Orchid's Flower Emporium [Dead]

[Lightning Clash]

((Sorry for wait and long post. Didn't notice I wrote this much))

Lightning got a name from the white pegasus, her name was Carmine. She had said she had no idea of how to bandage her wing. Lightning looked again at the wing, wondering if he could bandage it. 'It might be oddly shaped but it's still a wing' Lightning thought. Orchid started to explain the ingredients of the potion she had brewed. Lavender and blue berries? It actually sounded nice and would think it would have a sweet taste to it, but the look on Carmine's face said otherwise. 'Must be the herbs' Lightning guessed.

After drinking the liquid the mare acted like it was nothing. Judging from how she reacted, Lightning viewed this as a lie. Orchid moved next to Carmine and examined the wing. She pointed to particular joint that from Lightning's angle seemed to twist. He had already noticed this part of the wing, it showed out more than any of the other bends. Carmine just responded casually like nothing was wrong. It's not like she fell out of the sky or anything... Orchid had started to use her magic and she levitated a roll of silver ribbon and landed it gentle on her hoof.

"Would you just like to take a look? Even if you aren't that experienced... it's better then me" Orchid had said to Lightning. He stared at the piece of ribbon wondering if he could actually do it. He had done this a few times before on other pegasi, sadly mostly on himself, but he could at less attempt it. Lightning noticed at the corner of his view Carmine was staring right at him with eyes that made him feel uncomfortable. Lightning took the roll of ribbon off Orchid and started to unroll a little of it to test how tough the material was. His eyes were focused on the ribbon but he continued to listen as Orchid asked if Carmine wanted a hospital nurse.
A moment or so passed before he heard a loud thud. He lowered the roll to look for the source of the sound. Carmine had fell from the table and hit the ground face first. She seemed to be accident prone after the crash but Lightning feel sorry for her. She seemed to lay there for a few seconds thinking of what to do next. She had asked Orchid not to get a nurse. "Lightning, do you think you could look at my wing for me? Could you bandage it?" she asked him.

"Sure I can" Lightning replied with a nervous smile. What he should of said is I'll try but no promises. He walked up to the pegasus and placed the ribbon on the table. He helped her up so that she was sitting on her hind legs and reached for the silver ribbon. He was hoping that the potion she had would stop her from feeling too much pain or any hopefully. Either way he would be carefully. He pulled out a long strip of ribbon and with one hoof he pushed the injured wing to her side very gently and slowly to cause as little pain as possible and held it there. He than wrapped the ribbon around her side and every time he passed the wing he would just slow down so it slowly touched the wing. He continue this process going under the good wing and over the bad one gently until he was happy of how many times he had wrapped it he then tied it with a knot and tucked in the parts of ribbon that stuck out. He stepped back and looked at his work. It didn't matter if he liked how it turned out, it mattered if Carmine felt it was comfortable and not causing the wing pain.

"Sorry if it's not any good, we can always unwarp it and find somepony else..." Lightning said waiting for her response.

[orchidbloom]

(Good golly sorry it took me so long )

Orchid was taken aback and jumped when Carmine tried to stand. She was trying her best to be tough and cool about the whole ordeal, but Orchid could tell that she was really putting on a show to cover up some of the helplessness. 

Lightning was also very confident sounding, taking the gray ribbon from the ground and placing in on the table. Sitting the pegasus up, Orchid could only hope that the mixture had done it's work. What if it hadn't? What if she was allergic to blueberry leaves? Orchid tried to stay calm, but all she could think about were things going wrong. What if Lightning twisted up her wing even more? She had a sinking feeling that Carmine would not be persuaded to any hospital bed anytime soon unless things got worse. So Orchid sat in her little cleared away hole where there was relatively no dirt or pottery and watched as Lightning worked. 

