Voyage Of The Unforgotten!
Chapter 4- The Dawn of Light!

Rainbow Dash's P.O.V

“Dashie? Oh Dashie?”

I opened my eyes slowly and then saw a pair of sky blue eyes in my face and a smile.

“Dashie? Wakey wakey.”

“R-Rarity? Is that you?” I mumbled while yawning.

“What the?! Do I sound like Rarity?!” The voice squeaked. Oh, nevermind, it was Pinkie.

“Pinkie, what in the world are you doing here? In my face?”

“Did you forget?! Today's the day! We got so many people coming today. Lot's of people are so interested in our Fun Fair and it's all thanks to you! We should be having kids in 3 hours. That'll give us enough time to set up. Come on get up!” She chirped as she pulled my legs. I grabbed onto the bars on the bed.

“Ugh, why so early?” I groaned grabbing onto the bed tighter. I could hear Pinkie's grunts and groans as she tried to pull me out the bed.

“D-Dashie! Lighten...up!!! Gosh, you're so fat!!!” She laughed as she slapped my thighs. That send a huge wave of heat in my cheeks and I squealed.

“Pinkie what was that for?!?!”

“To get you up! Now, let's go!”

“NO!!!”

She stopped and sighed and went out the tent. I shrugged my shoulders and went back to sleep. All of a sudden, Pinkie poured a bucket of ice water all over me. I jumped up, wet as ever in position of a cat. I screamed so loudly that Rarity and Twilight peaked their heads in the tent.

“Now, I said GET UP!!!” Pinkie yelled as she dropped the bucket and went out the tent. Rarity and Twilight both exchanged glances and then looked at me.

“You okay darling?” Rarity helped me with up.

“Y-Yeah, a little. I'm c-c-cold.” I shivered. Twilight grabbed a towel and placed it around me.

“There. Once you're done, come out and help us with this fair thingy.”

“It's not a thingy Twilight. It's a fair for us to go to India.”

“And what if we don't get 2,500?”

“We'll find another local transport. Also, why are you doubting?”

“I am not! It's just you!”

“What about me?!”

“Um, ahem darlings. Calm down.”

“Rarity is right. We shouldn't be fighting. I'm sorry.”

“Y-Yeah, I'm sorry too. Hug?”

“HUGGSSSS!!!!” Pinkie exclaimed as she hugged me and Twilight together. We couldn't breathe at all. She let us go and grabbed a towel and started rubbing my head like a maniac. “There ya go Dashie. So your hair can dry faster. After she pulled off the towel, my hair became so poofy and curly. Everyone was so fascinated.

“Oooohh.”

“Ugh, it will take a while to comb this out.”

“No worries. Maybe if you just-”

“Pinkie forget it. No touching.”

“Okay. So, let's do this!”

We all ran out the tent and setted up everything in less than 2 hours. Once we were done the clock was almost at 10am. It was 9:59.

“Wait for it!” I said while staring at my phone clock. “They should be coming in-”

“5.”

“4.”

“3.”

“2.”

“1!!!”

It was 10 o'clock. And I was so nervous. We didn't see anyone at the front. I sighed.

“Welp, we tried our-”

“Wait hush!” Sunset closed my mouth. I gave her a look.

“Um, why should I-”

“Hush!!! Do you hear that?”

It was quiet and the ground started to shake.

“OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!?!?!!?” Pinkie yelled.

“No no. Wait a minute..”

We all looked at the front gate and saw a huge crowd of kids running towards the gate. We heard screams and hollering and kids running so fast with their money in their hands. Twilight was so scared as she was standing my the gate. I ran to the gate and grabbed a whistle and blew on it extremely hard. Once I blew it, everyone stopped.

“HEYYY!!!! EVERYONE SINGLE FILE LINE NOWWWW!!!”! I yelled. Everyone got in one line and stood quietly. I gave a warning to Twilight and so she began to enter children in. Throughout the day, so many kids came out and had the best time. We had 100 kids. 100 times 5 is 500 dollars. It was fun. We kept this up for the week and we were able to collect so much. Even more than our budget.

The next week……..

“44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52! We have $3, 552.56.”

“Really?! That's way more than our actually budget.” Sunset smiled. “Let's go to see Sketch.”

“Uh hold on there Sunset. How about we take a day off so we can relax? Why do you want to see Sketch so badly?” Applejack smirked at her while her cheeks turned red. She scratched the back of her head and looked away.
“Uh, hehehe, I just want to go to India. You know sounds very um ya know, interesting.”

“I think we should take a day off..”
I trailed off as my necklace glowed and the same red and yellow flame circulated around my eyes and revealed to me a flashback.

Flashback…….

“And that's how you belly dance.”

“Ugh, but mommy, I don't wanna belly dance. What's the point of it?”

