Continued from Marketplace

Storm Chase slowly walks into the forest, looking back as he hears footsteps that aren't his own. "Who's there?!" he yells into the darkness.

Spring flinched, knowing she was caught. Trying to avoid being further caught she flew up above the trees, narrowly avoiding smashing into a branch.

Storm looks around then continues on his way. "Whoever was there, go back. Go back or face the consequences."

"OOOOOHHH what kind of consequences??? Oops." Spring flew down to Storm, knowing she was deffinitly cought now. "So what kind of consequences are we talking? cuse you know ive been in here thousands of times and i've fought Ursas and dragons and timberwolves, all with my wings tied behind my back so you know im ready for anything."

"You think this is a joke?!" Storm yells, "This is not an adventure! This is business!" He punches a giant rock and it shatters into rubble. He then proceeds to put the rubble in his green backpack. As he does so, a picture falls out. It's a picture of Storm fighting a dragon.

Mosscow was tending to some of the forest when he heard felt the earth shake. "What on earth was that" he mumbled. He tried pinpointing where it came from and saw two ponies to what looked like to him, arguing. He hid in a tree and silently listened.

As he picked up the last of the rubble, he turned and looked at Spring. "I am not here to babysit. I am here to collect supplies."

Spring, who was looking at the rock in total shock and ignoring Storm's baby comment, noticed the picture and picked it up. "cool!!! you actually faught a dragon?!! Like i said i encountered one but it was a baby so i didnt hurt him too bad or nothin." Spring tried to carfully put the picture back into the rock filled backpack. "So uh how are rocks gunna help you?"

Storm closes his backpack up. "I try to do lots of jobs. If you must know, I'm trying to make enough money to fund an expedition. Right now, I'm trying to build a house, and the toughest rocks come from the Everfree Forest."

Mosscow decided to fly down, but his left wing accidentally clipped a branch, causing him to crash into a rock...right beside the scary lookin stallion.

Storm sets the backpack down. "HOW MANY PONIES ARE FOLLOWING ME??!!" He yells

Spring Laughed. "Hey Earthen how's it going. I see you've been working on the moves i taught you. I did that me and Hallow's first trip into everfree too."

"First of all I wasn't following you", Mosscow snapped. "I live here. I tend to the forest and live in a hollowed out tree not too far from here. So relax."

Storm picks up his backpack and starts walking away back towards the marketplace. "Have fun you two... I got things to do."

Spring looked between Earthen and Storms vanishing figure. "Uh if Hallow were here we would sooo go after him." She smiled at Earthen. "Wanna be my tempoary Hallow, just until she can go on adventures again. "

Mosscow laughed "Yeah she would go after him and get onto him for his attitude. She doesn't even let me get an attitude with her. But I love her no matter what. And sure, but I can't wonder too far, we have another foal on the way." He smiles warmly at the thought of his new filly soon being brought into the world.

As Storm exits the forest, he hears the hooves of his followers. "Whatis it gonna take for them to leave me alone?! I'll never get the mission done!" he whispers to himself as he takes off running home.

Spring saw that Storm was picking up pace. "Uh Earthen i think we're gunna have to hit the skies to keep up with him." With out waiting for his response she flew up a head and easily caught up with Storm.

Mosscow sighed. "Do I gotta? He's so grumpy!" He took charge and leapt into the sky, unfurling his wings and speeding up to Spring.

Storm finally reaches his house in Ponyville, but trips and drops everything out of his bag. Including the rocks, the dragon photo, and... A photo of Rainbow Dash. "Ow..." he moans.

Spring, who had been keeping pace with storm, quickly helped him up. "Oh are you ok?" She asked worridly. "I didnt mean for anypony to get hurt."

As Mosscow was catching up, he slipped on something and fell. "Oi!" He gets up to see a photo of Rainbow Dash a few feet away. "What the--?"

Storm quickly gets up and snatches the photo. "You didn't see anything!" he yelled as he picked up his stuff.

Spring noticed he missed a rock and picked it up, and handed it to storm, smiling. "I only saw rocks and if your embarassed of rocks theres a problem there. Im really sorry for causing you to fall. One time i fell into a hole in a grave yard and hallow couldnt get me out for a whole hour."

Mosscow busts into laughter. "Yeah Hallow told me about that. She felt really bad tying your wings up then. And take a chillpill Storm it's just a pic. Nothin wrong with that."