Ponygeist

Rainbow Dash lay on Twilight's bed, covered up underneath the blankets, her bloodshot eyes wide open. Next to her was Fluttershy, who was sound asleep. The pegasus just lay there, thinking about what Twilight and her friends had done earlier.

Why do they hate lesbians? Rainbow thought to herself. What did I do wrong?

Rainbow just lay there, looking at the ceiling.

Why can't they just accept the fact that me and Fluttershy are dating?...

The ceiling seemed to be staring back at her.

...Like true friends?

Finally, sleepiness caught up to her. Rainbow Dash's eyelids slowly began to close. Soon, she just lay there, sound asleep. But in her arms was Fluttershy, curled up into a hug. A hug only two lovers could share.

Applejack walked into the kitchen, where Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were coloring.

"Excuse me." Applejack said, scooting past the fillies.

After grabbing a small plastic cup, the farmer quickly realized something was missing.

The Fruit Punch.

"Aw, great." Applejack moaned, walking out of the kitchen. "Where's Twilight and the fruit punch?"

As if on cue, Twilight emerged from the stairs behind them, panting heavily.

"I'm.....here...." she panted, catching her breath.

"What took you so long?" Rarity asked.

"I....was....getting....fruit punch....when...." Twilight panted.

"Get on with it! I'm getting thirsty, here!" Applejack scolded.

"Okay, jeez!" Twilight replied. "Anyways, I tripped over a small, broken wood creak when I came across....well, look!"

Twilight's horn started to glow, as a book came into frame. It was a brown book, 5 inches long and 3 inches wide.

"What in the sam hill is that?" Apple Bloom asked, walking out of the kitchen with her fellow Crusader friends.

"I wish I knew." Twilight sighed, closing her eyes. "I mean, why would this book be buried in my basement wall?"

"A better question would be: Why is it even in this house?" Rarity suggested.

"You're right. Something does seem strange about the book." Sweetie Belle remarked.

"Oh yeah. Because nothing is strange about a book with an evil skull on the front page and with a title called the Book Of The Dead, isn't there?!" Twilight asked sarcastically.

Seeing this as a threat, the white filly began to slowly back away from the insane purple unicorn. Eventually, she reached her hiding spot: behind Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.

"Sorry, Sweetie Belle." Twilight apoligized. "It's just that, well, I have no idea why this would be in my house. For that matter, does Princess Celestia know about it?"

"I wish I had a clue." Applejack said.

"Hey everypony, how about we read it!" Pinkie Pie suggested, finally entering the conversation.

"Why?" Scootaloo asked. "I don't really trust that thing."

"Why?" Pinkie Pie replied.

"Well, let's see." Scootaloo said mockingly. "Oh yeah, the book is called the Book Of The Dead, and it has a scary skull on the front cover! Is that enough reasons why we shouldn't read this book!"

"And how do we not know that it might be one of here' Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash's pranks?" Applejack asked.

Everypony turned to Pinkie Pie.

"I had no part in this, I Pinkie Promise!" the pink mare shouted. "If Dashie had done it, she would've told me!"

"True." Rarity said.

"So, can we please read it?" Pinkie Pie asked excitingly.

Twilight sighed. "Fine. What's the harm?..."

Rainbow Dash curled up next to Fluttershy, the yellow mare still in her grasp. The cyan pegasus quickly sneezed, before finally going back to sleep. Fluttershy, on the other hand, was awoken by Dash's sneeze.

"Wha- What was that?" a sleepy Fluttershy asked herself.

The stirring of Fluttershy woke up Rainbow Dash.

"You're awake?" Rainbow Dash asked, rubbing her eye with a forehoof.

"Apparently, yes." Fluttershy said with a chuckle.

The two shared a quick kiss.

"Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yeah?" Dash replied.

"When you stopped my crying, earlier, uh..." Fluttershy asked nervously.

"Yeah, go on. Go on." Dash said.

"How did you learn to act so soothing?" the yellow mare asked.

"What do you mean, soothing?" Dash asked.

"You know, using that soft voice and patting my back to stop my crying." Fluttershy said.

"Oh, yeah. That." Dash began. "You see, from my years of taking care of Scootaloo, I slowly learned how to sooth her whenever she cried. When I first did it, when she was just a baby, it didn't turn out so well, and I ended up just giving her a bottle of milk to shut her up." Rainbow chuckled a little. "Then, after doing it so many times, I eventually learned. And little Scoots always stopped crying."

"Cute story." Fluttershy remarked. "But one more question."

Rainbow nodded.

"Did anything influence you to learn it, or did you just come up with it?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well, you see, my father used to do it to me." Dash said. "Back when I was about Scootaloo's age, I used to get upset a lot. So, my father used to pick me up, sit me in his lap, rub my back, and whisper, 'It's okay, Dashie. It's okay.' That made me stop crying, and eventually, it worked for Scootaloo."

"Awww. He must of been the nicest father in the world, wasn't he." Fluttershy said.

"Yeah. He was the best father a filly could ever have. But until-" Rainbow Dash began to sniff, as tears welled up in her eyes. "Until he died."

"Aw, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy said, holding onto Dash and embracing her in a deep hug. The tears in Rainbow Dash's eyes finally released, streaming down her cheeks and onto Fluttershy's shoulder.

"You miss him, don't you?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes." Rainbow Dash managed to sob out.

The two remained in the hug until Dash's sobs became quieter.

"Thanks, Fluttershy." Dash said, rubbing her left eye.

"No problem." Fluttershy said.

The two leaned towards each other once again. As their lips met, Rainbow Dash finally realized something. She didn't need her friends opinion. No. All that mattered was that she and Fluttershy loved each other, more than friendship.

It was all that Rainbow Dash could ask for.

