Four days. It had been four days since Autumn and the others ha failed to save princess Luna and now they, along with every zebra and dark mage in Euqeatria, were hunted. They had stayed away from the main road, making sure that any guards that strayed to close were scared off or quickly killed and disposed off. Morals were thrown out the window for survival, something that distrubed everyone in the tribe. But without a leader and most of the warriors having been killed at the former castle of the royal sisters. Autumn had mostly kept herself to her waggon, looking out at the sky to see weird smoke pillars from around what she tought was villages, but she couldn't even care if she tried. The pregnant mare hand out the crystal sword and book in a chest formerly owned by the chief. Just thinking about him made her sad and angry, he had given them enough time to run away from the coming battle and still they bearly made it out. She sighed and opened the door, seeing Zap, Razor and Zicra discussing what they should do next, seeing how they were encamped rather closly to villages and one large nearby town. She walked up to them and they turned to her, Zap noticed her belly already looking a bit bloated.

"We are thinking about setting up a small village in the woods, seeing how we can't move much further without being deteced" Zicra told her and and looked at a map they had picked up from a dead guard.

"They are searching for us, meaning this village have to be defendable and hidden" Razor said taking a look at the map.

"It also needs to be close to clean water, food and other suplies we will need" Zap chimed in and they looked over the map again.

"Then make it next to that river, it looks far in enough to rarly get visisted and seems to have enough forest around it to hide a possible settlement within" Autumn told them pointing on the map.

The map itself looked old, really old. Many villages that had been gone for years was still on it and Euqestria's borders were much smaller than they were today. It was even possible that the river had dried out long before any of them had been born. Autumn looked at the crystal empire marker and fliched slightly, she never knew how much land Celestia had taken from them after the empire had fallen, it made her sick. Even if Sombra had only been a pawn in her game for power Celestia had stilled claimed the land, even if she didn't need it. To say Autumn hated the solar ruler was a understatement, she loathed her. Celestia's list of crimes against other ponies were growing larger for every day that passed and her list of things she had done do Autumn was to long to even count. The mare knew that they would most likly be put in prison and possibly executed if they were cuaght, seeing how they knew to much about what Celestia had done. Autumn looked at herself, her brown coat seemed to become a few shades darker then it was before, the same thing could be said about her mane that had once been a light blue. She wondered what colour her eyes was these days, were they still green or had this changed even that? She understood that this child was special but it grew way faster than it were supposed to, her belly already looking a bit bloated and she thought she had felt a kick the other night. Did half demons grow up faster than normal ponies? Did they live shorter to? But the most important question was probally what part of Sombra he carried. The demon or the pony?

"Autumn are you listening?" Zicra asked her and the mare snapped out of her thoughts.

"Um no sorry what were you saying?" She asked them and Razor pointed to the river on the map.

"This part of the forest mostly have timberwolves in them and we don't have the weapons to deal with them. Not even goelms will be useful as they would be slow and " The large zebra stallion said before Autumn looked thoughtful.

"Have we looked through all the books we took from the castle?" She asked the three stallions and they shoke their heads.

"We haven't had time since we had been keeping off any possible threats from Celestia's guards" Zap said and he looked at the small stacks of books that laid on one of the waggons.

"Then let's check through them for possible answers, they might contain some potion or spell that will scare of the timberwolves" Autumn said and moved up to the waggon.

She picked up one of them and looked at the title, "Alchemy, from the simplets love poison to healing gells" it read and she started reading through it, finding most of it benefical to the tribe in case they got hurt or got sick. Yet for all she read she found nothing to help them with the timber wolves. She looked to the stallions only for them to shake their heads, not one of the books spoke about diffrent ways to get rid of dangerous creatures. Autumn sighed and kept looking through the books, trying to find something to help the others. The mare looked over at Razor that was biting on one of his knives, something that looked both weird and dangerous.

"Cut that out" Zap said to the bulkier stallion that turned to him.

"What? It's not like it's hurting me" Razor responded before the two stallions got into a fight about the decision to chew on one's blade.

