The Pain Goes HERE!

Luna's eyes snaps open before sitting up on her bed, rudely awakened by a feeling of dread in her heart as she felt an old spell disrupted by an unknown cause, she hops off and quickly piece together her royal attire then teleports herself to the throne room. There she finds her sister Celestia pacing back and forth in front of her throne, the guards and castle staff watched worriedly at their ruler, they have seen her act this way before and it only means trouble. Celestia stops her pacing when Luna had made herself known, she turns to her, a worried look on her face, just like everyone else.

"Luna..." She greeted Luna, but she was too concerned by the situation to show how glad she was to see her sister today.

"I know sister, I can feel it... The beast, he is awake." The ponies around them tensed up at the mention of a beast. "But how could this be possible? He could not have pulled out the sword alone and the entrance should be sealed with our magic, no one could have gotten through!"

"You are correct, unless..." She pauses to think about her theory, but she looks up to her sister. "We have no time for this, gather your best soldiers and meet me at the entrance, I'll send a letter to Twilight to warn her of this threat and ask for assistance."

"At once sister." Luna said before teleporting out of the throne room, Celestia starts writing the letter for Twilight to inform her of the situation, after she sent it away, Celestia sat down on her throne to catch her breath.

She turns to one of the guards in the room. "Guard, call for Flash Magnus, tell him to gather the best warriors in our ranks and bring them to me as quick as possible."

"Yes your highness!" He saluted before running off to pass the order.

She gave out a sigh. "I hope we are not too late."

"Hello!" Ocellus calls out, to anyone behind the metal door, it had already been three minutes since she was separated from the rest and she had started to get worried, she only heard her friends screaming in fear before it went silent.

She looks behind her self to see another door which leads to another cave system, seeing that she had no other way to go, she went off into the cave. Ocellus notices that there was a trail of the same paper that she had started collecting, she picks up a few as she goes by. The insect soon finds herself in a large cavern with a stone bridge that leads across, she looks down below and became amazed by what the cavern holds, just right below her was an underground river that flows towards the darkness.

The changeling was so enthralled by nature's beauty that she did not noticed a strangely dressed griffon with an equally strange mask watching the river with her. When she looks up, time seems to slow down as the surrounding became black as a wall with a symbol materialized behind the griffon, two captions with different fonts also comes out of nowhere to add on the weirdness level, STEVE, Heyooo!.

Just when time returns to normal, Ocellus stumbles off the stone bridge in shock only to be caught by the griffon.

"Heyoo!" He greeted the changeling as he pulls her back up.

"O-oh, thank you and sorry for that, y-you kind of surprised me there." She said as she rubs her hoof on her eyes, she could have sworn the world changed, and it was really a strange occurrence. "Umm, is your name perhaps, Steve?"

The masked griffon nodded. "Heyoo!"

"I-is that all you say?" She asks, his answer was another nod with 'Heyoo.'. "Oh, alright then. Could you help me please, my friends and I were separated and I need help, so have you seen them?"

Steve place a claw on his chin, he made his claws mimic a horn then flaps them like a pair of wings before pointing at her hind legs, though he does not know that he is a griffon.

"Yes, that's Yona and Silverstream! Do you know where they are?"

Steve nodded, he hold a up two finger or talons in the air, moving it around before wrapping his fist around it.

"They were caught, by who!?" Steve points towards himself. "B-by you!?" Seeing his error Steve shook his head, he then pointed at himself then held out three talons. "They were caught by creatures like you?"

"Heyoo." He said with sadness in his heart, before making his right claw mimic a mouth and pretended to bite his two talons.

Ocellus gasps. "They're going to eat them!? Steve, we can't let them, you have to help me!"

"Heyoo!" He gave her a thumbs up and holds out a strange object.

The object emitted a blue pillar of light, and as her hoof got closer a large holographic box with numbers and words pops up, the name Barbed Orphan Maker. She looks at the blade it had, it seems to be a weapon of some kind.

She shook her head. "I'm sorry Steve, but I would have to say no, I don't really like fighting."

He thinks about her answer before shaking his head. "Heyoo." He motions the weapon towards her.

Seeing that he wouldn't take no for an answer, she reluctantly took the weapon away from his claws with her magic, she was slightly troubled by the weight but she could manage it.

"Alright, if you insist. So can we look for my friends now?"

He gave her a thumbs up. "Heyoo!" Steve then takes out a pickaxe that was painted blue before heading towards the opposite direction that Ocellus came from. Ocellus was about to follow, but a yellow golem with a jar filled of lighting for a head landed in front of him, the same one that chased Yona and Silverstream.

"Steve!" She calls out to him as the golem explodes, sending Steve off the bridge and down towards the underground river.

"Heyooooooooooooooooooo!" He screams as the river took him deeper into the darkness, he flails his blue pickaxe around.

"Steve!?" After a few seconds of silence she hears him say the same thing every time, it sounded like he was okay. "Don't worry Steve, I'll... I'll just go look for my friends, just hang on Steve!"

After a confirming "heyoo!" from Steve, she moves on, keeping an eye open just in case a golem would send her to the same fate as the strange griffon.

