Author's Note

Okay, so I don't care if you like it or not, I wrote this mainly because I liked the idea. I wrote this at 2 am so yes, you can certainly expect it to be horrible. Anyway, if you do like the idea then let me know in the comments or a message. Mustaches for anyone who can guess what happened to her

The tails beggining

Saturdays. The best day of the week. No cloud busting, no paper work, and best of all, no weather arrangements for today. Well, at least not for Ponyville's fastest pegasus, Rainbow Dash. The scorching sun shone over Ponyville, with few clouds in the sky, ponies sunbathing below. Rainbow Dash however, lay on a cloud, taking one of her afternoon naps. Everything was so peaceful. It was a perfect day today, and she sure wasn't going to let it go to waste.

Rainbow Dash slowly cracked one eye open, and looked down below at the ponyville market. Many ponies where manning their stalls just now, including one of her best friends, Applejack. Seen as Applejack was busy, Rainbow decided to wait until she had finished up for the day before going to see her. Totally not just for cider.

Rainbow got up to stretch, pushing her hooves forward and sticking her flank in the air, such as a cat would. She gave her wings a few stretches, making sure she was ready for flight and would be able to fly safely.

The slight breeze felt wonderful as she gently flapped her wings, rising into the warm air. The only thing was, everypony else was busy with their work while she had finished her work several hours ago. So who could she visit that wouldn't be too busy?

Pinkie Pie? She was always up for some fun, pranking ponies, planning parties or watching Rainbow Dash perform her latest stunts and tricks. Pinkie was most likely watching the twins for Mr and Mrs Cake while they ran the shop, so that ruled Pinkie out.

Rarity was a definite no. Rarity was a good pony, but she never agreed with anything Rainbow done and simply classed it as, uncouth or foalish.

Twilight was busy helping Granny Smith calculate the farm profit and tax's, while Applejack was out in the west fields harvesting apples for a big order, so that left those two out of the picture.

Fluttershy always welcomed Rainbow Dash with open arms, but lately the shy mare had been rather busy trying to get Discord to behave properly as he thought it would to put mouse traps in Fluttershy's bed. The poor mare had cried for 3 hours straight after this and her back looked as if she had just been in combat with a bear. Luckily Zecora had given her some herbs to soothe the pai-

Wait a minute! Of course! Zecora always welcomed visitors, it had been such a long time since Rainbow had seen her, why not drop in to see how she was?

Rainbow slowly began to pick up speed flapping her wings in the direction of the Everfree forest. She rocketed across the quite town enjoying every moment of this, the wind in her mane, the adrenaline rush, and the pure joy she felt when flying.

Ever since the elements had been returned to the Tree of Harmony, the Everfree forest had been rather peaceful, and much safer. Of course, it was still dangerous to go in at night when one could easily get lost, but during the day, it wasn't as big a threat.

Rainbow Dash gently landed outside of the Everfree forest and trotted in making sure not to lose the faint path in which would lead her to the zebras hut. Zecora had laid this path not to long ago, but the overgrown forest just grew over the path meaning that a new one would have to be laid very soon.

Wild birds chirped and crowed above in the trees whilst small insects scurried around the ground searching for food to take home. Rainbow Dash enjoyed walking through the forest, especially on days like this. Not a care in the world, not a cloud in sight, and nothing was going to ruin that perfect serenity.

The hut stood in the middle of the forest with many decorative zebrican items placed around it. It was something that at first may not seem very welcoming, but once you had gotten used to them you where able to see the beauty in them.

The cyan mare knocked on the hut's wooden door 4 times and waited patiently for Zecora to greet her. The door opened around half a minute later, squeaking slightly as Zecora popped her head out.

"Good day Rainbow my dear, it is certainly a treat seeing you here!" Zecora greeted, in her usual rhyming manner, a warm smile upon her face.

"Hi Zecora! I thought I'd pay you a visit, you're not busy, are you?" Rainbow beamed.

"It is no trouble at all Miss Dash, come in and make yourself at home and I will prepare some tea in a flash." Zecora said, trotting into the kitchen with Rainbow Dash in tow. Rainbow sat down on one of the three chairs in the room, making herself comfortable.

As she sat in the chair, she looked around the large room at the peculiar potions on the shelves. There was a large variety of colours from light blue to bright pink and so on. There where many shelves covered in potion vials all across the room each as interesting as the next.

Hoof steps awoke Rainbow Dash from her trance as Zecora walked into the room holding a tray in her mouth. Steam rose from the cup as Zecora gently placed the tray on a small table in the centre of the room.

"So how have you been my rainbow maned friend, I trust you have been practising your tricks again?" Zecora said, blowing first to cool her tea, sipping from the cup.

"I've been awesome, as usual, there hasn't been much to do recently with everyone being so busy recently." Rainbow sighed, her head dropping slightly.

"Well you are always welcome in my hut, you are free to drop by whenever, I would like that very much!" Zecora smiled, placing her half empty cup of tea on the table. Rainbow smiled and downed the rest of her tea placing her now empty mug on the table, sitting opposite from zecoras.

"Thanks Zecora! It's gonna be dark soon, so I should probably start making my way home now." Rainbow said, looking outside where the sun now began to set.

Rainbow Dash turned around to leave the zebras hut when she tripped on a loose floor board falling on her face and causing one of the vials on the shelf above her to fall while the rest sat at the very edge of the shelf.

The potion vial fell on the mare smashing the thin glass and spilling the dark blue liquid over the cyan mare.

"Aeurghhh... that hurt..." Rainbow Dash lay mumbling on the floor, rubbing her aching nose. Zecora ran to the mares side and quickly pushed the vials further back onto the shelf to prevent further disaster.

"Rainbow dash my dear tell me, do you hear my voice loud and clear?"

"Ughh... I hear ya Zecora, I feel horrible..."

The mare rolled onto her side, letting out a yelp when she landed on the shards of glass. Zecora fetched a dustpan and brush, and quickly began to sweep up the glass.

"Z-Zecora... Zecora, I-I can't breath! I can't breath!"

"Rainbow Dash hang on, I'll fetch some help I assure you it will not take long!" As Zecora left her hut a flash behind her caught her sight and she could only gawk as the beams of light surrounded the cyan mare.

The mare rose into the air as she was enveloped in the light, and as they began to cease, there was something noticeably different about her.

Zecora stared at Rainbow Dash looking at where the cyan mares two hind legs used to be.