Two years came and went since Rainbow Dash was given to the Cloudsdale Orphanage. Two long years it had been since the infamous Cloudsdale Cannibal was imprisoned for several accounts of murder and even cannibalism. But Rainbow Dash herself would never know any of the information, never would she known that with one final act of bravery, her mom saved her from years upon years of ridicule. Instead she was raised ignorant of all of it and had to endure the bullies of flight school that teased her non stop. A matter that, given the other option, seemed to be like heaven itself.

"Hey look everyone it's Rainbow Crash!" was one of the many calls they usually shouted to announce her appearance. In the beginning it was difficult but over the months Rainbow learned to get used of the calling. Times were looking somber for the cyan coated filly but she somehow knew to make the best of it, she just had to. And even through all of the events, she still had one friend that stood by her side. A yellow coated, pink maned pegasus filly who always looked like as if she would faint at the mere thought of being seen by anyone other than Rainbow Dash.

The two fillies met back when Rainbow first started flight school and by luck it was also the same day she earned the name Rainbow Crash from the local bullies. The reason for it was just because that was how she saved Fluttershy. What had happened was the fact that she was trotting on into the school to start her first day with slight annoyance. But as she entered, her ears overheard something that sounded just like whimpering of utter sadness. The curiosity of the rainbow maned filly got the better of her she went to investigate. Something that led up to finding a pair of colts that were pushing a frail looking pegasus.

"Come on goat girl, do it. Just one more time." were some of the words that Rainbow heard them say. In her eyes she saw that the filly was close to bursting out in tears and that the colts were not going to stop picking on her. That was unless she did something to stop it. The flares came to the magenta red eyes and being as agile as she was, Rainbow flew straight in their direction without a warning given to them.

Though one of the colts yelled something which she was unable to hear over the wind in her ears. Her target was the leader of the pack and he was barely able to dive down to the floor and dodge her attack. What happened a split second afterward was that her head exploded in pain because of the face that she had rammed a locker on impact. As dizzy as the filly happened to be, she still managed to rise gingerly.

"Well now who are you now little girl?" the leader of the bullies asked after he had raised back from the floor and gave her pretty much a stare that could kill.

The cyan coated filly collected herself for a second or two before she responded with a great pride in her voice, the kind of pride that every citizen of Cloudsdale had for their city. "I'm Rainbow Dash the fastest pegasus alive."

But at the words, the four bullies just broke out in laughter at her. The leader even had to wipe a tear from his left eye before he gained control of his breathing again. "Rainbow Dash? more like Rainbow Crash!" he said earning more laughter from his companions. By crashing into the lockers right behind them, the rainbow maned filly managed to spare the frightened filly from being harassed even more by the colts who were trying to make her do a goat faint.

After a while though, Rainbow's nickname was soon used up and was eventually treated as a cool nickname. So they eventually found another way to get at her and it was this that really sent her nearly over the edge.

"Hey Rainbow, how's the Orphanage is it still standing from the amount of times you ran into it?" they said whenever they were both in public so she couldn't do anything without getting punished or expelled. But if they had any sense in their heads, they would've stopped when one of them had claimed that he heard an animalistic growl emanating from their rainbow maned victim.

But as foolish as they were, they pressed on, and on, and on. Until that one day came along that they said something that didn’t just make her snap, but managed to shut down her mind and let it be filled with a primal rage. "Hey guys, look at the poor little foal! I wonder if her mommy was even a real pony or was she just a freak like the little foal here is?"

After the words had entered the ears of Rainbow, she turned herself around and just tackled the unfortunate colt to the ground and stared at him with a gaze that would be amplified by her words. "I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you!" she screamed on the top of her lungs every time her hoof made the connection with his jaw. She sat on top of him and pinned him down by his shoulders with her hind legs.

When the last hit was given by her, it send a splatter of blood onto the floor. The enraged filly kept on hitting him until one of the teachers finally managed to pull her off. With a stern voice that then echoed through the hallway, each of the ponies that were involved detention. Including Rainbow. A thing which left the poor Fluttershy completely exposed to the bullies once more for a few weeks and then that un- or fateful day occurred.

It started out normal like every other day that she lived. Rainbow would fly by on her way to school and being late as per usual. But she saw that Fluttershy was being picked once again by the same four bullies that normally pushed her around. "Hey you four! What the hell do you think your doing?!" the cyan coated filly shouted just before she flew down in between the bullies and their victim.

"Oh get out of the way Rainbow Crash, we were just having a little fun. That is all." the leader said to her with a grin. In response did the rainbow maned filly just roll her eyes as the leader spoke smart-like like he had any brain cells left inside of the skull.

