subject: Daxinium Berlian, A.K.A. Dax
Mission: Take out the so called 'Sunny town'
additional objectives: Save Mitta the earth pony, save the 'champions'
Time: 6:20
Goals: Finish training

I'm currently hanging by a thread over the a large chasm that separates the castle from the rest of the Everfree. Earlier Zecora had contributed the idea of me training under pressure, which includes climbing chasm walls to find the odd rare plant that hides itself in the rocky crevices that I have to search. Bill, being the annoying fourth-dimensional entity he is, agreed whole heartedly with her and set up a schedule for me to follow religiously or suffer the wrath of Zecoras stupid staff.

I had finally reached the next crevice successfully without getting stuck when I felt a tug on the line that was supposedly there to stop me from falling, but I don't think it would be able to hold up a pound of sugar given the chance. As I climbed up to the edge I could see Zecora and Bill having a heated debate about something. I stayed there and listened with my relatively canine ears as they argued. Bill was going on about a settlement in the forest that was called Sunnyville or something like it. Zecora was going on about an infectious curse that plagues the town.

After listening for a few minutes I decided to speak up, "Um, guys?" They both turned to me and shouted, "WHAT!?!" I stared at them before mumbling, "Geez, I was just going to ask if you needed something..." Zecora at least had the decency to look apologetic. Bill just glared at her before turning to face me and told me one simple thing, "I've got something for you to do kid!" Joy, straight to the point, thats Bill alright. Zecora glared at him before uttering a single syllable, "No!"

While they continued their argument I grabbed all of my gear and stuffed it into my B.i.t.i.s., or bigger in the inside satchel...should I copyright that? Whatever, I grabbed my gear, stuffed it into my B.i.t.i.s., and started walking towards the entrance of the castle. As I went inside I reminisced over past eight months since the Diamond Dog Warden Massacre I had created.

After the D.D.W.M I've had several visits from Zecora who would come and stay for few days to work with Bill on helping me survive here in the forest by making a list of chores, tasks, and exercises for me to do. I was subjected to being tortured with a staff if I moved an inch during Zecoras meditation. I was also made to run with her to make me 'faster' and have more 'endurance'...It was my personal hell.

Me and Bill continued our training and got me to learn a new spell every week, if a shaky when doing them. That's also why Bill made a practice time before each lesson to practice each spell and try to perfect it. After learning for five weeks he started me on spell matrices and how to use and make them. From what I've learned spell matrices are spells intertwined together to make a large spell that does multiple things at once. The only thing that makes it a pain in the ass to use is the fact that you need to connect it to something that holds magic extremely well, like gems and other crystalline structured objects. The bigger the crystal, the bigger the spell matrix it can hold. I had also tried making a few of these complex matrices and had only two complete ones out of the seven weeks I've been working on them.

I had finally reached the restored throne room which had been remade into a living room of sorts. Zecora had gone out to the local village and went and grabbed those local giveaway couches and chairs that are left at the curbs. There also was a generator I had made from scraps of various metals we had scavenged from the warden. The generator ran off of ambient magic from the surrounding forest, which grew back.

There was two exits besides the main entrance, the exit to the right was a staircase decorated with gold and polished marble leading to a hallway with a door leading to a rather lavish room that was decorated similarly to the hall and stairs, which we dubbed this area the solar wing.

The left one was also a staircase but instead it was decorated with topaz, sapphire, amethyst, and some kind of blue marble. It was similarly made like the solar wing, but with darker materials. The room at the end was poorly lit room with purples and blues being its main colors. The room was much more modest with an oak desk for writing, a few shelves filled with interesting books on magic theory, a few dressers for any clothes I might acquire, a spacious closet, a large dog bed for Xavier, and a comfy bed for yours truly. we had dubbed this area the lunar wing. We also had another wing for guests that you had to enter from the main hall, it wasn't used very often by anyone except the common spiders.

Speaking of which, where's Xavier? I snap out of my memories and look around and spot him laying in his huge dog bed, curled up with stinger hanging right above his head. He was terrifying when I first met him in this very castle, but after spending months with my little horror I've grown attached to him and all of his little quirks. I've even grown to see him as 'cute' when he decides to curl up next to me or play catch with gemstones. rock balls had turned out to be too easy for his strong jaws to crush, so we got him large gems to play with.

