Crimson Night

“So let's see you try that again. I wanna see how hard it is.” Dash said.

“Sorry Dash, but I'm exhausted...it's late and I need to go see Fluttershy about this nose. Maybe later.” Twilight said.

“Ahw!...hey couldn't you just drink some of my blood? You said Luna said it'd relieve exhaustion and heal you.” Dash suggested.

“Dash I wouldn't drink your blood just for selfish reasons...” Twilight said.

“Oh come on, I'm offering it. And besides, it's not selfish. It's going to help you show me how hard this thing really is.” Dash said. Twilight sighed and started walking.

“Come on you know you want to.” Dash said, bumping Twilight with her flank as she fell into step with her.

“Dash...I don't want to just use my friends...I'm not going to get into that again, I've already done it.” Twilight said.

“It's not using. I'm offering now take it.” Dash said putting her neck right in Twilight's face. “Come on Twi, I'm perfectly fine with it. Besides, with this you can get even stronger right?” Dash said. Twilight stood there for a moment. Then she sighed and bit. After a few sips she flinched as her nose snapped back into place, but she felt refreshed. Twilight closed the bite mark and sat down with a sigh.

“What's the matter?” Dash asked.

“It's just...I'm afraid I'm starting to loose what's making me a normal Pony...” Twilight said.

“Oh don't even start that with me. You're Twilight, that's all I care about.” Dash said, pulling her to her feet.

“Heh...thanks dash...” Twilight said, wiping some blood off of her nose form before.

“Now show me this 'impossible' course.” Dash said with a grin.

“Bahahaha what the hell was that?” Dash laughed, Twilight had ran straight into the first pillar after dodging the initial log of the first stage.

“Whoa...I was going too fast...Maybe your speed transferred over a bit...let me get used to this.” Twilight said and used her time ability, but was surprised to find that her body no longer seemed to be slowed. Maybe it was just the extra speed, or perhaps Dash's blood mutating the odd ability Pinkie gave her, but it was a repeat of what she had spent all night doing. But it went much faster.

“That doesn't look too hard...lemme try.” Dash said and sprung onto the platform and dodged the swinging log. A few minutes later she came out of the side.

“What the?” she yelped. She looked for Twilight, who was dodging pillars that were...chasing her? Wow she was fast. She was literally bouncing off of the pillars as they swung at her.

She rocketed into the third stage and almost literally blew straight through it. She wound up running straight into a swinging pillar at the end, but nothing was hurt seriously.

“Holy shit Twi...I lost track of you...you're amazing!” Dash exclaimed.

“Uh, thanks...but I was using this thing that makes time go like slow for me...without it I would look like I did before.” Twilight said.

“Still, that was pretty awesome. Hey, can I come here when I'm training to try some of the stuff here? That first part is like flying into a forest, or even the middle of a huge storm cloud.” Dash asked.

“Uh...sure, but be careful...you saw how dangerous it is.” Twilight said.

“Awesome thank you!” Dash exclaimed, hugging her. Suddenly there was an alarm bell ringing. They recognized that alarm bell, it meant Sweet Apple Acres had a fire.

“Oh why does everything have to happen when I'm like this!” Twilight exclaimed. “Come on I'll meet you there.” she continued, speeding off towards the light glow in the distance.

“Applejack where are you?!” Twilight yelled when she arrived at the barn. All the farm hands were digging trenches around the few burning trees, but it was starting to spread through to the barn and other trees.

“Ah'm over here!” Applejack called form her place hauling water to the barn.

“How can I help?” Twilight asked as Rainbow dash arrived and instantly grabbed some buckets of water and flew over the burning areas.

“Hey AJ there's some Ponies stuck in there!” Dash's voice called, she was pointing at a ring of fire that was slowly spreading inward.

“Oh Nelly Applebloom is in there with Big Macintosh!” Applejack exclaimed and meant to gallop over, but Twilight stopped her.

'I got it, work!” Twilight said. Applejack looked at her, to the fire, back to her and nodded.

Twilight galloped towards where Dash had pointed, putting on a burst of speed to jump through the burning trees safely to see some farm hands and the two mentioned huddled in the center.

“Twilight?!” they all exclaimed.

“Hang on tight!” Twilight exclaimed, pulling them all up in her magic, creating a sort of magical net. She lifted them up and away from the smoke. They were safe for now as a Unicorn farm hand took control, but now she was in trouble. Thinking, she decided to risk a jump.

only Big Mac saw it, Twilight leaping through the air and landed just outside of the ring, but he kept quiet. When they were all to safety, and Twilight came running out of the treeline coughing, Dash had brought over some clouds that had been tampered with to make rain clouds and set them over the blazes, the barn had been extinguished with little damage.

“Twilight. Thank yuh, Thank yuh, Thank yuh!” Applejack exclaimed, tackling her in a hug.

“Of course AJ...can't leave...friends and...family like that.” Twilight said between gulps of air.

“miss Sparkle, Ah got sumthin' tuh ask yuh.” Mac said, coming over.

“You saw me jump didn't you?” Twilight asked. Mac nodded.

“Ah'll explain it Later Mac...let her be.” Applejack said with a smile. Twilight gave her a look that obviously said 'Thank you so much, I didn't want to have to explain it all over again'.

“Alright...Ah trust yuh miss Sparkle...Thanks a million fer savin' me an' 'Bloom an' all the others.” Mac said with a smile.

“No problem...” Twilight replied.

“Shoot Twi, yer like a hero now...first with the Ursa...then with the town hall an' Rarity...then thuh Timberwolf thing Fluttershy told me about...now savin' more lives?...” Applejack said.

“Yeah...well...I don't want all of it...I'd rather just get through all of this without incident...but that's unavoidable I guess...so how did the fire start?” Twilight asked.

“Applebloom and Mac were out in the Orchard with a lantern...Mac spooks easily and he accidentally dropped the Lantern...it got worse from there.” Applejack explained.

“Oh I didn't know that...well, glad nopony got hurt.” Twilight said.

“Say, Have yuh told the Princess about any uh this?” Applejack asked.

“Which one?” Twilight asked.

“Either.” Applejack said.

“Neither then...I guess I should tell Celestia about everything, but tone it down so it's not too extreme...as for Luna, I need to talk to her anyways.” Twilight said.

“Well that settles that...I'd walk yuh to the Library, but Ah'm needed here. You go, Yuh've done enough.” Applejack said, knowing Twilight would want to help.

“...Fine...have a good night Applejack...well...apart from the fire.” Twilight said.

“Ah will. go.” Applejack said.

“Right...See you later Dash!” Twilight finished, calling up to the Pegasus that was currently breaking some scorched wood hanging off of the barn. Dash waved and Twilight did something she hadn't done since the Ursa came. She Teleported home.

There was a note saying Spike was staying with Rarity so she could use the spell on him to help the town and not bother Twilight and he would come back to live there again in three days. She rolled her eyes and sat down with two pieces of parchment. The first was for Luna and the second for Celestia.

When she finally put the Quill down she had two fully written letters. The one to Luna was longer, as it explained everything and explained a need to speak to her pony to pony, and the one to Celestia was generalizing the vents and merely saying she helped. She sent them both to Luna, hoping she would give Celestia's to her, and then dozed off.