The Witchblade EqG: The 13 Artifacts

“BEACH TIME!!!” yelled the hyper joyful voices of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.

As promised, Sun had taken the girls, Celestia, and Luna, to her private vacation home on the island of Maredre. Although the home was more like a villa/compound, with a mile-wide wall that sectioned off part of the forest to grant them a nice front and backyard. The villa was a bit more spread out than Shimmer Manor, resembling something close to a vacation resort. The villa also had access to a private beach so they didn’t have to worry about other people, they could cut loose and be as loud and rowdy as they pleased.

Pinkie and Rainbow were the first to step onto the beach, Rainbow was wearing a one-piece suit, it had racing stripes of red, yellow, and green on the sides, and was made for athletic, competitive swimmers. She had on a pair of magenta colored swim shorts and a similarly colored hat. Pinkie was a little bold and wore a two-piece bikini, it was blue with yellow polka dots, covering her impressive bust and rear. This was the first time Pinkie wore a bikini and she was feeling a little self-conscious about her figure, but she wanted to do this for Sunset, plus, Sunset had been telling her that she should be confident in her body. And after their passionate love making, the first and second time, Sunset drove it home more that she found her body beautiful.

Coming towards them was Rarity, she too was wearing a two-piece bikini, she had a violet top with a faux diamond at the center. Around her waist was a sky-blue sarong that sparkled in the sunlight, upon her head a matching violet sun hat and a pair of sunglasses. Right next to her was Applejack, she wore green swim trunks, and a matching green bikini top, and of course her signature Stetson hat was perched atop her head. Fluttershy was behind them, she was wearing a one-piece suit that was pink in color and had a white rabbit printed on the stomach. The suit covered up most of her chest and back, allowing her shoulders and arms to be exposed.

“Looks like you two are ready to have some fun,” Applejack commented.

“Oh yeah! A private beach, all to ourselves, free to do anything we want! This is best!” Rainbow stated.

“Now don’t go and do anything unbecoming, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity tutted. “Remember, we’re guests and this is a private beach front owned by Sun.”

“Don’t worry, Rares, just enjoy yourselves!”

The girls turned around and saw that the twin Sunsets were walking their way. Sunset was wearing a black bikini top with gold flame decals, the top hugged her bust and made her cleavage very noticeable, her lower piece had gold studs lining the waistband and rode just a bit high to expose more of her hips. Sun had the same type of swimsuit on, except hers was white, and to further differentiate the two, Sun had her hair tied back into a ponytail.

“I don’t know how I let you talk me into wearing this thing, I feel like I’m back in my armor,” said Sunset.

“C’mon, Sis, you got a smokin’ hot body, flaunt it!” Sun exclaimed as she hip checked her big sister. “And I should know, we have the same bod.”

Sunset smirked and replied, “Eh, I wouldn’t say exactly the same, I think we established that my bust is a bit bigger than yours.”

“Oh, that’s bullshit, but if you want, we can whip ‘em out and see whose are bigger. Sparky, do you want to be the judge?”

Twilight was behind Sun, she had a towel draped over her body, the only thing visible were her bare legs and head. Upon being singled out, Twilight blushed at the question. “I…I…”

“We’re kidding, Twilight, don’t worry,” Sunset assured.

“Shoot,” Pinkie whispered. She turned to her right and saw that Rainbow’s face was blushing. “Dashie, were you imagining Sunset naked?”

Rainbow went stiff and scrambled to look guiltless. “No!”

“I do recall you ogling a picture of Sunset when she was in her armor,” Rarity mused.

The rainbow haired athlete spluttered and countered, “That was before I knew it was Sunset!”

“What? You don’t think I look hot then?” Sunset asked with mock displeasure as she crossed her arms.

“That’s just rude, Dashie,” said Pinkie.

“No – I mean yes – I mean, yes you’re hot – I mean – UGH!!! I’m going for a swim!”

Rainbow threw her hat onto the sand and swiftly pulled down her swim shorts, after which she ran towards the water and dove straight into it. The girls had a laugh at their friend’s expense, but it was all in good fun. Sun turned around and saw Twilight was chuckling as well, but kept the towel clenched around her body. The younger Shimmer turned around and gently placed her hand on Twilight’s shoulder, making the young genius look her in the eyes.