As walk towards Xavier I look at the glint of one of his more rounder gems. I still had my wolfish features from the warden, but they were less feral. I had my gray wolf ears, but my fur wasn't like that of a wolf, but rather akin to a small layer of fur to insulate me from the cold even more. And my tail was like a diamond dogs but more hairier. My hands kept their pads and their claws.

As I remember the fun times we had I pass by Xavier and walked towards the only window in the room that was covered most of the time. I open the curtains to look beyond them and see...Bill. This should prove to be either a request or a mission, which is basically a request without the asking. He knocks on the window and simply hangs there with an annoyed expression on his...eye? Whatever, better to finish this now.

I open the window and ask, "What is it Bill?" He looks at me before handing me a paper and... floats off. That's odd, even for Bill. Hmm, I wonder what he wrote in the paper? As I look in the paper I read not only Bills handwriting, but Zecoras as well. They probably came to an agreement on whatever they were arguing about. I read it out loud,

We both have come to an agreement on a rather important subject, your training. We had done some digging around and found a village called sunny town with a terrible curse. We believe your training we have done with you has prepared you for this dangerous mission. At first we both disagreed on this subject, but we have come to an understanding that if you do well with your mission you will be given something to...aid you in your 'Quest' to find your sister. So your mission is simple, free the town of its horrid curse. You're allowed to bring Xavier. But we cannot come with for we cannot be there for you all the time. We have included a map to the village on the backside of this paper. And a few words of advice, nothing is what it seems, especially under the sunlight.

Good luck,

Zecora and Bill

Well shit...*Sigh* Better stuff some essentials into B.i.t.i.s. and wake Xavier up. Wait, Zecora didn't rhyme...Odd. As I go about my work I think of Angel and where she might be right now...I just hope someone is looking after her...

-----------------Angels P.O.V.--------------

WOW! These Pancakes were DELICIOUS! I turn towards Ms. Fleur De Lis and thank her once more and her friend, Mr. Fancy Pants, "Thank you! These were delicious!" Ms. Fleur just laughed her melodious laugh and simply said, "No problem dear Angel! Now with breakfast aside, what do you remember about your brother?"

At the mention of my dear protective brother my eyes start to well up with tears, "I-I don't kn-now, *sniffle* all I remember is that he was wearing a trench c-coat and a fedora, n-not to mention he bought the n-necklace, book, staff, and h-hand. O-oh! H-he was also wearing this b-beautiful dark blue scarf that had emerald laced through it that was made by *sniffle* M-mom..." As I cried I could feel Ms. Fleur's arms holding me across her chest stroking my four wings comfortingly, but I didn't care. I want m-my big b-bro!*sniffle* I hope he's alright, *Sob*...

-----------------Daxiniums P.O.V.-------------

I had finished packing and went to wake Xavier only to find him sitting in front of the door my staff in his jaw. I had forgotten about it after I had woken up for todays schedule! Zecora had shown me how to wield the staff properly both physically and with Zebrakin magic. I still barely use it, but now it's more useful then a flash light! Yay!

I pick my staff up and thank Xavier which he replies with a bark. I go back into my room and open the desk which contains my trench knife and places it in a sheath on my belt before heading to my bed and grabbing the twin daggers underneath it. I then proceed to the closet and grab my .34 special and Umbra. Before I put both in their holsters Zecora had made for me I looked at Umbra and admired its physicality, such as the calibers it took, .45 mm. and the multiple scratches on its tar paint. I also looked at the .34 special and smiled at the silver paint covering it. It also had a single word engraved on its side, Lux. I then proceeded to put them in my holsters on my belt.

I looked at my mechanical hand and opened a panel on the back and messed with a few wires to activate a few 'upgrades' I had found on Sparks mainframe. In my free time when I wasn't dead tired from training I had decided to mess with Sparks system and found that a lot of upgrades that hadn't been turned on, so I had decided to try a different one every week to find out what they did. One of these 'upgrades' actually made Sparks into a solid hologram by using a spell matrix so fucking complicated I had gone through fifty different spells only to find that I was only 0.0001% through all the spells that made up the hologram. Another upgrade made my dull mechanical fingers into freaky sharp claws at will.

After I was done meddling with my hand I woke up Sparks from her sleep mode. When she turned on I turn to find her holographic form. She was an opaque pink unicorn with what looked like electric connections over parts of her barrel, she was also more equine then her counterparts because of her walking on her four hooves. The only thing that was offsetting was her bright blue eyes that reminded me of a good friend of mine. She was also energetic when it came to physical and magical work.

