The liquid dripping across her fingers and the glass pieces falling to the ground were the only sounds everyone on the room could hear as they all watched in silence at Sunset’s hand. The redhead simply sighed at what had happened and got up from her chair to clean her hand from the liquid.
Fluttershy intercepted the other teenager and grabbed the hand of Sunset as this one simply didn’t fought and let the kindhearted girl check on any injuries the other girl had sustained. She tenderly checked the skin of Sunset’s palm but she gasped at what she saw. Completely unblemished skin with no cuts or damage present.
Sunset sighed once again at the reaction of Fluttershy and took a hold of a few napkins and began to clean her hand as Applejack and Pinkie took a broom and dust pan to clean the living room of the Apples of any glass shards. They all remained silence as the girls cleaned up but they still watched Sunset in silence. The redhead rolled her eyes at the clear signals of confusion and curiosity.
“Alright, start asking, I can even hear the gears turning in your head… or burning in the case of Rainbow Dash”
“Hey!” the usage of humor finally cracked the tension in the room as the seven close friends began to laugh at the joke, even the aforementioned girl didn’t feel insulted at what was clearly a joke in an attempt to break the ice after what they just saw.
“Well, I suppose the question we are having right now -with the exception of our dear Twilight, which I’m sure will start having more specific questions for you- is, how?”
“How what Rarity?”
“Ah think what she wants to say, is how did ya not get hurt from breaking a crystal glass?” the stetson wearing girl asked her friend watching the perfectly healthy hand and how Sunset was focusing very hard on it.
“I’m not sure, I just… don’t get hurt that easily” She answered back shrugging her shoulders as if nothing had happened “maybe it has something to do with the magic already present on Canterlot”
“Oh please, if that were the case I wouldn’t have cut my finger on a paper yesterday” Rainbow said showing the still visible cut on the closed injury, it was a thin line that showed where the skin had been slashed “why does Miss Yearling still makes us do assignments on paper? Haven’t she heard of the internet?”
“As cathartic as it would be to hear you complain about a topic that I’m 100% behind you, we should all focus on our dear friend Sunset”
“Rarity is right, I mean, this phenomenon could have a serious impact on our daily lives” Twilight said already with her phone out ready to take notes of what she could find about Sunset’s situation “do you remember when you started to notice a difference whenever you got hurt? Maybe a lack of sensation or even situations when you knew you were supposed to get hurt but nothing happened?”
“Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that and what I remember when I wanted to test the girls Harmony magic”
“I remember that day! It was pretty fun, with all those butterflies and balloons and apples flying around, oh oh oh, and also a rainbow splash attacking Sunset!”
“Is Pinkie right? You never really got into specifics when you mention that time.”
“Yeah, I mean, I was trying to get all scientific and try to find some order on our magic but then I discovered that it doesn’t work as linear like Equestrian magic. It was quite the adventure.”
“Now that you mention it,” Fluttershy said not even batting an eye when all her friends turned to watch her. Long ago was the time where she crumbled under social anxiety, it had truly been a great therapy for her to be part of a rock band “I remember that you were hit a lot that day, even got hit by electricity but… you never got any lasting injuries from that day”
“Hey, you are right Shy. Hell, even after she had been hit by everything she was up in less than an hour” Rainbow said remembering that day and even though it had been funny to see Sunset being bombarded by all kind of things, she had been slightly worried about the kind of punishment the redhead had sustained.
“I noticed that we all have gained some level of toughness, but they all came after each of us pony up. Is in that state that we gain more power but… thing started to change for me after… well”
“After the Friendship Games, right?” Twilight said what Sunset was thinking. Yes, it still hurt to remember the demon she had turned into after being absorbed by all that magic, but day by day she was getting better thanks to her friends. Now one of those friends was going through some changes and it was her responsibility to see that nothing wrong happened to her “what have you noticed?”
“Oh, some crazy stuff that is not that crazy but still… they are all adding up. It was after the Friendship Games that I noticed I was getting tired less and less as if I had more resistance or something, also it was getting easier to lift things”
“How easier?” Twilight asked typing all the information down.
“Well, I was vacuuming my apartment a couple of days ago when I got to my bedroom and…” she said remembering that day but still not sure if she should tell her friends.
“And what else? What happened darling?”
“I lifted my bed without noticing, bed frame and all” she said making all of them blink in stunned silence at what Sunset had said. They had all seen the bed Sunset had and they knew it was not an easy thing to move. Last time they had a slumber party there it had taken the combined effort of Applejack, Rainbow and Sunset to move it so they could fit in the bedroom, and that was before the Friendship Games. To say that they were all surprised and intrigued would be an understatement of the century. So Sunset now was getting tougher and more powerful and they all wondered if those would be the only changes. And that’s when all of the girls heard the scream.
The Rainbooms haven’t been the only ones to come to the old Sweet Apple Acres farm at the outskirts of Canterlot. The family farm now was being work by Apple fritter and her parents now that Applejack and her own side of the family focused on the Fizzy Cider brand. Now, as something of an escapee, the seven girls went to the farm, but they weren’t the only ones that had accompanied them.
Since that terrible time known as the Anon-A-Miss Debacle, the girls’ parents didn’t want to leave the Canterlot Motley Crew alone or without supervision and after hearing that the girls would visit the Apple family farm they all came to the conclusion that the still under punishment trio could work some of their assigned time in the farm as price for what they did, and much to their grumbling they were all carted alongside the older girls.
Sunset should have known that the three girls trying to work or do anything together could only end in disaster and this time it was not the exception apparently. Applejack had told them that there was always something weird on the farm, namely the barns since they always had the proclivity of falling down and the rest of the family usually got together at least once every month had to rebuild the farm all the time.
This time the girls seemed to have done something or they were at the wrong place at the wrong time because they all saw from the window that the red barn was falling down and right there on the ground, the white dress and signature curls made it clear that Sweetie Belle had fallen to the ground and one of the walls of the barn was about to fall on top of her.
Rarity had barely started to scream in fear when one of them was already on the move. Her body barely a blur with how fast she had took off. Seeing the terrified face of Sweetie Belle had made something in her resonate and made her move. In the blink of an eye she found herself in front of Sweetie Belle holding up the red barn wall while Sweetie Belle looked with round eyes at the girl that had saved her from very serious injuries.
Sunset felt the wall be as light as Styrofoam for some reason and that was a clear sign that something weird was happening to her body because when she looked at her side she saw the rest of her friends and the CMC with their mouths opened and a shocked look in their faces.
“Well… let’s add super speed and flight to the list, shall we?” Twilight words made Sunset look down and see that her feet were not touching the floor.