“Hey, you don’t have to cover yourself up. It’s just us out here,” said Sun.

“I…I know…” Twilight glanced at the girls behind Sun and Sunset, they all had, in her opinion, great figures. Pinkie had a bit of pudge, but on her stout figure it worked. In comparison, Twilight, despite the unwanted advances of Indigo Zap, and Sun’s obvious attraction towards her, she still possessed a negative body image of herself. “For me, the problem is psychological. At Crystal Prep, the girls there have always commented on my looks, my figure, saying how no boy would ever want to sleep with me or see me naked because I was a thin, flat chested nerd girl…and that the only reason a boy would do anything with me was because he was just looking for someone easy or was doing it out of pity…”

Sun and Sunset’s left eye twitched when she heard this, it only reaffirmed to her how much damage that school had done to Twilight, aside from what Indigo Zap did.

“Okay, first off: Twilight, you’re beautiful, you’re definitely not flat chested, and yes, you’re thin, but you’re not a skeleton or something. You got some plushness where it counts,” said Sun.

Twilight’s face lit up red, but she still smiled.

Sun smiled back and continued. “Second, forget what those bitches told you! Who cares if a boy wants you? I want you, and apparently boys weren’t on your radar anyway.”

Twilight adjusted her glasses. “Technically, I wasn’t even aware that girls were on my radar until I met you.”

“Third, again, these are our friends now.” Sun moved to the side and motioned with her left hand towards the girls.

Sunset placed her hand on Twilight’s other shoulder and said, “You probably won’t find a better group of people who’ll accept you for who you are. I mean, just look at us. A fashionista, a party girl, a shy animal lover, a country girl, a sporty tomboy, and me, a bad girl. Even our bodies are different, and yeah, we bump heads now and then, but we accept each other’s differences, and we’ll accept yours. Your safe place is right here, Twilight.”

Twilight looked between the two Sunsets, feeling the fog of self-doubt was starting to lift from her. She knew that they were right, she was safe with them, they wouldn’t criticize her looks, and if they did it would be from a place of concern and care rather than to demean and hurt her. Feeling a bit emboldened, Twilight slowly removed the towel from her body, letting the cloth drape over her right forearm. Twilight was wearing a cute one-piece suit; it was navy blue and furled out around her hips in a mock skirt. The top portion around her bust had white and blue stripes and had a pink bow at the center. She was skinny, but her rear was just a bit rounder, and while not sporting a large bust like some of the other girls, they were a decent sized B-cup, certainly bigger than Rainbow’s. At least that’s what Sunset determined.

Sun stepped forward, draped her arms over Twilight’s shoulders and gave her girlfriend a gentle kiss on the lips. “You’re beautiful, Sparky. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”

A few tears appeared in Twilight’s eyes, she sniffled a little and hugged Sun as she rested her head on Sun’s right shoulder. “Thank you, Sun…thank you.”

“Now, are you sure I can’t burn down CPA?” Sun asked.

“And are you sure I can’t help her?” Sunset asked as well.

Twilight rolled her eyes and giggled. “No, you two, I don’t want you committing arson for me.”

“Not arson if you’re not caught,” said the Sunsets at the same time.

“Hey guys!” Rainbow Dash emerged from her dip in the ocean and came towards them. “You wanna play some volleyball, there’s a court over there and we got enough people for…for…whoa shit…!”

The Sunsets, Twilight, and the rest of the girls wondered what had caught Rainbow off guard, because whatever it was, caused her to blush red again. They followed her gaze towards the pathway that brought them to the beach and realized exactly what it was, and to be honest they were taken a little aback as well. Walking towards the group were the school principals, Celestia was wearing a white one-piece suit, the neckline was brought down enough to give a nice view of her cleavage and a bit of her bust. The leg holes of the suit rode high like Sunset’s suit, allowing for more of Celestia’s hips to be seen, of course the only reason why they knew that was because one side of her hips was exposed while the other half was covered by a gold colored sarong.

Walking next to her was the younger of the two, she wore a purple bikini top that was a bit thinner in material, her bottoms were close to being a thong, with a strip of cloth covering her privates and the waistband was thin, Luna also wore a sarong, but it was azure colored and sparkled.

