A rainbow coloured trail

"How dares she!" Louise shouted.
"I DID'NT STEAL THAT KEY!"
I covered my ears with my pillow.
The last two nights Louise kept on screaming about how unfair it was that she was'nt allowed to become a wonderbolt at the next gala.
"L-Louise..." April tried to calm her down.
"NO! I did'nt steal that key! How dares Soarin, blaming me for doing that." she kept screaming.
"But what about that paper?" Fluff tried to comb her mane.
"I did'nt steal that paper! Somepony put it in there. I'm not even blue!"
Please Louise just go to sleep. I turned around.
"Then who is?" Kaila was sitting on her bed.
"Are you dumb?!" Louise threw her pillow at Kaila. "That Fleetfoot pony."
What? Fleetfoot? I pricked my ears.
"She obviously has something against Spitfire. I bet she and Sonic Rainboom planned it. By the way, Sonic Rainboom is blue too."
She was talking about me.
Kaila did'nt get it causing Louise to be even more angry.
"Don't you get it? That fake Wonderbolt Fleetfoot stole that key because she knows it. And because we know it too."
I really needed to talk to Fleetfoot. She had to explain this stuff.
"She tries to get us kicked out." Louise continued her shouting.
Strato came in and told them to be quiet. Everypony screamed.
Not that I cared. I was actually happy he told Louise to shut up.

The next day I met Fleetfoot, Soarin and Spitfire in the hallway.
"Fleetfoot, can I talk you for a moment?" I asked.
She turned around. "Sure."
I took her to the house for the female Wonderbolts in training.
"And what do you need to tell me?" she put down her glasses.
"It's about some days ago in the basement. You seemed upset."
"Rainbow, we're not suppused to talk about Aviane, the record or.."
I interrupted her.
"Fleetfoot listen."
Oh how should I bring this?
"Do you love Soarin?"
Phew. I just said it.
Fleetfoot blinked.
"Yes." she said then.
"But if Soarin does'nt like you, you can't make him like you." Rarity went crazy when Trenderhoof was in Ponyville.
"You, you..." Fleetfoot walked frustrated trough the room and paced in circles like Twilight sometimes does.
"You don't understand!" she screamed.
"All ponies think the same. Do you love Soarin?"
The question made me blush.
"No..." I said then.
"Is there anypony you love?" she shouted. There were tears in her eyes.
I really did'nt know.
"You love your friends from ponyville right? Loving somepony does'nt mean beig IN love with somepony!" She cried softly.
I felt ashamed. That was another way of loving a pony but I did'nt think of it.
"I, I understand." I've never been good at this stuff. Fleetfoot was quiet for a while and sat down on Kaila's bed.
I sat down next to her. She sighed.
"I need to tell you something. About what's really happening behind the Wonderbolts' shows."
That'd be first. Like, no one told me what went on over here.
She looked at the floor where Louise dropped ther stuff.
"You know Soarin is my best friend scince I was a filly." she started telling.
Yes I knew that.
"He was my only friend. My dad died when I was really young and my mom was at work whole days, if she didn't she couldn't pay the house and the tax anymore."
We both knew what happend to Cloudsdalians who couldn't pay their taxes.
"Most of my time I spent at Soarins house. Then he went to the Wonderbolts Academy. Everyday I missed him.
When Spitfire got the academy my mom died too. I did'nt knew what to do. I didn't have money enough to study and have two left hooves or something, so I couldn't find a job. Then Soarin got Spitfire to make me a Wondebolt.
I had a house, job and my friend back. I did'nt care about the other Wonderbolts. They disliked me for becoming a Wonderbolt without training. I'm lucky I'm fast, but actually I am too small, not agile enough and too weak. They dislike me. Still.
But now Soarin is mostly with Spitfire. I have nowhere to go when I leave. I have to stay here, even if everypony wants me to leave."
I felt the sadness in her voice while she cried very silently.
Now this is awkward. What do I need to say to her?

