The journey of a walker

Something was happening, his body felt too heavy, he could barely feel that they could move, and he could not open his eyes, where had he gotten into now? With great difficulty he managed to open his eyes only to see that at every corner he looked despite the difficulty of moving his head there was nothing, no matter how hard he tried to find some point of reference, his instincts screamed at him that something was not right here, there were no noises or figures that could allow him to discern where he was, and it doesn't help in the least that he can't move from place to place despite his efforts. Something happens, suddenly all that weight on him disappears, he gets up quickly and runs his hand behind his back and takes his service rifle, prepares himself and points in whatever direction this place stands for, waiting for any kind of threat to hover over him as he advances in slow watchful steps.

Nothing was happening, he could only hear the sound of its escarpments sounding in this infinite void, little by little the doubt of whether there was any danger begins to disappear, he still did not trust this place, but nothing is presented, perhaps it was just an empty space around him and it seemed that it was going to be that case, he could not see any movement, not even visual. Not even by his radars could he find nearby movement, he did not hear the slightest sound outside of his own footsteps, there is simply nothing here, he stops and lowers his gun no matter how much he wanted something to show and a part of himself begged him not to, but he refused that part. One option he has is to activate his night vision and thermal systems, perhaps with them he could see what is around him and figure where he is and access the terminals of the system of his armor, but when he sees the configuration texts they are distorted and he sees the clock system of his armor that he has the same thing happens to him.

This already gives him an idea of what he is and for a last check he sees his hands and they are indeed distorted, he is in the world of dreams, but... Because he is in a black space with nothing else? The closest thing he has had to something similar was to see the outer vacuum of space, mostly of those times it happened from inside a ship, on few occasions it floated in the void, but it was not usual when it happened, that and only in specific conditions. But here, here there are simply no indications of being inside the ships of his dreams and the ground under his feet is solid, which automatically rules out being floating through the vacuum of space, but being in an infinite black space without any kind of reference that he had never experienced before, only the closest he come to experimenting with something similar was about those strange surreal worlds that he experience not long ago.

He takes a long breath and has just gotten into a strange situation that he didn't know very well what to do and he just wishes he could at least have more control over the situation, but that it can be done, there is always the possibility that a unique event could occur since there is always a first time for everything. But things can get weird and he begins to notice that the whole landscape of darkness is beginning to disappear around him, it leaves him confused by the sudden disappearance of the darkness, until it is not a simple change of color, it is... a light? and he sees that it is coming from behind him, he turns to look and sees the gigantic light in the distance, all the darkness that was around him disappeared completely, only his black armor reflecting in an infinite white space.

Concentrating his view a little where the light is coming from, he notices one of sorts of structure, things are just getting weirder and weirder for him and now what was that structure in the distance? Just having questions and no answers...Again, but at least one positive thing that came out of this weirdness is that he no longer to feel that oppressive darkness that was all around him and at least this white space gave him a better sense of tranquility as well as visibility.

He know what might be the best course of action that he should take in this situation, the first thing was to look for a way out of here, but it looks like that task is going to have to be relegated, there was no way out from what he's seen in this whole place and it seemed like something didn't allow him to imagine any kind of way out of this environment, only leaving him the second and only option which is to go to that structure and see what it could be, but it is possible that it could become a trap or he would end up encountering something and he would not know if it could be a pleasant thing or something unpleasant. He really had no choice, all this has put him to the point that the only way to find a solution is to have to go to that mysterious structure and throw everything to chance, he gets up from his place and takes a long breath.

"Let's see what surprise this cursed land is going to bring me." With a new renewed step, he begins to head for his new and unknown destination.

Perhaps either due to the effect of the dream world itself or simply an optical illusion due to the lack of references around it, the strange structure was much closer than it appeared, but thanks to this he began to discern what the structure is, it is not very large and has the shape of an obelisk, but he couldn't identify if there was any exit beyond the obelisk or perhaps the exit is the obelisk itself, one never knows. As he gets closer he begins to feel a horrible tingling that ends up transforming into a horrible chill that runs down his spine and without thinking twice he points his rifle behind him, there is nothing there, he sees no trace that someone else was here, but why did he feel that someone was watching him? This place is just making him more paranoid than he should be, and he turns to look at the obelisk and with a quick step goes into overdrive, he did not want to stay longer than he needed.

As he approached very quickly he noticed that there was something floating above the tip of the obelisk, as he approached he began to slow down his steps and took one last look back, for now it did not seem that there was anyone following him or watching him, he refocused on the obelisk he saw that the thing floating above was a small sphere, and he is not sure if it is a good idea to take the object given what could happen, in the end he makes the decision to take it and leave his doubts behind, when he touches it disappears without leaving any trace.

He cursed himself for making such a reckless and stupid decision to make him possibly get caught in such an obvious trap, but those thoughts die very quickly when he sees the obelisk disappear, a new figure begins to form, it's a different thing and it's like a door with a certain peculiar shape, his curiosity makes him want to approach the door and open it but he just ends up stopping possibly that thing was going to disappear again if he did, but without even having knocked on the door it disappears before his eyes and with a simple blink everything around him begins to disappear.

The first thing he notices is that he is in some exterior courtyard and not inside the old castle in ruins and when he looks around he notices that the towers are different, in some way they were becoming familiar to him and when he reviews them more carefully and in detail they realize that somehow he is in the castle that is on the mountain, and apparently in some inner courtyard of the enclosure, how was it possible that he had an idea of the interior of the castle if he had never been there? He only had reference to the exterior façade that he could at least see from a distance, he pinches the bridge of his snout in this situation, this does not help at all in the current situation in which he has once again just gotten into, only making them get weirder and weirder.

"Damn, now where did I get into?" He said to himself, being for the first time in his life, that he wishes that at least his dreams would take him somewhere he knew.

He sighs tiredly and takes a look at the night sky at least he could tell that the lights of the stars like the moon of this world are still beautiful, notice that they suddenly started to get brighter, he gives a better look and realizes that the extra brightness was not coming from the firmly star, it comes from the moon, there were somehow stars on the surface of the moon. The second thing he notices is that among all of them there is one that shines much brighter than the rest, as if it were a miniature sun, but the curious thing is that despite its brightness it did not overshadow all the others at all and apparently all those small stars have a particular brightness that differentiates them from each other. It is having distinctive colors; others seemed to do so with patterns that differed from the others.

He also sees that there are 10 of them that are distinguished and very much from all the others, 6 of them although they do not have at all close to the brightness of the largest has a more intense brightness and also that these curiously form the color pattern of the rainbow, the other comes from an interesting emerald green color, the other one was definitely the strangest of all, instead of having a certain color it is very chaotic oscillating between many colors sometimes it shone brighter and sometimes less and it had no identifiable pattern it just didn't make any sense, the other stood out for having an intense pink color and the next one would appear with a purple and blue that made it be united with the pink one.

From the corner of his right eye he sees that something was moving on one of the balconies of one of the towers, he hides behind one of the structures to avoid being seen by whatever created that movement there, with some care not to reveal his position he takes a small look towards the balcony where he saw movement, At the top he sees that there is someone up there, he moves with a little of the corner carefully and also among the shadows to allow him to see better what is on the balcony. He is dumbfounded by what he is looking at, it is the same being of that tapestry that represented the moon and the night, they did nothing of justice to such great beauty and magnificence that shows, with a mane of ethereal shape with a moderate color sapphire blue with a grayish Persian blue outline where small white dots stand out that were as if observing the stars at night, and it is accompanied by a dark blue coat with curious marks on her skinny ones that are like black spots and in the center of these that have a shape of the moon in a state of waxing gibbous, after that he stop looking so that it does not notice her presence.

