"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

It has been a few weeks since Ice Fang froze the creature and Lightning Bolt is still debating if he should tell them about the creature that was frozen. He went through the pros and cons of telling and eventually came to a conclusion. He had to tell them. If the creature or creatures are this close then they need to be warn, but he needs to tell only the ones that matter. He thinks it over; Rainbow Dash was debatable but because she was one of the three ponies that followed him and his pets she was a must. The same went for Applejack and Twilight Sparkle.

Ice Fang and Azure slept quietly next to him as he went through the list ponies to tell. Yet, as he went through the list he came up with the same ones to tell. Lightning grabs his saddle bags just in case and leaves some food for Ice Fang and Azure. He walks out the door to the start the messaging.

Lightning Bolt spreads his wings and flies into the air, feeling more at home as it had started to snow the last few day. He then spots Rainbow Dash's house and flies towards it. Landing with a crunch from the snow collected on the cloud, he starts to walk to the front door. When he reaches it he looks around and realizes that this cloud house is actually custom made and not one of the readymade houses, it even had a rainbow waterfall system. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts he raises his hoof to knock on the door.

He heard no movement from behind the door, so he leaned in closely to the door and heard some snoring. Lightning Bolt then sighs before banging on the door this time hearing movement. 'I sure hope Rainbow Dash didn't forget we're supposed to go flying together this morning.' Lightning Bolt thinks.

A groan is heard from behind the door and then opens up. A rainbow mane covered head pops out with an angry look in her eyes. "What?!" Rainbow yells at her possible mail mare.

"Did you forget Rainbow?" Lightning Bolt asks.

Rubbing her eyes with a hoof she groans out loud. "Forget what?" She asks in a groggy voice, with a faltering smile.

"We are supposed to go flying together today." Lightning Bolt says noticing the time is 10:00 a.m.

Rainbow stops rubbing her eyes and goes wide eye. She then zooms back in and shuts the door in Lightning's face. He then hears furious showing and brushing, possibly for teeth, and then quick flaps of wings. The door opens again, this time a Rainbow Dash ready for work. "Ready." More like a statement then a question.

"Shall we?" Lightning ask extending a hoof.

Rainbow looks at the hoof, unsure to let him lead, but then reaches out her hoof and holds onto his. Lightning smiles and extends his wings, ready for a flight as Rainbow does the same. Lightning lifts himself off the ground with a few flaps, carrying Rainbow with him. Rainbow slowly follows him with a smile that starts to form on her muzzle and flaps after him.

Rainbow Dash thinks over the last week how she had bonded with Lightning Bolt so well. He was funny, athletic, and treated her with great respect and caring. He was a good friend but she couldn't help but think he was hiding something, especially after he went into the Everfree forest last week.

'She is starting to get suspicious of me. I'm glad I've decided to tell her and the others about the creature, which should dispel some of it.' Lightning Bolt thought.

Lightning Bolt flew through the snow with a smile. Rainbow, taking notice of this, notices he's happier than usual.

Lightning spots a bench on the ground and flies toward it with Rainbow following. They land slowly sending snow pieces in the air. Lightning lets go of Rainbow and sits down on the bench with Rainbow sitting right beside him. He looks at her uneasily with that usual smile of his.

"So why did we land?" Rainbow asks. "Well I wanted to tell you ab…" Lightning Bolt was cut off when somepony yells, "Rainbow Dash!" Looking in the direction they see three fillies coming towards them.

"Rainbow Dash…" Scootaloo trails off as she sees the stallion with her idol. "Who's he?" She said pointing to Lightning.

"Oh him, he's a new pony in town and a friend Scootaloo. Lightning Bolt this is Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle. Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle this is Lightning Bolt." Rainbow Dash introduced.

"Wait," Sweetie Bell asks out. "You're the one Rarity has been talking about? I can't get her to shut up about you."

"Yeah…I kinda think I shouldn't have told her about the Stalliongrad Ball." Lightning Bolt says laughing nervously.

Sweetie Bell stares at him like the annoyed filly she is. Lightning Bolt just rubs his hoof behind his head and nervously laughs.

"Sorry about that tovarich." Lightning says causing all three Fillies to look confused.

