My Little Warriors: Dawn with fire

Twilight Sparkle`s eyes flashed open. suddenly, and awkwardly- she was greeted by smells.

She lay on deep sea green grass, soft against her coat. She could smell damp rain, the trees around her, and...

"Wait, what?!" Twilight sprang up from her spot on the grass, and steadied herself to get a look around. She noticed the spruce bark that rose way above her, the very tiny cleared area she stood in, and the strong smell of a... Mouse.

Twilight flashed her eyes to where the smell came from, noticing bright glinting eyes staring back at her.

"Okay... I can smell animals. What is this, a dream?" Twilight noted to herself quietly, making sure not to stir the mouse from it`s position.

Past the thick trees, all Twilight could see was black. Like an abyss stretched out from the clearing, never ending...

"Yeah, a dream. This has to be a dream" Twilight said softly, yet still high-pitched through it all.

The mouse moved, a bit closer into the abyss zone. Above Twilight Sparkle, the night sky sparkled with constellations, though of those she could not make out.

"...Luna?" Twilight whispered, but she didn`t know why.

The smell of the mouse caught her nose again, almost telling her- pounce.

"Stupid dream, I must have just studied that hunting book too long." Twilight said as she shook away the smell, which just brought another into her head.

The rain... Almost like, it was dormant, but hanging right above her head. And that mouse...

Twilight bit her lip, seeing that she had still not woken up yet.

"...This is a puzzle, right? Just catch the darn rat and wake up?" Twilight asked no pony as she made a small sigh, still careful not to make the mouse go too far out of sight.

Heading into a pouncing position, on instinct somehow, Twilight made no attempt to levitate the mouse and end the game quickly.

No. She crept near it, smelling it`s location and position.

"Here we go." She said one last time, before lunging at the sewer animal.

The second she caught it, she noticed something.

The rat lay in her paws, the exhilaration she suddenly had.

An air of excitement resonated off of Twilight Sparkle, from her act of catching the mouse, which now trembled under her paws...

Paws...

Paws?!

Twilight gaped for a second until losing her dream into pure black.

"Hey! Wake up, egghead!" A familiar cyan pegasus shook Twilight out of her dream.

Lifting one droopy eyelid, Twilight responded, "h-huh? Oh... Hey, Rainbow Dash...", she pushed herself up on her hooves.

-hooves, good...-

"Cmon! Celestia wanted to see you!" and with that, Rainbow Dash flashed away, out of a balcony of Twilights crystal kingdom.

"W-wait?! CELESTIA!?!" Twilight flashed into reality and galloped through her halls, eventually making it outside. She didn`t even think to use her wings.

As Rainbow said, Celestia was calmly waiting outside, enjoying the company of Twilight`s five best friends. The white alicorn stepped forth from her conversation and over to her small purple alicorn protegee, Twilight Sparkle.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight yelled as she hugged her friend, whom returned the favor.

"...Uh... Why have you gathered all of us?" Twilight asked sheepishly. Celestia thought for a moment, lost in space.

"Oh! Yes, you see- well let me tell all of you at once." Celestia sighed as she went over and called to the other five ponies.

"Ahm mighty curious about this..." An orange earth pony, Apple Jack, said as she walked by the rainbow haired pony Rainbow Dash.

Celestia cleared her throat for a second before starting, "Elements of harmony. I have gathered you at Twilight`s castle in due favor for a spell." Celestia awaited a response, until Apple Jack and Rainbow burst out laughing.

"Magic? Why omighty, sugar cube. You should know we dont do magic!" Apple shouted in between laughs.

Celestia and Twilight face-hoofed.

Continuing, Celestia said, " Twilight must cast the spell while you all... Stand there. This spell is important. Made by Star Swirl the bearded, im sure itll prove useful".

Twilight raised an eyebrow, "Useful for what?".

"...Um... Something?" Celestia suggested, "We don`t... know. Not yet, anyway".

"And it won`t end up like last time? You know... Cutie mark stuff?".

"Nope. It sure wont. Not with the elements within the spells direct casting range, it shouldnt" Celestia reassured Twilight.

"Well, I`m in I suppose. Twilight? The spell?", Rarity, a white unicorn put in as she trotted up to Celestia, whom gave her in return a white book which was then passed on to Twilight.

A pale yellow pegasus walked in front of Twilight as she read the spell. The other four followed suite and circled Twilight.

"Straag wah raanom vorey lein", Twilight called out from the book as she concentrated her magic. A Bright purple dome pushed out from Twilight and through the other five ponies, creating a small wave similar to a rainboom to pulse out through Ponyville.

When it ended, which was actually in seconds- the mares opened their eyes to the night sky.

Looking around, each could tell that they were still in Ponyville. Celestia was gone, but ponies seemed to walk about, some glancing at the mane six as they passed near Twilight`s castle.