“Damn,” the Sunsets echoed.

Most of the girls had come to join the Sunsets and Twilight, standing with them to meet their principals halfway. When they arrived, the two adult women looked at their students, making Celestia suddenly feel a bit self-conscious at their choice of attire.

“Ms. Celestia, Ms. Luna, you…you…” Rarity stuttered.

“I knew these swimsuits were too revealing, Luna,” said Celestia in annoyance. “I don’t know how you talked me into wearing these.”

Rarity shook her head. “No, no, you both look stunning!”

Celestia blushed. “Oh?”

“Told you,” said Luna.

For some reason, Rainbow Dash was being very quiet right now.

“Rarity’s right, you both look beautiful,” said Fluttershy.

“Wow! Who knew our principals were a couple of bombshells!” Pinkie commented.

“Watch it, Ms. Pie,” Luna warned as she gave her a stern look.

Pinkie chuckled nervously.

Luna’s stern expression quickly fell as a grin split her face. “I know we may be your teachers, but since we’re here to have fun and relax, I’m going to forgo the persona of the woman you’ve known and will instead show you my more relaxed, normal state.” Luna looked about and saw that Rainbow was holding a volleyball. She suddenly grabbed the ball out of Rainbow’s stunned hands. “Now c’mon girls, let’s see if you got what it takes to beat me!”

Luna took off her sarong and threw it under the parasol that was set up as she made her way to the volleyball court.

“Is she…” Sun started.

“Always like this?” Sunset ended.

“When she gets the chance to cut loose, she takes it. Guess you can consider her to be the ‘cool aunt’,” said Celestia while making air quotes.

“I’m starting to think I should’ve transferred to CHS a long time ago,” said Twilight with bemusement.

“C’MON YOU COWARDS, AND STEP INTO MY RING!” Luna called out.

Celestia sighed, but then she took off her sarong and grinned as she moved towards the court. “Oh, little sister, you’re about to lose it all!”

“I want to be on Celestia’s team!” Pinkie declared as she ran towards the aurora haired woman.

“Ah shoot, I’ll take Luna’s team, this outta be fun,” said Applejack.

Sun glanced at her big sister and smirked. “Let’s make this sister versus sister.”

“You’re on,” Sunset replied.

The others began to move towards the volleyball court, but Applejack stayed where she was since Rainbow Dash didn’t seem to move yet. “Rainbow, you alright?”

“Um…yeah…just a bit confused right now.”

Applejack piqued an eyebrow. “Confused about what?”

“Why I have a lady boner for our Principals, and how I should process it…”

Applejack smacked her forehead. “Jesus, Dash, yer hornier than a mare in heat.”

“Ya might want to rephrase that since we have a ‘mare’ of our own among us. Oh…now there’s an image!”

“Go dunk yer head back in the ocean!”

Adagio dragged herself home late that night, at about three-thirty in the morning, the eldest of the Siren sisters had just got through with her late-night job and this one, in particular, was very draining. A client had paid to run a train on Adagio for a group, of course Adagio knew what this meant, she’d be reduced to a living Fleshlight toy, being used without a moment’s rest until every person who came to the event had ejaculated into her. At first Adagio kindly refused the offer, but that’s when the client put in something else to sweeten the deal.

“C’mon, I need some real entertainment, and you’re the hottest – not to mention the least skanky – hooker I’ve ever seen! Ya got no track marks, and you’re cleaner than most!”

“Just because I fuck to get money, doesn’t mean I have to look dirty. No one’s going to have sex with someone who looks like they just crawled out of the gutter.”

“True dat, but c’mon, you’ll make so much dough out of this!”

“……How much?”

“You set the amount, how much per guy?”

“Hmm, okay, how about $800 for vaginal, $500 for anal, no refunds if they can’t make it. If they want both it’ll cost them $1,300. And that’s only for one use. If they want another go, they have to get to the back of the line and pay up again.”

“Sweet! How many do ya think you could take?”

In hindsight, Adagio should’ve gone lower, five, ten maybe, but they needed money, her sisters and her were not doing well financially and they needed to pay the rent as well as food.

“……Thirty.”

