The Adventures of the Elementals

by AutoKnight01

Into the Wild White Yonder

Alright people here we go. The elemental ponies are the only things I own here. MLP: FiM belongs to Hasbro and da Faust. Enjoy!

*Ponyville; Golden Oaks Library; 7:30 AM*

The moment Twilight exited her dream that she conjured up in her mind, she mumbled like anypony normally would, partly because she was tired and didn't want to get up, and partly because she liked the dream she was having and didn't want it to end just yet. Either way, she knew there was work to be done in the library today and she and Pyro had to get right to it. She threw the covers off and shivered at the chill the morning gave off.

It took her ten more seconds to realize that there shouldn't even be a chill.

She shivered again and then took one of the blankets off her bed to wrap it around her body. Once she felt warm enough she looked outside the door in her room that led to the outside balcony. Pyro and Cadence were already out there. Twilight opened up the door to speak to them.

"Hey what's going on out here?"

She didn't get any answer. Neither of the ponies she addressed didn't even move their heads to look at her.

"Cadence? Pyro? What's wrong?"

This time she got an answer. Cadence turned her head to look at the young mare and what Twilight saw was an expression that was mixed with confusion, fear, and a smidge of anger.

"Twilight....we have a problem."

"A big problem." Pyro added without moving

The first moment she stepped outside, Twilight shivered again and tightened the blanket around her. Then she stood in between Cadence and Pyro to look at what they were. It was kind of easy to spot. Her jaw dropped and her eyes widened at the sight.

"....What?"

All of Ponyville was covered in a blanket of snow and the sky was full of grey clouds that seemed to go on forever. Almost every door of every building and house in town was blocked by the white slush. Most doors opened inwards so when the doors first opened up, a pile of snow came rushing in and there was a mess to clean up. For the few ponies whose doors opened outwards, they didn't have much better luck. They couldn't even open up their doors at all because of all the snow piling up against it.

Twilight stood there dumbfounded then took a look at the calendar. It was only the middle of October. She knew for a fact the weather team didn't schedule snow for at least late November at the earliest.

"I....I knew sensed something but I never thought for the life of me it was this!" Pyro exclaimed.

Twilight shifted her line of sight from the snow to her partner.

"This is what you sensed?" she almost shouted. "Why didn't you warn us?"

"I told you last night. I wasn't sure what it was what I sensed. By the time I figured it out, it was too late." He replied.

She hated to admit he had a point because she wanted to keep yelling. She was so confused and aggravated she felt she needed to yell to get herself back under control again. However she soon calculated that yelling wouldn't help as much to get rid of the snow. So she just took a few deep breaths to calm herself down as best she could.

"Please tell me random blizzards in early autumn are normal for this town." Pyro pleaded.

"Sorry, Pyro. No such luck." Twilight answered. "I don't know what could have caused this."

"Well there are a number of possibilities." Pyro responded. "Perhaps something went wrong in the weather planning here?"

"If that is the case, then Rainbow Dash needs to be informed of this now." Cadence suggested. "Pyro, let's head for her house."

"Right behind ya."

Cadence took off with her wings spread then Pyro turned to Twilight.

"Go find the others and make sure they are alright." He instructed.

"On it." She confidently replied.

The red unicorn nodded and jumped off the balcony to fall halfway down the tree before his four hooves lit up in flames and he took to the sky after Cadence. As he got farther away, Twilight headed back inside and threw the blanket off her body so she could put on some warm clothes for the unexpected chilly weather. A bright purple jacket, a white and pink striped scarf, and four yellow boots later and Twilight was out the door rushing to the nearest house that belonged to one of her friends. She decided to check on Fluttershy first.

She ran as fast as she could but the terrain made her go a tad slower with all the sinking her hooves did in the snow. But in a matter of minutes, she saw Fluttershy's house in the distance and the blonde maned Alamantian she was housing was outside doing her best to clear the area around the house free of snow with her aerokinesis.

