"That was so scary." said Fluttershy, after when the void disappeared.
"Well we know about the mistress of the goblin cats," said Applejack, "we know she is after the golden heart."
"That lest the book is safe." said Ember hold the book with her hoofs, "But tell me, how did you manage to get away for the other goblin cats?"
Applejack told her friends she got Black claw in to the river. Then Fluttershy told them she use her singing and her stare.
"That's amazing." Ember impress, "I never thought you can do stare like that. Too bad I didn't see it."
"And I cannot believe those monsters really hate singing." said Fluttershy.
"But it like I said before, they can't stand music, bright light and water."
"I just glad you just did." please Applejack, but then remind about earlier. "But we just know that strange creepy sorceress named Merissa, whoever she is. Is trying to bring destruction to Equestia."
"But she need to find the golden heart." added Fluttershy to remind as well.
"Then I suggest we better find it before she does." Ember suggested, "But first we need to get back to Twilight and warn her."
"But how do we suppose to get back to her?" ask Applejack remind Ember again, "Were still lost in this dark forest."
That worries Ember, until.
"Not any more you not." replied a voice from someway, but to Applejack and Fluttershy the voice sounded familiar.
Discord appeared to them, Fluttershy was happy to see him as she empress him. She was the only friend he ever had, sense after he was relisted from his stone prison and before he was reformed.
"How did you find us?" Fluttershy ask.
"It was easy." said Discord as he came to Ember, "If it wasn't for this unicorn that was with you, that I can sense her magic."
That surprise Ember, barely. "If I guessed it," she said, "you must be Discord that I heard about."
"That's him." complied Applejack.
"And you must be Ember Pureheart," Discord added from Ember, "the new student to Princess Celestia that I heard about. How lovely to meet you."
Ember did heard about Discord from Twilight and from great histories back in her home valley. She was unsure to trust him, but knowing him that he is change…a bit. She learns it was Fluttershy who help him to get in to his good side. Ember was O.K for it and he is not so bad, for a while.
"Well…nice to meet you." She greet slowly.
"Good." Discord pleased. "By the way this magic you use before, was nothing I ever felt before and I was very curious about it."
"Never mind that," complied Applejack, "if you did manage to find us. Can you take us back to Ponyville?"
"Of course I will, if you say please."
Fluttershy said first, then Ember. Applejack was unsure, she still doesn't trust Discord. But she had no choice when she look at friends and there's no deny of Discord's help.
Then she sighed. "All right, please."
"Excellent." Discord proudly, then he snapped his fingers and the he and the three ponies vanish from the forest.
Back in the library in Ponyville, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Spike looking at some books that may know more of the golden heart, while they are waiting of some news of their lost friends.
"This is a waste of time." complained Rainbow Dash, "We should for go out and look for Applejack, Fluttershy and Ember ourselves."
"We can't do anything for now but wait." said Twilight, "The more important thing is try to find the golden heart and where it was hidden."
"It is surprise that the princess couldn't find it long ago." said Rarity to Twilight, "How do we know if it does exist?"
Twilight was in despair, she doesn't know more and she hope there's a way.
Just then a flash of light appeared and coming down from it, came Applejack, Fluttershy and Ember as they land in the pile of books.
A delightful moment then the six ponies are together again as they form a group hug. Ember was glad about them, but she was not left out when empress her suddenly.
"I so happy you're alive." cried Twilight.
"But we would have been found if it wasn't for Discord." said Fluttershy.
"That's right," said the draconequus hanging on the sealing, "Have you forgotten about me?"
"Well, thanks." Ember slowly thanking him.
"You're welcome. Now if you excuse me, am getting a bit tired so I'll rest for a while. If you wouldn't mind if I use your bed Twilight."
He disappeared to Twilight's bed, Twilight wasn't appreciated when Discord is in her bed, the same way as Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack. But he did something good for them, just once.
"So what happen to you girls?" Pinkie Pie filling with joy as she got the three lost ponies in her arms, "Did you have fun? What place do you sent to? A desert? A meadow? Or may be a beach?"
"We were in a dark forest." said Applejack, "Not like the Everfree Forest, but a different."
"It was pretty in the light," added Fluttershy, "but in the dark it was frightening. When we meet up with the goblin cats."
"Those monster?!" whaled Rainbow Dash. "How do they manage to find you guys? I would have get even with the one who put a scratch in my wing."
"I already have." Said Applejack and told them how they manage to deal with the goblin cats back in the forest.
