The Peacemaker

Dmitry:

When I arrived at Sugarcube corner Mrs. Cake had told me that Pinkie and Dash had gone out to the lake to go swimming for the afternoon so I got directions from her to the lake then dashed off for the lake.

I arrived at the lake and saw Rainbow Dash dive bomb into the lake and make a large splash then I saw a pink furred pony splash into the water as well. I rushed up and met Rainbow Dash at the edge of the lake. “Ohh a human, Dashie think he’s wild or do you think that his owner is around?” the pink one, who I assumed was Pinkie Pie, asked and Dash just chuckled as she got out of the water. “I’d say his owner is around. Actually I’d say the owner is really close by” Dash snickered.

Pinkie Pie lept out of the water, “Ohh yeah, oky doky let’s find the owner” Pinky Pie suggested and Dash chuckled “Okay first one to find the owner and bring the owner to the lake wins” Dash challenged and a creepily big smile went across Pinkie Pie’s face. “Ohh you are so on Dash” Pinkie said and was about to dart off when Dash grabbed her tail with a hoof and held her back.

Pinkie looked back “Hey that’s not fair!” Pinkie exclaimed but Dash couldn’t help but to laugh. “I win” Dash told her friend and Pinkie looked around, “But you didn’t find his owner” Pinkie replied and Dash pointed to herself. “I’m the owner, so since I found myself first I guess I win” Dash laughed and Pinkie scrunched her nose. “That’s not fair Dashie, that’s like cheating” Pinkie pouted as Dash let go of her friends tail.

“Not really, I’m the owner so since I’m here and I own him I win” Dash laughed. Pinkie’s face was cross but suddenly she grabbed Dash and pulled her into the water. Dash pulled herself away from Pinkie Pie and jumped out of the lake. “Pinkie, why’d you do that?” Dash asked and she simply laughed “Well silly you said first one to bring the owner to the lake, technically we were on the lakeside, not on or in the lake so I guess since I brought you into the lake I win” Pinkie squealed with delight.

“Nuh-uh that’s not fair” Dash said as she jumped into the water and splashed Pinkie with some water, I had never met someone so competitive in my entire life. The duo splashed in the water together so I decided to sit back and relax for a moment and let them have their fun before telling Dash the bad news.

I closed my eyes and relaxed but as I did I heard Dash call my name. “Hey Dmitry? Cool off” Dash quoted and as I opened my eyes I saw a large splash of water come at me. “GAH” I screamed and brought my hands up in front of my face like I was motioning for the water to stop. My hands illuminated with the magical blue aurora and the splash of water was caught in an aurora of matching blue. Both Pinkie’s and Dash’s mouths slacked wide open as they watched me block the water with magic.

“WHOA! How’d you do that?” Dash gasped as they both ran back up to shore and looked at me. “Uhm magic… you know like what unicorns do. What? Have you never seen a human do magic before?” I asked and both Dash and Pinkie shook their heads.

“I have the greatest idea” Dash said and ran over to her bag and pulled out her camera. I shook my head in fear of what she had in mind. “Okay, Dmitry see that boulder over there? Levitate it over me and make it look like I’m holding it up then Pinkie you take a picture” Dash ordered as she handed Pinkie the camera and I sighed at the request, perhaps I should’ve just let the water splash me.

Focusing my thoughts on the boulder I held out my right hand and it illuminated with the magical aurora and the boulder lifted up and over to Rainbow Dash and she held up her hoof and made it look like she was holding it up with one hoof. Pinkie took the picture and I tossed the boulder to the side. “Dmitry lift me up in the air and make it look like I’m racing Dash through the air” Pinkie squealed, obviously intrigued by the idea.

I levitated over the camera then lifted her body into the air with a levitation spell then began to levitate her though the air and Dash flew beside her and made it look like somehow Pinkie was flying. I snapped a picture then levitated Pinkie to the ground.

For the remainder of afternoon both Dash and Pinkie had me perform various acts of magic while one of us took pictures of the others.

I was gasping for air. This magic stuff really takes your breath away. “Alright Dmitry for our next act” Pinkie began but stopped as I collapsed to my knees from the physical exhaustion. Dash ran up to my side, “Geez Dmitry, are you okay?” she asked and I nodded in response. “Just… out of… breath… is all” I replied through heavy pants of exhaustion.

I finally caught my breath and staggered to my feet, a camera flash went off and both Dash and I looked to Pinkie Pie as she took our picture. We both smiled and Dash lept into my arms, “Hey Pinkie, take another picture of us like this” Dash said and Pinkie took yet another picture.

Dash lept out of my arms and landed on all fours. “Hey Dmitry think you can launch that boulder into the air then blast it to pieces?” Pinkie asked and pointed over to the boulder that must have weighed at least three or four tons. I shook my head and Dash gave me a competitive nudge. “Come on, if I can lift it with one hoof you should be able to bust it apart” Dash teased. For some reason I had really been influenced by Dash today and had picked up some of her competitiveness.

