Spirit of Winter 8: Summer Heat

>You’ve been awake for what feels like ages
>You were barely able to get anysleep
>For the better part of the night you've been restless for somereason
>Slowly you feel another bout of shortened sleep overcome you
>And finally you're out

>You feel like you have just gone to sleep when you start to hear a voice
>”Wake up Anon, wake up, it’s getting warmer… why not cool things down a little?”
>You don’t respond instead you keep your eye s tightly shut
>”Wake up Anon, summer is coming… it’s going to get warm… you know you hate when it’s warm... Why not take things into your hands...”
>As the voice continues to speak you start to mouth “No”
>This is too weird for you, almost as weird as that time you woke up in a world full of colorful talking ponies...
>...Wait
>You feel as if you’re in between a state of being awake and asleep all while having  repetitive and upsetting dream
> The voice pauses
>”You can run from it, but I am always with you, I am a part of you, as much as your beating heart”
>You can feel blood draining from your face and neck; you begin to feel yourself drift awake

>Slowly your physical senses are returned to you and you start to hear two familiar voices
>”Yeah, yeah, yeah, least I don’t have the hots for some giant monkey thing”
>It’s that Cyan pony, Rainbow Smash?, Rainbow Bash? What the fuck is her name?
>her comment is followed by an all too familiar squeak
>”Dash!  Be quite, you’ll wake him up!...”
>You daw a little and decide to see how many more you can get today
>Sitting you put your hands above your head and give and over exaggerated sigh
Oh man I slept like a rock last night
>You hear another squeak come from the kitchen
>The smell of pancakes is enough to get you up and out of bed/couch
> You enter the kitchen to find that Spike once again is cooking
>Poor pussy whipped kid
>Sitting at the table is a very hung over looking cyan pony
Rough night?
>She mumbles something that could either be a yeah or a fuck you, you don’t really care
>The only odd thing is a star lack of Twilight in the room
Uh, Spike where’s Twilight?
>”I don’t know she went down the basement to go get something”
Do you know what for?
>”Nope there’s just a bunch of junk down there”
>”Um, Anon?”
>You turn your head slightly over your should to see a bright red Twilight levitating a rather large parcel.
Yea?
>"Um, I uh... got you some...."
>You couldn't understand a word of her mumbling.
Er, sorry?
>"I got you some..."
Say that again?
>"I got you some bu...."
Twi you're going to need to quite mumbling.
>"IGOTYOUSOMEBOOKSOKAY!"
>She shoves the books into your chest and immediately looks away.
>God damn she's adorable.
>You take the string and untie it before unwrapping the parcel.  Inside is a stack of four books labeled: Ancient Equestrian Rite and Traditons, Royal Equestrian Duites from Princess to Constable, The Winter Lords Concerning Northern Equestrian Nobility, Legends of Northern Equestria.
>"D-do you like them?"
>You smile and wrap your arms around Twilight, eliciting a slight squeak.
I love em.
>”Would you two shut up!”
Little hung over?
>”Shut your face.”
>This little comment makes Twilight snap back to reality.
>”Dash if you just drink some water you’d feel a little better.”
>”I’ll drink whatever I want”
>Twilight is clearly enraged by this little comment
>Spike decides it’s best to break up a potential at fight
>”I don’t mean to interrupt but the pancakes are done”
>Dash quickly lifts her head up, takes a fork and harpoons several pancakes onto her plate
>Twilight scowls at Rainbow and sits down taking a few pancakes as well
>”Anon I didn’t know if you’d like daisy pancakes, so I made you some eggs
Thanks buddy
>You take the eggs and put two pancakes on your plate along with them
>”Take some more.”
What? Don’t you want any?
>”Naw I’m good, I’m going to have some rubies for breakfast”
Wat?
>”I’m a dragon, I eat gemstones. Duh.”
>He makes a cartoonish face after saying duh
>You’ve been here for a while and nothing ceases to surprise you
>The eggs are really hot, so you decide to cool them down,
>Good lord the orange juice is freaking scalding
Spike did you boil this shit or something?
>”No, it’s a little warm but that just because it’s been sitting out for awhile
>That’s weird; the food at Canterlot was never like this
>You tap on the glass cooling it down
>Nice and frozen, just the way you like it

