A Harmless Plagueby DiamondTheHedgehog556ChaptersThe Beginning of The EndA Daily RouteenBeauty of the Rainbow Part 1Beauty of the Rainbow Part 2A ColtnappingThe Unfinished ChapterThe Beginning of The EndIdea, Fanfiction Name, and Partial Writing by: My friend Waffles on Steam. Partial Writing and OC by: Dominick Boehler (A.K.A. Me) It all started before I was born, a virus infected a young earth pony. It caused no symptoms other than the pony’s eyes turning pure white. When they tried to cure it, the disease spread to the Doctor and Nurse who were trying to cure the disease. They were then quarantined. It worked for almost a week before another young earth pony broke into the quarantine. The coltfriend of the nurse was the pony. He caught it too, but had a delayed reaction and he didn’t get the eyes for another day or so. He got close to a unicorn, causing the disease to spread even further. This time, symptoms, other than the white eyes, showed. When this unicorn tried to cast magic, it went out of control. This caused 3 deaths and 4 injuries. Unfortunately, the disease spread throughout all of Ponyville. The town was put into quarantine itself and is protected by guards wearing full body armor, as not to be infected themselves. When it came to the infected, earth ponies were earth ponies, unicorns were forbidden to use magic, and pegasi couldn’t fly any higher than two stories. Nowadays, the infection is causing things to get hectic. I thought things couldn’t get any worse… oh I wish I was right. The bell rings as my opponent falls to the floor. He’s carried out by two medical ponies and I walk out on my side… Hi, my name’s Hex. If you must know, I’m a brown stallion Pegasus with a slick brown and yellow mane, a fluffy brown and yellow tail, and no cutie mark. I’m what’s known as a “Pit Fighter.” Even before the infection spread, we fought illegally underground. In fact, funny story, that’s how my parents met. Anyways, I’ve been fighting here since I was a foal and have lost more than I’ve won, but am quickly rising. I look at my mentor and friend, Rainbow Dash, as she congratulates me on my fight. “Thanks Rainbow.” I grip my head and nearly bump into a wall… Rainbow’s been my friend since foalhood but only became my mentor recently. She’s the reason I’m rising. After all, what’s somepony without their teacher? “You need a doctor?” She asks as I lay back in a chair. “Yes please.” I say, slightly laughing. I’m not sure why I laughed; I just sort of did… Another pony comes by with a bag of bits. He plops down the bag in front of me and says, “A crowed favorite this one is becoming.” I give Rainbow her half and we walk out and head to the nearest medical station… As I’ve said, pit fighting is illegal so when we go above ground, we always have to be careful about who we can trust. One wrong move, and it’s over, not only for me, but for everyone who fights and watches said fights. As we make it there, two guards stop us. One pulls Rainbow away and talks to her. Dammit, I say in my head. Rainbow’s better at lying than me. I may be strong, but I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. “Hello there. How did you get so injured?” I look around, hoping the perfect lie will be written somewhere, before I say, “I was flying and my left wing decided it wasn’t gonna be a wing anymore. I fell on my face pretty hard.” I hoped he would’ve bought it… I hate being wrong. “Really? Well, records show your left wing never worked since you were a foal. Even still, cuts and bruises like that can only be caused by a hoof.” Fuck, I think. I’m screwed. For once, being wrong was a good thing. “I’m gonna have to report you… unless a little cha-ching can make me forget.” I sigh in relief as I give him half my bits. “All for me? You shouldn’t have.” He steps out of the way as I walk in. Another guard says, “Enjoy your stay, sweet stuff.” I look and Rainbow is walking in. A guard slaps her flank and she growls. “Damn perverts.” I say as Rainbow walks beside me. “That’s only the tip of the iceberg.” She says. “I heard they have mares on display for free use.” “Well they can go to hell.” “Come on, let’s go.” She brings me to a doctor who helps me onto a table. She looks at me with her white eyes. “Well, well, well,” She says. “Been fighting, have we?” “That obvious?” I ask. “Don’t worry, I won’t report you. I’m a doctor, after all, not a guard.” She looks over me. “Well, you should be fine just as long as you give yourself some rest.” I thank her, give her the rest of my bits, and walk out. “Well, I gotta go.” Rainbow says. “Same here, my turn to cook tonight.” I say. I live with my parent as I usually spend most my bits on hospital visits. I normally have some left over, but the guard took any hope of my having that. “Heh, not many families left.” She starts flying. “Anyways, see ya.” “See ya.” I reply. I look at the guards and whisper, “And may you perverts go to hell.” “What was that?” One of them asked. I make sure Rainbow’s out of earshot before I say, “I’m just saying, you gotta stop hitting on my friend.” “Why should I?” He asks, getting a devious grin. “Maybe I’ll marry her.” “In your dreams.” I say as I trot off. I normally don’t get that defensive, not even with my friends. However, if you couldn’t tell already, I’ve developed a sort of crush on Rainbow. She doesn’t seem to love me back, but I still think of her all the time. The rest of the day feels like a blur, before I know it, I’ve gone home, made dinner, ate said dinner, and gone to bed. Rainbow and I usually celebrate after landslide victories like the one today, and I couldn’t wait to see what she had in store tomorrow. A Daily RouteenI woke up the next morning to my window open. I turned around and saw Rainbow lying on the floor. “Rainbow, again?” “Shhh.” She grabs her head. I slowly walked out as Rainbow climbed into my bed. Beautiful, I thought. Just beautiful. I walk downstairs and outside as I look towards Canterlot, my home town. “You look amazing as always.” I say in a low voice. I start flapping my wings. I hover for a few seconds before falling flat on my face. I knew it, I thought. I walked back inside and made myself breakfast as well as making some extra for Rainbow. My parents had gone to work already. I was half-way through when Rainbow walked downstairs into the kitchen. “Any for me?” She asks. “I left it on the counter, enjoy.” She starts eating. I finish and put my plate in the sink. “So Rainbow, what’s today’s excuse?” This isn’t the only time that Rainbow snuck into my house. She’s done it nine or ten times, not counting today. “The same, I was hammered and wouldn’t have made it to my house.” I wanted to say, “I thought you went to your house after the fight.” But I instead said, “You couldn’t have at least given me a text before then?” “I didn’t know I was coming to your house.” “What about when you did know?” “It passed my mind. Besides, I didn’t break anything. What’s the problem?” I calm myself down and say, “Sorry Rainbow, this infection is just getting to me.” “It’s getting