"Smolder!" Both Gallus and Sandbar call out to their friend who was in the now awake dragon's grip.

Just when Sandbar was about to rush in, he was pulled back by the griffon, Gallus shook his head at the pony.

"Stay here, it's too dangerous!"

"But Smolder needs our help!" He reasoned.

"Have you been in a fight before!?" When he was given no answer, he lightly shoves Sandbar back. "Then stay here where it's safer!"

The larger dragon chuckles deeply at the piece of meat he had caught, he was too busy doing that so he couldn't really notice the other two arguing. "Little piggy, little piggy, get in my BELLY!"

He lifts his mask slightly to uncover his mouth and smiled, Smolder thrashed in his grip, she tried to claw and kick to escape but the grip around her throat did not loosen. He opens his mouth wide enough and prepared to bite her frontal lobe off, but he was distracted by movement at the corner of his eye, using his free claw he catches the sword that could've impaled him by the blade, his claw bled a little due to the sharpness. His head turns towards Gallus, the griffon's claws were around the sword's handle, and has fear written all over his face.

"Meat buzzard!" He excitedly shouted before using the smaller dragon as a throwable, he successfully knocks Gallus off the sword as Smolder collided with him, the larger dragon then lifts the weapon high in the air before slamming it down on the ground, shattering it to pieces. "No sleeping beauty blood shiv for you!"

He rushes forward, still holding a shard of the sword on his bleeding claw. Gallus quickly pushes the still recovering Smolder out of the way from the charging beast, when Gallus tries to move himself, he was kicked right at his side sending him far away from the kicker. Before the beast could walk over to the downed griffon, he was suddenly caught on fire, he turns around to see Smolder standing there.

He laughs loudly again as he stomps over to her, when he got closer to Smolder, she took to the air to make distance between them, a deep growl sounded out of him.

"I'm gonna kill you all, I'm gonna kill your friends and your family, I'm gonna track down your grandparents and turn them inside-out, nobody can stop the blood train that will turn your loved ones into a red splatter across the tracks of humanity!" He ranted as he threw the shard of metal, only to miss her.

"Dude, what is your problem!? And why are you on fire!?" Smolder asks him before breathing out more fire, this proved to be a grave mistake as a magical fireball suddenly came out of him and flew directly at her, she tried dodging but it only followed her so she tried to out maneuver it. The plan worked as she rounded a rock and the fireball hits it instead as she turns the corner, but she had flew right into a burning dragon's palm, as she was held by the face the beast slams his other fist into her abdomen then she was realesed.

She crumbles on the ground, feeling pain on her body as the larger dragon looms over her, still burning on the spot. She closes her eyes shut and waited for what comes next, but nothing happened, she opens her eyes and looks up to find him walking away.

"Flesh buzzard tastes better." He mutters as he heads towards Gallus.

"N-no! Don't you dare!" Smolder tried standing up, but she could still feel the punch. "Please!"

Her plead was only ignored as the beast walks closer to the griffon, and that was the last straw for Sandbar, he steps right between his friend and enemy.

Gallus looks at Sandbar. "Didn't I tell you to hide!"

"I can't just stand aside when my friends are in danger!" He reasons with Gallus. "I won't let you get to him!"

The dragon tilted his head to the side as the fire on him dies out, clearly confused by something, he then took a step closer to the pony. Smolder and Gallus looks away, too afraid to witness the fate of their friend, but they look back when they heard nothing. They now witness a terrified Sandbar in the dragon's claws as he inspected the pony, after he was done he gently sets Sandbar down behind him and continues over to Gallus, Sandbar quickly once again steps in front of the beast.

"I won't let you hurt my friend!"

Now the dragon was even more confused. "Friend? Pony are friends with meat buzzard?" Sandbar fearfully nodded. "Why are you friends with meat buzzard!?"

Sandbar contemplated his question. "Oh uh... Because we are?" Gallus slaps a claw on to his face.

The beast points back at Smolder who was slowly getting back up. "Flame bucket?"

"Yes, Smolder is my friend also."

The beast was silent for a minute, before he stomps his feet on the ground like a child. "Grrr. Pony and meat buzzard, pony and flame bucket!? I don't understand!" With everything said and done, he grumpily walks over to a pile of junk and started shifting through it.

Sandbar quickly helps Gallus up as Smolder walks up to them. "What just happened?" She asks the two.

"I... I think he listened to Sandbar..."

They turn towards the pony. "Don't look at me, I don't even know what happened."

"So that's it, he just stops trying to eat us?" Smolder said while eyeing the large dragon. "And are we suppose to ignore the fact he threatened to kill all my friends and relatives?"

"Guys, I think he's actually nice." Said Sandbar.

Gallus looks at him with a brow raised. "Easy for you to say, he doesn't want to eat you."

Meanwhile, while the three were talking to each other behind his back, the beast shifted through the pile of junk looking for a particular weapon, just as he hits the bottom of the pile, a familiar voice spoke.

*Krieg.*

He growls loudly, startling the three creatures, Sandbar steps closer while his friends were trying to stop him. "Umm mister dragon, what's wrong?"

