Scorched Earth. That's all Danny could feel. The hard cement his stomach laid on was shattered with cracks cascading down the streets. Then Danny began to smell, he smelled fire, smelled smoke,
smelled destruction. Danny attempted to roll onto his back, as conciseness slowly trickled back into his mind. Only now he realized he didn't know where he was, or why intense pain rippled through his body from his stomach area. Instantly after trying to rotate his body, he was overtaken with a surge of awareness. The pain in his side was no more his concern, even though it laced him with a weight that nearly made him return to the sleep of unconciseness. Now Danny was on his back, an he fought to find the strength to open his eyes. Slowly as he opened, he was overtaken by the color orange. As the sky suddenly lept into his sight. The thick orange streaked across the heavens, and Danny knew something terrible was happening. Danny shut his eyes, and forced his teeth into a clench, and began to lift himself up. The pain was severe, the boy (of only 17 years of age) did not know the body could experience such shock. He fought against it, knowing where he was needed to be changed, as if a small light in his head was urging him to stand, lending him power to do so. After minutes of struggle, Danny stood. And his view nearly sent him back to the ground.
A monsoon of fire that rippled from the top of every building had engulfed the sky, filling it with a blazing orange. As the miles of smoke trailed to the sky. Danny slowy turned , looking at the deep crevasses that riddles the streets, each, branching in directions away from him. He realized he was in the middle of an intersection, the stoplight lay in a tangle mess to his right. He slowly walked over to the heap of metal (while gripping his side fiercely, the pain was coming from his blood soaked shirt, and the fabric was laced to his skin) to read the inscription on the small rectangular sign attached to a piece of the bar that had not been scorched black. It read BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Danny struggled to connect that with any memory of his past. The last weeks were black, but he knew his family, or, his lack of. His mother must be here. A tear rose to his stinging face, and now, oddly for the first time, he panicked. Not at the fact that a maelstrom has gone through and decimated New York City, but that he was alone.
No other person stirred, while he saw bodies, thats all they were. Empty bodies, void of life. Fear laced his every thought, he began to walk down a street, every step pulsing his body with pain. He tried to speak, but only a mangled sound came out, if only it was even loud enough to be heard. The only sounds he could hear were fire, burning, destruction. But no booms, or pops, or bangs. But the worst part was no voices, the only sounds to accompany his thoughts were the sounds of the torrents of fire leaking from the top of every building.
Danny began to realize that he was alone. The thought sent a feeling to his heart that dropped it to his feet. The question finally hit, what did happen? Thinking frantically now, he had no recollection of anything pertaining to what catastrophe that overtook New York City. What Earthly force could have overtaken the city like this? And why did it seem like Danny was the only one?
Danny forced himself to start talking. His voice creaked and shattered while he tried to utter sounds. After minutes of trying, he worked his voice to a shout.
"Hello?" the frightened teen shouted.
"Is anyone at all out there?" this conversation went on for several hours, as he made a slow and uneasy pace through the street. He didn't know how long he had actually been walking, or how far. But in the shape he was in, he wasn't getting anywhere fast. Then Danny heard something move, he hard a clopping sound coming from around a corner of a smaller building that had miraculously avoided destruction. His heart skipped a beat, even though the noise wasn't human, he knew he wasn't alone now. Now had Danny been in a different physical state, he wouldn't have encouraged any strange noises to come to him. But this being a moment for him to finally have someone else, he began to hobble as fast as he could to the corner.
"Hello! Please! Hello?" the newfound hope had increased his stamina. As he rounded the corner, the sight nearly made him question his sanity.
The equestrian animal that stood before him was beyond imagination. It was a horse and it fur was the color of a light blue sky. It's long white mane lay around its neck, along with the well groomed tail. It's eyes were abnormally large, and even human, for a horse. But they were beautiful, huge detailed, colored pupils turned around to meet the boy's. They stood in equal amazement, even though Danny felt much more dumbfounded.
"Hello?" Danny stammered, not really expecting it to respond. Even for how extravagant it seemed to be, it still was a horse after all. But now Danny noticed something different about this "horse". It wasn't a horse at all, it was a unicorn.
The long horn that protruded from the front of it's head was at a length of around 2 feet, and seemed to pulse with a light. The tip of the horn was sharpened to a deadly point.
"Hello!" the mammal chirped back. Danny's heart skipped a beat. Not only did he just encounter a unicorn. Now it talked. Danny knew now for a fact he was dead.
