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// Chapter Five: Longer Then Expected 
// Story: Ride in the Fright 
// by TheBigNerd 
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	 " OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW, PERSEPHONE, YOU COULD HAVE TOLD US ABOUT HALF THE DISTANCE BEING THORNS!" I YE- sorry, yelled.

"Sorry master," the incredibly annoying and stupid not to mention idiotic fairy called back "I just checked the sky, I didn't think to check the ground for any obstacles that might obstruct your way."

"Yeah, I kind of realized that for the first few hundred feet."

Flame Spitter was an idiot and chose to go in last, he would have been able to simply incinerate the thorns, if a certain someone (hack cough wheeze Cacnea hack hack cough.) had not strengthened them to the point where they were fire proof. am not going 

(A place called Manehattan I am not going to write a line underneath it because that was annoying last chapter.)

Forge looked in the fire, go to the thorns the flames said, they need you.

Forge grimaced "these guys are literally stupid enough to get caught in the thorns? Well if they need me I should probably go help them.
so Forge got up and started heading in the direction of the thirty mile long thorn patch. ( yes I know Persephone is really bad at distances.)

(A thirty mile long thorn patch see above comment on lines.)

I groaned, we were in a clearing and surrounded by thorns. " Persephone, I thought  you said we were a mile away, we have been hiking for at least six miles now."

Persephone shrugged, " distance is looks different from the air, besides it's your fault for not having wings."

Flame Spitter replied "Persephone, we don't choose how we're born, I don't know if fairies can choose to be an Elephant or something but we can not." 

Persephone huffed and then refused to speak to anyone for several hours.

(Somewhere else if you do not know my policy on lines jump off a bridge)

Kronos looked through the viewing screen provided by one of his minions. He smiled to himself. "well well well" he said "it seems that its time to pay them a visit."

(the thirty mile long thorn patch shut up about the lines)

I was thoroughly annoyed now, we had been hiking for hours, and Flame Spitter calculated that we had gone about 10 miles. (I apologize for not using the metric system, my condolences to folks who are not American) Cacnea had fallen asleep about two miles ago, and I was being forced to carry him. To top it all off, I heard a strange sound.

"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ." I looked back to see if Cacnea had started snoring, but he was awake. " did you he- WAIT YOU'RE AWAKE CACNEA" I had started to say "did you hear that"  when I suddenly realized I had been carrying an fully alert ball of spikes for about two miles. I was about to say something else but Flame Spitter cut in. (thank the heavens, I was about to drop some seriously bad ju ju muh gumbo"

"silence," he said "something very big is coming." a large robotic thing sporting a huge buzz saw burst out of the thorns.

We of course, being the wise gentlemen we are, chose the safest and most reasonable option.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" we screamed while we ran.

In five minutes we were hopelessly tangled in a mess of thorns.

The large robot lumbered toward us and raised his buzz saw.

"HEY HEY, DUDE DUDE!" I shouted

I heard Cacnea mutter "famous last words."

He swung the buzz saw.. 

I fell on my butt.

He quickly cut down Cacnea and Flame Spitter who also fell on their butts.

He motioned for us to follow him.

(A clearing twenty miles away I will no longer discuss lines with you simpletons)

After a long and much needed explanation around a fire Flame Spitter made, we started to rest.

"WELL WELL WELL" a voice boomed " WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE."  we looked around for the speaker and a unicorn in a business suit walked towards us.

He was about as tall as Princess Celestia is depicted. He had a dark grey coat, a light grey mane, and a cutie mark of a clock. he strutted towards us. I raised my halberd. his horn flashed.

And everything went slow.

The world was moving at a snails pace , i looked down and saw my skin start to wrinkle. As I watched in horrified fascination. the skin fell of my hand and the bone began to crumble and fall away. and then suddenly everything was dust.

(somewhere else)

"HEY," Eris yelled " I STILL HAD TO PUT ON THREE MORE CHARACTERS."

Discord smirked " but you forget, I want to win. now id be willing to play again if you want."

"deal." Eris said.

Discord smiled and the table between them changed into board game that looked suspiciously like Equestria.