Ancient evils

Chapter 1: Operation Everfree.

Morning had come, and Zecora awoke and gathered her things, then headed out of the tunnel and to the streets of ponyville. She was stopped by a loud yell.

"Zecora!?!" a pink pony yelled and came running.

Zecora, not wanting to be seen, quickly started to run. But she was no match for a pony such as pinkie, who caught up to her.

"Zecora, where have you been? Everyone thought you were gone, and not even Luna knew where you were at."

"I...I have to..."

"Have to what?

"I have to go to Fluttershy's cottage to deliver...um... this!" she pulls one of her potion bottles out of her bag.

"An empty bottle, huh? Why did you stop rhyming! I know you only stop rhyming when you get nervous!... or, I guess if you can't think of rhyme. Rhyming all the time sounds hard, how do you do it?"

"She sure is persistent." Zecora thought. "Maybe while she is caught up with this rhyming business, i can run for it."

Zecora begins to slip away while Pinkie is distracted, and makes it a fair distance untill Pinkie pops out of a window in a nearby quill and sofa shop.

"But...how did..."

"Nopony escapes Pinkie Pie! Now tell me what you're really doing!"

"I cannot tell you what you wish to hear. This must remain a secret I fear. "

Zecora then walked off, untill pinkie appeared once more, standing nearby a pink and yellow tree in the everfree forest.

"Excuse me, Zecora?" said Fluttershy. "Where are you going?'

"I cannot say, what i am doing on this day."

"Oh, okay then." said Fluttershy.

"I'd tell you to be more assertive Fluttershy, but after what happened with Iron Will and you going all crazy, I think I'll handle this. Zecora, we really, really, reeeeally want to know, because we've been worried about you."

Defeated, Zecora decided there wasn't much harm they could do and told them "I am on a mission in the woods, somepony went missing, and I expect no good."

"Fluttershy, go get the others, we're helping Zecora."

"Okay Pinkie."

Fluttershy flew off towards ponyville, and Zecora sighed, both in defeat, and in relief. The two of them waited for the remaining five to show up. First to show up were Rainbow and Fluttershy, followed by the rest of the mane 6.

"There you are Zecora." said Twilight

"We were worried sick bout ya" said Applejack.

"If you are coming along, we must hurry before they can do anymore wrong."

"Who are they, exactly?" said Rarity

"An evil group of cultists looking to bring a dark shadow over us all. I am the one tasked with their fall."

At this Fluttershy shrieks and begins to hide behind a bush, but Pinkie pulls her back out quickly.

Zecora continued. "Their leader is a very powerful Alicorn, who has mastered every single spell in existence. He threatens to use his magic to destroy all of Equestria! Now come on, we must hurry!"

Everypony was shocked to hear this.

"Zecora," said Pinkie. "You didn't rhyme again."

"I can only make rhymes so many times. "

The mane 6 followed Zecora up to a small cave on the edge of the Dragon mountains where they border the Everfree forest. After once again getting Fluttershy after she ran when she heard "Dragon Mountains," the mane 6 procceded into the cave.