Three days later

There was a collection of voices echoing around Rachel as she slowly began to wake up. Her eyes stung as a bright light hit her. Sounds of people speaking and machines beeping.

"I think she would appreciate it. I would be appalled if I were to wake up all of the sudden and my nails and toes are chipped and dirty from fighting." Elizabeth's voice, though a bit echoey and disembodied. Feeling the sensation of her toes were being treated.

"We can try talking to her again. I read that people who are in a comatose state can hear us speaking to them from within their minds." Cassandra suggested. "She is going to wake up, guys."

"That woman Helen told us to give her some rest." Applejack spoke. Soon the voices were getting clearer and clearer.

Rachel saw the blob of curly pink hair hovering over her.

"Wait-wait she's moving, Pinkie don-" Sunset tried to stop her but it was too late.

"WAKE UP RACHEL! CAN YOU HEAR US? YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP!" Lucy screamed loudly.

Rachel winced and snapped. "Ow! That was my ears you fucking bitch!" She groaned now her vision became clear.

"It worked!" Lucy cheered before wrapping her arms around her for a hug.

The gang exclaimed in excitement before joining in the hug.

Spike barked in joy before hopping in circles.

Rachel groaned and laughed as she attempted to hug them all. After a second she taps them. "Squishing the baby." She said, getting them off of her.

When they peeled off, Spike leaped up on the bed next to her and began showering her face in licks, his tail wagging nonstop.

Rachel giggled and wrapped her arms around him. "Aw Spike. I'm okay, boy." She scratched his neck and ears.

"Sorry, we're just happy to see you awake." He whimpered, licking her one more time before putting his head on her belly. "The baby is okay too."

"I figured." She smiled.

Rachel takes a moment to look around. Even though she was hooked up to a heart monitor and was connected to an IV bag full of fluids, she noticed that she wasn't in a hospital room.

She was inside of a tent. The bright light she was seeing was a hole in the tent that had plastic to block the elements, giving off direct sunlight for that sweet natural Vitamin D.

She was on some sort of gurney.

"Where are we? H-how long was I out?" Rachel asked, alarmed, sitting up in a haste. "Did I do it? Is the Portal closed?"

"Whoa there easy, relax. We're safe." AJ said, holding her by the shoulders and trying to ease her back lying down. "You've been out like a light for three days, Sugarcube."

"The Portal is closed," Cassandra smiled. She pulled out her phone and showed her statistics and charts. "You did it. The Portal is closed. The sinkholes had all filled up, you saved us!"

"And as to where we are," Rainbow Dash grinned. "We're still in Denmark. Malik took all of us to his camp where the so-called freedom fighters of Equestria do their business."

"What about the Mordi?" Rachel asked.

"They're getting adjusted but all are safe." Serenity assured. "The language barrier is a stress, a lot of them are frightened and confused. The newer Mordi are handling them."

"The prisoners, the UN soldiers and archaeologists are not too happy that the ones that tortured them are being treated as refugees, some wanted payback, even against the children." Elizabeth sighed as she continued to tend to Rachel's toes. Now seeing that the fashionista had filed down the pointed tips and was painting her nails a royal purple color.

Rachel lay her head back on the pillow. "I need to talk to them, help them understand that Rùna is no more… Has Princess Twilight been informed?" She looked at Sunset for that.

"I just convinced her to not go through the mirror portal with Guardian Ember. So yeah, she's been informed." Sunset smiled.

Rachel snorted the thought of seeing Ember as a dog. Her mind automatically thought the Guardian of the Dragonlord as a Chihuahua and giggled at it. Seeing her barking and yelping, trying to be a badass but was five inches tall.

She then heard sounds of boots coming this way and a new scent.

"Coming in." A woman's voice called out before she entered. She had curly red hair, green dragon eyes, pointed ears, wearing a dark jumpsuit with the top portion tied around her waist, wearing a white tank top with a clipboard at hand. "Hey guys, I'm just going to check on-" When she spoke, she also had sharp teeth, just like Rachel and Malik.

The woman stopped talking when she saw Rachel sitting up.

"Oh good, you're awake." The woman said with a smile. "How are you feeling?"

Lucy leaned close to Rachel who looked baffled. "She's part of the new generation of Mordi." She whispered loudly.

"Um, uh a little weak but otherwise I'm fine, who are you?" Rachel asked her.

"I'm Wendy Johnson, like your friend said, I'm part of the new generation of Mordi. I've been your nurse since Malik carried out and brought the others."

"Where is Malik?" Rachel asked.

Wendy made a face. "Right now, he's currently getting an earful from the boss. Speaking of who, she wants to speak to you once you're stable enough. Lemme take your vitals and I'll fetch someone to get you clothes, your highness."

