-Apple-
I awoke the next morning expecting to see Blu laying next to me, but he wasn't there. I stretched and sat up to look around and I didn't even see his clothes on the floor. Just mine. I couldn't believe that he would just fuck me and then leave before I woke up. I knew this was all too good to be true. I pulled the blankets and my knees up to my chest and just began feeling pitifully about myself.
The bedroom door slowly opened and Blu walked in holding a tray of food. It smelled of waffles and bacon and other things, "Oh!" he exclaimed when he saw me, "You're awake," all he wore were his jeans. I smiled at him as he walked over to me and set the tray into my lap. I looked down and what I smelled was on the tray along with organge juice and eggs.
"Thanks for all of this," I smiled at him.
"No problem," he laid next to me and propped himself to look at me, "Now eat up. We gotta go to class, well you do. I took Celestia up on her offer."
"What?" I was hurt the fact that he actually signed it, "How could you?" I set the tray in between us.
"Hey! I wanna get a better job than security at the Canidate Mall. I thought you of all people would be happy for me."
"Why would I be happy for you?" I yelled at him.
"Luna was banished for a reason and I just can't believe that Celestia is bringing her back! A thousand years should have just been orientation for her actual banishment!" I rolled out of bed and wrapped a blanket around me.
"Wow, you really don't like Luna," his voice sounded concerned as I made my way to the bathroom door, "Care to tell me why?"
"It's none of your business Blu!" I stopped to turn and look at him.
"Why isn't it my business?" he stood up and walked up to me. His once calming blue eyes now were cold and piercing. I felt his cool minty breath hitting my face.
"Just get out Blu!" I rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door behind me. I leaned my back against it and exhaled slowly.
"Sorry for pushing you," I heard his voice turn sad, "Remember Apple, I love you and I just wanna care for you is all. No matter what," I heard him leave my room and head downstairs. I then heard the rustling of clothes followed by the soft shutting of the front door.
I allowed my body to fall into a seated position leaned against the door as I screamed into my palms. I didn't want to think about what made me so ticked off about Luna. So I decided to drink my problems away. Yes, that's what I'll do.
-Blu-
I made it outside with my shirt and shoes at hand as I looked around. The sight before me was shocking. Cracks as wide as me and as deep as I am tall sprawled from a centralised spot. Apple's house. People focused their eyes on me and their eyes showed a new legal form of hatred that I've never experienced.
Blaze walked up to me, "What happened last night?" he asked. His rainbow hair flowed with the direction of the wind.
"Wait, you think Apple or I had something to do with this?"
"The source is her house and you're now leaving it. So I do think you two had something to do with it."
"All we did was talk," I lied and tried to hide the fact that I fucked his best friend.
"You fucked her didn't you?" his eyes turned sad, "Now you've done it."
"What have I done that was so evil Blaze?" I grew angry.
"You're making my Sweets grow up so fast," he smiled as his eyes began tearing up, "I remember when her and I used to be just us against the world. Now she's fallen in love with a pretty amazing guy."
"You really think that of me?"
"Yeah, I do. You're the first guy she's actually allowed to get emotionally close to her."
"Hey," I grabbed his arm and pulled him closer to the house, "What's her deal with Luna?"
He sharply inhaled through his teeth, "That's a story riddled with bad juju Blu. You should leave that one alone. I hope that you didn't bring up the conversation..." his voice trailed off, "Shit!" he pushed me aside and rushed into the house.
-Blaze-
I ran into the house and it wreacked of cigarette smoke, "Stay here," I pushed against Blu's chest to have him stay at the door. I slowly went in and saw Sweets sitting on the couch with a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of Spicy Apple Jazz. She turned her head to look at me, "What do you want Blaze?" she slurred.
"Hand me the bottle Sweets and everything will be fine," she had a towel loosely wrapped around her tall slender frame. She stood up and the towel fell off her body, "Woah!" I covered my eyes, "C'mon Sweets!"
