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My eyes shot open and my mind was racing, another of those weird dreams. I instantly calmed down when I saw the orange pony lying down next to me. She was still in a restful sleep so I decided not to disturb her.
I picked myself up and made my way to the open barn door and looked out over the farm like I did last night, it was early, the sun wasn't even up yet. I scanned the horizon but something caught my eye. There was that black pony with the blue eyes again, it was sitting in an apple tree. After staring for a couple seconds it took off with its bug like wings and soon disappeared from sight. Man, things were getting weird.
I let out a big yawn. "It's too early," I told myself "I'll worry about it later." I made my way back to the hay pile and lied down next to Applejack and dozed back to sleep, holding her tightly.
I don't know how long I was asleep but I was woken by the sound of some heavy hoof steps. When I opened my eyes and looked over to the steps I say a huge red stallion with a horse collar around his neck and large saddlebags on his back. I took it that this was AJ's brother. I rose up to introduced myself but when I did he dropped his saddlebags.
"Hi, I'm Spark." I introduced myself while brushing the straw out off of my white hoodie. He only snorted and hooved the ground like he was going to charge.
"Um…You must be Applejack's brother. It's nice to finally meet you." I said apprehensively. He took a few quick steps towards me.
"Uhhh…Applejack?" I called out to her. The stallion quickened his steps
"Applejack? A little help here?" I called out again, she only stirred slightly. He was almost to me going fast now.
"Applejack!" I yelled she picked her head up and looked just in time to see me get rammed into the mountain of hay. I managed to stumble out of the hay and soon saw the red stallion behind me starting to charge for me. I stretched out my wings and made a dash for the open door and took flight.
The red stallion was right behind me. He jumped out the door behind me and managed to sink his teeth into my hoodie. I wasn't strong enough to carry both of us and we plummeted. When we hit the ground my hoodie was ripped clean off of me. My wings hurt like hell and there was no way I could use them without excruciating pain and possibly hurting them more. I was grounded.
Big red made another run at me and since I figured there was no way of escaping him I just stood my ground. When he was closer I took a few quick steps towards him and lowered my shoulder and flipped him over myself. He went tumbling and took a few seconds to recover. He resumed his charge.
This time I ducked and rolled under his legs, tripping him up. This time he was down for a little longer. I took my chance and ran to him and gave him a quick punch…hoof…kick…whatever you want to call it. But that seemed to only piss him off. He went for my legs and soon had me on the ground next to him. I gave him a couple jabs and he did the same.
I could feel that my side had reopened and I knew I was losing the fight. I pushed all my legs into him and kicked off separating us and giving me a few precious moments to breathe. He was on his feet and moving towards me.
My eyes suddenly went to his horse collar. It had to be like a facemask in football right?
I used my wings for a little spring loaded boost and jumped over him and landed squarely on his back. I quickly grabbed both of the metal prongs and pushed it up his neck until it was at the base of his head. He tried to shake me but I was on him for good.
I took the prongs in my hoofs and pulled left and used all my force and fell off his back. My body weight was enough to swing the collar and pull him to the ground. While he was down I gave him a couple of jabs in the chest.
I stood back and looked down at my work, he wasn't out but he wasn't good. He straightened himself up and looked at me sternly.
"You'll do." He said solemnly. All of a sudden Applejack came running out of the barn yelling.
"Big Mac, what in the HAY did you go and do that fer?" she demanded to know.
"Had to know if he was any good, can't have a colt who can't defend himself or his family." He said slowly and calmly and trotted off into the barn, leaving Applejack and I standing there in dumbstruck silence.
"Guess I get your brother's seal of approval." I said with a chuckle while running my hoof through my mane. "Wait, approval for what?" I asked her
"Well, erm…ya see." She started nervously talking but cut herself off. "Oh sugarcube!"When I asked her what was wrong she just pointed to my side, the bandages were all bright red.
"Fantastic, which way to the hospital?" I asked while picking up the tattered remains of my hoodie.
