Applejack was now walking in a hall, feeling a bit uncomfortable. The room had standing knight armors on both sides, they were dark blue, made of copper, and seemed like they were honoring her by making a pose like a guard's. Applejack never really liked being honored like a princess, so it made her feel a bit unease. *clank!* Applejack stopped and searched for what made the sudden clanking sound, nothing seemed off to her. Giving a confused look, she continues walking down the hall. *CLANK!* She turns around more quickly this time but still sees nothing out of the ordinary. "WHO'S THERE? SHOW YOURSELF!" she yells down the hall, but still nothing responded. She decides to play it smart and started to walk backwards, hoping to catch whatever was making the sound in action *CLANK!* and she did. One of the armor suits jumped towards her, Applejack was setting her self up for the worst by getting her apple-arm weapon ready. "Leave me alone, this is your only warning" she focus on the head of the armor, their was a red eye looking at her through the slits of the helmet. The armor suddenly spinned towards her, bashing her back a bit, "I warned ya" she then punched the suit with her arm, but it only made her weapon bounce back. The monster once again spinned at her, giving a bruise in the process. As she fell back, she could've sworn that she saw a purple flash coming from the creature. She guarded one more time and waited for the monster to attack again and sure enough, it rotated at her again. She saw that flash again and realized that the back of the armor was missing and was revealing the back of the creature. Catching the creature spinning towards her again, she dodged around it and saw the weak spot. With her strongest punch, she hit the creature with her weapon; knocking the creature over and it vanished into a puff of purple smoke, armor and all. "That little varmint" she said as she rubbed her bruise.
Pinkie Pie was still dancing with the mumboing creature, but as much fun as it was, she had to find her friends. "I'm sorry, but I need to go now. It was fun hanging out with you, though." Pinkie said to the party animal. She walked towards the door, but the creature jumped in front of her path. "You still want to dance with me?" she was surprised and began to give it some thought. "This guy is really fun to be around with. Maybe I should stay a little bit longer?" she shook her head "No, I need to find my friends. We can dance later." she then once tries for the door again, but the creature gets in her way again. "I said no, so let me through" she starts pushing it aside, but it wouldn't move. She takes out her cannon and aims it at the monster "let me THROUGH!" blasting her balloon cannon at it, making the creature to dissipate into a purple cloud. "My friends need my help" saying to herself while moving forward "I should be more persistent, just like Rainbow Dash."
"I GIVE UP" Rainbow Dash yells, falling on the stairs she was climbing. She looks up and it just kept on going, she then lays as flat as she could on the stairs, resting for a bit. Maybe Pit's right, maybe I do over pace myself? thinking to herself, she then starts sliding down the stairs and hits the bottom floor. Her eyes open up in confusion "What? I've been flying up these stairs for hours and I hit the bottom in less then five seconds?" She looks up at the stairs and starts flying up it again, but this time she looks at the bottom of the stairs, and at a curtain point she was not proceeding. "This makes no sense" she lands on the stairs and continues to look at the bottom floor. She starts walking up the stairs, she still was not proceeding any farther from it. Dash stopped and ponders on what she could do "I know I'm climbing up steps. Hmm... I wonder." She eventually decides to take a feather from her wing and places it on the step beside her. She then starts walking upwards, while staring at the feather getting farther away from her. The room starts to wave about as she continued her accent. "The room can keep me from moving any further,..." she looked up then back at the feather "...but if I'm in two places at once." When the feather hit the bottom floor, the room flashed; Rainbow Dash found herself at the top of the stairs, revealing with a door in front of her. She smiles and throws a fist into the air with a jump and a spin in the process "you can't keep me down" she happily said as she enters the next room.
Twilight was making her way through the rooms in hope of finding her friends, unfortunately she finds a fiend instead. "Is that... an Erinus?" she said out loud, making the monster to look at her. The Erinus had a purple-blue robe on with purple-pink edges and had a blue eye that stared at Twilight. "What's a member of the 'Forces of Darkness' doing here?" the creature lifted up his hands and shot some kind of spell towards Twilight. She responds by shooting a spell of her own, nulling each spell out "You'll have to do better then that" she said as she shoots another spell at it. It splits the monster in half. Twilight was feeling pretty up beat for handling that situation easily "You have no right being here" telling the creature as she past by it. "Still... I guess I did went a bit over board on it" she starts to think at why she had to defeat it so quickly "What was the reason again? They're dangerous because... because... what was it?. Suddenly she gets a scratch and kick on her back. She falls down on a knee and looks behind her to seeing the Erinus floating in the air, and having it's legs dancing next to it. "They're creatures of revenge!" she remembered as the legs began to kick at her again. She rolls to the side and swipes the planted leg of the creature, causing it to fall. She aims and destroys the flying torso with a spell before it got a chance to attack, giving time for the legs to get back up. The legs started to charge at her and sense she had a long staff and given the opportunity, she did what every girl would do in this situation of defending herself,...
...she strikes him in the groin.
The creature fell over in pain and Twilight did a mercy kill on it with a spell, poofing it into purple smoke. She looks onwards toward the next room "it won't be long now."
The front doors to the castle opens and Pit is seen walking out of it, looking deadpanned and pale from the lack of loyalty. He was greeted by someone at the front door. "Scootaloo? What are you doing here?"
Scootaloo was indeed in front of him, out-of-breath and sweating from riding her scooter all the way to the castle "*pant* *pant* You weren't going to *pant* leave me behind *pant* so easily."
Pit was surprise by her determination, but it didn't inspire him do the same. "Well if you want to help them out, they're inside."
"What! You didn't defeated Discord yet? Then why are you out here?"
Pit starts walking down the hill, passing Scootaloo "I'm not going to help anymore."
Scootaloo's pupils shrunk in her open wide eyes "WHAT?!?!"
"I'm tired of doing thing for others, I'm only going to do things that are going to help me."
"You're going to abandoned a mission your goddess wants you to do? Your just going to leave us during our time of need?" Pit didn't answer and just kept on walking, but a sudden pull around his waist stops him in his tracks. Scootaloo, holding Pit like she would on the scooter, was starting to tear up "Please don't leave us. You always kept on going, never losing hope, always believing that things would work out in the end." Pit closed his eyes, tilting his head down to listen to her words. She continues and lays her head on him "You showed me that even a flightless angel can do so much. You help me at facing off danger. You gave me faith that things would be okay" she rubs her face into his back with tears before she mumbles through his tunic "You're my Guardian Angel."
Pit was silent for what seemed like minutes until he broke the silence. He takes a deep breath, feeling the wind blowing at him. He lifted his head and spread his wings, feeling the air lifting his spirits. His pale tone started to fade away, being overtaken by his original color. "Come on Scootaloo" he said in a calm voice while glancing at her. She peeks up with tearful eyes "lets go help them out" he said with a smile. She stops her tears by rubbing her eyes with her arm and gives an approving smile. Pit extend his hand out to her, and she responds by grabbing it with her own. He leads her into the castle and a bell from a tower can be heard, from miles away.
END OF CHAPTER 7