Element of War

"La la la, la la la, la la la, WEE!" Pinkie Pie said as she was hopping down the streets of Ponyville. Nandi Star flew past Pinkie Pie, leaving her in dust.

"Sorry Pinkie! I'm in a rush!" Nandi Star said. Her green mane and tail swayed behind her as she flew. She did her best to avoid the passing ponies. As she managed to escape the busy ponies, she headed to the forest nearby. The Everfree forest! As she got deeper into the forest, she began to slow down. She looked around. Her brown wings flapped even slower. She lowered to the ground. She looked up through the tall trees. Sun gleamed through the trees. Soon, she heard the tree leaves rustle. "Rainbow Dash? Is that you?" The leaves continued to rustle. "Dashie?"

Rainbow Dash jumped out of a tree, and tackled Nandi. Dash put her chin on top of Nandi's mane. She gave her a noogie and messed up Nandi's mane. "Hey Dash!" Nandi said.

"Are you ready for today's practice?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Of course I am!" Nandi said with a smile on her face. "But can you please get off me?" "Oh. Yeah!" Dashie climbed off of Nandi's back. "Thanks. Alright, where are we practicing today?"

"We're gonna practice in Cloudsdale. Follow me!" Rainbow Dash zoomed into the sky, past the tall trees. Nandi followed.

Rainbow Dash and Nandi Start continued to fly to Cloudsdale. "Dash are we there yet?!" Star said with her eyes closed. "Um yeah... You should open your eyes though." Dash said to Star. Star felt herself go through a cloud, pushing her green mane onto her face. She opened her eyes, and saw the big bustling city of pegasi. "Wow, it's bigger than I remember! You know, because I haven't been her since I was a filly..." Nandi said with her eyes wide and gleaming. "Well, we can look at the city later, we have to practice!" Dash patted Nandi Star's back with her hoof. "Yeah, right." Nandi and Rainbow Dash flew to the surface of the city.

"You remember how to do this, Star?" Rainbow said to Nandi with an unamused look on her face. "Yeah. Like I could forget! We've done it about, a million times!" "Well, yeah, it's because you're such a clutz! We've been trying to get it right. Maybe if we did it right this time, we wouldn't have to practice as often!" Dash said, putting a lot of emphasis into right. "Anyway, let's get started!" Rainbow Dash and Nandi Star hugged. "3...2...1..." Star said. "GO!"  As they were "hugging", they jumped off the cloud, and flew up. When they believed they were high enough, they began to fly down. They flapped their wings furiously. Soon, was was almost a sonic rainboom occurred. Except, a slight hint of black was part of it.

Rainbow Dash nudged on Nandi Star's leg. With tears and wind filling her eyes, she managed to look at Rainbow Dash, and see that her eyes full of tears as well. Rainbow Dash nudged her leg harder. Soon she realized that meant to release. Nandi let go of Rainbow Dash and they took off in opposite directions. Nandi heard Rainbow Dash's voice fade away. She thinks she was saying "SO AWESOME!!". As soon as Nandi regained her focus, she slowed down. She began to fly back to Cloudsdale to meet up with Rainbow Dash.

When she got there, Rainbow Dash had an impatient-looking face on. "What took you so long?! I was here for about 10 minutes!" Nandi put a mean face on. "Hey! It's not like I didn't come!" Nandi's face reverted to a gleeful emotion. "So we did awesome right?!" "Yeah! We did awesome!" Rainbow Dash said with a happy and confused face. "But I think it's time we leave. Right Star?" "Yeah. My wings are killing me..." "Alright I'll see you soon!" Rainbow Dash began to back up. Nandi was about to take off to go back to Ponyville. As she opened her wings, Rainbow Dash pushed her off of the cloud. Rainbow Dash started laughing as Nandi fell down.

Nandi was shrieking as she got closer to the ground. Then she remember she had wings. She began to flap them furiously. She slowed down soon enough to land safely on the ground. "Rainbow Dash..." She sighed. "I'll deal with her later. My wings are aching." A bell in her head rung. "I have to get to Applejack's!" She ran from her desolate location, to Sweet Apple Acres. A bush rustled after she left, and a black figure popped out with eyes filled with aqua blue. It made a low hissing noise watching her run away, and disappeared into the bushes.