Rose

The snow fell from the heavens and laid out a beautiful Chrystal white blanket that spread throughout the entire forest, the trees stood baron, robbed of their leaves by the harsh winter spirits. Rose made her way through the forest, her footsteps silent atop the snowy blanket, she made her way towards a thicket where she saw a bright blue caravan with a dark blue roof, Rose walked over to the caravan as the celestial sun began to disappear behind the horizon and the night began to take hold of the evening. After several knocks on the small wooden door at the end of the trailer it opened to reveal a small blue unicorn with a bright blue mane, the mare now had a sudden look of shock on her face "you are um... what are you!"

Rose managed to utter a faint groan before she fell to the floor and blood started to pool out of a large wound in her side. "Oh sweet Celestia!! Vinyl, Frost Bite get out here quick, Two mares ran outside the trailer to help the unicorn carry rose into the trailer.

Black. That's all rose saw, black. She could hear muffled voices, the words were inaudible but they were there. slowly but surely her vision began to return and what greeted her wasn't the sight she expected, stood over her were three ponies, one was a pegasus and the other two were unicorns. "Ugh, where-where am I" ask Rose as she tried to sit up but winced at the pain coming from here side and lay back down.

"You are in my house" replied the blue unicorn, "when you showed up at my door you were in quite a state and bleeding very badly."

"Wow. Thank you i am in you're dept, my name is Rose"

"Um if you don't mind me asking, um what are you" asked the Blue pegasus, Rose just stared at her causing the pegasus to retract and hide behind her mane.

"Oh I'm so sorry it just seems like the sort of question i would ask you, i would have thought it would be obvious." the three ponies stared for a while before the white unicorn with the glowing neon blue mane walked over and stuck her hoof out towards Rose.

"Yo wassup, the name's Vinyl Scratch and i gotta say you are the most badass wolf i have ever seen!" The blue unicorn immediately ran over to her and knocked her hoof away.

"Vinyl don't be so rude! How can she possibly be a wolf, she walks on two legs and talks."

"Um actually i am a wolf and was going to ask why you three are on all fours." said Rose in a slightly more perked up tone.

"Well, we are ponies" said the blue unicorn.

"So, where im from both ponies and horses stand on their back legs like me. Also i kinda hate to ask but," Rose paused and rubbed her hands up against the matted blood stained hair on her side, "do you have any warm water, I need a shower"

"Sure I'll put the kettle on, as you can see there isn't exactly room in here for a shower."

"Thats OK" replied Rose as she finally managed to sit up on the couch she was resting on, Rose suddenly jumped at the fact that she was now lighter that she remembered. "Where are my swords!?" shouted Rose causing the blue pegasus to jump into the air in fright in crash right into the ceiling before falling to the ground earning a little giggle from the other two mares.

"They are over there on the table along with you're hooded robe" announced the blue unicorn pointing to a desk with a couple of short swords and a hooded piece of red cloth on it. "I'm Trixie by the way and that is Frost Bite" said The blue unicorn as she pointed to the blue pegasus rubbing her head with her hoof "and you already know Vinyl." The kettle started to whistle causing everyone in the room to turn their heads to look at it. "Oh good I'll get it" said Trixie as she levitated the kettle over to a bucket and tipped it into the small container.

"We will step outside and let you clean up" said Vinyl as all three ponies stepped outside. Once they were gone Rose slowly got up off the couch which was a greater challenge than she would have liked but the wound didn't hurt as much once she was stood up. She looked at the stitches those ponies are very good at healing, just look at those stitches, almost like new except for,well you know, the stitches. As rose started to undress the warmth of the water began to look ever more inviting, she dipped a piece of cloth into the bucket and began to wipe the cloth all over her body and over the matted, bloody fur by her wounds and released a gentle sigh of release and pleasure at how heavenly it felt. Soon after she finished washing herself she shouted to the others telling they could come back in.

"Brrr its a good job you didn't take any longer, it's freezing out there, I can't even feel my horn." muttered Vinyl as loud as she could through her chattering teeth.

"I'm very sorry but I'm also very greatfull that was just what I needed, the pain is pretty much gone. Also i forgot to ask how long was I out of it" asked Rose as she tightened her black corset and put on her hooded robe.