"We've also mentioned that you're now Queen of the Dragons." Spike said as he jumped off. Wendy came to the bed and began to run some tests.

"How about some food? I'm so hungry I can eat several grown horses." Rachel half joked but also half serious. She was starving.

Sunset made a face with that statement.

"I bet." Wendy said as she gave Rachel a quick physical.

As she did, she noticed something else. "Where's my staff?" She asked, seeing that the Blue Celestial wasn't with them.

"We didn't see it when we pulled you out of the rubble." Serenity said with a frown.

Rachel frowned too before she began hearing a familiar hum. "Huh?"

Blinking confusedly, Rachel held out her hand, as if she was plucking something out of thin air, the Blue Celestial materialized in her hand. Wendy shuffled back with a gasp.

"Oh my!" She exclaimed before the nurse knelt down when seeing it now in Rachel's possession.

"Whoa! Neat trick!" Lucy oohed.

"Right? Pretty damn cool and convenient." Rachel looked at it. Feeling the energy pulsing through it and into her body. It hummed in response, causing her to huff. "Impatient ass, I just woke up. I meant what I said."

"Who are you talking to?" Cassandra asked.

Rachel motioned to the staff. "It's sentient in a way. It's in a bit of a mood."

"The staff talks?" Lucy asked as she leaned closer to see if it would say anything to her.

"In a way, yes. I can understand what it's saying and… Okay uh Wendy you can get up."

"Oh, yes my Queen." Wendy responded before standing up. Her eyes sparkled when seeing the legendary staff. "I'm sorry, but I only heard of it when I awakened my abilities. I just never really seen it before right now. Malik and your friends were right."

"Ooh I'm going to have to get used to that from both you guys and the Dragons when I head back home… I'm still not used to being called that." Rachel said as she rubbed her stomach.

More newer Mordi, this time a couple of males moved past the tent and caught sight of the staff and entered. They also had the same reaction as Wendy.

"Guys, fetch the Queen some clothes and food, stat!" Wendy barked at them.

Those two bumped and ran into each other, scrambling to go and find the items that were requested.

"Uh…. " Rachel blinked.

"Welcome to Queendom," Elizabeth giggled before moving to Rachel's claws and began giving them treatment.

After eating enormous quantities of food for the mother-to-be and changing into similar dark jumpsuits and tank tops, Rachel and the others left the tent with the staff in tow, following Wendy. The skies weren't red anymore which was a good sign to see.

The camp was sprawled out with various tents, vehicles with draconic runes spray painted on. Looking around she saw a few of the newer Mordi taking laps around the camp, a couple near what looked to be a makeshift mess hall chowing down and chatting with each other, a long with the now freed prisoners. A couple near what looked to be stolen weapons from the human armies that they were taking inventory.

Since Malik said there were currently fifty that they know of that had awakened, word spread fast of the new Queen so Rachel was getting a lot of stares. Something else Rachel would have to get used to.

"Where's the other Mordi? The ones that were brought with me and my friends?" Rachel asked Wendy.

"We had to separate them from the rest of us for a bit. All of them were nervous wrecks. The prisoners that were brought back wanted revenge and we wouldn't let them." Wendy explained.

"Can't hardly blame them." Rainbow Dash said. "Not only were they attacked, but they were stuffed in cages, basically tortured and watched others die. They won't forgive them."

"If it wasn't for Malik and your friends, those guys wouldn't trust us. The newer generation in general." Wendy said.

"How many are the older ones?" Rachel asked Wendy. "I know there's a lot more than the newer but I didn't have the chance to take count."

"Well, minus the ones that had died over the last few weeks when the archaeologists had freed them. The death toll is over three hundred, there's roughly two hundred adults and only thirty children that we had gathered and counted. Some orphaned." Wendy explained as they came to a set of trailers. Nearby was a really large tent. "They are all in there. Most are too nervous and agitated to step out. New technology scared them." Wendy points at it. "They do respond to us cause we speak Draconic and we're doing what we can to ease them." She then motioned to the trailers. "Helen is in there."

There were sounds of a loud sounding woman giving someone a hell of an earful.

"Helen started this group, finding all of us." Wendy winced at the choice words the boss was throwing around.

"We'll be out here when you're done." Cassandra said before her phone rang. Rachel now noticed her hand was more medically wrapped up and in a cast. "That's Shaun, so one moment." She stepped away from the group before answering the call.

The rest of the gang nodded, giving Rachel some encouragement.

With a sigh, Rachel held the staff in hand before climbing up the stairs and knocked on the door.

"For fuck sakes come in." The woman inside called out.

