My Little Pony Mining is Magic

Chapters

Chapter 1: Landing in a strange land
Chapter 2: Diggy Diggy, Hole!
Chapter 3: Unexpected Allies
Chapter 4: Darkness Rises
Chapter 5 preview

Chapter 1: Landing in a strange land

In Ponyville there is this lavender unicorn with violet eyes. She was trotting down the path with a book she was levitating with magic.

This pony was none other then Twilight Sparkle, Celestia's faithful student, and The Element of Magic.

Trotting along with her was a light grey pegasus with spiked grey mane and tail, his eyes were silver and he had a silver chain necklace on.

His cutie mark was that of a crown, with black on one side and white on the other, his cutie mark was also the token on his necklace.

This was Tirimor, a pegasus from Fillydeplhia that moved to Ponyville a while ago.

"Twilight what kind of book are you reading?" I asked.

"it is a book on teleportation Tirimor, and not the simple kind either" she replied.

"oh you mean the kind that can teleport somepony land to land?" I asked.

"yes that kind Tirimor, I know how to do the spell of course, I am just rereading this book, one cannot be careless when it comes to magic" she said.

"yeah, especially since what happened last time...." I said rolling my eyes and chuckled.

"don't remind me" She said with a frown.

"come on Twilight, I was just kidding around, anypony could have made the same mistake" I said.

"well I am not just anypony" she replied.

"it is alright to learn from mistakes Twilight, but you have to stop looking back at the past and start looking towards the future, when it comes to that the sky's the limit" I said as I pointed my hoof into the great blue sky.

"you and your words of wisdom Tirimor" she said with a half smile.

"blame my parents Twilight, they raised me by example after all" I said as I rolled my eyes.

"well my friends are waiting for me, guess I will see you around" she said.

"hold on Twilight, are you trying to teleport yourself and your friends somewhere?, isn't that dangerous?" I asked.

"yeah, but I am going to take all safety precautions though, so you don't have to worry" she replied.

"I don't know...maybe I should come along as well, it is always a good idea to have an extra set of hooves around" I said.

"well....if you insist on going then I guess, but you better hurry and pack" she said.

"alright so it is settled then, I will get what I need and come by the libary" I said.

I then hovered using my wings and prepared to fly off.

"just remember to bring only essentials, were not going to be gone for that long" she said.

"right only the essentials, see you at the library" I said.

I went home and packed what I needed for the trip, toothbrush, sleeping bag, some fruits and vegetables, a couple of books and other items.

After I packed my saddlebags I flew to Twilight's home, which was Books and Branches, a library in Ponyville.

I was at the door when I could hear Twilight talking to her friends, so I polity knocked on the door.

Spike Answered it, and said "hey Twilight, Tirimor just showed up".

I entered the library and saw Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy all ready with their own saddlebags.

"oh my gosh Tirimor I'm so happy your coming, this is going to be fun!" Pinkie said in her own enthusiastic way.

"well somepony has to help you get out of trouble with words" I said.

"yeah right, like were going to need words to get out of it" Rainbow Dash said with confidence.

"don't be to confident Rainbow, overconfidence can get the best of anypony" I said.

"yes we know, especially since we had a fine example of it" Rarity said.

"me and Spike are packed and ready, so is everyone else ready to go?" Twilight asked.

We all pretty much nodded in response, though Fluttershy had to take two seconds longer.

"alright everyone stand by me as I cast the spell" Twilight said.

As her horn started to glow we all got close to her, and a few seconds later we were engulfed my lavender and purple colored energy.

All I could see was the energy for a few seconds, and then suddenly I was diposited into a forest by a beach.

I stood up and groaned, a bit groggy from the short ride, but everyone was accounted for.

"were in tarnation are we Twilight?" Applejack asked as she got up.

Twilight looked confused and said "I-I don't know Applejack, the spell was supposed to take us to Trottingham, but somehow we ended up here, wherever here is..."

I looked around and I was sort of confused at what I was seeing at, everything was....square.

There were no slopes in the beach it was square too, the ground was square, the trees were square, even the leaves on the trees were square!

"Twilight what is this place?" Spike asked.

"I don't know, but this wasn't supposed to happen, what could have gone wrong?" She said with a hoof to her chin in thought.

"I think we need to worry about that later Twilight, we need to figure out what this place is" I said.

"yeah this is nothing like Equestria, it is like nothing I have ever seen, everything is so....square!" Pinkie Pie said.

"hey guys look over there!" Rainbow Dash said.

We all looked and right by the edge of square grass was a book.

Then we all trotted over to it and looked at the book.

The book was a hardback that had grey leather on it, it had the words "DON'T PANIC!" printed on the front in friendly big letters.

The books title was, The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia.

"Minecraftia....so this is what this place is called?" Applejack said as Twilight used her magic to float the book and opened it.

"in my opinion I would have named it something more fancier for an exotic place" Rarity said.

"well it doesn't look to bad at least..." Fluttershy said.

"hey Twi, anything in that book that can help?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"this book is filled with all kinds of information everypony!, from surviving your first night, to list of materials and how to get them and even crafting things!" She said with the only type of enthusiasm that somepony like her could display.

"so what is our first order of business then?" Applejack said.

Twilight scanned through the book then said, "well the first order of business is to build a shelter to hold us all in at night".

"were going to need some wood from trees, and it is so easy as hitting them to get it" she said.

We all looked at her puzzled, so we all looked at the page she read and found out it was true.

How to survive your first night in Minecraftia: So your a new adventurer are you? Well that is all good in all, but no adventurer will survive during night time without a shelter.

Making a shelter is quite easy, probably one of the most easiest things for you to do, but first what you need to do is collect wood.

Collecting wood comes in two easy steps, one: hitting the wood until it breaks, then two: going by it to collect it.

So as the book said we all selected a tree and started hitting it. Surprisingly to me the wood gave way in a few hits and went into my right hoof.

"well this is weird...how the hay does this even work Twilight?" I said.

"to put it simply is that each pony has some sort of subspace inside of them that can store thirty six things, but they can store certain things in "stacks" of sixty four" She replied.

"anything else?" I asked.

"as a matter of fact yes, their is also four "slots" that are used for armor, and a two by two "crafting area" to make simple things, like a block of wooden planks for our shelter" she explained.

"well I have heard crazy things come out of your mouth Twi, and this is the craziest, but I guess I can trust ya on this one" Applejack said as she finished with her tree.

After awhile each of us cut down five trees, well except for Rarity who only cut down one.

"I guess we got the wood thing covered now, now we just need to find a place to build" Twilight said.

We looked around, but we couldn't really find a good place to set it up, we went out of the forest and into a desert, but then we went into a plains like area with a forest by.

That is when we saw a house, but a type of house that had wheels on it with a cow pulling it, but it was resting.

"you think somepony else lives there?" Fluttershy asked nervously.

"I wouldn't doubt it, but we don't know if their friendly or not" Rainbow Dash said.

"well let's see what The Guide has to say about other ponies, well other people" she said correcting herself.

Interacting with other people: In your travels you might run into other houses or towns, this is natural since Minecraftia is a huge place!

Many people have many different jobs, some are carpenters who work on buildings, some may be chefs who cook foods, while others could be guards, blacksmiths, miners, farmers, alchemists and enchanters.

To interact with others is as simple as waving your hand and saying hello, but sometimes others do this first to you.

Many people in Minecraftia go day by day working to live, whether it be alone or in a town.

Despite this some people can be more dangerous then the monsters at night, so be wary.

That doesn't mean all people here are bad, many people in Minecraftia are good natured folk, willing to give a helping hand once in awhile.

So have a good laugh and great mining expedition with your fellow Minecraftians!

"well that was a load of help" Dash said sarcastically.

"you don't know until you try Rainbow, now let me do the talking" I said.

We all trotted up to the house's front door and I knocked on it.

Something was coming to the door, but suddenly it was kicked open, and coming out was a person.

The guy had brown hair and blue eyes with a brown goatee, he was wearing a cyan shirt with blue pants, and grey shoes.

"you monsters picked the wrong day to get on my lawn!" he shouted with his sword in both hands.

"no, no, no wait, were not monsters alright, were ponies and were lost" I said.

He looked a bit surprised but kept his guard up, everyone behind me was scared except Rainbow Dash, who Fluttershy was hiding behind.

"talking ponies?, now that's a new one I haven't heard, but why should I trust you?" he said with his sword by my face.

"because we would not lie, this is our first night in this strange world, we know little about and we need help" I said.

"but why should I?, you eight don't look like your carrying anything of my interest" he said.

"please sir, we come from another dimension and until we find a way to get back we have to survive, if we don't find a place to build soon we won't last long during the night" Twilight pleaded.

Fluttershy was staring at the guy now with her adorable eyes and face.

"well....alright, I guess you can set up behind me, but let me help" he said.

"thank you kind stranger, you honor us with your kindness" I said.

"yeah, don't mention it, the name is Steve and you eight are?" he asked.

"my name is Tirimor, this is Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity" I said indicating each.

"well let's get started then, time is a wasting, you guys got any wood on you?" he asked.

"yes we do, we got loads of it in a forest area before we got here" I said.

"alright let me see it" he said.

We all looked at him puzzled.

"we don't really know how to take it out" I said.

"oh that is actually simple, just will yourself to let the wood fall on the floor" he said.

We did as we were told and all of the wooden cubes came falling out onto the floor.

"Well I see you eight got enough wood here to build a house like mine and then some to make tools and a door, I'll supply you with some glass, I got enough of that" Steve said.

So we all started making the house, with Steve's supervision we learned how to turn the wood into planks of wood.

Then using our small crafting table to make a crafting table block which gave us nine squares.

He made the wheels of the house while we worked on the walls, I put up the door while Twilight used her magic to place the glass in.

Soon we had a house just like Steve's,mobile and ready to go anywhere.

"well that is a good house to start out with, I put in some chests and a bed for each of you" Steve said.

"Thanks Steve, we couldn't have done it without ya" Applejack said.