We walked back to the hallway.
"Where were you?" Soarin dragged us to the end of the hallway.
"Fleetfoot, I'm so sorry. I should know you did'nt steal the key." he said.
Well, at leat this problem was solved.
"Do you want to go to cloudsdale now? There's is a weather festival." Soarin asked.
"Yes!" I saw Fleetfoot lighten up and I smiled when I saw them flying outside.
Maybe this is what Fluttershy feels when she mends some critters heart.
"Rainbow Dash! Do you have a minute?" I knew that voice. A little raspy and defenitly Spitfires.
Yes I had a minute. But I did'nt wanted to talk to Spitfire that minute. Because of the case, Fleetfoot and mostly becuase she was suspicious.
Somehow that was really scary. Knowing you know things you're not supposed to about a pony and that pony being suspicious of you.
"Uh, sure." Be confident Dash, then she won't notice. Just do it like any other thing when others expect you to be tough. But how hard I tried, my hooves were still shaking when I walked into her office.
"So Rainbow Dash, do you like it here?" she asked.
"Yes..." I said.
Spitfire frowned. Sitting behind the desk she seemed quite creepy.
"Who are your best friends here?" she asked.
If I said Fleetfoot, would she be mad at me?
"Soarin." She'll never be mad at him.
She closed her eyes a bit and inspected me from my hooves to my wings. Her stare made me shiver,
"That's nice to hear. The reason you're here is because I wanted to thank you for your help finding that lost paper back."
I knew that was a lie.
"Then can I go now?" I asked.
Please say yes. Please say yes.
"Sure." her smile scared me "but know what you're doing. I warn you."

The next day I avoided my friends and hung around Louise and co. They were flying in circles while I was doing wing-ups.
Did Spitfire warn me not to search for more?
"Dashie!" Louise landed and jumped on top of me.
"Ouch! Look out." I pushed her away.
"But Dashie..." Louise put on a very childish voice.
"NO!" I flew away and Louise felt down. I didn't want to talk to Fleetfoot and Soarin and defenitely not with Louise.
"But your rainbow maned dad sent you a letter!"
What? I landed.
Louise pushed the letter in my face.
"And how do you know this" I grabbed the letter to make sure she did'nt read it "is from my dad? For that matter, how do you know my dad has a Rainbow coloured mane?"
"You could thank me. At least." she filpped her hair.
"I know it's from your dad because it has his name on the other side. Rainbow Blaze isn't it? And that makes his hair quite obvious right? And, was it him who tought you to act this way?"
"Yes." He did. And he and mom are awesome so shut up about them Louise.
"Did he also tought you to think you're better then everypony else?" She fliped her hair again and it really started to annoy me.
"And what if I am? Should you care?" I did';t even know why I answered that, but Louise really needed to shut up, plus, she was the jealous one here. And she shouldn't be looking trough my mail.
"Yes I should! Or maybe not. The other rainbow maned mare did'nt end up very well either." she flipped her mane for the third time.
"And what is that supposed to mean?!" I shouted without thinking.
This was the worst time ever to get into a fight, there were a lot of ponies watching us and I would probably be sent to Spitfire and then get some sort of punishment-job but I tought of Aviane and that she comitted suicide. Did Louise really meant Aviane when she said that?
"That you're going in the right direction." Louise said.
I gulped. Did... Did she just implied I would end up like Aviane?
"Oh yeah?" I shouted back, but a little more hesitating.
That wasn't serious right? I'm nothing like her, I don't insult others or fighting them randomly. I don't fly around screaming in the middle of the night just hit the newspapers again next morning.
"Are you saying you're gonna fight me?" she said, almost laughing.
Come on Dash, don't let her get the best of you. She's just a stupid arrongant mare who somehow got enrolled here.
"You said that yourself!" I shouted. She almost asked me to get her and pull her long mane she was now shaking back and forth like she was posing in one of Rarity's fashion shows.
Or do you want to keep your precious mane like this?" I tried to do her accent.
She told me I was going to end like Aviane! Aviane. The arrogant bragging rainbow haired mare from 100 years ago.
How dared she compare me to her?
"No, come on then!" she grinned.
It did get the best of me.
I jumped right on top of her and grabbed her hair.
I'd teach that snob a lesson...
The other pegasi just stood there when Fleetfoot pushed them aside.
"Rainbow stop, you're not going to fight her." she pulled my wing.
"And how do you know?" I shouted.
"You don't know what you're doing. You're even being mean to me. Now come with me, Spitfire will handle Louise."
I looked angry at Louise wo just stood there grinning while Fleetfoot dragged me inside to the locker room.
"Rainbow, calm down."
"But I need to teach that Louise a lesson! And she... she said! My hair and Avianes. Avianes mane! She... that snob said..." I couldn't find the words to say Louise insulted I was going to die like Aviane. Like I was going to throw myself off high with my wings tied together.
"You're not going anywhere until you're anger is over. Do you want to drink some water?" she asked.
I nodded and tought about how much fun it would be to throw water in Louises face. But of course I wasn;t going to tell Fleetfoot that.
Fleetfoot gave me a bottle.
I sighed. and drunk some water.
"You're right. Fighting Louise would'nt help." It would get me kicked out instead "But sometimes I really want to fight her."
"I want to fight the other Wonderbolts too sometimes." she said.
Fleetfoot wanting to fight somepony was a really crazy idea. She was always the calmer one.
Without noticing I emptied the bottle almost.
"I need to borrow Soarins glasses. I think I lost mine, help remember me I need to ask Spitfire if they got found." She said while she opened Soarins locker.
"Do you have his key?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Yes" she laughed "he loses it at least one or twice a month."
"Then he must be really chaotic, or has a real bad short term memory." I said and stood next to her.
"What is this?" next to the bag was a little paper.
"You know it's not nice to search his stuff." Fleetfoot looked at the paper "But I'm too curious, unfold it."
I unfolded it and read what was on there.
I miss you. Please come to the office at midnight. XXX
"A secret love message!" I whispered. O my gosh. Never knew Soarin had a secret love.
"What do you think? Follow-em?" Fleetfoot had a devious smile on her face. I smiled back and nodded.
I never tought Fleetfoot would suggest such thing, but I was too curious to decline.
I folded the paper and put it back where I found it. Fleetfoot closed the locker and we left.

