Later, when evening came, Russell, Andy, Noah, Feliks and Sitka all have already left the badlands and they're getting closer to the jungle (and to rescue their friends who are still prisoners and hostages (although they might be able to find and rescue only Igor, since Zoey, Violet, Jenna and Austin were already being rescued from captivity and were all set free by Simon)) and it seems like that their mission to rescue their friends may succeed now that they're only 3 miles away from the jungle, which means that by the next day, they will be able to reach the jungle and rescue at least just Igor from Oscar and from his bad Deertaurs herd.

However, Ron is still following the traveling party back towards the jungle and he still have intentions to get them all to himself, but the one whom he really wants to be all his and for the most is Andy, since Ron knows that Andy is Howard's little son, and so the wicked Unicorn centaur is willing to capture him and make him his own son so that he'll also be able to make him (Andy) serve both as a loyal and personal servant to the side of evil centaurs, to which both Ron and the now defeated Howard belongs, and Ron got more evil plans in mind and he also got some tricks and traps to use in order to attack, scare and harass Andy and his friends to the point the toddler centaur, the juvenile Deertaur, the young adult Beartaur and the two leopards will eventually gives in and will accepts to be Ron's son.

While they kept traveling on their way back towards the jungle, Sitka asked "How much further is the jungle?", and then Russell answered and added "3 miles. We'll find a shelter to stay in for the night and we'll continue the next morning.", and then, just a few minutes later, the five friends spotted a medium-large-sized cave not too far away from them and then Noah called as he then pointed at the cave "Look, I see a cave over there!", and then he added "Let's go sleep inside it for the night!", and so the group of five immediately went towards the cave, and once they finally reached and entered and went inside the cave, Russell said "This cave is big enough for all of us to sleep in for the night.", and then Sitka added in agreement "That's right, I kinda like it in here. There's enough space for a Beartaur like me to move inside this cave.", and then Noah also added and said in agreement with Sitka "And this cave also seems cozy enough to stay in for the night.", and with the medium-large-sized cave serving the five friends as a shelter for the night, Russell said to everyone else "Now let's go to sleep, everyone. Tomorrow, we'll be going to the jungle and rescuing our friends from Oscar and from his herd.", and then he yawned before he added and said "Goodnight, everyone.", and Andy, Noah, Feliks and Sitka all said back to him in return "Goodnight, Russell.", and with these words being said, the five friends closed their eyes and they all fell asleep inside the cave for the night.

However, later, in the middle of the night, Andy suddenly woke up and said to himself "I feel thirsty. I need to go outside and find some water. I need to drink.", and then he went outside the cave and started searching for a source of water from which he can drink because he felt so thirsty, and it didn't took him long before he suddenly spotted a lake with clean and fresh water which appeared good enough to drink not too far away, and so the toddler male centaur said "There's a lake over there.", before he then went up towards it, and once he reached and got close enough to the lake, Andy stopped at the water's edge and said "Now I can finally drink some water.", and then he lowered himself down onto his horse haunches before he then also lowered down his head, face and human hands towards the water and started drinking from them and also collect some more water up in his hands and then pour them into his own mouth as another way to drink from the lake's good, clean and fresh water.

However, just then, when Andy was done drinking water from the lake and was about to turn to go back to the cave so that he can continue sleeping with his friends for the rest of the night, he suddenly heard someone or something splashing in the water and moving towards him, and when the splashing sounds in the water became more louder with each passing second, Andy asked "Huh? Who's there? Who are you?", but just then, he suddenly saw two tall and shadowed figures coming towards him, and judging by their shapes, he knew and understood that these are the ones of centaurs just like him, but once the two shadowed centaur figures approached came close enough to Andy and their appearances cleared before his eyes, he gasped in shock as he couldn't believe who they are - those two tall centaurs who appeared before Andy are none other than Bluebell and Stephan (or so it seems), and when he saw the two coming towards him, Andy asked in shock "Huh?! Stephan?! Bluebell?! Is that you two?!", and when they both heard what he said, the two teenage centaurs took a few more steps forward before they finally stopped right in front of Andy and looked down at him with the bottoms of their horse legs and hooves are still in the water.