Autumn couldn't help but giggle at the two stallions aruging with each other. Sure it was the opposite of what they needed right now but it reminded her about when her younger brothers had argued with each other, it was an appreciated pause from all the pain and the fear. Her eyes widened as she realized that even her entire family had been taken along with her lover, she had been so focused on everything that was happening around her that she didn't realize how much she had actually lost.. The tears tried to break forward but she took deep breaths, she could cry when the tribe was safe, when her child was safe. Zicra had walked between the two stallions and broken up their fight, scolding them for acting like children when the tribe needed them. Autumn looked at the books she had left and knew they didn't contain the information they needed from a quick glance. Her mind went to the book she kept along with the sword in her waggon, if there was one book with the potion they needed that was the one. She trotted over to her blue coloured waggon and walked inside, opening the chest and grabbing the book. She returned to the stallions with it and placed it on the table holding the map. Zicra walked over looking curious and looked it over.

"Is that the book you took from the fortress?" He asked her and she nooded.

"I think it was Luna's, the very book that turned her into the most powerful dark mage in the world" She answered and opened the first page, it was signed by Starswirl the bearded himself, making her curious eyes sparkle with life.

"Wait, that old wizard guy wrote an entire book on dark magic no one knew about?" Zap asked her and Autumn nodded.

"It seems like it, and seeing how this seems to contain very dark spell, potion and schematics for different weapons" She said and Razor seemed more intrested in the conversation now when she said schematics.

"Let me have a good look at them and I could possebly build them" The large stallion said and looked at the weird inventions created to be vielded by dark mages.

Autumn looked at the book and saw the difffrent schematics that seemed to make perfect sense for Razor but for her it seemed like the diffrent parts didn't fit with each other. But if this madness made sense to the bulky stallion then that was great, maybe he could find a weapon to help them repel the timber wolves. While Razor showed Zap the schematics she took the book(earning her the stink eye from the two stallions)and flipped through the rest of the pages and looked at the diffrent spells and potions. They all held intrest but there was one that stood out, "dragon's tongue", which apperently would smell really bad for most creatures yet it would only smell like ash for ponies. Autumn looked at the ingredients for the potion and wrote it down before leaving the book with Zap and Razor. She walked over to Zicra and showed the potion.

"With this we could probally get the timber wolves to leave the patch of forest we wanna use" She said and gave Zicra the recipy.

"From the sound of the name it could possibly get the timber wolves to leave, however these ingredients are rare, very rare. I think we might find some of them in the chiefs.. the royal wagon. Yet many of them will be hard to find out here so I hope you know stuff about plants because I don't, or at least not enough to find them in the wild" Zicra said and walked towards the golden wagon.

"I used to work in the royal garden, I know enough to know where we can find the plants and herbs the book was talking about" She said and entered the wagon with the stallion.

Autumn looked around the wagon, the map of Euqestria had been redrawn by someone, who it was were very unclear but it had probably been the children to entertain themselves during these sad last days. She wondered how the children had handled the fact that so many of their fathers had been killed at the castle of the two sisters, considering that drawings of Celestia on fire was everywhere on the walls were quite telling. The pregnant mare walked over to a cabinet and opened it, finding some herbs and plants in different containers. Most of them were stuff they actually needed while some of it looked like spices. Autumn picked up the herbs and plants before putting them a saddle bag given to her by Zicra. After she made sure everything of importance was in the wagon was still there she walked out and walked over to their old map without drawings of a burning Celestia on it.

"We could probably find the rest of the ingredients in these parts of the woods, if the map still works like it should and the lay of the land hasn't changed. However we might run into different beasts that wants to eat us.." She mumbled to Zicra that nodded and got his spear.

"A simple manticore will be easy to handle while a large pack of timber wolves could easily kill us" Zicra said and looked at the map with her.

"How many warriors are left to guard the camp if we take Zap and Razor with us?" She asked him and she looked over the wagons, eight of them that were holding the families while the ninth wagon were hers and the tenth once belonged to the cheif.

With the wood from all the wagons and the nearby area around the place they had marked on the map they could build a small town. She smiled at the thought of having a home again, someplace she would be safe. Her thoughts turned from a new home to her child. This child had helped her so far whenever it could, so far keeping away predato.. Her face shone up and she internally slapped herself, the child would keep the beasts away from her! She turned to Zicra that looked thoughtful and he looked at her.

"If both of them come with us then we will have five guards left, yet non of them know complex summoning runes or can handle weapons quite well" He said and looked at Autumn that seemed to have a plan.

"There's no need for you to come with me, the child will keep me safe" She told him and the stallion looked at her with a confused expersion.

"What are you talking about? Your child is a few months old, sure it grows faster but it cannot, or rather shouldn't be able to use magic" He told her and looked at her stomach.

