A River of Crimson

After a long night of blood-sucking, hiding and running, Raindrop and Crimson had managed to make it to Raindrop's cloud home and evade the Cloudsdale guard.

"W-well... I-i guess we are in a worse sit-situation th-than I th-thought." panted Crimson with a releived smile painted on her lips.

"W-we managed to g-get the wh-whole Cl-cl-cloud-cloudsdale l-local g-g-guard on us." agreed Raindrop.

"I-i-i underestimated this arm-amour clad stal-stallions. Th-they can r-really pu-put up a f-fight."

"N-no k-kidding." Raindrop said sarcastically.

"S-so what now?" asked Raindrop as she finally regained her breath.

"Well I think we will have to leave Cloudsdale." suggested Crimson.

"Wait! What! Why?!" demanded Raindrop.

"Well we ca--" Crimson's voice was cut off by the heavy knocking at the door.

"This is the C.E.G and we demand you to open up!"

"The what?" whispered Crimson.

"Cloudsdale Elite Guard." Raindrop answered.

"Oh... Well that can't be good, can it?" said Crimson.

"Not really." agreed Raindrop.

"We demand you to open up!" Came the voice again.

"What should we do?" asked Raindrop.

"Do what we do best. Run." Crimson said slyly.

"How are we gonna get out though? Surely they surrounded us?" implied Raindrop.

"We distract them." Crimson beared a smile on her face as she said this.

"How?" asked Raindrop.

"Leave all of that to me."

The guards voice came again:

"If you do not open this door right now we will have to enter by force!" bellowed the guard.

Raindrop looked around to Crimson with fear in her eyes, but instead of seeing the crimson pony with the black and midnight purple mane she saw a deep rose coloured pony with a blonde mane and tail, the only similarity was the same emerald green, reptilian eyes that she had seen on the previous crimson pony.

"Wai--"

Before she could continue Crimson had raised her hoof to Raindrop's mouth.

"Shh... It's alright." Crimson said placing a comforting smile on her face.

Crimson was just about to say something when there was a loud 'THUD' against the door which forced it to fall backwards.

"Halt!" bellowed the guard.

The guard was a large deep blue stallion with a black mane. He was covered in armour from head to hoof.

Raindrop backed away slightly from the stallion.

"You are to lie down as we search this house! If you do not comply you will be put under arrest!" shouted the guard.

"Officer there is no need for shouting." said Crimson.

"I am in charge here and so you will do what I say!" walking up to Crimson and staring her right in the face as he spoke.

Suddenly Crimson gave the guard a vicious upper-cut to his chin leaving the guard in a daze then she swiveled around on her front legs and kicked with her back with all her might. At impact the guard was instantly knocked out and was thrown across the room and hit the far wall with a loud 'CRACK'.

"Follow me!" shouted Crimson as another pair of stallions proceeded towards them.

Crimson ran at highspeed through the house missing everything within inches. When they reached the end of house instead of Crimson stopping at the wall she jumped out of the window. Clamping her wings to her body as she did so. With no where else to go Raindrop followed Crimson out of the window into the early morning glow of the rising sun. The guards did not proceed to follow but instead of slipping away easily just as she expected she was pursued by another group of guards diving down towards the two falling pegasi.

"What now?!" Raindrop shouted to the falling pegasus below her.

"Just copy me!" Crimson shouted back.

As the two vamponies continued to plummet towards the ground the following guards who were diving to try and match the falling pegasi's speed.

Suddenly Crimson opened her wings to there full spread and flew away from the rest. Raindrop copied this and as she did it she felt as if her wings would rip off but luckily they held.

As Raindrop turned her head around to the sight of the three diving guards struggling desperately to slow themselves down. But sadly it was to late for that and they all plumeted head first into the hard dirt. At this sight Raindrop suddenly felt a wave of guilt, sadness and disgust with herself wash over her. But she had to put that out of her mind and proceeded towards Crimson.

"We'll land in the Everfree forest!" shouted Crimson.

Knowing better than to judge Crimson, Raindrop immediately accepted the suggestion and they proceeded to land in a small dark clearing in the Everfree forest.

Raindrop thought over her guilt for a moment before looking up to see the same Crimson pony from before.

"Did you like my magic trick?" Crimson joyfully asked.

"You better teach me that trick soon."

Author's notes:

Yay chapter 5 is out! I hope you all enjoyed it!

Special thanks to:

ExtremeMuffinz, NotSoAwesome and Mines5 for doing a brilliant job at their sample reading duties.