Straight in the target

• It is the same dizziness as before. I don't even know were are we! - spoke Twilight

• It takes time untill you get used to it! - Glace told her.

After the dizziness ended, the ponies looked around. The panorama was totally different from that near the sea. There was no grass and just a very small forest and a village beneath. Everything else was rock. Volcanic rock. On the other side of the village a huge volcano stood. On it there was a kind of palace.

• I guess that's where we are goin'? - asked Applejackk

• Yes. - replied Twilight

• It isn't very sunny. Those volcanic clouds hide the sun completely. - noted Cadence

• That is dreadful for my skin! Oh Celestia! - Rarity was worried

• I think that is the least to worry now! - Luna told her.

The ponies went down. They were on the halfway, when suddenly a hole in the clouds opened and Hase fell through it.

• Hello everypony!

• HASE?!? - everypony but Glace were confused

• The Primal Master! - he spoke

• Just wanted to say, that you should expect a new form of me, that will rule none of the nature forces, but will be as smart as me! Bye now! - said he and flew back

• Wait! How will we recognize him? - Dash may of liked Glace's jokes but the confusion in which Hase let them wasn't funny.

• Coward! Come here!

• You know the Primal Master? - Glace was amazed.

• Yes, he sent us here. - replied Twilight annoyed

• So the prophecy is true!

• Yeah, yeah. - answered Applejack even more annoyed. - I s'ppose we all head to that lil'forest over there!

• Why? The village is much more civilized! - Rarity protested

While the ponies were arguing about where should they go, an arrow struck in the nearby tree.

• Wow! - Dash was intimidated.

• Where did that come from? - asked Applejack

• It isn't an ordinary arrow! - Cadence told them.

• Huh? - Applejack was now more confused

• Before the assault on the town, I used to go to the archery club. The normal arrows don't have such big metal peak. Their peaks are smaller. Even if this arrow is home- made, there is no use of making such a big arrow peak. Unless...

  The arrow's peak split in half and a piece of pergament was revealed.

• ... oh ,that's possible too. - Cadence finished her sentence.

• What does it say? - Celestia asked.

Pinkie got it with her magic and read:

• Come to the forest now. Outside you are in danger. Soomeone's making a tree house party! - Pinkie surely had to skill to look on everything on it's bright side.

• That ends our argues, I guess. - said Luna

• Yes. We'll certainly not enter the wood, because this is obviously a trap! And I'll get to the local spa! - Rarity said

Another arrow with the same kind of peak hit the tree. This time it opened immeadietly, revealing another piece of pergament, which Pinkie read again.

• It's not a trap. If you don't come immeadietly, you are in grave danger.

• Hmm. Don't you think, that the one, who made the trap, would write the same! To the spa! - Rarity still wasn't on the same mind as the mysterious archer.

A third arrow. This time it said:

• Duck?!? But why not a goose? - Pinkie laughed.

But Luna and Celestia had seen the danger.

• DUCK! - they yelled

Everypony but Pinkie and Rarity ducked. Soon somepony pulled their heads down too.

• How do you dare... - Rarity thought, that the mysterious pony pulled her down, but actually it was Twilight. It didn't even pass a second before two pegasi flew over them.

• Ah, just like our master told us! - laughed the left.

• I don't see such danger! - replied the right one.

The pony group stood up. They saw the two ponies, who weared bronze armory and some kind of flaming spears.

• Let's finish with this! - spoke the left

• Not yet! - Glace fired an ice beam from his horn at them.

The two pegasi just looked at each other and just crossed the flaming parts of their spears. The ice beam melted right where the spears crossed.

• Ice versus Fire? Give up, dude! - taunted the right one

In the same moment another arrow struck the nearby tree. This time it was different than those before. It's peak was a very sharp spike. After a moment three more spikes got out of the peak. A rope also hung out from it.

• Oh no. - said the left pegasus.

Before the ponies could even feel what happened a pony with a bow slid down the rope and quickly shot two arrows at the pegasi while it was still sliding.

• Aaah! - screamed the ponies and fell.

The mysterious savior turned around. Obviously this was the new form of Hase, because the stalion looked exactly like him, except that he was light brown on colour and his mane was dark brown.

• I thought he would be a landicorn like the others. - Twilight was amazed from the fact, that the newcomer was actually a unicorn.

• Ah, do you have hidden wings of some kind? - Dash asked him.

• I don't need wings. Now will you finally go into the forest? - the stalion was annoyed.

