The Path Of The Seven Sins

Chapters

The Wheels on The Bus
Fire
When Your Gone
Stronger Than Anger
In The Garden Of Eden
Charlotte
Rainbow's Return
When Your Slow now a day,Keeps The Stone Away
The Swamp
Thus Who's Greedy...Will Never Find True Happyness
The Biggest Sacrifice
Only True Love Wins
The Path Leads...
With An Heart Of Envy...

The Wheels on The Bus

It's an beautiful day... the birds were singing, the butterflies flew over the road,...

On that road drives a bus.
And inside the bus are 6 Best Friends.
Twilight is reading a book over ''Old Legends For Ponies'', Rarity is giving herself a manicure, Fluttershy was watching the butterflies,who flew with much elegant moves up and down,Spike was observing Rarity with Pink little hearts in his eyes,Rainbow Dash hummed a song while she made herself comfortable in her seat,Applejack counted the Appletrees which flashed at high speed right for her eyes and Pinkie Pie looked up at the sky from her window while she smiled to the sun.
And the Chauffeur was driving the bus with an boring Face-expression.

''I hope that our vacation in Canterlot is going to be great!!!,'' says Twilight smiling.

''Oh Darling,It is so nice of you to take us with you on this trip,'' Rarity spoke politely.

''Well, I just didn't want to go to Canterlot all alone,you know. I don't like the cold Everfree Forest Resorts,'' says Spike.

''But like, why didn't you want to fly? We would be faster if we would fly.,''
Rainbow Dash mumbled while she turned around and stared at the sky.

''Well, One...we are not all pegasuses and Two ... I-i want to stay close to Rarity...,''
Spike said while he clicked his claws and blushed his cheeks red.

''Awww,Darling your such a cutey wutey~'' Rarity runned a hoof trough his spiky scalps.

''S-so that's a p-pretty good reason to take the b-bus.' stumbled Spike shy.

Rarity and the rest laughed.

Meanwhile,An Pegasus and an unicorn named :
Fry and Bender, were waiting at the side of the road while they were holding up their hooves.
Cars moved before them as fast as they could.
While the two ponies were talking nicely to each-other...

''It's your fault that our car ran out of oil,you dumbass.'' mumbled Bender angry.

''Oh, I'm so sorry...'' said Fry sarcastic.
''...but who forgot to tank again?'' Fry frowned while suddenly a bus stopped right in front of the two ponies.

The chauffeur stepped out of the car while he dragged his hat and suitcase out of the car.
''Forget it,I'm Leaving!''

''W-wait,come back!'' Spike yelled behind him.

''Pinkie was only trying to be nice,not trying to insult your family!''
But the chauffeur was already gone...

''Great,Just...great.'' Spike sighed and looked at the two ponies in front of him.
Suddenly he got an idea.

''Hey,Do you colts need a ride and also...can one of you drive towards Canterlot? We...kinda lost our chauffeur...'' Spike scratched embarrassed his head.
''I drive!' Bender shouted while he runned inside the bus.
Fry introduced himself to Spike and explained what the situation was.

After some introductions,the ponies were chatting while Bender got some intructions from Spike which way he should drive to arrive in Canterlot.
''We usually get there with an train,but...common going with the buss is so much cooler...'' Spike whispered to Bender.

''Sooo...'' Sighed Applejack while she rolled her eyes out of boredom.
''You and yer buddy at the wheel...w're Hitchhiking becuz of ya ran outa oil?'' the orange farm pony tried to guess.

''Yes,yes that's true...'' answered Fry.

''Hey?'' gasped Pinkie, full of astonishment. ''Aren't you that...thingy?''

''Yep, that's me allright.'' Fry said proudly,not even knowing what the pink pony meant.

''Well, can we drive further? Common! Hurry up!!!!.'' asked The Rainbow Pegasus annoyed .

'Hold your ''Good Mood'',darling.' Rarity tried to calm her down.

Spike was explaining Bender the drive-instructions.
'' And here is the left-turn that you should...''

''SHUT UP AND SIT ON YOUR SEAT!''
Interupted Bender while he pointed to Spike his seat.

Spike walked with an frown back to his seat next to Rarity.
'Let's see what this Bus gots!' Bender whispered in himself while he pushed the GAS-pedal with his hoof.

The bus drives further.

''Soo,where are we going to anyway?'' Asked Fry curious.

'Oh...um ....w-we're on our way to Canterlot... for an n-nice vacation.'' replied Fluttershy.

''Really? Well then i guess we are going to drive you Mares towards your destination,aren't we Bender?''
Asked Fry while he smiled to his friend behind the wheel.
''Darn Tootin.'' shouted Bender from behind the wheel.

The others giggled a little.

''So what happened that you need to have a lift?'' asked Spike while he moved a bit closer to Rarity.
Rarity saw that and moved an inch away from him.

''Well,' begins Fry. ''We were driving when suddenly a mist came up. In the mist, I saw a silhouette.''

The ponies and the dragon looked at Fry.
Four pair of eyes were the same: excitement.
Three pair of eyes had the same thing in their eyes : Fear.

''And then Bender stopped the car and it slipped.
So we raced trough the woods,till we were suddenly out of oil.
We stood at the side of the road waiting for somepony to help us.,''
ends Fry his story while he sat back and he folds his wings behind his back.

''So now hoping that that fog is not coming right over here,Hahaha...''
Rainbow Dash laughed, but she couldn't finish her sentence.

Bender's eyes growed an inch when they suddenly drive straight into a thick fog.
All what they could see outside the window was White.

'T-this is s-scary,' shivered Fluttershy as she holds on tight to Rainbow Dash.

Bender looks at the road again and screams. He stops the car brutally. The chips from Rainbow fly in the sky,a book from Twilight felt on the ground just like the hoof polish from Rarity.
Bender jumps out of the bus : His face was covered with terror.

''Holy hooks!!! I saw a shadow in the fog! It had a blue cape and I saw long, black hair!'' he yells.

''Very funny, Bender,'' Spike said relaxed.
Twilight while picking her book up from the floor.
''Can we move on now? I have to deliver this book back into the library'' Twilight said a little annoyed of the waiting.

Suddenly, a wind comes up and they hear two poofs and after that a ''SSSSSSSSHHHHHHH'' sound.
The group wanted to see what happened and discovered two flat tires.

''What will we do now?'' asks Fry.

''Now we're double stranded on the open road...'' Sighed Bender.

'And we'r in tha middle of nowhere,' says Applejack while she putted her hat back on her head.

'Look!' screams Rainbow Dash. She points with his hoof to a sign which says:

V i L L a G e o f R o H a n.

Another sign had a drawing of a tent: a camping.

'Well, we'll just get our settle-bags and ask for a way out of this creepy circus,'
Declaimed Spike, hoping that the village is not deserted.

A couple of minutes later the eight ponies finished with their Settle-bag-packing and stand right in front of Spike.

''Now everyone in a row!'' yells Spike like he's the leader.
He turns around and starts saying: 'One, two, three, four...one, two, three, four...'

Meanwhile,Twilight turned around and gave a last look at the bus. But than...

She sees a mare behind the bus. She wears a blue cope and has long, black hair....

Fire

'Twilight! Come on, Your getting behind...and if your getting behind you might get lost......FOREVER!!
Hihihih,no just kidding but common Twilight!' shouts Pinkie happily.

Twilight turns around. Her head gives a look at the place where the mare just stood.

...she's vanished.

........

And half hour later the ponies and the dragon we're still marching like an army through the woods.
The sun shined bright on Fry's forehead while he whipped off some sweat.

''Man...i never walked so much since i won the marathon...'' Applejack pants while she carried her heavy settle-bag.
Fluttershy blinked for a second.
''H-hey...uhm...w-what's...that ...gray iron thing right over there!''
Fluttershy spoke shyly surprised while she pointed with her hoof.
Then they see a huge, stone gate.

''What... is... this...?' asks Rarity.

''Wow...this looks like a haunted village!'' Said Rainbow Impressed, who's interested in the carvings on the huge, scary gate.

''But what exactly is all this?'' Asked Spike as well.

''I know this language...It's... Latin!,'' answers Twilight with an smile

'' It says: Trames Septem Pecatorum.''

She opens her settlebag and picks out an little, black book.
She opens it and starts to read...

''The Path Of The Seven Sins,'' she finally says.

''What are those sins,can you eat it? Just like cupcakes and cookies?'' asks Pinkie while she jumped happy up and down .

''No Pinkie,sins are deeds that are evil to do like stealing or lieying.'' Explained Twilight.
''So what are those sins?'' Asked Bender when he observed the gate.

''Well they are also carved in the gate,''
Said Twilight and she named them while pointing at the curly letters that we're written on the gate:

''Luxuria, Ira, Gula, Superbia, Avaritia, Acedia and Invidia.''

Or, with English words,

'' Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Vanity, Greedy, Slowness and Wrath.''

''Hey,'' Bender said to Rainbow Dash, while poking her wing. ''You have them all,HAHAHAHA!!!.''

The young speedster rolls with her eyes and fakes a laugh. Twilight strokes the stone of the statue.

''That's probably the hero of this village,'' says Twilight convinced. She looks at the base and reads:

'R o Ha n D e B e A u f 0 R t - Comes sine animo.'

She waits a little and looks in her little,black book.
''The heartless count'' She spoke with in impressed face.

The group looks at the face of the stone colt.
He rests his left hoof on a casket.
He has a cape and an curly,short mane,his eyes are furious and starring in the nothingness like a demon.

''H-he looks really really s-scary'' stuttered Fluttershy as she hide behind Fry's back.
''Doesn't look like a hero to me,'' whispers Rainbow dash while she kicked a rock with her hoof.
''Or an count.''

''Was he so mean?'' asks Rarity.

''No, on the other side of the base stands that someone took his heart and putted it away somewhere...,'' explains Twilight.
She pointed at the chest.

'Well isn't that romantic' Applejack sighs dreamy.
'Hmmm,stealing a heart a throw it somewhere else...Yippee,' jokes Fry.

''Pretiosum,'' whispered Twilight as she looks in her book again.
''The precious!''

''Precious?'' asks Bender. ''C-can gold be one of those precious things,or diamonds?''

''Yes, that is maybe possible,'' answers Twilight while she nodded her head.

''Hey, I've found the camping!'' shouted Spike overenthusiastic.
He stepped forward where Twilight and the others stood still by the gate and the statue.

They make their tents up when they get on the camping place. It's already evening when all the tents are standing on the grass. Applejack and Pinkie Pie made a bonfire and cooked something.
The others don't know what it is, but it's definitely not good.

''What is this?'' asks Rarity when she looks at her brown, red plate.

''Those 'r beans in tomato sauce,'' answers Applejack while she poured in proudly her dinner in a bowl.
''With an swirl of sugary whip-cream!'' Pinkie smiled.

''I prefer Room-served Food,not poison,'' says Rarity.
''Spike!'' she yelled.
Spike came with an plate full of food and served it to Rarity.
''Now that is better,thank you darling~'' She petted Spike while the dragon smiled and blushed.

''How does it taste Fluttershy?'' Rainbow asked before she took a bite.
Fluttershy tried to eat,but it tasted horrible.

'' I-it's....umm...Nice'' She said shy while she gulped.

Fry and Bender trowed their ''Dinner'' Away and started to eat some choco-bars.
They secretly shared a few bars with Fluttershy,Rainbow,Twilight and even Pinkie.

Applejack frowned when she saw almost everypony eating choco-bars instead of her
delicious...yeah... beans in tomato sauce.

''Hey,look Spike is bluUUuuuUuushing!'' teased Rainbow Dash.

The whole group laughs except Rarity and Spike. Spike frowns and walks into the shadows of the forest.

''That was not so kind,Dash,'' Replied Rarity irritated.
She gets up and walks in the same dark shadows of the forest like Spike did.

…

Rarity walked for seven minutes between the trees when she passes a huge oak.
Spike stood right behind it watching the night sky.

''Spike,'' whispered Rarity in a soft tone.
Spike gasps and falls on the ground.Rarity helps him getting up, but he pulls her down so that she's sitting next to him.

'Sorry, Rarity,but your startled me.'

''It's okay, dear~.''

''It's just that I hate Rainbow dash her teasing jokes sometimes.''

''But you know how Rainbow is, huh?'' said Rarity and turns her head towards Spike.Her lips accidentally touches his cheeks.
She pulls back while Spike is looking at her with big eyes and a huge pink blush on his face.

Rarity remembers the last kiss she gave him.
She always felt something for that sweet dragon, but she didn't want to accept it.

''Do you want to say this to the others or was it just because I was hurt?'' asks Spike.

It was quiet for a moment...

He sees the eyes from the most beautiful unicorn in all of Equestria.
Her purple mane shined into the moonlight that beamed between the leaves from the trees.
Then Spike finally broke the silense.

''About that gate and the statue. I want to look at it this night.''

Silence remains again after his explanation.

''Do you want to go with me?''

''...Yes,Spike.'' Rarity answered with an smile.

''Than it's a date then.''

''For you it is,my spikeywikey~.''

They stand up and walk back to the fire.
When Spike and Rarity arrive, a figure appears in the smoke of the fire.
It asks for help: ''Help me! Please, help me! Please!''

Than she vanishes.
Suddenly, A huge and big pony with a blue cape comes out of the dark and starts yelling...

