"So let me see if I've figured this out…" said Appleseed. "You and crimson are the same pony, and twilight and moonlight are the same pony too. But… crimson and twilight, are from a different dimension where everything is the same but everypony is of the opposite gender… right?"

"Yeah… precisely." I replied. We finally got back to moonlights house about an hour ago and right off the bat I had to explain myself and twilight being here. Luckily when I got back thunder was here too, but scarlet said that his opposite counterpart was elsewhere. And like I said, we got back an hour ago and I'm still trying to make these five understand the situation, we didn't even read the prince's letter. I think oddity and Appleseed get it and maybe fluttercoy too. Rainbow blitz is just floating there and is having trouble but I think he gets the gist of it. And pinkie… well… pinkie is standing there looking at us with a smile on his face and hasn't said a word. Literally not a word… I think he might be broken. I'm also sure that everything I've been explaining over the last hour has just completely passed by him as easy as the wind.

"Well… that's quite the experience." Said oddity. "But I have to ask, why did you come here?"

"We're on a very important quest, there's somepony I have to rescue and the pony that took them has hidden in his own special dimension, I've got to follow a trail of interdimensional portals to reach them. The first portal brought us here… now we need to find the second one." I said.

"Oh… well then." Said oddity. "That seems simple enough." He said with a sarcastic undertone.

"There's no way you could ever really hope to understand what the quest is, it's really a 'you had to be there' kinda thing." Added twilight.

"Anyway… I think we should read the letter from the prince." Said moonlight walking over to his desk where a lone note lay neatly on the top of a book.

"Please if you wouldn't mind, I need to know what he's said." I said.

"alright." Said moonlight using his magic to levitate the note over and unravel it in front of him. He cleared his throat and began reading the letter.

"Dear moonlight." Started the letter. "I have received your letter last night and waited till morning to respond. I am… eagerly interested in what you have written to me, about the three travelers from an opposite dimension. So interested, in fact, that I request that you and scarlet bring the three to me in the Canterlot palace so that we can further discuss the matter and decide what should be done with the three and if they can be trusted. You have written about what they told you about their quest, and if it is true then I believe that they can be of great help to me and my brother. Please bring them to the castle by the day's end. Sincerely signed… Prince Solar."

"Wow… he's not often that formal with his letters." Said scarlet. While it is rather formal he still does sound an awful lot like Celestia.

"Wait… before the day's end." Repeated moonlight looking at the letter. "AH!" he said suddenly startled. "We have to get going now, or we'll be tardy." He said rushing over to his saddle bags and quickly throwing them on. "C'mon scarlet and you three, we have to go."

"If I still remember my way around the Canterlot courtyard from my world, and I know I do, I should be able to teleport us there." I said calmly as I watched moonlight panic.

"Wait… really?" said moonlight stopping dead in his tracks and looking at me with wonder.

"yeah." I said.

"Do you think that will work here in our world?" asked scarlet.

"Yeah, the courtyard is just a stone brick circle with a bunch of hedges around it leading to the door, or am I going to accidentally teleport one of us into a statue, because that could get ugly." I said.

"Yeah sounds just like the courtyard." Said scarlet. "And the bricks on the circle and placed and cut so that they make a sun symbol like the princes mark." She said.

"Well then bingo." I said. "Should be simple, same place, same distance, and same location as it always is and was."

"Well let's go…" said moonlight.

"Wait, can you really teleport us all there?" asked scarlet.

"Well yeah… you can too cant you?" I asked.

"Well I can teleport me and maybe two or three other ponies, but not all five of us, eh… ten if the rest of you want to come." She said looking back at her friends.

"Five….ten, twenty, doesn't matter, I've taught myself a special trick on teleportation that makes it less exhausting to take multiple ponies." I said. "So… that leaves the question, are the five of you coming, it's not my decision, and they're your friends." I said to scarlet. Scarlet just looked back to her five friends silently asking the same thing and her friends just smiled.

"If you want us to come then of course we will, we're your best friends." Said Appleseed.

"Yeah, and teleporting sounds like a lot of fun." Said pinky ecstatically.

"Ugh, c'mon, let's just get going already… the prince is waiting for us." Said rainbow blitz. Scarlet giggled and her friends smiled along with her.

"Well then… there's your answer, let's go." Said scarlet looking at me and smiling.

"Alrighty then… twilight, thunder, are you two ready?" I asked looking over to my friends.