When Andy saw Bluebell and Stephan standing close and right in front of him (or so he thought they are), the toddler male centaur couldn't help but shed tears of joy and then he hugged at each of the two older centaurs' lower horse forelegs and cried with joy, believing that these Bluebell and Stephan who are standing before him are real "Oh goodness, Stephan and Bluebell! It is you two! I'm so happy to see you both again!", but instead of picking up Andy and giving him a hug, the two teenage centaurs just stared and looked down at him, but they weren't happy to see him, and instead they both appeared to be looking sternly and angrily at him. When Andy noticed the sudden change in both his older brother and his girlfriend (and future sister-in-law), he looked up at them again and saw their faces and asked them "What's wrong? Why are you both looking at me like this? Why are you looking so angry at me? Did I did something wrong?".

Just then, 'Stephan' suddenly raised up his left hand and then he quickly brought it down and slapped Andy hard across the face before he yelled in anger "Shut up you ugly excuse for a little brother!", and then he added "I regret having such weak, pathetic little centaurs for a little sister and a little brother like Zoey and you!", and then 'Bluebell' also said in agreement "Yeah, that right! You and Zoey are nothing but a couple of sniveling little brats!", and when Andy heard what they both said, he gasped in both shock and bewilderment and cried and asked "What?!", but just then, 'Bluebell' also raised up her own right hand and then she quickly brought it down and slapped Andy across the face as well before she angrily yelled "It's all you and Zoey's fault that we got hit on the heads and knocked out cold like that! My big sister, Anastasia had the rights to banish you two away from home!", and then she and 'Stephan' both said together to the now shocked and bewildered toddler centaur "We're sick and tired of having you two around! We hate you! Both of you! It's all your fault! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" they raised up their voices which suddenly started growing and sounding more demonic, thus scaring Andy and making him shake with sobs and cry some more before who he thought are his big brother and girlfriend (and future sister-in-law), not even knowing that these two teenage centaurs who are standing before him are actually fake and aren't even real at all.

However, despite he didn't yet know that these Bluebell and Stephan who are standing before him and slapping him across the face aren't real, their bad, insulting and harmful words were still strong enough to hurt Andy's feelings, and so that's when he cried and said back to them "No! Please, don't say that! It was all an accident! It's not our fault!", but then the real nightmare began when the two teenage centaurs yelled down at him in the face and in their now demonic tones "YOU'RE EVIL! YOU'RE EVIL! YOU'RE EVIL! YOU'RE...!" but then they both suddenly started melting into goo right before his eyes, thus frightening the poor little centaur, who then cried and asked "What's happening?!", and once 'Bluebell' and 'Stephan' both completely melted into goo, the goo soon disappeared into nothing and then Ron suddenly came out of nowhere and soon appeared floating above the water and right in front of him.

Then, Ron laughed evilly and said "Beep beep, Andy!" and then he added "I scared you to death, didn't I? Come to me and be all mine anytime!", but when Andy saw him and heard what he said, the toddler centaur started shedding more tears of both sadness and pain from the fact that Ron managed to trick him and mean him harm once again by using the images of Bluebell and Stephan to harass him to the point of crying, but when Ron saw his tears, the young adult male Unicorn centaur said to him "It's no use to shed tears, Andy! Because sooner or later, you're going to be all mine, do you hear me? You're going to be all mine!", and then he laughed evilly once again before he vanished and disappeared into thin air like if he was never even there, thus leaving Andy to continue to cry both in sadness and in pain from falling for Ron's cruel and heartless trick (which the older centaur had just pulled on him).

