The Begining of a New Life

-2 DAYS LATER-

"Rainbow! today has been a really nice day... Thanks for showing me Ponyville and Canterlot at night... Was a beautiful sight..." Shadow said those last words slowly as he then trailed off into his thoughts.

"No problem Shadow... Glad you liked it... I also enjoyed it... Seeing the sight of both cities at night from high above always makes me happy..."

"Thanks..." Shadow again trailed off into his thoughts and looked at Rainbow Dash again... in his mind he thought she was a very nice mare and he wanted to say other words to her but they wouldnt come out.

The rest of the flight was pretty silent as both of them were just lost in their thoughts about each other. As they reached the clouds they usually slept in, Shadow laid down and in his thoughts he had happy memories about the day he just had with Rainbow Dash. He had completely forgotten what his main goal in coming to Equestria was.

Shadow was starting to forget where he came from, what he did, who his leader was... but he still didn't know what he was, his true being was still unknown.

-3 DAYS LATER-

“Celetsia there are only 3 suspects that could have stolen your crown but the one that I am almost sure that did the crime is your very own loyalty element... Rainbow Dash is a pegasus fast enough to break into the place and attack the only unicorn and then fly off the window without being seen. I believe no living pony can match those speeds. She already proved she is faster than all the Wonderbolts.” The pony who started the meeting was a brown earth pony with a black mane, his cutie mark was a magnifying glass with a footprint in the middle. It was fairly obvious he was some kind of detective the princess had hired.

“But it couldn’t be Rainbow Dash, she couldn’t have done this! I just KNOW your wrong.” Exclaimed Doctor Whooves angrily at the detective.

“She is the highest suspect, there is simply no files of any living pony who can match the speed required to do this crime... so I want her arrested until further proof." The dective then gave a long stare to Whooves but just kept walking towards the princess.

“Can’t believe I am saying this but guards get me Rainbow Dash! Detective I want you to go with the guards to see if everything goes ok and to check if it was actually her.” The princess then replied looking away from the doctor and looking to the floor.

“Princess you’re not really---“ Whooves couldn’t finish before getting interrupted very harshly by Celestia.

“Go get her NOW!” she screamed with the royal voice.

-SEVERAL MINUTES LATER-

“Wow Shadow your pretty fast, but I can still beat you haha! Still fastest flier in Equestria!” Exclaimed Rainbow Dash as she passed by him with ease.

“Haha yea yea Rainbow… I think I might surprise you one day though.” Shadow laughing at her comment but then concentrated on flying again to try and pass her.

All of a sudden, the two pegasi were surrounded by a lot of guards in silver or golden armor. Shadow got really nervous seeing all the exits and escape roots were blocked by either other pegasi or unicorns. Rainbow Dash didn't seem to stressed or nervous about the royal guards surrounding them.

“You are placed under arrest for crimes against the princesses.” A royal guard with golden armor spoke up as all the others just looked at the hovering ponies.

Rainbow Dash quickly thought they were going to arrest Shadow for some reason... she panicked and decided to stand in the middle and say, “No he couldn’t of done it! He is not the thief!”

“Sorry Dash but we did not come for him” said another guard as 2 unicorns used their magic to trap her.

“HEY! Leave her alone!” screamed Shadow as you could see his anger starting to appear in his face. His voice sounded very serious and he was definitely ready to defend her.

“We don’t need this we got the pony who stole the princess’ crowns. No need for you.” Replied the dective as they walked away carelessly ignoring him.

“What if I know she did not do it? I stole the crowns of the princesses and it was pretty easy stealing them. Had no trouble in escaping either. Poor guarding, lack of effort, leaving position, not being alert... so many errors came from your men.” Shadow replied with a smirk as one of the 5 guards was there. “hehe… I also remember you… “I don't want to ruin this job!… Well you definitely failed at an easy job.” he continued practically making fun of Star.

“We were told to come for Rainbow Dash and that’s what we intend to do.” Replied Star which was the leader of the five ponies which were guarding the princess’ crown at the event.

“Ok then I will just have to prove it the hard way…” whispered Shadow to himself.

As he finished the sentence he dashed towards one of the guards which was a unicorn and hit the unicorn in the middle of the back, knocking him over, as a unicorn reacted and pointed at him, he quickly dashed behind him and flipped the unicorn over. Finishing that he saw some unicorns request backup and he decided he’d let himself get captured so Rainbow Dash would not have to see him more as a bad guy.

“Sh—Shado---ow?” Rainbow Dash started to have trouble talking... with tears in her eye, she looked at the pegasus get trapped and tumbled by the guards. As the guards took him away, Shadow looked away from Rainbow Dash because he was embarrassed she had to find out the tough way. Rainbow Dash did notice something before he looked away… He had tears in his face aswell.

“Twilight!!! Twilight!!! Shadow was captured by the Royal Guards because… because… because he was the one who stole the princess’ crowns… I believe he had a reason though… The guards were going to take me... and he got in the way...” Rainbow Dash flew through the 'Library' doors and started crying towards Twilight which was in the middle of a highly dangerous experiment.

“AH!…” Twilight screamed as she almost dropped a vial with a red bubbling liquid inside it. When she was able to secure it, she gave out a long sigh and looked at her friend with a no emotion.

"Sorry..." Rainbow looked down for a moment as Twilight regained her posture, after a couple of seconds she perked up her ears as her friend started to speak.

"Sorry to hear that Rainbow... He might of had a reason why he did it... Could be good or bad... But stealing the princesses' crowns doesnt help his case much. I knew you liked him... We just have to see what happens in the next few days." Twilight's was emotionless, she did feel really bad for the pegasus sitting in the library, but she was also paying attention to the highly dangerous experiment in her hooves. As she placed it in the holder, she walked towards Rainbow and patted her back, she noticed Rainbow smiled because of her friendly gesture.

"I just hope he wasn't anything evil..." Rainbow stopped smiling and again just looked to the floor as she thought about what was going to happen to Shadow.