Friendship Was Magic

   The sun beamed gently on the healthy branches and charmed leaves, birds of all species began to sing and chirp in the finest tone of love and paradise. The creatures of the notorious Everfree Forest were extremely pleased with what Mother Nature and Princess Celestia had provided them, and bowed to thank them both. These actions were witnessed by no other pony who also inhabits around the forest and smiled gracefully to the animals. Her pink hair and tail reflected across her cottage thanks to the bright excitement of the sun.

  "Fluttershy!" A familiar voice called out to her, "You ready to kick off this week?!"

   It was no other than the popular blue pegasus, who resembles the element of loyalty and a childhood friend of  Fluttershy. Despite not sharing a lot of goods, these two are just so close like two wings on an alicorn.

   Hearing clearly and throughout, the yellow Pegasus acted quickly, gathered her food and gears, nudged her animal friends goodbye, and quickly joined up with her loyal blue skinned yet rainbow colored mane friend (of course, we all know who's that).

   "Oh Rainbow Dash, I'm always ready for my friend!" And hugged the blue mare.

   Rainbow Dash moaned, "Well we better hurry up if we want to practice for the Equestrian 500 coming up next week. THEN I CAN SHOW THE WORLD THAT I'M TRULY A WONDERBOLT!"

  "And picnics... If you want that..." Fluttershy added hesitantly.

   Rainbow Dash simply rolled her eyes and ignored her friend's suggestion, however meaning she has accepted the warm offer of the kind Pegasus.

   "Yay!" Fluttershy excited as they began to take off into the wondrous island of clouds... or Cloudsdale.

   Today was another day of practice, for Rainbow Dash signed up for the Equestrian 500, a huge and popular competition that involves ponies all over the world to prove that they are the fastest, toughest and most athletic Pegasus of Equestria, also hosted by the idols of Rainbow Dash: The Wonderbolts. However, some events required a partner to accomplish, therefore Rainbow Dash pleaded Fluttershy to help her out, despite not interested (and somewhat nervous) with competing and showing off, Fluttershy herself now was a skilled flyer, after being trained by Rainbow and herself. She improved in speed, agility and many other factors that a good flyer required to obtain, in addition, Fluttershy is a rather kind and caring pony, especially to her friends; therefore in order to fill her childhood friend's dream to become a Wonderbolt, she unhesitatingly agreed.

The two lovely friends shot through the white cotton clouds, the sky was just the perfect setting for sightseeing, the buildings, the trees, the sun, friends, families, oh can anyone imagine somewhere better than this?!

  "Oh my, if Pinkie Pie was here, how happy she would be seeing these clouds resembling sweet cotton candy!" Fluttershy said with a grin of

hunger and desire, the white moist squished and puffed, its scattered textures formed all over itself, this was truly a Pegasus art!

   "Oh Fluttershy!" Rainbow responded, trying to sound professional and logical, "She wouldn't be somewhere like here! She either has a lot of stuffs to do, or it will take forever for her to come into the sky, besides, it isn't guaranteed that she won't fall back down."

   "Well there are all sorts of possibilities..."

   "Now look here, Fluttershy, to be honest, I know more about the sky than you do, I have been living and spending my entire life up here! You are an exception of Pegasus as you always look after those animals near that accursed Everfree forest! It's not like Pinkie is going to float in a hot air balloon right behind me waving and then jumping on me..."

   "DAAAAASSSHHHIIIEEE!" A Pink colored Earth pony shouted out to Rainbow and jumped and with all her joyful heart on her back.

   "Oh hi there Pinkie! We were just talking about you!" Fluttershy greeted her friend,

   "And is that your hot air balloon behind you?"

   "Oh that of course! How would I even come up here! Oh my balloon is flying away, catch you guys later!" Pinkie waved goodbye to them and left off to another random place that no pony has any single hay about.

   "Fluttershy... Did Pinkie wave at us before leaping for me...?" Rainbow Dash asked in an tone of disbelief.

   "Why yes she did, how come?" The yellow Pegasus answered, and her partner almost stopped flying in a state of confusion...

   The two Pegasus assailed across the blue with no feeling of guilt nor stress. To Rainbow Dash, this feeling of the sun shielding her reputation and pride. To Fluttershy, she also loved the sun shining on her whole body, only making her hair and tail visible to the eye. They soon left their home in the white cottons and came back down, soaring around an uninhabited island, right above the ocean and painting the sky blue.

   "Man! This is swell! Just look at everything! I have never been so free in my life!" Rainbow Dash exaggerated,

   "Neither have I." The other Pegasus added on, glad that her friend is enjoying the paradise of stressing out for the competition.

Rescue us.... Preserve us...

   Rainbow Dash suddenly realized that Fluttershy is keeping up with her with no problem at all, the blue Pegasus was proud of Fluttershy's

training with her, it was worth the time and effort.