"Poor fool," Rachel muttered about Malik before opening the door of the trailer and went in.

"Seriously, Malik, we have refugees that had no real bearings of the new world. You brought them all here where you know that we don't have room to house or properly train." Rachel walked in to see another dark skinned stocky built woman with short dyed blonde hair. Her eyes were draconic blue and snarling her sharp teeth at Malik who was standing in front of her desk with his arms tucked behind his back.

"Again, would you like it if I had left them back at the Temple, swarming with soldiers that could wipe them out?" Malik asked. "They aren't cursed anymore, this is our people."

"From an old failed time." Helen grunted before looking up, realizing who it was and straightened up. "Uh sorry, I didn't realize you were awake, your highness." She eyes at the staff, seeing the symbol of authority.

Malik turned and smirked, seeing Rachel standing there. "Look who's awake, hey there Dorothy."

Helen reached over and smacked his arm. "How dare you-"

"Hit my Second-in-Command when he's just greeting me?" Rachel grunted.

Both Helen and Malik had a dumbfounded look on their faces.

"I told Malik to round up the refugees after I released them from their curse. He was following my orders." Rachel said as she came closer to them.

Malik tried so hard not to look smug at the look on the other woman's face.

"Besides," Rachel smacked Malik in the chest, causing him to grunt and wipe the look off his face. "Smacking Scarecrow here is my job."

That made the other woman let out a chuckle. "Rachel Lockhart, I've heard a lot about you. Congratulations on both sides," she motioned to the staff and her baby bump. "I'm Helen Von Franklin. Founder and Leader of the new Mordi. But it seems I got knocked down a couple of pegs with you now Queen of us and the Dragons."

"You're going to have a problem with a newcomer taking the leadership role?"Rachel asked.

"Nope. Can use all the help we can." Helen said.

Malik leaned close to Rachel. "Am I really your Second-in-Command?" He asked her.

"Yes," Rachel said. "Gloat in your own time, not when we're talking shop."

The fact he's technically Helen's boss did bring satisfaction to him.

"I like her," Helen said before gathering some paperwork and putting them in the file. "As I was telling your… Second, we don't have resources or manpower to deal with hundreds of the older generation."

"I thought about that. When I learned about how the older generation became cursed, when I asked the old Queen how to cure the rest, I figured that they won't be able to live in this new world. After what they went through and did, they don't belong here in this world anymore." Rachel said.

"What do you mean?" Helen asked.

"I won't be staying on this side for long, I have obligations and responsibilities back in Equestria. The dragons don't really know that I'm now their ruler and it's going to be an adjustment. I'll be taking the old Mordi with me."

Both Helen and Malik looked at her.

" Uh, what? "

Rachel sighed. "This world isn't for the older ones anymore. The technology is way beyond their understanding not to mention what they've done while being cursed. Equestria is their best bet, where they should've been in the first place if it wasn't for Queen Rùna's decisions."

"That's a lot of refugees to uproot. Plus you closed the portal, how do you expect to bring all of them and you to Equestria, unless you open it again." Helen said.

The staff hummed in Rachel's mind."It'll open again on its own. It's not closed indefinitely."

"Uh excuse me? " Malik grunted. "It's closed."

"It is yes, " Rachel said as she looked at him before looking at Helen. "But it'll open once again. Rùna didn't permanently close it as we all saw it opened up eight years ago. However since I'm new to all of this, I don't have the same energy as her. There is another portal but it comes from Equestrian magic that can be controlled on the other side."

"So how long do we have before it opens again and we're back to fighting the human soldiers? " Helen asked.

"A year." Rachel admits. "Exactly one year before it opens once more… however I do plan on both the Settlement and the Temple being in my control. Both sides will be guarded by us while the Ponies clean up their shit and us fighting this war we're all in. It's not perfect but it's what we got. How we transfer all of them to Canterlot High will be a tricky thing but it has to get done."

There was a moment of silence in the trailer.

Before one of them could speak, the three of them began to hear a commotion outside. They looked at each other before they ran out.

A few of the freed prisoners were shouting at a couple of the new Mordi standing guard at a truck.

"After everything these bastards did to us, you're just giving them special treatment?! They're monsters! " One of the prisoners shouted.

"We want payback, they owe us that! " a woman in the group snapped at the officer.

"Now just hold on, you lot aren't authorized at this part of Camp, go back to your side at once. Once we get things squared away, you'll be released to your families." One of the new Mordis said.

"This one's a kid, you're just scaring her." The other one had an Irish accent and had no hair on his head.

"Did you bitches forget that the children of those things are more vicious than the adults? " a man snapped before pulling the collar of his shirt aside, revealing a gnarly looking scar. "A group of them killed my men and tore me to shreds!"

