Hey, everyone! I'm back with this chapter. I know it's not a Someone's Headache chapter but it's a new story. And it's not a crossover, but an OC story. Yeah, I know good OC story are somewhat rare thses days but just give it a try. Thanks for you patience, have a good read and take care! -Rio.
(Canterlot) – (At a magic store) – 5:34 PM
Behind the counter, a black and purple teenager dragon was reading a book while sitting on a chair with her foot on the counter.
*door opens**bell rings* An pony wearing a blue cloak with it's hood up entered the store getting the dragon's attention, she looked up from the book. "Can I help you, sir?" She asked.
The pony pulled the hood down, revealing to be an orange unicorn, with blue and green eyes, green mane and one of his ears was half missing. "It's just me, Sharp. Did you not reconize me?" He asked.
"No, the hood was hidding your face. Why you're using that?." SharpClaw asked, closing and putting the book down.
"The Captain is on town right now. And I don't want to deal with him again, remember the last time?" He asked.
"When he tried to banish me from Canterlot?" She asked, frowning.
"That, and the time he tried to arrest me for protecting you from his guards. *Sighs* Did anypony came here to buy something?" He asked, looking around the shelfs.
"Not a single soul appeared here, and I think I know why." She said, looking sad.
"What do you mean?" He asked, confused.
She pointed to herself, "The only pony who entered the store immediately leaved when they saw who was at the counter. Which was me if you don't remember." She said, looking down while holding her arm.
"If I'm not mistaken I was right beside you, for all we know it could have been my bad reputation that scared them away." He said, trying to comfort her.
"And what's the reason your reputation is very bad, huh?" She asked, upset.
"... defending you from those assholes." He murmured, frustrated.
"I just feel I'm like a burden to you ever since you first found me..." She said, looking down.
"WHAT? No! That's not true. The hell did you get that idea from?!" He asked, shocked.
"Just think about it, if it wasn't for me, you won't had to confront the guards and the captain, the ponies around won't had a motive to hate you, heck maybe this store would even have somepony buying something." She said, sitting down and hugging her legs, hidding her face.
He didn't know what to say, completely caught off guard by that. He was about to confort her when they heard the door open. Looking at the door he growled while SharpClaw hide out of view.
"What the hell you want, Tornado?" SnowFlame asked.
"I'm here to collect the taxes." The Captain, named Tornado said.
"I don't believe a single word you just said." SnowFlame said, still growling.
"What your tone, I can thrown you in the dungeons if I want." He threatened.
"Sure you do. Why isn't Jackie taking the taxes anyway? It's her job, not yours." SnowFlame asked, glaring daggers at him.
"Didn't you heard about? She was arrested for stealing taxes." Tornado said.
'Crap', "What? No, I didn't heard about that." He said.
"Well, now you do. But enough with that, just handle 50 bits and I'll be on my way." Tornado said, smirking.
"But that's almost triple of taxes. I don't have enough to pay that!" SnowFlame said.
"Either that or we'll trash this place." Tornado said.
"We?" SnowFlame asked, finally noticing that two guards were at the door. One pink pegasus and one brow earth pony, Blade and Boulder respectivelly. "You gotta be kidding me..." He said, mentally facehoofing for not noticing them before.
"Missed us, Flames?" Blade asked, giggling evilly.
"Not even slighty." He answered, glaring daggers at her.
"Too bad, they are my new lieutenants. Now you gonna give the bits or not?" Tornado asked.
SnowFlame levitate a small chest from the counter and drop it open in front of them. "It's all I have." He said.
"You kidding me? There's only 7 coins here." Tornado said.
"No, I'm not." He said.
"I'm returning tomorrow, if you don't get the gold we'll destroy this place and lock you at the dungeons. Let's go." Tornado said, grabbing the coins and leaving the place with Boulder right behind him.
Blade didn't went right away, she approuched him first. "You better watch what you gonna do tomorrow, Snowy", "Shut up! Don't you dare call me that ever again!" SnowFlame said, very angry.
"Oh, still hurts? Too bad, darling.", "Blade! Come on!" Boulder call her. As she turned around, she tried to smack her wing in his face as she leave.
