway?” Sunset asked, “I’m starting to get hungry.”
“Yeah, me too,” said Pinkie.
“Dumbledore and Celestia are making soup with homemade bread,” answered Twilight.
“What kind of soup?” Starlight asked.
“Tomato.”
“Am I aloud to have gems with my bread and tomato soup, Mom?” Spike asked politely.
Twilight smiled at her child and nodded her head in response which made Spike smile in happiness. The trio made their way to the dining room part of the tent to help set the table up ready for their meal.
In the bedroom part of the tent, the young seven were sitting on the floor and on the beds waiting for dinner to come. Gallus, Sandbar and Yona were playing cards, Ocellus was reading a book, Silverstream was hugging Lightning with the blanket wrapped around him to keep him warm, even though hippogriffs have very warm furs, and Smolder was turning the dial on the radio to listen to some good music.
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Smolder stopped turning the radio dial before placing her claw on her cheek and her elbow on her knee as she let out a sigh. She looked at her boyfriend who was still being hugged by their hippogriff friend. She saw that Lightning wasn’t feeling happy and had a worried expression on his face. She can tell he was getting more worried about the nightmares and how long it’ll take to get to the Tree of Life to end the nightmares and stop Darkness.
Smolder sadly looked at poor Lightning shivering from the cold and can’t stop worrying about the next upcoming nightmares that await him. She wanted to help her boyfriend feel happy again. The orange dragon then thought of an idea to help the colt stop feeling worried as she got up and flew towards Lightning and Silverstream.
Silverstream saw Smolder coming before Lightning saw her as well. Smolder looked at her boyfriend, while flying, as she reached her claw out to him. Lightning was confused by this, but took his girlfriend’s claw as she gently pulled him from the blanket and Silverstream’s arms. Silverstream smiled as she knew what the dragon was doing.
Lightning’s wings were still healing after Cold Wind broke them, but Smolder was holding him gently as she carefully brushed the colt’s mane from his eyes before holding his hoof again with her other claw holding him behind the back. They were about to dance to stop the worries.
The two moved side to side, while Smolder held on to Lightning gently without hurting his wings, as they spun around. Lightning moved away before pulling himself back to Smolder before moving side to side again.
While playing cards, Yona was the first one to see the two dancing before Sandbar and Gallus saw them as well. Ocellus was halfway through the book until she saw the colt and dragon dancing. The four smiled at the two as the three placed their cards and Ocellus closed her book as she placed it next to her.
Silverstream folded the blanket and placed it next to her before continuing to watch the two dance.
Lightning’s worries started to fade away as he slowly began to smile while still dancing with Smolder. They continued to move side to side before Smolder carefully made Lightning spin underneath her arm and continued to slowly move side to side again. The orange dragon was happy to see her boyfriend smiling again.
Lightning spun underneath Smolder’s arm again before placing the back of his head on the dragon’s shoulder as they moved side by side again.
Smolder slowly started float down to a bed that was right underneath. She slowly moved to where she was now floating down on her back as she carefully placed Lightning on her stomach. Smolder gently landed on the bed. She then placed her claws behind her head with Lightning laying on her stomach with his head resting on her chest.
The young five were amazed by the dance Lightning and Smolder did together, and also thought it was pretty sweet seeing them dance together.
That was so…sweet,” said Silverstream with a happy expression on her face.
“Yona and Sandbar should try that one day,” said Ocellus as she playfully grinned at the pony and yak. Sandbar and Yona smiled while blushing as Yona rubbed the head of her head.
“Do you feel better now, Braveheart?” Smolder asked.
“Yes,” answered Lightning quietly but enough for his girlfriend to hear.
“Good.”
Just then, Rainbow flew into the bedroom.
“Hey guys,” she said, “Princess Celestia says dinner’s ready.”
The young seven nodded their heads as they got up and followed Rainbow to the room where dinner was being held at. Smolder gently carried Lightning to the room.
