The Light of the Rainbow

by LightningStrike15

Rating: teen
Tags: Romance
Length: 941

What can change Lightning's depressing life? Or will end it?

Lightning Strike, has had a terrible past life, and he feels like there's nothing he can live for. Now he is broke, and his forced to move to Ponyville, but what can change his depression?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-06-09 03:40:02 UTC

Life is Sad

I painfully opened my eyes; all I could remember was being mugged by a couple of gangsters. As I absorbed my surroundings, I couldn't help but think how much the world would be better without me. I immediately remembered that I got kicked out of that stupid hotel. I cursed and kicked a pebble, how do people even live in this city? I thought as I went over to the train station and used the remaining amount of my bits to get the train ticket to Ponyville. Ok, I gotta admit that I didn't wanna go there, but I had no choice, and that was the cheapest. "Train to Ponyville! All aboard!" shouted the conductor. I followed the crowd into the train and sat in the back, which was empty. Unfortunately, a mare chose to sit down beside me. I tried to ignore her, but she started talking. "Well, hello there!" she said in a fancy tone.

"Hi"

"My name's Rarity! What's your’s, darling?"

"Name's Lightning." I said in a bored tone

She started talking about dresses and hats, which thankfully made me, fall asleep. I woke up with Rarity poking me "What?!" I asked in an annoyed tone

"We've arrived, silly!"

I stood up and trotted out of the train. The next thing I knew, I was tackled and was now on the soft grass. I looked up and saw a pink mare with really puffy hair, she also had this large grin on that crept me out.

"Ohmygosh, a stranger! MynameisPinkiePieandwelcometoPonyvilleandhaveIseenyoubefore?" At this point she was talking so fast, I couldn't understand her. She gasped and said something about a welcome party, and sprinted away. She left me there on the ground, confused about what happened. I brushed myself off and walked over to the rental office, it wasn't really full, but with a couple of ponies sitting around, or standing in line. I asked one of the workers if there was a cabin I could rent, but there wasn't any. "Excuse me?" came a raspy voice behind me. I turned and froze. Standing behind me was the flyer I had admired so much back home. Rainbow Dash, the fastest and best flier in Equestria. I snapped out of my thought and stuttered, "R-Rainbow Dash?"

"Yep! That's my name, you heard of me?"

"Of course I have! You were a big deal back where I used to live!" I exclaimed

"Really?!" She asked, full of excitement

I nodded

"Where did you live?"

"I'd rather not talk about it" I said and returned to my sad state

"Why?"

I sighed and showed her the scar on my wing. She widened her eyes and stared at me. I knew that she can tell it is a knife scar, so I nodded. “What happened?”

“Can we talk about this in private?” I asked

“Sure, as long as you tell me how it happened, miste-”

“Lightning” I finished for her

We walked to a secluded place and started talking. I told her the story of how I got mugged, and that I wanted to die. She gasped and asked why I wanted that to happen, so I told her. At the end of the story, I was at the verge of tears. I closed my eyes tightly and felt a tear go down my cheek. I felt a pair of hooves around me, which then I felt warm and knew this was what it’s like to be hugged. I opened my eyes and saw that she had a worried expression on her face. “Don’t worry, Dash, I won’t do it.” Her expression then relieved and she asked where I’m going to stay for the night. I said I’ll probably find a bench or something to sleep on. “No! You can stay with me!”

“Are you sure that won’t be a problem?”

“Of course not! Let’s go!” she said and flew into the direction of her house

I followed her into the cloud house, and of course, it looked amazing and was very large. “Pretty awesome, huh?” she said. I nodded in astonishment. All of a sudden, the lights came on and everypony from the town was inside, "SUPRISE!!!!" they all shouted and I was startled for a little bit, and then the party started. 5 mares came forward and introduced themselves: Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, as I had seen earlier, and of course, Rainbow Dash. The party went on for hours, until the last pony left.

"Alright, you should go take a shower, I left a towel in there for you." Rainbow said, cleaning up the mess

"How about you?"

"Nah, I already took one before the race this morning"

I nodded and walked into the bathroom. After around 15 minutes, I came out smelling like Rainbow because I used her shampoo. I trotted to the living room to see her making a sandwich.

"Hungry, Lightning?"

"No, I'm good, but thanks for the offer." I said

After she ate her sandwich, she said that it was pretty late, so I walked to the couch.

"What are you doing?" she asked

"Sleeping on the couch"

"No, you're sleeping with me"

My heart rate quickened after she said that. "A-Are you sure, Dash?"

"Of course! Now let's go before I have to pull you in here."

I chuckled nervously and walked into her bedroom. I was laying down right next to the edge when she said, "Come on, scooch closer, I don't bite" I moved a few inches closer to her and she wrapped her wings around me. My heart skipped a beat, and i eventually fell asleep.