Darkness in the Heart

Light launched up and flew towards Ponyville. Huh, I've done this multiple times... and I'm saving the fourth element right now... Huh, time sure flew. It feels like it was just a couple hours ago I got here... Wait, it was. She chuckled at her own mistake. I'm getting pretty close to fighting my brother... I really hope that the battle doesn't go the way my dream told it... If it does, then my efforts are pretty much wasted... Oh, I'm here! She looked down to see a fancy-looking boutique right under her. She slowly drifted down to the ground and landed in front of its door. Huh, this one seems to be going fast. Maybe I can save this mare faster than normal. She went up to the door and tried simply walking into the boutique. However, one does not simply walk into the boutique, because it was locked. She knocked on the door. "Hello? Anypony in there?" She looked in the window and saw that the lights were on, hopefully signifying that there was a pony in there. She looked around through the window, blocking out there sun's glare with her hoof. She saw a that it really was boutique, with dresses galore. She still looked around for a pony. After about a minute, and pony inside came around the corner and walked towards the door. She a unicorn was white with a luxurious, curled purple mane, and had 3 gems for a cutie mark. Light noticed that she was walking towards the door, so she stepped back to not get hit in the face by the door. She calmed herself so she could look inside of the mare's heart as soon as she opened the door. When it opened slowly, Light looked inside the emotionless mare's heart and saw the darkness; however, it wasn't very large in proportion to the other's amounts. Huh... that's strange. At least that makes it easier for me.

With the door fully opened, the previously emotionless mare put on an artificial smile. "Hello, and welcome to Rarity's boutique," she said in an artificially happy voice. Well, I'm at the right place. And whats up with her lack of true emotions? "Come on in," Rarity finished. Light just shrugged and walked in. When the were both inside, Light closed the door behind her. Light felt... anxiety inside of the boutique. Like the entire place was filled with darkness. Now that she thought about it, it was kind of dark inside, considering every window had light coming in. "So," Rarity said. "What do you want? A manecut?"

Light could just end it right there if she waned to by using her spell, but she wanted to see what this dark Rarity would do during her "manecut". Light really didn't need one, nor does she want one, but she wanted to see what would happen. "Sure..." she hesitated. "Um... I'll have a manecut..."

Rarity yawned and said, "Okay, dear, just sit over there on that chair and I'll be with you in just a moment." Rarity walked out of the room.

Light sat on the chair pointed out for her. It was a swivel chair attached to the ground, like most of our haircut places have. Despite her sitting on a cushion, it felt like she sitting on metal. I'm pretty sure that's a bad sign...

Rarity came back out the other room with two razors. Two razors? I think I only need one razor. As Rarity walked closer, she started getting an evil, sinister smile on her face. I don't think this is a manecut anymore... Light tried lifting herself out of the chair, but realized she couldn't; she was being tied to the chair by belts that were being tightened by blue magic. She looked back up and saw the unicorn with magic flowing around her horn. Should have seen this coming...

As Light struggled to get out of her seat, Rarity walked up to her. "So, dear, are you ready for your manecut?"

While still trying to get out, Light yelled, "NO!"

Rarity got an angry look on her face and growled, "Well too bad!" She used her magic and lifted both razors into the air on either side of Light.  Rarity then made them fly right at Light's face. Just in time, Light used her wings to break the belts and duck down, making the razors miss. Light somersaulted out of her chair and made a dash towards the door to escape. "Nuh-uh-uh," Rarity said without a finger to wiggle. Then, a bunch of inanimate objects were moved in front of the door by the mare's magic. Light slid to a stop and ran back. Suddenly, Light felt a rumble and she fell to the ground. She got back up with the ground still rumbling. She looked around and saw that there were gems rising out of the ground from Rarity's blue magic. Then, suddenly, without warning, they flew right at Light. Light had good reflexes, however, and flew out of the way. However, one gem was lucky and hit her right in the front-right foreleg's knee. She felt extreme pain and looked at it. She saw the sharp, red gem sticking out of her knee. I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a gem to the knee. Okay, with that obvious joke out of the way: Great. Not only am I facing a pony that I can barely defeat, but I also have to do it with three legs. At least I'm a pegasus... She flew into he air and flew at Rarity, gaining speed as she flew at the white unicorn.

The mare put up a shield using her magic, and made a sinister smile while sitting behind it. Light then slammed into the shield, but didn't give up. It was like trying to move a wall by pushing it with your head. It made a sound like screeching metal. But she wouldn't give up. Finally, due to Rarity's lack of experience with powerful magic, the shield broke. Light thought that when it broke, time was in slow motion for a second. Then, Light hit Rarity right in the head with her own head, making Rarity fly back and Light to land a rub her head. I swear, if I get a concussion from this... Light just shook off the pain and walked towards the white unicorn that was lying on the ground. Light just stood there.

