One Stormy Night: The Secret Friendship

It was a peaceful spring day. The sun shining brightly. The wind whistles around and blows against the trees as if it were a spring dance. Some birds twitters so beautiful and elegant like a song in Everfree Forest.
Everything looks quite peacefully, especially the five ponies that sits perched on a hill above the woods and enjoying the sunshine and the taste of new fresh grass. But most of all, they were just playing tag and having fun. All but one pony that explores on the hill and eats some grass.

"Hey! We're going home now!" calls a young stallion with a gray-white coat to the other ponies, especially the fifth top of the mound.

But something took his attention as he looks up at the sky. A large layer of gray clouds floats slowly and covers almost the blue morning sky. "It seems like there'll be a storm soon..." said another stallion which is a pegasus with sky blue coat. They hurried away from the storm, while the fifth pony plucks some flowers before she could see through the weather.
"Hey guys, wait for me!" called the lightish white-pink unicorn to the other ponies. But the wind was so strong that they couldn't hear her call and the flowers flew away from her hooves. The dark gray layer of clouds, a lightning appeared and makes the biggest thunder ever. The pink unicorn was frightened of thunder and keeps her ears in horror.
"We must hurry away before we'll turn into fried ponies!" cried the gray-white unicorn while he and the others ran from their lives. "Hurry up!" call the light-orange earth pony, but the wind is still strong enough to drown out her call at the fifth unicorn who still keeps her ears and eyes, and still hiding in the bush.
Suddenly it starts to rain, where the pink unicorn took a quick look at the weather, but unfortunately a thunderbolt flashed in the sky and the unicorn jumped from her hiding place and slipped down at the hill. She ran as fast as she could from the storm, but no matter how fast she runs, it's like a lightningbolt follows her and was about to hit her (fortunately it hits a tree, where she screamed in terror of the sound).
She still ran in the Everfree Forest and could not see where she's running while raining heavily. She don't know whether she runs the right way to Ponyville, but even though it was raining and looks a bit cloudy, she can somewhat see that she came across to an abandoned cottage in the middle of a large meadow.

The young unicorn got inside, seeking shelter in the cottage. The cottage looked pretty abandoned and horribly, since noponies lives here anymore. The unicorn looked around a bit and can smell a bit damp in here and from her coat.
Everything is so dark that she bumped into a pole and her head hurts a bit. A thunderbolt crashed sharply than before and the young unicorn was so scared that she hid behind a wooden pole and keeps her ears. She removed her hooves from ear, so she can hear anything again. The storm was really cloudy and the rain was slightly weaker. But then she heard a creaking door was opened. She wondered, who it might be.

"What if it was a carnivore?!" the unicorn thought panicking.

But she quickly calmed down when she heard some clop on the wooden floor and was relieved that it was just a pony, but wondering how the newcoming pony's doing.

"It's quite of a storm, isn't it?" the unicorn said inquiring to the other pony that was frightened of her voice. "Is somepony here?! Sorry, it's just so dark that I didn't know there's anypony here...". The unicorn replied that she just came in here a moment ago and she is soaking wet, while petting her hurting head. The pony-shaped shadow agreed with her and told her that the storm was so powerful that he sprained his legs. He found a corner, he could rest on and tries to dry his wet coat.
"Well, it's really nice to have company in the dark here..." the unicorn said relieved, and that she's sorry that the stranger has sprained his leg. "It's okay. With a storm like this, it would indeed be lonely in here," the stranger agrees, but suddenly utters a sneeze.
"Bless you. That was a big sneeze,you have." the unicorn chuckles with worried smile. "Thanks. I just hopes I don't get a cold. Especially when I can't smell anything!" the stranger responses annoyed. "You're not the only one here. I can not smell either," the unicorn said, but then she sneezed loudly, which made the stranger laugh a bit.
"Well, if we can't smell each other, we'll just talk, right?". The unicorn agreed and they giggled. But they stayed quiet, and sat in silence with the storm as the only sound. The unicorn and the stranger felt a bit awkward, so the unicorn asked him, where he lives.

"... Me?... I actually lives in Black Smoke Mountain,".