>Breakfast went on in silence with the occasional grunt coming from Rainbow Dash and her booze migraine
> Dash leaves without a word and you end up washing the dished with Spike so as not to be a total mooch
Can I ask you a question little brother
>”What is it?”
What’s wrong with the Rainbow mare?
>”Don’t know, but she never drank a whole lot, not until you came.”
What!?
>”Yeah, she just started after Twilight came back from Canterlot”
Weird
>”Yeah”
>You finish up the dishes all while talking about dragons from your world
>”So dragons don’t eat gem stones in your world?”
Nope
>”What do they eat then?”
Well the stories always said that they eat sheep and cows… sometimes humans
>Spike flinches slightly
>You both continue in silence
Is this it?
>”Yeah”
>Not wanting to make things any more awkward than they already you go back to the table and crack open the books Twi gave you.


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>You've spent the rest of the morning flipping the pages of the books Twi gave you.
>Most of the information in the books, were things that you already knew.  Your duties, your titles, everything.
>The only difference being, is that you had to sift through hundreds and hundreds of pages to find tidbits of information.
>All the while Twilight has been stealing glances at you.
>She's not exactly the most conspicuous mare in the world.
>For awhile she continuously peeks around the corner.  Something tells you she's trying to make a decision.
>And sure enough she comes slowly walk behind you and over to the sink, with a dirty plate and fork.
>There's a slight pause.
>"H-how do you like them?"
They're history books.
>"Is... Is that bad?"
Not really, just, er, a lot of information to swallow.
>This gives way to another awkward pause.
>"Hey Anon?"
>You turn your head around.
Jeah?
>"It's uh, uh, almost lunch time."
Yea.
>"And it's really nice out too..."
It's really hot outside, is what it is.
>She visibly flinches at hearing this.
>"Well I just want to see if you maybe... Wanted to do something, but if it's too hot then-"
What did you want to do?
>"A picnic!"
>She almost immediately snaps back after bursting out.
>You take a look at the clock, which reads a quarter til twelve.
>Meh, why now.
Well-  I just want-  to get there before somp0ny else.
>Huh, well that makes sense.
Alrighty.


>It only took you and Twi a few minutes to get everything together for your little picnic by the lake.
>Now with everything in toe, you both are making your way out of town to the reservoir.
>”Anonymous!  Oh darling there you are!”
>It’s Rarity; you aren’t surprised, after that little bout of sexual tension last night you were just waiting for her to show up
>You turn around with Twilight and see her galloping up to you
>”Oh it’s been too long!”
I saw you yesterday
>She blushes
>”Oh well I, uh… Wonderful day isn’t it?”
Well it’s kind of hot out
>”What?  Dear, it doesn’t even feel like spring!”
Well it should be winter
>You give a little wink to which Rarity gives another blush
>”I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go try a new wine Berry has made, but seeing as you and Twilight are doing something else-
Oh we would love to!
>Twilight gives you a dirty look
You don’t mind do you Twi?
>She frowns slightly
>”I guess not”

>You spend the next hour and a half bantering with Rarity about nothing over more than a bottle of wine with Twilight fidgeting the entire time only occasionally adding to the conversation and giggling occasionally
>The heat is no longer bothering considering the fact that the alcohol is raising the temperature of your skin
>You need to stop drinking; at this rate you'll be hammered before lunch.
Hey, Rarity I've had enough wine for now, I think I'll just buy some and get on my way with Twilight.
>"What?  Well where do you two need to be?"
>"We were going on a picnic."
>Twilight puts a little too much emphasis on the "were".  This is followed by a frown and a scrunchy face.
>"Oh!  Well then, you wouldn't mind if I tagged along would you?"
>You look over a Twilight who simply rolls her eyes an nods.
And actually.... How about I buy a bottle… or three of that "Chateu Au Seleine" and I will try it with you later tonight.
>Rarity giggles at this and Twilight gives you another dirty look
>This bill does not concern you,
>You just put it on your royal account that Luna has given you.
>Equestrian tax bits at work.