“HOLY SHIT! I…whoa… that should be easy enough, especially when I tell ‘em what’s comin’.”

“Just make sure that they understand the ‘no refunds’ part of the deal. No one gets to touch this until they pay up. And I want half of what they pay you two days before the event in case I need to do something extra.”

Adagio set that up a week ago, she did get half the money that was promised to her, she took two days off to get herself ready for what was going to be an exceptionally long night. This did break one of her cardinal rules, “do not go to a client’s home”. Thankfully, the event was at some random place instead of a residence, heaven forbid the neighbors knew what those men were up to. When she arrived, Adagio sauntered inside, she admitted that she liked the attention they gave her, all eyes glued to her, all pining for her, adoring her.

She was led to a bedroom that was set up for her, to her relief it wasn’t set up like some dungeon, it was just a large bed with soft, comfortable, and thankfully clean sheets, at least for the time being. Adagio knew that it wasn’t going to be like her other times when she would strip tease, since she had thirty clients to satisfy tonight all at once, foreplay was out of the question. About ten minutes after she got herself situated it started, one after the other, some were rough with her, others were gentler as if pretending she was their girlfriend. When it was over, Adagio was sorer than she had ever been in her life. Her insides were filled to capacity, with some of the spoils leaking out.

Despite the numerous men she had sex with, she took count of each and every one. Which was good because when she got the last half of the money, she was relieved that it was the exact amount that matched the first half she got.

As Adagio walked up the stairs to her apartment, she grimaced at the feeling of the spoils of the thirty men still leaking out of her orifices. Even after using the client’s shower to clean herself up, she hadn’t managed to get every last bit of it out, so some was running down her thighs. She was grateful it was late and most people in the building were asleep, but then again, she was too tired to give a damn what they thought, they probably already knew what she and her sisters did.

Damn humans…I can barely walk after that…it’s a miracle I’ve made it this far without collapsing…Adagio peeked into her small purse and sighed. Still, with this, we’ll be alright for a little bit…

The building wasn’t bad, it could use some updates, but it was better than nothing. When they got there the building supe gave them extra attention because they paid a bit more than the normal rent, and sometimes they gave him “favors” on the side, so if something broke down or was damaged, they were first on his priority list. Although right now, any “favors” were going to have to be handled by Sonata and Aria, she was not going to be doing anything for the next week or so. Which was fine since the money would keep them at least for the next month or so.

Finally, Adagio made it to her door, she reached into her purse and pulled out her key. She fumbled with it for a second, the exhaustion of her night was starting to catch up with her. Before she could turn the key, the door opened and Adagio was greeted by the youngest of the trio, Sonata.

“Dagi!” Sonata exclaimed as she threw herself at her big sister and hugged her tight. “You’re alright!”

Adagio raised an eyebrow. “Of course, I am, I called you both on the burner phone a few minutes ago to tell you I was heading back.”

Aria appeared behind Sonata; her arms crossed as her normal perma-scowl had faltered. “Can you blame her for being worried? That wasn’t something that we normally do! A train?! Dammit, Adagio, what would you have done if those fucking humans kept you there and just straight up raped you for hours and left you there for dead?!”

Adagio was too exhausted and sore to deal with this right now. “You should both be in bed right now, are you saying you waited up for me all this time?”

Sonata pulled her head away from Adagio’s shoulder and nodded. “Yes, we wanted to make sure you got home.”

Adagio rolled her eyes, if she wasn’t so tired, she’d find their concern for her safety endearing and heartwarming, but right now it was just annoying. “Fine, I’m alright, now let me come in, I want to sleep.” Adagio pushed past Sonata and headed to her room, however, Aria got in her way. “Aria, believe me, whatever bullshit you’re about to spout, it can wait until after I’ve slept. I’m too tired to deal with anything you’re about to say.”

“No, Adagio, you need to hear this! You need to stop pushing yourself so damn hard!” Aria argued. “You go out more than we do, you sleep with more people than we do, and now this?! Look, I know we need the money, but we agreed to do this equally between the three of us! Why are you doing so much more than Sonata and me?!”

Adagio growled angrily, Aria really wanted to do this now? Fine, they were going to do this. “Because you two are such fucking screw ups, that’s why!”