As the wing-wrapping took place, Orchid looked around her shop, her heart sinking. The beam at the top where Carmine had landed was cracked in one place, making it sag to the left a little. Only one table was completely broken, but others had cracked legs. Because of the small size of the area, at least one thing has ricocheted onto the floor from her displayed. What made her cringe the most were all the brand new flowers that were squished and scattered everywhere. She could always buy more, but they wouldn't come in for a while... She had some planted at home that she could bring in and sell... she sorted out her options, and all of them it was the same case; she would have to close down her shop for at least a couple days, but more likely a week or more to get everything up and running. This made her sadder than she thought she could have been. What was she to do without the shop for a week? She shook her head and stood. She had to get her thoughts away from that right now. 

"Carmine? How does it feel..." she said as Lightning stepped back and told her they could find somepony else if necessary. She was curious to see how good Lightning's handywork was, and so she stepped a little closer and examined the neatly wrapped ribbon. Certainly better than anything she could do...

[shiningemerald]

Shining Emerald was at his shop a couple ponies had come and bought a few things but, overall he hadn't been to busy. So he just flipped through the journal looking for permanent paint. When he finally came to it he smiled he could make gallons of the stuff on a Foal's allowence! He needed it to Shining Emerald's sign outside was starting to really fade the Alchemist in Shining Emerald's Alchemist Store was almost gone. So Emerald got to work until he realized that out of all the plants he had none gave off the color that he needed to paint with. "I'll just pick up some yellow and green flowers at that shop across the street and maybe some dragon root if they've got it." He said grabbing a couple bits and headed out the door.

Emerald opened up the door to the small flower shop and froze the place was a wreck and a unicorn along with a light blue maned pegasus stood above a snowy and evidently hurt pony and by the looks of the damage and the cracked beam the pegasus currently on the ground had dropped in at an alarming speed. Shining Emerald then blurted out "What in Celestia's name happened here!" he quickly put a hoove to his mouth realizing how rude he sounded and his face turned red.

[Carmine]

(( No worries, peeps, I think it's safe to say that we've all been pretty busy lately.. I won't have very good Internet connection for the next week or so. ))

Carmine watched as the blue-maned pegasus tended to her broken wing, her radiant ruby eyes following the movements of Lightning Clash's hoofwork as he wrapped the bandages across her body. The material was surprisingly soft for a medical ribbon, and didn't feel too tight and restrictive. Perhaps this was because of Lightning's skill in the matter. Reflecting on her earlier hostility towards him, the mare felt bad.

And just like that, the stallion was finished. Lightning took a step back, studying his work. He was very critical in his inspection, looking at each fold thoroughly.

"Sorry if it's not any good; we can always unwrap it and find some pony else," he suggested.

Carmine shook her head. "No, this feels great, Lightning! Thank you so much.. I can't even feel it." The pegasus wondered if that was a good thing or not.

Turning to Orchid, she bit her lower lip. The unicorn had been gazing despairingly at her battered shop. The floor was littered with broken pottery and torn flowers. The tables were just as battered, and the beam which Carmine had fallen on was cracked.

But Orchid's next words were about her injured guest, not her injured shop. "Carmine? How does it feel?"

"I'll be okay, Orchid.. But I wish I could say the same for your flowers.. " The pegasus frowned, and lowered her head. "I'm so sorry for this.. I'll clean all of this up; it was my fault this happened."

She was about to start picking up the mess when some pony suddenly came in through the front door, looking rather surprised. He was another unicorn, with a coat color similar to that of Orchid's. But his hair was a vivid green, and had eyes of a sharp cyan hue.

"What in Celestia's name happened here?!"

Carmine said nothing. Instead, she turned away and began cleaning. For her sake, she prayed there would be no more visitors.

[Lightning Clash]

"No, this feels great, Lightning! Thank you so much.. I can't even feel it" after hearing those words he smiled too himself. He was expecting something completely different that would led to him having to untie the ribbon.