He dodged it, SharpClaw went to him. "Who were these ponies with Tornado? Do you know them?" She asked.
"Blade and Boulder. And yes I do. Much more than I wanted." He said as he put the chest back inside the counter.
"What you mean?" She asked, closing the door and locking it, turning the sign to closed.
"Boulder was a childhood friend whi- *sighs* ... while Blade was my girlfriend." He said, hesitant about it.
"What?! Really? Her?" Sharp asked, shocked.
"She wasn't like that before..." He didn't finished.
"Before what?" She asked.
"... before I found you..." He said, feeling bad for saying that.
"Oh... So it's my fault she...?" Sharp asked but he didn't responded nor did he needed to. "Do you still have feelings for her?" She asked.
"No." He said.
"... You sure?" She asked.
"Yes, I'm. Why do you want to know so badly, Sharp?" He asked, annoyed.
"I just want to know..." She said.
"...You want to know? Fine. I'll tell you then." He said.
He went upstairs with her, sitting down on the couch.
(Flashback) – 9 Years ago – SnowFlame POV
I opened the door and entered my home carring a little dragon on my back, she was unconsious and bruised.
"Hey Snowy. Returned early?" Blade came from upstairs. She didn't noticed the little dragon on my back.
"Excuse me, Blade. I need to get to upstairs." I said, going up in a hurry.
"Something wrong Snow? What happe-" She finally had noticed what I was carring when I put the kid on the couch.
I was going to grab something to patch her up when Blade blocked my way. "What the hell you doing with a dragon?!" She asked.
"I found her during my trip and I coundn't let the kid to die alone there. Something attacked her." I said, passing her as I grabbed something that could clean and patch her up.
"Unbelieveable... Alright, just patch up this thing then it will be on it's way." I heard she saying that but I ignored. She was suddently acting very weird for some reason.
(2 hours later)
I was sitting on a chair next to the couch while Blade had gone to our room, she was still against the idea of bringing the 'thing' here.
Finally the kid started moving, then she just went straight up like she had an nightmare. "Hey, hey. Calm down, no need to fear, you're safe." I said, managing to calm the kid a little.
"Wh- where am I?" She asked, in fear and confusion.
"You are at my place, I found you unconsious at the forest, all bruised. What happened to you?" I asked, genually worried.
"I- I was playing hide and seek with my parents." She said.
"On the forest?" I asked, surprised.
"Uhum. They said to me count to 100 then start searching them..." She said, rubbing her bandaged arm.
"How much time passed since you last saw them?" I asked.
"It's been two days since I last saw them..." She said, looking down probably missing them.
She doesn't even know she was abandoned? Poor kid. "I'm... sorry to hear that." I said.
"Sorry? What do you mean?" She asked, confused.
"Your parents, I don't think they were playing hide and seek." I said, feeling bad to have to tell her the truth.
"Uh? But they say to me we were playing... I just didn't found them yet." She said, not believing and/or understanding.
"Look, they just abandoned you. No parent would 'play' on a dangerous forest with their little kid. And definitely won't let a game take two days." I said.
"T-they would never do that! ...right?" She asked, some tears forming on her eyes.
"I'm sorry, kid." She start crying, I was about to confort her when Blade came in the room.
"Snow. Bedroom. Now." Blade said, sounding very serious.
Curious and worried I said to the kid, "Look, I'll be right back, okay?" The kid didn't seen to heard me as she cried on the pillow of the couch. Sighing, I went where Blade called me.
"What's wrong, Blade?" I asked.
"That thing needs to leave, now." She said.
"What? Didn't you just heard what that kid said?" I asked, shocked on how she was acting.
"Stop calling it a kid, that thing is dangerous. Didn't you saw it's claws? They're huge, and don't tell me you forgot what happens to a pony if a dragon see them." She said.
"Blade, she is just a kid who got abandoned by her parents on a freaking forest. Don't you go telling me she's dangerous just because she's a dragon." I said, having enough of her attitude.
"Are you letting that thing stay here?" She asked. I noticed her disgust when she said that.