''Bohahahaha!''

The hole group screams of horror.
Fluttershy digs up a hole in the ground and hided in it.
A moment later they discover that Fry and Pinkie made a practical joke.

'' Oh my Celestia,you guys were really fantastic!'' said Rarity recovered from the shock.

''Yeah! You're girl-voice was really good,Fry'' complimented Rainbow.
''Yeah I take some acting....What!?'' Pinkie stumbles.
''What girl-voice?'' Asks Fry in confusion.

''Well, tha one ya just did.'' Applejack declaimed.

''We didn't do anything except for scaring you guys all from out of the darkness.''
Pinkie and Fry started laughing for a long while
Suddenly they stopped laughing,looking at the ponies who looked frighteningly at them.

It was quiet for a moment...

''Yeah, and again very funny, buddy...'' Bender spoke while he petted Fry on his shoulder.

''Guys, it's ten o' clock. We better go to sleep.'' Spike said while he already stood in his pyjama's.

They all agreed and they forgot what happened at the fire-place.

When Your Gone

It's twelfth o' clock in the evening when Rarity gets out of her tent.
She tip-hooved away to be sure not to wake up her tent-mate Fluttershy.
She walks on the road towards the center of the village.
She heads towards the statue. But when she arrived...it was gone. The statue is gone. How is that even possible?

Suddenly a strange pony appeared in front of Rarity...

''Count Rohan?'' whispered Rarity unsure.
The colt putted her on his back.
''LET ME GO!,LET ME GO ,YOU BAD,NOTTY COLT!'' Rarity squaled.
He runned trough the stone gate.
The Thunder was rumbling and the count and Rarity vanished into the darkness!

Spike waked up around 5:00 in the morning. Fry and Bender still were asleep.
He runs out of the Boy-tent and headed towards the square of the village.
He's shocked when he doesn't see the statue their anymore, but more shocked about the fact that Rarity isn't around.
He looks around, but there's no sign of her or the statue.Spike looked down and sighed.
''I guess Rarity is just an dream...for me...that never comes true''
He suddenly discovers that their (around the base) are small fragments signed from the statue.

He runs back to the tent. He's a little bit curious now, but he finally falls asleep.

Wondering where his Rarity is...

It's 07:07 in the morning when everypony hears something.
It's Fluttershy's scream. When they all came out of the tents,they running towards Fluttershy and Rarity's tent.
''Wha in daaaa... ''
Applejack Yawned.
''..aaaarnnation happened?''
Fluttershy explained her screaming:
''I-i saw a spooky shadow on the tent,a-a-and ...uhmm i a-also got scared by the thunder.''

''Fluttershy! Didn't you think about it that we all just wanted to sleep a little bit more?'' said Rainbow dash.

'I-im S-sorry.''

''Well, "sorry" doesn't bring my lost time back!!!'' Rainbow yelled

Fluttershy sinked into sadness,her weyes watering with tears.

''Quit it, Rainbow!' Said Twilight on an angry tone. ''You don't have to be so rude!''

Spike leaned towards Fkuttershy's ear and whispered : ''Hey, Flutter. Do you know where Rarity is?''

''I-isn't she in the toilette's?' Fluttershy whispered back.

''Toilette's?'' Spike scratched his head.

'Y-yes, i discovered them yesterday... ummm With i,,I mean, Twilight and me.''

Spike hurries as fast as he can to the toilette's and he's crossing a, no not a blue, but a green swimming pool.
But no sign of Rarity...

He reports the horrible news to the group.
''Oh N-no,whatta we do now?'' Applejack shivered.
''We must Search for her,quick to the rescue!'' Pinkie screamed and she hopped away.
''Quick...we must do that...'' Said Fry and he and Bender slowly walked away.

They all searched for her.
Spike was searching between the bushes when he suddenly sees Fry and Bender.
Fry and Bender are acting weird.

'Is something wrong?' asks Spike curious...

'We have that little chest!!!,' Shouts Fry.
''STUPID!'' Bender hitted Fry with his hoof.

'How is that even possible?'' asks Twilight.

'I don't know,' said Spike. 'But we better go to the square.''

The whole group comes with them.
Fluttershy,Spike,Twilight,Rainbow dash,Applejack,Pinkie Pie,Fry and Bender are marching trough the dark forest
Fry looked down to the chest that he had.
'It's worthless!' He said.
''Well, why did you steal it then,silly!?'' Pinkie asks.
''Cause I had a key of it in my pocket.'' Bender jumped next to Fry to show Pinkie the key.
''Whatta...but...how?'' Applejack's voice stumbled when she and Pinkie took a look at the key.
'Yes,I found the key so i deserve the chest.So give it...to..me..Fry..'' Bender slowly glanced at the chest.
''Bender,wait...''
But before Fry could finish his line a horrifying scream echoed trough the trees.
It was Fluttershy again.but this time with...with an destroyed settlebag besides her!

'Oh boy, oh boy! Fluttershy found a settlebag,' Rainbow said sarcastic while she was waving with her hoof.

''No, this one is from Rarity!.'' Spike cried.

Freddie takes the settlebag from Rarity and gives a look at it.The diamond sign was covered with mud.
His head turns towards the sky, but a big, stone gate blocks it.
'The Path of the Seven Sins,' whispers Spike.
He walked next to Fry.
He sees something carved into the left flank. He reads it out loud:

Do you start hotheaded on the battle, know that you're going to loose.

Are you seduced by desire and glory, know well for whom you're going to choose.

Who is slow and lingers, shall never reach the end.

Neither them who fill their mouth or pouch or those who dream of themselves.

A heart full of envy, will turn into stone without pain...

Only them who competes them all, can the evil strike down.

Remember this with all the things you do, keep your heart full of love and courage.'

A thunder rumbled on the ending and the wind trough the brinches of the trees.
A sort of screen appears into the gate and Spike steps into it.
Fry turns to Spike and shocks when he sees Spike walking towards the gate.

''S-spike w-where are you doing,buddy!!?' Fry yelled in panic.

''One thing,Fry......Looking for Rarity....'''

He steps trough the screen...

Stronger Than Anger

An White mare in an black cape appeared. She slowly opened her eyes while the group was starring at her.
''A g-ghost!'' stumbled Spike.
Fry grabbed a stick.

''Go away...you...you...ghost,i'm a buster that busts ghosts you know?'' Fry spoke heroically while he almost poked the ghost with his stick.

''Don't be afraid,everypony i'm just a spirit from the death but i have to tell you something.'' She spoke.
''Were listening...'' Twilight said softly while she moved closely towards the floating,white mare.

''Rarity isn't here...she's somewhere else,' said the mare with a black cape. Her long, black (and straight) mane hanged elegant around her neck.
Twilight looked serious at the ghost.
''B-but that doesn't make any sense!?''

''Bring that little chest to the castle. You guys are our last hope.''

'F...f...from who?,' asks Fluttershy. ''A-and in which castle is Rarity?''

'In the castle of count Rohan,' answers the girl. 'Go! And hurry, Freddie. You must be in the castle by sunset.'

'Why did he took Rarity?'

'Rohan needs seven mares to let his heart turn into stone. Six mares are already turned into stone in his castle.
And Rarity is the last one. If you don't get on time in the castle and open the little chest...her destiny will be sealed.''

Fry looked at the chest and shaked it.

''Hmmm...nothing.'' he sighed.

''JUST LIKE INSIDE YOUR BRAIN!'' yelled Rainbow from an distance.

Spike turned around towards the ghost.
''Why does he want to let his heart turn into stone?'' He asks.

''Because he doesn't believe in love anymore... Go! And be careful that you don't give in on the sins on the path.
Otherwise; you'll also turn into stone.''

''Ooooh~ sounds like fun!'' Pinkie giggled.
''No Pinkie,that isn't fun! If we turn into stone that means were....dead.'' Twilight spoke in fear while she looked in her eyes.
Pinkie felt a shiver trough her body.
''Oh oh...'' She whispered.

''S-stone!?!?!?'' Fluttershy squaled.
''Ummm...i-i think im going to stay here...you k-know...''
Applejack pushed Fluttershy forward.
''Common now,sugar it w'll be fine.''

Twilight looked over her back.
''Hey what is your...?''
But before the unicorn could finish,the mare disappeared.

''Hey! Wait! Come back! Wh...what...what must we...?'' Stumbled Twilight.

''What is this? A stupid play in a theater?'' jokes Fry.

''This is real,dude!'' Interupted Spike while he breathed a little fire out of anger.
''Yeah,so does the Easter-bunny.'' Fry smiled.

Spike gets mad: ''Don't you get it! We must compete the seven sins or Rarity will turn into stone.We must go! Now!''

Spike stamped angry to the edge of the hill
''I have enough of this.'' He thinks.He runs down the hill.

''Oh oh i know another joke!'' Fry smiled while he holds the chest close to him.
''Move it,Comedycolt!'' Demanded Twilight while he poked him softly.
Fry,Twilight,Fluttershy,Pinkie and Spike followed the others.

…

In the meantime... Rarity woked up in the middle of a chamber.
She looks around for an exit but she only sees a door and she knows that it is locked.
''It's like a humungous dungeon.'' she spoke to herself.
Rarity gasps when she hears the door slowly squeeking open.
She frowns.
Count Rohan comes in and gives her a plate of food. He frowns and looks not so very kind.

'Are you count Rohan?' asks Rarity polite with her royal voice.

''Shut up!''

Snarls the count.
And the count locks the door again.

…
When the whole group is back together,they are walking trough the forest.
Rainbow and Bender in the front
Applejack pushing Fluttershy forward
Pinkie and Spike walking behind and Twilight and Fry walking at the end.

''Hmm What are the seven sins?'' asks Fry.
''Let me think...'' Twilight thinks very hard.

''Euhm... Anger; something with food: gluttony...wait, ''
Twilight gets an flashback of the gate.
She blinked 2 times with her eyes.
''And?'' Fry asks curiously.

''T-that text on the gate:

''Do you start hotheaded on the battle, know that you're going to loose.

Are you seduced by desire and glory, know well for whom you're going to choose.

Who is slow and lingers, shall never...''

''Yeah, that's really good, Einstein,'' Spoke Bender and Rainbow Dash giggled in her wing.

'Yes, but what are the seven sins exactly?' asks Fry.

Suddenly Pinkie stands still.
''I hear a heart...it goes boomboom boomboom''
''Ah hear it too!'' Applejack said suprised.

''Hey Fry,are you such a chicken that your heart is going crazy?'' Joked Rainbow while she puts her hooves over eachother.

''W-well i hear the beating in Fry's surroundings...'' Fluttershy spoke shy.

Pinkie layed her head on Fry's chest.
''Well it's not his heart,but it sure makes funny sounds,hihi'' Pinkie giggled.

Suddenly everypony looks at his chest.
Fry Trows it on the ground. Bender wants to grab it, but Twilight is earlier.

''Please Twilight,give me the chest...'' Bender growled.

''You don't need this chest. Greed is also a sin, so your definitely don't need this.'

''What is greed?'' Asks Pinkie.

''Just look at Bender...you'll see.''
Twilight gives the chest to Spike.

''I understand...that you'll sale your own mother for money...'' Rainbow Dash mumbled.
''Hothead.'' whispered Bender to Twilight.

''Hey!'' Rainbow yelled and she frowned.

'''Or the chest!'' goes Pinkie further.
''And Twilight as a friend it is just pathetic because...''
She puts her left hoof on her mouth and stops with speaking.
''Is fighting also one of the seven sins?''

''I-i hope not...because if...t-that means...S-stone.'' Fluttershy started to cry.
''Oh,great thanks to y'all,Fluttershy is now cryin.Ya'll happy now?'' Applejack putted a hoof on Fluttershy's back.

'I'm not sure if fighting is a sin.,' Fry spoke quietly.

''Oh boy! He doesn't know it! That's once in a lifetime.'' Rainbow taunted.

Fry looked sadly down.
Twilight turns to Rainbow : ''Just stop it!''

''Stop yourself!'' Rainbow Poked Twilight's chest.

''Guys! Guys!'' Interrupted Spike again. ''Peace on earth.''

The group hushed as the passing something.

Pinkie gasps.
''A super, hyper, mega mikado!'' She shouts excited.
He looks at a million spears that are standing in the ground.
Some perpendicular, some horizontal and some vertical. But the most are the ones that are oblique.

'What is this?' asks Bender when he and Fluttershy approaching it.

'Look,' Yelled Applejack while she pointed to the object with her hat.
''Ah key!''
''Your right,Applejack'' Twilight observed the key.
''S-shouldn't we go further?,'' Suggested Fluttershy in fear.

''Spike, where's the rest? Where is Rainbow Dash?' asks Twilight while she looked around.

''RAINOW,RAINBOW!?'' Pinkie Shouts around.

''It's no use,she's heading to the forest again.''

''This is the first test on the Path of the Seven Sins,' Twilight spoke with an tiny voice.

Bender looks at the spears: ''This is stupid! You just can take that key away.''

''Yes, Bender. When everything is that simple.'' Twilight rolled with her eyes.

''Just look and learn, bunglers.''

Bender steps to the spears and touches one...
A Grand sharp spear appears from the ground and Bender falls on his back.
He looks at the spear that stops trembling between his Hind-hooves. He just can't believe his eyes.

''Yeah,easy. Isn't it, Bender?'' said Twilight sarcastic.
''Are you okay?'' Asked Fluttershy polite while she helped him up.
Bender was totally in shock...

''A-after you,Spike,'' Bender stuttered cowardly.

''JUST GO BENDER!'' Yelled Twilight,Applejack,Fry,Spike,Pinkie and even Fluttershy.

''Okay,okay i go!'' Bender sighed.

He walks over to the spears and steps into the grand building of spears. But than he starts to runaway.
''Hey, Spencer! You must help us!'' Shouted Fry but it was to late.
He already vanished into the forest.

''Great now we lost Rainbow and Bender.'' Twilight said while she looked at the ground.

'Can't we just ignore it?' asks Applejack.

''We gotta have that key. I've got a feeling that it's important to have that,' answers Spike.

He walks further INTO the building of spears : a spear appears.
He takes a step to the left : again a spear appears.
He takes calm a step: no spear.
He takes two steps: two spears appear.
His dragon tail is wagging out of anger.

He's getting furious now: ''What am I doing wrong?!!!''

An spear appears right in front of his face.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile in the forest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Rainbow Dash walks around the tree.
'It's so boring here,' She said irritated.

'Don't you think that we should go back?' asks Bender a little worried .

Dashie rolls with her eyes: 'Just admit that your a cowardly and greedy pony. You don't give a damn about Carly.'

''Said The Pegasus who is walking away from her problems and friends...''

Bender laughs about it but the blue pegasus turned around and gets really angry : ''Hey! Stop it!''
She stamped her hoof on the ground.

Suddenly Applejack came behind a tree and walked to the two ponies.
''Twi said that yall have to wait fur us,what in the hay is going on?'' Applejack asked confused.

''Oh never-mind,you all don't give a darn about me!''

'''That's not true!'' Applejack putted an hoof on Rainbow's shoulder.

''Oh! Keep your stories to yourself, okay?''
Rainbow frowned and moved her hoof away.
She cried a tear and walks away.

~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In the mean time Spike didn't even moved a claw...
He was still standing where he stood a couple of minutes ago.
''Spike becareful!'' Twilight shouted worried.
''Man,Sometimes Rainbow Dash really is a ''Hothead'' Fry sighs.

Suddenly it Hit Twilight like a train.
Her eyes grow as her brain started working.

The text on the gate...

Do you start hotheaded on t...

''Hotheaded. Hotheaded! It's anger! It's anger!'' She shouts enthusiastic.

''Don't get angry,Spike.'' Fry shouts to the little dragon
''Yeah Fry's right,just be calm and relaxed!'' Twilight advised him.

Spike gets slowly closer to the key.

''What are you a ....ummm ?'' And your always make jokes and stuff ?'' Pinkie complaints to Fry.

''P-pinkie,what are you doing?'' Fry said sobbing a little.

''Play along,silly. Anger! You know,' whispers the pink pony. ''It's like your running away from a set of carts.''

''W-well than, look at you with your ugly ...umm...mane!,'' responds Fry.

A spear appears in front of Spike
''Umm...guys.''.

''What's wrong with my mane??'' Pinkie asked confused.

Another spear appears.
''oh oh'...''

''You're pretending like you're the funniest mare in the world, but...''

Again a spear.
''Umm...guys couldn't you just...''

''Have you looked at yourself with your stupid head?''
''Stupid? Me?''

''Guys!'' screams Twilight while she pushed Pinkie and Fry away.
they all look at the three spears right under the nose of Spike.
''Could you stop fighting, please,'' says Spike calm.
'' I am deeply sorry Pinkie'' Apologizes Fry.
''No Fry,i am Deeply sorry.''
''Friends?''
''Friends...'' The two hugged each other.

Twilight smiled and cheered for Spike : ''Common Spike!''
''Woohoo~'' Fluttershy cheered.

Spike takes another step and his claw reaches to the key. He touches it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Rarity hears a scream in the castle.

''Count Rohan?'' She asked frightened.

''No!''
Screamed the count whle his hoof grabs his chest.
'' My heart is beating again!''

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Spike comes out of the spears and cheers with the key in his claws. One of the sins is defeat : Anger.

In The Garden Of Eden

But Fry, Spike ,Fluttershy,Pinkie and Twilight didn't had much time for their joy.
Fry realized that when Bender took off he stoled his bag.
''Grrrrrrrr....BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDEEEEEEEEEEERR!!'' Fry Yelled while his echoe sounded trough the woods.

Fluttershy petted his back.
''I-it's okay,we will catch him.''

''Bender has definitely greed,'' says Twilight while she shaked her head.
''For what is that key?'' Pinkie glares at the key.
''I don't know...,'' answers Spike.

The group walks over to the forest.
Spike and Twilight are giving a last look at the spears from out the ground.

''So long... Anger...'' sighed Spike and he walks with Twilight back to the group.

'How many sins are their left?' asks Fry walking next to Fluttershy.

'Um...Greed, gluttony, slot,...,' enumerates Twilight.

'And the other three?' asks Fry again.

Twilight sighed and shaked her head: she doesn't know it anymore.
''I'm sorry Fry,but...we will find out soon...''
She continues walking only a little bit faster.

Fry looks at Pinkie.
Pinkie trowed up her shoulder.
''I don't know...maybe...i hope so....i guess....Let's go further!'' Stumbled Pinkie while she bounced after the others.

They arirrived at the beginning of the forest and Fluttershy stopped immediately with walking.

'O-oh my...m-must we...r-really go into... that scary....big....creepy...dark.. forest?'' Shivered the yellow pegasus.
She looks trough the trees, but they are so close together that no daylight could interupt the dark.

''We are together,so nothing will happening,Don't worry....'' Spoke Twilight to calm her down.
'ALRIGHT!!!, well, you go first,' Pinkie commands happy. ''And you! Right behind me.''
''Hey stop pushing me!'' yells Spike when he got pushed into the forest just like Twilight and Fluttershy.
She commands Fry also.

Suddenly a sound came out of the bushes. Fluttershy hides behind Fry.
''C-common now...Fluttershy...don't be afraid
....it's just some...weird..moan...noises from out of a bush,nothing to be afraid of,right Spike?'' Fry stumbled.
''Yea sure...'' spike sighed and stepped along with the rest.

When they walked further they see Applejack.

'Applejack!' screams Pinkie and hugs her friend.

'Ah wanna go home'' responds her friend.
''Ah hate this p-place.' she stumbles.

''Why?'' asks Twilight.

'' Okay Ah'l Explain' ...one....Bender had that chest....
and two...Rainbow Dash is So Angry that she took off!''
Applejack Whiped tears out of her eyes.
''What is this forest doing ta us!!!''

The group nodded....and decided to go and look for the rest of the ponies.

A little later when they walking trough the woods,Spike walks besides Applejack.
''So Why is Rainbow so angry about?''

'Ah'm not sure,sugar.She thinks that no-pony cares about her.''

''Well that's not true...We all give about her,just like Rarity...Let's find her!.'' announced Spike.

'' WOOOOO!!!'' Fry cheered happily along with Pinkie.
The group laughed out loud.
their giggles and laughs are echoing trough the branches and leaves.

Twilight suddenly stops laughing and puts her hoof up.
''Do you hear that to?''

A moment of silence remains.

''I hear...music!'' Pinkie smiled.

The sparse sounds of a harp come from deeper in to forest. It's wonderful – it's like singing angels.
Curious as they are, they are following their ears.
They walk trough a gate of ivy and flowers. They are standing in front of a clear, little brook.
Along the water stand the most beautifulest trees and plants. Flowers are everywhere and there is fruit.

''I-it's....so...wonderful...o-outhere..''Fluttershy smiled.

''Woooooooooooooooooooooow.This is absolutely incredible...'' Fry's mouth dropped.

''Luxuria...''

''What in tha...w-who said that?'' Applejack is looking confused round and round. ''Did yall hear that to?''

Twilight nods her head.

''Luxuria...''

Again a sweet voice that sounded like a small breeze.
Spike licks his lips and grabs to an piece of fruit near a tree.
Twilight takes Spike by his arm and pulls him back :

''Don't do that, Spike. Don't eat from that fruit. Luxuria is Latin for Lust.'

''Also appetite?'' Spike smiled Innocently.

Applejack nods her head: 'That apple lays soon as ah stone in your stomach,Spike.''

Spike understands it and puts his claws on his back.

''Listen,everypony!'' shouts Pinkie while she grabbed her ears. ''I Hear singing...again!''
Everypony listens...
''It's amazing.'' Spike sighs.
''I-i agree.'' Fluttershy nods.

''What must we do?'' whispers Twilight in Spike's ear.
''What must we do NOT,' answer Spike.
''We had Anger.''

Twilight thinks about the little text on the gate:

Are you seduced by...desire ....

''Desire is also lust. Lust is a sin so we can't admit that.'' Twilight spoke to the others.

''That's simple,'' said Applejack convinced.

Spike looks at the brook : ''To simple.''

He jumps on a stone in the brook and on another. After a few stones is he at the other side.
The others follow his example.
Only Fluttershy almost felt into the water but with an little help from Fry and Applejack she got to the other side.
They pass a big rock and turn left.
The path stops and another brook begins. Twilight's face gets red when she sees Bender.

''Bender!''

Twilight's mad voice goes further : ''Bender! Give that bag back to Fry or I...''
Then she notices something : a beautiful mare right behind him. With an long, brown mane and a small tiara.
Her eyes are blue like the flowers of the bush behind her. Her skin shines, like the sun is underneath it.

'Bender!!' yells Fry.

But Bender can't hear him eather...

''Sorry, Miss Beautiful!! But we don't have time for this!!!,''
Twilight said angry and pushed the mare away.

Bender is immediately snapped out of his trance. He shakes his head and looks at Twilight.
He jumps back from terror.

''Holy macaroni!'' Screamed Bender.

Twilight is turning into stone.

Applejack,Fluttershy,Pinkie,Fry and Spike are watching with fear in their eyes how their friend is turning grayer and grayer.

''G-guys,help me!!!'' Twilight squaled.

She looks at her arm: her hooves are turning gray ,then her hair,then her body and than her face
... Within ten seconds is there a statue in the brook.

''Twilight?'' Speaks Bender. He's stunned. He don't believe his eyes and wants to touch the gray statue.

''Don't!'' Spike and Bender drags Bender away from the statue.

''LET ME GO....SHE TURNED INTO STONE BECAUSE OF ME....LEAVE ME WITH HER!!!''
Bender yells angry and he moves twists and turns with his body.
''It's to late,buddy.'' Sighs Fry.
''We must go o-on...'' Spike sniffed.

Bender looks around. There are suddenly more mares at the little river. A white dress they are wearing.
''O-oh oh'' He stumbled.
Out of the bushes,colts appear.

''I know these creatures.'' Fry squints his eyes.
''Ya do?'' Applejack replies confused while she looked at the colts.
''These are nymphs. They seduce you, but when you touch them...BAM...stone statue.''

Pinkie steps closer to a colt.
''So....beautiful...''
The nymph tries to grab her but Spike is earlier. He runs with Pinkie away.

''RUN GUYS!''

The mare that seduced Bender appears.
Her blue eyes turned into yellow pupils and she seemed to come closer in a choppy way.
The other nymphs were doing the same thing.

''Oh...oh,'' says Fry. He pulls Fluttershy away from a colt.
''No,Applejack.!'' Yells Bender when he pushed Applejack away from an colt.
Bender felt in the brook.

''Don't touch them!'' yells Spike.
''REALLY?'' responded Applejack sarcastic.
He tries to pull Bender up. Bender sees the statue from the one who saved him from the sin.

''We've got to leave,'' begs Spike. 'It's to late for Twilight.''

'C-come on!' begs Fluttershy in terror.

The nymphs were coming closer...closer...and closer.

Bender tears his eyes of from the stone statue of Twilight.
''COMMON NYMPHS GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT,YOU WANT TWILIGHT ,YOU MUST GO TROUGH ME!'' He yells out of anger.

''I'll get you,'' whispers the nymph.

He suddenly jumps up: ''Run! Run!''

The five ponies and the dragon were running trough the water away from the nymphs.

''Over there!'' yells Pinkie while she bounced on the rocks.
She points to a gate of flowers. Fry pulls Fluttershy out of the water, just before a colt could take her by the hooves.
They run over the green grass towards the gate.

A black shadow shows up.

''Count Rohan!'' Screams Fry.

'Look out!' screams Applejack and Bender avoids the attack.

The group stumbles trough the flowergate.
A horrible scream sounds in the beautiful garden.
Count Rohan grabbed with his hoof on his chest again.

''ARGGHHH...M-my Heart!'' Stumbled Rohan out of pain.

''Twilight...I...,'' stammers Bender.
But Fry and Spike are pulling him away...
deeper into the forest, away from the brook, away from the nymphs and away from the statue of Twilight.

Charlotte

The sun shined trough the windows of the room.
Rarity cries on a chair.

When should the Count return? Did he do something to Spike and her friends? Was she lost?
All these questions...
She became sick of her own feelings: anxiety and powerless.

She tried to do something with her magical horn but nothing happened...it's like...it's blocked.

Then she suddenly sees something written on the wall.

Magic is not always the solution.