The three fillies tilt their heads to side, making Sweetie Bell get rid of her annoyed face and turn to one of confusion.

"Oh, tovarich is a word from the Stalliongrad language. It means friend or comrade." Lightning Bolt clarifies.

"Ohhhh." All three of them said in unison.

"Hey, maybe learning new languages from other counties will help us get our cutie marks." Apple Bloom says.

"Yeah, quickly! To the library!" Scootaloo ordered as all three rushed off.

"Cutie mark?" Lightning Bolt asks Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow looks confused at him for asking that question. 'How can he not know?' She then looks where his is supposed to be, but sees his clothing blocking the view. She then looks back up at him. "A cutie mark is what represents us and our special talent. Like mine is for speed and awesomeness. Though not necessarily in that order." She waves offhoofedly.

Lightning Bolt looks thoughtful. "I've heard of such things but only in legends, never actually seen one."

Rainbow looks surprised. "Legends, what do you mean?" She leans back to rest herself.

"We don't have these things in Stalliongrad, but what you described pops up in a few legends, mostly on the heroes of the legends." Lightning Bolt says starting to notice the cutie marks on the other ponies.

Rainbow leans a little to the side to hear more. "Who are the heroes of the legends?" She asks looking at other ponies passing by, not really paying attention to the two on the bench.

"Well mostly those who were chose to be the representatives of the guardian spirits of the elements. I think I have a book with a few of the legends if you want to look at it." Lightning Bolt says.

Rainbow shakes her head and looks at him. "Nah, I'm not an egghead like Twilight."

"They're like Daring Doo, in fact some of Daring Doo's books were based off of those legends."

Lightning suddenly rears back as Rainbow shot in front of his face. "Did you say Daring Doo?"

Lightning gets a little scared from Rainbow's fanlike acting. 'Note to self, if you want Rainbow in front of you, just say Daring Doo.'

"Y-yeah so do you want to read some of the legends that inspired some of the books?" Lightning Bolt asked nervously and realizes the position they were now in.

Rainbow nods her head and leans in more. "Ah, Rainbow take a quick look at the position we are in." Lightning Bolt says.

Rainbow quickly looks at themselves then blushes hard. She quickly scrambles back on the other side of the bench. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I didn't know, sorry." She sputters out.

"Its ok, you just got a little too excited is all." Lightning Bolt laughs nervously.

Rainbow still remains red and nods nervously. "Yeah, can you tell me the legends?" She starts to looks away and rubs her hoofs together, trying to get her dirty mind back in place.

"I would take a long time to do that. We would probably be here till next week." Lightning says.

Rainbow still looks away, but stops rubbing her hoofs together. "How many are there?" She asks.

"In total 397 different legendary heroes each with usually 3 to 8 stories to their legend."

Rainbow stares at him wide eye.

"I grew up listening to all the stories, so to me it's not much, but I guess to you it would be a lot."

Rainbow still stares at him wide eye.

"So shall we go see some of the others?" Lightning Bolt ask, noticing other ponies starting to stare.

Rainbow shakes herself out of her stupor and looks around. Seeing the other ponies staring at them she nods to Lightning.

Both pegasus take off and fly to Twilight's library. When they reach the library tree they go to the front door and knock. A clopping of hooves are heard as the door is opened by...a dragon? Where are the hooves?

"Hi Spike." Rainbow Dash greets and Lightning Bolt waves.

Spike the purple and green dragon smiles. "Hey guys. Twilight and the others are inside. Can you handle them, I don't want to deal with frilly fu-fu stuff." He said like a typical boy.

Lightning Bolt clears his throat making Spike remember his gender. Spike glances to Lightning before remembering what gender he is. "Oh sorry Lightning, but I'm still like a baby, not fully grown like a stallion, so..." He trails off there.

Spike then runs passed him to avoid any more embarrassment. "Well shall we?" Lightning Bolt asks as the three fillies from earlier speed pass them with multiple books.

They lift their hoofs and take off a little to get the fillies some room. They both stare as the fillies run off with books in saddle bags. "I'm surprised that those fillies want to read language books. You must have done something." Twilight voice calls from inside the library.

Lightning Bolt laughs nervously. "I may have said one foreign word to them." Lightning Bolt says as the other ponies in the room notice he was holding Rainbow Dash's hoof with his.

