As the 8 friends, joined by Philomena, reached the edge of the Everfree Forest. Griffy, Applejack and Rarity suddenly remembered something, they had to tend to a few things at their homes. They told the rest of the gang that they would be right back.

Applejack rushed to Sweet Apple Acres to grab a pack of Apples for this journey. She suddenly got accidently stopped by her brother, Big Macintosh. "Eeeeyup", he said to her, "Looks lahke ya'll are gunna save the world again, move along"

Rarity told her sister, Sweetie Belle to go and have a little "sleep over" at Sweet Apple Acres with Apple Bloom, since she was not going to be around to look after her.

Griffy, meanwhile, found his flute that he had used earlier that day and decided to take it along, "Never know when something like an instrument becomes useful", he thought to himself.

Once the three had returned to their group (who were waiting by the forest's edge), they all wondered as to why they had brought a large sack of Apples hanging over AJ's side.

"It's fer when we feel both hungry and apart from home", said AJ.

"I also brought along my Gabbagonian flute to entertain us all", said Griffy, pointing to his flute sticking out of the Apple sack.

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As the 9 were in the forest, some short distance from Ponyville, they came across what looked like something moving in the bushes and chewing on something.

"It's probably just a Weasel or a Warthog", said Griffy as he walked over and pulled down some of the bush, revealing William the "real" Unicorn sitting on the ground and eating some of that Ponyville cake he wanted so much.

"Oh, it's you, represenatives of Harmony", said William, licking the cake off of his muzzle, "And you've been occompanied by a Phoenix, eh?"

"This is Philomena", said Twilight. That's when Philomena flew over to William and stared at him closely.

"What?", he asked the fire-like Bird.

Philomena made a few squawks in a perfect sentance of her own Phoenix language, wich meant: "You are the most bizarre-looking Perrisiodactyl I have ever seen"

Riiiiiiiiiight", said William with a wierded-out voice, "Now what is your latest quest, heroes?"

"There has been strange activity in the center of the Everfree Forest", said Spike, "And the jar of Mega-Ant venom was stolen by Demons last night and taken to the center"

"Sounds like a looooooong walk", said William, "Why don't you ask Zecora the Zebra about a quicker way to get to the forest's center. For you see, the Everfree Forest spans for several miles"

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Just as William had suggested to do, the 9 Beings made their way to Zecora's hut, to ask her of how to find an easy route to the heart of the Everfree Forest.

"Answers, I do know", said Zecoras as the group stood in front of her cauldron, "But you must know what you shall meet, before you go"

She then started to use some sort of herbal mix in her bru and it started to make illusions in the steam of what looked like primitive Creatures.

"If you try and fly or take an high-up ride", said the Zebra as the illusion that looked like a Pterosaur flew over the group's heads, "You might meet a Kongamato near your side"

"And if you you meet a Virunga in the dark", she continued as the illusion of what looked like a big carnivorous Dinosaur charged straight at them, "It will be no safe walk in the park"

"And if you enounter a long-horned Rhinoceros with not much hair", she continued as the illusion of what looked-like a one-horned Rhino lumbered past the them all, "An Emela-Ntouka is what you have met there"

Then all the illusional smoke Creatures disappeared by just poofing away.

"Walk a few kilometers that way to a tall cliff, no need for a relay", continued Zecora, "You will find an object you know to count on will give you the right way"

None of the group quite understood Zecora's riddle, but they decided to just go and try it out anyways. They left her hut and went into the direction Zecora pointed out to them. That's when Griffy stopped and rushed in another direction, as if to get a look at something. The other went ot go and check him, only to find their Pygmy Griffin friend sitting on boulder, staring through some thick Cycads at an enormous clearing which happened to be none other than his home area, Gabbagon.

Philomena just rolled her eyes in impatience. Spike and most of the Ponies kind of acted the same way the Phoenix was acting. Fluttershy and Twilight, on the other hand, noticed Griffy's eyes, as he looked at his original home, shedding tears. The two felt bad, since he had been banished from his home area by breaking a law: never eat a fellow Gabbagonian (in this case, a Vole).

"I might want to focus on my new life with you all", said Griffy, his eyes starting to spot shedding tears, "And I should.."

That's when he spotted, within Gabbagon's borders, two female Pygmy Griffins walking by and gossiping in Gabbagonian. One had regular yellow eyes, but the other had the rare blues eyes, just like Griffy.

"Meow", said Griffy with a smile as he watched them pass, blushing slightly at the same time. He then remembered that they had to do a mission with his friends and jumped over to them and carried on into the Everfree Forest.

To Be Continued