"Anytime Carmine... but don't go breaking the other one please" Lightning joked. Carmine turned to Orchid as they started to talk. Carmine mentioned the damage of the small shop and Lightning looked around for himself. This place would have looked very nice Lightning thought. Yet now... now it looked like a warzone. He looked at the flowers on the ground and picked up a destroyed one with his hoof. The flower seemed to be a blue colour. 'I wonder if she has more flowers?' Lightning thought. Even if she did have more stored elsewhere, it would take plenty of time to clean up the place and repair broken furniture to get the shop kicking again. He let the flower drop slowly to the ground and looked over to the others. Carmine was starting to clean up some of the mess. It was nice of Carmine to offer her help to clean up the place. Lightning would feel guilty if he had just decided to leave them to do all the work.

"If you don't mind, I can lend a hoof to clean up the place" Lightning offered his help but just a moment later a pony came into the shop. He turned around to see another unicorn. It was a stallion unicorn who had a purple pelt. His mane and tail were both green and dark green. He had cyan eyes and what Lightning saw was a small emerald as a cutie mark.

"What in Celestia's name happened here?!" the unicorn shouted. He covered his mouth quickly and his face turned a slight shade of red. Well somepony would've have heard that crash Lightning thought. Lightning then looked at Orchid hoping she say yes for Lightning to stay and help.

[orchidbloom]

Orchid took a minute to absorb everything. Carmine said the bandage was fine, and that she felt nothing at all. Felt nothing? Did that mean that Orchid had actually created a mixture that was successful? She wiggled around in glee before straightening herself out. She was about to squeal like a little foal- how embarrassing would that have been? Carmine stood, beginning to pick things up after apologizing in a subtle but getting-the-point-across way. Orchid stood as well.

"Oh, it's really alright, I suppose, as long as no pony was hurt to bad. I could fix it up, with a pony or two's help, within around a week or less. Up and running in no time, practically!" she said, trying to sound enthusiastic. Lightning too offered a hoof or help, and instead of being modest, she accepted it gladly. Orchid knew quite well that with only herself, she'd be out of business for a while. But with the generous help, she guessed that everything would be fixed up within a few days! Now what about the flowers...

Her thoughts were interrupted when a loud voice of a stallion called, "What in Celestia's name happened here?" Orchid turned, seeing a somewhat embarrassed stallion with a coat not unlike her own and shocks of varying green hair standing on the threshold of the shop. He looked around at the mess; the bandaged wing and the broken beam. Orchid glanced at Lightning, whom still looked like her was waiting for an answer. 


"Lightning, of course you can help clean up, thank you so very much. It's much appreciated... Hello?" she said tentatively to the stallion. Did he want to buy something or did he want to find out what was going on at the disheveled scene. "Welcome to Orchid's Flower Emporium..." she heard herself and thought she sounded rather stupid. She changed her approach. "Did you need something? I've got- I had flowers of all sorts, herbs, leaves... this pegasus here just had a little crash, no biggie at all. Can I help you?" 

[shiningemerald]

Ihining Emerald quickly pulled the hoove aay from the front of his mouth and shakingly said"I need yellow and green dyes that give off flowers no wait uhhmmm" Emerald felt a noise bleed coming on as he stared at the cute pony in front of him "What I mean is uh.." There it was Emrald now had a couple drops off blood running down his noise so he quickly covered with his hoove again and said "I want to buy some flowers that will give off some kind of green dye and on with yellow pluse some dragon root if you have any. Oh and if that pegasus has any cuts she might need boroxic acid it will sting like a hit from manticorn tail but, it will help stop infection." Once Emerald finished he could tell the noise bleed had started to go down his muzzel past his hoove and like he wasn't already embarassed enough!

[Carmine]

The snowy mare raised a questioning eyebrow at this new stallion. He was certainly a strange one. Carmine's attention began to fade as the purple coated pony spouted an array of scientific words and descriptions. She had never been one for talk of chemistry, formulas, and theories. Too boring. Chewing on the inside of her mouth, the pegasus brushed away bits of broken pottery to the side, clearing away the debris on the floor in hopes of making things easier to trot across.