"What?" Rarity said. "Aren't you going to use your ball of light thingy?"

Light said quizzically, "Aren't you going to make some remark about how I'm supposed to be nice, yet I beat you up?"

Rarity made a confused look and said, "No... am I supposed to? If so, I never got the memo, dear."

Light sighed and did her spell, blah blah blah. After the spell, Light still had a reasonable amount of energy. Light stood there with the pain from the gem still in her leg, waiting for Rarity to wake up.She looked down and saw that the gem fell out somewhere. The place where it hit was still really bloody, but it had stopped its bleeding. She looked back up and saw Rarity shifting around, starting to get up. When Rarity was fully up, she stretched and looked at Light. "Hello, dear. Who are you?"

"Call be Light," Light said with a warm smile.

Rarity looked at the only part of the Light besides her eyes that weren't white: Her bloody leg. "Ow, dear. Do you want some cloth for that?"

Light said, "No, it already stopped bleeding; this is just the dried blood. Cloth won't help, and it'd only slow me down since it's my knee."

"What happened?"

Light slightly lowered her head while still looking at Rarity and said, "You don't want to know."

Rarity didn't question the authority. "So, are we going to leave or stay here?"

Light replied, "We have to leave, but I'm not sure how. You're not a pegasus like me, so you we can't just fly out, and I'm assuming you don't have the strange powers of Pinkie Pie." Rarity shook her head. "I guess we'll have to stick together and walk to Fluttershy's cottage together."

"Fluttershy's cottage? Walk together? What;s going on out there?" Light sighed and gave a whole gist of what's happening. "Oh. Well, are we going to go now?"

"I guess so, since there's no reason to stay here."

Light then opened the door and walked outside; she was followed by Rarity. Rarity told the directions of how to walk to the cottage, so they started towards the direction. As they walked (or, limped and walked.) together, Light noticed the ponies backed away from them, as if they're afraid. Hm... they fear multiple ponies with light hearts... Maybe that can be to my advantage later...

When they reached their destination, Light opened the door and let Rarity in. Light then closed the door when she was inside. Light knew what her first priority was: Getting her knee some help. She saw Fluttershy and went up to her. Light said, "Hi... um, I got stabbed by a gem in my knee. Is there some medical care around here?"

Fluttershy looked down and winced at the bloody knee. "Um... yes. I'll go get some... If that's alright with you." Light nodded and Fluttershy walked away into another room. Light walked over a sat on the couch for the nine-thousand and first time. Fluttershy came back with some medical supplies and Applejack.

"What's all o' this about a gem in a knee?" Applejack said. She walked over to Light and examined her knee. "Wow! That must have really hurt!" Light nodded.

"Okay," Fluttershy said in her regular, quiet voice. "Here's so medical supplies. Sorry if they're not the right size, but all of my medical supplies are for animals. I tried finding  one that's the best size for you, but it may not be perfect." Fluttershy wrapped some bandages around Light's knee.

Light said, "Thanks! Now, who do we have left to save?"

Pinkie said, "There's Dashie, a really fast pegasus. I mean, like really fast. I mean, she's gone mach speed multiple times, and..."

Applejack said over Pinkie's ramblings, "And Twilight, who is a unicorn. She's really good with magic."

"Well, I have had a 'bad incident' with a unicorn before," Light said, shifting towards Rarity. "So, I can chase a pegasus that I'll probably never catch, or face a unicorn that will probably turn me into a frog. Great. Well, I guess I'll go for the pegasus since flying doesn't require me to use my leg that much. Yay." Light rolled her eyes. "I might as well stay here for a bit," Light said indirectly to anypony. "I am going to need to rest here for a bit if I'm going for that pegasus." Light lied down on the couch. I'm not falling asleep this time.

Suddenly, a wild Pinkie appeared. "Ooh! You're going for Dashie? Make sure to tell her that Pinkie said 'Hi!'"

"Um... sure, I'll be sure to say that." Why would I? She's coming back here, anyway. She'll see Pinkie!

"Oh yeah... What does this 'Dashie' look like?"

"Oh, she's light blue, has a rainbow colored tail and mane, and her real name is 'Rainbow Dash'. I like calling her Dashie because it's a funner name! And she loves being in the sky, in Cloudsdale, everywhere! As long as it's in the sky. She comes down to the ground sometimes, but she's usually in the air. I wish I could fly, then I would be up in the sky and I would be like 'Wee! I'm flying! Wee!'"

"Um... thanks." Pinkie said goodbye and hopped away. Light rested on the couch for a while.

After about an hour or so, Light got off of the couch and said, "Bye, y'all! I'll be back soon with the fifth of your friends!"

Light then opened the door, went outside, closed the door, and launched up extremely high into the air. Higher than normal, because she's hunting down a pegasus.