Chapters The beginning of a new love (Edited)
Rainbow Dash was still upset at her friends for stating she should find a special somepony sometime soon. She thought they had understood that she wouldn't be interested in anypony anytime soon, and even if she was, it took time to build relationships. Her eyes flickered red, not that it was noticeable in her dark surroundings.
Just because each of her friends were in a relationship, didn't mean she should have to be. She could perfectly list all of their relationships; Fluttershy had married Big Macintosh and they had a 9 year old daughter, Pinkie Pie was married to Cheese Sandwich, Rarity was engaged to Fancy Pants, Twilight dating Comet Tail, and Applejack was dating Flim, but that didn't mean Rainbow needed to get involved with somepony, not yet anyway. She just didn't fly that way.
"Uh, Rainbow? What are you doing in the Everfree?" Rainbow jumped in surprise and squeaked, not something that she would ever admit to. She calmed down after a few seconds, before taking in her surroundings,
"Huh?" Rainbow rubbed her eyes, now green, and blinked, trying to make sure that they were working correctly. "The Everfree?"
Remedy rubbed her hind legs together, wondering how Rainbow hadn't noticed her surroundings earlier. "Yeah."
A roar echoed through the forest, sounding oddly like the creaking of wood. Nature, forgetting the awkward conversation, screamed in panic, bolting so fast it could be safely assumed that she had teleported. Rainbow, unfortunately, did not know her way through the forest like the filly, who had darted away before she could ask. She flew up to see where she was, groaning when she realized that she was completely lost, having wandered farther than she'd originally guessed.
"I hate being lost," Rainbow muttered, her eyes returning to their normal magenta hue. She turned around, guessing her direction, and set off, not caring if it made her situation worse.
"Still lost...This sucks! Why couldn't I have just gone home!? Why?!?!" Her eyes became two shades darker as she shouted dramatically to the heavens, knowing that nopony would be within range to be able hear her. Rainbow's eyes continued to darken as she continued her flight through the wild forest.
Natural Remedy bolted out of the woods, screaming like she had just seen a horde of zombies. Fluttershy, worried for her daughter, quickly fluttered over and began checking for wounds.
"Okay honey, have you seen Rainbow Dash? I haven't seen her since this morning and I may need her help." Remedy tilted her head, not knowing how to answer the question without getting in trouble,
"Well, I did see her, but she was pretty deep in the forest." Twilight, who had overheard the conversation, gasped and exclaimed,
Rainbow stomped through the woods, her eyes a darkened mixture of orange and red.
"I hate this. Now I can't even get home, and even if Twilight cast a tracking spell on me, she'd probably blow something up," the agitated mare muttered, her eyes flicking back and forth, trying desperately to find a way out of the cursed forest.
Something rustled nearby. Rainbow froze, eyes turning purple as she turned around apprehensively. At first she saw nothing, then the bush right next to her rustled a second time, though this one was weaker than the last. Something was inside the bush, and from her memory of Daring Do books, she knew that it had to be either very good, or very very bad. Judging by the weak movements of the bush, it was probably the latter. Extremely carefully, Rainbow moved the wet twigs and damp leaves aside to get a clear view of whatever was in the bush.
She froze again, eyes turning a mix of blood red and deep purple as uncontrollable panic and horror flooded through her. She stared, unable to move or even scream, not that anypony would hear her at this point.
"Oh, it's no use, darling, we've been searching for hours now!" Rarity fussed with her now dirty mane, trying to get the twigs, leaves, and thorns out with varying levels of success."I think we should just wait by her house and see if she comes back, if she isn't back by morning, then we can resume searching."
"Ya know, fer once Ah agree with her. Let's wait," said Applejack, who was becoming increasingly irritated as she watched Rarity fumble with her mane.
"Fine. But if she isn't back when we check her house tomorrow, I'm contacting the police," Twilight replied, rather begrudgingly.
Fluttershy gasped. "But...what if she gets hurt? What if they can't find her?! She could DIE!!!" Applejack and Rarity kept their opinions to themselves, Fluttershy was far too worried for her own good.
Rainbow just stood there in complete horror, she was looking at a changeling, and it hadn't so much as hissed in her direction. She shook her head, deeming it safe enough to approach.
"Are... are you alright? Why haven't you attacked me?" As Dash asked this, her eyes swirled with different shades and hues of green.
The changeling hissed in pain as it turned to look at her. "I... hate those changelings... *cough* I hate... their rules... I ... *hack* can't live in this state," the changeling said, voice echoing and hissing at the same time.
