Shadows

Rainbow dash smashed her clock as it went off, sending it flying out of the cloud castle. Why on earth would she ever want to get up so early? She looked around trying to divine the reason from her surroundings. Then it hit her.

"Today is the summer sun celebration thing!" She whispered. Oh well It can wait. She thought. I'll go find a cloud to nap on for awhile.

So she flew out of her bed and found a particularly low flying cloud over one of the streets in Ponyville. She was in the middle of a dream involving the students at her old school jumping into a giant mouth when a shout woke her up.

"Excuse me, Are you Rainbow Dash?" A clear but slightly frayed voice asked. Dash looked down and saw a purple unicorn. she looked a little sick as well, but she could've just stuffed herself silly.

"Who's asking?" She challenged.

"Oh right, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am in charge of the Summer sun celebration preparations. I want to know where the pony that is in charge of the weather is?" Dash tried to figure out how long she had been asleep. She had napped in the morning and now it was late afternoon...

"Yes, I am Rainbow dash. I overslept a bit...I'll take care of these clouds." With a zoom she was up. She felt like she was everywhere at once! The sky was cleared and she found Twilight and the dragon looking at her incredulously. It felt good to be appreciated.

"Thank you Rainbow Dash. You have no idea what I've been through. First I had to go check on the food, and I got guilt tripped into stuffing myself silly! Then on the way out i got knocked into some mud by some mailmare and had to go clean off. When I went to check on the decorations, I was abducted by some lunatic fashion designer and forcefully given a makeover. Then I had to go check on the music and Fluttershy went nuts on Spike! You are the sanest pony I've met today!" Twilight looked like she was about to hyperventilate.

"Sounds like you had a tough day. Did anything else happen?" Dash said.

"Yes some pink pony freaked out at the sight of me."

"Your gonna have a surprise party when you get to your house." Dash explained.

"What? But ho-"

"Don't question it, it's Pinkie. See ya at the party!" Dash gave her a farewell.

Dash thought the party was going fine. She talked to a few of the other pegasi and mingled a bit.
A feeling of impending doom had settled on her though, and she decided to go out for a bit of fresh air.

Was it just her, or did the face on the moon just move? No way, I just need a little more sleep.
It was almost time for the celebration and without her really thinking about it, she was in the hall. The hall was completely stuffed full of ponies of all shapes sizes and races. It was time for princess Celestia to arrive.