She turned to me and looked around curiously before noticing me, "Oops... umm, good morning?" I smiled and rubbed her head and looked around for anything for I had missed during my retrieval of weaponry. After checking everything off my mental list I smiled at her and explained everything that had conspired during the few hours before I had woken her up. She was curious about the town but was wary because of the warning Bill and Zecora gave us in the letter. I chuckled when she decided to be my personal 'body guard' since she was just a hologram. She was so light I could toss her fifty feet easily.

After grabbing Xavier we headed out towards the bridge we had created using the spells Bill taught me. It was a simple stone arch with wood as guardrails. We finally hit the forest line that had receded because of our recent building projects scattered throughout the castle, which I've deemed the Everfree fortress. So it was just Xavier, Sparks, and me. How hard could this be?

"Hello?" It was the same thing happening over and over again. I would see a little filly and try to talk to her to try and find out why she's in the most dangerous forest in existence, only to see her disappear before our eyes. "I'm getting odd readings off the filly, I advise we keep moving." I look at the filly who looked at with bright yellow glowing eyes-WHAT!?! Doing a spit take I look back to were I had seen the little filly standing a few seconds ago. She was gone, and coupled with Sparks readings...

I turn towards her nod with a forced grin, "Probably should fine shelter soon eh?" Sparks just nodded with assurance and pulled the map from B.i.t.i.s. and started deciphering our position and which direction to go. While Sparks did her job I found my mind wandering back to the little filly. She had a gray coat and had an orange mane with lighter highlights throughout it. She also had a cutie mark, a magnifying glass.

As I kept wondering over the odd filly I let my eyes wander over the Everfrees shrubbery and such when I spotted her again, But this time she wasn't smiling, she was frowning like I was directly disobeying her orders. I got up to get a closer view when she started walking forward. As I watched her come closer I nudged Sparks and nodded towards the approaching filly. Sparks looked wary but trotted up to her only to have phase right through her and keep on walking in my direction.

I've had enough! I quickly get to my fe-er, paws, and start walking towards the little ghost. as soon as we were within kicking distance she suddenly stopped. I stumbled over my feet before stopping in front of her. She stood there for few minutes before...Breaking into a smile? What is wrong with this filly?

She then put up a hand said, "Nice to meet you! My name is Ruby! What's yours?" I stand there dumbfounded before stumbling over my words and choked out a response to the filly, "C-call me D-Dax..." Ruby giggled before turning serious, "You're after Sunny town, aren't you?" I grin nervously before saying, "Y-yep...Y'know a way there that doesn't take forever?" She scrutinized me for a few seconds before grinning and saying, "Yep, but you gotta help me too!" This didn't sound fun, "Lead the way Ruby..." Somehow I knew I was going to regret this...

As I look over the small town I feel slightly overwhelmed at the size of it. When Bill or Zecora talked about it they made it seem like a village consisting of five hundred, maybe less. This was close to a thousand and I don't do so good with crowds.

As I paced a few feet away from the ledge that overlooked the town I started worrying about what ruby told me, 'Everybody will be dangerous, but you can trust Mitta. She used to take care of me, but those meanypants keep her from me and drive me out whenever they see me. You can trust her...She's the only one...'

So, lets get our game plan together. We go in, find an earth-pony named Mitta, get her to tell us what the curse is, find a way to break said curse but find a way to keep Mitta safe when I deactivate/break the curse. I look back over the town and sigh. This was going to be difficult with a few thousand cursed ponies out to stop/kill me from breaking the curse.

I call Xavier to my side and gave him a reassuring smile, rub his head, and said, "lets go boy." and we begin our journey to free Sunny town and complete our mission to try and find my sister. At least, that's the hope... Lets not dwell on bad subjects and look forward to the better things! Like being possibly killed by a town with a horrible secret! "I don't see how that's better" I glowered at the approaching unicorn before sticking my tongue out and blowing a raspberry. Sparks just shook her head and started walking towards the town with us in tow.

We had just entered the town before we were stopped by a pony, an earth-pony to be exact with a gray coat and black mane and tail. He gave me a rather toothy grin and said, "Welcome to sunny town! We don't get many visitors during this time of year, but we can surely accommodate to your size!" He just stood there with one of those smiles that I knew very well, the kind where you know something and just want to share it with the world! No, not really. It's one of those, 'Hey! We got some poisonous mushrooms for free! Try one!' and I wasn't buying any of it.