"Okay, jeez" she slurred after a few seconds and I looked to see that she had the towel back on with the cigarette in her mouth. She handed me the bottle before putting the cigarette out into an ash tray on the coffee table, "C'mon Blaze. We have to get to school. I gotta meet my boyfriend," she slung her arm around my shoulders and hung from them. When she gets tipsy she always turns into a child.
"Oh yeah? Who's your boyfriend?" I pulled her toward the stairs.
"His name is Blu and he's wonderful in bed," she gasped, "Don't tell Blaze, he'll get mad at me."
"What makes you say that?" I began helping her up the stairs.
"He's like a brother to me and he's so protective. Even more so, I haven't been the best friend I could be to him. I mean, I chose getting laid over playing some ball with him. He's not as good as me mind you, but he tries all the same," we got to the bathroom and I laid her in the tub.
"I'm gonna need you go be a good girl and get washed. Will you do that for me?"
"Of course I can do that. I'm not stupid," she laughed.
I hated seeing her like this. Always turning to drinking to solve all of her problems. I stood to face the door and saw the massive frame of Blu, "Get out," I shot at him.
"But-!"
"I SAID GET OUT!" I shoved him, "She was fine until you came into her life! So be gone Thunder Blu! Be gone!"
"I care about her just as much as you do! Why cant you see that?"
"GET OUT!" I grabbed the plunger and tried to hit him with rage in every swing. He backed away and eventually ran for his life. I dropped the plunger and looked back at Sweetie. She looked at me with those big green eyes of hers, "I will protect you Sweets. That is a promise."
-Apple-
It was the end of the day and I finally sobered up. I was also worried about Blu because he's been avoiding me lately. Not taking my calls or texts and he would avert his gaze when we passed each other in the halls. So I decided to go to his house to get to the bottom of things. Knocking on the dolr a few times finally called his attention. Blu cracked the door and I saw sadness in his eyes, "What is the problem with you Blu?" I confronted him.
"It's Blaze. He told me to stay away. Apparently he's very protective of you."
"What are you talking about?"
"When you got drunk this morning, he told me to stay away. So I shall. So I have some homework to do, I'll see ya around."
He began closing the door and I stopped him by placing my hand on the door, "I love you Blu and I'm not gonna have the likes of Blaze stop me from doing such. Got it?"
"Then you should talk to him," he sighed.
"Come with me. I want him to know that I love you. I can reason with him."
"No!" he opened the door all the way and moved to the center of it, "Just leave me alone! That's what you wanted anyway right? For people to leave you alone?"
"Blu, I'm sorry," he scoffed and slammed the door in my face. Rage filled my heart as I left. The first guy to care about me is cut short because of Blaze. I rushed to his house, but along the way a man from the basketball team stopped me. He was a few inches taller than me and his skin was tinted with red (not native american), "What do you want Kit?" I asked him.
"I would like for you to go out on a date with me," he was arrogant and pompous.
"Sorry, I'm already seeing someone," I walked passed him.
"Who?" he followed me.
"Thunder Blu," I responded.
"The nerd? You can do better."
"And you can go fuck yourself."
"Why are you so mean? I'm only asking for one date."
"Just piss off Kit. I don't have time for your assholedness (that is a word)."
"No," he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me into him, "I love you Apple."
I snapped back an elbow and caught him in the temple. He stumbled and fell back holding his head groaning in pain. That's when men in black came from the shadows and surrounded me. I counted seventeen and I figured that this was a fight for my life since they drew out hand blades of some sorts, "You were right Kit," one man said, "Very pretty. She'll definitely make us some real money."
'Sex Traffickers,' I gasped in my mind.
"Wonder how she got so tall," the same man continued, "She's got some nice legs and big breasts."
"Just shut up and get her!" Kit yelled. They all jumped at once and before they could get to me, Blu and surprisingly Blaze jumped in to defend me. Our over six foot frames towered over our aggressors. The tallest one stood at five-six. Average height for an Equestrian, "Cosmia! Where do you freaks come from?" a female voice asked which threw everyone off because it sounded so familiar.
"You guys heard that right?" I asked around. They all agreed that they heard the odd female voice. After a couple minutes, a petite figure with a hooded face walked up to me and my friends. It pulled its hood back and the face belonged to Celestia, "Celestia?" I looked to Kit, "Did you know about this?"