"Always am…" said thunder.

"Let's do this." Said twilight.

"Alright… ladies and gentlecolts get ready to go." I said getting in a wide stance and focusing my energy around the group of us. "You're going to witness a change in pressure then a sudden flash of light. Those with weak stomachs… well, I guess it's too late for that." I said as my eyes glowed white and white light started shining up from the ground and surrounding us. Whisks of white energy started flowing around us faster and faster until we lifted up off the ground and floated in the air briefly. My body began glowing with symbols and markings. Then there was a loud rumbling followed by a deep flash of light, and we were gone.

In the same second the flash of light faded and we were now in the center of the Canterlot courtyard right on the castles insignia of the princess's or prince's mark. The ground beneath us cracked and light shone through as a thunderous boom echoed through all of Canterlot. I got up from my stance and my glowing body began to fade until I was without my markings or glowing white eyes. The others seemed dazed and confused all except for scarlet who shook her head and recovered quickly and looked around. I noticed the courtyard was especially full of guard on this day, even if I'm not from this universe the courtyard is never often filled with these many guards, all of whom looked at us in shock and awe. And with the way this world is, almost all of them were female guards.

"Huh… we made it." said scarlet looking around at the castle. "Nice. Follow me." She said running off towards the palace. The guards who were suspicious at first calmed down once they saw scarlet and the others, but I think they are still a bit edgy around me. I went to follow scarlet as she ran off but remembered the dazed friends she was leaving behind. I took one glance back to see them pulling themselves together and getting up. I figured they could find their own way into the palace easily. I turned back around and quickly started running to scarlet and caught up with her in no time. We ran into the castle and she used her magic to open up the doors in front of us. I looked back once more to the others who were already getting up and making their way over to the palace. I returned to scarlet as we ran into the lobby of the castle.

"It's been a long time since I've been in this place." I said looking around and capturing my surroundings. "Well, not really this place, but… you know what I mean." Scarlet just looked back at me and smiled as she made her way onto the stairs. I started making my way after her and we started our climb up the grand staircase. I looked around at all the stain glass windows until we finally reached the top. There were two guards at the door to the throne room. They looked at me and scarlet with strange looks. Scarlet gave them a cute smile and they stepped aside using their magic to open the doors for us. Scarlet skipped her way on in and I gingerly walked my way in and looked around at the ever so familiar room. I made it a few steps in and started looking at the stain glass windows. They were depictions of scarlet and her heroic deeds, much like the ones in my world.

As I stared at the windows everything seemed to go blurry and the windows faded in and out. Once they became clear again they had changed. They looked like the ones in my world, instead of scarlet and her friends it was me and my friends in the pictures now. Each one was familiar, the time I defeated discord, slayed the ancient dragon, recovered the dark and light shards from the temple in blackmarsh, and even when I defeated chrysalis and saved the princess. Looking at them brought up a lot of memories both good and bad. Reminded me about the time when I was just a nameless pony. I made my way over to the window depicting me slaying chrysalis, probably the most traumatic battles I've ever had. I stared at the window for a few seconds and just looking at the stain glass picture of chrysalis gave me a headache, I could still hear her vicious laughter in my head, echoing through my mind like a bad dream.

"Crimson!" shouted a voice from far away. The voice made me snap out of my trance and the paintings returned to their original state. I shook my head trying to shake out the headache and looked over to where the voice came from. I looked over to see scarlet standing next to a large alicorn stallion. He had pure white fur and long flowing celestial hair. This must be the prince. Instead of having Celestia's purple, green, and blue mane his was a fiery orange that waved in the wind like fire. Around him were scarlet and the others. To my left stood twilight looking at me with a confused, but seemingly blank stare. Right next to her was thunder who looked around the palace.

"So you must be the three ponies from opposite dimensions." Said the prince. "I didn't believe it at first, but seeing you now, I think I'm more open to the idea than I was last night." He said smiling. "Plus I've already caught wind of the fight you had this morning with an infamous group of poachers hunting a dragon." He said.

"Further proving my theory that gossip travels faster than the speed of light in equestria." Added scarlet.

"I'd believe that." I said walking over to greet the prince. I walked up to him and bowed down out of courtesy. He returned the same courteous bow and we looked at each other.

"Greetings travelers. my name is prince solar." He said. "I am the ruler of equestria, a peaceful place, but I'm sure you already know all of this." He said smiling. "If what I've gathered from moonlights letter is correct, then in your world equestria is ruled by two sisters, both princesses."

