Author's Note

Hello everypony, just to let you know the chapter title is a spinoff of Hellhound. I know it may be bad humor but I wanted to think up something original. So without further ado, please sit back and enjoy chapter 10 of The Lost is Found!

"The surrender to evil starts the moment somepony even thinks evilly."

(Star Swirl The Bearded)

Chapter 10: Hellquines

Howling wind and black as night storm clouds. The sight that any wise fearing man would fear because they brought with them unpredictability and unsureness. Now I am flying through them to a destination that I am both sure of and unsure of at the same time. The girls are in varying states of shock and are screaming, all except Rainbow Dash who can’t seem to form anything and surprisingly looks to be having the ride of her life, her wings rapidly flapping and she is doing aerial tricks and laughing while she is doing it. I decide to ignore her and try to focus on the others, their safety being my number one concern.

“Chris what is happening?” Twilight yells over the howl of the air and I cup my hands to my mouth and yell back.

“Something not good.” I say before feeling something bump into my right side and instantly my ears are assaulted by a high pitch sound and I turn to see that Fluttershy has now brushed against my side and is trying to grab a hold of me and using my right arm I quickly pull the scared mare in close to me and turn back around to refocus on trying to figure out what I was going to do about the current situation. “Look, I know this seems bad but I have gotten out of worse situations before, just…stay close and we should be fine.” I say in fake confidence as I grip Fluttershy even harder and put my hand in front of my face in an effort to shield my eyes from the cold dry air battering my face.

“You sure about that one?!” Pinkie yells somewhere off to my left.

“Yes, just trust me alright I will not let anything happen to you all.” I say in a protectively. “Not anything serious, but not everything.” I think to myself swallowing hard and looking forward at the almost endless expanse of dark clouds. “Damn it why didn’t I listen to my logical side at the party and let my guard down, now because of that the ones I care about are going to suffer!” I think to myself as a surge of anger rise to the surface and I grit my teeth hard. “Xana, you’re going to pay for ever coming here and trying to hurt my friends!” I growl inside my head and clench my fist in front of me, trying to imagine it slowly closing on his head until it exploded into a bloody pulp. But I am quickly drawn out of my violent imagining as I look forward and notice that a little ways ahead of us the clouds have thinned out enough for me to see what it is that lies beyond them, and what I see causes my blood to turn cold. “Alright everypony, I need you to relax we are almost out of the clouds, but when we emerge we will be in a vast barren rock land and in the center there will be a wall of lightning that we are going to pass through so just prepare yourself it is going to hurt a little bit.” I say yelling over the wind and everyone looks to me wide eyed and confused.

“How do you know that?” Celestia yell back to me and I sigh and tighten my hold on Fluttershy a little more and give Celestia a wide eye look of horror.

“Because I have seen this in my nightmares and everything is the same so far, so I can only assume this to be the same.”

“He speaks the truth Tia, I have seen this in his dream and this is one hundred percent the same.” Luna says quickly after me, not taking her eyes off the gap in the clouds. Celestia closes her eyes and then gulps hard and turns her attention to Twilight.

“Okay, we are almost at the gap, make sure that we all stay together!” Celestia shouts loudly to which Twilight nods her head and using her magic, starts to draw everyone closer together. No sooner than she does this, we pass straight through the large gap in the clouds and I quickly take in the surroundings. The ground is a dry rocky dessert with some rocky alcoves darting here and there about 50 yards away and in the center of the terrain is a huge wall of green lightning coming down from the clouds and I immediately see the group huddle into a mass as we rocket towards it.

“Brace for impact!” I scream as I pull Fluttershy hard against my side and cover her with my body as we all make impact with the wall. Instantly it feels as if someone has taken a thousand stinging hornets and unleashed them on my body as we all let out a massive wail of pain and then come skidding to a halt on the rocky hard ground. My vision is massively blurred but the sound of my wailing friends lets me know that the pain was the same for them along with the smell of burnt hair and flesh which smells so bad that it almost makes me puke as I bring one of my hands up and try to wipe the blur from my eyes and it clears slightly.

