Chapter 2

Hi! I really have nothing to say... So lets reply to some reviews!

Guest: Thanks for your submission, but I would prefer it not to be an alicorn.

Flutter Night: Thanks for your submission, but you gave me almost nothing to work with. There was no character upsides, no flaws. :|

Garralover2247: actually I am still open for OC's. ^_^

Cloudchaser the Unicorn: Thanks!

Lightning lay in the cool grass, letting it's coolness seep into her coat, soothing her sore muscles. She lay in her normal spot, watching the Wonderbolt Academy. The one week stage of the Wonderbolt Academy was over, and now it was the time for the second level session to begin. All those who were not ready to pass, stayed behind for another class. Rainbow Dash, of course, made it in. Actually the only pony she didn't see was Raindrops. Which didn't surprise her. She was the slowest and clumsiest of them all.

Only the best of the best, she thought, So what did I do wrong?

She groaned in annoyance.

"Man! I really have to stop coming here! It makes me think too much,"

But it wasn't like she had much else to do. She couldn't do a fly over Ponyville, once she tried and she got numerous 'BOO!'s. Apparently, that tornado had caused a bit more damage than nearly killing 5 ponies. It had destroyed somepony's house, which had happened to belong to a news pony. Now that... incident was in the newspaper and nopony liked her anymore. She had many things thrown at her when she flew over. A brick came very close to hitting her head, like she needed anymore damage there. So she decided to steer clear of Ponyville unless it was an emergency. Fly over the Everfree forest? No, to dangerous. Go to another city? They probably know to...

"Nothing to do. No where to go. Lightning Dust? Your pathetic!" She groaned to herself.

A little teary eyed, she settled under her camouflage tent and fell asleep.

When she awoke, she saw three unfriendly faces staring at her.

Two colts, one mare. The two males looked to be twins, the only way you could tell the difference was the eye color. One had purple, one had green. They were both pitch black. The green-eyed one had a boxing glove (one that would fit a hoof), and the other had a sword. The mare had dark blue eyes, and had a darker blue coat. Her long black hair covered her right eye, but in those eyes she saw a mix of hatred and amusement. She recognized her... from where?

"Hey Lightning Dust! Long time no see! Still at the bottom of the heap, if my eyes are not mistaken?"

Oh no...

"Bitter Night," Lightning said coldly.

Her school bully, everypony called her Bitter Night. Nopony knew her real name. She was a unicorn with the same colors as Nightmare Moon. Except her hair was black and her body was blue. She literally came out of no where! One day she appeared, and only her accomplices that she chose escaped her wrath. The other unlucky ones, were never the same after that. Herself included. Bitter Night had somehow always gotten out of trouble, she never was scolded. She would walk in and after five seconds the teacher would call the victim in to be scolded for so-called 'lying.' The one thing you would see before hoof, was her walking out of the room with a smug look on her face.

"I hear somepony caused a tornado, that almost killed five ponies,"

Lightning looked down, she wouldn't admit it, like, EVER, but she was scared out of her wits. She could barely speak. Anypony who went to her school knew why.

"Look me in the eyes, Lightning Dust,"

Slowly, she glanced up. She froze. In those eyes, it was absolutely nothing but hatred. Just sheer hatred. One glance at those eyes would make even the toughest of ponies cringe in fear.

"Pathetic," she said, "Get her,"

By the time Lightning realized what was happening, it was too late. The two colts were beating her senseless. She couldn't even feel a thing she was so terrified.

"HEY!"

The three ponies turned their head.

There stood two ponies, one was a light grey pegasus with a dark, grey, ragged mane. The other was a turquoise unicorn, with a dark blue, also rugged mane. The pegasus's eyes were blazing with anger, and the other wasn't too different.

"Back OFF!" Yelled the pegasus.

"Boys! Lay off a second," Said Bitter Night, "And who's gonna make us?"

"Me and Cloudchaser, that's who!" Said the pegasus. Cloudchaser looked a bit unsure about this, but seeing there was no way out of it, he held his ground.