Rainbow was surprised to say the least. Who would hate their own race? She blurted out the question, green, orange, and purple raced through her eyes as she realized how rude that was, Dash blushed a bit and apologized for her rudeness. "Sorry."
The changeling coughed up a little green slime and chuckled at her weakly. "It's... okay... my name... Midnight Wonder... get bush... off *hack* you'll see," Midnight's breaths came in ragged gasps.
Puzzled, Dash did as the male changeling requested. As she moved the bush, a strange smell and an aura of panic assaulted her. She gasped, eyes shining like red blood in complete horror at the scene that lay before her.
The changeling had a large gash running down his back, oozing green fluid. His wings were tattered, large gashes ripped through them. One leg was so bloody he looked as if he should have died of blood loss, although, thankfully, he didn't. Many wide, bloody cracks intersected on his shell, green blood pouring down his side. Rainbow held back a gag, now she knew why the bush was wet. Struggling to remain conscious, she sat down. Seeing someone in this much pain made Dash feel a little pain herself, it was in her nature.
Her eyes became and odd shade of yellow as she weighed he options, choosing not to acknowledge his response, knowing that it would anger her. She eventually decided that, changeling or not, she was not going to let somepony die, especially not in the sacred and wild forests of the Everfree.
"My name is Rainbow Dash, and I'm going to help you."
Midnight coughed again and beamed at her. "Thank you... Dassshh... Ponyville is.... that way..." He pointed west with his least battered hoof. "Can... feel... pony love..."
Rainbow nodded, carefully putting the changeling on her back before flying to her house at top speed, no hospital would accept a changeling, luckily she had enough experience to help him. Her rainbow trail was broken in several places by green streaks as she raced through the skies.
Author's Note
Okay, so this was edited by me because I lost contact with TodayIwriteFanfics and I really didn't like the short chapters, so I'm going to try to fix that. Just know that it will take a while because I don't really have much time between all three of my accounts. Bye and have a great day, luckily school is almost out. I had to edit this three times because it kept deleting itself. My head hurts, I'm going to sleep, it's currently 11:12 PM, not bad. Bye!
Worries distinguished (Edited)
"Where is it?! I know I have one somewhere," Dash muttered to herself, ripping through boxes and drawers, looking for the first aid kit that she always kept in the kitchen.
"Hah, found 'em!" she exclaimed, eyes flickering yellow before returning to purple as she remembered why she needed medical supplies. Rainbow trotted upstairs as she calmed herself, she didn't want to puke all over the poor changeling while bandaging him.
Rainbow tended the changeling's wounds carefully. After several hours of cleaning cuts, sticking together chitin breaks, and putting on a few casts, she wiped her brow. That was easier than she had planned for. Rainbow quietly closed the door and walked back downstairs to clean herself.
Twilight smirked at the other ponies before her,
"Uh, maybe we could go to her house, just to be sure?" Fluttershy asked, voice barely above a whisper. She didn't want this to turn into an argument.
"I agree, maybe she found her way back and went straight home to clean up." Nature was always butting in on adult conversations.
"Fine, but if she's not there I'm alerting the Police. Got it?" Everyone else nodded, agreeing with both the purple unicorn and the yellow pegasus.
Rainbow's purple eyes flickered as she cleaned the green blood off of her hooves and torso. Her ears perked up as someone knocked on the door. Dash quickened her cleaning process so that the pony at the door didn't get offended by the long wait.
"It's us, your friends. Remedy came too." Rainbow went back to her slow pace, not caring how long that they had to wait. Her eyes glowed red, memories of what her friends had said echoing through her mind.
When she finally finished cleaning herself, the cyan mare hesitantly opened the door, her eyes swirling red and purple as she did so. Once the door was open, her friends blasted through, tackling her to the ground in a group hug. Rainbow squirmed a bit, not expecting the sudden weight, luckily clouds were soft and it didn't hurt her when she fell to the ground.
"Oh, Rainbow, we were so worried about you!" Fluttershy's usual quiet voice cut through the sound of ponies laughing as she nuzzled Rainbow like a mother would a child. Rainbow stopped struggling, realizing that she wouldn't be getting out of her predicament until the other ponies got off first, instead, the rainbow maned mare replied to Fluttershy's comment,
"I'm fine, might have took me a little while to get out but I'm fine!"
