The One

A golden yellow Pegasus limped across the cobblestone pier with his white hair blowing across the front of his face, he neared a bench next to the beach and sat down, grimacing at the pain in his leg and wing. "Practice makes perfect? I guess it also makes plenty of bruises too..." He chuckled to himself before stopping when his chest started to hurt again. He turned his head towards the steady trotting of hooves towards him " Another accident J?" The mint green earth pony that had walked up to him and reassuringly poked his hind leg.

"Ahh, why'd you do that? No need to put salt in the wounds. I already said, it's Zero G! Not Zero J" the Pegasus named Zero G turned away and huffed before muttering "When will she learn?" He turned back and looked at his wing " Hey, got any new potions to help my wing Secret Seller?"

She frowned at him before looking to her stall across the path "Aye, I might just have the thing. Pherhaps I should just get you one to help you actually fly straight, heh heh." She smiled before turning away and walking back to her stall, the shelves were filled with all sorts of products like potions and books. Zero G walks over and looks at the shelf on the left

He squirts at the title of a newspaper "mysterious lights from Everfree forest: 'green fire' has been seen in various parts of the forest." He read it aloud. "Huh, interesting... didn't those channelling that attacked Canterlot get launched in that direction? Pherhaps it's them." He put a hoof to his chin and thought for a bit Mayby I'll look for them on my next flight over there. he thought to himself.

Secret seller coughed to get his attention, " your potion will be 10 bits and considering how interested ye seem to be in the papers ll give you those free 'a' charge!" She said cheerfully with her trottish accent seeping through a bit. Zero G put the bits on her counter and put the items in his bag before looking out to the sunset, he nodded towards her and set off down the pier back to his house.

He walked past the sign that read 'Welcome to Salty Sands!' And continue on down a small dirt path up the hill, his breathing was the only sound to pierce the blissful silence of the night. He looked up the path to the familiar white painted house that he called home and then closed his eyes "Home sweet home, I don't know why but this place feels so empty now that she's gone..." He turned to look at the clouds above the house and thought of what used to happen here, Rainbow Dash would visit him on the holidays once every few months. He smiled and thought back to one particular time.

A Daimler flapping of wings and sounds of dust floating through the air indicated that Rainbow Dash had arrived. He opened the front door of the house and smiled "Hey egghead, what's up? I bet it's been SUPER boring without me around as usual!" She said in her usual tomboyish voice.

"Well hello to you too and I'm still not an egghead! Just because you were naturally so good at flying... I'm still going to become a stunt pony, just you watch!" Zero G replied confidently before pointed to her neck. "So what's this then? Did a certain stallion give you that?" He said referring to her element of harmony bracelet.

"What?! No, this! For your information is the element of loyalty and its mine! Pretty cool huh? I'm not supposed to have it with me but I took it anyway, thought you'd want to see it." She proudly raised her head up higher and tapped the lightning bolt symbol on it. "It even has my cutie Mark! My 5 other friends have them too, Twilight Sparkles an even bigger egghead than you are!" She spread her arms out for emphasis before turning out to look at the moon. "We saved this silicone, her name Is Luna I think, she controls the moon now instead of Celestia."

"That's pretty impressive! Especially the part about making friends!" Zero G jokingly said for mentioning for her to come inside.

They talked about what they had done for the rest of the night and she set off for Ponyville "to go meet her friends" and has not came back since "How can she forget about her own cousin? I've known her for years...I'm sure she will come back eventually. He rested his head on his bed' s pillow and closed his eyes to go to sleep, he was then awoken by an earth-shattering noise from the forest. He quickly jamp out of his bed and stumbled over to the window to see the greenish fireball quickly approach the house

"Oh no"