"don't mention it, it is going to get dark soon, you should head inside" he said.

"Steve, you wouldn't mind us traveling around with you right? Even with that book we found we should have experience" I said.

"hmmmmmmm he said in thought, hand to his chin.

"well they don't look dangerous, but it could be a trick. I don't really trust them, but their eyes show their sincere" he thought.

"I guess, it has been getting boring with just me and Enderbro anyways" he said.

"who is Enderbro?" Spike asked.

"Enderbro is a friend of mine, he is a friendly Endermen, we have been bros for a long time" He said to Spike.

"bro?, I have never heard of the word bro before" Twilight said puzzled.

"it is a term guys use as a short word for friend" He explained.

"well anyways the sun is almost gone we should head inside" I said.

We said goodnight to Steve and went inside, though we did see Steve hook our mobile house up to his before he went inside his.

The house was pretty basic, with wooden walls and ceiling with a few glowing blocks in the corners and middle with grey carpet.

Though each bed had the colors of it's owners with their cutie mark, except for Spikes which has a green flame.

At the foot of each bed was a chest, but in the middle was four furnaces with two crafting tables.

"wow this place looks good" I said.

"hmmm, yes quite, but it needs a mares touch" Rarity said.

"I can't wait to throw a party in here!" Pinkie Pie said.

"that is if we ever find a way to make items like that" I said.

"I am just going to stay up a bit and get some reading done" Twilight said.

"I don't think that would be a good idea Twilight, especially since we need our strength tomorrow" I said.

We saw something several feet away from our house, so we peered through the glass.

The thing was green, with four legs and a face that was frowning.

"Twilight what does the book say?" I said.

"hold on, hold on I am getting to the page" she said.

She got to it and we all looked over to read it.

Creepers: Creepers are a notorious type of monster,it acts like a suicide bomber and blows up near anything hostile.

Creepers are known for their signature "SSSSssssssSSSSSsssss" they make before detonation, which has been known to kill an unarmored adventurer easily.

The good thing about creepers is like all monsters, only come out at night, but unlike Zombies and Skelitons they are immune to being burned by the sun's light.

Creepers like other monsters can also be found in ravines, caves, and underground mines.

There are several ways to deal with a Creeper, smart adventurers use a bow and a few arrows to destroy them, while others who are bold enough and have protection can repeatedly charge attack one to slay it.

Once said Creeper is defeated, it drops gunpowder, an ingredient that is used along with sand to make TNT.

Remember that Creepers footsteps are silent unless they fall onto a block, so be vary aware.

Fluttershy practically stopped reading after the beginning and hid her eyes with her hooves.

"well that was unsettling...." I said.

"how can this species survive if it's main goal is to do harm by self detonation?" Twilight pondered.

"Well I don't want to find out I just want it gone" Dash said.

"might as well check out the rest, we need to know what is out there" Twilight said.

Zombies: Zombies are a mindless bunch, always rushing at adventurers without knowing were their going.

Zombies moan and groan alot so you can easily tell if one is right by.

Zombies are slow, and only really attack up close, so using a bow can kill it, but a few swings with an iron sword can too.

They come out at night like any other monster, but the sun's light causes them to burn until they die.

Slaying a zombie drops rotten flesh, which can be eaten, but will cause hunger faster.

Twilight then went over to the Skeleton Page.

Skeletons: Skeletons are slightly stronger then Zombies, but only use a bow and arrow to fight.

Skeletons can be heard because of the clanking of their bones.

Dispatching a skeleton from afar is best, but if one can dodge their arrows a few sword swings can slay them.

Like Zombies, Skeletons burn because of the sun's light and will continue to do so until dead.

Some Skeletons are known to ride on the backs of Spiders, making the duo dangerous due to range and quick melee attacks.

Skeletons drop arrows for bows, and bones for bone meal and taming wolves.

"well at least those two we don't have to worry on the surface" I said.

"we might as well head to bed, the lights will keep us safe" Twilight said.

"the sooner we sleep, the more energized we will be in the mournin" Applejack said as she went under the covers.

I trotted over and layed my saddlebags by my bed, I then went under the covers and layed my head down.

Everyone else did the same, but Twilight was still awake writing something by the time I slept.

Dear, Princess Celestia,

Today me and my friends were transported to a strange land were everything terrian wise was square.

We also met a being named Steve, and learned a valuable lesson in friendship.

We realzed today not all dimentsions have ponies in it, but humans.

However, just because someone looks different from you and acts different from you doesn't mean you can't be friends.

Friends are friends, no matter what they look like and how they act.

Also that a little bit of kindness can go along way.

I hope and look forward to finding other things in friendship we could learn from Steve and this land called Minecraftia.

Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 2: Diggy Diggy, Hole!

Steve woke up in the mourning and got dressed with a fresh set of clothes.

"come on Enderbro, get up" he said.

In another bed was a black creature taller then Steve with skinnier limbs.

It grumbled a bit but finally got up, it's eyes opening to reveal purple eyes that were derpish.

"sup Steve, so what is for breakfast?" he said.

"cooked porkchops and cake" he said.

Enderbro did notice that there was a couple of apples as well.

"then why are you having apples, you getting scurvy?" he asked as he stood up.

"no let's just say we got neighbors next door joining us now" he said.

"that is so cool bro!, so who are they?" he asked as he wiggled his limbs.

"well their ponies, talking ponies which is weird, I don't really trust them yet, but we will see if my mind changes in the revine" he said.

"talking ponies, that is awesome, I wonder were they come from?" he said with his hands to his face and his eyes being shiny.

"all I know is that they come from another dimension that they're trying to get back to" he said.

He went to the furnaces and took out a cube of cake and a couple of slices of porkchops, and he collected them along with the twenty four apples.

"anyways let's go wake them up, the sooner we get breakfast done, the faster we can mine" he said.

Steve opens his house door and steps out and Enderbro follows, lowering his head to fit through the door, but rises full legth once through.

I wake up and stretched, it was early in the mourning, the sun still rising and leaving a sunset.

I looked and saw everyone was still in bed, except for Applejack, who was outside.

One of my saddlebags stirred a bit, which I haven't opened yet.

"oh I nearly forgot...." I thought as I got out of bed and undid the sack.

Out came out a four foot dragon, not the kind like Spike's.

It was silver, had both legs and arms, a tail and two wings on it's back.

"sorry about that Galaddae, forgot to undo the strap closing that pack" I said.

A voice come into my mind one that was young but wise.

"even if someone enchanted the saddlebags for you it was somewhat cramped in there" he said.

"well the spell was only designed to hold a certain number of things" I said.

He looked around and said "this is a weird place, how come everything is square?"

I explained to him our dilemma as best as I could.

"then I guess we will have to make do and find the answer we seek" he said.

"yeah exactly, well anyways make yourself comfortable here, I am going to step outside for a bit" I said.

I opened the door and stepped into the plain all around us with a forest at our edge.

Applejack was sitting there looking at the sunrise, as if she was pondering something.

I went by her "homesick?" I asked.

"just somewhat a bit Tirimor" she said.

"it happens to everypony Applejack, we will get home soon enough" I said.

"but how long will it take us?, I told Big Macintosh I would be back in two days time" she replaied.

"I don't really know the answer to that Applejack, but we will get home" I said.

That is when Steve come out of his house, along with someone else.

This person was bigger then he was, all black, and had skinnier limbs.

"hey Applejack, Tirimor, go wake everyone else it is time for breakfast" he said.

He laid down a cloth and then a cubed cake with twenty four apples on the grass.

"come on wake up!, soups on everypony!" Applejack shouted.

Everyone woke up a few seconds apart some more tired then others.

"what is all this commotion, can anypony get her beauty sleep?" Rarity complained.

"it is breakfast time, we got to eat to get some strength before we head out" Steve said.

"look at the ponies Steve!, there is a lavender one, a white one, one with rainbow hair, another one with a hat, a grey one, an adorable light yellow one, and one with poofy pink hair" Enderbro said with sparkling eyes and his hands to his face.

"this is Enderbro everyone, Enderbro this is Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Tirimor, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie" Steve said.

"it is nice to meet new friends, but don't the dragons have names?" Enderbro said.

"this is Spike he is both my friend and and number one assistant" Twilight said.

"everyone this is Galladae, he is a dragon I am raising myself to be good" I said.

"good mourning everyone, so when will we eat?" Galaddae said in everyones mind.

"we are going to have breakfast now, the faster we get it done the more time we have" Steve said.

Steve pulled out a slab of meat and handed one to Enderbro.

"oh, this is a porkchop I know you guys only eat plants if I am guessing right" he said.

"but why would you kill an animal for, it is wrong" Twilight said.

"well it is a daily thing here in Minecraftia, it is either that or we starve, meat is easy to get and slows down our hunger" Steve said.

"the same thing can be done with plants" I said.

"yeah kinda, for you anyways, though humans can eat both plants and meat, I eat both but I prefer meat since it slows down hunger more then most plant based foods" Steve said.

Twilight was done eating and was looking though The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia and read aloud the subject of hunger.

Hunger: Hunger is the state of a person that is used to show how much energy they have.

The less hunger, the more energy they have, and the only way to lessen hunger is to eat.

There are many different varieties of food to eat in Minecraftia, like porkchops or bread.

Meat is easy to find and cook, while plants require a farm to grow them and take several days.

Different food have different measures of slowing down hunger, some can be low like watermelon, while others are high like Porkchops.

Despite this though hunger is an easy thing to keep low if one can find food.

After awhile we were done when Galaddae ate the last porkchop on the cloth.

Steve folded the cloth up and collected it while saying "that was a good breakfast, now before we head to the ravine you will need armor and tools"

"what is this ravine your going on about?" Applejack asked.

"A ravine is a dangerous place filled with underground tunnels and monsters, but it is rewarding since allot of materials can be found" he said.

"but why are we heading down there?" Fluttershy asked.

"to mine materials like coal, iron and gold, though if we get lucky we can find redstone and diamond" he said.

