6 months ago, 2 days after the cruise, Evergrove Forest….

"Oh holy shit," was the first words Bouncer spoke with a groan. When he slowly opened his eyes, he saw nothing but darkened skies, overhanging what he could only guess was a gorge of sorts.

He cursed when he tried to get up but pain just wrecked his whole body. He felt like his whole body was dropped at a high altitude and was aching all over.

Bouncer tried to use his magic to help himself up, but soon was met with a painful memory…

His horn was gone. Snapped off…

By HIM….

By Spike.

"That...bastard…" he growled, trembling even. He could still feel as if magic was flowing through this horn, but his horn was not there. Forcing his body to roll to his stomach. HIs injuries of the fight was still prominent. After a few unsuccessful tries, Bouncer finally managed to get on his knees and grunted.

A ringing of a phone went off somewhere in the gorge. He limped over to the rock where the phone was. Sitting on top of a rock, a disposable phone constantly rang, coaxing the injured unicorn to answer it

Bouncer takes the phone and answers it.

"Run…," this growling voice rumbled in the phone before disconnected.

In the shadows, a beast awakened, and he sees his prey.

Now

The three managed to get to Maud's place. While Pinkie did all the talking, the couple was quiet. Both looked stoic.

But along the way, Spike would turn to Rachel, he couldn't make out what she was feeling or thinking.

Rachel didn't show any emotion on the way, she didn't know what to think when she learned the news. Combining the fact this human situation had gotten out of hand. It was all too much for her to take in at one time.

She felt Spike's hand on her shoulder. Rachel smiled lit up at that moment, she placed a hand on top of his and looked up.

"You alright?" He finally asked.

"Now I am." She replied.

"Good, can't have my dragoness be upset on me."

"Hear me roar." Rachel giggled before making a cute roar. But her cheeks were burning red. He never called her his dragoness before. It made him tingle a bit. It was always his girl, baby.

But never dragoness.

.It...it just fit her.

Pinkie Pie announced they were there before handing the couple two helmets and lead them inside of Maud's gem cave.

"Now be careful guys, can't have sharp rocks hitting your head." Pinkie warned with a giggle, carrying a flashlight in the dark tunnel. The light reflected off the colorful gems, creating a cascade of color along the ceiling walls and floor beneath them, causing the glisting of the slick, wet walls to sparkle like stars.

"Don't worry about Spike here. His head is hard enough to withstand the rocks." Rachel teased, looking at Spike.

"Oh, hey Pot, meet kettle." Spike jabs back with a giggle. "Have you two met?"

"Soooo cute!" Pinkie sighed blissfully, seeing the young couple.

It was then the pink pony tripped on a rock while skipping, dropping the flashlight from her hand and it hit the cavern floor. Sounds of cracking plastic and breaking glass was heard and the light was out.

"Pinkie, you okay?" Spike asked before blowing out a quick burst of fire to give him some light to see before going over to pinkie and helped her up.

"Im fine, owie." She replied, her knee was scraped but nothing too serious. "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"Here, let me-shit!" Rachel yelped and there was a sound of something clattering. "Dropped the damn phone again."

Spike breathed another quick burst of fire for her to see, Rachel just happened to stepped on it, cracking it.

"Mother fucker!" She snapped angrily

"Whoopsies." Pinkie said.

Spike thought of something before looking at Rachel. "Say, don't that bracelet of yours have a light ability?" Spike asked her.

"Oh, that's right!" Pinkie exclaimed. "You say that spell thingy to light this place up till we get ahead!"

"What happened to your guy's phones?" Rachel asked.

"Left them at the bakery." Spike sighed. "Right next to those burnt cupcakes of yours."

"Go play with a stick." Rachel grunted, causing Pinkie to snigger.

Spike just rolled his eyes in the darkness.

Rachel felt her wrists before finding the bracelet on her right wrist. She extended out before thinking back. "I should've read that piece of paper more than once."

"You didn't have a problem using that at AJ's barn with the barrier." Spike encouraged her. "You got this."

She nodded in the darkness before continued thinking, and thinking. "Carolini?" nothing happened. "No not that." She thought some more before saying, "Calamine? Calanmai?"

As soon as she said Calanmai, the yellow gem burst into a great, blinding white light. Blinding all three of them, quickly covering their eyes with a shout, stunning the bloody hell at Spike.

"Turn it off, turn it off!" Pinkie cried out, slipping on a welders mask. "Aah, bright light, bright light!"

"I-I don't know the spell to reverse it!" Rachel shouted before slapping her hand over the light, lighting her tanned skin up, exposing her bones in a cool, alluring way. Bits and pieces of the blinding light escaped through the cracks of her fingertips.

Every last one of them where seeing spots.

The light went away after thirty seconds.

"Never do that again," Pinkie moaned, feeling like her eyeballs were being fried.

"I thought I was seeing Dead Lights." Spike commented, rubbing his eyes.

"Oh ha ha." Rachel grumbled. "Twilight and Starlight didn't warn me how strong the lights were."

"Who is there?" Maud's voice carried. Light shining from her flashlight. She presented herself to the three, who let out a breath of relief.

Pinkie hopped over to her sister and greeted her with a big ol hug. "Ooh, hiya Maud."

"It's nice to see you again." Maud said, "What brings you here?"

"Hey Maud," Spike waved at her. Maud then flashed her light at Rachel.

"And who is this?" Maud asked.

"I'm Rachel, a friend of Pinkie's." Rachel responded, looking away from the light. Maud quickly lowered the light away from her face.

"Sissy, my friend and his mate had a bit of a," Pinkie giggled, looking at the two as if she ate the canary. Grin and all. "incident, and as a result, Rachel here is hurt. It's been a few days, aspirin can only go so far."

"And I assume you don't wanna use unicorn magic?"

"Unicorn magic doesn't work on me properly." Rachel told her. "And I don't want to depend on pain killers either."

Maud stared at Rachel, the expressionless look on her face was starting to make the human uncomfortable.

"You got something that will deal with pain?" Spike asked curiously.

"I have something." Maud said. She then dug into her pocket and pulled out Boulder. "Boulder, lead the way." she said, turning around and leading the way to her built in cavern home. Pinkie skipped behind her.

Spike and Rachel blinked before Rachel whispered. "Is Maud really Pinkie's sister?" she asked him.

"Unbelievable right?" He chuckled as the light grew dim. With a smirk, he picked her up bridal style, she squealed and winced in surprised. "Can't have you injure yourself."

"If it wasn't the fact you are super cute, and my mate, I'd poke your eye." She stuck her tongue out at him. He quickly licked her tongue with his, causing her to blush red before following the Pie sisters.