Though Snow was a little competitive, she and Rust got along greatly. Pixel supposed it was because they're both outsiders on this 'quest'. Cherry was the hopeless romantic of this group, so, of course, she thought that in the short time they we're together- "Love Bonds"- appeared.

They decided to stop by a village to get more supplies (with the new guest and all), so as of right now, our little ponies are in the Black-Gryphon inn, buy food, drinks, and because they we're almost out of bits, cleaning up.

They we're paid a total of 400 bits after cleaning the first floor and the basement. And so, resting their pain filled hooves, they sat in inn's tavern, talking to the weird as buck bar-handler.

"So, why are 4 ponies like you passing through a place like this?"

Pixel's ears perked up. "Like us?"

"Well, yea', you don't seem to be from this 'round 'ere. Ya know, the country an' all." He brushed some of his long green hair out of his face.

"We're....looking for mirror shards."

His eyes suddenly filled with fear. "M-may I see what you have?"

Though it seemed odd, Pixel didn't complain and told Cherry to get it of her saddle bag, which, she had ditched in the corner.

After coming back and setting the mirror piece (which was about as big as the stallion's hoof) on the bar top, the stallion tensed.

"Get out..." it was barely a whisper.

"What?"

"GET OUT! I refuse to dabble in world destroying!"
With that, they we're all kicked out.

Snow started beating on the door, yelling "This isn't over you two-hoofed clutz!" That's when he through all our supplies at us.

With a sigh, Cherry looked up into the night sky. "We should find the next-"

"No." Pixel countered her.

"What?"

"He said if we did this, it would destroy the world. I think we should find more information."

Cherry pulled something from her saddle bag. "This might help."

Snow looked at it intently. "And...?"

Rust asked what all we're thinking. "What is it?"

"Well, when I woke up yesterday, there was this weird little colt in my room that said if I needed help to blow into this horn. He said its from a sea-mare or something? I don't remember." She blew into the horn and instead of making a low kind of battle horn sound like you would expect, it made an ear-splitting screech that cause Rust to black out.

Pixel undid the sound block spell she put and her and Snow. "Wimp."

At that very moment, the ground started to shake under their hooves. A large crack opened and a young colt crawled out. He had a name tag on that read 'Hello, my name is: Bob the Guardian'.

Snow broke into a giggle and Cherry faced the young colt and said "Hello, again, Bob." Bob shook some dirt off his black pelt and Cherry brushed some worms from his messy, blue mane. "Hello, Cherry. You called?"

Was Pixel the only one who didn't like what was going on?

"Well, Bob, we wanted to know; What will happen if we reunite the shards?" Cherry's voice was calm and sweet.

"Well, her great grandfather's soul will be able go to what we here in Argentum call Blue-Moon, or the good after life. And you two," He motioned to Pixel and Cherry, "Will get to go home, back to Equestria."

"Oh... so the world won't be destroyed?"

Bob smiled.

"I never said that."

He began to sink back into his crack, ignoring the yells of anger and fear from all four of us. When the crack finally closed, Snow gave a sigh, "Let's do it anyway."

Pixel didn't refuse this time. "I want show that little twerp that this is the right thing to do."

Two hours later, they had just finished setting up camp and sat by the fire. For a while, everyone was silent. Maybe too silent.

Suddenly an arrow whipped past Rust's head and lodged itself into the tree trunk just above Snow's head, piercing through a bit of her mane; gulp.

After overcoming a large amount of shock, and checking the distant darkness for the archer with no luck

, Cherry stepped forward and pulled the arrow from the tree trunk. A small note was wrapped around the shaft of the arrow. Unfurling the parchment, Cherry read the three words out loud.

'Halt at once'

And that's when three ponies burst from the bushes.

Author's Note

Wow. Why did I make this chapter.