Make myself a winner

If you had looked across Ponyville, there would be three things you'd have noticed on that day in mid-July.
First, there was the nice weather.

The pegasi had pushed every single cloud of the sky, leaving it such a bright, wonderful blue.

Secondly was the fact there were guards around the entirety of Ponyville. Their golden armour shone in the light.

Thirdly was the fact everycreature had been evacuated.

Only a small group of creatures were out and about: Luster Dawn and her friends, Leafy and Nettle included.

Luster popped open her telescope, aiming it at the sky. An asteroid was hurtling toward them.

It wasn't close enough yet for her to see its pockmarked face.

The stage was set.

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Savarin leaned back against the trunk, almost nodding off. She had been asleep for an hour until she had woken up to blink blearily at Misty and to tighten the vines tying her to the tree.

"I figured you'd be more bothered about waiting for a kiss," Misty said. "From me. There is a lot more we can do with those vines."

Savarin's smile was slow until she held up the telescope and looked through it once again.

Misty rolled her eyes, but there was warmth behind it.

Savarin swallowed. "The asteroid is close. This is your game, Misty."

"We move the pawn first."

Savarin set down her telescope and flipped open a book, reading over the spell. Her mane was longer, reaching her shoulders, and the red tips brushed the corners of the book.

Her horn started to glow, magic wrapping over Misty. For this particular spell to work, she needed to borrow some of Misty's magic.

Misty didn't mind. Savarin's magic was warm as freshly baked madeleines.

Misty's horn glowed as well, and the white and blue streaked up into the sky and spread across the forest and toward Ponyville.

Misty sagged against the tree, stifling a yawn.

Savarin gave her a shuddering nod. "It should've worked."

Misty used the vines to climb to the top of the tree. It was like a horror movie tree, and the landscape around them was also a horror movie: shadowy trees with spikes, long vines, and monsters.

Ponyville was a fairytale compared to the Everfree Forest.

The guards slumped over their weapons and were fast asleep. The sleeping spell had worked.

Misty had hoped to find a spell to kill everycreature, but this would have to do.

Misty climbed down the tree, sighing with relief when her hooves touched the ground.

Savarin came down a minute later, and they grabbed the enchanted rope where they had tied it around the tree trunk.

They walked down the path toward Ponyville, stopping near the outskirts. Guards dotted the ground, their shining armour glittering gold.

Hanging in the air, more prominent than the moon, was the asteroid.

Misty would've mistaken it for the moon if she hadn't known what it was. It had a silvery tail streaking off from it.

As if she were going out for a morning stroll, Savarin tied one end of the rope to a tree.

She tied the other end into a lasso and threw it. It flashed up and up into the air, far higher than it should've gone considering the force with which Savarin threw it.

The rope went taut, and the asteroid hung far above them like a second moon.

It was as they planned: Misty and Savarin pulled the asteroid with magic and their hooves to a closer distance, tying the rope again to keep it there, so the asteroid bobbed in the air like a balloon.

It was bigger than Misty had thought, dotted with craters and shaped sort of long oblong.

Savarin turned suddenly, casting a magic shield. A streak of pinkish magic hit the magic shield hard, pushing Savarin back despite her digging in her hooves.

Luster Dawn stood in line with her friends, including Nettle and the powered up Leafy.

Misty shared a look with Savarin. Savarin nodded and bent down.

A magic shield shot toward the group, gouging up dirt and grass, but Misty was already running toward the asteroid.

She jumped, feeling the gravity playing on her body. She was half turned around, catching a glimpse of Savarin fighting with Luster and the others, before something hit her hard.

She landed on the asteroid.

Cries and shouts came from the other side of the asteroid, along with bright flashes of magic.

Misty turned, walking along the asteroid at a faster pace.

"YAAAAH," shouted a voice behind her.

Yafa hit her and pinned her to the ground.

Misty tried to move, but she couldn't budge so much as a centimetre.

"Why you do this?" Yafa asked, looking down at Misty. "Bad kirin is bad. Why?"

Misty looked away, her eyes filling with fake tears. "I... I..."

"Careful, Yafa," Nettle's voice hissed. She landed on the asteroid with a thump, walking toward them with her horn glowing. "She lies all the time."

"Like you're lying to yourself," Misty said casually.

Nettle sniffed, tossing her mane. "It's time for a rematch."

Savarin blurred through the air, hitting Nettle in the back with a streak of magic, leaving her staggering.

Savarin shot another bolt of magic at Yafa, and suddenly Misty could breathe again.

A bubble of white wrapped around the entire asteroid, throwing Yafa and Nettle into the air.
They both disappeared.

"The Fire Flower should be in this direction," Savarin said coolly, her horn glowing white. "We need to be fast. Nettle may destroy the barrier at any minute."

Misty and Savarin walked down the asteroid across the pockmarked stone.

Something underneath Misty's hooves crunched. Bones, so many bones. There were skulls, femurs, rib cages, wing bones, dragon bones. Each one was a polished, gleaming white.

Savarin picked up a femur with her telekinesis, rolling it around in the air. She gathered up a few more, stuffing them into her saddlebags for safekeeping.

They kept walking down the bone path, and in the centre of it all was a flower made of fire.
It had petals made of fire, and its stalk was fire, and its roots stretched burning fingers into the asteroid rock.

"Bon appetit," Savarin said.

"You're enjoying this," Misty replied.

"It is historically fascinating." Savarin and her walked toward the flower, feeling the heat it gave off even several metres away.

The magic barrier around the asteroid had a crack running through it, and Luster Dawn and her friends kept working.

Misty didn't hesitate, and she crept closer and closer to the Fire Flower. The air visibly crackled with its heat.

She knelt over the flower, her saliva starting to boil in her mouth. She had to eat it all, or else she'd end up like all the bones around her.

She moved her mouth down and over the flower. She didn't have to chew. Despite her flesh curling from her bones, her entrails cooking in her body, her eyeballs bubbling, and her hooves cracking, she kept eating.

Misty slurped up the last root and fell backwards. She was only blackened bones, barely a kirin anymore. But, her centre, her soul still burned.

Her mouth stretched wider and wider, unhinging like a snakes' mouth.

Through the pain, she glimpsed Luster and her friends galloping, flying, running toward her.

That was when Misty's world turned white as she exploded into light.