However, just then, shortly after Ron disappeared, Andy suddenly started hearing Russell's voice calling for him "Andy! Andy, where are you?" and then the red leopard's voice also added "Andy, please, answer me!", and when Andy recognized his feline friend's voice, he turned his head and looked around everywhere and asked "Huh? Russell? Is that you? Where are you?", and when he turned around and looked in the direction from where he came, he saw Russell approaching him from the distance not too far away from him, and when he saw Andy too, the red leopard called for him and said "There you are, Andy!", and then the two started running fast towards each other, and once they got reunited with each other again, Andy wrapped his human arms and hands around Russell's neck and cried "Russell! I'm so glad that you came here for me! That horned centaur scared and harassed me again by using the images of my big brother and Bluebell against me!", but then Russell also wrapped and placed his own forelegs and forepaws around Andy's upper human body and upper human back and hugged him and said back in a reassuring tone "Shhh. It's okay, Andy. Calm down and dry those tears. You're safe now. I will make sure that that horned centaur will pay for doing this and all the other things he already did to you and to the rest of us.".

The two stayed in place hugging each other for around ten minutes, before they finally pulled away from each other and then Russell said to Andy "Now, let's go back to the cave, Andy. Tomorrow, we'll be going to the jungle to rescue our friends, and then we'll all go to face that horned centaur again and make sure to capture him and force him to tell us who he is and what does he wants from us.", and when Andy heard what his red leopard friend said to him, for he knew that Ron is running out of tricks, the toddler centaur sniffled and said back as he then wiped away the last tears forming in his eyes "You're right. That horned centaur won't be able to use his mean and dirty magic tricks on us much longer. Thank you for reassuring me, Russell.", and when Russell saw and noticed that Andy has fully calmed down from the pain that Ron have just caused him with his fifth heartless trick he did so far, the red leopard gently placed his right forepaw on Andy's left shoulder for a brief moment and then he said "Now let's go back to the cave, Andy.", and the toddler centaur nodded in agreement and said back "Yes, Russell.", and so with these words being said, Andy and Russell walked together back to the cave where their friends are still sleeping soundly, and once they're back inside the cave, the two fell asleep near their still sleeping friends and continued and resumed their sleep for the rest of the night.

The next morning, the five friends woke up and left the cave in which they slept for the night and continued traveling towards the jungle, and after a while of traveling on their way, they all could finally see the jungle standing far ahead of them (but then they also knew that they're getting close to save their friends from Oscar and from his bad Deertaurs herd), and so Russell called and said to his four friends "Look guys! The jungle is right over there!", and then Sitka added "We're almost there to rescue our friends from that Oscar and from his herd!", and then Noah also added in agreement "That's right! We're going to rescue my mom, dad and Igor!", and Andy also said in agreement with the juvenile Deertaur "And my twin sister, Zoey, and our friend, Violet!", and so that's when the five friends started running together towards the jungle as fast as they could, hoping to get there in time to rescue their friends from Oscar and from his bad Deertaurs herd.

However, just then, a loud rumbling sound was suddenly heard from underground, thus prompting the five friends to stop running towards the jungle and stay in place for a moment, before Sitka then asked "Huh? What was that sound?", and just as he and his friends were about to continue on their way, a geyser suddenly burst out from underground before them, thus causing and making Andy, Noah and Feliks to scream with fright before they asked together "Where did that thing came from?", and then more geysers burst from underground before them, forming a geysers field which quickly became an obstacle to the five friends, and so therefore it also makes their journey back to the jungle harder than expected.

"Geysers?! Where all of these came from?!" Andy and Noah asked together in shock, but then Russell answered and said back "I don't know, guys! But I don't like this!", and when they all heard what their red leopard friend just said to them, Sitka asked "How are we supposed to reach the jungle with all the geysers around and in front of us?", and for two minutes, Russell looked back and forth between left and right (like he already did before in the maze-like dungeon) and he tried to think of a way to pass through the geysers field with his friends and reach the jungle without having anyone getting hurt, but after realizing that he and the others will all need and will have to run as fast as they all could to pass through the geysers field without getting hurt, Russell said to the others "We must go through the geysers field as fast as we could to reach the jungle!" and then he added "Follow me, guys! I shall help and lead the way!", and with these words being said, Andy, Noah, Feliks and Sitka all knew that they have no choice but to obey and follow Russell's words, since it was in fact their only way to reach the jungle unharmed, and so that's when the four reluctantly decided following close behind Russell throughout the geysers field to make sure that they all will be able to reach the jungle unharmed.

