Princess Aurora

-Friendship Castle-

"Rainbow trust me it's okey"

"No! Nothing's okey!"

"Guys. You wanna tell me what's going on."

The two princesses turned to Spike. Dash went upstairs into her room. Twilight and Spike watched her go.

"I get it. I'll be in the kitchen if you need me."

Twighlight sighed. She went upstairs to Dash.
She opened the door and saw Dash staring through the window outside.

"Rainbow...you know they can't hurt you anymore. You are safe in here."

"They'll come back, capture me and lock me up in the castle again."

"Dash, you're just being paranoid."
At this the Pegasus turned to Twilight and frowned.

"Paranoid?! Me?! Are you serious?!"

"Dash. You are a princess. They can't do anything to you if you tell them to stop!"

"No they won't! They only listen to Celestia!"

"Why?"

"What do you think she's using my magic for?! She isn't the princess that every pony thinks she is! Ponies that don't listen to her command get controlled by her!"

Now Twilight was shocked. Of course, Dash knew Way more than she did.
"I'm sorry..."

Dash sighed.
"I'm sorry too..."

Twilight raised an eyebrow.
"...shouldn't have snapped at you like that...not after you saved my life how many times now..?"

"It's fine."

Then a thought struck her mind.
"Wait, if she can control minds with your magic, why can't she just control you?"

"Um hello? Can you turn your own magic against yourself?"
Twilight shook her head. She looked at the bed and remembered something.
"Dash, show me your wings."

The Pegasus glanced nervously at Twilight. She looked down to a wing with a sorrowful face that said 'you don't want to see that...'.
Twilight walked towards the Pegasus.

"I just want to see it. I won't judge you at anything."
Dash sighed but extended her wings slowly and winced a bit.
Twilight couldn't believe what she saw. The wings were mostly covered with dried blood and the wounds were a bit infected. She felt her eyes tear up as she wondered why Dash would do something like This to her precious wings. Dash just looked away.
Twilight got up.

"Follow me, we have to get these wounds treated."
Dash didn't dare to move her wings and just got up with them hanging low, careful not to touch anything with them.
They went into the bathroom and Twilight was cleaning the wings with water to wash away the blood. Then she disinfected the wounds and carefully put an ointment on them. Last but not least, she bandaged the wings (closed) to prevent Dash from continuing this and for her wounds to heal.

"It's gonna be okey, I promise."
Dash cracked a smile. Twilight would protect her. Wow.. what an odd feeling.

Speaking of feeling
Dashs body twitched, almost throwing her on the floor. Twilight stared at her concerned.

"Are you okey?"

Dash stared at Twilight in fright.
"No no no no no no no..."

She got up.
"...no no no no no no no no..."

She trotted in a circle.
"...no no no no no no no Ow!"

She stopped dead in her tracks and lifted her hind leg, gritting her teeth.

"I Knew you were hurt! Are you okey?"
Dash sat down, wincing at the movement.

"I'm fine!"
Twilight groaned. Even when she was caught she still didn't admit anything. Typical for Dash.

"Oh Dash...what am I gonna do with you..."

"Twilight it's nothing!"

"Then what is it? You're hurt and I knew that for days!"

"It's just strained, like I said it's nothing."

"How did it happen?"

"I...fell down the stairs..."

"So that was the sound before I found you in the bathroom, to 'wash your hooves'."

She gave Dash a stern look. Dash scratched the back of her head and laughed sheepishly.

"Yeah..about that..."

"I can imagine. But it's not gonna get better if you keep walking around like this."

"I know..."

"Why don't we get something to eat? Spike should be done with cooking by now."
Dash looked away.

"You're going to eat. If you don't I can make you."

"Fine.."

The two got up and walked to the kitchen.

That night was pure torture. All the bad memories from the past, all the pain, all the agony...
..it all came back in her dreams...
Medics all around her, electricity surrounded her body as the filly was screaming in agony. All the ponies had blank faces with pitch black eyes. Celestia joined the scene, the filly pleading to stop, but Celestia ignored it and turned the machines higher. As the machines were about to blow..