"...Er.... What just happened?" Apple Jack asked as she checked to make sure she still had her cutie mark and body.

"I`m pretty sure wecastaspellalltogetherandthensuddenlywewerenighttimebecausethespelldidntworkormaybeitdidlikelasttime!!!!" A hyper all-pink pony answered cheerfully.

"Pinkie Pie. You know we don`t understand fast talk" Rarity said, putting on slippers while getting ready to head back home.

"Ugh... I`m normal. Cutie mark... Check. What happened?" Rainbow Dash asked, confusion painted on her face.

"Ah dont know. We seem normal though, maybe its a time travel spell?" Apple Jack answered with a suggestion.

A few minutes past as the six ponies wondered about how to end the small group they stood in, or how to conjure some conversation to break the stillness in the air around them.

"W-well then... Why don`t you all just stay over at my house tonight? Or castle... Since were all here?" Twilight asked, shifting from hoof to hoof. A yawn escaped her muzzle.

"hmm... I guess I could, Angels with me so I can stay", Fluttershy said shyly, her bunny waving his arms widely as if to say *'im hungry*'!

"Well... Ah suppose, since mah farms quite a ways away" Apple Jack commented as she made her way inside. Every pony except Rarity ended up even accepting, but Rainbow Dash had just dragged her in.

"Well every *yawn* pony. What do you want to do?" Twilight yawned. The spell had really taken a toll on her.

"I must say, even for a night pony... I am pretty tired. What time is it?" Rarity asked, lifting a hoof to stop from yawning.

"It is... one o` clock. In the morning" Twilight sluggishly said as she began leading them to her bedroom, turning the bare crystal halls, filled with but a few bookshelves.

Finally turning the last corner, Twilight opened the door with her magic, and let the others in. She then walked in, closed the door, and began to sit, not taking up the remaining guest bed.

"You know, like five minutes ago we weren`t tired, right?" Twilight asked, the thought bugging her.

"Yeah, but I bet its probably just some time travel thing a ma bob that doesnt include fatigue or something" Rainbow Dash said, as she yawned.

"But shouldn`t we have felt tired when the spell stopped?" She countered.

"Maybe we were just in shock, sugar cube" Apple Jack said as she rolled over on her bed, "You can think about it in the morning!".

Twilight nodded and climbed into her pale purple bed, pushing a soft pillow around to get comfy. It didn`t take long, and soon after getting to bed, Twilight released one last yawn before falling to her dreams.

Twilight stood up in a familiar forest circle.

Looking around, she noticed- a mouse. The forest was small, like the last time.

"Well, at least- I know i`m dreaming", Twilight mumbled again, preparing for the pouncing again, not even taking in the smells.

"But why would I have the same meaningless dream again?" She questioned herself, before pouncing onto the unwary mouse, unsheathed claws.

She lunged through the air, wind ripping through her fur, and caught the mouse.

Clutching it in her paws, she noticed the dream didn`t end. And Twilight just had the feeling of wanting to bloody the poor varmint.

She noticed the claws that extended from her pink paws. The purple pads that lay under her paws, like a cat or dog`s would.

"R-right" She stammered.

"Like last night. I must be dreaming about being the lion I read about from that book. Just instead of a Zebra, this game is cat and mouse. Just cat and mouse. " Twilight assured herself, as she felt the mouse squirm in her interlocked paws.

"Just kill it and end the dream. End it`s life, end my nightmare," Twilight whispered to herself as she began to dig one measly claw into the varmint, getting small helpless squeaks.

"Fluttershy would hate me..." Twilight said to herself as she began to think on the scarlet drops that began to leak through and cover her paws.

"Oh, but who cares?" She shrugged the thought off as instincts began to kick in. The blood smelt, edible. As if she could just eat the thing.

The want to crush it`s body dawned on her head, and she licked her chops.

Sliding a second claw into the mouse, she opened her palm to watch it suffer. The mouse shivered, and blood oozed out and past her stained red claws.

"Wow... Im- enjoying, this?" Twilight shivered as she noticed the contempt at watched the poor mouse go limp, its breathing eventually coming to a stop.

The dream didn`t end, and so Twilight took the opportunity to look at the rest of her fur coated body.

The pink on her paws was only in a sock pattern, as do to that she light purple fur up her legs. She noticed her muzzle was pink, and considered it to be some pattern too.

Just as she began to look at her tail, her vision suddenly blurred, and Twilight found it hard to focus.

She swerved from her left paw and tripped, hitting the ground in a comical form.

"What the..." Twilight mumbled as she attempted to get up, until she completely blacked out, lost from her dream.

Twilight Sparkle opened a tired eye, only to find them closing again.

She felt the warn sun on her right side, and in her position found her tail flicking up in content pleasure. Under her left side, she felt cool shades of dewy plant.

Squirming around on the ground, Twilight could have swore it felt exactly like... Grass.