Returning thoughts

Luna was dreaming of her time with Pinkie when she was suddenly awoken by her sister, Celestia. "It is your turn yet again sister." Celestia explained, before sighing wearily and slowly making her way towards the door. "What is wrong 'Tia?" Luna asked. "It's Pinkie," Celestia explained, "apparently she went abroad to learn how to bake better, but nopony has seen her all day and I spent the entire day flying across Equestria trying to help twilight find her." Luna gasped "Oh dear, perhaps I shall try to find her tonight." "I wish you luck dear sister." Celestia finished before leaving the room to go collapse into her own bed. Luna giggled inside of herself as she bounced her way to the balcony and with a huge leap took off into the night.

Luna knew that she would have to keep acting fast if she didn't want anypony to discover Pinkie, so she decided to take her next victim tonight. Luna thought through the rest of the elements of harmony. There was Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, and finally...Rainbow Dash! The second Luna remembered the rainbow maned pony she knew that was her next target. Luna deviated a little from her path and flew towards the clouds above Ponyville to find Rainbow Dash. Luna did a quick check over the clouds until she saw a house floating in the sky. The house looked so grand and superior to the houses all the other ponies were living in Luna knew it had to be the home of the arrogant and egotistical Rainbow Dash. Luna landed on a cloud near Rainbow dashes house and thought about how she should approach her victim. She knew if Rainbow awoke that she would never be able to catch her, so she would have to surprise her. Luna beat her wings and took off again and started using magic and her wing power to push Rainbows cloud house away from Ponyville. After about an hour of pushing Luna thought she was far enough away nopony would here her screams and she entered the house.

Rainbow Dash was sleeping soundly in her bed, posters of the Wonderbolts were hung up all over her room and she also had some trophies from competitions she had entered. Luna slowly crept through her room until she was standing over her bed looking at Rainbow Dashes sleeping face. Luna took out the meat cleaver she had used on Pinkie and raised it high above her head and aimed for Rainbow Dashes left wing. She brought it down in a swift arc and completely severed the wing from Rainbow with a sickening crunch, then the squirt of blood and Rainbows scream of pain as she sat upright and stared at her former wing. Rainbow looked back to Luna in surprise as she just sat there, not moving or saying a word, completely in shock of the fact that she would never be able to fly again. Luna knocked Rainbow dash back down on her bed and transformed into Nightmare Moon. "Keep quiet or I'll carve your tongue out of your mouth. Nightmare hissed as she dropped the cleaver behind her and pulled out the surgical knife.

Rainbow Dash instantly knew what was coming and would not give up without a fight. She brought back her hoof and tried the ram it into Nightmares face, only to be stopped by Nightmare swiftly bringing the knife up to intercept her jab causing Rainbow to slam her hoof into the knife, cracking the hoof and lodging the knife almost entirely into Rainbows leg. Rainbow howled in pain and brought up her hind legs and kicked Nightmare off of her sending her flying into the wall. Rainbow rolled onto her belly and tried to stand up, but with the knife in her hoof and one of her wings cut off there was no way she was going anywhere fast. Nightmare Moon slowly stood up and shook her head, trying to walk off Rainbows kick. Rainbow dash slowly dragged herself through her bedroom door and got to the stairs before she was hit from behind with a blunt object.

The room was fuzzy and unfocused as Rainbow Dash picked herself up. The blow had knocked her forward sending her tumbling down the stairs. Nightmare Moon was at the top of the stairs holding Rainbows severed wing, which she had just clubbed her over the head with. Rainbow Dash glared defiantly at Nightmare Moon, not saying a word as she started to slowly back up and Nightmare came inching closer and closer. Rainbow Dash knew she couldn't run away, she wouldn't be able to fly down, but perhaps she could yell loud enough for somepony to hear. Nightmare moon walked down the stares at a steady pace as Rainbow Dash dragged herself to her front door. Rainbow Dash was just nearing the front door as Nightmare got to the bottom of the stairs and started walking towards her. Opening the door took a second or two and Nightmare was right behind her as Rainbow Dash collapsed through the door and yelled as loud as she could. She looked up to find that she was nowhere near Ponyville.

Nightmare smiled gleefully as she watched all the hope drain out of Rainbow Dash as Nightmare bent down and pulled out a second surgical blade. "I told you not to make a sound." She laughed and pulled on Rainbows hair causing her to open her mouth to yell in pain. The second her mouth was open Nightmare jabbed the knife into it and stabbed and sliced it around until blood was pouring out of her mouth. Nightmare Moon then pulled the knife out and saw Rainbow dash spit out a large hunk of her tongue and other bits of her mouth, including some teeth. Nightmare moon laughed as she stepped on the back of Rainbow Dashes wing and pulled up, causing the bones to break and poke out through the skin, making Rainbow lose even more blood. Rainbows vision slowly faded as Nightmare Moon walked away, giving her a moment by herself. Rainbow Dash had never felt pain like this before, and knew she would die.

All of her hopes and dreams of joining the Wonderbolts, becoming famous, and being the best flyer in Equestria seemed to all go out at once. There were only regrets in Rainbows head as Nightmare walked back to her with the meat cleaver in hoof and brought it down on Rainbows neck. Nightmare Moon laughed as the blood pooled all over the cloud, turning it blood red and making it appear as if the cloud was raining blood. Nightmare moon kicked the cloud hard, so it disappeared and watched Rainbows corpse, head and all, tumble into the darkness below.