Crusaders of Harmony: Tales of Pure Heart

Flash Spark and Priestess Canvas were sent on a mission by Pure Heart. The high priestess detected a source of new magic in a town north of Equestria. The source and nature of such power were still a mystery, and in case it was dangerous, the priests were sent as a contingency force.

Flash Spark was happily walking with her black personalized robes of priest, and looking around with a smile through her sunglasses. Meanwhile, Priestess Canvas was following the trail of the magic with her horn, focused and serious all the way, and ignoring anything that wasn't a priority.

But then Flash Spark got next to her and licked her ear, making her shiver and push away. "SISTER FLASH! That is highly inappropriate! What are you doing?!" She said angry and annoyed.

"Come ooon~ I am bored. Why can't we just teleport there with your magic?!" Flash Spark said, groaning.

"I told you, we don't know what we are dealing with now! Thus, we need to approach with caution and preparation!" Priestess Canvas said serious and grumbled before closing her eyes and continuing her way.

But Flash Spark groaned again. "And how long will it take us?" She said it with a bored tone.

"3 days of walking." Priestess Canvas said concentrated.

"3 DAYS?! Oh, hell naw! We are speeding this up!"

Flash Spark then spread her wings and grabbed Priestess Canvas with all 4 wings from the torso and started lifting her up in the air.

"What in Harmony's name?! Sister Flash, put me down!" Priestess Canvas said in anger.

"NU HU! I can take us there faster!" Flash Spark said before starts speeding and using her strong wings to go over the road and the forest in the way.

"Idiot! You cannot take me with you like this! I weigh too much for you!" Priestess Canvas said, looking down at how the floor gets further away from her hooves.

"Don't worry!~ I have been training my wings a lot! These cuties can withstand you easily! Even more than you can withstand me! HE HE!~" Flash Spark made the remark with a mocking tone.

Both mares flew over the forest that was in their way, and for various minutes they went unbothered, until then a rush of wind hit them face-on.

"Woah! This wind is weird! There aren't any clouds, and I can't remember the weather teams putting wind here!" Flash Spark said having problems to maintain stability.

"Ugh! This is not normal wind! I can sense the magic here! This is made to stop us! Great job, stupid! Whatever we are searching now knows we are here!" Priestess Canvas said angry again, and her legs waved on the air in an attempt to keep straight. "Put us down!"

"No need! Just use your magic to put this wind away!" Flash Spark said, groaning as she had to do more strength with her wings.

"It doesn't work like that!"

"Just do it!" Flash Spark said annoyed.

Priestess Canvas groaned in fury and used her magic; the runes all along her bald head glowed in purple and sent a shockwave of magic in the air. Suddenly the wind stopped.

"Great job! See?! I could count on you!" She stabilized and keeps flying. "What did you do?"

"I sucked up all magic around us, so the wind disappeared." Canvas explained looking up at Flash Spark.

"Ah, I see." They continued flying for some minutes until Flash Spark's eyes widened instantly. "YOU WHAT?!"

"I absorbed all magic around us." Canvas said again. "Why are you so shocked?"

"No! You... NOOOO!" Suddenly, her flying magic as pegasus deactivated, and they plummeted to towards the ground under them.

Flash Spark screamed in fear, while Priestess Canvas looked annoyed at the ground coming closer. Just when they were about to reach the ground, Priestess Canvas used her magic to create a portal in their way, passing through it, turning themselves in energy, and coming out through another portal. That portal was pointing horizontal, meaning all the energy they made falling was now sending them along the floor. But that also meant they were thrown into the ground, rolling various meters, or maybe a hundred of them, and hitting trees, bushes and rocks in the way before stopping by the floor's friction.

Canvas slowly pushed herself up; some of her fur in her hooves and shoulders was peeled off, and her body hurt due to various collisions with the bushes. She was bleeding in various parts, but they were mere superficial wounds. She looked around to see where Flash Spark was, but she found nopony.

"Sister Flash?" Priestess Canvas said tired and softly. "Flash... where are you?" She said, in a bit more worry.

She walked a bit around the place, looking behind every tree and plant, until she heard a groan behind a rock. She stumbled towards it and looked behind, seeing Flash Spark laid on the ground with similar wounds as her, but she also added her broken sunglasses, that somehow still held together by the snout bridge, and one of her wings bent in various points, making it look horrible.