Twilight sighs and looks at him, noticing that he was holding Rainbow's hoof. "Let's just hope that they bring it all back because they emptied out the whole language shelf." She warns them, standing in front of two empty shelves that were devoid of books.

"I only saw them carry out six, how is two rows missing?" Lightning bolt asked confused. Apple Jack started snickering.

"Ya be surprised at how much stuff the Apple bags can hold." Applejack piped up.

"Almost as surprising as you and Rainbow Dash holding hooves." Rarity teased.

Rainbow blushes hard and let's go then flies right next to Fluttershy. Lightning blushes as well but tries to remain normal.

"Oh it's so adorable. Next thing you know I'll me making their wedding outfits." Rarity says already getting ideas.

Rainbow groans and facehooves. "Rarity stop, okay. We are not dating." She told her.

"Anyways are any of you wondering what happened after I went into the forest chasing Ice Fang and Azure?"

They all nod their agreement and wait for him to speak. Lightning closes the door behind him then walks to the circle.

"Well like I told you Skyors have a sixth sense for danger. Well Azure detected a natural predator. A very dangerous predator."

Twilight takes out the same notepad, scribbled with her notes from last time. "And what predator is that?" She asks.

"Hold on." Lightning Bolt says taking out a book entitled 'A guide to dangerous predators.'

Twilight rips the book from his hold, making him fall flat on his face and hoof stuck in the air. She studies the book with a train eye. "This will definitely help with my study."

"Ah, Twilight I kinda need that for a reference."

She couldn't hear him as she reads the book intensely. Lightning sighs and reaches for the book only to retract it as he hears a...growl? He raises an eyebrow at her actions and turns to the others. They are giggling and snickering into their hoofs.

"Twilight actually got possessive of a book because we got turned bad and wouldn't give it back." Rainbow explained.

"Twilight at least find the chamiosaurus in there, ok?"

Twilight huffs and turns back to the page he mentions. Lightning gets surprised that she can read that fast. When she reaches the page she gives the book to him. Lightning places the book in the middle of the table so all of them can see the picture. The picture has a large creature with razor sharp teeth and claws with glowing yellow eyes.

Rainbow wow's, Applejack whistles, Rarity looks at the possibilities of color, Fluttershy hides behind her mane to hide from the creature that she thinks may pop out of the book, Twilight keeps writing on her notepad, and Pinkie just stares at it with her usual smile.

"This thing is a vicious predator that stalks nearly anything. They can turn invisible, its fangs and claws rend flesh from bone, and the worst thing is that there is never one, and there is always a pack of them." Lightning Bolt says.

Fluttershy eeps and hides even more. Rainbow huffs and smirks for a new challenge. The others just stare on.

"I found one and with their monstrous appetites they'll soon move from the Everfree forest looking for more food and the closest place for that is Ponyville."

Twilight scribbles something in her notepad with her quill. "What can we do?"

"Only one thing…it's either us or them." Lightning says.

Everypony in the room shot their head to Lightning at what he said. "WHAT?!"

"I'm not joking. If they aren't killed they will kill and devour all of Ponyville."

Twilight looks at him with a glare. "How do you know this?"

"Cause I have faced them before and lost a few friend to them and have the scars to prove it. For a time I was part of the Stalliongrad Hunters guild they were the one who protected Stalliongrad from dangerous creatures."

Twilight's expression soften at the sound of that. Being forced to do something is not the best life. Fluttershy shed tears for the loss of life but knew sometimes killing some animals is the best course of action.

Twilight gets a new scroll and starts writing. "What are you doing Twilight?" Rarity asks. "Sending a letter to princess Celestia she should be informed of this." Twilight says. She finishes writing the scroll and rolls it up.

"Spike!" She calls out.

Spike walks back in the library with an annoyed look on his face. "Don't tell me, letter right?" Twilight nods and gives the scroll to him. He sighs and blows green fire on the scroll, making the scroll's smoke go out the library and in the direction of the Canterlot.

Canterlot

Princess Celestia and Luna were working on some documents when a royal guard ran in with a letter. "A report your highness, more ponies and animals have gone missing near the Everfree forest."