"diamond....you mean like the gem?" Rarity said with a spark in each eye.

"yes, though they're rare to find, but make the best tools, like my diamond sword and pickaxe" he said.

"how often to do you find them?" I asked.

He looked to the sky with a hand on his chin in thought then said "on a good day twenty five gems, thirty five if I am lucky".

He walked to his house and we followed him.

"but what about this redstone?, what is it's use in this land?" Twilight asked.

"it is used to make machinery and mechanisms mostly, it can even make jukeoxes, a compess and clock" he said.

"so this redstone is sort of like circuitry of some kind" she said.

"yeah basically, allot of people have made some interesting things with redstone" he said.

He went into his house and got to work making something with iron bars and sticks on his crafting table.

When he came out he was wearing diamond armor, but he gave each of us a set of iron armor a few picks, three stacks of torches, two swords and a stack of apples.

"there, now you are ready to head into the ravine, the armor will feel weightless, same with the picks and swords" he said.

The armor appeared on us when we willed it and it made us look like a squad of pony guards with a armor wearing dragon.

Each suit was different based on our kind. Pegasai had their wings covered, while the helmet on unicorns had a hole for the horns.

Twilight and Rarity were able to wield their swords with magic, but somehow the rest could hold them with hooves.

"alright now let's get going, the ravine is just over there behind the hill" Steve said pointing the hill in the plains area.

We went over the hill and saw a large crack in the earth by a lake, some of the water falling into the crack.

"alright come on, see you all at the bottom" Steve said as he ran and went into the waterfall.

"this is going to be cool now we have extra friends" Enderbro said as he disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.

We looked down and the ravine was deep, but Steve and Enderbro were already at the bottom.

"come on you slowpokes!, this ravine isn't going to mine itself!" Steve shouted to us.

"so how are we going to do this?" I asked.

"me and Rarity will go with spike and use the waterfall, but two of you have to carry Pinkie Pie and Applejack" Twilight said.

"alright, I guess Galaddae can fly down as well" I said.

With that I grabbed Pinkie Pie while Dash and grabbed Applejack and we flew down.

Pinkie was giggling down the whole way as I flew down.

Rainbow got to the bottom first and placed Applejack on the grownd.

I lightly placed Pinkie on her hooves and went on mine as I fold my wings back.

Galaddae landed right me as Twilight and Rarity reached the bottom and Twilight let the orb holding them dissipate.

Steve came by us and said "alright everyone stay together so we don't get separated, watch out for any monsters and don't hesitate to kill them".

"so were do we go first?" I asked.

"Enderbro found a chamber with iron, redstone and coal over there, so that is our first job" he said.

We followed him over to it and Enderbrow was waiting for us.

The iron ore looked brown a bit, but we new under it was it's actually grey color.

The redstone ore looked like it had several lumps of it, and the coal was black and bumpy.

"alright everyone start digging, plenty to go around" Steve said.

I went over to some Iron and started using my pickaxe to hit it, the ore cracked then broke off as a cube as a collected it.

There was some more so I kept hitting until I got it all and moved somewhere else.

"I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole!, diggy diggy hole!, I'm digging a hole!" Steve was singing as he got several iron ore easily with his diamond pickaxe.

"what is that your singing?" Spike asked as he worked some coal out.

"it is part of a song called Dwarf Hole sung by some dwarf named Honeydew, it is very popular with the miners in Minecraftia" he said.

"their is dwarfs here?, I thought there was only humans?" Twilight asked as she got several redstone out.

"not true, their are actually not just humans, but dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings" he said.

"so this Honeydew dwarf, who is he anyways?" I asked.

"Honeydew along with his friend Xephos a human are probably the best adventurers in minecraftia, they have been to many places" he said.

"and what about you?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"me?, I am just a simple person living a simple life, though some say I am an expert miner, I just have survived longer then others" he said.

"how long do people usually last in mines?" Twilight asked as she moved over to some coal and started mining it.

"a long time, as long as they know what their doing and be aware" he said.

"because of the creepers right?" Fluttershy said.

He nodded as he went over to some coal and with a few swings got all of the vein.

After sometime the chamber was empty and Steve lead us down a hall way with some ore which we collected along the way.

"shhh, you guys hear that?" Steve said.

We listened and we heard some groaning with bone shaking.

"a zombie and skeleton" I said.

"well it is a good thing we got swords then" Rainbow Dash said.

"being in this dirty place is bad enough" Rarity said.

"Killing these guys is going to be to easy" Steve said.

He turned the corner and wielded his diamond sword, the zombie and skeleton noticed him quickly.

The zombie shuffled over to him while the skeleton knocked an arrow and fired.

Steve's diamond armor made the arrow just bounce off, he charged and sliced at the zombie.

The zombie groaned in pain as he fell to the floor and in a puff of smoke turned into orbs that went into Steve.

The skeleton fired again, but Steve dodged the arrow as he charged the skeleton and did a horizontal slash with his diamond sword.

The skeleton fell to the floor as well and turned into those orbs and they went into Steve again.

"that was awesome bro, nice work" Enderbro said.

"thanks bro" Steve said as he fistbumped with Enderbro.

"alright the way should be clear, but we need to stay alert in case" he said.

We followed him to another chamber that lead down three ways with some ore.

"alright go get the ore I will keep watch" Steve said.

the sounds of picks hitting ore was now in the air as we mined again.

As I got the last bit of iron their was a creeper in front of me.

It went "SSSSSSsssssssssSSSSSSssssssss" as it saw me.

"my Celestia duck and cover!" I said as I ran from the creeper.

The explosion blew up the wall I was by, I was away from the blast but the shockwave sent me by a wall near our entry.

"-imor are you alright?" was pretty much I all got out of Twilight.

"yeah I am fine" I said as I got up and shook to get rubble off.

"thank goodness that was close" Fluttershy said.

"Creeper blasts have the power of one TNT, so be careful, but at least your armor held" Steve said.

I looked at my armor and saw that it still looked perfect besides the fact I got tossed in an explosion.

Rarity peered into the hole the creeper left and did a girlish squeal.

"what is it?" Applejack said.

"diamonds!, there beyond this hole!" she said.

We all went over and looked at what she was seeing.

The hallway had a row of diamond ore on the wall, and it looked like the other side went to the right entrance.

"well that was sort of lucky" Steve said.

"how was that lucky?, I got tossed by an exploding creeper" I said.

"that may have been unfortunate but at least your still alive" he said.

We went through the wall and started mining the ore, which was a vein of ten diamond ore.

"alright let's keep going, the faster we fill our inventory, the faster we can get out of here" Steve said.

We worked for awhile which included more creeper explosions and run ins with zombies and Skeletons.

That is when we came to an area that had webs in it, but had some gold ore and iron.

"watch it spiders can be in here, their fast attackers and ambushers" Steve said.

We all moved together as a group, watching the ceiling for movement.

"let's just hop were not dealing with cave spiders here, they have poison that eats away at our hunger" Steve said.

That is when three things came down at Steve, Enderbro grabbed him and teleported away somewhere close.

The spiders missed their target but then started coming at us.

I took out my iron sword to defend myself and everyone else.

One of the spiders made a hissing noise and leaped at me.

I swung and my sword connect, leaving a gash that hit one of it's eyes.

Twilight then made her sword lunge and it got one of the spiders between it's eight eyes.

Steve harged at the third spider and slashed it, causing it to a dieing hiss as it turned to smoke.

My spider leaped, but I side stepped it and slashed it's abdomen causing it to in smoke.

Twilight then used her magic to cause her sword to slash it's midsection and the spider turned to smoke.

The orbs came to us as the others started mining at the ore.

"that was close" I said.

"Enderbro has done that more then one occasion to save my life, it feels like you got hit by a sledgehammer when you appear though" Steve said.

"no thanks, it is what bros do" Enderbro said as he wiggled his limbs.

Steve fistbumbed Enderbro anyways as everyone got the ore out.

As we went deeper and deeper the webs started getting thick, up to the point were Steve had to use his diamond sword to cut a way through.

Though as we kept going more spiders attacked us, but we fought and defeated them.

"my Celestia, is there usually this many spiders?" Spike asked.

"no not really, this is actually a first for me, usually spider dens are small" Steve.

"do you think we may be dealing with something bigger?" Galaddae said in our minds.

"I doubt it this place doesn't look like it would house anything else but spiders" Steve said as he kept hacking away.

That is when we made it to a hallway leading to a giant room, it had cob webs on it so thick the ground was covered.

"I have a bad feeling about this" Fluttershy said.

We went into the place but stayed cautious to watch out for ambushes.

That is when something huge jumped from the ceiling and landed by us.

It was a spider, a very big spider that was at least eight times bigger then a regular one.

"well this is new, I thought the Bull Spider was just a folk tale" Steve said.

"how are we going to fight this thing, it has blocked out our exit" I said.

"my sword is only good for one hit killing basic enemies, not something like this" he said.

"well you better start thinkin' now or else we won't make it out" Applejack said.

The spider shot out green goo at us and we all scattered, it hit the wall and stuck there.

Twilight launched her sword and it cut several of the legs, but it did little to it.

"isn't the sack at it's back were it's heart is?" I asked as I slashed one of it's legs.

"yeah, but it is sort of hard to find it since it's narrow" Twilight said.

"well I guess we found it's weakspot then" Steve said.

"don't play the hero Steve, we need to work this together as a team" I said.

"how long do we have to distract it?" Rainbow Dash said as she dodged another shot of green goo.

"long enough to buy us some time" Steve said.

Twilight focused and caused several shots of magic to come out of her horn, which hit one of the legs and broke it.

The spider hissed in anger as it felt one of it's eight legs break.

"come on Steve hold on to me, I am going to try and get you over it" I said.

"alright, just don't drop me really high" he said.

He held onto my back using my armor as I unfolded my wings and took off, going over the spider.

"this has to be perfect, no slip ups" I thought.

Galaddae use his fire breath and burned one of the spiders eyes as Applejack slid and sliced at the spiders legs.

