A couple of hours later, the landscape started to change.
The ponies were out of the forest of Lust, but they were somewhere else...
It was another forest...only...not so very livable...
The forest was filled with dead trees. They're branches hanging sadly over the group of ponies when they walked by.
The ground was rocky and the path existed out of white stones that showed the road on each sides.
The path was going up between two huge rocks and disappeared behind a couple of bushes and thorns.
Applejack's ear perked up...
she hears a thunder and the sky showed something strange : Pink clouds against a dark horizon.
Pinkie looks up.
''Ooooh I hope it's going to rain cotton candy!'' She shouted with joy while she licked her lips.
But the other ponies couldn't hear her...
Again a thunder rumbled and the sky was getting grayer by the minute.
The group climbed up,looking curiously around.
Under their hooves rumbled softly clopping,knocking sounds that echoed against the rocks.
The path finally stopped nearby a huge rock. And in front of that humungous stone,Spike stops with walking.
''This must be it...'' Spike smiles while his little dragon tail wagged a little.
''...Finally...'' Bender was totally tired and he sat down on a rock.
''HURRAY!!!....what is it?'' Fry lifts his head.
''Oh silly can't you see...it's...uhm...'' Pinkie looked stumbling at the rock.
'' Ah Rock...'' Applejack sighed.
''And it's not even an beautiful or awesome rock...'' Rainbow dash glared at the giant object right in front of her.
''B-but rocks...don't harm at least...r-right?'' Fluttershy stuttered while she backed away behind Rainbow Dash.
''Your right Fluttershy...it's just an ordinary rock...haha!'' Spike laughed triumphantly.
A huge thunder collapsed above their heads and the sky opens itself.
The rain felt down.
''Over here!'' Shouts Spike who sees an opening in the wall.
They all run into it,in the meantime Applejack's hat flies off of her head.
''Ma'h Hat!'' She yells.
She runs back to grab it but after she did that a rock closed the opening right in fornt of her.
The orange mare gulped a big lumb.
''Oh oh...''
Applejack runned as fast as her hooves could carry her back to the group.
They all stand around an iron gate.
''It's locked,'' says Rainbow while she shakes the gate..
'Ah already tried that. We can't go further.'' Applejack looked around.
''Oh, yes! We can,!'' says Spike and raises an claw into his scalps on his head.
He holds out the key from the test of Anger.
He opens the gate with a slightly terrifying sound.The ponies looked at the dragon.:
''Come on everypony...let's go!''
''I-i don't know...i-i stay outside to ....''
''Just keep on walking Fluttershy just keep walking...''
Fry Pushes Fluttershy further and further into the darkness.
Fluttershy closes her eyes and gulps as the orange pegasus pushing her forward.
Pinkie And Bender nodded their heads and followed Spike.
''Are ya commin' Rainbow?'' Applejack turned her head towards Rainbow Dash.
''Y-yeah I'm Comming!'' Replied the young speedster while she picked up the pass and followed the rest.
''Hmm.'' Applejack thought for a sec but than continued to walk behind her.
Applejack looked back after her.
The gate closes with an ''SLAM!'' behind her.
Spike and the rest raced back to the gate.
''OH NO!'' Pinkie squals.
Spike rattles the gate. 'It's locked.'' He says with an gulp.
''We can't go back,now.'' whispers Rainbow Dash,trying to calm down Fluttershy.
Suddenly, it was like the cave sighed and a cold breeze was blowing trough the center of the cave where the group stood.
Bender shivered and looked at Applejack.Rainbow looked at Fluttershy as they hugged each other tightly.
''W-what was that...'' Pinkie shivered while she clanged against Fry.
''I-i Don't know....but it sounds like the cave just farted.....that o-or an cold breeze...''
Fry wrapped his wings around Pinkie's body.
Pinkie giggled...but looked quickly at Spike.
''Spike what must we do!''
''I don't know!'' The young dragon clanged to Applejack's legs.
''C-can we go back n-now?'' moans Fluttershy in fear and she hided behind Rainbow dash her wings.
Dne eht hcaer reven llahs...
''Holy Macaroni,this cave is haunted!,'' shakes Spike from terror.
Sregnil dna wols si ohw...
''What are they saying,okay who speaks ''Death-language''?'' Rainbow smirked softly.
Dne eht hcaer reven llahs, sregnil dna wols si ohw.
''SPEAK BETTER AND LOUDER!!!''
The loud and painful yell of the blue pegasus bounces forth and back between the stone walls.
A rain of grit,dust and small tiny rocks, falls on the group.
'Sorry,' whispers Rainbow embarrassed.
Pinkie,Fry,Bender,Applejack,Spike and even Fluttershy gave an angry look at Rainbow.
Rainbow looked down.
''Now Let's Go further....there's no point at standing at this closed gate....or getting crushed by these darn rocks.''
Decides Spike and he tarts to walk further into the darkness,followed by his friends.
Rainbow slowly walking behind....Lonely...and sad.
The group walks into the direction where light came out at the end of the hall.
They're entering a round space where a mysterious light shines out from one of the walls.