"I'm not letting that kid go through what I had to." I said, felling very angry at that point.
"I'm not staying on the same place with that thing, so you better choose wisely now." She said.
"Wait, you're really making me choose? Really?" I asked, feeling heartbroken.
"... Yes, I'm. So?" She asked.
With an heavy heart, I opened the door and pointed to the stairs. "Then you know where's the exit." I said that, a tear falling from my eye but I ignored it.
Blade at first was shocked, then got angry and approuched me. "You gonna regret that!" She said, pointing her hoof to my face then went downstairs. After a moment I heard the front down get slammed shut.
Exiting the room, I wasn't hearing the kids cries, so I went to check on her. She had cried herself asleep, "Don't worry kid. I'm not letting you alone like that." He said.
(End of flashback)
"...after that three days later, on a morning I went to Boulder's house to talk about it. But when I got there he start acting cold towards me, saying Blade told him what I did and couldn't be friends with somepony who would do something like that, then slammed the door shut on me.
At that point I was feeling very depressed. When I was about to leave I was sure I heard Blade's voice in there. Curiosity getting the best of me I walked to one of the windows, what I saw just managed to break what was left of my heart. Blade and Boulder were making out on a couch... I still remember hearing their conversation about they don't need to hide anymore their relationship..." SnowFlame stopped as he cleaned his eyes.
"... what you did next?" Sharp asked carefully.
"At first my blood boiled in anger, gosh I was about to just kick that door down and do something that would get me arrested..." He said, stopping again as he sighed.
"But you didn't because...?" She asked.
"I glanced back at my home, remembering that I wasn't alone. Then my anger just went away, getting replaced by sadness..." He said,
"... I'm sorry, Flames. I-", "Don't be. It's not your fault, okay?" He said.
"How it's not? You and Blade only break up because of me." Sharp said, blaming herself.
"Blade was betraying me with my best friend at the time. For all I know you did a favor to me. Because of you I discovered the truth, so stop beating yourself for something bad, when in fact you did a great thing to me, even if hurt at the time. So don't ever think again about being a burden, because you're not one. Alright?" He asked, getting up.
"A-alright, sorry for making you go through that." She said, hubbing her arm.
*sigh* "To be honest I kinda of needed that, but enough about it, we need to leave this place by tomorrow morning." Suddently they both heard a loud thunder.
"What was that?" Sharp asked, scared by the loud sound.
"A thunder. Probably a storm is coming..." He said, suddently having an crazy idea.
"Why are we leaving?" She asked.
"They won't let us alone while we are in Canterlot, no matter what we do... That and I might gonna do something that the guards will hunt me down for doing." He said, worring her.
"What you planning on doing, Flames?" She asked, suspicious.
"I want to break Jackie free from the dungeons." He said, going to his room.
"What!? You crazy? You planning on invading the castle? Where there's probably dozens of guards there?!" She asked, thinking he probably lost his mind.
"Look, she's being help me with the taxes for 2 years now. I own her that. I can't just leave this place without at least try to return the favor." He said, bringing from his room a bag.
"Alright, then I'm going with you." Sharp said.
"No, you going to wait me at the forest borders." He said.
"N-no! I'm not staying near that f-forest." She said, shivering.
"Wh- Oh, sorry. I forgot..." He start wondering where she could wait for him. She couldn't wait anywhere in Canterlot without the risk of the guards attacking her, and she's still didn't overcame her fear from the forest. "I can't believe I'm saying this but... okay, you will go with me." He said, checking his back.
"Really? Thanks for letting me, Flames." She said, glad to be able to help.
"Alright, but you gonna follow these rules strictly, understood?" He asked, sounding serious.
"Yes!... uh, what rules?" She asked.
"First, you gonna obey all my orders, no matter what I say." He said.
"Sounds easy." She said.
"Second, don't endanger yourself over nothing." He said
"Alright." She said, nodding.
"And last but most important, if something wrong happens you're gonna use this scroll." He said, pulling from the bag and gaving it to her.
"What this do?" She asked.
"It's gonna teleport you away from danger. But be aware it would only bring you somewhat near you current location, so plan well." He said.
