Rebellion of Caribous Kingdom

Shining Armor is watching Ponyville in the high position. The village is participating in the Summer Sun Celebration. The white unicorn is feeling confident of this raid when no one is aware of this invasion.

A gray stag is coming towards him. Looking at the village, he smiles. "Looks like no one knows that. You are doing a good job, Shining Armor."

"Your welcome, Birgil." Shining Armor points at the spot. "Get our soldiers ready. We will capture this village."

Birgil and his soldiers come to the spot. Shining Armor lights his horn and teleports all of them to the middle of the celebration. The ponies look at them confused. One of them charges at the stallion and tries to slash him but the sword goes through him like nothing. Birgil tries to touch them but he can't.

After a while, the village disappears and leaves the empty Ponyville. A lot of royal guards come out of the hiding spot and surround them. One of them shouts. "Surrender now. We have you surrounded."

Birgil doesn't know what to do now. He tries to teleport with his antler but a figure jumps through him and slashes off his antler. Birgil is surprised and watches the figure. It looks like a mare and she wears it full of black like a ninja. The ninja points the kunai at them. "Charge. And capture them." All of the royal guards rush at them.

Shining Armor is surprised and he wants to flee, but a shadow overlap him as he looks up. A coral mare is going to slashes him from above with the halberd. Shining Armor forms a shield to protect him. The halberd and the shield make contract with each other. The shield is quickly broken due to the slam and Shining is stepping back.

A phoenix is landing behind her. Twilight and Spike jump out of the phoenix and face the captain. Twilight's horn and hoof are glowing and point at the white unicorn. "Release my brother. NOW."

He tries to retort. "What are you talking about, Twilight? I am your brother."

A blast coming from the purple unicorn aims directly at the white unicorn. Shining teleports away but a halberd comes to him. Shining forms a shield to block it but it is broken immediately. When the white unicorn tries to get up, two purple claws hold his horn and hold his neck. Shining Armor is trying to get out but he received a slam from the purple dragon and fainted.

Spike looks at the phoenix. "Sorry for not having a good celebration."

The phoenix nods and flies to him while Spike is tying the captain. The purple unicorn sighs in relief. "It looks like the illusion spell is working well."

Spike points at the phoenix. "Well, shame that we can't celebrate this festival for this phoenix. Sorry, I don't expect that you will come here."

The phoenix lies on the ground next to Spike as Twilight giggles. "Well, it looks like she likes you a lot."

"I know." Spike watches the royal guards capturing the invader one by one. "We're done here."

Coral spins the halberd. "What a shame! I think I can beat him more."

"Hey. Don't take it as a chance to beat him." Twilight glares at Coral Balde. "I hope I can beat you right now."

"Oh right, oh right." Coral smiles and points at the big phoenix. "Anyway, can this honor guest stay here for a day? We can make it for tomorrow."

The phoenix smiles and the little one flies around Coral. Spike smiles. "I hope Crystal Empire doesn't have any problem with a captain like this."

"You and I will go there, Spike. I hope we can go there in time." Twilight is going to prepare the trip but Coral Blade just pulls her mane. Twilight glares at her. "What was that?"

"I don't think you should come alone." Coral Blade points at the phoenix. "This is the fire phoenix. How can she fly through the ice land like the Crystal Empire."

The phoenix shakes its head and feels proud of her. Spike says. "Lotus said that she had no problem."

"Lotus? Did you already give this one a name?" Twilight yells at him but the phoenix gives her a light peak on her head. Twilight grunts. "Fine. We will see if that empire is occupied or not."

"Let's go."

Twilight jumps on the phoenix and flies with Spike to go to Crystal Empire. Coral watches the phoenix fly away. "Oh... I hope Flora is fine in there."

Sunset is flying to the Crystal Empire with a black cat. The blizzard is very strong from here. Sunset feels something not right about this blizzard, one minutes before it blows hard, now it blows easier, and then it blows hard.

Diana shakes her head. "Was your world's weather unstable? No way a blizzard works like this."

"I don't know. Something affect in Crystal Empire." Sunset keeps flying toward. "Where's Amelia? I thought she was here."

"She comes back to Earth(en)." Answers Diana. "My husband missed her a lot so I decided to take this shift."

"Good choice. Just don't try to kill anyone like you did in Argou." Sunset starts to fly fast. "I hate this 'tail' so much."

Diana looks aside and sees a wolf is following them. The black cat admires the wolf when she can run in this unstable weather. The black cat follows the orange dragon to the Crystal Empire.

When Diana arrives there, she sees a hold city that is literally made of crystal, causing her to wonder if they are easy to break or not.

Sunset and Diana are walking to the gate but the guard points the spear at the orange dragon. "What are you doing here, dragon? No dragon is allowed to go inside the empire."

Sunset retorts. "Come on. Just tell Princess Cadance that Sunset is coming to meet you."

"Wait here."

The guard runs inside the gate to find her. Diana looks at the castle and asks. "You feel that, right?"
Sunset nods as Diana looks around. "I don't know who is disturbing this empire?"

"Two auras in one place. I bet that Cadance is struggling hard not to be brainwashed." Sunset shakes her head. "I'm afraid that we have to go sneaking."

Diana nods. "Got it." Then the black cat notices something on Sunset's claw. It's a fire symbol. The cat asks. "Where did you get that symbol?"

