Just Another One O' Those Stereotypical Action Stories

A dark grey mare, a Pegasus, walks down the bland, gravel road. The small, smoothed rocks crunch quietly underneath her hooves, barely making a sound in the dead of night. She suddenly stops, her ears perking up as she lays her eyes upon a slight orange glow coming from a large shrub, similar to that of glowing ember.

“Come on out, Blazing, I know you’re there.” She chuckles, knowing how Blazing Heart likes to sneak up on her.

“I probably should’ve doused my hair with water.” An earth pony stallion with a coat the shade of ashes walks out, his mane and tail glowing with the essence of flames, and his mark depicting his talent with fire. Upon closer inspection he’s quite intimidating, being that he has many scars from battles from previous years.

“Ya think?” The small winged horse rolls her lime green eyes, amused with her best friend’s bad attempt at humor.

He laughs openly, a very heart-warming sound that makes her smile widely.

“Sooo, Stormy D, what do you say to hangin’ out for a bit?” He asks, a juvenile grin on his face.

Stormy dash flips her striking neon blue and chartreuse hair, smiling deviously. “Let’s do this.”

The pair runs off, each trying to trip the other, Stormy succeeding while Blazing struggles to keep up.

--Elsewhere--

Shards of ice jut out of the ground in quite a menacing manner at the center of a clearing deep within the Everfree Forest. A hoof the shade of the coldest of blizzards suddenly breaks through the harsh, frozen ground. Another emerges next to it, followed by the rest of the mare. She has cruel, frosty eyes, and deep teal vines running up her legs. She has a horn, but it is broken, she can’t use her magic. She grins dementedly, and breaks into giggles of lunacy.

”Ready or not, Stormy Dash, here I come for you.”

--On a Path in Everfree--

Stormy stops suddenly, a questioning frown upon her unnaturally flawless face.

“Shouldn’t you be sleeping right now? I mean,” she quizzes Blazing Heart, raising her eyebrow in a perfect arc. “You need sleep, being a captain of Princess Celestia’s Royal Guard has GOT to be exhausting... You need your rest.”

“Pff, who are you, my mother? Besides, nothing beats hanging with my best friend!” The ashen stallion punches Stormy playfully.

Stormy Dash hits him back, accidently knocking him down.

“Hah, so much for captain of the Royal Guard,” she exclaims, laughing with a cheeky grin on her face.

“Ha, ha…” Blazing rolls his eyes in annoyance. “Besides, you have a huge advantage over me.” He gets up, shrugging off the punch like it was nothing.

“So? Don’t you have, like, years of training and stuff. Plus you have the power to control fire, we’re TOTALLY even,” she cried, exasperatedly. With a quick flap of her wings she lifts off the ground, several feet away from the hard gravel.

“Nah, you still got advantages over me, miss vampony,” he said with a sideways smirk on his face.

“Enough chitchat, let’s get going already for cryin’ out loud!”