"This gonna teleport both of us?" She asked.
"No. Just the caster." He said.
"Do you have one then? Because I'm not leaving you behind." She said.
"... This the only one I have, Sharp. Promise me you gonna use it if something goes wrong." He asked, holding her shoulders.
"But you-", "Promise me, Sharp." He asked again.
"...A-alright, I promise." She said, looking to the side.
"Thanks, Sharp. Just don't worry, the storm is gonna make difficult to see and hear us." He said, reassuring her.
"Okay, when we're leaving?" She asked.
"We need to be inside the castle before the night guards arrive, they're way better trained then the normal guards. I know they change turns with the normal guards at 7:30 PM." He then looked through the window. "The storm probably gonna start around 7 , and now is..." He looked to the clock, it readed 6:32 PM. "We're leaving right now." He said, putting on his bag. Sharp went to her room and grab her backpack, putting the scroll inside it.
SnowFlame went downstairs, went to the potions shelf. He pick two explosive potions in case they need to blow something, a speed potion, a sleep potion and then he saw a strange bottle the corner of his eye, the potion was grey and the label only read 'cautions'. He didn't know how that potion end up there, but he didn't have time to think about so he grabbed it too, putting everything on his bag he wait on the door for Sharp.
Who appeared moments later, holding a big ruby that had some parts missing. "Since when you had that ruby?" He asked, surprised.
"I found this ruby last month." She said.
"Really? Just laying somewhere on the ground or what?" He asked.
"I found on my room, behind my wardobre." She said.
"Huh, weird. Well, hide that. We want to arrive at the castle without rising suspicious, and it's gonna be a little hard if someone see you holding a big ruby." He said as she take a small bite from it then put inside the backpack.
(At the castle's entrance) – 7:02 PM
The storm didn't take long to arrive as the rain start picking up, getting ticker and loud. Making very hard to even heard someone say something some feet away from to you.
Two guards were guarding the entrance, both hating the rain but couldn't leave their post because of it. "Hey. Did you lose on the stick again?" One of them shouted to the other.
"Yes. And I think Tornado's hoof on that." The other shouted back.
"You think so?" The first one shout, asking.
"I'm sure of that." The other answered, shouting of course.
Something both of them didn't notice was SnowFlame and SharpClaw passing behind them. Unfortunely Sharp strumble on a rock, hitting her foot. "Ouch!" She immediately put her hands on her mouth as Snow worried looked back at the guards.
"Did you heard something?" One shouted, asking.
"Only you shouting." The other responded, shouting.
"Phew." Sharp breathed in relief.
"Be more careful, Sharp. This rain not gonna last forever, come on." He said, looking ahead of them he noticed they needed to pass by the guards barracks to arrive at the castle building itself.
"Shit. Sharp, keep you head down. We need to pass the barracks fast, if we get spotted it's over, understood?" He asked.
She nodded and they went, passing the first 'house' they saw inside Tornado and some guards playing a card game, which Tornado seemed to be winning. Passing the second 'house' they only saw some guards sleeping, and one was writing something on his fellow guards faces.
As they pass the last 'house' they both saw Boulder and Blade alone talking about something, the rain was making impossible to heard them, SnowFlame then pulled Sharp away from the window when he understood what they were going to do, feeling disgusted.
Once they arrive the castle, Snow opened a window and help Sharp enter, then jumped inside and close the window. "Alright, Sharp. Don't make to much noise, the rain is easyning now." He whispered, seeing the rain getting thinner, consequently getting quieter too.
"Okay, where to?" She asked.
"I remember going here with Blade so she could sign up for the royal guard years ago. They gave us a little tour through the castle. If I'm not mistaken, the dungeons where this way." He said, heading left with her.
– 7:19 PM
"Silver. Report." A purple pegasus called her friend.
"Found nothing out of place, Blaze." A grey unicorn guard answered. "Ugh, when will the night guards arrive?" He asked.
"In about tem minutes, why?" She asked.
"I'm hungry. What do you think they gonna serve for dinner?" He asked.
"Probably the same thing they always had served?" She said.
