Quibra paced in the grass.
"So you are telling me" he growled "That you made a demon, just to see what happened"
"Everyone does" Rubicon barked a dry laugh "My failure was not knowing to make it small enough. But I digress, as much as I have lost control of my own body, my soul is still mine and I have maintained contact with some students of mine," the whale sang "She is here, it seems," he gestured to the door "Enter, she will wake you up"
Quibra threw a last glare to Rubicon, and they entered.
The whale sung as it moved them to another door, a sound of melancholy.
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"Quick!" they were jerked them mercilessly to a standing position "I had to fight a dozen damned golems to find you!"
Their eyes opened, a faint headache setting in quick and intending to stay.
"Follow me!" said the voice, in Tharatean
They followed without a doubt, not wanting to take any risk.
"You, big guy, punch a hole here!" she pointed at a spot in the wall "Big enough to pass"
Quibra looked at it, tightened both fists together, and swung all of his body in a hit, alighting the hallway with a crimson spark. The stone broke with a dust cloud.
They ran across the hole, and after a moment climbed seemingly endless stair.
"Now here!" she moved away. Quibra did as ordered, not-sounds appearing nearby.
They followed up another flight of stairs, getting to the ceiling.
"My master charged me with protecting you, for whatever reason" explained the gryphon "Thus is my duty," she walked to the border "As annoying as it may be. The old guy knows what he's doing. Come," she took two harnesses from a pocket in her robe "Put them on, quick"
They did so, Quibra attaching it to the harness he already had.
"Now," She grabbed two hooks from the harness she wore under the robe "This is going to be a bumpy flight"
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"Undignified at best, but a useful tool to have, is it not? Mariela, by the way. I am afraid it is not much of a pleasure" she slid across the sewers with them in tow "Anyhow. I am the next dreamer, or would be if the present situation wasn't so complicated," she turned another corner "The dreamer seems to believe you two can help me extinguishing the devil's flame before it is too late, so I'll have to believe you can. For now, the best is to put distance between us and the temple, for the golems can't go further than a kilometer away from it. Now, what is that you can do? Are you demon hunters? Alicorn princesses? Luna in disguise, mayhaps?" she asked, sceptically.
They shook their heads.
"I guessed so. I may trust the old guy, but I am far from a idiot. If you can do anything, tell me before I dump you in sealed room. You'll be safe there, I am sure"
"We were supposed to take this," Quibra showed his backpack, wincing when it touched his broken rib "To Princess Twilight Sparkle. Information on the dreamer, and proof of his actions"
"A foreigner? Do you realize the danger of taking delicate information to so powerful a creature?" she looked at them and faced forward again "Not even a century old, worse yet"
"She could communicate with Luna. Make her come" offered Applejack.
"A crazy moon mare, to deal with a mad dream demon. Fitting, I do admit. It is day, and Luna's faster vehicle is the very moon. Or so I've heard," she climbed a flight of stairs and exited the sewers into sunlight "Is it not?" she helped Applejack into the street.
"The m-" Applejack remembered "Oh, yes. She's jumped with the moon a few times" she and Mariela helped Quibra "She'd get here by nightfall"
"Then do not tarry," she started walking again "I've heard that Sparkle is in Reddo's castle, for whatever reason, and that both castles are preparing to play war"