My vision clears enough that I can see that Fluttershy is no longer in my arms but has skidded up and crashed into Celestia who is now trying to get the rest of the ponies to their hooves as then I feel the ground start to shake violently, I see stress cracks start to form in the ground going to one focal point, instantaneously clearing up all my loss of sense I shoot to my feet and quickly pick up a dazed Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash before with all my strength sprinting at my max speed away from the center as fast as I could possible go.

“Run go, go, go!” I scream loudly as I start to look towards the alcoves and without even thinking change my course slightly so I am headed towards the closest one. That is promptly followed by the sounds of hooves rapidly catching up to me and I turn back slightly to see Celestia has Fluttershy on her back and Luna and Twilight are following quickly behind. Then in the corner of my eye I watch as the ground upheaves slightly and with a mighty roar explodes into the sky, swirling the dark clouds around each other until they form a massive tornado that drops right onto the spot where the explosion occurred as suddenly I can feel the dark wind start to pull me back towards it.

“CHRIS!” Twilight yells as I turn my head back to the center.

“Just keep going!” I shout over the wind and almost as soon as I say this, I spot a small rock too late and trip over it sending me face first into the ground and knocking Pinkie and Rainbow out of my grasp. Almost as soon as I hit the ground I start to feel myself being dragged back towards the tornado and instantly my mind goes into panic mode. “911 help!” I try to dig my hands into the hard rocky surface only to be drug further back and immediately the girls turn around and gasp before quickly running back over to me and pulling me back to me feet, getting behind me to push me against the wind. “What are you doing?!” I ask them in a panic and they ignore me using all their strength to help me fight the wind and inch me forward.

“We got you Chris, your safe in are hoov-.” Before Fluttershy can even finish her sentence the strong wind from the tornado rips her off of Celestia’s back.

“Fluttershy!” I say as all of us turned and with all our strength started sprinting at a full on pace towards the tornado. The powerful wind is threatening to pull my off my feet, but I still manage to keep upright and charge head long right at the tornado, the only thought on my mind was catching Fluttershy.

“Help me!” Fluttershy digs her hooves into the ground and that stalls her for only one second as the massive wind rips her from her hooves and drags her across the ground towards its beating black heart. It drags her until she is almost near the bass and then the wind starts to make her body rise off the ground and Fluttershy once more digs her hooves in as best she can, giving me just enough time to get to her and grab ahold of her front legs.

“I got you, just hold on-.” I shout as the wind now picks both of us up, bringing us high into the air before sucking us inside the tornado. The massive wind flings us around and around in a giant twisting circle and I have to use every ounce of my strength to hold Fluttershy close to me and I try my best to not hurt her at the same time. “Just like my dream, but if this is really what I think it is then… I say to myself as I quickly look down and about 100 feet below us and see an ominous glowing red hole in the ground. “Oh shit!”

“Darling this is really going to make my mane a mess!” a voice says above me and I turn to see that all the ponies are only 1o feet above me, a look of pure horror on their faces.

“What are you all doing, you should not have followed me!”

“No way are we going to let you and Fluttershy go in alone, friends stick together no matter what!” Rainbow says confidently to me and I then look back down to the red hole.

“Well that is appreciated, but that statement is about to be put to the test big time!” Then as if on cue the wind suddenly stops whipping me around and I start to free fall inside the tornado towards the gaping red hole. “Get ready because this is going to be very unpleasant!” I yell back to them as I near the hole at the bottom and I pull Fluttershy close to my chest and with an almost eerie silence we pass through the red hole and into a world of horror. Below us a world all consumed with fire, ash and lava stretches out as far as the eye could see, the very air thick with smoke and gases so intense that at the very breath of air I chock slightly and have to restrain myself from gaging and throwing up.

After taking in the surroundings for a few seconds, I look down and see we are fast approaching a massive lake of lava and right underneath us is a whirlpool of lava that a massive skiff has risen out of with a huge skeletal demon on the bow. Oh perfect! I brace myself right before I slam feet first into the ship rocking it back and forth and only a few seconds afterwards I hear the sounds of screams followed by loud bangs. I quickly try to whirl my head around, but a loud hiss from the skeletal demon makes me refocus my attention and I just narrowly pull Fluttershy’s head out of the way of a fast swipe of the demons jaws.

