Chapter 11 - Investigating

Spitfire and Rainbow Dash dodged through the morning clouds as to not get spotted by towns ponies below, they hadn't wanted to reveal their relationship to the whole town in one day let alone have their own family member writing in the paper saying she hated it.

Soon the two pegasi reached a cloud just outside the dressmaker's shop known as Carousel boutique. Spitfire looked around the area and saw there were no ponies in the vicinity, she looked back over to Dash and nodded signalling for them to dive down onto the front step of the shop.

Dash took a deep breath before hesitantly knocking on the door and waiting for the pony to open the door. She glanced a quick look over at Spitfire who gave an uneasy smile before the door in front of the cyan mare opened to reveal the white unicorn that they were looking for.

Rarity smiled, "Oh my gosh its the happy couple!" she said clopping her hooves together as she squealed like a school filly.

Spitfire turned to look at  Dash who smirked and rolled her eyes before looking back at Rarity who by now had stopped jumping around enough for Dash to speak, "Hey Rarity is Scootaloo still here?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

Rarity put a hoof to her chin as she pondered before turning her head to see two fillies emerging from the stairs of the boutique.

Rarity turned a confused look towards the two fillies, "girls where is Scootaloo?" she questioned.

Both Sweetie Belle and AppleBloom looked at each other with a knowing glance before the smaller white unicorn spoke, "I don't know what happened sis, one minute Scoots was reading the school newspaper and the next minute she was out the door" she replied with a slightly confused tone, Apple Bloom nodded in approval.

Spitfire sighed, this just didn't make sense at all, why would Scootaloo do any of this. Dash saw the stress emanating from her lovers amber eyes. She too knew there was something up with this whole story, looking back at Rarity she spoke up again, "Rares who did you speak to about me and Spit?" she asked raising an eyebrow curiously.

Rarity's smiled faded slightly as she noticed the faces of both ponies, she then felt a pang of guilt grip her stomach she looked down as she spoke, "Oh I’m so so sorry Rainbow Dash... I didn't realize you wanted to keep it a secret... my greatest apologies darling I hope you can-"

Rainbow interrupted the mare, "Yeah I forgive you Rares but this is serious who did you tell?" she asked again. Rarity pondered for a few moments before she spoke.

"Hmm… Oh yes! It was this nice little filly who came into my shop the other day for a new dress...we got talking and well I might have let a few things slip out here and there but thats pretty much" Rarity finished with small smile.

Spitfire was next to speak, "Rarity what was the fillies name?" she asked curiously.

Rarity thought for a moment as she spelled out a few words, "I remember it was something like….T-Tiara?" she said.

As the words left her mouth both fillies behind the white mare gasped in horror, "Diamond Tiara!" they both shrieked in unison, Rarity turned back to the fillies and nodded.

Sweetie Belle frowned, "Sis remember all those nasty things I told you about at school, that was her!" she yelled.

Rarity turned around with a confused look, "She seemed quite alright to me" the older sibling protested.

Whilst the three ponies argued, Dash turned around and trotted over to Spitfire who now had a more of an angry look than a stressed one.

Dash leaned in a nuzzled Spitfire before smirking,"You're gonna kill her aren't you?" she said raising an eyebrow

Spitfire let some of her tension fade before turning to Rainbow, "One thing I know is she's going to get what's coming to her, but we need to find Scootaloo first, she could be anywhere" the yellow mare said with hint of worry in her voice.

Dash nodded in agreement as she turned back to the argument still raging behind her, "Hey guys if you see Scoot then come and get us okay?" she asked. The three looked over to the cyan mare and nodded happily before going straight back to their argument.

Spitfire turned and flared her wings and trotted away from the building before she jumped into the air and powered off into the sky whilst Dash shot off to the school, she had a bone to pick with a certain pink filly.

Spitfire searched across the town and not seeing a single sign of her daughter, fear started to well up in her gut as she desperately kept searching across the town, she glanced a look across the sky in front of her and spotted their cloud house out of the corner of her eye.

Spitfire knew it was a long shot but she couldn't pass up the opportunity to at least check the place before she continued her search. The yellow mare landed on the front step of the cloud home to see the door slightly ajar, a lump swelled in her throat as she put a hoof on the door and slowly opened it and was thankful it didn't make any noises when it opened.

Spitfire looked through the living area of the house and saw no signs of the orange filly, she then heard a faint noise come from the kitchen.

Spitfire trotted up to the kitchen door and placed her ear on the cloud surface as she heard the faint sound of whimpering coming from through the cloud layer. She quickly put a hoof to the the door and threw it open revealing her daughter sitting on the dinning table of the cloud kitchen, her small wings hung limply to her sides as she looked down onto the now soaked newspaper.

The small orange pegasus looked over to Spitfire with red, waterlogged eyes as tears streamed down her face. The orange pegasus looked destroyed as she kept staring at the mare in sorrow. Spitfire felt her heart tear slightly as Scootaloo breathed shakily before saying

"Mummy...w-we need to talk"