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// The Mine, Flora and Orthros 
// Story: Glory of Applejack 
// by butterfield pancake 
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After Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Scootaloo reach the abandoned mine they see a small hole in the sealed gate small enough for a Filly to break through. Scootaloo suddenly smashes through the gate and tells our heroes to hurry up since Flora could be in danger.

Rarity then asks "What did they mine here anyway?" Scootaloo looks at Rarity and answers "Aye they used to a mine of taphus stone before it ran out."

The group enters the mine and Fluttershy notices that its quite bright due to the moonflowers petals glowing brightly. 

The group goes up  a a bit more up the path when they see something pink in the middle of the path.

Rarity "Is that some kind of plush toy?" Scootaloo answers "Aye I made this plush doll out of old sailcloth fer me darling Flora that clinches it she is somewhere in this mine. Scootaloo picks up the toy and puts it in her bag

They continue down the path  however there are tons of paths going to different locations in the mine. Scootaloo tells them to take the top route and go to the right all the way and continue downwards

However the party gets attacked by wave of Skeleton Ponies [Yeah Skeletons are one of the random enemies in the abandoned mine surprising though they are earth element so they are weak to wind/electric]

Fluttershy casts Byrn on one of them and the skeleton falls to pieces and its body starts to glow as yellow orbs escape its body and fly toward and get absorbed by Fluttershy.

Fluttershy "W-w-w-w-wha happened?" Rainbow Dash "Fluttershy you overkilled the skeleton awesome!" Rarity "Let me explain dearie when you overkill an enemy it turns into ether and its the same kind you get from the magic flowers in this case its the same as if you touched a magic yellow flower just as the colors mean the element so do monsters and some spells are more effective for example fire beats earth, water beats fire, earth beats electric and electric beats water and light element monsters are weak against darkness and vise versa."

After the battle the party each gain  a level and Fluttershy learns the battle skill basic Arts [Basic arts rush and attack an enemy with a flurry of slashes]

As soon as they pass the first set of stairs they attacked again but this time its these weird spore cloud ball  looking things

The party fails to kill them in 1 turn and the one who were defeated suddenly get back up

Fluttershy was confused "B-b-b-b-but we beat those ones how are they getting back up?" Rarity "Those enemies are weak against light attacks which we have none and they are also undead if all of them are not killed in 1 attack or overkilled they will literally revive themselves

After the battle the party obtains a Half-elixer

After they pass the second set of stairs our heroes see a lot of weird purple goo and past it is Flora surrounded by a bunch of monsters

Flora "Mommmmmmy Help!"

After the heroes defeat the monsters  a huge red two-headed hound called Orthros falls from the ceiling and growls

Orthros "GROOOOWWWWL!!"

Rarity "Scootaloo get Flora out of here we will be fine" Scootaloo rushes her and Flora out [Scootaloo has left the party

[Enter boss theme]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEHHtVcENA&feature=related]

[Boss vid to show the readers what the battle was like]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVd-a8ROPA