The blue,young dragon pushes an branch in an empty holder and lights it with his fire-breath to get some light in this place.
The green scalped dragon looked at a big round stone in the middle of the cave.
''It's a dead end,'' says Spike.
''He,nothing passes you,Eagle-eye.'' Rainbow said sarcastic while she looks at her the ground.
''Look!!!,'' shouts Pinkie and she points at the opposite Rock from the opening where the group went trough.
''That looks like a Colty Colt!!!.'' She said with an innocent smile.
''She's right,it's ah colt!'' Applejack approves
.
The Stone-colt was very dusty and had a few cracks. He holds with his stone arms a part of the ceiling up.
''Hey,let me look,Pinkie!'' Fry shouts out opf joy while he skipped next to the pink pony.
Fry gets a little bit closer with his face and looks at the Stone-Colt.
...Suddenly The Stone-Colt opens his eyes with an loud rumble!...
''EEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!'' Fluttershy screams and hides behind Bender.
''Cut it out,you wimpy!'' Bender's voice spoke madly as he backs a little from Fluttershy away.
Fry screamed girly and falled over into Pinkie's arms.
Pinkie looks terrified at the Stone-colt.
''Sloth brings you where I am, but too kicked emergency is either not good,''
He spoke with an elegant voice.
''We must get out of this place!'' Spike thinks.
He bumps against the round stone that stands behind him in the middle of the cave.
A bright beam appears above the round stone and small,tiny and little rocks from the ceiling fall into the brightt beam.
Spike turns around and looks at the round stone.
At the edge of the round stone lies a circle of different symbols.Spike looks up at the colt of stone.
''Choose wise and don't linger.The choice is up to you.''
Applejack looks at the stone.
''What's this for ah'n kind of mystery stone?.'' She asks.
''Hihhihihiihi,it looks like a sort of puzzle, I think.'' Pinkie giggled as she stares at the symbols.
Fluttershy slowly appeared from Bender's back and took a look at the symbols.
Fluttershy points at the symbols :
''A-a cat, a triangle, a heart, a star, a sun, a peacock, a pig, …''
''Cool,'' says Rainbow and she puts her hoof on the flying stones that hovered a little above the big,round stone.
But when her hoof touches the stones, stones from the sealing are rumbling and started to fall down.
Suddenly it stopped...
''Choose wise and don't linger,'' says the Stone-Colt again.
''Yes,I can hear you,'' Fry said annoyed and he takes a step back.
''Choose wise and don't linger'', which sin is that?'' asks Spike while he scratched his head with his claws
He sighs. ''I wish that Twilight was still here,she would know the sin...''
Fry holds an hoof on his chin.
''Hmmm,what sin...'' He thinks out loud.
'Stupidity,' Answers Bender and gives an evil smirk at Fry.
''No, no, that is not one of them.HEY!?'' Fry looks angry at Bender.
In The Meantime,Fluttershy,Pinkie,Rainbow and Applejack still standing around the round stone with the symbols,the flying rocks still hovering in circles in the beam of light.
''Hmmm,m-most of these symbols are...a-animals.'' Stumbled Fluttershy while she observed the symbols.
''Maybe it's because your obsessed with Animals!'' Rainbow mumbled.
''Applejack turned to Rainbow with a big frown and an angry face.
''Stop bein' Such ah Jerk!,Rainbow!''
Spike looks again at the Stone statue of the colt.
''What did you say first?'' The young dragon asked while he scratched his nails over the stone.
But the stone did not let out a word or sound.
''Big help...'' says Bender with much sarcasm.
''Something.... with.....OoH! "Sloth brings you where I am" Declaims Fry while he smiled proudly.
Spike closes his eyes and tries to think as hard as Twilight Sparkle would have thought.
''... Sloth brings you where I am... What does he mean with that? If you had sloth, you become what he is? He's from stone. So he was turned into stone. And you turned into stone when you admitted a sin...''
Fry and Bender looked at the young dragon.
Fry raised an hoof at him,but Bender lowered his hoof again.
''Let him think...'' he whispers into Fry's ear.
The stones in the beam were flying around and around, faster and faster, until a white cloud develops into the beam.
Everypony looked with open mouth to the round stone in the middle off the cave and slowly approached it.
''I-it's an eye,'' says Fluttershy.
Spike stares at the eye that flies in the golden light from the beam.
''What must we do?'' He thinks.
He has the feeling that they must be faster...
''What was that text again that stood on the gate? And what did those voices say in the cave?
That was audible but what does it mean?''
All these questions were boozing trough Spike's mind.
''Dne eht hcaer reven llahs, sregnil dna wols si ohw...''
Suddenly knows Spike what it means.
''It's Only said Backwards!'':
'' Who is slow and lingers, shall never reach the end.''
''Lingers'' means Slow! It's sloth! That is a sin! It's a sort game of skill, on speed!''
Spike made up his mind finally.
He looks at the circle with the symbols.
He suddenly sees the same symbol of the eye on the stone as the eye that flies in the golden beam of light.