“It's an Indian tradition. You have to be able to do it for the ancestral festival. It only happens every 4 years. You're only 4, you will do great things.”

“But mommy-”

“Dashie? You'll be fine. Now, let's start from the top.”

“Um, I pretty much know how to do this. What about your culture? What do you guys dance too?”

“Polynesian dances?”

“Yup! I wanna learn about your culture.”

“Okay so….”

End of flashback……

“Ancestral Festival…..” I thought out loud. Too bad everyone heard me.

“Huh? What festival?”

“Oh, well um, when I was in India when I was 4 years old, we had an ancestral festival every 4 years to show our respects to our ancestors.”

“Awwww that's so sweet!!” Pinkie cooed.

“Yeah, it's a great tradition we do. But, the thing is, we always do Indian traditions. I wanna do something different.”

“How different?”

“I don't really know. Ugh, I just want to get there.”

“And you will Rainbow. Just calm down. Everything will work on it's own.” Fluttershy smiled.

“It's about time we head to bed. I'm tired if we really wanna leave here on Wednesday then we got one more day of packing. G'night!!!”

Everyone went to their separate ways and I plopped on my bed and looked at the flower again and clutched it close to my chest and fell asleep.

Flashback…….

“Dashie, since you are now 7 years old, you will know the criteria of what we do as an Indian nation as we work together. Here, we have the villagers who cut the fish and go fishing and make sure the water stays clean.” A little girl's father showed her the way the people clean the fish and go out on boats to find fish.

“Oooohh! Seems fun daddy!” The little girl clapped her hands and giggled. He picked her up and snuggled her.

“Here, is the most difficult of all. You must have strength, patience, and strategy.”

“Strategy píta?”

“Yes my Dashie. Strategy!! When I was a young teen, that was my little job to cut the mango and tie it. Now the strategy comes when you have to pick a ripe mango. It's not easy to find one especially when you're on the tree looking for ripe ones. You have to jump to another tree. You can't fall or else all the mangoes fall and they will be no good.”

“Oh, seems like a lot of work.”

“Yes it is my little betee, you shall see. So, are you liking anything so far so when you're 14 and older you have a helping guard to the nation?”

“No! I wanna do something harder!”

“Um harder?”

“Yes sir! I wanna be able to do the impossible!”

“Um…”

“What's there to do?!”

“Well, there's more fields to look at but-”

“Come on píta!! Show me harder stuff! Please píta!”

“Okay okay. Fine, now, I don't want you to be doing this but here. These villagers go and protect our city from danger. We've been a threat to an ancient king who wants something hidden underneath these caverns here.”

“Ooohh píta! Tell me more!”

“Oh no no no no. You're not ready for that. Anywho, they are more stations to look at and admire and one day, you'll choose to be one if these fields.”

The little girl looked back to the place where most villagers were standing on balconies and trees searching beyond the sea for a threat.

“Hmph, I'll show him. I'll show him that I am ready!”

End of flashback……….

I woke up to the aurora of a sweet scent that I couldn't really describe. Then something nice and calm touched my nose. I arose from my bed and saw a trail of red and yellow flame leading through the tent. I saw Sunset knocked out cold. I walked carefully out the tent with no shoes on and grabbed the flower just in case. I followed the flame outside towards the sea. Once I reached there, I looked at my reflection and saw the flames surround me and then wrote some words on the sea. I saw the words and it said:

“Don't follow words of hurt, follow words that come from your heart.”

I stepped back completely baffled and then saw my flower hit the sea. I picked it up quickly only to reveal something on one of the petals. It was my birthmark. It faded away and so did the flame. The flame and the mark both came together and went towards the moon. I blinked a few times and rubbed my eyes too. I walked back to my tent confused. Then it hit me. We have to go to India immediately. That morning around 1am, I packed my suitcase and luggage away. I cleaned up my side of the room properly. And waited till the sun came up.

6 hours later…..

“Morning bacon shimmer. Rise and shine..”

“Wha? B-Bacon who?” She replied as she woke up to my beautiful, adorable, magenta eyes with my mom's flower in her hair and I am wearing a light pink dress.

“You heard me. Let's go.”

“Why do you look so fancy?”

“Well, when you were asleep, I had another vision and this time the voice hath spoken to me again telling me to go to India. And I think today's a perfect day!”

“Today? But Dash-”

“Come on lazy bones. We got to go!”

“But Dash, wait! Where are my clothes?!”

“Oh, I packed them in your suitcase.”

“What?! Dash you can't be- AAAAA!!!”

“Okay Ms. Talkative. We gotta go and hustle up! Lemme gather the others. India is our destination!”

I skipped out the tent and started skipping like a little girl. Sunset combed her hair quickly and ran outside after me.

“Oh, um, someone's excited! But Dash slow down! We got to give Sketch the-”

“Done that!!” I sang sweetly. I saw all my friends dressed up with suitcases. Like more than 2.