"Before we left the outskirts of the frozen north I wandered into the forest and found the book that showed me visions of the future. Non of them seemed to be helpful for me but perhaps they weren't only for me. The child I carry within me keeps the predators away Zicra, it's the reason I could get to the temple without harm. Yet getting there didn't only help me, it hepled my child, or at least I hope so" She told Zicra that shook his head and looked over the camp.

"If your child uses it's darkness to keep you safe then so be it. But the second you feel like you're in danger shot this flare into the air and I'll come running" The stallion told her and gave her a smooth metal cylinder, saddle bags and a small map seeming hidden from the children.

Autumn looked over the cylinder, she had seen it before, being used by the crystal empires military. By saying the spell that had locked the lid to the cylinder it would shoot up a red fire like ball that would signal to those around the pony using it that they were in danger.

"Thank you Zicra" The blue maned mare said to the stallion who nodded back with a smile.

"Be back before nightfall and remember to use the flare if necessary" He said as the pregnant mare started to walk away and headed into thw woods after waving goodbye to the others in the tribe, she had ingredients to collect.

Autumn hated this forest so far. The trees were dressed in thorns and the ground were sticky and wet. She was greatful to her child however that was currently keeping away the beasts she had seen so far. A pack of timber wolves had walked towards her only to run in the other direction. She had considered to just lead the tribe through the woods working as a shield against the monsters of the forest but she didn't know how long the animals would fear the childs power before seeing her as a meal. The potion was something they at least knew how it worked and they knew as long they kept making it the less of a chance there was for the timberwolves to come and hunt them. Autumn kept walking into the woods, setting up markers on trees she passed so she could find her way back when she needed it. She smiled when she found the first ingredient, nightshade. This was the most important part of the potion acording to the recepy. She didn't know why the poisonus plant was so important but it was most likly because of the fact that the plant could kill anything that ate it. If the timber wolves smelled the nightshade mixed with the other ingredients they would run from fear of the smell. So would probally most ponies also do if they had a choice she mused and walked right up to a field of the last prank left by the god of chaos, poison joke. She didn't why the plant had surived when the rest of Discord's magic had been sealed away but it had and it's uses in potion making were great. Why he had made a plant that helped ponies and played pranks on them she would never undertsand but all that mattared was the fact that thing would help her. She oicked a few up with a stick and placed them in her saddle bag, getting out the small map Zicra gave her and marked the place she thought she had found the poison joke. She looked at the map and headed for the closest body of water, wanting to find dragon's tongue before it would get dark.

After walking to the river she searched the water for the plant she needed and she noticed it was getting dark. She smiled as she saw the dragon's tongue in the water and she picked it up before putting it into the saddle bag. Autumn started to walk away from the river when she noticed the large smoke pillar in the sky. Before she could question what was on fire a smell unlike anything she had ever seen hit her. She coughed and the stench in the air couldn't be described, or rather.. she didn't want to know what it was. But even if the smell was scaring her off she pushed on towards the smoke pillars location. Soon she came out of the forest to see a town, just a tiny bit away from the woods they were planning on building a town of their own. Autumn saw how the smoke pillar was coming from the center of the town and she walked into the settlement, sticking close to the houses. As she got close to the town square the stench that had made her sick in the woods were now everywhere around her. The mare looked upon the crowd at the square and all the ponies that had gathered there. She laid her eyes on the origins of the smoke pillar and she quited down a scream of fear as she saw the stake. The chared courpes of ponies of all ages were impaled on the sharp logs and they were so burned you could bearly see that they were ponies. She could see how ponies from the crowd threw books and scrolls into the fire with angry yells and she saw young stallion being dragged towards the stake screaming in fear. The pregnant mare looked at it all and kept hidden by a cart, spotting a unicorn stallion wearing white robes by the burning pile of flesh and books.

"LOOK UPON ANOTHER HARBINGER OF EVIL!" The white robed stallion said as the screaming stallion was dragged up to him and the priest(she asumed he was one)glared at him.

"This is another scum from the depths! Another evil creature that will feed on your children and give your life to the darkness! Look upon this dark mage as he his burned and all the coruption he has spread will be wiped away by the fires light!" He said and picked up the stallion that tried to cast a spell only for one of the villagers to cut of his horn.

His pain filled scream echoed across the town before it turned to more panicked and more painfilled screams as the priest threw him into the fire still holding him with his magic so he couldn't run. Autumn looked on in horror as the stallion screamed and begged for his life before he finally died, the only thing left was a badly burnt corpse.

