The Dark Zoner

The Death of a Rainbow

“Oh, shi—!” Rainbow Dash immediately shut her mouth as she recognized Twilight’s voice. ‘Of all of the places in the Everfree Forest, Twilight Sparkle is here!’ She nervously chewed on the flower in her mouth.

“This is so unexpected!” Twilight was laughing viciously like a little foal with a new toy. “It’s been a while since I got to release some stress.” Was Twilight going to play with her corpse?

“I have to outrun Twilight but how?!” Rainbow could see Twilight sharp eyes piercing her. She felt her legs freeze up and her ability to run or fly gone.

“Sister, it’s been a while.” A hazy voice started. Rainbow Dash almost jumped out of her skin when she heard the new voice. It was a sound that felt like it tore into her very soul and ripped it to sunder.

“I know, I know. I’ve been meaning to visit everypony but I haven’t been able to find the time.”

Who in the hay was Twilight talking to? Rainbow Dash looked around to see nopony nearby. She could hear the other pony but couldn’t see them.

“We’ve missed you so,” The voice croaked like broken glass. Suddenly, the trees ruffled as a sight beyond belief came into Rainbow’s view. A giant bony white claw reached down and grabbed Twilight. The dark purple Zoner gingerly walked onto the open palm while still having that slasher-smile plastered on her face.

To say that the look on Twilight’s face and the white claw had freaked out Rainbow Dash would be an understatement. She saw Twilight with an evil look before but it was like a calculative mind, this look on the other hand was like someone thirsty for blood. It was a look of a crazed chainsaw-wielding killer.

The prismatic-maned mare moved closer to see what was going on. She looked up at the sky where she last saw the giant claw. To her surprise and horror, there was a giant white phantom towering over her!

The phantom, also known as Luna’s Wrath, was so huge that it stood atop the tall black trees as if they were grass.

She’s only heard stories of the rare and legendary phantoms, to think that she would see one so up close and without knowing!

Rainbow was surprised that the phantom was talking to Twilight, they were known to be one of the most blood-thirsty of Princess Luna’s False Ones. They were also known to have a bit more intellect compared to the other demons but they used it only to hunt prey easier not communicate, or so she was told.

“How…are the others?!” Twilight seemed to be screech with a blood curdling giddiness as she smiled. Rows of sharp fangs filled her mouth.

“Some lost, some found, older sister.” The white demon said slowly. The phantom’s ghostly white maws were thick and huge, each point was the twice the size of Twilight. Drool seemed to be steadily dripping down them. Even as the demon talked, though, none of its words matched its mouth. It was like the mouth only moved when it breathed and talking was another action altogether.

On a closer look, Rainbow Dash noticed that the phantom had no real ‘mouth’, just an empty hole that lead deep into its stomach. The ‘teeth-like’ structures were really just the outer skeletal skin of the phantom, there were no gums or real teeth, not even a visible tongue.

A large drip of saliva fell from its jaw and splashed near the area that Dash was standing by. A small but deep hole appeared with a hiss. ‘So, its saliva is acidic…that’s good to know…!’ Rainbow Dash gulped.

For some reason, Rainbow Dash’s fear started to disappear as it was overwhelmed by a great sense of curiosity. Twilight was here for a reason and what is that reason? Not to mention, if she somehow managed to defeat this phantom, imagine the rewards and acknowledgement that would come her way. She would not just be ‘Reiner’s Daughter’ but ‘Reiner’s Pride’!

Her fearlessness that suddenly overcame her made her climb up the phantom’s nearby leg. The large creature didn’t seem to sense her presence, which was good. It was comparable to a small bug climbing a pony’s coat so, as long as the pony was distracted or not looking in that general direction, the phantom would not notice her.

“The others…are as mindless and vicious as ever, my dear sister.” The phantom groaned like giant rusty steel bars. The poor excuse for eyes, that were actually a endless black void, looked at Twilight with expectation.

“Always mindless!” Twilight cackled, she brought two hoofs to her face to cover her mouth as she continued her insane rant. Her purple eyes had a red tint to them, almost like a blood vessel popped under her eyelids. What Rainbow Dash saw next freaked her out beyond belief.

Crunch!

The unicorn-esque pony started to chew on her own hooves, both drawing blood and cracking bones.

“Pain…pain…!” Twilight started to say out loud. “So much hate…!”

