"W-what?!" Applejack exclaimed "No! She cant be dead!" She shouted at her brother before running upstairs, crying.
"Applej-" Blazing Streak was interrupted by a door slamming. Oh no...
She was going to follow Applejack when she saw something in the corner of her eye. She turned her head to look at it but it was gone before she could see it. Shrugging it off, she turned back to Big Mac and put a hoof on his shoulder reassuringly. He just dipped his head slowly and went back to the kitchen. Blazing then flew up the stairs towards Applejack's room. She put her ear against the door. She heard Applejack sobbing.
"Hey, AJ?" She said, knocking lightly.
"L-leave me alone." was Applejack's only reply,
"Come on Applejack, it's not right for you to suffer alone, it will tear at your heart." Hearing no reply, she continued; "You've been there for me when I've been upset and now I need to return the favor." Again, there was no reply so she slowly opened the door. Applejack was curled up on her bed, her hat and mane ties strewn about the floor.
Blazing walked up to the bed and sat down next to her. She looked up for a bit, revealing tears streaming down her face. It hurt Blazing Streak to see her like this. Applejack then scooted close to Blazing and pulled her into a hug, crying into her shoulder. In response to this, Blazing hugged back tightly and started to stroke Applejack's mane as comfortingly as she could. She knew how hard it was to lose someone close, but for her, this was much worse, though she hid it. She needed to be strong for Applejack.
"W-why?" Applejack started. "First Ma, then Pa, n' now this." Blazing Streak pressed her nose against her marefriend's silky mane. "Ah should have been there. Ah could've helped in some way! I-it's all mah fault!" Blazing streak flinched a bit at this.
"No Applejack, this isn't your fault, I wont have you saying it's your fault, you did nothing wrong. Things like this happen to everypony eventually. Granny, is in a better place now, she'll be watching over you for all eternity. Endlessly proud of her strong, brave, kind, dependable, honest, hard working, beautiful daughter." Applejack blushed at the last bit. "Should I go on?" Blazing streak added as an after thought. "She had a good, long life to see you grow up, and I don't have a doubt in my mind that she's content with it." Blazing streak ended her speech, she wasn't normally that good with words, but in an important situation like this, she could manage.
"Ah don't want ta lose any pony else..." Applejack said in between sobs, Blazing's speech seemed to have helped.
"Don't you worry about that, AJ. Let's not worry about the future and stick to the present for now. Now let it all out, it will help you feel better." Blazing reassured her, rubbing her back and pecking her on the cheek as she sobbed quietly.
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Blazing Streak opened her eyes. She was in Applejack's room after promising to stay with her afterlast night's events. She looked over to the clock, '3:57 am. Before she could go back to sleep, a flash of white appeared in the center of the room, forcing Blazing Streak to cover her eyes.
"Hello, Blazing." A familiar voice came from where the bright light was. Blazing Streak looked up to see a tall stallion with an orange mane, Blue pelt and Brown eyes. Blazing Streak's eyes widened as she recognized who the stallion was.
"D-dad?! Is that really you?" Blazing Streak squeaked out. The stallion chuckled a bit before nodding and spreading his arms out, signalling for a hug. Blazing Streak carefully got out of bed to avoid waking Applejack and was instantly wrapped in a hug with her deceased father.
"It's great to see my little flame so happy in her new life." He said, a smile growing on his face. Blazing Streak now had tears rolling down her cheeks. After all this time, her father was there, infront of her. Blazing didn't know if this was a dream, or reality. Eight years of isolation and pain started to escape from her heart as she quietly cried into her father's glowing dark blue pelt.
"I missed you so much, Dad." She whimpered.
"W-where's mum?"
"She is watching over you and she is proud of you, just like I am, but I'm afraid she could not come here, in death, we are forbidden to walk with the living unless we have an important message or warning." He pulled away from the hug and held his daughter's shoulders with his front hooves.