As they entered the kitchen part of the tent, they all sat around the table and began eating the tomato soup and Celestia’s homemade bread. Discord, however, was sadly eating his soup rudely while glaring at the poor colt who was dipping his slice of bread into the soup before taking a bite. Celestia and Luna saw this as they stared diggers at him causing him flinch and made him look away from Lightning.
After dinner, they all went into the bedroom part of the tent and got into their beds and sleeping bags as Lightning snuggled closer to Smolder with Silverstream’s arms wrapped around them while Smolder’s arms are wrapped around the colt. Then, they all went straight to sleep as their journey continues in the morning.
By the time morning came and everyone had breakfast, they started to continue their journey. They made it past through the desert and past another dry path with a forest and a couple of rocks by it, and they were now in, for some unknown reason, an area that was filled with snow. And I mean like, snow everywhere.
“Sweet apples! How in tarnation is it snowy around here?” Applejack asked.
“It wasn’t me, in case anyone ask,” said Rainbow in hopes nobody thought it was her, “I swear.”
Suddenly, they all heard two bumps on the snow behind them. They turned and saw Sandbar and Lightning Twister laying in the snow while slowly breathing. Lightning started to take a rest from riding on backs and being carried and started doing some walking, which doesn’t seem to go well since he was tired from last night after another nightmare. As for Sandbar, he was tired from walking in the cold snow.
“Sweetheart, are you two okay?” Fluttershy asked worriedly.
“We’re tired, Momma,” answered Lightning with Sandbar nodding in agreement, “The bad dream woke me up and the snow is making us cold.”
“We don’t blame you, son,” said Capper.
“We can not stop,” said Terra, “We have to keep going if we’re going to stop this Darkness person and save Lightning from the nightmares.”
“As much as I hate to disagree, but Terra’s right. We have to keep going,” said Twilight.
“You’re right, Twi,” said Applejack, “We can’t stop just yet.”
“Yona and Silverstream carry friends?” Yona suggested with Silverstream nodding in agreement.
Sandbar smiled at Yona before saying, “It’s okay, Yona.” He slowly got back up on his hooves.
Lightning was struggling get back up until Silverstream gently picked up and carefully placed him on her back. The colt smiled at the pink hippogriff while saying, “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, cutie.”
Suddenly, as Oliver was about to continue the walk, he was hit on the chest by a ghostly force as he moved back a bit while letting out a groan in pain.
“Olive! Are you okay?” Asked Flurry in a worried tone as she rushed to her big brother’s aid.
“Ugh, I think so,” answered Oliver while rubbing his chest, “What was that?”
Vincent felt the ghostly force as it pushed him forward a bit from behind. “Ah! There it goes again!”
The ghostly force made a slap on the back of Donald’s head. “Ow!” He said while rubbing the back of his head, “What is going on?!”
Suddenly, a sound of a leopard growl was from a distance that was close enough for them all to hear. Lightning got scared and started to shake in fear while wrapping his hooves around Silverstream’s neck and hid behind her mane. Flurry quickly hid behind Oliver’s hooves and shook in fear.
“I think we have another company,” said Axel.
Just then, the ghostly force ended up a path, that wasn’t in snow and next to a big boulder, and was revealed to by a female snow leopard. A male leopard appeared from behind the right side of the boulder and a dark green Komodo dragon appeared from behind the left side of the boulder as they went to stand next to the snow leopard and stare at the group.
“Well well well, look what we have here,” said the male leopard, “We don’t get new visitors around here.”
“Who are you?” Ocellus asked.
“Name’s Makucha. And these are my friends, Chuluun and Ora.”
“A snow leopard,” said Twilight, “Of course.”
“Huh?” Rainbow asked in confusion.
“That’s how Oliver, Vincent and Donald felt that ghostly attack,” said Twilight as she started to explain, “Snow leopards have white fur just like the snow. They use the snow as their disguise to help them attack their prey.”
