//------------------------------// // Night of Fire // Story: Equestria's chain of conflicts // by Dranz_89 //------------------------------// During the silent nights in Ponyville, some ponies like to visit the very same cafe where Twilight and Applejack use to meet and talk, the Silver Café. Inside its walls, lots of exhausted ponies stop by for a well deserved rest and time to relax. Some ponies join with their friends, some ponies join with their crush, and some others just drink to drown their sorrow. Next to the bar, there are three young mares talking with the bartender. "And she fired you again?" a not so surprised grey earth pony wearing glasses asked, trying to confirm what she just heared, "seriously, it's like the sixth time this week." While she was cleaning one of the glasses. "Fourth time... We really messed up back then, but only I got fired" said the depressed unicorn, "It's not like she can fire Spike, right?". Then a dizzy looking orange pegasus took the word, "hey! Look at the... bright side..." she said, interrupted by her hiccup and trying to be funny, "at least Spai... Spike is the ones who has to deal with da ragin' witch.... I mean Twi... Twil... zzzzzz." "Sweetie Belle, how is it possible you get fired every single day?" said a pale yellow colored earth pony, "it's not like you to be this irresponsible" then looking at a snoring Scootaloo, she asked to the bartender "how many cups has she drunk?" "Only two... and it's just milk" said the bartender, then, she kept the important conversation going, "Sweetie, you're not the greatest worker in town but I don't think you can be the worst one." "It's easy for you to say, you both work for yourselves!" said Sweetie Belle justifying herself, "it's just that, working is so boring, so I keep distracting myself with every single thing, and we all know Spike isn't the most responsible partner to work with." Then Scotaloo woke up and yelled, "Anothar round, Silver Spoon!", she fell asleep immediately after. After a really long night at Silver Cafe, the midnight finally came and the time to sleep had come. Even for the hard working Applejack, but the quietness of the night lasted only a few minutes, a huge roar could be heard pretty close of Sweet Apple Acres. "What in all the apples was that?" Applejack woke up, and yawning she took a look at the window, "Ah could swear I hear a loud burp or somethin', must have been those new musicians neighbors..." then, after an even closer roar, a rain of fire started to fall on several areas of the orchards, followed by a huge red dragon. Jumping out from the window, Applejack rushed and found a huge dragon throwing fire at the trees. "Whoa there, big guy, whatcha think you're donin'?" the dragon, looking down on the pony, just hit her away with her huge tail, and kept on with his rampage. "Applejack!" a familiar voice yelled to her, it was Twilight and Spike riding on her back. "We'll deal with him together!" she exclaimed, and Big Macintosh appeared next to Applejack, "Eeeyup!", he said in his unique and calmed posture. "All Right!" Applejack said standing on her hooves again and taking her rope, "Yeeeehaw!" the dragon turned his head towards the ponies after hearing Applejack's warcry. Twilight easily made herself grew up a pair of wings with her magic and lifted the flight with Spike still on her back, she skillfully flew around the dragon as Spike fired at him a really decent firebreath for his age. The dragon kept struggling to hit Twilight down, meanwhile the two earth ponies tied the dragon's legs, and as a final blow, Twilight started to spin around her own axis and attacked the dragon while Spike wrapped himself and Twilight with is own firebreath to create a sharp fire arrow. The dragon was knocked down imminently, putting an end to his sudden rage. "Wow!" Spike surprised exclaimed, "I can't believe we made it! We knocked out a huge dragon, Twilight!" The unicorn ending her magic said, gazing at the orchards, "but lots of apple trees were heavily damaged, and why didn't the dragon use his fire to attack us?" Applejack and Big Macintosh were speechless to see how a big number of apple trees burnt, the dragon suddenly stood up and flew his escape to the southwest before anypony could do something about it. The ponies just watched him fly away just before the pegasi fire fighters came to control the fire caused by the dragon. The next day, Applebloom was standing in front of the now old Cutie Mark Crusaders house club. "What's the matter blank flank?" an annoying voice of a light pink colored earth pony called taking care of her white and violet mane. "Not now Diamond Tiara..." Applebloom stopped her while looking down. "Sorry, cheering up ponies isn't really my strong point" Diamond Tiara said palming Applebloom's back, "but hey, it has never been right?" she said while smiling unconvincingly. "I'm here to help you restore the apple trees. A lot of ponies came from all over Ponyville to help. Aren't you coming?" "I was just thinking... maybe I shouldn't have left the farm. Now my home was destroyed and I wasn't even around." "Come on! What could you do if a huge dragon attacks your home. And besides, it wasn't even your home, it was just the apple trees." "That makes me feel a lot better!" Applebloom said sarcastically, "come, I have some new tools in the workshop to help planting the seeds." "That's surprisingly convenient right now" Diamond Tiara said while she walked beside Applebloom. Twilight and Applejack agreed to visit Princess Celestia after they sent a letter. What they didn't know is that this was going to be a lot more than a simple visit to the princess, this is how their new quest was beginning. Every resident of Ponyville was in Sweet Apple Acres to restore the apple trees, it was an act of fellowship and support, showing their appreciation, respect, and good wishes towards the Apple family. Everypony was helping them, and bringing them foods and drinks to cheer the family up. But among all the ponies around, a couple of them stood out from the others. "HEY HEY HEY, PONYVILLE! Let's do our best helping the Apple family! YEAH!" "Vinyl! if you're not going to help, at least, could you please be quiet?" "Awww, loosen up, Tavi! Haven't you heard that music helps plants to grow up?" "Octavia! My name is Octavia! And wubs isn't what I would call music" "Now now, let's not make one of your famous shows in front of everypony, ok?" "My famous shows?! It's your fault that the whole townsfolk knows us as the new insane neighbors!" "Come on! It's not insane to be roommates, a lot of ponies live that way." "Arrgh! You know what? Forget it! I'm just wasting my time, in fact, I believe I'm wasting my whole life... what did I do wrong? how did I end up like this?"