Into The Storm

I woke up with Bree's head on my chest sound asleep, sighing I gently moved her head off and slipped off the bed to the bathroom. After some bathroom business I returned to the main room and got dressed in my spare clothes before cleaning up the pizza boxes from the room. Once happy I walked up to Bree and gently shook her until she woke up,

"w-what time is it?" she asked stifling a yawn, she twisted around and looked at me with a smile "we going out again?" she asked

"uh, yea. but first you need to get yourself cleaned up because we are going out to eat for breakfast" I said with a smile. The one thing I caught from my grandparents before they passed was that they always loved to go out to eat, and it just kind of carried over to me. Bree slid off the bed and walked into the bathroom while I put on deodorant and body spray, I had no plans of chasing that day so I never checked my maps or the radar's for storm activity.

"hey, you all done?" I called out buttoning up my flannel shirt and tying my steel toe boots, Bree emerged from the bathroom a brush stuck in her tail and a sheepish look on her face

"Can I get some help?" she asked looking down at the floor, smiling I knelt down and gently pulled the brush from her tail and started brushing the knot's out "w-Woah, have you done this before?" she asked in almost a purr.

"Nah, for a while I wanted to go into cosmetology and practiced on my mom, but after a while I found out that it wasn't for me. She taught me how to easily get knots out of hair and that just kinda stuck with me" I replied setting the brush off to the side "all done" I said standing up. After some faffing around we eventually headed out to a restaurant called El Charro Mexican food restaurant. While we drove I noticed that a supercell was forming to our east, the direction we where heading, shrugging I opted not to go after it and spend some time with Bree. "you know that my Grandparents parents crossed the Mexican border during world war 2?" I said looking at Bree.

"Wow, so your not too far down the line than" she replied looking out the window, nodding I pulled into the restaurant and parked up

" you ready?" I asked unbuckling my seat belt and shutting the car off

"yup" Bree said undoing her buckle with her magic. We both walked in and were seated by the waiter, Bree looked at me and smiled "so, every season you come down here from Ohio?" she asked,

"well yes, but actually no. this is the first time I have gone alone, I use to go with my stepdad but he got a disease called MS, now he cannot walk let alone drive." I said, the waiter brought us some corn chips and salsa before asking us what we wanted to eat "I will have two flour fried burritos and a Dr.Pepper please" I said. The waiter wrote my order down and looked to Bree

"I will have the vegetarian bean burrito and a water please," she asked, the waiter nodded and wrote down her order before taking the menus and walking to the kitchen. I looked at Bree and smiled "you have Hispanic food in Equestria?" I asked Bree shook her head

"no, it looks and sounds tasty though!" she said picking up a chip and dipping it in the salsa "wow, this is a bit spicy" she said, just then the waiter brought our drinks and both my and the waiter's phones started beeping and buzzing. pulling out my phone I saw a Weather emergency warning that read "Tornado warning for your area. The following towns will be affected, Canton" I looked at the waiter and he ran into the back yelling something in Spanish. Standing I picked up Bree and ran out to the car "what's going on? Austin, I'm scared" she said looking around as the townspeople of Canton ran about to take shelter as the tornado siren's blared.

"calm down, you will be alright," I said jumping in the car with Bree still on my lap, I started the car and floored it to the outside of town. We got to the outside of town going 120 mph when we hit dirt roads, that caused me to swerve a bit but continued on

"Austin! please, I think we are far enough away" Bree said shifting on my lap to look at me. I slowed down and eventually stopped while I looked into Bree's eyes

"I'm sorry Bree I just don't want you to get hurt," I said pulling her into a hug, she cautiously returned the hug until the wind picked up severely. When I looked out the window my eyes widened and I flung Bree into her seat and did her seat belt,

"HOLD ON!" I yelled pulling the E-brake and putting the car in park,

"what's happening?" Bree asked a noticeable shake in her voice, the wind got so bad that is was rocking the car around and after a few seconds the car flew three feet into the air before landing in the ditch and wedging itself there. The windows shattered and sharp glass, rocks and random derbies started flying through the car. The deafening roar of the tornado rang through the car, but all of a sudden it stopped. Looking over at Bree I saw that she was using a magical barrier around me, I quickly reached over and flicked her horn

"CAST IT ON YOURSELF! FORGET ABOUT ME I WILL BE FINE" I yelled over the deafening roar, Bree frowned and lit her horn again before she was encased in her barrier. Rock's and pebbles pelted me feeling like someone was pelting me with buckshot at a distance. A pebble flew in and hit me in the head drawing blood, I screamed in pain as more rocks pelted me and after a few more seconds it stopped. The roar faded and the wind calmed down as the tornado kept moving on its path, letting out a sigh I undid my seat belt and forced the door open. Bree got out of the car shaking heavily, she looked over at me and quickly ran over forcing me to the ground and screaming something about my leg. Looking down I saw that my pants where blood-soaked and my shirt was all cut up and also soaked in blood.

"Bree?" I said looking over at her, she almost instantly ran over to my side and lifted my head up

"what? what is it Austin? DO NOT GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT!" she said shaking me, quickly I grabbed her head and crashed my lips agents her's. She squeaked in surprise but quickly returned the gesture, we sat there for a few minutes until we broke the kiss

"Help me up," I said turning away from her and attempting to stand on my own

"What? NO! you need to stay there until I get help" she said trying and failing to make me sit down. When I stood I felt dizzy at first but shrugged it off, turning I looked at the car to find all the windows were blown out and several dents across the side. sighing I pulled out my phone and called a tow truck before turning to Bree

"so, you feeling alright?

Sometime later the tow truck pulled my car out of the ditch and dropped us off at the hotel before taking my car to the nearest repair shop. I limped into the hotel and to the room with Bree at my side, I limped to the bathroom and jumped into the shower to wash off the blood and dirt. Bree sat on the toilet waiting for me to get done, I stepped out of the shower and walked over to Bree "how are you holding up?" I asked rubbing her mane, she turned and looked at me with teary eyes

"why? why didn't you let me cast the spell on you? I would have been fine. Now look at you, your hurt bad" she said running a hoof down my chest and looking at the many cuts and bruises I had, in turn, I let out a hardy laugh

"wow, you think this is a bad injury? you should have seen the time my brother ran over my foot with his car, or the time I got a knife through my hand! I have had much worse than a few little cuts I will be fine" I said. In truth I had sustained much more than that, but that was the past. I retracted my hand and grabbed the comb from the sink and put up my hair, looking in the mirror I sighed "Tomorrow is another day" I said before brushing my teeth and leaving the bathroom and going to bed.

I woke up feeling stiff and sore, groaning I sat up and slid out of bed. While I was stretching I heard Bree call out from behind me "what's got you up so early?" she asked. I turned around and smiled at her before sitting on the end of the bed

"well, first of all, I'm going to go get breakfast, second of all I need a rental car to go and chase with until I get my car back" I said as if it was obvious. Bree jumped out of bed and stared daggers at me

"What! we almost died yesterday and you want to go back out there!" she yelled, I just looked at her with a straight face and said

"Well, yea. what else am I suppose to do? go home?" I looked over at her and smiled "This is not the first time that has happened, hell just last year while I was chasing a satellite tornado came and flipped my car several times" I said in a chipper tone. Standing I pulled on a pair of jeans and strapped on my steel toe boots before heading for the door "well, you coming or not?" I asked from the door. Bree shook her head several times and jumped to her hoofs to follow me. Smiling, me and Bree both made our way to the hotel's breakfast bar to start the day