The sun had just gone down over the distant mountains, and the night was in a beautiful colors of red and orange as the sunset greeted the world, soon it would be night.
Just outside of the quiet town of Ponyville there lies Sweet Apple Aches. Several tress was shaking letting go of their apples as the night slowly took over and covered the world in a beautiful dark blue and black color with the moon, along with its neighboring stars, shined down upon the land.
AppleJack brushed some sweat off her forehead as she began to pull the cart filled with barrels, which are filled with apples, towards the barn where they stash them up. She had been skipping work because she had to help her friends and siblings with their own stuff so she figured tonight she would work overtime.
After lifting off the apples inside of the barn she walks out and closes the door behind her, her long ponytail a bit dirtier than usual thanks to the barn. "We gotta clean up that barn soon.." She said to herself as she took her hat off and waved it at herself to cool herself down. "Gettn' mighty hot around here...." Her ears peaked as she noticed it, it was getting rather hot around here. She figured that it may have just been her imagination and turned around to go towards the house itself.
A scream froze her in place, she turned towards the source of the voice: The Everfree Forest. Inside amongst the tree's trunks she could see a bright red and orange light flickering back and forth: A fire! And somepony's inside of it! Quick as a whip she grabbed a barrel and ran down to a river that ran nearby the farm, filled it with water and then stormed, while balancing the barrel as good as she could, into the forest.
Finally coming to the source she saw a wide field, with long grass going as far as the eye could see, right at the top of it she could see a figure, it was standing in a stance like it stood ready for combat. But once in a while the form would twitch and shake while a scream came out from the pony. She wasted no time and stormed up to the pony and grabbed the barrel's hook and swung with it covering the pony in water. "Don' worry partner! I got ya!" She yelled as she made sure to splash as much as she could over the pony. After the fire was gone the pony fell to the ground.
When the fire was gone she noticed a few things; first off, the ground beneath the was completely untouched of the heat, next was the pony himself. As far as she could tell, it was a colt, around her age, a unicorn and had a dark red coat and black and red mane. The next thing she saw was when he opened his eyes, the pony's pupils looked like ones that would come from a reptiles, a line a bit curved going straight down his eyes instead of the round form like other ponies.
The surprise she got from his eyes froze her for a bit, she finally snapped out of it when he heard the colt lowly speak. "co...cold..." She heard something and leaned down to him. "What? What is it?" "so...cold..." His voice was shaking as his coat slowly got a bit of an lighter color then before. "Right" Aj nodded. She didn't notice the light change of the colts coat because of the darkness. She soon got him onto her back. "Hang on partner. I'll get ya nice and warm before ya know it." and with that she ran as fast as she could back to the farm with the new equine hanging onto her back, as they left the clearing a figure flew up from the nearby trees, a pair of cold eyes watching them as they left.
She had to slow down a bit as he almost fell off from time to time and also because several roots were surfaced. Soon enough they were both out of the forest and out in the open. She sprinted as fast as she could up to the house and bucked the door open. Granny Smith came into the entrance with a pair of eyes dragging themselves open. "Applejack? What in the hay are ya doin' in the middle of the night?" "Granny, Ah got no time to explain, get some blankets quick!" The noise soon woke up her siblings who came down and quickly they got the cold, slow breathing unicorn under several blankets on the couch. "Where did you find him big sis?" An a bit exhausted Applebloom asked as she looked at the red unicorn. Getting nice and warm under the blanket, his coat had returned to his dark red color.
"From the forest..he was on fire.." She slowly said as she first noticed it now, the colts body was fully on flames when she found him, yet his body had barely any burn marks on him, the worst case of burns were a few marks around his horn, mouth and nose. And yet he still laid there breathing like he had the worst case of the Ponypocks.
"Ah don' even know who he is..."
Under a set of blankets a mind razed like a wildfire and several images came into his head. "What happened?...I remember...I was out, talking to...her..."it is time to train" she said.....I. nodded and....set myself ablaze but the pain it....it was new, my warmth could not take it..but now..I feel the warmth again in my body, it's soft...and delicate, how did I end up here? It was...a mare..orange mare..she came to me and released me from my fire...brought me here....where is here?....where am i.....Where am I...WHERE AM I?" With a jolt the colt opened up his eyes and got up from below the blankets and looked around, he was breathing rapidly and and his reptile eyes jolted around looking. The sun's rays and colors were visible on the horizon through the window, it's dawn. His gaze soon enough fell upon the floor when he saw her, an orange mare with blonde hair, mane in a ponytail and a traditional cowboy hat next to her on the floor. She was sleeping in a blanket herself...looks like she took it from her own bed...she..she slept beside him during the night? She was watching him, but why? He began to move like he was trying to get out of the couch, but he soon felt exhaustion fall upon him. "Maybe it's too early." He said before lying down again with the blankets covering up nicely and warms him good. He gave a small smile, as he was grateful to the orange mare for taking him here and....she's kinda pretty.
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He was standing upon the flourish green fields of the Everfree forest, he closed his eyes and inhaled through his nose to smell the wilderness and he was not disappointed by the fresh smell he was greeted with.
