*Yūkan*

Feeling more rested than he had before, Yūkan wakes up to find Sweetie Belle sitting in his lap.

"Hey S.B. What ya doing?" He says sleepily raising his arm to wipe the sleep away from his eyes.

Sweetie looks up and before hopping out of his lap. She starts drawing on the ground. An arrow pointed towards him and than a... bird? Or something that might look like a bird.

"I uhhhh don't."

Sweetie points towards his pocket. He reaches in and pulls out a rock shaped in the form of a bird. The freedom rock that Sweetie picked out.

"Oh! Do you want it back?"

She shakes her head and places her hoof over the rock and pushes his hand back to him. He understands instantly and puts the rock away He slowly gets up and peers at the walls around them. All over each wall is writing that looks likes gibberish.

"You understanding this?" Yūkan asks looking down at her.

She looks at the walls as well, though she's been looking at them the whole tie he has been asleep. She shakes her head knowing that staring at the gibberish wont make it readable.

"Alright than lets keep moving forward!" Yūkan says adjusting the gloves on his hands, "If there is any danger up ahead I'll take care of it."

Sweetie Belle nods, looks behind them, and moves forward keeping on Yūkan's heels.

They venture through the funnel finding the writing to get even more twisted and mashed together. The writing reminds them both of a child first learning to write. Unreadable and not understandable. Yūkan shakes his head and makes his pace faster getting tired of the same old chicken scratch on the wall.

Eventually they step into a dome like area, but the ceiling was that of clouds and wide opens skies.

"Holy shit..." Yūkan breathes out missing the view of the sky, "If only this as the real things..."

Sweetie Belle stares up as well not believing how somepony or something could actually conjure up the entire sky in a room like this. It must have taken a lot of magic.

*Sweetie Belle*

Sweetie looks to her left to see words that she can actually understand. She reads it off to herself as Yūkan starts walking around the room looking at all the different objects on the ground.

Mana within the area formed by the mind... then it runs into gibberish like before.

She looks at other bits of writing to see that she can understand that as well.

The lack of mana is worrying but mana manipulation

A knife was easy to summon since it

he made a balloon from a cloud not

though we have no magic entirely our own we

Sweetie shakes her head getting a headache already from writing this much. Sure she was understanding it easily, but with how broken it is. She goes over to Yūkan, who is rolling a clay orb back in forth in his hands at the moment, and tugs at his pants leg trying to coax him into following her.

"What is it?" He asks placing the clay back on the pedestal.

She continues pointing at the wall she was just at. Taking the hint Yūkan walks over behind Sweetie Belle. She points towards the words she can't read hoping he might be able to understand. Unfortunately he doesn't.

"Sorry Sweetie I still don't understand it... Do... Do you?"

She shakes her hoof from right to left.

"Kind of sorta. I get ya. I don't know what this room was used for, but I know that he has to do something with all the stuff down here. I highly doubt whoever was down her brought all this along. They had to summon it. Which explains the ceiling and tables." Yūkan says running a hand across one of the nearby tables.

Sweetie Belle nods her head.

Summoning? Like bringing something fourth. Bringing it from one place to another. But the words on the walls just said.

She looks up at the ceiling. The clouds ever so drifting by. Till one drifts by a balloon is seen behind it. She gasps shocked at how the information could be possibly right. He right eye starts to throb and she whimpers. Something starts coming back to her words she hasn't heard before. They nag and whisper at her as if trying to catch her attention on something important.

She stares at the balloon a little longer.

"Hey S.B? You know any ponies that could do this type of thing?"

Sweetie snaps out of her thoughts and looks at Yūkan who is poking a bracelet looking thing. It has zig zag going down the sides of it. It's lines are red and the rest black. She couldn't place a name on it, but she swears she has seen that sort of thing before. Maybe a guard had used it once.

Sweetie Belle shakes her head. She knows Twilight probably knows what all this is about. She makes a door on the ground and points at it.

"Yea guess we should focus on getting out first..." He says tapping the side of his leg, "So let's go out that way. Once we find an exit we'll talk about it later."

Sweetie nods her head.

Not entirely what I meant, but that's okay too.

*Twilight*

She stumbles forward the hole in her chest making her feel more empty inside, but a burning passion replaces that soon enough as she thinks of the pray that got away. She giggles with envy. She wants that kill more than anything. She wouldn't say she's blood thirsty, but she felt like if she didn't kill as many as she could with her new powers she would go crazy.

