Peace

     Rarity didn't know what went wrong. One minute she was walking through a bush, the next she was thrown against a tree. The savages tied her up and started yelling at her and her friends. She couldn't tell what was happening, it was utter chaos! One of the savages suddenly came up to her.

     "Vegoyuopoy, fxi mhi fxi mhi!" The savage pointed to the wounded savage and then to a dead manticore. She could understand a word it said but she had a few ideas on what happened

     "I don't understand you!" She yelled back. The savage scowled and walked away barking orders at the others. The savages took all of their saddle bags and even the Elements of Harmony. One, obviously female, even wore hers... As a bracelet! It's clearly a necklace! These creatures were truly savages. Rarity looked over at the wounded savage, claw marks were clearly visible and it started to cough up blood. Then it looked strait at her. Her blood ran cold as ice. It's facehad been beaten but their was something in its eyes. Something she hadn't seen since Pinkie thought they didn't like her party's. A true sadness. Why this was she didn't know but it made her feel sorry for these savages. The feeling would have been stronger it she and her friends weren't tied to Everfree trees. Again the same savage came up to her this time holding a craving of a unicorn horn and an addition sign.

     "Revitopfti, uhhhh, hletha sllep." The savage again pointed in the direction of the wounded creature and the manticore. Rarity just shook her head slowy she didnt understand. Again Rarity glanced towards the wound savage who never took its eyes off of her. It suddenly moved and pointed somewhere. Following the creatures arm she saw an open worn bag filled worn, horrid looking clothes. The creature then made an opening motion like it was opening a book. It then brought it's, well she didn't know what it was called, up to its head mimicking a horn. Again Rarity was confused, why was it so hard to understand these creatures.

     Twilight, who was tied next to her, nudged Rarity.

     "There's a book in that bag Rarity. I think he wants it."

     "How did you get that so quickly? He wasn't even talking to you."

     "He was obviously looking at me."

     "Girls! Stop arguing and keep quiet. Pinkie says she has a way outta here." Applejack said from the other side of the tree. "Hey! Get yer dirty mits offa me! Wooooah now, k- keep those flowers away from me!".

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     Jacob looked in horror as his tribe tortured the Ponies. He was helpless to stop it even if he tried. His insides burned as he felt his wounds slowly get infected. Even if the fight didn't last but a minute, the manticore was stronger, faster, and more confident than Jacob and spared no time to injure Jacob as much as possible. Now he was helpless to save the ponies in his tribes useless ploy to make the ponies heal him. Jacob looked over at the pony with the white coat and purple main and tail. Her mane was ruined by the tribes sudden savagely hands. The pony looked him the eyes and its expression changed from anger to pity. Jacob wouldn't blame the pony he felt pitiful.

    "Please, uhhh health spell." Jacob heard Lain talking to the white pony who in return shook its head. Jacob wanted to yell at his tribe for what they were doing but he fought so hard just to stay conscious. The white pony looked at Jacob again and he pointed towards his bag filled with clothes. At the bottom was the leaders log. In one of the entry's was a translation of the Ponies launguage. The pony tilted her head as Jacob made a motion like he was opening a book but the pony tilted its head in confusion. He saw that Lain had ordered  something else but Jacob couldn't hear it. Something about blue menaces. 'they arent going to... No... No th they can't!' Jacob turned to the right and saw Tom and Jason stabbing the Blue Menaces with their spears. Jacob felt anger well up inside of him, giving him new strength. He weakly pushed himself up using this newfound strengh. He made it too his feet and took a step towards his bag. Nobody noticed this, they were all too busy torturing their only hopes of surviving. Ha mustered up his wits and took another step forward and tripped over himself. A wave of pain blasted throughout his body and he almost lost conciousness. It wasn't all for naught though because he was close enough for his hand to scrap away the clothing revealing the precious book. He reached out for it but it was just far enough out of his reach. He had used up all of the strengh he had somehow gain and was not able to reach it. Again he fought for conciousness.

     The book suddenly was enveloped in a light blue aura and it was nudged forward into Jacobs outstretched hand. He looked over at the white pony whose horn was glowing. The tribe noticed this too and Jacob saw Tom about to strike the pony with a broken branch. Again Jacob felt anger well up inside and strengh exploded through his body.

     "STOOOOOOOP!" Jacob yelled as loud as his injuries let him and finally everyone looked at him. Jacob violently coughed before contiuing.

     "You ruthless savages. Do you not know what you are doing? What you probably have caused? These six ponies were the key to our survi-" Jacob coughed again this time coughing up some blood. "T-these ponies were the key to our survival. Now look what you have done. Throw you spears away. Drop your weapons and smash them. We're going b..." Jacob struggled to stay awake again but he managed. "We're going back to the encampment, we've lost our only chance. Cut them loose you savages." Nobody moved an inch Jacob pushed himself off of the ground and made a small crawl over to the white pony. He opened the book and read.

     "[truly sorry am I... Tribe needed survive, monster attack, sudden savages... Help we needed but now lost chance.]" Jacob again coughed up more blood making sure to not ruin the pony's white coat. "[My name Jacob, do not tell horse of flames about tribe. She hunt and turn us. Sorry am I...]" Jacob saw the pony start to tear up but he could not tell why. He heard yelling but everything started to fade away again. He saw the rope the tied the pony to the tree fall down before falling into the pony's hooves and surrendering to darkness.

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     Celestia felt something was wrong even before Twilight sent a letter saying she and her friends were going to investigate something in the Everfree. She and her Luna had started to feel magical energy. Her worry strengthened after Cadance sent a letter about feeling strange magic wash over the Crystal Empire. The only ponies who acually knew what these magical surges were was Celestial and Luna. Her memory's before Equestria started to rise out of the depth of her mind as she pondered what to do.

     "Sargent golden heart!" A day guard peaked through the door and removed his helmet revealing an earth pony with blue fur, silver mane and tail, and a golden heart cutie mark.

     "Yes Princess?"

     "Gather a small party of troops. We leave for the Everfree in 2 minutes."