Sonata flinched with hurt, while Aria just glared at her and stood there silently.

“With you,” Adagio pointed to Aria, “you scare your clients, your whole ‘bad girl’ look screams ‘I’m going to kill you and take your money before you see my tits’! Don’t get me wrong, some of these males actually like that, but they’re in a minority compared to the vast majority of guys who want to fuck someone who won’t possibly shiv them when their back is turned!”

Adagio turned to Sonata, making her flinch reflexively.

“And, oh man, don’t get me started on her! She sleeps with five clients, and only two – count ‘em – TWO pay her!” Adagio stated.

“I-I said I was sorry, Dagi…we’re just worried that you’re doing too much,” said Sonata.

Adagio ran her hand down her face and snarled, “It’s because of you two I have to do too much! We don’t have our magic anymore, nor do we have our strength, so we have to make do with what we have! Which isn’t much!”

“Yeah, we know, we don’t have our magic anymore, or our strength, which is why we were worried! If you had it, you could’ve torn those humans in half with no problem! But that’s not now!” Aria placed her hands on Adagio’s shoulders, trying to reason with her older sister. “If you keep this up, it’ll be worse than when we were thrown out of Equestria.”

That did it. Adagio forcefully removed Aria’s hands from her shoulders and gave her little sister a hard slap across the face, making the gruff Siren stumble backwards. “JUST FUCKING SAY IT ALREADY! YOU BLAME ME FOR ALL THIS! DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?! DON’T YOU THINK I HATE MYSELF ENOUGH FOR–!”

Suddenly, the room began to spin, and the exhaustion had hit her like a ton of bricks thanks to that outburst, making Adagio stumble and collapse to her knees.

“DAGI!”

“ADAGIO!”

Sonata and Aria rushed to her side, she was way too tired now to fight them, so all she could do was huff and grunt as they slowly picked her up. “Don’t get overexcited…I’m just tired…honestly, you two are going to be the death me…”

“Don’t say stuff like that, please,” Sonata pleaded. “We’re all we’ve got.”

Adagio went silent, she was too tired to argue, too tired to do anything now. “Just…take me to bed.”

Aria and Sonata carried Adagio to her bedroom, gently placing her atop the bed. Aria noticed the dried remnants of Adagio’s exploits running along her inner thigh, she grimaced at the sight, it only drove her point further home that Adagio had done too much. “Get some sleep, Adagio.”

“I’ll cook you a big breakfast when you wake up, or lunch, or whatever you want when you do,” said Sonata sweetly.

Adagio murmured a little and slowly turned away from them. Sonata and Aria walked to the door, giving their oldest sister one last glance before closing the door behind them. When they were gone, Adagio rolled onto her other side, facing her right and the nightstand that was there. Her right hand still stung from the slap she delivered to Aria a moment ago, she clenched that hand into a fist as the regret of her actions finally set in.

Dammit, why’d I have to go and fly off the handle like that, Adagio inwardly groaned. I’ll apologize to them when I wake up.

The lead Siren’s eyes fell upon the jewelry box she had bought last week, it rested on the nightstand, just within arm’s reach. It wasn’t by far the flashiest thing she had ever bought, but it did resonate with her on a level that was odd, but not unwelcome. Originally, Adagio thought she could store the pieces of her broken amulet in it, which was currently residing in the drawer of that same nightstand. But lo and behold, the box wouldn’t open. She considered prying it open, but Adagio didn’t want to ruin the craftsmanship of the box.

“We’re a couple of broken items, aren’t we?” Adagio mused.

Adagio’s eyelids became heavy as she finally allowed her body to relax, letting the softness of her pillow and bed to gently guide her into slumber. In Adagio’s exhausted state she didn’t notice the oddity that was occurring with the jewelry box. A red aura seeped upwards from the wooden nightstand and flowed into the box itself, making the crease of the lid glow an eerie crimson color.

The cold snow blanketed the forest as the sound of skiers and snowboarders whooshing down the trails filled the air. One snowboarder was currently outpacing and outdoing most of the other resort goers like it was nothing.

