Burning Crusader: Burning Ranger
Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Luck of the Lyra
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Luck of the Lyra
“This sucks!” Amy yelled as she and Applejack were in the field bucking apple trees. Well mostly Applejack given how muscular the farm pony is compared to the human fire torch. “I can’t believe I’m banned from taking the Friendship Express. Did they not see us save those ponies and capture the bandits on the train?”
“Was that before or after you caused several hundreds worth of bits in property damage to the train?” Applejack asked as the Blazing Heart simply snort.
“Hey, you were a part of my plan to. So why the hell didn’t you get punish?”
“Well sugarcube, that’s mostly because I don’t have any form of magic that caused damage not only to the train but to part of the train tracks that lead to Canterlot and Ponyville. And possibly because I’m the element of honesty.” She said with a prideful expression on her face.
“Yeah, keep soaking up that ego of yours. That will get you far in life.”
“Look all I’m saying is that you should really get a hold of your fire magic. Maybe find yourself somepony that can train you?”
“And who would be willing to do that after what happened not only in Ponyville, but also to the friendship express?” Amy asked as she quickly interrupted Applejack. “And no, I am not going to Twilight for help.”
“Look, I know you two have your problems, but Twilight is a good magic teacher. Just give her a chance.”
“I am not going to have her teach me on how to use magic. Especially after what happen to me last month.”
(Flashback to last month)
“God, they really need to get a new tractor or something.” Amy said as she tiredly dragged herself upstairs to the bathroom. Once inside she began to take off her clothes, throwing them to the side, and hopped right into the shower without hesitation. Just as she turn the water on and adjusted it to the right temperature, the Blazing Heart let out a relaxing sigh before starting to scrub herself clean while singing a tune. While the human was singing in the shower, unknowingly to her. A certain lavender colored unicorn was in the bathroom taking notes while examining the human’s clothes.
“Interesting. How can your clothes be still intact even after you accidentally set yourself on fire from time to time?” Twilight asked, which caused Amy to stop singing and open the curtain to the bathtub. Upon doing that, Amy’s face burn bright red upon seeing Twilight and a very annoyed Spike standing there in the bathroom.
“What the fuck are you two doing here!?” Amy asked as she quickly covered herself up with the shower curtain.
“Oh good, you’re available. I have a few questions that I want you to answer if you would?”
“Why would I answer your questions now? Especially when I’m in the fucking shower getting myself clean!?”
“Hm, good point...want me to join you so I can help you get cleaned up?” Twilight asked as her horn glowed causing a sponge and soap to appear in front of herself. “This would also help with me getting a better understanding of the human body.” There was a long silent pause upon that statement as Amy looked over at Spike as he sighed.
“I’m only here because I’m forced to be here.” The dragon said as she noticed Amy’s hand beginning to catch on fire. “Uh oh.”
“Okay so maybe Twilight can be….a little bit too excited when it comes to learning something new. But she’s still a nice pony...once you get past her need to learn new things and stuff.” Applejack said with an awkward chuckle. “I’m not helping your case am I?”
“No, no you are not. And to add more to this little conversation, this wouldn’t be the only time she has done something like this.” The human said as she grabbed an apple from off the tree. “She followed me when I was eating, followed me when I was getting stuff on the list that Granny Smith wanted me to buy for your house, the time I wanted to spend some time with Sandy & Cindy, going to the bathroom, and the biggest creepiest thing she’s ever done was watching me from a bush like a stalker as I took a swim in the pool near that open field not to far from here.”
“........Okay, I’ll see if I can have a talk with her about personal space when I get the chance.”
“See that you do. Because if not, I will either blast her away with my fire, or I will get a restraining order to have her keep her distance from me.” Amy said as she took a bite out of the apple she took. “And trust me, you do not want to see me when I’m pissed.”
“I kinda figured that out after what happened to Rainbow Dash...Still can’t believe you set her on fire like that.”
“Hey, she started by spying on me from a cloud in the air. And I didn’t set her on fire….for the most part at least.”
“Well if you think that she’s going to trust you after that, then you my friend are up a creek without a paddle.”