Typhoon was dressed in nothing but a simple yellow scarf she borrowed from Fluttershy and made sure to keep her bare hooves off the snow so she stayed hovering in the air. When Twilight got within speaking range, Typhoon spun around once and waved her front hooves up creating a swirling orb of wind that blew away some of the snow but captured a good chunk of it inside. She then gave a push and sent the sphere away from the house before it dissipated.

"Fluttershy ees eenside, Twilight." Typhoon addressed the unicorn telepathically detecting her presence.

"I know. But this is all just weird. I'm sure you sensed this happening like Pyro did." Twilight replied.

That got Typhoon's attention. She turned around in the air and looked down at the unicorn with interest.

"What do you mean, 'sensed like Pyro?'" she asked.

Twilight found it odd right there that Typhoon didn't have a clue what she was talking about.

"Well, last night before I went to bed, Pyro was looking out the window and told me that he sensed something. Turns out it was this." Twilight answered. "Are you telling me you didn't sense it either?"

"No. Not at all. Somehow zis storm evaded my telepathy." Typhoon sounded a bit upset not knowing beforehoof this would happen.

Twilight's brain was running in all sorts of directions trying to figure this out. Somehow her partner was able to detect something was amiss last night, and yet Typhoon, the pony who could invade anypony's mind without them even knowing it, didn't have a clue. The puzzle pieces only seemed to get farther apart and change shapes whenever they felt like it.

Remembering why she was there in the first place, Twilight headed for the front door of Fluttershy's cottage with Typhoon trailing her. When the front door was opened, the two of them saw that the entire house was filled to the brim with Fluttershy's animal friends who were all huddled in to escape from the storm. Most of them were panicking and the yellow pegasus herself was trying her best to keep them all as calm as possible.

"Oh um...please just...everyone stay calm....it's just a little snow....in the middle of October. Oh what is going on?!" she cried to herself.

"We're gonna find that out one way or the other, Fluttershy." Twilight said making her presence known to the owner of the cottage.

She looked and rushed over to her and Typhoon in a split second.

"Twilight! Oh thank goodness. I need Pyro's help to get some of the snow clear of my house.

Twilight gave an awkward smile and rubbed the back of her head as she chuckled nervously.

"Um....about that." She started. "Pyro....isn't here with me."

That seemed to get Fluttershy even more worried.

"Then what are we going to do about all this snow?" she begged for an answer.

"I don't know, Fluttershy. I just don't know. But we need to get out of here and talk with all the others so we can figure out some shred of a plan."

"But what about Agua?" That question came from Bobo who's tank was up against the wall. "What if the storm got to where he's at?"

Twilight looked over to the clam feeling a bit odd talking to him.

"Don't worry, Bobo. From what I could tell on my way over here, only Ponyville is affected. I'm sure Agua is fine."

"I sure hope so. I don't wanna be a lone clam."

"You aren't going to be a lone clam, Bobo." Typhoon assured the creature. "Even if Agua was trapped een zis storm, he's too stubborn to let eet kill heem."

"I guess..." It did little to ease his mind but it was going to have to do for now.

Fluttershy told her animal friends to behave and stay warm while she was out. Then she threw on her warmest winter outfit and lent Typhoon a spare set of boots, a jacket, and a scarf. With all of them ready for the snow, they were off back to town.

When they got there, they saw a lot of the ponies of the town outside and very angry. The weather team was getting their ears howled into by angry ponies blaming them for the weather. Twilight, Typhoon, and Fluttershy all felt sorry for the poor pegasi for having to put up with the loud voices of the angry confused citizens. They had to figure out what was happening fast before the town tore itself apart in anger, confusion, and fear.

The three of them decided asking Rainbow Dash about it might be a good place to start. That way they would at least be able to determine if this was really the weather team's fault or not. On their way there though, they ran into their orange farmer friend and the yellow mare that swore to protect her. Terra was just trying to keep Applejack calm but that didn't seem to be going very well.

"Twilight?! Where is she?! I got a bone to pick with her!" She yelled.

"What is it, Applejack?" Twilight asked not sure who she was talking about.