Under the lights of the dreams of her subjects is one of the two rulers of Equestria the Princess Luna, with vigilance and care of the dreams of his subjects in the veil of the dream world, her beloved moon reflects on its surface small spheres of light that show the dreams of all ponies, they all have different radiances as their colors in their being, the brightest of them all is that of her sister Celestia, being the element of the sun itself it is like witnessing it in the same day, the 6 elements of harmony also shine more intense than any other and being represented with the colors of the elements of friendship. Among them there are also some very special ones, one of them has a unique brightness and unlike the others that are orderly, this one is changing and chaotic at all times, these are the dreams of the lord of chaos Discord a place that would not dare to get into more than only the most critical of situations, other of them are that of his young niece Princess Cadance with his beloved Shining Armor.

Observing these lights some of those are extinguished fading into the veil of darkness, she understood very well the meaning, the dream world still reflects even the real world that is beyond the veil and as it happens in reality itself that brightness disappears when everything is over, it is melancholic to see those bright lights and that only in a simple blink they disappear, but it is part of nature itself that something like this happens. She breathes a sigh of sadness for those close to him who sadly witnessed their departures never to return, she could only give his prayers hoping that they have left without having any pending, but as there are also lights that disappear, new ones come representing a new beginning for the young souls who give their first greeting to the dream world, at least it gives her a motherly smile for those who have arrived.

Notice that some of the lights change to erratic patterns accompanied by a darker color, that is the representation of nightmares that the more erratic and darker they become, the worse the nightmares are, sometimes their type are from simple mundane things about small worries that became big just needing to relieve them and let go of unnecessary worries, others represented fear in the face of a wide variety of things, with them their best way of alleviating them is to make them face those fears little by little until it disappears. But there are those nightmares born of trauma, guilt and madness itself, they are those where the fiercest battles are fought, their damage can be very deep, many times it requires a lot of care as well as help from others to cure those mental ailments, she observes that one of the small lights is transforming into nightmares and she gets close enough to walk on its surface and he is a new nightmare is raging.

Without Princess Luna noticing he was watching her as well as the small lights on the surface of the Moon, he avoided much that she would discover him beyond just taking a look or two to retreat back to his coverage at the right time, that moment arose when he looked at the moon to get close enough for that magnificent one to begin to walk on its surface and disappear completely in a of those spheres that seemed to have a different pattern than the others. He leaves his cover, and a question comes to mind, if that being is the replanting of the night, the stars, the moon, and the dream world, how has he not detected it? Perhaps given his origin he may not have form of connection with this world, but there would still be the problem about that strange dream he had.

Leaving aside his questions, he takes a look at the surface of the moon and seeing the small lights makes him have a small smile under his helmet, he wishes at least to be able to go there and see with curiosity what is stored there, as if a mysterious presence that is here grants him the wish materializing some stairs that allowed him to go to the moon, under his helmet he gives a smile while tilting his head from side to side for the simplicity of his desire. He approaches these stairs and despite being translucent they are solid that will allow him to travel to the surface of the moon, thus begins his small ascent to the moon, being so close he extends his hand to touch the surface and by touch he makes it gradually descend to its surface until it touches its ground, above it is the castle.

He looks again and seeing the large number of lights that are present were large and more magnificent than they could be from ground level, but compared to his own size they are small before his own figure, he approaches one of them and they see that from inside the vision of the interior of a house is reflected that reflects a kind of joy, as well as imaginative elements such as toys and other decorations, this is the dream of a fairly young one that represents happiness in his home. He gives a small smile at the sweet dreams, he approaches another light for his mere curiosity to see what else there is, but before he can see inside the light disappears without even having touched it, for a moment he was doubtful of what it meant and he observed not far away another that seemed that his light disappeared but the sphere remained, then comes the understanding in the face of such an event, they are those who simply leave never to return, at least it is a gift that they have received by being able to leave quietly something that their loved ones will never be able to have.

It's enough time to stay here, he has to leave here as soon as possible from this dream world before he is discovered, once again that tingling returned and that feeling of being, again he points his gun in the direction where he felt that he was being watched, again there was nothing there, why does that damn feeling that something is watching him not go away? And he ends up putting his hand on his helmet just wishing this would end, taking his hand off his face he puts his weapon behind his back again. He prepares to return to the castle and sees that the scales he wanted once again manifested themselves, but behind them he sees that for a single moment he sees that one of those dreams that unlike the rest were with more erratic and darker patterns returned to normal like the rest once again.

He sees that a kind of portal opens through that dream he knew he had to hide, and he gets into one without seeing where it would take him, he falls face down on the floor of the dream luckily without causing him any harm, he looks around and he is... In a very luxurious garden with large bushes covering both sides of the garden, it did not seem to be from the castle and the building in front of it is a large and very luxurious one, he realizes that this is one of those mansions of the rich that he saw in that small town. He was not going to deny that he had a hint of curiosity to explore the place a little, but he had to stay out of the dream and especially since he is already very close to at least the user of it, he decides to look to the sky in search of the portal that allowed him to enter this world of dreams, but he can't find it anywhere.

Well it's time to have to find another way out and he's going to one of the bushes as he makes his way through these there's no way past this point, there was just kind of a void under his feet he's not going to try to throw himself into that void, well it seemed like for now he has to stay in this place until he wakes up or the dreamer does, Looking at things for now, it was better to stay in the position where he sits on the grass than wait for something to happen. Like a curse, the yard begins to disappear under his feet, he rises quickly from his place and begins to run at full speed, but the ground ends under his feet and he has to jump over the fragments that have not yet disappeared until he manages to grab hold of the base of the house, stand on the base of the house and take a look into space, Well, he has no other choice: he looks at the door of the mansion and enters silently while bending down a little by the size of the entrance door.

Look around making sure that whoever the dreamer is not near where he is and with the quietest steps he can take, look for a place to stay temporarily among the different rooms as well as having a window in case of emergency of having to leave or that he allows him to connect with another part of the place in case he has no other route, It didn't seem that there was a good place to hide downstairs only having to go to the next floor, a part of his mind told him that this could be a bad idea to do it, he was going to listen to him if it weren't for the fact that once again he sees that again the floor under his feet began to disappear, he saves himself by going to stairs and jumps to the upper floor, falls with a soft sound, looks from one side to the other in the corridors and sees that there is someone else there, he quickly gets into the first door to avoid being seen, when he opens it there are only two things he notices, the first is a room, the second and for his greatest bad luck the room is not empty.

Princess Luna is satisfied to have helped with the nightmare, but she still has to keep an eye on the other dreams, she sees that one of them changes very suddenly from a normal dream to a nightmare, she prepares to go inside the dream, she stops when she sees who she was dreaming of has awakened and the sphere of light goes out, this is worrying for Luna, the nightmare was brief but very intense causing its user to end up waking up from sleep.

She approaches the sphere she uses and with a spell allows her to see what was the last thing she saw before she ended up waking up from the nightmare, it was a little difficult for Luna to identify the place given how ostentatious the room looks but thanks to some family paintings they apparently belong to the Rich family, she has not met them personally but she knew about them since they are the main distributors that provide them with Zap apples, and apparently this dream belongs to her daughter, for now there is nothing to indicate that it has happened. Despite normality, many times nightmares can end up being sudden without even warning, she kept going and everything seems normal until it reaches just the moment when the nightmare occurred or rather what caused it, she sees that huge creature, black as the nights without any light that violently entered the room, she paused the moment of his entrance to analyze in more detail what happened as well as the mysterious creature.