Priestess Canvas leaned on the rock and spoke with a grumble. "I told you... you are an idiot."

It was a dark night. Priestess Canvas created a fire with her magic, and she and Flash Spark sat next to it. They were still wounded, their robes ragged and broken in various parts as they didn't bring any healing supplies, but Canvas used some of the cloths to cover the more severe wounds on them and her magic to keep Flash's wing in place to stop it from moving.

Flash Spark looked at her broken sunglasses; the glass shattered and the bridge bent. Her teal-colored eyes looked at it hurt and sad, while Priestess Canvas looked at her with annoyance. "Why are you sad? They are just some sunglasses. You have many of them."

Flash Spark moved her eyes up and turned to Canvas. "You know they are more than just sunglasses."

Canvas huffed and rolled her eyes. "You give them too much importance."

"Canvas, we spoke of this before. Stop." Flash Spark said more harsh than usual, different from her laid-back personality.

Priestess Canvas sighed and looked at the fire in front of her in silence. Flash Spark did the same, and both of them watched and listened to the crackling fire. But after some moments, Flash Spark had to look away, hissing and rubbing her eyes that turned yellow, as if something had hurt them.

Canvas looked at her with a somewhat cold concern, but she never acknowledged it. "We will need to go by hoof. Your antic has separated us from the main road, and it will take time I detect the strange magic again."

"You only care for the mission, do you?" Flash Spark said grumpy. "Create me new sunglasses."

"Flash, you know I can't create those sunglasses. Only Pure Heart can. Mine wouldn't even affect you."

"Well, at least try something!" Flash Spark said, now angrier.

"I told you I can't! Are you deaf?!" Priestess Canvas answered back, annoyed.

"UGH! So much magic, yet you are useless for me!" Flash Spark said before walking away.

"Hey! Where are you going?!" Priestess Canvas uses her magic and pulls her back close.

"Let me go, you Horse!" Flash Spark said, using her lightning rays, hitting Priestess Canvas, but the flash of it seems to burn her eyes, and she covers them in pain.

Priestess Canvas was struck by the lightning, not expecting it and falling to the ground, shaking for some seconds before the electricity is dissipated. "FLASH! Stop being an idiot and listen!"

"No! You just want to hurt me and force me to your plans!" Flash Spark said with her iris so small she almost looked like she had pure white eyes, and the white was in bloodshot.

Canvas groaned and used her magic to turn the fire off. That way, Flash Spark's eyes dilated again in the pure darkness, and she calmed down. She rubs her eyes, which turn back to a teal color, and her tension wears off.

"Canvas... I... I'm sorry." Flash Spark said softly and ashamed.

"No need. I know it wasn't your doing." Canvas stood up, hurt again, and walked to Flash Spark to touch her to know where she was. "Just... we need to find something before the sun rises."

Canvas slowly made a soft purple light from her body marks to give herself some vision, and even with that soft light, Flash Spark's eyes already shrunk half their size and turned orange. Then, Priestess Canvas started creating different objects, like blindfolds, sunglasses, helmets, goggles, and masks. But all seemed to have little to no effect.

"Damn it.... Damn it." Flash Spark said, scared and nervous, something Canvas rarely has seen her like.

"Flash, stop making me more nervous." Priestess Canvas said annoyed.

"It's no use. I am going to become mad with the sun." Flash Spark started hyperventilating. "I cannot do this. I need to return!" She stood up and tried to fly, but her broken wing was still restricted by Canva's magic.

"Flash, stop! We are over a day from the temple. It is impossible for you to fly. So calm down, now!" Canvas said, serious and angry.

"What can I do?! Oh Harmony, I knew I had to bring more glasses! I am an idiot! Why do I always do this!?" Flash Spark grabbed her head and started sobbing and crying in anxiety.

Priestess Canvas looked at this in real concern and fear; seeing her priestess sister, no, her friend like this, was heartbreaking. She needed to do something to help her survive the adventure. Then, an idea struck her, and she used her magic without a second thought and shot a spell on Flash Spark's eyes and herself's.