"What is it? What it is Twilight, is a dang blizzard! It's freezin' over mah entire crop! Now where is Rainbow Dash?! Ah gotta knock some sense into her and that blasted pea-brained weather team o'hers!"

"Try to calm yourself, Applejack." Typhoon calmly said. "At ze moment, we are not sure zat ze weather team ees to blame for zis blizzard."

"Well then who or what else could it possibly be?!" the farm mare shouted frustrated enough as it was.

"We're never gonna find that out with you yelling. Just calm down, Jackie."

She growled a few more times in her breaths before she seemed to release her anger and stood up straight with as close of a relaxed face as she could get.

"Alright. Ah'm calm. Ah'm just mad because now mah entire orchard is probably ruined. Ah was only able to get a few good apples off the trees. The rest of em' are spoiled." She gestured to the saddlebags on her back that was filled to the brim with red apples.

Right after she said that, she received a snowball right to the side of her head, as did all the others standing near her. Once they all shook off the snow, they looked in the direction the orbs were thrown and saw they were courtesy of none other than Pinkie Pie.

"How awesome is this?!" She cried as she rolled in the snow.

"Pinkie Pie, this is not awesome. It's....freaky." Twilight replied.

"Yeah, no kidding."

That third voice was the pegasus nearly everypony in town was looking for at the time. Rainbow Dash landed in the snow with Cadence next to her and Gem running up by her side.

"I've spoken with every single pegasus on the weather team. No one will fess up to causing this." She said a bit cross. "Aaaahhhhh! Why is this happening?!"

"We'll figure it out, Rainbow. Just try to stay calm." Twilight said right before she noticed something. "Where's Pyro?" She turned to Cadence to ask that.

The pink alicorn of love pointed to the right.

"He’s over there with Cryo trying to clear the streets."

Indeed they were. The brothers of fire and ice were doing everything they possibly could to get the streets at least down to a level to walk on safely. The blanket of snow that covered the town wasn't exactly a smooth one. It was a tad high and was very coarse in texture if looked at from a high aerial view, so they were doing what they could to at least make it look presentable. It would take too much strength and power that neither of them possessed to get rid of it entirely. Pyro used his fire power to simply burn and melt the snow in the streets away until it looked like a plow went through it and groomed it. Cryo was giving his muscles a work out as he simply picked up the ice and moved it into a bigger pile so Pyro could burn it down into nothing but a steaming puddle.

Their cleanup work did little to ease the minds of the citizens, but it didn't stop them. Too many ponies were trapped in their homes and panicking so the two stallions made getting them free their first priority. At the end of one road with houses on both sides and all of the doors blocked by snow, Cryo stood there bipedal and wearing no sort of winter clothing whatsoever. With his body keeping him cold from the inside, he didn't need it.

He threw out his arms to the side and the snow seemed to crack right in front of him going horizontally. Then he gave a push forward and the snow seemed to roll up like a paper rolling into a scroll. With a lot of heavy pushing and straining muscles, Cryo began to roll up the snow in the street like a newspaper. Luckily for him he chose a shorter street than the rest to try this trick on. It seemed to work but moving that much snow at one time took a lot out of him in too short of time. But he managed to reach the end of the street and the doors of that street were finally able to open. Cryo turned back and the street was clear of most of the snow, but now the snow he had moved was all clumped together in one big cylinder that he couldn't even move if he put all his strength into it.

"Yo Pyro! Got another one for ya!" He called.

As if on cue, Pyro came flying in from above one of the house and landed beside his brother and gazed upon the giant snow cylinder.

"I got this."

At first it didn't seem like Pyro did much. All he did was run up to the cylinder and punch it in his biped form. But the ponies watching soon saw the giant stack of snow he stuck his hoof into grow smaller. That's when they realized what he was doing. He was melting it from the inside my sending an abundant amount of heat into the center of it. The water it melted into stayed hot enough to not freeze up back into a big clump of ice until it flowed far away enough to where nopony would slip over it. Shortly, the snow stack had completely melted and Pyro took off the ground again hovering in front of Cryo.

"Keep going, brother. We've almost got the streets clear." He said before he took off over the line of houses and vanished.