Cleanse the trails of the growing stain left by the dead pony's blood...

   Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy soon entered the island viewing the stunning scenery of nature while having fun with their practice. The sun's beam on the ocean shines the sky and glitters the solid rocky land of this unknown island. The wind was behaving calmly, yet somewhat sad and strange,

We are in your hooves...

   "The trees..." Fluttershy murmured, "Are crying..."

   "Fluttershy what the hay are you sayin'? Don't just go and kill the moment of refreshment!" Rainbow knocked on the silent door,

   "Ya know, one of my favorite band Coltplay sang this wonderful song: Viva la Equestria. So you don't have to be so pessimistic, remember what you live for!"

Please...

   Rainbow Dash finally thought she said something smart... Until the two smelled an unfriendly scent of smoke. "FIRRE!" Rainbow and Fluttershy screamed to the top of their lungs. After panicking all over the place, instead of fleeing, the two flew around to check out the disaster. however, the fire was nowhere to be seen...

Don't leave... We are in despair...

   Soon, strange voice of despair preached out to Fluttershy. The gentle and caring mare stopped, and tried to communicate with Dash, but her friend was busy with her excitement of viewing and flying.

"I'm sorry Rainbow Dash, but I can't let the cries of nature drown in deep seas!" Fluttershy thought out, and dashed out to the beseeching whispers instead of her flying friend who was busy claiming to be the top flyer in Equestria.

   While the two were not together, Rainbow Dash was completely caught off guard by the burning sun and the deep yet gracious green of the

humongous vast of forest.

   "Well Fluttershy, now I finally realized why you loved nature so much... Umm Fluttershy? FLUTTERSHY!" The "fast" Pegasus was retarded to realize the whereabouts of her friend.

   "Oh no, she must've been worn out! What in the name of Celestia am I supposed to do?!"

   Rainbow stopped, and decides to operate her search on the ground, she seemed through bushes, twirled around trees, getting chased by

animals, but there seems to be no sign of the butterflied cutie mark pony. Now the tide rises above Rainbow Dash, her heart raced desperately to avoid it, it would be such a waste of time and oppurtunity to course this flying drill alone without a good friend.

   "It's my fault..." The colorful mare looked down on the ground, " I should've looked after my friend more often, what a narcissist I am..."

  "RAINBOW! GET YOUR PLOD OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" A familiar yet angry voice yelled out, holyfeathers was Rainbow scared as a dying rat,

  "Fluttershy...  Don't you intimidate me like that, I'm sensitive like yo...."

  "WHAT DID I FLYING TELL YOU! STOP HORSING AROUND AND COME!"

   "But I'm a pon..."

   And was grabbed and threw by her yellow friend all the way to another place where Fluttershy expected. Rainbow Dash got up to her hooves, and no more than 4 inches away was her "kind" and furious Pegasus friend.

There is no time to free...

   "Listen Rainbow Dash, we've got to save these poor inhabitants of the forest, these cute creatures really have an impressive voice!"

   "Fluttershy... What in Equestria was that all about, your anger just..."

   "OH RAINBOW DASH!"

   Rainbow Dash trembled and ready to take off,

   "I'm so sorry! Please forgive me! I was just concerned for these new friends! Don't take it personally PLEEEAASE!"

   After a second of awkwardness, the versatile colored Pegasus took a deep breath and finally said,

   "Okay okay fine, but what happened to these guys?"

   The Pegasus quickly replied, "This forest is in fact burning from some distance away, so we need to help these little ones evacuate immediately."

   "Well what are we waiting for? Com'on!"

    And the blue pony flew off to scan all over the forest for those in distress. Fluttershy on the other hand, was trying to fire signals to alert any other Pegasi for help.

Every second is another life, every step is one life closer to save...

  The fire that mysteriously vanished was no longer a torch, but became ablaze like wildfire invading all property of the forest creatures. Rainbow Dash tried to bring perfect clouds just enough to rain but not lightning. She then saw the innocent creatures whom failed to make a run had their fate sealed as they shined bright with their new coat of flames.

   "Grrr Fluttershy! What are you doing?" The loyal mare growled, "This is supposed to be your job!"

   Meanwhile, after done signaling for aid, Fluttershy was trying to evacuate the melancholic habitants of the forest from the bursting rays of the yellow and red light darting everywhere in seconds. As the yellow Pegasus tried to carry the old, young and handicapped victims, she was soon seen burnt and gravely wounded by the sudden laughs of the assertive fire, along with those unresponsive creatures in flesh, all laying with pools of red liquid overflowing one another.

   Rainbow Dash heard the explosion, and soon came few other Pegasus, panicking and trembling.

   "DON'T YOU GET CHICKENED OUT BY SOME DARNED FIRE! WHAT THE HAY WERE WE HERE AT FIRST PLACE?!"