The first thing that Princess Luna notices is that this being despite its darkness there are things that can be discerned, the first is that this being is a biped given the way it is standing, the second came with the visible parts that allow you to see that it is wearing armor given in part to the bear arms as its helmet, Regarding his appearance, she couldn't deny that it's quite intimidating and that if something like this appeared abruptly it would scare anyone. She continues with the dream she hears the cry of terror of the filly the being seemed to throw herself against her to catch him as little by little the dream disappeared and she notices a very strange thing, the being somehow his reactions find her out of place acting more as if of surprise or so it seemed from the little she can say about her gestures, and by the position of his head he is not looking at the foal but at something else, unfortunately the dream ended there with no more clues that could tell him about that creature.

Luna sits on her rump thinks for a moment what this type of nightmare could have been, the most logical thing is that it is some kind of horror story that she was told and by scaring her she would create that type of being, something common in younger minds thanks to her great imagination, but it did not coincide because of the problem that it was very suddenly without even a previous warning of what would happen, in addition this detail is Where would he have gotten such a concept about said creature? Perhaps it has come from the type of literature that has given the constant change that has arisen in the last thousand years, with its magic it makes an image of the being for later, notice that the sphere shone again and had those erratic patterns again as it also darkened, for the good luck of the filly Luna is right next to her and enters the interior of the dream.

Somewhere in the dream world he is somewhere away from everything else while floating in a distant void, but still close since he can still see the moon in the distance, he gives a quick review of what happened apart from being discovered by the youngling, he tried to jump out of the window in a desperate attempt to flee before everything disappeared and ended up floating in some unknown point alone having the celestial body as a reference. He did not know if the creator of this dream world had managed to discover his presence or not, but something told him that it was very possible that it did, for now the only thing he has to do is simply return back to the moon and return again to the castle, luckily his armor has some thrusters implemented under his boots in case of being in a vacuum condition he activates them and redirects himself there.

Luna finished helping Diamond Tiara with the problem of her nightmare in addition to her telling him her name as a thanks, summing things up a little the strange being that she saw this time in the nightmare despite the similarity did not match what she had seen but it was not something unheard of being that it was a very sudden event, she had no more clues, but in the end maybe she is just giving too much thought to a simple nightmare and besides, the night is about to end and using her magic she begins to make the dream world disappear, letting her return to reality without knowing that she would also do it with someone else.

He woke up and his gaze met the destroyed roof of the castle that through the hole he saw the beginning of the morning, he had just had a very surreal experience compared to the previous time he entered that abstract world, at least his advantage was that it was just a dream not like that abstract world, but now she has a current situation and that is that apparently he has just met one or rather one of the rulers of this ancient castle, at least he is getting lost in something or his very miscalculate the time of existence she should not be alive. There is a possibility that it is an eternal one or that it has a very long life span, completely leaving aside the possible encounter with one of the rulers of the old castle, two questions come to mind: First, what was that strange vision he had and how did he end up in that strange dream world?

What was it all that vision or dream? In his long life he never saw anything like it, but regardless of the meaning it deals with the only clue he has is the strange door and that was all he has and he has no other references apart from the strange sphere, besides that horrible feeling that something was watching him twice, then to end up in that dream world and be discovered in the dreams of one who is quite young Because of his recklessness, perhaps he could find some information but there is the problem with the translation, as he had already analyzed previously for now he did not have too many solutions for everything that involves and seeing how he can solve them will be a little independent of whether the inhabitants of this world are friendly or not.

He gives a long sigh for the things he is going to have to do and the tasks he has pending, with a little laziness he sits on his bed improvises stretches a little and cracks the part of his shoulders and back, the latter gives him pain in the center and massages himself a little there, he has already had that area very tense for quite some time and has not had much opportunity to relax and rest, he looks at the pieces of his armor with a greater emphasis on the plate on his back he gives a long sigh is the one he despises the most but the most vital.

He gets up from his place and goes to where he put the pieces of his armor and the first one he takes is the plate of his back, that is the most difficult part of all but the one that will always have to be put on first, he grabs it from its handles and begins to maneuver it little by little aligning it where it should be placed, When he is sure that it is correctly aligned he puts it in its place making him grimace in pain and shortly after a whistle sounds indicating that the armor has been successfully sealed, he exhales because of the horrible sensation he felt but little by little the pain disappeared from his system as well as relieving him in a general way, the hard part is already done as he breathes a last breath of relief.

He turns to look at the other pieces of his armor and puts them on in no apparent order since it is not necessary except for his helmet which is the last one he wears, once ready the first thing to do is to look at what will be the first of his tasks that he is going to do, the first thing to do is to establish a camp in time and form and he made a list of all the materials that he was going to need, seeing his tactical vest he takes out the things he would not need for his next expedition, among the things he will not need are the cartridges of his weapons next to a small sphere and he puts them together with his rifle. He was not going to take it since the bullets are quite valuable and difficult to manufacture due to the type of materials they use, before leaving that forest with its strange creatures check if it has everything necessary that they are, its hand axe and war hammer, several ropes but he could use the vines as a spare, a shovel, a hand pickaxe, along with food and water, with everything prepared he goes to the hole where he first entered the castle from there he goes to accumulate the necessary resources in the forest.

In Canterlot Luna goes to her balcony and lowers her beloved moon allowing the night to give way to the day and the sun of her sister, she gives a yawn of tiredness at least it was not a particularly difficult night as other times she has come to have, but it is not by far a boring work there were always interesting things to see in the dreams of her subjects, only as long as she does not end up getting into that type of dreams that when she remembers them his fur turns a slight purple, discard those thoughts so that they are also interrupted by someone who knocks on the door of his room.

"Come in. "The door to his chamber is opened, by his personal butler, Night servant.

"Her majesty, Princess Celestia, is waiting for you in the royal dining room," she said in an elegant and simple tone.

"Thank you, we'll be there shortly." The butler bows and closes the door, leaving Luna alone.

She leaves her room and goes straight to the dining room, on her way out she flanked by two of her royal guards who escort her to the royal dining room. Take a look at her two guards, in a way Luna understood the reason for their existence as a force to protect assist and help the ponies as providing protection to royalty, out of the need to protect everyone else, but Luna and Celestia are more than capable of protecting themselves from any threat, especially during the invasion of Chrysalis and their Changelings.

She arrives at the entrance of the royal dining room and the guards stay at the entrance next to Celestia's lairs, there Celestia is waiting and when she sees Luna, she gives her a maternal smile.

"Good morning, Lulu".

Luna returns the smile.

"Good morning to you too, Tia."

With a brief inspection by Celestia she sees that Luna looks much better than other times.

"It is seen that our dear ponies haven't had so many nightmares this time. "She gives a smile because her dear sister is in better condition than at other times.

"There weren't too many nightmares on this occasion, more than one or so peculiar.

"It's good to hear, that Lulu, I just hope it's not that one... kind of dreams like the last time you told me," said in a soft tone, but it took a little effort so that she wouldn't notice the blush that wanted to form, Luna gives him a smile of defeat, she would have liked to play at least a little joke on her.

"Luckily for you, you'll be safe, for now," said with a mischievous smile as Celestia gives him a suspicious look as well as a smile ready for the next battle.

Both hear the sound of the dining room door open, several servants arrive who bring them snacks and their respective breakfasts that are of the best class that Equestria could give, with millimetric precision each plate, spoon and cup of tea are put without a single slip and move with perfect synchrony without a single error in each movement, they finish preparing the table and leave the two sisters alone so that they can enjoy their meal without any interruption from them, before even the two princesses start they see that in the middle of the table a strange door emerges and they are generated in the middle of nowhere, it does not surprise the princesses at all they know perfectly well who it is, out of nowhere they listen with several trumpets that come out of nowhere to reveal the new guest who is dressed in a long royal robe with a golden crown and a conceited look.