"Eh, you right." He said, going down the hall while she opened a door that lead downstairs. Snow and Sharp came from behind the curtains.
"You heard? The night guard's arriving in tem minutes." Sharp whispered.
"Then let's get going." Snow said, opening the door the guard entered. "Careful, I saw one of them heading there." He warned Sharp as they went downstairs.
(The dungeons) – 7:24 PM
"I didn't nothing wrong!" A blue earth pony with blonde hair and green eyes said.
"Sure you didn't. The captain himself caught you stealing. Drop the act now." The guard named Blaze said.
"For the last time. I'm not acting!" She said, then she suddently jumped from the bars as a purple bottle was thrown at Blaze, releasing a smoke which in seconds leave her unconsious.
After the smoke disappeared she saw Snow and Sharp approuching the cell. "SnowFlame? Is that you?" She asked, shocked.
"Hey Jackie, surprised? *Chuckles*" He said, trying to lockpick the cell door.
"Hey, it's SharpClaw, right?" Jackie asked. Sharp nodded. "it's nice to meet you. I just wanted it to be on better circunstances." She said.
"Nice meeting you too." Sharp said. Snow managed to open the cell, freeing Jackie.
"When did you learn how to pick a lock?" She asked.
"I have my surprises, you know? Now let's get the hell out of here before the night guards arrive." He said.
"Right, but first tell me where we'll be going after we leave the castle?" She asked.
"Yeah, Flames. You didn't tell me that either." Sharp said.
"I tell you after we leave this place, okay?" He said, heading towards the exit.
(The castle hallways) – 7:34 PM
Snow looked both directions, then signaled to them to go. They were heading towards one of the exits when they saw two night guards heading their way.
"Crap. Go back." Snow whispered as they tried another hallway, only to see another pair of night guards heading their way. "Dammit, if we continue like this we'll get cornered." He said as they went back to the hallway that had some doors.
"I think we should scather, if one get caught, they can cause a little caos so the others have a better chance to flee." Jackie proposed as they were forced to go upstairs.
Seeing a storage room, Snow lead them inside to hide. "I don't think scathering is a great idea." He said.
"If we do is more hard to spot us. And if one get caught the others still have a chance to leave the place." Jackie said.
"Well, I'm the only one of us that has the potions to fight against the guards. If we scather I can't protect you two." Snow said.
"It's one vote for my plan and one for your plan... Sharp, what do you think?" Jackie asked.
"Me?" She asked, surprised.
"Yes, we need a plan and fast. Otherwise they might find us here." She said.
"I think... uh, I think it's better if we scather." Sharp said.
"You kidding?" Snow asked, not liking where that was going.
"Snow, why don't you give us some of the potions, so we can have a chance against the guards." Jackie asked.
"Hm, I guess that will have to do then. One more thing, we'll meet up at my store. Wait only for 15 minutes at max. If one doesn't appear we assume the worse, understood?" He asked.
Jackie nodded, "But-", "No 'but's Sharp. Did you understand?" He asked again, this time she nodded.
Opening his bag, he gave the speed potion and a explosive to Jackie. "A speedy one for you." He said.
"Thanks, see you guys at the store." She said, leaving the room.
"Alright, Sharp. Look, this one explodes when splashed, so be careful with it." He said, giving her the red potion.
"Thanks Snow." He nodded, gave her a quick hug, "Good luck, Sharp. And DON'T get caught." He said, then leaved.
*breaths in and out* "Alright, you can do this." She whispered to herself and left the room. Following the hallway she almost strumble on a night guard, hidding behind the curtains.
Two night guards meet up right in front of her hidding spot.
"This weather, right?" One of them said.
"Can you pay attention on your job, please?" The other said.
"Come on, Judy. You need to go easy sometimes." The guard said.
"And you should stop messing around on duty, Nick." The guard named Judy said.
"How about this then. I pay attention while you start lessining this tension you have. How about that?" The guard named Nick offered.
"Alright. Deal." Judy accepted.
"See you in some hours." Nick said, marching away.
"Phff. He's really taking that deal seriously? Hmm, maybe it's not so bad." Judy went to the opposite direction of the hallway.
