Solid and Ava followed Pinky Pie for a few city blocks before they got to a club with a large line of other creatures waiting to get in. Whatever was going on in there today must be good because the line almost stretch longer then the building.

“Pinky! Over here!” Called a voice and then pinky grabbed both Solid and Ava and quickly pulled them over to where the rest of her friends where at.

“You found them pretty fast, Pinky. Where they here already?” Asked Twilight.

“Nope! But I had a good idea where they were at!”

Pinky's friends rolled their eyes and Rainbow Dash followed up by saying. “Well, if we are all ready then let’s head in and make this party awesome!”

The group started to head in, with Solid and Ava trailing a bit behind, and entered the club.

Immediately Solid and Ava was assaulted by loud music and a noisy crowd and, as he looked around, he could see a few banners hung up saying ‘Thank you Elements!’.

Then another pony, a earth pony stallion with a gray fur and a golden mane came up to them.

“Look who finally made it! I plan to announce your arrival in just a few minutes so you all enjoy yourselves while I finish up with a few things.” The Stallion said.

“Thank you, Party Jack, we while meet you near the stage then?”

“Yep, see you in a bit.” He turned to walk away but then looked back and said. “And thank you again.” And he was gone into the crowed.

“Why is he thanking you for?” Solid asked the group of friends.

“Oh, he was having a family problem. I probably shouldn’t say more for privacy reasons, but we helped him out and he insisted that he threw a party for us.” Twilight said.

“Ah. Alright.” Solid said shaking his head.

Then Solid saw a plate of food someone was holding and his stomach growled at the sight.

Then he was pulled back by Pinky, who also had Ava in her grasp.

“I’m going to take these two to get something to eat! Sounds like they missed dinner.”

Before anyone could reply to her, she had taken off with Solid and Ava being pulled along as Pinky navigated the crowd of people with such ease and speed that seemed impossible. Then they stopped next to a table filled with food and drinks and as Solid and Ava got there baring, she quickly said. “You too enjoy yourselves I will find you in a jiffy.” And with that she was gone, leaving Ava and Solid trying to figure out if they were seeing a ghost or not.

After a few minutes they both had a plate of food to eat and a slightly less chaotic place to eat the music started to quite down and the voice of Party Jack could be heard over the noise of the crowd.

“I thank you all for coming tonight to show your support for the Elements of Harmony!” The crowd gave a cheer as the elements walked walk up on the stage.

“The Elements have done more for us then most of us will ever know but tonight I feel that it is the time that we all thank the elements for what they have done for each of us and we can grow closer together in Friendship!”

The crowd erupted in thank yous and cheers as Party Jack turned and looked at the DJ and spoke. “Now let’s get this party started DJ!”

The DJ nodded and looked down to their equipment and taped something and everything started.

As a song started to ramp up lights started to flash and fog from hidden devises started up. Solid watch the fog moved between the legs of the pones around him and he could feel his heart start to beat harder as it approached him and looking over at Ava showed that she was feeling unconfutable as well.

POP!

Solid turned and could see a cupple of lights in the back of the room near the door had blown up and small flames where burning out of the lights and onto the banner next to them, catching fire quickly.

CHRASH!!

Solid looked where the sound came from and saw one of the fog making devises had fallen from a spot on in the roof and started to spew out smoke with the fog obscuring what was going on to the crowd.

Ponies started to scream and panic as more devices failed around the club Solid and Ava tried to stay near each other as the crowd start to panic but got separated from each other. Solid started to try and get back to Ava but then something hit him in the head and knocked him to the ground.

Solid got back up, holding his head with his hoof and pulled off his helmet seeing that it had a large dent from where something that had been shot forward with the explosion. Then he felt his head with his hoof and pulled back to see there was blood on it. Then his hearing started to return, and he could hear the screams of the others around him took cover from the shells that where falling from the sky. Then he could hear the dreaded call.