Twilight turned to her friends, then back to the book. Thoughts and questions lingered in her mind.

Should I really read this? she thought to herself. I don't know, Twilight. There's something awfully strange about that book.

The skull on the front page seemed to stare at her. Everwhere the unicorn moved, the glistening in it's empty eyes gave the illusion of following her every movement. It was super creepy.

"Well, Twilight?" Pinkie asked, getting impatient. "Did you make your decision?"

"Now hold yer' horses, there, Pinkie." Applejack said. "Give Twi' some time to think. If ya'll ask me, personally, I would've instantly said No."

"Why?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Because look at that thing!" Applejack protested. "I looks like it came from the pits of hell itself!"

"What's hell?" Apple Bloom asked.

Applejack, realizing what she said in front of the filly, suddenly covered her own mouth. Spike, on the other hand, began laughing hard. Everypony gave him a stare. A stare that said Shut up.

"He, he. Sorry." Spike apoligized.

The akward silence that filled the room for a few seconds was cut off by Twilight.

"I've made my decision!" the purple unicorn yelled.

"So, what is it?" Rarity asked.

"Please say yes. Please say yes." Pinkie Pie said to herself.

"I think we can read it." Twilight said.

"YAY!" Pinkie Pie shouted.

"Why?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Yeah, why?" Applejack asked.

"I was thinking since the whole Rainbow Dash/Fluttershy thing didn't go so well..." Twilight began. Everypony gave her a cold stare, for bringing up Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

"That we should read this! I mean, what can be the harm? It's just a harmless book!" the purple mare said.

"Well, you do have a point..." Rarity said.

"So, are we going to read it?" Sweetie Belle asked.

Twilight took a deep breath, and sighed. "Yes."

"Ha! Ha!" two colts teased. "You can't fly!"

Rainbow Dash lay on the ground, barely recovering from her crash landing.

"Ha! Ha! How about we call you, Rainbow Crash!" one of the colts laughed.

"Like, totally!" the other one agreed.

"RAINBOW CRASH! RAINBOW CRASH!" the two teased.

"Stop it." Dash muttered, tears forming in her eyes.

"Why? You gonna cry?" one of the bullies mocked. "Baby."

The two began their antics again.

"RAINBOW CRASH! RAINBOW CRASH!" they yelled.

Finally, Rainbow Dash burst into tears. The cyan blue pegasus went running up the street (made out of clouds) towards her house. She could still hear their loudmouthing behind her. When she eventually reached her cloud house, she burst through the front door, ran upstairs, without saying hello to her family, and finally, into her room, where she landed on the bed, sobbing. Suddenly, Dash heard a knock on her door.

"Dashie, you alright?" she heard her father, Wind Storm, ask from the other side.

"Go away!" she sobbed, her face buried in a pillow.

Rainbow Dash heard her door open, and heard her father walking towards her.

"Dashie, what's wrong?" he asked.

It took a few moments before Rainbow Dash could speak. "These...two bullies...in the...park...." was all she could muster up.

"It's okay. It's okay." Wind Storm said, rubbing her small and soft back gently. "Tell me what happened."

Dash sniffed. "I was...trying to fly in the park....when....these two colts came....and saw me crash....from trying to fly..." Dash began to cry again.

Wind Storm picked his daughter up and rested her head on his shoulder, still rubbing her back.

"It was...embarassing..." Rainbow Dash sobbed.

"I know how it feels like." Wind Storm said.

Dash looked up at her father. "How?"

"Well, you see." he began. "I wasn't a very good flyer when I was your age. Everypony used to make fun of me. But then, one day, when I was being bullied, your mother stepped in, defending me. She sure shut them up." he chuckled, as did Rainbow Dash.

"Anyways, she asked me if I was okay, and I instantly fell in love with her."

"How did you two finally get married?" Dash asked.

"Well, after many years of dating, I finally proposed to her one night at a Wonderbolt show." Wind Storm said.

"Then you had me?" Dash asked, with her innocent little voice.

"Yep." he said.

"So, did you ever become a better flier?" she asked.

"You kidding? My cutie mark's a tornado! What do you think?" he chuckled.

Rainbow Dash laughed a little. "True."

The two stayed in that position for a while, before Wind Storm finally began speaking.

"Do you ever get lonely, Dashie?" he asked.

"Yeah, sometimes. Why?" she replied.

He gave his daughter a smile. "Because you're going to be a big sister."

Rainbow Dash's eyes grew wide as she leaped out of her father's grasp, and began hopping around the room in excitement. "YAY!"

Wind Storm looked at his daughter. Seeing her this happy made him happy. He got up and exited the room, Rainbow Dash following.

He had made Rainbow Dash happy in just a matter of minutes. He had done his job right.

Rainbow Dash woke up. It had been all a dream. Well, more a memory than a dream. The cyan blue pegasus looked around the room. All she saw was Fluttershy laying next to her, sound asleep.

Heh. I remember when that happened. she thought to herself.

It was the same day she had found out she was going to have a brother. After 9 months of impatiently waiting, her wish finally came true. Her little brother was named, Whirl Wind.

Rainbow Dash smiled at that happy memory. She was just eight years older than him. She then thought about her father, thinking of every obscure memory of him there was. But she couldn't.

Drowsiness caught up to her once again. Before going to sleep, one memory popped up. Well, not a memory. More of a mental image.

She pictured Wind Storm, standing there, smiling at her. With his red mane and blue fur, and a smile that stretched across a mile wide. He was infamous for being an extremely happy camper, barely ever throwing a temper.

"Thanks dad." Rainbow Dash muttered, before finally falling asleep.

She didn't notice however, that downstairs, something was about to go down. None of the ponies in the treehouse knew it at the time, but that night, something would be released.

A portal would be opened.