"Yeah right, you call picking on a defenseless little filly, fun? You guys are nothing more but a joke." Rainbow retorted with a glare to each of them. She turned her back to the four bullies in order to help Fluttershy get to school when the unexpected happened.

"Yeah, that's right go ahead and run you, chicken!" were the words that were shouted angrily by the leader, obviously he was still furious of her last comment. At least he got the response he wanted out of the filly as Rainbow Dash froze almost dead solid in her tracks. The both of her ears perked up and she gently turned around with a fire in her eyes that might even have struck fear in a manticore. The leader of the bullies didn't even flinch, his companions on the other hoof took a long step back, leaving him in front and alone with her.

"Who you calling chicken? Last I checked you were the one who refused to fight me a few days ago." Acid literally dripped from her mouth as she said the words against him with a growl.

"Because I don't hit girls and you, sadly, are still considered one." the leader taunted with a voice that could only be described as a stone cold one. Something that fell into the wrong gullet for Rainbow, yet she managed to keep herself cool. Somehow.

"Yeah how about this, you and the other three stooges meet me at the old racing ground near the school. There we shall settle this." Rainbow returned in a taunt of her own. Mere seconds later she saw the desired effect. Because the four bullies looked at each other with smirks on their faces, as if they couldn’t lose from one simple filly.

"Deal. We'll meet you there after school, that way everypony can see what a klutz you really are." the leader said with a smirk. The old racing ground wasn't old in the sense that was abandoned but that it was just not as often used as the others. And today wouldn’t be any exception to that rule. The school day had went slow for the cyan coated filly, her anticipation for the race to high on her mind to really focus on classes.

"O-Okay racers on your m-mark." Fluttershy stuttered and all five of the racers flashed their wings in the ready position and then she waved the flag never expecting the speed and fell off into the forest below. The racers were neck to neck for the most part, but the head bully made sure Rainbow stayed in the back by bumping her every time she got beside him and soon only were stuck tied for second place.

"You know it's almost a shame." he yelled ather in a mocking tone. "I mean, here you are in second place and either way, you lose like you always do." He taunted her and that was when Rainbow did something incredibly stupid as a response. For she turned around and out right head butted the colt who then went sailing into the forest below. The filly turned around and was about to speed up when she heard a voice.

Damn I was wondering when you were going to shut him up. Rainbow nearly stopped right in mid-air to survey just where the voice came from when she heard it speak again, don't bother sis. I'm in your head and let me tell you something, it’s not very spacious to be honest. Rainbow didn't know whether she should punch herself or just float around with a derp look on her face.

She opted for a third option which was to finish the original race. As soon as she reached the hill portion of the track, the filly suddenly plummeted straight down. She easily picked up some speed enough for a mach cone to form around her and suddenly Rainbow sent her first sonic rainboom across Equestria never knowing that the action also caused five other fillies across the land to gain their cutie marks as well as her very own.

But she didn't dwell on the fact that she had her cutie mark, no what she focused on was the fact she saw the lead bully crash into the Everfree and no one else noticed that little detail. So in a moment of pure insanity, she zoomed down into the forest to hunt the little brat to show him what would happen when somepony came on her bad side.

She found the colt lying on the ground, bloodied and beaten up to the point where he probably couldn't fly again and that sight alone made Rainbow snort in amusement. "Hey punk get up." she ordered him. Not much afterward, he tried to stand on his legs but one of them was bent in an odd angle, most likely being broken at several places.

Oh, oh, oh let me handle this sis, the voice said and Rainbow noticed that it had a darker tone hidden within its tone. But the filly shook the thought away before she pressed down on the colt's wounded leg. It was something that caused him to scream in pain for a few minutes. Tears shot in his eyes but crying he never actually did. Curses and threats were yelled at the cyan coated filly who on her own turn just shrugged them off as if they were nothing.

Yet perhaps the most oddest part of the entire thing, was the fact that Rainbow looked at the leg with a lust in her eyes. A lust that seemed to be of a starving hunger. When the scream had finally died down, the filly suddenly drew her head down and did something she had never even thought about doing.

For her teeth set itself right in his flesh and she rose her head up at a good enough speed to just take a chunk off of his right leg. But the horror didn’t stop there, because the filly actually started to chew it. Yet it took Rainbow a moment or two before she realized what she had done and spat the piece of meat out of her mouth, right next to the horrified colt with a bleeding leg.

Aw come on, don't be a wuss now, the voice whined inside of her head before the filly could retort in any way, she felt herself getting light headed and passed out in the middle of the woods. Oh well, guess I'll handle this one, the voice mumbled as it made Rainbow's body glide down to the soft pedal of grass.

