Night is back

Rainbow Dash Flew to a clearing far from the library. She slammed herself on the ground crying her eyes out. She kept yelling random thing like why is he back and why now. She lay there with head in her hoofs. She sat there for a while, not knowing, that a purple alicorn was watching her from afar. The alicorn slowly trotted up to the sobbing pegasi. She sat next to her and stroked her mane. Rainbow Dash looked up to see Twilight Sparkle. Rainbow wrapped her arms around Twilight and cried into her neck.

After Rainbow’s crying slowed down she looked up and asked. “Why do I feel this way Twi?” She wiped her eyes with one of her fore hoofs. “I mean I came to terms that he was gone years ago.”

Twilight nuzzled Rainbow. “I think you didn’t. You just suppressed your felling towards him.”

Rainbow shook her head. “I didn’t suppress anything!”

Twilight gave her a look. “Rainbow you know that’s not true.”

She sighed. Rainbow knew that Twilight was right, but she didn’t want to say it. After another look from Twilight, Rainbow broke. “OK Fine,” she threw her hooves up. “I missed him a lot. But I still hate him.”

Twilight sighed. This was going to be harder than she thought. “Ok Rainbow, tell me the last good memory you have of you and your brother.”

Rainbow thought for a second. “Well it’s not my last good memory, but it is my favourite.” Twilight relaxed as Rainbow started her story. “This was about a year before I got my cutie mark. And a year before Night left.”

……………

Night Dash was sitting in a cloud couch reading a book. He was waiting for Rainbow Dash to come back from school. He would have picked her up, but Rainbow said that it would be uncool. He should feel bad for teaching his sister about how some things are just uncool, but he didn’t.

He was in half of his book when Rainbow came home. She was wearing a cyan hoodie with the hood up. It was cold in Cloudsdale, but most pegasi had thick fur so the cold didn’t matter. She kept looking at the ground and sniffling. Night put his book down and then trotted to Rainbow.

Night lifted her head and saw blood coming out of Rainbow’s muzzle and tears in her eyes.

“What happened?” Night growled. He tried to hold back his anger, but it didn’t help, because he knew that Rainbow is being bullied and if he doesn’t take her home, this will happen.

Rainbow looked around, trying to think of an excuse. “I… I fell down.”

Night saw right through that. “Are you lying to me, Rainbow Dash?”

“NO!” Rainbow said far too quickly.

Her brother cocked a brow. “Rainbow?” he said and stared deep into Rainbow’s eyes looking for the truth.

Rainbow broke like a twig in Night’s stair. She jumped up latched onto his neck and cried on his shoulder.

“They... they are... so mean... Knight Night!” she said between sobs. Night ran his hoof through her mane calming her.

After Rainbow slowed her crying Night began speak. “I can’t tell you why. And I can’t make it stop.”

Rainbow looked up at Night. He always fended of the bullies for her. The fact that he said that he can’t was very out of character.

Rainbow couldn’t stop giving Night a confused look.  He sighed. He really thought that she would get it. “What I mean is that I can’t keep fighting your battles. If I keep doing it, you will never win.”

“What?” asked Rainbow. Night facehoofed when he heard her stupid question.

“I mean that I will teach you how to fight after dinner.”

………………

“Wait just a second Rainbow.” Twilight said stopping Rainbow mid-story. “You’re brother condones fighting your bullies and not telling an adult?” Rainbow rolled her eyes. She knew telling this story would do this. But she didn’t really care. Unlike Twilight, Rainbow thinks that telling an adult isn’t always a good idea.

“Yeah. And if we ever have a foal I’ll tell ‘em the same thing.”

Twilight’s eyes widened. “You will not!”

“Can we just get back to the story?”

Twilight raised a hoof. “One last thing. How old is your brother?”

Rainbow tapped her chin… “Well he’s three years older than me so-“ Twilight cut her off.

“Wait, three years?” Twilight was dumb struck. In the story, Night sounded like he was 16 or 17. “But that means he was 13 at that time.”

Rainbow rubbed the back of her head. She wasn’t embarrassed of Night’s age at the time. “Yeah. He had to grow up fast.”

“Why?” it was one word but it felt like a train was dropped on the rainbow mare.

“I-I don’t want talk about it. Let’s just get back to the story.”

“Are you sure? You know you can tell me anything Rainbow.” Rainbow shook her head. Twilight didn’t want to push her, but knack for decrypted everything had gotten the best of her. She wanted to know why this was a touché subjected. “Rainbow, you can tell me anything. Don’t let your fear get the best of you.”

“IT’S NOT!” Rainbow snapped. Twilight was taken back by this. Of course that she and Rainbow had fights, but Rainbow NEVER snapped at Twilight.

Twilight stopped her presure on the subject for now. She would have to ask Night dash about it.

“Anyway.” Rainbow started. “After Night cleaned me up and got dinner. We went to a dojo a few blocks from our house…”

…………….

Night and Rainbow entered a dojo. It looked like the one in call of the cutie. There was ten students all working on punches with instructors. Most of the students didn’t notice Night come in, but one stallion did. He walked up to the siblings. It was an older stallion with a wrinkly skin. He walked with a cane, but that was mostly for show. He also had a long beard that went down to his knees.