"alright Steve let go" I said as I was in position.

He fell close to the spider at it's sack, and brought his diamond sword down to pierce it.

The spider screeched as the sack was pierced through by Steve's diamond sword.

Steve got off the spider as it's screeches of pain faded away and it disappeared in multiple pulsing lights.

What the spider dropped was a small chest.

Steve walked over to it and opened the chest, that is when a light surrounded us.

It disappeared as quickly as it came, but left a ring as an item and a note.

Twilight used her magic to lift the note and read outload.

Gained: plus one ring slot and Ring of the Bull Spider.

"what in the hay is that supposed to mean?" Applejack asked.

"well I guess we all gained an extra slot of some kind, as for the ring I am not so sure, I have to study it once we get back" Twilight said.

Behind the chest was another hallway, but as we looked our entry point was blocked.

From the hallway behind the chest came a slight rushing of wind.

"well there is our exit, we all did a good job" Steve said.

"wonderful, all this mining is to dirty for my taste" Rarity said.

"it was actually fun, well up to the giant spider part" Pinkie said.

"let's head back to the houses before it starts getting dark" Steve said.

As we went inside the area had diamond and gold ores, once we collected it all we kept going.

The other cave entrance opened up to a hill of somekind, it looked over another forest with a town right by.

"well it looks like were by a town, we can trade some of the ore we make for items and food" Steve said.

"we don't really have the time though since the sun is going down" I said.

That is when I got the urge to sing for some reason as we walked back to our mobile homes.

T: "Tell everypony I'm on my way, new friends and new places to see!"

RD: "with blue skys ahead, yes I'm on my way, and there's no were else I'd rather be!"

AJ: "Tell everypony I'm on my way, and I'm lovin' every step I take"

FS: "with the sun beating down, yes I am on my way, and I can't keep this smile off my face!"

TS: "cause there's nothing like seeing each other again, no matter what the distance between "

PP: "and the stories that we tell, will make you smile, or really lifts my heart"

T: "so tell'em I'm on my way, new friends and new places to see!"

TS: "and to sleep under the stars, and could ask for more, with the moon keeping watch over me"

R: "not the snow, and nor the rain, can change my mind, the sun will come out, wait and see"

RD: "and the feeling of the wind in your face, can lift your heart, oh there is nowere I would rather be!"

Everyone:"cause I'm on my way now, well and true, I'm on my way now"

"I'm on my way now"

T: "Tell everypony I'm on my way and I can't just wait to be there!"

RD: "with blue skies ahead, as I'm on my way, with nothing but good times to share!"

TS: "so tell everypony I'm on my way, and I just can't wait to be home!"

Everpony: "With the sun beating down, yes I'm on my way, and nothing but good times to show!"

"I'm on my way!"

"yes I'm on my WAY!"

Steve looked confused and said "do you guys usually break into song like that?"

"sometimes, when the situation calls for it" Twilight said.

"I loved the singing, it was pretty awesome" Enderbro said as he wiggled his arms.

"thanks though that wasn't really our calling back where we live" I said.

"then what exactly did you eight do before you got here?" Steve asked.

As we walked we sort of did some backword glances at him.

"I was an investigator of some sorts, though my main thing was to help others" I said.

"what kind of things did you investigate?" he asked.

"several things, some involving criminalology, CSI, the paranormal and other stuff" I said.

"Well we really haven't delt with anything like the paranormal in awhile" Steve said.

We finally came to our two mobile homes and we went inside to ours.

After a few seconds our furnaces were on making the iron ore we found turn into iron bars,and we placed the diamonds in a seperate chest.

Steve came out an hour or so later with the table cloth which meant dinner was served.

For dinner we had bread, watermelon, apples and cake, though Steve, Enderbro and Galaddae had steak.

After dinner went back inside when it got dark and placed the iron bars in a large chest.

"well that was something for our first mining trip" Rarity said.

"yeah, and something tells me it isn't going to be our last" Applejack said.

"but at least now we have materials to use" Spike said.

"I am still wondering about tomorrow though, since we have to hed into a town" I said.

"well were going with Steve, so things should be fine" Twilight said.

"anyways it is about time we all hit the hay, see you all in the mournin'" Applejack said as she went into her bed an slept.

I yawned and went into bed myself and fell asleep after awhile.

Dear, Princess Celestia,

Today me and my friends learned a valuable lesson in friendship.

friends are there for eachother no matter the challenge.

Even if the task is daugnting, you can count on them.

Working together is better then working alone, because you have someone to lend a helping hoof when needed.

It is the power of teamwork and friendship that makes things easier.

Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 3: Unexpected Allies

In a void of black with a white ground and towers was a dragon.

It was big, flying around with black scales and purple eyes.

It hovered then landed on a platform of white stone as Endermen looked at it.

"the time has come....the invasion will begin..." The dragon said.

The Endermen cheered at this news but was silenced by the dragon.

"a new commander will lead this invasion......" he said.

He made something fall as he released his right claw on it, and then he summoned purple lightning.

It hit the item dead on and continued a few seconds.

"now my new commander, rise and lead the invasion of the surface dwellers!" The dragon roared.

The form of a pony stood up, it had black and grey full body armor.

It had helmet hiding it's face, and a sword of red diamond.

"yes my master" the pony said in a dark female voice full of sadist and malice.

Pinkie Pie woke up with a scream that pretty much woke up everypony in the house.

"Pinkie Pie what is wrong?" Twilight asked.

"I...I don't know, it must have been a bad dream" she said.

"maybe you shouldn't have had that piece of cake before bed" I said.

"Pinkie are you sure your going to be ok?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"of course you silly filly!, it was just a bad dream, I am Pinkie Keen!" she said confidently.

"well that's a relief, you looked like you got scared half to death" Rarity replied.

"you can say that again" Applejack said.

In a few seconds everypony got out of the house, but before I left I pondered on what happened.

"it couldn't have just been a dream right?, it could have been a vision of some kind..." I thought.

"if it was a vision, it could have been something important, but what?" I continued.

"I am going to have to consult with Pinkie on this later, I have a feeling it may be vital..." I thought as I went outside and shut the door to the house.

After we had breakfast we went back inside our house and Steve drove the two mobile homes towards the town.

When we got there people looked at us strangely, but kept on going on with their own business.

"well this is awkward...." Twilight said.

"it's going to be fine Twilight, people are used to seeing weird things in this world, just act natural" Steve said.

"wow this place is big!" Pinkie Pie said.

"it's not really that big, this is just a town, some places have castles and way more buildings then this" Steve replied.

"the market kind of reminds me of Ponyvilles a bit" Applejack said.

The market street was lined up with all types of buildings and booths.

Some of the booths were either selling food, trade supplies, and clothing.

Though the buildings had other merchandise like armor, weapons, books, potions, enchantments, and mechanical devices.

"ok so what is the plan, what exactly do we need?" I asked.

"basic needs, were running out of coal so we need to trade for that, though we also need potions" Steve said.

"Steve what are those contraptions in the air?" Twilight asked.

She was looking at something made out of wood that had a half blocky circle made of wool above it connected by rope and a propeller on the back.

"that is an airship, a rather small one though, airships come in many shapes and sizes" He replied.

"though how do they move around in the air like that?" she asked.

"they use an engine that is powered by coal, though some do use steam power to move or redstone" Steve said.

"that is interesting, is there any other ways people get around?" she asked.

"well there are planes and helicopters for air as well, though water uses boats" Steve replied.

"this is exiting!, there is so much we could from here, hold on I need to get a few books on the subjects!" Twilight said as she hurried off.

"wow, that pony sure does love to learn" Steve said.

"next to the princesses, Twilight is one of the most intelligent ponies that we know of" Rarity said.

"that egghead always likes to learn something new" Rainbow Dash replied.

"well while she is busy let's get the supplies that we need" I said.

We split into teams and went to get what we need, after awhile we met up with Twilight, who had many new books.

"the book store had many books on the subject of aviation, so I got a few, but I also got a book on red stone and the current edition of The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia" she said.

The book still pretty much looked the same, with the grey leather and the words "don't panic!" printed on the front with friendly big red letters, but it was bigger.

"alright let's head into the enchantment and potions store to get what we need there and leave" Steve said.

We went inside the store which had an azure carpet with purple drapes that had stars and moons on it.

Potions lined the walls, but so did enchantment scrolls, magic glyphs, and several books.

There was some steps coming from the back of the store, that is when the door magically opened the owner came into view.

She was a mare with an azure coat with a mane and tail colored like two colors of ice, she had light purple eyes with a star wand and magic mist cutie mark.

It was obvious who she was, it was The Great and Powerful Trixie.

Everypony except for me, Steve, and Enderbro gasped when she showed up.

"well, well, well, if it isn't Twilight and her group of friends, here to grace in my presence " Trixie said.

"Trixie, still a boaster as ever I see" Twilight replied a bit angry.

"there is no need of hostility Twilight, I'm done with that type of thing, I now dulge myself in more practical magic" Trixie said.

"like we would believe anything you say you snake" Applejack said.

"great, hostilities are getting increased here, I need to stop this" I thought.

I trotted between both parties and said "all of you calm down, this is no time to argue, were all Equestrian's here everypony"

"I know what Trixie did was bad, but you got to trust me that she has changed, if anything everypony deserves a second chance, and like it or not, if we want to get back home somehow, we need her help" I said.

"so you need my help right?, what is it exactly that you need Trixie for?" Trixie said.

"look all we came here for was some potions and a few enchantments at least" Steve said.

"it is not anything Trixie can't handle, she can make potions and enchantments with not much difficulty" she replied.

"good, we will talk about payment later then" Steve said.

"by the way, what do you mean by getting back home?" Trixie asked.

"well we didn't arrive here on purpose" I said.

"so the same thing happened to Twilight as to Trixie then, I have tried to get back, but no spell like that works here" she said.

"but the princess must be so worried about us, there has to be a way to contact her" Twilight said.