“OOHH I'M SO EXCITED!!!!”

“Me too Pinkie!”

Everyone was walking and dressed as we were getting ready to aboard the plane. We saw Sketch motioning his hand to make us come forth. As I was about to board the plane, Sunset grabbed my arm.

“Are you sure this is what ya want?!”

“Of course! We're going to my home country! This is awesome!”

“No, not the place. By transportation!!”

“Huh?!”

“What?!”

“Okay!!!”

We aboard the plane but our luggage was taken to another plane.

“Wait Sketch?” I asked while tapping his shoulder. He boarded me on the plane.

“Don't worry, your luggage will be with you at all times. Come on!”

“Um okay.”

We got on the plane buckled safely. As we went on the plane, I listened to music until it was time to leave. After music, I looked in my bag and found a picture of me with my mom and dad. I looked at the picture smiling my face off remembering the moments we had together.

Manip by: @ranibowdashi

Sketch was flying the plane 28 hours later in auto pilot. I was knocked out. Since Fluttershy sat next to me on the plane, she woke me up.

“Okay ladies so um, we're here.”

“YAYAYA!!!” We rejoiced. I looked out the window but saw green and a bit of blue.

“Wait, we didn't land yet.”

Sunset and Sketch looked at one another and Sunset gave him a que.

“Well, um you see the thing is your luggages are in Chennai already. But, the plane is not dropping. Hehe you guys are.” He blushed a bit.

“Wait, so we're skydiving?!?!?” Pinkie shouted as she grabbed a suit and helmet and glasses. As that happened, the back ramp door began to open and once it did, me and Flutters clutched onto one another. We screamed our heads off. Sketch and Sunset gave all of us suits. I put on mine and received straps.

“WHY DID YOU TELL ME THIS BEFORE?!?!?!?!” I hollered at Sunset.

“I WAS TRYING TOO!! BUT HEY, LOOK IT'S CHENNAI!!!!” She pointed to the green dot.

I screamed loudly and held back. Pinkie and Sunset both jumped out and started screaming in fun. Then, Twilight jumped a bit. Rarity and Applejack had to be trapped together, cause ya know Rarity. Rarity was in the front.

“Rarity on three we both gonna jump!!”

“NOOO!!!!”

“YES WE ARE!!! UGH 3!!!”

They both jumped off but Fluttershy was near them and they knocked her over so now she's gone. And it's just me. Sketch looked at me and smiled.

“Ya ready for this?!”

“NO!!! NO WAY I AM ALL THE WAY HERE AND I'M DYING!!”

“You're not going to die. Have fun with it!” He yelled as he pushed me down and I was somersaulting like crazy. It felt so crazy but awesome at the same time. As I was getting closer to the land, I saw the palace and how far it was away from the sea. Once I got to Earth, I used my parachute and landed in the sea and swam to the shore where my friends were. They were unzipping their suits and panting. I took off my helmet and my hair was wet.

“That...was...AWESOME!!!”

“That was horrifying! But, I'm glad we're here.” Rarity sighed. I think I got seaweed in my helmet.

“Hold on.” I walked up to Sunset and pulled her shirt. “Next time you tell me what the heck goes on before got it?!”

“Yes ma'am. So, where do we go from here?!”

“I dunno. Don't ask me. Ask Dashie.” Pinkie perked.

Suddenly, I started to get a little bit drowsy. My stomach churned me and started making some terrible sounds.

“Uh girls..?”

“Well, why don't we take a map?”

“Yeah Pinkie, a map we have to pay for.”

“But they don't technically use U.S dollars. They use another type of money.”

“They are called rupees.”

“Of course you would know Twilight, you know just about everything about this place. More than Rainbow does.”

“Are you assuming that I know everything about India?”

“Well duh!!”

That's when I fainted in Fluttershy’s arms and was snoring like crazy. Sunset cupped my cheek and tried to wake me up but I opened my eyes.

“Dash, come on. Where should we go? You're the expert. Lead us!”

“Huh? What? Oh, um, yeah mhm. Wait what?! Oh, yeah. To the palace, um, I dunno.”

Everyone sobbed quietly as I rubbed my head.

“Sorry girls. I haven't been here in 6 years and also I'm jetlagged.”

“Oh, that explains how you look. It's hideous! Um, no offense darling!” Rarity smiled sheepishly. I nodded my head in agreement. “We have a question about transportation hon.”

“Oh, well all you gotta do is find a tuk-tuk.”

“A what?!?!?” They exclaimed all at once.

“A tuk-tuk. It's a motor vehicle to drive around India. That's the only transportation because India is so crowded.”

We all looked around. It was busy all right! People walking around. Tuk-tuks beeping one another. Loud chatting, kids running around having fun and most terrifying, traffic.

