//------------------------------// // Truth or Dare? // Story: Tristan's New Life // by ShadowVoltstreaker //------------------------------// Blaze’s POV This… this is awkward… I’ve never sat in a single room with these girls before… well separate, yes, but not AT THE SAME TIME! “Blaze are you ok? You look nervous.” Fluttershy asked, I SWEAR she’s mocking me… no, she’s way too nice for that… Wait, did she just giggle? SHIT IS GOING ON! “Why yes dear Fluttershy, I am doing well.” I said in my best sarcastic tone, which only Dash seemed to catch. “So girls, how about we do something to pass the time?” “I have an idea!” Pinkie shouted, and raised her hand. “Yes Pinkie?” I asked, curious yet scared at what she had planned. “Let’s play truth or dare!” She shouted again, literally bouncing off the walls. “Oh that sounds fun!” Twilight said, clapping (Clopping?) her hooves together. “Well we need something to—“ before I could finish Pinkie set down a bottle in the middle of the floor and spun it. After spinning for a while it slowed down and landed on Lucinda. Pinkie got really close and said, “Truth or dare Luci!?” Lucinda thought for a moment before replying, “Truth.” Pinkie put her hoof up to her chin and thought for a moment, “Hmmm… oh! Is it true that you’ve been thinking about going into Blaze’s dreams?!” Lucinda looked shocked for a moment before replying, “Yes… but how did you know that Pinkie? I’ve only thought about it.” “I read Chapter 18 silly filly.” Before anypony could respond I shouted, “THE BOTTLE HAS BEEN RE-SPUN!” causing everypony to shake their heads and return to the game. “Man that was a horrible place to break the 4th wall Pinkie.” the bottle went around for a while before finally stopping on AJ. “well then AJ… truth or dare?!” “Dare!” she responded immediately. “Bad idea.” “I dare you to eat one of Twilight’s books.” I shouted. “What? Now why the hay would ah do that?” AJ asked. “Because it’s a dare.” I smiled and flew over to the shelves and started scanning them. “Hmmm…” I hummed out while searching. “How about this one Blaze?” Spike said, tossing a book at me. I turned around to see what it was and got hit in the face with the book… I didn’t want to move it off my face so I just let it sit there… hoping it would eventually slide off… Still waiting… “And now I’m done waiting!” I shouted, my voice muffled by the book. And all the ponies in the room laughing at me didn’t help. I quickly set my face on fire, torching the book and getting some of ashes in my eye. I flew around screaming, “FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA STOP LAUGHING AND HELP ME!” Crossback’s POV “Why are you pointing that at her Shadow?” Shadow looked at the device, then back up at us, and smirked. “One moment please.” Shadow said, putting the device up and pulling out... a red orb? “Aurum dear… could you hold this for a moment?” “Yeah, sure.” Aurum replied and stuck out her hoof. Shadow then dropped the orb in her hand and waited. “What is this anyways Shadow?” Aurum asked, puzzled. The orb then melted in her hoof and she started falling to the ground, screaming in agony. The whole time Shadow had this look on his face… it was actually… kind of scary… I quickly snapped out of it and yelled at him, “Shadow?! What the buck was that?!” “New invention. Doing a re-test.” He replied flatly. “On your marefriend?! Are you insane?! Do you even see how much pain she’s in!” I yelled at him. “Oh she’s not in pain.” He pointed his hoof and I followed with my eyes, “You see? She’s perfectly fine now.” I turned back to him to yell at him again, to tell him that she was dead, but for some reason he was hiding behind an umbrella… I quickly ignored it and flew down to help her. The closer I got to her, the more I knew that her cold stare was real… but I had to make sure. I landed next to her and checked her pulse… “Nothing…” I quickly turned back to Shadow, pure rage in my eyes. Before I could say anything though, something behind me exploded and I was thrown a short ways away. I quickly got up and saw… Blood… and lot of blood, and it was everywhere. “SHADOW!” I shouted. Shadow landed beside me and dropped the umbrella, a wide smirk on his face. “You want to ask why I killed Aurum right?” “I’d much rather just give you the same fate that you gave her!” “That wasn’t Aurum. That was Buckshot.” Another smirk crossed his face. “You’d better be sure…” I said, still skeptical… “Oh I am, you see when I looked on my device it showed Buckshot’s Position as being right across from me… exactly where Aurum was flying.” So that’s why he put away that thing… “But what if he was below us?” “Then make sure you write my Will when Aurum is back.” He chuckled. “What do you mean?” As soon as I asked, all the blood around us, and even on my coat, all started to slide to where the explosion originated. Slowly, it morphed back into Aurum’s shape… then, each of her features were added, along with color and texture. I was… flabbergasted! She slowly opened her eyes, then looked our way, and before either of us had time to react she lunged and hit Shadow in the jaw, sending him spiraling face-first into the side of a house. “What the buck Shadow?” she shouted. He slowly lifted himself off the wall and said, “Y-yep… that wasn’t Buckshot.” And fell to the ground. “Ow..” “Of Course I’m not Buckshot you dolt! What gave you that stupid idea?!” “Well…” I began, getting her attention, “His machine showed him that Buckshot was either below you… or he was you.” “So you decided to just assume that I was Buckshot?!” she shouted at Shadow, who was now starting to get up. “I’m… not gonna answer that… for fear of your response.” He said as he made his way towards us. Fortune’s POV “So how exactly do we find out where he’s hiding? We can’t exactly follow any trails…” I asked. “Well we could always ask around to see if anypony has seen him.” Twilight commented after thinking for a while. “It’s our best bet since none of our spells can track him.” “I guess you’re right, let’s start asking.” Night said. I looked around, searching for anypony to ask, but the whole place was deserted… I don’t blame them for staying inside… this place looks like a battlefield. “Hey guys… before we start asking, let’s fix this town up a little.” “Alright… but how do we do that?” Night asked. “Well I do know of a spell that could restore the town to how it previously was… but I’d need both of you to help.” Twilight answered. “All right, just tell me what to do and I’ll do it.” I said, listening closely. Blaze’s POV “Ok… no more Truth or dare… this is just getting ridiculous.” I said, thoroughly done with all the things that Pinkie made us do… and what she and Lucinda did to me… Ok so Pinkie LITERALLY hit me with a stuffed Gummy toy, and I SWEAR it was filled with lead... I don’t even know what happened after that because I was unconscious due to that BUCKING GUMMY TOY! Anywho… I was just leisurely drifting in my dreamworld when Poof! Lucinda is in my face… laughing and throwing books at me… WHO EVEN DOES THAT?! Then when I woke up, everypony was around me, laughing their flanks off. I was about to ask why they were all laughing, but then I see that Pinkie has a marker in her hoof… let’s just say that there are now two places where a rug had to be placed inconspicuously. “You’re no fun…” Pinkie said with a sad face. “Too bad. Now we’re all going to sit here and wait for one of two things to happen… Either we get a signal from the others. Or Buckshot comes crashing through the roof again…” “But that’s boring.” Pinkie whined. “Don’t care.” I stated flatly. “Come on Blaze, don’t be such a sour apple, it was only a prank.” Dash said, slapping me on the back. “Oh? Well, it’s only fair that I get to play a prank on each of you right?” “Yeah, we all love a good prank.” She smiled. I felt a grin spread over my face as I said, “Well then…” I got up and whispered something into Dash’s ear. She looked at me with an evil grin and nodded, I then turned to everypony “Well this is going to be either very funny, very disastrous... or both.” That made each of them swallow and back up slowly. But before they could get away I took in a deep breath, and used what I like to call… Dragon Breath.