"Listen carefully to what I have to say." He stood up straight before continuing:
"whispers of the night will bring death, an army of darkness, without end" The stallion started to fade away.
"What? What do you mean? Don't go!" Her father vanished in a flash of light. "Dad!" She called, but it was too late, he was gone, leaving Blazing Streak standing in the middle of the room. She heard Applejack stirring in her bed.
"Mh.. Blazin'? What're ya'll doin? who are ya talking to?" She sleepily asked.
"...Dad?..." Blazing Streak replied, quietly, though half attempting to call her father back. She slowly walked back to bed. "Sorry I woke you." She said.
"Ya'll okay sugar cube? Ah woke up to ya standin' there in the middle of the room, lookin' like ya jus' saw a ghost"
At first, Blazing was hesitant to tell Applejack of her vision because she didnt want Applejack to worry. But this... Prophecy might be important, it might include all six of us, or even everypony. She decided she should tell Applejack. "Well, I did." Applejack's eyes widened a bit. "It was my father, he came to warn me about something." She told her about her dad and the warning he gave her.
"I've no idea what he meant. Ugh, this is all so confusing! Why can't he just give me a simple warning?" She put her head in her hooves. Applejack put a hoof on her shoulder.
"Ah'm sure we can figure it out it the mornin', why dont we go see twi tommorow n' ask her what all this is about?" She suggested, earning a nod in return, Content with the suggestion, although still puzzled. She laid down, but couldn't sleep, her mind was whirring away at the message her father had just brought.
The silence was interrupted by Applejack; "Firefly? Ah've jus' been thinking... What are we gonna tell our friends and family? Rainbow said it herself, Rarity doesn't like fillyfoolin'." This only added to the mess in Blazing Streak's mind.
"Well, We're gonna have to tell them soon. It depends when you're ready, know that I'll stand by you whenever you decide, and if they don't like it, screw em." Blazing Streak said, a bit uncharacteristically harshly towards the end.
"But.. there our friends, ah don't want ta fall out with them." Applejack sounded sad at the end, no doubt still shaken about the recent death of her grandmother, which Blazing Streak picked up on. She nuzzled Applejack's cheek comfortingly.
"Don't worry, you are the elements of harmony, something like this isn't going to break us apart." Blazing Streak reassured.
"Tell you what, tomorrow, when we visit Twilight and ask about the warning, we can get the girls to come too and we can tell them, together." She suggested.
"Ah dunno, Firefly..." She hesitated. She had a thoughtful look on her face for a while before slowly nodding.
"Ah guess they'll find out anyway, so Ah guess we could, n' Ah dont like keepin' secrets from them, bein' the element of honesty n' all." She agreed. Blazing Streak nodded, before kissing her on the nose.
"Night AJ."
"Night Firefly."
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A knock sounded from Twilight's Library door.
"I got it." Blazing streak said, in a heartbeat she opened the door, revealing Rarity and Fluttershy.
"Hello, Blazing! Good to see you again!" Rarity exclaimed. Blazing streak stepped aside to let them in. Fluttershy followed close behind with an equally wide, knowing smile.
"Hello everypony." She said, in her usual quiet tone. Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity were now sitting on Twilight's sofa, Applejack was standing in front of them all, waiting for everyone to arrive so they could tell them.
"Take a seat, Fluttershy." Twilight invited. The yellow Pegasus complied and sat beside Rarity. Blazing Streak took her place beside Applejack.
"So, what is all this about, darling? I'm afraid I must get back to work soon." Rarity queried.
Blazing Streak looked to Applejack, who was nervously shuffling her hooves. She gave a small nod before starting.
"Everyone, me and Applejack have good news, but we also have very, very bad news." At this Applejack's head hung slightly.
"Tell us the good news first!" Pinkie Pie said.
Blazing Streak nodded before continuing;
"Me and Applejack are together."
A loud gasp was heard from 3 of them, the loudest from Pinkie. "WE SHOULD HAVE A PARTY!" She squealed, bouncing up and down in her usual excited manner.
