It was a quiet night in the city of Canterlot, it was passed the midnight time, just another day like any other day of any other week, not many shops were open and you could barely find anyone out, those who were still in the streets were not that different, some of these people were going back to their houses after a long day of work, others were starting the day with a nightshift, poor souls that had to work with that feeling of tiredness and the desire to sleep just a few more hours. Although you could see someone on the streets most of Canterlot’s citizens, both adults and kids were already in bed.
On one of these lonely street a young woman was just going back home with her groceries, she was humming a happy tune without realizing that the path she was walking was darker than others, not many of the streets’ lights were working but that should not be a problem, that is, of course, until an incredibly loud roar sounded right behind her back, completely frightened the woman just turned back, when she did this she saw a beast, it was green without a precise form, with a colour that changed between green and pure black, the woman wanted to shout but before she could she was sliced into pieces, the beast’s claws had killed her before she could breathe once more.
The beast then ate the woman’s soul, a small ethereal blue sphere that was what remained, her pure essence, after that the monster was much stronger but also much hungrier as well, the beast wanted more and for their pleasure another woman had just seen what had happened, just as before this poor soul tried to run and escape, the beast began to chase her and the woman was trapped now fearing for her life, then, a shot was heard.
The monster turned around and saw that on top of a building there was a shadow with a revolver on their right hand, the weapon still had steam coming out of it due to the recent shot, the beast quickly understood that the new shadow could be a great threat so it decided that the best thing to do would be to just end them, sure that their soul would be equally delicious. The monster got ready and jumped having the mystic saviour as objective, even though the distance that now separated both was less than 2 meters the shadow didn’t move, they just waited half a second more, then raised their arm and with a powerful shot they ended the beast.
The saviour wanted to check on the poor woman but she had took the opportunity to run away without looking back, well, right then it did not matter, there were more important things to do like check their actual status, now the revolver had changed her form showing that she was a young girl with puffy curly pink hair, not tall at all [around 1,55m ( 5 feet and 1 inch)], but clearly the mayor characteristic was her gloomy smile and the happiness that she irradiated.
“Come on AJ, why are you sad?”, said the girl with curiosity
“It’s nothing sugar cube, but you know Pinkie, it’s just that maybe we could have saved that girl”, said her colleague AJ, unlike her companion she was sturdy, tall and with a whole bunch of muscles that came from constant work and training.
“But Applejack, you know that we are here to protect people but that we can’t always save everyone, right?”, answered Pinkie starting to worry about her companion’s wellbeing
Looking at Pinkie Applejack got out of her trance and answered trying to try and lift up the team’s spirit “Of cours’ I know, c’mon cousin don’t be sad, pick up the demon’s soul and let’s go back home”
After this Pinkie went back to be her gloomy self, she then went to were the beast had fallen to pick up its soul, unlike the humans’ blue souls this one was red as blood, luckily now that Pinkie, a weapon who was working, was going to eat it, that would be one demon to not worry about. After she ate it you could feel that even if it was not a substantial change, she now had gained a little more power which also meant that Applejack and her were a step closer to their objective.
“I have always asked myself what those things taste like”, said AJ while both started to walk back to their shared apartment.
“Well, it’s like if you eat a dry pastry, it’s bitter but if it could be saltier that would be nice”, said Pinkie as if that definition made any sense.
“Well sugar cube, with tonight’s soul we now have 52 in total, 47 seven more changeling souls, a witch soul and ya’ll be a Death’s weapon, that’s pretty good since we hav’ only been here less than 6 months” replied AJ trying to get her companion and cousin into the mission
“OH, I know silly, we’ll keep saving people and then I’ll be super-duper powerful, you didn’t think that I had forget right?”, Pinkie put a silly face trying to show that she was annoyed, still, she failed since her cousin knew her pretty well, just after a few seconds of trying to be serious she could not keep her laugh any longer.
“Of course not sugar cube, not even granny forget important things, I wouldn’t expect ya to do so”, AJ was now much animated thanks to Pinkie, her cousin always knew how to make her smile.
“That’s great but wait, what do we have for diner?”, that was a good question now that both thought about it. When going out at the sun set, they didn’t realise at what time they would go back home so they didn’t have time to prepare anything before going out to be heroes.
“Well, we could, umm, I guess we could go and buy something at the minimarket, it’s still open”, the natural response given the situation they were in, frankly not AJ or Pinkie wanted to cook and, overall Pinkie was mostly good when making desserts not actual food.
With a face of decision Pinkie stopped her walking and turned around to look directly at her cousin, she had just had an idea, “I guess that we could do that AJ, or, we could go to Fluttershy’s place, she always makes a bunch of food”
“Well, it’s true that Fluttershy always say that we can go anytime and she also cooks delicious so ok, sure that Flutters and Rainbow will appreciate the visit”, said AJ with more hunger and tiredness than other thing
“That’s the spirit AJ!”, “Let’s go!”, and that’s how that night’s heroes started to walk towards their friends’ place, but what will Rainbow say about this situation, she sure won’t agree in sharing her food but that’s just Rainbow being herself.
Sure, that tomorrow will be a great day for these and many more heroes in Celestia’s Death Weapon and Meister Academy, we will see