Celestia and Luna looks up from their work to look at the guard. Celestia takes the letter with her magic and reads it to herself. "As of counts of ...mostly near..." She brings the letter down and stares straight ahead. "Near the old castle." She said with a monotone voice.

A scroll then comes into existence in front of her from green smoke, telling her that it is from her faithful student. She quickly grabs the next letter to hopefully take her mind off of the report. How wrong she was. Celestia sighs and brings a hoof to her head. "Why now? Why all this?"

Luna takes the letter and reads it.

Dear Princess Celestia,

We have reason to believe that the Everfree forest is now home to a new predator called the Chamiosaurus. This was confirmed by a former Stalliongrad hunter pegasus that is now a resident in Ponyville. I request immediate assistance for he says unless they are dealt with soon then they will leave the Everfree forest and descend onto Ponyville.

Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle

Celestia turns her facial features back into the steel gaze everypony knows. "Get Shining Armor and tell him to get as many guards as possible to defend Ponyville by any means necessary, but make sure that the daily activities are not disturbed." She told the guard sternly.

A new letter appears and Luna grabs it out of the air and reads it.

Dear Princess Celestia,

The pegasus I mention in my last letter has just left and says he is going to hunt the Chamiosaurus pack in the Everfree forest soon. I am unsure what to do right now I need your advice.

Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle

Luna reads as the Royal Guards run out of the room to find Shining Armor.

Celestia brings a letter and a quill up from a nearby table and starts writing.

My faithful student,

You must not do anything as your brother and guards are going to be there to help defend the town. For now let the pegasus do what he needs to do as he probably has more experience.

Your teacher, Princesses Celestia

She then rolls up the parchment and sends it away with magic.

"Let us hope it will be enough, right sister?" Luna asks

Celestia nods and looks at both the letters her faithful student sent. "Nothing seems to ever enough at these times." She forlornly told.

Lightning Bolt's Home

Lightning Bolt enters the door and walks through the door into the basement where a suit of armor and equipment are on a mannequin. "I had hoped I would never have to don this armor again." Lightning Bolt says to himself as he discards his clothes and starts putting on the armor.

Ice Fang and Azure come down the stairs to see their master and friend wearing his old armor. Azure grabs the helmet with its feet and carries over to him and places it on Lightning Bolt's head.

Lightning looks to Azure with a smile. "Thanks Azure." Azure caws softly for his master's safety.

Lightning bolt transcends the stair and in the doorway is Rainbow Dash. Rainbow comes in with a sad frown after noticing the armor. "Do you have to go out there, alone? I'm sure once the guards are here they can help defend and help you get rid of them." She says.

"They will know nothing about them. Remember the Chamiosaurus can turn invisible and the pack will tear through them before they know they are there. They just don't know how to fight them or have the equipment to do so. If I don't go Rainbow then Ponyville may be doomed." Lightning Bolt says rubbing her head with his hoof.

Rainbow looks past him to see Ice Fang and Azure looking on with worry then leans back to Lightning. "Are you going to take those two?" She asks as she points to Ice Fang and Azure.

"If I don't make it back you will need something to warn you when they are near. So Rainbow please take care of them for me." Lightning Bolt says.

Rainbow steps a little closer. "You're talking like you aren't coming back." She said a little accusing.

"I won't lie there is a good chance that will be the final result of this hunt. But that is the nature of a hunt, you never know when you are gonna be killed." Lightning Bolt says.

Lightning suddenly feels a tightening around his neck. "Please make me a promise." Rainbow asks.

"What is the promise?" Lightning Bolt asks.

Rainbow tightens her grip around him. "Make sure that you come back." She lets go and encourages Ice Fang and Azure to come with her. Ice Fang walks over to her, but not before nuzzling his head against Lightning's leg, then hops onto Rainbow's back. Azure hops in front of Lightning and gives a nuzzle to Lightning on his head and then hops next to Rainbow. "Make sure." She told him firmly.

"I promise, I will comeback Rainbow Dash, I promise." Lightning Bolt says and Rainbow Dash lets go of him. Lightning Bolt walks outside and his helmet's visor slides down and he takes off into the sky. Not long after the rest of the mane six arrive to find Rainbow with Azure and Ice Fang.