"Can you feel that in the air? How all the corruption is gone? This is the true work of the church of light! To save the true followers of the sun and cleanse any trace of those that dare to ally themselves with the darkness!" He said and looked over all the corpses.

Autumn finally realized what this was, this was a hunt for anything related to dark magic. Books, scrolls, dark mages. Everything that was conected to dark magic was to be burnt.. But all of those ponies couldn't have been dark mages, they were way to many. This had to be the mages families.. They were burned along side the family mages they had most likely tried to protect. The blue maned mare suddenly heard the sound of armor and she crawled under the cart. She saw soilders walk past her, wearing the typical armor Celestia's army would be wearing. That was how they had managed to capture all the dark mages, brutal force with the army's help. Was it like this everywhere? Was every part of history containing black magic being rewritten or destroyed? Were any artifact or piece of art made by dark mages being thrown into the great fires across Euqestria? She wished that Sombra had never accepted that book, she wished she was home with her family and lover, she wished that she could be tending to the royal garden but she couldn't and never would. This was the world now, a world that no longer accepted dark magic. What if they found out about her child? They would without hesitaion kill it and her along with it.

"Come to the new city of Canterlot to see the main cathedral of our church! The queen herself has given us her blessing to clean our beautiful nation of this pest we call dark magic! Togther we will all join the almighty light and cast out the darkness of our land once and for all!" The priest yelled and the crowd cheered.

It was now Autumn realized that there was foals in the crowd, something that made her even more pale than she already was. They were watching this and just like the grown mares and stallions cheering at the priest's words. They had watched all the executions and cheered as the ponies burnt to death.. The thought of children, some of the most sweet and innocent creatures on Euqes had been so corupted made her feel sick. Sick enough to finally force her to puke from everything she had seen. Autumn knew she needed to head back to camp, staying her wouldn't help her. She got out from under the cart and looked around her, she thought it was much darker before she headed into the village yet she could see just fine. Yet.. the moon was up in the sky and the soilders patrolling the area should have at least seen her once by now. Was this the child's doing? Had it once again given her some help? She moved away from the town and headed towards the camp, she knew that they couldn't go back where they came from and that moving forward would mean bumping into the different priests scattared across the country side. They needed that land close to the river if they wanted to surive. Which meant she needed to head back and help Zicra make the potion. She ran and ran, seemingly knowing when a ingredient she needed would be close just by the smell of them. It was strange she could read smells like a open book for the moment but she wrote it off as another gift from her child, she was getting more attached to it as the days passed and she hadn't even met it yet. Of course then again she was pretty sure a mother should love her child in all forms. After running through the woods for what seemed like an eternity she had finally collected every plant she needed for the potion. Autumn took out her map Zicra had given her and sighed as she realized she was lost. However she could see a fire long in the distance, very long into the distance. The fact she could see it all was strange but she knew this had to be the childs doing, giving her the abilty to see in the dark and see across great distances. She ran towards the fire thanking the unborn child in her head.

Autumn had been running for a long time, she knew she had seen the fire from far away but this was ridicolous. She kept running and saw saw the camp in the distance she felt more safe until she could hear the growls around the camp. She hurried up and saw the two timber wolves stalking around the camp. The warriors had made sure to get everyone inside but they were having a hard time spoting the the timber wolves in the darkness. The brown coated mare ran into the camp and the presence that had made the beasts in the forest leave her alone made the two timber wolves run away in fear.

"Where have you been?!" Zicra yelled and walked up to her and she flinched slightly.

"I became side tracked, I found out what the smoke pillars were all about.." She said and tried not to remember the stench.

"Oh? What was it?" Zicra asked her and she looked uncomfortable.

"They are stakes.. They burn dark mages alive along side their families.. Then they burn any book or scroll related to dark magic on the same fire.. The ones that seem to pull the strings behind this seems to be called "The Church Of Light" and they seem to be on order from Celestia herself to destroy every trace of dark magic in the country" Autumn told Zicra and the rest of the warriors that looked horrifed at the news.

"So they are hunting every dark mage?.. Including the children?.." Zap asked and Autumn turned to the smaller stallion.

"They burn everyone... No one is spared.." She said and Razor kicked away a bucket and yelled anger.

"Bastards! We have to stop this! We move into during the darkness and slit their damn throats!" The large knife vielding stallion yelled before Zicra grabbed him.

"Calm. Down." Zicra said and glared at Razor.

"Calm down!? Why!? They are killing innocents out there!" He yelled and Zicra sighed.

