Rainbow floated down. "Well done, Sandbar. I probably would have never caught that the enemy was invisible."

Sandbar glanced over at her.

Rainbow yawned. "Well, at least that wasn't too bad. Time to go home, I guess."

"Before you do, could you do me a favor?"

Rainbow raised her eyebrow. "What is it?"

"You mentioned a dead bird earlier. Could you check on it?"

Rainbow looked at the bushes. "I mean, it was right-"

She stopped talking when she saw blood trickling from the bushes. The earth lifted up from below the bushes, parting them and showing a bird that had been crushed.

"Was that the bird?"

"What happened to it? It wasn't that flat when I... I..." Rainbow stared at Sandbar through the corner of her eye. "Was that bird the thing that was attacking us?"

"It has to be. There's no reason for it to be so crushed otherwise." The earth lowered back down. "Which means someone brought it back to life to attack us."

"Which means the Stand User is still out there." Rainbow groaned. "Why couldn't this have come up some other time?"

"You'll have plenty of time to complain later. I softened the earth in a five-mile radius around me. Once we find their prints, we can easily find them and take them out."

The pegasus sighed and sent her Stand up. "Give me a second." Rainbow closed her eyes. A few seconds later, she opened them back up. "That way, starting fifteen yards away."

"Well, let's go." Sandbar made it five steps before turning to his partner, who had her hoof to her face. "Hey, Rainbow? I know I'm being a bit rough on you, but you do know I value you as a partner and a friend, right?"

Rainbow looked at her partner's face, then at his bags. "... Yeah. Of course."

The colt nodded. "Then let's get going."

The two of them ran in the direction that Rainbow indicated. It wasn't too long before they found the tracks the enemy left.

"When you saw these prints earlier, did you notice the shape of them?"

"No. I was too high up." Rainbow leaned down towards the prints. "Given the shape, it's probably a dragon."

"Know any dragons in the area?"

"One, and he's a baby. There's no way these are his." Rainbow stood upright and sent her Stand in the direction the tracks were leading. "I don't see them. Maybe their Stand made them invisible?"

"Do you see them making any tracks?"

"... Yeah. They're moving pretty fast."

"It wouldn't be good if we lost them. Let's get going." Sandbar followed the trail with Rainbow by his side. These prints. This dragon is at least as old as she is. Probably older. His eyes went wide. Wait. That bird. The direction we're heading in leads to...

"Think they're heading somewhere in particular?"

"They have to be. Remember how they raised a bird that was dead?"

Rainbow watched Sandbar slow down, coming to a halt herself.

"What if that wasn't the largest creature they could bring back to life?"

Rainbow stared at Sandbar before looking at what he was looking at. The destination the prints were leading them to.

"The Ponyville Cemetary."

Author's Note

Another familiar-sounding Stand. And another where it will make sense later.