"Oh darling! You're not dead! If you were dead, you wouldn't be feeling that awful pain your going through". Danny froze, he just thought that, he knew he wasn't speaking.
"How did you do that!" the now frightened teen asked.
"Being a unicorn as I am," the beast tilted it's head a little bit, as if to show the horn "we tend to accidentally read others minds, being telepathic and all!" the beast female voice rung through the air. It was a charming voice filled with confidence.
"Now why don't you come over here to the brilliant Trixie?" it hummed. "You wouldn't happen to be Danny, would you?"
Now Danny broke into a cold sweat, and took a step backwards.
"Oh, well don't answer that, I already know. We've been looking for you."
"Who's we! I didn't even think you existed, why are you looking for me!" Danny was scared, and he no doubt knew the other had heard his fear too.
"Darling, don't fret.."
"Get out of my head!" Danny screamed, shoving his hands to his ears, the feeling of that other mind penetrating his head, no personal violation had ever been experienced to know that your every single thought, was now up to another (wether a mythical beast or not) to ever hear.
"Now that was mean! How dare you talk to me like that! Do you know who I am?" Trixie's voice now in a shout. Danny knew this was a very proud horse.
"He may not Trixie, but I do" the other female voice came from directly behind Danny. The boy spin around to meet the face of another unicorn.
Now able to size up the beast in comparison to him, these horses were the same size as any other horse. This unicorn had a dark purple coat, with an even darker mane. The mane had red steaks decorating it through even all the way down to it's tail. The eyes were the same.
"Danny," this female voice was slightly deeper than the other "I need you to stay calm, my name is Twilight, and I'm here to help you" Danny realized this horse wasn't talking, but yet it spoke to his mind, which must have been what was so unnerving about the conversation he had just moments ago with the other beast. Danny didn't feel like staying calm after having been holding mind conversations with ponies. Danny ran.
"Danny I'm sorry." said the one called Twilight as Danny tried to run past her, down the street he had came. Danny's body instantly froze, as he went completely rigid. And then slowly, he began to lift off the ground. Now just a stiff board of boy, he began to scream.
"Twilight! Nightmare Moon sent me personally to get him!" the proud unicorn said as she began to lift off the ground, the horn attached wreathed in a dark purple light.
"Then shes going to be awfully disappointed!" Twilight yelled back. Danny had now been placed on the side of the road, proped up like a piece of lumber against a wall. Still emobalized by the psi-energy. And with that Danny grew quiet and watched one of the most interesting fight he had ever witnessed.
The light blue unicorn shot foreword, cloaking itself in a thin layer of mist. While Twilight took a defensive step back. Trixie whipped her head around and loosed a thunderbolt from the tip of her horn, the bolt clattering across the street in a millisecond. Twilight connected the bolt to her own horn, doubling the energy and sending it back. Trixie clapped he hooves together dissapaiting the bolt. Now the colts were feet within each other. The fighting became personal. The two equestrian entities clashed thier horns together, and fought to being thier hooves in the most painful looking spots. They brawled like this until Trixie worked her head under Twilight, throwing her to the side. But Twilight opened her now glowing eyes wide to stop herself mid-fall. Now glowing completely she rose into the air, creating a wind vacuum.
Chunks of the cement rose into the air around her, circling her in a deadly pattern. Trixie was now on the defensive, dodging the rocks as they flew. The battle went like this for several more minutes, as shards of earth struck the paler pony. As blood began to mix with the color of her mane, Trixie wailed a defeat admittance.
Twilight stopped the vortex of earth, but non-the-less stayed on edge.
"I give Twilight, don't kill me!" the defeated horse wailed. Twilight almost seemed to care for the being she had just fought. But in that fraction of a second, when Twilights gaurd was down, Trixied thrust her head towards Danny, arcing a deadly beam. Piercing the immobilized boy directly in the chest.
Twilight lost care in the horse and rushed to the boy as now with the psi- barrier gone, fell limp to the ground.
"You'll think before you cross paths with the great Trixie again!" she scoffed as she engulfed herself in a orb of darkness and disappeared.
Damny couldnt see much now, he just lay looking up the side of the all he was by, up into the sky.
"Stay with me Danny!". Danny heard the horse scream, as her head came to view. Slowly Danny blacked out
"Danny no!..."
Blackness.