“GAS! GAS! GAS!” Someone called and Solid turned to see several clouds of yellowish green shimmering smoke filled the air from where some of the shells where landing. He reached for his mask and pulled it up to find that one of the glass eyes had shattered rendering it useless.

Solid looked farther into the trench and saw a box of the masks a little farther way then he would like and sprinted up to them but found it empty. Then he looked up to see the gas sweeping towards him, shimmering with nullstone dust to keep the gas from being blown away and to not allow any clean air spells to work.

Out of the fear of death and desertion Solid tied to blow to fog way with his magic and to his surprise it moved way.

Solid looked around him has the scene around him quickly morphed from the trenches back to the club. Taking a second to recover from his confusion he quickly cast another spell causing the fog and smoke to dissipate and to reveal what was going on.

A fire was burning intensely near the front door and others had started around the club a few ponies were trapped behind the flames as the most the rest pushed each other out a fire escape.

Solid rushed over to one of the ponies that here trapped and cast a spell to blow the fire around the pony out. When they went out the pony ran for an exit yelling thank you over her shoulder. Then there was a scream as a support beam fell on another pony and Solid rushed over.

When he got there, he blew out a bit of the fire with a spell and spell came up to the Pony and when he got up to them he felt like he had seen her before but couldn’t quite place where.

She was a thestral and a dark gray fur and a dark blue mane and as Solid came up looked at him with a pair of pain filled amber colored eyes.

“Ma’am, are you okay?” Solid asked her as he started to look over her.

“No… I think my leg is broken.” She answered in a pained voice.

The beam had fallen on her back legs and had one crushed under it while the other was a bit freer to move. Solid looked behind him to see that the fire was growing much quicker than he had hoped with a large protean of the building burning now. Then he turned back to the thestral.

“what’s your name?” he asked as he made sure that she had no other injuries to prevent her from moving.

“Luner Star.” She answered.

“Alright Luner, I’m going to levitate this beam off your leg. Do you think you can crawl out?”

“I-I think so.”

“Good, when I say now move.”

“Okay.”

“Ready? NOW!”

Solid moved and cast his spell on the beam and lifted it up off Luner and she, as quickly as she could, moved out from it. As soon as she had cleared the beam Solid let it fall again and quickly went to Luner’s side to help her get out of the building.

But before he could the roof started to grown and mown as both the ponies looked up in horror as the roof started to fall on top of them.

Solid quickly put up a shield around both Luner and himself as derby fell on them and the fire around them grew hotter.

Ava watched in horror as the fire in the club grew. She had been scanning the crowd from above looking for Solid after she had been separated from him but after she looked over the crowed for the fifth time with no luck, she had landed on one of the roofs to see if she could spot him coming out of the building, but she was starting to loss hope.

Then she started to laugh.

The irony of all this, after all they had been through, three YEARS of hell, and he dies in a fire. They had survived bombs, poison gas, and artillery barrages but this is how he dies. It wasn’t fair or right.

But little was life.

Then she heard a couple of pairs of hoofs landed behind her as she sat there looking out at the building, but she didn’t look back.

“You’re the unicorn’s friend, right?” Twilight asked from behind Ava. “I’m sorry but I don’t think I ever got your names.”

“Yes.” Ava answered not looking back. “My name is Ava and my friend is Solid Shield.”

“Do you know where he is?”

Ava stared and the building as apart of the roof collapsed along with her hopes then replied with her head starting to drop. “no.”

Then Ava felt a wing come around her and she looked to see Fluttershy had walked up next to her was embracing her with her wing. The Ava felt a presence on her other side and looked to see Twilight sitting next to her.

Ava could feel tears starting to come to her eyes as Firefighters started to arrive and getting their gear ready to head in to put the fire out and to find anyone else inside.

Then Rainbow Dash flew in front of them and said. “I haven’t seen the unicorn any where in the crowd but it might be easier if I had a name for him.”

“Solid Shield.” Twilight answer for Ava and Rainbow was took off again, leaving what looked like a trail of a rainbow behind. Ava watch as Firefighter unicorns cast spells to help support the building from collapsing and pegasi started to drop fire retardants around and on the building as more Firefighters ran in to try and find anyone else and save the building.