“That makes sense,” said Rainbow.
“So it was you who attacked us!” Said Donald angrily.
“Oh please,” said Chuluun while grinning, “I’m the ghost of this mountain, and I go by my own rules.”
“Ghost?!” Pinkie said in shock.
“Look, we don’t want any more trouble,” said Riku, “We’re just passing through. So we’ll leave you alone and by on our way.”
“Why the rush? We were just getting to know each other,” said Ora, “Plus, our meals have arrived.”
Goofy gulped nervously before whispering to Sora, “Gwarsh. And I thought the hyenas were worst.” Sora nodded in agreement.
“Now these will be interesting meals,” said Chuluun, “A bunch of weird looking apes for breakfast, a couple of strange animals for lunch and a group of children for dinner.”
“Weird looking apes?!” Axel said angrily.
“Well we’re not from their world, Axel,” said Roxas quietly, “It’s quite clear that they would think we’re apes since they don’t know what we really are.”
“Fair point,” said Axel.
“Forget the three day meals!” Said Ora, “Let’s eat them now! And I’m starting with the small one on the pink creature’s back!”
Lightning got even more scared after hearing that, and he knew he was talking about him. He shook even more as he held Silverstream’s mane tightly while whimpering in fear. Silverstream saw this and gently held Lightning’s hoof in comfort. “Shhh…shhh…” she softly whispered.
“Back off, Ora!” Chuluun said angrily, “That kid’s mine!”
Ora glared at Chuluun while saying, “I saw him first!”
“Well I’m more faster and can grab him before he can start running!”
“Are you saying that I’m slow at running and catching my prey?!” Ora felt that insulting.
“Well at least I don’t just bite my enemies so they won’t be able to catch me! That bite can get so annoying since you use it so many times already!”
“Take that back!”
Chuluun got closer to Ora’s face while saying, “Why don’t you make me?!”
“Enough, you two!” Makucha shouted angrily causing them to look at him, “We have enough to go round! And if you two really want to have them now, then fine. Let’s just hurry this along. We’ve got some revenge to seek.”
The group did not know what Makucha meant by revenge to seek, but they knew it was none of their business. So they decided to get involved with it and try to get away from the three as quickly as they could.
“I’m sorry, but we’re off the menus today,” said Oliver making the three stare at him, “So why don’t you three find the nearest exit, and leave us be?”
Makucha chuckled before saying, “You really think you can get off that easily?”
“Oh I do think we can, mate,” said Constantine as he made two gold grasp fire balls appear in his hands, “And let me warn you, you do not wanna mess with any of us.”
“Took those words right out my mouth, John,” said Rainbow with her fists ready to do some punching.
“Oh now this looks like a challenge I’ve been waiting my whole life for,” said Chuluun while grinning and getting ready to attack.
“Well I hope you’re prepared for this challenge, because this will be a challenge you won’t like!” Applejack said while scratching the snow with her hoof hardly ready to charge at the three.
“Especially from me!” Knuckles said as he bumped his fists together.
Makucha did a leopard growl while scratching the snow with his paw hardly. Chuluun and Ora got ready to start attacking the group. The young six glared at the three as they were ready to keep them away from Lightning Twister.
“Don’t worry, kid,” said Gallus, “We’ll protect you.”
“Get them!” Makucha ordered.
Chuluun and Ora charged towards the group with Makucha following behind. Twilight’s horn started to glow as she blasted a purple grasp beam at Chuluun which hit her and made her slide backwards on the snow. Ora jumped onto Doctor Strange and started trying to bite him while Strange grabbed hold of him and pulled him away from him as he tried to claw and bite him. Makucha tried to claw Sonic, but he kept on missing, because Sonic was too quick for him and kept zooming into different spots around the leopard.
Ora suddenly bite Strange’s right arm. “OW!” He shouted in pain as he threw the Komodo dragon on the ground making him slide on the snow on his claws. Doctor Strange looked at his arm checking to see if the bite will do any pain to his arm.
