"How much longer until we arrive? I'm getting impatient."

"How am I supposed to know? All we have as a guide is the extremely cryptic directions that Ra gave us. Past the heavens and for thousands of my years a land will show itself, full of equine inhabitants with gods of their own, there the hunter shall find his mark. What the hell kind of wild goose chase does he think we have time for anyway?"

"SHUT UP! You do not disrespect the all mighty Ra. Besides, we wouldn't have needed his directions if your men had watched the Eye of Horus like they had been ordered."

"You're correct my lord, forgive my ignorance. I'm just saying he could have given us a little more to find this planet. Sure equine species are horses and ponies, but there isn't a single planet in our system where they are the main species.

"That is why we left our system, you may not understand the words of Ra, but I do. The heavens represent all that is within our sight, our star system for example. To go beyond the heavens we must travel farther than any have gone before. Ra is the god of light, so his years are light years, and for thousands we must travel. I am going to my room, wake me if another message comes through, it's obvious you haven't the capacity to handle it.

"Good, feel the magic build up inside of you. Allow it to become more potent, to develop a form of it's own, yet one you still control." Bo barked his orders at Sweetie Belle, the strain of holding back such a large amount of magic made the young filly experience extreme pain, tears began to form along in her eyes as she began to grit her teeth. "Wait for it, wait for it. NOW! RELEASE IT NOW!"

"Inceration Iteration!" Relief quickly spread across Sweetie's face as an intense blast of purple flames shot from her horn, her lush dual coloured mane was blowing in the back blast of the force. Finally the flames launching from her horn subsided, the ground around the pair was left scorched, and the target they used was nothing but a pile of ashes. "Did I do it? Did I get my cutie mark?" Her voice squeeked at moments as she asked the question on her mind.

"Afraid not kiddo," Bo stepped forward, wiping the soot from Sweetie's horn, his long golden hair pulled back to keep it out of the way. "But that was really good, if you keep improving like that there's no way it won't appear soon." He stared down at his young friend, his blue eyes shining with pride of what he'd taught her. He stood up slowly, looking towards the skies and enjoying his moment of peace. "That's enough for today, let's get you home." Bo didn't even wait for a response, he knew todays lesson had been tough, and as he expected Sweetie was right by his side the whole way.

When he arrived home at Fluttershy's cottage it was getting late, the shy yellow mare had already eaten and was reading a book in the foyer.

"Oh You're home, a package came in the mail for you. I set it in the kitchen for you." Bo didn't know what she was reading, but it must have been good, she didn't even look up when she spoke to him. Fluttershy could hear Bo walk into the kitchen, and she didn't hear anything for a couple minutes. It crossed her mind to get up and check on him, and as she walked into the kitchen herself she heard Bo loudly express his displeasure with the package he recieved.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? He wants me to protect this worthless piece of Egyptian stone?

"What use is this to me or the gods?" Bo was furious, he didn't mind being used as a warrior, but protecting a piece of anchient stone was too much to ask.

"Why don't you like it? I think it looks pretty neat." Fluttershy spoke up, Bo could barely hear her, but he knew what she meant.

"It's not that I don't like it, it's the fact that it has some kind of weird magic coming from it, and I don't even know what it is, the paper literally just says, 'protect this magic relic', that's it." Bo thought about it for a moment, slowly an idea began to form in his head, once complete he knew he had to just shout it out. "Twilight! I'll bet she could tell me what it is." In his mind a more perfect plan could not have been made.

"Uhmm, but it's really late. Don't they you think Twilight will be upset if we wake her up for this." Fluttershy didn't want to bother her friend this late at night, she was trying to force the idea onto Bo, but she was just to shy to make herself seem absolute.

"What? Twilight won't be upset, she loves all of this stuff."

"You woke me up at two in the morning to ask me about a rock?" The lavender unicorn was very unimpressed, she was sleeping well which never happened as she was always fretting about something.

"Well, yeah, I just figured you wouldn't mind." Bo put on his most sincere smile and ran his fingers through his golden locks.

"Oh no, I don't mind being woke up in the middle of the night because you got some rock in the mail. I hate sleeping." Twilight rolled her eyes underneath her bed mussed mane. "Come on in and let's see what we can find." She led the way and shut the door behind her friends, trying to wipe the sleep from her eyes.

"All I know is that it's a magic relic, and it looks egyptian in design. If this thing does something I want to know, especially if it's useful."

"Egyptian? Well let's see, Eating in Las Pegasus, The End of The Age of Chaos, Erasure: Defining The RG and UG, ah here it is, Egyptian Relics: A Product of Human Mythology." Twilight used her magic to pull the book from the shelf, opening it and flipping through quickly, trying to get Bo to leave so she could go back to sleep. "Let's see, Ra's Anch, The Tears of Isis, Thoth's Golden Feather, The Book of The Dead...the only one that looks anywhere near close is this, The Eye of Horus. It says here that it's only been found in heiroglyphs that tell the tale of a man who can see through any lie, but has never actually been found, for more information see Combat Magic: An Overview of Egyptian Power." Twilight raised her head from the book and peered over at Bo.

"Oh me?" He was a bit confused at first but then he walked over to the bookshelf and started looking. "It should be under 'C' right?"

"Technically yes, but I don't have that one, we'll have to go to Canterlot if you want to know more." Twilight put the book back where it was and walked towards the door.

"I see, how pleased do you think Celestia will be to see us this late at night?" A mischeivous grin spread across his face.

"Oh no! When I said go to Canterlot, I meant tomorrow. I'm going back to bed, and you guys are going home." And with that Twilight opened the door and began to walk towards the stairs.

"Right, so see you tomorrow then?" Bo was a bit let down as Twilight didn't answer, but he and Fluttershy left the library and returned home to sleep. It was a calm and peaceful night, and Bo couldn't wait for the morning.

"There had better be a good reason for waking me up in the middle of a nap!"

"We're approaching our destination sir."

"Are you sure?"

"There is no sign of communications and the primary species appears to be ponies, I'm fairly certain this is where we need to be."

"Good, set down near a castle, or whatever they build. I want to make this quick and easy."

Author's Note

FUTURE BOOK SPOILER ALERT!!!!