“Fus Ro Da!” (Unrelenting Force!) Energy explodes out of my mouth and impacts the demon sending if hurtling into the lava before disappearing into ashes and I instantly turn to the front of the boat and quickly sprint over to help the rest of my friends.
“What is this dreadful place?!” Rarity say grunting getting to her feet and I instantly check over everypony and they seems to not be hurt, just a little dazed.

“I don’t have time to explain, right now we need to focus on getting out of here before the hell-.” I feel the boat lurk forward a little and then rock backwards violently throwing me to my hands and knees and the rest of the ponies shattering. Celestia goes backwards past me into a slight recess in the floor and Luna is flung into a bone sticking out of the side of the boat and just barely avoids falling into the lava, whipping back from the boat rocking back to normal at the last second. Rainbow, Rarity and Pinkie Pie had managed to grab onto something just before the moment of upheaval and were able to stay in one place and Twilight has herself surrounded in magic, her horn glowing a bright purple at the very front part of the boat, just barely still on the boat and I sigh a brief breath of relief. However any sense of relief is quickly removed as I notice a fiery outline of a massive beast start to growl and rise out of the lava. “Before the hellhound arrives.” I timidly say as the massive beast rises even further and further out of the lava until it gets to what I assume to be 30 feet tall and with a loud roar, rears back and with it the blazing fire surrounding it spins rapidly in place before violently exploding off of it, revealing the beast to not be a hellhound, but a massive black unicorn with a curved horn and fire consumed eyes that have the symbol of Xana in the center.

“SOMBRA!” Pinkie screams in a high pitch voice as Luna quickly stands up shakily quickly lighting up her horn in a deep shade of dark blue. Using her magic she manages to pick up the girls with her magic and moves them back to me where they all get into a defensive ring with me and Luna standing in the center.

“But how is this possible, he was destroyed by the crystal heart!” Twilight says uneasily.

“Yea we saw him get shattered into a million pieces!” Rainbow says as the focus of the unicorn shifts from the various ponies before noticing me to which then his eyes lock on mine and narrow. He starts to snarl slightly and the fire in his eyes starts to glow even brighter making me it very clear that I was going to be his primary target.

“Hey Chris, I know that I am scared right now, but please put me down.” I look to Fluttershy who I am still holding in my arms and my anger monetarily subsides as I brush a strand of her ruffled mane out of her face before setting her gently down on her legs. She shakily stands and then looks to me with a look that surprises me, the look of deep protection. Given the current situation we were in I did not expect for any of them to be as brave as they were being right now, much less Fluttershy, yet Fluttershy stands in front of me with a look of anger and determination on her face that I have never before seen as if a sleeping beast had been awakened and a quick glace to the others find that they are sharing almost the exact same look and that fills me with some hope.

Knowing that those with me where truly with me and at least appeared ready to fight I turn and look back to the fiery form of Sombra and give him a hardened look. This seems to really make him mad as he lets out another loud roar that shakes the boat. He then takes in a deep breath and unleashes a wave of black smoke that collides with the boat and out of the smoke, tiny fire imps come pouring onto the boat and immediately one launches itself at Pinkie Pie who giggles and dodges it quickly. The imp having missed its target goes flying over the side of the boat and into the lava as the rest of them start to swarm down the front of the boat towards us.

“Don’t let them get close they may be small but their claws and teeth are razor sharp and will tear you apart!” I say quickly as Twilight’s horn starts to glow a bright purple and a huge barrier goes up in front of us and the imps that hit the barrier are immediately turned to ash.

“If you have a plan now is the time, this takes a lot of power to hold and I don’t know if I can sustain it for long.” Twilight says in a strained voice as beads of sweat start to run down her coat.

“Okay, I think I have a plan, Luna you and Rainbow need to get air born right now and keep Sombra distracted, Rarity and Fluttershy go to Celestia and make sure that any imps that make it past the barrier do not get to her, Pinkie you and me are going to play wrecking crew and try to destroy the smoke at the front of the ship.”

“But what about Twilight, she is going to be defenseless!” Rainbow says concerned and I shake my head and look up to the sky.

