The First Unicron

Violet held her breath and kept her eyes tightly shut, while she frantically tried to get out of the quicksand. She felt something wrap tightly around her right forehoof, and she was yanked out of the quicksand. She landed on the ground, and was quickly wrapped up in a hug by Razor.

"Violet, are you okay?" asked Razor nervously.

"Razor, I can't breathe!" said Violet, and the unicorn, er, unicron released her.

"Sorry! I was just so worried! I'm so sorry that I caused that!"

"It's okay." Violet stood up and shook out as much sand from her coat as possible. "You did say that couldn't control your magic..."

"But she just did." said Raven, who looked rather stunned.

"Huh?" asked Razor.

"Were you not paying attention? You used your magic to grab Violet with the vine and pull her out."

"I did?" asked Razor as Violet asked, "She did?"

Raven nodded. "Yes."

"Yo!" called a voice from above the trees sudden.

"Yo-yo's are fun!" called back Razor.

A few moments later, a griffin with blue-tinged white feathers and amber fur tore down through the trees and vines, and landed safely on the ground. Violet's mouth dropped open in surprise, but Razor and Raven weren't fazed.

"Hi, Blast!" said Razor. "I thought you were going to be in Griffinstone for another week!"

"Eh." said Blast. "I got bored." She noticed Violet staring at her. "What? Never seen a griffin before?"

"Um, no..." said Violet nervously.

"Then don't judge the rest of 'em based off of me."

"Okay..." Violet looked warily at Blast's talons.

Blast rolled her eyes. "I'm not gonna hurt you."

"I know, it just makes me kinda nervous..."

"You know, it would have been very helpful if you had been here earlier." said Raven. "There's more spiders than usual."

Blast smirked. "Well, guess I'll have to deal with those pesky lil' things now."

Almost like it was on cue, another giant spider descended down next to Violet, who instantly moved away from it. Blast spread out her wings, and pounced at the spider, snapping its webbing it had climbed down on. Raven abruptly blocked Violet's view, just as it occurred to the Earth pony what the griffin was going to do. A minute later, Raven lowered her hoof and Violet stared at the space where the no-longer-existing spider had been.

"They still taste good." said Blast with a grin.

Razor nodded, and though she was still smiling, it was a nervous one.

"Honestly, can you please not do that in front of us?" asked Raven, sounding irritated. "I'd prefer if you'd stop scaring Razor. And please don't scar Violet for life, neither physically or mentally."

"Ray, you're such a buzzkill." said Blast.

"And you're such a spiderkill."

Blast rolled her eyes and walked over to Violet. "Anyways, it's nice to meet 'cha. Name's Blast Bang."

"Rapid Violet." she replied nervously.

"So, what're you hanging out with Raze for, V?"

"Trying to find the Star Flower."

"That thing that ponies keep looking for? Yeah, good luck with that."

"Blast, be nice." said Razor firmly.

"Sorrrrry. I happen to live with other griffins. Anyways, were questing for a flower? Sure, sounds cool enough."

Another spider came down in front of Violet, who quickly stepped back from it. Blast pounced it, but another one came down.

"It's a bunch of them!" cried Raven, pulling Violet away from another spider. "Blast, can you get them all?"

"Uh, maybe?" replied the griffin, pouncing at another spider.

Violet nervously stepped back from the descending spiders, until she realized that she had backed right into the quicksand, again. A spider crawled closer to her, and Violet froze in fear. She sank deeper into the quicksand, but Razor and Raven had already gotten out of the way of Blast and the spiders, so they didn't come over.

"Why spiders?" whispered Violet, but as one landed on her face. She frantically shook the creature off, which caused her to sink even deeper into the quicksand. "Why, why spiders?"

Violet suddenly felt a lack of anything underneath her rear hooves, and slipped completely down into the quicksand. She managed to get a breath of air before being pulled completely in, but suddenly fell out of the quicksand and landed on solid, though very sandy, ground.

Violet took in a deep breath of air, and looked around in the inky darkness. Her eyes slowly adjusted to the dark, and she was able to make out stone walls on two sides of her.

Am I in some ruins or something? she thought.

"Violet!" cried Razor's faint voice from above her. "Violet, where did you go?"

"Razor!" yelled Violet. "I'm down here! I got caught in the quicksand!"

"Violet!" Razor couldn't hear her. Violet's ears wilted with worry.

"Razor!" she yelled as loud as possible. "Raven! Blast!"

There was no response. Violet continued to stare up at where she had fallen from, but nothing happened. She sighed sadly, and then started walking down whatever ruins she was in, looking for an exit. The complete silence was starting to creep her out, but Violet tried not to panic.

Just completely and totally alone in some creepy ruins that I entered through quicksand. I just need to stay calm...

Violet abruptly tripped over something, which caused her to flip head-over-hooves. She landed on the ground and felt something tugging on her right hoof, and remembered that the vine was still tied around it.

Either there's something down here that grabbed it, or this vine is really long and Razor or Raven grabbed it. I'm really, really, hoping that it's the second one...

Violet started to stand up when the ground underneath her suddenly fell away. She let out a startled cry, before simply hanging in a dark abyss by the single vine around her hoof.

"Razor, you're going to use your magic if you don't-" came Raven's voice before Violet started falling again, and went out of ear shot.

She managed to grab onto a brick or something that was jutting out, but only managed to hold it for a few seconds before she couldn't grip any longer. Violet started to fall, again, when the vine around her hoof was grabbed in orange magic. She looked up and saw Razor with the other end of the vine wrapped around her hoof, and her horn glowing brightly.

"Vi, are you okay?" called down Razor to her.

"I'm fine!" replied Violet. "Do you think you can pull me up?"

"I'll try..."

Razor closed her eyes tightly and her horn glowed brighter. Violet felt the vine jerk upwards a bit, but barely enough to make a difference of how far down she was. Razor was gritting her teeth and trying as hard as possible to make her magic cooperate, before her horn flickered out. Violet instantly resumed falling, and Razor was yanked down the pit after her. Both ponies cried out as they fell into the dark abyss, and Violet closed her eyes tight with fear.