Twilight
Blood. The blood of her mother, father, big brother and little brother. It ran down the streets and into the cracks of the ground.
"T....T-Twilight.....Stay alive....and....don't.....give.....up....." Nightlight managed to squeak out before death embraced him and he drew his last breath.
"Dad? Dad?! DAD!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!"
*Gasp*
Twilight shot up into a sitting position. She was sweating like crazy and breathing rapidly. Her breathing calmed down and she wiped away the sweat.
She stood up and looked around. She walked over to the river she had camped next to and filled a bottle with the water while also cleaning her face.
Suddenly movement came from a bush behind her. She pulled out a dagger and hurled it at the bush and heard a sound that is only heard when something penetrates flesh. She walked up to the bush and pulled the branches aside. What she found wasn't a person, but a wolf. She grabbed the dagger and pulled it out of the wolf's head barley avoiding being hit by the blood squirt that came out of the wound. She cleaned the dagger in the river and put it back in it's scabbard.
As she packed up her camping supplies the dream she had came back to her. She let out a sigh, put on her robe and started to walk towards the ruins of ponyville as she spoke to herself.
"It's over Twilight. It happened long ago. They're long gone. They're only.....memories."
Applejack
The smell of burned wood was still there. Even though the fire was several years ago the smell was still strong.
Applejack walked through the remains of Sweet Apple Acres reminiscing of her life before the civil war. Back then she was just an apple farmer. Nothing more, nothing less. An apple farmer through and through. But then the war started and ponyville was second place to be affected by the war as it started in canterlot. Daybreaker came to ponyille and burned the place down.
Applejack had been stargazing with her little sister from the living room window when it happened. Big Mac was in the living room with them and Granny Smith was sleeping. Heat suddenly started coming from different places of the farm house and it didn't take long for them to realize that it was fire. The ceiling collapsed over Applejack and Apple Bloom, but Big Mac had pushed them out of the way. Unfortunately he was hit by the collapsing ceiling and was trapped beneath the rubble. Applejack and Apple Bloom had tried to get it off, but Big Mac told them to go and don't worry about him. He said he would get out of it himself, but they had to get out of the house quickly.
Applejack had picked up Apple Bloom and carried her through the burning building trying to find an exit. While they were trying to get out one of the antlers hanging over the door frame had fallen down and cut over Applejack's left eye. Leaving a deep permanent scar. At that moment Applejack had had enough. She managed to get the hold of one the axes in the house and torn down the wall opening an escape route. The two sisters managed to get out just as the house itself crumbled down. Sealing Big Mac's fate.
"GRANNY SMITH!!!!!"
"BIG MAC!!!!!!!"
Applejack's eyes opened to look at the charred ruins once again. After that night she sent Apple Bloom to a nursery for treatment and shelter. The farewell was hard for both of them since they knew that they wouldn't be able to see each other until peace was restored. Applejack had chosen to stay in the remains of ponyville and she had managed to make a small hut out of some of the apple trees. Food was hard to get a hold of. There were three different ways to get food. One, be a farmer. Two, hunt for food. Three, travel to Griffonstone and trade. Applejack started with option one and ate apples and drank either apple juice or water. Eventually she grew tired of apples and started hunting. She used the apples to trade in Griffonstone. She got a crossbow (arrows included), a sword and few knives out of it.
Applejack blamed herself for a lot, but this was the biggest thing she blamed herself for.
"Why? Why couldn't I've been quicker? If I was, they would still be alive." she said to herself as her anger began to rise.
"WHY ME?!?! WHY DID IT HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME?!?!" she screamed as she pulled out her sword and swung it at a nearby tree. The sword went halfway into the trunk before it came to a stop. She calmed down and lied down on the ground.
"Why..." she said looking up at the morning sky.
Rainbow Dash
The air blew against her face as she ran through the forest chasing a changeling that had just a few minutes ago tried to kill her. The changeling stumbled a little because of a root and Dash went for the opening. She pulled out her sickle and slashed his legs, making it impossible for him to run. She put back the sickle and pulled out a knife. Taking a firm grip of his shoulders she slammed him into a tree before she stabbed him a whole bunch of times. When she eventually stopped he fell over. Lifeless.
*Sigh* "That makes fifteen changelings this month. I swear these things are in limitless numbers." she said to herself while she cleaned the green blood off her knife and sickle.
She walked through the forest towards the opening and when she got there looked down to the remains of ponyville.
"More ruined than I thought, but stories differ." she said and walked towards the ruins.
Fluttershy
An arrow soared through the air and hit a deer's neck killing it quickly. Fluttershy stepped out from the bushes and put the arrow she had in her hand back in the quiver and put her bow over her head before walking towards the dead deer.
"This will probably be enough for a few weeks. Unless i'm unlucky and someone steals it." she said to herself as she pulled the arrow out.
She grabbed the deer's legs and tied them together before dragging it.
'Amazing how much I have changed because of this war. Before I would have spewed by the thought of killing an animal, but now it's a part of my daily life.' she thought to herself as she came up to her cottage.
She strung up the deer and pulled out a knife and proceeded to skin the animal. It was hard and time consuming, but she got it done after a while. She then cut the deer into pieces and took them into a storage room next to the cottage.
Pinkamena
The meadow was quiet and dry. No flowers. No life at all. Just dry land.
Pinkamena walked through the dry meadow eyeing every direction to make sure no changeling was following her. None. A sigh of relief escaped her mouth as she continued to walk towards ponyville.
A slight breeze picked up letting her straight silky hair flow in the wind. It was amazing how her life changed over the years. It started sad and boring on her family's farm, then she became a comedian and now she is somewhere in between. It felt like there was a pattern laid out in front of her. Everything was going to repeat itself if someone didn't do something. She had to do something. But what was she going to do? She was one of a few thousands of people. Sure she had given the information to successfully assassinate Nightmare Moon, but that was vengeance for her family. She sighed.
