The Resurrection of Darkness

Chapter 3:

It was nearly evening the next day, and our heroes were still scaling the mountain (which wasn’t quite a surprise, it was the tallest mountain in Equestria). They were telling stories while walking the day before, but they were much too tired by now. “Wow, this mountain is pretty high…” Said Steam.

To which Rob responded, “As far as I can make of this map, I have no idea where we are!” You see, when they had tried to find dinner that night after they set up camp, Rob had looked through his pack and found a map from a brochure he had gotten when he moved to the village.

“Give me that!” said Silverwing. He took the map, muttering “Can’t even read a map… Tsk tsk…” And so on. “Well, here’s your problem! This map’s too small! We’re not on it anymore!” he said, “It’s useless now!”

“Well excuse me princess, but it’s as big as maps get!” Said Rob. “Plus, I don’t usually plan to get attacked by a giant demonic phantom army, and neither did you! That’s kind of the point that he came when we didn’t expect it, he wanted to catch us off guard!”

“Shut up! What was the point in giving you the map anyways?! You can’t read it you’re useless!” Said Silverwing.

“First of all, I got the map because it was MY map, and none of you wanted to be responsible for us getting lost! And secondly, I CAN read it, we’re not on it! You said it yourself!”

“Look, look guys, we’re all hungry, and our wits are dimmed, and it’s getting dark. We should stop for the night and find something to eat.” Said Felix.

“And who made YOU leader, Mr.Bossy?!” Said Silverwing, poking his hoof in Felix’s chest. “I should be the leader, I can read a map unlike you!”

“I’m just trying to help, Hothead! And who said I was the leader?! I’m just suggesting it so we can all stop fighting!!!” Said Felix.

“And Rob already said he could read a map, you just took it from him!” Said Gears.

“Guys, can we please stop fighting…” Said Woodsy.

“Yeah, you guys are acting like little kids!” Said Tempest and Rainbat. Pomaria just growled.

“SHUT UP YOU FOUR! This is none of your business, so stay out of it!” Said Silverwing.

“Hey, don’t pick on them! They’re trying to help! You need to calm down!” Said Felix.

“You can’t tell me what to do! If you’re so smart, then why don’t you fix this all yourself?!” Yelled Silverwing.

“Look, just because you’re hungry doesn’t mean you have to take it out on us! We all are hungry, remember? We kind of all ate the same amount of food: none! So cool your jets!” Yelled Felix in response.

Just then, they heard a “Sh-thunk!” They all turned around and saw Woodsy setting a stake in the ground to keep the tent up. “If you’re just going to fight, we’ll never get to find that demon. So you can fight all night or you can help me set up camp.” Felix and Silverwing glared at each other, and joined the group in helping set up camp.

That night Felix and Silverwing stayed as far away from each other as they could. All they had found for food was some berries on a tree, and this time, they decided to risk it and eat some of the food they had packed before they had started climbing the mountain, But it wasn’t much food they ate; they wanted to make it last as long as they could.

It was around midnight when Pomaria heard a scream. She shot up. “What was that? It sounded like a scream for help!” You must remember; she was a wolf, and wolves do have very precise hearing.

The rest groaned and woke up. “I didn’t hear anything” said Rainbat, ”are you sure it wasn’t in your dream?”

“I’m sure of it!” said Pomaria, “I swear I heard it!”

“Maybe it’s a survivor! Let’s go see!” said Gears. Just then the ground started to shake.

“Ummmm… Maybe we should plan and think about this a bit Gears.” Said Felix. “That quaking doesn’t make me have a good feeling about this.”

“Well, we’ll need to make it fast, that call sounded pretty urgent!” Said Pomaria.

“Oh, if someone needs help, what have we got to lose? They need our help, and judging from the quaking ground, we’ll need our weapons to help whoever it is out!” Said Rainbat.

“I’m with Rainbat. Who else is?” Said Felix. All of the hooves went in the air, that is all except for Silverwing.

“You want that person to fend for their self, Silver?” Said Woodsy, raising one eyebrow

“Of course not! Who do you think I am?!” Said Silverwing. “I don’t want to agree with Felix, but I don’t want that person in danger!” he thought to himself. He grudgingly raised his hoof.

So they all frantically grabbed their weapons and went outside the tent to see a white mare unicorn running away from a great army of at least fifty shadow-ponies, which were about half of a mile behind her.

Our heroes were frozen with fear. Then, before they could act, a pair of bat’s wing swept past them, but it wasn’t Rainbat’s, it was another bat-pony. It swept past the mare that was being chased and grabbed her, and took her in the air. Immediately , the whole army took chase after the bat mix in the air, for they all had horns and wings.

“Follow me!" The mysterious pony said as it flew above their heads.

Without thinking, Rob, Gears, Silverwing, Tempest, and Rainbat took flight after the pony, Silverwing picking up Felix, Gears picking up Wooden, and Rainbat taking Pomaria. Now, you must understand, even though (at the moment) Silverwing and Felix were far from friends, it was hectic, and that added to being terrified, they didn’t think much about what they were doing.

Suddenly, the sound of the shadow army’s wings was growing faint. After they had not heard it at all for about five minutes, they stopped and turned around. Nothing was behind them. Then they heard flapping from above them. They looked up, and the whole shadow army was flying straight down on them.

Suddenly, Silverwing yelled “No more running! We have to fight!” and before anyone had time to disagree, they took skyward towards the army. Felix was hanging on for his dear life by one hoof, as was the rest who couldn’t fly. Then, Silverwind said “Take out your sword or we’ll never make it out alive!” to Felix, and he did so. He’s not sure if the rest of them overheard him saying that, or they just decided it was a good idea, but everyone took out their weapons.

As soon as they first met contact with the army, it was pure chaos. Everyone was fighting in the middle of the air. The Pegasi were flying, and those holding on were striking the people going after the flier. The rescued mare seemed to be very talented with magic, because she was shooting spells knocking very many shadow demons out of the air. Pomaria was grabbing the demons she past with her fangs and causing them to fall out of the sky everywhere. Woodsy was knocking demons out of the sky, using his spear as if it were a baseball bat. Felix was slashing at every demon he saw pass, and as all of them, he struck very many demons.

Something passed in the side of Silverwing’s eyes, and he turned his head, but as soon as he did, one demon came flying at them from the side, but before it could ram them, Felix slashed it from below, and Silverwing returned the favor when Felix had almost been rammed in his hoof and fallen, but Silverwing’s quick thinking told him to kick it in the head before. About after an hour of this, all the demons that hadn’t fallen or been killed retreated.

It was now almost dawn when they returned to ground.

“Who are you two?” Rainbat asked the two new ponies.

The second bat said “My name is Echowave.”

The rescued mare said “My name is Voice Over.”

Once introductions were over, they all decided to team up on their journey, as before.

Felix turned to Silverwing. “Thank you for saving me tonight. I’m sorry I fought with you earlier. I’m going to be a bit more empathetic from now on.”

To which Silverwing responded “Thank you for saving ME tonight. If you think about it, we all saved each other at least once tonight. And I’m sorry I fought with you and Rob earlier. You all are good friends. I’m going to be nice to all of us from now on.”

Felix held out his hoof. “Friends?”

Silverwing shook it. “Definitely”

Rob then said, “Ok, it’s been a long night, so let’s get some shuteye ok?” They woke up at noon the next day.

Felix smirked. “Want to fly up the mountain, Silver?”

Silver laughed. “I think I’ve had enough flying for a while.”

So they continued to scale up the mountain. But this is not the end of their adventures. Oh no, this is just the beginning…