“I am so sorry about your suffering, sister.” The phantom apologized as it raised its other claw to gently nuzzle her chin, which was a feat in itself, considering how large that claw was.

“No!” Twilight stopped munching on her hooves and stared at the phantom with hate in her eyes. “It’s those Celestians’ fault! It always is! We just wanted to live in peace…why can‘t we live in peace?!”

Rainbow Dash was now peering over the phantom’s shoulder, looking at Twilight with hesitation. Thank Celestia that Twilight didn’t notice Rainbow looking her way. The blood from the Zoner’s hooves were dripping in endless fountains that created a giant puddle of blood after a while.

“We’re monsters in their eyes, dearest sister. We feed off of their fears and deaths. That is all one can expect.” At the mention of ‘monsters’ Twilight grabbed the claw hovering near her with her teeth and tore it off, cleanly. For some reason, Rainbow noted that Twilight screamed once again in horror as she held one of her bleeding hoofs.

The hole where the claw used to be started to drip with a clear fluid. The fluid was most likely the phantom’s own blood but unlike its saliva it didn’t seem to eat away at anything except that it was extremely viscous. Soon, after a few minutes or so, the clear fluid turned white and hardened quickly, it sealed up the hole and made a distorted looking claw where the previous had been.

It was amazing to see the phantom’s claw being ripped out without so much as a cry of agony or pain from the creature. There was no real reaction, whatsoever, from it. Then, Twilight started ignoring the creature and ate away at the disembodied claw as if her life depended on it.

Rainbow Dash turned green and felt queasy, she would have barfed right there and then if she wasn’t so worried about the two monsters finding her.

“You are so angry…!” Twilight said between bites, loud bone crunching noises were coming from her mouth.

“Do not change the subject, sister.” The phantom said in a threatening tone. “We do not have your Empathy but we can still sense the turmoil inside you.”

“Pain…!” Twilight muttered crazily to herself again.

There was a streak of rainbows as Twilight found herself falling until she hit the ground below.

“How dare you attack our sister?!” The phantom roared as it lunged at the golden armored pegasus.

“What have you done with my daughter!?” Reiner screamed in a panic as he dodged the giant claw. He looked around fearfully as if expecting something.

‘Dad!’ Rainbow Dash wanted to scream her words but for some reason she found herself quiet and her throat raspy. She looked down to where she saw Twilight fall and her eyes widened as she could only see a small crater in the ground but there was no Twilight.

“Re-Reiner!” Twilight nearly screeched, her words dripping with disdain.

She appeared behind Reiner as her eyes turned white. “Y-You hit me!” A giant burst of lightning shot out of her horn but Reiner managed to dodge it in time. Missing, it hit the phantom instead.

“Rawr!” The phantom cried out as a giant gaping hole appeared in its chest. It looked at the wound and covered it momentarily with a claw before reaching out to grab Reiner. The hole was quickly sealing back up.

‘Oh, Celestia! What do I do, what do I do?!’ Rainbow Dash panicked as she clung onto the phantom’s shoulder for dear life.

As big and bulky as the phantom was, it was swinging its arms pretty lucidly like it was some kind of liquid moonlight. The phantom’s claws swung repeatedly at Reiner, each time gaining more and more speed until it looked like knives were spinning in all directions at an incredible speed.

“Rainbow Dash!” Reiner cried as he flew out of the claws’ range. He did a back-flip before he took a torpedo dive straight for the phantom’s open maw. As he got close to the phantom, his entire body spun more until a white gust of wind surrounded his entire body.

The wind armor was huge and thick but it started to get smaller and more narrow as he reached higher speeds. Finally, the wind was as thin as a needle as Reiner ran through the phantom’s mouth and ripped through on the other side.

When he broke through the other side, the wind surrounding his body had all but left him. The phantom ‘eyed’ him with its empty sockets, stunned for a moment, before its head exploded in a strong torrent of circulating air.

“We may be gone for now, intruder, but more will take our place.” A wispy white shadow evaporated like smoke.

‘Celestia, no!’ Rainbow Dash found herself pulled into the giant pseudo-tornado as it ripped away at the phantom. The phantom broke into small pieces like fine china with Dash sucked in with it.

“Help!” The rainbow-maned mare finally screamed out.