"That's correct, the princess sisters Luna and Celestia." Said twilight.

"I rule here with my brother prince moon." He said. "He's not here right now, but I'm sure he would like to meet the three of you, but that is not of concern right now, please come this way, so we can speak in private." He said turning around and making his way to a door at the right. I followed him and so did the others. We made our way to the door and he used his magic to open it up. He turned back to us and opened his mouth to speak. "Scarlet, why don't you and the three travelers join me in the study, I wish to talk to the four of you in private."

"What about the rest of us?" asked moonlight standing with his friends.

"The six of you are free to find your way around town for now, there's something that I must discuss with these four." He said.

"y-yes prince." Said moonlight bowing his head and looking back at his friends. They all started to make their way out of the palace while we made our way into the study. I was the last one to walk inside and the doors closed behind me. The only light was coming from hanging candles on the wall and a large candle chandelier hanging above everything. All around the square room were bookshelves. Something about this room seemed familiar, and then it hit me like a book. This was the room where everything started. The room where I developed my shadow powers, I can feel it. Even though were in a separate dimension I feel tense being in this room. I can even hear the old faded voices echoing in my mind. I looked over to scarlet and she had the same look as I. She was looking around like something was haunting her.

"Hmm… oh, apologies scarlet, this is the room where it all began isn't it?" said prince solar looking over at scarlet.

"Uh, yeah… it is." She said blushing slightly.

"And the same must be for you traveler." Said the prince looking over to me.

"Yeah… same thing." I said looking around still seeing shadows moving across the walls. "This place haunts me even though I'm still in a separate dimension."

"Are you going to be okay crimson?" asked twilight brushing up to me and trying to comfort me. Her warm fur was quite pleasant and seemed to make the haunting memories fade.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." I said. "Besides, it's not like the beginning lead to a bad ending. While I do admire my powers… I still wonder if it's all worth it."

"I suppose that is the one question that haunts everypony who wields any kind of power." Said the prince. "We ask ourselves the question of 'is it worth it?' but to no avail. Absolute power may be, but eternal we endure." He said quoting a very familiar phrase. "Now, the question that roams on my mind right now is, why have you come here?" he asked me.

"It wasn't much of a choice really, more or less." I said. "You see, I'm trying to hunt down an evil spirit that has captured somepony I hold very close to my heart." I said. "I'm hopping all around trying to find his lair." I said.

"This sounds familiar." Said the prince.

"You might know his name." I said. "Shall-Grahkan" the mention of that name caused the prince to stare at me with a dreadful look.

"Unfortunately, I do." Said prince solar. He turned away and walked over to a chest by a large mahogany desk. The chest was a dark brown, chestnut wood color with golden bindings. He used his magic to unlock the chest which was filled with papers and scrolls. Out of the pile of papers rose a scroll which seemed very familiar. He levitated it up and unraveled it. I could see past him and noticed that it was a map, it was the exact same map Celestia gave me, I was hoping that he would have one too. "Neverspring." He said.

"I'm sorry, what?" asked scarlet.

"Neverspring." He repeated. "That's where the next portal is."

"I've never heard of this place." Said twilight.

"Nopony talks about it, most ponies don't even know where it is, how to find it, or even know that it exists." He said. "It's to the north."

"How far to the north is it?" I asked.

"Very…" he said. "It's beyond equestria."

"But, there's no land north of equestria, the barrier cuts off at the sea." Said twilight. "There isn't even another continent that way… just sea."

"Not true." Said the prince. "Neverspring is a small tundra island not too far away from the shores of equestria. It's always snowing there and the island is eternally bound in the winter tundra, thus it's given the name Neverspring." He said. "The portal you are looking for is there, and it is also a place of current interest."

"Really... how so?" asked scarlet.

"It's hard to believe but there are actually ponies on never spring." Said solar.

"There… there are?" stuttered twilight.

"Yes, their king… king frostbite has ruled there for some time over the frozen cities." He said. "The place is dangerous though. Our two kingdoms trade because Neverspring is the only place that can grow tundra silk, which is made from frost flax which only grows in the bitter cold. "Our trade with them is the only thing that fuels their economy. We send them food and fresh water and they return the favor with their luxurious silks." He said levitating a piece of silk out of the chest which was light glue with white borders and a snowflake in the middle. He levitated the piece over to me and I grabbed hold of it. I held the silk in my hoof and it was amazingly soft. Twilight reached over and felt the silk and smiled.

