Fade Away...

by Sweet_Destruction

Rating: everyone
Tags: Romance
Length: 1068

they met at flight camp.

Upon going separate ways after flight camp, how long were Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash away from each other? What happened to each other in that time apart?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-22 05:55:49 UTC

The Depart

"You know we wont be separated forever? We'll meet again somewhere, I promise."

"Dashie, how can I do this without you?"

"You will find a way, 'Shy, you know you can. I am really gonna miss you, you know that."

"I'm gonna miss you too."

"I gotta go. But you will be okay. I promise. And to give you strength take this."

*Rainbow placed something  in Fluttershy's hoof and walked away.*

Fluttershy ran to her and RD'S room. She sat on her, now bare, bed and looked at what Rainbow had given her. It was a necklace, in the shape of a little butterfly, like 'Shy's cutiemark, but colored all the colors of the rainbow, like RD's mane. The back said "See You Soon, RD"

Fluttershy wanted to cry. She held the necklace in her hoof, until one of the camp instructors informeder that her mom was there. Only then did Fluttershy put the necklace around her neck, and fly off to see her mom.

She didn't know if she would see Dash again.

But she was hoping that she would.

The Changes

"Come ON Dash. We gotta goooooooo."

Dash sighed and pulled herself outta her thoughts.  "Alright I'm coming. Geez you aren't gonna be late", she hollered back to her cousin, who was still in school. Dash sighed and ran a hoof through her rainbow mane before she got off her couch.

Demolition has been living with her for about three months.  And things were rather unusual for the pair. For example, Rainbow had to wake up earlier, cut down on the amount of naps she took, and buy things for lunches.  It took awhile, but RD got use to it.  Not only that, RD got use to the fact that she had to look after the younger mare, seeing as her parents had passed away after a parachute accident. Rainbow remembers that day.  She was waiting for her cousins to come pay a visit. But the parachute had been torn from the balloon itself.  RD had attempted to save all three of them, but she couldn't. The only reason Demolition had survived was because she was a Pegasus, like Rainbow.  She had managed to fly out of the balloon, but she wasn't strong enough to lift either of her parents. And Rainbow knew she had lost her family and she couldn't live alone, she was still in school after all. So RD took her in, gave her a new home with a member of the family.

Rainbow once again had to pull her self away from her memories, only this time she had a hollow pit in her stomach. Bu she had to focus on what she was suppose to do. Get Demo through her last year of school, while maintaining the clouds in Ponyville.

Rainbow finally managed to clear her thoughts, but around the same time, far on the ground, another mare could only focus on her own memories.

Fluttershy sighed for about the hundredth time. She had to stop thinking about the other mare, they weren't ever gonna see each other again.  It had been years since she had seen the mare, even longer till she found a nice place to settle down in, But she found the place, and she decorated the small cottage with things that would help her take care off the critters. She was still moving her things in when she saw a streak of rainbow fly through the sky, and was overcome with the memories of her fillyhood friend.

Fluttershy had finally finished moving everything in, and had started unpacking when she heard a slight knock on the door.  When she went to open the door she didn't see anypony. She had gone to closed the door when she heard a voice from above. A voice she never thought she would hear again.  The voice was the voice of Rainbow Dash. And it said quiet simply "Fluttershy? Is that you?"

Reunion

I can't believe it! Fluttershy is here! In Ponyville! "Fluttershy, is that you?'

Rainbow watched the cream colored pegasi start to blush before answering "Ra-Rainbow Dash?"

"Oh mi gosh, Fluttershy you're here!!"

Rainbow hadn't noticed her cousin had left the house and had flown down to where Rainbow was currently reuniting with her fillyhood freind, until the mare said, "come on Dash, I cant be late. The teachers know your miss speed so they expect me to be early."

Rainbow Dash looked at her cousin for a second, "sorry Dem, just talking to an old friend."

Demolition Heart looked over at Fluttershy and took in the pink mane and tail,cutiemark, and butterfly necklace, before saying "you must be Fluttershy. Dashie NEVER stops talking about how much she missed you. Great to meet you, I'm Demolition Heart, you can call me Demo, and I'm Dash's cousin"

Fluttershy's heart soared when she heard that Dash missed her. "Nice to meet you."

Demo smiles warmly at her, before turning back to her cousin, "let's go now." She turned back to Fluttershy, "if you want to you can walk with us."

Fluttershy smiled, "thanks but I'm gonna busy for awhile."

Now Rainbow Dash smiled, "that's to bad. If you want any help, I'm free almost all day, except for from 8-9 when I take this brat to school and clear the clouds, and 3-3:15 when I pick her up, except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when I have to get her from band, since she cant fly to the store without getting distracted by something shiny and forgetting what she's suppose to do."

"Dash, you will pay for that"

"It's true."

"Not my fault somepony decided to have metallic balloons outside his shop while I was walking past."

"Kinda is miss ADHD"

Fluttershy silently watched the two bicker, with a small smile on her face.

"Okay Dash, whatever. I get distracted by metallic balloons. Can we go now?"

"I guess" Rainbow turned back to Fluttershy, "guess I'll see you around?"

"Ummm, okay. Nice to see you again."

"Yeah. We should totally hang out together sometime. How about-"

"Dash, walk now, flirt later."

"I wasn't flirting! I was just-"

"I know, I know, but we dont really have time."

"Yeah I guess your right, see ya 'Shy"

"Bye Rainbow," Fluttershy half-whispered, as she watched the two walk down the road, obviously bickering about balloons and flirting.

Fluttershy allowed herself a small smile again, before going back to cleaning her cottage.