Twist glanced behind her. No one was there. Only the two crystal ponies trying to keep up from behind her. They panted as they tried to gallop through the snow. Twist had been trained to run through the snow, (And she had her snow horseshoes on) so she did it with ease, but it was getting to her that the crystal ponies just weren't fast enough.
"Run faster." Ordered Twist, tossing a lock of her curly bright red hair over her shoulder. The blue crystal pony looked up at Twist with enormous tears in her eyes. She was weak and trembling.
"I-I can't run any… faster, miss Twistaloo. Ple... Please can't we have a break?" She begged Twist her eyes sad and exhausted.
"You get no breaks in the apocalypse. If you don't hurry, Sombra's minions will catch up with us, and we'll be dead before you know it." Twist scoffed. She wasn't tired at all. These two needed to toughen up.
Ever since King Sombra returned, Equestria was mostly ruins and the world stood in fallen war. Every day, innocent ponies died from hunger, disease, or assault by the King's warriors. Several Ponies had made a camp in the remainders of Ponyville and together, and attempted to stay alive. But it had been attacked quite a few months ago. If Twilight hadn't gone missing... everything would still be the same. Twist sighed.
"If you don't run fast enough, you'l catch hypothermia, and die. Move it." Twist snarled. The crystal ponies didn't look any perkier, but Twist did see that they were moving along much faster. The cabin was insight now, and Twist sped up just a tad to get there sooner. She eased her hoof to knock on the door. Twist knocked seven times, waited one second and nocked again. The slide on the wooden door opened and two green eyes peered at Twist.
"Twist?" A voice with a thick accent asked. Twist nodded.
"Yes. I have the Crystal ponies. Let me in." Twist said calmly to the pair of eyes. The slide closed and the door opened. Sweetie Belle stood there. She stood out of the way to welcome in Twist ant the two ponies.
"Close the door after you come in." Sweetie Belle says in her thick accent. It used to be a squeak, but a lot can happen to a pony in ten years. The based stood there in front of the two Crystal ponies and Twist.
The based was a group of ponies, whom had survived the attack of the camp. Those ponies were: Sweetie Belle, Dinkiy Doo, Apple Bloom, Feather weight, Rumble, PipSqueak, Babs Seed, Silver Spoon, Scootaloo and Twist. The two Crystal mares were found unconscious in a crystal empire home. Twist had been searching for clues upon Twilight's disappearance, but had found the two instead. They soon awoke, and Twist took them back to the cabin that sat in the arctic. Sweetie Belle, the somewhat leader raised her broken horn.
"What are your names?" She asked, her accent still thick. The purple mare stepped forward.
"Im S-Salt Lick, and she's Bubble Burst." The purple mare qwimbled. Twist rolled her eyes. What common filly names. She shouldered the bow of her shoulder, and picked up a polish bottle.
Something caught Twist's eye. A picture on the wall. It was her filly-hood class picture. She gazed at a younger version of her self.
I was such a wimp. Twist thought as she saw her self in stupid bulk purple glasses. Every pony looked so happy. She turned away from the picture. It was painful to look at. She glanced back towards Salt Lick and Bubble Burst. They were sitting in front of the fire place, huddled together. Never mind. They're worse. Though Twist.
Apple Bloom began to sharpen her knife, Rumble, Pip, Dinky and Feather Weight, left into the other room, Silver started back to her book and Babs was nowhere to be seen. Sweetie Belle was putting on her helmet to protect her cracked horn. And Scootaloo was leaning back in her chair.
"Im going out to keep watch. Stay inside, and whatever you do, do not enter outside. Or so help me, I shall make you regret it." Snarled Sweetie Belle, at the two crystal ponies. Salt Lick and Bubble Burst, huddled to each other, not even daring to go out.
Sweetie Belle left the room shortly after that. Apple Bloom raised her head up from her knife.
"Twist, I can watch the two ponies. You go on and guard with Sweetie." She said, getting up from her chair. Twist nodded and climbed up the stairs leading to the archery range of the cabin. As Twist reached the top she saw Sweetie Belle gazing at the distant destroyed crystal empire.
"A tale of despair, evils and darkness... Please I hope your okay. May the goddesses hear my prey. If your still out there, in need you now. More than ever. Please come back to me." Sweetie Belle was singing. Her accent was clouding her singing with a lovely tone. Twist sighed. Sweetie Belle had lost her sister in one of the fires. She could have died, or she could have simply gone missing. What had ever happened, she was just, gone. Apple Bloom's sister had died on the very first attack and Rainbow dash, (Scootaloo's "sister") had become a crystal slave.
Twist sighed again. This depressing world always got to her. It wasn't smart of her to cry, but Twist couldn't help it. She let out a sob, before clapping her hoof to her mouth to contain it. Sweetie Belle stopped singing and swiveled around to see Twist. She was wearing her helmet, so Twist couldn't read her expression. She let out a sigh of relief.
"Twist. You scared me. Come." Beckoned Sweetie Belle. Twist came into Sweetie's arms and felt the lump enclosing in there throat. Tears began to stream of the sides of her face.
Im acting wimpy... This isn't like me. Thought Twist. But she swallowed and tried to speak.
"I can't stand it anymore Sweetie." Twist croaked. "I want the world to be normal again..." Twist cried, big fat baby tears falling from his eyes. But Sweetie tensed up.
"Grab your bow." She whispered. Twist stood and tried to see where Sweetie was looking. Twist armed her bow, and pointed it in the sky, looking of her target. And she saw it. A pegasus in the distance. She pulled her bow back to shoot, but she stopped. She recognized the tail of the mare.
"RAINBOW DASH!?" Cried Sweetie into the sky. Seconds later, a beaten up and dirty Rainbow dash appeared on the landing.
She was panting and sweating. She had lost agile in her years of slavery.
"T-Twi... Twilight was found... Two miles back... She may be still alive." Gasped Rainbow. She let out a groan of exhaustion, before she blacked out at Twist's hooves.