Both mares screamed in pain, and Flash Spark held her eyes, just before looking at Priestess Canvas. "What is wrong with yo-" She cut herself when her eyes weren't hurting. Better said, she was seeing the pitch darkness instead of her sensible vision. She waved a hoof in front of her eyes to see if she could see, and indeed all this was happening. "Wow, Canvas, you did it! You fixed my vision! Now we can kick ass really hard now!"

But Canvas was groaning and covering her eyes in her hoof. Flash Spark walked to her and looked into her eyes, seeing her teal-colored eyes were now into Priestess Canva's face.

"What?! Canvas! What did you-" Then she perked up, grabbed her knife from inside her robes, and ignited fire in her hooves to see her reflection in the blade. And indeed, she had the black eyes of Priestess Canvas.

Priestess Canvas, when seeing the fire, hissed and covered her eyes. "Damn it, Flash! Turn that off!" She said it in pain.

Quickly, Flash Spark turned her fire off and turned to Canvas. "Canvy. Why?"

"So you can continue the mission. If it is really that painful... let me share the pain for you." Priestess Canvas said, rubbing her, or better said, Flash's eyes.

"No, canvas! That is so stupid! Change them back! You don't know what you are doing!" Flash Spark said in shock and fear for her friend.

"No! I need you at full capacity. Please, trust me... I can handle it. I am more than used to pain." Canvas said, reassuring but still in pain as her new vision was too much. She could see almost everything, from the tiniest off lights. She wondered how it would be in the day, not like she really wanted to know.

Flash Spark shook her head in concern. "You are mad, Canvas. Please, it is not worth it."

"Silence... now we need to sleep. Get ready for tomorrow morning." Priestess Canvas said laying on the ground on her side.

Flash Spark looked at Priestess Canvas with preoccupation and sighed. She moves to her and lies behind her, hugging and spooning her.

"Really?" Priestess Canvas said like this wasn't at all the first time.

"Shut up, I am cold." Flash Spark said, pushing herself on Priestess Canva's back.

Priestess Canvas shook her head, but instead of pushing her away, she even presses herself against Flash Spark and puts Flash's hooves around her before closing her eyes to sleep.

The next morning, Flash Spark woke up in the early lights by the screams of Priestess Canvas. She was rolling and pressing her face on the ground and covering her eyes. "Canvas!" Flash Spark ran to her and covers her eyes in her arms to calm the burning.

"I-I can't see! It burns!" Priestess Canvas said in desperation and agony. Almost crying, which Flash Spark never saw before in their relationship.

"Hey, hey! I'm here! I'm here." Flash Spark said, calming her down, speaking softly. "Calm down, and keep your eyes closed." Flash Spark moved her arms off Priestess Canvas' eyes and pulled her up and guided her to walk out of the forest and search for a closed and dark place.

"My Harmony... how can you hold this? This is a torture." Priestess Canvas said as her eyes burned and felt like melting from the sunlight, sensing Flash Spark's senses' level of sensibility.

"I get used to. Doesn't mean I don't scream in the inside." Flash Spark said, still pulling her towards anywhere where there could be darkness. Meanwhile, she could finally see things without her sunglasses, a feeling she hasn't felt in a long, long time, not since she touched Harmony and became priestess.

After several minutes, that felt like endless for Priestess Canvas, Flash Spark found a cave. She quickly pulled the unicorn priestess into the cave and as deep as she could into the darkness. Once deep in the hole of the cave, Priestess Canvas could finally uncover her eyes, that were a burning orange color and bloodshot. Flash Spark moves in the way of the light at the end of the cave and looks into Priestess Canva's eyes.

"Buck, Canvas, take my eyes off you, I told you I can hold it." Flash Spark said, desperate for her friend to listen and stop this torture of herself.

"No, Flash, ugh." Priestess Canvas left all her cold personality and educated manners behind. "I told you, you are more important."

"How am I important?! I have a broken wing, I can't even use magic like you! Please, we need your capacity!" Flash Spark pleaded with all her forces, wanting her friend to stop this nonsense.

But Priestess Canvas was being stubborn, shaking her head in anger. "Shut up! If I say you are more important, then it is so! Listen to your superior sister!" Priestess Canvas said, pointing at her and covering her eyes in pain. "We need to continue. Whatever that magical thing is, it is closer. It came to us."

Pure Heart started using her magic with her eyes closed to sense the magic around them After some seconds, she opened them up in shock, having sensed the strange magic all around them. The cave. "Oh no."