Rachel snarled and stomped towards them. "EVERYONE, BACK UP NOW!" her voice boomed, startling both them and herself. "Whoa okay that was loud." She groaned, hurting her ears as she came to them.

"Rodney, Saxs, what the hell's going on?" Helen asked the two Mordi in guard.

"One of the refugee children got curious and slipped out of the quarantine tent. These guys chased her underneath the truck." Saxs explained. Glaring at the prisoners.

"Of course you guys take their side." One of the prisoners snapped.

"Okay enough, all of you. I don't expect you all to understand but they are not your problem. Or did you all forget that it was my friends and I who got you out of those cages?" Rachel asked, getting right in front of them. Her being a little taller than some of these guys has its advantages.

The group looked at her, still wanting to get a hand on the kid, decided to be smart about it and stand down. She felt their anger, she felt their need for revenge. Something she would done if in their shoes.

"Just keep that thing locked up." They grunted before they backed off, taking the rest of the group back to wherever they just came from.

The two guards kept their eyes at them to make sure they didn't do something stupid. Which was a relief because Rachel doesn't want to fight anyone anymore while pregnant.

She sighed before turning to the guys and nodded. "Nice work, guys."

They bowed to her in respect.

Rachel looked over to the truck. "You said a kid?" She asked them as Malik went over and got in his stomach, seeing what appeared to be a six year old child. Her ears were bigger than her head, as if she hadn't grown into them yet. A blonde haired child with violet eyes. She wore a sort of a gown made of wolf hide up to her knees. Her nails and toenails were also violet.

She too was on her stomach but jumped when she saw Malik.

"Hello there, love. It's okay." Malik spoke Draconic in a soft voice. "Those guys are gone."

The little girl didn't say anything, looking at him with uncertainty.

Malik points to himself. "Name's Malik. What's yours, sweetheart?"

It took her a moment before pointing at herself. "Dot. I am Dot."

"Dot? That's a cute name." Malik smiled. "Can you tell me why you're out here?"

Dot waited a moment before speaking again. "I lost mama and papa. I am trying to find them."

Rachel frowned when she heard that. "You guys separate the families?" She asked Helen.

Helen snorted. "We're not ICE. We made sure all of them were together. Families and their children. If she lost her parents and they are not in the quarantine tent, chances are that she's one of the orphans and they died while cursed."

Malik tried not to show sadness to the child when he heard the woman talk. He kept a positive look. "Well, finding them underneath this…. Large contraption.~" There wasn't a word for vehicle or truck in the dragon language. "Isn't working now, is it? Here." Malik held his hand out to her. "Let's find them together, shall we?"

Dot stared at him for a hot second before reaching out and grabbed his hand. She began crawling out from underneath the truck and stood.

Malik smiled at her before standing up. "See? You're surrounded by friends."

Dot silently looked to him before at the other adult Mordi. She knows physically they were like her but the clothes they wore were different, that something else set them apart from the people she knows. Her eyes looked to Rachel and the Queen's Staff.

She bowed her head low to her. "I-I am sorry for disrupting those humans… and what our actions did while cursed"

Rachel got down on one knee so she can be at her height. "You remember?"

Dot nodded. "A lot of us do. Those humans have the right to be angry… but we're all sorry, your highness."

Rachel didn't know if that was good that they remembered or not.

"I know I'm not Rùna, and to be honest, I'm new to being a ruler. I do apologize for what happened, but I promise that you and the others are going to be okay."

Dot looks down at her. "I know it will be, Cursebreaker." She smiled, having gaps between her tiny pointy teeth.

"Cursebreaker?"

Helen and Malik chuckled.

"Rach, it's what these guys have been calling you. You did break their curse so that's what they dubbed you." Malik explained.

"¿Qué quieres decir con que no se me permite ser parte de este lado del campamento? ¡Necesito hablar con Malik, idiota!" A very irritated Spanish speaking woman could be heard echoing on the other side of the camp.

"Malik, don't tell me that's your wife?" Rachel asked as they continued to hear the woman cursing and yelling in Spanish at a fast rate.

"Crap I gotta tend to her, be right back." Malik said as he was backing away before turning on his boots and ran towards his wife.

Helen groaned, shaking her head while the other two males chuckled at Malik's expense.

Dot frowned, watching him leave before looking at Rachel.

"Let's get you back to the others, shall we?" Rachel asked, standing up, adjusting the hold of her staff in one hand, she held the other out for her to grab.

Dot showed no hesitation when grabbing hers.

" I'll lead you there." Helen said as she began to lead the two to where the older Mordi were being held.