"hmmmm, there is one way, but I have had no luck with the spell myself, it just requires a reflective surface" Trixie said.

"you mean a spell that can enable us to communicate across dimensions?, that sounds like some difficult magic" Twilight said.

"yes indeed, and dispite buisness here I miss Equestria, so I will help you to gain your trust" Trixie said.

She trotted to the back and gestrued us to come, the room had the same azure carpet, but the room was lined with several bookshelves, a few enchanting tables, some alchemy stands, and a mirror with a table that had several books with it.

She went over to one of the books on the table and flipped through several pages but stopped.

"ah here is the spell we need, together Trixie and Twilight should be able to gain a connection to Cantelot" Trixie said.

"I have never tried this before, but I willing try if it means seeing the princess again" Twilight said.

Both her and Trixie read the spell and focused, sending their magical energy at the mirror.

Both energies from both mares started to make the reflective image shift slightly, but then it started to rapidly.

The image kept shifting, until it started to focus, and Celestia's room came into view.

Fortunately Celestia was there, but she was busy reading a scroll.

"we only got a few minutes, so let's hurry" Trixie said.

"Princess it is me Twilight" Twilight said.

The princess looked up, she was slightly surprised, but she came over to us.

"Twilight my faithful student, I was getting worried that you wouldn't contact me, but it is strange for you this way" she said.

"Celestia it is not just me who is here, Spike and everyone else is too, including Trixie, we got stuck in another dimension" Twilight said.

"another Dimentsion?, how did this happen?" Celestia asked.

"well we can't get into specifics, but somehow the transpotation spell messed up?" Twilight said.

"can you tell my family not to worry and that I'm alright princess?, they must be worried sick" Applejack asked.

"tell the Cakes that I'm alright ok princess?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"and the same thing for my parents and Sweetiebell, they must be so worried about me being gone for so long" Rarity said.

"it is good to see you all too, and I will make sure I send them your messages" Celestia said.

"also for me as well?, my brother must be worried, and how is Luna?" I asked.

"she is doing fine, though I am sure she would like to talk to you all as well" Celestia said.

Celestia came back with Luna, to me she looked just as beautiful as ever.

"it is good to see all of you again, and you must be Trixie I presume?" Luna asked.

"Trixie is honored to meet you princess" Trixie said.

"Celestia there is allot of stuff here that we could learn, but I will keep recording of it" Twilight said.

"it is good to see that your all well my little ponies" Celestia said.

"Celestia, Luna we did have some help from two locals though" Twilight said.

She motioned for Steve and Enderbro to come into view and did.

"hello your majesties, my name is Steve, and this is Enderbro" Steve said.

"greetings to you both, your kind to help our subjects" Celestia said.

"good tidings to you both" Luna said.

"don't mention it your majesty" Steve said.

"your both very pretty!" Enderbro said with his sparkling eyes.

They both blushed, but Trixie said "need to wrap this up, Trixie doesn't know how long it will last"

Twilight said "Celestia, Luna we will come back but it will take us time, but we will"

"I know you all will to your best, stay strong, all of you" Celestia said.

"we will Celestia, until then Princess" Twilight said.

Everyone pretty much left, but I turned round and went back to the mirror.

"Celestia hold on, I want to have a few words with Luna" I said.

"is there a reason why?" she asked.

"I just want to talk to her is all, we haven't talked in awhile" I said.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt then, I will see you when you return" she said.

She left view but I didn't talk until the door shut.

"that was close, I thought she wouldn't leave, Oh Tirimor I wish this never happened" she whispered.

"me too Luna, but we both have to stay strong" I replied quietly.

"I know that, but being without you, it feels so wrong" she said quietly.

"I have that same feeling too, but I will return" I whispered.

"I know you will my love, but I can't help but worry about you" she replied quietly.

"it's going to be alright, our love will keep me safe, and I am not alone" I said quietly.

"you still have what I gave you?" she asked.

"yes I do, and I keep it close to me all the time" I responded.

"may it give you enough luck to come back to my embrace then my grey knight" she said quietly.

"don't worry my night flower it will, I will never give up no matter the obsticle" I whispered.

"never forget, no matter were you go, I will always be with you" she replied with tears.

"the same to you Luna, I will never give up or give in, we will find a way, so we can be together again" I said.

I placed my right forehoof on the mirror and she did the same with hers.

From that gesture I felt comfort, and now I knew I would return back to her.

"everpony is probably getting suspicious, so I regretfully I have to go for now" I whispered.

"be swift my grey knight, and come back to me safe and sound" she replied.

"be merry my night flower, for when I return I will come to you to be in your embrace" I whispered.

"and I will for that day my grey night, for it will be my happiest" Luna said quietly with tears.

"and mine as well, my beautiful Princess of The Night, may your joy be many and your hardships few" I whispered.

"yours as well Tirimor, but may the light guide your path back to me" she said.

"it will, and I will hold you close when I return, but this is farewell for now, my dear and beautiful Luna, stay strong, and always know that I love you" I said quietly.

"and I will always love you, till then, goodbye, just for now" she whispered smiling.

I smiled back at her as well, and that is when the image shifted again, and went back to showing my reflection.

"my beautiful Princess Luna, I will return to you, that is a promise" I thought.

I turned and went out, but not before looking back at the mirror one more time as a tear fell.

After Trixie grabbed what she could that was useful and important, then we went out of her shop.

"before we go, Trixie does no of one more pony here as well, she came here about the same time Trixie did" she said.

"are you sure they would like to come?" Twilight asked.

"I'm sure, she misses Equestria as much as we all do" Trixie said.

"this is great, the more the merrier!" Pinkie Pie said.

"her place is just down the road, she works and lives in a bakery" Trixie said.

We went to the bakery and went inside with Trixie leading us.

"hello?, Trixie is here" she said.

That is when another mare shows up, but she looked almost exactly like Pinkie Pie, exept she had strait hair and a serious look.

Both her and Pinkie practically looked at her and said "oh my Celestia your me!, I'm you!".

"wait a minute how is this scientifically possible?" Twilight said.

"two Pinkies?, and I thought we could only handle one" Rainbow Dash said.

"well, she doesn't look all that bad" Fluttershy said.

"my name is not Pinkie, it is Pinkamina" she said seriously.

"there is no need to be grumpy you silly filly!" Pinkie said.

"so what is your business here?, make it quick I got work to get to" Pinkamina said.

"we were hoping you would like to come with us" Fluttershy said.

"were all Equestrian's here, so we all have to work together to get back to Equestria" I said.

"Equestria....there is nothing left for me to go back to my Equestria, I have no friends and no home" she said.

"but you still miss it right?, you could come with us to ours, start a new life" Twilight said.

"a new life?....a second chance..." she said a hoof to her chin.

She sighed and said "fine, any Equestria is better then mine, wait here".

After some time she came back with whatever she could get that was usefull and important.

We got back to the mobile home with three new cows and our supplies after Trixie and Pinkamina sold thier places.

"alright let's get to work then, this mobile home is going to need an extantion" Steve said.

After awhile, the second mobile home was complete, it now had to more beds for Trixe and Pinkamina, along with a kitchen.

It also had a small study room that had rows of bookshelves filled with books, along with two enchantments tables and four alchemy stands.

We also had extra chests to use to hold our supplies and everyone had a person large chest.

Steve made some sturdy wheels out of stone for both homes, and made harnesses for both of the new cows and hooked them up.

"alright, were ready to go, now the decision is were?" Steve said.

"well I hear there is a bigger town about two days away, we can head there" Twilight said.

"I also heard that place has a dragon problem though" Fluttershy said.

"then what better way to get people to trust us then?, if we help solve the problems of the good and innocent people will start liking us" I said.

"but how are we going to solve that?, dragons are dangerous" Pinkamina said.

"only way we can if this dragon is evil, we may have to slay it" I said.

"slay it?, couldn't we just reason with it?" Spike said.

"Spike evil dragons here are known not to be very good negociators, they would rather fight first, then ask questions later" Steve said.

"though some dragons here are good, I was reading about it in The Eggheads Guide to Minecraftia" Twilight said.

"well I am always up for helping others, even if we have to fight, and who knows we may find a way how to get back home" I said.

"Tirimor is right, if we go to this town and fight this dragon, then others will start to trust us and we may find a way home, Trixie thinks that we should at least try" Trixie said.

"well trying is always better then nothin' so we should go while we still got sun" Applejack said.

"but it's two days away, we could make it there fast if we pushed through even at night, but we would have o take turns over watch" Twilight said.

"we can't travel at night, even if our group is twelve strong it is suicide" Steve said.

That is when Twilight had a spark in each eye and said "hold I got an idea!, I just need some wood, a few dispencers, arrows, and some red stone!"

She trotted inside to our mobile home, then came out a few minutes later, placing her new invention on the roof.

It looked like some giant thing with a dispencer in front and another behind it that held onto wood.

It had a chair on it with an iron block in front of it and two sockets.

"this is what as known as a turret, airships use them to defend their cargo, so I decided to use it with a few modifications" she said.

"ponies lack hands, so I used redstone wiring to make a simple socket that allows us to control the turrets movement and firing mechanism" Twilight said.

"but how in the hay is this thing going to work?" Applejack said.

"well for non magic ponies you place your hoofs in like this" she said sitting on the chair and placing her forehoofs in.

"left and right controls the horizontal while up and down control vertical, and pushing your hoofs in cause the turret to fire" she said as she did the actions.

Though there was only a clicking sound from the turret when she pushed her forehooves in.

She got off the turret and used magic to land right by us.

"with this we can defend our mobile homes from any monsters that try and attack us at night" she said.

"well I guess you guys were right, she is indeed very smart" Steve said.

"but won't it keep us all awake?" Rarity asked.

"no not really, I used a sound muting spell on the turret to silence the sound to a mere whisper, only if your in the seat can you hear it" Twilight said.

"Well were burning daylight here, let's go" I said as I stepped inside.

After everyone was in Steve made the cows go, and we had a steady ride going through the plains away from the other town.