Indigo Zap sped past them all, appearing like a blur to most, she was in the zone, being out there on the fresh powder allowed her to get some perspective on the situation that was her life. More specifically, on what to do about Sunset Shimmer. She took a small break as she stopped in front of a tree and detached herself from her snowboard, she leaned her back against the tree and sighed heavily, her hot breath forming a vapor plume out in front of her.

Her parents brought her here for Spring Break, in hindsight it was probably for the best. If she was out partying, Indigo believed that she would never be able to focus on what really mattered, and that was Twilight Sparkle. Even now, standing upon this snow-covered mountain, thinking of the mousy nerd girl got her hot and bothered. Why couldn’t Twilight understand? Why couldn’t she see that she was really and truly in love with her? Yes, she did go overboard with that stunt, but it was necessary to get her away from that witch, Sunset Shimmer. No way a girl like that could be good for Twilight, she may look nice, but Indigo knew that the girl was probably as damaged as any of the other kids in CPA, just looking for someone to screw around with, and not in the biblical sense.

“Twilight, I’ll find a way to get you away from that bitch! She must be using her powers to keep you hostage or something, that has to be it!” Indigo concluded. “With those freaky powers, what chance do I have of beating her? She healed herself after I beat the shit out of her, and she could use fire! Doubt I could shoot her, she’d probably come back to life or something…”

Indigo shook her head, she needed to think a little more about this. Maybe another run would help her, she needed to clear her head and approach this from a different angle. Indigo had already done the Black Diamond runs enough times that she could do it in her sleep. She needed a challenge, the spikey haired girl glanced down the hill and spotted her solution, an uncharted path, with untouched powder to shred and the unknown path would make her focus more on the run itself rather than her trials of getting Twilight back. Although, she knew that if something happened, she’d be up shit creek without a paddle if she went in too far.

“I’ll go until I can’t see the flags anymore,” she assured herself. “The resort’s on the other side of the hill anyway.”

With that in mind, Indigo latched herself back onto her board and pushed off in the opposite direction of the rest of the skiers. A minute later and Indigo was airborne, flipping up and doing amazing aerial tricks as she went further downhill, there was the occasional tree here and there, but it was fine by her, it just provided an extra obstacle for her to weave around, as far as she was concerned it was practice for honing her reflexes. She ducked, bobbed, and weaved through a small gathering of trees as the branches came at her one after the other, narrowly clotheslining her at least twice, but she just shrugged it off, smiling in the face of danger.

Once she cleared the trees, she had plenty of open space and high mounds of snow to surf up and over, to spin in the air and perform some truly “sick” moves. The best part was that she didn’t have to watch for anyone, there was absolutely no one around to get in her way, it was truly liberating. Indigo aimed for another hill and launched herself into the air, but upon doing so, she realized she had made a grave mistake. On the other side of that mound, hidden by the tall piles of snow, was a cliff. Her stomach sank as her pupils shrunk to pinpricks, realizing that she was now in the air, and the angle of her launch had taken her right into the open air over the cliff.

Her mind locked up, she wanted to scream but her mouth wouldn’t make a sound. The weightless feeling of flying through the air gave her little comfort, she wished, she prayed that she’d just keep sailing onwards until she reached the ground safely on the far side of this drop. Of course, that was the logic of a scared child, and right now that’s what she was, a scared child. Then the worse part came, gravity took hold. Her momentum slowed and with it, her airborne status. Indigo dropped out of the air like a lead weight, the wind roared around her helmet, she flipped around in the air, making the ground and sky trade places several times to the point that it was disorienting. Indigo’s heart pounded against her chest as the fear of her impending death was fast approaching.

The athlete’s mind flashed several memories before her eyes, images of fun times with her parents, the few genuinely good times she had with the four girls she considered her friends, most of them of her and Lemon Zest, but the majority of them all involved Twilight Sparkle. Every moment she got her alone, every moment she heard her precious nerd squeal in delight from her touch, her lavender scent, everything about her was rushed to the forefront of her mind. At the last moment, her mind conjured an image of herself and Twilight in bed together, the teen genius atop of Indigo and looking longing into her eyes. Her mouth opened and uttered three words that she longed to hear.