“Whatever, it’s not like I was going to be her friend anyway.” Amy said as she finish eating the apple she took from the pile before tossing the core into the pig’s feeding trough.
“Noted…just…try not to kill anypony or hurt then to badly. Okay?”
“I make no promises on that second one.” The human said as she started making small shapes with her fire.
“So aside from Twilight and Rainbow being nosey, how do you feel about my other friends? Like Pinkie and Fluttershy?” Applejack asked her out of curiosity. “I mean, you probably met them at one point or another, right?”
“So far you, Fluttershy, and Pinkie are okay in my book to be around with. The others...Not so much.”
“Well, I get the reason why for two of them. But wait…Why exactly aren’t you good with Rarity?” Applejack questioned as the color from Amy’s face turned pale upon that question.
“Let’s just say I prefer for her not to touch my clothes…well try to strip me of my clothes because they’re a fashion disaster…”
Applejack could only raise an eyebrow at that. “How the hay did something like that happen?”
“How the hell should I know? One minute she likes it, and now she wants to take my only pair of clothes away from me.” The human said as she shivered at the thought of her trying to strip her. “I prefer not to let her touch me...ever!”
“...... Did she like them before you did your crazy stunt on the train?”
“....Yes.”
“And she told you to get rid of them after what happened on the friendship express…” Applejack replied back, taking a deep breath and sighing for a moment.
“Yes…Oh now I get it.”
“Your clothes had been messed up because of what you did…” Applejack replied, facepalming herself. “Tell you what, next time I go into town, I’ll ask her if she can make something for you without any unnecessary removal of clothes. I bet that not only would she be open for doing that, but she can patch up those clothes too if you give her the chance.”
“No way in hell will I trust her with giving me a set of new clothes. Lord knows she might make me a frilly looking dress, and I fucking hate those with a burning passion… no pun intended.”
“I figured as much…” Applejack replied back. “Well, unless you want to use any hand me downs that were once in my closet or Big Mac’s, then I believe you don’t really got much of a choice in the matter…” Setting down the feed for the farm animals, Applejack pulled out a list from her pocket as she looked it over. “Alright… Now, the only thing that’s left on here is to pick up some flour from Sugarcube Corner. Of course, I would normally go by myself… but do you want to tag along?”
“Might as well. I needed to stop by that place to fix the second oven again.”
“...... What did you do this time?” The farm pony questioned.
“Really? When something breaks you suspect it was caused by me?”
“You said you needed to fix it again. So, I was lead to believe that this was a repeat occurrence.”
“Well if you must know. Pinkie Pie thought it was a good idea to make a TNT cake. Only problem with that was that she used sticks of dynamite as candles instead of making it out of cake and used sparklers as the lite fuse.”
“And where exactly did she get the dynamite from?” Applejack asked while they were walking.
“This is Pinkie Pie we’re talking about. That’s like asking how the hell she can fit a giant party cannon in her mane without it being noticed.”
Applejack thought that comment over for a moment, just as the two of them were approaching the edge of ponyville. “That… is a rather valid point actually.”
“See, so you shouldn’t be surprised by something like this… which makes me think she can make a pocket dimension in her mane to be able to hold a lot of shit in there.” Amy told her back in response, all while looking back at Applejack, even though Applejack stopped for a moment… for one particular reason.
“Uhh, sugarcube? Maybe you should watch where you’re-” Before Applejack could finish warning the human, she soon flinched from seeing Amy bump into another pony that was making her way towards them. “Going…”
“Could’ve warned me a head of time AJ.” Amy said as she pulls herself up from off the pony she bumped into. “Are you okay? Sorry about that.”
The pony herself just blinked for a moment, before getting up and looking back at Amy rather closely as if she was examining her. “O-oh my gosh! Are you… Are you a human?!” All Amy could do was reply back with an awkward nod. “That… is… AWESOME!!!”
“Please don’t tell me she’s part of your fan club, Amy…” Applejack chuckled a bit as she straightened the hat on her head.
“Wait I have a fan club?”
“I was being sarcastic…” Applejack deadpanned. Before Amy could say anything about it, the mare grabbed her by the wrist and began dragging her along the ground.
“Come along! I finally can prove to my roommate that humans are indeed real!!” The mare proclaimed… even though she looked like she was kidnapping Amy for no reason whatsoever.
“H-Hey wait a minute! Don’t I get a say in this!? More importantly, who are you!?”
“Lyra’s my name, proving that humans do indeed exist is my game!” She rhymed, “Now, who are you, oddly dressed human I just met that may or may not have anger issues!!?”
“Amy Anderson the Third. Now let me go before I set you on fire…” Amy threaten as her right hand began to burn on fire. All that did was have Lyra’s horn glow for a moment, before the flames Amy once had soon disappeared. “The fuck!?”
“I have a magic nullification spell, silly!” The unicorn replied back to her with a smile. “Hold on, we’re almost at my place!”
“Help! I’m being kidnapped by a mint colored unicorn! Call the royal guards!” Amy yelled, before Lyra used her levitation magic to toss her in through the door. Startling the earth pony that was inside as Amy laid flat on the ground… While Lyra placed one of her hooves on her spine.
“Bonbon! I found one!!!” The unicorn declared proudly… however, her roommate wasn’t really so thrilled by this.
“Lyra, what the hay!?” Her roommate snapped as she walked into the living room. “I was trying to read the paper this morning and you-” Immediately though, she happened to notice Amy’s predicament and then glared at Lyra. “What did you do?”
Lyra was surprised for a moment… before looking back at the earth pony. “Okay… but you can’t be mad at me.”
“What… did you do, Lyra?” Bonbon grit her teeth, glaring at the unicorn.
“Okay first… I was minding my own business-” She tried to reply back, before getting cut off by her roommate as she threw the newspaper she was reading so hard that Amy could feel the floorboards shake.
“Horseapples!!”
“I WAS!!”
“And exactly what were you doing while you were ‘minding your own business’?”
“Well, first I was walking down the street casually. Then Amy here collided into me. It was through that moment that I realized that she was indeed what YOU thought was a mere myth! A human in the flesh!!!”
“Oh dear goddess, you foalnapped her right off the street, didn’t you?”
“You’re damn right she did!” Amy said as she pulled herself up and glared at Lyra. To which, Bonbon was really not happy about it as she looked at Amy.
“I’m… really sorry about my roommate. She’s rather… desperate when it comes to proving herself right.”
“Care to explain? Because at this point I’m a bit pissed to the point where I could beat the crap out of her without the use of magic.”
“Lyra is rather…compulsive when it comes to the topic of…Hoo-mans I think it was spelled,” Bonbon sighed. “It’s been something that she’s had since Fillyhood. Going as far as making ‘hands’ out of Paper mache and trying to do research reports on it when she was in preschool.”
“.....Wow…..I don’t know if I should find that impressive, creepy, or both.”
“Mostly both… some of the time, she does it without thinking and realizes it after the fact.” Bonbon replied, watching as Lyra soon went into a spare room… before they heard her cry out in what sounded like pain because of the ear splitting screech.
“OH DEAR CELESTIA, WHY DID I DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!?! I JUST WANTED FOR US TO BE FRIENDS!!!”
“Geez, not so fucking loud dammit!” Amy said while covering her ears from the pain before shaking her head. “First of all, I have no problem being your friend, but you doing what you did to me is something I will not tolerate. You think anyone human wise would be your friend after that. Well besides me of course?”
“I already tried with those other two, but they just keep ignoring me!!”
“Did you try to kidnap them like you did with me?”
“No, I just asked them if they could come with me! They said that they were busy with things and that you may be the only person available!”
“.....I’m going to kill them both for this the next time I see them.” Amy said as she pinched the bridge of her nose. “Alright, here’s the plan. I’m willing to be your friend-”
“Really!?” Lyra was about to hug the human, only to be met with a hand to her face.
“But if you pull that shit on me again, then I will kick your ass and leave. Got it?” She asked, only to feel Lyra rub her face against her hand while holding it.
“H-Hands~! So soft and fingery~!”
“.....This is going to happen every time I meet with Lyra, isn’t it?” The human asked as she looked over at BonBon who gave a nod as she sighs in both exasperation and annoyance. “Well it’s better than having Twilight probe me for answers and stuff.”
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