"as long as we keep heading north west we will make it to the town in to days as long as we don't have any delays" Twilight said.

Everpony was busy doing their own thing, Dash was napping, Applejack and Rarity were talking amongst themselves, and Twilight was busy consulting a map while reading an entry in The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia.

Pinkie Pie and Pinkamena were busy baking,

Fluttershy was looking out one of the windows while Spike was reading something.

Trixie was in the in study room, so since I had nothing to do I decided to talk to her.

I sat by her while she was reading in a spell book about enchanting.

"so Trixie, how does it feel to be on the road again?" I asked.

"being on the road again reminds Trixie of her days as a showmare, days on the road were always quiet for Trixie" Trixie said.

"yeah, it can get like that when you were alone, you know I spent most of my life alone" I replied.

"to tell, so how was it for you?" she asked.

"not that good really, living in Manehatten you had to be careful where you step" I said.

"you lived in Manehatten?" she asked somewhat shocked.

"well since I was eight, I spent twelve years alone, but I got out fine" I said.

"how could you even manage such a feat?, Manehatten was not in Celestia's ring of influence, it went by it's own laws" she said.

"yep, were the poor got poorer, the rich got richer, and the guards were just as corrupt as their employer" I said.

"you must have had some good luck then, Trixie never thought anyone could get out there alive" she said.

"it was more skill then luck really, I scavenged what I could and trained constantly" I said.

"trained?, what were you training?" she asked.

"that is something I keep to myself Trixie, nopony knows about it, not even Twilight" I said.

"well do you at least have a special somepony back in Equestria?" she asked.

"for that your going to have go into the pool to find out" I said.

"a pool?, Trixie doesn't know what your speaking of" she said.

"you know a pool, it's like a betting table, I'm not sure which pony started it, but their betting on to see who my special somepony is" I responded.

"and why exactly are there doing this?" Trixie asked.

"there doing it for fun even if it costs bits, even I know about it and we always kid about it" I said.

"hmmmm, well how big is exactly is this pool?" she asked.

"I'm not really sure, I think the last I heard that it was up at least a hundred bits" I said.

"a hundred bits?, that is a lot of bits" she said.

"yeah, though I am not sure who their guesses are, there are allot of mares in Ponyville" I said.

She sighed and said "seems like allot of ponies have special someponies, except for Trixie"

"don't worry Trixie, I'm sure you can find a fine stallion to be yours" I said.

She chuckled and said "Trixie isn't into Stallions, she is into mares".

"mares?, well I'm not going to judge you on that" I said.

"all Trixie wants....is a mare that looks past my time as a showmare, to see the real me, somepony that is smart, and kind" she said.

"I'm sure you will find your special somepony Trixie, who knows, they may be closer then you think" I said.

"maybe, Trixie needs to continue studying Tirimor, but I am glad we talked" she said.

"me too, I will see you later I guess" I said.

She nodded as she kept on reading her book as I left and went back into the living quarters.

After awhile it turned into night time, and by that time Twilight had three other Turrets up on the roof with stairs leading to it.

She, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie took the first watch, and as the rest slept I layed down in bed and closed my eyes, going to sleep.

Dear, Princess Celestia

Today we learned that everypony deserves a second chance, even if they were bad before.

We met The Great and Powerful Trixie today, it seems she somehow got stuck in this world as well.

My friends and I learned that she did learn from the incident that happened in Ponyville and she decided to join us.

Though we did also meet a pony similar to Pinkie Pie when it came to image only.

Not everypony is evil, sometimes they make mistakes and have to live with them, even if others are hurt.

However, that doesn't mean they don't deserve a second chance, to make amends for what they done, and everypony deserves that chance.

Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 4: Darkness Rises

For the two whole days we switched shifts every night so the last one in shift could get rest.

After awhile we came up to a ridge that looked over the town we were heading.

The town was bigger then the last one we saw, at least with thirty houses or so with a castle, farmland, and church.

The buildings were made out of wood but reinforced with Iron, except for the castle, church and blacksmith, which were made entirely out of cobblestone.

They had a tower above the city, but also bigger airships.

We placed our mobile homes somewhere safe and entered the city.

"well this place is pretty big" I said.

"somewhat at least, I have seen some towns bigger then this" Steve replied.

"so let's start asking around then shall we?" Pinkamina said.

We split into teams asking anyone about the dragon around here.

Me and Trixie asked someone that was in a tavern about it.

The man was old, but he kept a steel sword with him, his clothes were somewhat blue grayish was brown boots.

"yes I have heard of it, but I am to old to do anything about it, I have already had my fare share of adventures" I said.

"do you know were it lives?, we want to slay it to end this towns burden with it" I said.

"well it is about time, the town has had to deal with that evil dragon for months, it lives in a cave a wagon ride away from town" he said.

"thanks for telling us, we will be sure to end your troubles" Trixie said.

"that dragon is dangerous though, so be careful, good luck, and bring something off the dragon as proof" The Old man replied.

"farewell and don't worry we will" I said.

We left the Tavern but as we were out of ear shot I said "Trixie, isn't it strange that old man wasn't shocked about talking ponies?"

"kind of, but Trixie thinks he has seen weirder, that would explain it" she said.

We met everypony by the market street and told them what we learned.

"that was pretty much what everypony was saying" Applejack said.

"well fighting a dragon isn't going to be easy, we need to think of a plan" Twilight responded.

We pretty much thought of a good enough plan after awhile.

"ok, so this is what we got, Dash will distract it, while Twilight and Trixie use whatever damaging spells they got, the rest of us just need to attack it while being careful" I said.

"I can't distract something big like that on my own" Rainbow Dash said.

"then I guess Enderbro can help, I mean his behavior pretty much screams distraction" Steve said.

"alright, we just need to be careful and use what potions we need before heading in there" Twilight said.

"can't we also blind it somehow?, that would work as well" Rarity said.

"well Trixie could do that, but at the sounds of the plan Trixie will be to busy" She replied.

"well redstone mixed with glowstone dust has been known to make flares, so we can use that" Steve said.

"right, looks like the plan came together quite nicely, now all we have to do is worry about execution of it" I said.

As we walked back to our mobile homes we saw a picture of a man and dwarf.

The man was wearing a red and black long sleeved shirt with a small gold icon above the left of the shirt, with black pants, and boots.

He had brown hair and beard with blue eyes that showed someone that was knowledgeable, but cautious.

The dwarf was wearing a horned helmet above his red hair that was connected to a red beard.

He was wearing shoulder pads and an armor plate that had an "S" on it, he also had pants on that were armored on the knees with grey boots.

His eyes showed someone who loved adventure, but was a joy to always have around and was loyal.

The plaque below it read: In honor of Xephos The Spaceman, and Honeydew The Dwarf, the legendary saviors of Minecraftia.

It was with their courage, strength and tenacity along with the help of others that stopped the rise of Israphel.

May their lives always lead to adventure, and their hearts continue to be brave, leaving light and hope wherever they go.

"so this is them isn't it?, Xephos and Honeydew" I said.

"yeah, they may not look much, but they saved Minecraftia from a terrible evil" Steve responded.

"I wonder if we will ever get to see them?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"maybe, though I doubt it since their always on the move" Steve said.

Later on we made it back to the mobile homes and set off towards the dragons cave.

As we got near that is when we heard roar and the sound of beating wings.

"great we got incoming, Twilight, Trixie we need a shield up!" Steve called from the front.

"alright just give us a few seconds" Twilight called.

"we don't got a few seconds, that red dragon is coming in hot!" he replied.

With a burst of magic both her Trixie were capable of getting a shield up as the dragon's flames passed over.

The dragon roared as it flew over, causing wind to blow with it's wings.

"the turrets won't be able to do anything against that hide" Steve said.

"don't worry, Trixie has it all figured out" Trixie said.

She used her magic to cause a glyph to appear on each of the turrets.

"this enchantment will give the arrows enough damage to pierce into the dragons hide" Trixie said.

"alright everyone get ready, it is coming around for another pass!" Steve said.

I got into one of the turrets, and so did Applejack, Dash and Pinkamina.

The shield still held as the dragon blew it's fire breath again, but as it flew away we shot after it.

"aim were it's going!" I said as I fired.

I fired my turret at the dragon, sending several arrows into it's hide.

It roared and turned and came down at us again, sending another shot of fire breath at the shield.

"this shield isn't going to hold on for long!" Twilight said.

Both of them were pouring in what magic they had into the shield, both mares glowed with a purple and light blue outline as thier eyes glowed white.

"Pinkie, we need a few flares!, use redstone and glowstone with sticks, then attach it to an arrow!" Steve said.

Enderbro teleported in and brought two glowstones which Pinkie broke into a few units of dust.

In a few seconds she came to the roof with a few flare arrows.

"me and Trixie can't use any other magic right now, Rarity get a bow" Twilight said.

"but I have never fired a bow before" she replied.

"well now is the best time to learn, we need your help" Applejack said as she fired off a few more arrows.

Rarity used her magic to levitate the bow and knocked an arrow, causing the string to stretch to full force.

It passed again blowing it's fire, but the shield was still holding.

"Rarity it's coming around for another pass, now is a good time" Rainbow Dash said.

She fired the arrow as it passed, and suddenly there was a bight red glow that came from the arrow.

The dragon flew away as it shook it's head, obviously trying to get rid of the effect of the flare.

More of our arrows hit it as it roared and retreated into it's cave that was a few minutes away for us.

Both Twilight and Trixie made the shield disappear and sat a bit exhausted.

"you all did a good job, including you Trixie, I would have only been able to hold it for three passes without your help" Twilight said.

"it was nothing, Trixie was glad to help" Trixie replied.

"alright, we need to prepare for when it's vision comes back, everyone get some armor, weapons and potions. Rarity get a stack of arrows from one of the turrets, were going to need a archer for this" Steve said.

We got what we needed for the fight against the dragon, though I made myself a diamond sword and got trixie to enchant it to make it more deadly.

As we arrived we heard to people talking to each other.