"Oh wow, wow, a lot of candy and I haven't even been invited," Discord said melodramatically.

"Good morning, Discord," Celestia said in her elegant tone as she levitated a cup of tea, while giving a small imperceptible smile.

"Discord" Luna said more coldly before the chaos entity, something that would not go unnoticed by Discord.

"Come on, dear Lulu, you don't trust me." While he changes his normal wings for those of an angel who at the same time wears a robe along with a golden halo on her head, Luna's only reaction is only to raise an eyebrow at Discord's act, Celestia only tilts her eyes, she returns to the topic they were going to talk about before the interruption.

"Now Lulu, what was the particular dream that you wanted to mention what you found in the dream world?"

This captures Discord's interest and gives a conspiratorial smile.

"It will be one of those special dreams for Celly," said with a smile ready for action, Celestia ignores Discord's comment as best she can, and Luna just looks at him without any emotion.

"No, for now it has nothing to do with it." Discord only gives a nasal snort of boredom as he settles into a pink cloud that he summoned next to a glass of chocolate milk and drinks the glass leaving the chocolate in shape and then eats it, Celestia drinks her tea. "But for the good fortune of both of you, keep the fragment that would reveal the peculiarity of the nightmare." Its horn glows in the room, it emanates a magical spiral that shows just the moment when the mysterious nightmarish creature appeared, this made both Celestia and Discord look on with interest.

"Anyone could definitely get a very good scare if something like this appears suddenly," Celestia said, turning to look at Discord. "Discord: Isn't it one of your creations that ended up escaping from your dreams?"

Discord looks at him with false offense and gives him a mischievous smile.

"Oh no, dear Celly whatever that thing is it's not my own creations at all, it's nothing chaotic, it's too sane for my taste and I'm not a big fan of very dark colors, you know.

At least that left out of the equation in case there was the remote possibility that it was something created by Discord, Celestia looks at Luna and before giving her question Luna answers exactly what she wanted to know.

"It came from a filly; I think it's from the Riches' family.

Before the mention of them Discord only gave a wry smile.

"It seems that someone was getting into the wrong place." he receives a disapproving look from Celestia, Luna talks about the subject again.

"From what she has told me, she has not read or seen anything that could indicate where she might have come from.

"Haven't you tried to figure out with your magic its possible origin?" Celestia said, Luna only gives a small sigh of defeat.

"We couldn't get there in time to get into his dreams, she woke up before we could act, although she suffered the nightmare once again, but his form was very different from the one seen before.

"Maybe you're giving too much thought to a simple nightmare Lulu and probably if you keep this up, you'll become a lunatic" Discord said with a big sneer.

Luna's eye twitched with anger and Celestia looked at him sternly, in the end Luna despite having a little of her pride hurt Discord was right about... This, well it seen that the world was putting on hooves up by having to agree with the very entity that stands for the irrational, now swallowing a little his pride turns to look at him.

"Discord, this may be the only time and let it be clear to you that we will have to agree with you, for this time" Those last words came painfully from his throat.

Celestia looks at him curiously while drinking a little more of her tea, in the case Discord looks at her with a gesture impossible to read on the one hand, her ego was growing to stratospheric levels by making the princess of the night herself admit a point of his, but on the other hand... To be right about something logical sent him a strange chill is like feeling as if she had violated a fundamental rule of his own nature, something that Luna at least smiles a little at this small victory.

"This battle is declared a draw" Celestia said as she finished drinking her tea and when she glanced at the two of them and put her cup down on the plate. "For now, we'll leave this mystery for another time, Lulu remembers that you might have the chance to meet him again in the dream world.

"You're right Tia, we might find him there again," she said with a smile, which Celestia would return, and she turned to look at Discord.

"Do you want to stay with us?"

For now, he had nothing to do and in part Fluttershy had left early to tend to one of her animals, specifically a manticore that injured in a fight and a couple of foxes injured by the Timberwolf.

"It's okay after all, there won't be much to do today, partly because Fluttershy has to go help some of her animals," he said boredly as he floats over some of the food and lifts it towards him, seeing how too elegant it is, gives him a more chaotic patroness, smiles at his creation, and eats it.

"How has Fluttershy been?" Luna said.

"It has been good, although with a little more work than usual, a couple of foxes arrived last night showing wounds that apparently were from the claws of the Timberwolf, shortly after came a manticore," he said in a casual tone as he takes one of the cakes and begins to eat it.

"At least they arrived safely in time and can treat their wounds," Celestia said as she grabs a sandwich.

"The curious thing about it is that yesterday there was much more activity than usual on the part of the Timberwolves.

"More active?" Luna said curiously.

"Oh yes, they were howling for a good part of the morning and part of the afternoon, sadly it wasn't the season for zap apples," he said with a disappointed tone since those apples are quite delicious, it comes to his mind for a moment why he was going to wait for the season if he could bring the season earlier, he only feels that both princesses are looking at him, he already has an idea of what he was going to do, he simply tilts his eyes. "Okay, I'll bring some when the first harvest comes." Give the princesses a smile to which they give it back and it was going to be a little secret between the three of them.

"It's curious the case of the Timberwolves, maybe they were marrying some large prey and they had to require more of theirs to succeed" Celestia said, pouring herself another cup of tea.

"In fact, apart from the fox couple, shortly after the rain stopped, Manny Roar came to visit to be treated for battle wounds.

Both Sisters look at him in confusion.

"Who´s Manny Roar?" Luna said, being the first to ask before Celestia did.

"It's Fluttershy's manticore friend, they became friends with him after he removed a thorn from one of his legs," he said, remembering what Fluttershy explained to him at that moment.

Luna for a strange reason has the feeling that she knew that manticore, but she could not find it exactly where, but she dismisses that thought to ask one more thing.

"Being the element of kindness, I wouldn't be surprised," Luna said, noticing something. "Wait a minute, don't tell me that Manticore was attacked by the Timberwolf?" said with concern, something that Celestia also shares when she sees him with concern, Discord gives them a reassuring smile.

"Luckily the manticore was not attacked by the Timberwolf, rather, it was... Beaten," said hesitantly in the last part, something that the princesses finished also end up confused. "Don't worry, Fluttershy also ended up confused by it, we only know that Manny saw a creature as a hostile within his territory and we don't have a description of what exactly it was like since Manny attacked in the middle of a big storm and already close to dark, after being hit by the strange creature he would end up disappearing.

Celestia thought about it for a moment it was not usual for an animal as large as a manticore to end up being injured and manage to get out alive, only leaving them one thing certain, she did not want to kill him and trying to understand that reasoning was going to be complicated, for now it was better to leave it given the lack of clues and it is better to enjoy a little more time with her sister, the rest of the conversation that took place was about trivialities and the beginning of a small three-way joke war.

With breakfast finished both sisters separate to different routes, Celestia had to go to an important meeting with one of her ministers, on Luna's side she goes to her chambers to go to sleep and in the case of Discord she went to another dimensional plane to cause chaos but avoiding damaging them with her magic.

They spend several hours without anything to highlight around the small town of Ponyville despite having the dishonor of being the most chaotic city in Equestria, but this time they are calm, the ponies went from one place to another either going to visit their own friends buy something or another for themselves or simply to enjoy the day especially that it is the weekend, the foals and fillies are eager for the class to end being especially for a trio of fillies who are eagerly waiting to find their special talents. Sweetie had told Apple Bloom and Scootaloo about what she saw last night surprising the two friends about the event and to a certain extent it was scary with the little she had described as the situation she talked about with Rarity and the proposal she had made to her, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, although a little afraid to do something like that, but an opportunity is a chance to find your talents wasn't going to be wasted.

