Calcifer.

Apparently if a tree does fall in the middle of a forest, it does make a sound...

A loud, ear shattering scream of pain sounded throughout the silent ocean of Everfree, piercing the crisp autumn night air like a stone thrown into a river.

His plea of the hell he felt engulfing his legs ended from the lack of air in his lungs, and the howls of a distant wolf pack took it's place.

The damned and injured human looked up from his resting place on the forest ground, reacting to the sounds of the wolf pack in the distance.

He was tired from using the fire, but only from what comes after the fire...

"Things can't get any worse."

Calcifer was belly down in the rough ground underneath him, his legs disabled due to the Entiring overtaking his body.

He was surrounded by vast curtains of dark, twisted, gnarled trees; moist, foggy air filling his dissipating lungs.

He couldn't feel his feet anymore; he didn't know if they'd fallen off, or if they were completely strewn in what comes from the Enticing process.

An image of his daughter came in his head...

Her beautiful brown eyes, her Mother's luscious blond hair, her own mix of both her parent's smiles.

The sound of her laughing entered into his subconscious, filling his thoughts with a bit of peace, but his legs were still in unbearable burning pain.

His daughter's laughter kept playing in his head.  Each second that passed seemed that the laughing became more and more real... "wait..."

The laughing echoed through the woods; the sound bouncing off the trees and hitting Calcifer's ears.

It was too real to be just in his head.

The aura of peace of mind from the sweet melody of thinking/hearing his daughter's laughter extinguished, and was replaced with dread and the though, ... I'm not alone.

They noticed that he recognized that his daughter's laughing was outside of his head now, and they quickly paused the annoying sound of a mere dead child.

Everfree went silent...

The leader of the group whispered demonically Lucifer's orders to his three companions surrounding itself, "Take him."

The three let out howls of glee, the sound mirroring that of wolves; and in the next second, one took hold of his arms, another took hold of his head, and lastly and most painfully the third took his legs.

"GET OFF OF ME!!!"  Calcifer yelled, mostly because one of the human formed demons had his Enticed legs.

"Damn him!" The leader commanded.

The demon that held his head covered Calcifer's mouth, so he would not be a distraction.

Calcifer only let out muffled screams, of agony and fear.

Calcifer could feel it, the intense cold chill that touched his stabbed heart.  He was going back.

"

"BEGONE!!!"

A loud, echoing, commanding voice shattered out any sound in the forest  for miles around them.

A piercing golden light came from high above the tree line, and was descending upon Calcifer at a slow, processional pace; the brilliance of the light turning night turn into day.

The four demons disappeared... whoever was here now held great authority.

The golden light cut short, and the night returned.  The air smelt faintly of roses, and a soft ocean-like breeze washed over Everfree.

Calcifer cringed in the pain his legs were still in... Enticing was a bitch, but it was worth it to get to his family.

The Angel set foot on the ground, his golden sandals scuffing the Earth as he began to walk to the injured dead man.

Calcifer looked toward the being making his way, but the nightly atmosphere shrouded him, and the Angel's skin was a dark shade.

The servant to God stopped infront of the downed human, "Lie still."  he commanded in a brisk yet friendly enough tone.

Calcifer couldn't not obey him; he saved him from damnation so he must be here to help.

He stayed still on the ground.

In the heat of the moment, and under the worst of circumstances; the under-skin tendrils of Enticing started to crawl up his back, causing another wave of unbearable, breath-taking pain to serge throughout his body.

Calcifer let out a scream, a terrible, painful, aching scream of pain, that blasted throughout the forest in boisterous agony.

Then... he was felt moisture accumulating on his back.  The angel spilled out the contents from the white-glass bottle on the human.

Holy water.

His body suddenly felt relaxed, and all the pain of Hell suddenly stopped.

The rest of the blessed water pooled out of the small vile, and Calcifer cautiously moved to a sitting position.

The Human picked up his right bare-foot, and observed it.

Sleek and black, swirling and branching, tendrils that  burrow under the epidermis during the Enticing process,  quickly drew back into a small dark spot on the palm of Calcifer's foot; like if the branches of a tree grew backwards into it's seed, in an amount of time that took only mere moments.

The Enticing was killed.

Calcifer looked up to the Angel who saved his soul from the four.

He stared at the being with gratitude and in wonder of who his new friend was.

"Who are you?"  Calcifer asked genuinely.

"Incendium"

The Angel spoke boldly God's word of flames, confirming that he was indeed a warrior.

The soft blue light brightened the dark pigments of his skin.

The Angel smiled keenly, a light blue spark in his dark yet kind eyes.

"I'am Micheal, the Archangel."

***

"LOOK!" A pony exclaimed, pointing towards a upright standing being walking up the main road to the stage.

A crowd of ponies began gathering.  The swarm of Equine wasn't as big as it was when the Demons held those six ponies hostage; the reason being is that it must have been very early in the morning.

One pony in particular stayed in town though; Luna.

The crowd was undeniably silent; they knew the power the two legged being held, and they had no place to even want to converse with it.

The princess of the night gracefully walked out of the crowd and towards the incoming human; she had so many questions to ask, most of them concerning her sister's strange behavior.

The two met, and they both stopped infront of each other in quit coordination.

"Where are the six burned ponies?"  Calcifer asked.

Luna stifled a knot twisting in her throat, she was nervous beyond belief.

When she felt comfortable talking, Luna answered.

"We moved them to a hospital as soon as you left.  The screaming was unbearable to hear, but the ponies..."

Luna was interrupted by a suddenly distraught Calcifer.

"You tried to move them?"

Calcifer's expression turned to a soft sorrow; he had forgotten to command not to touch the burned ponies, under any circumstances.

"Er... yes."

Luna suddenly felt the knot in her throat return; she realized she had probably made a mistake ordering medical assistance to her friends and the colt, just by how the human reacted.

"Luna, if you or any other pony touched those burned by the four, you might have just condemned them to death."

Luna's heart dropped to her stomach.

Calcifer looked to the stage where he last saw one of the burned.

The six ponies were gone.

"Luna..."

The princess could feel her hooves sink in the ground with dismay.

The human glanced at the blue Alicorn, his face deadly serious.

"Where are they?"