"we need to be careful with this Honeydew, there is no telling how dangerous this dragon is" one person said.

"I know that Xephos, but we have faced worse you know, dungeons full of monsters, vampire skylords, dwarf zombies, a whole bunch of spiders at once, and Israphel" he responded.

"yes, especially Israphel, but just two isn't right, maybe we should have gotten Peculier and Skylord Lysander to come with us" Xephos said.

We got out as they talked and approached them cautiously.

"we both know Pecuilier is done with adventuring, and Lysander is busy with Skylord stuff" Honydew said.

"I guess we got no choice to go in there, the town needs to be rid of this problem, but let's just try and think of a plan" he said.

"hmmmm, yes a plan that is a good idea" He replied.

"Well we can't go in there being like Leeroy and expect everything to be fine now can we?" Xephos asked.

"excuse me but, I hope were not interrupting anything" Fluttershy said.

They both turned around to respond to us and stopped surprised in seeing us.

That is when Honeydew did a girlish shrill.

"AAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!, there adorable!" Honeydew said happily.

"well this interesting, not everyday we run into talking ponies" Xephos said.

"look at them, there so beautiful with with their coat and mane, they must love brushies!" Honeydew still said happily.

"anyways, this is Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Tirimor, Trixie, Pinkamina, Spike and Galaddae, were trying to deal with the dragon problem" Steve said.

"ah well that is one thing were doing as well, we can work together" Xephos said.

"good, the more people we got, the better chance we have at beating this dragon" I said.

"so you must be Steve and Enderbro correct?, I hear from some towns that your excellent miners" Xephos said.

"well better then most but I wouldn't say the best, so we already got a plan thought up" He said.

"well then let's hear it shall we?" he said.

"Alright, first Dash and Enderbro are going to keep the dragon destracted" I said.

"while that is happening me and Trixie will use what damaging spells we know on it" Twilight said.

"Rarity will keep the dragon dazed using flare arrows as everyone else attacks it, but making sure to stay away from it's head, tail, and front legs" Applejack continued.

"doesn't sound to bad of a plan, but I will help with the archery as well considering I got a stack of arrows with me that can go through dragon hide" Xephos said.

"and I'll help with attacking, your doing to need the strength of a dwarf" Honeymoon said as he pound his chest with his right fist.

"well it looks like everyone is armored, everyone has what they need right?" Xephos said.

Everyone nodded at his question, at that he turned around.

"alright, let's head in, but let's not let the dragon get out of the cave, if we keep him confined we have a better chance" he said.

The cave wasn't really that dark, it was lined with torches and mushrooms that glowed.

"lookover there, that dark hole" Steve said.

"Rariry shoot one of your flares in there" Xephos said.

Once everypony was in possision, Rarity shot the flare arrow into the darker chamber.

After some seconds there was a startled roar, then the red dragon come out of it, somewhat covered in arrow shafts.

"hey there, your nothing but an oversized lizard!" Dash said then blew a raspberry at it.

The dragon roared in frustraition as Dash sped by it Enderbro teleported.

Twilight and Trixie started channeling spells, then sent blasts of magic at it.

That is when both Rarity and Xephos sent several arrows at the dragon as the rest of us got out of our hiding places and attacked.

I slid under it and came up from the other side, slashing at it's hide.

The Diamond sword slashed through the scales on it's side and started cutting through the hide.

Xephos put a few mor arrows into the dragon as Rarity blinded the dragon using another flare arrow.

The dragon aimlessly clawed, bit and swiped trying to get some of us.

"watch the tail everypony" Applejack said.

"Steve we need more ranged supression here" Honeydew said.

"on it" Steve replied as he held back and switched to a bow.

A few moments passed and the dragon was getting weaker but it still head on.

"this is taking longer then I thought" Spike said.

"we just need to keep going, it has many wounds on it" Trixie said.

"but we can't hold out for long, this is an adult dragon were talking about" Steve said.

"well if anyone has any bright ideas I am open for it" Dash said as she dodged a swipe.

"uh, we got The Holy Hand Grenade" Honeydew said.

"of course!, The Holy Hand Grenade, it is one of the few special things I carry on person" Xephos said.

"well this would be a god time to use it!" Pinkamina said as she slashed one of the back legs.

Xephos took out the grenade, which was a round golden object with a pin.

"everyone clear out this is going to be dangerous" he said.

Dash and Enderbro stayed behind until everyone was outside, that is when Rarity shot another flare arrow.

"oh lord, bless this hand grenade so it may blow thou foe into tiny bits, in thy mercy!" Xephos said.

He pulled the pin and chucked the grenade by the cave.

When the dragon was coming out the grenade exploded into white light and an holy explosion.

The dragon was hit by the explosion and it fell to the floor, were it started glowing red with small explosions.

Then it turned into many experiance orbs and left a chest.

We got the orbs but Steve opened the chest, which caused the familiar light to surround us.

Inside was a gold necklace with a ruby attached to it, 20 red dragon scales, two red dragon horns and a note.

Twilight looked at it and read out loud: Gained one Necklace of The Red Dragon and Necklace slot.

"ah an equip slot, I heard you could only get those from killing monsters stronger then regular ones" Xephos said.

"so we all can wear necklaces now, that is cool" Spike said.

"what did you find out about the Ring of the Bull Spider, Twilight?" I asked.

"well it increases speed, but gives poison damage to melee attacks" she said.

"when did you fight a Bull Spider?" Honeydew asked.

"second day we were here, but we all need to head back to town" Applejack said.

"alright, we will go with you to the town then, so let's hurry we were wasting time" Xephos said.

With now Xephos and Honeydew we moved back to the town.

By the time we got there it was covered in dark clouds and lightning was coming from the sky.

"I don't like the looks of that" Honeydew said.

"me too, if we know anything that is most likely a bad omen" Xephos said.

When we made it back to the city, some of the houses were on fire, and guards were attacking monsters.

"in Notch's name!, the town is being attacked!" Xephos said as he pulled out his diamond sword again.

With our armor still on and weapons in hand we got out of the mobile homes and rushed into the town to aid it.

We made it into town when the familiar old man with the steel sword and blue grayish clothes with the brown boots came to us.

Though this time he was accompanied with a woman with blonde hair, blue eyes and in black smith attire who had a sword of sapphire.

"heros, you have returned!, and just in the nick of time!" the old man said.

"Peculiar it's you!, and Daisy too!" Honeydew said relieved.

"yes, it's us, but this isn't the time to look back, the town is in trouble!" Daisy said.

"the guards are doing their best that they can to hold off the endermen and undead, but without help the town will be overrun!" Peculiar said.

"don't worry you old knight, we will get this done together!" Applejack said.

"it does my heart good to see many individuals willing to help to fight the forces of evil, and it will be an honor to fight along the side of The Spaceman and Dwarf again" Peculiar said.

"right, everyone this way to the market street!, we got a few guards in need of help!" Daisy said.

We ran with her towards the market, booths were either turned over or destroyed, some buildings windows were broken but civilians huddled inside with weapons of their own.

"ah, Daisy just in time!" one of the guards said.

"by Notch it's Xephos and Honeydew, were blessed today men!" The captain said.

The guards in the street cheered as they heard this.

The captain came to us, he was wearing full steel armor with a steel shield and sword.

The shield was painted with a sun over a piece of diamond.

"Thomas, how goes everything?" Peculiar asked.

"to be honest it's rubbish right now, the guards are spread across all over the town fighting the monsters, but more keep coming back" he said.

"any word about the dark knight?" Daisy asked.

"their leading the charge here to get through to the castle" he said.

As if on cue a shot of dark frost hit one of the knights and froze them in place.

"their doing a real number on the guards, anyone that comes close to them get's killed or frozen by black magic!" he said.

"pfft, black magic my flank!, what your seeing are powers from darkness, powers from the light are very effective against them" I said.

"but how can this be?, these guards are good men, raised to praise Notch and all of his holiness" Peculiar said.

"faith won't protect them from a being with dark powers, I'm afraid I'm the only one who can" I said.

"Tirimor your crazy!, your going to get yourself killed!" Twilight argued worryingly.

"you all just have to trust me, this is what I was trained to do" I said.

Everyone was silent as the rain kept dropping and the sounds of battle were heard.

"alright, Captain, tell your men to get ready to push the enemy back, Twilight and Trixie, I need you to produce the shield again" I said.

I looked and saw a house right by that had a staircase going to the roof.

"Rarity, and Xephos, I need you up there for arrow support, everypony else help out the guards push them back" I said.

They nodded and scrambled to get in position.

I nodded to the captain who yelled "alright men, pushed forward, IN NOTCH'S NAME!".

The yell was responded in positive attitude and the guards started slashing through skeleton warriors, zombie warriors, and ghouls.

Twilight and Trixie had the shield up again as bolts of purple lightning came down, but were absorbed by the shield.

With everypony else I fought my way through, slashing through the undead and turning them into orbs for us to grab.

That is when the dark knight came into view to everypony there.

they had black and grey full body armor on with a helmet that hid their face fully and a sword of red diamond.

"that's them, that is the pony from my dream!" Pinkie whispered.

"are you this is them?" I asked.

"yes I am sure it's them, this is the pony" she replied.

"alright, this is my fight, I will deal with them" I said as I left the group.

I charged though the undead and carved my way through to the pony in dark armor.

"your siege is invain dark knight, in the name of the light you will perish!" I said.

She chuckled evilly and said "another foolish do gooder, you will die like that rest!"

She called down lightning made of darkness on top of me, but I expected that.

With my powers over light I produced a shield around me made of light that blocked the attack.

"your dealing with a wielder of light here villain, you have no chance" I said.

We charged at each other and met in a clash of blades.

She backed up and swung her sword three times, but I blocked her attacks and swung my sword as it was surrounded in light.

She blocked the attacks then sent a blast of dark frost at me, but I summoned a shield to block it.

After that I sent blasts of holy fire at her, but she blocked them then sent dark fire my way.

I used my wings and came into the air to dodge them, then I came down upon her swiftly, swinging my sword.

