Sky High

Skye flew around the skies of Ponyville, searching every single cloud in the sky. He put the book in his saddlebag so he didn't have to carry it in his mouth. After about an hour of searching Skye saw a blue blob on the horizon. He very quickly flew over to check up on her, it was getting dark and he didn't want her outside alone. In Twilight's study she seemed scared enough as it was. Dash was laying down on the cloud, her back to Skye as he approached her. Skye was pretty sure he heard sobbing.

“Rainbow Dash, are yo...”

Dash almost immediately stood up and faced Skye, her wings in an upright position, ready to fly away if need be. As soon as she noticed that it was Skye she immediately calmed down and she ran over to him and began to nuzzle him. The two ponies stood there for a minute or so, before Skye broke their contact. He took a step back away from her now sad eyes as he gentlely started to talk.

“It's time to go home now Dash.”

Almost ignoring what he said she trotted up to him and started to nuzzle him again. Skye broke their contact again, forcing a soft, sad whine from Dash. She tried walking up to him again but this time she just looked into his eyes. Skye could tell just how lonely and sad she was, it definitely wasn't the same Dash that pushed him out of bed this morning. He raised his wings, making Dash jump back just a bit. He walked up to her with his wings extended and gave her a quick snout-to-snout touch before he backed away and took off into the air, hovering in front of her. She climbed in the air right in front of him to receive another Eskimo kiss from Skye, who then slowly flew off towards Dash's house, hoping she would follow. When he turned around he saw that she was indeed following him as he continued flying.

Skye landed on Dash's cloud and started walking toward the front door. He turned around after he opened it, to welcome the lady in first. When he turned he saw Dash hovering over the cloud, too afraid of the building in front of her. She hated being cooped up in a building and preferred the open air. She also enjoyed Skye' company, so she waited there hovering, trying to decide which to choose. Skye walked toward the edge of the cloud and looked up at Rainbow. He ruffled his snout, trying to entice Rainbow Dash to come down, it worked. Dash ventured down to the cloud for her third Eskimo kiss.

This time Dash followed Skye all the way to the door before she stopped moving. Skye made attempts to motion her inside, but the only thing he received in response was frustrated groans. It finally got to the point where Skye walked behind Dash and pushed her into her house, Dash crying and shaking her head the entire time. Her attitude changed as soon as she entered her house. It was like she recognized her house as a safe haven as she looked around.

Suddenly she was rammed in the snout by a much harder, greener snout. She yelped and ran back to Skye, she tried her hardest to hide behind him. Meanwhile the turtle slowly hovered his way over toward Skye with a slightly more stagnant look on his face than normal.

“Sorry Tank, she's a little jumpy today, she'll be better tomorrow.” He turned around to Dash, who was cowering behind him.

“Dash, this is your friend Tank, he's your pet tortoise.” Skye grabbed the turtle and nuzzled up against it awkwardly. “See, he's harmless.” He offered the pet to Dash who reluctantly walked up to it. Skye let go of the tortoise as it slowly moved forward, pressing into Dash's nose. Suddenly her brain turned back on as she started to giggle and grabbed the tortoise with her front hooves. Skye noticed something different with Dash's laugh, it wasn't that it was more childish, it was that it was almost foal like. Dash stayed on the floor, playing with her pet tortoise.

While Dash was busy playing, Skye made his way to the kitchen to grab some food for both him and Dash. Not wanting to search very hard or cook anything, Skye grabbed a bushel of hay and split it half. He quickly ate one of the halves and rushed to Rainbow, they hadn’t eaten anything since this morning and Dash must have been hungry.

When Skye walked into the living room Dash was rolling around on the floor, hugging her pet. She jumped up when she saw that Skye had food and ran over to where he was standing. Skye quickly lowered the plate of wheat so Dash could easily reach it. She ate the hay happily until eventually she held a few strands of hay in her mouth staring into Skye's eyes, mesmerized. She motioned him to lower the plate to the floor for some reason. Once he did she started shaking her head violently, confusing Skye even further. Then, she started to shake the hay sticking out of her mouth. That was when Skye realized that she was trying to feed him. He accepted the hay happily as Rainbow Dash gave a high pitched squeal. She nuzzled up to him while he was chewing, then returned to eating the rest of hay.