• OK. - replied Twilight

When they entered the forest, the unicorn led them. They reached a wooden house and got in.

• Any other questions? - asked the pony

• Yes. Who are you? - Rainbow asked first.

• My name has no meaning to me from so long, that I have forgotten it. Here they call me the Hawk.

• How are you so fast with the bow? - Cadence was second.

• I guess you didn't see my cutie mark. I am training for years. - the unicorn spun and the ponies saw, that his cutie mark was a bow and a quiver.

• Since when? - Luna's question came third

• Since I could hold a bow. Now, if you don't mind, I'll tell everything else by myself.

• Alright folk. - AJ agreed

• When I came to this world, he was there. He was always there. Blaze, the lord of fire. He terorized our village. He took every young colt for his servant. My mother and father hid me back then. They later payed with their lives for this. But I was safe for 5 years. And after that I was useless for him, I had already learn to live the free live and my training wouldn't be easy. That's why he let me go. I am sure, that he thinks, that I am the biggest mistake he ever made. Nopony could ever breach his castle walls, so nopony ever knew a sword. As soon I was old enough to start learning how to use a bow, I started. Currently I am the best archer in not only the village, because there aren't any other archers here, but in whole North New Equestria. After he knew that, he hunted me. But he never got me and his bounty hunters never returned. I am a master markspony. I almost never miss.

    Rarity quietly sneaked to the back door. Soon her escape trial failed, because a very sharp arrow struck the door.

• Where are you going? - asked Hawk, who even didn't look where he shot

• You missed. - Rarity said to herself

Another arrow hit the wall, but this time it past through Rarity's mane.

• Because I didn't mean to hit you. Where are you going? And I have good ears.

• To the spa? - Rarity said that so quietly, that only Hawk heard her and laughed:

• A spa? There is no spa! We fight for our own lives and she wants a spa?!? That's hillarious!

• You really are accurate! - Dash was amzed from the last arrow, that went through Rarity's mane.

Rarity sighed. This dimension was a nightmare for her beaty. First the dreadful clouds and now those arrows.

• How do you do it? I guess not everything is accuracy. - Twilight noted.

• The equipment helps too. - the stalion replied.

The ponies looked at him. He weared a black vest, a strange looking bracelet on his front left hoof and a quiver on his back.

• It doesn' look very special to mah! - Applejack said

• You don't look close. - said he and got an arrow from his quiver with his magic.

• It has no peak! Where do the peaks come from?

• From here! - said he and pointed at his bracelet.

• You fire with a hoof in the air? That isn't very stable! - Twilight spoke

• No, I just get the peaks from there, so I would know what kind of arrow I fire. I only shoot with a hoof in the air when I slide down the rope arrow.

• Rope arrow? - everypony were confused

• The one with which I came to rescue you.

• The one with the 3 spikes and the rope? - Twilight suggested

• Yes. It is ment for sliding or climbing. The spikes are extra sharp and hard, so they could stick in anything, even a stone.

• And the other two? - Rarity asked.

• Message arrows. After 5 or less seconds, it depends on how I calibrated it, it opens and reveals a message. A bracelet has place for 10 arrow peaks. I hold the bracelets, loaded with different arrow peaks in the pockets of the vest. They are in different pockets.

Celestia had a question:

• So, how many peaks do you have in the pockets?

• Around 200. 10 packs in the outside and 10 in the inside pockets.

• Wow! - Applejack was amazed.

• And I produce them myself. I am not so good at magic. The only spells I know are levitation, teleportation and long- distance teleportation.

• Long- distance teleportation? But why? - Twilight was confused

• So I can teleport arrows from here in my pockets if mine run out.

• How many different kinds of arrows do you have? - asked Pinkie

Hawk revealed a table behind him. It was full of arrow peaks. And every one was different.

• I have explosive ones, normal ones, very sharp ones, stunning ones, which I used on the guards, rope ones, acid ones and many, many others.

• These sure are many! - Applejack noted.

• Excuse me, but if I don't mistake, you are a lord of the Ice, right? - Hawk asked Glace

• Ah, yes?

• Could you please create a big pile of the never melting ice?

• Sure.- Glace was still confused

Hawk shred the ice to pieces and put each one in an arrow peak.

• And also ice peaks! They will help me with the fire ghosts!

• Fire what? - Dash was now also confused

• I'll tell you later. But now we should go in my house in the town, because it's getting dark.!

The pony group, led by Hawk, went out the forest house and went down to the village.