"Oh no? What do you-" But Flash Spark didn't have time before she was teleported outside the cave, just in time before the cave closed like mouth with Priestess Canvas still inside. "What?! CANVAS!"

The cave grew eyes, and it moved up as a gargantuan-sized snake-like creature. It had the skin made of rock, and had cracks all along itself, with a red glow of magic coming from it, and it's eyes that looked to Flash Spark were a pure fiery red, showing its demonic nature.

Flash Spark stood there, looking at the demonic rock snake, known as Lithoviperan, raising to the size of a 7-floor building, and yet it wasn't completely straight. Quickly, Flash Spark turned her head, as the serpent tried to use its petrifying gaze, as it tried to immobilize the priestess.

Seeing no effect of his attack, the Lithoviperan attacked with its massive mouth, although toothless, it was a sure death being crushed between rocks. Flash Spark quickly sped up and avoided the attack thanks to her speed.

"Oh buck, Oh buck! What do I do?! This thing is too powerful!" Flash Spark panted quickly while moving at incredible speed around the serpent.

The Lithoviperan moved it's tail, that was some meters behind, and tried to whip at the running Flash Spark. The priestess, quickly jumped over the tail, making a good 4-5 meter tall jump. The size of this one was huge. These creatures had the ability to grow by consuming magic around them. The longer it stays here, the bigger it could become.

"Damn it! I need to do something! These creatures are weak to pure magic, and attacking through the cracks! But without my wing, I can't fly up there." Flash Spark keeps running at huge speed as the serpent tried to bite her again, making a huge dent in the forest's grass. "What would Canvas do?"

Inside the giant serpent, Priestess Canvas coughed up as the interior of the monster was being filled up with dark smoke from the igniting rock. The red light blinded her eyes, burning more as they were Flash's. She tries to use her magic, but it was quickly absorbed by the Lithoviperan. She was getting without oxygen, power and blinded, and fairly desperate.

"I... I can't... give up." Priestess coughs up. "I won't die here. Flash..." She thinks of Flash Spark, her friend, out there, surely fighting. Flash Spark was not ready or capable of fighting this creature. But faith and hope is the last she would lose, not even in death. "Flash... I... trust in you." She said before falling, barely breathing.

Flash Spark continued avoiding the Lithoviperan, using her sword to attack on the lower parts of the serpent, hitting between the cracks and joints of the rocks, but even with her strength and speed, the serpent was unfazed by her. "Damn it, why can't you die easier?!"

The Lithoviperan snarled and whipped its tail, trying to hit Flash Spark, who, even with a single working wing, could still jump and move at huge speed; not for anything, she was the fastest priestess of the Crusaders. But speed wasn't enough if her enemy was unbreakable, and slowly she was getting bigger while sucking Priestess Canvas' magic.

Flash Spark then decided to try searching for a place that gives her advantage. She ran at blinding speed while the giant rock serpent followed her. While she was faster, she couldn't underestimate the monster, who followed behind, destroying the forest in its way.

After several minutes, Flash Spark found the mountain they were originally going. She went to a mountain wall and waited for the Lithoviperan. Just in time, the huge creature arrived, moving in a slithering motion and charging at the priestess, ready to slam its head and the mare on the wall. And just at the last moment, Flash Spark jumped and impulsed herself with her wings and the wall, jumping over the serpent's head, and it slammed into the wall, making a crater and cracking its snout, letting out a huge screech of pain.

Once above the monster, Flash Spark pushed her sword inside a rock joint in the head and tries to make enough strength to break it. But in mere seconds, the serpent noticed her and shook its head to push her off it. Flash Spark held onto her sword, defiant against the serpent's ravage, but in a moment, a metal clank is heard, and the sword splits in two.

Flash's world became slow-motion, seeing the sword, a sword she earned and gained from her previous master, broken in her hooves. That sword meant more to her than anything else in her life, the memory of her master. "Stormstride" She whispered before she was slammed by the serpent's rocky tail, sending her through the air and slamming with trees in the way, mangling her body and landing on the ground, bloody and with her body broken.

There, Flash Spark lay silent and still, her breath shallow and blood pouring off her mouth. She wanted to move, but she couldn't; she wanted to fight without any strength. The Lithoviperan slowly slithered towards the priestess, two for the prize of one; this could make him more powerful than ever and be a menace to Equestria.