"So you got one in the river?" Rarity amazed, "and Fluttershy drove the other with her singing…"
"And her stare?!" added Pinkie Pie quickly.
"But if it wasn't for Ember," said Fluttershy, "we wouldn't know how to deal with them."
"And you let out a blazing light on the smart one?" ask Rainbow dash to Ember.
"It's the one thing I have to do," said Ember, "I can let them get the other half of the book and we learn about the golden heart from this half."
That makes Twilight was now even more delight. "That's brilliant."
Ember use her magic to look for the pages of it and once she did, she it to Twilight.
The pages of the toned book did tells the great powers of the golden heart and what its powers of goodness can do, as she tell is out. But it does not tell of its hidden place.
"Well that not good." complained Rainbow Dash.
"But it did said here that only the pony, who can connected to the heart." Twilight replied as she read the book. "Only she could welled it and only she could use its powers for great need, if she could be connected and bond with it. If any pony or any creature who dare to use it, will be too dangers for them."
"And who is that pony?" ask Rarity.
"I don't know."
"Well there's something else you should know now," said Applejack nearly forgot about something, "after Ember, Fluttershy and me were be able to deal with the goblin cats. Their mistress came a pick them up."
That came with a shock to Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie.
"What does she look like?" ask Pinkie as she went in to Applejack's face, "Was she other goblin cats? Of some scary beast?"
"Were not sure." said Ember as she thought back, "All we see was a void, with her deep voice and her blue eyes, they were cold as ice. She almost had the airier frozen and she said that she after the golden heart and bringing doom to Equestria."
"Anything else you know from her?" ask Twilight.
"We did learn her name, she call herself Merissa, the sorceress of the cold mountains."
That frightens Twilight, she never heard of this Merissa and she sounded dangers. How it was she controls the three goblin cats and had them break in the Archive to steal the book.
"Well if she after the golden heart that we've already learned, suggest Rainbow dash, "We better find it now."
"And how do we suppose to find it?" complained Applejack, "The book didn't give us a clue."
Ember remember the dream she had earlier back in the forest, she was about to tell Applejack and Fluttershy about before the goblin cats. Now is the time.
"I think I do." she said, "Right before the goblin cats came, I had that strange dream, with a voice. I don't know what it is, but it seems it trying to tell me something. Something about the heart and it told me this riddle that be able to guide us to it. I hope."
"You mean that dream you had back in the forest?" ask Applejack.
"Yes, the voice I heard said it will be three riddles along the way, it only give me the first one."
"O.K," said Twilight as she trust Ember, "What's the first one?"
"To begin the quest, go back to where you have left.
Where it is much like the town, which you are now with a new line of friendship."
"Is that all, darling?" Rarity ask.
"Yes and the voice said this is the first one. That's before I woke up."
"But what does it mean?" wonder Rainbow Dash.
Twilight is trying to work out the riddle, by take it one at a time. She thought of go back to where you have left, maybe in Canterlot or Ponyville. This is really goner make Twilight crack.
By then she huff. "I can't work it out! This is too difficult!"
Her five friends feels the same way, even Spike. But it will take forever to work it out.
Ember could not let her new friends feel down. She was not sure about the first part of the riddle, but the second is something and it had something to do about friendship.
She did thought about Ponyville, it was the one place that she started a new line of friendship and the home town was almost like…
Then it hit her.
"I think I've got It." she said, "I thought about the second part of the riddle and I realized it had something to do about how I made friends with you and Ponyville was almost like the part of Equestria I'm from."
Then it hit Twilight too, about the second part of the riddle and the first part is.
"Galloping Valley!" Twilight cried, "It is home where you have left Ember and the riddle also said to go back there."
"And that's where the quest begins." added Rainbow Dash with excitement, for it will like one of Daring Doo stories.
"How did you work it out so quickly?" Fluttershy ask Ember.
"Well, the dream came to me," Ember explained, "and it said I'm the one to work it out."
"But why you?" ask Rarity feeling curious.
"How do I know?"
"Now we know where to start." said Applejack. "What we do now?"
"The first thing we need to do is to let Princess Celestia know about is," Twilight suggested, "and get ready for a train journey."
"Yeah," cheered Pinkie Pie with excitement, "This is going to be fun. I can't wait to see Ember's home and I bet we gonna meet some new ponies!"
"But also, we need to get our sleeping guest out of my bed!"
"You're not taking about me, are you?" Discord replied in Twilight's bed.
"Don't tell me you heard everything from us." complained Rainbow Dash.
He did and that brings Twilight with a huff.