[It's a well-known fact that ponies sometimes break out randomly into song. Unfortunately, Minato can't sing well. What he can do is lay down some rhymes, so when the standard music from nowhere starts up, that is exactly what he does.]

[It's close enough to a musical number.]

Here we go again
It's gonna be a time
Everything goin' topsy-turvy
no reason or rhyme

Cutie marks everywhere
Givin' destiny a scare
These memories, nothing's as it seems
Lost your dreams, took extremes
Gonna be, a heck of a week
Lotta problems in the street
'fore we get back on our feet (or hooves)

Don't know what's going on
Or if my flank's even right
But I feel with this
I've got sight beyond sight.
Strange things happening
I've seen it all before
Always lasts a week
Sometimes less, never more.

So to all you ponies out there
Who can see what's up in the air
Just give it some time
Everything'll be fine
Watch yourself, watch your friends
It'll be normal again, that I swear.

[With that, the music fades, leaving Minato slightly surprised that he just did that.]

...Huh. Wasn't half-bad for something on the spot.

[Today should have been a day like any other for Crmsn, save for one thing...that constant nettling in his mind, that little voice that would pipe up and hiss and giggle at him every time he stopped paying attention...it was gone. There was something else that bothered him. His shadow wasn't responding to him anymore.

No, try as he might, it just wouldn't listen. There was also the minor issue of his cutie mark being gone, but it wasn't something he ever...noticed or paid much attention to.]

Hey everyone, your friendly Night Market Guard, Crmsn here...um...has anypony seen a rogue shadow wandering around? I never had much trouble keeping it in check before, but it seems to have wandered off. Ya don't think it ran away do you? Maybe I was too rough on it...or maybe I just neglected it too much...er right. What I mean is, if anypony happens across it...can they please apologize to it for me?

[He shakes his head and is about to close the scroll but stops short.]

Oh, uh...also. Does anypony know about these cutie mark things? Are they supposed to just...vanish? Cause mine looks to be gone now.

"BWAHAHAHA! Cower, feeble mortals, for Lady Hayate, EMPRESS OF ALL EVIL, has kidnapped your friends!"

Slight pause to turn the scroll around, revealing a group of ponies clustered in a cave. The cave is...pretty obviously Dante's?

"If you want them back, you'll have to brave my ARMY OF MONSTERS and reclaim them from...THE DRAGON'S CAVE. Better find yourselves some Cypress Sticks and start grinding! AHHAHAHA!"