Beyond Equestria

At the beginning of their journey they could smell the flowers of the meadow and see the fluffy clouds in the sky but as they journeyed on the more grey clouds were visible and the more their hoofs struck hard chunks of stone. They stopped at a forest if you could call it that, the trees were either burnt or reduced to lifeless stumps and the water was a sickly brown colour. Shining moaned , as he was a young teen, about the hours of stopping and starting over and over until his hoofs were purple and damaged. His father however was mapping out the safest route to the border. Whilst he drank from his flask shining spotted a beam of green magic. "Shining armour just duck"! his father pleaded.

"Dad what is that thing "? asked shining as the noise grew louder.

"Extermination spell"! As he spoke they both ducked under a nearby trunk and a high pitched noise filled the air followed by a green gas. Twilights father woke up from his coma to find the tree trunk he hid under was now a pile of ashes on the ground covering shining armours unconscious body. He lay a hoof on shining checking his pulse. " Thank Celestia your still alive"... he spoke in a relifed tone...