Dear Dashie,

Your mom and I are very happy to know you're becoming a Wonderbolt. We Always hoped that you once live your dream.
Do you ave a Wonderbolts suit already?
I am really happy to know you have some friends who are Wonderblts too. Do you have fun?
As for Aviane, I don't know. Maybe you can look in a library. But I recommend you focussing on your Wonderbolts carreer.
I know I asked a lot of questions. Maybe you can come for a visit in the next holiday. You can bring your friends too.

Your dad
I crumbled the paper. He knows about Aviane but won't tell. It seems like the only thing he cares about is me becoming a Wonderbolt.
It's really nice that they support me, but this feels like they're pushing me. I threw the paper in a trash can.
I will talk to you about that later dad. And you're going to tell me what really happend.

I lunched with Fleetfoot in a little restaurant.
We both did'nt speak about tonight because we both knew Spitfire was suspicious and this would defenitly result into more trouble then we could afford ourselves. We might both get kicked out.
I tought about something else to talk about.
"But what about the Academy record?" I asked out of nowhere.
Fleetfoot stopped eating.
"Aviane said that the one who broke it would own the academy. Spitfire broke it. And you did."
She pointed at me. That explained why Louise was mad at me the first few days. I could become a Wonderbolt right away.
"So I can become the captain?" The Idea made me feel amazing. Being the captain of the Wonderbolts? Awesome!
Fleetfoot nodded. "But," she continued "then we never get the answers about Aviane that we want. I think Spitfire is going to take all the newspaper pieces about her with her as she leaves and the others sure aren't going to tell you anything."
Thanks for throwing away the idea.
"But Rainbow. I heard Louise say something about your dad." she changed the subject.
"And?" I said. It's no secret I have a dad. Everyone has one, but I didn;t wanted to say that to her.
Fleetfoot looked serious. "She said he had your hair colour. Did you tell her? If you did'nt, that means she knows your dad. And I don't know if that's good."
Did I? The night when Louise was nice we played the tell-the-truth game.
Somepony asked if we dyed our manes or tails. I told I did'nt. Then Louise said something about my dad.
"I, I don't know." I frowned. I didn;t remembered it all that well. Probably because I had a little too much cider at that restaurant, heck, how else could Louse have gotten me to play that game? Yup. It was probably the cider.
"It's okay. Most important now is to figure out what Aviane has to do with your dad and why Louise stole the key."
"Speaking about my dad, do you like to visit him and my mom in the easter holiday with me? He asked us to come over." I said, before she said more about Louise and a key.
"Really? That would be so nice." she said.
Now I did'nt have to go there on my own. That's a relief.
"I hate it to be stuck here while the others go away. Except one. She always stays." Fleetfoot looked down.
"Who?" I'm hearing more and more weird things going on here.
"Misty Fly does'nt go home either. And let her be the one that hates me the most. She would be in Team A with Soarin and Spitfire if I did'nt become a Wonderbolt. Now she's stuck with Lightning Streak, who's kinda weird." Fleetfoot explained. "And Spitfire of course, but she has to work."
"I think I should talk to Misty then." I answered.
"Maybe I can get her to stop being mean."
Fleetfoot gave me a sarcastic look and snickered. "Like that's ever going to happen."

