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// Chapter 6 
// Story: The Doctor's filly 
// by peppermintbrownie 
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	As the Shadowers finished singing and took their original form Orangecream also was glowing. None of her friends noticed it at at first because they were all looking at the Shadowers. But Orangecream shut her eyes in pain and grunted in effort as droplets of magic were pulled out of her body and into the Shadowers as if the Shadowers music was forcing the magic out of her. All her friends looked they were all surprised and shocked at what they were seeing but only Winter and Splints knew what was going on. 
“Orangecream!!!!,” they screamed at their friend with concern. 
“What’s going on? What’s happening to her?,” Derpy asked in a half panic.
“It’s their song. Their extracting magic out of her!,” Winter said.
Orangecream continued to grunt in effort and greet her teeth and squeezed her eyes shut in pain as the magic was pulled out of her until the Shadowers took their true form, the Shadowers stopped singing and Orangecream stopped glowing. She crouched down and panted as the glow released her. She opened her eyes. She looked very sleepy and pale. She stumbled and almost fell over but Winter caught her in her magic. 
“Whoa. Whoa. Easy Orangecream. I think they took a little too much magic out of you,”she said as she held Orangecream up with her magic until her friend sat down. She let go of her magic. Orangecream moaned and rubbed her head with her eyes closed.
“I’m fine,” she said.
“Are you sure? You don’t look so well,” the doctor said walking over to her and putting a hoof on her back.
Orangecream turned her head towards him.
“I’m sure. This happens all the time. I just need to sit down for a bit,” she ensured.
“If you say so,” the doctor said, still slightly concerned.
The war began as soon as the Shadowers got their nature back. All the Shadowers all had either rich black coats or orange coats. But they all had red eyes, the orange coated Shadowers took an uncanny similarity to Orangecream. Canons hit the bottom of the hill where the fillies were hiding. The other fillies and colts hide behind the bushes.
“Come on guys. We know the drill. If the canons reach the hill, hide behind the bushes,” Orangecream said.
She got up, already looking a lot better.
“Ya. Ya we know!,” a colt from a close by bush screamed.
Orangecream glared over at the colt.
“Uhhhh! Would you keep your voice down!? It’s a Shadower attack!,” Orangecream said.
The fillies went into the bush followed by the Doctor, Derpy, and Tick Tock. The bush was crowded but it was sheltered.
“So how long has this war been going on for? And for what reason?,”
“Well. Um……. Splints? What to take this one?,” Winter said.
“.....Pass,”
“Pass?,”
“I don’t know Winter! What do you want me to say?,”
“Um. Well I barely know anything, but I do know it started right after I was born,” Orangecream said.
“Right after you were born? Why? Did anything happen?,” the Doctor asked.
“Weirdest thing. I know I’m an orphan. But I can’t even remember my parents, just voices of, i think it was my mother. My earliest memory is being in the log cabin. And for as long as I could remember Search has been going crazy saying ‘I’m a sin’ and trying to make me ‘expose myself for the monster I really am’. And the only reason he was doing that was because the war started right after I appeared,” Orangecream explained and she took a deep breathe when she was done, flattening her ears during the long breathe.
“Whoa. So you don’t remember your parents at all?,” Derpy said.
“No,”
“That is certainly is uncanny,” Tick Tock said.
“Well if you think of anything. Even the smallest thing,” the Doctor said.
“I’m- I’m so sorry,” Derpy said sympathetically.
“It’s alright. Not knowing what happened to them is less painful than knowing and having to cope with the fact of knowing. I guess,” Orangecream said.
“She does have a point,” Tick Tock said.
“Of course,” Orangecream said.
More cannons hit driving everyone’s attention back to back to the war field.
“It doesn't look good out there. Derpy, Tick Tock, I think we’re going to have to stay out there for a while,” the Doctor said.
“Wha- Here?!,” Derpy asked nervous.
“Well. You’re welcome to stay at my log cabin if need be. I've got plenty of room in there and it’s far away from here. So you don’t have to worry about tripping over any craters the canons cause,” Orangecream said.
“Oh well thank you,” the Doctor said.

The ponies started firing canons at the Shadowers like crazy. One orange Shadower turned into their cloud form just as the canon hit which made the cannon go right through him. He screeched and flew towards the pony. The pony ran away. The Shadowers stopped attacking and vanished, except for the one that was chasing the pony. It chased him deep into the forest, away from other ponies. The Doctor and his companions and the fillies heard a blood curdling scream. They all looked back at the forest where the scream had come from.
"Oh that doesn't sound good. Come on. Avente," the Doctor said and ran off towards the scream. Derpy and Tick Tock followed the Doctor. The fillies looked at each other confused and then followed.The Doctor led them into some bushes which led to a clearing. Then he gasped when he saw the pony, sadness returned to him. He heard his companions coming. When he could see them he turned to Derpy.
"Ditzy. Get behind me and don't looked at him," he said.
Derpy crossed around the pony with her eyes closed and got behind the Doctor with a whimper.
"Doctor, what's wrong with him?," Tick Tock asked and also walked around the pony to the other side of the clearing with the Doctor and Derpy.
"I don't know. But he doesn't look good," the Doctor said.
There was more rustling in the bushes and then the fillies came out. First Splint, then Winter, then Orangecream. Splints and Winter and Orangecream panted while looking down Orangecream was the first to look up. When she did she saw the stallion. He had three rainbow crystals for a cutie mark. His coat was originally crystal shiny. And his man used to be rainbow. But now he was laying face down with his coat the same shade of orange that Orangecream and the Shadower were. Orangecream stared and her eyes widened as she saw the no longer breathing pony.
"No," she breathed.
Her ears flattened against her skull. She walked over to the pony and stood in front at him at one of his sides. She looked up and saw the Shadowers glowing red eyes in the shadows smiling.
"You didn't," she said softly.
Winter coughed and then looked up confused at her friend.
"What ha-," she started and then stopped.
She and Splints saw what she was looking at.
They both flattened their ears. Splints just stared sadly. While Winter put a hoof over her mouth.
"Oh my Celestia," she said.
Orangecream had tears and her eyes and sniffed.
"Oh I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry," she said and then sniffed again.