The unicorn was surprised when she heard the name. Black Smoke Mountain was a huge mountain, where a giant dragon once lived with its treasures. She has heard a story, that it once slept there and made a lot of smokes and covers the entire Equestria. "Isn't it dangerous in there?" the young unicorn asked nervously, but the stranger replied that he didn't see a dragon before. And if he has, he wouldn't lived there and left it alone, "...But otherwise, the cave's really nice to live in."
The unicorn felt a surprise, that he's really brave. The stranger asked her the same question and she replied that she lives in Ponyville. The stranger looked quite surprised to hear it. He said he had heard many stories about a place, where all ponies and other species are friends, but he's most interested in something delicious and licked his lips at the thought of it.
The young unicorn agrees with him, but prefer either Clover Valley that´s a bit further away from Everfree Forest. The stranger said with a satisfied expression that he's often come there to eat. They fell slightly in talk about how nice and fresh goodies there are in the forest.
"Oh, I could really eat right now!" the stranger complains with a rumble in the stomach. The pink unicorn muttered that she could eat so much, that her stomach could exploded. And then they said at the same time;

"That... delicious..."

"Grass!"
"Meat!"

But suddenly a thunder strikes strongly outside, so the two beings couldn't hear their last words to each other, and they were both silent after that.
The stranger began to tell the young pony about how he used to eat much as a hungry horse, but when he was little, he rarely ate and was rail thin. He also told that his mother tried to help him and stabbed him loose with fresh leaves. But sometimes he just throws up and was often scolding that he wouldn't become stronger if he doesn't get something to eat.
The unicorn said that she also was told the same thing as his. She also told that if she didn't eat anything, she could not run faster. The stranger agreed with the unicorn and was also told the same.
"But actually it was my grandmother who taught me that..." the unicorn said. "Why not your mother?" the stranger asked curious. "Well... All I know is that my mother died when I was three years." the unicorn replied with a sad expression. The stranger was sorry to hear that and apologizes her for asking, but the young unicorn didn't mind. He asked afterwards about her father, but she replied she didn't know him and don't even know much about him. The stranger felt a bit guilty, asking her such a question, but he told her that he didn't know his father either and has only heard many stories from his mother.
The young unicorn immediately was sorry to hear it, but was relieved that there's somepony who understands her. "It's funny that we have so much in common. We probably looks alike." The stranger agreed with her. "Although we couldn't see or smell each other in this terrible storm, we're probably the same." the unicorn said with a happy tone.
They laughed, but suddenly it began to thunder outside in one second. The unicorn and the stranger screamed with their startled eyes closed, so they couldn't see each other.

"I'm sorry... I just don't like the sound of thunder, so I closed my eyes..." the unicorn said embarrassing.

She asked the stranger if he got a quick glimpse of her. But the stranger admitted that he doesn't like thunder either and he closed his eyes as well. But a big thunderbolt appeared, as the unicorn and the stranger jumped up and ran in fright. But they were too scared, that they didn't discovered their appearance and bumped each other. They were quickly embarrassed by bumping one another without knowing who they are and apologizes immediately after the storm had calmed down a bit.
"...I don't think I can take anymore of this storm ..." the unicorn muttered with a sigh. "...You know, you're not the only one here ..." the stranger replied also with a sigh and thinks the thunderclap sounded much higher than it used to. "Well, so what if we can't see each other. At least we might looks the same," the young unicorn said very confident. The stranger sounds surprised and was also about to say that with a chuckle. "Well, sorry for stealing it." unicorn giggled with a joyful feeling.
She suddenly gets an idea and suggested they could meet and eat lunch together. The stranger thought like a great idea, and although it has been a terrible stormy night, they both made new friends.
"I think the the storm had calmed down a bit..." the stranger murmured. The unicorn looked up and was relieved. She asked the stranger about how they can meet. The stranger was thinking that since no one uses the cottage, they could meet there. The unicorn thinks was a good idea since it would be sunshine tomorrow.
But she asked afterwards how she'll know him, when she hasn't seen his figure. But the stranger had once planned that they should have a password such as "We met one stormy night" so they'll know who they had met in the cottage. The young unicorn thought it sounds okay enough, but believes that they should know what their names are. But the stranger protested playfully that it would not be fun and that they can introduce later.
But he should go home now, before his mother got sick with worry. The young unicorn should also go home, but when she was about to leave, her leg got sore.
"Are you okay?" the stranger asked worried. But the young unicorn replied that her leg just got sensitive after sitting too long, but she's fine then. The stranger was relieved to hear it and said goodbye with their secret password. The young unicorn finally stood up and walked out of the cottage.
The strange creature had already disappeared in the darkness, but she can almost see the black silhouette in the woods. She looked up at the stars and could not wait to meet her new friend. She went to Ponyville while she whispered softly,

"See you tomorrow... One Stormy Night"