My dearest diary;

Just when I thought all of my important deadlines were done, I decided to help my friends with cleaning up Twilight's library. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were nowhere to be seen, so it was just Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, and Moi. At first, I was the smallest bit agitated my Twilight's sudden spinning eyelids as she mentioned her, as she put it, "crazy weekend of studying." I would hate to perform work that would damage my eyes. Other than that though, I was eager to help clean up the work, as restless as I was from those outfits. To my surprise though, the work was dreadful.

Twilight kept panicking about the order in which we'd put these books, Applejack wasn't tidy at all, and Pinkie was much too reckless. I personally kept things in order, but to my utter dismay, Rainbow Dash had suddenly barged in. No work that I do is ever complete. All of those deadlines were a complete disaster for my usual serenity, especially once I landed on Twilight's books, face first too. My friends made sounds to indicate their pain. I was so injured that I barely made a reaction.

What perked my interest though was Rainbow's change in atittude once she came in. First, she started out insulting my dear Fluttershy's cheering, followed by noting how she wishes we would join her in Cloudsdale for the Best Young Flier's competition, explained my Pinkie as a competition where pegasi show off their grand skill in performance. Pinkie also mentioned a skill known as a sonic rainboom, where when a pegasus pony flies so fast, they make an utmost ear-breaking explosion. I had no idea what this "Sonic Rainboom" was, but when Twilight had asked Pinkie the simple question about what one is, she replied, "You really need to get out more." Thank goodness I never noted my confusion. This was the start of it though. Knowing my friends, I would've expected Rainbow to act ignorant towards Twilight, but was shockingly as quiet as Fluttershy.

One thing that had gotten me befuddled was the moment when Applejack mentioned that Rainbow Dash pulled one off.

Firstly, Applejack must've spent too much time with Rainbow Dash to learn this story, which angers me greatly. Secondly, if Rainbow Dash pulled off the top-tier flying skill for any pegasus pony to accomplish, then that means that she is at the height of both The Wonderbolts, and the princess.

To add to this, another change in Rainbow's tone and personality was when Pinkie asked her if she'll perform the sonic rainboom again, to which Rainbow Dash hesitantly replied that she's the greatest flyer to come out of Cloudsdale. Just then however, her tone changed to the raised voice I expect from her, ordering Fluttershy to make her cheering match her skills. When Fluttershy was leaving to follow Rainbow Dash, she mentioned to us that Rainbow's failed at practising the sonic rainboom one-hundred times and has never even come close to beating it. I would've said a goodbye to Fluttershy, or at the very least, waved her off, but I was in such a perplexed state of mind that I was simply non-responsive.

With this mindset, all I could do to show my concern is through harmless poking at Twilight, unsettlingly mentioning to my friends how nervous Rainbow Dash was. None of them believed me. It was then that I mentioned that I put on enough fashion shows to recognize stage fright when I see it, which made me realize that I may have more in common with my dearest Dashie than I thought.

With my concern intact, I asked Twilight to find some sort of spell that would get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale to cheer her on. But the longer that Twilight delayed her work, the more bitter I was getting toward her, forcing myself to slam her against books. Thankfully, Pinkie Pie had found a flight spell. Applejack shared my disbelief, asking Pinkie how she did that, to which Pinkie replied that her face knocked against it when Rainbow came in. I think otherwise. I'm still under the smallest bit of an impression that Pinkie possesses some sort of mentality that she has the ability to memorize all books.

When Twilight read through the page, she made it clear that this spell could be dangerous and hard to perform. Wanting to save my friend's dignity, I volunteered. Through rigourous magical prowess, Twilight had given myself wings.

I know I was getting these wings to comfort Rainbow Dash in her time of need, but to add to that, these wings I got were simply FABULOUS! Twilight told me that my butterfly-like wings were made up of gossamer and morning dew, meaning that I needed to be careful. I was barely half-listening though, as my admiration for these wings was very apparent.

The wings' colors were pink, yellow, and green, with bubble designs also visible, along with purple ovals on the two bottom corners, all of which were on a beautiful shade of clear crystal blue wings, which reminded myelf of Rainbow Dash's wings. My style of flying combined Rainbow Dash's speed with Fluttershy's gracefulness. My wings were so very smashing that I didn't even accept the spell that let's myself walk on clouds. "What would be the point?" I thought to myself. I had just had the feeling that my wings were enough.

When we reached Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, after I shown off my gorgeous wings, Rainbow admitted that she was the smallest bit nervous, but felt better now that we were there. It's good to know that she feels more comforted when the others and I cheer for her. ~~I love her.~~

My friends were impressed with the Cloudsdale scenery, but I was more impressed with the fact that I could now see my reflection of my wings. I had distanced myself from my friends though, and it took Rainbow Dash's voice to keep myself going once more.