While they went on their way and passed through the geysers field, Russell looked back and forth between left and right while he's running and not standing still so to see which way is safe for him and for his friends to go to in order to pass through the geysers field and reach the jungle unharmed, and after a short moment, Russell said to his friends who all followed close behind him "Let's go this way! To the left!", and so they all quickly ran to the left while also avoiding getting hit or blown by the geysers, but after a minute of running to the left, Noah asked "Now which way we should go to?", and then Russell looked back and forth between left and right again before he then said "Let's go to the right!", and so that's when the five friends changed direction and quickly went to the right while still avoiding getting hit or blown by the geysers, but after a minute of running to the right, Feliks asked "And now?", and so Russell looked back and forth between left and right again before he then said back "To the left!", and so that's when the five friends changed their direction again and started running to the left again while still avoiding getting hit or blown by the geysers, but after a minute of running to the left again, Andy asked "And now?", and so Russell looked back and forth between left and right again before he then said back "Again to the left!", and so the five friends quickly went to the left for the third time and kept running as fast as they could while keeping avoiding getting hit or blown by the geysers, but after a minute of running to the left for the third time, Sitka asked "And now?", and so Russell looked back and forth between left and right again before he said back "To the right!", and so that's when the five friends changed their direction and started running to the right while still keeping avoiding getting hit or blown by the geysers, and it seemed and appeared like they're all nearly reaching the other side of the geysers field, as well as almost reaching the jungle.

However, just then, before the five friends were about to escape from the geysers field and reach the jungle, out of nowhere, a geyser suddenly burst from underground and it hit Sitka right on the underside of his lower bear body, thus causing him to scream in pain as he was then sent flying up almost 20 feet in the air for a brief moment, before he ended up falling back down and hitting the ground hard on his left side, prompting him to let out a scream and cry in pain from being hit and blown by the geyser as he then lied down helplessly, unable to get up, and also unable to continue and/or escape for his life.

When Russell and the kids saw Sitka getting hit and blown by the geyser and also getting hurt as a result, the four of them cried and yelled all together "SITKA!", and then they all quickly turned around and ran back to him, and once they reached their young adult male Beartaur friend, Feliks asked him "Sitka, are you okay?!", but then Sitka said back to him and to the others "Go. Please, go towards the jungle, guys.", and when they heard what he just said, Feliks asked him "But what about you Sitka?", but then the Beartaur said back "Leave me here, guys. I'll only slow you down if you try to help me.".

However, when the four friends heard what he said, they all gasped in shock before Feliks cried and said to him "What?! No! We can't leave you here!", but then Sitka argued and said back "You must! Go! Go to the jungle and rescue our friends from Oscar and from his herd!", but when they all heard what Sitka just said, Feliks whined and said "But Sitka-", but then the Beartaur cut him in mid-sentence and yelled "I SAID GO! NOW!", and when Russell realized and understood that Sitka is saying that because he knows that if they stay behind and try to help him they'll all die too, the red leopard said to the his three younger friends "Let's go guys! We must go to the jungle and rescue our other friends from Oscar and from his herd!", but when Feliks heard what the older leopard said, the young male leopard cub cried and asked "But what about Sitka?!", but then Russell yelled and said to him and to the two centaurid children "We must continue and go without him! If we stay here to save him, we all will be blown to death by the geysers!", but then, when he heard what the red leopard who adopted him and took him in as his nephew just said, Feliks whined and begged "But-", but then Russell cut him in mid-sentence and yelled and said back "We must go! NOW!", and with these words being said, Feliks knew that he and the others don't have a choice, and so the young male leopard cub shed tears as he looked at Sitka one last time before finally turning tail and (reluctantly) running away with the others, thus leaving Sitka behind as the four managed to reach the other side of the geysers field and escape from the danger zone through which they had to go.

