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// The four fighters 
// Story: The Super Naturals 
// by LillyBreeze 
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Flowerheart locked up her shop for the night. She could hear the flowers wishing her a good night. She smiled to herself as she walked home. Her pale yellow coat shone in the moonlight and her brown mane and tail swayed in the breeze. As she approached her house, she used her magic to open the door. She greeted her flowers and went to get a sandwich. As she cut the tomato up she thought about her day. The exotic flowers she sold were earning her enough to go and visit her parents. She layed the tomato on the crisp lettuce and went to sit down. She bit into the sandwich, the tomato and lettuce swarmed her taste buds. After she had finished and cleaned up she went to bed. As she was falling asleep she thought about her modified talent. 

{begin flashback}

Flowerheart trotted down the grassy path. The filly was beaming, she had just earned her cutie mark. It turned out that her talent was looking after flowers. She slowed down to smell a lily when she felt hot breath on her back. She turned round and screamed. A great beast was looming over her. She screamed again and started galloping away. The beast started to follow her but stopped beside a cliff ledge. Flowerheart had fallen down, tumbling head over heels. She landed at the bottom in front of a lake. She gasped, it was the lake of dreams. Her mother had told her about it. If you drank from it, it would grant you one wish. Flowerheart leaned over and drank deeply. 

"I wish, I hope I pray...please let me hear the flowers"

She finished drinking and had sat down when a mare landed in front of her. 

"Princess Luna!"
"Yes my dear, lets get you home"
"ok" Flowerheart nodded. 

She climbed onto Luna's back and before she knew it, she was back home in bed.

{end flashback}

Flowerheart smiled, and went to sleep.





Shimmershy said goodbye to her last customer then swapped the sign on the shop door from open, to closed. She turned round and walked through a door into a stock room, full of animal food. She weighed out animal food for all seventy cages of animals. A bit of cat food got on her hoof and she flew over to the sink to wash it off. As she washed her hoof she looked at herself in the mirror. Her teal coat was contrasted perfectly by the pink mane that hung over her shoulder. She smiled and went back to feeding the animals. 

"Thanks you" they squeaked as the gobbled down their food. 
"You are welcome my dear animals" she said and trotted out the shop. She flew off into the night, thinking of how her talent became modified. She swooped down and with a flash of light, transformed into a little teal and pink humming bird. She flew through the trees to the place where the change had first taken place. 

{begin flashback}

Shimmer was eating a fairy cake while sitting in a meadow. This was her escape place. If she every wanted time to herself she would come her. She sat looking up at the sky when a blinding light flashed in front of her. It was just the reflection of the sun against her locket but it had a strange effect. Shimmer sat up again after falling in surprize, and continued her day dreaming. 

"I wish I could turn into a bird"

She thought to herself, when there was another blinding flash and there she was, a teal and pink humming bird.

{end flashback}

Shimmer smiled, and opened the door to her home. She went to her bedroom, and settled down in the cloud bed. The softness and warmth of the bed soon took over and she was fast asleep.





Strongshield smiled to himself as he trotted down the hall way towards his bed room. He looked in the mirror at his own reflection and grinned. His vibrant orange coat was brighter than ever and his deep blue mane and tail hung loosely at his side. He went over and lay down in his bed. His horn glowed with a white aura as he turned off his light. He lay down and concentrated on casting the spell that protected all of Equestria from invaders. As he finished the spell he recalled how he was able to pull off a spell that no pony else was able to, not even Starswirl was. 

{begin flashback}

A small foal lay in a hospitable bed. Sweat poured down his face, his chest was rising and falling rapidly. He could hear his mother and a doctor talking outside his hospital room. Suddenly three doctor ponies wheeled the bed the foal was in out of the room into a bigger room, a surgery area. That was all he could remember, then he blacked out.

{end flashback}

Strongsheild grimaced. When he was a foal he had to have key hole surgery on his heart to remove a blood clot. It was all going well when the doctors lost a piece of equipment and, in looking for it, knocked off his oxygen. He woke up, saw the hole, and his heart rate increased by a huge amount. When they settled him down and fixed everything,  they finished the surgery, unaware that the panic attack and sudden increase of heart beats had given him a sudden boost of adrenalin. Anyway, something had happened during the adrenalin rush that had increased his magic, and he could now perform the most advanced spells. Strongsheild smiled, and went to sleep





Songbird put her microphone away, put on her scarf, and started to trot home. Her white mane was plastered to her blue coat with apple cider. During her gig at the pub someone reacted.......well, lets just say she ended up getting cider over her. Once she got home she dived into the shower, and let the hot water soak into her fur, pulling out all the sticky cider. After she had dried herself, she lay down in bed and started to sing a lullaby. As she started to sing she began to feel sleepy, that was the effect of her talent. Ever since she was little she had been able to control ponies emotions through song. She had never questioned it, it was just like that. She smiled, curled up, and went to sleep