Tales of Apple Scratch : An Apple and a Flame

“No I won’t allow you to win this one Pyra,” Vinyl yelled.

“Haha, forget it Vinyl you may be faster than me in a straight line but on an obstacle course, I’m the faster one,” Pyra yelled back.

“I won’t give up, you know that,” Vinyl said well trying to catch up with Pyra.

“How many rounds are left Colgate?” Star asked.

“I belief that Pyra only needs three more round and Vinyl need like three and a half round.” Colgate responded.

“I can’t belief how fast this went. Three months ago they didn’t even know each other and then they have a legendary match and now they challenge each other like crazy.”Star said with a smile. “What happened to blueblood I haven’t seen him the last few months?”

“Uhm I belief he transferred to a different school in Canterlot,” Colgate said.

“Probably because he couldn’t handle the humiliation,” Star laughed.

“But can you please explain me why we are watching a race between those two, while it’s freezing”

“Well you know how this goes with those two, only it’s colder now”

“Yeh I know, who do you think would have won if they were allowed to use magic?” Colgate asked.

“Pyra no doubts about it”,

“really? What makes you so sure, Vinyl is a really strong and capable with magic to”

“That is true, but don’t forget that Pyra has fire magic, which leaves a lot of scars and she can use healing magic, so unless she has a super spell that defeats Pyra in one shot, she will probably win because every wound that is made can be healed without much trouble,” Star said, well that and I notice Pyra has been doing a lot of studying to develop new spells Or improve her old ones.

“Speaking of studying, isn’t this your last year Star?” Colgate asked.

“Yes, yes it is, I’m going to miss the times I had with you guy’s even if it wasn’t long it was still special. Especially with those two running a mock now and then.” Star said with a sighed. But we still have like half a year, so let’s make them special.

“Well we are going to the bar this evening, and we would love it if you could join us,” Colgate said.

“I would love to but I can’t, I need to finish my paper for Monday and I still need to do some research on a few topic’s.” Star said with a frown.

“Speaking of research have you heard about that friend of Vinyl, what was her name again Cloud… Cloudsomething?”

“Cloudkicker?” Colgate interrupted.

“Yes Cloudkicker”

“You mean the one who is training to become a guard and is being trained by a Spitfire herself?”

“Wait what really, the captain of the Wonderbolts is training her?”

“Yup, Vinyl told me about her, she is being trained in the desert as we speak with weighted armor.” Colgate explained.

“That has to be hard and really hot, but I would give it over this freaking cold.” Star whined.

“But back to what I wanted to say, when Vinyl told Pyra that her friend was building constructions from clouds, she got Pyra hitting the books and researching that stuff so she can make something like that with her fire magic. She told me that she wanted to make swords or something from fire. I woke up and found her on her desk reading a book over ancient magical weapons, at 4 am in the morning. I had to drag her to her bed else she would have been there all night. Please make sure she gets some sleep when I’m gone,” Star joked, earning a chuckle from Colgate.

“And if that doesn’t work, you should join her, she would love that” Star whispered with a grin.

“What was that?”

“Nothing,” Star said while looking away laughing,

“Ah their finally done took them long enough” Star said while watching Pyra finish with Vinyl right behind her.

“Finally I had almost given up hope to ever win again,” Pyra said with an happy smile,

“Yeh you won the race fair and square,” Star said, “can we go inside now I’m freezing my toes off.”

“It’s not that cold I don’t even wear a coat this time of year,” Pyra said with a smile.

“Yeh I know but you’re a walking flame and I’m not can we please go inside and have hot Coco or something,” Star said jumping on her place.

On their way back Star could hear Vinyl and Pyra talk about some coordinated Super attack magic spell.

“But what do you have in mind?” Vinyl asked.

“Okay hear me out, An attack spell that uses highly concentrated magic. You use a small to medium amount of magic to create for example a flame and you seal that flame away while heating it up. The air inside will burn out, leaving the flame to die but if you open the seal at that moment, new oxygen will fill the seal, causing an explosion like a backdraft. You know what I’m going to do that. And I will call ‘The Backdraft.’ “

“Little tacky don’t you think?” Vinyl said.

“Hehe maybe, it might take some time but I’m going to create that spell. I advise you to do the same,” Pyra said with a mocking smile, “else my backdraft will kick your applebucking spell’s flank,” she said with an even bigger mocking smile.

“You know what, you’re on Pyra.”

“Really? What are you going to call it? the music cannon, no the Bass blast or the soundmover or the Sonic BOOM… yes that’s it”

“Pyra.”

“Yes?”

“Shut up.”

“Okay.”