After a few minutes of staring at each other he just coughed into his fist and held it out with a boisterous, "My name is Grey hoof, what's yours?" He held the hand there for a few more seconds before I gripped it in my mechanical hand and shook it firmly and said, "Daxinium." Grey just stared at my hand before grinning like a loon and saying, "Welcome to the party! We're celebrating the towns 1004 anniversary! Come, try some of Starlets cupcakes! Have some punch! We're so happy to have another visitor here at our little sunny town!"

I nod and say, "Glad to get out of that damn forest! It's been too long since I've talked to an actual person besides Sparks!" His eyes light up but turn confused before looking around, "um, not to be rude or anything, but where's this 'Sparks'?" I grin under my scarf before rubbing Sparks little holographic head and said, "This here's Sparks, my good friend!" Grey just looks at her before smiling saying good-day and walking off. Odd guy, I don't really trust him...

After our meeting with Mr. Grey we just wandered around taking in the sights and wasting time before night fell. I had put Sparks into sleep mode while Xavier went hunting for his food. It was about an hour or two before the sun set when I decided to grab a muffin from the table before recoiling and spitting out the muffin I had just stuffed into my mouth. When I had looked at it the cupcake was decorated with simple white frosting and felt like a cupcake when I shoved it into my mouth before gagging. I spit it onto the ground and saw a pile of dirt and dust where what should've been a nice cupcake. After staring at the pile Something clicked in my mind, a story from when I around thirteen.

It was called the 'Thief of always', a story about a boy and a magical house that would suck away your years like a vampire. The catch was that you wouldn't be able to live those years that the house took away. The part that I had remembered was when the boy shoved the houses food into one of its servants and the food turned to dust right in its mouth, killing it. The food was dust and so was this places food, so time was a part of the 'curse' they were talking about? Seemed like it!

The same happened with the punch, just filthy rancid water. I started asking questions to a few locals, but they always said they had to do something when I started asking questions about the town and its odd quirks such as why was the majority of the towns population earth ponies? Or why was there tons of different species besides the regular ponies? I'm not kidding on that one! Seriously, there was around a few dozen diamond dogs just sitting around, a bunch of griffons were brooding on a roof, while there was even a minotaur standing at the end of the alley beckoning to me...What?

I stepped backwards towards the alley to get a better look when the minotaurs meaty arms grab me and heave me onto his shoulders and began to run like hell hounds were on his tail. I was fighting the entire time I was being held like a sack of potatoes on his shoulders. After another five minutes of bruising the guys shoulder he dropped me like the potato sack he thought I was and ran, again.

I sat up and looked around to see a simple little cottage. It was so simple that I almost missed the door. It was a simple door with no paint, but it wasn't the door itself that caught my attention, but rather the hinges. They were bent like someone had forced themselves inside, but for what reason?

After standing there for another minute I decided to knock on the little cottages door. *Kno-whumph* Oops... There goes the door. Really hope that was just because of the shitty D.I.Y. repair on the hinges. After staring like a retard at the door I come to my senses and just knock on the door frame like any other normal person. *Knoc*-"Y'know I'm out here right?"

I twist my head to see a mare sitting right in front of the house just staring at me with an irritated look on her muzzle. She frowned before patting the ground next to her and said, "Don't talk much do you?" I sat down and nodded my head 'yes' to her question. In truth I have never actually been much of a talker. I only really talk with my friends and family, or basically anyone I trust very much.

We sat there for a few minutes before I gathered my words together and said, "You're Mitta?" She matched Ruby's description. A gray coated mare with a blood red mane, yep! It's her! She just gave me a look that I can't really decipher before saying, "Ruby?" I nod again and ask, "What was with the escort?"

She looked back at the village and sighed before saying, "You're not the first 'champion' that Ruby sent this way..." Huh, so that panicked minotaur was one of these 'champions'? How many has there been? Dozens? Hundreds? And if so, what have they been doing all this time? "Prepping for the right one?"...Shit! I just said that out loud! I turn my head to look over at Mitta only to get a face full of....Nothing? She's just sitting with a grim look before turning to me and saying, "What do you think? We need the power to break the curse, but all we've been getting from Ruby is earth ponies, Minotaurs, even a few griffons, but no unicorns!"

But that doesn't make sense! I saw a few dozen of them on my way through the village! I turn to tell her that but I'm stopped by her look. It was look of... realization? As her look of realization continued to grow it morphed into confusion, then consideration, and finally horror before she grabbed my hand and yanked me to my feet with her as she tried running with me in tow.