"When I come to visit Dragonland with Twilight and Spike. That stupid staff of Lord Torch gives me this thing." Sunset folds her claw. "And Lord Torch doesn't know anything about this."

Diana giggles and sits on Sunset's shoulder. The guard comes out and reports. "You can come inside, but you have to wait for a while. Princess Cadance is busy with something."

"I see. I will go around this empire to wait."

The guards nod and Sunset goes to the Crystal Empire. Walking on the street, the dragon sees the ponies around and it seems like they are on drugs. Diana sees something is not right about this thing and asks. "Are drugs common here?"

"No. It's illegal." Sunset points at the way to Crystal Heart. "You come there to see what happens. It has a blue crystal shape like a heart in the middle of the empire."

"Sadly, I am not very good at clease spell like my sister." Diana huffs. "I don't know if I can do it or not?"

"I will deal with this Cadance."

"Right." Diana puts her paws on Sunset's shoulder. "Good luck."

"See you again."

The duo walks into two different directions. Sunset walks to the castle to visit Cadance while Diana heads to the Crystal Heart.

Diana sees the Crystal heart, but it is half red and half blue. The black cat walks to the Crystal Heart and wants to grab it but an arrow is flying to her. Diana jumps back and sees a familiar graunt, old stag with beady yellow eyes. The crystal ponies soldiers surround the cat and point the musket, spears, and bows to her.

Diana looks at the old stag. "Nice setting. I thought you would go to a room and be scared."

"I am not that weak." Lord Strom sees the black cat land on the ground. "Are you giving up?"

"You really know how to humor me." Diana giggles. "I bet these are only two times to use long teleports."

"You won't beat me this time." Strom throws the fangs of animals in the air. The fangs are flying around the black cat. "I will have you."

"Sorry, only Noleg can have me." Diana smiles and takes the crystal heart. "Would you mind if I take this thing?"

Lord Strom and his soldiers are watching the black cat. His soldiers shoot the musket but the black cat catches the bullets like nothing. Lord Strom is surprised. "Ho... how?"

"You need a sniper rifle to hit me, not a musket"

Diana puts her paw on the ground and a black circle appears. Lord Strom commands his soldiers to get out of the circle but all of his soldiers aim weapons at the lord. Looking at his soldiers, he sees the crystal ponies are trying to not aim the weapon at him but they can't

Lord Strom glares at Diana and his antlers are shining. The fangs are shining and going to do something but his soldiers shoot them down. The old stag takes out a fang to get away but shadow hands appear from his shadow and pins him down, then takes out his neckache that is full of fangs.

Diana walks closer to the immobilized stag. "Shame that you are out of the circle. If not, you are my slave."

"What... what have you done to them." The old stag tries to stand up. "This is not a normal spell."

"Blood spell: control." Diana holds one of the antlers and yanks it off the stag's head, making him scream in pain. "This spell is only for bullying the weak. It's not powerful."

"Not...powerful... How.." The old stags are trying to say as Diana holds another antler. "No... don't do it."

"Don't worry. A deer or a stag can have other antlers quite quickly." Diana yanks it off, makes him scream in pain and breathes heavily. "If your mana is too many, or the control is a crazy one or a hard head. I can't control them." Diana opens his mouth and grabs a tooth. "Tell me. Where did you hide the slaves in the capital city?"

The old stag tries to yell. "Like if I will tell you."

Diana pulls the tooth out of the stag's mouth, makes him scream in pain and breathes heavily. Diana looks at the tooth and sees the rune symbol is on the tooth.

Suddenly, the old stag is teleported away. Diana rubs her head. "Nice move, kid. I never thought you would have another card."

Diana dispels her magic and makes the soldiers faint. The black cat flies to the roof and examines the crystal heart. "Weird, why is this only around 50% of color?"

Doubting about something, Diana decides to use a spell and the crystal heart is spinning. It reveals a red line connecting to the castle and the blue line connecting outside the Crystal Empire. The black cat realizes that the blue line is coming closer. Diana shakes her head. "Weird artifact."

Gate and Silver is planning to do farming on Arkala. The pegasi had dug a hole in the cloud to take in the sunlight. Aria and Sabrina are melting the snow and the soldiers are making the farm.

The old griffin sighs. "I don't know when it will come to the night. The night will be cold from here."

Silver draws a line. "But we have to try. If we succeed, we allow to rescuit many soldiers like this."

"... well let's wait about a week. If we see that the tree can grow, we can do farming."

Silver nods. "Right. I will check the slaves if they ready to return to their home."

Silver heads to the slaves to check their mental. Suddenly, a soldier comes to her and report. "Madam, Dainn is sending his soldiers from the capital city to here. They are led by a stag have a symbol on the chest."

"How many?"

"Around 10.000." The soldier takes. " and they have some beasts follow them, but all of them are in cages."

"Interesting. Prepare to engage. We will fight this battle." Silver waves her left wing. "Calls Aria and Ox for me. We will need some assistance."

"Yes madam."

The soldiers run to the HQ. Silver looks at the sky as Gate asks. "Have to go to the battle?"

"I'm afraid so. Dainn sends a large army here. But I bet that they want information more than to recapture this city."

Gate counters. "I heard that he sent 10000 soldiers and some beast. This is not just collecting information."

"They are." Silver shakes her head. "I have to go. See you soon."

"Don't die in there, okay."

"Don't worry about me."

Silver spreads her wings and flies away. Gate sighs and takes a seat. The old griffin is worried about this eagle.