Nightflight
Unexpected royal visit
Previous ChapterNext ChapterRainbow Dash hurried out from the library, trying to hold back the tears as she flew as fast as she allowed herself to.
Soon, she realised that she didn't fly the way home, she flew towards The Everfree forest.
" Huh. Didn't notice I was flying this way. Oh well, clouds aren't less soft here," Rainbow whispered to herself while she
searched for a good cloud to lay on. She spotted one at the edge of the forest and laid down. Not late after, she started to cry again. After a little while she stopped, smiled, and thought; Heh. I havent cried this much since i was young. But it feels good in a twisted way, actually.
After some minutes that seemed like an eternity, Rainbow Dash suddenly heard a noise coming from the back.
Is that... sobbing? Who is it? Rainbow tought to herself after lissening towards the sound. She decided to find out who was crying
and why. She pointed her ears to the direction of the sobbing. Rainbow Dash flied further in on the grounds of the Everfree, the stars following her every breath, every soundless little flap of her wings. The stars was looking at her every single second. But the rainbow maned pegasus didin't notice. She was to busy searching for the crying pony. The stars wanted to help. They pointed their beautiful silver light on a cloud and bathed the pony on it in the same light. The stars have succeded in helping the pegasus and drew back to
just looking, Rainbow Dash had spotted the pony.
"Who's that? That doesn't look like anypony I know. I've never seen that kind of tail before, it like, floats in the air. Or, well, the princesses does, but they can't be here can they?"
Rainbow Dash didin't know how wrong she was.
She flew to the cloud and sat herself down on another cloud beside. She looked at the pony on the cloud beside her, and almost bolted straight up when she saw who it was.
" Princess Luna?! What are you doing here! I mean, uh, nevermind," Rainbow Dash got down in a bow, but quickly got raised up by Lunas hoof.
" You do not have to bow, Rainbow Dash. I am satisfied just by being recognised," Luna said with her eyes filld with resignation and sadness.
"What do you mean 'just being reconised'? Of course you're recognised, you're a princess!" Rainbow said with a little doubt to the princess being all fine this night.
" Yes I am a princess, but for what reason? My sister could take well care of rising the moon when I was gone. What can I do that other can not? How am I important? How can I help other ponies?
" How can you think so? You're awfully important! You are the only pony i know that can travel in others dreams, you are the all foals safety when they know that someone watches over them at night, the stars have never shined brighter than they do now that you rise them and heck, when you visit Ponyville, only Pinkie Pie can make me laugh harder."
Luna sat quiet and thought about the things Rainbow just said. She felt so foolish about her not-being-special-feelings, they sounded so obvius when she had said them to herself, but Rainbow made it sound so easy to be special, different.
"Wow,those vere beautiful things you said," Luna smiled at Rainbow Dash.
" Huh? What do you mean?"
" About being important."
" Well, my mom and dad were very kind. They taught me that the period I was bullied in school."
" You have been bullied? For what?"
" For being special. But I decided to step up my game and became a lot tougher." Rainbow gave a look on her mane when she said 'special' and smiled."Guess some ponies don't understand how sweet it can be to stand out sometimes."
" Tell me 'bout it, " Luna said. She glanced up at the sky and crossed her eyebrows in concern of a thing she just heard."By the way, who are your parents anyway? I am just curious."
" Well, that's something i'd rather not talk about," Rainbow said, but she seemed to change her mind because she took a deep breath and dived into the memories she had kept inside her for so long.
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"Aw, come on sweetie, there's always a next time," Spectrum said to his defeated daughter. They where on their way home after the equestrian games fiasco. He was sad to, but Rainbow was litterally heartbroken.
" But daaad, it'll be an eternity until then," she whined. She were walking with slow steps and her Cloudsdale flag dragged on the cloud way they were walking on. Suddenly Spectrum stopped.
" Dashie, you can go ahead, me and Firefly will come soon. We are just gonna take care of some things first," He slowly turned around and walked away from Rainbow Dash. She weren't so concerned or curiuos about where he was going, he and mom always did like this.
She walked home and got into bed, not expecting her parents to come soon. They were usually away in about two days or so.
And the days went by. Two days. Five. Nine. Now she was getting really concerned, but didin't know who to talk with. It wasn't after two weeks she finally got to hear what had happened.
An early morning a pony knocked on the door to Rainbows house.
"Mmhhphm, Who is it?" she asked. A male voice answered.