Sharp left her hidding spot, looking the end of the hallway she saw some stairs at the end but noticed on the corridor had a room blocked by a double door protected by some cell bars. Curious as she was she shaked her head and continued towards the stairs until she heard somepony was climbing it, running back she saw a shadow coming from the hallway she came.
Desesperated and not finding anywhere to hide, she opened her bag and grab the explosive potion, take some distance and throwned it at the door causing a big and loudly explosion.
Even through she had take distance, the explosion threwn her against the wall, getting up while cough she entered the room.
(With SnowFlame)
He was hidding under a table, three guards on the same room with him talking when suddently they all heard a big explosion. "What the hell was that?" One of them asked.
"It came from the Star Swirl's wing!" The other one said as they all left the room.
Leaving his hidding spot he started to worry. "I only gave an explosive one to Sharp... I can't let they caught her." He said, following the guards from far.
(With Jackie)
She managed to find her way back to the ground floor, opened a window and was about to jump *KABOOM* "What the-? Shit, one of them is in danger... *sighs* I can't let them get caught because of me." She said, closing the window and heading towards where the guards were running to.
(Celestia's room)
She was reading a book while she lay on her bed when suddently a *KABOOM* happened, she threw the book at the other end of the room as she got caught of guard, as she get up and leaved her room, Princess Luna came to her.
"You hear that explosion, sister?" She asked.
"Yes, do you know where that came from?" Celestia asked.
"It seems like it came from Star Swirl's wing, sister." Luna said.
"Then we shouldn't waste anymore time, there's some spells that could cause a lot of damage." Celestia said as they runned there.
(The barracks)
"Haha! Take that!" Tornado said, putting his cards on the table, he made a full house.
"Ah, godammit! How you managed that?" One of the guards asked, upset he lost.
*Chuckles* "Just skill my friends." He said, grabbing all the bits *Kaboom* "Holy shit! You guys heard that?" A guard next to the window asked.
"Yes. Where did that came from?" Tornado asked.
"It came from the castle, sir!" He answered.
"What are you idiots waiting? Go, go, go!" Tornado ordened, every guard on the barracks runned towards the castle.
Tornado then went to the next barrack, kicking open the door he surprised both Boulder and Blade. "Stop messing around you two! Something just blow up at the castle!" He said, running to the castle. They weren't far behind him.
(SharpClaw) – (Star Swirl's library)
*cough**cough* "Gosh, this thing stinks." She said, coughing as she then realized she was inside some sort of library. She start looking around quickly for something useful, although her time had expired as 4 night guards runned inside the room.
"Whoever's here, come out in peace and nopony will get hurt." One of them said as the rest went inside, searching.
Sharp thinking fast she grabbed one random scroll from a shelf next to her then quickly jumped out of the window.
Flaping her wings, she landed on next the castle entrance. She put the scroll he taked on her bag as to not get wet due to the rain.
"Hey! It's that dragon from the town!" She heard one guard shout that, looking towards the entrance she saw Tornado, Blade, Boulder and three more guards running towards her.
Thinking fast she grabbed from her bag the scroll Snow gave her, using it she teleported to another place. "The hell she went?" Blade asked.
"Search the area! I'm not letting that brat get away this time." He ordened, then went back inside while the others searched.
(With SnowFlame and Jackie)
They end meeting up at the hallway of the library. "She definitely put on a good use of a little bomb." Jackie said.
"Theres's at least 4 night guards, and every guard of the castle it's on their way here, heck even the princesses. How we going to enter and rescue Sharp?" He wondered aloud.
"What potions do you have left?" She asked.
"An explosive and this one." He said, showing the potions.
"What the grey one do?" She asked.
"Don't have idea, all I know it's dangerous." He said.
"Doesn't help much." She said. "How about we mix them?" She asked.
"What? You crazy?" He asked.
"Do you have a better plan?" She asked.
"... Screw it!" He turned all the grey potion inside the explosive one, mixing it the potion turned into a more black-ish color. "Hope this don't blow in our faces." He said.