to everyone. Not even the nobles are having a good time.” “The Nobles” are what we call the snobs of Canterlot. They think they’re all that simply because they aren’t infected. Even I hate them, and I lived with them at one point. “Well, you better go Rainbow. I don’t want my parents getting the wrong idea.” Their work hours are from 5-8 A.M., it was 7:33. “Oh, that we’re dating? I see.” She said that in a teasing way. I blush and say, “That’s not what I meant.” She puts her hoof to my mouth and, again in a teasing manner, says, “Oh, just friends with benefits. I get ya, I get ya.” She winks. I blush even more and tell her to go. She kisses me on the cheek and walks out. It was clear to me that she was just teasing and didn’t mean it, but I don’t like being found either way. A couple hours later, I’m lying down in my room again when Rainbow flies in. She’s wearing some strange outfit; in fact I can’t even describe it. “So, ready for the party?” She asks. “Yeah.” I reply. I climb on her back and we start flying. We go to a wooden building with flashing lights and music coming from inside. When we go in, ponies are dancing, either drunk, high, and I think one of them was both. Rainbow hands me a pill and says, “Take it.” She takes another pill and swallows it. A moment later, her pupils dilate and she walks off. I take the pill she gave me. I stay conscious for a moment before everything goes to black. However, according to Rainbow, this happened. A Pegasus mare comes up to me and says, “Hey big boy, wanna dance?” She had a cream coat and red mane. Despite her resemblance to Apple Bloom, she has no correlation to the apple family. I turn to her and say, “Yes.” We start dancing and she says, “I saw your fight last night.” “It was harder than it looked.” “So are a lot of things.” She says, teasingly. I smile and she starts kissing my neck. After a while, she asks, “Your place or mine?” “Either one is fine with me.” “Let’s go to yours.” She leads me out of the building. The next time Rainbow saw me, the mare jumped out my window and went home while I was lying in my bed fast asleep. I woke up the next day to a voice say, “I had fun last night.” I couldn’t remember what happened the previous night, just that fun was, indeed, what I had. “Me too.” I say looking at the voice. To my horror, I saw Rainbow smiling up at me. I nearly jumped through the ceiling when I saw her. “Wait, so you… and I… did we…?” She giggles and says, “Nope, but I knew it’d funny if you thought we did.” I sighed in relief as I climbed out of bed. Unfortunately, my body was as sore as can be and I fell back. She helps me back into my bed and asks, “You alright?” I nod. “I may not be out of bed for a couple hours, but I’ll be fine.” She walks out. A couple hours later, I get up and hear giggling from outside my window. I look out and my face collides with that of another pony. “Hiya!” She says. “Ow.” I say. I look up to see an earth pony hanging by balloons. She was pink with a fluffy pink mane and balloons as her cutie mark. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, ooh, nice room, I had a nice room…” She kept talking and talking and would never shut up. I put my hoof in her mouth and say, “Calm down Pinkie Pie.” I take my hoof out of her mouth and she smacks her lips. “Mm, illegal substances. I like that.” Could she taste the pill? I thought. “Anyways, what do you want?” “I want you to join me. I want to do something about this.” She points towards her white eyes. “You’re going to find a cure? Pinkie, scientist ponies have…” “No, no, no, no, no. I’m going to spread the disease!” I was horrified. “Pinkie…” “Even if you don’t want to join us, we need you. If you don’t, ponies will die from the fights.” I sigh and say, “Okay.” She cheers and says, “Okay, meet me at the club tonight at 8, don’t be late.” She flies away. I decide to go out and meet Rainbow. Maybe she can help with this. I say in my head. Beauty of the Rainbow Part 1I head out to see Rainbow flying around in the park. She had to be flying at least 50 MPH, but, again, I’m not very smart, but she manages to pull sharp turns at the fence. For a second I thought, Why are the Wonderbolts not on their knees begging her to join. Then I remembered the disease. I hated the disease even more than before, and I didn’t think that was possible. “Hey Hex.” She says, sitting down on a park bench, sipping from a water bottle. “Hey Rainbow.” I say sitting down next to her. “Want a sip?” She asks, offering the water bottle. “No thanks.” “Suit yourself.” She continues drinking. I’m staring at her beauty. She’s almost always alert so I almost never get the chance to stare, but she was relaxed. Great Celestia, she was beautiful. That rainbow mane, that wonderful face, looking at her made you think she was perfect, but you quickly learn otherwise when you meet her. I don’t really like how competitive she is. Being competitive is fine, but she overdoes it. I also didn’t like her tomboyish attitude. It’s kind of a turn off, but I don’t let that get in the way. Besides, I still wouldn’t change anything about her. “Hello?” She says waving her hoof. I say nothing but instead blush and look away. How long was I staring? I ask myself. This isn’t the first time she’s caught me, but before I lucked out and found a reason as to why I was staring. This time, I said, “Sorry, I was just trying to read what it said on your head band. The text is really small.” She looks at it and says, “Oh, I’m still not sure what it says myself.” Rainbow is smart, in fact, I’m not sure how she doesn’t know about my crush yet, but luckily she doesn’t seem to realize the real reason for staring. “So, my next fight.” I say. “When is it and against who?” “Because of the constant delays with your fight, tomorrow is the day of the fight. When it comes to who you’re fighting, I’m still blank on that.” I nod. I decided that telling her sooner than later was a good idea when I say, “Hey, could you come to the club tonight?” She looks at me, confused by the out of nowhere question, and asks, “Why?” “Well, some mare, I think her name was Pinkie Pie, was planning something at the club.” “Pinkie!” She says ecstatically. “Damn, she knows how to throw a party. Whatever she has planned, I’m coming. When is it?” “At 8.” “Okay, I’m coming.” She then flew away. I then started to regret my decision. Rainbow was the Element of Loyalty; she wouldn’t turn her back on any friends who might be in Canterlot. Even if she didn’t have friends, it was obvious she was loyal to the princess more than anypony. It was likely she’d try to fight back against the other ponies and, in hindsight, me. I had a small vision of Rainbow angrily throwing constant punches at me. “You had this coming, Hex. You should have joined us when you had the chance!” She’d say. Suddenly, I didn’t see her as Celestia’s sister, I saw her as this ugly beast waiting to be let out of her cage… I didn’t like it. “Dammit!” I say. I stomp my hoof to the ground. It was too late. I said to myself. Even if I try to stop her, she might come out of sheer curiosity. What did I hate more, the thought of Rainbow trying to kill me or myself for even thinking of this? It was a question I couldn’t find the answer to. I got ready to go when I heard a knock at the door. I opened the door and Rainbow was standing there. “Ready to go?” She asked, looking excited. I decided to not even try to stop her, as she’d come anyways, so I said, “Yeah.” We walked out.’ We were walking for quite a bit, Rainbow insisted we walk instead of fly for some reason, so I ask, “So, Rainbow, about those things you said yesterday…” They felt like they were just teases, but I wanted to be sure. “Did… did you mean it?” She looked confused and said, “Why, do you like me?” “Uh, no…” I blush and quickly look away. “I was just curious.” “Oh.” She seemed a bit disappointed. I just assumed she was disappointed that the teases didn’t go the way she planned. It was an awkward silence the rest of the way there. Luckily, I still had Rainbow as a friend for a bit longer as when we arrive, the bouncer said, “If you’re looking for Pinkie, she had to reschedule. Sorry.” I give a small sigh in relief and, without another word, me and Rainbow turned away. “Such a disappointment.” She says after a moment or two of walking. “Eh, I’ll ask Pinkie when and why she rescheduled.” I say. “So, Hex… um.” She stops moving. “What is it Rainbow?” I ask. I was kind of nervous since she never talks nervously. “Um… well I…” She blushed. I knew what she wanted to say, but I decided to play dumb and say, “What? You can tell me.” “Well, I… kind of…” Her voice lowers to a mumble. “Sorry, what?” “Well, I kind of like…” She mumbles again. “You kind of lichen?” I walk over to her to hear her better. “I kind of like y…” More mumbling. “I still didn’t hear…” I’m interrupted by her kissing me. Her face was as red as the Big Mac’s coat. I honestly was shocked when she did that. I wanted to kiss her back, but something stopped me. She breaks the kiss and says, “I’m sorry.” She then runs off. “Rainbow, wait!” Too late, she’s already gone. “I love you too.” I whisper. I should have been happy, but instead I feel like my heart was stabbed. I had even more guilt about me going with Pinkie’s plan. What would she think of me now? I ask myself. How would she react? I knew the answer, I just didn’t want to answer myself. I lied to Hex and now he was gonna suffer for it. If only I were wrong, just this once. Beauty of the Rainbow Part 2It’s been over a week and I haven’t seen Rainbow since she kissed me. She didn’t reply to any of my texts either. I was starting to get worried. She never does this, even when she was afraid of something, she wouldn’t go into hiding. I’ve checked everywhere, her house, our usual hangout, I even asked a few ponies around town. They all say the same thing, “I haven’t seen her.” I eventually give up. If Rainbow wants to be alone, I’ll let her. Shortly after I give up, I find Pinkie. “Hiya Hex!” She yells. I was a bit confused about how she knew name, since I never gave it to her, but I didn’t question it. “Hey Pinkie. So, why and when did you reschedule the meeting?” “So that you could fight, silly. I didn’t want you stressed. And I didn’t get a spot for a few months so… march 10, 8:00 P.M.” “Alright, thanks Pinkie.” I get up. “No problemo!” She says smiling. On my way home, I see a cloud moving strangely. I was confused as usually when pegasi are moving the clouds, they float just behind the cloud. I walk backwards a little bit to see a rainbow tail flop over the edge of the cloud. “Rainbow?” “Oh shit!” She quickly dashes off. “Rainbow, wait!” It was in vain. Well, I say in my head. At least I know she’s afraid of me… why does that not make me feel any better? It took me a minute, but then I realized… She’s embarrassed! I wasn’t sure if I said that out loud so I checked around to make sure. She’s embarrassed about kissing me… again, why doesn’t that make me feel better? It’s another week or so before I see her again. This time, she’s trying to be sneaky. I was getting a little angry about her hiding, so I decided to go in head first. I tackle her and hold her down. “Hey, let me go!” She yells trying to wiggle free. “Not until you tell me what’s going on!” I yell. Moron! I say in my head. You already know why! Then again, what could I have yelled? She seemed to struggle even more before she says, “I didn’t want to do this.” Before I can ask what she’s talking about, she answers by hitting me… hard. I fall back, gripping my now bleeding jaw. Three teeth were sitting in front of me, but pain told me there was at least one more out of sight. “H-Hex!” She sounded like she was gonna cry. I wasn’t sure though since she flew off almost immediately. I stand up and look at the rainbow trail she left behind as it slowly disappears. “Rain…” I nearly screamed at the top of my lungs as my jaw shot pain at me like a gun. I couldn’t remember what happened afterwards; I just appeared in the hospital bed. My jaw didn’t hurt as much, but it still hurt. I guess, on a scale from “I love everything” to “Oh my Celestia, somepony please shoot me”, I was at “I really need an aspirin.” The doctor who was helping looked at me and said, “Whatever caused your jaw to do what it did, make sure it doesn’t happen. You might have to stay another few days.” Another? I ask myself. Did I go into a coma or something? Someone else comes in and says, “The patient has a visitor, the pony that brought him here.” “Let her in, let her in.” The doctor says. I look at the door as Rainbow walks in. “Hey.” She says. She gives the doctor a “Privacy Please” look. He walks out and shuts the door, leaving us alone. “Sorry about your jaw.” “It’s alright.” I say the best I can. It doesn’t come out all that great since I had a lisp. “No, it’s not.” She looks like she’s been convicted of murder. “I injured my friend.” “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” I say bluntly. Dammit! Why did I say that?! I say in my head. There’s a silence before she says, “I was embarrassed.” She says. I was confused and she must have noticed because she added, “About me kissing you. You asked before I hit you and… that’s it.” “Oh… I figured that much out on my own.” She says nothing. She seemed to be having a hard time looking at me. “You don’t need to be embarrassed.” I say. She looks at me confused. “What… what do you mean?” She asks. “Come closer.” She leans her head in. “Closer.” She leans in even closer. I kiss her. She almost immediately breaks the kiss. “Wait… so you…?” I nod. She smiles and hugs me. “Why didn’t you tell me before?” “I was scared you didn’t like me.” “Me too. Heh, this is something new.” “What do you mean?” “Well, two things actually. First off, I’m never afraid of anything so that’s something new. Secondly, romances don’t usually happen this fast... it’s kind of like a story book.” “Heh, yeah, I guess you’re right.” I start stroking her beautiful mane. She jumps but nuzzles my hoof like a cat. I never thought a mullet could look good, but Rainbow shows it off in