Fall of the Trossels

"Frostburn," Stonebolt said, nudging her sister awake. Frostburn moaned, and rolled over and ignored her. Stonebolt narrowed her eyes. "Frostburn," she said firmly, shoving her to no avail. Stonebolt stomped her hoof on the floor as the ground started to shake violently as Frostburn fell out of bed and hit her head on the floor.

"I'm up, I'm up," she said irritably. "What?" she looked over at the clock on the wall. "It's noon! I can't believe I slept in; why didn't you wake me up?"

"Duh," her sister responded irritably. "Now get up. We're going to be late."

"Late for what?"

"You'll know when we get there," Infernalo told them.

"Are we there yet," Frostburn asked, bouncing up and down excitedly.

"You said that an hour ago," Infernalo said in frustration. "You said that a half hour ago. You said that ten minutes ago. You said that five seconds ago. We aren't there yet!" Frostburn stopped bouncing, and looked like she was on the verge of tears.

"Frosty," Stonebolt said reassuringly, placing a hoof on her shoulder. "If it helps, we're almost there." Frostburn sniffed a little and smiled weakly. They continued trotting along until they stopped at a large building.

"Why are we here," Stonebolt asked. Infernalo gave her a slight look, which quickly faded away when he saw someone trotting over to them.

"Hi Infernalo," she said. She had a periwinkle coat with a long curly pale pink mane with short streaks of yellow through it and an image of a wave with rays of light on her flank. Her purple eyes looked over the other two in curiosity.

"Hi Aquashine," they said. Infernalo stared at her longingly.

"Infernalo," Aquashine said, snapping him back. "You're staring at me again." he stopped, and followed her in. The room was completely dark.

"It's pretty dark in here," Aquashine said, nuzzling up to Infernalo. "It's a good thing that I have you here."

"Or you could use your powers to switch the lights," Stonebolt said firmly. Aquashine sighed and the room illuminated and revealed the whole town in wait.

"Happy birthday," they said.

"You really think I'd forget my baby sisters' birthday," Infernalo inquired.

"This is the best birthday ever," Frostburn said. Steelmind walked over to Stonebolt. He had a bright yellow coat and had his dark brown mane brushed over his glasses.

"I'm glad that the birthday girls are happy," he said. "How are you, Frostburn?"

"I'm not Frostburn, Steelmind," Stonebolt corrected her. "She's right next to me." He turned around and saw her staring back at him with her shining yellow eyes.

"So I heard that you learned a new trick," he said. Frostburn nodded.

"We'll have to go outside," she said. Steelmind smiled and led everyone outside to a large shape covered by a tarp. Frostburn tilted her head in confusion. "What's that?"

"I'm glad you asked, my little icicle," he said as he pulled off the tarp to reveal a large incredibly detailed metallic sculpture of Frostburn kissing Steelmind, standing next to Stonebolt.

"Steelmind," Frostburn said in amazement. "It's so beautiful! Did you make this?" He nodded.

"All I needed was control of metal, check, a lot of time and passion, check, and something beautiful to draw inspiration from," he said, leaning in closer to Frostburn. "Double check." Frostburn leaned closer to him and kissed him. Leafwind trotted over to them, forcing Frostburn to break their kiss.

"What about your new trick," she asked. Everyone cheered, encouraging her to do the trick.

"Alright, alright," she said. She backed up a bit, took a running start and flew into the air, spreading snow through the air. When she stopped, she was on top of a large iceberg. When she jumped down, fire emitted from her front hooves. Suddenly, her flight pattern shifted into an erratic pattern. "Something's wrong. I can't control my flight pattern." Frostburn spun out of control as the glacier shattered and caused a powerful blizzard while Frostburn's flames burned down all the buildings and enveloped several ponies trying to escape. The others froze in the midst of the blizzard. Frostburn crashed into the statue. A large black hole spat out Infernalo and Stonebolt before disappearing as quickly as it appeared. They looked around at the charred remains of their home-world and the results of the blizzard. Frostburn hung her head in shame. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to."

"Infernalo," Frostburn said when she stopped crying. "I said I was sorry. I don't know what happened; I just lost control of my flight, and then everything just happened so fast." Infernalo turned away from her in disgust and shot a look of malice over his shoulder. I deserve that, she thought. Stonebolt pulled back and put a hoof reassuredly on her sister's shoulder.

"Frostburn," Stonebolt said, trying to keep her sister from crying again. "Are you okay?" Frostburn shook her head wildly.

"I destroyed our home," she cried, fighting back tears. "I didn't mean too, I swear. I just—" She started sobbing hysterically, as Stonebolt rubbed her shoulder affectionately.

"Do you need some time to cool down," Stonebolt asked. Frostburn nodded, and Stonebolt ran to catch up with their brother.

"Don't you think you were a little hard on Frostburn," she asked.

"She's the same age as you," he said. "If it was you, you wouldn't act like this."

"Still, we look up to you as our brother and we love you, especially Frostburn. She practically worships you."

"She only loves me because she has to. We're family, unfortunately; besides, she loved that Steelmind guy and I had the lovely and enchanting Aquashine."

"That was dead on arrival and you know it. Do you even know where we're going?"

"Do you have a better plan, or are you going to let me find my own way? We wouldn't have to if—"

"Just stop fighting," Frostburn said with an, almost alien, tone of authority and command. "I'm too tired to keep walking anymore, so how about we just stay over at that little town over there?" She gestured over to a small colorful town not far into the east.