 Blitzfire's expression turned to unease as she watched the stallion suppress a nosebleed. "Looks like I'm not the only one who needs medical attention," she chided. 

[Lightning Clash]

Lightning smiled as the answer was a yes from Orchid. "No problem, I'm happy to help" and he didn't last anytime starting. The broken beam and damaged tables couldn't just be repaired in one day but the dirt and flowers could be at least cleaned up. Lightning started to move the dirt and broken pottery into small piles so that later it would be easier to gather up so it can either be thrown out later, or maybe Orchid wants it for some purpose. Carmine also continued on cleaning but some of her attention was on the unicorn who had entered the shop. Lightning heard Orchid welcome this new face to the shop... or, what was left of it.

The unicorn had his hoof up to his nose as he tripped on his own words. He seemed to be either in a rush or he has hit his face a little too hard. He started to make sense for a moment as he started to list things he need like types of flowers and some type of root. Lightning then saw a small drop of blood run down his nose. 'That explains the hoof covering nose thing' Lightning thought to himself.

"Looks like I'm not the only one who needs medical attention" he heard Carmine just wqy loud enough for Lightning to hear. He held in a chuckle after hearing her say this. Most of the flowers were destroyed so unless Orchid had some spare somewhere, Lightning guessed he wouldn't get what he needed sadly. Lightning just continued on cleaning and waited to see what would happen next.

[orchidbloom]

Orchid suppressed a giggle; that would be rude, to the new comer, and she felt her own face go hot as she lost her train of thought completely. She felt utterly sorry for the stallion, whom was sort of making a fool of himself, even if he couldn't control it. she heard Carmine make a remark to injuries, and Lightning's words about cleaning up, but now, her mind scanned what was left of her shop. Green dye.... Dragon root.... 


Orchid scurried from from the three ponies from table to table. She went into phases like this, where she had a one track mind and feet faster than rabbit. Green dye with yellow... Orchid passed through a patch on the floor where there was no debris, only to find out she had nearly run into Carmine who was gathering up floor debris. She was thankful, but didn't stop to chat. Green flower- perhaps she had some Celosias somewhere. 

She stopped in front of a table with a basket on its side, flowers with small petals in large amounts spilling forth. Some were in fact on the ground, but she found two green ones that were more or less perfect. Now for the dragon root...


After another prance around the shop, she returned to the ponies. "Don't mind me, I get in these zones, you could say. I found some green Celosias that are more or less unharmed, yellow centre, should do nicely. I don't have any dragon root however... I should be ordering some when I restock flowers though." She flipped her mane out of her eyes, extending the two flowers out with her magic, each one enveloped in sparkly, green light. She also had grabbed a white cloth from behind her sort-of unharmed counter and gave him that to. "For your nose..." She said, and left it at that. She only hoped that her little prance-about display wasn't as odd as it had seemed In her head. "Carmine, I don't suppose there were any open cuts on you after you fall? He said something about that-" Orchid turned. "What is your name, by the way?"


(Sorry for long post.... I suppose it's not that long"

[shiningemerald]

Emerald Shine watched the flower girl from one table to the next she reminded him of... "nevermind" he said to himself as he watched her move gracefully around the store. Soon the flowers where gathered up and he was a bit depressed that she had no dragon root but, what struck him hard was the cloth. "It's the noticeable" he thought but, accepted it any way quicky wipping the blood off his nose. Emerald than heard her question which he swiftly responded to by saying "My name is Shining Emerald Emerald for short whats yours." He did this while avoiding her eyes so he wouldn't get another noise bleed.

[orchidbloom]

Orchid glanced to the other ponies politely, allowing the pony to clean off his nose. She busied herself by separating the larger pieces of debris from the plain dust and mulch, so that it would be easier to sweep up.