After stumbling with her tugging on my arm I had managed to stop our movement and ask, " Why in Hell are you pulling me like your life depends on it!?" She looked around before saying, "You've been here before! About 1001 years ago! And they never forgot the first one to escape, you. You even gave me instructions to take you to river where you would meet up with your friend!" Friend? By the river none the less? What do you say to that?

Apparently my choice was made for me when she pulled me along for the ride, again. This village seems to enjoy pulling people around, or maybe it's just me. Anyways, after being pulled along for about fifteen minutes we had arrived at a large cliff over looking the river. I had finally pulled my hand from her grip when i heard voices. "Get back here Mitta!" We both turned to see Grey Hoof with a group of a few dozen earth ponies.

Mitta shouted back, "He's going to stop you! You and your madness! He's going to kill all of you for killing my daughter!" Well shit..."You don't deserve your immortality! You'll see! You see when he comes to collect on his debt!" And with that she promptly shoved me off the edge to my odd and unfortunate demise in the watery hell that's called a river...

Ow...Just ow...Wait, how am I still kicking? I was shoved off a fucking cliff into a river filled with sharp rocks for Christs sake! I should be dead! How am I not dead!?! Actually, forget that, where the hell am I? After forcing my eyes open I got an eyeful of a caves wall. Not very helpful in my opinion... alright up we go!

Again, cave, but this time there's more! There's moss, stones, a box covered with what looks like river weed, a large river next to the other side...Wait, box? I grab the bow and pull off the weeds before seeing a box with an emblem I didn't expect to see here of all places, the flag of the U.S.A., my home. But how the bloody Hell did it get here? and what the Hell was the box's contents?

Well, you could start by opening the damn box or we could twiddle our thumbs. Oh wait! I DON'T HAVE THUMBS! Got it Ms. asshole...What did you call me!? Nothing! Geez! After prying the lid off with my trusty trench knife, one of the only other thing I have seen from my world, I saw...fabric? No, thats Kevlar!

There's a bunch of plain Kevlar fabric, a bullet-proof vest made of Kevlar, and a pair of gloves with extra padding on the palm and the bottom of the fingers. I put the vest and gloves on, but after careful consideration I had decided to put the plain Kevlar to good use on my jacket.

After three hours I had managed to sew/weld the Kevlar onto the inside of my trench coat. As I was about to put it on I caught my reflection in one of the pools of water near me. I was what could be considered a furry lovers wet dream. I stand at seven ft. and a few inches now due to my little transformation. I now had a somewhat visible six pack with large arms that practically writhed with muscles when I moved them. I have a face similar to a diamond dogs, but my muzzle was a bit more narrow. My tail was a bit of a combination between a diamond dogs and a wolves tail. Hell, I could pass for one if I put one of the collars on with one of their vests!

I realize that I never really looked at my under clothes very well because they also seemed to have changed with me. I was wearing some tan cargo pants with two large pockets under the regular ones while my shirt was a simple gray with an odd emblem on the left shoulder, it looked like the Brotherhood of Steel emblem, though this one was modified like it was made personally for me. Instead of the almost angelic wings outstretched, it was a pair of almost demonic bat like wings. The other piece modified was the back ground was the back ground it was placed on. It was a on a dark blue flame... Odd. I shake off my odd sense of deja vu and get back to putting my clothes on.

As I continued to put on my stuff I heard the sound of something surfacing in the river that ran next to the other wall of the cave. As I turn around I'm greeted by the sight of... A sea serpent. He hadn't noticed me yet as he started moving things around the pile of rocks before pulling out a...Comb? I've got no words...How on earth does it keep it's form underwater?

As I gawked at the impossible sight before me the serpent had gone to put the comb away and went to look at where I had lay. Only to find that I'm not there. We both look in each others eyes and I begin to sweat. What was he going to do with me? As I sat there on the verge of a panic attack he smiled and extended his hand and said, "I'm Steven Magnet! What's your name darling?" What. The. Fuck?

I managed to shake his hand after a minute while saying, "Daxinium." Steven looked at the box next to me and somehow his grin became bigger. "I'm so glad someone found a use for that fabric! There wasn't enough to cover me or to make a hat, but it fits you perfectly darling!" I rub my head in embarrassment an-wait a second!