''The eye must be at the arrow,'' screams Spike.
''We must push the stone!''
He pushes moaning and growling,the wooden stocks that protrude from the round stone, but nothing happens.
''Help me,guys! It must be fast!''
Fry and Bender sees that Spike needs them help and they start to push and push and the stone turns, but it's to late...
The eye dissolves and disappears in the beam and there's a rumble inside of the cave.
Humongous pieces of rock are falling down.
A big one brushes along the face of Applejack and Pinkie jumps away from a rock which almost crushed her.
''A cat! Now is it a cat!'' screams Fluttershy...suddenly a little less shy as usual and points at the beam.
The stones were indeed in the form of a cat. The guys pushed and pushed... until The cat finally stands on the arrow.
The sound of crashing is audible...
Next to the Stone-colt where Rainbow Dash is standing,opens the rock a little bit.
''Common guys,keep it up like this!'' Rainbow cheered while she fluttered with her wings.
''Choose wise and don't linger,'' says the Stone-Colt again.
''Can't that dude just shut his mouth? He's making me nervous!!!,'' Fry yelled annoyed.
''A-a big mouse, n-no, ...uhm...a rat,'' yells Fluttershy. 'There!'' She points at the stone.
But before the symbol gets on the arrow, the stones dissolves again only louder and faster.
A rain of Dust falls on the group of ponies.
''This doesn't look that good ta me...'' Applejack shivered while she holds on to her hat.
''The ceiling is collapsing!'' screams Pinkie.
''Choose wise and don't linger.''
Fry turns around to the Stone-Colt.
''Do you know another sentence, gray cave troll!''
But Bender pulls him back at the round stone with the symbols.
''It's a P-pig,'' shouts Fluttershy. ''Come on, guys! Get that pig!''
Fluttershy made wild cheerleader moves with her hooves and wings.
The guys pushed as hard as they could and the opening opened a little bit more.
''Yes!!!,''shouts Spike out of joy.
''We're almost done. Which sign is it now?''
''Rainbow Dash!'' Fluttershy's voice echoed trough the whole cave.
''Rainbow Dash?'' Spike looks confused,but than sees what is happening.
''W-what are you doing?'' Fluttershy shivered.
The blue pegasus stands in front of the opening where Beams of the sunshine outside is shining back into the cave.
The Rainbow-coloured Pegasus grinned evil.
She grabs the chest out of Fry's wings,that is still pushing the round stone and runs out of the cave...not looking back...
'RAINBOW DASH! GET BACK HERE!' screams Fluttershy and chases Rainbow.
Fry runs after Fluttershy.
''Stop! Fluttershy! Wait!''
That was the final strike...
The stones and rocks were all falling down and the Stone-Colt starts to laugh:
'Too kicked emergency is either not good!'
He laughed with an voice that would made you shiver in your worst nightmares.
''RUN!!!'' yells Spike and he pushes Pinkie Pie towards the output.
The tears are getting deeper.
Pinkie's pink mane is covered with dust as she sees the normal outside world again.
The arms of the Stone-Colt broke off and felt like grit on the with Rocks-covered ground.
The ceiling comes cracking,rumbling and thundering towards the ground.
Rocks were falling everywhere.
Bender takes an enormous step and pushes the plate up with his hooves.
''Quik!'' supports Bender to Applejack. ''I ....c-can hold it ... just for a minute!.''
''Common,sugar we can make it...together!'' screams Applejack and turns around.
She sees that Bender's hooves are gray...
...He's turned into a statue...
''No, Bender!'' yells Applejack ....she runs back at Bender.
She stops right in front of the statue thats holding the ceiling up and ticks it with her hoof,holding her Cowboy-hat on her chest.
She embraces the statue with her eyes :
''Ah'm... to.... slow...!''
And with those last words and an thundering noise felt every rock and stone towards the ground.
The cave is completely covered in rocks.
Pinkie and Spike tried to pull the stones away.
''Keep on digging,Spike!'' t-they must be there,h-hahahaha...they must be still!'' Pinkie tried to hold it together.
''It's no use...'' Spike sighed sadly...
... Bender & Applejack are statues...
They run together towards the light. When they finally got out of the tunnel, they finally found Fry.
''Where were you?'' asks Spike half-angry and half-relieved.
''After Fluttershy. Where are the others?''
Spike and Pinkie look at each other.
Than Pinkie couldn't hold it in much longer and she falls into the arms of the orange pegasus.
''BWEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHHEHEHEH!!!!!'' The pink earth pony cried.
Spike sighed.
''In the cave...everything... collapsed...'' he looked down,he had an big limb in his throat.
Fry looked confused at the ground...he felt his positivism fall apart.
He petted Pinkie on her back slowly.
''T-this can't be true...'' He sniffed.
''We have to go on....to save everypony...'' Spike hugged the two crying ponies.
Pinkie and Fry sobbed but nodded their heads.
''Now...where's Fluttershy?'' asks Spike calmed down.
Fry looks from Pinkie pie to the young dragon's his face.
''After Rainbow Dash!. She has my ....Chest....''