Then, after the four remaining friends managed to escape from the geysers field, they all finally reached the jungle, and so that's when Russell said to the kids "Finally, we reached the jungle.", but just then, they all suddenly heard a familiar voice which they (except for Feliks, of course) haven't heard in a while calling for them and saying "Hey! There you are, guys!", and then, just a moment later, a large adult male Rhinotaur came out from behind the trees and soon came out of the jungle to meet them, and it was none other than Igor, who was already being set free by Simon while Oscar and the rest of the Deertaurs herd were all gone on their hunt, and when the four friends saw Igor coming towards them, Noah cried and said "Igor! It's you!", and once they all reunited with each other, the juvenile Deertaur went up to and soon hugged his Rhinotaur friend and said to him "It's good to see you again and know that you're okay, Igor!", but then he also asked "What are you doing here all alone by yourself? Where's mom and dad?", but when he heard what Noah said, Igor said back to him and to the others "I don't know.".

However, just then, a male voice suddenly called and said to the five "I've already set them and your little friend (Violet) free!", and when they heard what the voice just said, they turned around and looked and saw a handsome adolescent male Deertaur who appeared slightly a bit older than Chloe, Aylene, Stephan, Zach and all the other teenagers coming out from behind the trees and running out of the jungle towards the five of them (Russell, Andy, Noah, Feliks and Igor), and that was none other than Simon, and when they all saw him coming towards them, Noah asked him "Huh? Who are you?", and then Simon stopped right in front of them and introduced himself while also explaining his own good motives to help other good creatures at the same time "I'm Simon. One of the most handsome males who was once a member of Oscar's herd, but because I hated the ways in which he and his best friends treats other creatures, I decided to betray them and their whole herd and set your friends free behind Oscar and his friends' backs, and for addition to what I did, I also decided to go and leave Oscar and all of his herd and put them all behind me so that I won't have to stay with all these cruel and heartless Deertaurs in the jungle for the rest of my life.".

When the five of them heard what Simon said as he also explained and revealed his will and intentions to reform himself against Oscar and all the rest of the Deertaurs herd and join the good side instead to start anew, Noah said to him "You did a good thing, and it's also nice to meet you too, Simon.", and then Russell added in agreement "Yeah, that's right. Also, judging by your handsome appearance, you do look too good for that monster and for his evil friends anyway.", and when he heard what the red leopard just said to him, Simon looked down and smiled at him and said back "I know, and that's exactly why I set your friends free one-by-one and then decided to run away as well.", but then he quickly added and explained "However, I also must say that I remember that I haven't managed to set all of your friends free, because before I was able to set your Beartaur friend free, some unknown magic took him away before I was able to set him free and take him away to somewhere safe so that Oscar and the rest of the herd won't be able to find him.".

Then, Simon asked Russell and the others "Speaking of him, what happened to your Beartaur friend?", but then Feliks cried "He's gone! He got hit and blown by a geyser! We lost him!", but just then, however, an awfully familiar male voice suddenly said and asked "Is that what you all really think?", and when they all heard what the voice just said, Russell, Andy, Noah, Feliks, Igor and Simon all turned around, only to see Ron standing in front of them with an evil smile creeping on his face. When the six saw Ron looking and smiling at them evilly, the kids gasped in shock, while Igor and Simon both looked at him with confused expressions, but as for Russell, he growled angrily before he then asked "You again?!" and then Feliks also yelled and asked "Where's Sitka?! What did you do to him?!", and when he heard what the two leopards said to him, Ron laughed evilly and said back "You mean this Beartaur?", and then he used his magic to show Sitka to everyone, but even though it turned out that he's actually alive and okay after being hit and blown in the geysers field, Sitka is now being held up and suspended in the air next to Ron, as the wicked Unicorn centaur kept smiling evilly at the six, but the worst part imaginable is that there was also a knife being held up in the air right in front of Sitka's neck, with the sharp tip (and the very end) of the knife is aiming to stab him right in the throat.

