For the two whole days we switched shifts every night so the last one in shift could get rest.
After awhile we came up to a ridge that looked over the town we were heading.
The town was bigger then the last one we saw, at least with thirty houses or so with a castle, farmland, and church.
The buildings were made out of wood but reinforced with Iron, except for the castle, church and blacksmith, which were made entirely out of cobblestone.
They had a tower above the city, but also bigger airships.
We placed our mobile homes somewhere safe and entered the city.
"well this place is pretty big" I said.
"somewhat at least, I have seen some towns bigger then this" Steve replied.
"so let's start asking around then shall we?" Pinkamina said.
We split into teams asking anyone about the dragon around here.
Me and Trixie asked someone that was in a tavern about it.
The man was old, but he kept a steel sword with him, his clothes were somewhat blue grayish was brown boots.
"yes I have heard of it, but I am to old to do anything about it, I have already had my fare share of adventures" I said.
"do you know were it lives?, we want to slay it to end this towns burden with it" I said.
"well it is about time, the town has had to deal with that evil dragon for months, it lives in a cave a wagon ride away from town" he said.
"thanks for telling us, we will be sure to end your troubles" Trixie said.
"that dragon is dangerous though, so be careful, good luck, and bring something off the dragon as proof" The Old man replied.
"farewell and don't worry we will" I said.
We left the Tavern but as we were out of ear shot I said "Trixie, isn't it strange that old man wasn't shocked about talking ponies?"
"kind of, but Trixie thinks he has seen weirder, that would explain it" she said.
We met everypony by the market street and told them what we learned.
"that was pretty much what everypony was saying" Applejack said.
"well fighting a dragon isn't going to be easy, we need to think of a plan" Twilight responded.
We pretty much thought of a good enough plan after awhile.
"ok, so this is what we got, Dash will distract it, while Twilight and Trixie use whatever damaging spells they got, the rest of us just need to attack it while being careful" I said.
"I can't distract something big like that on my own" Rainbow Dash said.
"then I guess Enderbro can help, I mean his behavior pretty much screams distraction" Steve said.
"alright, we just need to be careful and use what potions we need before heading in there" Twilight said.
"can't we also blind it somehow?, that would work as well" Rarity said.
"well Trixie could do that, but at the sounds of the plan Trixie will be to busy" She replied.
"well redstone mixed with glowstone dust has been known to make flares, so we can use that" Steve said.
"right, looks like the plan came together quite nicely, now all we have to do is worry about execution of it" I said.
As we walked back to our mobile homes we saw a picture of a man and dwarf.
The man was wearing a red and black long sleeved shirt with a small gold icon above the left of the shirt, with black pants, and boots.
He had brown hair and beard with blue eyes that showed someone that was knowledgeable, but cautious.
The dwarf was wearing a horned helmet above his red hair that was connected to a red beard.
He was wearing shoulder pads and an armor plate that had an "S" on it, he also had pants on that were armored on the knees with grey boots.
His eyes showed someone who loved adventure, but was a joy to always have around and was loyal.
The plaque below it read: In honor of Xephos The Spaceman, and Honeydew The Dwarf, the legendary saviors of Minecraftia.
It was with their courage, strength and tenacity along with the help of others that stopped the rise of Israphel.
May their lives always lead to adventure, and their hearts continue to be brave, leaving light and hope wherever they go.
"so this is them isn't it?, Xephos and Honeydew" I said.
"yeah, they may not look much, but they saved Minecraftia from a terrible evil" Steve responded.
"I wonder if we will ever get to see them?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"maybe, though I doubt it since their always on the move" Steve said.
Later on we made it back to the mobile homes and set off towards the dragons cave.
As we got near that is when we heard roar and the sound of beating wings.
"great we got incoming, Twilight, Trixie we need a shield up!" Steve called from the front.
"alright just give us a few seconds" Twilight called.
"we don't got a few seconds, that red dragon is coming in hot!" he replied.
With a burst of magic both her Trixie were capable of getting a shield up as the dragon's flames passed over.
The dragon roared as it flew over, causing wind to blow with it's wings.
"the turrets won't be able to do anything against that hide" Steve said.
"don't worry, Trixie has it all figured out" Trixie said.
She used her magic to cause a glyph to appear on each of the turrets.
"this enchantment will give the arrows enough damage to pierce into the dragons hide" Trixie said.
"alright everyone get ready, it is coming around for another pass!" Steve said.
I got into one of the turrets, and so did Applejack, Dash and Pinkamina.
The shield still held as the dragon blew it's fire breath again, but as it flew away we shot after it.