"Emerald... that's a nice name. Mine's Orchid Bloom- but anyone calls me Orchid, I'spose." She replied. She looked from Carmine to Lightning and back to see what theire reasctions were about this timid pony. Perhaps they would introduce themselves to?

"You're welcome to come in and look around at anything that's not on the ground, Emerald." she said, trying to be hospitable.

[Carmine]

Carmine's ears perked up at Orchid's question, and she leaned back against one of the tables. Peering back with her head, she took a casual look at her right flank through the corner of her eye. There were a whole manner of small cuts and bruises that she had sustained during the crash, and the biggest one was at least a good hoof long. But Carmine was Carmine, and if pride wasn't in her forte, then nothing was. The mare lifted her chin at her wounds, letting out a quick huff of air from her nostrils.

"No; your medicine patched me up alright.. I'll be fine!" Carmine retorted as she covered her bruises with her right wing. It was odd how much these ponies from ol' Ponyville cared so much about the well-being of each other. In contrast, while Stalliongrad wasn't brutal, it certainly wasn't warm, huggies, and naivety. Blitz shuffled uncomfortably.

And then there was this stallion. Emerald was his name? He was a mystery. She almost laughed when she noticed his long gaze upon Orchid Bloom, but Instead the haughty mare simply snorted and rolled her eyes. When the purple mare looked expectantly at her after greeting Emerald, Carmine sighed and gave in to common decency.

"I'm Carmine. I made the mess," she mumbled grumpily.

She was never really good with decency.

[Lightning Clash]

Lightning's continued pushing away the dirt into piles. He was focused on this small task a little too much. Forgetting everything around him as he organised the dirt piles in what seemed like lines, he is not crazy... just letting you know. He snapped back into reality as he heard the new unicorn and Orchid talking. He looked at the small dirt piles he had created and smiled, well at least it will be easy to sweep away now. Lightning looked back over too the two chatting ponies. Lightning heard that this unicorn's name was Shining Emerald, or Emerald for short. He had cleaned up his nose and had his things he requested, besides the dragon root.

Orchid had than asked Carmine if she had any cuts. Lightning looked at Carmine and noticed she did have some cuts here and there with hoof full of bruises, mainly on her right side. Her response was again like nothing was wrong but Lightning saw her hide the most of the bruises and cuts with her wing. It seemed like she didn't want help and was acting like her pride was her first priority. Well if she wants it that way then so be it Lightning thought. Carmine simply introduced herself to Emerald. Lightning thought he'd do the same and hovered over to Emerald.

"Hey there, I'm Lightning Clash. It's nice too meet you Emerald" Lightning said to the unicorn. Lightning continued to hover a few inches of the ground as he held out his hoof to Emerald to shake his. He could have stayed on the ground but he was getting the slightly bored.

[shiningemerald]

Shining Turned to the hurt pegasus when she gave her introduction a put on a small frown. She really need to atleast cover her wound up with a bandage but, from the sound of her voice Emerald could tell hat she was from Stalliograd and if he new anything about the ponys who lived there that it was that ponys there where often a bit stubborn at the least. Shining Emerald then turned to the third and final pony in the shop who had yet to introduce himself. The light blue pegasus then introduced himself. Which the pegasus did and pretty quickly after Carmine's it seemed like to. Shining Emerald was trying to be polite so went up and shoock lightning's hoove and said "nice to meet you to lightning clash." Finaly Shining Emerald abruptly turned twords the door and saying "well i better get going on my way." He then paid for the flowers plus a bit extra because he new Orchid would need it. Then he left the shop making sure to take one last look at Orchid Bloom it was just something about her was familier. Something about her grace? He intelgence? Her personality it all seemed to remind the purple and green unicorn of somepony. Somepony very important to him but, who could it be? Emerald quickly shrugged the strange feeling off and slowly walked back to his own shop so he could finish up the paint and finally get the new coat of paint on the sign.