Taking quick focus I levitated the boulder and threw it into the air. I concentrated on a magic blast but due to my exhaustion I couldn’t generate enough energy to form a blast. “Well come on Dmitry what are you waiting for?” Pinkie said as the boulder hurled down towards me. Dash looked to me “Dmitry…RUN!” she called out but in my exhaustion I couldn’t find the energy to do even that. Dash ran over to me and tried to move my body out of the way but I couldn’t even walk. “Dmitry… come on let’s go” Dash cried out as the boulder fell towards us. I looked up weakly and saw the boulder and fear for Dash’s safety coursed through my veins.

It was as if something kicked me in the ass and gave me some power. I pushed Dash out of harm’s way and clenched my fists, the ground around me shook and a small whirlwind began around my body as wind gusted around me. Blue electricity crackled around my body and I cupped my hands in front of my body, a camera flash went off. A single blue beam of energy shot out from the palms of my hands and collided with the boulder. Another camera flash went off as my beam of energy struck the boulder and there was a small explosion as the beam annihilated the rock into nothing but smoke.

The electricity surging through my body along with my new found energy left my body and I collapsed onto the ground. “Dammit… DMITRY!” Dash called out and rushed to my side, “Little one… I am fine do not worry about me” I told her and she let out a sigh of relief as she realized I was okay. “WOW! That was sooo awesome” Pinkie exclaimed and I looked to Dash, who feared the same thing I did. Dash looked to Pinkie, “Pinkie, you can’t tell any-pony about this okay? Pinkie Pie promise” Dash ordered her friend and Pinkie began to make some ludacris gestures.

I staggered to my feet and managed to walk. “Oh man… okay we’ll have to go to Twilight’s to get these photos developed… I can’t think of any other place to do it” Dash said and we all departed towards Ponyville.

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Rainbow Dash:

I knocked on the door and Twilight answered. “Oh hey Dash, how can I help you?” Twilight asked as she let us into the library. “Well I needed to use your dark room to develop some pictures” I informed her and she nodded and led us into the basement of the library. “Okay Dash, just try not to splash the photo resolution water out of the trays” Twilight told me and let us into the revolving door of the dark room used for developing photos.

We entered the dark room which was dimly lit by a spooky red light. I put the photos through the chemical developing solutions. After putting the photos through the developing solutions I put the photos up to dry and looked to Dmitry. “It’ll take about an hour for the photos to come through and it’s about 7 right now so I guess we could just bring you back to your place then I’ll come back later tonight and get them then tomorrow you can see the photos” I told Dmitry and he nodded as we all left the dark room.

As we walked back upstairs I waved to Twilight, “See yah later Twi” I called out as we all left the library and headed for Dmitry’s home in the mountains.

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Dmitry:

“Ohh boy, that was sooo fun, tomorrow we’ll have to do that again but maybe next time well have to…” Pinkie Pie went on her rant as we walked through the forest to my house.

I looked to Dash and Pinkie, “Are you sure you are safe to go back without me protecting you? The forests are dangerous at night” I told them and Dash simply shrugged. “We’ll be fine, I’ll just hold Pinkie and fly us back, my wing may be injured but I should be able to get us out of the forest” Dash replied.

“Oh hey Dmitry you never told me you were having a bonfire at your house. Why didn’t you invite us?” Pinkie asked and I looked towards where my house would be and saw smoke rising up through air. “Shit” I cursed as I ran towards my house.

It wouldn’t have mattered how fast I would have ran, by the time I got close enough to see my house I could already tell that everything had burned to the ground. I simply stopped in my tracks and looked in horror to where my house had once stood.

“Oh my goddess… Dmitry I’m so sorry” Dash replied as she trotted up beside me. “Don’t be… it was only a matter of time before someone found my house” I muttered and Pinkie hopped up beside me. “Don’t worry Dmitry, I can give you a place to stay at a rock mining farm just outside Ponyville” Pinkie offered and I looked to her then considered the possibilities. Perhaps it was time to accept my fate and settle down, maybe being a slave wouldn’t be so bad but only if Rainbow Dash was my owner.

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Trixie:

“Twilight” I called out and the lavender coloured unicorn appeared at the top of the stairs. “Oh hey Trixie, need the phone again?” she asked and I shook my head, “No actually can I use your dark room, I need to develop some pictures” I replied and she nodded. “Just don’t knock over the chemical solutions” she called out as I led myself down into the basement and into her photo development room.

I grumbled to myself, I hadn’t gotten anything worth really developing but due to my orders I had to develop all the photos I had taken which mostly consisted of the train crash. But as I was about to develop my photos I looked to some other photos that were hanging up on the photo dry line and thought I seen something suspicious so I levitated one of the photos over and took a closer look at it.

There it was plain as day, a full grown male human and to add to that he was shooting some form of powerful energy blast from his hands. My lips curled into a smile, “This is perfect”