Flash Spark's world became dark as the huge maw came down to her.

Flash Spark woke up in a dark, infinite void. She gasped and looked around. This was clearly not the living world; it wasn't the first time she was set to ethereal planes, but this one was new. Dark, cold, empty and silent, almost like a prison.

"Where am I?" Flash Spark said, her voice echoing through the place. "Am I... Am I dead at last?" She said it with a hint of fear.

"Almost." Said a deep and masculine voice, one Flash Spark knew.

She turned to see her old master, the priest previous to her, Stormstride. He was a stallion pegasus, his fur dark like a stormy cloud; his mane and tail an electric blue, looking like a ray in the night; his eyes blue like a clear sky, and his cutie mark, a sword going through a lightning bolt, symbolizing his talent for combat and speed.

"Master." Flash Spark said in shock. "Impossible. You should be one with Harmony after your sacrifice. This must be a hallucination." She was in utter denial.

"Guess who was the one who brought me here again, one last time. You are about to die, in a pathetic, weak and almost joking way." Stormstride said coldly, criticizing her display of combat.

Flash Spark felt hurt, pathetic and small. She slowly kneeled down in the void. "Yes... you are right. Canvas and I... we are going to die, all because of me... if I had been patient... all for some stupid laughs." Flash Spark doubted her knowledge and even if she really learned from her past.

Flash Spark remembered her old days as a punk, a mischievous mare, who would always get what she wanted by force, all to have fun with herself and her gang. Robbing, beating and humiliating others just for some laughs. She hurt lots of people for the most stupid reasons. When Pure Heart found her, about to give everything up and make her 'Last Flight', she was shown an alternative. She could laugh and live, even with the guilt, if she redirected her abilities for something better than just herself. And after a decade in the Crusaders, she thought she was over the joke. Of course, she would pun and laugh and prank, but never wanting to hurt anypony. Now she and Canvas were going to die, and who knows how many others, just to get a laugh.

Stormstride then grabbed her by the mane and pulled her up painfully, just like he did in the past. "Stand up, idiot, I am not here to sermon you. You are smart enough to know what mistake you made. I came here to guide you. First, use your powers, you always forget you have your magic too, and second, focus on the cracks of it's neck, it is more vulnerable there, cut it's head off." He said like a coach, instead of being a philosophical moment, typical Stormstride, always directed to action before even thinking.

"But... Master, I am dying; I cannot fight with my broken body." Flash Spark said pleadingly.

"And who said you were going to die now? This was just a message, so you don't fail once you are saved. Stop whining, stop crying, and focus on your speed and power. Understood, rookie?!" Stormstride said in a sergeant-like mode.

Flash Spark was surprised, but she trusted her master above all. "Yes sir!"

Stormstride nodded and walked towards a ball of light that was behind him, and he was absorbed. Then, the ball took the form of a pony and, with bright eyes, looked at Flash Spark. Rise, priestess.

Flash Spark woke up again, and she saw the open mouth of the Lithoviperan, going towards her. How was she going to be saved? By who? There was nobody there who could save her. Or so she thought, because she forgot of the other important pony in that place, who jumped out the mouth of the giant serpent towards her. The shaved head, the tattoos, the thin and almost malnourished body. Priestess Canvas came out with a scream of anger, determined to save her friend, and used her magic to teleport them both away from the beast, just when the serpent slammed its rock snout shut on the ground.

Appearing in another place of the forest, Priestess Canvas had used all her remaining magic, the one not still absorbed by the Lithoviperan, and mustered dark forces to heal Flash Spark instantly. The pegasus body twisted back in place, with a painful crunch that snapped the surrounding air. After healing her with that dangerous spell, Priestess Canvas collapsed on the grass of the forest. Her body trembled, weak and on its bones. Dark magic didn't come free in her; it took her life force and soul to feed the magic.

Flash Spark sits up, covered in her own blood, but completely fixed. She turned to Priestess Canvas, Flash's eyes still in her, burning because of the light, her skeletal body, and magic barely enough to keep her breathing. "Canvas..." She said in shock and moved to grab her in her hooves. "No."

