Shadows Consume what Fire Cleanses

Aminon woke up and gently pushed Kalib's arm off of her back. She stood up and stretched out sighing as her shoulders popped slightly. Kalib yawned and cracked his back and neck before standing up.
"This cave is kind of suffocating." Kalib told her as he walked up beside her.
"There is somewhere that should be near here." Aminon replied. "Though you'd want to stay near me."
"What, do you think I can't handle myself?" Kalib asked her.
"No, it's not that, where I'm from they go after the weakest link." Aminon replied.
"And I'm supposedly the weakest link?" Kalib asked her.
"They'll perceive you as it." Aminon replied.
"Let them, I'll smack them around a bit." Kalib replied.
He reached under the covers and revealed a whip which he wrapped around one of his legs.

"I'm ready to go." Kalib told her.

Soon they were at the city limits of Aminon's hometown and Kalib looked at her.
"I think the first thing I'm doing is getting you some winter clothes." Kalib told her as he fixed the bandages on his side.
"Whatever, you need some as well." Aminon told him.
"Not really." Kalib replied as he watched the snow melt as it touched his skin.
"Whatever, I could do with a drink." Aminon replied.
Kalib followed her through the city with him pushing away any mares that tried to make an advance at him until they got to the bar. Aminon walked up to the bar as everyone else parted to either side of the bar for her to pass through. Before she could get to the bar a stallion got in front of her and whistled.
"Hey there Noon, long time no see." The stallion told her.
"Leave me be Blue." Aminon told him.
"I'll do what I want bitch." Blue told her as he raised a hoof.
Blue reached out to hit Aminon Kalib's whip wrapped firmly around his hoof.
"Let me go you fuck." Blue growled before trying to pull Kalib off his feet.
"You don't talk to her like that you dickless prick." Kalib replied calmly.
Kalib just flicked his hoof and Blue was thrown across the room. Before he could even get up Kalib straddled his chest and repeated punched his face and stomach. As Blue's nose broke and his blood gushed slightly over Kalib's hooves he switched to landing blow after blow to Blue abdomen cause him to cough up blood. When several customers in the bar were able to peel Kalib off of Blue, Blue spat out a few teeth and Aminon quickly ushered Kalib out of the bar.
"Are you fucking crazy!" Aminon asked him.
"Do you really want me to answer that?" Kalib asked her.
"Yes, I need to know what I'm getting myself into." Aminon told him.
"You have a gorgeous mane, did you know that?" Kalib asked her.
"Stop trying to distract me." Aminon told him as she felt her face heat up.
"I must be a godly stud if I distract you." Kalib replied.
Aminon shoved Kalib and it barely moved him so she just got in his face.
"If you keep on with your shit, they'll skin your ass alive and there is only so much i can do to stop them." Aminon told her. "I don't need you fight my fights for me."
"Damn, under your tough little exterior you actually care." Kalib cooed before kissing her nose. "Also, if someone insults you I won't just stand idly by and not do shit."
Aminon screamed before trying to hit Kalib repeated and he just chuckled as he hopped back.
"I'm going to kick your ass." Aminon growled.
Kalib ran back into the bar but stopped as he came face to face with Blue and five other stallions.
"Bastard, meet Ken, Copper, John, Alvin, and Maximilian." Blue started before he was launched across the room.
"Listen up, I don't need to hear anyone else bitch so if y'all want to try insult Noon you'll have to go through me first." Kalib told them.
As soon as Kalib saw the first stallion move he stomped on the table behind him and launched it straight into the stallion's face throwing him across the bar. He then grabbed the next stallion and threw him over the bar and then knocked out another with a bar stool to the head. As the fight went on Kalib noticed Aminon holding her own against a how other ponies in the bar with a leg from a table. After a few hours the rest of the ponies that were still conscious ran from the bar and Aminon and Kalib disappeared among the crowd.
"Just follow me." Aminon told Kalib.

He just nodded as he galloped beside her leisurely.

After going the long way around they stopped in front of a house that seemed to only have started to fade slightly. Aminon quickly unlocked the door and Kalib followed her inside.
"Your place I'm guessing?" Kalib asked her.
"No, dipshit I just broke in; of course it's my house." Aminon told him as she guided him through the foyer into the living room. "What the hell are these barrels doing here?"
"I had a feeling we would stop by your house when we got to town so I dropped these barrels off before we came." Kalib told her.
Aminon was about to ask him how he found where she lived when she smelled a tantalizing scent from one of the barrels.
"Wait is that strawberry brandy?" Aminon asked him.
Kalib nodded his head and Aminon took a deep breath.

"One glass to calm my nerves should be good." Aminon told him.

Aminon just watched Kalib float around the room slightly before looking to the bottom of her barrel again. He stopped in front of her and she didn't know what came over as she leaned in and felt their lips meet for a few seconds. This was the last thing she remembered of the night before passing out