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“Okay so where do we want to go tonight?” Pyra said while walking with Vinyl and Colgate.

“This place looks nice, why not here?” Colgate said while looking through the window of a bar.

“Sure lets go in,” Vinyl said

“Greetings Girls welcome to the Mulling Mule what can I bring you?” The bartender said with a kind smile.

“Good evening” Colgate said, “do you have some apple cider?”

“Yes I have, I just got four crates from an orchard in Ponyville, the bartender said, this started the snickering within Colgate and Pyra while they were looking at Vinyl.

” Sweet Apple Acers I belief it was called. Belief me I don’t know how they do it, but the quality of their cider is off the charts.” Vinyl couldn’t help but feel a little proud and started to join her friends.

“Did I said something funny?” the bartender asked with a confused expression.

“No sir, you did not, it’s more of an inside joke," Pyra said, “anyway bring on the cider!”

After getting their drink and sitting at the bar Colgate had to ask something.

“I don’t want to sound dumb, but I heard you talk about a backdraft what is that exactly?”

“We can explain it very long but no one cares for the long story so I will give you the short version” Vinyl said with a smile.

“As you probably know, fire need three thinks to sustain itself. “

“Unless you’re a walking flame,”

“Pyra I’m trying to explain things here so please. Where was I, right three thing. The first is something to fuel the fire, second is heat and third is oxygen. If you take away one of these thing the fire goes out.”

“Let’s say a sealed room is on fire, all windows and doors are shut. The heat in the room will build up because it has nowhere to go, this build-up will consume a lot of oxygen. When the oxygen is gone the fire will go out. But when at that moment someone opens the door, he will allow new oxygen in the room waking up the fire again. The result is an explosion 10 to 100 times worse than there fire itself. Pyra here wants to direct that explosion at her opponent and that’s why she calls her spell” ‘the backdraft.’ “

“I see, that will be a hard spell to master,” Colgate said.

“Eeyup,” Vinyl and Pyra said in unison.

“I just added it to my list of spells and things I want to develop or improve,” Pyra said with a smirk.

“What list?”

Pyra reached into her back pocket and pulled out a piece of paper en acted like she put on some invisible glasses.

“let’s see,” Pyra said pretending to use her glasses to read the list in her hand.

“I still need to improve the healing spells from next year.”

“Don’t you mean this year?”

“Nope, moving on.”

“I want to reduce the cost of my dragonflame spell it still tires me out everytime I use it. I also need to improve my firegloves so they don’t burn me anymore.”

“The spells I’m developing are, the firedance a spell that let fire dance around my body to block melee attacks.”

“The fire weapons. I have something almost finished but I’ll keep that a surprise for later.”

“The backdraft, we already know about that one.”

“And last for now at least, magical flying.”

“What” Colgate said “flying? we’re not Jupitarians we can’t fly.”

“Yet” Pyra returned,

“Genius over here thinks she can fly using some kind of lavation spell,” Vinyl said with a grin.

“You never know if you don’t try.”

“But doing research for that and devolving your healing spells must take a lot off time, where do you get the time to do it all?” Colgate asked confused.

“Time bending spell,” Pyra said well taking a sip from her glass.

“WHAT!?” Vinyl and Colgate said in unison, seeing Pyra laughing in her glass.

“I’m just kidding, you should see your faces, priceless,” Pyra laughed.

“No the fabric of time is something even I won’t touch. But to answer your question I learn spell’s really fast and because of my eyes for details and research skills I develop them also quite fast.”

“What time is by the way” vinyl asked, “It’s uhm… Half past one,” Colgate replied.

“Wauw time really flies doesn’t it” Pyra said, “luckily it’s Saturday, so no school.”

“Cheers to that.”

“Hey there hot stuff, would you like to go for a walk around the park” an unknown voice said to Colgate.

“Uhm no thanks,” Colgate said clearly feeling awkward because of the drunken man behind her.

“C’mon it will be fun, you can even bring your little friends with you.”

“Dude she doesn’t want to go, so get lost” Vinyl said with a stern tone.

“No one talks to me like that you bitc… do you girl’s smell fire?”

“Yup that’s your ass mate, it’s on fire,” Pyra said while playing with her glass.

The man looked over his shoulder and saw indeed that his pants was on fire. He started to scream like a girl and ran outside to the fountain and jumped in.

The girls saw everything that happened and couldn’t stop laughing.

“Oi, I don’t take kindly to people setting my friends pants on fire, you know,” another stranger said.

Saying this with an funny accent only made things worse as the girls broke into laugher a second time.