>All three of you make your way to the outskirts of Ponyville.
>Rarity has decided to tag along since there have been no recent orders and Sweetie Belle is still in school.
So do you know somewhere I can shoot this thing?  Maybe a lake or something.
>”Well there is a reservoir near here.”
Perfect! Lead the way.
>Twilight takes the lead and proceeds to lead you into the woods and up a hill which you suspect overlooks the reservoir.
>You’d make more progress is Rarity wasn’t going so slow.
>”Oh my, is it much further? oh dear there is so much dirt”
>Twilight is clearly annoyed.
>”If you’re afraid of getting a little dirty then just go back”
>”Well it’s not that, it’s just- I- well-“
>Rarity is clearly flustered
You want me to carry you or something?
>”Oh well-“
>Before she can interject you sweep her up into your arms
>Sweet Jesus she's warm
>This elicits a slight squeak
>”Oh dear you don’t have to do this”
Don’t worry about it
>Twilight scowls at Rarity before starting up again
> Rarity remains silent the entire time and Twilight has stopped talking completely


>You eventually come over the crest of the hill and you a greeted with the sight of an enormous man made reservoir err… pony made reservoir
Wow... why do you need a reservoir?
>”The Pegasi in Ponyville,  need all this water to take up to Cloudsdale so they can make rain clouds.”
>Why didn’t Celestia or Luna tell you any of this?
Guess we should get started.
>Twilight grunts
>You need to dispel this tension
>You try to lower Rarity don but she currently has her hooves wrapped around your neck and is now feigning sleep
Rarity…
>No response
Rairty!
>Once again no response
>You think about how you can get her to stop the charade. Then it comes to you
Well I guess I have no other option, I’m gonna have to throw her in the lake
>You give Twilight a wink who is now trying not to burst out giggling
>Rarity’s not buying it
>You take a few steps into the water making as much noise as possible for effect
>Strangely enough you leave behind a few ice chunks
>Still not buying it
>You then begin to swing Rarity which does the trick
>Rarity begins so scream loudly and pulls herself tighter to you
>Twilight is now on the ground laughing hysterically
Did you think I was actually going to throw you in the water?
>Rarity looks flustered again
>”Well it’s just-… You can set me down now…”
>You daw at the face she’s making as you set her down, sort of a mix between embarrassed and annoyed

So is your horn connected to you brain?
>"No."
So then how do you perform magic!?
>You take a sip of wine from a tin cup, to wash down your biscuit.
>"It's just... I mean, I can't explain it.  Nop0ny can, magic is just something that come naturally to unicorns."
>You look over at Rarity and back to Twilight.
Well then why can't Rarity do the same spells as you?
>"Well it's-  Kind of like a muscle."
>"I've always been able to do levitation, and I even got my cutie mark because of my horn.  But it seems magic just comes naturally to other ponies, Twilight especially."
>Twilight fumbles slightly with her glass, as she attempts to fish the lemonade out of the basket, while you continue to talk to Rarity.
>"Shoot, I forgot to bring the ice."
>You look over at Twi and raise your eyebrow.
Ice?  Really?
>Without letting her get a word in, you snatch her glass and stand up to head to the lake shore.
Watch and learn.
>You crouch down at the waters edge and place the tips of your fingers into the water.
>Nearly a quarter of the lake freezes, through this small action.  To which you respond to by, smashing the ice and breaking the chunks into smaller pieces, that can fit into the glass.
>You wear a smug look of satisfaction as you walk back.
You asked for ice?
>"Th-thank-Whhhaaat!?"
>Twilight brigs her hoof up and points at the lake.
>You turn around to look at the lake, to see the water has actually began to boil.
>Not good for all the fish, that's for sure.
Tha fuck?
>You hear Rarity gasp
>”Who’s that!?”
>Her hoof is pointing upwards
>You look up to see what looks like a unicorn with red mane and an orange coat flowing down over the lake.
>”Ha! I found you!”
>Oh god please don’t let that be who you think it is
Who the fuck ar-
>Before you can finish the orange unicorn sends a jet of steam toward you
>You instinctively put your hands up creating a wall of ice between you and the jet of steam
>It melts through the ice but you managed to stop it
>Lowering the ice wall you see that the orange mare is a few feet away from you
Who the fuck are you!?
>”HA! The names Suvi! And since you’re the new Winter you owe me one sparring match!”
What!?  Ah fuck you; I don’t have time for this!
>”Wrong Answer!”
> Suvi’s horn begins to glow and this time fire is now coming at you
>You raise another wall of ice, but fire is eating through the ice a whole fuck of a lot faster than the steam

