Equestria's Pyre

Baltimare; another of Equestria's cities, and it was abuzz with commerce. Other than the news of Fillydelphia, it was a nice, normal day... til the flamed-mane mare arrived. Everypony she passed stared at her awkwardly. Being an ashen coated unicorn with a fiery mane and tail, she knew she would stand out, but she didn't care, but the townsponies will...

Then a yellow ball came out of nowhere and hit her, knocking her down. As she got up, two little colts ran to get their ball. "Sorry, sorry. We're really sorry!" one of them apologized. The fiery mare said nothing as she walk towards them, looking at them with sleepless, burning orange eyes . The two colts nervously grabbed their ball and ran off, the mare watching intently as they did. She then went off herself deeper into the city. "Hey, there's a burn mark on it!" One of the colts gasped..

The mare soon reached her destination; an abandoned warehouse for her to start her work...

"Hehehe... In a few minutes, Baltimare will become a barren waste of ash and cinders...." She giggled to herself. She looked around and found just what she needed: a single drum of oil. The fiery mare smiled, went over to it and with a swift buck, knocked it and its contents out. She grabbed a wooden board with her magic and scraped it with her horn creating a spark that landed on the oil. She stared as the fire spread across the oil, her eye and horn glowing orange and a twisted smile growing on her face.

"Burn, baby, burn..."

The Mane 6 were heading toward the ally to try to find the hair Applejack had smashed. The others had forgiven her for that, and Applejack had apologized for her bad attitude and hurting Rainbow Dash. To her and the others' surprise, when they got there the hair was there on the ground, as if it burned away all the dirt. Twilight used her magic to pick it up.

"Careful Twilight," Pinkie warned, "it's very warm." Twilight nodded and put the hair in her hoof immediately feeling its heat. It was fire-like in color. Could it belong to that mare that Greasy Gears saw? Before she could postulate this further, three fire-pony chariots came, Chief Flashpoint inside one of them.

"Flashpoint, what are you doing he-" Twilight asked but was cutoff.

"Baltimare's ablaze!" He barked, "Get in!" The Mane 6 wasted no time getting in, the pegasi pullers quick to take off before they got situated.

"I'll fly on ahead!" Rainbow Dash shouted, taking off incredibly fast. She was going as fast as she could and was soon out of the other's sight.

"Good luck, Rainbow Dash," Flashpoint muttered.

The fire was spreading like parasprites in the streets of Baltimare. Ponies were running around frantically trying to escape it, except one. The fire-maned mare was dancing around in the middle of the flames, singing her own twisted version of a classic tune...

"Ohhh, the World might be frightful~
But Fire is so delightful~
There is no return~
Let it Burn,~
Let it Burn,~
Let it Burn!"

Rainbow Dash speeded her way across the sky, in attempt to get to Baltimare as fast as possible. "C,mon, I need to go faster! I need to save everpony!" She went faster, and faster, and faster, and then, Boom! Dash burst into her famous sonic rainboom, going faster than anything could possibly match!

At last Dash arrived at the blazing city, and like lightning, dived into the city. Right as she did, Rainbow saw a filly fall out of a window, and swiftly managed to catch her. Dash then brought the filly to the ground. "There," she said breathing heavily, "you're safe, now get away from here!'

"You saved me," the filly said as she hugged Rainbow's leg. She then saw her father and ran to him. "Daddy!"

"Shelly!" Her father exclaimed as he came to embrace her, "You're safe..."

"She saved me, Daddy," Shelly told him as she pointed to Rainbow Dash, "She caught me as I fell out the window!"

"Thank you, miss," Shelly's father said, tears leaking from his eyes, "How can I ever thank you?"

"For starters, get out of this area and help everypony else do so as well," Rainbow replied, "I'm going in deeper." She then zoomed deeper into the city, Shelly and her father watching.

"I will never forget you..."

The dark gray mare was still dancing in the flames when she heard something...

"You! Get out of there!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she swooped down to grab her. Then a stream of fire burst from the flames and hit Rainbow, sending her to the ground. "Ugghh, the hay was that?"

"Why would I leave," The mare with fiery mane ask of Dash, "when I can stay here and dance and sing with the fire?" The mare started to laugh, but was drowned out by the fire.

Rainbow Dash got up. "What are you talking about!?"

The mare simply put a hoof to her ear. "Can you hear them?" she asked. "Their pain and anguish in this fiery inferno? That is my lullaby; a promise of tomorrow, and the ashes of today."

Dash had no clue what she was going on about, but was determined to get her out of here.

"Look," Dash started, "Lets talk about this." Rainbow trotted closer to her, but then another stream of fire came out and this time, knocked her into a wall

"HahahahaHehehehehe!!!!"

"Uhgghh..." Dash staggered, "Who are you?"

"I am Pyre, for that is what Equestria shall become! Hahahaha!" Pyre laughed as she then made another stream of fire strike the wall above Rainbow Dash, causing it to collapse.

As Rainbow lay under the rubble, she heard Pyre sing another twisted rhyme as she went unconscious...

"Dancing in the Blaze~
All of my Days~
Ashes, Ashes,~
They all Burn Down..."