her own way… her own way that makes her the damn most beautiful mare in Equestria… I don’t think I can stretch that anymore. “So, when I get out of here, how about we head to a hill between Ponyville and the fence? I go there all the time and it’s an amazing view.” “Sure.” She kisses me. I kiss her back. It hurt to do so, but I didn’t care… I’ve felt worse. She breaks the kiss and walks out. “Sorry to leave so soon, but I desperately need to go to the store. I’ll be back tomorrow though, don’t worry.” “I won’t. See you later, Rainbow.” “See ya.” Little did I know, that was the last time I was gonna see Rainbow for a long time. A ColtnappingI wake up to the sound of rustling coming from just outside the door. Assuming it’s the Doctor, I say, “Brass Key.” I know that much since that’s what he’s holding whenever he walks in. However, a voice says, “Quiet you!” as the doorknob starts shaking violently. That’s not his voice. I say in my mind. I hear other hoofsteps as I hear a female voice say, “Come on, we don’t need him. There are plenty of others.” Her voice sounded familiar but I couldn’t place it. “He’s the best one that’s compatible and STILL ALIVE!” The first voice says. Still alive? I ask myself. What does he mean by that? The door slammed open and two ponies came in. A gray earth pony with a spikey black mane, small spikey black tail, a locked door for a cutiemark, and he was wearing black suit and had an ear piece. Beside him was a blue mare unicorn with a fluffy blue and orange mane and tail. She had a book for her cutiemark. Like her voice, she looked very familiar, but I couldn’t place it. “Sorry Hex.” She says as the agent looking pony points his gun at me. Without warning, he knocks me out with a single hit. I wake up to the sound of a gunshot. I open my eyes and I’m in a confined, black room with nothing but a small light hanging from the ceiling. I’m tied to a table. I see the two ponies from before. The blue mare has a worried look on her face and the agent pony is holding a gun towards the ceiling. “Good, you’re awake.” He puts the gun away. I look at the ponies and ask, “Where am I?” I’m not usually so afraid. Then again, I’ve never been coltnapped before. The mare says, “I’m sorry, but you’re our newest test subject.” “Test subject? For what?” The agent says, “For the disease. Only a few ponies are compatible with the serums we’re gonna be using. You happen to be one of them.” The mare says, “Sorry again, Hex.” Almost immediately, I yell, “Alright, who are you and why are you so familiar?” She cocks her head sideways and says, “You… don’t remember me?” “You look familiar.” “My name is Pray Tell.” It took me a minute, but then I remembered… Many years ago, before I’ve met Rainbow and before the quarantine broke, there was Pray Tell, or just Pray. She had almost become a romantic interest for me, but it seemed to me that, while we did love each other, we never got further than holding hooves. Things were going great, to my 7 year old mind that is, when she came to me and broke my heart. “I’m sorry, but my parents have found work far away from here. We’re going to be living in a lab in Canterlot.” I could do nothing but stare with my eyes mouth wide open. She was like life to me. We had our final goodbyes staring out at a pond not far from Ponyville. For the first time, we kissed. It felt amazing, yet terrible at the same time. I thought I never would’ve seen her again. I looked at her and said, “P…Pray?” She nods. The agent pulls out a syringe with a green liquid inside. “Now be still, this will hurt and it may kill you.” He says. I scream and start jerking around. “You’re crazy! You’re fucking crazy!” I yell as I feel the bars holding me down start to loosen. “He’s breaking free!!!” He yells. I wanted to say, “No shit Sherclop Pones.” But I just keep screaming. All I could really do. I finally felt the bars break and I jump off. I look around for the nearest door and run out. I can’t even remember what happened next, all I know is that I was outside and running into the Everfree forest… and I kept running. I finally tire myself out and fall to the ground next to a tall tree. I lean against it and look around at the dark forest. I wished I had done something more logical, like looking to see if Ponyville was anywhere around. But it was too late for that. I put my hoof against the tree to pull myself up. As I do, I notice bumps. Not usual tree bumps, but it was as if a pony carved something into the tree. I look at it and written in the tree was, “Twilight Area. Do not enter.” I said, “What the hell is a Twilight?” before I felt a pain on the back of my neck and I fell unconscious. The last things I see are 4 purple hooves. I wake up to the warmth of a fire, a hot steamy smell of boiling water, and a couple hoofsteps around me. I open my eyes to see a purple Alicorn with the white eyes of all the infected. She was walking around, mumbling to herself. “Hello.” I say. She jumps at me with her horn pointed right at me. “What are you gonna do with that? The infection changes the magic. Killing me might kill you or leave you to die with your supplies gone.” She shoots a beam at a tree. The magic was perfect and controlled. “Nevermind then.” “Who are you and who sent you?!” She yells. “Geez, woman. No need to yell. I’m Hex and I came here when escaping that lab… somewhere.” I say. “No one sent me.” “Good. If they want me, they got a fight coming.” She gets off me and starts walking around, mumbling to herself. There’s another voice. “Twilight! Hey Twilight, how’s the new guy?!” It yells. The purple Alicorn, who I assume is Twilight, yells, “He’s awake Note!” I see a stallion Pegasus walks in from the trees. He’s pure white with a fluffy blue mane and short tail, a lightbulb for a cutiemark, and he had saddle bags filled with what I assume are supplies. “Um, hello.” I say. The stallion says, “I’m Note.” “I’m Hex.” I say. The Unfinished ChapterAuthor's Note I know this story was cancelled, but I found this chapter sitting in my folders and decided to upload it. So behold, the chapter that will never be finished. Enjoy. The Unfinished Chapter It’s been quite a few days since I met Twilight and Note. Yet, I still know next to nothing about them. We heard search ponies but Twilight was too afraid that they were from the lab and not from Ponyville. It was mostly easy when they appeared, but things got harder when I heard the voice of Rainbow. I wanted to scream out her name and tell her where I was, but Twilight’s magic was so strong, she might as well have put duct tape on my mouth. It was even harder when I heard my parents. I could only wonder how they felt, that they’re only son disappeared from a hospital, and Celestia knows that they’re anywhere near me. I wanted to go home, but Twilight said it wasn’t worth the risk. I would argue, but with her magic still in perfect use, I figured it wasn’t the best idea. Then I finally broke. “Hex, Where are you?!” Rainbow’s voice rang out. I was biting the tip of my hoof. I started to move but Twilight shook her head. I stared to the side and saw Rainbow’s… well, rainbow mane through the tree.