“No she won’t I am going to use a call storm shout that will not only cover her but everypony hear, now get going!” I say loudly to which Luna and Rainbow Dash give several hard flaps of their wings and then shoot off the boat at a high arch towards Sombra and with the force of a tempest, Luna unleashes a massive stream of black energy that smashes right into Sombra’s eye and he recoils and roars in pain before looking up to Luna and Rainbow Dash, unleashing another cloud of black smoke and out of the smoke emerges a massive red and orange skinned dragon.

“Oh shit! Strun Bah Qo.” (Call Storm!) A massive white flash comes from my mouth followed by a loud boom. Instantly after I do this the massive dragon lunges at Luna and Rainbow unleashing a massive fire shout at them but they easily dodge it and then they both split up and while Rainbow keeps the dragon busy, Luna once again smashes Sombra with more magic attacks and I quickly turn my attention back to the front of the boat.

“Pinkie, I am going to need you to let the beast out of its cage for a while, can you do that?” I say quickly say turning to her and I am filled with slight shock and eagerness. She has a calm look in her eyes, something that the normal Pinkie Pie does not have and her normal curly tail and mane are as straight as a board.

“I will destroy them!” She yells with a slight growl and as soon as she says this the wind picks up and I turn back and look up to the sky. Massive sets of pitch black clouds cover the sky right above the skiff with a violent swirling motion. In the center a large hole glows a bright blue color and within half a second of me looking at the center, a massive bolt of lightning explodes from inside the clouds, striking a group of the imps trying to get around the shield instantly vaporizing them. The rest of them having just saw what had happened try to quickly back away from the barrier as another flash of lightning makes contact with a group of the imps and they scream before turning to ash and catching fire. A few more massive bolts of lightning jump from the clouds and strikes the dragon and Sombra, knocking the dragon out of the sky and into the lava making Sombra recoil backwards with a loud roar.

“Alright, Twilight let the barrier down slightly so Pinkie and I can get forward.” I say stepping up next to the barrier.

“I don’t know how much longer I can hold the barrier.” She says in a shaking voice.

“Okay, hold it for as long as you can, we need to keep the imps in front so we don’t get jumped from behind.” I say as she lowers the barrier slightly and me and Pinkie step through. The imps quickly spot us to which they snarl and start to slowly approach us, causing Pinkie and I to get into defensive stances.

“There are so many of them, bet you I kill more than you do!” Pinkie says quickly as an imp lunges at her from the massive horde and undershoots her. The imp roles to her left front hoof which she promptly lifts up and slams into its head, squashing it and immediately a group of three imps jumps out of the crowd making a beeline at me but they are instantly struck by a bolt of lightning and disintegrate.

“Haha that make the score 3 to 1!” I dodge another wave of jumping imps and Pinkie pie slams a hoof into another one’s head.

“Hey that’s not fair!” She growls before I doge another wave of imps that go flying off the side of the boat and another group gets struck by lightning.

“Yea it is, my shout, my kill and by the way it is now 5 to 2.” I say cockily to which she growls and dodges another assault of imps and with a swift buck from her rear legs they go flying off the skiff into the lava and she gives me a sly smile.

“Make that 7 to 5.” She says as another bolt of lightning comes hurtling from the clouds and strikes a group in the back instantly turning them to ash.

“Oh yea make that 12 to 7!” I shout happily as I watch Pinkie uppercut an imp so hard that its head comes off and then she looks to me and shakes her head and I laugh slightly. “Fus Ro Da!” (Unrelenting Force!) I shout turning suddenly to the front of the boat and almost all of the imps turn to ash and the rest are swept off the front of the ship. Having completely wiped out the horde I turn to see that Pinkie is still fighting a group of 4 imps and with a swift kick to the leader all of their heads come straight off.

“Yea that’s right, now the score is 10 to 12 I am catching up to you!” Pinkie says before she looks to the front and a look of confusion spreads across her face. She then looks to me and I smile slyly and she sights loudly. “Okay, you beat me you happy?!”