Azure looks away and glides a short distance to Applejack's back. Applejack gives a grunt from the extra weight. Rainbow sighs sadly and picks up Ice Fang in her hooves. Ice Fang whines sadly as he feels his master already in trouble...in his mind.

Edge of Everfree Forest

Lightning Bolt lands on the outskirts of the Everfree forest. Looking back towards the town he thinks back on everything that has happened to him in town. Yet, he knows he has to do this.

"Time to get to work." Lightning Bolt says entering the forest.

Using the magical sensory of his visor he starts tracking all signs of the chamiosaurus pack. He bends down after a while examining a foot print, his visor raises so he could see it with his eyes. 'The tracks are recent and this blood beside it is still fresh.' Lightning Bolt thinks as his visor lowers back.

He continues on as he starts to go over the landscape. 'Let's see, forest for concealing, but not good for silent movement. Rocks, good for making them think that your position is somewhere else, but not good for hiding. Mountain, good for air strikes, but not good as a long term stay.' He thinks over everything he needs about the surrounding area for an eventual fight. Then he checks his equipment.

His standard gauntlets on his front hooves had blade and lightning mini crossbow configurations, he had several weak explosive grenades, and several tripwires and parts for traps. 'Those mages really outdid themselves with these gauntlets. It's too bad the lightning mini crossbows can only fire ten shoots each.' Lightning Bolt thinks.

He sighs and goes on. He eventually comes across a large clearing. Stepping through the middle he stops, growling comes from all around him. Lightning chuckles and readies his blades. "At least this made my job a whole lot easier." He looks around counting all of the creatures in the shadows. "This is easy." He then gulps, but holds firm. "I hope."

Lightning Bolt unfurls his wings and activates 4 of his grenades and drops them to his hooves. The chamiosaurus charge him and Lightning Bolt takes off as all but one is caught in the blast killing them. He looks down and sees the kill count. He groans as he sees that one survives. "Ublyudok." He lands with a loud thud that made the creature aware of his presence.

The beast roars and charges, blood lust in its eyes. Lightning Bolt holds up his left hoof and fires his lightning mini-crossbow. The lightning arrow goes through the creature's mouth and tears out the back of its head. The creature slides to the ground, sending bits and pieces of itself in its wake. It finally stops short of Lightning with its jaw open.

Lightning raises an eyebrow at this. "That was too easy." He said to himself then clamps his hoof over his mouth in shock as he realizes what he said. He groans and holds his hoof to his head. "Why did I just say that?" 'But I know it's true, this was only a hunting party. There was no alpha or even a nest. Time to continue the hunt.' Lightning Bolt thinks before continuing the hunt.

He keeps walking through denser and denser forest until he reaches a mountain side. He frowns and looks around, then spies a cave entrance guarded by a single chamiosaurus. He looks around for more, yet doesn't see them. He hmmms in thought as he tries to figure out how to take this challenge on.

Lightning Bolt sets up several traps with his equipment and moves far away. Lightning Bolt then rushes the chamiosaurus and moves close to it before he uses his blade function and stabs it through throat and drags it into the bush and making it cry out for help right behind his traps. Lightning Bolt then moves as quickly and quietly as he could as he hears the pack coming. Once at a safe distance he just waits and watches.

The pack growls as they come out of the cave, looking and sniffing around they start to step closer to the location where Lightning left the dying chamiosaurus. Lightning sat calmly as they start to walk even closer, their feet crunching the snow underneath them. They finally reach the trap as Lightning brings the blade out. Soon explosions are heard and the yells of pain and chunks of the chamiosaurus fly everywhere as only a few remain alive and most were badly hurt.

Lightning comes out of the bush with a steel gaze. He surveys the area and finds that the traps got them all. He chuckles and sheathes his blades then walks into the cave. 'Now all that's left is the alpha.' Lightning thinks as he enters the camber and sees a lot of eggs.

Lightning looks at the eggs and taps one. He pulls his hoof back as slime hangs on. Shaking his hoof, "Ewwww, that's gross. Don't they clean the eggs before they plant it somewhere, I mean come on." He said exasperated.