Dash woke up screaming, still seeing the scene before her eyes she screamed 'NO' repeatedly as she tried to escape...
...and covered in the corner shivering
Twilight stormed into the room. She switched on the lights and walked over to the Pegasus, that was still saying 'No' every two seconds as she pressed herself against the walls.

"Dash it's okey, I'm here, no pony can hurt you.."
Twilight wrapped her arms around the Pegasus....
Then she heard she shrillest, heart wrenching scream she had ever heard. She had to cover her ears. But she didn't back away. She gently stroked the Pegasus' prismatic mane in an attempt to calm her down.

After they sat there like this for a about ten minutes, the panting pegasus finally calmed down. The visions faded. She finally realized she was in Twilights Castle.
Speaking of Twilight, Dash turned her head as soon as she noticed the stroking and saw her friend smiling at her. She let out a relieving sigh.

"Are you okey?"

Dash hesitated. "I am now."

"Come on."

Twilight got up and walked over to the door.
"What's going on?"

"You'll sleep with me or else you'll just have another nightmare if you try to sleep alone again."

Dash couldn't help but smile at the idea of sharing a bed with Twilight.
Twilight turned off the lights as they exited the room. They entered Twilights bedroom. Spike was still asleep, but both ponies didn't care, he had always been a heavy sleeper.

Cuddling up in the bed, both were smiling at the company.
The next morning began heartwarming as Twilight found herself in the embrace of a certain Pegasus. Something was off, though. What she felt, despite the warmth and the soft fur, was hard. She carefully turned around, careful not to wake the Pegasus, and gently touched Dashs chest. She was a little shocked as she felt the Pegasus' ribs. Knowing that she barely ate anything over that last week didn't make it any easier. She had to hit her books again, hoping to find anything about this 'not eating phase'.
She climbed as slowly and carefully as possible out off the bed and made her way downstairs.

About an hour later, Spike woke up. Stretching himself, he looked over to Twilights bed.

'Weird, normally she's awake before me...'
He walked over to it, closing his eyes and smiling kind of evil, he gently shook the pony at first.

"Wakey Wakey Twily"
Until he opened his eyes. The pony wasn't purple. It was all colors of the rainbow.
"Rainbow Dash?! Urgh figures, since when is Twilight sleeping at This hour."
Thanks to Spike, the Pegasus began to stir. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Spike right before her face.

"GAH!"
She shrieked and jumped, startling Spike.

"Wow wow, hey, calm down, it's me, Spike!"
Dash could only sigh.

"Dash, what are you doing in Twi's bed?"
Dash was blushing at that statement, finally realizing that this wasn't her room and she remembered last night. She looked around.

"Where's Twi?"

Spike crossed his arms.
"How should I know."

Dash blinked at him, not understanding.

"I'm not getting any answers here, huh?"

"Sorry.."

"Anyways, I'll be making breakfast."
He left Dash alone. She jumped from the bed and immediately regretted it as she lifted her hindleg. She sighed once again and made her way to the stairs on three legs, not daring to use her hurt one right now. All she had to do was getting down those stairs without hurting herself further.

One hoof after the other...one hoof after the other...
Luckily for her, Twilight was just on her way to get the Pegasus.
Seeing that she was definitely hurt, she wasted not another second.

"Dash, wait!"
The Pegasus didn't move another muscle. Twilight came flying up to her and levitated the Pegasus downstairs.

"Thanks Twi..."

"No problem. We don't want you to hurt yourself any more, do we?"

She gave the Pegasus a warm smile.

"I wish I could fly again... who even came up with the stupid idea of building those homicidal things called 'stairs'?!"

Twilight laughed at the statement. But as Dash brought up her wings...
"Come on, we still have time before breakfast. Why not check your wings?"

Dash nodded and they went into the bathroom.
Twilight unwrapped the Pegasus' wings, revealing better looking, healing, wounded, half naked wings. She asked Dash to spread them. Twilight gasped silently to herself, her eyes widened.
She wasn't really looking at the wings,
but at the skinny form of her friend. She could easily see the ribs, now that the wings aren't covering it anymore. She examined the rest of the Pegasus now. The hips were starting to show and her legs were pretty skinny. She didn't really notice anything of this before.

Twilight broke out of her trance as she saw she confused look from Dash.
"Uh.. right. Sorry, I kind of lost myself in my thoughts a bit, hehe.."