In the blink of an eye the school bell announced the end of classes and with great excitement all the foals left with excitement, the Cutie Marks Crusade deviated from going to the boutique, first they went to the tree house to get the necessary tools to investigate any possible footprint they could find, with everything they need now if they go in route to the Boutique eager to find some clue about this creature as well as earn their cutie marks.

The Cutie Marks Crusade are outside the boutique while they investigate all clues related to that strange being, inside Rarity gives a small smile when she sees her sister's happiness, but due to some requests they made to her she could not participate with them something that, although she would have liked to help her sister, but it has the benefit of avoiding getting involved in the mud. It wouldn't seem like she needed it anyway, and it's enough to see them happy and interact with her friends, although she has to keep an eye on them and make sure they don't cause a mess, especially that time when they ended up covered in tree sap, which makes her shiver the time she saw her, his thought is interrupted when he hears the bell at the entrance a customer, he notices Who could it be? It is her dear friend Fluttershy.

"Oh Fluttershy! said with a big smile when he saw her.

"Um... I not interrupting you in something" said in his soft, low, gentle voice, Rarity smiling at him.

"Don't worry darling, I can always give a little time for my friends" said gently.

"Thank you, Rarity" said softly, they both made their way briefly to Rarity's kitchen and Fluttershy took a seat.

"Do you want little tea?" She offered, as he prepares a teapot to make tea.

"No, thank you, I won't be here long."

"Okay.

"Thank you.

Rarity takes a seat on the opposite side of Fluttershy, settling in a little.

"How did it go? Fluttershy."

"I guess fine, just more than having to take care of my beloved animals a little more" said with concern, something that Rarity notices.

"Did anything happen to any of them?"

"Last night I received a couple of foxes who were injured by the Timberwolves.

"Oh dear," said with fear at the thought of what could have happened to them and seeing Rarity's reaction Fluttershy gives him a reassuring smile.

"They are recovering quite well, thanks to Celestia who arrived with minor injuries and are recovering well. He gives her a reassuring smile.

"Oh, at least it's reassuring that they're okay.

"Rarity, I also wanted to ask you: What's Sweetie, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo's plan this time for cutie marks?"

"I proposed to them the idea of being investigators of mysterious creatures."

This makes Fluttershy a little fearful, but also curious, she would have always been fascinated to find new creature and learn from them.

"It sounds, a little... dangerous, but also interesting, but wouldn't it be wise to keep an eye on them to avoid any incidents?

"In fact, after finishing a few sketches of the orders they made of me, I was going to pay them a visit and make sure they weren't going to make a mess.

"Especially now, since yesterday morning and part of the afternoon the Timberwolves were more active than usual, in addition to the fact that shortly after the couple of foxes arrived, I received a visit from Manny Roar who arrived last night injured.

"Manny Roar?" said doubtfully.

"It's the manticore that" Nightmare Moon tried to use to stop us.

"Oh, that manticore, well, did the Timberwolf have anything to do with it?"

"Not in this case, it was a strange creature that had entered his territory and challenged him only to end up being beaten and abandoned to his fate, but it seems to me rather that he wounded him so that he would not follow him, he only hurt his leg and his wings.

"What was the creature like?" said curiously, but he also had a strange feeling.

"He told me it was dark as night without any light, and it had no face at all, and it was large," she said with fear at the description Manny told her.

Faceless, those words drilled into Rarity's mind, maybe Sweetie didn't tell her the color, but she said that what she was looking at them at the window didn't have a face either, this could be a simple coincidence or... there is something else in this and that was scaring her and for Celestia's sake, that it was just a coincidence, she is about to mention an incident they had last night, she is interrupted by her sister's call.

"Rarity, we just found something!" Sweetie said, as she hurried into the boutique and was originally going to go to Rarity's studio when she sees her in the kitchen she goes quickly for her, thanks to Celestia that she did not come covered in mud, Sweetie saw Fluttershy. "Oh, Fluttershy, sorry, I didn't see you" said apologetically.

"No problem, Sweetie, I wasn't going to be long," said with a motherly smile.

"Now, now, what have you found?" Rarity said.

"We just found a footprint near the river, and it is big, Scootaloo thinks it's from a Diamond dog and Apple Bloom thinks it's more of a dragon, the weird thing is that instead of four it has five fingers.

This makes Fluttershy and Rarity worth going to check what it could be and without waiting for a moment Rarity and Fluttershy look at Sweetie.

"Could you take us there, please," Fluttershy said.

"Yes, it's not very far from here.

Sweetie takes Fluttershy to where she said they had found the handprint they found, Rarity was going to accompany them, but she couldn't in part because of the assignment she had to do to finish before the start of the next week and also to avoid the mud and she didn't want to ruin her mane as her coat. Soon they arrive near the river where the other two fillies that were arguing are.

"The hand is a Diamond dog's, don't you see that the large size it has makes it more similar," said Scootaloo.

"No, the hand matches a dragon's hand more, and they can get bigger and bigger, and it's more similar to Spike's," Apple Bloom said.

Both fillies continued their discussion until they noticed that Sweetie has arrived not with her sister but with Fluttershy, exactly the pony they need to know finally which animal the footprint belongs to.

"Fluttershy, it's a great thing to see you again," said Scootaloo.

"Hello," she said quietly, "Um, could you show us the footprint, Sweetie said they had found a footprint."

"Oh yes, in fact, we were going to go to your cabin to ask if you could help us, only we were going to tell Rarity first, but she saved us a little bit of that," Apple Bloom said.

"It's this way," said Scootaloo.

The three fillies take to the edge of the river where they found the footprint carefully, they go down the sides of the bank as they also try to avoid slipping and falling into the water since the ground is still wet, and with the correct angle it allows them to see the footprint.

"It's that footprint, do you know what animal it belongs to?" We have discussed whether it belongs to a Diamond dog or a dragon," Sweetie said.

"Well, let me see the footprint." She begins to see the footprint, while Apple Bloom approaches Sweetie speaks to her in a whisper.

"You're not going to tell him that you think the footprint belongs to that strange thing you saw last night.

"I'd like to, but I've thought about it a little and I think I'd rather it wasn't that one... Thing" said with a slight chill, from what he had seen.

"Fear not, Sweetie, I, Scootaloo, along with the elements, will protect you from the strange creature," Scootaloo said proudly as he puffed out his chest in bravery, something that makes the other two come at him with a raised eyebrow.

"You can't remember the last time you were scared by surprise by a toad," Sweetie said.

"I wasn't scared!" It just took me by surprise," said with slight anger as she turned a little red with embarrassment for that event, only which makes the other two giggle, before looking back at Fluttershy who calls them.

"It doesn't match any footprint I know," said with surprise at not being able to find the animal that left the mark, this only leaves more than questions for the cutie marks.

"So, if the footprint doesn't belong to an animal you know, then what would be the closest thing to it?" Scootaloo said, to which the other two agree with his point.

"Um... well, the shape of the hand is more similar to that of dragons, but unlike Spike, this one is much larger but not as big as that of an adult dragon, but it is definitely not that of a Diamond Dog does not match the general thickness, but still the most discordant is the fifth finger, there are many animals that also have the fifth, but they are longer, something that allows them to manipulate objects in a better way.

“! It means that we have found a new creature!" the three said in unison.