After a few more minutes of laying on the ground and cuddling Rainbow, the other mares got off. Twilight sighed as she looked at Rainbow,
Applejack spoke up and sighed, she patted Rainbow's head condescendingly,
Rarity walked up to the already tortured mare and placed her manicured hoof on the other mare's shoulder. Rarity smiled at her sweetly,
Rainbow shook her head and smiled, a small one of course, to her friends, mostly Rarity, Fluttershy and Remedy, she wondered where Pinkie had been, she always makes time for her friends. Maybe she just slept in, until 2:00, yeah she definitely slept in. With that thought pushed out of her mind, Rainbow went to check on Midnight, to make sure that he wasn't awakened by the noise of the other mares.
Rainbow quietly opened the door, silently thankful that cloud doors don't creak, and gazed at Midnight's still sleeping form. Good, she thought, Midnight isn't a light sleeper. Rainbow closed the door, smiling to herself for no reason, eyes tinted pink more so than usual, and walked to her room down the hall. She grinned, those extra rooms had come in handy after all. Dash decided not to sleep, but instead do some light flying and some exploring until sunset.
Author's Note
Alright, I've got this edited, it's now 9:14 AM, not bad since I started at 8:41, although I really need to get faster at this. Good morning! Bye!
Rainbow woke up, her alarm clock, despite being quieter, had still woken her up. Rainbow rubbed her tired magenta eyes and washed up, she took a cold shower to wake her up. As she cleaned herself, she went through the events of yesterday;
First, she was told to find a special somepony, which she finds as an insult. Next, she accidentally walks deep into the Everfree forest, she still wondered how that was possible. Then she finds a heavily injured changeling in the forest, she still wondered how exactly that happened. And then she takes said changeling home to heal him. Then she is assaulted by her friends. Yeah a hectic day.
Rainbow dried herself and brushed her teeth, knowing what Colgate would do to her if she didn't. Remedy didn't brush her teeth because she kept getting cavities when she brushed them, she found out that if she didn't brush them, she didn't get cavities, she could mask the scent of bad breath with her breakfast. Rainbow herself found it disgusting, until she found out that children's teeth differ from adults and that was why it worked for Remedy.
Midnight groaned, his back hurt, in fact, now that he thought about it, his everything hurt! Midnight relaxed as he realized that he wasn't hurting as badly as he had the day before. The changeling looked at himself, silently taking in the numerous casts and bandages.
Midnight could hear hoof steps coming closer, he realized that the mare's scent was also getting stronger, then it clicked, everything from before, the mare who had saved him was Rainbow Dash. She must've healed him too, judging by the fact that her scent was the only one strong enough to have been here recently, other scents were from months ago.
When Rainbow Dash opened the door, Midnight had to force himself not to drool, the female was practically radiating love, platonic of course, but still, it was like a buffet. Midnight couldn't understand why she helped him, a changeling, when she knew that she could be harmed severely by one. Rainbow smiled at him, making sure that she didn't show any resentment for Twilight from the day before.
While she was distracted by her own thoughts, Midnight absorbed some of her love, but he didn't dare try more than that, although it was delicious, he couldn't do that to such a wonderful mare.
Twilight sighed, she'd had no luck so far with her research, nothing about it was in any book. Not a disease, okay, is it hereditary? Maybe, okay who could she have gotten it from? Oh so nobody documented, well scrap that! Twilight was getting more and more frustrated, luckily she didn't ever lose her temper when she was researching, unless someone barges in, like Spike just did.
Twilight turned around and yelled at him,
Rainbow balanced the breakfast tray on her wing, making sure that the excessive amount of chocolate didn't fall. She'd made chocolate milk, chocolate pancakes and finally a chocolate bar to top it all off, she just hoped that she didn't make his already sick state worse with the large amount of chocolate he was eating.
Rainbow opened the door and smiled at the changeling, who was sniffing the air and had started to drool. Apparently her food wasn't that bad, because when she gave it to him, he quickly finished it, making sure that he didn't forget his manners in the process.
Dash grabbed the tray from the now full changeling,
Author's Note
Yes chapter done! I love the fact that I'm keeping the reason of her eyes changing a secret till later. And it is all thanks to Todayiwritefanfics please check her out
Twilight was working her flank off and she still hadn't found out why Rainbow Dash's eyes change colors. Spike looked at her worriedly,Dear Princess Celestia, I am writing this to inform you that I have made a discovery. Rainbow Dash has eyes that seem to change to the color corresponding with her emotions. This is the first time that it's happened, if you have any information I'd be extremely grateful. Your faithful student and colleague, Twilight Sparkle
Ember finally composed herself and smiled at Spike as she grabbed him and started pulling, stopping whenever he yelped or whimpered in pain.
Celestia barely caught the note that had been sent. The princess unraveled it slowly, wondering what adventure her associate had gone on this time.