The Beginning of The EndIdea, Fanfiction Name, and Partial Writing by: My friend Waffles on Steam. Partial Writing and OC by: Dominick Boehler (A.K.A. Me) It all started before I was born, a virus infected a young earth pony. It caused no symptoms other than the pony’s eyes turning pure white. When they tried to cure it, the disease spread to the Doctor and Nurse who were trying to cure the disease. They were then quarantined. It worked for almost a week before another young earth pony broke into the quarantine. The coltfriend of the nurse was the pony. He caught it too, but had a delayed reaction and he didn’t get the eyes for another day or so. He got close to a unicorn, causing the disease to spread even further. This time, symptoms, other than the white eyes, showed. When this unicorn tried to cast magic, it went out of control. This caused 3 deaths and 4 injuries. Unfortunately, the disease spread throughout all of Ponyville. The town was put into quarantine itself and is protected by guards wearing full body armor, as not to be infected themselves. When it came to the infected, earth ponies were earth ponies, unicorns were forbidden to use magic, and pegasi couldn’t fly any higher than two stories. Nowadays, the infection is causing things to get hectic. I thought things couldn’t get any worse… oh I wish I was right. The bell rings as my opponent falls to the floor. He’s carried out by two medical ponies and I walk out on my side… Hi, my name’s Hex. If you must know, I’m a brown stallion Pegasus with a slick brown and yellow mane, a fluffy brown and yellow tail, and no cutie mark. I’m what’s known as a “Pit Fighter.” Even before the infection spread, we fought illegally underground. In fact, funny story, that’s how my parents met. Anyways, I’ve been fighting here since I was a foal and have lost more than I’ve won, but am quickly rising. I look at my mentor and friend, Rainbow Dash, as she congratulates me on my fight. “Thanks Rainbow.” I grip my head and nearly bump into a wall… Rainbow’s been my friend since foalhood but only became my mentor recently. She’s the reason I’m rising. After all, what’s somepony without their teacher? “You need a doctor?” She asks as I lay back in a chair. “Yes please.” I say, slightly laughing. I’m not sure why I laughed; I just sort of did… Another pony comes by with a bag of bits. He plops down the bag in front of me and says, “A crowed favorite this one is becoming.” I give Rainbow her half and we walk out and head to the nearest medical station… As I’ve said, pit fighting is illegal so when we go above ground, we always have to be careful about who we can trust. One wrong move, and it’s over, not only for me, but for everyone who fights and watches said fights. As we make it there, two guards stop us. One pulls Rainbow away and talks to her. Dammit, I say in my head. Rainbow’s better at lying than me. I may be strong, but I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. “Hello there. How did you get so injured?” I look around, hoping the perfect lie will be written somewhere, before I say, “I was flying and my left wing decided it wasn’t gonna be a wing anymore. I fell on my face pretty hard.” I hoped he would’ve bought it… I hate being wrong. “Really? Well, records show your left wing never worked since you were a foal. Even still, cuts and bruises like that can only be caused by a hoof.” Fuck, I think. I’m screwed. For once, being wrong was a good thing. “I’m gonna have to report you… unless a little cha-ching can make me forget.” I sigh in relief as I give him half my bits. “All for me? You shouldn’t have.” He steps out of the way as I walk in. Another guard says, “Enjoy your stay, sweet stuff.” I look and Rainbow is walking in. A guard slaps her flank and she growls. “Damn perverts.” I say as Rainbow walks beside me. “That’s only the tip of the iceberg.” She says. “I heard they have mares on display for free use.” “Well they can go to hell.” “Come on, let’s go.” She brings me to a doctor who helps me onto a table. She looks at me with her white eyes. “Well, well, well,” She says. “Been fighting, have we?” “That obvious?” I ask. “Don’t worry, I won’t report you. I’m a doctor, after all, not a guard.” She looks over me. “Well, you should be fine just as long as you give yourself some rest.” I thank her, give her the rest of my bits, and walk out. “Well, I gotta go.” Rainbow says. “Same here, my turn to cook tonight.” I say. I live with my parent as I usually spend most my bits on hospital visits. I normally have some left over, but the guard took any hope of my having that. “Heh, not many families left.” She starts flying. “Anyways, see ya.” “See ya.” I reply. I look at the guards and whisper, “And may you perverts go to hell.” “What was that?” One of them asked. I make sure Rainbow’s out of earshot before I say, “I’m just saying, you gotta stop hitting on my friend.” “Why should I?” He asks, getting a devious grin. “Maybe I’ll marry her.” “In your dreams.” I say as I trot off. I normally don’t get that defensive, not even with my friends. However, if you couldn’t tell already, I’ve developed a sort of crush on Rainbow. She doesn’t seem to love me back, but I still think of her all the time. The rest of the day feels like a blur, before I know it, I’ve gone home, made dinner, ate said dinner, and gone to bed. Rainbow and I usually celebrate after landslide victories like the one today, and I couldn’t wait to see what she had in store tomorrow.
A Daily RouteenI woke up the next morning to my window open. I turned around and saw Rainbow lying on the floor. “Rainbow, again?” “Shhh.” She grabs her head. I slowly walked out as Rainbow climbed into my bed. Beautiful, I thought. Just beautiful. I walk downstairs and outside as I look towards Canterlot, my home town. “You look amazing as always.” I say in a low voice. I start flapping my wings. I hover for a few seconds before falling flat on my face. I knew it, I thought. I walked back inside and made myself breakfast as well as making some extra for Rainbow. My parents had gone to work already. I was half-way through when Rainbow walked downstairs into the kitchen. “Any for me?” She asks. “I left it on the counter, enjoy.” She starts eating. I finish and put my plate in the sink. “So Rainbow, what’s today’s excuse?” This isn’t the only time that Rainbow snuck into my house. She’s done it nine or ten times, not counting today. “The same, I was hammered and wouldn’t have made it to my house.” I wanted to say, “I thought you went to your house after the fight.” But I instead said, “You couldn’t have at least given me a text before then?” “I didn’t know I was coming to your house.” “What about when you did know?” “It passed my mind. Besides, I didn’t break anything. What’s the problem?” I calm myself down and say, “Sorry Rainbow, this infection is just getting to me.” “It’s getting to everyone. Not even the nobles are having a good time.” “The Nobles” are what we call the