"I get it, you want revenge on the crimes they have commited and I do too. But they have more power then us and more warriors, way more warriors" Zicra told him and Razor looked down at the ground.

"So are we just gonna let them do all of this?.. Can't we just.." Razor started and Zicra growled.

"NO! We can't save anyone! Celestia holds the most powerful army in the world and we can't defeat her or her damn church!" He yelled and Razor along with the other stallions fliched.

Zicra sighed and walked off, getting into the chiefs former wagon. Autumn sighed and looked at the stallions, they all looked defeated. Their leader were dead, most of the other warriors in the tribe were dead and they wouldn't run, only hide. Yet she felt like she had to say something, something to bring back hope into their hearts. The mare got up onto the roof of one waggons and looked down on the stallions.

"I understand why it feels like everything is falling and burning around us.. I know why it feels like the only thing that we have meet it death and destruction! But we are still here! We still stand proud over those that have hurt us so many times! You sacrificed so much by taking me from the crystal empire but I assure you that I will pay my debt to all of you! So call for every other small tribe that can't surive on their own! Tell them that within these woods we will build a new kingdom! One that will stand tall and take in those that needs the aid!" Autumn yelled and soon the warrors and the rest of the tribe was cheering.

Even Zicra had walked out of his wagon and smiled at Autumn who showed what seemed like natural leadership skills. Maybe Sombra had seen her as a leader long before she ever would? He shook the thoughts of for now, her speech had been good enough to make the tribe gain some hope, he just knew they would be able to build this town if they all tried. It was the part of contacting the other smile tribes in hiding however that concerned him. Sure they could use rune magic but there wasn't a telling if they had a rune mage among themselves considerign seemingly all other magic was dark magic. He sighed and thought, what could they do about this? Sure they could send out one of their warriors as a messenger but that would leave them with even less of a defense against possible threaths. Zicra sighed and realized that the only way they were gonna get the other tribes here were by using rune magic. The pink striped stallion stepped forward and spoke.

"I will send a message to them all! They will come and we will all be safer than before, holding an army of our own" He said and walked up to Autumn as she jumped down from the waggon. For being pregnant with a half demon she was very agile and fast.

"Why haven't you called on the other tribes before? I mean, if you wanted a kingdom you could have taken some fort a long time ago and the land around it" Autumn said and Zicra sighed, it was slowly becoming his thing.

"Differences of opinions and beliefs, most of the tribes follows the old gods while our tribe has rejected them" He said and lead Autumn away from the now more happy zebras.

"But why would they wanna come now then? I thought first that they were just hiding but if they dislike you becuase of your beliefs they might not come.." She said and looked at him in slight despair.

"Well under normal circumstances they would ignore the message but now.. We're hunted. They won't have a choice but to get here, we might be the only once with a safe heaven" Zicra said and started to write a message to the other tribes.

"'l'll head out into the woods and dose the land next to the river with the potion" She said and Zicra shook his head.

"The same second you leave the beasts of the forest will return. I get that you want to get us our new land as soon as possible but we'll go there in the morning" He told her and she nodded before telling him to sleep well and walking back to her waggon.

Zicra POV

Zicra looked through the message he had written for the other tribes. He hoped they would not just throw it away or burn it on arrival but he had to set his faith in luck that they choose to read the message. With a sigh he read the message to make sure that it told everything they would need to know.

"Dear tribes of Euqestria, my name is Zicra Swallow son and I have sent this message to you all becuase I have some hope in these dark days. My tribe, the dark frost as you call us, has seen the events that have changed the world we live in. We saw the crystal king be driven mad by a demon and saved his lover, a lover pregnant with his child. We saw the forest and sky become a battlefield as the princess of the night became a demon driven by a intense madness. We saw this demon kill our chief and we saw it being banished by the now queen of the sun. We have seen the stakes and the hunt for our kind as well as all things related to dark magic. We know that we are outnumbered and that we can't run, yet despite that we have something that could help us all. We have land that is easy to protect and build on, something you all are in need of. But now many of you might not belive me, however what choice do you have? If you stay you will die and if you fight you will die. So come to the location the runes in this message points to if you value your lives" The message said and he placed it on a stone with runes on it that made copies of the note.

