“Steel Skin....Steel?” A voice faded in and out calling his name but it was impossible for him to focus. Then, finally, he opened his eyes and tried to stand but collapsed before he made it all the way up. He was still disoriented and searched for the owner of the voice that awoke him. Steel Skin finally saw Enchanta standing over him with big sad eyes. Steel Skin sighed with relief. “Enchanta, your okay, oh thank Celestia.” He noticed the way she was looking at him, and asked “Why are you looking at me like that?”

She pointed towards his hind legs. “Your legs.” She said so softly it was almost a whisper. Steel Skin, afraid of what he would see, slowly turned his head to look at his hind legs. “No.” His back legs were completely shattered and mangled. He looked confused, “Why doesn’t it hurt?”

“After we hit the ground, you fell unconscious. I did my best to stop the pain while you were still out, but..” Enchanta paused for a moment. “I couldn’t fix your legs, I’m so sorry Steel Skin.” Enchanta nearly started to cry.

Steel Skin felt worse for Enchanta then himself. “Hey, don’t cry you did your best I’m sure they have unicorns at the school that can fix me up.”

Enchanta gave him a grave look “Steel, the reason I couldn’t fix your legs is because there isn’t a spell strong enough that can put together all those pieces. I’m sorry Steel, but there’s no way to fix your legs.”

Steel Skin laid on his back and stared at the sky in thought. “Are you sure there’s nothing you can to?”

Enchanta thought a moment then said, “Well there may be something I can do, but I’m not sure if it will work.”

Steel Skin thought for a second and then said, “Anything is better then this Enchanta, just do it.”

Enchanta hesitantly said, “Alright, just, hold still.” She closed her eyes and concentrated all her might on Steel Skin’s legs. As her blue magic aura covered his legs they began to slowly change from a mangled mess to perfectly strait. Steel Skin was amazed but confused he thought that it was impossible to fix his legs, then he saw she didn’t fix them but changed them. His legs transformed into metal and instantly came back into feeling.

Steel Skin tried to stand up and succeeded, but he found it hard to keep his balance. Once he gained a steadiness amongst his legs, he turned to Enchanta to give her his appreciation. “Thank you, that was amazing but, how did you do that?”

“Well, when the unicorn trainer was teaching us spells they explained to us that sometimes we will have to use a weapon and if we didn’t have one they taught us a spell that turned anything into an incredible hard, and indestructible, material called Stylocite, and use it as a weapon.

Steel Skin searched his memories on the word. “Stylocite? I think I’ve herd of that. My uncle used to be a forge master, and he would make armor and weapons made of Stylocite. He used to call it Hard Steel because it has all the same properties of Steel but it’s indestructible.”

Enchanta, surprised at his knowledge of the material, said “Yes actually it’s more commonly known as that. When they were training us on how to use it, I had used it on things like tree branches and clothes but never on anything living. That’s why I didn’t know if it would do you more harm then good.”

Steel Skin, now much more comfortable with his new legs, moved and bent them around and said, “Well I guess since I can move them around just as easily as my real legs they’re doing me more good.” He smiled, trying to make Enchanta feel better.

Enchanta lightly smiled back at him then said, “I’m glad your legs are better Steel.” She looked up at the almost night sky then back at him. “It’s almost dark, and we’re still a ways away from the school. We should probably set up camp here for the night.”

Steel Skin nodded and reached for where his sleeping bag should be, but there was nothing there. He looked at Enchanta with an embarrassed face and said “I...think I lost my sleeping bag in the fall.”

Enchanta pulled out hers and rolled it out. “That’s okay.” she said “Mine is pretty big, it should be able to fit both of us.” She was blushing as she opened the bag.

An hour had passed and Steel Skin had already set up a camp fire and gathered apples for them to eat. After their hunger was satisfied, they decided to turn in for the night. At this time the sky had fallen dark and the fire was the only thing that kept them warm on that snowy cliff edge along the side of the mountain.

Enchanta was already in the bag when Steel Skin tried to squeeze into it. His cold metal leg made her jump as it touched her warm thigh.

“I’m sorry.” Steel Skin apologized.

“It’s okay Steel.” She replied. Enchanta looked up at the night sky and saw how beautiful it was with its dark purple canvas and bright twinkling stars. “Isn’t it beautiful Steel?” Steel Skin was not looking at the sky but only at Enchanta, who even though had dirt scratches and other marks, was even more beautiful to him then ever.

“You sure are.” He quickly realized what he said then tried to correct him self, “Uh..I...mean ‘IT’ sure is.”

Enchanta looked at Steel Skin with her big green eyes, then asked, “Steel Skin, do you want to kiss me?”

He wanted to say many different things all at once but could only say one thing; “Yes.” They both closed their eyes and kissed each other softly, but with passion. At that exact moment, an intense rainbow colored shock wave painted the sky bight with it’s colors and the force of the wave sent a chill up both the lover’s spines who were still kissing and did not notice the event.

Once they finished, they both looked at each other in amazement. “Wow, did you feel that too?” Enchanta asked.

“I sure did.” Steel Skin said while still dazed by the kiss and the shock wave.

Enchanta, staring at Steel Skin with half open eyes and a smile who was doing the same back, finally said. “Well, we should probably get to sleep. We have a long day ahead of us.”

Steel Skin just nodded slightly with a small smile, closed his eyes, prayed that the sleeping bag incident from a few nights ago didn’t happen again and fell asleep.