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// Chapter 13 
// Story: Old memories 
// by TheSourceCode95 
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	Silence had been over them for more than an hour. The only sound heard in the garden was the soft sobbing of Rainbow. Unable to do anything to raise Rainbow's spirit, she had just hugged her. She was unable to raise her spirit, but knew that soon she would have to send it crashing down further than it already was. Finally, she broke the silence. "What happened next?" she asked.

Rainbow got a bit of a hold on herself again, and responded. "I moved in with 'Shy. Three weeks later we went to Flight Camp. You know the rest of the story already."

Twilight nodded. The stories of Rainbow's time in Flight Camp were also not the best, but compared to what Rainbow had just told her it seemed like a pretty good time. Finally she decided it was time to get to the point. "Rainbow, I was thinking... Fallen Drop. He did... right?"

Rainbow bursted out in tears again. Twilight hated putting her friend through this, but she had to. "And your dad, he had broken his wings?" Rainbow nodded. "Rainbow, I hate to tell this, but I think I know what we have to do. You have to know. The princesses have to know too. Do you think you are ready?"

Another small nod came from Rainbow, and Twilight's horn began to glow. They were surrounded by a purple mist, as Twilight's magic did it's work. In the blink of an eye, they were in the large room with the windows that told the historical events of Equestria. On the other side of the room, the princesses were talking to each other. As soon as they noticed Twilight and Rainbow appearing, they stood up and walked over.

"Twilight Sparkle, have you found something?" Celestia asked. 

Twilight closed her eyes, and tears started rolling from them. "Yes, princesses. I think I know where we can find him."

Rainbow looked up. Where to find him? What did that have to do with her story? Unless...

"Princesses, Rainbow Dash, I think the spirit of Luna's student is inside of Rainbow Dash," she spoke. Her eyes opened again, revealing the worries and pain inside.

The three other ponies stepped back in disbelief. "What?" Luna exclaimed.

Her voice shaking and cracking, she started to explain it to Rainbow Dash, as Celestia and Luna listened. "Look, Rainbow, the spirit seems to travel from pony to pony, driving the ones around that pony insane. Remember how you told me about that one pony in the orphanage that tried to kill herself? And then, when your dad took Fallen Drop from the orphanage to your house, he tried to end his life as well? Fallen Drop is the only one that is likely to have carried his spirit. And as he... you know... you took over the spirit..."

Rainbow's mind went crazy, trying to comprehend what Twilight had just said. She understood it, she got what it meant, but the realisation had not yet struck her. "But then why haven't there been any suicide attempts around me? Why haven't I gone insane?"

This was something Twilight had been thinking about. It had not made sense to her either, at first. But then she realised it had to do with who Rainbow was. "Loyalty," she said. "You are loyalty. You are loyal to not only those around you, but also to yourself. And that radiates. Others around you will also be more loyal, also to themselves. And when you are loyal to yourself, somehow the magic doesn't have influence."

It did make sense to Rainbow. "But then why do we get the dreams now? What has changed?" she asked, wiping away some of the many tears on her face.

"He grows in strength. His power is becoming greater and greater. He can already target ponies far away from you, and it will only be a matter of time before he can target you. And when he does, his strongest enemy is gone, and he will once again roam free."

Rainbow stood up, trying to gain control of her emotions again. If this force was inside of her, and it was killing other ponies, she would do whatever it took to take it down. "What do we do now? How do we get it out of me?"

This time it was not Twilight who answered, but Luna. "We can't," she said. "We do not know for sure if Twilight is right just yet. It does make sense, but it does not have to be truth. However, we can test that." Luna's horn lit up in a dark blue tint. Slowly the glow around her horn started to expand, and she started to glow in the same color. Celestia, standing right next to her, started to glow like the sun, soon followed by Twilight, who radiated a magenta color. Then, the magic reached Rainbow. First the tip of her nose, followed by the rest of her head. Then the rest of her body, followed by her tail. Rainbow glowed brown.

"So it is true..."

"So, what are we waiting for? Can't you do some kind of spell to destroy it?" Rainbow said, louder than she had intended.

"Rainbow Dash," Celestia spoke. "We can't. We can only destroy magic when it does not have a body. And there is only one known way to separate magic from somepony."

Then it struck Rainbow Dash. "So you are saying that I have to... die?" All that hard work, all that pain in her life, and it would just have to end like that. Life was not fair. Life had never been fair. It had always been taking things away from her. And when it had given her things, it was only to take them away later on. And now, even her life would be taken away from her. Life had never been good for her.

She gathered all the force she had left in her, and spoke. "Okay. If this is killing so many ponies, it has to happen. But there is one thing I want to do before we do this." She turned her head to Twilight, who was shaking on the floor, crying. "I want to go look for my feather one last time, Twilight. With you."