//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Cold Snap // Story: Summer Camp Fun // by FireworksPOP //------------------------------// It was a quiet mourning in Glacier view summer camp, everyone was still asleep, while the sky stayed clouded and blocked the rising sun from view. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Well, maybe not that quiet. "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!" Actually, the whole camp is probably awake know. Violet and Camo sat strait up in there beds upon hearing the piercing screams. They looked around. Sunset, amazingly, was still asleep, mumbling something like, "Princess Celestia, I don't wanna go to magic school today, yesterday you almost killed me, half my mane is already burned off..." They turned there heads to the window where June was staring at with wide eyes and a shocked and scared expression on her face. "June, what happened?" Violet stretched and climb out of her bed. "WHAT is that?!" "June, it's just snow, wait, SNOW?! IT'S THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER!" Camo jumped out of her bed. "This is exactly what I've been waiting for! We need someone to take charge! I'm gonna wake up Sunset and I can finally get some orders to carry out!" Camo ran to Sunsets bed and jumped on top of her, yelling, "SNOW! WAKE UP!" Sunset sat up in bed, causing Camo to fall of. "Camouflage! Are you okay?" "Yhea, I'm fine, I'm more concerned about how you spent your childhood." Sunset tilted her head. "You were talking in your sleep." Camo stood up and ran to the window. "What's all the fuss about?" Sunset yawned and fallowed them to the window. "What the heck?" "This is crazy!" Violet smushed her face up against the window like Pinkie Pie does. "ATTENTION ALL COUNCILORS AND CAMPERS! MEET IN THE MESS HALL WITH THE WARMEST CLOTHES YOU CAN FIND FOR BREAKFAST, WE WILL BE SPENDING THE DAY INDOORS TODAY DUE TO THE SNOW. IT IS FIVE DEGREES OUTSIDE! PLEASE DO AS I HAVE INSTRUCTED!" The loud voice from the speaker outside stoped and Sunset looked back at her campers. "You guys find the warmest clothes you can, we need to get to the mess hall before our breakfast freezes." Sunset and her campers ran to the mess hall and burst through the doors, bits of snow covering them. They all sighed. It was freezing out there. How did that happen in the middle of summer? They went to the serving window and were delighted to see that breakfast was warm soup and cocoa. As they were getting there food, Camo started to look more confused than before. "Where's Ray?" "He's still in the cabin, cold blooded reptile, he's better off under the lamp in our cabin." Sunset turned around and saw Flash waving at her. She smiled and left her campers to find there tables. "Hello Mr. Goofball." "Why good mourning Ms. Fire hair." Sunset giggled and sat down next to him. "Hey, are you cold?" Flash tilted his head at noticing that Sunset was slightly shivering. "Na, I'm fine." Flash rolled his eyes and wrapped the other half of the blanket he had around her. "There's no point in trying to lie to me." "Fine, i'm am cold." Flash gave her a gentle kiss and smiled. "You think this cold snap is equestrian magic gone lose again?" "I sure hope not, the only equestrian magic that I can think of that could cause this are Windigos." "What's a Windigo?" "A winter spirit that feeds off of fighting and hatred and creates blizzards and cold weather, and Clover the Clever once said 'The more hate the spirt feels, the colder things become.' which is a close thing to this worlds greek mythology, that makes me wander what ever happened to Philomena." "No wander your right up there with Twilight in every class." Sunset shrugged and took of a her backpack. "I do wonder..." She pulled out the book she used to communicate with princess Twilight. Hey Twilight, you busy? Almost instantly the book vibrated. Hi Sunset! No not busy, need something? Just wondering, you know Philomena? You kidding? She made everyone think she had turned into a pile of ash the last time I saw her! Why? I was just wondering if she was still doing okay, I miss her. You know Pilomena? No, wait, of course you do! Celestia has had her for years! Yhea, I do. Can you say hi to Philomena and the other's for me? Sure, bye Sunset! Bye Twilight. Sunset slammed the book shut and stuffed it into her bag. "What's wrong?" "Celestia apparently told everyone that Philomena was always hers." "If you don't mind me asking, who is Pilomena?" "Philomena is a pheonix that I had to hatch from an egg with a high level spell I had to teach my self to get into Celestia's school, like Twilight, except Spike is a dragon, anyway, Philomena always made me feel better when I had a rough day as Celestia's student, which was almost everyday, she even snuck me a treat or two every now and then, and tried to help me learn spells