She frowns and looks around at the room.
It's like a chapel.Rarity knows that she has bin in allot of buildings in Ponyville,but this one she never seen in her life before. Rarity stands up and slowly approaches a painting.

On the painting is a bright and green field with colorful flowers painted in.
There also stands a mare with long, black hair and a blue cape,smiling.

She suddenly sees a blue cape in her corner. She looks back at the painting and sees a name : Charlotte.

''W-what in Equestria's name....w-who's this Charlotte?'' squals Rarity in fear while she strokes her purple mane.

''Sht,'' speaks a voice.

''Bu...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!'' Rarity backed away with terror untill she stood against the wall.

''Listen well. Rohans heart has not turned yet into stone.''

''But I don't understand.... Why am I here? And why is he so cold and heartless?'' Rarity says confused while she stepped closer to Charlotte.

''We were deep in love. But we couldn't marry, because our fathers didn't liked us together.
My father locked me in a monastery and told Rohan that I married someone else.'' Explained Charlotte.

''Oh my heavens,that's terrible!!!.'' Rarity declaimed with an shiver in her voice.

''He had so much grief that he couldn't take it anymore. He found a way to turn his heart into a stone.
He wanted to sell his heart to the devil.
But that wasn't so very simple. He had to turn seven mares into stone.
With every mare that turned into stone, turned his heart a little bit more into stone.

And you are the last one, Rarity. If you turn into stone, his heart will be lost forever.'' Spoke Charlotte crying.

''But what is this '' Path of the Seven Sins''?'' Asks the fashion,white unicorn in panic.

''Rohan made that so the lovers of those mares couldn't reach this castle.
I've tried everything to undo this massacre.

Eventually I was able to obtain the right to pick the last mare out.
And that was you.

''But how do you know that you and rohan are eachothers true love?'' Asks Rarity.

Because only true love can resist the Path of the Seven Sins.'' Charlotte replies.

Count Rohan suddenly knocks on the door.
''Do open!'' He screams.

''Remember: Open the chest in the castle.''

''Why didn't you walked over that Path?'' Rarity sits back on her bed quickly.

''I couldn't anymore. To obtain the right to pick the last mare, I had to give something. The most precious...''

But before Charlotte could finish the door opens and Rohan steps in.
Rarity turned around to hear the rest but Charlotte was already gone.

''To bad, but your friends didn't make it. their seduced by my nymphs in the Garden of Lust.
So far Spike's love for you: he was seduced by another,'' speaks Rohan teasingly.

'You're lying,you know nothing about my little Spikeywikey!!!,' yells Rarity angry.
She was sure that Spike is not seduced by those nymphs in the Garden of Lust.

''True love doesn't exist!!!.'' Declaimed Rohan furious.

''And how about Charlotte?'' Rarity replies back.

''DON'T SAY THAT NAME!'' Rohan was holding a knife to the neck of the fashion unicorn.

''It was a misunderstanding. She did love you.'' Rarity tried to convinced him.

But Rohan stepped out of the room and leaved her alone again.

Rarity putted her head on her pillow and cried.

Rainbow's Return

Fluttershy,Pinkie,Applejack,Bender,Fry & Spike runned as fast as they could.
The stopped and tried to catch their breath.Now are they in another forest full of dead trees.
''Where are we?'' Asked Pinkie.
''Nooo Idea'' Fry pushes a branch out of the way and clashed on Pinkie and Applejack.

''hehehehehahahahhah it tickles'' Pinkie giggled.
''Look at where ya throw those branches,Fry!'' Applejack nagged while she pushed the branch out of her face.

Suddenly Pinkie felt an hoof on her shoulder.
She stopped breathing...

''Run! Run!'' Pinkie screams and pushes Fry and Bender to the end of the line.

Fry looks back. A young pegasus came out of the darkness.
It was Rainbow dash!
They didn't saw her in a long time,because she ran away a few hours ago.
Fry sighed relieving and wiped a sweat drop of his face.

''Hey guys! Look,it's Rainbow Dash!'' He shouted happy.
''Wait,RAINBOW DASH?!?!'' Pinkie stops running and turned around.
''What happened,where we're you,what did you do?'' Pinkie kept on asking while she hugged one of her best friends.

''I'm fine,thanks for asking Pinkie,i was just...taking a walk...'' the blue pegasus spoke suspicious.
''Takin' a Walk,for that long?'' Applejack squinted.
''Y-yes...can't a pegasus just...taking a walk?'' Rainbow looked around.
''W-well...uhm...if y-you ask my opinion...i think it's..''
''OF COURSE YOU CAN!'' Pinkie interrupted Fluttershy.

Rainbow looked at Spike,she felt in her heart that somethign is wrong.
''Wait...'' Rainbow counted the ponies that were standing around her.

''W-where is Twilight?'' the young speedster stumbled.
She looks down at the path. The other ponies looked sadly away... They didn't wanted to talk about it.
She looks questioning at Bender.He looks with big, staring eyes into the distance.

''It's your fault that she...she...''
whispered Rainbow, but she couldn't finish her line because her tears we're blocking her voice..

''She pushed me away...'' whispers Bender back. He swallows and rubs with his hooves over his face.
He turns around to the rainbow-colored pegasus.

''I-i didn't want it... I couldn't control myself any longer!'' screams Bender with a breaking voice.
Fluttershy can't look at it anymore and starts to cry too.

''It's my fault,'' stutters Bender. ''MY fault!''

''It's n-not your fault,believe me.'' sniffs Fluttershy and she puts an wing over him.

''That's what yall say,' mumbles Applejack. But she shuts her mouth quickly when Fluttershy gave her ''The Stare''

''B-but how?'' Rainbow asks.

Bender and Spike can't say it so Fry says it
''Twilight's turned into stone...by one of those nymphs...those demons...'' He points at the garden: ''In that garden.''
Bender has enough of this nonsense.

''I go back,'' He yells and starts to walk towards the garden again.

Applejack holds him by his tail: Wow there, sugar cube. It's not YOUR fault!''
''Yeah, that's true. It's nopony's fault. Those demons seduceleced you!.''
declaimed Pinkie while she putted an hoof on Bender's shoulder

''I think that, if we reach the castle, that Twilight will return,'' says Spike.

''You think?''

''I hope so...''

And with those words Spike starts walking forward,followed by Fry,Pinkie,Applejack,Fluttershy,Bender
.......and an Mysterious Rainbow Dash...

…

When Your Slow now a day,Keeps The Stone Away

A couple of hours later, the landscape started to change.
The ponies were out of the forest of Lust, but they were somewhere else...
It was another forest...only...not so very livable...
The forest was filled with dead trees. They're branches hanging sadly over the group of ponies when they walked by.
The ground was rocky and the path existed out of white stones that showed the road on each sides.
The path was going up between two huge rocks and disappeared behind a couple of bushes and thorns.
Applejack's ear perked up...
she hears a thunder and the sky showed something strange : Pink clouds against a dark horizon.
Pinkie looks up.

''Ooooh I hope it's going to rain cotton candy!'' She shouted with joy while she licked her lips.
But the other ponies couldn't hear her...
Again a thunder rumbled and the sky was getting grayer by the minute.
The group climbed up,looking curiously around.
Under their hooves rumbled softly clopping,knocking sounds that echoed against the rocks.

The path finally stopped nearby a huge rock. And in front of that humungous stone,Spike stops with walking.

''This must be it...'' Spike smiles while his little dragon tail wagged a little.
''...Finally...'' Bender was totally tired and he sat down on a rock.

''HURRAY!!!....what is it?'' Fry lifts his head.
''Oh silly can't you see...it's...uhm...'' Pinkie looked stumbling at the rock.
'' Ah Rock...'' Applejack sighed.
''And it's not even an beautiful or awesome rock...'' Rainbow dash glared at the giant object right in front of her.
''B-but rocks...don't harm at least...r-right?'' Fluttershy stuttered while she backed away behind Rainbow Dash.
''Your right Fluttershy...it's just an ordinary rock...haha!'' Spike laughed triumphantly.

A huge thunder collapsed above their heads and the sky opens itself.
The rain felt down.

''Over here!'' Shouts Spike who sees an opening in the wall.
They all run into it,in the meantime Applejack's hat flies off of her head.
''Ma'h Hat!'' She yells.
She runs back to grab it but after she did that a rock closed the opening right in fornt of her.
The orange mare gulped a big lumb.
''Oh oh...''
Applejack runned as fast as her hooves could carry her back to the group.
They all stand around an iron gate.

''It's locked,'' says Rainbow while she shakes the gate..
'Ah already tried that. We can't go further.'' Applejack looked around.

''Oh, yes! We can,!'' says Spike and raises an claw into his scalps on his head.
He holds out the key from the test of Anger.
He opens the gate with a slightly terrifying sound.The ponies looked at the dragon.:

''Come on everypony...let's go!''

''I-i don't know...i-i stay outside to ....''
''Just keep on walking Fluttershy just keep walking...''
Fry Pushes Fluttershy further and further into the darkness.
Fluttershy closes her eyes and gulps as the orange pegasus pushing her forward.
Pinkie And Bender nodded their heads and followed Spike.

''Are ya commin' Rainbow?'' Applejack turned her head towards Rainbow Dash.
''Y-yeah I'm Comming!'' Replied the young speedster while she picked up the pass and followed the rest.
''Hmm.'' Applejack thought for a sec but than continued to walk behind her.

Applejack looked back after her.
The gate closes with an ''SLAM!'' behind her.
Spike and the rest raced back to the gate.
''OH NO!'' Pinkie squals.
Spike rattles the gate. 'It's locked.'' He says with an gulp.

''We can't go back,now.'' whispers Rainbow Dash,trying to calm down Fluttershy.

Suddenly, it was like the cave sighed and a cold breeze was blowing trough the center of the cave where the group stood.
Bender shivered and looked at Applejack.Rainbow looked at Fluttershy as they hugged each other tightly.
''W-what was that...'' Pinkie shivered while she clanged against Fry.
''I-i Don't know....but it sounds like the cave just farted.....that o-or an cold breeze...''
Fry wrapped his wings around Pinkie's body.
Pinkie giggled...but looked quickly at Spike.
''Spike what must we do!''
''I don't know!'' The young dragon clanged to Applejack's legs.

''C-can we go back n-now?'' moans Fluttershy in fear and she hided behind Rainbow dash her wings.

Dne eht hcaer reven llahs...

''Holy Macaroni,this cave is haunted!,'' shakes Spike from terror.

Sregnil dna wols si ohw...

''What are they saying,okay who speaks ''Death-language''?'' Rainbow smirked softly.

Dne eht hcaer reven llahs, sregnil dna wols si ohw.

''SPEAK BETTER AND LOUDER!!!''
The loud and painful yell of the blue pegasus bounces forth and back between the stone walls.
A rain of grit,dust and small tiny rocks, falls on the group.
'Sorry,' whispers Rainbow embarrassed.
Pinkie,Fry,Bender,Applejack,Spike and even Fluttershy gave an angry look at Rainbow.
Rainbow looked down.
''Now Let's Go further....there's no point at standing at this closed gate....or getting crushed by these darn rocks.''
Decides Spike and he tarts to walk further into the darkness,followed by his friends.
Rainbow slowly walking behind....Lonely...and sad.

The group walks into the direction where light came out at the end of the hall.
They're entering a round space where a mysterious light shines out from one of the walls.
The blue,young dragon pushes an branch in an empty holder and lights it with his fire-breath to get some light in this place.
The green scalped dragon looked at a big round stone in the middle of the cave.

''It's a dead end,'' says Spike.
''He,nothing passes you,Eagle-eye.'' Rainbow said sarcastic while she looks at her the ground.

''Look!!!,'' shouts Pinkie and she points at the opposite Rock from the opening where the group went trough.
''That looks like a Colty Colt!!!.'' She said with an innocent smile.
''She's right,it's ah colt!'' Applejack approves
.
The Stone-colt was very dusty and had a few cracks. He holds with his stone arms a part of the ceiling up.
''Hey,let me look,Pinkie!'' Fry shouts out opf joy while he skipped next to the pink pony.
Fry gets a little bit closer with his face and looks at the Stone-Colt.

...Suddenly The Stone-Colt opens his eyes with an loud rumble!...

''EEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!'' Fluttershy screams and hides behind Bender.
''Cut it out,you wimpy!'' Bender's voice spoke madly as he backs a little from Fluttershy away.
Fry screamed girly and falled over into Pinkie's arms.
Pinkie looks terrified at the Stone-colt.

''Sloth brings you where I am, but too kicked emergency is either not good,''

He spoke with an elegant voice.

''We must get out of this place!'' Spike thinks.
He bumps against the round stone that stands behind him in the middle of the cave.
A bright beam appears above the round stone and small,tiny and little rocks from the ceiling fall into the brightt beam.
Spike turns around and looks at the round stone.
At the edge of the round stone lies a circle of different symbols.Spike looks up at the colt of stone.

''Choose wise and don't linger.The choice is up to you.''

Applejack looks at the stone.
''What's this for ah'n kind of mystery stone?.'' She asks.
''Hihhihihiihi,it looks like a sort of puzzle, I think.'' Pinkie giggled as she stares at the symbols.
Fluttershy slowly appeared from Bender's back and took a look at the symbols.