On our way, some hard workers in Cloudsdale admired my wings. Now if only Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash noticed...

Once we had reached the weather factory, my recklessness caused some snowflakes to fall from atop the ceiling. Rainbow wisely thought that we should leave quick before I caused a drought. Maybe I can't stop incoming disasters that I've been noticing lately. Maybe I'm the disaster, well, on this day at least.

More stallions admired my wings, one even noting that I was "choice" as he put it, and not a "dork." I wasn't familar with this slang, but if I managed to spend more time with these nice fellows, I may have learned their strange selection of words.

Rainbow Dash's stage fright seemed to be more revealing as time passed, and in retrospect, I wished I had shown more empathy towards her. But I'll discuss that later.

At the cloud factory, crowds of ponies gathered to watch in awe at my beautiful wings. I don't appreciate my own vanity too much, and I wish I hadn't stole Rainbow's spotlight, but after putting on that fashion show for Hoity Toity, and after working on those dresses, I still felt like the limelight is my only sensible option.

Twilight confronted me about my problems, and asked me to put my wings away. I shunned her out, boasting about my perfection. As I write this diary entry, I feel more ashamed of my actions, and the severeness of them don't stop there. In fact, I was so caught up in the attention I was receiving, that I had almost lost my balance, laughing in an even more surreal tone than Pinkie PIe, as if I was some sort of diabolical pony.

Once the group of addicted ponies asked me to perform at the competition, I felt inspired by them to do so, as I gracefully flew off, being followed by them all.

I barely even conversed with them. The only times I ever listened to their sentences was when they either said the words "Rarity" or "Wings."

After a couple of hours, the competition had begun, and I had spent an increasingly long period of time getting changed... and it was worth it.

To add to my already fabulous wings, I wore four fake feathers behind my real ones, to show off how my flying skills would double that of any other pony. As a bonus, I put a fake feather atop my hair to show that my flying abilities were shown in every part of myself. I wore a bow to go inside my horn, so as to symbolize how my flying was so graceful, it seemed "magical." I wore pink earrings to match the color of the shade of pink on my wings, along with a scarf to match my hair color, and best of all, pink hoofshoes to show my hard workat my craft of flying that day.

Rainbow Dash and I both entered the stage together. My entrance started out upbeat and exuberant, but in a subtle way by myself, was the only hyperactive moment of my performance. The rock and roll music that I can tell Rainbow Dash is fond of was changed by myself to more peaceful music, to match with my performance. I started off by practically walking on air, to show that my dancing was similar to my usual. To keep the crowd motivated though, I made sudden twists to keep their interest, like my quick spin.

My grand finale was to spread my wings, and aim myself to the sun, to show my brightness, both in performance and personality... and this was my humiliating downfall.

Forgetting that my wings were easy to melt, I had lost the ability to fly, and I made a narrow and quick fall to the ground. I was expecting to be done for, never to be seen again. I was so frightened that I had to smack the Wonderbolts, not because of any dislike, but after my unpredictable failure of a performance, I was defending myself at all costs from anyone who got close... except for Rainbow Dash.

Risking her life, Rainbow Dash valiantly swooped down to save the lives of myself and the stunned Wonderbolts. At first, I thought I would have to uncontrollably smack Rainbow Dash too, but then I witnessed her speed outmatching any other pegasus. She did it. She performed the sonic rainboom, and saved my life.

Part of me wished that that fall occured though. I had never been more apologetic. Not only did I lose my amazing wings, but worse, I nearly lost my friend and my life. I'm lucky to have friends who can forgive me.

But I misjudged Rainbow Dash. I partly believed that her and I would barely ever see eye-to-eye on certain things. I hope to spend more time with her. Who needs a royal prince to save you when you know a lovable pony like her. She deserved to meet her idols and spend an entire day with them.

My only shortcoming that i'll never get over now though is my utter humiliation and embarassment in Cloudsdale. Luckily, I doubt anypony will ever bring it up again. If they bring up that day, they'll probably just remember Rainbow Dash's performance... hopefully.

~Rarity

Author's Note

If you haven't read my blog on my fic schedule, I would suggest reading it.

Here's the gist. The chapter on Stare Master will come out later today, and I'll do a diary entry once every day so I can catch up with Season 4. For more information check the blog post listed above.

I hope you enjoyed this delayed chapter. I had actually tried writing it a few months ago, but forgetting to save changes was a pain, and I just wasn't in the mood to write this chapter for a while. It turned out longer than expected. Don't expect the next two chapters to be very long though. I'll make a comeback with A Dog and Pony Show though