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// Their Lives Before 
// Story: Blazing Night 
// by P and J discoveries 
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	Night Fury swung the deep violet feather-shaped sword at the rice sack dummy, and without anyone actually seeing her cut it, it split in two and rice poured all over the floor. "Nice job, Ms. Fury. You were well trained in Ponyville in the art of melee. You do know," the testing mare said, "that you should only use your sword-"
"In a self defense situation, when I'm protecting myself or another pony, yes." Night Fury replied, finishing the mares sentence. "My teacher, Clean Cut, knew the rules, and always drilled that into my head."
The testing mare said, "Very good. Next, your 'opponent' will be a thick block of wood, quebracho, to be exact." Night Fury knew quebracho wood was hard to cut, incredibly strong. But she also knew that her sword was made of some of the finest material - steel tapered from a stray meteor that landed near Ponyville. Silently Night Fury swung the sword and the block, cut diagonally, slowly slid apart. "Wonderful! Your final test - a block of iron to split," the mare said.
"I've been waiting for this one," Night Fury said. Jumping to the top of the enormous iron block, she sliced it incredible quick, in loads of different directions. Large iron chunks rained down off of the block, and three ponies were sculpted from the iron. In the place of the enormous rectangular prism stood a statue of Night Fury herself, Buzz, and Blaze Shotsworth, standing like a team. 
"That," the mare said, "was incredible! You should be proud, and you can take that to your dorm. You may head back to Mr. Fog's room now." Night Fury walked out of the room, seeing Shotsworth walk out of her own test room. 
"Check it out, Night Fury," Shotsworth said, holding up an arrow as we started walking back to Mr. Fog's room together, "this is the arrow my foster mom gave me. Wonderful silver, expensive or not, I don't know. But it seems a bit expensive."
Night Fury still held her sword in her hoof, said, "My sword was made of steel off of a meteor that hit the outskirts of Ponyville."
"Nice," she replied. "Y'know, I don't completely understand why Buzz hates me. Other than the fact that I sat in your old seat, of course."
Night Fury said, "You look like his mother." Shotsworth just stared at Night Fury, obviously confused. "His mother had been a white unicorn with a deep red mane, similar to the color at the bottom of yours. Hers was solid though, and she had the same dark blue eyes as you. Even her magic was the same color. That could be the reason he dislikes you so much."
"Do you have a picture of her, cause I'm pretty skeptical," Shotsworth told her, and Night Fury could understand. 
Night Fury replied, "Yeah, I have a copy of the picture that came in his card. You want to know the reason- Oh, wait, there's a note on Mr. Fog's door."
Blaze began to read the note, "'Fillies, don't worry. The class isn't in the room because we went outside for some Agricultural Science learning. The headmaster came in and said the students need to learn how to raise crops if they ever plan on living on a large bit of land. Come and join us.' Well, that explains a lot."
"Well, like I was saying," Night Fury continued with her previous story, "the reason Buzz hates his parents, and mine for that matter, is because our families dumped us here when we were younger."
"That's deep," Blaze interupted.
Night Fury kept going with her story the whole way to the garden outside the academy. Blaze was silent most of the way, only saying short sentences consisting of at least 2 words. Mr. Fog met them at the entrance of the garden, and said, "Hello, girls! Welcome to the garden, feel free to eat any of the ripe fruit or vegetables." Night Fury gazed at the new additions to the garden - plants like crystal berries were added, kept in pots filled with the emerald green grasses of the Crystal Empire. 
"Whoa, you guy added crystal berries to the garden?" Night Fury was amazed by the gorgeous multicolored berries. She picked a fat golden one and bit deep into it. "Mmm, I love tes tings!" she said, golden juice dripping down her cheek. Blaze spotted Buzz, nose scrunched and deep red cheeks showing a heavy emotion of love and lust.
Blaze told Night Fury, "Not to alarm you, and don't scream it after I tell you, but I think Buzz likes you more than a sister." Night Fury looked, not astounded, but like she's heard that before.
"I know. Just the way he looks at me gives it away." Buzz had looked away from Night Fury and was nibbling a strawberry, his face almost completely red. One of the other colts in class nudged him and started to tease him about how embarrassed he looked. 
"Well, it seems the rest of the class knows too." Blaze said softly.
Night Fury replied, "Yeah, they've always known. Just because of a right guess and blushy lovey mare hormones. I went into this state of stuttering, lip nibbling, and rubbing my mane with my hooves." Blaze could understand, she'd met a colt who made her act like that as well. "And of course, since my class knew me so well, they knew it meant I liked him." 
"I've gone through that myself," Blaze told Night Fury, her own blush becoming immensely evident. "Geode, that's who it was for me. Oh, Faust, he had the most toned, muscular, lean, stone gray body, and a mane looking like layers in a stone cliff. But his EYES! My Celestia, they were so gorgeous, a very light turquoise, just- aaagh! I miss him so much..."
"Wait," Night Fury said, "'Geode' as in the famous geologist unicorn, 'Geode'?!"
Blaze looked startled. Had she never put two and two together? "H-he's the fa-famous geologist? Faust, I haven't been in touch with him for so long, I never knew..."
"All right, students, it's time to head in for dinner," said Mr. Fog. Buzz hurried to be the first one inside, his red face still visible as a red berry amongst green ones.
Blaze sighed contently and said, "Finally! I'm starving, and exhausted..." As soon as dinner was over, she went to the room she shared with no one, and passed out.





A soft motion of the bed, and the hush of somepony moving the silky covers startled Night Fury. She leapt from her bead, almost ready to defend herself. A still sleeping form climbed into her bed, it's horn and enormous mane showing the evident identity. 
"Blaze... Blaze..." Night Fury whispered, hoping to wake the young unicorn. It did nothing more than slightly stir her. "Blaze! You need to wake up..." This time, she seemed to attempt to say, "Just let me sleep, Mom...", but all she could mumble out was, "Jis... lemme hace fi... mubbull...".
A quiet creak of an old hinge brought Night Fury's attention to her door. A tan pegasus colt stood in the doorway, a curious look on his face. "Night Fury, is Shotsworth in here? I was heading to the bathroom and saw her coming in here."
"Uh-huh," Night Fury replied, skepticism in her voice, "You were going to the bathroom... in the Mare's dormitory section? And don't say you got lost, I've been gone for several years and I STILL remember every hall in this school."
Buzz stammered for just a few moments, then turned red and raced off, his wings beating quickly. Night Fury walked over to Blaze's sleeping form, shaking her and sometimes saying "Shotsworth, come on, wake up." When she finally stirred and said, "Whah?" Night Fury told her, "Come on, let's get you back to your own room. You must've been sleepwalking." 
"Oh. Y-yeah, I... I do that sometimes..." Blaze mumbled. Once she was back in her room, Night Fury returned to her very own, finally able to rest peacefully.