Rain Blur

Rainbow Dash sat by the hay bale, massaging her temples with her hooves. All she wanted to do was to tell a few friends about her situation, but that now seemed far off in her current predicament.

Of course. I get it right, I look back at it, and then nearly split my head open. Congratulations, you have now hit a whole new level of stupid. I could have just stayed forward, avoided the fence post, and prevented this ringing in my ears.

She shook her head trying to clear the piercing sound from them. All that managed to do was intensify the headache. She lied down on her belly and groaned. All of that work and practice, just so she could nearly kill herself by crashing into a wood post. It sucked.

She assumed that Rarity completed the spell. Twilight wouldn't do the cloud-walking spell on those three rambunctious little fillies. They must have volunteered to let the spell be preformed on them.

Rainbow was worried on the trouble the were bound to get in. It's not everyday that they could try to get sky based cutie marks. The funny thing about it was that they had no way of pushing the cloud around. Rainbow could already predict that Applebloom and Sweetie Belle would try to persuade Scootaloo to push it, but it would have failed before they started.

Sure Scoots tries hard to fly, but she isn't quite doing it right yet.

Rainbow Dash rolled over onto her back to get a bit more comfortable. Instead, she an eye full of the Sun. Yep today was not a good day to be her.

She just simply lied on the ground, completely clueless on what to do next. It would be smart to go back to Sugar Cube Corner, but her body felt like Discord amped up Pinkie's party cannon and shot her across Saddle Arabia.

I really need to think things through.

It was such a good day for everypony, but Rainbow Dash seemed to be an exception. First she fell down the stairs when she woke up, crashed through Rarity's window, fell in Pinkie's ice water bath, nearly broke her skull by wrecking into a fence post, got a pail stuck on her head, and almost blinding herself by looking directly into the Sun by accident.

This can't possibly get any worse...

The mare tried to get herself on her hooves, and after a few times where her legs buckled underneath her, she was shaking on her hooves.

All she wanted to do was fly up to a cloud and take a nap. But that required using her wings, and that was NOT happening. She thought if she used her wings, they would certainly fall off.

"I'll just walk back to Ponyville, find Rarity at Sugar Cube Corner, and go up to my place and tell them everything."

She started slowly and steadily trotting toward the old, rusted gate that lead behind Applejack's orchard. She took a few steps, and her front left hoof plunged into an old rabbit hole. Instead of twisting her ankle, the pegasus flared her wings, but doing so put her off balance and she faceplanted into the ground.... again.

She lifted her head out of the dirt slowly with a scowl.

"Oh come on Murphy! Have you seriously not had enough yet?!"

Great. Now I'm sore as ever, and my face hurts.

She scrambled to her hooves once more. Pinkie and Rarity were probably waiting on her. One hoof in front of the other, she slowly walked to her destination. She kept an eye out for any more holes of logs attached to vines, or whatever else Murphy had in store for her.

The forest to the left of her was eerily quiet. That wasn't right. Most of the animals in there went to Fluttershy's cottage, and they have seen each of her friends there before. It was unusual for them to be so silent.

This made Rainbow speed up. Whatever made them be so quiet was something that she don't want to deal with. Not now, not ever. She already had enough crazy stuff happen to her today. She definitely need some freaky forest thing to chase her.

Dash approached the rusted gate. It was bent in several places and had a foul odour.

I think the animals have been doing a lot more that just walking by this gate.

She shoved herself against the old door. It wouldn't budge. This gate hadn't been used in so long, that soil was piled up on top of the lower bare that was running horizontally across the bottom. Most of it wasn't even visible, and some grass was starting to grow over it.

She sighed and started digging at the dirt. The dirt wasn't very hard, which made her wonder why it was so hard to push.

She cleared all the dirt from the gate to allow it to swing properly, but when she tried to push it, it didn't budge. Dash glanced at the end of it and saw that a log had been pushed on the last 8 inches of the door, keeping it from swinging open to let her pass.

"OH SCREW THIS!!!"

As much as she really didn't want to, she spread her wings and flew over the 6 foot fence. That took a lot less effort. Instead of wasting five minutes to try to figure out how to push it open, she could have just flapped her wings a few times and be on her way.

The animals were starting to get to there normally chatty selves. Whatever spooked them was gone now. Every now and then, one would scurry across the path ahead of her. They didn't seem to care that she was walking past.

Her steps became more steady, and she was a bit more comfortable walking. The top of town hall was now visible.

"Just as short walk from here and I will be there. Rarity will be there with Pinkie. She will do the spell for the both of them. I will tell them, swear them to secrecy, and this whole day will finally be OVER!"

The day being over. Going to bed. That sounded like heaven right now. She felt like a broken down mess. The sooner she got this over with, the sooner she could get in the shower and sleep till 12:00 P.M. tomorrow.

"Ugh, I stink. I really need that shower."

A shower. That seemed like a lifetime away. Why did she have to take a suggestion to heart? This could have been a great day if it wasn't for that. Oh well, can't change it now. Just keep walking. Then she would be a step closer to finishing this wretched day.

This almost over. All I need to do right now is walk.