>This calls for drastic measures
>You close your eyes and begin to lower the temperature behind the wall of ice
>The temperature is low enough to where the oxygen behind your ice wall is turning to liquid form
>The fire has made its way through the ice but is immediately snuffed out from the sheer temperature drop and lack of oxygen in the hole it made in the ice
> Before you can even lower your defense, you feel a burning pain in your stomach
>You drop your hands along with the ice wall
>Looking down your eyes behold a glowing white hoof pushing through you
>Your body has defensively turned the point of impact into snow
>Snow that is quickly melting
>You look back up to see a grinning Suvi
>”Jeez you’re slow you really should-“
>Before she can finish you grab her red hot hoof and drain all the heat from it
>This effectively wipes the cocky grin off her face
I told you I don’t have time for this shit


>You hear a voice in your head
>”Freeze the water in her cells”
>You don’t think twice about this command and you flash freeze the cells in her hoof
>Summer immediately rears up on her back hooves screaming in pain
>”AHH!!  WHAT THE BUCK DID YOU DO TO ME!?!?”
>You are taken back by her reaction and you immediately rush to her side
>”O shit I’m so sorry!!”
>Her entire hoof is black
>Shit, her body probably didn’t have time to react
>Before you can take her hoof into your hand you, feel a familiar burning sensation coming from your cheek.

>The bitch just sucker punched you
>”Ha!  What a faggot you are!  You don’t just go over and help you opponent!”
>You stager back to your feet and try to utter a reply
Bluck , thhh ack thhh.
>To your left you hear both Rarity and Twilight scream
>You glance over to see Twilight and Rarity staring agape at you
>You look over into the water at your reflection
>Your entire lower jaw has been taken clean off; leaving dripping slush oozing from what was once your mouth
>The cunt must have hit you really hard if your body isn’t immediately restoring itself
>At least you got her, that frostbitten hoof will probably need to be amputated
*hack* thur thhhhh
>”Sorry, don’t speak twink.”
>This bitch is going down

>You take a breath from you open trachea and blow out tennis ball sized hail stones
>You opponent simply creates a wall of heat that melts the hail into tiny harmless ice beads
>You inhale again and this time blow ice mixed with hurricane force wind to blind summerslut
>You cut off your breath and dash for the soviet era rifle
>As you dive for it you feel another burning sensation along you back
>Her fire missed you by just and inch but you can feel the cold wetness of slush running down your ribs
>You roll onto your back and throw your left arm out
>You condense a ball of liquid oxygen and throw it at slut face
>Now with you rifle in tow get up only to be met with another pillar of fire coming at you
>You raise you right hand creating a temperature drop that will turn the oxygen in the immediate area to liquid
>This is barely done in time as smell of burnt wool wafts up to your nose
>You begin to get a headache you attempt to keep the temperature at -190 degrees while you
>Good enough!!
>You relax your arms and let you defense melt.
>It creates a great wall of vapor that allows you to dash toward Summer.
>You have enough time between you two , to cool down your arms to the point of super fluidity.
>It takes every bit of energy in you to do it, but it happens in just enough time.
>Time slows down as you see a ball of fire forms at the tip of her horn.
>With your arm encased in super fluid, you reach through the ball of fire and take the hoarses horn into your hand.
>It's too late to move.
>Her horn lights up, engulfing both of you in a flash of white hot light.
>Your legs give out beneath you, sending you flying several feet back.
>You think you hear your skull crack as your head hits the ground
>The fireball completely engulfed your body; turning it into a sloppy pile of slush
>Now you’re just a severed head lying in the mud; luckily your jaw has healed
>In front of you is a crying Suvi
>Your can barley make up a pile of ash laying opposite of you.  You can only assume, it's her horn, or what's left of it.
>From the looks of things, when Summer is injured, she turns to ash.
>Even in your current state, you can't help but smile.
>That bitch may have blown you up, but at least you took a bit of her with you.
>Then you hear Twilight screaming
>”ANON!!”
>You feel a pair of marshmallow hooves pick you up
>”Oh no! Oh no, no, no!!”
No wha-
>Twilight cuts you off by pressing your face into her chest
>Twilight breath is raspy and you can clearly hear rarity balling her eyes out as she hugs Twilight along with your head
>You try to mutter tell Twilight your fine but your voice is muffled by her marshmallow body
>Though this seems to do the trick as the crying stops
>”He- he’s alive?!”