"Now that I did not see coming. Congratulations, girls!" Twilight spoke up.
"Yeah, grats you two!" Rainbow Dash agreed, followed by the other 2. The only one who hadn't spoke yet was Rarity. She sat there, jaw dislodged in an unnatural position. After a while, she recovered.
"I can't say I like the idea, girls, but you two are my friends, and I would never judge my friends. Congratulations." Towards the end she hide a wide smile on. Massive relief washed over Blazing, and she let out a breath she had apparently been holding.
"Thank ya'll, it means a lot ta us that ya understand." Applejack said.
"Yeah, thank you girls!" Blazing Streak said. The next thing she Knew, she was wrapped up in a group hug.
"Girls... We should probably tell you the bad news..." Blazing Streak had to break the good mood. She looked to Applejack.
"Shall I tell them?" She offered. Applejack shook her head.
"Ah s-should do it." She said, a tear ran down her face and Blazing put a hoof on hers to comfort her.
"Hey AJ? You ok?" Rainbow Dash asked. Applejack let out a depressed sigh before telling them what happened.
"G-Granny Smith is... She's... S-she's dead." Applejack said before turning and burying her face in Blazing's side and crying loudly. As she wrapped a wing around Applejack, the other five Gasped.
Pinkie Pie started to cry, waterfalls of tears erupted from her eyes as she let out a loud wail.
Fluttershy put a hoof to her mouth and tears started to roll down her cheeks.
Rarity had a sympathetic and sad look on her face as she also cried silently.
Even Rainbow Dash looked on the edge of crying.
Twilight let out a sad sigh before stating;
"She was like family to all of us, we're all sorry for your loss Applejack."
Blazing Streak had a solitary tear escaping her closed eyelids.
They were all pulled in another group hug, this one with a more negative atmosphere to it. After a while, Everyone had to leave to do their jobs. Blazing Streak and Applejack stayed behind though.
"Hey Twilight? There was another reason for us coming here." She said.
"Oh?" Twilight replied. Blazing told her about what happened the night before.
"And then he said "whispers of the night will bring death, an army of darkness, without end" She said with a confused look. Twilight gasped and dropped the china mug she was holding with her magic, shattering it on the floor.
"Um, you okay Twilight?" Blazing Streak said, eyes widening.
"I... I was also told that very same thing, I have no idea what it means. I was up all of last night trying to decipher it, but none of the books I read had anything in it, and I read all the books." Twilight was now pacing the library in deep thought.
"Well, if anything it's not going to be good, I'd say we prepare ourselves for anything. If we can't figure it out, who knows, maybe I'll have another vision or something." Blazing Streak said. Applejack and Twilight both nodded slowly.
Then Blazing Streak remembered something. Her mind drifted back to yesterday evening, she saw something out of the corner of her eye, but when she turned it was gone, she had been having visions like those ever since that dream she had when she was camping with her friends.
"Maybe this has something to do with these visions I've been having, and that dream I had. Every now and then, I see something in the distance, like the shape of a pony but pitch black. Whenever I try to get a better look it just vanishes. Not to mention that strange dream when we were camping." She tried to remember back to the dream.
"Dark, pony-like creatures... that sounds familiar, I think I read it in a book somewhere. But tell me about that dream you had, it could help a lot." Twilight said, intrigued and worried.
"Well, I cant remember much of it, but I do remember seeing..." Thinking about his name caused something to well up inside her. "Night Whisper - I told you about him when we were camping right?" Earning a concerned nod from both other ponies, she continued. "Well he was standing in front of what looked like millions of the pony creatures I just told you about... That's all I can remember." She finished.
"Well that would explain the "an army of darkness" part, but we cant be sure. A dark time is coming, it isn't good." Twilight said, thinking hard.
Something rushed through Blazing Streak's veins. "Whatever it is, I'll fight it. I wont let anything happen to ponyville or any of my friends. Even if it costs me my life."