The tortoise poked and prodded at Dash while she was eating, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She only turned around when she heard the loud rumbling of Tank's stomach. She looked down at her pet with fright, she thought her friend was broken. She started panicking as she started frantically racing around her friend. She continued running until she ran into Skye, recoiling her to the ground. She looked up at Skye, who had another plate in his mouth, and began whining. Skye put the plate down in front of Tank, letting him snack on the multiple pieces of lettuce on it. Even after seeing her tortoise eating Dash was still panicking and whining. Skye tried to hold her steady, but her panic attack didn't allow her to stand still.

“Dash! Dash! Dash! Dash!” She started to calm down but was still whimpering. “It's ok Dash, he was just hungry, like you were.” He pointed at the tortoise slowly eating it's meal. This calmed down Dash even more and what's better was that Dash seemed to understand everything Skye said. He nuzzled into him yet again, thinking that he just fixed her broken pet. She looked up at him and gave an involuntary yawn, telling Skye that she was tired. Skye led Dash up to her room as he started thinking. Dash hadn't spoken one word since they met up, she couldn't remember her own house or her pet, and she acted and laughed like a foal. Could she have been so scared that she's repressed all of her memories?

Skye led Dash over to her bed and quickly climbed up, enticing Rainbow Dash to follow in his lead. Luckily she did, allowing Skye to quickly cover her up with blankets. Feeling the warm embrace of the blanket Dash settled down on the bed, giving a quiet, cute yawn yet again. She quickly snuggled up to Skye and closed her eyes, going to sleep. As tired as Skye was he couldn't get to sleep. He stayed awake thinking about what he could do to help her. Should he bring her to the hospital or call on her friends? He wasn't sure as he too closed his eyes. He'd figure it out tomorrow, for now he had to get some rest.

Skye woke up in the middle of the night to Dash crying. She was flailing around on the bed, wailing incessantly. He jumped up and hovered over Dash trying his best to wake her up or calm her down. At first, he tried 'shhh'ing' her to sleep but when that didn't work he began to shake her. When that didn't work he tried shaking her even harder, shouting at her to wake up. Finally her eyes shot open as she jumped up. She saw Skye hovering above her and immediately clang to him, terrified and sweaty. She looked him in the eyes and started mumbled made up words and phonetics. He began to 'shhh' her again and nuzzled her neck every so often which resulted in her to slowly calm down. In appreciation for saving her from 'The Monster', Dash started licking Skye's snout, something Skye found both strange and cute. They both settled down as Dash once again cuddled up to him. From all of the sweat and activity of the day Dash started to smell, she needed a shower soon.

Skye woke up to Dash's happy face and her tongue licking his nose yet again. She gave a happy squeal when she saw that Skye had awakened and practically jumped out of bed. She started running around the bed from one side to the other, just waiting to see where her guardian would take her today. When Skye got up off the bed Dash started circling around him, shouting out little yips and happy squeals. Skye knew exactly how he was gonna start the day, with a good morning shower.

Skye led Dash to her master bathroom so he could start the day with a nice refreshing shower. Awkwardly he also had to give Dash a good cleaning. Back in Blitzpherd Skye had been payed a few bits to foalsit a little foal. The foal didn't become a problem until Skye tried to give him a bath, then all Tartarus broke loose. He hoped Dash wouldn't act the same. He turned on the water to let it warm up and then looked at Dash, she responded by looking at him cocking her head. He led her into the shower until she was standing awkwardly under the stream of warm water. Skye looked around for a brush and soap, which he found on the furthest wall in the shower itself. He squeezed past Dash to grab the brush and apply the soap and looked at Dash, who responded with the same head cocking. Skye started softly rubbing Dash's back, eliciting some giggling from Dash. He continued to scrub Dash all over, careful not to the the parts of her body that a sensible Rainbow Dash wouldn't allow. Before he knew it Dash turned and snatched the brush from his hooves with her mouth. She made a happy muffled noise before she started to roughly brush along his side. Skye took another good look at Dash and realized something, she looked a lot cuter with straight hair.