snobs of Canterlot. They think they’re all that simply because they aren’t infected. Even I hate them, and I lived with them at one point. “Well, you better go Rainbow. I don’t want my parents getting the wrong idea.” Their work hours are from 5-8 A.M., it was 7:33. “Oh, that we’re dating? I see.” She said that in a teasing way. I blush and say, “That’s not what I meant.” She puts her hoof to my mouth and, again in a teasing manner, says, “Oh, just friends with benefits. I get ya, I get ya.” She winks. I blush even more and tell her to go. She kisses me on the cheek and walks out. It was clear to me that she was just teasing and didn’t mean it, but I don’t like being found either way. A couple hours later, I’m lying down in my room again when Rainbow flies in. She’s wearing some strange outfit; in fact I can’t even describe it. “So, ready for the party?” She asks. “Yeah.” I reply. I climb on her back and we start flying. We go to a wooden building with flashing lights and music coming from inside. When we go in, ponies are dancing, either drunk, high, and I think one of them was both. Rainbow hands me a pill and says, “Take it.” She takes another pill and swallows it. A moment later, her pupils dilate and she walks off. I take the pill she gave me. I stay conscious for a moment before everything goes to black. However, according to Rainbow, this happened. A Pegasus mare comes up to me and says, “Hey big boy, wanna dance?” She had a cream coat and red mane. Despite her resemblance to Apple Bloom, she has no correlation to the apple family. I turn to her and say, “Yes.” We start dancing and she says, “I saw your fight last night.” “It was harder than it looked.” “So are a lot of things.” She says, teasingly. I smile and she starts kissing my neck. After a while, she asks, “Your place or mine?” “Either one is fine with me.” “Let’s go to yours.” She leads me out of the building. The next time Rainbow saw me, the mare jumped out my window and went home while I was lying in my bed fast asleep. I woke up the next day to a voice say, “I had fun last night.” I couldn’t remember what happened the previous night, just that fun was, indeed, what I had. “Me too.” I say looking at the voice. To my horror, I saw Rainbow smiling up at me. I nearly jumped through the ceiling when I saw her. “Wait, so you… and I… did we…?” She giggles and says, “Nope, but I knew it’d funny if you thought we did.” I sighed in relief as I climbed out of bed. Unfortunately, my body was as sore as can be and I fell back. She helps me back into my bed and asks, “You alright?” I nod. “I may not be out of bed for a couple hours, but I’ll be fine.” She walks out. A couple hours later, I get up and hear giggling from outside my window. I look out and my face collides with that of another pony. “Hiya!” She says. “Ow.” I say. I look up to see an earth pony hanging by balloons. She was pink with a fluffy pink mane and balloons as her cutie mark. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, ooh, nice room, I had a nice room…” She kept talking and talking and would never shut up. I put my hoof in her mouth and say, “Calm down Pinkie Pie.” I take my hoof out of her mouth and she smacks her lips. “Mm, illegal substances. I like that.” Could she taste the pill? I thought. “Anyways, what do you want?” “I want you to join me. I want to do something about this.” She points towards her white eyes. “You’re going to find a cure? Pinkie, scientist ponies have…” “No, no, no, no, no. I’m going to spread the disease!” I was horrified. “Pinkie…” “Even if you don’t want to join us, we need you. If you don’t, ponies will die from the fights.” I sigh and say, “Okay.” She cheers and says, “Okay, meet me at the club tonight at 8, don’t be late.” She flies away. I decide to go out and meet Rainbow. Maybe she can help with this. I say in my head.
Beauty of the Rainbow Part 1I head out to see Rainbow flying around in the park. She had to be flying at least 50 MPH, but, again, I’m not very smart, but she manages to pull sharp turns at the fence. For a second I thought, Why are the Wonderbolts not on their knees begging her to join. Then I remembered the disease. I hated the disease even more than before, and I didn’t think that was possible. “Hey Hex.” She says, sitting down on a park bench, sipping from a water bottle. “Hey Rainbow.” I say sitting down next to her. “Want a sip?” She asks, offering the water bottle. “No thanks.” “Suit yourself.” She continues drinking. I’m staring at her beauty. She’s almost always alert so I almost never get the chance to stare, but she was relaxed. Great Celestia, she was beautiful. That rainbow mane, that wonderful face, looking at her made you think she was perfect, but you quickly learn otherwise when you meet her. I don’t really like how competitive she is. Being competitive is fine, but she overdoes it. I also didn’t like her tomboyish attitude. It’s kind of a turn off, but I don’t let that get in the way. Besides, I still wouldn’t change anything about her. “Hello?” She says waving her hoof. I say nothing but instead blush and look away. How long was I staring? I ask myself. This isn’t the first time she’s caught me, but before I lucked out and found a reason as to why I was staring. This time, I said, “Sorry, I was just trying to read what it said on your head band. The text is really small.” She looks at it and says, “Oh, I’m still not sure what it says myself.” Rainbow is smart, in fact, I’m not sure how she doesn’t know about my crush yet, but luckily she doesn’t seem to realize the real reason for staring. “So, my next fight.” I say. “When is it and against who?” “Because of the constant delays with your fight, tomorrow is the day of the fight. When it comes to who you’re fighting, I’m still blank on that.” I nod. I decided that telling her sooner than later was a good idea when I say, “Hey, could you come to the club tonight?” She looks at me, confused by the out of nowhere question, and asks, “Why?” “Well, some mare, I think her name was Pinkie Pie, was planning something at the club.” “Pinkie!” She says ecstatically. “Damn, she knows how to throw a party. Whatever she has planned, I’m coming. When is it?” “At 8.” “Okay, I’m coming.” She then flew away. I then started to regret my decision. Rainbow was the Element of Loyalty; she wouldn’t turn her back on any friends who might be in Canterlot. Even if she didn’t have friends, it was obvious she was loyal to the princess more than anypony. It was likely she’d try to fight back against the other ponies and, in hindsight, me. I had a small vision of Rainbow angrily throwing constant punches at me. “You had this coming, Hex. You should have joined us when you had the chance!” She’d say. Suddenly, I didn’t see her as Celestia’s sister, I saw her as this ugly beast waiting to be let out of her cage… I didn’t like it. “Dammit!” I say. I stomp my hoof to the ground. It was too late. I said to myself. Even if I try to stop her, she might come out of sheer curiosity. What did I hate more, the thought of Rainbow trying to kill me or myself for even thinking of this? It was a question I couldn’t find the answer to. I got ready to go when I heard a knock at the door. I opened the door and Rainbow was standing there. “Ready to go?” She asked, looking excited. I decided to not even try to stop her, as she’d come anyways, so I said, “Yeah.” We walked out.’ We were walking for quite a bit, Rainbow insisted we walk instead of fly for some reason, so I ask, “So, Rainbow, about those things you said yesterday…” They felt like they were just teases, but I wanted to be sure. “Did… did you mean it?” She looked confused and said, “Why, do you like me?” “Uh, no…” I blush and quickly look away. “I was just curious.” “Oh.” She seemed a bit disappointed. I just assumed she was disappointed that the teases didn’t go the way she planned. It was an awkward silence the rest of the way there. Luckily, I still had Rainbow as a friend for a bit longer as when we arrive, the bouncer said, “If you’re looking for Pinkie, she had to reschedule. Sorry.” I give a small sigh in relief and, without another word, me and Rainbow turned away. “Such a disappointment.” She says after a moment or two of walking. “Eh, I’ll ask Pinkie when and why she rescheduled.” I say. “So, Hex… um.” She stops moving. “What is it Rainbow?” I ask. I was kind of nervous since she never talks nervously. “Um… well I…” She blushed. I knew what she wanted to say, but I decided to play dumb and say, “What? You can tell me.” “Well, I… kind of…” Her voice lowers to a mumble. “Sorry, what?” “Well, I kind of like…” She mumbles again. “You kind of lichen?” I walk over to her to hear her better. “I kind of like y…” More mumbling. “I still didn’t hear…” I’m interrupted by her kissing me. Her face was as red as the Big Mac’s coat. I honestly was shocked when she did that. I wanted to kiss her back, but something stopped me. She breaks the kiss and says, “I’m sorry.” She then runs off. “Rainbow, wait!” Too late, she’s already gone. “I love you too.” I whisper. I should have been happy, but instead I feel like my heart was stabbed. I had even more guilt about me going with Pinkie’s plan. What would she think of me now? I ask myself. How would she react? I knew the answer, I just didn’t want to answer myself. I lied to Hex and now he was gonna suffer for it. If only I were wrong, just this once.
Beauty of the Rainbow Part 2It’s been over a week and I haven’t seen Rainbow since she kissed me. She didn’t reply to any of my texts either. I was starting to get worried. She never does this, even when she was afraid of something, she wouldn’t go into hiding. I’ve checked everywhere, her house, our usual hangout, I even asked a few ponies around town. They all say the same thing, “I haven’t seen her.” I eventually give up. If Rainbow wants to be alone, I’ll let her. Shortly after I give up, I find Pinkie. “Hiya Hex!” She yells. I was a bit confused about how she knew name, since I never gave it to her, but I didn’t question it. “Hey Pinkie. So, why and when did you reschedule the meeting?” “So that you could fight, silly. I didn’t want you stressed. And I didn’t get a spot for a few months so… march 10, 8:00 P.M.” “Alright, thanks Pinkie.” I get up. “No problemo!” She says smiling. On my way home, I see a cloud moving strangely. I was confused as usually when pegasi are moving the clouds, they float just behind the cloud. I walk backwards a little bit to see a rainbow tail flop over the edge of the cloud. “Rainbow?” “Oh shit!” She quickly dashes off. “Rainbow, wait!” It was in vain. Well, I say in my head. At least I know she’s afraid of me… why does that not make me feel any better? It took me a minute, but then I realized… She’s embarrassed! I wasn’t sure if I said that out loud so I checked around to make sure. She’s embarrassed about kissing me… again, why doesn’t that make me feel better? It’s another week or so before I see her again. This time, she’s trying to be sneaky. I was getting a little angry about her hiding, so I decided to go in head first. I tackle her and hold her down. “Hey, let me go!” She yells trying to wiggle free. “Not until you tell me what’s going on!” I yell. Moron! I say in my head. You already know why! Then again, what could I have yelled? She seemed to struggle even more before she says, “I didn’t want to do this.” Before I can ask what she’s talking about, she answers by hitting me… hard. I fall back, gripping my now bleeding jaw. Three teeth were sitting in front of me, but pain told me there was at least one more out of sight. “H-Hex!” She sounded like she was gonna cry. I wasn’t sure though since she flew off almost immediately. I stand up and look at the rainbow trail she left behind as it slowly disappears. “Rain…” I nearly screamed at the top of my lungs as my jaw shot pain at me like a gun. I couldn’t remember what happened afterwards; I just appeared in the hospital bed. My jaw didn’t hurt as much, but it still hurt. I guess, on a scale from “I love everything” to “Oh my Celestia, somepony please shoot me”, I was at “I really need an aspirin.” The doctor who was helping looked at me and said, “Whatever caused your jaw to do what it did, make sure it doesn’t happen. You might have to stay another few days.” Another? I ask myself. Did I go into a coma or something? Someone else comes in and says, “The patient has a visitor, the pony that brought him here.” “Let her in, let her in.” The doctor says. I look at the door as Rainbow walks in. “Hey.” She says. She gives the doctor a “Privacy Please” look. He walks out and shuts the door, leaving us alone. “Sorry about your jaw.” “It’s alright.” I say the best I can. It doesn’t come out all that great since I had a lisp. “No, it’s not.” She looks like she’s been convicted of murder. “I injured my friend.” “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” I say bluntly. Dammit! Why did I say that?! I say in my head. There’s a silence before she says, “I was embarrassed.” She says. I was confused and she must have noticed because she added, “About me kissing you. You asked before I hit you and… that’s it.” “Oh… I figured that much out on my own.” She says nothing. She seemed to be having a hard time looking at me. “You don’t need to be embarrassed.” I say. She looks at me confused. “What… what do you mean?” She asks. “Come closer.” She leans her head in. “Closer.” She leans in even closer. I kiss her. She almost immediately breaks the kiss. “Wait… so you…?” I nod. She smiles and hugs me. “Why didn’t you tell me before?” “I was scared you didn’t like me.” “Me too. Heh, this is something new.” “What do you mean?” “Well, two things actually. First off, I’m never afraid of anything so that’s something new. Secondly, romances don’t usually happen this fast... it’s kind of like a story book.” “Heh, yeah, I guess you’re right.” I start stroking her beautiful mane. She jumps but nuzzles my hoof like a cat. I never thought a mullet could look good, but Rainbow shows it off in her own way… her own way that makes her the damn most beautiful mare in Equestria… I don’t think I can stretch that anymore. “So, when I get out of here, how about we head to a hill between Ponyville and the fence? I go there all the time and it’s an amazing view.” “Sure.” She kisses me. I kiss her back. It hurt to do so, but I didn’t care… I’ve felt worse. She breaks the kiss and walks out. “Sorry to leave so soon, but I desperately need to go to the store. I’ll be back tomorrow though, don’t worry.” “I won’t. See you later, Rainbow.” “See ya.” Little did I know, that was the last time I was gonna see Rainbow for a long time.