"Easy for you to say." Cryo huffed not caring Pyro didn't hear him. "All you do is shoot at it. I actually have to MOVE it."

He took another breath, stretched out a bit, and went off to get another street clear. While he made his way there, he ran into Vinyl Scratch and she began to trot next to him. Since they both had an interest in music, not to mention the fact that he was dating her best friend, they actually found it easy to strike up conversation. But now was not one of the times.

"Sup, Cryo?! How's it hanging?" She greeted the stallion unusually chipper than most of the ponies.

"Uh...not so well right now, Vinyl." He honestly said.

Vinyl didn't like the sound of that and immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was relationship troubles.

"What? Aw come on, Cryo! Don't be like that! I mean sure, Octy can be kinda wound up sometimes but she's a good pony! So she plays slow and boring cello music that no one moves to. It's no reason to have a spat with her. Or is it because of that odd habit she has where she counts how many strokes she takes when she washes herself with soap in the shower? Because if it is..."

"Vinyl!" Cryo finally raised his voice to stop her. "As.....interested as I may be now to know what you are talking about with that shower thing, let me just tell you right now that nothing is wrong with me and Octavia. She and I are perfectly and one hundred percent okay."

"Oh...." her puzzled look was a sight to behold. "Then.....why is it not hanging so well?"

"Maybe it has something to do with the freak blizzard and all the snow around you." Cry replied.

That moment was when Vinyl pulled her dark shades out of the way of her eyes and saw all the ground was indeed white like he said it was.

"Oh. Well how about that? It snowed." She chirped.

"You're telling me you noticed that JUST NOW?" Cryo asked not really believing it.

"Eh, the shades make everything look different." The DJ pointed to her trademark sunglasses. "So what made it snow? Weather team buck up big time or something?"

"That's pretty much the million bit question, Vinyl." Cryo stopped walked when he found himself in front of another snow filled street and stood in his biped stance again. "Now if you will please excuse me, I have streets to clear."

With a few strokes of his hoof, the snow began to come off the streets and lay on the ground away from it. Vinyl shrugged and walked away back to her house. Along the way she spotted Pyro trying to figure out how to clear his own street in front of him without the aid of his icy brother.

"Hmm...I suppose I could just burn it off one chunk at a time." He suggested to himself.

"PYRO!"

That was the shriek of a female's voice. It wasn't one of his friends but it was a voice Pyro found familiar. He turned to one the closest house on the right and saw that it was the flower shop. And one of the three girls living there was having a hard time opening her door.

"Huh? Rose!"

"Pyro, what's going on?! Why can't I open my door? Why is there snow everywhere?!"

"Just close the door and stand back. I'll get you all out!"

After he shouted, Rose did as she was told and closed the door while Pyro thought up a new tactic for clearing the snow from this street. He stood bipedal and closed his eyes as he slowly raised up his two front hooves now sparking embers off them.

He took a small leap forward and with a cry of strength from his lungs, he threw his front hooves forward and launched a giant stream of fire down the length of the street. After a few more seconds and letting the flames gush out of his arms, Pyro retracted them ceasing the flow of fire. He then looked upon his work. It wasn't enough to make the snow entirely melt, but it did melt enough to the point where it looked like a groomed street again. Steam rose up in a few areas of the road still hot from the burn. And without all that snow blocking the doors, they could all be opened up easily allowing the citizens to be released outside, although at the moment they were all totally clueless as to where it was safer to be right now. Inside or outside?

It was a good question that none of them, not even the elements themselves could seem to answer, as none of them knowing what the cause of this was. Overnight snow of this magnitude was nothing short of abnormal. The reason why it was all happening had to be discovered quick if there was to be any hope of saving the town from being buried in a blanket of white.

Rose gave her door another push and this time it was able to open with no wall of snow to block it. As it opened, her front porch was cleared of most of the snow and she looked around for Pyro. But he was already gone to find more snow to clear. She threw on a red jacket and some boots and headed out in search of him despite her sisters' tries to make her stay.