    As aid increases from the east coast of the forest, the south was unharmed, but looking rather dried and sucked up, the west was furiously flaming, nearly bright as the sun or Celestia herself.

   Rainbow Dash finally received a strike from guilt; not far from her eyes, lied a familiar yellow mare, adapting the color of the bright fire itself. Rainbow quickly acted, carried her best friend out of the woods and tossed her to few other Pegasus, but soon as she heard another roar of explosion behind her, she couldn't help but to ignore it, as she also spotted a suspicious figure trotting in the untouched woods.

   "Hmm, that's funny, why doesn't that guy panic or do something but walk so peacefully... WHY ISN'T THE FOREST BURNING FROM THERE?!"

   Baffled yet angry for suspecting it as the culprit, she raced back down and used full force to ram into it; unexpectedly, the figure was fully prepared for this ambush, it suddenly formed a shield. Instead of success, it was the prideful Pegasus who was shut down; as she took her own attack as her scars, sending herself all the way back against rows of healthy trees. Fatally wounded and dripping out disloyal blood, all this humiliation further provoked the rainbow haired mare, her wings flapped open, her eye color shifted to all colors, but mainly red. She shot straight at the figure, and before the figure can even react, it was bashed into trees, and then a hard and fairly large mountain.

   Soon after that encounter and some brutal violence, the figure unraveled itself to be an female unicorn, she started the first line,

   "Well well well, look what we have here, the arrogant mare who thinks she's the fastest in Equestria."

   "WHO ARE YOU?! SPIT IT OUT OR ELSE!" Rainbow demanded forcefully,

   "Now now you don't have to worry, I know we can get along well," the mysterious Unicorn said, "the name is Stargazing Dusk, and there is absolutely a fine scenery her.."

   Immediately ignoring her sarcasm, Rainbow Dash send a quick right back hoof, and Stargazing Dusk simply put on the same shield that injured Rainbow before, the Pegasus was smart enough to avoid that and gritted her teeth,

   "Ooooh, look at that shining sets of teeth, it's as if you were trying to destroy me with light, smart play smart play... I do hate the light, but doesn't mean I'M VULNERABLE TO YOUR CHEAP FILLY GAME!"

   And Dusk teleported behind Rainbow Dash, teleporting her then trapping her into a group of dead trees and cold wood. While the rainbow haired mare was struggling with her escape, Stargazing Dusk simply smirked,

   "You can struggle in my net all day and night, but by the time you do..." She grinned an evil grin,

   "See you Rainbow Crash, never again!" And teleported away...

   The shameful defeat was inevitable, Rainbow Dash never liked losing, she took all competitions into serious business, she wants to prove herself that she has the will to become what she wanted. She never lost any major games, maybe a few matches against Applejack, but that was an imply to their friendly skirmish for Iron Pony Competition, or that funny time when Dash and Applejack played dirty on one another in the Running of the Leaves... Yep those were the good times when Rainbow remembered her losses and mistakes, this loss however, is something beyond the minority; this loss is the fate of the innocent souls of this doomed forest, her friend Fluttershy is in the brink of the border between life and death, then Rainbow herself will fare the same way.

   Sank from all the anxiety, Rainbow Dash stopped her struggling from the tangled woods and decides to give all wings to underworld, she

thanked the cold fire for blazing so brightly and letting her see that she deserved this fate. She shuttered her eyes as the flames crept towards her, the sounds of dying woodland creatures besieged Rainbow's surroundings, she wished she didn't have to hear their dying agonies, and just be free forever...

Hope is not all fading, when there is a friend, there is a way...

   But the last thing she saw wasn't a Sonic Rainboom...

   "WHAT? A SONIC RAINBOOM?! WHO ELSE WOULD'VE DONE THAT BUT ME!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed in almost envious red ball of fire herself, an insult to injury as the Rainboom was directed to... HERSELF?!

   But instead of viewing the downhill slope, Rainbow Dash smiled with nothing but a small smile of happiness; finally someone can continue

her legacy...

   Rainbow Dash was in a state of dark trance once she found herself to be awake, she sees the forest no longer a forest, but a wilderness

completely deserted, not a single healthy nor alive tree was spotted, she couldn't but tried to believe that this was just a whole another

dream.

   Soon, Rainbow Dash heard a gentle whisper of a familiar voice, then a pink hair fluttered swiftly onto her hoof... This sight of the hair was even more destructive for the prideful Pegasus; she could not believe what she saw. This grieving pain was rushing everywhere within Rainbow Dash, it was unbearable, but she can only carry it around until it gets bored and wears off. The wounded Rainbow Dash can only open her mouth, but say nothing nor can she produce a soft sound. The pain struck poor Pegasus's heart, thus her vision terminated once again...