"aim were it's going!" I said as I fired.
I fired my turret at the dragon, sending several arrows into it's hide.
It roared and turned and came down at us again, sending another shot of fire breath at the shield.
"this shield isn't going to hold on for long!" Twilight said.
Both of them were pouring in what magic they had into the shield, both mares glowed with a purple and light blue outline as thier eyes glowed white.
"Pinkie, we need a few flares!, use redstone and glowstone with sticks, then attach it to an arrow!" Steve said.
Enderbro teleported in and brought two glowstones which Pinkie broke into a few units of dust.
In a few seconds she came to the roof with a few flare arrows.
"me and Trixie can't use any other magic right now, Rarity get a bow" Twilight said.
"but I have never fired a bow before" she replied.
"well now is the best time to learn, we need your help" Applejack said as she fired off a few more arrows.
Rarity used her magic to levitate the bow and knocked an arrow, causing the string to stretch to full force.
It passed again blowing it's fire, but the shield was still holding.
"Rarity it's coming around for another pass, now is a good time" Rainbow Dash said.
She fired the arrow as it passed, and suddenly there was a bight red glow that came from the arrow.
The dragon flew away as it shook it's head, obviously trying to get rid of the effect of the flare.
More of our arrows hit it as it roared and retreated into it's cave that was a few minutes away for us.
Both Twilight and Trixie made the shield disappear and sat a bit exhausted.
"you all did a good job, including you Trixie, I would have only been able to hold it for three passes without your help" Twilight said.
"it was nothing, Trixie was glad to help" Trixie replied.
"alright, we need to prepare for when it's vision comes back, everyone get some armor, weapons and potions. Rarity get a stack of arrows from one of the turrets, were going to need a archer for this" Steve said.
We got what we needed for the fight against the dragon, though I made myself a diamond sword and got trixie to enchant it to make it more deadly.
As we arrived we heard to people talking to each other.
"we need to be careful with this Honeydew, there is no telling how dangerous this dragon is" one person said.
"I know that Xephos, but we have faced worse you know, dungeons full of monsters, vampire skylords, dwarf zombies, a whole bunch of spiders at once, and Israphel" he responded.
"yes, especially Israphel, but just two isn't right, maybe we should have gotten Peculier and Skylord Lysander to come with us" Xephos said.
We got out as they talked and approached them cautiously.
"we both know Pecuilier is done with adventuring, and Lysander is busy with Skylord stuff" Honydew said.
"I guess we got no choice to go in there, the town needs to be rid of this problem, but let's just try and think of a plan" he said.
"hmmmm, yes a plan that is a good idea" He replied.
"Well we can't go in there being like Leeroy and expect everything to be fine now can we?" Xephos asked.
"excuse me but, I hope were not interrupting anything" Fluttershy said.
They both turned around to respond to us and stopped surprised in seeing us.
That is when Honeydew did a girlish shrill.
"AAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!, there adorable!" Honeydew said happily.
"well this interesting, not everyday we run into talking ponies" Xephos said.
"look at them, there so beautiful with with their coat and mane, they must love brushies!" Honeydew still said happily.
"anyways, this is Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Tirimor, Trixie, Pinkamina, Spike and Galaddae, were trying to deal with the dragon problem" Steve said.
"ah well that is one thing were doing as well, we can work together" Xephos said.
"good, the more people we got, the better chance we have at beating this dragon" I said.
"so you must be Steve and Enderbro correct?, I hear from some towns that your excellent miners" Xephos said.
"well better then most but I wouldn't say the best, so we already got a plan thought up" He said.
"well then let's hear it shall we?" he said.
"Alright, first Dash and Enderbro are going to keep the dragon destracted" I said.
"while that is happening me and Trixie will use what damaging spells we know on it" Twilight said.
"Rarity will keep the dragon dazed using flare arrows as everyone else attacks it, but making sure to stay away from it's head, tail, and front legs" Applejack continued.
"doesn't sound to bad of a plan, but I will help with the archery as well considering I got a stack of arrows with me that can go through dragon hide" Xephos said.
"and I'll help with attacking, your doing to need the strength of a dwarf" Honeymoon said as he pound his chest with his right fist.
"well it looks like everyone is armored, everyone has what they need right?" Xephos said.
Everyone nodded at his question, at that he turned around.
"alright, let's head in, but let's not let the dragon get out of the cave, if we keep him confined we have a better chance" he said.
The cave wasn't really that dark, it was lined with torches and mushrooms that glowed.
"lookover there, that dark hole" Steve said.
"Rariry shoot one of your flares in there" Xephos said.