She didn't really know what she was doing so she just brushed in a straight line for about half a minute. She dropped the brush and propped her front hooves onto his back. She really liked the warm rain falling down on top of her and she really wanted to play. She tried her best to climb on top of him, even as a filly Dash had always been pretty aggressive.

“Hey, Dash... calm down... it's dangerous to play in the show-”

Her attempts to wrestle Skye to the ground payed off as his hoof slid on the brush Dash had dropped a few second earlier. Unfortunately for Skye his head slammed in the hard cloud beneath his feet, knocking him unconscious. Dash looked down at him triumphantly and gave him an aggressive whiny. It wasn't too long after that when Dash realized that Skye wasn't getting up. She poked and prodded at him with her snout. When he still wouldn't wake up she sat on her rump in the running water and started to cry. Almost immediately, Skye awoke with a massive migraine. He looked over to see and hear a sad Rainbow Dash before he slowly got to his feet. He nuzzled into Dash's neck then backed off, causing her to look up at him.

“It's ok Dashie, I'm not hurt.”

Dashie... it just seemed to fit in Skye's head at that moment in time. He reached to turn off the water but when interrupted when Dash grabbed his leg with her two front hooves as she nuzzled into his leg. He used that to pull her forward, hugging her. After a few moments he let her go and turned off the water. He stepped out of the shower with Dash and grabbed two towels from the cupboard. He turned around to a barrage of water droplets coming from Dash, who instinctively dried herself off by shaking off the water and by fluttering her wings. Skye quickly draped a towel over Dash as he then proceeded to dry himself off. Rainbow Dash, who didn't really know what to do with the towel, threw it off of her and ran out the door to her bedroom. Skye ran out after her hoping that she would slip and hurt herself. He ran out to see Dash jumping on her bed, her wings keeping in the air for longer than normal.

Suddenly from downstairs the two ponies heard a knock at the door. Dash immediately ran to hide behind Skye, she knew he would protect him. Skye ventured down the stairs with Dash right behind him until they heard another knock, forcing a whine out of Dash. When they got to the bottom of the stairs Skye told Dash to wait there, giving her a good view of the front door. Skye walked up to the front door and opened it to see Twilight. He wasn't too surprised to see a unicorn standing on a cloud so he didn't ask any questions about it.

“Hi Skye, is Dash feeling ok?”

Skye turned around to Dash cowering by the stairwell. He decided it would be best to be honest with her. “No she's not... come on in, I’ll explain it.”

Twilight walked in to see Rainbow Dash crouching by the stairs. She's never seen Rainbow Dash with straight hair before, but there was also water still dripping off of her, causing Twilight to come to the conclusion that she had just gotten out of the shower. “Rainbow Dash! It's so good to see you again.”

Dash gave out a terrified squeal as she ran up the stairs. Twilight and Skye heard a loud thud and then more hoofsteps as they finally disappeared. Twilight looked a Skye with a concerned look on her face.

“What happened to her Skye?”

“Well, I think she's lost all of her memories. Ya know, like stories of ponies with repressed memories when something tragic happened to them. I think she's repressed all, or at least most of her memories. They might be slowly coming back to her, but I'm not exactly sure.”

Twilight looked at Skye with an even more concerned face. She tried to think of anything she could do to help, but one question kept on coming into her mind. “Skye can I see the book?” Skye hoped that she wouldn't ask that question. The entire reason he took the book in the first place was so that Twilight wouldn't read it. Twilight could see Skye's apprehension. “Please Skye, I really want to help Rainbow Dash, I might know a spell that will help.” It didn't take much to convince Skye that she could help, he trusted her.