The conversation with Misty went really bad. First she told me to keep out of her business and then she shouted that Fleetfoot was an annoying dumb pony and that she should quit. Just like Fleetfoot said.
Well, If you don't try you'll never know right?
That night Fleetfoot and I hid in the classroom opposite Spitfires office in the hallway.
"It's almost midnight. They are late." I whispered.
"Soarin is always late." she whispered back.
Five minutes later we heard somepony opening the office. Just when we wanted to open the door to look who it was another pony walked trough the hallway.
"That's not Soarin. I know if it's him from the sound of his hooves." Fleetfoot kept the door closed.
A little later we heard Soarin going into the office.
Then I heard the other voice and it sounded painfully familiar. Female Pony was here.

"Do you know her?" Fleetfoot said. She noticed my reaction.
"Uhm, no. She sounds like..." who had a raspy voice? "Misty."
Fleetfoot raised an eyebrow. "Misty? And Soarin?"
I realised how stupid that sounded.
We followed the shadows of the two ponies. They landed on a cloud not far from the academy and entered the house on it, and it was quite big, so Female Pony was rich or something.
I noticed it was really cold and raining like crazy.
They giggled. One of them turned on a light. I saw the shadows of a mare with slightly Louises haircut.
"She looks like me when I just showered." Fleetfoot pointed at Female Pony "Actually, all mares with a short cut mane get that look."
Thanks for destroying the clue that might have told me who she was. She could or have brushed short hair or long hair. It is not Fluff, that's for sure. And not Pinkie either. Oh wait, she can't walk on clouds.
Altough, you never know with Pinkie.
They had a drink and we both realized we were thirsty.
"Is there going to happen something worth freezing for? I'm really cold." I was staring at the window in the house for at least half an hour. "I tought they were going to the city and have a date or something, not a tea pary at house."
"I don't know." she replied.
That's a really nice answer Fleetfoot. I sighed.
"Look!" She pointed at the window. They walked upastairs and switched the light off.
"Argh! We should go back. This was a terrible idea." I shouted. It was getting really annoying and it was around 2AM.
"Shhh! We can't let them know we're here. And no, we can't go back. The nightguard is outside at this time of the night." Fleetfoot said.
Could'nt she say that a little earlier? When we could still cancel this stuff? Now we were stuck here. And it was even worse then a closet. I'm regretting this.
We waited when Fleetfoot laid her head down on the cloud. I tought about leaving a few times but it was a bad idea to leave a sleeping friend outside at night and I didn't even noticed I closed my eyes.
It was around four o clock in the morning when we woke up from a sound in the house. Fleetfoot yawned.
"Did we really sleep in somepony's garden? We're crazy. I'm crazy." I said. "And we almost froze." I stretched my wings. It was SO cold.
"I guess so. But we need to get away. They're awake." Fleetfoot pointed at the house.
Soarin walked out of the house and flew away. Female Pony waved and closed the door.
"This" I spread my front legs "Is a total fail! We slept really bad, we're cold and it's all for nothing.
"No." Fleetfoot stared at an unknown point.
"What do you mean no? I'm hungry. We stayed up late and slept for only two hours." I really felt like screaming.
"No." She pointed at something behind me and stared "This house..."
"What's with this house? Please Fleetfoot, I want to go back to the Academy. It's cold and Celestia is raising the sun soon."
"Belongs to Spitfire."

I decided to go outside for a walk and look at the sunset. Fluttershy once said that the sunset calms ponies down.
Even tough I slept the whole day long I'm still tired. I can't belive it's evening already.
Soarin came walk next to me.
"Hi Rainbow. Were were you today?" he asked.
"I slept bad." Not that the knew what I really meant.
He didn't have a chance to spot me or Fleetfoot.
"I wanted to ask you something. Misty said she knows who stole the key." he continued.
I really wasn't in the mood to talk about that.
"I tought that was solved. Louise stole it right?" I said.
"But Louise is'nt blue."
"No." I agreed. I was too tired to think about this Soarin.
"Well, it's not April. I know for sure, she needed to do a test." Soarin was still going on about it.
I just wanted to sleep.
"Thank you." his words hardly reched my mind.
Huh? What did I do?
"Then Fleetfoot did'nt steal the paper, but she did steal the key. She did and then blamed Louise, I'm done with it."
"What are you going to do?" I heard myself say.
"I'm going to tell her that I don't want to see her anymore." He flew away.
Then Fleetfoot did steal that key. I should tell her... Wait! I did. I stole the key. And now he's going to tell Fleetfoot he does'nt want to see her anymore.
I tought of what Fleetfoot told me about her and Soarin. What Misty said about Fleetfoot. And what Louise said about Aviane.
Before I knew it I was flying next to him.
"Soarin! Soarin wait!" I panted "I... stole the key."