"Steven, where's my fedora and goggles?" Steven seemed to shrink when I asked about my missing equipment. I asked again, "Steven, where is my fedora and goggles." Except this time It wasn't a question, it was a command. After a few minutes he sullenly pointed at a pile of fabric and glass. Please tell me that isn't what I think that is.

Here we are after an hour of looking for the pieces to my fedora and goggles, but the hat still has a ton of holes while the goggles are missing an entire lens and chunks of the strap is gone. I'm going to need a new hat and goggles or someone's going to get the smack down of a life time!

As I sat wallowing in my stewing anger Steven had started digging around his pile of rocks which I assume is where he stores his stuff and grabs what seems to be a top hat and a pair of amber goggles. He sat both down gently in front of me and backed up and started twiddling his thumbs with a rather depressed look on his face. Poor guy probably hasn't had anyone to talk to besides himself due to his unique looks. Damn, now I feel like a jerk... I'm gonna have to make this up to him later, but for right now we could be.... Friends.

As he sits there I walk up to him tap one of his scales to grab his attention. When he looks at me I smile say, "Thanks... Friend." The look that lights up his face could've been mistaken for a firework. After a while hugging me awkwardly he let go and started to make coherent noise before freezing up and looked at me before grabbing me again and pulling my goggles over my eyes and started rambling about getting me up to surface because of a letter he found on the bank about me seeing a friend or something. In all honesty it seemed to remind about something Mitta said, though for the life of me I and remember... Oh well, Maybe I'll remember later.

After he rambled for a few minutes he said, "I've got to get you to the surface! Hold your breath!" Fuck! I was horrible at holding my breath! We plunged into the icy river and swam back to the surface with me clinging on for dear life at the ludicrous speeds he was going. After a few seconds of rushing water the surrounding liquid existed no more as we popped out of the river. Steven sat me down on the bank of the river before waving happily and diving back into the river to his home.

After sitting there trying to gain feeling in my hands I go and collect several branches and set them in a pile before grabbing an armful of stones and making a ring around the pile of wood and the proceeded to light the fire with a spark spell. After I had managed to gain back the feeling in my hands Xavier landed next to me with a rather anxious look plastered onto his snake-like muzzle.

He started to cuddle up to me and began to lick my hand like a dog would when their owner had been away for a while, which in this case had exactly happened. So there we were, sitting next to a fire cuddling next to each other for warmth before I fell asleep next to my precious little horror.

Ugh, what time is it? It's 'get your lazy bum up and kill sunny town for trying to end us!' time! Well aren't you just a cheerful ball of fluff. Did you get a virus or something? No... I think your personality is messing with my personality core. Hmm, maybe. I need you to reboot me, it's the only way to fix my personality core. But what about sunny town? You'll be fine. Just don't die, besides you've got Xavier!

"... Fine, how do I reboot you?" It's voice activated. So all you got to say is, Neo Coral Mathens. " That it?" ...Yes... I look at the hand containing one of my few friends and hesitantly said, "Alright... Neo Coral Mathens... Are you there?" She was gone till her reboot was over.

Xavier was still lying next to me despite probably having been awake for a few hours. When I started getting up he started getting up along with me. After putting out the still lit fire I started to head back towards sunny town and its deadly citizens.

During the walk there the moon never moved oddly enough. It was almost like someone was forcing it to stay in place, but that's impossible right?....RIGHT!?!...Bloody hell... I really hope that's impossible... Anyways, onto more important subjects like our arrival into sunny town! After we finish the trek there...

It was another three hours before we managed to reach the towns outer limits. With the moon out and shadows everywhere we used them to their fullest. Basically darting around in the shadows and hiding in them when one of their patrols came around. How did I know they were patrols? Well, when one had spotted me because of poor timing on my part, the 'pony' pointed right at me and let out an ungodly scream.

As they got closer I could see what was wrong with them. they were in various states of decay, be it just barely a pile of shambling pile of tendons or bones with barely any flesh. The more cruel looking ones were in a more decayed state than the others, but that didn't stop them from shambling at ridiculous speeds towards me. I grab the pair of large daggers from my sides and rush them.

Unfortunately, there was around ten of these 'ponies' in the entire group. What made it even more difficult was even if I cut their heads off they would simply walk over and put it back with a disgusting crunch. After a while of chopping heads off I decided that fire might be a possible route.