“Indigo…I love–”

Everything went dark…

……there was no feeling……

…just darkness…

……drifting………

Then, there was a feeling……

It was cold…

Cold was bad…but…it felt alright…

…it felt…

…good…

Indigo drew a sharp breath as she sat upright, she panted and heaved as if she had just breached the surface of a pool after holding her breath for far too long. The sporty girl snapped her head back and forth, trying to understand what happened to her. She looked straight up and saw the face of the cliff, how it went higher and higher until the edge was barely visible, she estimated that it was at least a five-story drop. Indigo checked herself, detaching herself from the board which had snapped in half from the force of the impact. She checked her legs, her body, and her head, but by some miracle, she wasn’t injured.

Indigo looked around her and saw the snow, she figured that the snow was thick enough to prevent her from ending up as red paste. However that presented a problem, she wasn’t stupid, she knew that even if that was true, a fall from that high up would’ve resulted in soft impact damage to her spine, and the way the board was snapped should’ve meant that her legs should’ve been fractured beyond belief. And yet, there was no damage. Indigo placed her hand against the ground to push herself up and felt that her hand didn’t sink very far into the snow. Upon examining the snow around her, she saw that there wasn’t much littering the area, indeed, there was maybe about a foot, maybe two, of snow, definitely not enough to cushion her fall.

“I…I should be dead…” The helmet lay split in half on either side of where her head was. Even more strange, she didn’t feel that cold despite her head being exposed to the wind. “Maybe I’m numb…?” Indigo pinched her cheek hard and immediately stopped as she let out a loud, “OW! Fuck, okay, I’m not numb!”

Despite not feeling cold, she knew it wasn’t a good idea to let herself be exposed that long to the cold winds. She took off her scarf and wrapped it around her head the best she could and zipped her jacket up as far as it would go to protect her neck. There was no way she was going to be able to climb up, and since no one knew that she was out here, it would be awhile before a search team was sent out, let alone found her in time.

“Fuck me…great…” Indigo looked around, there were plenty of trees, and thankfully she did bring a lighter with her. She didn’t smoke but it was always a good idea to have a source of fire in case of emergencies. “Now I just need someplace to shelter…” Indigo faced forward. “Well, that’s covered.”

In front of her was a large cave opening, she figured it was most likely the den of some animal, a bear, a mountain lion, or maybe wolves. Predators like that tended to stay away from the mass of people at the resort, but out here, one human was no threat to them, she was dinner. The athlete sighed heavily and went to work, being mindful to take note of any changes in her condition. She snapped off a few sturdy branches that weren’t completely snow covered and brought them into the cave. She took a large one and lit one end on fire, letting it act as a makeshift torch. She went deeper inside to get away from the opening and the bone freezing cold, which, still, she didn’t feel cold at all. If anything, now she felt warmer.

Maybe the cave has some kind of weird heating from deeper inside? Whatever, I’m starting to sweat, here’s good enough.

She had traveled about fifty feet into the cave and dropped her pile of wood. She arranged it as best she could and threw her torch into the pile, lighting the rest of the tinder on fire. Indigo began taking off the layers of clothing that she had put on, now that the fire was lit she was feeling even warmer than earlier, it almost felt like playing basketball in the summer heat on a blacktop. She started with the jacket, but that didn’t do much, she removed the scarf and sweater, better, but not enough. Finally, Indigo just decided to go for broke and took off everything until she was just in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Now she felt much better.

“A person can go for weeks without food, but only days without water. Water won’t be a problem, there’s plenty of it outside. I really don’t want to starve out here.” Indigo rummaged through her jacket and found about four power bars she was saving for a snack while she was out snowboarding. “Gotta ration this as best I can.”

Indigo ripped open the first bar, broke off a small piece and ate it. For now, that would have to do it, she couldn’t risk eating any more than that. Unfortunately, it seemed that the universe, god, or whatever force was out there hated her, as not too long after opening the bar and munching on a piece of it, did Indigo spot several glowing eyes in the shadows of the cave. Indigo hurriedly grabbed another piece of wood and lit its end, granting her a little more light and allowing her to see what the eyes belonged to. As she feared, it was a pack of wolves.

“Fuck me sideways – are you kidding me?!”

