A Sister of the Stars

Rainbow Dash really hated mornings. Even with the fact that she slept on a bed of clouds, morning was not her forte. It started with the sun coming up; its wonderful yellow glow spread through her house and conjured prismatic light beams all through the house, all directed into her face. At 6:00 in the morning. Every. Single. Day.

The fun continued when she decided to get up and comb her hair. Upon walking to the mirror, she attempted to mat down the wild brush of colors but normally gave up half way there. Then the brush came into play. With the combination of so many bright colors intertwined and, seemingly, acting of their own accord was enough to give her a head-ache before the combing even started. After that came a shower, some coat brushing and whole lot of hair spray. Only then was Rainbow Dash was officially ready to start her morning.

Swaggering over to front door, she took turns stretching her legs and cracking her hooves, readying herself for her morning flight. The Daily Equestria News was laying on her floor, probably the wrong day again. Derpy really had to start getting this right. On the cover was a photo of Discord looking rather chaotic, ravaging Celestia's hedges. Probably from last year, when they had defeated Discord. Almost immediately after picking up the paper and throwing it somewhere in the vicinity of the kitchen, the walls of her house darkened quite drastically and Dash felt her heart start to beat faster. A flight in a storm was just the thing to kick off a weekend. Checking that her wings were nice and loose and her hair looked decent enough, Rainbow Dash kicked open her front door; and was hurled straight backwards into one of her dressers, shattering the lamp on top and knocking her unconcious.

" Oh! I am SOOO sorry! I thought you were one of them! Did I hurt you?! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no!" A little filly stood on Dash's porch in the midst of a whirling tornado, debris flying past her and lightning illuminating her flowing mane. Black shadows flew past her grabbing at her mane and face, their tentacles disipitating like mist upon contact. They howled and screamed like banshees, sucking all the light and warmth from the sky. She galloped forward into the house, her horn glowing only long enough to delicately close the door behind her. Skidding to a stop in front of Dash, she unfurled her wings and wrapped them around her in a tight embrace. "It's okay! You're are going to be all right." The filly spoke in soothing tone while her horn began to illuminate the area around them in a fiery orange glow, sparks twisting around her horn. The scrapes and bruises that marred Rainbow Dash's cerulean coat rippled and faded away, leaving a light sparkling of glitter around them. "There, there." The filly cooed, tickling Dash's nose with her wing-tips.

"AAAAA-AAAAA-AACHOOOOO!!!!!" The sneeze startled the filly who scampered away from the woken pegasus and backed herself into a corner, almost fading into the darkening cloud walls.

"Who's there?" Dash called, panic making her voice high and squeaky.

"I'm really dreadfully sorry, miss." Starlight spoke, carefully removing herself from the wall. " These things have followed me the whole way and I saw your house and I was going to knock and then the door opened and I saw a shadow so I blasted you, and-and-and PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!" The filly was in tears by now but what suprised Dash the most was the powerful blast of sound the filly had given at the end, not too disimilair to the voice used by Princess Luna.

"There, there. You're fine. You didn't do anything wrong." Dash said, slowly inching toward her. She had never filly-sat, what was she supposed to do with in this situation? Definetaly not panic, right? Should she panic?! Suddenly, she had an idea. "You know what's funny, the first time I met my best friend we crashed into each other and I knocked her striaght onto her rump. But now we are the best of friends, maybe you and I could become friends too, huh, how about? You'll be 20% cooler." She flipped her hair and offered the filly a hoof.

"O-okay." The filly sniffled, and took hold of the hoof with her magic and righted herself. "I-I'm St-Starlight."

"Rainbow Dash at your service Starlight, only the fastest flyer in all of Equestria and the only pony to-" Dash's confidence and voice trailed off as she finnaly took a good look at the pony infront of her. Realization hit her and she scrambled backwards until she hit a wall.

"W-what's wrong Rainbow Dash?" Starlight stammered, suddenly taking a very good look through the windows. The clouds were returning to their normal white but the occasional shadow still darted past the opening.

"Youre-your'e-your'e a" Dash stammered eyeing the flowing mane, the brilliant wings that put hers to shame, and the long spiraling horn that stuck up our of her forehead.

"A w-what, Rainbow D-Dash?" Starlight asked, a frightened look haunted her face and her wings twitched as if ready to jump into fight or flight any second.

"AN ALICORN OKAY?! A freaking alicorn!!" Dash screamed, hyperventilating and sinking to the floor, her hooves splayed straight out as her wings buzzed in a weak attemp to make her stand again.

"I d-don't understand. What is an alicorn, Rainbow Dash?" Starlight asked, seeming calmer now that Dash was talking about her and not those things outside.

"We need to get you to Twilight, and fast!" Dash rolled over and eventually pushed herself up, then in a streak of rainbow colored light was ready with a saddle bag and a pair of goggles. "Wear these." She commanded Starlight, "It''s gonna be a bumpy ride." With that, Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria , lept off her balcony with an alicorn in tow and fell to floor at break-neck speed. A Rainboom echoed in the valley, followed closely by an explosion of light, sound and stars.