"Me too." She said as they hide behind the door, "Alright, you thrown to potion inside, we both hold our breaths to whatever the effects that thing might do and we run inside and seatch for Sharp. Whoever finds her, shouts and we break on a run towards the exit, sounds good." She asked.
"No, but we don't have time for anything better." He said as they start hearing hoof steps coming from both sides.
"We're cornered. It's now or never." Jackie said.
Snow threwn the bottle inside, on the impact it released a white weird looking smoke. Not thinking or caring enough about it, they runned pass it holding their breaths as they searched for Sharp.
What they didn't expected was that the weird smoke expanded to the entire room, the night guards were having trouble breathing and soon all 4 of them fall on the ground, unconsious. Seeing that Snow start searching the library more efficiently.
Jackie on the other hand wasn't abke to hold her breathe anymore. *Cough* "Flames! I can't st-" *Cough* she runned outside coughing nonstop.
As she went outside the room, two guards arrested her, "You two, get off her. Something is very wrong with her." Tornado ordened as he arrived in time to save them. They released her and soon noticed her skin turning grey and her coughs were getting more violent. Soon the princesses arrived just in time to see the intruder's body get turned completely into stone.
*Gasps* Some guards gasped, some looked at the library, keeping their distancy while the princesses were shocked. "What happened here?" Celestia asked.
"We don't know. We arrived and found that strange smoke inside the library, then this pony runned outside and you saw what happened." One of the night guards said.
"Why would somepony do that?" Luna asked, then suddently SnowFlame came running and coughing from the library too.
"SnowFlame? I should know you was here when I saw that dragon outside." Tornado said.
"You know him, Captain?" Luna asked.
"Yes. A troublemaker that has a destructive dragon with him. My guards are searching her in this moment." He said.
"SnowFlame?" Celestia repeated the name, founding it familiar for some reason, then they all watch him suffer without knowing what to do.
SnowFlame was having trouble breathing, and he couldn't get his eyes open, he soon start feeling some of his limbs getting so heavy he couldn't move them. The last thing he heard before his concious gave up was Celestia's voice calling his name.
"..." Celestia just starred at the now statue of once a pony in a pose of pure agony.
"Your highness, what should we do?" Tornado asked.
"...Sister?" Luna called her attention.
"Huh? Oh, right..." They all noticed the smoke on the library finally dissipating, revealing four of their fellow guards in stone. "My goodness. Take the guards, we'll be making a decent bureal for them." She said.
"And what about them?" Tornado asked, pointing to Jackie and SnowFlame stoned forms.
"Deliver them to their respective families, they still deserve their place of rest in peace..." Celestia said, leaving with Luna.
Tornado smirked as the princess left, "Alright, you three help me with them, and you call Blade and Boulder here." Tornado ordened them, carrying the stoned bodies to the barracks.
(With SharpClaw)
"No..." She said as she fall to her knees. She got teleported to a tower next to the library and from the window she saw both Jackie and SnowFlame turn into stone.
Tears start falling freely from her eyes, she sit on the ground hugging her legs, crying hard. She slapped her bag in frustration, making it drop her ruby and the scroll he grabbed from the library.
She pick up the ruby and bited half of it, little did the ruby to her humor. She then eat the rest of it and grabbed the scroll, *sniff* "Just take me far away." She said, cleaning her eyes as he activated he scroll.
A strange rift opened in her front, pulling her into it. "AAHHHHHHhhhhh..." The rift closed and all that was left from SharpClaw was her empty bag.
(Somewhere near the forest) – Next day – 10:27 AM
Tornado was leading the way towards some random cave while Blade and Boulder were pulling the cart that has both Jackie and SnowFlame's stone bodies. "This cave looks good enough, let's go." He said, leading them inside.
They dropped the stone bodies next to each other, "Alright, who wants to do some target shooting?" Tornado asked, hold a small rock.
"You seriously? Just leave the bodies here already." Boulder said, having enough of Tornado already.
"Yeah, let's just go back to the barracks." Blade said as they pulled the cart back to Canterlot.
"You're no fun." He said, throwning the rock at SnowFlame then followed them back.
Hope you liked the story, next thing it'll be a chapter of SH. Til the next time. - Rio