Once everypony was in possision, Rarity shot the flare arrow into the darker chamber.
After some seconds there was a startled roar, then the red dragon come out of it, somewhat covered in arrow shafts.
"hey there, your nothing but an oversized lizard!" Dash said then blew a raspberry at it.
The dragon roared in frustraition as Dash sped by it Enderbro teleported.
Twilight and Trixie started channeling spells, then sent blasts of magic at it.
That is when both Rarity and Xephos sent several arrows at the dragon as the rest of us got out of our hiding places and attacked.
I slid under it and came up from the other side, slashing at it's hide.
The Diamond sword slashed through the scales on it's side and started cutting through the hide.
Xephos put a few mor arrows into the dragon as Rarity blinded the dragon using another flare arrow.
The dragon aimlessly clawed, bit and swiped trying to get some of us.
"watch the tail everypony" Applejack said.
"Steve we need more ranged supression here" Honeydew said.
"on it" Steve replied as he held back and switched to a bow.
A few moments passed and the dragon was getting weaker but it still head on.
"this is taking longer then I thought" Spike said.
"we just need to keep going, it has many wounds on it" Trixie said.
"but we can't hold out for long, this is an adult dragon were talking about" Steve said.
"well if anyone has any bright ideas I am open for it" Dash said as she dodged a swipe.
"uh, we got The Holy Hand Grenade" Honeydew said.
"of course!, The Holy Hand Grenade, it is one of the few special things I carry on person" Xephos said.
"well this would be a god time to use it!" Pinkamina said as she slashed one of the back legs.
Xephos took out the grenade, which was a round golden object with a pin.
"everyone clear out this is going to be dangerous" he said.
Dash and Enderbro stayed behind until everyone was outside, that is when Rarity shot another flare arrow.
"oh lord, bless this hand grenade so it may blow thou foe into tiny bits, in thy mercy!" Xephos said.
He pulled the pin and chucked the grenade by the cave.
When the dragon was coming out the grenade exploded into white light and an holy explosion.
The dragon was hit by the explosion and it fell to the floor, were it started glowing red with small explosions.
Then it turned into many experiance orbs and left a chest.
We got the orbs but Steve opened the chest, which caused the familiar light to surround us.
Inside was a gold necklace with a ruby attached to it, 20 red dragon scales, two red dragon horns and a note.
Twilight looked at it and read out loud: Gained one Necklace of The Red Dragon and Necklace slot.
"ah an equip slot, I heard you could only get those from killing monsters stronger then regular ones" Xephos said.
"so we all can wear necklaces now, that is cool" Spike said.
"what did you find out about the Ring of the Bull Spider, Twilight?" I asked.
"well it increases speed, but gives poison damage to melee attacks" she said.
"when did you fight a Bull Spider?" Honeydew asked.
"second day we were here, but we all need to head back to town" Applejack said.
"alright, we will go with you to the town then, so let's hurry we were wasting time" Xephos said.
With now Xephos and Honeydew we moved back to the town.
By the time we got there it was covered in dark clouds and lightning was coming from the sky.
"I don't like the looks of that" Honeydew said.
"me too, if we know anything that is most likely a bad omen" Xephos said.
When we made it back to the city, some of the houses were on fire, and guards were attacking monsters.
"in Notch's name!, the town is being attacked!" Xephos said as he pulled out his diamond sword again.
With our armor still on and weapons in hand we got out of the mobile homes and rushed into the town to aid it.
We made it into town when the familiar old man with the steel sword and blue grayish clothes with the brown boots came to us.
Though this time he was accompanied with a woman with blonde hair, blue eyes and in black smith attire who had a sword of sapphire.
"heros, you have returned!, and just in the nick of time!" the old man said.
"Peculiar it's you!, and Daisy too!" Honeydew said relieved.
"yes, it's us, but this isn't the time to look back, the town is in trouble!" Daisy said.
"the guards are doing their best that they can to hold off the endermen and undead, but without help the town will be overrun!" Peculiar said.
"don't worry you old knight, we will get this done together!" Applejack said.
"it does my heart good to see many individuals willing to help to fight the forces of evil, and it will be an honor to fight along the side of The Spaceman and Dwarf again" Peculiar said.
"right, everyone this way to the market street!, we got a few guards in need of help!" Daisy said.
We ran with her towards the market, booths were either turned over or destroyed, some buildings windows were broken but civilians huddled inside with weapons of their own.
"ah, Daisy just in time!" one of the guards said.
"by Notch it's Xephos and Honeydew, were blessed today men!" The captain said.
The guards in the street cheered as they heard this.
The captain came to us, he was wearing full steel armor with a steel shield and sword.