Over with the others, they were still standing in the same place trying to figure this whole thing out which still was as easy as it had been so far.

"A sudden change in the temperature such as this is highly unlikely anywhere in the world. So what could possibly possess this kind of power?" Gem wondered.

That was the question of the day it seemed. And no matter how many times it got asked, they seemed to get nowhere near closer to solving that mystery. While the girls thought, Pyro and Cryo made their way by doing their best to plow the streets free of most if not all snow.

"What I want to know is how only those two could sense it while the rest of you couldn't." Rainbow said to the elemental mares

"It must be because of their bodies." Twilight was the one who theorized first. "Out of all of them, fire and ice are the most temperature sensitive. I suppose if any of us were to sense something about the climate had changed, they would be the first to know."

It did make sense and it did seem like the logical explanation for it. But it didn't help them answer the questions that really needed to be answered. Where was this blizzard coming from, what was giving it its power, and how were they supposed to stop it?

Pyro and Cryo walked up to them finally clearing enough of the town of snow so ponies could walk around again. They were breathing heavily, a tad worn from all the work they just did.

"Maybe if I can fly up past the clouds, we'll see where this storm is coming from." Rainbow wasted no time and headed straight for the sky.

"I'm goin' too." Pyro stood bipedal and leapt off the ground with his fiery hooves pushing higher.

It seemed like a good plan. Above the clouds, Rainbow and Pyro would get a better view of anything and there for possibly see what was making all this happen. As the two ponies got higher and closer to the clouds, the others in the group stayed on the ground and kept their eyes on them. Finally it seemed that the pair got to the clouds. But soon they found something was definitely wrong.

Pyro and Rainbow Dash never breached the clouds. As soon as they touched them, lightning poured out of the clouds and funneled into both of their bodies causing them to yell out in pain. Down below, they were starting to fear for the safety of the two up there. Then their fear turned into panic when they saw them fall out of the sky.

"RAINBOW DASH! NO!" Gem cried.

"PYRO, PULL UP!" Terra screamed next to her sister.

There wasn't anything else that could be done about it. A few seconds later, the lightning stopped zapping the two ponies and they began to fall too weak to try flying at the moment. Before Typhoon and Fluttershy could take off to catch them, Cryo ran forward on all fours then converted to a bipedal motion partway there. He then took a small leap forward and moved his two front hooves in a strong upwards motion.

The snow not far in front of him rose up quickly and abruptly almost as if something had exploded underneath it. It continued to rise and swirl around until it reached the height of town hall. The was when the stallion of ice made the snow stay in its place for her had formed a giant spiral slide that caught both his brother and the rainbow maned pegasus. The two of them reached the bottom in less than a minute and landed in the snow with Rainbow Dash lying on top of Pyro. Standing on all fours again, Cryo waved his hoof and the slide he made disintegrated all into single flakes. He then went over to the dazed flyers and helped them stand up as the others joined him by his side.

"What in tarnation happened ta you two up there?" Applejack asked.

"I...I don't know." Rainbow replied while she rubbed her aching head. "The clouds just zapped us with lightning. Snow clouds aren't supposed to have lightning in them."

"Which means this storm is without a doubt not the work of a weather pony, but something big and very powerful." Pyro added with a crack of his back.

Suddenly the stallion of fire met the green eyes of the girl he shared breakfast with a while back ago. Rose pushed her way through and gazed upon him with a concerned look.

"I saw you fall. Are you alright?" she asked.

"For the most part." He replied. "What about you? Are you and your sisters okay?" Pyro asked.

"Yeah we're fine but I think we should probably head inside now." Rose suggested.

"Why is that?" Terra wondered.

"Well uh....it's just......um....." The red maned earth pony didn't want to voice her reason but it didn't stop her. "Some ponies are starting to think he did this."

As she said that, her hoof pointed to Cryo who was taken aback by the accusation.

"You don't honestly believe that I would do something like this. Do you?"

"No, of course I don't. But I heard some other pegasi from the weather team say they think you lost control of your powers and this blizzard is the result."