“R-Rainbow Dash?!” Her father looked back in horror to see his daughter spinning with the phantom’s shards. She tried her best to fight against the artificial air currents as the sharp bones flung at her from every direction. Without hesitation, Reiner flew into the swirling vortex and lunged at Rainbow, trying to pull her out of the deathtrap.

His whiplash, as he shot through to catch Rainbow, both broke the vortex and made Rainbow’s eyes spin around in a hazy daze. “Whoa…whoa!” His daughter moaned before holding her head still and shaking her eyes back to normal.

“Reiner…!” Twilight appeared with a hiss behind Reiner before sinking her fangs into his shoulder blades, ripping through his armor.

“Argh!” He cried out in pain and dropped his daughter.

Twilight snarled into her bite and started chewing on his flesh and savoring the flavor until the red glint in her eyes slowly faded away, leaving behind her normal purple hue. Her eyes widened in shock at her display before she pushed Reiner back and spat out the blood.

“Reiner…?” She reached a hoof to her teeth and felt it caked in Reiner’s fresh blood.

The Starlight General reached behind himself in an attempt to hold back the pain but he felt his body seize up as he lost control of his muscles and an intense pain swallowed him.

“Reiner….” She started to move closer to him, her horn glowing purple. Before Twilight could get any closer to the Starlight Pegasus, he turned around and slapped her away. Some of his blood splashed on her face.

“Don’t you dare come closer, Twilight!” He was huffing and puffing as blood was dripping down half of his body.

“….” Twilight didn’t say anything. She had a look of confusion that was quickly washed with a look of disappointment, which also quickly disappeared. “I’ll be seeing you again, Reiny. The games we play aren‘t over, yet.” The mare said with a flirtatious voice and had a seductive smirk plastered to her face.

She vanished in a flash of purple light as Reiner flew gently down to his daughter. “R-Rainbow, it’s safe now. T-Twilight’s gone!”

“D-Dad? Y-You…,” Rainbow Dash stuttered. He saw her visibly shake and was afraid that he may have traumatized his poor daughter for the rest of her life. “Awesome! Cool! So totally radical!” The young filly pegasus hopped up and down in a giddy fashion around her father. “I mean you totally took down that phantom creep and scared Twilight Sparkle away!”

“It’s not over, yet.” Reiner tried to give her his best smile. He did not have the heart to tell her that his legs were acting up again, that would only worry the poor filly more. Not only that, but it appears that when Twilight bit into his neck, she severed a spinal nerve that controlled his left wing.

“-Cough, cough-” He raised a hoof to his mouth. To his horror, he found blood spurting out of his lungs. Reiner looked back at his daughter who was happily trotting alongside him, seemingly lost in her own world. ‘Thank Celestia that Rainbow Dash is without a scratch…!’ There was an aching feeling in the back of his mind that told him that this was not the end of it.

They were in the Everfree Forest, after all, it wasn’t truly safe until they returned back to Canterlot.

“Eeeh!? I almost forgot!” Rainbow Dash roared in a panic that was probably loud enough to wake the entire forest. Reiner nervously looked around to make sure that no more demons were coming. “Got it!” He heard Rainbow say as she uprooted a large bouquet of flowers that were white with purple streaks. The stems of the flowers were red and the flower seemed to excrete pure moonlight.

“You came all the way here for Luna’s Moonflowers?” The pegasus stallion could not help but ask in shock. He smirked as he ruffled Rainbow’s mane with his good hoof. “I don’t know whether to call you brave or foolish but I‘m proud either way!”

XOX

“Rainbow…,” Reiner called out to his daughter as he tried to swallow a lump in his throat. “I think that it’s time I told you the truth.”

“What is it?” Rainbow asked without looking up at him, she was too busy staring at her bloated saddle that was filled to the brim with Luna’s Moonflowers.

“I….—” Before he could say anything else, he was knocked to the side as a horde of gigas surrounded the two pegasi. The large slug-like creatures growled at them while revealing their circular mouths that had 4 rows of circular triangle teeth.

“Eeeww! Gigas!” Rainbow Dash shrieked. “Eeeww! Eww, eww  eww!” Most mares, and even stallions were disgusted by these slow moving bloodsuckers.

But while the gigas were disgusting to look at for many ponies, they were more dangerous than they were ugly. Which is actually saying quite a lot.