[Cloud's POV]
The early morning sunlight came in through the open windows and gently woke me up. When I opened my eyes I looked about the cloud house and suddenly what happened last night came back to me.
I look down at the rainbow maned pony next to me and smile. I promised Dash I wouldn't leave her again. It was a pretty heat of the moment promise, but I still intended to keep it. I lied back down next to her and moved close to her and gave her a quick peck on the forehead.
She slowly opened her bright pink eyes and looking at me. I searched her face but she really wasn't showing any expressions, she just scooted herself a little closer and tucked her head and rested it on my chest.
We lay like this for almost an hour before her stomach let out a loud gurgle. She blushed a little and I started laughing.
"Alright, that's enough bed for now, how about we go scrounge up some breakfast?" I said while I picked myself up out of the cloud bed.
"Yeah, sounds good." She said while tossing the blanket off of herself.
"C'mon, I'll race you into Ponyville." I told her
"You are SO on!" She raced to the door and flung it open. Soon we were both up in the air and rocketing towards town.
[Spark's POV]
Applejack and I took our sweet time getting to the hospital. Not that we intentionally were lingering, but I just had to walk slowly to try and minimize any pain. All the while Applejack was being a little too careful, to the point of almost being annoying.
"Spark, you sure you don't want me to find something to carry you?" She would ask.
"No Applejack." I would reply
"What about if you wait here and I get the doctor's to come here?" She asked
"I'll be fine, let's just keep walking." I told her
"What if…" She started but I cut her off. "Apple, I'll be fine, trust me."
This kept going back and forth until we were just outside Ponyville. I saw floating book coming our way and a purple pony right behind it reading as she walked, it was Twilight.
"Hey Twilight!" I called, eager to break Applejack's constant harassment.
Twilight looked up from her book, "Oh hey Spark! Hi Applejack! How are you two doing?"
"I'm good" I told her but AJ quickly jumped in. "No you aren't, Spark's hurt and I'm taking him to the hospital." She said trying to push me along.
"Applejack calm down, it's not that bad." I tried to reassure her.
"Oh why yes it is mister." She replied.
Twilight jumped in. "I could help! I've been reading over this new spellbook and I learned a few healing spells. I'm sure one of them would help you out.
"That's okay Twi, I'm sure the doctors will do just fine." Applejack said trying to push me along. But I protested.
"Sure Twilight, try one of your spells." I told her and she quickly dove into her book and flipped pages until she let out a big "A-HA!"
She set the book down and her horn began to glow a darker purple and her eyes glowed white. Soon I was surrounded by a purple aura and then all of a sudden I felt very hot.
"Twilight what did you do!?" AJ yelled. "I'm not sure! Hold on I can fix this!" Twilight again flipped through her book.
"What are you two talking about? I feel fine." I said while raising my hoof. I was on fire, my whole body was engulfed in flames. I was about to panic but I noticed that the flames didn't hurt at all.
"Cool, I'm like the Human Torch…except that I'm a pony. Before I had a chance to experiment to see if I had any superpowers, Twilight casted another spell and I found myself blinded by a white flash.
When I could see again I was in the middle of a huge dark forest. I was surrounded by huge black trees and the swampy ground.
"Where the hell am I?" I yelled out
I was obviously in the middle of nowhere and I needed to get the hell out of here, I may have been brushing it off, but I was seriously hurt, and maybe encouraging Twilight wasn't the best idea.
I walked around until I noticed a gap in the canopy overhead and painfully and slowly flew up through it. What I found was a little disturbing. All I could see for miles was thick black forests.
"Oh boy, things can't get much worse than this." I said to myself. I heard a roar from behind me and cursed myself for saying that.
All of a sudden I was falling, my wings wouldn't flap and I was dropping like a rock. I hit a couple branches on my way down and was dazed pretty badly by one. When I hit the ground I was cut up pretty bad and the last thing I remember before closing my eyes was the buzzing sound of wings.
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