"Miss Dash? May I come in?" it asked. Rainbow slowly got out of her bed and opened the door.
" Whaddayouwant?" She said still not fully awake.
" Miss Dash, I am from the foal protection service. Do you know why I am here?" he asked. The stallion was tall and slim in a light brown fur and chocolate coloured mane and tail. His cutiemark was an hourglass,and he had a concerned face. Rainbow Dash immideatly woke up when she heard wherefrom he was. She thought she knew was this was all about, but immensly hoped she was wrong." I am here to talk about your parents. Rainbow felt her stomach knit as she confirmed the worst thought." Rainbow Fidelia Dash, your parents died 4 AM two weeks ago. their bodys vere found and recognised yesterday by a search party, not far away from the Everfree Forest.We belive they have been slaughtered by timberwolwes. I am terribly sorry, but I will have to take you to an orphanage," the stallion said. Rainbow sat speechless with tears welling up in her eyes.
" No," she whispered, "Please, no." She cried, hid her eyes in her hoof and got whelmed over by sadness and anger. It was so unfair, why? Why did it have to happen to her parents? She got no answers to her question how hard she tried.
" I-I'm sorry miss Dash-" the stallion said, but was immideatly cut of by Rainbow Dash.
"NO!" She screamed, blinded by the anger she took to the air, dashing out trough a window. She flew in a very long time, determined to not let the FPS find her. After a while she got tired and landed on a cloud, where she passed out. The next day, Rainbow saw that she had landed in some sort of village, and she also noticed that she were really hungry. After flying around for a while, she saw an apple orchard. She landed in a tree and took an apple, very carefully so no one would notice. it worked for a while until one day when an filly with orange fur spotted her.
" Hey!" The filly shouted, "That ain't nice of ya'll, stealing apples like that!" Rainbow tried to escape, but the filly was a lot good with lasso and caught her. " Ah hope ya'll have a mighty good reason for all this!" she said while holding Dash down.
" Actually, I have," Rainbow said, and told the filly what had happened. When she was finished, the filly sat awestruck.
" Wow, that's tough. Ah actually lost mah ma and pa when I was a little younger. Ah'm Applejack by the way."
" I'm sorry to hear that, Applejack. Losing your parents is tough. My name's Rainbow Dash. And... um, would you mind if I maybe stayed here for a while?"
" 'Course not! As long as ya'll help with the applebucking, that is," Applejack smiled and got up on her hooves." Ah better continue with my work, do you want to come?" she asked Rainbow who nodded and quickly got up on her hooves.
" Promise that you will never, ever tell somebody else about this, okay?"
Applejack smiled. "Promise."
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" And well, that's how it went. Later I found a job as weather manager and could afford a house," Rainbow said, wiping the last tears from her face. thy came in the part when she talked about that damned FPS. Now she realised that Luna was crying too.
" Oh Rainbow, why did you not tell anyone? It must have been terrible to feel something like that!"
" I was too stubborn, i didin't tell anyone unless it was necessary, and then it had gone to far. I had hid those feelings for so long I no longer felt sadness, only anger and a deep hole in my heart. But I have to admit it is very sweet to let it out," she said.
" I know exactly what you mean, in fact, I've been there myself," Luna said. Rainbow knew what she was thinking about.
" When you transformed into Nightmare moon?" she said.
" Yes"
" Wow. I never thought you felt that way. It must have been terrible."
" Yes. It wasn't nice, but it could have been worse," Luna gazed up on the sky; it was turning orange in the sunrise and the moon was going down. " Sunrise. I have to go Rainbow Dash, my sister will be waiting for me to attend on breakfast. I hope to see you soon, and wish you all luck with your problems. But remember: Admitting fears isn't going to break your pride nor image. in fact, it may improve it. No matter what, your friends will be at your side. Think about this. And goodbye." with these words said, Luna gave her wings a powerful flap and raised to the sky. Rainbow waved goodbye and returned home, feeling a little bit lighter in her heart.
Author's Note
There! Finally this chapter is done. Stupid real life + bad imagination = ( Anyways, this chapter was a little bit longer than the other one, and will hopefully stay around this long. Next one will hopefully be out soon, stay tuned for more.
I will also be working on two other stories, so please check those out as well. Please leave a comment and tell me what you think about it,what is good/bad and grammatical errors. I don't have an editor so i is not impossible i've missed a thing or two. Thanks!