" You were unconscious for about 3 days" replied Trixie, Rose suddenly went stiff.

"Three-three days?"

"Yes. Why, is something wrong." Rose ran to the table Grabbed her swords and slipped them into her belt.

"No no no! this is bad, they will have caught up to me by now, I can't let you get caught up in this" Shouted Rose as she reached for the doorknob she froze as she heard a pattering on the roof. "Get down." whispered Rose to the others, they did as she said and sunk down behind the couch. Rose slowly looked through the peephole to see 3-4 dozen dark shadowy figures of bipedal wolves like herself, but these were living shadows that were fear incarnate, Demons of the darkest order. as the shadows approached the door to the caravan Rose crept back to the three mares. "OK girls i need you to listen to me" they all nodded with a look of pure fear on their face, "No matter what happens, you are not to try and help me, do you understand me?" The mares nodded.

"But you're injured, you can't possibly fight in this condition." Said Vinyl pointing to Rose's wound. Rose turned her head to face Vinyl and gave her a smile.

"Vinyl, trust me when I say that i have had worse, OK?" she got up and walked to the very back of the caravan and turned face the door drawing her swords. "Remember, don't come out no matter what happens."

"What are you going to do?" asked Trixed

"Something crazy." Replied Rose, She then broke into a sprint towards the door and lept forward into a dive and broke through the door in an explosion of splinters and wood sending several demons into the air. Rose rolled into a landing and instantly thrust her swords forward into the stomach of a shadow directly in front of her and pulled her blades out sideways taking out three more shadows on the left and an extra two on the right cutting them in two, she stood up to see another shadow running towards her, she crossed her arms and threw her swords in each direction and lept into a backflip over the charging shadow and landing just in time to catch her swords as they came back, but not before they had sliced through a good six demons. Rose then spun 180 degrees and planted them firmly into the spine of the monster that had just missed her.

Rose stood still surrounded by at least a dozen more of those living nightmares, she lifted her swords that were now dripping with blood up to her face and whispered, "OK boys, it's go time" Rose flicked a switch on the side of each sword an quickly through them through the air, suddenly the air was filled with the sound of mini explosions as small round metal balls shot out from little holes below the blades of the spinning swords as they shot and sliced their way though shadow after shadow, rose then jumped to the closest shadow and delivered a devastating flip kick to its jaw sending it soaring into the air, Rose jumped up after the monster and kicked it straight into the ground. On her way down she caught her swords and after flicking another switch on the bottom of the swords and slammed them together in a matter of seconds they merged into a huge great sword that she then brought crashing down and splitting two shadows in half and she then followed up with a huge 360 degrees spin cutting another five shadows down.

Rose was about to sheath sword when a shadow jumped her from behind and sent the sword flying through the air and landing just in front of the caravan. The monster was almost upon Rose, it raised it's claws and ran towards her, she quickly shifted her position and stuck her foot into its chest and rolled back sending the monster over her head, she recovered quickly to heard the words "Rose, catch!" Rose turned to see the great sword flying through the air towards her, she caught it and quickly turned to see the monster jumping towards her, she rotated the hilt on the sword and watched as the top half of the blade folded 90 degrees revealing a hole in the blade, she slammed the blade into the ground to keep the weapon stable and just as the monster was upon her she pulled the hilt back, peppering the monster with a huge spray of bullets that tore it apart as the sound of a massive explosion echoed through the forest.

Rose place the great sword into the strap on her back and returned to the caravan to check on the ponies, she was met with Trixie and Frost Bite running up and hugging her both shouting the words "thank you". Rose turned to see Vinyl staring at her with a fixed expression, Rose crouched in front of Vinyl, her dark red fur waving in the chilly breeze of the snowy forest, she reach out a hand and waved it in front of Vinyl's face, the mare remained unresponsive.

"Uh Vinyl, hello?"

"That was tota-ly aws-ome" stuttered the white mare as she looked up at rose. "What are you, where are you from." Rose stood up and looked at the three mares.

"I...Am a myth, from the kingdom of Elysium."