"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "There's no way this is Cryo's fault!"

"Tell that to my sisters." Rose shamefully said. "Look, ponies are really freaked out and scared. I think that's why they are blaming him."

"That's a really crappy reason to blame him if you ask me." Terra stated the obvious.

"Crappy or not, let's get eenside before a mob comes for heem or something." Typhoon suggested.

A good idea it was. Plus it was warmer inside any building than it was outside in the snow. All of them, including Rose, headed for the nearest one. Sugarcube Corner. After they were all inside, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were brought up to speed and then once again, discussing the storm itself came up. Gem rubbed her chin as she looked out the window and up to the clouds.

"Okay. First let's establish what we already know here." She began. "This snowstorm isn't natural which means something is forcing a change in the climate here."

"And it can't be coming from within the town, otherwise Cryo and I probably would have been able to sense it much sooner than we did." Pyro added.

"The weather team isn't to blame for it." Twilight also pointed out.

"And those clouds are packing a punch." Rainbow finished. "So......what do we do?"

"We find out where the cause of this storm is, and we take it out." Terra replied.

"And just how are we supposed to do that, Terra? It's not like we can just ask the snow what's makin' it fall." Applejack argued still stern about her orchard.

It was a long shot but it was the only theory Twilight could think of. She turned to the stallion of ice.

"Cryo, do you think you can track where the source of this storm is?" she asked.

"Well....I can try." He answered unsure.

He took a step outside and dug his hoof into the snow. If it was on the ground here, then chances are it was spread across most of the area surrounding Ponyville as well. He started to use his cryokinesis to get a lay of how much snow there was and where it seemed to get larger in amount. After a few minutes, he seemed to get a lock and he opened his eyes. He dashed upstairs in the bakery.

"Cryo! Wait!" Pinkie called after him.

Everypony followed him to Pinkie's bedroom and he went to the window.

"There! It's coming from up there!"

His cyan tipped hoof was pointing straight out the window and a tad upwards. It was barely visible but they all could make out the shape of a mountain just beyond the Whitetail Woods.

"Mount Blackmane." Cadence gasped at the sight. "The tallest mountain in Equestria."

"Not counting the one Canterlot is built into." Twilight added. "If there was ever to be a hidden source for a freak blizzard, that DOES seem like the logical place to put it."

"Why's that?" Terra asked curious.

"It's simple." Gem replied. "The higher the source, the bigger a radius of ground it can cover."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we have to get up there to see what the source is." Rainbow Dash was eager to get flying.

However there was a number of things the cyan pegasus had not considered.

"Hold your horses, pardner." Applejack made her calm down. "The snow is comin' down pretty hard and it seems to be extremely intense near the mountain. There's no way we'd be able to get all the way up there. You'd have to be a walkin' snowpony to do that."

"Well then it's a good thing we have one of those, Jackie."

Terra pointed her hoof to the pony whose cutie mark stood for ice itself. Cryo was the obvious choice and he of course saw no way out of it. He then examined the mountain and how harder the storm was near it then it was away from it.

"My guess is the closer to the source you are, the worse the blizzard is." Cryo theorized. "I'm not gonna be able to teleport up there without seeing where I'm going. The best I'll be able to manage is starting at the base of the mountain and walking up it."

"WHAT?!" Rainbow shouted and stood in front of Cryo's face. "You're supposed to be one of the more reasonable elements here! You can't walk through that blizzard!"

"My body is built to withstand extreme cold like this. I'm the only one here who actually CAN walk through it."

"I sure as hell can't go. I'd only be able to keep my body heat sustained for so long until I start to succumb to the frost." Pyro added.

"Alright, then. We have a game plan." Twilight said. "Cryo's gonna brave the storm and hike up Mount Blackmane to find out what's making all of this happen. And while he's doing that, the rest of us will stay here and try to keep Ponyville from having an all out panic attack." She then spoke to Cryo directly. "Walking up the entire mountain should take at least three days at minimum. You'll need to move as fast as you can."

"As fast as my hooves will allow me." Cryo nodded. "I should get going then."