As he saw that the copies were coming along he knew this would mark him as the new leader in the other tribes eyes, seeing how it was him calling for them. He wasn't sure if he wanted the leader position but the chiefs eldest daughter were only nine years old, meaning that there was no one else really qualified to run the tribe and the town they would build. As the final copy were finished he drew up different circles, each one would send a message to a different tribe but they would only be able to see it if they had a rune mage. With a nod he placed the letters in the different circles and sent them away, now they had to wait on a response. He put away his writing tools before heading to the royal waggon, he deserved this tonight.

Autumn POV

The next morning Autumn awoke to sounds of the camp being taken down by the zebras, they were gonna move towards the land they had picked out. She got out of the waggon and helped the others pack. She looked at the children that had once been playing and laughing was now sitting by themselves and not saying anything. She hated Celestia so damn much.. She sighed and helped the others pack before they were finally on the move.

It took them two hours getting to their decided plot of land in the woods, they had struggled getting the waggons through the trees. Autumn held the now finished potion in her right hoof, Zap being so kind to mark the places she would have to splash some potion. The same second they had put up the first base of a house, something that took some time, Autumn could finally run around and splash the potion on the marked areas. She noticed how any timber wolf that had been nearby sniffed the air before they ran off sounding afraid. The blue maned mare smirked and ran back to the others that was putting up the walls to what would become town hall.

"It's done, the timber wolves won't bother us anymore" She told them and the mares and stallions looked reliefed as one danger were at least gone.

"Good, that means we can start building this town" Zap said and Razor was sharpening diffrent logs to put up as a wall around the town.

"Once we have put up runes on the walls all creatures will stay away and we won't have to deal with monsters on the attics" Razor said as Zicra helped the other warriors to cut down and removing the stubbs of trees where the town would be.

Autumn walked over and helped them, looking on as they used rune magic to make the earth harder where the houses would stand. She offered them her expertise when it came to the plants and crops, telling them where and how to get the best land to sow. She smiled as two more very basic houses rose from the ground thanks to their hard work. All of this continued for days, the wall rising around their town that got more and more houses to it's name. Soon all the stuff that had been in the chiefs house where put into the town hall, Zicra had taken possession of it and with no one disagreeing he had became the new chief, where it would be stored in what could be called the war room.

Autumn had been given one of the houses in the town, a rather large one as it had two floors and a basement. She loved everything about it even if the only thing in it was a bed and the chest she stored the book and the sword in. The pregnant mare helped the others build more houses for the comming tribes and soon they had an actual town! Ok, it lacked good crops so far and there was no funiture but after living on the road for some time this was a gift Autumn didn't wanna waste. She helped the mares build a small library where they read stories for the children that slowly smiled again, but they would never regain that spark of innocence their eyes had once shown. It had gone three weeks when they finally had built wells in the town and the crops had started to grow with magical help. They had a home now, a place to call their own, things were finally turning in their favor.

A month after they had starting building on the town had now most houses some furniture and Autumn's belly had grown even larger. She often felt the child kick these days and she was never quite sure when the child was gonna be born, but she couldn't wait. This child had helped her long before it could even kick so the same second it was born she was gonna shower it in love. Then one day Razor called for everyone to go the the towns main gate as from the woods the different tribes emerged. All of them looked tired and sick yet they had made it, they had found someplace safe. Autumn saw how Zicra walked out the gate and trotted up to the leaders of each tribe.

"I know you all have traveled far and wild to get here but you finally made it. This town was made for all of us that runs from Celestia and this new enemy, the curch of light. We will be safe here away from those that would want to hurt us, this is the town of Frigidum, the town of the dark frost!" Zicra yelled out to the large crowd that then rushed into their new home.

There was finally safety for all of them and they knew this place where gonna keep them hidden from the watchful eye of the sun queen, or at least that were their hope. Hope, that word seemed to be so strong that day. Hope that the world would finally leave them alone. This were what Autumn saw in the faces of all the zebras, and some dark mages suprisingly enough, hope. She wished that this feeling were gonna stick with them all for the rest of their lives, becuase not much else still stood. Family members were dead, former homes were destroyed, possessions was a thing of the past and freedom had been robbed from them all. Yet these stallions and mares still had hope, and Autumn along with Zicra was gonna make sure no one took that away from them, no matter what.

Author's Note

This is my longest chapter so far and I know it's mostly filler or set-ups for events to come but I'm still happy with the chapter. I hope you all got something out of reading it and yeah I know there are spelling errors and more yet I'm saving the edits for chapter ten. When I hit the tenth chapter I will put the story on a hiatus while I rewrite the first chapters and edit all the chapters. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter, bye