Maple Bat

"I dought he would know, but I suppose it would be worth an effort. I mean the worst that could happen would be he not knows..." Luna looked around the camp quickly to see if Karthspire was there and she just missed him "Question still stands, where is he? I haven't exactly seen him since the groups split up and I'm starting to get worried about him." Celestia put a hoof into the air signaling she was alright "Maybe a bit of water... other than that I should be good. I'm still very thankful for what Jack did to help... I really need to reconsider my plan of attack." Evelyn smiled and lifted him up, holding him about at her chest area. "I can do that don't worry. Let's go." Evelyn flew into the air, keeping low at first as usual and then going higher and higher steadily. After gaining height Evelyn chuckled. "Why did you not want to ride the saddle? I mean I thought you liked adrenaline."

Luna stomped a hoof angrily "Right... I forgot about that... So what should we do about them? I mean we cant exactly go against them and they're everywere... eventually they'll decided that we need to be 'Taken care of' then there's nothing we can do to stop them. So.. Jack? You seem ot know about them... got anything?" Evelyn looked up 'Oh, right Let me come over there.' She gave Celestia a last look over before flying over to Jack "Ready when you are!"

@dosey doe @WiiGuy2014 @Techno Universal Woody thought about Technos for a moment. He was then distracted by Wish giving him a flower, He took it with a very happy smile crossing his face. Seeing what the mare did with her flower, and him not seeing that before he followed suit, Placing the flower between his ear and deer horn. The color of the flower had reminded Woody of something and he snapped as it popped into his head "Oh, Mr. Techno! I have something I could give you!" Woody opened his, larger than most, wings and flew inot his room, taking a homemade silk scarf out of a drawer, it was mostly yellow but had a pink mixed in. The draconequus flew back into the main room after a very short time offering the scarf to Techno "Mom made this for me a few years back when I was planning on going to Celestia's school. I ended up learning more magic on my own so that was canceled. Plus... It doesn't fit me it would but I started to stand up and the darn thing won't stay on." Woody, who was still air born, leaned back from his sitting-esq pose looked at Wish once again "Do you need someone to walk you home? I need to get out of the house anyway."

"Why didn't he warn us before about this! He obviously knew that something like this was going to happen! Why don't we just go have a chat with Karthspire information like that being kept away caused my sister to get hurt and me almost die... Well, I would say we have a chat with him... but I believe he is leading another group... I suppose for now we carry on... As for this C'lan you spoke of... Well... Fate may have us meeting them soon. Here's hoping but... like you said... he could be anywhere... We should keep moving forward... Once Celestia recovers" Luna stated that last bit with a lot of worry. She wasn't sure if the group could survive should the cultist just decide to attack tehm at any given point... with no holds barred... What do you two think?" Celestia really was just taking it easy, not thinking about much nor listening to the nearby conversation she was just basking in the sun. Something that'd been an icon of hers for 1000 years, but for once it was giving back to her.

Woody started to calm down seeing it point at him and look disgusted. Woody quickly let out a relieved sigh. He could sing for hours if he wanted to. His singing grew into a natural melody and vines rose from the ground forming a cair that woody sat in comfortably. He sat back for a while and relaxed as he sang, he was of course embarrassed by his reaction thinking that he could've been rude to the creature.

"Seriously!" Luna said now focusing more on Celestia and Jack "If they can do that kinda stuff on a whim how can we hope to beat them? Something like that must take a lot of energy out of them... yet that cultist was prepared to do it twice... Is there something we can do to resist... or counter this spell?" Celestia's whole bod lept when the energy hit her. The instant afterward Celestia started to cough... and she was coughing a lot. "W-Well... That feels... Back in order. But... I could use a moment." Other than her body leaping she didn't move much, she was breathing fine but it still her... well all over.

@WiiGuy2014 @Techno Universal @dosey doe Hearing Maple's voice again caused Woody to go tense he looked at C.Will suddenly and looked down. " It... Helped before but... can... Can you avoid doing that... Now that we're going to all go looking for her it might become problematic if anypony else finds out what's happened to her... Maple has... Rivals who might go looking for her since well I'm sure she's hurt somewhere otherwise she'd have come home. I'm not going to make you stop though..." Woody brushed a paw through his mane, the gray streak in it standing out as he did so... There was a bit more gray than the last time the Wills saw him, probably due to him worrying so much "I do have something I could give you Will. " Woody put a paw to his chest, and a heart formed in his paw. A physical manifestation of his Love. He tossed to the Wills with a smile. "Mr. Techno? Would you like something?"

There was no motion for a while as the few stood by the entrance, after what felt like an eternity bolt flew through a window making a loud shattering noise, followed almost instantly by the ker-tank of the bolt deflecting off Maple's metal armor. When it happened Maple recoiled out of surprise but wasn't hit by it. "Shoot!... Looks liek they're going to stay in there... We gotta take them inside." She readied her spear once again she was ready to break into the fort and do what she had to...

Woody stumbled seeing what the creature had written. Putting his paws up defensively extended out in front of himself as if he had tried to push it away " I.. I don't have meat I don't like to hurt animals. Please don't eat me. I need to keep protecting this forest and I work really hard to do it." Woody was shaking slightly, not enough to be seen by a normal pony, but it was visible to the eyes of a predator. " I... I'll keep singing." Woody continued his song after that little burst of fear, but the creature would still see him shaking.

"Well... at least they're still not near that cultist... I suppose we are-" She was interrupted "Oh I'm glad you didn't stop him... I wouldn't be here if he wasn't there at that moment. A cultist person attacked us with some... odd powers. I tried to stop him, so did Celestia. And... Well you can see how that ended." Celestia was chilled for sure 'Yea... She's not doing good... I mean it's a desert and she's super cold...' Evelyn landed near Luna and Jack setting Celestia down. "She's alive... but I think the's hurt somehow... Jack... do you know what's wrong with her?"

Maple dropped on top of the guard near the mare, She quickly knocked him out with a hit to the face. She then moved quickly to grab the mare. "Not gonna hurt you... Just stay calm." She whispered to her "You're not part of these few ri-" Maple was interrupted when the mare scream "Help! Intruders!" In turn to the scream Maple hit the mare hard in the side of the head, knocking her out cold. "Sorry... I should've know better." Maple said to herself.

"It's alright. We both can't quit doing what we do. No one's going to die under my watch I promised you that and I'm going to keep it... now where's My sister?" Luna inquired. "I think I saw Evelyn pick her up but now where is she? Is she under assult by that monster... If so I need to head back 'She's... confusing me... She says something hurts but I checked her body and well... there's no visible injury, Hold on we're heading back to camp so I'll see you there.' Evelyn could be seen with Celestia in the sky nearby

Woody coninued his singing trying to keep the creature calm, he wasn't sure if it would eat him or not if he stopped for too long or maybe it was vegetarian? "So... What do you eat? I've got some stuff with me... I mean if you're hungry that is." Woody slowly reached into his bag and pulled an apple out of it, offering it to the Creature that he had yet name.

"I suppose you have a point, Jack... I should've focused more on his actions, not his words. I owe you my life quite a few times over now. I should probably be more careful from here out... I suppose the wound Discord's son has now would've been a good reference of that fact. Sorry, I got mad but I am just as concerned for you as you were for me. We should keep keeping each other safe. Since we seem really good at it. You more so than myself so I'll try harder to make up for what I haven't done." Luna's sytche changed back into 'Tia's halberd and she put it in the ground siting next to Jack

Luna had focused purely on the foe at hand she bore her teeth "And what Makes your murder any better than mine... I was defending myself, and my people those who can't defend themselves. I was killing to stop those infested form just killing and infesting more and more people." Luna, was interrupted when he started to speak to JAck Jack she thought he was going to attack him and between the change of aim she teleported in front Jack, so in the end, she evaded the killing blow. "Turning innocent people into mindless slaves who go around turning countless others to match. My race... No... All races are only fighting to survive but you push them under and treat them like trash. Your clan bases itself on selfish morality and the universe would be safer without it around. I'll leave you with this!" Luna teleported behind the cultist swinging at his spine, she forced all the bolts in the air to seek out the cultist and then teleported back to Jack teleporting them both back to camp them both back to camp. Once safe luna dropped the scythe and looked at Jack "First... Thanks. Next, What in this wide universe were you thinking!" Luna's look showed a lot of fear, all of it originating from the fact that Jack could've been put in danger

The body drew the 3 hunters in fronts attention. "Hey! Isn't that one of our guys?" Another quickly spoke up "Looks like it... and a beast wouldn't throw that far... someone's out there." The second drew his crossbow, not aware of what was going on. The first followed him The third had his as soon as the body landed "Don't go investigate... stay here it might be a cheap trick by those Vampires..." While the 3 were distracted Maple was heading around to the building side to ambush the Stallion who was with the mare, She was almost to position.

After thoroughly checking the creature the light went away just as Woody said it would. He stopped singing taking on a serious tone. "Well all of my books on everfree I've never seen nor heard of something like you... Cool! You're one of a kind! Just like me!" Woody resumed his happy singing with a bit more pep in his step, which of course was reflected in his songm it was much more upbeat and flow as compared to the elegant sound from before.

"What makes me better than you?" Luna didn't even have to consider it, "I have something true and righteous to stand for when you have something like that..." Luna closed her eyes, One of the many bolts in the sky came down quickly, Its intent wasn't to hit the Cultist only make him dodge, the bolts impact was quickly followed by a merciless and deadly swing of what was now a scythe durning the swing Luna reopened her eyes and the puplis where now narrow slits as opposed to the circles, perhasp an element of Nightmare Moon revealing itself, Not only that but if the blast from before hit the ground it would knock up sand, making it much harder to see Luna when she appeared for the swing. Her saying no magic was a bluff. "You're ready to die for it!" Luna roared finishing her thought "We'll fight until you run or I die. I'm sick of you and should've done this before. You've caused enough damage" Evelyn saw what was happening, She couldn't eaxctly help Luna without possibly disrupting her... and well she would be at risk herself. She spotted Celestia and quickly flew to her ignoring the battle "Celestia! Are you ok?" Celestia groaned "N-No... something's very wrong... I don't exactly know what..." That was enough for Evelyn to lift her up and Evelyn spread her wings "W-Wait... What about Luna?" "We need to make sure you're ok, Luna can handle herself... I think... But like this... you're just a piece in his game." With that She took off, trying to get her out of the way of the two fighters

Luna looked shocked and took a step back as she stopped warping but then regained her confidence in realization of something a bit more apparent to her. "Well... if what you say really is really true that means she and I are one in the same... So I wouldn't call out things that I might regret saying." Celestia's halberd flew over to Luna She held it with magic laughing quietly "Who am I kidding, you've already majorly messed up. Let's fight, no magic and see how well you fare!" She flicked the halberd and its axe head turned into a scythe blade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yea that sounds fun. I promise we can do that once I return. See ya soon!" With that evelyn flew off towards the battle zone.

"I am a terrible follower of Wolf!" Maple roared back to the deer as she flew into the air drawing her bow and knife like before "That's because I'm not one of her followers! If you want to believe that then fine! I'll act like one!" Maple pulled back her bow sting after knocking an arrow she fired it and then flew at the deer right after, If she blocked it with the shields Maple would simply avoid the shields and then attack with the knife driving it preferably into the chest, Outside of when she had to, Maple was still firmly against killing anything but would do it if backed far enough into a corner... or told that the fallen would just get back up in the case of War's arena. Woody awkwardly scratched under his chin thinking of the spell "I've never... changed forms before. S-So... That'll require just a small amount of teaching... Salacious why don't you help me out a bit with that... Please? I mean, you seem to be amazing at that spell, maybe it's since you visit your followers so much? I'd like if that was it" Woody said with a smile to the god, who was currently a doe, trying to maybe less in favoritism "No offense Slug, I just think that She'll offer me a bit more for this one. Like you with Biomancy."

@WiiGuy2014 @Techno Universal @dosey doe Woody knelt down near Wish and picked her up in a hug, it was kinda necessary since he was much taller, He was very gentle and made sure not to hurt the pony He felt himself start to cry softly, he was just so happy that there was a group to help him. After the hug, Woody set her back down and felt he had to give her... something... "I want to give you something... Well here..." Woody held out his left paw and sung a soft and flowy melody, a dark-pink rose appeared in his paw, He plucked it painlessly from his paw and knelt down offering it to the mare " You can have this at least... As a token of our friendship!" The flower was glowing softly, Woody's magic caused that in flowers he sprouted it would go away after about an hour The young draconequus would've offered techno something as a proof of friendship but he felt the cape that was along his back was proof enough.

Woody still had no idea what the creature.. and the fact that it seemed to be less instinct driving compared to nearly everything else in ever free, so he figured that he just couldn't SEE it's defining features and what have you he added a brilliance to his song, not stopping singing since the thing enjoyed it, and the change caused a ray of light to appear ontop the Creature "Don't mind this... It'll be gone in a second Just need to take a look at you."

Maple relaxed visibly "All that matters is we're 2 ponies that want these hunters gone... So we do share a goal. Watch the non-combatant when you go in there. and you can leave a number of the hunters to me alone. Good to know we have allies here..." Maple jumped as she remembered something "Before we press our attack... is... Crimson with you?" She asked with a hint of worry, but a hint of hope too.

Celestia was caught off guard as it went past her shield, after getting hit fell limp to the ground, not wanting to move out of fear, and the paralyzation wasn't exactly helping. Alive but most likely in desperate need to escape the cultist."W-What... even... was that..." Luna was not really pissed "How dare you do something that cheap!" Luna readied herself, she wasn't running... since Celestia was now in peril "Try it against me and you won't do as well!" She teleported, not reappearing for about a second firing a small beam again and warping in mere seconds. Repeating the process over and over randomly. In between the teleports and reaperence she was spawing bolts that didn't move high in the sky, they looked like stars from the ground so it was hard to notice at first but it would soon be the only thing one could focus on. She readied her sealing magic spell, waiting for him to notice 'Her stary sky' "Alright... Let's give them a bit longer... I really do belive they're ok... but if they're not back soon... I'll go in after... a..." She noticed the magic popping up in the sky. "That's not a good sign. I'll head back they're bound to need more help, you stay here." Evelyn spread her wings about to take off... But she wanted to make sure Jack didn't want to say anything.

From the distance, Luna didn't know that he was dodging by warping so her pattern of direct shooting didn't change but her pace and intensity per beam increased slowly. Celestia, on the other hand, changed it up. She started firing her blast at a complete random through the area near the cultist. He was bound to warp into one eventually if Celestia wasn't knocked down or out. "Come on. You talk so big why don't you show me why you keep talking like that!" Celestia put up a barrier ready to counterattack. "I think they're fine. I mean did you see that beam?! There's no way that monster survived it! Plus even if so I need to make sure you're ok, That was my main task after all, and lately... well I've been doing pretty bad at it. I'm sure they'll handle it" She gave a reassuring smile