“Over here!” Sonic shouted before zooming off before Makucha could catch him. Sonic was now behind him as he said, “Nope, over here now!” Makucha tried to attack him, but Sonic zoomed off again and appeared on the right side of the leopard. “Here now!” Makucha turned to his right to see Sonic was not there as he was now on the left side of him. “Can’t keep up, can you?” Sonic zoomed off again before Makucha turned to his left.
Chuluun slowly got up while groaning in pain. She glared and growled at the purple alicorn before saying, “You will regret that!” The snow leopard charged towards the princess.
“Auntie Twily, look out!” Flurry Heart cried.
“Don’t worry, little bug,” said Twilight as her horn started to glow again, “I’ve got her.”
“Not this time!” Chuluun said while grinning.
Just as Twilight was about to blast her again, Chuluun jumped really high and landed on Twilight making her fall to her side and slid a bit on the snow while having her paw on her face so she couldn’t move.
“Auntie Twily!”
Twilight groaned while trying get back up and shove Chuluun off her, but it wasn’t any good. Chuluun was too strong for her to push off and her paw was pushing her deep in the snow for her to even continue trying to get her off.
“Mom!” Spike cried worriedly.
Chuluun was taken by surprised after hearing the baby dragon call Twilight “mom”. She looked at Spike in shock and said, “Mom? She’s your mother?!”
“Yes, I am!” Twilight now has the upper hoof and used her horn to make a purple grasp blast at Chuluun causing her to fall off her and slid on her side. Twilight got back on her hooves and glared at the snow leopard before saying, “And nothing is going to stop me being his mother!”
Chuluun got back on her paws while saying, “You don’t even look like what he is!”
“Are you now saying that he can’t call me his mother?” Twilight was so not happy from hearing Chuluun say both her and Spike don’t look the same as her horn started to glow again, “Because if you are…I don’t like those that think Spike can’t call me the one parent he wants in his life!”
Chuluun angrily growled at Twilight before disappearing in the snow so she can attack her easily without her seeing where she is now.
“Oh no you don’t!” Twilight said with gin as she used her magic to grab a bottle of water from one of the bags. She opened the bottle and threw the water out of it as the water landed on Chuluun’s ghostly appearance making it easy for Twilight to see her now.
“Ahh! Water?!”
“Gotcha!” Twilight used her magic to lift the snow leopard up from the snow.
“Hey! Wh-what’s going on?!” Chuluun was getting scared and worried by what was happening.
“Applejack, heads up!” Twilight threw Chuluun towards where Applejack was as the cowgirl saw the snow leopard flying towards her while screaming in terror since she hasn’t flew like this in a long time.
“Ah’m on it, Twi!” Apple turned round and bucked Chuluun in the face which made her fly backwards. She smacked her face on the big rock as she collapsed on the ground that wasn’t covered in it.
“Score!” Spike cheered which made Twilight giggle.
Makucha growled angrily while still trying to catch Sonic, but still wasn’t able to since he was too fast for him. “Grrrr! Hold still!”
Sonic stopped zooming around and stood in front of the leopard while saying, “Only if you say please.”
Makucha growled angry at the hedgehog as he lifted his paw up ready to claw Sonic. But as he swung his paw at Sonic, it went through him instead of clawing his face. Makucha was surprised by this. He had never seen anything like this happen before.
“Huh?” Makucha swung his paw at Sonic again, but it still went through the hedgehog. Sonic suddenly disappeared in a glitch style which made Makucha go into deep shock after seeing what he just saw.
“What?! What even was that?!”
“A hologram,” answered the voice of Tails. Makucha turned round and saw Tails behind him smirking at him while throwing and catching his hologram remote. “Bet you didn’t see that coming since none of this is around your area.”
