"Well, it's a long story but if you want to hear it, then..." I end up spending the next half hour retelling how I got here.

Once I finished, Galaxy growls under her breath "Celestia, grr, I just can't stand her."

Not thinking much about what she had said, I remember "Oh! yeah! Do you guys have any idea as to how long you were encased in stone?"

"No" responds Kindle.

"for all we know we could have been an hour, a day, a year, or even more than a millennium." Galaxy says finishing what it seemed Kindle started.

after some time sitting in awkward silence, Galaxy quietly brings up, "So the Cosmic Orb, hmm well I think there was something about it being

'In the farthest reaches
day and night
one hath teaches
at great hights
Sun and moon
Star and Sky
you might find
what you vie'

at least that is what the book I read said."

"Interesting," I comment " Let's try heading north till we reach the border and think about what next once we get there."

"If we want to get the most out of our travel time, we should rest up tonight, then leave tomorrow morning." says Kindle, already laying down ready to sleep.

"Fine." I reply in agreement before shifting my weight around to try and not put pressure on my back leg as I lay down.

It hadn't been too long since morning, because though morning already came and past, we have only been walking for a small bit of time when we enter a strange forest. As we keep walking deeper and deeper into the forest, a strange fog gets thicker and thicker. At first I don't think anything about it, but once I feel pressure on my horn, I start worrying. So I try a simple light spell, but I find that it took more magical power than it should have.

We have been walking for so darn long! it felt like forever I think to myself just as I hear a low

"grrr"

"What was that?" I ask Galaxy.

"Um... I- I don't know." she quietly replied.

"ghrrr" I hear from behind me. I hear what sounds like a branch snapping as I whirl around to see, standing before me a wolf like creature.

"TIMBERWOLF!!" I shout to the others to warn them. I run up to the wolf yelling "Kindle! Keep it focused on you so me and Galaxy can get it from behind!"

"Got it!" Kindle shouts back moments before she goes zooming off towards the Timberwolf. "Hey! Dummy! look over here!" I hear Kindle yell, taunting the wolf. Hearing this the wolf turns around to face the pony daring to taunt it snarling. Meanwhile, I am charging up a mid-range magical fire spell, while Galaxy was concentrating on more precise magical energy beams.

Mine hits first.

"yip!" the Timberwolf squeaks as Galaxy's beam hits it. Now looking at us I try and fire off my fire spell, just before it reached the wolf, it jumps just almost to safety, barley getting singed. Though now, its on fire and is freaking out trying to put it out as it has seemed to just forget that we were there. I recognized this as a chance to defeat it. This time I put all my focus and effort into a concentrated blast of fire, straight to the bests head. BAM! the beam hits it, cleanly slicing of the monsters head as the body falls limply to the ground.

"Finally!" I say to the others.

"That was to tiring. let's find somewhere to rest." Kindle shouts flying off.

"Well, we're waiting here I guess." I tell Galaxy

"So I found a place just outside of a cave nearby is a run-down but not falling apart." Kindle says as she appears in front of us.

"Lead the way." I say tiredly.

"Here it is." announces Kindle.

"uhhhmmmm..." both me and Galaxy say at the same time.

"I guess it might do. I'm too tired to think properly let's get inside and sleep." I sleepily say, walking inside I fall over asleep. "Good night, Kindle, Galaxy".

I wake up early the next day. Yawning and blinking my eyes open. I get up to explore our surroundings. Walking out of the house I go into the cave. Inside I see more buildings, but these ones are mostly made of wood and are rotting away. I go into one of the houses. The inside looks messy, like someone was in a hurry to leave. I leave the building seeing as there was nothing worthwhile inside and walk out to see hundreds of ponies. All in stone. I gasp as I realize that it is just like Kindle and Galaxy were. I run to get them.

"What!? It's too early" mumbles Kindle slowly standing while I wake up Galaxy.

"AH!" shouts Galaxy in surprise. "Oh it's you, sorry."

"Come on I found something you might want to see." I urgently tell them.

"What could possibly be so important that you had to wake us up this early." questions Kindle.

"Just come and you'll see." I say, trotting away, "Come on."

"Well here we are." I announce proudly showing off the many wooden houses I had found in the cave.

"So...? It's just a bunch of old houses." says Kindle un-excitedly.

"It's much more than that." I excitedly say. "Come on. Keep coming".

"This is what I wanted to show you." I dramatically tell them, while presenting the crowds of stone ponies with my hoof. The two of them just stood there, jaw hanging loosely, gaping at all the ponies seemingly trapped inside of stone. "It's just like you were!" I exclaim excitedly.

Author's Note

Dear readers,

Nice to see you again, criticism, feedback, and opinions are always welcome. I also want to bring up that I had been hoping to get this chapter out only a week after the last one but seeing as I have a lot of homework and I'm a slow worker. A second thing is that I am currently working on a new picture for the cover art. I hope you will like the drawing. Hope you like!
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