The lupines bared their fangs at her, snarling as they moved to surround her. Indigo could tell that these wild animals were hungry, up in the mountains prey for predators was sometimes hard to find, so they weren’t going to pass up the chance to rip her apart for food even if she managed to kill one or if she was lucky two. Ten wolves were now upon her, having cut off her escape, not that it would’ve helped anyway, they could run faster than her and knew this area better than her. There was no way she was going to get far even if she did run.

“I might die, but I’m not dying without killing at least one of you fucking flea bags!” Indigo declared.

One of the wolves that was behind her lunged forward, from there, everything happened in slow motion for Indigo. She turned her head, watching as the wolf opened its jaws, getting closer and closer as it came close to biting her ankle. It was too late to dodge it, too late to counterattack, it was going to tear out her Achilles tendon and drop her to the ground to become an easy kill. However, it was right around that time when the sapphire gemstone of her gifted necklace began to glow bright. Indigo felt a surge of energy travel down her body and towards her left leg, as soon as it went there, her entire left leg turned blue. The wolf chomped down on that same leg, and as soon as those fangs came within inches of her ankle, the wolf’s teeth instantly froze to the point of becoming as brittle as thin ice. When the wolf fully bit, its teeth shattered into pieces as pain radiated throughout its head and mouth.

The poor lupine released painful yelps as it backed up and stumbled, falling onto its back as it thrashed about, trying to stop the icy cold pain that was permeating every nerve in his head. The other wolves didn’t know what was going on, and neither did Indigo, but the wolves weren’t dissuaded. Another wolf charged for Indigo, successfully knocking her down to the ground, managing to pin her there. The wolf wasted no time and instantly went for the kill as it closed its mouth around her neck. Indigo released a strangled scream as she felt the teeth begin to sink into her flesh, the beast’s claws tearing her shirt and starting to penetrate her skin. But that all stopped as suddenly as it started, the teeth and claws stopped digging into her skin, if anything, it felt like they were being pushed back. In a flash of blue light, a gust of wintery air blew the wolf off her, it carried the lupine high into the air at great speed until it slammed into the ceiling of the cave, impaled on the stalactites up above.

It was here that Indigo started to feel power flowing through her body, her cream colored skin began to change color rapidly to a navy blue, her eyes shifted to stark icy blue as her hair shifted and became spikey solid white ice, but somehow still maintained the same elasticity as her regular hair. The wolves backed away from her, allowing Indigo to stand up, she looked at her body, felt her hair, and nearly freaked out. She didn’t understand how this was possible, or why was this happening to her. That is until she noticed that the necklace chain had become ice that melded seamlessly and painlessly onto her skin, the pendant was encased in ice, allowing only the sapphire gemstone to show as it continuously gave off a bright glow.

“Holy shit…this…this is, like, some kind of freaky magical necklace! Thank you, Dad!” Indigo exclaimed. It was here that her jubilation shifted a little, her smile turned into a murderous grin as she glanced at each of the wolves that had surrounded her. “Oh, this works, I got my very own magical powers and I need some practice! You’ll be great moving targets!”

Indigo bent her knees and took off straight ahead, she reached out to grab one of the wolves, but in her haste, she neglected to realize just how fast she was, or how her powers worked. By the time she stopped, Indigo was halfway down the cave, her right hand had transformed into a jagged ice claw and was now completely drenched in blood. When she looked back, she was surprised to see how far she had traveled. Not only that, but the wolf she had tried to grab had been shredded in half, leaving its upper half lying in front of her, while its lower half was left where it once stood.

“Whoa, damn! I’m way faster!”Indigo looked at her right hand, flexing the ice claw and becoming astounded at how it felt normal to her. “This is freaky…” Indigo watched as the wolves began to run out of the cave, she snarled angrily and yelled out, “HEY, WE AIN’T DONE!”

As soon as she said that Indigo thrust her left hand forward. From that hand she – unintentionally – fired a beam of azure blue light that struck the ground at the mouth of the cave. A wall of pure ice rapidly grew, filling the opening until it was completely closed off by a wall of solid ice. Indigo was surprising herself every second, apparently, she had ice powers. The ice claw disappeared, but now she could properly experiment with her test subjects, just like Twilight would.

“Wait for me Twilight, I’ll free you from that fire spitting witch!”