“And I bet you didn’t know THIS was coming either!” Makucha turned and saw Knuckles pulling his fist back, as they sparked in red, and gave the leopard a big punch in the face which made fall to his right and slide on the face till he was close to the big rock.
“Ha! No match for us!” Knuckles said proudly.
“You are talking about me, you and Sonic, right?”
“Of course! Who else would I talking about?”
“Never mind,” replied Tails in annoyance.
Chuluun slowly got up while groaning before brushing the tiny rocks off her legs. She spotted the young seven and grinned evilly. The snow leopard suddenly jumped into the snowy area and disappeared into it. The young six were looking around making sure none of the three were on to them as Lightning continued to hide under Silverstream’s mane in fear.
“Keep an eye open, everycreature,” said Gallus, “We can’t let any of them hurt the kid.”
“Is he still doing okay?” Ocellus asked.
“I’ll check,” said Silverstream before looking behind her mane only to find Lightning wasn’t hiding behind her no more. She gasped in shock before worriedly saying, “He’s gone!”
“What?!” The young five said in shock.
“Help me!” Cried the voice of Lightning.
The young six turned to the boulder, where Lightning’s voice was coming from, as they gasped in shock to what they were seeing. It was Chuluun holding onto Lightning, by his bandaged wings, on top of the big rock as the colt tried ti break free from her paw, but it wasn’t any good. And worst of all, the hold on his poor wings was hurting him even more.
“Looks like I get you as my meal after all!” Chuluun said before licking her lips making Lightning even more scared than before.
“Lightning!” Fluttershy cried after seeing her son caught by the snow leopard. She glared at her while saying, “Put him down!”
“Oh I’ll put him down,” said the evil snow leopard with a grin, “Down my MOUTH!”
Chuluun lifted Lightning up and opened her mouth as she slowly lowered the colt towards her jaw. Lightning started to scream and cry for help even more while struggling get away from Chuluun’s open mouth. Fluttershy gasped in shock and worriedly, not knowing what was going to happen next. However, just as the colt was almost inside the mouth, a snowball, or rather a snowball with a rock in it, hit Chuluun in the face.
“Ow!” She shouted while pulling Lightning away from her mouth. She then saw the rock, from the snowball, fall to the ground and land next to the snowy area around the boulder.
“Was that a rock?!” Chuluun was angry after seeing that she was hit by a rock from inside a snowball. She started to angrily look around to see who threw it. “Who threw a rock at me?!”
The snow leopard suddenly saw an orange dragon glaring angrily at her while crushing the snow together with her claws to make another snowball that has a rock it.
“Get…your paws…off…my…BOYFRIEND!!!”
Smolder angrily threw the rock snowball at Chuluun making it the strongest throw she has ever done.
“Boyfriend?! He’s your…” Before Chuluun could even finish, the rock snowball hit her in the face which caused her to drop Lightning. And because his wings were still bandaged up, he was unable to fly and stop his fall. Fluttershy gasped in shock while running quickly to catch her falling baby boy.
“MOMMA!” Lightning cried while falling to the ground of snow.
Fluttershy took a big jump while reaching her hooves out and caught Lightning in her hooves before landing and sliding on the snow till they were near the trees by the snowy area. Fluttershy turned over to lay on her back as she gently hugged her son without hurting his wings. Lightning shook in fear while hugging his mother and laying his head on her chest.
“I’ve got you, baby. Shhhh…I’ve got you.”
Chuluun rubbed the cheek, from where the second rock snowball hit her, as she glared and growled angrily at the orange dragon before saying, “You are so going to regret that!”
Chuluun jumped off the big rock and jumped on the snow, and was about to go attack Smolder till she was stopped by Oliver jumping in front of her. He reached his hoof out as it turned into an inky hand and stretched forward to grab Chuluun by the neck and push her to the big rock. “I don’t quite think so.”
Chuluun struggled to break free from the inky hand, but it was too strong for her to even claw herself out of it. She started to get scared as she looked at Oliver while saying, “What…what are you?”