Up that Fluttershy had to cover herself because of the ears for the sharpness of their voices, the three of them put their flanks together to see if they managed to acquire their cutie marks, but they only look with disappointment to see that they had not achieved it and give a sigh of sadness, Fluttershy approaches and gently puts her helmet under Sweetie's chin which makes the other two also raise their eyes to Fluttershy who smiles at them with motherhood.

"They may not have been able to acquire their cutie marks, but it's undeniable that the three of them managed to discover on their own a possible new species, or even one that we could rarely see.

Her words have an effect the three of them may not have been able to get their cutie marks, but it is undeniable that they have really just found clues about a possible new creature or at least a rather unique one, Apple Bloom comes up with an idea of who could help them at least a little about this.

"I have an idea." It makes them look at her curiously. "What if we are going with Twilight and see if she can give us some books that can help us identify the animal.

"That's a splendid idea, Apple Bloom, maybe Twilight has a book that can't help" Sweetie said excitedly.

"Then let's not keep her waiting and go there" said Scootaloo in haste and with emotion.

The three fillies began to trot in the direction of Twilight's library only taking a detour a little earlier for Sweetie to let Rarity know where they are going while behind her Fluttershy follows with a smile, coincidentally she was also going to Twilight’s library to borrow some books, Fluttershy turns to look at the Everfree forest, she just heard the howls of the Timberwolves like the last time she heard them yesterday, afraid takes a faster step that continues behind the three fillies.

Deep in the woods as he almost finishes gathering the supplies he was going to need for today, which among them are leaves, lianas both as a reserve and to carry the branches behind his back, he picks up the last one, places it on his back and listens to the howls of those wooden creatures in the distance, his proximity sensors did not detect any kind of danger that hung over him for now, but it was better not to risk it, start taking the last things he needs and go in route to the castle.

While in Ponyville the small group arrives at the library and Fluttershy gently knocks on the door, but they don't hear anyone inside, she knocks on it once again in a gentle way and already inside they hear the hooves that followed a slow step until she reaches the door, the one who opens it is Twilight, but he didn't look good.

"Oh my, Twilight excuse me, we didn't know you were ill," said with concern at her condition.

"Don't worry, it's not something, worrying," said wearily.

"Not that you want me to stay and take care of you" Fluttershy said.

"There's no need Fluttershy, it's not a serious thing, I just need to get some rest.

While the cutie mark when seeing Twilight's state, it was best to leave it for another day when she felt better, but Sweetie realized that Spike was nowhere to seen.

"Twilight, where's Spike?" Fluttershy noticed that the little dragon was missing, too.

"He went out to look for some positions with Zecora that he should have picked up, but it wasn't just, and I told him to go with Applejack, it shouldn't take long to return.

Just for a moment Twilight sees that something pink is approaching at high speed too fast and before she can react, she is grab by Pinkie who seemed very urgent.

"Twilight, my Pinkie senses tell me there's going to be trouble!" She said urgently as she moved Twilight up and down like a ragdoll, when she let go, she was dizzy from the sudden movement.

Fluttershy look at them.

What problems are going to happen? said with concern, something the Cutie Mark Crusaders are also worried about.

"It's about Applejack and Spike, something big is going to happen to them!"

At the mention of Pinkie Sense, warning that something was going to happen to Applejack and Spike, something in all of them gave them a severe shiver in the distance, they see someone running at full speed towards them, realizing that it is Zecora.

On his way with vigil he looks at each of the different sides around him aware of any possible threat that may be looming over him, with his war hammer unhooked ready for any action that may come, he hears the howl again this time close to what was planned, possibly not far from where he currently is, He has to move quickly and move away before they can find him and start causing problems. Before he can take the first step, he hears a call, he could not understand a single word, but the tone is a cry for help in quick thoughts, he gives an idea of the next course of action he must take, everything is discarded by a single thought, he must go to help, he runs where the screams are coming.

Applejack runs with all his strength while he has Spike on his back while behind them they are followed by a large pack of Timberwolf, it is the second time he has had to deal with the Timberwolf in a very short period of time, and to make matters worse this time they are much better organized and more numerous than last time.

"Applejack to your left!"

With a quick reflex crouches down making the Timberwolf lose its neck by just for very little of achieving it , Spike sees another one that goes to the right and jumps towards them, it would not give Applejack time to dodge it must act fast, he inhales forcefully and spits a fireball that hits it fully causes it to catch fire and deviate before it falls on them, this action causes Spike to start breathing with difficulty, he had used it many more times than expected, causing him to start to exhaust himself.

"Spike, be careful not to overexert yourself!" said with concern at Spike's constant effort to keep them at bay.

The Timberwolves began to chase them shortly after they left Zecora's cabin to collect the potions, their howl being the first they heard and they tried to leave as soon as possible, they were already far from the cabin to be able to return, but the Timberwolves completely cut off the path that took them back to Ponyville forcing them to have to run into the forest. They were not going to go to a completely random point they tried to go in the direction of the castle of the two sisters, but they were not allowed to take any path that could take them there taking them to an unknown part of the forest, unfortunately Spike could not call for help, by the time the Timberwolves appeared he had dropped the scrolls and the feather he was carrying with him when Applejack took it to his back and now he had no form of communication.

"Applejack!" He points to one in front of them who launches himself to attack them, Applejack looks at him with determination.

"Hold your hooves tightly!"

In a quick maneuver she manages to lean against the Timberwolf before he could counterattack, kicks him in the head causing it to end up destroyed into thousands of pieces, while that was happening Spike sees that there is a path that could free them at least part of the Timberwolf.

"Applejack, take the left, there's a path that could get us rid of at least several of the Timberwolves!"

"I see it!"

Applejack makes a long flight managing to run in the direction indicated by Spike they see that in front of them appears a Timberwolf that tries to jump towards them, but being very close to Applejack she was not going to have time to dodge him and Spike to be able to spit fire against him, without knowing what happened suddenly they see that something hits the left side of the Timberwolf with such force that it not only ends taking it out of the way but being destroyed by the impact, Spike tries to see from the side where the projectile came from but he could not see someone there but noticed that several Timberwolves were heading to the place where the projectile came.

"Spike get down!"

Out of pure reaction he ducks and avoids a branch on the road, Applejack puts on all his hooves to stop before falling to a bank but he is a rag and a particularly strong one that if they tried to cross him they would be dragged by the current, they look from behind and see the group of Timberwolf running towards them at full speed and there was no way to get back where they came she began to gallop in the direction of the river with the hope of being able to find a slower or shallow part that allows them to cross.

Not far from them he was dealing with the Timberwolves that began to head towards him after having thrown that stone at full speed, with a hammer movement he hits one of them destroying another that grabs him crushes him to the ground, but he has no more time to lose and charges against the small blockade that he has in his way, with a movement of his hammer he breaks the small block, the Barrar and steps on others under his heavy boots, giving him free rein to regain the step where the two of them were headed.

Behind him and he did not understand why they follow him despite all his failures in trying to catch him, out of the corner of his eye he sees something approaching towards him dodges something that is approaching at full speed that knocks down several trees behind him, he stops to see what it was that just attacked him a giant version of these wooden creatures comes out, Under the larger one, several smaller ones of those wooden creatures begin to surround him and he sees that some merge with the larger one making them larger and more powerful facially, being three times his size, and he keeps his gaze towards him.

"Now I understand why they kept persisting so much with me" said clearly, as that great creature begins to growl at him ready for battle, instead of feeling intimidated he just gives a smile under his helmet. "Let's end this once and for all." He gets into a battle stance.