"Yeah, sure. Egghead."
Twilight didn't know if Dash either knew about herself or if she was just being herself again. She treated the wounds again and bandaged them again. Just in time. Spike called for the two to come for breakfast.

For Rainbow, life got better. Twilight was by her side and she felt safe. She cared for her. She Loved her.
Sometimes Dash could just kiss her for all she's doing.
Kiss?
The kiss.. this is how this all started. Her plan.
All ruined by her magic she had to keep hidden.
No, bad thoughts! I want to be happy
for Twilight!

Twilight looked confused at Dash's mood changes while she changed the bandages.
"Hey Rainbow, looks like your feathers are growing back!"

The alicorn cheered, breaking Dash out off her thoughts. The Pegasus looked at the wing, a smile forming on her face.
But it didn't last long. She tried to fight back the magic she felt growing inside her, clenching her eyes shut as she turned her head away from Twilight.

"What's wrong?"
Twilight asked, but the only answer was a twitch from Dash. Then she got it. It started the very moment she was thinking how cute Dash was when she was happy. She knew that strong emotions are causing her magic to tell her that.

"Sorry.."
She whispered. Dash was shivering a bit by now. The Pegasus turned back to Twilight, opening her eyes. To Twilights surprise, Dash was smiling at her. She could feel Twilights love. Twilight could even see her slightly blushing and chuckled a bit at what's happening. Dash joined Twilight and Spike heard the giggling from the bathroom. He wasn't a baby, but he was still a bit curious on what they were doing. It sounded like fun.

He sneaked up to the door and peaked a look inside. They just sat there next to each other and laughed. He stepped inside.

"Hey, what's so funny?"
They both gasped in surprise. Dash searching for anything to hide in as her magic sensed mixed feelings it couldn't cope with. In other words, she was twitching and shivering because her magic got overextended. She hid herself behind Twilight.
Of course, Spike got more curious, but also a bit concerned since nobody is okey when they are twitching and shivering, right?

"Uh, Dash? You okey?"
To her luck, Twilight answered for the Pegasus.

"Spike, please wait outside. We will explain everything when we're ready, okey?"

"Al..right..?"

He left the two, closing the door. Twilight went over to Dash.

"T-Thanks, T-T-Twil-light.."

She choked out. Twilight wrapped a wing around the Pegasus. Dash sighed.

"I'm s-sorry.."

"What? Why?"

"T-This stupid m-m-magic ruins e-everything..!" She buried her face into Twilights chest.

"Dash.. it's okey, really."
Dash looked up to her again.

"We will figure out how you can control it."

"B-But how?"

A long silence.

"I have no idea.."

Twilight whispered. She just noticed right then that Dash was calm now.

"Ready to go?"

"Y-Yeah... let's go."

They left the bathroom. Spike sat on the couch, reading the newspaper. As he heard the door close, he looked up to them and put the paper away. Dash wasn't looking up at him, her eyes were glued on the floor as her and Twilight walked over to him.

"I take it, this whole thing has to do something with you being picked up to canterlot and coming back with a colorless Rainbow Dash from the hospital, ripping out her feathers and trying to hang herself?"
Twilight looked hurt at him and saw that Dash wasn't happy about being reminded about what happened these last few weeks.

"Sorry. So, what's about this whole thing?"
Twilight glanced at Dash, who gave her a nod. And so, Twilight began with the story...
What happened on the cloud, the meeting with Celestia and surprisingly Dash, the explanations from Dash, the training with her magic, the pills, the attacks, and of course what happened in the castle lab.

"... and that's why I had to sent you outside. Sorry for that.."
Spike just stared back and forth between Twilight and Rainbow. Dash was silent the entire time, fighting back tears from the reminding of the events.

"So let me get this straight. Rainbow Dash is a PRINCESS and Daughter of Princess Celestia herself?!"
Twilight cringed at the mentioning of the name and turned to see Dash crying. She once again put a wing around her, trying to comfort her.

"Yes Spike."
"Wow. You are friends for how long now and you only know about all this because of the new spell you found?"

"Well.. yes."

"Bummer. So anyways, how do you want to figure out how she can control it?"

*sigh* "I have no idea..."