>Twilight holds your head out in front of her
Yeaaaah, being immortal means getting your head cut off won't kill you?
>Rarity interjects
>”But you killed the other winter!”
He was a willing participant in his death; in this case I wasn't ready to die. Now if wouldst mind Turing me around so I can- TELL SUMMERSLUT OFF!!
>Twilight awkwardly obliges
Yeah how do you like that you dumb bitch!!  That what you get when you mess with the human race!!
>”BUCK YOU!!”
>Before you can continue to gloat Suvi disappears turns into a cloud of steam and is taken away by the wind
>Twilight turns you back around
>”I think what you did was a little overboard...”
>”Nonsense!  That mare was simply boorish and wild!  She deserved it.”
>Twilight turns your head to face Rarity
>Her eyes are still puffy and red but she appears to be trying to recompose herself… it’s kind of cute
>”Sooo Anon?”
Hm?
>”What are we going to do about… you know.”
What?
>”Your…. um… thing”
My thing?
>”You’re head!”
Oh that’s right… Just get a bucket and use your magic to… gather my slushy body up… or something


>The next hour was spent gathering up every single water droplet of your body
>Twilight basically did all the work while Rarity gabbed in your ear about how upset she is about how your clothes were turned into ash and how you simply MUST stay with her until you turn back to normal so she can get you a new outfit
>To you relief Rarity’s incessant talking is cut off by Twilight
>”Alright, I think that’s all of it, I couldn’t find anything other than clumps of slush, they fire must have destroyed everything else.”
Fantastic...
>"Not really..."
I was being sarcastic
>”Oh!”
>”Can we please leave now?”
>You start to feel you head rising and floating out of Twilight grasp
>”Twilight, be a dear and carry everything else.”
>”What makes you think you can carry Anon’s head?”
>You being to feel yourself being pulled over to Twilight
>”Because Anon carried ME all the way up here!  The least I can do is carry him in his time of need!”
>There is now a magical tug of war going with your decapitated head with Rarity and Twilight both shouting at each other
>Suddenly you feel you head drop into the mud
>”Why not just be quite and do some work for once!”
>Rarity gives an exasperated sigh
>”There is a time for a lady to do work, and I will do so by carrying Anonymous!”
>Your head is now rolling into the lake
Uh ladies?
>”Anon likes me better!!”
>”An what makes you say that!?”
>”Because he sleeps at MY house!”
>You are now in the water and are floating away
LADIES!!

>Twilight and Rarity turn both in sync
>”SHUT UP!!”
>Both their expressions turn from anger to horror and again in sync they both scream
>”Anon!”
>You try to reply but your face is now in the water
>A familiar sensation overcomes you as you fly back up into the air and back to the shore line
>Rarity has you
>”Oh dear are you alright!?”
>“Hey!”
Twilight just let her carry me
>Twilight give you exasperated look but doesn't reply


>It takes about an hour for you, Twilight and Rarity enter the outskirts of Ponyville and now the sun has gone dow
>Presently Twilight is the one levitating your head along the way
>Apparently Rarity isn’t used to using magic for so long
>The entire journey was done in awkward silence until Twilight breaks it
>”So how long are you going to be like this?”
Give it another thirty minutes and I should be fine
>”Do you know why it’s taking so long?”
Well it’s probably due to the fact that horn exploded when I broke it off, I'd say that we still have a lot of time left.
>You finally reach Twilights house
>”Well I guess I’ll be going then… goodnight Anonymous”
>Rarity turns around as Twilight opens the door to her house
>Your eardrums pop at what sound like a million party horns and a million ponies all yelling in sync
>”SURPRISE!!”
AH!! WHAT THE HELL!!
>Now in front of you is a grinning all pink pony with frizzy mane
>”Hi Anon!”
Pinkie?
>”That’s me!”
Wha- what is all this
>”WellsinceyouleftthedayafterImetyouIdidn’thaveachancetothrowyouthatwelcomingpartysowhenIheardyoucamebackIknewyou’dbestayingatTwilightshouseandwhileyouweregoneIinvitedeveryonetoyourhoecomingparty!!’

>Silence follows Pinkies voice
>Every pony in the rooms jaw is on the floor
>Then a tan pony with red mane starts screaming followed by a purple pony with green mane
>”Twilight cut off the humans head!!”
>”The horror the horror!!”
>It’s going to be a long night