The large creature throws itself against it accompanied by the smaller ones, it swings against the larger one, aimed directly at the head, dealing it a blow that destroys part of the muzzle only for it to regenerate, the smaller ones surround it and attack it simultaneously, causing that despite its efforts and its systems it rolls around it without being able to act faster and loses focus with the bigger grabs it, shakes it with great violence, makes its hammer be thrown in another direction, begins to hit the upper muzzle of the creature with great force, manages to break it but at the cost of throwing a good distance to collide and break a tree in which it fell.

He gets up from the ground to see that several of them are running at full speed, he is not going to back down and throws himself at them, throwing punches and kicks in every direction that these damned wooden creatures dared to be in his vision, destroying each one of them into thousands of pieces without a hint of mercy, he grabs one of them by both ends and pulls it making it be split in half to crush the rest of his pieces under his feet, he looks around being the last one left, the rest did not seem to regenerate from the broken fragments around him.

He hears the howl of the larger one heading in his direction and he didn't seem happy at all for what he has done, he keeps his guard over his current position and the big creature lunges once again to bite him but he grabs its large fangs while holding him in the position he is in, he sees for a brief moment the glow of something metallic on his right flank and it is his hammer that is it reflects thanks to the light that passes through a clearing, frees its left arm from the fang and gives a powerful left hook in the eye, blinding and stunning it. With a powerful grip he takes the muzzle and closes them with a strong key, contorts his body by stomping the ground to create stability at the cost of breaking the ground and throws it in the direction of his war hammer, the large wooden creature collides with several trees knocking them down and although it would not break into many pieces it would be damaged a lot.

He runs at full speed to his direction and takes his hammer in one motion the large creature rises as fast as possible despite the damage it suffered, he takes advantage of one of the fallen trees as a platform and throws himself into the air to grab the creature's back, he tried to get rid of it, but he began to strike with his hammer again and again with more and more speed and force, seeing fragments of wood shoot out in all directions until his back snaps, leaving him immobile, he would not stop there, he lashes with his hammer every part no regret, no remorse, no reason, only madness.

With the last blow it resonates in the forest, it has finished its work and under its heavy boots there are only shattered remnants of what was once the great creature, not a single fragment was reunited they are beyond having been shattered the imposing wooden creature has died, it raises its head and before its own vision as its sensors several of them smaller surround it but not a single one approaches, all of them are afraid at the idea of facing him, despite the effort of many of them together with the most powerful version they have they have been totally defeated, and triumphantly and undefeated gives a powerful roar of victory to the sky, all of them begin to flee with only the shrieks of fear the battle is over, but he must still run as far as he can to rescue the two inhabitants.

Both Spike and Applejack heard that strange roar in the distance without knowing exactly what it had been, but what he had made clear is that the group of Timberwolves that were originally chasing them had a part of them swerving before the roar sounded in the distance, but they still had some who are behind and start howling to possibly seek more help in hunting them down.

He hears the howls of those wooden creatures, runs where they are coming from and goes faster in a small clearing, he sees those wooden creatures and in front of them are the two inhabitants, he notices that one of them was getting dangerously close and was not going to be able to reach them in time. With a quick maneuver in the middle of a run he grabs a stone and with the ballistic calculations of his armor he throws it at full speed towards the creature, but damn luck would not smile on him despite having managed to hit another appears by surprise jumping to the two, but the damage he did to the first one by his fragments would blind him and instead of taking a well-given bite he ends up colliding with both of them causing them to fall into the river.

They didn't know what had happened, the only thing Applejack could hear was Spike's warning that one of them who was very close, another threw himself, but something impact with him was behind them and the fragments made the other instead of giving his attack well collide with the two and cause them to fall into the water. Applejack instinctively swims to the surface, but one of her legs had been injured after hitting a stone in the fall and desperately tries to reach the surface, where she could only barely take a breath of air before being pushed back by the force of the current.

Applejack feels that she is hit with something strong behind her back, but she manages to stop, but one feels the force of the current pushing her down, with a lot of effort she comes to the surface thanks to some rocks that help her stay in place, she manages to at least take breaths of air that she needed so much, but having to hold on with all her strength to keep holding on to the stones and that the current does not push her down or manage to lose its handle.

"Applejack!" she hears Spike's call as he tries to stay as best he could as well as trying to find him and sees him being drag by the strong current in his direction.

"Spike swim to here!" Spike hears Applejack and manages to see her, but the direction he was taking was not directly towards the stones but from the side, paying attention to them he tries to swim with all her strength towards Applejack stretches her hoof as much as she can, without completely letting go of the stones to try to reach Spike. "Grab my hoof!"

In a last effort Spike tries to reach Applejack's hoof and manages to do so but his strength failed him at the last moment to be able to hold on to the stone, both end up being dragged by the strong flow, Applejack could not take it anymore and begins to lose consciousness due to exhaustion, lack of air and the increasing cold she feels makes her end up losing consciousness and begins to sink, Spike tried by all means to prevent Applejack from sinking but he does not have enough strength to prevent it and being a cold-blooded reptile he began alarmingly to get tired to feel a long lethargic sensation, his eyes feeling so heavy he could hardly keep them open being the last thing he sees is a large black figure running towards them before ending up closing his eyes.

Finally he locates them, he runs with all his strength, he begins to approach the shore, seeing that he has the small reptile nearby, he begins to stretch to try to grab it, before it sinks he manages to grab it and with quick movement but also with great delicacy he puts it under his long poncho and putting it against his chest although that would not warm him up, he tries to locate the other one but he could not see it and out of fear it must have sunk and already being drowning, he sees a tiny orange spot under the water it is the only chance he has, he launches himself at full speed to overcome the speed of the other one when he is far enough ahead he gets into the river very quickly and grabs it before it comes off his hands.

Thanks to her great height the river only managed to reach the middle of her hip and due to his great weight he manages to remain stable, he begins to advance to the bank and when he comes out he puts the inhabitant who was drowning in a position on her back to see her barrel, he did not see her breathing with one hand he begins to do CPR without applying the great force that they normally apply to his own kind, before giving the last one necessary to start doing mouth-to-mouth breathing, she began to vomit the fluid that was trapped in her lungs, breathing again. He breathes a big sigh of relief at having made it in time and finally checks the little one and luckily he was still breathing since he had managed to catch it before it ended up sinking, but a danger of hypothermia remains, but since the wood, leaves and other things that a fire could do were wet and it would take a long time to be able to make a fire in that state, he hears the howls of another animal not far away and finds a growl of fury and frustration, he has no time for this and begins to move away from the place.

While in another place they gallop at full speed is the search party that is organized by the four friends Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity along with Big McIntosh and Zecora, Rainbow did not participate since they needed to warn Princess Celestia about what happened, they went to Big Mac to ask for help and that he did not hesitate once to look for his sister. Thanks in part to one of their Zecora concoctions, they managed to allow both Rarity and Twilight to power their tracking spells. On Rarity's part, she did it both to help Applejack and Spike and to prevent Twilight from trying harder than she should and only hurting herself more than necessary, even though her friends insisted that Twilight stay in the treehouse due to her health condition, something that she flatly refused. It was his fault for sending Spike and Applejack to look for Zecora's potions just to put them in danger and he could not live with something like that without at least trying to find a solution to it.

The expedition heard that great roar in the distance, but they had to quickly hide when they heard a large pack of Timberwolves running towards them, the tension of having them so close and hoping that they do not get to discover them, in the case of Fluttershy she notices that they look fearful being possible that it has something to do with that roar, with the herd far away, they resume the gallop where they can track them, at one point they reached the last part that allowed them to track them by land until they reached the last part that took them to the rapid where the trail was.

"No; no no no no, the trail ends by the river.! Twilight is starting to have a coughing fit; she is about to faint.

