It had been five minutes since I had put Dash in the greenhouse and I haven’t found a way to get out and get her. Poor rainbow all alone, I need to get her.

“So…” my mom interrupted my thought. “What have you been doing since we were gone to the grocery store.”

“um…” trying to think of something. “Oh I was just, you know…” my mom looked at me suspiciously. “Watching TV like usual.” my mom wasn’t very convinced, but all she did was give me a smile. I looked at the clock, twelve thirty-four, almost lunch time.

I was watching a NBA game, which then I got an idea. I turned the TV off and went to my parents bedroom and asked my dad. “Hey, I’m going to go outside and play some basketball.” My dad was actually asleep and just gave me a sleeping

“o-okay son whatever.”

I opened the kitchen door and went the way to the greenhouse. I opened the porch door, jumped down from the stairs and walked to the greenhouse. But then, all of the sudden my mom popped out from around the corner of the house in her gardening cloths. I didn’t notice her though and kept walking towards the greenhouse.

“Anthony? What are you doing?” I turned around nervously and there she was.

“Um...uh…” I didn’t know what to say so I made up a fib. “When m-my friend came over last time…”

“Yes?”

“Uh...well we were throwing the Frisbee in the front and it landed in the greenhouse, so I thought now would be a good time to...get it?”

“Okie dokie.” she said And walked past me, heading to the front field. Once she was a suitable range away I walked in and shut the greenhouse door.

“phew, glad I got here Rainbow, my parents always do stuff like this okay...rainbow?” I turned around, nothing. “What the. No no no!” I checked, double checked, even triple checked the area I put her down. How could she! She gave me her word, I knew she was good for nothing, a non loyal element-less pony! I walked out pissed off and slammed the greenhouse door. I let myself go and fall to the ground. All hope of finding her was lost now. I needed to cool down so my parents wouldn’t see me as a psycho. I decided to actually play some basketball. I walked up the steps and around the back side of the rap-around porch. I grabbed the slightly deflated basketball and headed my way to the basketball hoop.

The hoop was an adjustable one, it was also made to dunk on. There was also the barn behind it, and a large evergreen near the house and also near the basketball court. This is where my favorite cat was buried. I’m glad I didn’t have to dig the hole, I don’t think I can go through so many emotions like this anymore. I walked past the evergreen and got to where I thought the three point line was.

This tall evergreen also was a marker for the three point line. I stood in the middle of the basket beside the evergreen with the ball in my hand. I took a deep breath to calm myself down from all the events happening in the two days. In...out...ah. I started to dribble. I shot, swoosh...i made the three point. I am also part of the basketball team at school, but sadly I was probably what they thought of as the worst one. Yep as in, last of the second string. I barely played many games, but I could shoot, I wanted to prove to them that year this. I shot five shots in the whole season. But really, the funny thing is, I did prove them wrong. All five shots I made at home, all five shots made it. Yep I was a one-hundred percent guy for the season. Zero turnovers, one hundred percent in the free throw line and yes I did make two shots at the free throw line.

I grabbed the bouncing ball and picked it up, dribbling it around, behind my back and so forth. I did a couple crossovers and shot it around mid range, again the same expected...swoosh. Oh...and all five of my shots went right through the net, three of them flipped the net.

After an intense workout, I walked back to the front, but before I wanted to see my cat.

“Hey buster, I know your at peace now in your cat heaven, but you think you could help me out. Yeah I know...things got really hard these past few days, saving a rainbow pony from death, then having her disappear when she told me that she would stay.” I looked down at the stone that I made for him, it was just a cement circle with various pieces of the house and broken clay pot pieces that we had found in the front field. “I...I just do not know…” my words were cut off by a loud noise coming from the barn. I turned to see what it was, I couldn’t tell though because of the angle of my view, so the noise must have been coming from behind there. I dropped the basketball, and ran to the barn. I was about halfway to the barn until I heard growling. Oh shit what is that? I saw my dads compound bow and arrow pouch, I picked it up just in case there was something hostile there. I went down to the barn to find it empty. Must have been my damn imagination, hell a whole bunch of stuff has happened. Then I heard a whimper. I ran down past the barn where the woods was.

There she was...Rainbow dash, but she didn’t look that good. Her what was, broken wing was now bleeding, and so was her back hooves. Then I heard the growling and rainbow tremble in fear. She was on the ground with her back hooves slightly off the ground.

“y-you s-stay back n-now,” she tried to act tough. And there it was...it was a pair of coyotes. Both walking around Dash in a circle, showing their menacing, long piercing teeth. One came at her and she kicked it with one of her hooves. After though she must have hurt part of her leg, as she whimpered in pain. I have to do something!

I took an arrow and tried to draw the bow. Oh shit this bow is a sixty pound. I couldn’t do anything with a sixty pound! I was not strong enough to pull it back. I kept trying, nothing. Another one of the coyotes tried to come at her, but she used the other back hoof and hit him square in the face. Again though her other hoof must have taken the damage as she cried in pain this time. Come on Anthony you dumb fuck, just pull it all the way! I kept pulling it, nothing just nothing!

The first coyote started to diminish the circle size and started to gain on dash. Now or never...I pulled one last time...got it! Finally having it pulled back I took a second to aim and shot it. It was almost like in slow mo as the arrow released from the string. It wiggled and then straitened, making its way right toward the first coyote. It pierced right through his neck and the coyote fell to the ground. The other one now looking at me. Oh crap Anthony, do it again quicker this time. I pulled it successfully again with another arrow from my dads pouch, I aimed. The coyote jumped at me, I shot it before it could get a couple feet from me and it landed with a thud. I shot the second one strait through the head. I did it!

I ran over to Rainbow and see how she was. Her hooves were bleeding badly, there was already a stain, she must have lost a lot of blood.

“Its ok Rainbow I am here.” I never saw so much blood pour like this. I tried to stop it with my hands. “I am going to help you, no worries.” I said optimistically.

“Anthony...I need to t-tell you s-s-something.” She looked like she was on her death bed.

“no...no no, rainbow you are not going to die.” I took off my shirt and ripped it to put it around the wounds. Blood still gushed out and quickly stained my shirt quickly. My hands were covered in the blood of my favorite mare.

“I-I want you to know…” Before she could finish, another coyote jumped from the bush behind me. It knocked me to the side. I tried to get an arrow ready as I stood up, I felt my pouch, I had no arrows left. No...this can’t be.

“Rainbow!” I screamed. All I heard was the coyotes teeth piercing the cyan ponies chest. She cried in pain so loudly, I bet my parents would hear it. As I acted on instinct I ran probably the fastest I ever did to grab the hatchet I knew my dad kept near the middle part of the barn. I grabbed the shiny, and newly sharpened ax and ran with it over to where rainbow was. When I got there...there.

The coyote was done with rainbow, as I looked in horror, the cyan mare’s whole chest was teared open, most of the organs were gone, probably eaten by the coyote. Blood was oozing slowly out of her ripped chest on to the green grass. Her small intestine uncoiled, her heart, gone, her whole bodies inside was bloody and with puss. Sh-she-she’s...d-d-dead…

Author's Note

*Didn't expect that did ya...*