Chapters Princess Celestia nursed her head as she went through her paperwork. She took a quick break and took a look out the window. She sighed as she looked at the collapsed building. 3 civilians dead and hundreds more injured. What do we let the most powerful pony in Equestria do. Should we let her rebuild the city she built. Of course not lets give her paperwork. Celestia snorted.
At least paperwork was reasonably simple. After a few thousand years Celestia could do it her sleep. However there was one complication. She looked down at the little pegasus filly by her chair.. She couldn't keep the filly. She simply didn't have the right conditions to have the filly. She would need to find someone who would be willing to foster a filly like this one. Just another problem in a list of problems. Celestia slammed her head on her desk and grabbed her pen in her magic, twirling it around not putting it on the paper.
Suddenly Princess Celestia was alerted to a knock on her door. She quickly sat up and pretended she wasn't just procrastinating. "Come in" She called. The huge door slowly swung open and a rainbow mane peaked through. The rest of the pony followed through and Rainbow Dash was standing in the room.
Celestia took one look at Rainbow and realised something was wrong. Rainbows coat and mane were ruffled and her eyes were suspiciously bloodshot. Celestia opened her mouth to speak but was interupted by Rainbow. "Where's the filly? Have you found her a home already!?" Rainbow looked around for the filly before seeing her curled up next to Celestia. She rubbed the back of her head. "Obliviously not..." Celestia sighed and showed Rainbow the list of names of ponies that had already declined.
For a few minutes there an awkward silence. Taking note of this pause Celestia continued with her paperwork and the sounds of a scribbling pen echoed through out the room. Rainbow sat there kicking her left hoof on the ground trying to look anywhere other than at Celestia.
Finally the silence became to heavy for Rainbow and she blurted out her proposition. "Idon'tmindhavingthefilly!" Celestia stopped writing and raised an eye brow. " I'm sorry Rainbow Dash I didn't quite catch that." Rainbow looked down at her hooves her cheeks quickly reddening. "Um... Well... I've been thinking that mabey I should..." Finally Rainbow gave up on the proposal and just decided to say what she needed to say. Rainbow took up a pose as if she was talking to Spitfire and spoke. "I think I am the right pony to look after this filly ma'am. After all she is a pegusus and has likely not flown before ma'am. Being the fastest flier in Equestria I think I could help the filly." Rainbow took a deep breath in and out to steady herself. She looked up inquiringly at Celestia who looked up with an amused expression on her face.
"Rainbow Dash I..." Rainbow prepared for the worst. "Think that will be a great idea! The filly already knows you and you would be a great person to teach her how to fly, like you're doing with Scootaloo." Rainbow looked up with a smile on her face.
From then on it was decided it's time for our story to begin...
Author's Note
I need a name for the filly. After all I cant keep calling her the filly. I think probably Rainbow and Twilight would have a hoof in coming up with the name meaning it would be a mix of something cool and something less call like Lily Blitz or something
When I woke up I was above the clouds. I promise you this is not were I went to sleep. Now I always thought you went to sleep and woke up in the same place. That's how it was inside my room. It's not in this world. I am above the clouds. How am I still breathing? Also how am I not falling? I knew this world was upside down. I take a deep breath and scream. Then I am falling to the ground. The wind knocks my scream away and I am sure I am going to die. I close my eyes and accept my demise. Then I stop.
I shakily open my eyes. I am in front of a house. Well I say house. Are houses usually made of clouds? I thought they were made of bricks. Wait is that... Yep that's rainbow coming of the the side of the house. I look at the house enthralled by how it looks.
Suddenly a voice rings by my ear. "Welcome to my house." I look around for were my is only to see blue thing staring at me. I go into my fighting stance. "What want!?" I squeak. Blue thing sighs and looks down its eyes momentarily loosing their spark.
She looks up again and smirks. "I believe introductions are due." Blue thing blinks. "My name is Rainbow, Rainbow Dash." I look at Rainbow Rainbow Dash sceptically. What sort of name is that?! The Rainbow looks at me."Well..." I tilt my head confused. Well what? The Rainbow sighs and looks down. I watch as she plasters a fake smile on her face. " What's your name?" Name. My name. Hmmmm. I don't think I had a name. I shake my head. "No name." The Rainbow looked at me in shock. Why was she shocked? Her name was Rainbow Rainbow Dash.
