Lost in the Desert!

“What are we going to do?!” Fluttershy asked.

“I don’t know!” Rainbow Dash said.

They were trapped in the desert because they had gotten off their tour bus while it was touring the desert and had forgotten to get back on. Now they were walking through the desert and they didn’t know where to go!

“I think I need to have water soon,” Fluttershy said. She saw a scorpion crawling on the sand of the desert. “Do you know where water is?” Fluttershy asked the scorpion.

The scorpion shook its head and scuttled away.

“Even the animals don’t know where water is?!” Rainbow Dash said, her throat parched. “Help!” she screamed as loud as she could, but nobody was around to hear it and she just hurt her throat because her throat was too dry to be screaming like that.

“I think we can eat the cactus,” Fluttershy said. “I guess the scorpion didn’t know we could do that.” Fluttershy had been a member of the Desert Scouts when she was younger. They were a group that learned how to survive in the desert so that they would not get too thirsty and dehydrated if they were stuck there.

“Okay,” Rainbow Dash said, and she ran as fast as she could to a cactus and took a bite. “Oh, no!” she said, her mouth really hurting because she bit on the spines of the cactus and they got stuck in her mouth.

“No, you’re not supposed to eat the spines,” Fluttershy said. “Those parts aren’t good to eat.”

“Well, how are you supposed to eat it, then?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Fluttershy showed her how to eat the cactus the right way and then they were not thirsty anymore because they had gotten water from the cactus.

“Thank you,” Rainbow Dash said. Now that she felt better, she could run really fast again (she wasn’t really fast before because she was too thirsty) and she decided that she would run around to find where the nearest town was.

“Wait for me!” Fluttershy said, but Rainbow Dash had already left.

“Oh, no, I am all alone,” Fluttershy thought. She was afraid that Rainbow Dash might never get back and she would be lost in the desert for at least ten years! She would come back to the school someday and all her friends would already have graduated without her because she was stuck in the desert for all that time.

Then Rainbow Dash got back. “I found a town!” Rainbow Dash said, and she led Fluttershy to the town so they would not be lost in the desert anymore.