As Celestia read through the rather short letter, her worries grew for her younger sister, could she really have unknowingly blown her cover? Rainbow Dash was similar to Flurry Heart, but she couldn't tell Twilight that could she? Celestia sighed, she wandered through the castle, trying to find her sister's tower, at this time, she'd either be sleeping or playing chess with an off-duty guard.
When Celestia finally reached her sister's tower, she knocked on the door. She heard a soft reply, obviously a tired one,
Twilight waited patiently for a response letter, although, after thirty minutes, she was starting to lose her patience. Luckily, right before she was going to interrogate Spike, a letter appeared in front of her,Dear Twilight, I have reason to believe that certain things happen when a pony finds true love. For you and Comet Tail, your magic abilities grew. For Applejack and Flim, their bodies became stronger. For Rarity and Fancy, their beauty grew to amazing levels. This may be the reason behind Rainbow's sudden change, although this may not be correct, it is a hypothesis that is worth looking into. Your Princess, Princess Celestia
Midnight had just fallen asleep again, which was good for Rainbow, because not even fifteen minutes later, she got a letter.Dear Clima, Young sister, Luna and I request a meeting with you in the royal quarters. Please make haste, we may have a problem on our hooves. Your elder sister, Celestia.
Upon arriving in the meeting room, her two big sisters sat at the table in front of her,
Author's Note
Okay, so I suggest that you don't read the next chapter until it is edited, the story at this point won't make any sense if you do decide to read an unedited chapter.
Twilight had gathered all of the fellow Elements of Harmony to a meeting. This meeting could be considered formal, though that image was ruined by Pinkie's excitement and Applejack's slumped form, she seemed to be sleeping, though her face was blocked by her Stetson. Twilight walked in, being the picture of elegance as her tail swayed to and fro. She sat on her 'throne' and smiled at her friends,
Author's Note
I DIDN'T MAKE THE 1000 WORD MARK!!!!
Alright, now if you read the next chapter, nothing will make any sense. DON'T READ NON-EDITED CHAPTERS!!!
Rainbow Dash flew into the cloud house at high speeds, barely able to stop herself as she skidded across the soft cloud, stopping centimeters away from a wall. She flapped her wings once and smiled, she loved close calls, they were so exciting. Quickly shaking her head, the pegasus mare darted up the stairs, not bothering to actually use the cloud staircase that was between the two floors of her house.
Once on the second floor, Rainbow made a beeline towards Midnights room. Upon reaching the room, she knocked twice and waited for an answer. She got one seconds later, quieter than she expected.
Rainbow, realizing the pain her friend is going through, quickly removed his casts and placed them on the ground. Once they were out of the way, she quickly and lightly climbed onto the bed and hugged the changeling, knowing that it should help. She rubbed circles on his back and tried to calm him, it wasn't working, he only sobbed more hysterically at her touch. Seeing that her method wasn't working, she tried another one, she sang a lullaby that her mother had sung to her.
Words are born into air And quickly fade out in the wind But they find their way inside you Where they live on forevermore....
When the skies are dark and full of rain Look inside you heart Light, so warm and all aglow Shining just like the sun
You can see just how much you've grown How strong you are Love will open up to you And it starts from the day that you First heard those words.....
Rainbow's soft singing had calmed the male in her arms, his sobbing having attenuated into a quiet sniffle. She soon spoke to break the unwanted and unneeded silence,
Rainbow stared at his shaking form for a moment before realizing that she had loved him too, she wanted to smack herself for not realizing it sooner. Why would she blush when speaking of him if she didn't love him? Why would she care for a member of the species that almost destroyed Equestria twice, if she didn't love him? Why would she treat him as an equal from the start despite knowing nothing of him, if she didn't love him?
Reaching a decision seconds later, Rainbow Dash put her hoof under Midnight's chin again and lifted his head. Then, surprising the stallion, she smashed her lips against his. Pouring all of her feelings for him into this one kiss.
Midnight could feel the love seeping through her to him and back again into her. It was so intense, he was overflowing with love, yet it wasn't stolen. He cried happy tears, not breaking the kiss for more than half a minute, they savored the feeling. It felt right, it felt like destiny.
After breaking apart, Rainbow and Midnight both blushing, Rainbow's eyes had turned pink somewhere along the line. Rainbow smiled at the changeling in front of her. Midnight was overcome with fear again at the possibility that she just wanted to shut him up,
This kiss was shorter, but no less passionate. When they broke apart a few seconds after, Rainbow smiled,
He was, and will always be, glad that he confessed, else he may not have had her as his own. If he had waited too much longer, another stallion could've swept her off her hooves. He looked down at his beautiful girlfriend, he wouldn't change this for the world, let's just hope that she didn't end up with foals too early.