“Kon'nichiwa, Night Dash-san,” the old man said in a thick East-Asian ascent. He looked at the young stallion then to his knees where he spotted a younger filly that looked very similar to him.

Night bowed. “Kon'nichiwa, Haruki sensei.” Rainbow looked up at her brother then at the old man. She was mainly wondering why the heck Night was bowing to an old man.

Night lifted his head and waited for Haruki to speak. After looking over the two he began. “So, Night? What brings you here today?”

Night motioned to his sister. “This is Rainbow Dash. She has troubles with bullies at school. So I wanted to teach her what you taught me.” Haruki stroked his beard. He could ask Night why he brought her to his dojo or just tell them to leave.

He gave into his curiosity and asked, “But why you bring her here? You can train her somewhere else,” He stopped stroking his beard and looked down at the cyan filly.

Night looked around at the other students at the dojo. Most of them had a white belt which meant they were only beginners. Night looked back at his old teacher. “I want to use the training room in the back. There is so many tools I can use.” Night looked on the left and right and his voice was quieter, “and I don’t want our parents to know. They’d kill me if they would found out that I was doing this.”

Haruki began to stroke his beard again. After what felt like an eternity her responded, “You may use the training room, but you should let your parents know what you’re doing. It is not wise to hide these things.” The two martial artists bowed to each other.

Rainbow and Night walked into the back room of the dojo. It was a lot smaller than the main room. There was a gong at the end of the room with Celestia and Luna. Night trotted to a closet and shifted a few things before he pulled out a uniform.

He closed the door and trotted over to Rainbow Dash. “Put this on.” She did as he told her. (I’m not going to lie… Rainbow Dash looked adorable!) He then went back to the closet and pulled out multiple items.

After he set them up he turned to Rainbow Dash. “I will teach you what I know, but you can only use this in self-defence. Do you understand?” Rainbow nodded as they began to train.

………………

“I excelled at karate.” Rainbow said coming out of the memory. “Night thought that’s what my cutie mark would be,” she gave a fake laugh. “It took three months to get my black belt. That’s when Night stopped taking me to school.” Rainbow looked out to the horizon.

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Rainbow was flying out of the school when her bullies stopped her. There were three fillies standing in front of her. The middle one had white coat and pink mane. It was the ring leader of the group. The other filly to her right had a navy blue coat and yellow mane. The last one had red coat and orange mane.

The middle one stepped out of the small group. “Well, well, well, if it isn’t the dumbest filly in this school. Where’s your brother?” Her voice was snarky and filled with hate. “Did he abandon you too?” The other two started to laugh at that.

Rainbow just smiled and started walking. Of course the three bullies followed. They kept calling Rainbow names, but she did as Night told her and ignored them. Everything was fine until the blue filly said, “Do you want another bloody muzzle?”

Rainbow turned around. She stared deep into their eyes. “Try me!” That was all she had to say. The three fillies lunged at her. The one on the left tried to buck her out of the air, but Rainbow dodged and bucked her, sending her on the ground. Then the one in the middle tried to tackle her, but rainbow dodged again and then slammed her into a cloud wall. She thought it felt good to do this. She felt strong and powerful. She also wondered why Night didn’t do this to other ponies. The power was intoxicating to her. The last one was the blue filly.

“P-p-p-please don’t hurt me Rainbow Dash.” The poor filly was crying her eyes out. “Please I’m sorry I won’t do it again. I promise!”

Rainbow scoffed. “You should have thought of that before you hurt me.” She raised her hoof at the cowering pony. She was getting ready to strike when a huge gust of wind and a black and rainbow streak came through the air. Night was hovering between Rainbow and her former bully.

“Rainbow dash?” He started. “What do you think that you’re doing?” He crossed his fore-hoofs

“I’m doing what you told me to do.” Rainbow pointed at the two fillies on the ground.

“THAT IS NOT WHAT I TOLD YOU!” shouted Night. “I told you to defend yourself it they attack you, but not to attack them!”

Rainbow gave her big brother puppy dog eyes, “But Knight Night-“

“Don’t you Knight Night me!” he cut her off. “Go straight to your room. And I will tell mom and dad what you did.”

Rainbow’s eyes widened. She knew what was coming. “Night, please don’t tell mom and dad!” Rainbow started to hyperventilate. The last time she did something wrong she couldn’t sit right for a week. “I’ll just run away!” She spat out. She wasn’t thinking clearly. She just didn’t want her parents to know about this.

“Fine, then you will come with me and tell this to our parents by your own!” Rainbow grumbled she knew that she couldn’t get away.

………..

“I learned a lesson that day. Even when you have the power to do something doesn’t mean you should.” Rainbow got up and started to stretch her wings. Twilight got up too and did the same. “Thanks Twi. I needed this. It’s gonna take some time, but I think I can forgive Night.” Twilight nuzzled Rainbow.

“Come on, let’s get going.” Just as they were going to take off, three ponies jumped out of the bushes.

One with a thick germane accent said. “Guten Abend Frauen’s.” The germane looked at Rainbow Dash. “You are the sister of Night Dash, right?”