Somehow she was able to block the attacks then swung once with her sword covered in dark frost.

I blocked the attack and swung at her with my sword covered in light, though she used a dark shield to block it.

Then she covered her sword in darkness and swung at me three times, but I used my wings to dodge her blows.

This left her open enough for me to send a blast of holy wind at her, and as my sword became covered in star shaped light I swung.

The blast sent her back, but the star shaped light hit her full force and she landed on her back.

She got back up and sent arcs of darkness from her sword, but I dodged them by flying and sent multiple blasts of light at her.

She used a dark barrier to block the attacks, then sent blasts of darkness at me.

I either dodged or blocked them, then I charged in as light surrounded me.

I swung my diamond sword at her swiftly as I could, getting some hits in.

As I knocked her back I sent two more arcs of light at her from my sword, and then I sent several blasts at her.

Each hit landed at it's mark, carving into her armor leaving significant damage.

"this won't be the last time we meet pegasus, you can count on it!" she said as she disappeared into a dark portal.

The guards were now having an upper hand at the monsters and after awhile we cleared the town of them.

"that was close, but now the town is safe, and we can rebuild, thanks to everyone here" Peculiar said.

"but the question is who was that pony working for" Twilight said.

"it can't be Israphel, we already dealt with him and his plans already" Xephos said.

"it has to be something that wants to drive Minecraftia into darkness, something that has great power" I said.

"but at least everypony is alright, that's all that matters" Applejack said.

"here at least, but all of Minecraftia is in danger" Honeydew said.

"hold on, your saying that now we have to travel across all of minecraftia to fight this enemy?" Steve asked.

"not exactly, if we could pinpoint the leadership, and slay them, then the attacks will stop" Xephos said.

"but how are we going to travel swiftly?, a group of mobile homes isn't really fast" Spike said.

"we will need to build an airship that can house all of us and the supplies, but it will take some time" Twilight said.

"well then let's begin, the sooner we get this thing air worthy, the sooner we get going" Applejack replied.

It took us awhile to get what we needed, we needed extra wood for the airship, wool for the blimp, and rope to attach the blimp to the ship.

We also made a few redstone lights, a few more turrets, beds, wooden fences, iron to make steel for the engine and stone for the dispensers.

After a few hours, the airship was ready, measuring thirty eight blocks in length, twenty one blocks height with the blimp, and fifteen across, it was a decent sized airship.

with ten single cannon turrets and one double cannon turret, the airship could protect itself from pretty much anything in the sky.

"it took us a long time, but we did it, the air ship is now ready to take flight" Pinkamina said.

"that is good, but we still need to name it, it's bad luck to sail a ship without giving it a name" Peculiar replied.

"so what do we name it?, it has to be something inspiring" Daisy said.

"also something brave" Honeydew replied.

"it has to sound cool!" Rainbow Dash said.

"also humble" Applejack responded.

"though it has to sound something honorable too" Xephos said.

"not just that, but it has to bring hope" Peculiar responded.

"and above all else, it has to be something that brings courage and wisdom to the good people who see it, something worthy of the light" I said.

After a few minutes of debating we decided on a name.

"in the name and holiness of Notch" Peculiar said.

"and in the name and wisdom of the Princess Celestia and Luna" Twilight said.

"we christian this airship as Divine Salvation" Peculiar replied.

"may good fortune come to the ship and it's crew on it's long journey" Twilight stated.

We got a bottle of wine, and one by one passed it to Twilight, who used her magic to chuck it.

The bottle hit the side of the ship shattering.

After that we painted it's name in gold paint on both sides of the ship, and then entered.

We were all on deck when Xephos went to the wheel.

"alright, let's see if this airship will start" he said as he turned it on.

The airship sprang to life, it's propellers spinning as it raised off from the ground.

The ship was a good distance from the ground when the engines started making it go foward.

"ok so were are we going to head off to first?" Honeydew asked.

"well if we want to find out about anything about our enemy, then we should head to Fumblemore's" Xephos said.

"Fumblemore?, what would he know?" Peculiar said.

"Endermen attacked us along with the undead, they must have some connection to the dark knight" Twilight replied.

"they may hate humans, but it isn't like my kind to attack a town, they usually go after lone humans" Enderbro said.

"do you think that they may be being controlled?" Steve asked.

"maybe, but the only one that has influence over Endermen is the Ender Dragon, but it has been asleep for a very long time" Enderbro said.

"we won't find out until we head to Fumblemores then" Honeydew said.

"it is going to get dark soon, everyone should get some rest, I will pilot the airship and Honeydew will take my place in eight hours" Xephos said.

"alright, good luck spaceman" Peculiar said as he went under deck to sleep.

Fourteen beds were on one side with a small chest for each person, but the back and front had large chests for cargo.

Next to the stairs to the left was a small study room, while to the right was combination kitchen and crafting station.

Besides our bed four new beds were made, one had a grey blue blanket while another had light green.

Another was the blue of Steve's shirt while the one next to it was purple, and across from them was a bed with steel and orange, and next to that was a bed with a red blanket with black tinge.

Next to mine was Trixie's blanket, which had her cutie mark on it with her coat color, her cape and hat hung on it.

Across from that was one like Pinkies, but it was a bit more greyish in the colors.

Trixie yawned and said "the rest of you can stay up if you want, but Trixie needs her sleep"

Everypony went into their beds like her, including me, I was in as Galaddae came onto my bed.

After some time I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep as I heard the gentle breeze of the air.

Dear, Princess Celestia

If you must know, I'm starting to put events in of everyday in my reports to you.

I will be doing this regularly to keep a record of events in the right time order.

Firstly, we met a dwarf named Honeydew, and another human named Xehpos, in this land their legendary heros.

Today we fought and defeated an evil dragon with them, but on our way back to second town we cane to was attacked.

During that time Tirimor used some sort of power from light to fight this dark knight in a form of a pony who somehow uses powers from darkness.

I'm going have to ask him about it, but anyways were riding an airship that is some interesting piece of technology to our next location.

Today we learned that old friends will always comeback together, no matter how difficult it may be.

Just because you haven't seen somepony in awhile, doesn't mean you won't see them anymore.

Unknown to you, they might meet you again just around the bend, and seeing an old friend is a valuable treasure.

Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle.

Chapter 5 preview

Ok, I know I haven't been on for awhile and or uploaded anything, I have been very busy, so here is a preview of chapter 5 as I actually get it done:

I woke up and rose up from the bed, and looked at the window.

The sun was just barely coming up, shining it's rays down onto the land to bring the new day.

I stretched and went up to the deck of the ship, were Honeydew was now stearing it in the direction.

But we were not the only one on the deck, for some reason Twilight was up as well.

"weird....usually Twilight isn't up this early...." I thought.

I went by her and placed my forhooves onto the airships railing and stared at the plains moving past us.

"so any particular reason why you are up this early Twilight?" I asked.

"I wanted to get a early start on things really, considering we reach wherever Fumblemore's place we will be busy" she replied.

I nodded and kept looking at the scenery before us, watching the planes as I saw multiple zombies and skeletons burn.

"I have been meaning to ask you, how did you do those powers yesterday in the down?" she asked as she turned her head toward me.

"oh that?, it is simple really if you have the will, I used my light energy to use them" I replied.

"light energy?, what in the name of Celestia is that?" she questioned.

"Well, it is the positive energy that exists in all living things, both light and darkness is inside of us" I said.

"so if light energy is the positive, then dark energy is the negative" She concluded.

"exactly, light and darkness is what gives us the ability to feel, to have a personality, the world wouldn't exist without them" I stated.

"that still doesn't explain how you were able to use those powers, something like that should only be feasible by users of magic" she replied.

"there is where you are wrong, some beings, if they have the willpower, can control their light and dark energy and use them as abilities" I said.

I focused and caused a white ball and black ball to form, rotating them around me before turning them into bolts and shooting them into the sky were they dissipated.

"even if we have this gift, there is only certain things each being can do, as each is set into a profession when born" I said.

"so the profession determines what kind of sets of abilities you have?, strange" she replied.

"it's the way to limit a being to one profession so they do not become over powered" I stated.

"though that still leaves a few questions like what determines a being's profession, and what exactly is yours" she pondered.

"well I am a Justicar, a mixture of The Paladin and Scourge Knight. Each Sect has three professions, one for light, another for darkness, and the last is between both" I replied.

"A justicar is the swifter part of the Warrior Sect, they duel wield swords and have powers that allow them to heal, cure, spread disease and raise the dead" I continued.

"don't you know raising the dead is black magic and forbidden?, you could have been exiled or worse!" Twilight stated.

"to put the label of evil onto something is unwise, powers like that are neither good or evil, what makes them that is the pony using them" I stated.

She just rolls her eyes unconvinced, even if I did give a good reason.

"anyways, Justicars can guard against abilities, and can attack using light and darkness as well, just like how I showed yesterday" I continued.

"so how many Sects are there exactly?" Twilight asked.

"there are two Castes, each has four Sects, and each Sect has three Professions" I explained.

"so there are twenty four professions total that use light and dark energy as powers" she concluded.

"yes, and that means allot of variables that decide what profession a person is in" I stated.

"now that leaves the question of what determines a beings profession" she replied.

"well it can be many things, personality, fighting methods, your blood line, etc" I explained.

"were exactly though do you fit in all of this?" Twilight asked.

"well my last name is Greyshield, and were commonly put into the Primal Caste, but some of us do end up in the Mystic Caste, either in the Mage or Cleric Sects" I said.

"do you have anyone else back in Equestria besides your brother?" she asked.

"well....I do have a grandfather who is a Archmage, and a cousin who is a Priest, but besides that I do not know anypony else" I said.

"anyways, if you did have the will I would say you would be an Arcanist, but that is just me" I stated.

"Well, this is going to be allot to write down as notes, anyways I am glad we have this talk, I will see you later" she said.

I nodded as she went down below deck, but I turned my head back to the side and looked at the plains below us.