"It's time." A voice said behind him, he turned around and looked at the pony, the figure simply moved closer to him and whispered: "You have your orders, and target. Do not disappoint us." Before he could answer though, the figure disappeared in a sudden burst of flames, soon enough everything was on fire, he was screaming in pain.
A figure came racing towards him and calmed the fire. A pair of green eyes looked worried upon him before taking him away.
"So, you have never seen him before?
"No, but I wasn' going to leave him like that, would you Twi?"
"No no of course not, sorry I didn't mean it like that. I am just saying that after the Wedding we have to be careful of who we take in."
Who was talking? He could hear two voices, one familiar.
He tried to open his eyes but they quickly closed again feeling tired.
He didn't know for how long he slept, but soon enough he finally woke up and stretched out his forelegs with a long yawn as he saw on the couch looking around. There was no one here. He soon enough got out of bed, and used a levitation spell to put the blankets neatly together, before moving on. He didn't move long before he heard a somepony behind him and a young voice calling. "Hey Mister! Did you sleep well? Are you ok?" he turned around to see a small filly: A yellow coat with red mane with a cute bow in her hair.
He smiled at the young filly before answering. "Yes, I am feeling fine thank you. Would you mind telling me, where am I? Who brought me here? And...what is your name?"
The young filly smiled as she seemed very eager to help. "My name is Applebloom! You are at Sweet apple achres, the prized source of apples for Ponyville, a town not far from here, really down the road. And it was my sister Applejack who came here with you on her back Mister. And what is your name?"
He smiled and thought about it for a moment, maybe it was safe to tell. "I am Zorian, it's very nice to meet you Applebloom, do you know where I can find your sister?"
"She is out in our applefields bucking, as soon as she woke up she knew that she had to return to work, even though she wanted to stay and make sure you were safe." Zorian felt a sudden heat burn a bit in his stomach, she wanted to stay and check on him. A pony she had never met.
He smiled widely at the little pony and nodded. "Thanks Applebloom, I will find her myself." The filly nodded before running outside and down the road, she met a couple of other small fillies there, one of them were on a small wagon while the other one was on a scooter. One an dark orange one with a purple mane and driving the scooter while the other was snowwhite with a pretty little mix of colors in her mane sat in the wagon. Applebloom said something to the two other fillies that made them look over at him, he waved back and smiled before they waved as well.
They soon enough though yelled something and clapped their hoofs together before they drove off at the direction of, what he could guess was, Ponyville.
After seeing them disappear he trots down over the farm's grounds, admiring the huge building a long with the barn, he could see it was a great place, with quite a success. The great fields of apple trees were plenty, the animals they had seemed happy and right at home. Such a great place.
Soon enough he got into the apple fields when he saw her. Applejack was standing next to several trees and barrels beneath them all. She walked around and took her hindlegs back a bit before thrusting them forward, and struck the trees with such an force that the apples fell down and all landed in the barrels. Such an incredible strength.
He walked closer and called out . "Uh, hello! Miss Applejack." He said with a smile as he came closer to her, when she looked up at him, she gave a smile. After brushing the sweat off her forehead she also got a bit of an confused look on. "How do you know mah name?" "Your little sister Applebloom told me. She seems like a nice filly." He said with a nod before Applejack smiled again and took an empty barrel over to a nearby tree.
"I just wanted to thank you very much for saving my life out in the forest." "I was only happy to help partner, what is your name?" "It's Zorian and is there anything I can do in return for you saving my life?" He thought he had either asked it in a weird way or something like that, cause the sudden look the orange mare was giving him was a bit skeptical. "Ya'll are not about to pledge your entire life to help me are ya?" He looked at her confused. "What? Why would I do that?" She got a relieved look on her face as she bucked the tree and saw the apples fall down nicely. "Uhh...no reason."
Zorian then spend the next few hours helping out Applejack bucking the trees, though she was done with six by the time he had only bucked half of a trees apples down. She showed him ways to move his legs right and strike with the right amount of pressure and strength, and soon enough he was bucking more apples, he was still way behind, but at least he had made progress.
All the time they were working he kept looking at her strong body at work, he was nowhere the same strength as her but, there was something about her that made his stomach warm.
After a couple of trees were bucked down he looked at the farm and saw a big muscular colt walk towards the barn with a big barrel with a huge tower of apples on his back. "Hey Applejack, who is that?" He asks and nods towards the red colt. "Thata be my big brother Big Macintosh, we just call him Big Mac." "Like the food?" "What food?" "Never mind." They both laughed a bit before Zorian walked closer to her. "So Applejack. I just wondered, would it be alright with you if you could give me a tour around the town? It's my first time and I don't wanna get lost or anything.
The orange mare looked at him smiling before nodding. "Sure thing sugercube. Come on, Ah'll show ya the way." As she walked past him and towards the road he blushed a bit from her calling him Sugercube. "'Ey! Ya going to stare at apples all day?!" He heard from behind him, apparently she was waaay ahead of him. "hey wait! I'm coming!" He yelled as he ran up towards her, and soon they were both down the road and towards Ponyville.