Not long after he said that, a party blower extended into one of his ears and oddly out the other. Then he looked and saw the pony who blew on it all dressed in snow attire. A jacket, boots, scarf, hat, pants, and even pink ski goggles. For accessory, there were a few balloons tied around her waist.

"Alllllllright! Let's get going, Cryo! I'm all set!"

The reactions she got to her enthusiasm to go were not the ones Pinkie were expecting, especially from Cryo. He looked at her with a serious face and flatly told her the opposite.

"Sorry, Pinkie. But like the others, you're sitting this one out. I'm going alone."

The balloons tied to her deflated as the pink mare frowned.

"Alone? But.....but Cryo, we're partners. We're supposed to do things together." Pinkie argued.

Cryo wasted no time in arguing back.

"We ARE partners, but it's my job to keep you safe, Pinkie. And taking you with me isn't safe for you. I'll be okay inside that storm but even with all I've seen you do, you won't last long. You heard what Twilight said. It will take me no less than three days to hike up that mountain. That long exposed to a blizzard, you wouldn't survive. You're staying here and that's final. I'm not letting you risk your life just because you think it will be fun to hike in a nasty snowstorm."

Neither pinkie nor any of the others wanted to accept the fact that only one of them could go, but they had no choice. They were literally out of their element this time. The stallion of ice was the only one who had a chance here and that chance had to be taken or else Ponyville would be cold for a very long time.

"Well....at least take some food from this place." Pinkie muttered. "Three days on a mountain by yourself, you're bound to get hungry sooner or later."

Cryo smiled at his partner and nodded wanting to make her satisfied in whatever way he could as long as it didn't involve endangering her. He agreed to the food upon thinking that it would indeed be a good idea to pack along things to eat for a three day voyage up a mountain. So after explaining to the cakes what was going to happen, Mr. Cake lent Cryo a spare saddlebag and began to fill it up with food. He put in packed pastries, cupcakes, muffins, and a few other frozen foods from the freezer for him. Applejack was even kind enough to give him a few of the apples she had taken from the farm.

The only think he would need up there was a pair of goggles. Rainbow Dash didn't like to part with them, put she dashed back to her house and lent Cryo her flying goggles. Before Cryo took them in his magic aura, Rainbow pulled them back.

"You better bring them back!" she shouted at him and clutched the goggles to her chest as if a mother was parting from a child.

Cryo chuckled to the pegasus and smiled to assure her.

"I promise I'll be back."

Rainbow nodded and held out her hoof carrying the eyewear. With his bags packed and the goggles now over his eyes, Cryo opened the door and threw out his arm forming the start of an ice path headed straight out the door.

"Cryo....please be careful." Fluttershy said.

"Bon voyage, mon frére." Typhoon added.

"Cryo what yer doin' is really brave." Applejack warmly noted.

Everypony else there, the elements, Cadence, even Mr. and Mrs. Cake all said their goodbyes to Cryo and bid him good luck.

"Keep warm you guys. And stay safe."

With that, he darted out the door and hopped on his path of ice as he made it extend up and turned it towards Mount Blackmane. As he skated off, his brother, sisters, and friends all watched him go until he was out of sight.

"It's all on him now." Rose muttered as she looked to Pyro. "Are you sure he can do it?"

"Positive." He answered with no hesitation. "Cryo won't let us down."

"I hope so." That came from Pinkie Pie as she kept looking on in the direction that her partner went. "Cryo....please come back."

Soon after she said that, snow began to fall from the clouds again in a light sprinkle. And as Cryo got closer to the mountain, he saw that it indeed was getting stronger the closer he got. He directed his ice path downwards and stopped it right at the base of Mount Blackmane. In front of him stood a sign that read, "Mount Blackmane. Proceed to hike at your own risk."

Cryo scoffed not threatened at all by the sign. He adjusted the goggles over his eyes and looked up the mountain, half of it out of sight thanks to the clouds.

"Three days. Let's get to it."

He took his first steps past the sign and began his trek. He only hoped he would be fast enough to get up there before Ponyville became completely in snow.