Oliver grinned before saying, “We…” His body started turning into ink with his hooves transforming into inky legs and another inky arm, his tail shrinking into the ink form, a white glove appearing on the right hand, a white bowtie appearing on the inky chest and his head lastly turning into an inky head with two tiny inky and pointy ears as the ink covered the eyes and a huge smile appeared on the inky face with his voice now sounding like an inky demon voice, “…are Bendy.”
Chuluun started to shudder in fear as she’s never seen anyone do that before, and the Ink Demon was the scariest creature she’s ever seen before in her life. The Ink Demon growled while staring closely to the snow leopard. He then let out a roar which made Chuluun shake even more as well as Makucha and Ora as they saw the Ink Demon too.
The Ink Demon threw Chuluun to where Makucha and Ora are as she bumped into them and the three of them bumped into a rock wall. That made some of the snow fall off the edge and land on them which covered them while also trapping them in a pile of snow as they were now unconscious.
The Ink Demon slowly melted back to Oliver’s original form. “Ugh, I sometimes hate it when I roar like that.”
“Is everyone okay?” Newt asked.
“Yeah, we’re okay,” answered Fluttershy while carrying Lightning in her hoof.
“This adventure just keeps getting more difficult as we go,” said Sunburst, “First, Celestia encounters a new enemy that we now know is behind the nightmares. Second, we encounter old faces and new threats from other worlds. Next, we encounter Cozy Glow for the third time! And now, we faced three new villains that must be the enemies from the Tree of Life!”
“I agree,” said Starlight, “So far, it’s been old and new villains every time we continue on. I hope we don’t encounter anymore old faces.”
“Me too,” agreed Roxas hoping that Xemnas isn’t back either.
“Come, my friends,” said Princess Luna, “We must continue on before sundown. And it probably won’t take those three long before they get out of that snow pile.”
Everyone nodded their heads and began to continue their journey through the snow to the rest of the path to the Tree of Life. Fluttershy decided to let Lightning rest on her back as she gently placed him on her back. The little colt rest his head on the back of his mother’s neck. Fluttershy started to walk with her friends and continued on the journey.
However, once they were all out of sight, the big snow pile started to move a bit. Suddenly, Chuluun popped her head from the snow as she crawled her way out of the snow followed by Makucha and Ora. They all stood by the now destroyed snow pile and glared at the group that were now out of sight.
Ora growled angrily before saying, “Just lost them!”
“This is all your fault, Ora!” Chuluun shouted.
“My fault?! I wasn’t the one who tried to eat the little one when there were others to deal with first!”
“Well you’re the one who didn’t even try attack anyone else after being thrown away!”
“You would have done the same!”
“No, I wouldn’t!”
“Enough, you two!” Makucha growled, getting the two’s attention, before glaring at the path the group took, “We shall follow them. They can’t get away that easily.”
But just as they were about to follow them, they were quickly stopped by a male voice, “I wouldn’t do that.”
The three turned and saw Darkness standing near them. “They will be having a lot of protection by the time you reach them.”
“Who are you? And what do you want?” Asked Ora.
“My name is no important right now. But you may call me Darkness. And I have something you three might be interested in.”
Chuluun was the first to feel concern about Darkness as she then said, “And what’s that?”
“It’s not them you want revenge on, you want revenge on the lion who is now king of the Tree of Life.” Darkness points to the right where the group was heading. “That’s where they’re going, and I’m following them. They have a colt that I’m after. And that lion has someone that I’m after as well.” He stops pointing and lowers his hand down. “If you help me get what I’m after, I can help you get revenge on the king. And so much more.”
The trio grinned as they like the sound of that offer. Makucha took a few steps forward before saying in response to the offer, “Lead the way.”
Darkness stepped aside while crossing his hands behind his back as a dark corridor appeared. The trio walked into the corridor with Darkness following behind them. The dark corridor disappeared out of sight.