so hopefully Celestia wouldn't get to use her 'unique' teaching methods on me, never worked completely but it helped." "I swear when we get home I'm gonna-" "Can't, Starlight or Spike would grab you before you made it even out of the room." "I was expecting you to say I couldn't get through because of the magical lock." "No, since were technically family now you would be able to go through." "Okay... good reason, man it is really coming down out there." He stared out on of the window, the snow was a blizzard now. "Your right, I feel something, it's very small but some form of magic is there." "Were in the united states were there is a portal to another dimension that keeps on throwing magic everywhere, there's always a little magic in the air." "Yhea, your right, hey, you remember me ever mentioning someone named Tirek or Chrysalis?" "So let me get this strait, Chrysalis and the changelings can impersonate anyone they want without any effort?" "Yep." "And Tirek feeds off of magic and the princesses put all there magic into Twilight because he didn't know that a fourth princess existed?" "Pretty much sums it up." "Your old world's history is so much cooler than ours." "Hey, I like this worlds history, I think it's fascinating how thing happened in equestria are similar, for instance, world war one and two, the ponies so Equestria didn't get along in the past so they went to war and in the end they made a compromise and-" "Seriously, no wonder your right up there with Twi." Sunset nudged his shoulder and let out a girlish giggle, both of them oblivious to the fact that Wallflower was staring at them. "So, how long do you think it will snow like this?" "Hmm...I'll go with the rest of today." "I say today and Tomorrow mourning." "Deal." "Is it me or did it just get colder in here?" The cook walked out of the kitchen holding a piece of a broken thermostat. "I'll go get some blankets and warm up more soup." He guiltily walked back to the kitchen. Fern face palmed. "Just great. Attention all camperes I am going to turn on a movie, don't complain if you have seen it a million times before because I don't care." She began to set up a movie screen and a projector. It turned out to be a movie about a farm girl who lived with her aunt and uncle, and got whisked away by a tornado to a strange land. "Have you seen this before?" Sunset said and bit into a piece of toast. "Yhea, it's one of my sisters favorites, and when Scootaloo comes over and I have to watch them it's on all day." "Scootaloo?" "She's... my cousin, one of the three who started Anon-a-MIss and terrorized the school." "I didn't know she was your cousin." "Well you never asked, and she's a second or third cousin, but she's around so often she's like another sister." "I'm just glad she has her aunt's to watch out for her while her parents are on tomb raids, and the CMC to keep her company, and even Rainbow Dash. You know, your all really lucky to have each other, I know what life feels like alone, it's horrible." "Well were lucky to have each other." he let her lean into him and he slowly stroked her crimson red hair. "Flash? You think we could die during a magic battle one day?" "I know it's possible, that giant toaster wasn't magic, yet it still destroyed the auditorium and almost killed you! And guess what they did with the giant toast?" "What?" "Remember that day right after when lunch had a side of something big and square shaped?" "You have got to be kidding." "I'm not! Micro even tested it! It was the giant toast from the fight!" "That's crazy, and unsanitary. Glad I had packed my lunch that day." "Sandalwood wasn't so lucky." "Wow. Just wow. Who was the one who decided to put that in our lunch anyway?" "Don't tell Applejack, but after I finished eating I left to go get my guitar, or well, check to make sure it hadn't been crushed, when I saw Granny Smith dragging a piece inside mumbling something about it being perfect for the next days lunch." "I definitely won't tell AJ." "That might be a good thing, she has super strength and could probably snap someone in half." "I know! Once Rainbow decided to try her bass, and lets just say in the end you could call her soccer ball a pancake." "That don't sound like a good reason." "Rainbow got a little carried away and started to hit it on the floor." "Okay, now that makes sense." Someone snuck up behind them. "I know your back there and trying to scare us who ever you are." Sunset turned around fallowed by Flash. "Sunburst? What did I tell you?" Flash had an annoyed expression on his face. "Set an example for the campers, I know I know." He walked back to the table and handed a dollar to Canoe. "You won this round." They herd him say. Flash and Sunset turned there attention back to the movie, while the snow storm went on out side and the ground was turned white along with everything else.