“Oh!” Rainbow had an ‘ah ha!’ expression as a figurative light bulb brightened above her head. “I remember in Monster 101 that the gigas can’t fly so since we’re pegasuses, we can just fly away from these wormy thingies.”

Reiner wasn’t sure whether he should point out the obvious fact that the gigas were dragging their flat bellies on the floor and had no wings, or just praise Rainbow for actually remembering one of her lessons.

“I’m sorry, Rainbow, you go on ahead. I’ll catch up to you on foot.” He decided as he ran through the swarm of gigas.

“Dad, wait!” She followed after him. Even though his legs were bruised and sore, he was able to outrun Rainbow by a few good extra miles while she was flying.

He kept on running blindly until he was finally stopped short as a dark blue tentacle painfully wrapped around one of his hind legs and pulled him straight into the air. He was lifted a few feet off the ground and to his horror he saw that it was an adult gigas that grabbed him. The gigas was bloated and had lost the ability to move as it rooted itself into the ground but it had multiple tentacles that pulled its prey in. The worm-like creature resembled a disfigured fleshy plant now more-so than a living creature.

“Dad!” Rainbow growled as she pulled out her Star Cleaver from her saddle. She gripped it tightly in her mouth before charging at the 6 foot gigas. With a single slash, Rainbow smirked and put her blade back in her saddle. She didn’t even look back as the gigas glowed black before it exploded in a flurry of stars.

“How was my pose?” Rainbow asked her dumbstruck father. She finally turned around to see the remnants of the gigas with a few stars still leaking out. “Oh, Celestia! That is so radical! What just happened? Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I missed it!” Rainbow raised her hoofs to her face making a weird rounded baby face, gleefully.

He couldn’t believe his daughter. That was typical of Rainbow Dash, she wanted to act cool but that was actually the first time she‘s used the special blade and the little filly couldn‘t control her joy at what it did. It reminded him of when she was a young foal, she would gush at every little thing like it was a miracle.

His smile suddenly turned to a frown as he moaned in a never ending pain. Flashes of red appeared before his eyes as a throbbing filled his brain. The sounds of a quickly beating heart pumped through his ears.

‘Is this how it ends?’ He thought with a tear as a shadow appeared in front of him.

Before he opened his eyes, he felt a cold trickle of water splash down his face. “R-Rainbow?” ‘How long has it been since I seized up?’

“D-Dad!” Rainbow cried into his chest, the wet sponge fell out of her hoof. “W-We’re almost home, out of this place. Just hold on a bit longer.” He noticed in the corner of his eyes that Rainbow Dash had created a stretcher out of some leaves and twigs. “Just hop over here. It’ll make things easier.” She wrapped one of his forelegs over her shoulder and half dragged him over to the stretcher. “Y-You can rest if you want. Everything will be okay once we get to Canterlot, right?”

“Yes, of course, Dashie.” Rainbow started for a moment, surprised that her dad had called her that old nickname from when she was just a foal. She ignored his weak tone as she tied a rope around the stretcher before wrapping it around her mouth.

“Hang on, dad!” She said through the ropes as she trudged on.

The howls of timber-wolves filled the moonlit night as Rainbow tried her best to protect her father. He was getting weaker by the moment! She needed to get to the hospital as quickly as possible.

The young filly didn’t notice the shadow hovering over them as she trekked through the thick woods.

“What the—?!” In one fell swoop, the shadow flew over her and her father, swallowing them whole.

XOX

“-Smack smack-” Twilight puckered her lips as she tried to ‘taste’ away the flavor on her tongue. Pony blood, and not just any pony’s blood but Reiner’s! It was surprisingly tastier than normal. Was it because he was her Fated One or was his blood just that tasty? Who knew?

While the thought of eating pony flesh left a bitter taste in her mouth, drinking their blood didn’t really make her feel any real sense of foreboding.

“It’s a shame that that brother died, I’ll miss him in the afterlife.” Twilight sighed, she could sense a few more signs of her siblings’ deaths. Her Empathy, her connection with them, allowed her to feel everything they went through. The phantom’s death was the worse since the phantoms had much more sentience and more capacity to ‘understand’ those pains besides the mindless anger like the others.

