Author's Note

Hey there reader, hope you're enjoying this. Maybe leave me a comment? Should I stick to one thousand and five hundred words or continue on with around two thousand?

8-A Stylist In The Making

"What do you mean Angel?" Azure asked as she looked at Angel, whom shivered once more in Azure's strong grasp.

"I mean, it feels like you're made of ice or something..." Angel spoke between shivers and trailed off.

Azure gently let go and felt her hoof, it was indeed cold. Just when she was getting piece at mind, a new questions pops up. As if her life wasn't already one big question and then there was the burning in her throat. She took a step back from Angel and began to walk over to the window for a look at herself.

Despite the storm that seemed to be rolling in, she could see herself clearly. She looked awful, her eyes were darker, her mane was an absolute mess and she looked exhausted. But why, she was asleep as far as she knew. Which did explain her mane, but she shouldn't have moved enough to cause such a disturbance. Something else was at work and yet she felt fine, maybe a lot warmer than she liked in the sunlight. But otherwise fine.

"Azure? Are you alright?" Angel asked with concern and tilted her head to the side.

"I don't know Angel, I feel fine. But I look like a mess, it's as if I was battling with something and barely won by the looks of it."

"You looked fine three days ago, but I don't know how it got like that. Or why you're so cold."

"Angel, have you heard of a place called the void?"

"No, what is it?" Angel asked and sat on the bed, figuring it'd be a long story.

"When I blacked out, I woke up in total darkness with my body aching. In there, I heard a voice that helped me wake up."

"Strange, but at least you woke up right?" Angel asked as Azure leaned on the window.

"Before I woke up, I saw something. It was a battlefield littered with giant crystals. Ring any bells?" Azure asked as Princess Luna quietly entered the room without their knowledge.

"What you're describing is the Crystal Battlefield from about two thousand years ago. If it had large black demonic crystals, that is." Luna explained as she closed the door behind her.

"So how would I have seen that, Princess Luna?" Azure asked.

"Yeah and do we know what she is yet? She's really cold." Angel spoke up and made herself stiffen and sit straight up.

"There is a lot of ways, most impossible. But thank your Angel, you reminded me of what I found. Azure, you're not a normal mortal pony by any means." Princess Luna explained.

"Then what am I? I know I'm not normal compared to everypony. so what am I princess?" Azure asked and turned to look at Princess Luna.

"Well that's where I'm not entirely sure, but with my bat ponies and night guard, I've got a few ide-."

"Well out with it, we need to know." Angel spoke up and covered her mouth and seemingly sent a silent apology for speaking out of turn.

"Azure, I believe you're a breed of vampony. More in particular, one that doesn't rely on ponies as primary food. When you had that salad, it must've triggered an awakening. I have done my part to keep silent about it, as the race is incredibly rare now and even the originals that once roamed seem to have died off." Luna explained and waited for the details to sink in.

Angel looked to Azure in confusion, surely that couldn't be true. Azure's eyes held something that Angel couldn't quite put her hoof on. Azure gulped as she looked around, half expecting a new vision or voice. But her mind was silent as Luna's words engraved themselves into her mind.

"She couldn't possibly be a monster Princess Luna, she'd barely hurt a fly." Angel shook her head in denial as she broke the silence.

"It is the only thing that makes sense Angel, a being, let alone a pony needs a beating heart. Exceptions of that go to her race and its branches. Unfortunately I don't know anything else, so from here on is a learning experience for everypony of Equestria." Luna explained and turned toward the door with a yawn.

"Princess, what will happen to me now? Would the guard, you know c-"

"I wouldn't let them." Angel spoke up and hopped off the bed.

"My guard won't, I cannot say the same for Celestia's. Now please excuse me, I have a moon that needs to be set in place." Princess Luna waved her hoof and silently crept out into the hall.

Azure was oddly still at peace, she had no voices in her head. Nothing was trying to eat or kill her. No blood filled rooms and or attack from a voice. She had an idea of what she was, but not much to go off of. All she knew was she wasn't like anypony else and that she was rare, to a point of an anomaly in the list of races of ponies she somehow was added into the mix.

