Bright Haze: The Sky Dwellers

The battle had been going on so well, until more Sky Dwellers appeared, and more, and more,and more.. And eventually Rainbow Dash and the others found themselves to be surrounded, completely outnumbered and facing death if they continued to fight.

"Drop your weapons and become our prisoners. Or die." A Sky Dweller said, axe thrower aimed at Fluttershy who was bruised and bloody and hadn't even lifted her spear up, the poor thing. Rainbow quickly discarded her spear and flow down onto the ground, only to be instantly chained up and thrown into a cart, soon nearly everypony else was inside, except Steven who couldn't fit the links or the cart, so the Dwellers and Steven just agreed to put him under guard rather than spend the time to make a chain for him. A few elite ponies resisted but were soon put to death by some Dwellen firing squads. The others either soon died of their wounds or were thrown into the carriage as well.

"What now?" Rainbow asked, practically spitting on the closest Dweller to her.

"Now you go before the king with a choice." The Dweller replied.

"Which is?" Rainbow asked.

"Join us or die." The Dweller said quickly, one elite soldier heard this.

"We will never join such scum!" He shouted, the Sky Dweller gestured and two others dragged the pony out of the cage and placed in front of the others to see.

"Then, my Unicorn friend, you have already chosen your fate." The Dweller asked and stabbed the pony with a blade which had shot out of his gold armour. He watched the pony struggle against fighting death and the Dweller only pushed the blade deeper, until finally the corpse fell, blood flowing freely, the Dweller captain turned toward the captors and smiled, wiping the blood and hiding the blade again.

"Any others?" The captain asked, Rainbow Dash was generally full of fear at that moment and wished against everything Haze would fly in and save the day, but then she realized, she didn't want Bright Haze to fly in, spears swinging, cutting down hordes of Dwellers to save her, Rainbow Dash wanted Spectra Speed. The only pony for her, at that moment all feelings she once had for Haze left, then she only wanted Spectra. As Heart Breaker only wanted Celestia, as Haze himself only wanted Derpy, as, as Twilight wanted, books? Rainbow ached to see Spectra again and knew she would patiently wait until that day.

"What are you smiling at dear?" Rarity asked. Rainbow didn't realize she was smiling and blushed, which only made the situation worse.

"I love Spectra." Dashie admitted.

"Of course dear, I knew that." Rarity replied, also smiling.

"Hey, girls. Its gonna be a long trip so anypony up for a song, just to piss the guards off?" An elite said, deliberately catching the Dweller captains attention. But he ignored it, enough pointless executions Rainbow guessed.

After a few songs the Sky Dwellers had began to move further and further away from the cage and left the three Dwellers who were pulling the prisoners to their fate of the out of tune, terribly singing ponies. All the way through the songs Rainbow kept thinking of Haze and the others, mainly Spectra at how beautifully he sang, she smiled and smiled, singing louder than the rest and really annoying the guards, she even heard talk about the Dwellers stopping off near a town and picking up some ear plugs. But that was probably just a joke or a spur of the moment, for an advanced warrior race they weren't keeping their prisoners very well, most of the ponies inside the cage had broken loose from their chains and some unicorns were throwing rocks at the Dwellers from awkward angels, making them stop and try to search for the ponies responsible who weren't there. It was funny to watch and rainbow began to think this captain was a new recruit and wasn't as mean as the other Dwellers, and if all Dwellers were this dumb, only in battle would they win, for brain power the race is lacking a few. Fluttershy was being healed by Twilight as were most of the ponies in the carriage, unicorns flaring magic up here and there and none of the Dwellers either caring or noticing. Rainbow smiled nearly the whole day, until night came and the Dwellers decided to camp the night. Dash curled up to sleep on the metal cage and closed her eyes, dreaming of not Haze, but Spectra, and she was happy. Bliss.