Fluttershy points at the symbols :

''A-a cat, a triangle, a heart, a star, a sun, a peacock, a pig, …''

''Cool,'' says Rainbow and she puts her hoof on the flying stones that hovered a little above the big,round stone.
But when her hoof touches the stones, stones from the sealing are rumbling and started to fall down.
Suddenly it stopped...

''Choose wise and don't linger,'' says the Stone-Colt again.

''Yes,I can hear you,'' Fry said annoyed and he takes a step back.
''Choose wise and don't linger'', which sin is that?'' asks Spike while he scratched his head with his claws
He sighs. ''I wish that Twilight was still here,she would know the sin...''
Fry holds an hoof on his chin.
''Hmmm,what sin...'' He thinks out loud.
'Stupidity,' Answers Bender and gives an evil smirk at Fry.
''No, no, that is not one of them.HEY!?'' Fry looks angry at Bender.

In The Meantime,Fluttershy,Pinkie,Rainbow and Applejack still standing around the round stone with the symbols,the flying rocks still hovering in circles in the beam of light.
''Hmmm,m-most of these symbols are...a-animals.'' Stumbled Fluttershy while she observed the symbols.
''Maybe it's because your obsessed with Animals!'' Rainbow mumbled.
''Applejack turned to Rainbow with a big frown and an angry face.
''Stop bein' Such ah Jerk!,Rainbow!''

Spike looks again at the Stone statue of the colt.
''What did you say first?'' The young dragon asked while he scratched his nails over the stone.
But the stone did not let out a word or sound.

''Big help...'' says Bender with much sarcasm.

''Something.... with.....OoH! "Sloth brings you where I am" Declaims Fry while he smiled proudly.

Spike closes his eyes and tries to think as hard as Twilight Sparkle would have thought.
''... Sloth brings you where I am... What does he mean with that? If you had sloth, you become what he is? He's from stone. So he was turned into stone. And you turned into stone when you admitted a sin...''
Fry and Bender looked at the young dragon.
Fry raised an hoof at him,but Bender lowered his hoof again.
''Let him think...'' he whispers into Fry's ear.

The stones in the beam were flying around and around, faster and faster, until a white cloud develops into the beam.
Everypony looked with open mouth to the round stone in the middle off the cave and slowly approached it.

''I-it's an eye,'' says Fluttershy.

Spike stares at the eye that flies in the golden light from the beam.
''What must we do?'' He thinks.
He has the feeling that they must be faster...
''What was that text again that stood on the gate? And what did those voices say in the cave?
That was audible but what does it mean?''
All these questions were boozing trough Spike's mind.

''Dne eht hcaer reven llahs, sregnil dna wols si ohw...''

Suddenly knows Spike what it means.
''It's Only said Backwards!'':

'' Who is slow and lingers, shall never reach the end.''

''Lingers'' means Slow! It's sloth! That is a sin! It's a sort game of skill, on speed!''
Spike made up his mind finally.
He looks at the circle with the symbols.
He suddenly sees the same symbol of the eye on the stone as the eye that flies in the golden beam of light.

''The eye must be at the arrow,'' screams Spike.
''We must push the stone!''
He pushes moaning and growling,the wooden stocks that protrude from the round stone, but nothing happens.
''Help me,guys! It must be fast!''

Fry and Bender sees that Spike needs them help and they start to push and push and the stone turns, but it's to late...
The eye dissolves and disappears in the beam and there's a rumble inside of the cave.
Humongous pieces of rock are falling down.

A big one brushes along the face of Applejack and Pinkie jumps away from a rock which almost crushed her.

''A cat! Now is it a cat!'' screams Fluttershy...suddenly a little less shy as usual and points at the beam.
The stones were indeed in the form of a cat. The guys pushed and pushed... until The cat finally stands on the arrow.
The sound of crashing is audible...
Next to the Stone-colt where Rainbow Dash is standing,opens the rock a little bit.
''Common guys,keep it up like this!'' Rainbow cheered while she fluttered with her wings.

''Choose wise and don't linger,'' says the Stone-Colt again.

''Can't that dude just shut his mouth? He's making me nervous!!!,'' Fry yelled annoyed.

''A-a big mouse, n-no, ...uhm...a rat,'' yells Fluttershy. 'There!'' She points at the stone.
But before the symbol gets on the arrow, the stones dissolves again only louder and faster.
A rain of Dust falls on the group of ponies.

''This doesn't look that good ta me...'' Applejack shivered while she holds on to her hat.
''The ceiling is collapsing!'' screams Pinkie.

''Choose wise and don't linger.''

Fry turns around to the Stone-Colt.
''Do you know another sentence, gray cave troll!''
But Bender pulls him back at the round stone with the symbols.

''It's a P-pig,'' shouts Fluttershy. ''Come on, guys! Get that pig!''
Fluttershy made wild cheerleader moves with her hooves and wings.
The guys pushed as hard as they could and the opening opened a little bit more.

''Yes!!!,''shouts Spike out of joy.
''We're almost done. Which sign is it now?''

''Rainbow Dash!'' Fluttershy's voice echoed trough the whole cave.
''Rainbow Dash?'' Spike looks confused,but than sees what is happening.
''W-what are you doing?'' Fluttershy shivered.
The blue pegasus stands in front of the opening where Beams of the sunshine outside is shining back into the cave.
The Rainbow-coloured Pegasus grinned evil.
She grabs the chest out of Fry's wings,that is still pushing the round stone and runs out of the cave...not looking back...

'RAINBOW DASH! GET BACK HERE!' screams Fluttershy and chases Rainbow.
Fry runs after Fluttershy.
''Stop! Fluttershy! Wait!''

That was the final strike...
The stones and rocks were all falling down and the Stone-Colt starts to laugh:

'Too kicked emergency is either not good!'
He laughed with an voice that would made you shiver in your worst nightmares.

''RUN!!!'' yells Spike and he pushes Pinkie Pie towards the output.
The tears are getting deeper.
Pinkie's pink mane is covered with dust as she sees the normal outside world again.

The arms of the Stone-Colt broke off and felt like grit on the with Rocks-covered ground.
The ceiling comes cracking,rumbling and thundering towards the ground.
Rocks were falling everywhere.
Bender takes an enormous step and pushes the plate up with his hooves.

''Quik!'' supports Bender to Applejack. ''I ....c-can hold it ... just for a minute!.''

''Common,sugar we can make it...together!'' screams Applejack and turns around.
She sees that Bender's hooves are gray...
...He's turned into a statue...

''No, Bender!'' yells Applejack ....she runs back at Bender.
She stops right in front of the statue thats holding the ceiling up and ticks it with her hoof,holding her Cowboy-hat on her chest.
She embraces the statue with her eyes :
''Ah'm... to.... slow...!''

And with those last words and an thundering noise felt every rock and stone towards the ground.
The cave is completely covered in rocks.
Pinkie and Spike tried to pull the stones away.
''Keep on digging,Spike!'' t-they must be there,h-hahahaha...they must be still!'' Pinkie tried to hold it together.
''It's no use...'' Spike sighed sadly...

... Bender & Applejack are statues...

They run together towards the light. When they finally got out of the tunnel, they finally found Fry.
''Where were you?'' asks Spike half-angry and half-relieved.

''After Fluttershy. Where are the others?''

Spike and Pinkie look at each other.
Than Pinkie couldn't hold it in much longer and she falls into the arms of the orange pegasus.
''BWEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHHEHEHEH!!!!!'' The pink earth pony cried.
Spike sighed.
''In the cave...everything... collapsed...'' he looked down,he had an big limb in his throat.

Fry looked confused at the ground...he felt his positivism fall apart.
He petted Pinkie on her back slowly.
''T-this can't be true...'' He sniffed.
''We have to go on....to save everypony...'' Spike hugged the two crying ponies.
Pinkie and Fry sobbed but nodded their heads.

''Now...where's Fluttershy?'' asks Spike calmed down.
Fry looks from Pinkie pie to the young dragon's his face.

''After Rainbow Dash!. She has my ....Chest....''

The Swamp

In the mean time is Fluttershy chasing Rainbow Dash still,but after a few sharp turns and 2 miles she lost the track of her.
''W-where did she go?'' Fluttershy whispered in herself.
She suddenly hears voices in the distance.
Fluttershy sneaks quickly behind a rock...
She see Rainbow Dash...with ROHAN!.
Fluttershy tried to scream but there came no sound out of her throat.
Her heart was beating faster in her chest.
The blue pegasus stands next to the count with the chest in her hooves.

''Here's the chest...'' Spoke Rainbow.
''You're fantastic, Rainbow Dash...,'' says Rohan and takes the chest.
''I knew that you could do it.'' He smirked a little.

''Are now your getting me out of this ''Path of seven sins'',right? That was our deal...''

Rohan looks at her violet-eyes and he smiled meanly.
''But of course....Rainbow Dash....here...let us shake hooves to seal the deal once again.''
The count holds out his hoof.
Rainbow looked at him smiling and shaked his hoof.

Rainbow looked at the shaking hooves...her breathing stopped.

Her hoof is slowly turning gray.
''Y-you.....dirty.... Liar!!!'' Rainbow tried to move,but it was already to late.
''N-no....S-stop....or else i will beat you up like trash,do you hear me!''
Her last words echoed trough the forests... until finally the stone grows over her mouth.

Rohan laughed triumphantly. ''HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!''He closes his eyes from pleasure and joy.

''Do you start hotheaded on the battle, know that you're going to loose....remember....Rainbow Dash?''
Rohan smacked his hoof into Rainbow's Stone-Face.

He smirked and turned around to the chest...but the chest is gone.

Fluttershy runs as fast as she could,with the chest under her wings.She hears more hooves and hides quickly behind a tree.
She whiped the sweat of her head while she panted. Rohan looks behind bushes,trees and rivers....but no chest.
''Hmmmph...i will find that chest again...Grrrrrr'' He mumbled angry.
Rohan turns around and a thunder strikes over his head.
He dissapears...

Fluttershy looks from the behind the tree.
''T-the others have to know t-this...o-ohh...i wish i never came to this place..'' She sighs and gallops quickly back.
She suddenly sees Pinkie,Fry and Spike.
Fluttershy starts to explain everything what she saw.

''And then R-rainbow and a black other p-pony i don'' know started to shake hooves and then she t-turned into stone and then i grabbed the c-chest and then i run away and now im h-here...back...at...you...guys.'' T
he shy pegasus stumbled

Fluttershy gives the chest back to Fry.
''I better put this back...'' Fry hided the chest close to his wings.

''But how could Rainbow know that...pony? she did not even know him...,'' replied Spike while he calmed down Fluttershy.
''Wait a second...'' Spike thinks.
''Rainbow was almost always alone on this trip. Everypony had someone to talk to...Me and Rarity...Fry and Pinkie....Bender and Twilight and even Fluttershy and Applejack.
Accept...Rainbow Dash.
She must have felt alone and maybe ... the count looked her up when she ran away at the Garden of Lust.
He had an deal with her... And now...''

Spike shivered...

He shares his thoughts with the others.
''That is so possible...that it must be true'' said Pinkie with an serious face.
''W-we must go on...and not let our s-sins...uhm...win.'' Fluttershy said positive while she tried to smile.
''This will be all over when we reach the castle,'' says Spike.
''So let's keep going!.'' Pinkie shouts and grabbed Fry's and Fluttershy's hoof.
She skips happy forward on the path,Fry and Fluttershy giggling along.

Spike looks up at the sky.

''Were Coming,Rarity....hold on.'' He whispers and he ran behind the three skipping ponies.
...
An hour later Pinkie,Fluttershy,Fry and Spike were still walking.
They followed the path easy and careful.
suddenly Fry notices something...The path is all muddy.
''Ewwwww....'' Pinkie nagged while her hooves sobbed into the mud.
Fluttershy tried to whip her hooves off at a tree,but when she is finally done...her hooves are dirty again.

They Entering another forest and again... different...from the other forests.
Fry and Fluttershy looked around. They see rivers with brown water,muddy poolsides and holes in the ground.

''Oh,watch your steps!'' Warned Pinkie jumping over an hole.

''Fluttershy flew over it and landed next to the pink earth-pony.
Fry flew panting over the giant hole with Spike on his back.
''Are ..we... there... yet...?'' he panted,suffering from the walking.
''Almost...common Fry,hold on.''
Spike softly slapped his face and the orange pegasus marches behind the two mares in front of them.
A stench reaches their noses.
Spike sniffs,he holds his claw for his mouth before he starts to barf.
Pinkie and Fluttershy smells it too.

''W-what's that smell....it's smells like the diapers from the Cake Twins only dirtier.'' Pinkie grabbed her nose.
''It's h-h-h-horrible''. stuttered Fluttershy,gasping for air.
They hear suddenly a sort of fart.

'Spike,don't be so rude!' says Fry appalled.
''That wasn't me,mine are louder and more gassy!'' shouts Spike offended back.

Fluttershy shivered against Pinkie.
''I-i'm afraid of dirt...'' she admits.
''Huh what,why?'' Pinkie looked at the shy pegasus.
''T-that's why i always go to the spa with Rarity...to clean myself from germs and diseases.''
''There,there...it's alright Fluttershy...were all affraid of something.'' The pink pony tried to cheer her up.