"Wow… that feels amazing." She said.

"the tundra silk never heats up and stays at a perfect temperature, all the while the thinnest layering of tundra silk is enough to keep a pony warm in frigid and dangerous temperatures since it doesn't lose or conduct heat by any means, it's perfectly fire proof and wont snap or break unless cut by a blade." Said the prince. "Anyway, when I first met the king I asked him why he would live in such a horrid place. He said it wasn't so bad, but it was dangerous, he said the frost isn't the only thing that bites in the tundra."

"and what is that supposed to mean?" asked scarlet.

"on the tall ice mountains of Neverspring live families of ancient ice dragons, not only that but the wild tundra is plagued by frost wraith's, ice golems, glacier worms, tundra thrashers, and arctic dune hoppers."

"Sounds like a swell time." I said sarcastically.

"How they've survived this long is a mystery even to me." He said. "But upon arriving there once I saw that their cities were surrounded by great white walls of snow and ice, as well as the ponies who inhabit it. All were scarred and carrying weapons with them; obviously those ponies know what's out there and know how to deal with them. I thought ill of the ponies there, but beyond their frigid exteriors beats warm and comforting hearts, it's truly one of the strangest places in the world."

"You said it was a place of current interest… how so?" I asked.

"Well, it's been a few months now since I've heard word from king frostbite, we usually check in once every other month but it's been a while now. Prince moon volunteered to head over and check on things but that was a month ago, I haven't heard from him either and I've been growing worried. So I believe that its luck our paths should cross."

"Uh... okay, so what do you want us to do?" asked thunder.

"I want the four of you to travel to Neverspring and make sure everything is okay there and also find my brother." He said. "I can supply you with a royal airship as well as a competent crew and plenty supplies."

"Well, I guess we have to say yes… we, don't really have much of a choice."

"well, I'm in." said thunder. "it sure as hell beats walking."

"Do we uh, have to take an airship?" asked twilight timidly.

"It's the quickest way." Said scarlet.

"Why, is there something wrong?" asked thunder.

"I uh… I get a little air sick sometimes." She said blushing slightly. I looked at her with a worried look knowing better than anypony else in the room that she was lying. Something was troubling her and I knew what it was, and it was making me start to feel very guilty, guilty enough that I was starting to feel sick too.

"Don't worry twilight." I said giving her a reassuring smile. "Everything's going to be fine, it's going to be an easy trip, trust me." I said. She gave me an unsure smile back but I know she was still somewhat torn up from the last time she was on an airship.

"Now, with my brother gone I can't leave the kingdom unattended." Said prince solar taking all the attention. "I have to stay here, but I trust you four can handle the situation on your own."

"You can count on us solar." Said scarlet with a big smile.

"Good," he said "why don't the four of you join up with your friends and all come back here at eight tonight when the ship is stocked and ready to depart."

"Sure thing." Said scarlet again. She gave him another smile and we all stood up and got ready to leave the room.

"And one more thing." He said stopping us as we all turned around to see what he wanted. "Crimson, I think you'll need this." He said levitating the map over to me.

"Here crimson, I'll take It." said scarlet. "I'll keep it in my bags so you don't have to carry it everywhere." She said using her magic to take the map. I didn't stop her because it was a good idea.

"I was also informed that you three came here with little to no supplies." Said the prince. "I would suggest heading out and stocking up for the journey."

"Yeah that seems like a good idea." I said. We all agreed and started heading out. We left the study which added a bit of relief to me and scarlet. We left the castle and made our way into the town. All the guard ponies gave us strange looks but I can't really blame them. We started to make our way into town and we decided that we should meet up with the others before we start looking around for supplies. Scarlet suggested that they're at the smoothie stand since it was a hot day out and that is a good spot to find good smoothies. I think I know the place that she's talking about. It's the stand we all went to before the royal wedding. I started thinking about the wedding again and got chills down my spine.

"c'mon, it's not far from here." Said scarlet.

"I think I know the place you're talking about." Said twilight. "It's right next to a tailor isn't it?"

"Yeah that's right." Said scarlet.

"Then maybe after we get smoothies we should head over to the store and get some saddlebags to hold all our junk in." I suggested.

"Just what I was thinking." Said twilight smiling.

"But we don't have any money." Said thunder making a good point, we lost everything just trying to get here, which is a bit embarrassing when you think about all the valuable and priceless things we've lost.