A ColtnappingI wake up to the sound of rustling coming from just outside the door. Assuming it’s the Doctor, I say, “Brass Key.” I know that much since that’s what he’s holding whenever he walks in. However, a voice says, “Quiet you!” as the doorknob starts shaking violently. That’s not his voice. I say in my mind. I hear other hoofsteps as I hear a female voice say, “Come on, we don’t need him. There are plenty of others.” Her voice sounded familiar but I couldn’t place it. “He’s the best one that’s compatible and STILL ALIVE!” The first voice says. Still alive? I ask myself. What does he mean by that? The door slammed open and two ponies came in. A gray earth pony with a spikey black mane, small spikey black tail, a locked door for a cutiemark, and he was wearing black suit and had an ear piece. Beside him was a blue mare unicorn with a fluffy blue and orange mane and tail. She had a book for her cutiemark. Like her voice, she looked very familiar, but I couldn’t place it. “Sorry Hex.” She says as the agent looking pony points his gun at me. Without warning, he knocks me out with a single hit. I wake up to the sound of a gunshot. I open my eyes and I’m in a confined, black room with nothing but a small light hanging from the ceiling. I’m tied to a table. I see the two ponies from before. The blue mare has a worried look on her face and the agent pony is holding a gun towards the ceiling. “Good, you’re awake.” He puts the gun away. I look at the ponies and ask, “Where am I?” I’m not usually so afraid. Then again, I’ve never been coltnapped before. The mare says, “I’m sorry, but you’re our newest test subject.” “Test subject? For what?” The agent says, “For the disease. Only a few ponies are compatible with the serums we’re gonna be using. You happen to be one of them.” The mare says, “Sorry again, Hex.” Almost immediately, I yell, “Alright, who are you and why are you so familiar?” She cocks her head sideways and says, “You… don’t remember me?” “You look familiar.” “My name is Pray Tell.” It took me a minute, but then I remembered… Many years ago, before I’ve met Rainbow and before the quarantine broke, there was Pray Tell, or just Pray. She had almost become a romantic interest for me, but it seemed to me that, while we did love each other, we never got further than holding hooves. Things were going great, to my 7 year old mind that is, when she came to me and broke my heart. “I’m sorry, but my parents have found work far away from here. We’re going to be living in a lab in Canterlot.” I could do nothing but stare with my eyes mouth wide open. She was like life to me. We had our final goodbyes staring out at a pond not far from Ponyville. For the first time, we kissed. It felt amazing, yet terrible at the same time. I thought I never would’ve seen her again. I looked at her and said, “P…Pray?” She nods. The agent pulls out a syringe with a green liquid inside. “Now be still, this will hurt and it may kill you.” He says. I scream and start jerking around. “You’re crazy! You’re fucking crazy!” I yell as I feel the bars holding me down start to loosen. “He’s breaking free!!!” He yells. I wanted to say, “No shit Sherclop Pones.” But I just keep screaming. All I could really do. I finally felt the bars break and I jump off. I look around for the nearest door and run out. I can’t even remember what happened next, all I know is that I was outside and running into the Everfree forest… and I kept running. I finally tire myself out and fall to the ground next to a tall tree. I lean against it and look around at the dark forest. I wished I had done something more logical, like looking to see if Ponyville was anywhere around. But it was too late for that. I put my hoof against the tree to pull myself up. As I do, I notice bumps. Not usual tree bumps, but it was as if a pony carved something into the tree. I look at it and written in the tree was, “Twilight Area. Do not enter.” I said, “What the hell is a Twilight?” before I felt a pain on the back of my neck and I fell unconscious. The last things I see are 4 purple hooves. I wake up to the warmth of a fire, a hot steamy smell of boiling water, and a couple hoofsteps around me. I open my eyes to see a purple Alicorn with the white eyes of all the infected. She was walking around, mumbling to herself. “Hello.” I say. She jumps at me with her horn pointed right at me. “What are you gonna do with that? The infection changes the magic. Killing me might kill you or leave you to die with your supplies gone.” She shoots a beam at a tree. The magic was perfect and controlled. “Nevermind then.” “Who are you and who sent you?!” She yells. “Geez, woman. No need to yell. I’m Hex and I came here when escaping that lab… somewhere.” I say. “No one sent me.” “Good. If they want me, they got a fight coming.” She gets off me and starts walking around, mumbling to herself. There’s another voice. “Twilight! Hey Twilight, how’s the new guy?!” It yells. The purple Alicorn, who I assume is Twilight, yells, “He’s awake Note!” I see a stallion Pegasus walks in from the trees. He’s pure white with a fluffy blue mane and short tail, a lightbulb for a cutiemark, and he had saddle bags filled with what I assume are supplies. “Um, hello.” I say. The stallion says, “I’m Note.” “I’m Hex.” I say.
The Unfinished ChapterAuthor's Note I know this story was cancelled, but I found this chapter sitting in my folders and decided to upload it. So behold, the chapter that will never be finished. Enjoy. The Unfinished Chapter It’s been quite a few days since I met Twilight and Note. Yet, I still know next to nothing about them. We heard search ponies but Twilight was too afraid that they were from the lab and not from Ponyville. It was mostly easy when they appeared, but things got harder when I heard the voice of Rainbow. I wanted to scream out her name and tell her where I was, but Twilight’s magic was so strong, she might as well have put duct tape on my mouth. It was even harder when I heard my parents. I could only wonder how they felt, that they’re only son disappeared from a hospital, and Celestia knows that they’re anywhere near me. I wanted to go home, but Twilight said it wasn’t worth the risk. I would argue, but with her magic still in perfect use, I figured it wasn’t the best idea. Then I finally broke. “Hex, Where are you?!” Rainbow’s voice rang out. I was biting the tip of my hoof. I started to move but Twilight shook her head. I stared to the side and saw Rainbow’s… well, rainbow mane through the tree.