“Oh yea, but now we got to destroy that smoke before more come.” I say quickly running to the front of the skiff and focus on the smoke. “Lok Va Koor!” (Clear skies!) Instantly the smoke makes a loud screaming sound as if it was actually living and then in a bright flash of light, vanishes leaving no trace and I pump a fist in the air. “Hey Twilight the imps are taken care of you can lower-.” I stop for a few seconds as a peculiar sound of something falling out of the sky catches my attention, but before I can even turn around another massive jolt rocks the skiff, sending me flying backwards at a high rate of speed and knocking Pinkie Pie and Twilight off their hooves and sliding them into each other near the back of the ship where Rarity and Fluttershy are tending Celestia.

Now cartwheeling out of control, I rocket past both of the mares and over top of the dip in the ship before dropping slightly and slamming back first into the hard deck below. All the wind is knocked from me as I feel a pain so powerful that I feel as though I am going to pass out. But instead of lay there and let my pain consume me I try to get moving so I can stand and with a few heart wrenchingly painful movements, I manage to shakily get to me feet and slowly limp to Celestia. Fluttershy quickly spots my limping form and without hesitation she gets up and walks over to my side.

“Oh my are you alright?!” She says worriedly as I trip over my feet and fall into her and she almost falls over from the sudden weight and she grunts. “What happened?”

“I am pretty sure Sombra shook the skiff, he seems to be not happy with me and Pinkie for destroying his imps!” I say confidently before coughing up a slight amount of blood and Rarity gasps and quickly runs over to me as well, a worried look on her face.

“Oh Chris are you alright?” She ask me with tears in her eyes and I smile my best and place a hand on the top of her head, gently running my fingers under her mane.

“Oh yea I am fine, it takes more than a pissed off unicorn to kill me!” I laugh as the wincing from the pain in my lungs grows even stronger. Instantly Rarity turns and leans her side against me and they gently guide me over to where Celestia is and sit me down so my head is resting on the side of her chest and my body is propped up. Rarity then quickly rushes over to where the rise up to the main deck is and shuts her eyes and furrows her brow before her horn starts to glow a bright white color and within seconds Twilight and Pinkie hover over the dip and come down to where we are and are dropped on both sides of me. Their heads resting in my lap as Fluttershy and Rarity come and nuzzle both sides of my cheeks to which I return the favor happily. “You all are doing great, now I just got to figure out a way to get out of here before the worst happens.” I say groaning in pain and coughing up some more blood, spitting it in an arch towards the very back of the skiff.

The intense pain is quickly lifted from me as I feel Celestia weakly lift one of her massive wings and place it on one of my shoulders. I smile and weakly give her wing a soft stroke. Then I hear something that I never wanted to hear, the skiff groans really loudly as the floor below me start to rise up. “Shit!” I scream as I momentarily forget the pain and shoot up to standing and make my way over to the lip to peer over the top. From my viewpoint is appears the back is slowly rising up in the air, followed by more groans and hisses.

“What’s wrong Chris is something happening?” Fluttershy asks me worriedly as I quickly run over and scoop up Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity and her in my arms while trying to push Celestia to her hooves.

“The skiff is sinking back into the lava we need to get to the front now!” I grunt from the weight of the 4 mares as the floor starts to invert even more and I feel myself having to strain to remain upright.

“But that is towards King Sombra!” Fluttershy says burring her head into my chest as I slowly place one foot in front of the other while leaning on Celestia.

“I know, but soon this part of the skiff is going to be under lava and us with it so let’s hope that Luna and Rainbow Dash are keeping him busy!” I say as I try in vain to push Celestia forward who ends up shaking violently before collapsing onto her stomach giving off a faint groan of pain.

“Go Chris, I cannot walk please…leave me!” She says a tear forming in her eye causing me to go into a panic and I instantly walk over to her and try to grab her sides with my encumbered hands.

“Oh no you don’t, you’re coming with.” I say straining to lift her up and she grunts with attempt to get up but then quickly collapses again and looks to me with a concerned look as tears start to streak down her face.

“No… I am not, take this it served me well…take it in my memory.” She says in a soothing voice, to which my tears only start to flow even more intensely.