"How did it all come to this?" And why?" she said as she came over a hill letting her view the remains of ponyville.
Rarity
The train tracks was overgrown by plants and the train itself was no longer in use. As what looked like it had been a train station came into view a few hundreds of meters away. Rarity continued to walk down the train tracks and after a while she reached the station. Rarity bumped into a sign on the ground with her foot and she looked down.
Ponyville Train Station
The word ponyville caused tears to form in her eyes.
"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you..." she said as she wiped the tears away and walked into ponyville.
Author's Note
Sunset won't appear until chapter 3 just so it's clear
Twilight walked through what looked like it was once town square. Ashes and skeletons were everywhere. Just when she thought there was no hope there, she spotted a hut outside an apple tree orchard.
She walked into the orchard and noticed that the trees were being taken care of by someone who had her back turned. The girl was wearing a long brown duster, a stetson hat and leather boots. She also had a sword and a crossbow attached to her back. Nothing more could be seen from Twilight's perspective.
"Hello?" Twilight said walking up to the girl.
The farmer flinched and turned around with her hand on the sword's handle. Twilight reacted on instinct and pulled out two of her daggers and took a defensive stance. The farmer let go of the sword and help up her hands to show she meant no harm.
"Sorry Ah scared ya sugarcube. Ah jus' reacted on instinct." she said with a southern accent.
Twilight acknowledged it and put away the daggers.
"Is this your farm?" she asked curiously.
"Well yes, but actually no. It belongs to the family." the farmer answered.
"Oh, how rude of me. I didn't even introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle." Twilight said.
"Howdy Twilight. The name is Applejack." the farmer said while tipping her hat to Twilight.
Just as Twilight was about say something, she was cut off by a rustle coming from a nearby bush.
Both girls reacted on instinct by pulling out a weapon and entering a defensive position. The bush gave another rustle before a figure emerged. She was wearing black and grey clothes, a belt with a sickle, knives and push daggers attached to it as well as a sword on her back. The most eye-catching detail however was the rainbow coloured hair. When she saw them with weapons drawn, she pulled out her own sword and went in for an attack. Applejack stepped in front of Twilight and just a second later the two swords clashed. They recoiled and the rainbow haired one went for another attack. The swords clashed over and over again, but they couldn't get an opening on either side. suddenly the rainbow haired one felt a chain wrap around her ankle and before she knew it the chain gave a strong tug and dragged her off balance, making her fall to the ground.
When she opened her eyes she saw both girls standing over her with one of them holding a kusarigama with the chain around her ankle.
"Okay you beat me. What do you want?" the rainbow haired girl said.
"We want to know two things. One: what is your name?" Twilight said.
"My name is Rainbow Dash." was the answer from the girl now known as Rainbow Dash.
"What are you doing here?" Applejack asked.
"Rumors said that there were survivors from the war here. Now can you let go of my ankle please?" Rainbow Dash answered.
Twilight bent over and uncurled the chain and took a few steps back as Rainbow Dash got to her feet and put the sword back in the scabbard on her back.
Just as she was about to say something an ax came flying past them and hit in a tree. When they looked back to where the ax came from, they saw a girl with straight silky pink hair jump out with another ax in her hand.
"I heard fighting! Where is the changeling?" she said out loud.
"There is no changeling. It was a misunderstanding." Twilight explained.
"Oh....okay then." the girl said as she pulled her ax out of the tree and attached both to her belt. "Anyway, my name is Pinkamena, my full name is Pinkamena Diane Pie. And if you want it short its Pinkie Pie. What's your names?"
"Howdy Pinkamena. Ah'm Applejack."
"My name is Twilight Sparkle."
"The name is Rainbow Dash."
"Pleased to meet you. Anyway, there are two other girls in town, if you can even call it a town anymore." Pinkamena said. "One I saw by a cottage outside the forest. The other one was walking around town square."
"Fluttershy is the name of the one by the cottage." Applejack said. "Ah've met her a few times before."
"Should we go find them?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"The bigger the group is, the bigger the chance of survival is." Twilight answered with a shrug.
"We're going to be a group?! This day is just getting better and better!!" Pinkamena said with a jump. The rest of them could swear that they saw her hair briefly became a lighter shade of pink.
"Don't get your hopes up. Just because we're sticking together doesn't mean we're friends. Especially you!" Rainbow Dash said as she pointed at Applejack.
"Hey! Yer the one who attacked first!" Applejack shot back with an angry glare. She and Rainbow Dash stared at each other with such intensity that you could almost swear there were sparks of electricity colliding between their foreheads.
"Can we go now?" Pinkamena whispered to Twilight.
"Not unless you know how to get those two to calm down." Twilight whispered back.
That brought a smirk onto Pinkamena's face.
"Trust me. I know how to handle this." she said with a wink and turned towards the two rivals and shouted...
"GET A ROOM!!!"
Applejack and Rainbow Dash registered the words quickly and pulled away from each other immediately. Their faces turning cherry red.
"That was NOT funny!!!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"For once I agree with her!" Applejack added.
"It was so that we could finally get a move on." Pinkamena answered crossing her arms.
"Maybe next time do something different?!" Rainbow Dash fumed.
"Hey! Are you three done? I don't think we have all day." Twilight said while looking up at the sky where the sun and moon were visible. Ever since Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon were defeated both the sun and moon were up in the sky and nobody could do anything about it.
"You heard her! LET'S GO!!!" Pinkamena shouted as she walked up to Twilight with Applejack and Rainbow Dash walking behind them glaring daggers at each other.
Author's Note
Got a burst of motivation. Thanks to Ponyninja88 and this song:
