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// Chapter 1 - A simple Task 
// Story: Cursed 
// by Stealth1139 
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“Fluttershy, where are you?” Rainbow Dash cautiously walked into the shy mare’s home. 
She could hear some sort of commotion on the second floor “I’m here for-?”

“RAINBOW DASH!” Fluttershy jumped down the stairs grabbing the blue Pegasus along the way. 

“DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS!?” Shaking Rainbow frantically.

She quickly pushed Fluttershy off her, “Where who is?”

“Angel, my beloved bunny,” she replies “He is...MISSING!”

Dash could the tears building up in her eyes. The Pegasus sighed. “You want me to find him I guess?” the yellow mare sniffed and looked at her. “If it isn’t much trouble, I have to take care of other things, please bring him back to me.” Dash gave a quick determined smirk. “With these wings.” Gesturing to her back “I'll find Angel in no time.”
Just as Dash walked out the door, the other Pegasus stopped and told her. “Please be careful with him, he doesn’t like flying that much, try to keep all four hooves on the ground.” Dash just casually said “Of course ill be careful.” Then she leapt up into the air with extraordinary speed on a quest to find the little white rabbit.


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Dash prowled the skies in search of the bunny, but to no end. “I thought it would be easy to find one little bunny...”She thought to herself quickly “When I put it like that, it actually sounds quite hard.” She giggled to herself silently.
She continued her flight “He has to be close, I can feel it.”
While she was skimming the clouds, there he was, bouncing into the Everfree Forest. She stopped suddenly, questioning if she should go into those mysterious place. “Why Angel, of all the places in Equestria you have to go there?” She landed her hoofs on the grassy ground and cautiously walked into the eerie woods. 

“Angel, come out little bunny, where are you?” She walked with her head close to the ground as if to smell it. It was difficult for her to see with all the overgrown foliage blocking her view constantly. She looked up, she saw someone. it wore a brown hood and cloak just walking deeper into the forest. “Zecora?” she said cautiously. 
The figure stopped moving, alerted to the Pegasus’s presence. “Hey Zecora, have you seen a bunny by any chance, little white fluffy one-“
The figure turned suddenly, the hood covered the wearers face but the bright yellow eyes were clearly seen. Rainbow stopped dead still, not making a move. The strange figure then suddenly vanished into a cloud of smoke. Dash was shocked beyond imagining, she then began to breathe again, very heavily. “I don’t think that was Zecora, she would of recognised me." She shook her head to refocus. "I have to find Angel and get out of here, this place gives me the creeps.” 

She quickly began to start worrying, “I’m looking for a bunny while a mysterious figure may be following me right now, and who was it?” She thought to herself. She slowly moved a bush out of her way into a clearing. a quick glance and she saw her prize, Angel. Relief filled her body, “Finally, now to get out of this creepy place.” 
She rushed out and grabbed the bunny as fast as she could. “Angel, why are you in here?” she whispered loudly. “It was so much trouble to try and find you.” A noise from behind broke her concentration. “We gotta get out of here, quickly!” 
She placed the bunny on her back and began to run back towards Ponyville. Nothing could stop this pony, nothing. The determination to get out of this place was seen on her face. It was a good thing she practiced running nearly as much as flying. But something caught her hoof that sent her falling face first into the dirt. She was dazed for a couple of seconds before shaking her head to see clearly, Angel was running ahead of her. “That slick little bunny.” She said, “You think you can run away that easily.” 

Dash then scrapped her front hoof on the ground like she was about to charge. She didn’t realised something was wrapped around her hind leg until she face planted again into the dirt. “What!?” She looked down to see some sort of vine around her leg. She struggled to get her leg free, but the vine was too tight. 
“What is this, Magic?" She then aggressively yelled at the trees surrounding her "whoever is doing this better show themselves!”

“What a fierce young Pegasus.” A voice called from the trees.

Dash was quick to respond “Show yourself!”

“Your temper child, you better watch it.” The voice continued.

“I’m no child, I’m the best flier in all of Equestria, Rainbow Dash!” She struggled more to get her leg free, kicking her hind legs trying to untangle it.

"Such pride, it will do you no good."

"I guess you're trying to scare me." Rainbow replied "Well, its not working!"

“You think you can enter MY forest and get away with it? An example should be made of you, I think.” The voice replied with a little quiet maniacal laugh trailing afterwards.

A figure walked from the trees towards Dash still wearing the cloak. Dash examined the strange figure. It was obviously a mare by the build,  and judging by the magic, probably a unicorn. She then started to rabble some sort of strange language, one Dash had never heard. A eerie dark magic glow came from under the hood and also her hooves. 
The unicorns cloak fluttered as it raised it hoof at Dash. The chanting was growing louder and louder. The magic on the vine must of weakened for when Dash kicked her hind legs into the air, the vine untangled. She began to run faster than ever before. But the dark Unicorn didn’t stop. Dash felt a weakness surge through her body causing a dark and unnatural feeling upon her. She fought through it though, raising her wings with all her strength. She then jumped and flew with speed out of the forest with her signature rainbow trail not far behind.


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Fluttershy was cleaning her house once again to try and past the time. “It’s been two hours since I last saw Rainbow Dash; I wonder why she is taking so long?”
She looked out the door to see Angel bounding towards her. The joy she felt lifted her spirits up. “Angel, my dearest pet, where have you been?”
Angel began to communicate in sign language about his little adventure into the Everfree Forest. “The Everfree Forest! Why in Equestria would you go there? Everypony knows that the place is 'unnatural'.” 
The bunny then gestered eating something. “You went in to find something to eat?” 
He was quick to reply with a nod. From what Fluttershy could make out, he is implying that he went in to eat something that only grows inside Everfree Forest. “Well, tell me next time you’re going away, I was worried so much, yes I was.” Angel sighed. He didn’t seem amused by the Pegasus’s behaviour. 

She then realised something, “Where was Rainbow Dash?” She thought to herself, “Is she still looking for Angel?” She suddenly gasped when she realised that “She must be in the Everfree Forest, BY HERSELF!?” 
Then the faint sound of her name was on the wind “Fluttershy!”
Right on cue, Rainbow came screaming out of the woods directly into the other pegasus. Fluttershy lifted her head slowly to the sight of Rainbow Dash. She seemed tired. “RAINBOW!” She squealed and hugged her. 
“Uhhh, ok Fluttershy, you can let go now.” She said awkwardly.
“Angel came 5 minutes before you what happened?” she questioned.
Rainbow sat down on one of the chairs “It’s, complicated...”