Inside The Rainbow house everything seemed to be made of cloud. Confused I followed her until a burning question reached the forefront of my mind. "This is the kitchen and I know its pretty messy-" I pressed my tiny hoof against her chest. She stopped talking and looked down at me. I glared at her and spoke. "Why-" I gestured at myself hating my lack of words I could say "Here?" My glare at her increased when she didn't answer straight away. She took her time formulating an answer. When finally she did speak it was slow and carefully worded. " Princess Celestia and I think that it would be best for you if you lived here. Since you have nowhere to live we believe I may have the best conditions for you to live with me." The Rainbow then plastered a huge fake smile on her face and sweat dripped slowly down her forehead. I was so angry. She stole me and now she wants to control me.
I turn my back facing towards her and sit indignantly down. If I tried to speak my voice would squeak and make me sound cute. Besides there are not many words I know how to say. They do say actions speak louder than words. I sat there ignoring her for as long as possible. Then my stomach rebelled. It decided than food was more important than dignity and as much as I hate to say I agree with it. I pompously turned around and stalked over to a cupboard. I tried to nose it open and finally after some effort the cupboard opened. I smirked at The Rainbow. Only for a load of plates to fall on me.
I was in a field of white plates. Even though I couldn't see The Rainbow I could hear her laughing. If glares cold kill she would be dead. I heard muffled hoof steps coming over and for a moment I closed my eyes and imagined I was still in the safety of my room, surrounded my all the mathematical figures. There was no change or variables, it was all peaceful. My Dream was quickly dashed when I felt a plate being lifted of my head and the blinding light hit my sore eyes once more.
I was freed again when the last plate was lifted off me and placed back into the cupboard. I felt myself being lifted onto the counter. I lay down on the soft counter. It was so comfortable I momentarily forgot my rumbling belly. I was broken out of my comfortable position when a plate was slammed down in front of me, jolting me. I looked at the plate on it was a triangle. I sniffed the triangle before biting down. My taste buds were filled with wonder but all to quickly it was over.
I lay on the soft counter as my eyes closed. I fought to keep them open. I was sure if I fell asleep then I would wake up somewhere else. But sleep was stronger than my will and blackness enveloped me in its gentle shield.
Author's Note
You may be annoyed that the filly doesn't say any pony or some pony but remember she didn't grow up around pony culture. What about her books? You may ask. Well that is a question for another day........
I jolted awake as soon as the sun hit my eyes. I rubbed my bleary eyes, folded my ears back and tried to fall asleep. However the sun kept shining and in the end I just got up and looked round. I was in bed in a strange room. The room was filled with posters of other ponies and squashed in the other corner on the room was another bed. Being in the room didn't confuse me. I had accepted yesterday that when you fall asleep in this world you end up waking somewhere else.
Suddenly a loud bang of the door opening shocked me out of my ponders. I looked over to see The Rainbow standing in the doorway looking sheepishly at me. I stared at her inquisitively and tilted me head at her loud entry. The silence was elongated into an awkward 30 second before The Rainbow finally blurted out "Can you fly?" She then looked at me like she was ashamed. I backed away slowly from The Rainbow. First the weird name and now she thinks that I can fly. I noted her confused look when I burst into laughter. It was only when I stopped laughing that I realised she wasn't joking.
I raised an eyebrow at her. Due to my lack of words I just shook my head at her ridicules question. However instead of I don't know... Excepting the fact that thinking you can fly is INSANE, she instead looked at me like I have two heads.(Which if I did considering this strange world I wouldn't be surprised.) The Rainbow made a big sigh and placed her hoof on her head.
The Rainbow flexed the two lumps on her back. "These are wings" She said slowly like she was talking to a foal. " They make you fly." I looked in shock at her wings. Soo... She was a bird. I didn't know birds could talk. I think my jaw hit the floor at this point and my brain just went to white noise. The Rainbow, oblivious to my internal break down, went to my back and lifted up a lump a lot like hers. My blood froze when she said "This your wing." I blinked and my mind went into sleep mode. No literally. I fainted.
I awoke to The Rainbow bird looking at me with worry. I stared back. How had I not realised I was a bird? "Hey squirt, are you okay?" I looked at her. Squirt? First finding out I am a bird and now being called a burst of water, I didn't think this day could get any weirder. Boy, was I wrong.