“I still can’t believe I almost killed Reiner….” Twilight mumbled to herself. “I’m sort of glad that he killed my brother…who knows what might have happened if I was still under the Empathy?” You would be able to live another 500 years by Princess Luna’s side. She shook the words away, they weren’t her thoughts but sometimes she would hear senseless suggestion such as those.

“It’s my duty to find and consummate with the Fated One and give birth to a more powerful heir. My past duties are over.” Many of the other Zoners lived beyond 500 and even near 1000 before they were finished with their duties. Reiner might not even be the Fated One.

“Am I arguing with myself? This is completely asinine!” She huffed before continuing down the hall. ‘Reiner’s blood did taste pretty good…I wonder if he’ll let me take another nibble next time?’ She giggled to herself, sadistically. “Time to research on how to obtain blood at their best!”

XOX

“Show yourself! Are you afraid? Well…you should be!” Rainbow Dash held her Star Cleaver in her mouth and looked at the darkness around her.

“Fear not, little pony. I am not here to bring pain, you see.” The shadow appeared from behind one of the trees, drabbed in a large brown cloak that covered its entire body except for its mouth and hooves. The pony placed their hoofs on their hood and pulled it down, revealing a zebra with a shaven mane. “Little one, what are you doing under this forest without the Sun?” The zebra, a mare, smiled in a motherly nature. “It is dangerous here, the moon and darkness can only make that much more clear.”

“I can say the same about you, bub!” Rainbow continued to grip the blade tensely in her mouth. This pony…zebra, whatever, was bad news. There was a dangerous vibe that was coming off of her.

“I am merely passing by.” The zebra laughed, “I just saw a wounded pony and his mare, and I thought to say hi.”

“T-This isn’t my colt-friend!” Rainbow stuttered at the zebra’s assumptions. “T-This is my father, damn you!”

“I am very sorry to suggest that!” The zebra said with sincere apology. “It was very wrong of me to think of that off the bat.” The white and black striped pony shook her head. “I am very sorry, it was rude of me. I forgot to introduce myself, I am Zecora. I am a zebra of many trades and was in search of some flora.”

“Huh…?” Rainbow ignored the strange pony’s rhyming and cryptic behavior after seeing that she was no real danger, at the moment.

“I see that you are carrying some of Luna’s Moonflowers in your bags? Would it be fine if I were to take some off of your hoofs if I may so beg?” Zecora reached into her cloak and pulled out a small bottle. “I will even offer up some of my wares. Please, do not stare. These will be of use for those in pain. You will have much from me to gain.”

The zebra handed a potion for Rainbow Dash to drink, it was a small glowing blue concoction. She sheathed her blade and chugged the bottle, feeling the scars and wounds seal up. It was like she had just rested up and was full of energy!

“W-Will they help my father?!” Rainbow cried out as she tossed the bottle aside without a care.

Zecora suddenly turned to look to her side as she drooped. “My potions will heal the weary but that pegasus will not be able to heal fully. If not ever, I can see his life sever. He’s been through too much that he is beyond help. I am sorry that I am being seen as a whelp.”

“No! Don’t say that!” Rainbow grabbed a mouthful of flowers and threw it under Zecora’s feet. “Take all of that, they’re not worth the trouble I went to get them!”

“Your father will not make it, even with my potions. I suggest that you prepare your farewells for that is the only solution.” Zecora bent down to grab a small bundle of Luna’s Moonflowers but left a majority for Rainbow Dash, she felt that it was wrong to take them as payment since she could not help her dying father. Zecora silently left without another word or rhyme.

“No! Father!” Rainbow cried as she opened each bottle and tried to shove it down Reiner’s throat. “Come on, damn it! Work!”

After she went through a colorful variety of the healing potions, her father finally woke up with a cough. “Ra-Rainbow?” He choked.

“Dad! You’re okay!” Maybe all of those chemicals mixed together were able to revive him?

“-Cough!-” Reiner choked some more, this time blood appeared. She began to panic. “I’m so sorry, Rainbow, I don’t think I can make it.”

“No! Stop kidding around!” Rainbow said with tears streaming down her eyes. “You are the strongest and fastest pegasus in all of Equestria! You are better than any Zoner or Starlight General! You can’t die!” This time Rainbow started to break down in a sob. “You’re my father! You cannot die on me!”

She held the broken pegasus up to her chest, hugging him for dear life. “Please…don’t die…!” The entire forest seemed to go quiet. Slowly, the Sun started to rise and the dark forest was lighting up a bit.

