Canterlot. The capital... Were leaders meet. Were armies seek. Were politics thrives and were ponies die, but all is the same, cause you can't run and hide...

Two weeks before the battle of Ponyville: Day 1 6:30pm

"NO! NO! NO!" Screamed Rainbow Dash as she continuously slammed her hoofs on the circular table in which herself and her friends had met to discus matters of grave importance, this matter however was one Rainbow Dash refused to accept.

"NO! NO! NO! I cant believe it. I wont believe. They're lying all of them. This can't be happing. This isn't happing!" She screeched towards her friends who had sat there in dead silence with patched red eyes which had once been conquered and occupied by tears of horror and disbelief.

"NO JUST. NO!" She cracked as her voice broke and as she suddenly started to pant heavily, accompanied by uncontrollable tears of loss anger and hatred. Again her friend Rarity who was to the left of her hugged her softly, trying to comfort the hurt and lost Pegasus, but it was no use. Rainbow shoved Rarity back as she stretched her wing and swiped the soggy pieces of paper which had once been reports of an attack to the ground. Her friends, worried that she might strike out onto one of them, rapidly thought of ways to clam her down, but there was no need as the rainbow coloured Pegasus then sat completely still in eyrie silence, with no flinching. No movement. As if the emotions of the reports had drained her soul.

Rainbow Dash continued to sit still a hollow shadow of her former self, her eyes looked at the ground in dismay as she continued to weep softly as Fluttershy was, she then closed her eyes and whispered "why there, anywhere but there." She let out one final sigh and said nothing more. Her friends looked around, trying to think of a way to comfort the situation, but it was no use, the facts were and were confirmed they had hit Cloudsdale.

Cloudsdale... The city of clouds and Rainbows. The main capital of the pegasi and Equestria's weather and only accessible by pegasi. Or so we thought... The city is completely made of clouds, so its marvellous and soft like structures should be an easy target. The pegasi are fierce warriors do not underestimate there flight. Speed or agility and never underestimate there honour this will be a fight or a flight to the death.

Hours passed, nopony wanted to break the stability of the situation, Twilight who was opposite pinkie pie who was to the left of Rainbow Dash was Bering most of the tension, the tension filled the air as if it was a poisonous gas it was unbearable. To learn that the former home of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, being suddenly invaded by a former close friend of Rainbow Dash was heart breaking. Nopony had words for the emotions in the council room, especially for the two pegasi.

Another hour passed, nopony had still said anything Rainbow Dash had stopped crying, not because she was better, but because she had ran out of tears and still stayed in her tense potion. Fluttershy on the over hoof, had an unlimited amount of tears and continued to sob out loud into Applejacks chest. Twilight had to do something. Anything. To try and make things better, even though Rainbow Dash was on the brink of rage or sanity, she had to act. Finally with extreme courage and choosing her words very carefully she spoke up.

"Rainbow I'm-" Twilight paused. Wondering if her long time and close friend would look at her, to try to get some sort of response out of the Pegasus, she did not. Worried Twilight gulped and slowly continued.

"I'm sorry Rainbow Dash but its true, they hit Cloudsdale, I could only ima-" Twilight's voice cut off, she tried to speak but she couldn't, the situation was to tragic. She could never imaging the feelings of what Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy could be going through. She tried again to finish her sentence, but her mouth wouldn't produce words. Twilight started to shake, Pinkie Pie who had noticed Twilight's sudden cut off in her speech, knew how serious the situation was. Quickly. She took a deep breath started to speak in Twilight's place.

"They will hold Dashie, all of the guards and even the Wonderbolts have been sent there, they will hold those evil griffons off right. right?" Pinkie cut off, realizing what she had just said.

"There just silly griffons, the pegasi will hold right?" She thought to herself.

"I'm afraid not pinkie" Rarity chipped in bluntly, as if she had just scanned the pink ponies current thought. Rarity continued. "It did not look like a simple attack darling, to me it looked like a-" Rarity quivered, reminding herself that Rainbow Dash was right in the middle of there conversation.

"Dare I say it looked like an-" "Invasion." Rainbow finished, Rarity's eyes widened in horror as Rainbow Dash herself would even suggest such a thing, even more so about the place she grew up in.

