Going Home

by Firelight Speckled

At the end of the Rainbow

Previous Chapter

They raced up the stairs after Pinkie. Spike decided to go back to the castle and clean up. He was having to do that a lot, I was alway testing new spells with Starlight. But two weeks ago, she moved for the Crystal Empire to be with Sunburst.

When we came to Applejack's bedroom. It looked liked a little kid had moved in. A race car bed, toys littered the floor, and a picture frame with Applejack, Northern Spy, and was that Applebloom? Her bow was smaller than before, and she was all grown up. Applejack laughed.

"Wrong bedroom. That's Northern Spy's." She said trotting down the hall. They all glanced at one another then followed her. Pinkie bouncing in front.

"So, sis in-law, you do still have the jars right?" Pinkie asked. Applejack nodded. Fluttershy glanced at me.

"Sis in-law?" She asked. Pinkie smiled. She spun around and bounced backwards to talk to us.

"E-yep!" She replied in a Big Mac voice. Applejack smiled like it was a joke.

"Hmm uhm!" She said, just like Pinkie's sister, Marble Pie. Wait.

"Pinkie? Did Big Mac and Marble....?" I couldn't finish my sentence. But Pinkie nodded so hard that I thought her head could of falled off.

"Y'all should see the baby." Applejack said.

"Huh?" I replied.

"Why weren't we invited to the wedding?" Fluttershy asked. I was so confused that I forgot all about that. Pinkie and Applejack's smiled faded.

"Well....we did invite y'all, but..." Applejack started.

"You were all too busy." Pinkie finished. Then Twilight remembered... She was too busy because Tirek's prison bars were weakening. All five of them -Flurry Heart too, even though she was only a fillie at the time, she still is- had to pour almost all of their magic into the bars, so he wouldn't escape. It took weeks of hard work and stress. And I'm pretty sure I told Spike to go the wedding, but instead he stayed to help. I looked down not looking at Applejack.

"Awww. It's okay, ya have important princess-y stuff to do." Applejack said. Then she stopped and turned into her bedroom. Inside was what it normally looked like, a bed, a bedstand, a chest, a closet, and a bookcase.

Applejack trotted over to the closet and opened it. Inside instead of close were six jars. In two of them were whisps of magic, one blue, one dark pink, in three were different color feathers, light blue, another light yellow, and the last a purple, the last jar had a pink curly crazy hair. Fluttershy gasped.

"Is that my feather?" She gasped. Applejack blushed.

"And Twilight's and Rainbow's. The magic is Rarity's and also yours Twi. I look at them whenever I feel alone." Applejack said. My eyes grew wide.

"Applejack! We can now find Rainbow and Rarity! Whippie!" I said shooting up in the air. Applejack rasied an eyebrow.

"What I call of Equestria are ya talking about? How can magic and a feather help us find Rarity and Rainbow?" She asked. I smiled landing.

"I can use my location spell on it and it will wiz away to find its owner! And then all we need to do is follow it!" I said. Applejack sighed.

"Sorry, Twi. But no." She said. What?

"Applejack what are you talking about about?" I asked. Applejack closed her eyes.

"We need to move on with our lifes. Look at Rainbow! She flew off and left us to follow her dream! Same did Rarity! It's time to forget the past. I have a new family. Maybe you should go. Things aren't what they used to be, Twi." Applejack closed her eyes again and sighed. "Believe me, I wish that things could go back to the way they were, but they can't." She said trotting to the door.

"Ya can take Rarity's magic and Rainbow's feather. They mean nothing to me anymore. Just after that.....leave my family in peace." She said trotting out of the room. They watched as Applejack walked away. Imagine your best friend, okay, then let's say you haven't seen them in years, but when you go to their house everything has changed. Not physically, but emotionally. They don't remember whyy you two where even friends. Would you feel heartbroken? Shattered inside? 'Wow! I'm glad that isn't me!' you're probably thinking. But that's what Twilight was feeling. Broken and shattered.

"Why, A.J?" Fluttershy asked. But nopony answered.

"C-come on guys. We need to f-find D-dashie." Pinkie said. She looked at the verge of tears. This must of been big for her. Losing somepony as close to her, saying that we should just forget everything? Dash will be heartbroken. She and Applejack were almost as close as her and Pinkie. Plus Rainbow is loyalty, she'll be shattered.

"Pinkie's right. We need to find Dash." I picked up the jar with Rainbow's feathers with my magic, so delicate and small, so easy to break or lose. "Let me cast the spell and then we can find her." I told them. I opened the jar and set the feather down.

"Let's find the owner of this feather
a friend I lost many seasons ago
where will she be, let's find out
find me this pony, owner of this feather!" I said casting the spell. The feather glowed blue, then floated up in the air, and began to fly away. We followed it. Fluttershy had grabbed the jar with Rarity's magic so we wouldn't have to return. We walked back down the stairs. Applejack was there, staring at us. She watched us go out the door. Northern Spy waved goodbye, but Applejack just blinked.

I thought it would lead us to Cloudsdale, but instead it lead us to the heart of Ponyville. Confused we followed the feather until we arrived at the Golden Oak Library. It stopped at the door, hoovering in place. A soft voice sang a melody.

"Shhh, be quiet now...
shhh it's time to sleep....
shhh let your dreams and wonders take hold!
shhh rest your head...
shhh be quiet now....
shhh it's time...to...dream...." it sang. We looked at each other. Then Fluttershy knocked at the door. A moment later a blue stallion, with a darker blue mane stood at the doorway. His Cutie Mark was a C.D with a wing on top of it. The feather flew into the library. The stallion's head watched it zoomed pass, then he turned to look at us.

"What was that?" He asked. Pinkie smiled.

"Hi, Wing Beat! You already know Fluttershy, and this is Princess Twilight Sparkle! And that was a magical feather, that was cursed so we can find our friend, Rainbow Dashie!" I smiled.

"Rainbow Dash." I said. Wing Beat looked confused.

"Well it's only me, Cloud, and Petal. So you must of misfired your spell or some-"

"Ow! What was that?" A voice said. Then Cloud floated down. When she saw us she smiled.

"Hey! I've been running into you three a lot today aren't I?" She said, laughing at her own joke. Then she turned to Wing Beat. "A random feather just poked into me. Do you know what's that's about?" She asked. Our jaws dropped. Cloud Wonders was Rainbow? But Rainbow would hate living in a library or being a librarian, and what about Petal?! So many thoughts went threw my mind. Who was Wing Beat? Why didn't she tell us who she really was?!

"R-r-rainbow?" Fluttershy managed. Cloud looked at her.

"What? My name is Cloud Wonders, not R-r-rainbow." She said laughing.

"Rainbow? Why didn't you tell us who you are?" I said. She looked at us, then at Wing then sighed.

"You better come in." She said stepping to the side to let us in.


Author's Note

Hi. I kinda forgot about this for a while -that's why it took so long so sorry! :fluttercry::applecry: