Old Appleoosa

Elestre gasped as his illusions vanished. "Okay, buck this, we're hight-hoofing outta here!"

The unicorn barely avoided a bullet that slammed into the ground beneath him. His horn glowed, then appeared to short out. The colt appeared to drag the heavily wounded stallion away, heading as quickly as was possible back towards New Appleoosa.

In reality, those were illusions, with the real two being invisible. Elestre quickly pulled a potion out of the saddlebag and gave it to Ebon. "I think we're safe for now, but just to make sure-" he whispered.

An invisible shield sprang into existence over the two, and with very focused magic, he slowly strengthened it until it could possibly hold up to some heavy beating. He spoke very softly. "Someone must have tipped them off. My beguiling did no good. I've got no melee spells, darn it! This is bad, very bad."