Frost Bite!
A fanfic by Englishwitch
Chapter 3
Rainbow Dash tackled the snow-ninja (sninja) in the chest. The snow collapsed around her, giving way and she passed right through its broad chest, she spiralled down and slammed into a small snow drift on the ground.
The sninja laughed as the pegasus stumbled around trying to clear the snow from her eyes. Applejack and Rarity saw Rainbow through the huge hole in the monsters chest. A large hollow circle the size of Rainbow Dash, had been blasted through it. Almost half its chest was just gone but the icy monster wasn’t fazed at all.
As they stared hole shrank, filling with snow and healing the sninja.
Rarity’s horn started to glow, “Applejack, be a dear and distract that horrid thing for a moment?”
Applejack snorted, steam rising from her mouth, “With pleasure.” she charged forward. The sninja took a defensive stance as Applejack spun around and bucked with all her might, the icy monster deflected the blow with its arms.
Rainbow Dash flew up behind him and dove, the sninja seemed to sense her coming, it leapt into the air, spinning around and over Dash’s head. Dash tilted her wings to avoid hitting the ground, the sninja kicked, whacking Dash in the small of the back. She cried out in pain, the blow knocked her out of the air and into Applejack. The two ponies tumbled together in a tangle of tails and hooves, they rolled for several feet through the snow before coming to a stop by slamming into a tree trunk.
“Ow,” Dash groaned, “that didn’t go the way I imagined it would.” the two of them rolled and pushed against each other to untangle themselves.
The sninja’s attention was caught by the icicles hanging from the lowest branch of the tree Applejack and Rainbow Dash were under, their points sharp and glinting in the moonlight. “Watashi wa kore o shūryō shi, u!!” it scooped up a snowball from the ground and launched it, all in one swift movement. It shot with the speed of a bullet toward Applejack and Rainbow Dash. The two ponies were on their feet when the snowball shot between them and slammed into the trunk.
Rainbow laughed, “you missed!”
Applejack heard the noise of the branches shuddering above them, “He didn’t,” she shoved Rainbow hard then leapt back just in time. The sharp icicles fell in the space where the two of them had been just a second ago. The spikes fell through the snow and embedded themselves in the frozen ground.
The sninja grabbed another snowball, its eyes glowed furiously. “Korera no ponī o konran ni, karera wa watashi ga nomu tame ni unten suru.”
“Look-out, here comes Tom!”
The sninja turned to the source of the yell. Too late, it was met with a wall of flying granite. Tom the boulder slammed into it like a runaway truck. The sheer brute force of the blow smashed his icy body into a cloud of snowflakes. Only the head survived being smashed it spiralled through the air before landing on the cold ground.
Rarity used her magic to levitate Tom back to her side, “thank you Tom darling.” she said in a low voice, she didn’t need others to know that she was keeping it around.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash picked themselves up, brushing snow from their bodies. “Thanks sugar-cube, perfect timin’.”
Rainbow nudged AJ with a hoof, “I don’t think it’s over yet.” she pointed to a snowdrift which was slowly growing. The sninja’s head was sitting atop the drift, gathering snow to itself and rebuilding its body.
Applejack adjusted her hat, “well let’s get this done. Rainbow, go long.”
Rainbow Dash grinned, “gotcha,” she took off into the air as Applejack charged toward the sninjas head. The monster roared, its eyes wide in fright as the earth pony raced at him. At the last second Applejack spun around then bucked its head clear off its non-existent shoulders. It sailed up in the air like a football.
Rainbow Dash dove downwards, an evil grin on her face. “Dash comes in from the rear, she prepares for the kick,” she swung her back legs forward, her g-force adding extra power to the blow. She kicked the sninja in the face, sending it up even higher, “it’s up!” Dash grinned as she watched the snow-human’s head fly onwards up and up out of Ponyville and toward the Everfree forest. Rainbow rose her hooves over her head, “and IT’S GOOD!”
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The triumphant trio walked back through the now abandoned town square. Rarity was levitating Tom behind her while Rainbow Dash and Applejack shared a hoof-bump. Shadows peeked at them from windows.
“Well, I’m glad that is over,” Rarity adjusted her scarf, wrapping it tighter around her neck. “I wonder what that monster was.”
“and where’d it came from,” Applejack added.
Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy emerged from the interior of sugar-cube-corner, the three cutie mark crusaders were right behind them. “I think we can answer that,” Twilight said as she looked at the three fillies, “girls?”
The crusaders shrank down on their haunches, their ears pinned to their heads. “Sweetie Belle was the first to speak, “it was my fault.”
“No it ain’t,” Apple Bloom interrupted, “Sweetie didn’t even wanna cast that spell, we made her do it,”
“Right,” Scootaloo nodded, “none of this would’ve happened if I weren’t for us. If you’re gonna blame anypony, blame us.” she indicated Apple Bloom and herself.
“Scoots?” came the voice of Lyra as she and Bon-bon rounded a nearby corner, their eyes lit up as they caught sight of their daughter. Scootaloo rushed over to her adoptive parents, straight into Bon-bon’s forelegs and a tight hug.
Lyra smiled gratefully to Rainbow Dash, “Thank you, we knew you’d keep her safe.”
Dash smiled with pride, “hey, no problem. Any time.”
Scootaloo hugged Bon-bon tighter, “Moms, I’m sorry, we didn’t mean for this to happen.” Bon-bon looked down at her child with some confusion.
“Scootaloo, what’s the matter?”
Pinkie popped up into the middle of the group, carrying a tray full of mugs of freshly made hot chocolate. “Hey everypony, it’s cold out here, c’mon in before your hoofsies freeze.”
Twilight was grateful the tension had been broken. She took one of the mugs in her magic. “I think we should all go inside and the girls can fill us all in, from the beginning.”
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Deep in the Everfree forest the disembodied head of the snow-human-ninja came crashing to the ground. It lay still for several minutes in the frozen glade, the light in its hollow eyes was dim and cold.
It had been defeated, dishonoured and decapitated. More than that it had been humiliated, cast aside and knocked deep into the forest like the battle had been a childish game. It would not stand for this. It would have its revenge.
Its eyes started to glow brighter. Above its head the branches of the trees shook as snow fell downwards. The flakes gathered into clumps, the clumps into snowballs. Larger and larger they grew, every scrap of snow in the area was moving toward it. It shifted and shaped, moved like liquid underneath the head, picking it up and perching it on slowly forming shoulders.
There forest canopy was thick, it had stopped a lot of the snow reaching the floor and low branches. The snow-human was barely two feet tall, its limbs were tiny and malformed, the head was comically huge compared to its tiny baby sized body. Not enough snow, not enough at all. But it was enough to get it mobile and that would suffice for now.
“Anata no unmei, ponī-mura ni chokumen suru junbi o!”
CRACK!
The sninja spun and faced the sound of the breaking branch. It was met with a pair of green glowing eyes. The tiny sninja looked up and up and up, taking in the huge body of the monstrous timberwolf. The timberwolf growled, each of the wooden stakes that made up its teeth were as large as the sninja’s head.
The sninja put its tiny body into an attacking stance, “Watashi o nakama ni kuru!”