"Don't worry, I've got more money than I know what to do with, I'll pay for the shopping spree." Said scarlet smiling.

"Thanks scarlet." said twilight.

"No problem, but how did you guys loose all of your stuff?" asked scarlet.

"It's kind of embarrassing." Said twilight who was blushing as well as thunder.

"Well I'd love to know." Said scarlet. "If that's alright with you three. It sounds like you've had quite an amazing adventure."

"Amazing is one word for it." I said.

"Well it's a bit of a long story really, and we should stick to the task at hoof, maybe some other time." Said twilight.

"Alright, I understand." Replied scarlet.

"Hey, aren't those your friends over there, scarlet?" I said pointing my head towards the five familiar ponies sitting down at an outdoor table next to a smoothie shop and sucking down colorful smoothies. They all had smiles on their faces as they all socialized.

"Well what d'ya know." She said. "That was easy, HEY GUYS." She shouted galloping over to them with a smile. I looked over to twilight and we both exchanged a smile and started to chase after scarlet as well. We eventually caught up to her and we all met up at the smoothie shop.

"Hey scarlet." said rainbow blitz.

"What'd the prince say?" asked appleseed.

"It's a bit of a tale, and I'm thirsty right now." Said scarlet. She looked over to the three of us and smiled. "Why don't we get some smoothies and then sit down and talk." She said.

"Sounds good." I said.

"I could go for a smoothie right now." Added thunder. So we went into the shop and got our smoothies and joined scarlet's friends outside. The table was a bit crowded with the ten of us there but we made room and sat down. we told scarlet's friends about what the king said and they seemed to take it pretty well, which isn't much of a surprise since she is just like me. She probably goes on crazy and ridiculous adventures all the time.

"Scarlet, whatever you do." Said oddity leaning across the table to scarlet and practically pushing her back with his face. "No matter what, you have to bring me back some of that tundra silk… you must." He said. I figured that since he was a guy he would act like less of a drama queen than rarity… but I was wrong. Scarlet just giggled and pushed him back in the seat.

"Yeah, no problem oddity." She said. He leaned across the table again and grabbed scarlet in a hug. She had to levitate her drink out of the way so it wouldn't spill everywhere.

"Thank you thank you thank you." He said shaking her and hugging her tightly. I could see scarlet's cheeks starting to turn red; I guess she was getting a bit flustered.

"Hng… oddity, oxygen… can't breathe." She sputtered. Oddity quickly let go of scarlet and blushed in embarrassment as scarlet started breathing heavily trying to get oxygen back into her system.

"Heh… sorry scarlet."

"It's… alright." She said.

"So, when are you leaving?" asked moonlight looking over at scarlet.

"Tonight, at eight." Replied scarlet.

"We still need time to collect supplies and get ourselves ready." I added.

"That too." Said scarlet nodding towards me. I leaned my head down and took a big sip of my smoothie as the others kept socializing. I tried paying attention to the conversation but soon everything just seemed to dull down into a noisy blur of incomprehensible sounds. i started to feel a strangely familiar dark presence as my sight started to fade and a black mist seemed to cover everything around me. I could only see as far as the street we were on, all the scenery seemed to disappear and everything went grey. I looked around as the dark presence I felt grew much stronger to the point where it felt like somepony was breathing down my neck. I followed my senses and looked over to an alleyway between two shops.

In the alleyway stood a dark figure, a very familiar dark figure, with white glowing eyes and black tentacles writhing out of its back. I looked at the figure and time around em seemed to stop and everything was still. I could start to hear whispers and voices running through my mind as I kept my focus on the black being. Suddenly a crack ran through his slimy black face and it opened up into a demented smile. The white background of the inside of his mouth outlined his thin black fangs and razor sharp teeth lined up in rows like jagged rocks. I kept an icy gaze focused on him as he started to move back into the darkness and out of my view. Soon his body was gone and all that was left was his demented smile, but that soon faded as well. With him gone I thought I could look away, but time kept still and the black mist stayed in place. I glared into the darkness and stood up. I started to make my way over to the alleyway and the black mist seemed to follow me only allowing me to see a few yards all around me.

