What Makes Us Stronger

by Velocyty Spectrym

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Rainbow Dash
Length: 1020

Rainbow has always coasted through on her skill, but what of the times requiring knowledge?

In this story, Rainbow Dash is walking home, same as any other day. What she doesn't realize is that she will end up being tested and weighed on virtues and knowledge. How, indeed, will she fair when she still has the most important things left to learn? And what if she was going about the answers the wrong way?

Published 2012-05-08 02:44:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-05-08 02:44:02 UTC

Chapter I

On day wrote in red and short of head
Do we start the tale of a Pegasus now
Paucity is sped as we go now in stead

She started in vow of not a final bow
Shattered clocks hold fate in but box
We ask then how not sweat stay a brow

Rainbow locks thick like raven flocks
Viridian amber maize amethyst so flow
On draconic ebon knocks hit the rocks

To her grows walks further in so rows
Twixt Heaven and Hell steps he in day
In one who knows death gives no blows

Now here do he say in dark tone stray
“To one who enters in now be prepared
In every way to my dark claw so stay”

For challenges she cared so she dared
“Give me the best shot from your cave
What is shared shant have you spared”

“To all but knave ponies seem a slave
And weigh with but this single shadow
Anubis is grave and not by this save”

“It bring to gallow ponies so shallow
It leaves wake of a foul gilded steed
No soul it endow and less it so show”

Rainbow lay in reed twixt stone bleed
And answer the riddle of his one bell
“It can indeed be only hoof of greed”

The dragon tell this now of his spell
“Turned once when thrice is so needed
In this ell find you must true quell”

“Ponies have leaded and not so feeded
But they feel bitter tongues of flame
Word be heeded because they conceded”

“Oppressors hooves tame and make lame
Those who stand upon razor edges here
In this name no house be in any fame”

Rainbow rise to leer but machine gear
And so she gave the word of her fates
“They fall on this spear in but fear”

The dragon stay gates she still sates
He tells of his ultimatum in this end
“This dissipates our true stalemates”

“You and others bend not to so offend
You must love patiently in the storms
The glues mend and the shield defend”

“But keep these norms for so it warms
Free your icy soul from this hardship
Earth and water forms as it performs”

Rainbow had slip off her very own lip
The words that make her free now true
“Magics strip away sin in friendship”

The dragon knew thrice this foe strew
The words he needed for games of foam
And flew Rainbow Everfree now through

These in a tome of friend answer roam
Prior read words can one life so keep
Past dark dome lies in friends a home

But so steep is a story which we reap
Beyond the shattered veins often rest
Monsters creep and shadows will sleep

She did test what she thought so best
And went away in the misty vernal sky
Never blest for her stopping at crest

Chimera did fly in airs of coarse rye
So appoint it a final question of all
Foals cast die if her wit is not spry

Enclosing ball beyond such murky call
Did wrap the pegasus so cocky in mind
Hear so the thrall to create her fall

The beast unkind belted as fang grind
“So hear me for I am last to be heard
Fate will bind if puzzle stay behind”

“This word operates everypony in herd
So long as you hold the crystal glass
Of this unheard now in you unoccured”

“Feed metal rain in mass to breed gas
For the hate of all is this coal anew
Iron chain and brass let you so pass”

“For wit of few say what this accrue”
Bold did the pegasus say her words so
“In our dark hours do all want power”

The world grow dark as bells toll low
And hear the words that tell you fate
“Cry doth crow as falsity turns snow”

The world sate in a darkened delegate
Rose turns blood and rivers run black
So mercy great salve us from our hate

Light come back as we see not a crack
In rock bindings Rainbow in her world
Does attack the walls of earthen rack

So now unfurled the pain great hurled
By frozen rains of her shadow haunted
On her swirled typhoon robe so curled

For all flaunted that had all daunted
The dreams we see in maelstrom bitter
Are so taunted for they stay unwanted

Her wings flitter as soul do embitter
Her in her flawed way so she now pray
To stop a splitter of worlds aglitter

Year could be day or the month be May
Matter it not for we are set to droll
She now may end the world she so fray

In the demonic hole she paid her toll
Never we learn without a drop of rain
“In whole we must master but control”

So end the rain and in extension pain
She lasted through this a fallen path
In Hell in terrain and a meadow grain

We all do feel the wrath of aftermath
And so Rainbow did feel wiser in this
In bloodbath maybe not but so we hath

Serpent can hiss and death so us kiss
Before we can even follow her own way
But one like this goes from our abyss

By this I do say that we are now gray
Age can take us but we never drink it
Parched ray can take a good life away

So she walks how fit and rides in wit
But never again must she in mind laze
For misfortune can hit what be acquit

Never Rainbow turn her gaze to a maze
That brought her column to crash down
Beyond a mirror haze the soul so raze

Prosperous one in town we so do crown
Never let the ways of old ever return
Prepare thy gown for Elysium do drown

Never let waters churn that will burn
These ropes that in you remain strong
Take what you earn and go off to learn

So we see righted this wrong all along
The ways we feel are not of goodness
In fire lay tong and forged be this song