Author's Note
Alright, Summer is almost here! Tomorrow is the last day of school! Thank god! Alright, so I really like this chapter, but the next chapter will make no sense if you read it after this one. Also, just so ya'll know, I revise and edit every chapter at least twice to tweak it to my liking. I hope that copyright doesn't strike because of the song, but oh well. Alright! Now, I usually go on sprees, so I usually edit 2-5 chapters in one chunk, but I usually take a long time to get into one of those editing sprees. I usually just get that feeling, the 'I wanna edit my stories because I hate them right now' feeling. Alright, I'll stop wasting your time, now remember-
The same yet different (Edited)
Midnight stopped pacing around his room as an idea came to him. Quickly, the male changeling shifted into his new form. After analyzing every detail of the form he decided that, after a few tweaks, the form was ready for its presentation.that was a changeling worthy jump scare!" Rainbow grinned like a maniac, she enjoyed succeeding where Twilight couldn't, her eyes were glowing a bright yellow, with a tint of pink that only ever seemed to appear when she was around Midnight.
Twilight sat down in her study, wondering what the stallion that Rainbow was bringing looked like, she had asked for all of the others to bring their significant others along. Currently, Comet was smiling at her, he had come as quickly as possible, wanting to know every single detail. Twilight admired her lover's thirst for knowledge, that is how she fell for him to begin with, but even that couldn't ease her mind. She was just bubbling to the brim with questions like 'What does he look like?' or 'Will he be nice?' Twilight was in a sour mood, she had never waited to answer any of her questions before, but this time, she had to wait until tomorrow.
Rarity was going through her wardrobe with Fancy Pants, she had come to the Boutique and couldn't help it, she was bubbling with excitement, she told Fancy everything. He had automatically decided to help her find a beautiful, but not too extravagant, dress for the next morning. They would be meeting at the castle about fifteen minutes before Dash and her mystery stallion were scheduled to arrive. They both couldn't wait to meet him, Rarity had never seen Dash look so bashful towards her friends.
Pinkie was bouncing around the room, Cheese had agreed to arrive early the next morning so that they could get ready, it was only 5:00, but Pinkie promised herself that she would wake up super duper early, so she would be going to sleep earlier than ever before, as much as she loathed doing it, she would be going to sleep at 7:00. But she needed to tire herself out somehow, so she was currently bouncing off the walls and hanging herself by the tail until she was exhausted enough to go to bed.
Fluttershy and her family were at the dinner table, discussing what they would do the next morning, luckily, Remedy was allowed to join her and Big Mac at the lunch. Neither of the females could wait to see who Rainbow Dash had fallen for. Big Mac was currently thinking about how he could test the stallion to see if he was worthy to be dating one of the Elements of Harmony.
Applejack was sitting at the dinner table with Granny Smith (How is she still alive), Applebloom and Flim. She was trying to gently let Applebloom and Granny Smith down, they'd have to meet Rainbow's Mystery Stallion at a later date. Flim however, was extremely curious, he wondered if the new stallion would like pranking, or inventing, or be at all interesting. While Flim knew that Rainbow hated boring people, he couldn't help but think that something was going to go wrong in the near future. If Flim had any say in it, it probably had something to do with the new guy, and he didn't like it one bit.
Spike and Ember would also be attending, Ember kept casually throwing in that she'd chop up the new stallion and feed him to the Timber-wolves if he decided to hurt anyone close to her. Spike was nervously trying to shove down the foreboding feeling that he kept getting, he knew that something was going to go wrong in the near future, but he sincerely hoped that it had nothing to do with the new stallion.
When Rainbow had gotten up, she had hastily gotten ready and, for the first time in a while, actually made an effort to make herself look tidy, without styling her hair or putting on dresses or putting on makeup, she was simply trying to bring out more of her natural beauty than she had done so before. She honestly didn't feel so good, she didn't feel sick, no not at all, but she had a bad feeling about something, and she knew that it was going to happen today.
Twilight grinned as her guests got settled down, no one could wait another second to see Rainbow's guest of honor, and luckily, no one had to, because at that moment, Rainbow walked in, she cleared her throat,
Immediately, Rarity started interrogating him,
Author's Note
Okay, finally done. I am only doing this one chapter because I really don't want to write this right now. As always:
I hope you like this story, and the ones I've listed!