As I made my way over the whispers and words in my head started growing stronger, louder, and more violent. It was like someone was yelling inside of my head. They were yelling violent and disturbing things at me. It was making my head start to hurt, and the words only grew more vicious as I walked closer to the alleyway. I constantly felt like somepony was breathing down on my neck but whenever I looked back there was nopony there, but the feeling persisted. I felt like a swarm of insects was crawling all over my body. My coat itched and tingled and grew more irritating with every step. I started to sweat and everything started to grow hazy and faded. And even still the voices yelling obscenities in my head grew clearer and more violent with every step.

"murderer." Grunted one of the voices. "how could you do that to her."

"rapist, you defiled her."

"you took her pride, left her to rot in her own filth."

"Undeserving."

"Disgusting."

"Demon…" the voices kept shouting and yelling in my head. Each voice was different. I wanted to scream out and make them stop but I found myself unable to speak. " you don't deserve her."

"You betrayed her trust."

"Left them to die."

"Slaughtered the innocent."

"Defiled the weak."

"Pathetic." The voices shouted. I kept marching forward and I clutched my eyes closed and swayed my head back and forth in denial hoping the voices would stop. Each word was like a knife cutting into my head. And I took one last step and the voices quickly faded away and their obscenities slowly merged with the silence until there was nothing. I opened my eyes in disbelief and looked around. I was in the middle of the alleyway now. The ground and walls were covered in a black substance, much like blood. It seemed to shine in the grey sunlight and was scattered and sprayed all over the place. The alleyway I stood in seemed to continue on into the darkness forever. I decided to keep moving forward and with each new step the alleyway grew revealing more and more black blood covering the walls.

I followed the black trail into the darkness and kept my guard up. The stone brick floor under me started to become more coarse and rough until it became gravel, and even more so until it was nothing but dirt now. I looked up and the walls on either side of me seemed to stop suddenly and I kept walking forward. There wasn't anything around for me to see, it was just ground and darkness. But suddenly the darkness started to fade and push back until the world was clear now, but not as I remembered it being. It darkness faded only to reveal a more dark and twisted world.

I found myself now in the Canterlot Park. The ground under me was dry and cracked, no grass grew here anymore. I looked up to see a black cloudy sky up above which let in only a scarce amount of sunlight. Around me was a wasteland which used to be Canterlot. The trees in the park were dead and rotted with black scars across them. The park benches where torn and broken. Beyond the park stood ruined building which looked like they had been condemned for thousands of years. All the metal was rusted, paint peeled off, wood… torn and rotten. And even further beyond that stood the Canterlot castle, torn and destroyed like the rest. The large tower where Celestia had her study was torn down and crashed to the ground. The roofs were caved in and all the windows smashed. Everything around was covered in a light layering of ash and soot. Even the sky was snowing with ash, like black snow. Up above everything stood the tip of the mountain which smoked violently and rained ash on the ground.

When I looked down a certain tree even more rotten and twisted than the rest seemed to stand out against everything else. The tree was surrounded by a small picket fence which had been rusted, rotted and mangled beyond repair. And hanging the lowest yet thickest branch was a pony. A mare who swaying under the tree, a few feet above the ground. She had a noose tied around her neck which was tied to the tree. She wasn't facing me; she had her back turned as she swayed gently. I started to make my way over to the tree slowly taking small steps. From the mane and tail I couldn't tell who the pony was. The rope around her neck seemed unscathed despite the ruined surroundings. As I grew closer to the mare the rope slowly twisted and the body began to turn around and finally revealed the face of the mare. I fell back out of shock and landed on the ground.

"Why…" choked out the hanging mare with big eyes and two stripes running through her mane. "Why did you do this… to… me?" she asked with one last dying breath before her whole body went limp and her eyes froze facing me. The pony hanging before me was twilight sparkle. Her body seemed like it had been ravaged and ripped showing scars on every inch of her body. A few tears leaked from her dead gaze but they weren't tears, it was only blood. Her mane was ragged and torn and her fur was soaked with blood. I picked myself up and closed my eyes. I know this isn't real; it's only a freak nightmare. I opened my eyes to see that nothing has changed. Even though I know this isn't real, I couldn't help but feel uneasy… and very, very guilty.

"What a sweat… and innocent, mare." Said a ghostly voice form behind me. I looked back angrily and saw the same black pony from before. His eyes glowing white and a demented smile across his face. "Well… she was, that is… until you came along." He said.

"I…I am going to find you… and you're going to pay… I swear on my life you're going to pay." I said angrily glaring at the pony who only proceeded to laugh at me.