Spike pushes a few branches from a conifer to the side.
He takes a step and sees an swamp.
''Oh...my.......i think my breakfast wants to lave my tummy.'' Spike holds his claws in front of his mouth.

Brown and almost invisible fog hangs above the brown mire.
''Bleh,this smells like sulfur...or one of my stink bombs.'' Fry declaimed while he waved a wing for his nose.
They hear another fart. And another. And another. And again another...

''Wow,Somepony suffers from those beans in tomato sauce,'' says Fry poking Fluttershy's side.
Pinkie giggled quietly behind him.
Spike looks around at the swamp.
''M-must ...uhm...we really go trough this?'' asks Fluttershy scared. Her hooves slowly sunk into the brown mire.
''O-oh my...No! My hooves!''
Spike and Pinkie grabbed Fluttershy and pulled her out of the mire.

''Which sin is this?'' asks Fry while he brushed some mud off of Fluttershy.
''I don't know yet...,'' answers Spike.
''We had three...but what is this?''
He looks around. He can't think of something.
He suddenly looks at Fluttershy that was whipping desperately the mud of her hooves.
Than his mind gave an idea.

Gluttony And Greed....and...and'' Spike stumbles.
''Uhm,Is one of those two sins this?'' asks Fry and points to the swamp.

''No, I don't think so,'' says Spike scratching his head. ''This is another one. There are still two I don't know.''
'''Hmmm...maybe we need to Think...think..think.'' Pinkie repeated the last words.

Spike enumerates the text on the gate.
He closes his eyes and hears Twilight's voice still in his head.

'' Do you start hotheaded on the battle, know that you're going to loose...
Anger...
Are you seduced by desire and glory, know well for whom you're going to choose
...Lust...
Who is slow and lingers, shall never reach the end
...Sloth...
Neither them who fill their mouth or pouch or those who dream of themselves...fill their mouth or pouch.
...That sounds like gluttony and greed...
Or those who dream of themselves...

that sentence made Spike think about a story... ''Narcissus''.
It Was an strong and handsome pony that was in love with his own reflection.
That's why he turned down the nymph Ego.
''The goddess of Love'', Aphrodite, Cursed him with an curse.
He languished away and turned into a narcissus.''

Spike shakes his head,from all the thoughts he haves in his head.
A bubble from the brown mire pops open and big blobs land in the middle of Fluttershy's Face.
''O-oh No!...G-germs...all over my f-face!'' she squeals
Fry and Pinkie sighed and brushed her off once again.

''Your going to be fine,Flutters! Rarity probably has a make-up table packed in her suitcase.
So we can make you better with : Creme's,bottles,Perfume,Nail varnish....varnish...varnish...varnish.''
Those last words echoed in Spike's ears.
Freddie laughs a little about it. Daphne has probably a make-up table full of her things: cremes, bottles, perfume, nail varnish,...

''...Vanity...,'' Shouts Spike. ''Vanity!''

''I'm n-not vain,'' replied Fluttershy.
Suddenly an leave slowly lands on her hooves.
''E-ewwww!!!,More germs!'' Fluttershy hided behind Fry.

''No,'' says Fry. ''You are certainly not.''
Pinkie pokes hard in Fry's side.
''Sssssh!'' Pinkie shushed.
''No!'' says Spike.''Vanity is the next sin.''
''Pretty funny though...i always thought Rarity had vanity as a sin...'' Spike thought.

They walk into the swamp.

...
Thirty minutes later Pinkie,Spike,Fry and Fluttershy walk trough the swamp.
Fluttershy sits on Pinkie's back,looking around carefully.
''You know,for the sin of Vanity...this isn't so bad at all!'' Fry smiled while marching trough the mud.

Suddenly Fry falls into the brown water.
A big splash is echoing and a few frogs jump away from the side at the brown water.
''Hahahahaha,oh Fry it's not the time for a mud-mask right now,hihihihi!!!'' Pinkie laughed.
Fluttershy giggled slightly.
''Hahaha...funny...'' Fry stood up shaking his mane and feathers and continues walking.

Spike points at a tree and sighs.
''I've seen that tree before. We're walking in circles.''

''Uhm...p-please excuse me...uhm,'' whispers Fluttershy.
''C-can we have a little rest.''
''Fluttershy,we must gio on!,'' Spike tried to cheer her on.
Fluttershy frowns and sniffs sadly.
''B-b-but...*Sniff*... I don't like i-it anymore.''

''Sssssht!''says Fry.
He points at a pool right in front of them.
''I saw something moving...''
Fluttershy jumped from Pinkie's back and clanged against Fry's body in fear.
Fluttershy moans and squeaks,she starts to get hysterical.
''I-i... just w-wanna go home!!!'' she cried.

A black beast suddenly appears out of the water.

''Run!'' screams Fry and runs out of the water.
''Oh Biscuits...'' Spike cursed and runs behind Fry.
''Faster Fry faster!!!'' Pinkie yelled while she runs at high speed.
Fluttershy screams and screams...
Pinkie runs right trough an tree.
''Look out, Pinkie! There's another one!!!,'' yells Spike scared.

Pinkie sees it and turns around. She's standing in front of another pool.
''LOOK OUT PINKIE!!'' yells Fry.
''What,where,who,when....OooOooOoh...''
Pinkie turns around again and falls into the pool.
She floats under water.

''Pinkie, it's not the time to swim,'' says Spike and walks to the pool.
Pinkie swims up and she gasps for air.She swims to the side. Spike tries to hold out his claws to help Pinkie out.
Suddenly something pulls him under water as well.

''Spike!'' screams Fluttershy and runs to the water.
She jumps into it and helps Spike.
''S-stop it...you...meanie!!!''She hits the beast with her hooves. She keeps hitting it.
Her light-pink mane is a bit browner now.
Fry ran worried towards the two ponies and the dragon and he pulled them out of the water.
Fluttershy is all messy and muddy and she keeps hitting and hitting her hooves wildly around.

Spike,also dirty and muddy,and Fry are pulling Pinkie also out of the water.
Fluttershy opens her eyes finally and looks at the water.

''T-the beast is gone...'' She sighs and she looked at her friends.
They are all smiling...

''Fluttershy,you did it!! You have defeated your vanity!'' Spike hugged the....shy,muddy pegasus.
''Yeah,well done!'' Pinkie shouts happy and bounced into the hugging pair.
Fry stood aside watching the two dirty ponies and dragon.
''Pfffft...i don't think i'm going to hug them...they are al dirty.'' He whispered.

Fluttershy heard that and pulled Fry into a big group hug.
''Nooooo,now i'm getting dirty to!'' Fry shouts while he felt the warmth of the group hug over his body.
''T-there...is ..uhm enough dirt for everypony!'' Fluttershy giggled.
Pinkie and spike laughed at Fry's dirty face.

Suddenly The fog is vanishing and the sunlight shines into the swamp.
The four friends look at the other side where the fog was...they see another forest.

Fluttershy,Pinkie,Spike and Fry cleaned themselves up by the river.
They walk out of the swamp into the forest.
Fluttershy looked up to the sky.
''I-i defeated...m-my sin...take that,you...meanie...'' Fluttershy smiles proudly and walks behind her friends.

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''ARRRGGHHH!!!'' Rohan grabbed with his hoof trough his chest.
he felt his heart beating for five seconds.
''N-no....No!!! They...deafeated....another sin!''
Rohan closed his eyes angry and shouts from out of his castle.
''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!''

Thus Who's Greedy...Will Never Find True Happyness

Again a half hour later the group is standing on a hill. The castle is just only 5 miles away.
''Well we did it,guys...'' Spike sighed.''In one of those towers waits Rarity to be rescued.''
''Yeah,only i wish our friends didn't turned into stone.'' Fry,Fluttershy and Pinkie looked down.

''Not....so....fast,buddy!''

They heared an crumling voice from their backs.
Fry turns around and sees his Pal,Bender.
''BENDER!'' Fry flew up with his wings towards him and hugged him tight.
''B-but i thought you and Applejack...''
But before Fry could even say something...they heard something rushing between the bushes.
Bender and Fry looks around.
Pinkie,Fluttershy and Spike shivered.

''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!'' Yells a voice.
Count Rohan comes running of the hill and he grabs Spike by his throat.
''LET ME GO,LET ME GO!!!'' Spike coughed and choked.
He tried to Squeeze and wobble out of the count's hoof.
''Where is that little chest!!?'' Rohan shouted in Spike's ear.
'' I'll show him!'' Fry said angry but Pinkie hold him back by his wings.
''Please go away,please go away,please go away...'' Repeated Fluttershy while she holds her hooves for her eyes.

Bender looks shocked around.
Until he sees Fry's wing...

''Hey You There!!!'' Bender yelled.
Rohan turned around towards Bender still squeezing Spike's throat.

''You want this???'' He holds up a chest.
''Come and get it!'' He screamed and with those words,the brown unicorn ran down the hill.
''Come here with that little chest,you scum!'' The count replied angry and yelling.
He ran behind the brown unicorn down the hill.
Spike felt on the ground coughing and crawling over the ground.

''NO BENDER,YOU ACCEPT THE SIN ''GREED''! '' Fry shouted behind him.
Fry ran toward Fluttershy and Pinkie.They are standing around Spike,who is laying unconscious on the ground.
''Spike,Spike!!!'' Fluttershy slapped his face.''C-common now...w-wake up!''
''Wait,Stay clear!'' Pinkie announced.
Fry and Fluttershy backed away.
Pinkie gargles and spits in Spike's face.
Spike opened wide his eyes and coughed up fire while he whipped the spit off his face.

Fry looked at Fluttershy.
''Well at least it worked,great job Pinkie!''
Pinkie smiled and helped Spike up.
''A-are you okay,Spike?'' Fluttershy asked worried while she looked at him.
''A slight headache...w-wait..where's Bender?'' Spike replied shocked.
''He ran away with my chest...'' Fry sniffed.
''No he didn't the chest is here!'' Pinkie holds up the original chest.

''B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but...'' Fry stumbled.
''If the original chest is here....with what kind of chest ran Bender away?'' Fry scratched his head.
Pinkie sighed.
''He wanted to give us some extra time to reach the castle...so he offered himself up...''
Pinkie explained while she gave the chest back to Fry.
''Pinkie,your an Generiously Genius.'' Fry smiled.
''No i am not,I'm Pinkie Pie!'' Pinkie winked while she blushed a little.
''Enough chitchatted everypony,Look!''
Fluttershy gasped. ''Oh,...my... N-no!The sunset!
''We must hurry...or else Bender's sacrifice is all for nothing!.''

The Four raced towards the castle...
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Bender runs down faster and faster.
His hooves run as fast as they can. although his legs still hurt.
''Hahaha!'' Bender smirks.''That dummy can't even run!''

''Wait!'' Demands the voice of the count. ''Wait! You scum!''
''Na Na Nana Na!'' Bender teased while he putted out his tongue.

Bender keeps running but suddenly he stumbles over his hooves.
He falls with a loud ''BANG!'' on the ground.
''Aiiii.....my legs....ahhh!!!'' Moaned the unicorn out of pain.

''Well..well...well. It looks like you felt over your own sin...''GREED!'' Rohan teased back and kicked Bender in his stomach.
Bender screams so hard that it echoes from the'' Lust-garden'' till the ''swamp.''
He crawled into a ball towards his stomach.A tear escaped from his eye.
Rohan laughs and sits right in front of the brown unicorn and holds him there.

''Now give me that chest!'' Rohan commands.
He grabbed the chest out of Bender's hooves.
''B...b-but...THIS IS JUST AN NORMAL BOX!'' The black count stumbles and his forehead gets red.
''That one is for Twilight and Applejack, stupid,'' Bender replies mad back and spits into Rohan's face.
Rohan whipped off the spit.

''...I will teach you....not to mess with me...FOR YOUR ENTIRELY....SHORT...LIFE!!!'' The count yells.

The count gets furious and put his hoof-gloves off of his hooves.
''Hahaha,let'' see if your still brave after this!!!'' The count laughs insane.
He lays his hoof over Bender's face.

''Well...At least...i got the chest.''

Bender spoke his final words while also his body turned to stone.

The count looks at Bender for a second and whispers :

''An inheritance is being got by greed at first, but its own future will not be blessed.''

He turns around,waving with his black cape,and gallops back towards his castle...

The Biggest Sacrifice

Spike,Fluttershy,Pinkie and Fry are running into the castle.
They are standing on an wooden floor with in front of them two doors....they have to choose...

One door has a sign with red letters : Home.
And the second door had a sign with cornflower-blue letters saying : Continue.

''What must we do now?'' Fry asked in panic.
''I-i have not even one brilliant idea...Spike?'' Pinkie looks at Spike.
''Just...don't...choose!'' Spike warns as he tries to resist the doors.

Fluttershy twitched her eye and thinks deeply...

''Home...Means Equestria
.....Safe.....and...nice...and..cozy...back into your home...i have to get back...now...now NOW!!!''

''C-common guys it's this way.!'' Shouts fluttershy walking towards the first door.
''NO FLUTTERSHY STOP!!!'' Spike screams.
But it was already to late...The door slammed behind Fluttershy and an Dark,Deep voice spoke :

''Are you seduced by desire,hope or glory, know well for whom you're going to choose...''