"No, I didn't," he shook his head.
"I was doing some undercover sex trafficking work and I now have the Kingpin of the ring," she snapped her fingers and men in black leather and armour came down from the rooftops and put all the men in cuffs. Three were heading toward us but backed up when we scowled at them. Being a foot taller than the average Equestrian does have it's advantages. When the bad men were escorted out I had formed quite a few questions for the three that appeared, "What the hell is going on?" was my first question.
Celestia responded, "I received Intel that said these men were going to take you at this time tp force you into sex slavery. When I did, I called these two to help because I didnt think that I'd make it here in time. But I did."
I grabbed both Blu's and Blaze's ears and pulled them in close, "You two knew of this and didn't bother to tell me?" I then pushed Blaze away and grabbed both of Blu's ears so he would face me, "You lied about caring for me didnt you? You were just following her orders!"
He managed to pull away from me to say, "I do care about you Apple and I didn't know about all lf this until a few days ago."
"Then why did you not stick around?" I hissed at him.
"You needed your space and I was giving it to you, but I still kept an eye out for you nonetheless."
"How?" I shouted, "You weren't even talking to me!"
"I had permission from Celestia to install perimeter cameras around your condo."
"That's invasion of privacy!" I spat again.
"Only if I had put them on the inside of your house!"
"I don't need this from any of you! Especially you Celestia!"
"What did I do?" she walked up and got in my face. Sorta. Her head stopped just under my rib cage.
"You didn't extend Luna's banishment like we agreed on!"
"That wasn't my fault! It was the council's decisions not mine!"
I gripped her throat and raised her over my head, "She died because of you!"
"Apple don't!" Blu pryed my fingers off of Celestia's throat as Blaze took her into his arms.
"It wasnt my fault!" Celestia forced through a strained voice.
"You're the Commander in Chief which means you could've done something! But you didn't! Her death was in vein!"
"I still have my rules that I follow."
"What's going on?" Blu asked.
"It doesn't matter," Blaze hissed.
"No, he should know," I placed a hand on Blaze's shoulder, "To make the story short, over fifty years ago, Luna broke out of her imprisonment and killed my grandmother Hiri. My grandmother was just walking down the street from the store and was held up at gunpoint by Luna. My grandmother tried to fight back, but lost her life along the way. The council only placed Luna back into her imprisonment to only serve out the rest of her sentence. They didn't punish her for what she had done to my mother. Which is why I hate Luna and Celestia. Celestia had the ability to do something, but she didn't because apparently she had to adhere to the laws and rules made by the council."
"I truly am sorry for that Sweetie Apple, but I had to. You know that and you should just move on."
Without a word, I gave her one strong sidekick to the jaw, rendering her unconscious, "Don't tell me to calm down!" I yelled at her motionless body, "Don't ever tell me to calm down!" I was yelling as a few of the men in black came back, "Don't Ever Tell Me To Calm Down! I Will Never Calm Down!"
Blaze and Blu began pulling me away from Celestia, "You have to," Blu grunted.
I stopped struggling and they pulled me back, "She never took my grandmother's death seriously," I said as my arms were put behind my back and I felt cold metal clasping around my wrists.
"Sweetie Apple, you have attacked Princess Celestia. A crime punishable by death," I heard coming from behind me.
I spread my arms and broke the cuffs, "Fine, but I'm not going down without a fight!" I immediately felt a sharp prick in my neck. I pulled a tranq dart out of my neck and dizziness began forcefully drilling its tendrils deep into my mind. I roared and stumbled back a little before I felt the effects of the serum wear off. I felt something inside lf me well in my chest that I haven't felt before. Next thing I knew, my thoughts went to opening up holes in the ground under the men in black. And you know what, that's what happened. They all yelped as they fell into their graves and the earth closed around them. I heard the sounds of bones crushing as I faltered to my knees. Soon after, I felt warm liquid drip crom my nose. Looking at the ground brought spatters of red to my eyes.
I soon felt an onset of a headache and soon... blackout...