“Ok Twilight, I'll go get it.” He started for the stairwell when he realized that Twilight was following him. “Uhmm, Twilight. It might be better for you to wait down here.”

“Oh, yeah, of course.”

Skye ventured up to Dash's bedroom to reclaim his saddlebag. When he stepped into the room Dash ran up to him and started nuzzling him intensively. She looked up into his eyes and started to whine and coo softly. For an instant a thought came into his head, did he really want Dash to go back to normal? She was so cute how she was now and he liked how she always hid behind him and listened to him. His thought was cut short when he looked down at Rainbow Dash, who had a bruised and bloody snout.

“Aww, don't worry little Dashie, I'll be right back.” He gave her a quickly but soft kiss on her snout before he went to grab his saddlebag. Dash was behind him the entire time, whining and begging him to stay. He walked back to the door before he felt a tugging at his tail, Dash was trying to pull him away from the stairwell. Skye quickly got her to let go of her tail, he turned to talk to her. “Dashie, go lie down, I'll be right back.” Dash did as he said as he took the journey down the stairs. He opened up his saddlebag and handed the book over to Twilight.

“Thanks Skye, do you mind if I read it here?”

“Not at all, I'll come down in a few minutes to check up on you.” He walked back up the stairs to lie with Dash for a while. Twilight opened up the book and started reading, not ready for what she was about to read.

Skye walked back into the bedroom to Dash still obediently lying on the bed. He climbed up into the bed with her as she quickly cuddled up to him. Skye could tell that Dash was scared, just as scared as she was when he found her on the cloud. Her entire body was shaking in fear and she cuddled up to him without making a noise, Skye started brushing her mane with his snout, trying to calm her down. They simply lay together for a few minutes before Skye stood up and walked toward the door, Dash didn't even whine.

Skye heard sobbing as he walked down the stairs before he came upon a crying Twilight Sparkle on the bottom floor. As soon as she saw Skye she scrambled up to him, yelling and crying. “I'm so sorry Skye! I shouldn't have put you both in there without testing it first! I'm such a bad friend! I'm so, so sorry!”

Skye tried her best to comfort her. “It's ok Twilight. You didn't mean for us to get hurt, it's not your fault.”

Her sniffling decreased, but only slightly. “But... I know a spell that can give her her memories back, but I can only cast it on her when she's sleeping. Do you think you can get her to sleep soon?”

“Well we just woke up a few hours ago so I doubt it would be easy.”

“Ok well... I can cast a sleeping spell on her, but she has to be calmed down and I have to see her.”

“That can work, just follow me up to her room, I'll go in first to calm her down and make her face the other direction. Do you think that will work?”

“Wouldn't be a bad idea to try.”

The two ponies traveled up to Dash's room quietly. Skye walked in first, keeping the door to the stairwell slightly open. He walked over to the side of Rainbow Dash that was facing the wall and lay down on the bed. Once again Dash cuddled up to Skye, this time giving a soft, cute coo. She was no longer terrified but still a little scared. Skye continued to run his snout threw her mane, calming her down even more. When he felt that she was finally relaxed he motioned Twilight into the room. She carefully and quietly opened the door. As Twilight began to cast the spell Dash jumped up, scaring both Skye and Twilight. But instead, Dash was just giving Skye a cute kiss on his snout, the same thing he'd done to her a few minutes ago. “Big... brother...” She, slowly and quietly chirped out before her head fell to rest on the pillow.

Twilight walked up to the bed as Skye got off of it. “Good job Skye, but why did she call you big brother?” Skye almost complete ignored the question, staring off into space. “Skye?”

“Huh? Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because we both have rainbow colored hair.” He said as he walked out of the bedroom down the stairs. There was only thing on Skye mind, Lenis.

Twilight couldn't help but be concerned with Skye but instead of following him she started casting the spell that would make Dash forget about all of the bad things. She wouldn't even remember waking up that fateful morning. What Twilight should have been concerned about was Skye, leaving the front door of Dash house open, he wanted to sleep by himself for once, he wanted to be with his little sister.