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Pain, that was the only emotion that the fallen pegasus felt. A pain unlike anything else he had ever felt before he tried locating it. His eyes were shut down with force as he didn’t wanted to see anything else that the cyan coated filly had in store for him. Yet soon did the cruel realization hit him. As he turned his head slowly down to his legs and he nearly fainted upon the spot. For within his eyes he caught the dreaded horror of his leg being torn open just below the knee in order to reveal the flesh beneath it.

At first he didn't know whether to scream or just continue to stare at it as even the broken bones were visible through the gaping hole. But none of it mattered as he caught the very bitch that bit him starting to rise up in the top of his eyes. It was something that made his worry to become a pure anger. "What the flying buck Rainbow!? Are you insane?!" he yelled in a painful voice.

Yet the filly simply looked over to him with a quizzed expression. Almost as if she didn’t even had the slightest idea anymore of who she was. "Who?" Rainbow dared to ask. A question which was dumb in and of itself to begin with.

"Oh, haha Rainbow! Very bucking funny! Now please, stop bullshitting me and tell me why you nearly tore my leg off!” he shouted at her in response. Yet then something happened that send shivers down his spine and drained whatever courage he still had...all because of the fact that she simply laughed. Laughed like the devil himself.

After the sinister laughter had died down, the filly shook her head gently from side to side. "Why did I do it, you ask? No foal, the question should be: why didn't I do this sooner? I mean, come on, all you ever did was push other ponies around and proclaim how stallions are better than mares." Rainbow said before she started to walk towards him. With what little energy the colt had left inside of him, he started to try and crawl away from the insane filly. Sadly all of his hopes were flown away quickly as he made the discovery to be trapped by several rocks and he certainly wouldn’t be able to fly away from her anytime soon.

Terrified for his life, he turned himself back to the ever closing coming filly and gulped deeply. "W-W-Who are y-you?" the colt dared to ask her as he watched the body coming to a standstill pretty much right before his.

Rainbow then started to gently stroke her hoof across her chin as if she had all of the time in the wide world. Yet after a few seconds she gave up and shrugged a bit. "Eh I don't have a name yet, but what I do have though is this one big hankering appetite for colts~ And you look just right." the filly replied to him in a somewhat demonic tone. Yet it would be have been that tone that would be the last thing that the colt heard before the very teeth of Rainbow Dash had closed in around his throat and with one powerful yank, just ripped his throat right open.

When the filly started to open her eyes again after her strange black out, she was completely oblivious to the things what happened to both herself and the colt. Yet the secret wouldn’t remain long away from her. When her eyes sharpened themselves, the rainbow maned filly saw a scene that almost made her stomach turn inside out. For that what she assumed was the bully, was nothing more than a bloody mess with limbs strewn about in various poses. But the worst, had to come.

Because just after she had managed to crawl back up on her hooves, a scream that went through marrow and bone could be heard within her ears. Rainbow Dash quickly turned herself towards the origin of the sound and noticed somepony she knew all too well. And that pony was nopony else then her friend, Fluttershy.

They both of them just stared at each other for a couple long and tedious seconds. The eyes of the pink maned filly started to water and she just took off for the skies. Wanting to leave everything behind her and forget. Sadly enough for her, it wasn’t something that became much of a plan as Rainbow also took the skies. A few seconds later, the cyan coated filly had managed to pin her friend down in the grassy floor of the forest. "Flutters calm down! It's me remember! Stop flailing cause I'm not going to hurt you!" Rainbow said as she tried her best to avoid Fluttershy's hooves as they were, in fact, going everywhere without thought.

Yet it did seem to help. Because the hooves lowered themselves in speed before they landed on the chest and wrapped themselves around those of Rainbow. The anxious expression of the yellow coated filly turned itself into a stern one as she spoke the words of worry in her mind. "Is that what you told that bully, before you killed him?"

Those words caused the rainbow maned filly to look at her in confusion. That was until she noticed a small stream just ahead and released Fluttershy from her hold. With four trembling legs did she walked over to the water and could only pray for the best. The yellow coated filly turned herself around and rose up on her legs, ready to go to her friend if she needed.

The magenta red rimmed eyes of Rainbow stared down into the waters and she wanted to scream in terror at the sight given to her. The reflection that she was was one that had a bloody mouth, even bloodier hooves which looked like tried to rip open something. Her mouth fell open as she couldn’t believe the facts as they were. But with the mouth open, one other, massive thing was revealed. The fact that bits and pieces of meat hung onto her front teeth.

But the one thing that scared her the most was the fact that when she moved her head, so did the monster in the stream. Her young mind simply couldn’t and didn’t wanted to believe that what was shown in the water, was herself. The filly then did the only natural thing that she could think off in the time of crises. And that was to scream her head off in the middle of the wilderness.

Author's Note

For all of you who will probably complain about the attitude RD is showing all I have to say is to check the tags and take note the AU tag.