Rainbow groaned in a tired. Hurt and depressed voice. Still scarred by the news, she looked around to see most of her friends scared but relived that she was back and able to speak about the report, without her being in a uncontrollable rage and misery state. Out of all of them, Twilight was the most relived, taking a long relaxing sigh as she knew the eyrie silence that Rainbow Dash had amplified was gone. "for now at least." She thought to herself.

"Its Gilda!" Rainbow Growled. "She wants to send a strong message to all ponies that the griffons rule the sky, not us pegasi!" She paused thinking back to the report. "And that's why she attacked Clou-!" Rainbow closed her eyes as tightly as she could, her friends prayed that she would not go back to her tense angered state.

To there relief she calmed down and accepted the truth of what had happened, finally whispered "she attacked Cloudsdale" Rarity who was the only one close enough to hear the whisper started to tear up. "How could they do such a barbaric thing!" She thought in anger. Rarity then rose up and slammed her own hoof on the table, which coming for Rarity was very un lady like and very surprising, she then let out a shout that nopony expected.

"THOSE BEASTS! THOSE FLYING BEASTS! WE SHALL MAKE THEM PAY! MAKE THEM RUE THE DAY! THE DAY THAT! That! That..."

Rarity's voice slowly lowered as she looked around, her friends filled with surprised horror and shock. Rarity who had just noticed herself, apologised for the display and sat back down. "I'm. I'm just so stressed" She moaned. "This war has had a huge impact on all of us." Her friends agreed and slowly nodded, Rarity then slowly turned towards back to Rainbow Dash. "Especially on you Rainbow Dash." She then turned towards Fluttershy who had stopped crying. "And you Fluttershy we are all hear for you." Twilight and Applejack both nodded simultaneously, Fluttershy smiled and hugged Twilight and Applejack who were both to the left and right of her.

The tension from the room was slowly changing but not for long, Rainbow Dash spoke up continuing the situation in Cloudsdale, to her and her friends that was the biggest priority. Concern. Fear and loss. Thinking back on why Gilda would have chosen Cloudsdale as a target. Rainbow said. "She is also repaying me for past favours of mine." She smirked as she started to remember the time when she had abandoned Gilda for her friends at pinkie pies party. She laughed sinisterly at the thought her friend, worrying that she might snap there and then, she stopped thinking about Gilda and tried to think of something else. Twilight wore a worried concerned look remembering the past conversation, but thankfully the satanic smile was now gone, replaced with horror as Rainbow dash reminded herself about the situation in Ponyville.

"How's Ponyville."

Rainbow said as calmly as she could, but her friends could hear the stress in her voice.

"Well how is it!"

Razing her voice, demanding an answer from Twilight.

"its Holding." Twilight responded as calmly as she could, reassuring Rainbow Dash that nothing was going to go wrong. "It hasn't been attacked in weeks."

Applejack who had been unusually quiet remand scarred by the thought as well as Fluttershy who had been quietly weeping in Applejacks chest in the past conversation. Twilight felt sorry for Rainbow Dash, the stress of Cloudsdale had taken its toll on her she was more paranoid than Pinkie and Fluttershy and rightly so. Twilight was always horrified at knowing that there was a problem that she and her friends couldn't fix, Cloudsdale was no exception. She turned to Rainbow Dash who was still thinking about all of the lives lost at Cloudsdale and how she couldn't do anything to stop it. That one thought made her sob loudly once more, her friends watching as they saw one of there best friends break in front of them.

"Ill find a way." Twilight said to Rainbow, her own tears swelling in her eyes. "We all will." The rest of her friends nodded but they had forgotten that this was a war, a war in which that there was nothing they could do until now.

A royal guard with unusually large amount of armoured plating, opened the door to the council room and addressed the ponies sitting in front of him and politely bowed. The main six nodded in polite respect as the royal guard rose up and spoke. "Princess Celestia would like to see you outside immediately." The royal guard said in a royal Canterlot fashion. The main six nodded again and instantly got up and trotted towards the door where the princess was waiting for them. The rain covered the princesses face and her voice. "We found it." She sighed in relief, the rain covering the object she was holding. "We found it."

Author's Note

WOW
This was hard. As I said I'm not that good at writing or typing (for that matter) fanfics in general, this is my first one so again please go easy.

But as always comments will be much appreciated.
Thank you for reading and have a good day everypony.