My Little Pony: Future of Equestria

Almost instantly, the thick branches of the trees, and the fog that seemed to seep from them cast the forest into a semblance of nighttime, forcing Dreamie and Jet to light their magic, casting their immediate area in an indigo glow. Many times, Jet thought he saw some movement out of the corner of hie eye, or a glimpse of something in the shadows. Dreamie was silent as she consulted the map, seeming completely calm and unaffected by the darkness around them.

His mind began to wander, and he started to think about which of the many terrible things from the forest that might be following them. Maybe it was a cockatrice, or a Cerberus. Maybe it was a Timberwolf! He walked faster, accidentally bumping into Dreamie, almost making her drop the map.

"Slow down Jet," she said, adjusting the map with her magic, "you need to watch were you going."
She studied the map confusion written all over her face. "I don't understand this map, at all. We seem to be going backwards, and all the words just look wrong," She flipped the map over with her magic, and sighed, "ah, there we are. It was upside down."
Dreamie smiled, and noticed Jet was cowering behind her.
"Come on, are you scared already?"
"No!" Jet countered, standing taller behind her.
Just then, a twig snapped behind them, causing Jet to loose control of his magic and send out a blinding blue flash.

Dreamie shielded her eyes and cried out. She was surprised, however, to find that hers was not the only voice to cry out. In the darkness that was once just outside of Dreamie's and Jet's light, four ponies fell onto their flanks.

"Who was that?" Jet cried out, re-sparking his magic, "come on now, show yourselves!"

With groans and mumbles about being blind, the four ponies walked into the light. Jet sighed in relief when he realized who they were.
"Cody, Runa, Candy, T.C.! What are you guys doing out here?"

"More Importantly," Dreamie interrupted, "How did you know where we were?"

Runa spoke up, "We followed you, TimeChaser saw something was wrong, and she got me and Cody to watch you guys. When we saw you go into the cave, and not emerge for a while, we got worried, so we gathered everypony up ,and waited until you had left, then followed you into the forest."

"I knew where you guys were," Cody piped up, "I knew that you were in that cave thing, that's why we had our packs so fast, I had them prepared on the other side of the road for a while now."

Jet looked at Cody, and then to CandyMellow, "What about you? How did you find out where we were?"

Candy blushed and looked down, "I didn't know anything until a few hours ago, when Cody flew into the shop and told me you guys might be in trouble."

"But how did you guys get here so fast?" Dreamie asked incredulously, It took us days just to get packs!"

Cody stepped up, "I actually have been watching you guys for a while now, a T.C.s request, and..."

"He got the packs ready ahead of time," TimeChaser interrupted, bouncing between Cody and Dreamie, "I saw you, but I couldn't spy while keeping a cover, so I asked Cody to do it. Runa and him saw you guys go into the cave, so he flew back to town and got Candy and me."

She stopped bouncing and turned to Dreamie and Jet, her face suddenly filled with tears, "What's going on guys? Why didn't you tell us that you were leaving, alone, together, into the Everfree Forest. Did't you trust us?"

"It's not that T.C.," Jet said, trying to calm down his friend, "It's that, we were trying to leave quickly, and so nopony would notice that we were gone."

"Why should nopony know you were gone," Cody asked, "Why couldn't we have at least known you were going somewhere?"

"Because if two of us had left, then it wouldn't have been that suspicious. But then all of you guys came out here, and now there bound to notice that five ponies have vanished from work."

"They who?"

A sudden rustle in the bushes behind them made Jet jump, and turn around. "Alright, who else is there!" All of them were silent, waiting for a response.
He turned to his friends, "Do you know if anypony else followed you?"

"Absitively not," TimeChaser replied, shriveling into herself out of fear.

The bushes rustled again, only this time, from the other side of them. Dreamie looked around, and called out, "TimeChaser, Jet, and Runa form a circle with me, CandyMellow and Cody, get behind us."
They all did as she asked, and TimeChaser took a little red fez out of her bag, then placed it on her head, right behind her horn.

The fog around them were now lit in a full circle by the unicorns combined glow, easing the fear of the group, but even so, they could not spot where the rustling was coming from.

The rustling seemed to come from all around them, and just as suddenly as it began, it stopped.

"Is that it?" Jet asked, looking a little more brave, magic glowing a little bit brighter.

CandyMellow gave out a quick gasp, then fell to the floor, eyes closed.
"What the?" Cody asked, before giving a gasp of his own, then collapsing, followed by Runa, who's magic blinked out as she fell.

"Guys!" Jet called out, before his magic blinked out with him gasping,

"NO!," Dreamie screamed, running over to Jet, finally breaking her composure.
She saw a dart fly at her, and ducked under it, only to be hit by one coming the other direction. She stopped moving right next to Jet, sliding to a top next to his face.
TimeChaser took a look around the clearing and turned off her magic, "I will save you the trouble, whoever you are," and with that, she jumped into the air, fell asleep, and landed on a pillow and blanket.

After a few seconds, two colts walked out of the bushes. The taller one lit a lantern and held it over his face, cutting through the fog and iluminating his face.
"What should we do with them?" He asked the smaller pony.

"I think we should bring them back to Mom and Dad, they should know what to do from there."