“I’m sure Solid is fine Ava.” Fluttershy said in a quiet voice.

Ava lend into her, taking comfort in the yellow pegasus embrace letting tears fall. It was long over do for them anyways.

“HAY! I have two over here!”

Ava looked up as a large earth pony emerged from the burning Club with two bodies over his back, both covered in burns, soot, and ash but she could see that one was a thestral and the other was a unicorn with the same cyan color fur as Solid.

Ava jumped off the roof, spread her wings and landed only a few feet away from the firefighter as a few others with ran up with medical gear. She ran up to him as the firefighter set him and the thestral down and stopped a few feet away, fearing what she might find next.

But before she could get the courage to step up to see, the other firefighters and paramedics ran up and started to cast spells on both injured ponies seeing if they where alive and what injuries they had.

Then the thestral started to move and tried to get up but when see moved her back leg she let out a yelp and went back down as one of the paramedics pulled out a small needle and said. “don’t worry miss, you will be alright. I’m going to give you this for the pain, is that okay?”

The thestral nodded and the paramedic put the needle in her flank. Then the thestral asked. “where’s the unicorn that saved me? Is he ok?”

Ava then walked up to the cyan unicorn. It was Solid Shield! His face had a large gash over his left eye with blood trickling down and his fur was burned and singed but here he was, in front of her. But was he-

Before she could finish the thought Solid started to hack and cough as his eyes open and he looked up at Ava, a small smile touching his lips.

“You miss me, Ava?” he said in a weak and tired voice.

Ava lifted him up and embraced him, drawing a couple of gasps of pain from Solid as she held him tightly as she cried into Solid.

“Don’t ever, EVER, scare me like that again. I thought I lost you.”

“Can’t get rid of me that easily.” And he gave her a hug as well.

Then Ava felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see the paramedic.

“Ma’am, I need to look him over, so I need you to move over there.” And the paramedic pointed over to the side. “You can come back after I am done with him.”

Ava was about to protest but Solid spoke up before her, seeing what she was about to say.

“Don’t worry Ava, I will be fine, and you will be able to see what’s going on.”

Ava looked at him for a second but got up and walk to the side and the paramedic started casting spells over him.

“Move! Let me Pass! Let me Pass!” someone yelled with a slight screech at the end.

Ava turned to look behind her as a voice that she has known for the last few years behind her, but it couldn’t be him, could it?

She could hear the clanking of armor and a griffin with brown and red feathers and light brown, almost yellow, fur emerged from the crowd pushing, wearing full body armor with a familiar emblem engraved into the chest plate and the forehead of his helmet that was hanging off the side of his barrel, a shield that was designed to be shaped like a horse shoe with a unicorn’s horn in the middle of the shield, a pegisas’ wing on left and a thestral’s wing on the other, all being held up by a griffin’s talon, made his way out looking around wildly and called out. “Luner! Luner Star! Where are you?”

Then his eyes fell on where the paramedics where working as the thestral raised her head to look over at the griffin and he took off to her.

“Luner! Thank the moon and sun, what happened?” He asked as he started to look her over but stopped when he saw her leg being held by one of the paramedics as another was getting a cast ready.

“Dad, I will be fine. They are going to take me to the hospital to have the docs look it over.” This seemed to calm the griffin down a bit. Then Luner pointed over to Solid. “He saved my life though.”

The griffin immediately turned to look at Solid as the paramedic that was looking over him stepped back and waved Ava over.

The Griffin came over to Solid and as soon as Solid saw him he gave a confused look.

“My daughter says you saved her life, is that true?”

“Uh, yes. I saved a thestral named Luner.”

“Then you may consider me in your debt, sir.” And he bowed his head. “My name is-

“Grater.” Ava finish his sentence.

Author's Note

Well that was a bit faster then I thought I was going to get it out. well hope you enjoyed it and what comes after!