The shield was painted with a sun over a piece of diamond.
"Thomas, how goes everything?" Peculiar asked.
"to be honest it's rubbish right now, the guards are spread across all over the town fighting the monsters, but more keep coming back" he said.
"any word about the dark knight?" Daisy asked.
"their leading the charge here to get through to the castle" he said.
As if on cue a shot of dark frost hit one of the knights and froze them in place.
"their doing a real number on the guards, anyone that comes close to them get's killed or frozen by black magic!" he said.
"pfft, black magic my flank!, what your seeing are powers from darkness, powers from the light are very effective against them" I said.
"but how can this be?, these guards are good men, raised to praise Notch and all of his holiness" Peculiar said.
"faith won't protect them from a being with dark powers, I'm afraid I'm the only one who can" I said.
"Tirimor your crazy!, your going to get yourself killed!" Twilight argued worryingly.
"you all just have to trust me, this is what I was trained to do" I said.
Everyone was silent as the rain kept dropping and the sounds of battle were heard.
"alright, Captain, tell your men to get ready to push the enemy back, Twilight and Trixie, I need you to produce the shield again" I said.
I looked and saw a house right by that had a staircase going to the roof.
"Rarity, and Xephos, I need you up there for arrow support, everypony else help out the guards push them back" I said.
They nodded and scrambled to get in position.
I nodded to the captain who yelled "alright men, pushed forward, IN NOTCH'S NAME!".
The yell was responded in positive attitude and the guards started slashing through skeleton warriors, zombie warriors, and ghouls.
Twilight and Trixie had the shield up again as bolts of purple lightning came down, but were absorbed by the shield.
With everypony else I fought my way through, slashing through the undead and turning them into orbs for us to grab.
That is when the dark knight came into view to everypony there.
they had black and grey full body armor on with a helmet that hid their face fully and a sword of red diamond.
"that's them, that is the pony from my dream!" Pinkie whispered.
"are you this is them?" I asked.
"yes I am sure it's them, this is the pony" she replied.
"alright, this is my fight, I will deal with them" I said as I left the group.
I charged though the undead and carved my way through to the pony in dark armor.
"your siege is invain dark knight, in the name of the light you will perish!" I said.
She chuckled evilly and said "another foolish do gooder, you will die like that rest!"
She called down lightning made of darkness on top of me, but I expected that.
With my powers over light I produced a shield around me made of light that blocked the attack.
"your dealing with a wielder of light here villain, you have no chance" I said.
We charged at each other and met in a clash of blades.
She backed up and swung her sword three times, but I blocked her attacks and swung my sword as it was surrounded in light.
She blocked the attacks then sent a blast of dark frost at me, but I summoned a shield to block it.
After that I sent blasts of holy fire at her, but she blocked them then sent dark fire my way.
I used my wings and came into the air to dodge them, then I came down upon her swiftly, swinging my sword.
Somehow she was able to block the attacks then swung once with her sword covered in dark frost.
I blocked the attack and swung at her with my sword covered in light, though she used a dark shield to block it.
Then she covered her sword in darkness and swung at me three times, but I used my wings to dodge her blows.
This left her open enough for me to send a blast of holy wind at her, and as my sword became covered in star shaped light I swung.
The blast sent her back, but the star shaped light hit her full force and she landed on her back.
She got back up and sent arcs of darkness from her sword, but I dodged them by flying and sent multiple blasts of light at her.
She used a dark barrier to block the attacks, then sent blasts of darkness at me.
I either dodged or blocked them, then I charged in as light surrounded me.
I swung my diamond sword at her swiftly as I could, getting some hits in.
As I knocked her back I sent two more arcs of light at her from my sword, and then I sent several blasts at her.
Each hit landed at it's mark, carving into her armor leaving significant damage.
"this won't be the last time we meet pegasus, you can count on it!" she said as she disappeared into a dark portal.
The guards were now having an upper hand at the monsters and after awhile we cleared the town of them.
"that was close, but now the town is safe, and we can rebuild, thanks to everyone here" Peculiar said.
"but the question is who was that pony working for" Twilight said.
"it can't be Israphel, we already dealt with him and his plans already" Xephos said.
"it has to be something that wants to drive Minecraftia into darkness, something that has great power" I said.
"but at least everypony is alright, that's all that matters" Applejack said.
"here at least, but all of Minecraftia is in danger" Honeydew said.
"hold on, your saying that now we have to travel across all of minecraftia to fight this enemy?" Steve asked.
"not exactly, if we could pinpoint the leadership, and slay them, then the attacks will stop" Xephos said.