'Now I have no choice. I got to torch the whole cave to ensure none of them hatch.' Lightning thinks before dodging to the left as a tail crashed down on where he was. Looking where it came from he saw a chamiosaurus three times bigger them the ones he killed and had a spiked tail and horn growing out of its back. 'And there's the alpha.' The alpha sneers and launches his tail at Lightning Bolt. Lightning Bolt throws himself to the left narrowly avoiding the tail.

Lightning starts to run around and stays close to the eggs as any pack member wouldn't want to lose their next generation. He leaves behind a trap as he stops in between the attacks. The alpha was mad, its attacks becoming more and more wild. Lightning Bolt sees his chance and fires a Lightning arrow that hits the Alpha in the left eye, blinding it. As the lightning arrow digs into its eye the arrow that sends out a shock throughout its body making the Alpha cry out in pain. The arrow then finishes its charge and disappears. The Alpha growls, madder than ever. Before Lightning Bolt could move the Alpha slashes its left claw at Lightning Bolt, slashing the armor on his right hind leg and cutting into him. Lightning Bolt bites down so not to scream in pain as he hits the wall from the attack. 'This is bad, if this continues it'll kill me.' Lightning thinks before noticing a large stalactites over the Alpha. 'Only one chance.' Lightning thinks before unloading all his remaining lightning arrow into the stalactites.

The arrows hits the bases of the stalactites, sending shocks throughout the rock formation. The connection at the base weaken and sends cracks through the stalactites making it comes apart. The formations come down onto the head of the Alpha, skewering through the head and making it go silent.

Lightning Bolt breathes heavily as he struggles to his feet. He slowly treads over to the Alpha a looks at it for a second. "As my right as the hunter I claim my trophies." Lightning said before unsheathing the blade attachment and cutting out several teeth and a few of its horn and placing them into his saddle bags. Lightning Bolt heads to the exit and looks back at the eggs and the dead alpha noticing also several bones now. Lightning Bolt then fishes out his final grenade. "I guess this is a good of use of a fire grenade as I'm gonna get." Lightning Bolt says before throwing the now activated grenade and limping out of the cave. As soon as he exits the cave he hears an explosion and then smells smoke. "Hunt complete."

Fluttershy's cottage

Rainbow sits on the couch in Fluttershy's home as Ice Fang sat on her lap. She pets Ice Fang absentmindedly as she waits for Lightning to come back. Fluttershy flutters over with a tray of some of her herbal tea and foal bottle of milk for Ice Fang. She places the tray down on the table next to the couch and looks at the sad atmosphere created by the two changed beings. Rainbow takes a quick sip of the tea before going for the bottle and giving it to Ice Fang. Ice Fang whines sadly and takes the bottle in its, sucking slowly. Fluttershy sits down right beside them as Rainbow feeds Ice Fang. The door to Fluttershy's cottage opens as Twilight and Applejack comes in with Azure riding on Applejack's back. Rainbow chuckles as best she could. "Looks like he likes you AJ."

"Yeah would da though. But Rainbow are you ok? You're obviously sad." Applejack says.

Rainbow brings her head down and looks down at Ice Fang. Ice Fang keeps sucking on the nipple of the bottle as slow as ever. Azure glides over to Rainbow's side and nuzzles her gently. "Yeah, I'm just worried." Rainbow says.

"You're worried about Lightning Bolt, aren't you?" Twilight asks.

They stay there shocked as a tear falls down Rainbow's face. In all the time they know her, Rainbow never cries, except seen by Fluttershy. The door opens again, but nopony notices. The tear falling down her face is stopped by a hoof. Rainbow looks up and sees Lightning without his armor and equipment. Her breath is caught in her throat as she looks at him. Ice Fang and Azure suddenly launches themselves at him, sending him to the ground laughing. Lightning Bolt gets up when Ice Fang and Azure gets off him. As he gets up Twilight notices that his hind leg is covered in blood.

Twilight gasps at the sight of the bloody leg. "Lightning, your leg!" She said as she pointed to his leg. Fluttershy gasp and runs off to get her first aid kit. Lightning groans as he places some weight on his leg, making him wince.

He lifts his leg to alleviate the pain until Fluttershy comes back. He then looks at Rainbow. "I always keep my promise."

"So is it over, are they dead?" Twilight asks as Fluttershy starts bandaging him up.

"Yeah, all of them are dead." Lightning says.