Spike and Fry pulled at the door.
''Open now,Common!''
''HELP!'' Fluttershy screams.
''Hold on Fluttershy,Will save you!'' Pinkie said positive and she kept on pulling at the doorknob.

''H-hurry,Open the door....O-open the....d-door...'' Fluttershy squealed.''

Fry pushed his hooves in a weird way against the door.
''SESAM OPEN NOW! .......Hmm...it doesn't work...'' Fry scratched his head.

''Fluttershy are you still there....Fluttershy?........f-fluttershy?" Spike stumbled.
There was a moment of silence...
''Fluttershy?...'' asked Fry.
...no answer...

Suddenly the door opened...
A breeze flowed out trough the manes of Pinkie and Fry.
Spike,Pinkie and Fry didn't breath...

With an ''KA-BLAM!'' felt an statue out of the door...
''N-no...'' Pinkie stumbled...
Fluttershy's statue laid live-less on the ground,her eyes still full of tears...

Fry and Spike's eyes filled with tears as they try to walk further.
''C-common Pinkie, we have to go on quick!'' Fry pulled Pinkie away from the statue.
''S-she's gone...we have to keep going!'' Spike grabbed her mane and starts pulling.
''NOOOOOOO!!!!!!'' Pinkie screamed as tears streamed down her cheek.

Fry and Spike dragged Pinkie up the stairs....while the statue disappeared into the distance.

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After Pinkie calmed down,they decided to go on still.
Spike puts na claw on the shoulder of Pinkie,who was still sniffing from the lost from all of her friends.
''It's okay Pinkie...we will make it....to the bitter end!!!'' Spike smiled.
''O-okay...'' Pinkie stumbled.
Fry hugs Pinkie tight and whipped her tears away.
''Common,let's go...'' Fry whispered and they walked further trough the castle.

20 minutes later Spike shouted.
''Wait! She's maybe in the tower. That's like always, right?'' Spike smiled.
''Spike, this isn't ''Sleeping Beauty''...,'' says Pinkie giggling like she always does.

Fry opens an red door.
He walks into a big room.
Fry and Pinkie smiled birghtly what they saw in the room.
In the room stands two tables with food : cakes, cookies, fruit and of course cupcakes! And in the back of the room stands a corner full of gold and silver and diamonds and other jewelry.

''Food,'' stutters Pinkie
''Hmmm....Gold...and..food...'' Fry stumbles after Pinkie.

''Don't,'' says Spike.
''I Guess...this sin is...Gluttony! Don't touch anything,okay guys? Promise?''
Pinkie and Fry nodded their heads like two little angels.
''Pinkiepie Swear?'' spike raised an eye-brow.
''Cross my heart,hope to fly,stick a cupcake,in my eye!''
Shouts The pink earth pony happy,while she moved with her hooves.
Fry looks at Pinkie.
''Wow awesome,swear!'' He said amazed.

''Okay then,i'm going to look for Rarity,i'll be right back!'' Spike explains and walks out of the room.
Fry and Pinkie laughed and they walked to the tables.

Spike searched around his surroundings.He sees another door. ''Finally'' He thinks.
''....Rarity?'' He shouts curious.
...
''S-spike ...is that you? Oh my little Spikey-wikey,what am i glad to hear your sweet little voice again!'' Rarity's voice spoke.
Spike's heart skips an beat from excitement and screams : ''Rarity! Open the door!''

''I'm locked up by the count in this dirty room,it's just such a shame. The curtains are so old and dusty and the carpets are messy and the color doesn't fit with my mane,hey where are the others?'' Rarity asked politely.
Spike didn't knew how he could put it to Rarity.
''Uhm...they are all stones...b-but don't worry,Rarity! I can explain it all to you...after i got you out of this tower!''
Spike promised.
The Fashion Unicorn looked down for a second...
''My friends....gone?'' Rarity couldn't believed her ears.

She still can't believe it and thinks...
''My Friends are all gone...but Oh my heavens,Spike's here! Thank Celestia,I'm saved!
That brave little dragon made it all the way up here...
Maybe he is my true love....''

Meanwhile is Fry puts on an Diamond ring and an crown.
''Hahaha,i feel so mighty!'' He laughs.
He flies back to Pinkie and puts also a crown on her head.
Pinkie looked with hungry eyes at the table.

''Do you thinking what my brain is thinking,Fry?'' Pinkie smiled at him with big pink eyes.

''Uhmm,That elephants can fly?'' Guessed Fry.

''No,Silly! That we can eat all these stuff!'' Pinkie shouts while she puts on a Sapphire-necklace.
Than Suddenly Fry sees a cookie filled with chocolate.
''Hmmm....must...eat....temptation...must eat them all!!!'' Fry grabbed all the cookies and he putted them in his mouth.
He dropped the chest besides him.

''Oooohhh....Shiny and Delicious!'' Pinkie looked impressed at the jewelry.
She grabs 3 purple cupcakes from the table and starts to eat as well,while she's putting more Diamond-rings around her hooves.
Suddenly Fry starts to ''Oink!'' Like a pig.
and Pinkie grabs more Diamonds,Ruby's and even Onyxes to put on her head.

''P-pinkie,'' Says a broken and suffering voice.

Pinkie turns around.
''Yes,Fry i.....'' Her words stocked in her throat and she holds an hoof in front of her mouth.

''Bye...bye...'' Says Fry waving sadly with an cookie in his hoof while the gray stone surrounds his head.

The stone reached over his hoof...his cookie broke into pieces on the ground. .
Pinkie drops the necklace around her neck and she sees how her neck starts to turning gray.

''N-noooo!!!'' Pinkie screams with terror in her eyes.
The pink pony runs for her last seconds towards Fry and holds his Stone-hoof.

''Common...everypony...smile...smile....smi....''
The stone covered the Pink pony's mouth...

''Nopony can reach the end...
Neither them who fill their mouth or pouch or those who dream of themselves.''
Says the Dark,deep voice out of nowhere.

Spike returns,running down the stairs.
''Hey guys i found Rarity!!! You should...''
''....uhm...guys?''

Spike looked around...but then he sees it.
His last two friends..turned into stone. Spike sniffs and whipped his tears away.
''No.....N-no....I lost everypony!...H-how could this...h-happen.'' Spike stumbled through the hall.
Spike smacked himself in the face with his claw.
''Common Spike,y-your a big...*Gulp*.... dragon! Just keep it together! I'm the only one left to save Rarity...''
He collected all his courage and sighed deeply.He races back up the stairs back to the door where Rarity is.
He looks around.

He suddenly sees a sword and gets an idea.
He lifts the sword carefully up and swings it with all his power on the door.
After 5 hits with the sword the door is finally open.
''Now i hope...n-nopony else heard me...'' Spike gulped once again while sweat is covering his forehead.

Rarity opened her eyes slowly.
''Oh Spike,i knew you could do it!'' She hugged the dragon tight with his head onto her chest.
''Hehe,a-anything for you,M-miss Rarity...'' Spike blushed.
''Quick,just open the chest,Darling!'' says Rarity.

Spike nods and put his claw in his scalps again. He holds out the key from the test of anger.
But then they both heard something.
''LOOK OUT,SPIKE!'' Rarity squealed and she hides behind the bed that stands into the room.
Spike ducks, an iron shield flies like a frisbee over his head and lands with an ''CLANG!'' next to Rarity.
Count Rohan clashes his sword on the ground.

''Hey ...Little Dragon...It's time to finish this....once..and..for..all.'' He smirked and sprints towards spike with his sword.
Spike screams and runs into the other room where the Fry and Pinkie-statues are standing.
He accidentally drops the key of anger onto the ground.

''Dont't hurt him,you stupid count,nopony touches little Spikey-wikey~'' Rarity shouts while she chased after them.
When she finally came down...she stood into a corner.
She sees Rohan chasing Spike through the room.

''Come back,you little...'' The count growls furious like an wolf.
Rohan swings his sword again but Spike ducks another time.
''Hey,watch out where you point those things!'' he shouts.
He sees another sword and gets an idea.
''Aha!'' he says and runs to it,but Count Rohan is much earlier.

''No,no...we aren't going to cheat...hahahaha'' He laughed mean.
He places his Hoof on it,but Spike spews his fire-breath over his hooves .
''ÝIIIIOOOOAAAAAAUUUWWWWW!!!!'' The Count screams out of pain and falls on the ground.
The brave,young dragon jumped over the count's body and grabs his own sword again.
''En Garde!'' Spike said Brave.
''Haha,who's laughing now,huh?'' Spike smirked while he made huge swings with the swings.

But suddenly Spike thinks for one second and he stands still.
Spike wants to sting the sword into the Count's body, but he sees that Rohan laying lifeless on the ground.
He stops with moving the sword around and looks at his body.His green dragon eyes were filled with...an feeling...

''Common Spike,Fight!'' screams Rarity. ''Fight with him!'' But Spike did not even move an muscle.

Rohan Laughs quietly and stands up slowly on his hooves again.
Spike gulped,he knew what was going to happen and closed his eyes.
The Count suddenly runs towards him and hits him with his hoof in his face.

The Little dragon smacked on the ground...

''Spike!!!'' Rarity shouted in fear as she stood back.

''Arrrgghh...'' Spike rubs his red cheek and stood up again,stumbling on his dragon-feet.

''That's too bad. Isn't that right, Spike?'' Rohan whispered.

He raises his other hoof and punches into his face again.
Spike felt against the wall and then collapsed on the wooden floor.

''NO,STOP! PLEASE!!!'' The shocked,unicorn screams and ran towards the knocked down dragon.
Rarity putted an hoof on his chin.
''Oh Spike...'' Sniffed the fashion-unicorn while teardrops felt down from her cheeks onto Spike's nose.

Spike spitted out an tooth and coughed.
''R-rarity...*Cough*....'' He moaned and he rubbed his cheek against her hoof.

''HAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!'' He laughed while he walked towards the little dragon again.
''Get out of the way,you ugly mule!'' The Count yells and he pushed Rarity away from the little dragon.
Rarity lands next to the statue of Pinkie while she cried : ''Do you even have a h-heart?''

''Common,fight like a real dragon should,common!!!'' The count pulled him up.

''Why Don't you fight back,Spike!!! Spike say something to me!''
Rarity cries while she whipped her tears away with her mane.
Spike blinked with eyes and focuses on the count again...not replying to Rarity's question.

''DO YOU STILL DON'T GET IT?'' Rohan shouts while he moved closer to Spike while he tried to sting Spike with his sword.

'' He can't fight, because I've placed a sin in this castle. Do you know him, Spike? DO YOU KNOW HIM?! RAAAH!!!''

Rohan gets mad and he chops with the sword a piece of wood of an closet.
Spike escapes the attack and quickly jumps on the table with food,fruit and cakes.

''Let all malicious bitterness and anger and wrath and screaming and abusive speech be taken away from YOU along with all badness...''
Rohan whispered slowly while his pupils shrinks an inch.

''Stop It,Rohan! J-just give up with all this...y-you will never win!'' Spike pants and jumps of the table towards his sword.
Count Rohan teleported himself to him and grabbed his throat while he pressed him against the wall.

''I Take that as a ''NO'' for not knowing the sin in this castle,am i right...SPIKEY...WIKEY!!!''
Rohan squeezed Spike throat deeper and deeper.

''STOP IT,YOUR MURDERING HIM!'' Rarity cries,hiding behind The statue of Fry.

Spike's face turned ''berry-purple'' while he tried to gasp for air.
''Oh i will tell you the sin,Spike...'' Rohan says calm.

''It's WRATH!...REVENGE!!!''
''You can't harm me...because than your using..''Anger.'' and isn't ''Anger'' a sin..oh right...Twilight isn't here to talk about sins! What a shame...such a smart unicorn seduced by Lust''
Rohan looked down while he shaked his head.

''But now it is over Spike...Nopony ever came back Alive from ''The Path Of The Seven Sins''...and so it will be also this time.
You know...this path...truly is the best thing i ever made!''

Rohan laughed an little while he released Spike an small inch.
Spike finally breathed and he filled his longs with sweet,sweet oxygen.

''Because it proves again that...True Love...just doesn't exists...''

Rohan looked at an painting that hanged next to Rarity.
The painting showed an image of him standing smiling next to an other mare.
Rohan thought for an second,but than he shakes his head and turns back to Spike.

''You and Rarity will get an special place as statue's in my castle,you look so...stupid...together.
And when i turned Rarity into stone ...MY HEART WILL BE STONED...FOREVER!!!''

Rohan laughs while he slowly raised his sword above Spike's head.
''Any last words,Wurm?'' Rohan teased while he holds up his sword.

''Yeah...maybe i can't kill you...'' Replies Spike.

''BUT I STILL CAN LET YOU FEEL...PAIN!!!''

Spike grabs The key of Anger from the ground and points it in his eyes.
''AAAAAAAAAARRGHH!!!'' Rohan backed away while he rubbed his eyeball.

The Key flew through the air and lands with an ''Clingeling'' in front of Rarity.

''I will chop you into pieces!!!'' Yells The count and he swings with his sword towards Spike.
Spike swings back and an sword battle begins.