Next thing I know I am outside. And, by outside I mean standing on a cloud and breaking physics. I could feel my legs shaking and my "wings" fluttering in panic. I think The Rainbow is trying to show me something but I can't hear her over the sound of fear in my head. Suddenly a quartet of blue hooves landed on the cloud I was standing on. I slowly looked up and saw the face of The Rainbow staring sympathetically into my eyes. I look at her in fear wishing for her to help me. "Hey mabey I can help you fly." These are the last words I remember before being lifted into the sky.
I let out a shrill scream as I was zoomed through the sky, being clutched in the crazy hooves of Rainbow. I choked as the wind zipped through my lungs. I watched as the ground whizzed beneath me and I prepared for my inevitable demise. After a few minutes I realised I might have a chance of surviving. I looked down again and a feeling I never felt before struck my body. Adrenaline filled my body and my blood pumped faster. Against my will a huge smile enevloped my face and I let out a small whoop.
I honestly don't remember much after that except for an extreme felling I can't explain. I think my logical self tuned back in when we landed. My hair was a mess and my eyes were wild. I looked at Rainbow who was standing next to me with a smug grin on her face. Some rebellious part of my body was grateful to Rainbow. However finally the logical part of me came back. I turned away from Rainbow and stalked into her house, head held high.
I ascended the cloud stairs to the room I woke up in earlier. I entered the room and sat down embarrassed. I had become an animal out there. I had just lost my logical side completely. I looked down at my pale cream hooves and wondered what I had become. I felt the bed press down beside me. slowly I looked up to see Rainbow staring worriedly at me. I looked back blinking rapidly to keep tears out of my eyes. I wondered what she would think of me. I wasn't worthy to be considered of as logical or normal. How was I suppose to know what normal. This places version of normal was completely different from what I had ever known.
I felt the bed lift up as Rainbow left. What had I ever done? I was well behaved and happy with my life. In this world happiness is not allowed. All must conform to the way society expects. I hate Rainbow. She is the cause of all my problems. I wish she would die.
Rainbow Dash sat downstairs nursing her throbbing head. Nopony told her that having foals was such hard work. Scootaloo always loved it when Rainbow helped the filly she seemed happy and then, she just changed. Rainbow groaned just stopping herself from head slamming the table.
Suddenly a loud bang at the door alerted Rainbow. She frowned. It was getting quite dark and it was well past the time the post offices closed. Never the less she stood and walked over to the door. Opening it slowly, for fear of a prank, she noticed a small slip of paper lying on the ground. Craning her head she saw a note scribbled on the paper. Gently Rainbow picked up the note and walked into the kitchen. When she got to the kitchen she placed the note down and started to read.
Dear Rainbow Dash, It has come to our attention that you have a filly in your house. Unknown to you, this is our filly and we find it quite rude of you to take her. We wish to get her back. If she is not returned to us within a week we will have to take her back by force. Simply leave her on your door and one of our agents will deal with her. Do not try to watch. Just leave her on your doorstep and never look back. If you go against our wishes the consequences will be, for a lack of a better word, deadly. Remember this filly is not what she seems.
Rainbow felt shivers travel down her spine. Even through her fear, Rainbow could feel her anger rising. The consequesnces may be "deadly" but Rainbow would make sure the filly was safe. Even if Rainbow was killed in the process.
Author's Note
Um yeh
I cracked one of my crusty eyes open. On the pillow under my face it was wet and salty. I looked around, surprised to find myself in the same room I fell asleep in. My eyes kept scanning the room until I noted a small note on the other bed in the corner. I hopped off my bed and onto the floor, slowly trotting over to the bed. I read the note swiftly.
Dear filly I am just going to Ponyville for a few hours to shop. I'll be back soon. Don't get in ani any trouble. Feel free to look around my house. I've left some fruit on the table for you if you get hungry. Rainbow Dash
I frowned at being referred to as "filly" but I suppose when you don't have a name there is little they can call you. Hmm... Rainbow did say explore the house. Well I have nothing else to do so... Yeh I guess.