“Princess Celestia! You simply cannot do this!” Rarity says angrily to the white alicorn and she quickly look to her with eyes full of sadness.

“I must, now go.” She says calmly as if she had accepted that this was her fate. Now Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie both nuzzle my cheek affectionately and before long I can feel their tears smearing into my cheeks, but they continue to nuzzle me, as if they cared nothing for their own sadness and only wanted to make me feel better. But another loud groan gives way, instantly silencing everypony as I feel the floor start to rise up even higher as another massive jolt hits, sending Celestia flying back into the back lip of the skiff. The force is so great that even with a death grip Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Fluttershy slip from my arms and tumble back down to the back, smashing into the lip with terrible force making a loud CLANG.

However for some reason I manage to remain standing upright and did not move, as if something was holding me in place. I then look down at my feet in curiosity and see that they’re surrounded by a purple glow and I immediately know that it was Twilight’s magic. I then look to find that I had also managed to keep ahold of the horn and in my panicking mind I almost did not manage to see something inscribed in the side with small letters. Gabriel. “Wait a minute, Gabriel?!” I think to myself before a massive roar followed by Luna and Rainbow screams makes me shutter slightly.

“Oh shit I got to think something up fast if not, were are doomed to die and spend eternity here, but what is so important about this horn…the only Gabriel I know of that was told to have a horn like this was…the angel!” I conclude in revelation and then look to the Latin inscription on the mouth of the horn. “Yes this is his horn alright, the one that can control the gates to eternity!” I think to myself and then with a joyous laugh I then look down to the girls below. “I think I got a way out of here!” I say instantly as I then look down in horror to see the lava has slowly started to creep up the sides and into the boat near where the girls are and then I hear another loud painful scream come from the front of the skiff and I quickly turn back to center and then start to concentrate. “Almighty divine Heavenly Father, please grant me strength and show me the way, in nomine Patris, et Filli, et Spirictu Sancti Amen!” I pray and then raise the horn up to my lips.
“Please let this be right!” I take a long inhalation of breath and as I am about to press my lips to the horn, another massive jolt shakes me and causes me to almost drop the horn into the encroaching lava and I feel the magic on my feet lessen slightly and I stumble forward slightly while an evil laugh breaks from behind me.

“You are going to die!” A deep and dark voice that I can only assume to be Sombra says as he laughs manically. “You can never go back!” Then I look down and find that the lava is only inches from the splayed out mares below me and without thinking I regain my footing and take in a huge breath and press the horn to my lips and as if guided by memories that I did not even know, I played a loud Heavenly tone. The loud tone instantly silences all the noise in the surroundings and goes echoing off into the air around me as I can feel myself start to be filled with an energy that I have never felt before. It quickly spread to my mouth and throughout the horn, making it start to glow a brilliant white color.

After 3 or more seconds of me ending the first line, I play another long line ending in a long high note, a few trickles of pure white light start to trickle in through the vast dark clouds and I can hear the sound of Sombra roaring angrily. Not even able to control myself, the energy once again courses through me and all the right sounds come pouring out of me. As I play the light continues to get even brighter and brighter, eventually turning a golden color and jumping from the clouds as if it was raging lightning.

I get about 30 seconds into playing the horn, I see multiple massive rays of light descend from the clouds and come into contact with the mares below me, instantly surrounding them lifting them up slowly. Another large ray of light also impacts me and I can feel myself start to lift up in the air and when I glance over I see that Luna who was clutched in Sombra’s black hoof and Rainbow Dash in the other were surrounded by this light, burning Sombra and forcing him to let go of them with a mighty roar. As the light continues to lift us up towards the light a beam shoots out of the clouds and impacts Sombra straight in the chest, shooting straight through him and causing him to roar in pain and he stumbles and falls straight into the lava, slowly starting to sink

“This is not over Dragonborn!” Sombra yells angrily as lava fills his mouth and with a gurgling sound completely sinks straight into the lava and disappears from sight. However, I continue to play the horn with a great intensity and before long the entire of the scene is filled with radiant light and a small tunnel opens up above us and with a final Heavenly note, sucks all of us into it and we then enter into a long bright tunnel and instantly darkness envelopes my eyes and I pass out.