The next day they were back at it. A chorus of feeble woohoos and breaking tree limbs and the thumping of a pony against the hard earth echoed against the painfully sunny skies of Ponyville. Rainbow Dash landed, dripping with sweat again.
“Can someone tell Celestia to turn down the sun, GEEZ!” She wiped her brow and joined Fluttershy in the sliver of shade underneath an apple tree.
“You’re getting closer today, you almost have it down!” Fluttershy was really never the best encouragement but Rainbow Dash feigned a grin, knowing her friend was genuinely trying.
“Thanks Fluttershy, by the end of the day I know I’ll have it down.”
The humidity of the day was wearing on both ponies. While everypony else sat in their cool homes, listening to Vinyl Scratch’s newest rad album. Rainbow Dash longed to hear the thumping of her music in her moist and cool cloud house. Soon enough she found herself listening to the thumping of her own heart, a rhythm that eventually soothed her to sleep. Fluttershy wasn’t far behind her when she noticed the muscular Pegasus sleeping on her shoulder and was far too afraid of moving and disturbing her slumber.
Unfortunately for Rainbow Dash, she had many competitors, many fans, many many fans. Some of which very desperately wanted to have the beautiful rainbow mane all to themselves. A pony with a very distinct yellow mane crept around the trunk of the tree, not wanting to disturb either pony’s slumber until she reached Rainbow Dash. She stroked her thick muscular wings as gently nuzzled her snout into that beautiful rainbow mane drowning in the sweet scent of sweat, clouds, and a mild spice of rainbows. The scent intoxicated her and she was nearly ready to scream with excitement that she was nuzzling THE Rainbow Dash. Wait until she told everyone else… Of course before she crept away again she would have to steal a small chunk of every color in her mane to add to her marvelous collection.
Rainbow Dash jumped awake, a mighty snore from Angel Bunny jerking everyone out of their slumber.
“OH GOSH!” Rainbow Dash heart jumped in her chest, the sun was setting and she had almost slept through the entire evening. “I have to try this stupid trick one more time before the sun is gone!” She bolted up into the stratosphere leaving Fluttershy on the ground, shaken by the sudden sounds.
With tears in her eyes from the whipping wind Rainbow Dash Dives gracefully and athletically. The task at hand falling perfectly beneath her wings she was relieved of the panic that had been wrenching out her heart the past month, she was finally free. She thought she could almost hear Fluttershy actually cheering for her, but it was probably just the wind whistling through her ears.
With a thunk and another timid woohoo Rainbow Dash Landed and struck a pose for her adoring friend. But what came out of Fluttershy was no longer a woohoo but a little gasp as her eyes widened bigger than her rump.
“I know it’s pretty awesome but you don’t have to act like that, this trick has to be at least 20% cooler than the sonic rainboom!”
“Um… no. It’s not that… It’s your mane. It looks like part of it is missing…”
“Eh. It’s probably from crashing into trees. I’ll have Rarity fix it tomorrow when we don’t have to practice as much! Let’s get to bed after a hard day’s work!”
She was beautiful; everything about her was marvelous, even when she was sleeping. The yellow maned pony peeked at Rainbow Dash through her cloud home. Of course there we no locks in ponyville and you could just shove your head right through a cloud, this was all too easy for an avid fan. With a light poof you could push yourself right through her bedroom walls, and now standing at the foot of Rainbow Dash’s bed, our visitor was trembling with excitement.
I’m in HER house! I can’t believe I did it! No one thought I would go through with it but I did it. I can almost touch her.
The unwelcome visitor edged towards the pillowy bed where the unsuspecting Pegasus slept and stretched a trembling hood towards Rainbow Dash’s mane.
I need to touch it again, just a little brush, it won’t hurt anyone. Besides, she looks so peaceful… so soft.
Her hoof made contact with the windswept mane and she let out a low moan and a squeak. “Dammit.”
Rainbow Dash jolted awake, sleep still clouding her vision and her mind. Thankfully for the yellow mane pony her reflexes were just fast enough to grip Dash’s mane and shove a concoction of her own creation into Dash’s snout, drowning her in sleep.
The yellow maned pony was left alone with a limp bodied pony in her grasp. “Awwwww mannn, what do I do, what do I do? I’m so sorry Dashie baby, I just wanted to touch you again.” I suppose now I can take you and touch you forever.
Chapter 1: Best Young Crier
“UGH!” Rainbow Dash Grunted in frustration. “There’s only one week left until the next Young Flyer Competition and I just can’t get this right!”
Fluttershy idly stood by, bashfully attempting to boost her friend’s ego.
“I know you can do it Dashie, you’ve been the best young flyer for five years now, no one is going to beat you.”
But Rainbow Dash wasn’t so sure. All of her tricks had been seen before… Of course everypony loved the sonic rainboom but it was getting old, and this new trick was driving her to her wit’s end. Her flanks and her tummy were dripping with sweat and her wings ached. Every day she trained from sun up to sun down and still she could not perfect her newest trick… She didn’t know how much more patience she had for herself. At least she didn’t have to have any more patience for the rest of the day, the sun was dipping beneath the hills of Sweet Apple Acres and Fluttershy could barely keep hers eyes open while Angel Bunny dozed on the small of her back.
Rainbow Dash turned towards Ponyville in frustration, “Alright Fluttershy, let’s call it quits for today.”
It pained her to stop practicing when the competition was only a week away, but she knew neither Pegasus pony could stand around any longer. She nuzzled Fluttershy to her feet and they both slumped back to Ponyville, hoping tomorrow would bring success. Of course, their first stop was Fluttershy’s house; the poor pony would never have been able to make it home in the dark alone without having every shadow scare her to death. Fluttershy brushed past Rainbow Dash with a simple, “Good night Dashie, sweet dreams.”
Rainbow Dash turned to sulk away without a word, her gloom still hanging heavily over her heart, making her hooves heavy. When suddenly there was a little squeak behind her. Rainbow Dash turned to listen to what she knew Fluttershy would bashfully whisper in her direction.
“Oh, Um… Hey Rainbow Dash… I think you can do anything you set your heart to… You’re the best… woohoo…”
With her final cheer of the night Fluttershy slowly closed the door to Rainbow Dash’s muttered, “Goodnight.”
As Rainbow Dash half fell and half flew back to her home in the clouds she could only think of what Equestria Daily’s headline’s would be when she failed to win the Young Flyer Competition.
“Rainbow Dash is Rainbow Dust!”… “Best Young Crier.”… “Sonic Boom to Chronic Doom.”
That’s it! That was her new trick’s name. Chronic Raindoom… maybe… or was that too cheesy?