“Um wow Dashie. No wonder you're so organized with busy schedules. Your city is busy. Is it like this all the time?” Twilight questioned as she looked to see where we can buy a tuk-tuk. Meanwhile, Pinkie ran across the street and handed me a cup of frappuccino.

“Here Dashie! This will drive out those tired bugs inside ya!”

I gulped it down fast and started to get a little energy.

“Okay girls, let's get ourselves to the palace!” I said outloud. And Indian man overheard us.

“Oh? The palace? You want to go there? Nobody has been visiting in years. But, the king isn't letting anyone in after his royal coming to this beautiful city.”

“Why isn't he letting anyone inside?” Sunset seemed concerned as much as I am.

“Yeah why?”

“You see he's been very heartbroken with the death of 2 of his precious angels. Now, we got more protectors watching over the sea. Also, he has very high tech security in the gates. It'll be a miracle if you girls get in. Well bye!” He replied as he walked off.

“Gosh, he really has changed when I wasn't around anymore. Why did he change?”

“I don't know. At least he gave us some information about the palace.”

“True true. Now come on, we can't be wasting time. Pinkie let's go!” I yelled. She was throwing bird seeds in the water. She found a candy wrapper on the ground and was going to collect it in her mouth but I slapped her hand away.

“No time for fooling around! Let's go! We need to find an available tuk-tuk.”

“A tuck what?!” Pinkie asked.

“I told ya before it was a use of transportation!!!” I yelled. My head was killing me. But at least I got a bit of energy from that cup of frappuccino. We found one instantly and we all piled in.

“Okay Dash, how do we start it?”

“I beg your pardon?!”

“How do we start the vehicle?”

“You mean tuk-tuk.”

“Yeah, that!”

“Um, honestly, I really don't know. I've been always carried on a huge elephant for traveling throughout the city. I hated the feeling because as me and my parents passed by, everyone would bow which made no sense!”

“Awwwww Dashie. It's okay.” Fluttershy said as she hugged me.

“Let's power this bad boy up!!” Pinkie said firmly as she rolled over all of us and pressed the gas button and we went flying throughout the street. We were going way too fast and I was directing Pinkie to not hit people.

“Go left! Right! Left again! Ooh, watch out for the people! Um, excuse me! Sorry, um coming through!” I replied very fast as Pinkie was driving fast. Pinkie was amazing at driving a tuk-tuk even though she doesn't have a license! As we were driving down the road, there were a traffic of sheep running down the road and there were so many of them. Fluttershy pulled Pinkie's shoulder.

“OH MY GOODNESS STOP PINKIE!!!!” She screamed out making Pinkie jump in fright and stepped in the brakes. We stopped directly in front of them. We watched them go and we all gave Fluttershy a glare.

“Really Flutters? I had the light!” Pinkie pouted. Fluttershy blushed from embarrassment and sinked in her seat. I heard her say something very softly and quietly. Once the herd was finished, Pinkie stepped hard on the gas and we were zooming around the city. I checked my phone to find the nearest hotel we can stay in. It was down the block.

“Okay Pinkie, I want you to press the breaks!”

“I'm trying! It's not working! I think it's broken!!”

“BROKEN?!?!!?!?”

“Um, yeppers..?”

I looked around and saw that we might smash into the hotel and run over passengers. I looked down on my necklace and touched it to receive my super power. Once I got it, I jumped out of the vehicle and started pushing it from the front. It was a lot harder than it looked. My feet were burning against the hard road and I think I was receiving cuts and bruises. Once we got to the hotel, the tuk stopped and I made it stop. I screamed in pain wondering why my feet so blazing hot and once I sat on the step of the entrance, my feet were bleeding terribly. Cuts, bruises and scars were all over my feet. My friends tried to carry me and they successfully did it. We got to the front desk and Sunset requested a room for 2 days. Once we got into the room, it was perfect. Applejack rested me on the bed and got a towel and dipped it in a bucket of alcohol.

“You might wanna close your mouth and ears for this.” She laughed. She patted my leg and gosh did it burn. Pinkie put a cloth over my mouth and I screamed to the top of my lungs.

Transition to next scene……

I got a cast for both my feet and and rested on the bed and was looking at the hibiscus. Somehow, me and Sunset shared a room. She jumped on my bed and laughed.

“How's your feet?”

“Eh, it's okay. I wonder why I got sent here.”

“Don't worry, it's something important.”

“Why is my dad not letting anyone into the palace? That's not like him…he's changed so much….”

“Yeah, well, the man said he will be coming into the city so you'll see him then.”

“Yeah, that is if he'll accept me…”

“Well, we should sleep. Don't worry, things will work out. You'll see.”

“Mhm...night.”

“Night!”

Author's Note

And so it begins.... MWAH HA HA