"Twilight!" Rarity said worriedly, approaching her and taking her temperature only to realize how bad she is. "For Celestia, Twilight!" Your fever has gotten even worse. "Seeing Twilight’s condition, Zecora takes the initiative.

"McIntosh you must return Twilight back to my cottage, her health will worsen if she goes further by making more damage.

"Zecora, I still can't give in now, Spike and Applejack are still in danger out there," Twilight said with extreme exhaustion, as Big Mac reaches over to carry her on his back with Rarity's help.

"You have managed to take us very far thanks to you and Rarity in finding their way, but you must not make an effort and rest for the day." Twilight was going to protest but is interrupted by Rarity.

"Twilight, Zecora is right, you must rest, you have done more than you can and continue with this you could only end up hurting yourself more, plus I trust that Applejack and Spike have managed to get out of the river," Rarity said worriedly, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie approach.

"There is still a chance that we can find them, maybe one of the animals in the place may have seen them." Fluttershy said.

"We'll take care of looking for any clues," Pinkie said while taking a comically large magnifying glass from her hair.

Twilight sighs, she knew they were not going to give in just to prevent her from hurting herself further. "Okay, Pinkie, Fluttershy, be very careful, we'll meet again at dawn."

Soon the group would begin to split up while Rarity, Zecora and Big Mac go back to Zecora's cabin, Pinkie begins to look for any clue about the current state in which Applejack and Spike is, Fluttershy and Pinki Pie established a meeting point area where they would meet for when the last lights of the day begin to disappear and avoid getting lost.

Fluttershy is looking for the animals that could help give them information, Pinkie begins to find a unique type of footprint that did not seem to match any of the Timberwolves or Applejack's. In addition, because of the shape they are made of a type of large footwear that in the end disappears at the end of the bank to see that another footprint is on the other side. on Fluttershy's side some animals mentioned to him a strange black creature that fought against the Timberwolf and that managed to defeat a very large one of them, they also told him that the fragments never merge again, something that Fluttershy could only feel a deep sadness but it is something that she cannot control no matter how much she would like it not to happen, she refocuses on what they need to do and a little bird gives him the key piece of final information, he told him that this strange black creature was the one who managed to get Applejack and Spike out of the river to help her at first and then they would leave the area to the south.

Both friends return to the meeting point they set up to meet again since, since the day was beginning to get dark and only both hopes to have bought enough, when they meet again the first to speak is Pinkie. "Fluttershy, I just found something that can help us know what Applejack and Spike were.

"The animals have also told me about the possible where abouts, but they also told me about a strange creature that roamed the place.

"Strange creature?" Oh, those must be in his footprints," said with realization as a spotlight lit above his head.

"Footprints?"

"Near the river, I found some huge footprints! That they are some kind of footwear like my dad's boots when he had to cross hard rocky roads, I wonder if he still has them? Fluttershy could only ask what kind of stone it would have to be for him to need them, but she puts that thought aside. "Anyway, the footprints even go to the other side of the river, but from there I haven't been able to see any further if it has left beyond."

"The little animals have told me that one around here was a very strange creature of a deep dark color that fought against the Timberwolf and managed to defeat the largest version of them." Pinkie produced a realization, but it is minor not to mention what she saw in that clearing, but Fluttershy gives her a sad look since she has already been told what happened.

"They already told me, you don't need to mention it," said melancholy, she takes a long sigh to recompose his posture to speak again." One of the little birds told me that the strange creature managed to rescue them and then head south.

Pinkie thinks about it for a moment the reasons for going south she gets an idea of what it could be, but she needed to confirm it. "Fluttershy, what's in the south of where we're from?" said curiously.

"Um... apart from the woods, maybe..." she realizes where they could be going, he sees Pinkie, who has also come to the same conclusion.

"The castle of the two sisters," they said at the same time, they begin to hear the guttural sound and howls of the animals, something that terrifies Fluttershy.

"I think we should go back to the others now," Fluttershy said fearfully.

"Oh, don't be afraid Fluttershy, Aunt Pinkie Pie has the tools to scare away any creature that comes at us." Fluttershy looks at him a little annoyed being that she is a year older than her, but she hears a growl near her and goes as fast as she can to stay by Pinkie's side and they are on their way back.

On the other hand he had started to finish running once he managed to get far enough away from all the sound of a creature, he gave a long sigh of tiredness and looked at the two he had in his arms, they were still holding on and the younger reptile was snuggling more on his arm trying to warm up, The other one didn't move much but he stays in a deep state of sleep, at least the two are still in good condition, he checks his map and he is almost not far from the castle anymore but also the night will soon fall on him he has to move as soon as possible.

Finally he reaches the outskirts of the castle, apparently on the northeast side of the river, he gets through one of the holes in the facade and goes to the room where he had stayed the last night, he arrives at the enclosure and approaches the bonfire and with a gentle movement he puts the small reptile on the back of the other and takes off his poncho to use it as an improvised blanket for the two of them, he puts them both with great care as if it were the most fragile gem that exists, he checks the branches and leaves and they have dried to allow him to use them again, he takes several branches and leaves to put them on the fire and starts a new fire, he leave some branches in case he was going to have to make some splints in case they both have injuries.

He approaches the two and sits in front of them, takes the small reptile with great care to check that it does not have any injury and checks it from top to bottom, it seemed that it does not have any which is good news for his relief, then also carefully he checks the inhabitant starting with the legs that given its quadrupedal nature it is possible to be the first affected areas. Check the right rear leg, see that it gives a groan of pain, possibly hurt at the time the fall occurred or during the trip to the river, she would not notice at least not immediately thanks to the cold water, check it elsewhere for possible wounds that luckily the others are only small cuts not very serious that can heal on their own.

From between his pockets he takes out some bandages and takes some of the branches and made a comparison for the size he was going to need, being longer than necessary he takes out his knife and cuts them to the necessary height, takes the bandages and begins to roll the part at the top of the leg first, He lifts her leg carefully while she makes a few pained gestures to do it on the other side. He has a first-hand view of its teats that looked a little chubby, at least he has the verification that this species is a mammal, he stops rolling it along with the branch to the leg, once finished he squeezes them making a gesture of pain come out of it that little by little began to diminish, with everything done, he carries them again for a moment and rolls them both up and covers them with the poncho not far from the fire so that they stay warm and safe, he is placed near the corner that he used as a place to sleep.

He sits down at the place, takes out his canteen only so that it is open and empty of its vital content, he gives a nasal snort for forgetting to close it properly and gets up to go to the river to fill it, when he approaches he sees that there is something floating peacefully near a small stone that has stuck it, he approaches it and sees that a kind of hat noticing that it is from the inhabitant since when he saw it for the first time she had it on before falling into the river, he takes it and checks it to see if there was any damage despite how violent that part of the river was, the hat is completely intact, he gives a small smile at the strangeness of this small hat given its ability to survive adversity and before returning he drinks water and then refills his canteen and leaves the place.

He approaches the place where the two of them are and puts the shade next to it as well as enough of the fire so that it can dry, he goes to the corner like the last one he lies down and turns to see the scene before him, he would not know the reason for the action of going to help them, but that matter, what is done, done and even if it was a small action that he did in this new world, it is undeniable that he has changed things. He shrink his legs to hug them and although he wanted to take his parts off his armor to sleep better, he still didn't feel comfortable at the idea of being looked at his flesh but he also does it so that in case he has to take any action against some danger to the two of them, little by little his consciousness begins to tire and he lets him re-enter the world of dreams once again, waiting for what will happen tomorrow knowing that he has entered a point of no return.