Cutie mark crisis

Chapter 4: First encounter
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At morning everypony wakes up to a terrible noise that is coming outside.
‘’What in darn nation is that noise?!’’ Applejack says and wobbles out of the bed.
‘’Oh no. This is not good.’’ Lixidie says and runs to the window.
‘’This is not good.’’ She repeats.
‘’What is not good?’’ Twilight says with a sleepy voice.
‘’Timberwolves!’’ Fluttershy yells when the wolves break the door.
Fluttershy freezes in her place. Just when a wolf opens its mouth and leaps towards Fluttershy, Lixidie leaps in front of her and kicks the wolf out of the door. Then Lixidie looks at Fluttershy. Fluttershy can see tears coming out of Lixidie’s eyes.
‘’Go…’’Lixidie whispers.
Fluttershy looks Lixidie in her eyes.
‘’Go!’’ Lixidie yells and runs towards the wolves.
‘’Everypony upstairs!’’ Fluttershy commands and crabs her backpack from the floor.
When they reach the top of the house, they here a scream and an explosion.
‘’Lixidie!’’ Rarity screams and starts crying.
Bottom of the house is gone and there is only smoke left. Timberwolves run back to the depths of the forest. Everyone just start crying and yell for Lixidie.
‘’Is she? She can’t be…’’ Rainbow Dash starts yelling:’’Lixidieee!’’
‘’We got to move before those Timberwolves come back.’’ Twilight tells and grabs Rarity’s hoof.
‘’We can’t leave her!’’ Applejack says.
‘’We must.’’ Says Pinkie Pie and helps Fluttershy up.
Just when they are about to leave, Rainbow Dash hears something:
‘’Did you hear that?’’
‘’Hear what?’’ Twilight asks and looks at Rainbow.
‘’Help…’’ says a voice from the upper stair way and coughs.
‘’Lixidie!’’ Fluttershy runs to the stair way.
‘’You made it!’’ Twilight says and starts helping Fluttershy to carry her.
They lower her in the ground but then she yells loudly.
‘’What is wrong?’’ asks Applejack urgently.
‘’My leg… It hurts…’’ Lixidie says and tries to hold her tears.
‘’Let me see.’’ Twilight says and turns Lixidie’s leg.
‘’Oh my.’’ Twilight says when she sees that a steel nail has gone through
Lixidie’s leg.
‘’It hurts so much..’’ Lixidie says silently and still tries not to cry.
‘’You can cry Darling. It helps.’’ Rarity says and smiles at Lixidie.
Lixidie smiles back and tears start flowing down her cheek. Then she closes her eyes and faints.
‘’What do we do now?’’ Fluttershy says terrified.
‘’We got to get her to a hospital.’’ Rarity says and looks at Twilight.
‘’That’s a two day walk. She won’t make it.’’ Twilight notes.
‘’There has to be some way.’’ Applejack says.
‘’I don’t know any other way.’’ Twilight says and starts staring at the ground.
They all start staring at Lixidie. No one is smiling. The whole forest is quiet.
But then Pinkie says:
‘’There is one way but I’m not sure if it works.’’
‘’Tell us. Anything is worth of trying.’’ Rainbow Dash says and walks to Pinkie.
‘’Well, she told me about this plant that grows in this part of the forest. She told me that if you take its seeds and feed them to a sick or hurt pony it heals their wounds in one night.’’ Pinkie explains.
‘’What does the flower look like?’’ Twilight asks and walks to Pinkie Pie.
‘’She said that it glows in the dark but cannot be found in daylight.’’
‘’Well, now we have two choices. A) We try to take her in the hospital. B) We wait for the night to come and the search the flower.’’ Twilight informs.
‘’Both options have their risks but I think that it is for the best if we stay here.’’ Rainbow says and starts to unpack her stuff.
Everypony agrees. When it is starting to get dark, They get a new problem.
Lixidie coughs and tries to get up.
‘’Don’t try to get up. We are here.’’ Twilight says and lowers her hoof on Lixidie’s head.
‘’So cold…’’ Lixidie says and starts shivering.
‘’Here. Take this.’’ says Rainbow Dash and hands her blanket to Lixidie.
Lixidie nods and reaches for the blanket.
‘’Thanks.’’
‘’You’re welcome.’’ Rainbow Dash smiles and then asks Applejack: ‘’Should we get going then?’’
‘’Yup. You ready Pinkie?’’
‘’Ready as can be.’’
‘’Wait. Where are you going?’’ Lixidie says and tries to reach Rainbow’s hoof but then her legs moves and she lets a painful scream.