After burning one in a blaze of demonic fire one of the more decayed ones walked up to the ash and poked before saying, "Three leaf? That's not funny...T-Three leaf?" The pile of ash didn't respond to the ghouls call. The others started looking panicked for some reason. Were they supposed to put themselves back together after being turned to ash? Wait...Demon fire literally takes ones soul and shoves it into the 'Void', the place between universes. Does that mean since her body was ripped from her body, everything goes to ashes? That actually makes sense because without a soul in it everything self-destructs and burns up, erasing their existence from this universe entirely...Wow... Never really thought about it like that...

After sitting there thinking about what happens to the souls after they're dumped in the void, Xavier bumps his muzzle against my gloved mechanical hand with a confused sounding wimper. I look at Xavier and he motions his head to the abandoned pile of ashes... Abandoned? Where the hell did they go!? As I look over the ashes I see their hoof prints running off in the direction of the center of town. I actually never saw the center of the town because of my impromptu departure by Minotaur. We walk side by side as we walked towards the center of the cursed town and the source of these ponies curse.

We had finally reached the center when I got tackled from behind. As I hit the ground I twisted my body and rolled away before coming to a kneeling position with my daggers held backwards, ready to make a scissor cut and hopefully chop their head off and buy me enough time to concentrate and send demon fire their way. As I was about to do so I caught the face of the person who had tackled me. "Mitta?" She started to grab my hand and started pulling me towards an alleyway, presumably to talk.

After dropping my hand she hugged me once more before rambling on about how I was back to kill the ones who killed her daughter and other less important stuff. After making sure we were alone I covered Mitta's mouth before asking a single question, "Is everyone that Ruby sent gone?" Mitta nodded her head yes before I asked my next question, "Where is the cause?"

Wow, I was expecting something large, but not this large. We had stopped on one of the many rooftops surrounding the town square. After taking one look at the monstrosity before us I knew that this could very well end very badly, like bloody bad, or boom bad, or zombie bad. One of those three... I think... Anyways, the cause of our most likely gruesome death was a gigantic generator, which was basically a gigantic crystal with machinery surrounding it on scaffolding or just bolted on haphazardly.

The other issue was the mob of zombies surrounding it. The numbers were in the hundreds and the favor was with them. After looking at their numbers I realized something, "Um, Mitta?" She looked over and said, "Yes?" I looked once more at what could be the saving grace I hoped for before asking, "What's that odd building connected to the building?"

The building in question was an odd looking cottage with window shining out a dark blue light. Mitta just shrugged and said, "Some kind of regulator, why?" A regulator? Hmm, this could be the opening I was looking for! But I need a distraction because of one little issue. The building was what the entire mob seemed to be focused around. I need something like... I've got it! I turn towards my undead companion with a glint in my eye. Mitta shifts nervously under my gaze and asks, "What?"

We watch as Mitta walks towards the edge of the crowd and shouts, "The first went that way!" While pointing in the opposite direction of my hiding spot and runs along with them. Our plan was to have Mitta distract the main crowd and split off from them and get a safe distance. Why? Because I've decided to go out with a boom. Literally. The reason I had to die was because of several reasons, but the main fact being that I don't know teleportation nor will I have the energy to do so.

The generator was similar to the one in the castle, it drains natural magic from the surrounding area and uses the power to generate the curse. The thing is with the generator running on something as volatile as magic it needs a regulator to control the flow of magic, but without a regulator it will most likely go boom in a week, but that won't be happening because it needs to go off now. So it needs to overflowed with even more volatile magic and the largest source of magic is me. So, after almost everyone is gone I make a break for the generator and break the regulator and start shoving magic into the crystal as fast as possible because once I start every single cursed one will be after me and it becomes a race for time.

After mostly everyone is gone I look across the plaza and look at the last pony standing there, Grey hoof. He's already looking at my spot with a grim smile across his face as he beckons me to come closer. I oblige and jump off the single story house with ease and walk until we're mere yards apart. Grey hoof smiles and chuckles before saying, "Y'know how this little shindig going to end don'tcha?" He looks at me with a grin before saying, "You're not one for words are ya?" I simply stand there glaring at him before saying, "Move Grey hoof, we both know that Sunny towns time is up."

He once again looked at the ground before sighing a grabbing a beautifully made rapier from a sheath on his side and gives a look over before saying, "Was my great, great, great grandfathers. I've held onto it for over a thousand years and I've never used it once. I guess that's about to change eh?" We stared at each other for a few minutes before grabbing my daggers out and getting into a combat stance, Grey did likewise. And the battle for the fate of Sunny town commenced.