“Stop that,” the stranger said, “I’m Borg Malcinson of the Malcinson family of Trottingham and my family is very power, we have friends in all the high places, you know”

“Why do they live in Cloudsdale?” Pyra said getting the girls to break into laughter a third time. They had the backs towards him while they were laughing in their own arms on the bar not noticing that the face of Borg was becoming completely red.

“STOP THAT RIGHT NOW, DIDN’T YOU LEARN ANY MANNERS FROM YOUR WHORE MOTHER!?” Borg yelled.

They all stopped laughing, Colgate looked shocked at her friends and saw Pyra grabbing her locket and started to shack while Vinyl was staring in front of her with a tear in her eye.

Borg noticing that he hit a weakspot, he decided to push it.

“You with the orange hair, I remember you, your that little bitch who beat up Prince Blueblood. You should learn your place and know you never fight with royalty. Didn’t you whore mother teach you that or was she too ugly to be a whore and had to live off an lowlife sack.”

While he said that his friends behind him were laughing, like the good little doggies that they were.

Every insult was as an stab in the heart, she couldn’t take it anymore, she had to make him stop.

Vinyl noticing the change next to her, she saw Pyra trying to control herself but she was losing that battle, because her hands were lighting up and her eyes were glowing. Vinyl remembered what Pyra had told her about the symptoms if she ever got angry.

“Pyra please calm down,” Vinyl said.

“Remember words can only hurt you if you let them Pyra,” Colgate said.

Pyra didn’t hear them, the only thing she heard were the insult about her mother. Her mother that was taken away from her by a criminal. It had to stop right now.

“And then one more thing about your…” Borg started.

“THAT’S IT!” Pyra yelled while igniting her hands, Borg froze with fear while looking into Pyra’s glowing eyes.

It happened so fast that if you blinked, you would have missed it. Pyra had jumped out of her seat, turned around and gave Borg a punch with her flaming fist sending him flying into the table where his friends gave a shocked look before Borg flew into them.

“You will pay for that” Borg yelled while holding his hand on the spot where Pyra’s punch had hit him. “Get her. “

Pyra didn’t care, fuelled with rage she would make him pay for every word he had said.

One of Borg’s friends had snuck behind Pyra and was about to attack her from behind, when he got grabbed. He look to see what stopped him and he was met with a pair a red eyes, who were looking very angry.

“Only a coward attacks someone in his back,” Vinyl said with an icy tone.

The man gulped, Vinyl pulled on the man’s arm so his middle was in front of her, then she gave a knee into his stomach and hit him on his head, knocking him out instantly.

She then went to join Pyra who was fighting four guy’s.

the guy’s had taken apart a table and used the wood as a weapon. Pyra could have used magic, but she didn’t want to, she wanted to beat these guys with her bare fists.

After two minutes the fight was over and Pyra was standing in front of Borg, who was cowering at her feet. She grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him up, she stretched her are to let all her anger out at him in one final punch. But before she could do she got grabbed.

“Please no more” a sweet voice said. “There has been enough fighting, please stop Pyra.”

Pyra looked over her shoulder and saw Colgate hugging her with tears in her eyes.

Pyra let go of Borg who fell to the floor and ran out of the door. She felt the hug getting tighter. And she didn’t want it to end. In the corner of her eyes she saw Vinyl sitting in a chair looking at them.

“Thank you for helping me Vinyl”

“What are friends for, I know this is not the time but you looked so awesome and your fighting has definitely improved the training we have been doing together is really paying off.”

“Glad you noticed,” Pyra said with a chuckle.

“You two are really something, you know that,” Colgate said with a sighed while she let go of Pyra.

Pyra turned to the bartender and tossed him a small bag.

“I’m sorry about everything that happened sir. This should cover the bill, the repairs and a generous tip, because the cider was delicious,” Pyra said well walking to the door with her friends behind her.

“Guy’s I’m sorry you had to see that, I never meant it to happened and because of it I ruined our night out on the town.”

“It’s okay Pyra, that man said some terrible things and after what happened with your mother we understand it.”

“Yeh and if you hadn’t done I would have, because someone needed to teach that guy with his annoying accent a lesson and like I said you looked awesome, if you can learn to harvest that raw power without needed to be angry you might even beat me,” Vinyl said with a mocking smile.

“By the way Vinyl how many did you knock out?”

“Seven, why?”

“I got eight, I win,” Pyra said laughing.

“What, hé that’s not fair!”

“I’m still counting it.”

“You can’t do that!”

“And why is that?”

“I had three who were huge.”

“Those still count as one.”

“These two never change,” Colgate said well walking behind the arguing duo.

“But on the other hand these two know how to keep things alive around here,” she said with a chuckle