"but how are we going to travel swiftly?, a group of mobile homes isn't really fast" Spike said.
"we will need to build an airship that can house all of us and the supplies, but it will take some time" Twilight said.
"well then let's begin, the sooner we get this thing air worthy, the sooner we get going" Applejack replied.
It took us awhile to get what we needed, we needed extra wood for the airship, wool for the blimp, and rope to attach the blimp to the ship.
We also made a few redstone lights, a few more turrets, beds, wooden fences, iron to make steel for the engine and stone for the dispensers.
After a few hours, the airship was ready, measuring thirty eight blocks in length, twenty one blocks height with the blimp, and fifteen across, it was a decent sized airship.
with ten single cannon turrets and one double cannon turret, the airship could protect itself from pretty much anything in the sky.
"it took us a long time, but we did it, the air ship is now ready to take flight" Pinkamina said.
"that is good, but we still need to name it, it's bad luck to sail a ship without giving it a name" Peculiar replied.
"so what do we name it?, it has to be something inspiring" Daisy said.
"also something brave" Honeydew replied.
"it has to sound cool!" Rainbow Dash said.
"also humble" Applejack responded.
"though it has to sound something honorable too" Xephos said.
"not just that, but it has to bring hope" Peculiar responded.
"and above all else, it has to be something that brings courage and wisdom to the good people who see it, something worthy of the light" I said.
After a few minutes of debating we decided on a name.
"in the name and holiness of Notch" Peculiar said.
"and in the name and wisdom of the Princess Celestia and Luna" Twilight said.
"we christian this airship as Divine Salvation" Peculiar replied.
"may good fortune come to the ship and it's crew on it's long journey" Twilight stated.
We got a bottle of wine, and one by one passed it to Twilight, who used her magic to chuck it.
The bottle hit the side of the ship shattering.
After that we painted it's name in gold paint on both sides of the ship, and then entered.
We were all on deck when Xephos went to the wheel.
"alright, let's see if this airship will start" he said as he turned it on.
The airship sprang to life, it's propellers spinning as it raised off from the ground.
The ship was a good distance from the ground when the engines started making it go foward.
"ok so were are we going to head off to first?" Honeydew asked.
"well if we want to find out about anything about our enemy, then we should head to Fumblemore's" Xephos said.
"Fumblemore?, what would he know?" Peculiar said.
"Endermen attacked us along with the undead, they must have some connection to the dark knight" Twilight replied.
"they may hate humans, but it isn't like my kind to attack a town, they usually go after lone humans" Enderbro said.
"do you think that they may be being controlled?" Steve asked.
"maybe, but the only one that has influence over Endermen is the Ender Dragon, but it has been asleep for a very long time" Enderbro said.
"we won't find out until we head to Fumblemores then" Honeydew said.
"it is going to get dark soon, everyone should get some rest, I will pilot the airship and Honeydew will take my place in eight hours" Xephos said.
"alright, good luck spaceman" Peculiar said as he went under deck to sleep.
Fourteen beds were on one side with a small chest for each person, but the back and front had large chests for cargo.
Next to the stairs to the left was a small study room, while to the right was combination kitchen and crafting station.
Besides our bed four new beds were made, one had a grey blue blanket while another had light green.
Another was the blue of Steve's shirt while the one next to it was purple, and across from them was a bed with steel and orange, and next to that was a bed with a red blanket with black tinge.
Next to mine was Trixie's blanket, which had her cutie mark on it with her coat color, her cape and hat hung on it.
Across from that was one like Pinkies, but it was a bit more greyish in the colors.
Trixie yawned and said "the rest of you can stay up if you want, but Trixie needs her sleep"
Everypony went into their beds like her, including me, I was in as Galaddae came onto my bed.
After some time I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep as I heard the gentle breeze of the air.
Dear, Princess Celestia
If you must know, I'm starting to put events in of everyday in my reports to you.
I will be doing this regularly to keep a record of events in the right time order.
Firstly, we met a dwarf named Honeydew, and another human named Xehpos, in this land their legendary heros.
Today we fought and defeated an evil dragon with them, but on our way back to second town we cane to was attacked.
During that time Tirimor used some sort of power from light to fight this dark knight in a form of a pony who somehow uses powers from darkness.
I'm going have to ask him about it, but anyways were riding an airship that is some interesting piece of technology to our next location.
Today we learned that old friends will always comeback together, no matter how difficult it may be.
Just because you haven't seen somepony in awhile, doesn't mean you won't see them anymore.
Unknown to you, they might meet you again just around the bend, and seeing an old friend is a valuable treasure.
Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle.