The group of seven ponies continued through the Everfree Forest, when suddenly they got to a part of the forest that was dark.

"Hold up everyone, I got this." Moondancer said and casted a spell that created some light. "There we go." She added.

"Moondancer, we could end up fighting Nightmare Moon you know that right?" Rarity asked.

"Of course I know that. But there's nothing to worry about; a basic spell like this won't put that much of a dent on my magic reserves." Moondancer said.

"AAAAAAAAAH!" Fluttershy yelled.

"...What's her proble--" Moondancer said before Applejack turned her head to look behind her. "...Oh. AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Moondancer screamed followed by everyone else. Everyone besides Pinkie Pie that is who was making funny faces at the trees which had scary faces on them. After Twilight asked what Pinkie Pie was doing, this lead into a song that ended with the group in laughter.

MLP Pinkie Pie's Laughter Song (No Watermarks)(w/Lyrics in Description) - YouTube

After that was over, the group came to a raging river.

“Well, Fluttershy could hover over with help from Rainbow Dash, while me and Twilight could teleport over, the two earth Ponies might need to topple a tree to cross.” Moondancer said.

“Not a good idea; unnatural as a place like this might be, we can’t just desolate it Willy nilly.” Twilight said.

“Your unicorn friend has a point they make, and quickly you must calm the river before it becomes a lake.” A female voice said. It belong to a Zebra.

“Who are you?” Moondancer asked.

“I will tell you once you have the time, and you better hurry or the sun will Forever be a mime.” The Zebra said and left.

“What’s that about mimes?” Applejack asked.

“She means the sun will be silent forever.” Twilight said.

“How did you get that?” Moondancer asked.

“She was speaking in rhyme.” Twilight stated.

“Oh right. Always sucked with those at Celestia’s school.” Moondancer said.

The group soon came across a crying serpent.

“Suffice to say, I think we’ve found the cause of our raging river.” Rainbow Dash said.

"I'm hidious...my glorious mustache is ruined!" The serpent said.

"You've got to be joking." Rainbow Dash said.

“Rainbow Dash, bite your tongue.” Rarity said. “Just look at him. His luxurious scales…” She added.

“Oh I know…” The serpant said.

“His carefully combed mane…” Rarity continued.

“Oh I know I know…” The serpant said.

“All ruined without his wondrous mustache!” Rarity said.

“It’s true! I’m hideous!” The serpant said.

“Well I simply will not stand for this!” Rarity said before she suddenly cut her own tail and used it to fix the serpent’s mustache,

“Oh why thank you; thank you so much.” The serpant said.

"Rarity, your tail." Moondancer said.

"It's alright darling; short tails are in this season. Besides, it'll grow back." Rarity said.

"So would the mustache." Rainbow Dash muttered to Moondancer who rolled her eyes.

"Hey look, the river's calmed down now; we can get across." Twilight said before trying to only for the sea serpant to give her a lift.

"Allow me." The Sea Serpent said and gave the group hopping points to get across using his body.

The group managed to locate the Everfree castle, but found the bridge was out.

"Now how are we supposed to get across?" Twilight asked.

"Uh...duh!" Rainbow Dash said, and flew over to rescure the bridge. On the otherside, some sort of figures that looked like dark versions of the Wonderbolts called Shadowbolts tried to convince Rainbow Dash to betray her friends and join them but Rainbow Dash chose her friends over them.

"Woo! Way to go Rainbow Dash!" Moondancer said.

"We're almost to the castle and the elements of Harmony." Twilight said.

"Then what are we waiting for? We're so close to the finish line at this point that we can taste it." Moondancer said.

"Wait really? We can?" Pinkie Pie asked, trying to lick the air around her.

"It's a figure of speech Pinkie Pie." Moondancer said.

"Oh. Well why didn't you just say so?" Pinkie Pie said.

"Guess I got so enthusiastic about the way I like to encourage people that I forgot to mention it was just a figure of speech." Moondancer said.

"Gotta admit Moondancer, your encouragement has been something else." Applejack said.

"Everyone who knows me says that." Moondancer said, smiling. The group began to enter the ruined castle of the two sisters.

Author's Note

Decided to put links to any songs that would be basically copy and past from the show. Also, early Zecora for the win. And a bit on the short side I know, but the entire Nightmare Moon encounter and the element talk would've pushed this chapter to 2,000 words and I always try to keep chapters to a 1500 word limit with very few exceptions.