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// The Next Morning 
// Story: Friends to Journey's End 
// by tassadarth 
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                    CHAPTER 7
The Next Morning

They had taken the whole night just to listen to what spike was saying for he was a Canterlot this whole time. “Well Shining Armor and Princess Cadence were recalled to Canterlot to help defend for you can see the darkness rising over the lands of Ponyville.” said Spike. All of them were shocked for they thought that this “danger” of some kind would be spreading slower. “Well Spike at least you’re out of there it’s great having our favorite dragon around for some more company” Twilight smiled as she said. They came across what seemed to be a dead end, rocks were covering the road. Trees growing through cracks in the road ahead, so they all decided they would have to cut through another forest to get to where ever this “safety” was.

“King Sombra they’ve reached the forest at the edge of our borders we must put up defenses.” said King Sombra’s Guard. “We shouldn’t be in fear of such a little threat for there are only six of them and nearly thousands of us.” said King Sombra. “But they have the elements of harmony we should be in fear of that sort of power.” said The Hooded Figure. “No one said anything about the Elements of Harmony put up defenses at once those artifacts are too powerful even with the technology they don’t know of.” said King Sombra. The Hooded Figure disappeared with the whisper “i’ll see you soon” for King Sombra didn’t know who it was. “Assemble a meeting for all that is evil must know of where these pitiful ponies are.” said King Sombra. Three guards left the castle at once to gather what other evil waits for the orders from the leader of their order.

“We must find shelter, there is a rain cloud up ahead and we don’t want to be stuck in any sort of a storm.” said Twilight. Rainbow Dash flew straight into the sky, and destroyed the cloud then came back down. “Why would you say such a Twilight i don’t see a cloud in the sky.” Rainbow Dash said with a smile. It was midday when they came across this enormous valley with plenty of spots to rest. “Girls i think we found our site to rest.”said Fluttershy. They all started running into the valley with smiles of joy on their faces for they had finally found a place that would be peaceful. They all passed through a magical field, and just from that their spirits were ruined for the valley had disappeared.