"Angel, what do you think?" Azure asked and turned to her friend.

"I think you need a hot shower, maybe a hoof-icure." Angel smirked.

"I think I'd like that, sure you trust me?" Azure asked, her tone switching from sweet to serious.

"Well you haven't hurt me before, in what little time you've been awake sleepyhead. But yes, I do to an extent. Maybe keep your muzzle a bit away?" Angel asked in a quiet voice and Azure shook her head.

"Whatever you say, now can we get going? If my mane looks like this any longer the rats might nest in it."

"Sure just follow me." Angel trotted over to the door end opened it, stepping into the hall as she waited for Azure who came happily trotting out.

With Angel leading the way down the hall, Azure followed close behind. One question remained, where did she come from? It was the biggest question and she still had no answers for it. But everything else seemed to have been answered. right? Probably, as far as she remembered she didn't know who she was, where she was or what she was when she woke up. And now so much had changed, around ten days later.

"Maybe that book can te- The book!" Azure half shouted half whispered as they trotted down the stairs and Angel looked at her confused.

"What are you talking about?" Angel asked as she hopped down the last step.

"When I woke up, I had some sort of book with me. Did I have it with me when you found me?" Azure asked in mild panic as they trotted down another set of stairs and into a long hallway.

"No, I found you just laying on the ground. I would have told you earlier if you had something."

"Maybe I left it back at Pri= I mean Twilight's castle?" Azure asked as she followed Angel into what looked to be a shower room. Plain white tiled floors and walls made up most of the room

"Maybe, but how about you get cleaned up and then we worry about some book?" Angel asked and made her way over to a divided section along the wall.

Azure blindly followed and looked at a wall of shower heads, she at least had an idea of how to work these. Without much question or thought, she took a spot a bit away from Angel and used her magic to turn the knob. It took a moment but the water kicked on at an icy temperature. Though she rather enjoyed it as the water washed through her mane and down her body. She sighed and simply relaxed with just the cool water going over her.

"I guess you like cold showers? That one's always freezing, but it never gets fixed." Angel spoke up in an attempt for small chat.

"It feels good, and I'm pretty sure my mane's untangled now." Azure said as her horn began to glow and her magic aura covered the knob and turned it off.

She was soaking wet, but at least she felt clean and somewhat warm. She stepped away from the shower area and over to a large mirror. Carefully, her magic grasped her mane and began to wring it out. Next she untangled it and set it into place. She wasn't sure what she was going for, but the image she saw in her eyes upon the mirror felt perfect.

Her mane, which was drying quick, was now styled into what looked like a full mane pushed to the back of her head and slung over her neck. Her mane was a lot longer than she was expecting, but not too bad to work with.

"Hey, not bad. Maybe I'll teach you how to do it with your hooves." Angel offered as she approached the mirror and took the next twenty minutes to dry herself off and put her mane back the way she liked, despite Azure's pleads to try and help her.

Angel looked into the mirror and smiled at herself with Azure in the background. She had a mane that was shorter, but thicker. It had a perfect spot for her ear and almost covered the other one under a blanket of white. Covering most of her head, except for her left ear, it brought out her eyes in a friendly manner.

"You done now, Angel?" Azure asked as she started to tap her hoof. She didn't know how a mare could spend so much time staring at themselves, though she couldn't lie to herself. What stallion wouldn't be staring and here she also was staring at her snow white mane.

"Yes, I think Twilight's room is upstairs by the medical room." Angel said as she left the mirror and trotted to the exit. Azure went to follow her, but stopped as her throat started to hurt more. It was a bit painful to say the least and as she looked at Angel, a sick thought crossed her mind.

"Hey Angel?" Azure called out in a dark, sultry tone.

"Yeah Azure?"

"You have no idea how good you look or smell right now..." Azure trailed off licking her lips as she started to approach Angel slowly. Her eyes were locked in on her and Angle's eyes widened.