From afar, the Lithoviperan slithered through the forest and appeared in front of the priestesses. It snarled with its huge size, growing after absorbing most of Priestess Canvas' magic. Flash Spark looked at it, with anger, annoyance and murderous feelings filling her soul. She wasn't supposed to give in to such desires and instincts, but she didn't care at the moment.

"Nopony... No creature... no demon! Hurts! My! CANVAS!" Flash Spark ignited up her powers of Fire and Lightning, making her mane and tail turn fire, her orange fur turn a golden glow, and her eyes crackling with electricity. She flew up in the sky with her healed wings and shot a massive ray of pure electricity at the serpent, striking it with incredible strength and creaking the serpent all over the body.

The Lithoviperan screeched in pain and used its demonic ability, called Infernal Surge, and sent a demonic shockwave all around himself. All life instantly evaporated around it, except Canvas, who still had a magical barrier around her, a natural defense she had as a last resource when she was at death's gates. The shockwave went up, even the birds disintegrated in the air, and when it reached Flash Spark, she received the power of the attack face on, and her body burned with demonic fire, her robes burned and disintegrated, exposing all her body and her cutie mark of a flame with a lightning, but her body was stronger, and she could resist the attack almost untouched.

Flash Spark looked around at the destruction of the attack and felt her anger flare up even more. Anyone who had such low care for the surrounding lives deserved no respect or mercy from her. "You will pay for that!" She let out a rage scream and started attacking the Lithoviperan, using her supersonic speed to hit the serpent in various places, her power having given her otherworldly strength, and cracking all the stone body of the monster.

The rock serpent screeched more and waved its tail at full speed in the air, destroying the dead trees all around them. Flash Spark avoided it with ease and used her lightning again, striking all along the back of the serpent, cracking the rock more and more, making it look more like gravel. In a moment, the rock tail hit Flash Spark square in the head, which would have turned any normal pony into a mass of meat, blood and broken bones. But Flash Spark stood there, her harmony power making her extra resilient and only making her head have a breach and bleed out, staining her mane and forehead.

Flash Spark growled and shot a huge storm of fire from her hooves and rained hellfire over the Lithoviperan, but obviously made no effect on a rock serpent demon. But then she remembered her broken sword blade, still nailed on the serpent's head, was still intact. She had the best of ideas; pushing that blade deeper into the head could hit the demon's brain, if it had one. It was risky, but she had to try. But first, she wanted to make this demon regret ever being born, ever stepping or sliding on Equestria.

Flash Spark moved like a ray, with supersonic speed, hitting various places with her hooves, with strength to break the deeper stone, and making the Lithoviperan screech and snarl in pain all over. Flash Spark then flew up in the sky, reaching the clouds, and looked down to the serpent. Without her precise eyes, she couldn't have a clear view of the monster from that height. But she had faith, and she needed nothing more. She spread her wings and went into her most powerful physical attack. "Harmony's Power! Lightning Dash!" Flash Spark screamed at the top of her lungs as she charged her electricity around her in a ball of power, and in the middle of the day, a ray and a lightning of immense power and sound could be seen in the distance, falling at light speed to the ground. For ponies away from the place, they looked confused at how lightning appeared if there was no storm forecast from Cloudsdale.

The attack landed directly on the blade above the serpent's head; a blinding yellow light covered the forest. Flash Spark's rear leg pushed the blade into the creature's brain, and the power of the lightning shook the creature and, in a mere second, destroyed it and turned the Lithoviperan into gravel, dust and broken rock.

After the end of the fight, Flash Spark panted, taking dry and slow breaths, trying to regain her oxygen, as the attack used up all her energy and took the air from her lungs. After a minute or two of rest, she walked to Priestess Canvas' body, which lay completely still on the scorched ground. Her harmony power wasn't normal magic, and she couldn't control it beyond herself, so she couldn't share it with Priestess Canvas. Priestess Canvas needed a source of magic, and now. If she flew the unicorn at huge speed, she could be destroyed by the wind; she was too fragile. And even if she held, who said she could take Priestess Canvas just in time before she died completely? Flash Spark panicked.

"What can I do?! Oh Harmony, oh BUCK! Canvas! Please don't die on me!" Flash Spark said desperate, shaking the skeletal mare.