The dragon, now named Krieg, snaps his head towards them. "Little man is back in my head!" They first were quiet, the three don't really know how to respond to that.

"And he's crazy!" Smolder holds out a hand towards him.

*krieg, who and what are these things? And where's our dick?* Krieg slams his head against the wall. *Dude, what are you doing?*

After watching him slamming his against the wall so much that it was starting to go red, he stood straight up and menacingly walks over the three. Gallus and Smolder, though they care enough for Sandbar, they chose to put him between them and the dragon.

"Little man wants to know your gravestone." They look at him with confusion. "Names!"

Gallus and Smolder didn't really want to talk with him, but Sandbar was much more trusting. "Oh, I'm Sandbar, its nice to meet you! Guys, come on and introduce yourselves."

"Gallus." He said reluctantly.

"Smolder." The dragon said through her teeth.

Sandbar then motions to Krieg. "Now its your turn!" He said while smiling.

"Krieg. Are you happy little man!?" He shouted to the unkillable voice.

*Very.*

"Oh no," Smolder catches everyone's attention. "Ocellus and the others are still missing!"

*Missing people? They could use our help.*

"No!" Krieg slams a fist into his face. "I won't help them, finding my gut stabber comes first!"

Sandbar turns to his friends. "Wait, this could be good, he can help us fight those yellow things!"

At the mention of fighting, Krieg hops over to Sandbar. "Who do you want dead!?"

Gallus and Smolder looks towards each other, before turning to Krieg who was shaking Sandbar for information.

"This could get messy." Both of them say at the same time.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" A pony mare with a mask addresses the crowd of creatures that were different species. The mare was hairless aside from her blue fur, on both her shoulders were circular saw blades, and around her neck was a necklace of ears.

"We have gathered here today to celebrate, for our god has brought to us-" She motions a hoof towards a cage containing a yak and a hippogriff. "-visitors from the surface!" The crowd cheers at the sight of the newcomers.

"Oh, hi!" Silverstream waves from behind the bars. "Also, why are we in the cage?"

The four creatures had exited the cavern where they have discovered Krieg in, it had proven difficult for the larger dragon to fit through the small door, but they had manage to get him out. And as Sandbar had predicted, Krieg had shown that he alone could take the yellow golems down on his own, and his enjoyment to the destruction he creates had slightly made the two non pony concerned. Right now they were watching him smashing a golem with a jar of lightning against the door that separated them with the rest of their friend, the golem explodes and destroys the door, but Krieg was still standing.

"I'm here to shank and smile!" He said as he jumps through the door way and punches a random golem who was minding it's own business to pieces.

The other three follows him as he runs down the direction that they did not explore, during their walk, Krieg had kept conversing with himself.

"I really have a bad feeling about this guy." The griffon said, glancing behind him a few times for more golems.

"I know right?" The smaller and inferior dragon spoke. "Every time I look at him, I feel threatened for some reason."

"When someone could rip you from limb from limb, why wouldn't you be?" He turns to the pony of the group. "What about you Sandbar, how do you feel about this?"

Sandbar looks ahead to see Krieg trying to open another door, but he was using his head, literally. "I don't know, I just feel safe around him."

"He is the opposite of safe." When Smolder stated the fact, the door Krieg was on just opens revealing the adorable changeling, still carrying the weapon. "Ocellus!"

They all rushed to her side and embraced the changeling in their arms, while this happened, Krieg stared intently at the gun that floated by her.

"Guys!" Ocellus break their wholesome moment. "I need help, Yona and Silverstream have been caught!"

The three gasps out loud. "Those yellow things!?" Gallus questions.

She shook her head. "I didn't know what he means, but Steve said creatures like him had caught them." Then the changeling had remembered something. "Oh no, Steve!"

"Steve?" Smolder asked.

"Steve!?" Came from Krieg.

"Heyoo!" The creatures except for Krieg jumps back from the sudden appearance of a griffon, but for the the ones who has not met Steve, they felt and saw the same thing Ocellus had witnessed when she met the griffon. "Heyoo!"

"Did... did you all see that?" Gallus asks his friends as he rubs his eyes.

"I thought I was catching Krieg's crazy." Smolder said while looking around, still seeing the symbol.

"Steve!" Both Ocellus and Krieg spoke, feeling glad that the griffon is safe.

Steve motions them to follow him. "Follow Steve guys, he knows where Yona and Silverstream are!" Ocellus tells her friends before chasing after the griffon, seeing that there was no other choice, the four quickly tailed the two to save the yak and hippogriff.

"How are you liking the fried eggs?" The masked mare asked. Behind the cage was Silverstream, happily eating said eggs from a wooden plate, Yona was more skeptical to endulge herself to these eggs.

"Oh, these are wonderful!"

"Your words really pleases our community, especially Mary." She points towards a griffon that dressed just like Steve on a nest right next to a stove, Mary waves at the three before clenching her claws as she lays an egg.

At that, Yona felt even more against the plate, as for Silverstream, she waves back at the griffon before turning to Yona. "Are you gonna eat that?"

"Eat up my friends, we need you to be ready for the next event." The masked mare menacingly whispers as her followers were gathering wood fragments behind her.