Rarity looks at the Dragon and the Pony.
''I certainly must do something!'' she thinks.
She sees suddenly the key of Anger.She runs towards it and takes it in her mouth. She suddenly sees An chest next to the Fry-statue

''Rohan tried to grab the chest,but Rarity got furious and starts to scream in his ears.
''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!'' The Unicorn whined.
Rohan falls over but quickly gets up and gets after Spike.
Rarity smiled and puts the key in the chest...
A ''click!'' came out of the chest and a snake-rattling skittered out of the lock.

Rohan pushed Spike against the wall and removed his sword out of his claws.
''...Well...this is the end,Goodbye Spike.''
He raised his sword and Spike closed his eyes.
The sword lowers but stop in front of Spike's chest.
An beating sound beated through the whole castle. Rohan dropped his sword and looked back towards the chest.
Spike slowly opens an eye.
Rarity watches with open mouth to what actually lays inside the chest.
''TWO beating hearts were pumping inside the chest.
'B-but that's y heart...,'' stumbles Rohan.

'''And mine,'' says a voice. Charlotte appears out of a ball of smoke in front of Rohan.
'' I've waited so long for you, Rohan.'' Charlotte smiled into his face.
''B-but...'' Spike's jaw dropped while he stood next to Rarity...looking at Charllote and Rohan.

Chalotte turned towards Spike.
''To let Rohan's heart turn into stone,the devil needed a big sacrifice...'' Chalotte explained.
''So i gave the devil my heart in return...i putted Rohan's heart in a place he would never look for...In a ''CHEST''

''But you l-loved someone else.'' Stuttered Rohan while he looked into Charlotte's eyes.

''That was a lie from my parents,my heart belongs next to yours. I'm in love with you, Rohan.''
A tear escaped Charlotte's eye while she smiled at him lovingly.

A smile appears on Rohan's face.
''I....''
He sighed.
'' I Love You Too.''

Rohan leans in and he kisses her lips.He felt an beating sensation in his chest.
Charlotte putted happy her hooves around him and kisses with passion back.

A golden light shines into the room.
Rohan and Charlotte disappeared into the golden light.

Spike looks at Rarity and slowly leans in,their lips smooching onto each-others while an heavenly voice spoke :

''Remember this with all the things you do, keep your heart full of love and courage....''

Rarity and Spike both closed their eyes...

Only True Love Wins

Rarity feels something on her face... it tickles her cheeks slowly.
It's felt like the sunshine...
She slowly opened her eyes and she sees the sun singing or her face.
Rarity turned her head and sees everypony sleeping next to each other.
Rarity lifted up her head curiously.She sees the statue of Rohan...

''H-how did we...'' Rarity whispered with her mouth open.

Suddenly she felt something snuggling against her side.
It was Spike,that smiled in his sleep.His head rested on Rarity's shoulder.
''Spike...Spike...wake up~'' Rarity nudges with her muzzle on Spike's nose to wake him up.
The little dragon blinked and opened his eyes.
''Hey Rarity,how are...'' Spike stopped and looked around. He suddenly noticed that they weren't in the castle anymore.

''...Was...this all just an scary but wonderful dream?'' Spike asked while he looked his crush into her eyes.

''Well...if this was all a dream,it was absolutely the best dream i ever had.''

Rarity blushed her cheeks red while she nuzzled the Dragon's head.
Spike smiled while he felt his heart beating faster.
''Me too...'' He softly replies while he slowly stands up and helps Rarity up.

''Ahhh...man,my head.'' Bender rubbed his eyes. and looked around.
'' Urgh...Ah promise that A'hm never making ah ''Beans 'n tomato soup'' with unknown mushrooms as ingredients.''
Applejack slowly moaned and shakes her head,her blond mane whipping back and forth.
The orange mare opened her eyes wide when she sees the statue of Rohan again.
She felt around her body and her Cowboy-head.
''W're back!!!'' Applejack hugged Bender quickly out of joy while she trowed up her hat and catches it again.
''Hey,calm down!...'' Bender nagged...but he slowly smiled and hugged her back.

''GET OFF OF ME!!!'' A Voice shouted under Applejack's flank.
Applejack startles and quickly stands up.
''Finally!'' An purple unicorn gasped for air and stood up. She looked towards Spike.
''Twilight!'' Spike yells and jumped on the unicorn,hugging her neck.
''Oh Spike,i thought i would never see you again!'' Said Twilight,while she pinked away an tear.

Rarity smiles while she sees Fry and Pinkie laying next to each-other.
''Hmmmm...'' Fry drooled,chewing on Pinkie's mane while their hooves were still holding tight.
Pinkie yawned and poked an hoof into his eye.
Fry opens his eye and screams. ''AAAAAAHHH!!!''
Pinkie wakes up and Screams too : ''AAAAAAHHH!!!''
''ÁAAAAA...''
''AAAAAAAA''
''AAAAAAaaAAaAaaAaaA''
Pinkie holded her hoof in fornt of fry's mouth and starts laughing.
''Well, that was a weird dream.'' Pinkie giggled.
''Ywes zit does....wlait...yiou hgad de zame tream as me?!'' Fry Mumbled while he tried to talk with Pinkie's hoof on his mouth.
Pinkie smiled and hugged the orange pegasus without replying.
Fry blinked ''Glad to be back,Friend...'' He smiles and hugs her back.

Fluttershy woke up and scratched her head.

''W-what's happening...w-what's the rush?'' She looked at her body.
Fluttershy' squee was so loud that even Fry and Pinkie could hear it,while they were screaming.Fluttershy bowed and kissed the ground.
''MWAA MWAA MWAAA,o-oh thank goodness w-were back!''
The yellow pegasus looked up at the statue of Rohan.
Fluttershy sees an flashback from her running into one of the doors...
''EEEEEK!!!'' Fluttershy screamed and tried to ran away but falls over an Rainbow-colored and snoring Pegasus.

''WHAT,WHERE,WHEN HUH WHO??'' Rainbow sat straight up and hitted her head against the stone statue.
She moans and rubs her head.
She looked at her friends...and she starts to cry.

''I-i'm sorry guys...ive bin a big big jerk b-but...all i just wanted was somepony to talk..or to be with.''
Rainbow sniffed while big tears felt on the ground.
Spike and the others looked at each-other but than they nodded their heads and msiled to Rainbow.

''But of course we forgive you,Rainbow... it was ''The Path Of The Seven Sins'' that made you into an monster...''
Fluttershy spoke and she nuzzled The rainbow Coloured Pegasus.
Rainbow Smiled as she hugs Fluttershy tight...
''You guys are the best!'' Rainbow yells happy while she pulled everypony into an hug.

''Hey,look it's the bus!'' Pinkie shouted happy while she grabbed her settle-bag.
''But how did tht bus came...''
Twilight asked but got interupted by Applejack's :
''YIIIIHAAAAWWWWW!!!'' Applejack kicked her hooves up and ran into the bus.
''Oh wel,probably a good explanation for that...'' Twiligth smiled and walked towards the bus with her settle-bag.
Fluttershy and Rainbow chatted while they we're entering the bus too.

Fry and Bender looked down.

''Well i guess we have to move one now...'' Fry said a little bit sad.
''Yeah...alone...and trying to get home..again.'' bender sighed and kicked his hoof.

Spike putter an arm around the neck of Bender and Fry.
''Hey...how about you guys wanna have an vacation in ''Canterlot!?'' Spike smiled.

''SIR YES SIR...but i'll drive!!!'' Bender salutes and galloped behind Twilight into the bus.

Pinkie pie runs out of the bus again and she starts to hsake Fry's body with her hooves.
''Common Fry,you can sit next to me!!!'' She shouts smiling.

Fry winked at Spike,grabbed Pinkie's hoof and the two jumped giggling into the bus.

Spike grabbed his bag while he kicked a shiny thing out of the way.
Spike blinks and picks up...

..a sword...

Spike looks back at the statue...

He sees two hearts on Rohan's stone-chest with two letters in it...

C + R

''Rohan and Charlotte...'' Spike whispers while he took a look at the sword.

''Are you coming Spike,Darling?'' Rarity stands in front of the bus entrance.

''Yes Rarity!'' Spike replies back.

Spike places the sword on the statue again and walks towards the bus.
He steps on the small staircase from the bus,turning around to give one last look at the statue.

''Beware of The Path Of The Seven Sins...
Because only...only...True love wins...

Spike stepped inside and the bus drives away.

-------------------------- THE END ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Path Leads...

And one by one, the screen sucked the ponies inside.

''Hole Crap!''
''W-what the fudge...''
''Hihihihhi WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!''
''O-oh my....i wish we s-stayed home...''
''WOOHOOOO THIS IS SO AWESOME!''
''Hmmm,looks like a timehole or something but still,AAAAH!!!''

Anypony that would stand on the square, would not believe their eyes.
Because when Twilight as least dissapeared the screen vanished. And so did the whole group of ponies.

Spike opens his eyes. He doesn't believe them: he's standing on a hill. Unknown!
...In the middle of nowhere!...
But the gate is still right behind him.
''W-what happened just a few seconds ago?'' Bender looked around.
''We got sucked into a timehole and transformed to an other age! '' Twilight explained.
'' We are not in our own time...or Equestria...''

''Where are we?' asks Rainbow Dash looking down the hill.

Spike looked around the gate, but no sign of Rarity..or the square where the ponies were a few seconds ago..
He sees a dirty road that leads trough an forest.

'Come on! Let's go that forest,' shouts Rainbow.

'Wait!' says Spike while he looks around. 'Rarity is maybe here!'
''Oh Oh!!! OR MAYBE CANDYSHOPS!!'' Pinkie yelled while she bounced up and down.
''Hmmm,ah think that der arn't any candyshops,pink'' Applejack pointed to the woods.

''W're in the middle of nowh're.''

''Oh common Let's go already!'' Bender said annoyed.
''B-but what about Rarity?'' Spike stumbled.

'Than you should have seen her by now! I don't know what's at the other side of that Forest.
Maybe a carousel or an ice-cream car. Spoke Rainbow sarcastic.
''REALLY?!!'' Fry and Pinkie shouted happy at the same time.
''NO!'' Rainbow sighed and planted her hoof in her face.
''But where was i...oh yeah... I'm not going to stand here and boring myself,so move along or go away!.'

With those last words spoken, she turns around and flies away.

Bender does a failure to grab Fry's chest (the little chest that was around the statue), but Fry avoids it.
''Give me ...that..chest!!!'' Bender yelled while his hoof grabbing around the chest.
''Never!'' Screamed Fry and he pulled the chest out of Bender's hooves.
Twilight sees it and stepped towards them :
''Don't act all childish Bender. What's the matter with you? Do you need money or something?''
''I just want that chest!'' Bender declaimed and he gallops behind Rainbow Dash.

Applejack walks after him.
''Ah will keep an eye out.'' she mumbles.

The other five, Fluttershy,Twilight,Pinkie,Spike and Fry searched around the gate.

''Wait!'' demands a voice.
And the four turned around...

With An Heart Of Envy...

Spike,Fluttershy,Pinkie and Fry continued their journey trough the woods.
Spike has the feeling that they were like walking for hours trough the big bushes and huge trees.
Since the sin of ''vanity'' they didn't find an sin anymore.
But than sees Spike two towers.
''Hey guys,look!'' He blinked with his eyes.
''A-am i dreaming....or do i see two towers...'' Fry squints.
'' Your not dreaming,silly It's the castle!
Fluttershy looks up at the sky.
''Oh no,the sun is going down!. W-we must get going.''

They walk further. But suddenly they see a river,with a few stones in it.
They walk over the stones over the river.
The group looks around.
''Maybe next time that count must learn...that...wow!''
Spike almost felt over but got saved by Pinkie pie.
''...to build an bridge!'' Spike frowned.
But suddenly they see something.
''Flying eyes!'' Shouts Pinkie.
''Oh Pinkie..when are you not joking around for one second!'' Fry giggled.
''N-no Look!'' Pinkie points.
'''H-holy...h-holy...'' Fry stumbled and this time he hided behind Fluttershy.

''Dude,that's creepy!'' says Spike approaching the flying eyeballs.
An eye floats to him and opens his eyelids. Spike looks in it.
''B-becareful,Spike'' Fluttershy warns.
''Is that...R-rarity.... with another colt...? What's the point of that?'' Spike raised an eyebrow.

'' What is wrong with that?'' Fry looks confused at Fluttershy.
Fluttershy shakes her head. ''I-i would have no idea!''
''Maybe it's because...well...because he ...smells bad?'' Pinkie guessed.
Fry and Fluttershy looked at eachother confused.

''Well, it is wrong. And you know how i am sometimes... I can be jealous someti... '' Spike stops speaking.
Suddenly he gets it.

'' A heart full of envy, will turn into stone without pain. ''

''This is the sin ''Envy!'' He yells to them.
''Huh Anvil? I don't see an anvil?'' Fry looks around.
''He means Envy,Fry.'' Pinkie giggled.
''No i don't see that eather!'' Fry looked confused at Fluttershy but she looked away and giggled.
Spike walks back to the three ponies.
''This explains the eye-thing!''
''Those eyes make you look in their uhm...eyes so you would see something that makes you jealous,'' Spike explains.
''So and what happens now?'' Fry asked to Spike.
''...Well...uhm...let's...continue...walking i guess...''
Pinkie smiled and waved at the flying eyes..
The eyes looked confused at the pink pony waving them and they all start to blink.
The group dissapears into the distance....

...and so does the river with the flying eyes...