"Don't make me laugh! Alright, come at me,"

There was the feel of a breeze and Bitter Night was pinned on the pegasus punched her in the cheekbone. Bitter was obviously surprised to be pinned, but recovered quickly. She head butted the pegasus hard. So hard that it hurt Bitter Night. Lightning would have laughed aloud, if her wounds hadn't started hurting.

Ow...

Cloudchaser levitated the two dumbfounded colts, and threw them into a nearby steam. They weren't hurt, just wet. But that wouldn't last for long. Cloudchaser kicked those colts to the next life. But it wasn't long before they came out of their trance, and landed a punch on him. Cloudchaser backed up a little, and the colts stepped forward. Then Bitter Night spoke.

Bitter Night was burning with rage, having her pride hurt like that.

"You better hope I don't find you two again! Or you'll have some real wounds to think about!"

With that, they dashed away.

The two ran over to check on Lightning.

"OH MY GOSH! ARE YOU OK?"

Lightning couldn't speak. It was too much to take in. Far too much. She just lay there in the grass, the pain starting to kick in, but she wasn't about to let them see that.

"It hurts a bit, but I'll be ok," She said. It didn't hurt a little, she was in so much pain she was sweating.

"Let's get her back to my cottage, I may have some stuff for her," Said the mare.

That was the last thing Lightning Dust heard before she passed out from the pain.

"Woah! They must have hurt her pretty badly for her to pass out like that!" Said a male voice.

"I hope she'll be ok, Mural! Her wounds are pretty terrible. I think they broke her leg!"

"Ow! I've done that before, it REALLY-"

"Would you two be quiet? I can't concentrate with you two talking!" Snapped the mare.

Lightning Dust opened her eyes.

"She's awake! Cloudchaser, get me the aspen leaves and the willow twigs!"

She saw the turquoise unicorn grab the herbs from the counter, and set it on the table next to the mare.

"Good evening! My name is Water Lily! That unicorn that brought me the herbs is Cloudchaser, and that mint green stallion over there? That's Mural," She said.

"Um... hi," Said Mural.

Cloudchaser gave Lightning a friendly wave.

"We're gonna fix you up! Now before I begin, I gonna need you to eat these, to help kill the pain," Said Water Lily, gesturing to the Aspen leaves.

"You want me... to eat... THAT?!" She complained.

"Do you want the pain numbed or not?" Said Water Lily, annoyed.

"Ugh, fine," She said, biting on the leaves. They didn't taste that bad, actually. It tasted lemony, with its fair share of lettuce flavor.

"To quicken the results, and make it more effective, I will need you to chew on the willow sticks,"

She bit into it, only to spit it out in disgust. It tasted dry, and, well, green. And sour.

"I know it tastes disgusting, but you need to chew it, ok?"

Reluctantly, she chewed it. To her surprise, she felt the pain ebbing away.

"Good! Feel better?"

"Mmhmm,"

"Excellent. Now I can begin!" Said Water Lily. She instantly looked to Lightning's leg. She tapped it.

"Ow!"

"Hm," she said.

"Is it broken?" Asked Mural.

"No just badly sprained, and by the looks of it, dislocated," She said, "This is gonna hurt, so brace yourself,"

She placed her hooves on her arm, and yanked.

"AGH!" Lightning Dust screemed in agony. Her entire right side was in an incredible amount of pain for only half a second, but it felt like a year.

"You said it would hurt, but not THAT much!" She yelled.

"Yeah... hehe... sorry..." She said sheepishly.

"Is there anything major wrong?" Asked Cloudchaser.

"Cuts and bruises, but her sprained leg was the worst of it. Mural, get me three long sticks, bout the size of her leg. Some cloth, and some rope,"

She wrapped the cloth around Lightning's leg, and tied the sticks in a cast- like order.

"And done! I'm very glad they didn't hurt you to bad!" She said.

Ok! Thanks for reading! :D

BTW, the herbs used are not a joke. If you have a headache, or a pain, willow twigs and aspen leaves. And I wasn't kidding about the flavors either.

Water Lily is My OC.

I thank Cheif Wolfee (the owner of Mural)

And Cloudchaser the Unicorn (the owner of Cloudchaser) for sending me OC's!

Till next time, Merry Hearths Warming Day!

-Water Lily