------------------Mean while-------------- 2nd P.O.V.

An odd figure watches from the shadows of a nearby building. They are completely covered in stealth armor provided by a contact in Canterlot. They stand there for a few moments before tapping a small button their helmet activating a com-link and mutters, "Info on target seems to be useless as he combats the abnormality and seems nervous, almost scared despite the false bravado. The abnormality seems fixed on detonating the time conversion generator and is willing to sacrifice it's self. Orders?" The pony shifts nervously before a crackling sound comes from the com-link,

"Keep an eye on the abnormality, but don't engage. When the battle ends I want you out of there. A hover fly will be there for quick EVAC, and do not engage the abnormality at any cost. I have feeling he might join our cause later, so lets not cause trouble. Got it agent Sweetie drops?"

The mare confirms and gets to higher location to watch the battle for better viewing. After few minutes the mare notices the fight winding down when the abnormality scores a hit on the targets right leg. She stops recording and leaves for the EVAC zone. She looks back and stands there before heading towards the EVAC zone once more.

------------------Back to Dax-------------

I had finally hit the mayors leg when he fell for my feint. After a few slashes he was laying on the ground groaning. I simply light a small fire on my index and I tap his nose with an inaudible "Boop" and walk towards the rapier laying on the cobblestone. As I look at the rapier I feel dozens of emotions flood my consciousness but the most dominant being relief.

I chuckle at the thought. I really doubt this is the end of the line for me, I bet some how, some way, that a god or something is going to save my ass just to laugh at me later. I grab the rapier and put it in my bag. I turn back to the now blazing demonic bonfire and salute it almost mocking it and open the door to the regulator.

There wasn't much there except the machinery itself. I chuckle at that, the cleanest spot so far is the thing keeping them alive. Well, not for much longer! I grabbed a single pipe from a box, most likely for repairs, and began hitting the regulator with all I got. *clunk* First hit and the machinery is already bending, pretty shoddy if you ask me. *clunk* The glass container where you could see magic flowing now has a web of crack. *crunch* The wires holding things suspended broke, everything is on the ground now. *crac-THOOM!*...Ow... I had finally burst the main container, but the magic was under pressure, which would explain me being thrown several feet backwards.

The regulator is gone, now all I need to do is overflow the crystal with magic. As I walk up to the crystal Xavier walks alongside me, almost persistently nudging me with his nose, most likely to show that I wasn't alone. There, a group of cracks surrounding the point where the regulators needle would enter the crystal. I place my hands there and focus. C'mon, just like your first time! And just like that, magic crackled around me, flowing straight into the crack.

It took two minutes before I even felt tired from magic exhaustion and the other events catching up with me. I was so emotionally drained from everything, I idly wonder if there is something higher than a god. Maybe not, maybe yes. I don't know, but are we supposed to know anything in reality compared to the higher being? All I could tell was that I was tired...I can see myself leaning against the crystal, sliding down to sit down on the floor. Xavier is here, nuzzling my hand. He looks worried, I wonder why? Oh... The crystal's going off... I can feel myself...falling.....................Help me....

------------------Shining armor's P.O.V.-------------

Things were finally looking up, princess Celestia was found alright and Nightmare moon was defeated, tough I wonder who defeated her. After idly looking out the window I could see the sun barely above the Everfree forest when something akin to an earthquake hit. After getting every one calm I was about to tell them to go and check on the civilians when, *BOOOM* "Sweet Celestia and sauerkraut!" As both me and Celestia's main advisor, ink well, raced towards the window to see what looked like a gigantic fire bomb going off in the everfree, which was the closet thing to Ponyville besides the sweet apple acres.

I turn towards ink and yell, "Get to the old wing and start project 'Equestrian shield'! NOW!" Ink nodded and left while started grabbing whatever soldier was nearest to me and handing him a hastily scribbled note and told his to give it to Philomena and to double time it. As I look out over the Everfree I could only hope we can contain the remaining fires...

Author's Note

Hey! I've got a challenge for anybody willing! I need a rough sketch of a timber wolf and manticore. These are critical for a future chapter dealing with Daxiniums token, so please email me if you do or just leave it in the comments, your choice. And of course you'll get a shout out for your picture. Good luck for those who do and enjoy the story!

P.S.

Point out any mistakes you see. I know I made a few, but I can't find them to save my life, so please help. Thanks! I also used the thief of always as a reference but it's a good book, so read it and enjoy!