When everyone saw that Sitka is okay but that he's also being held up in the air, Simon said as he then pointed his finger at the Beartaur whose being held up in the air and right next to Ron (by Ron's magic) "Look! There he is!", and then Andy, Noah and Feliks all cried "Sitka! You're alive!", and when Sitka saw all the others, he called back for them all "Guys!", but then the knife moved an inch closer to his neck, aiming to stab him directly in the throat right in front of everyone's eyes. When they all saw Ron is aiming to use his magic to stab Sitka with the knife, Feliks cried "Let him go!", but then Ron laughed evilly at him and at all the others and said back "Not a chance. I think that that Beartaur who is a so-called friend of yours would look marvelous as a beautiful skin rug." and then he added "It's better to have him as a skin rug than just leaving him to die in the geysers field.".

However, when they all heard what he said, Russell asked angrily while aiming himself to strike Ron if he dares to kill Sitka "What did you just said?!", but then Ron said back "Or I can just take all of you with me right now!", but then Russell asked him with both shock and anger in his eyes "Wait a minute, you're the one who made these geysers appear before our eyes and before we reached the jungle?!", and when Ron heard what the red leopard said to him, he said back evilly "Yes! I was responsible for everything you've been through! From that so-called Mr. Hammond to the geysers field! And now that you're all here just in where I wanted you all to be, I can finally have all of you to myself! Now you're all going to be all mine!", and then he burst into an evil laughter as he then lit up his Unicorn horn in a purple aura which surrounds Russell, Andy, Noah, Feliks, Igor, Simon and even Sitka, and then, just a moment later, all seven disappeared together into thin air like if they were never there.

However, they're not togoing only ones who are taken away by Ron's magic - Zoey, Violet, Jenna and Austin were also taken by Ron's magic, and somewhere else, while Chloe, Aylene, Shujaa and everyone else were still traveling and keeping searching everywhere for Anastasia, as well as for Andy and Zoey, they all suddenly found themselves being surrounded all together by Ron's purple aura, and when they all felt the magic within the aura, Scootaloo asked Rainbow Dash "Rainbow Dash, what's going on?! What's happening?!", but then Rainbow Dash said back "I don't know!", and then everyone screamed all together as they all suddenly disappeared into thin air as well.

As for Anastasia, she continued searching everywhere for Andy and Zoey, despite she's suffering from pain which is caused by her pregnant lower horse belly, but despite the pain from her pregnancy, Anastasia still didn't let her own body to give out as she was willing to keep the baby she's going to have in her lower horse stomach until she finds Andy and Zoey and tells them the truth, not knowing that Ron have already captured them and took them away along with everyone else, and then it happened - Ron's purple magic aura suddenly appeared and surrounded Anastasia, and when she felt the aura around her whole body, she asked herself with fright in her tone "What's going on?! What's happening?!", and just then, she screamed as she then vanished into thin air like if she was never there, meaning that now Ron have managed to capture her and take her away too.

However, that's not all - back in the royal castle, as well as in the Crystal Empire and the changeling kingdom, the Alicorn princesses (Celestia, Luna and Cadance), Prince Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, the changeling kings (Thorax and Pharynx), and even the still unconscious bodies of Bluebell and Stephan, which were still lying down on two beds in one of the rooms of the royal castle are all suddenly being surrounded by Ron's purple magic aura, and then, just a few moments later, they all disappeared all together into thin air and at around the same time, and with Ron capturing and taking everyone away successfully, the wicked Unicorn centaur burst out into an evil laughter and then he said "My plan came out a complete success! And now that everyone are all mine, nothing...NOTHING CAN STOP ME!" he yelled out loud in a demonic tone and laughed evilly again before he then used his magic to make himself disappear into thin air too, thus showing that his intentions to kidnap, abduct and imprison everyone as his slaves finally came true.

Will everyone be able to escape from Ron and get back to their homes? Or will Ron have them all to himself as his prisoners and slaves for once and for all?

To be continued.