I walked slowly around the house. To say the house was weird would be an understatement. The house was made out of a cloud like substance- and THAT'S not even the weird part. What was strange was that I, Rainbow and all the other objects in the house didn't sink through the cloud. The cloud also seemed to be a turquoise color. Now I don't pretend to be the wisest pony on the subject of clouds but I'm 99.9% sure that clouds were white. Heck all the other clouds were white. Even this house was white on the outside. It's probably not worth mentioning that I sat on the "floor" for a while, as my brain processed the information.
When I finally got up I decided to look at each room individually. I walked slowly to the kitchen. Even though I had been in the kitchen before I hadn't seen it's entirety, only the counter. The kitchen, as it turned out, was a lot bigger than I had thought. As well as the small area I had seen before, there was more counters, a table with strange twirly chairs and what looked like a dining room. From the minimal knowledge I had of Rainbow, I assumed that her kitchen (well kitchen/dining room) would be messy with lots of unwashed plates and the likes. However that wasn't the case. In fact it seem quite neat. But then I had only ever seen kitchens in my imagination. So I don't know.
I decided to head to the room opposite the kitchen. Inside was, what I assumed was, a living room. There were two pristine sofas and one worn chair. There was also a weird box thing. I went up to the strange box and poked it. Nothing really happened, so assuming it wasn't dangerous, I went and did a sitting down test on the sofa. The sofa was very comfortable. And, as I realized after I sat down, it was a bad idea to sit on if I wanted to do any exploring. Begrudgingly I dragged myself up. I gave the sofa one last longing look before slipping out of the room and up the stairs.
When I reached the top of the stairs, I was at a corridor. Down one end of the corridor was a room that I had slept in. It was pointless looking at that because I already knew what that looked like. There were 3 other rooms. I headed towards one of the rooms but it was locked. I frowned,puzzled, before shrugging and walking to another room.
I opened the stiff door. Inside this room there was a bunch of box's. Most of the box's were full of rusty and slightly moldy toys. There was a few box's of meddles. However one box caught my eyes. Inside there was a few books. My heart lit up. Finally some books. I opened one of them eagerly only for a ton of dust to spiral into my face. I choked and coughed wiping a hoof in front of my face to clear the air. I looked at the book expecting words but instead I got... "Pictures!?" I growled. Who puts pictures in a book? I mean honestly. It wasn't even a picture book. No. These were pictures of Rainbow. Strangely the pictures were very realistic. Whoever the artist was needs a trophy. Even so I slammed the book down in frustration, groaning.
I was about to leave the room when I heard voices outside. I moved the disappointment box and saw two winged ponies just outside the house. One of them was Rainbow and the other was yellow with pink hair. I gasped. What was Rainbow doing?!
I crept downstairs. (In my panic not noticing that Rainbow had no shopping with her after all. Liar) I tried to be as quiet as possible which, given I didn't know what stairs were until a few days ago, was very hard. I heard the telltale click of the lock.
"Um... Filly do you think you could come here?" Rainbow asked. They wanted me to come to them did they. Well I wouldn't conform to them. I snuck back upstairs and charged into the box room. I probably shouldn't have made such a loud noise because a few seconds I can hear Rainbow and her accomplice walk upstairs. They are trying to be quiet but I can hear every sound. I try and bury my trembling body underneath the box's.
Luckily they go into another room and for a moment, buried in the box's, surrounded by silence I can just imagine I'm in my room. But my imagination is quickly smashed when a pair of yellow hooves appear in front of the box I am sitting at. I stare at the hooves and then I am in the mercy of my new master. I creep out from underneath the box's. I go to a submissive pose and mutter.friendship? I reach out a trembling hoof of my own. She smiles gently and I can't help but give her a small smile back.But we know what you want now. I glare at her from under the box.
We just knew she was coming to kill you. No one in this world is safe. Why don't you go back to your room. Oh wait. You can't A snide voice whispers in my head.Stop what? I'm jus tewwing the twuth. The voice says mocking me.And what are you going to do. You have nowhere to go. I run faster hoping to reach the room so I can sleep.Yes run to your room. You never had a backbone anyway. Haha Ha The voice spat. Face it you have no-one The voice catches and it giggles. I'm sorry is it no pony now. Face it either way The voice starts to fade. Either way you're never going to be loved. Finally I reach the room and with one last giggle the voice disappears.
I jump on the bed and scream into the pillow. The voice is right. In the land of hate I will never be loved. I fall asleep, fear in my heart and tears in my eyes for the second time in a row.