She glances behind her. Her once formidable group of creatures has demised since the encounter. All that tail behind her is the creature of the dark she can summon at will. The other she would have to find again, but than again there is a world above her that waits to be conquered. Thoughts of Ponyville and home flash through her mind at which she releases another giggle.

"Oh. I can just see the faces now... Their pure minds wouldn't be able to understand what happened. And Spike, I can't wait to form him into my most loyal pet!"

She presses herself against the wall of the tunnel. She catches her breath feeling the wound aggravate as she keeps talking.

She snorts wishing magic could do more than it already can. She sighs and continues walking wishing she had an exit now. That way she could continue her hunt above land under the sun. And take the sun as her own.

Her horn ignites without her permission and she stops. It's almost as if around her has changed. She can feel it pulse in her veins. She looks backward and walks. Not even two feet she comes across a door. A wooden door with golden edges. She takes ahold of the door and opens it. She walks out into the blinding light the whole while a giant smile forming on her face.

The world has become connected.

And so has its fate.
[Good End]

*Orphean*

He couldn't take it. Knowing that he's being hunted down like some prized prey. Its like a boy being tormented by nightmares that will never end. He wanders the corridors reaching intersecting paths all the while imagining that pony with the powers beyond him just pacing herself. Walking knowing his every turn. Keeping close enough to where the cave keeps them connected.

Or the cave could be under her control.

He shudders not wanting to think like that. Thoughts like those easily drive a man insane. Or to his death. He needs something to do. He seeks out an exit of some kind. Any kind. He prays silently to the cave for some type of exit. Instead it brings him something else.

"Damnit!" He yells seeing the boy and the small unicorn again, "Why do you have to appear at such a time!"

"Tsume... I mean Oprhean..." The boy clenches his fist.

"Out of my way before I shred you to pieces like I should of long ago!" He says looking back.

He says nothing. He couldn't imagine what was going on it Yūkan's mind. The whole struggle of accepting his friends are all probably dead and the fact that they could all be taken control of still wreck his mind. The only reason he has kept so cool is because of Sweetie Belle. But of course Orphean would never know any of that.

Orphean brings forth a bit of magic and forms a flame in his hand. He will burn them down now and get it over with. The unicorn seems to flinch at the sight of the flame. She seems to concentrate on it intensely.

But that doesn't matter. Right now what matters is escaping and killing.

"If you're going to fight me fight me!" Orphean yells thrusting out his right hand sending a giant flame towards him.

As expected his hand comes up sending the flame to separate sides of him. The unicorn is watching Orphean with an intense gaze. Her horn sparks which catches his attention for a second as he readies a second flame. A very important second indeed.

Impact against his cheek sends him to the walls and a burning feeling against it. He pushes off the wall to only feel the something to his gut and to the left of his head sending him to the ground. He tries to switch spells so he can shield himself better from the assault, but the odds weren't in his favor. He feels something cold spread over him.

He looks up to see Yūkan picking him up. Ice is spreading over Orphean's clothes. Orphean stares his opponent in the eyes. Orphean chuckles at his carelessness. His fear turned to be the destruction of him.

"God damn it..." Yūkan breathes out holding him in his hand, "I want to kill you..."

"But you can't cause you still see Tsumetai don't you. He's already dead. So why don't you kill me for him huh?"

"God damn it Tsumetai..."

Orpehan lights up his left hand with magic, "He's not here anymore. But I can rejoin you two!"

He brings up his left hand, but than it disappears. The feeling of the magic is gone. He stumbles back after Yūkan lets him go. Tsumetai looks at his left hand to see that it is in fact gone.

"Wha... What?" He looks behind him to see a dagger imbedded into the ground along with his hand beside it.

He looks at the unicorn to see her horn glowing in a green aura.

"You fucking brat!" He yells and charges a blast of magic for the unicorn in his other hand.

The unicorn panics to his delight, but finds himself flying back a large pain going through his chest. He lands on his back and coughs up blood. He turn around and tries to get up.

"You're right... he's gone... but I'll see him again on my terms."

With that pain in lights through his entire body. He feels his strength wane before everything starts to go black.

This isn't the exit I wanted...

*Rainbowdash*

The group continues to move. All three pegasi.

"Rainbowdash.... What are we going to do when we get home? I've been thinking about it for a while and I don't know if I'm ready or not."

Rainbowdash keeps quiet. She isn't sure how to answer it either. They've been traveling together and learning a lot about each other. The idea of being out there in the real world adapting back into the life they had doesn't sound to good to Rainbowdash. She even doubts that they'll even get back into the same retinue. The thing about it is they didn't know if the others were okay.

Fluttershy has been trying to convince Rainbowdash not to worry but even she has her concerns that Fluttershy can't get rid of.

"I'm not sure Fluttershy... If we do get out than... maybe we should keep low for awhile before anything else... I mean... if that's okay. I don't want to hold you guys back or anything..."

Fluttershy turns around and nuzzles Rainbowdash who nuzzles back, "Don't worry Rainbow. I'll keep us safe. I know Elsie won't stick around, but I want us to be together. I don't ever want to be separated again."

Rainbowdash smiles and lingers in the warmth of Fluttershy. Even if she abuses her sometimes with physical love, its moments like this that keeps her from running away.

As long as we're together we can take on the world.

"Hey guys!" Elise calls out from far ahead, "You might want to see this!"

The two hurry up to find Elsie standing in the middle of a dead end room. But at the top is a whole that streams down light.

"Is that?" Fluttershy asks moving cautiously toward the filly.

"Sure is... I tried stepping into the light and got burned because of it... but that sure is our ticket out of here...."

Rainbowdash walks into the light and spread her wings the warmth of the light foreign on her body. She looks at her friends to see them not basking in the light and remembers the conversation from two rooms back. Rainbowdash flies up and blocks out most of the light under her.

"Come on guys. I'll protect you from the light as long as you protect me from the dark."

Fluttershy grins and nods her head before standing underneath Rainbowdash and flying up as well. Elsie shakes her head and does the same mumbling how the dark doesn't hurt anyone.

Or at least not that much.

*Yūkan/ Sweetie Belle*

Yūkan stares down at the dead body of his former friend. The knife embedded through his heart from his back. He couldn't stab him while he was still looking into his eyes. The same eyes and face that has seen as much as he has. Yūkan shakes his head tears falling down his face.

Sweetie Belle couldn't believe it either. She couldn't believe that Yūkan would stab him like that. The way he was talking before... She takes a deep breath and stares at the dagger in the man's back. The dagger she had summoned forth and threw with her magic. She didn't think she could do that.

She had wanted to help so bad that it just appeared. She had thought of something sharp that could cut off the hand that was about to kill Yūkan and that was the first thing to appear. She just couldn't believe it. She had summoned using her own magic. Did that make her a conjurer?

She shakes the thought from her head. Its best not to worry about that right now. Yūkan falls to his knees and lays his hands on the body. He stares at it seeing if it'll move again. When it doesn't he screams out in anguish and pain. A man that he has known as a brother is dead.

Yūkan begins to beat on the body, "God damn it all Tsumetai! What the hell happened to not dying! What would Elza think! What the hell is wrong with you! You were suppose to be careful and not let greed get to you! Now look at you! You fucking fucked up!"

Sweetie Belle keeps quiet and only watches as Yūkan screams and cries out. She slowly makes her way over once he stops yelling and she presses herself against him to remind him that she's still here. Yūkan looks down at Sweetie Belle through blurry tear stained eyes.

"I'm... I'm going to miss him..." He says sitting on his legs no longer beating the body, "I really.... I really wish we... I..."

He chockes on sobs as he stands up and begins to walk away, "Let's get out of here... I can't take any more... This place... I hate it... I hate life... But. At least I still have you Sweetie... Promise me you won't end up like hm... Please."

Sweetie nods her head and follows behind him. She couldn't imagine the mental struggle he is probably going through.

In all honesty. The biggest struggle for him is accepting the death of everything around him. He looks at Sweetie Belle wiping away a few drying tear, "I love you Sweetie."

Sweetie draws a heart on the ground and the two continue their search for an exit. As they walk Sweetie and Yūkan reflect on what all they've been through. Life has been full of death life. They've gained and lost a lot so far.

They've might've lost their original path in the beginning, but now they've settled on a different path. Sure it might have led to many things they've never expected, but at least now. Now they can keep going forward because they know a lot of things are inevitable. There is an end to every beginning all depending on the choices made and the actions you do.

Their end comes as an opening shinning a bright light down the cave. They both run through and are enveloped by the light returning them to the world.

Author's Note

I'd like to thank everyone that has been here from the beginning and I know the ending is very vague and a lot of things seem to need more explaining more on and honestly they will. Just because this is the end of this story doesn't mean It's a ending for those whose lives where changed. No, their story is going to continue just not on this.
We're going to learn of their After Story.