"You know so little…" he said. "I see you have come a long way… but your still as weak and naive as you were to begin with."

"I am not weak, I've become strong, so I can defeat scum like you." I said.

"We shall see." He said. "But you have yet to understand the importance of your mission; you don't even know who I am." He said.

"I know who you are." I said. "You're shall-Grahkan, an evil pony who slays and traps the souls of immortals like me." I said. I thought I got him with that but he only started laughing again.

"Is that what they've told you?" he asked.

"y-yes." I said unsure. He only laughed even more.

"And you BELIEVED THEM?" he said hysterically. "They don't even know who I am… they have no idea how long I've been waiting for this, for someone like you." He said.

"What are you talking about?" I demanded. He just smiled and turned his back as he started to walk away.

"All in due time young pawn, my plans will be clear. And by the spilling of your blood a new age will rise from the ashes, and all will tremble before the new king." He said as he faded away and the world went dark. "don't worry what they tell you crimson… I have other plans for you."

"GET BACK HERE!" I shouted running after him but it was too late. Everything started to go dark and the mist covered over me. I felt the pain of the voices in my head one last time as they started to shout my name. I closed my eyes to make it stop and grit my teeth. The voices grew louder and louder until finally all the voices but one of them stopped.

"Crimson?" said the voice, more pure and clear than the others. "Crimson!" the voice shouted again. it was a soothing and familiar voice. I opened my eyes and everything was the way it was, more or less. I found myself at the edge of the park. All color had been returned and I was back in the real world again. The sky was growing bright orange as the sun was starting to go down. "Crimson… hey, earth to crimson." Shouted the voice again. I quickly looked back to see twilight was the one shouting my name. Behind her stood thunder and scarlet looking at me with worried expressions.

"Hey, crimson, are you alright?" asked scarlet.

"Yeah dude, you suddenly left us earlier today at the smoothie shop and you've been gone all day." Said thunder.

"All… all day." I said. I looked up at the sky and look at the sun which was now hiding behind the mountain peak. It hasn't felt like more than ten minutes I've been in that weird colorless place.

"Yeah all day, we had to go and get you some saddlebags and other stuff." Said scarlet levitating over pair of saddlebags and using her magic to strap them onto me.

"We need to hurry." Said twilight. "Its 7:30 and the airship leaves at eight."

"Oh, yeah… let's go." I said. We all started to run off towards the castle where the airship is docked and I looked down at twilight. I looked at her and saw she was determined to go through all this with me which made me smile.

"so crimson what were you doing all by yourself?" asked twilight looking back at me.

"Oh… I was just doing some thinking." I said.

"Really, thinking about what." She asked. I just looked at her and gave her a big smile before flashes of my experience flashed through my mind and all the things that shall said started echoing through my mind changing my mood. "Crimson…" she said. "What were you thinking about?" she repeated.

"Just the future twilight." I said. "I was thinking about the future."

-Authors Note: Damn it deadchaos3... god damn you. get an account, please... its free.

anyway. thank you deadchaos for another good review to which i cannot give a personal reply to. but i wanted to answer the one thing you said about crimson being underpowered.

the reason i make crimson underpowered is so that it makes the story more fun to read, so that it's not too easy and adds a level of challenge. it would be like if you were playing a video game and the character you play as takes no damage, never looses, kills enemies easily, and can overcome every single obstacle... that's fucking boring if you ask me. i make crimson underpowered so that it isn't too easy. i mean...really? i know he's a god but whens the last time you heard of god, or Buddha, or Jesus ridding into battle and shooting lightning bolts at enemies. just because he's a god doesn't necessarily give him ultimate power... it's a title. And i do intend to be more creative with the combat style as the story progresses.

with that out of the way (damn it deadchaos3 get an account sow e can talk) we can now move onto the bulk of the AN.

i just want to let you guys know that this Saturday, the 28th, me and a bunch of my friends are going down to the cape for a week to have fun and relax, so I'm going to be taking a break from writing at that time. so you guys might not hear or see from me until early august. i wont be bringing any kind of computer device with me so if you guys send me any messages i wont be able to answer them until i get back, that doesn't mean you still shouldn't ask any questions or give me ideas, just dont expect a reply until i return. also when i get back i'm going to lose the poll so if you haven't voted yet do so before august 3rd.

with that said i hope you guys liked this new chapter and be sure to leave a review and follow the story if you want more action. until next time guys i hope you all have a very shady summer.-End of Note.-