“Dashie, my little Dashie…,” Reiner croaked. He raised a hoof to his daughter’s face so that he could get a better look at her. “I love you and I always will. I have regrets and secrets that I want to tell you…before I die.”

The look on her face as he said the dreaded D-word, made him chuckle pathetically. “Don’t fear the end, Dashie, not for me. Not for a worthless mule that I am.”

“What are you talking about?! You are a great stallion! You achieved so much in your life, you helped so many people.” The young mare shot back, angrily.

“It’s all a lie.” Reiner regretted the words but knew he had to say them. He could see Rainbow’s metaphorical window and mirror shatter before her eyes.

“L-Lies? Wh-What are you talking about?!”

“I’m not the strong-willed and ‘awesome’ pegasus that you know me for. I’ve been living a lie, a Celestia-awful lie!” He shook his head. “I never really tried to save ponies’ lives, I just did it for show. I made myself look great even though I wasn’t really great.”

“B-But why?”

“Because I felt I had something to prove….”

“To who?!”

“To…To…I don’t even know anymore.” Reiner Dash said, he knew the name but could not say it in fear of destroying his daughter’s hopes and dreams even more. “All I can say is that being a Starlight General is an illusion, Dashie. Whatever you do, don’t follow this stupid stallion in his path! It’ll only lead to pain.”

“Father!”

“I only wished…that we were not Starlights but just regular pegasus, maybe weather ponies?” Reiner laughed. “I’m so sorry, Rainbow…Cotton….” His eyes finally turned white as his body began to turn stiff.

“I must be a horrible daughter, huh?” She wanted to cry but found that her tears had run dry, the faucet was empty and no more could come out. “When my dad is dead, I stop crying. What a horrible daughter I am!” She spoke to the corpse as if there would be some reply. Rainbow looked away as she closed his eyelids, no longer being able to stand those empty orbs looking her way.

“Being a Starlight General is meaningless? Everything was a lie?” The young mare cried out in anguish. “No! I’ll prove that everything wasn’t a lie! I’ll prove that I can be the best Starlight General!” She turned to look at her dead father’s body, her eyes fell on the helmet that laid loosely around his skull.

“I can’t be the Starlight General as Rainbow Dash…,” A forlorn expression filled her eyes. “Rainbow Dash cannot bring hope to the ponies of Equestria…but Reiner Dash can!” She softly pulled his helmet off of him and donned the accessory on her own head.

“I will see everything through your eyes, dad! And I will make everything better! Those lies won‘t be lies anymore!” She screamed out to the heavens.

XOX

There was a knock on the door to Cotton Dash’s cloudy home. Even though she was not a pegasus pony, she could easily walk around since the clouds were mixed with non-cloud materials and they were level with the earth.

“Coming!” She called out as she made sure that her food was done or out of the way so that they didn’t burn or catch fire. Her apron, stitched with a large Sun, was powdery white and a bit crusty from cooking all day. She was making her husband and daughter’s favorites for when they came back home.

Reiner had told her that he was picking Rainbow off from Ponyville and might be a little bit late. Who knew that it would take him up to the entire night? But at least she was able to make a banquet while awaiting her family. The Sun was peering through now but she wasn’t really that tired. She loved cooking and it always made the hours go by like nothing.

When Cotton got to the door, she opened it with glee. “Reiner!” She glomped the blue pegasus. ‘Reiner’ had a large bundle of flowers in his mouth as he handed them to her. “Oh, my! These are beautiful Reiner!” She took the flowers and set them on a plate, she even took a nibble and savored the flavor.

“These will be perfect for dinner!” She gave ‘Reiner’ a slow long kiss on his lips. Cotton felt his body tense, like something was wrong, she stopped the kiss and backed away.

“What’s wrong, honey?” She looked behind ‘Reiner’ and saw that there was no other pony there. “D-D-Did something happen to Rainbow?!”

“Nothing happened.” A cold but familiar voice said. A voice that didn’t belong to Reiner.

“Ra-Rainbow?!” Her mother was shocked, she was especially shocked that she kissed her daughter on the lips but that was not important now.

Rainbow Dash removed the helmet and shook her mane loose. “I…Dad, he died. He came looking for me and…he got killed by Twilight.”

Cotton Dash fainted.

Chapter End