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"¡Dios mio! ¡Perra malvada!!" Scriven shouted as Ampelus propelled them up and over the beach. "What the hell did you say to me?!" Ampelus shouted over the roar of the wind. How did they end up in the sky?! She pushed his claws out of her face and looked back, shocked to see that the two of them had rocketed forward...because of her?! Her wings were never meant for flight! Why had they come out now?! "Oh right...because of my...thing..." "I called you a wicked, heartless, evil, maniacal villain!" the griffon shouted at Ampelus as he began clawing at her face. His talons raked down her cheeks, leaving bloody marks. The marks quickly healed themselves, and left him with a furious face glaring at him. "Ay carumba..." "You did not say all those things with four words, you little jerk!" Ampelus wrapped her vines around the offender and threw him into the air. The griffon stretched out his wings and flew after her. "You ain't gonna terrorize nobody else while I'm around!" he

"Hrm?!" came the assassin's inquiry. "Well you didn't think my spit was going to cure you, did ya?" Melba patted the mare's head. "It slowed the effects of the poison. Like Seaweed said, the antidote doesn't grow on the island. A nymph, however…” Fire Lotus looked like she was going to puke from nervousness. She peered up first at Spark, then Ampelus. Her breathing quickened just a pace, then looked away, eyes closed. "What's with her?" Callie asked. "She almost killed Ampelus last year. Now her life is in her hooves," Spark replied simply. "She waf a pain...in my AFF." Fire Lotus spoke with a muffled grunt. "Yeah, well you kidnapped our friends, tortured others, and helped Shimmering Oasis put the entire kingdom of Equestria in jeopardy." "Oaaarghmygaw," she groaned. "Jus' pu' me underalreay!" Callie balked. "Just who is she, Sparky?" He sighed and glanced at Ampelus, who looked like she still hadn't made up her mind on strangling Fire Lotus or letting the poison

Cyno looked up at the red mare, the one that looked at him earlier. The stare had frightened him, but her voice wasn't so scary. Inviting, even. Maybe she was nice! He dropped the bits of teeth obediently and took her hoof in his claws, holding it like a child walking with their parent to school. "What do you say we go exploring, huh?" Fire Lotus suddenly felt something hit her cheek, quite hard. She recoiled, with a great effort to not spook Cyno away from her. She turned her head, a hard glare at the one pony she knew would have the guts to attack her in broad daylight. Rossa Bellezza approached her, magic still enshrouding her horn as she reached down and pulled Cyno away from the smaller mare. "Yeah. Sorry, on my list of appropriate baby-sitters you don't even feature. Why you wanna walk off wit' a kid anyway?" It wasn't so much a question as it was a challenge. "He looked lonely," Fire Lotus answered, trying her damnedest to keep up appearances. That Istalian mare

Russet Hearts watched Trixie dance her heart out. While he hadn't known her longer than this brief trip, he was quite sure that she hadn't had this much fun in a very long time. He felt a little jealous; there she was, dancing to her heart's content, sidled up with that gorgeous stallion. Russet could tell he was an athlete in every move he made, from how little he sweat despite his constant moves, his curves... No! Russet chided himself, shaking his mane and finding something else to look at. Spark Storm had mentioned this was a vacation of sorts, but the unicorn had not signed up for relaxation and playtime. He was here on a mission, to help get Spark Storm's friend and his newfound family to Breen, and maybe to challenge himself to become stronger, more mature, and maybe find himself along the way. Finding myself...didn't I do that a long time ago? he asked himself as he picked himself up to move away from the others and hopefully away from the crowd. I decided who I

"...Anyway, that was it for me. I didn't finish school and I missed out on a lot of stuff..." Spark trailed off distractedly. He'd spent the last fifteen minutes getting Callie up to speed, at least up to the end of his school days, and of his mother's death. The griffon stared at him, tears in her eyes, claws gripping the steel floor under her feet. Even Ampelus, who had never heard this story before, looked like she wanted to rip something apart. "That little 'lake' brat! If he were here, I would remove his spine and feed it to him!" This outburst made Callie turn a shade lighter. "Thanks for the image...whatever happened to him, Sparky? D'ya know?" Spark paused as the trio neared the exit of the bio dome. "Can't say that I really know...I heard once that he'd been sent to some kind of military camp, but that hardly seems fair after what he did...anyway." Callie frowned, and took a moment to reflect on her own situations, which seemed rather tame compared to what