But Priestess Canvas was immobile; her heartbeat was almost unnoticeable, and her breath, coldly, hit Flash Spark's face. She started pressing hard on Canvas' chest, trying to reanimate her through CPR. She pumped her heart faster and faster, tears falling from her eyes. "Come on, come ON! PLEASE! CANVAS! DON'T DIE ON ME!" She slams her hooves on her chest in desperation. But nothing; Canvas was still and cold.

Flash Spark simply gave up; her friend gave everything to save her, and she couldn't save her back. She was gone, dead, all because of her inability to fight and stop joking. Was this really a victory? She protected Equestria at the cost of her friend. She could only think that this was unfair. If it was someone who deserved to die, was it her? She made the mistakes; she made the wrong decisions. Then why is she alive? Why does Harmony punish others because of her actions?

There was only a last thing she could do before her friend was completely gone. "Canvas... I'm so, so sorry... I was an idiot, and I couldn't hear you, despite you screaming at me to listen." Flash Spark trembles and shudders, tears falling across her cheeks. "You have been my best friend for so long. Despise being so lonely, so hateful of everypony, you showed me to smile." Flash Spark hiccups and covers her snout. "I know, you told me to be strong in front of loss. I lost many; we both did... I just... I was never brave enough with you. I wanted to tell you, you are more than that!" Flash Spark gets her bravery out. "I'm sorry I never could tell you how much I loved you... and not only as friends."

Flash Spark then leaned to look at Canva's face. "I love you, Priestess Canvas. I love you with all my heart, and I wish you noticed it. Please, let me do this, just once." Flash Spark leans closer and closes her eyes and connects her lips with the dying Canvas' ones, a shock of electricity cursing through the both of them.

Then, a pink aura covered them both, and Canvas slightly glowed in this pink magic aura while Flash Spark kissed her still. Canvas's magic ignited back with lots of power. Soon, Flash Spark realizes this as she opens her eyes and steps back when seeing Priestess Canvas levitating and finally lower on her hooves and looking much healthier. Priestess Canvas opens her eyes, or rather Flash's eyes, and looks around in shock. "What?"

Flash Spark's eyes widen, and he looks down at Priestess Canvas in surprise, and blushing like a tomato. "Canvas?! What?! I thought you were dying!"

"I was... what happened?" Priestess Canvas coughed up. "By the way... I hate your eyes." Priestess Canvas charges her horn and swaps eyes again, returning to her real black eyes, and Flash Spark feels the burning sensation of her original super sensible eyes back again.

Flash Spark groaned and looked away. "Damn it... well, then everything returned to normal."

Priestess Canvas looks around the combat zone. "What the heck happened here? And the Lithoviperan?"

"Dead, I killed it after you healed me. I simply went all out and actually defeated him... I am such the best hunter~" Flash Spark said with a smile.

"You alone? Wow. Those things are strong. I guess I judged you wrongly regarding your combat capabilities. I thank you for saving my life, sister Flash Spark." Priestess Canvas said, more relaxed and returning to her super polite talking. "By the way, how did you heal me? You cannot use magic like me."

Flash Spark blushes instantly and looks around. "Em, uh... when I killed the demon... it got your powers back?~" Flash Spark lied to hide what truly happened.

Priestess Canvas looks at her in confusion. "Indeed? Well, I guess that is to be noted in the monster's book. Never happened before, though. Well, we better go back to the temple and get you new sunglasses." Priestess Canvas said in a neutral tone.

"Yes, please... my eyes burn." Flash Spark said, rubbing her eyes, that were pure reed and bloodshot.

Priestess Canvas had an idea to speed this up. "Hey, maybe we can take a dark rift. It is highly corruptible and dangerous, and we could be trapped a millennium for a second, but it can take us instantly back. Want to try?" She said, dropping her politeness slightly.

Flash Spark looked at her confused and then smiled. "Absolutely! Whatever, to avoid the sun! Lead the way!"

Priestess Canvas uses her horn and opens a black rift in the air, and they both move to enter it. Meanwhile, they entered. Flash Spark has her thoughts in her head. "Thanks Harmony for letting me save her. And to hide my feelings from her. I hope it takes more time for her to discover it."

Meanwhile, in Priestess Canvas' mind. "Poor idiot, she thinks I don't know... it was so sweet~ And I want more from you, Flash Spark~" Just before the riff closes behind them.