‘’Don’t move. It’ll just hurt. We are just going on a little searching trip.’’ Twilight explains.
‘’Searching for what?’’
‘’The flower you told me about.’’ Pinkie says and carbs her backpack.
‘’But…’’ Lixidie starts but Twilight interrupts.
‘’No buts. We won’t be away long and besides, you have Fluttershy here taking care of you.’’ Twilight says and jump to the ground and others follow.
‘’But I…I…’’ She starts but can’t finish ‘cause the pain starts again.
‘’You don’t have to say anything. Just rest now. I’ll stay here.’’
‘’But..’’ Lixidie starts but sees when other ponies run into forest and then everything goes dark.

‘’Okay, so let’s stick together in case if something happens.’’ Twilight says.
‘’Fine, but it is hard to find something, if you don’t even know where it grows.’’ Rainbow Dash tells.
‘’Just report every time when you see something that glows.’’ Twilight commands.
They walk a little while but then Pinkie spots something.
‘’Look. There!’’ Pinkie says joyfully and points on a rock.
‘’That has to be it.’’ Twilight notes.
‘’Well that wasn’t so hard, was it?’’ Rainbow dash says and picks up the flower, then puts it into her backpack.
‘’Now we just need to walk back.’’ Rainbow says and starts walking back.
‘’Umm.. Rainbow?’’ Twilight says and looks at the rock with a terrified look on her face.
‘’What?’’
‘’It wasn’t a rock.’’
‘’What was it then?’’
‘’Just a fire rat nest.’’
They all look at the nest. The nest starts suddenly glow and rats start flowing from the hole in the side of the nest.
‘’RUN!’’ Pinkie screams and everyone start running back to their camp.
Whole forest is starting to light on fire. The ponies run as fast as they can to the camp.
‘’Fluttershy!’’ Twilight yells and jumps on the platform on the tree with Pinkie.
‘’We have a BIG problem!’’ Rainbow Dash yells and flies to the platform.
‘’NO!’’ Fluttershy yells when she sees that the flower flies off Rainbow’s backpack and the flower starts burning in the air.
‘’What do we do now..’’ Twilight starts when suddenly it starts raining and all the rats start screaming and dying.
‘’What is happening?’’ Rainbow says and looks down at the rats.
‘’How is it raining, when there are no clouds?’’ Rainbow continues.
‘’It’s her…’’Lixidie says and looks at the stairway.
Everypony start looking at the stairway. There is someone standing in a brown robe.
‘’It’s her…’’Lixidie repeats and tries to get up but can’t.
The person at the stairway starts walking towards Lixidie.
‘’Oh, no you don’t.’’ Rainbow Dash charges at the mysterious person but gets thrown back by a force field.
The person is now standing right next to Lixidie. She looks at the sky and suddenly everything gets brighter and Lixidie starts floating in air. Everypony is staring at Lixdie, who is floating air. The person walks to Lixidie’s leg and pulls the nail off her leg. Lixidie lets out a scream that echoes in the forest and then she falls on the platform and stops moving.
‘’WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU’RE KILLING HER!’’ Rainbow Dash Screams at the mysterious person.
The person takes a bag under her robes, she opens the bag and pours some sort of powder on Lixidie’s leg. Then she starts mumbling some weird words and suddenly Lixidie starts moving again.
‘’This is the last time I will help you.’’ Mysterious person says and runs back into the forest. No one goes after her.
‘’What happened?’’ Lixidie says and rises from the floor.
‘’She saved your life.’’ Twilight says and point into the woods, where Lixidie could just and just see a tail disappear. Then Lixidie starts smiling.
‘’I knew she isn’t entirely changed.’’ Lixidie whispers to herself and starts smiling.
Everypony runs to Lixidie and start hugging her.
‘’Are you okay?’’ Applejack says worried.
‘’I feel better than ever before.’’ Lixidie answers and is still staring at the forest.
‘’Thanks for her.’’ Lixidie continues and continues smiling.
‘’Look! The wound is fully healed.’’ Fluttershy says and point at Lixidie’s leg.
‘’Now let’s go after that Zebra!’’ Rainbow Dash says and is preparing to leave.
‘’No. She saved my life. I think we should give her this night.’’ Lixidie says and put her hoof in front of Rainbow.
‘’She deserves it. Now, Let’s go to sleep. We can start searching her tomorrow.’’
Everyone goes to sleep except Lixidie who is still looking at the forest.
‘’I think you should rest too’’ Twilight says and lowers her hoof on Lixidie’s shoulder.
Lixidie nods and they both go to beds.