Fluttershy places antibiotic on his wound, making him hiss slightly. "The eggs are destroyed so there is no chance of more coming." Fluttershy starts to roll the bandages around his leg as Rainbow leans against him, Ice Fang in his lap.

After Fluttershy finished bandaging him up, she got up. "Now you better stay off that leg for the rest of the night." Fluttershy says.

Lightning looks at Rainbow. "Looks like I need a flying buddy just to get around for the night." Lightning smiles. Rainbow smirks at his usual behavior. "I'm not going to do that forever just so you know." She jabs a hoof in his shoulder. Lightning hisses and grabs his shoulder. "Watch it Rainbow, I'm still tender from the fight." Rainbow chuckles nervously. "Sorry." Rainbow says nervously.

"It's ok." Lightning Bolt says and Rainbow Dash, for the first time, actually got a look at him without his normal clothes. The first things she noticed is that he had a few scars on his body and had no cutie mark at all.

"Whoa, no cutie mark. How do you know what your talent it?" Rainbow points to his flank.

"I told you earlier Rainbow we don't have those in Stalliongrad." Lightning says.

"Hey, since you're gonna need some help moving around for the next few days. How about you stay at my place?" Rainbow asks trying to hide her embarrassment.

Lightning looks at her in shock. "Are you sure you don't mind? I mean you could just drop me off at my home because it's only one night." He said as he tries to hide his blush.

"I don't mind at all." Rainbow reassures as Twilight is writing a new letter to inform Princess Celestia the danger has passed now. Twilight rolls up the finished letter and looks at Rainbow and Lightning. "I can add a cloud walking spell for Ice Fang here." She said as she pets Ice Fang, with him enjoying the attention.

Twilight charges up her horn, covering it with magic to prepare the spell. When she is ready she points it to Ice Fang, making him whimper a bit at possible pain. Twilight fires the spell, covering Ice Fang with a magical aura. Ice Fang whimpers a little, but then calms down. Twilight finishes the spell as the aura over both of them disappears. Ice Fang quickly looks over himself to check if anything is missing and then yips happily to find nothing wrong. "That will last about a week." Twilight said with obvious exhaustion.

"That's good because Lightning Bolt has to stay off his leg for a week." Fluttershy says sounding like a doctor.

Lightning sighs heavily from relief. "Thank goodness. If I had to stay in bed for a whole week, I might go crazy."

"Like Rainbow, you have to fly." Fluttershy says.

Lightning's eyes widen and covered his face with his hooves. "I'm so stupid."

"We are in the same boat then." Rainbow says placing her hoof on his shoulder.

Lightning looks at her confused. "What do you mean? This happen to you before?" He said as he pointed to his bandaged leg.

"Yeah, kinda got hurt while practicing a trick. Hurt my wing and was in the hospital for 3 days." Rainbow says.

Lightning smirks. "How long did it take you to get bored?"

"She was bored to death before we left." Twilight says.

Lightning laughs out loud. "You... you couldn't last at least a night, can you? I've been in these before." Lightning says then sighs. "On a few times I was laid up for a month." Lightning clarifies.

Rainbow's eyes widen when she heard how long. "Wow, did you try to at least get of there early?"

"No, a few times a wing and two legs were bandaged up." Lightning says.

Rainbow gets off the couch and turns to him. "Come on, we got to get going before nightfall. You don't want to be flying blind."

"Anypony have a saddlebag I can borrow?" Lightning Bolt asks.

Fluttershy shoves a saddlebag in front of him. "Here you go." She says enthusiastically.

"Thank you." Lightning says as she helps him put it on. "Ice Fang get into the saddle bag." Lightning says.

Ice Fang yips and jumps straight into the bag. He then reappears with his head and paws showing. Then his tail comes out, wagging happily.

"Ok now, stay in there." Lightning says as he take the hoof Rainbow Dash offered.

Rainbow smiles and starts to hover in the air with Lightning following. "Let's go." Rainbow said. They both start to fly out the door and straight to Rainbow's house with Azure following.

Author's Notes:

A/N: Next chapter up and running.

Writer / Original Idea: Flair the demon dragon king

Writer / Editor: Primus

And that's another chapter into the mix. See ya next time.

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