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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Inside 
// by StarlettSkies 
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Rainbow dash's head swam. She opened her eyes groggily her wings ruffling at her side. She groaned as her limbs crawled beneath her and pushed herself slowly to her hooves. Her eyes flickered around her as she steadied herself into a standing pose. 
Where was she now?
She studied the area.However there was nothing. Just white.... How was there nothing.., Why?....She pondered before her mind came to a familiar conclusion.
Oh no...
Ohoho no, she wasn't doing this again. 
She growled under her breath before looking up at the white canvas around her. "Enough with the weird dreams already!" She shouted angrily to the white planes that surrounded her. She glared at the blank area before falling to her rump and rolling her head back, staring at the whiteness with a deadpan expression. She just wanted things to be normal again. She closed her eyes, embracing the strange warmth of her new surroundings and let a defeated sigh escape her lips before picking herself up. She turned around slowly and stared blankly at nothing in particular. Should I just wait?... Wait until I wakes up? Should I go somewhere? Do something? while her head flipped between her options, a flicker from the corner of Rainbow's eye caught her attention. Her eyes wandered down towards the ground. She narrowed her eyes and scrunched her face up in concentration. 
Nothing was there Rainbow. Just ignore it.
She pulled her head back up to the haze of her thoughts, however another flicker appeared beside her hooves. Before another followed. And another. The flickers spread like a fire across the white floor beneath her. The flickers grabbed Rainbow's attention, pulling the pony into a panic. She scrambled away from the oddities her her lips pursed into a confused frown. Before long the flickers took the form of a crack, It branched across the floor and spread beneath Rainbow's hooves. 
A slab of white soon broke away, cut off by the crack, it fell away revealing a black abyss laying beneath the layer of white. Rainbow paused before jumping up into flight. She hovered above the crumbling white for only a split second before plummeting down towards the awaiting floor. She looked over her shoulders.
No wings.
.Her hooves made impact with the ground causing the cracks to leap for Rainbow, tearing apart the slab she had fallen on. Rainbow let out a surprised yelp before slipping through the white plane. She felt a sudden chill travel through her body, before she heard a voice, Before she could comprehend what it was saying she saw colours.
White. 
Blue.
Amber.
Black....
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"GASP" 
Twilight's head turned swiftly to Rainbow. Her friends followed her action. The 5 ponies rushed over to aid their friend, each of them sharing a concerned look in their eyes. Rainbow however deviated from them. Her hooves clenched around the sheets tightly and her eyes looked scared, yet distant. She gasped for air as if she had been forced underwater for all the time she had been unconcious. Sweat trickled down her face and her wings were clenched tightly against her body. 
Her wings!
Rainbow lifted her foreleg up and looked towards her back in a swift motion. She let out a shaky sigh of relief.
Still there.
"Rainbow dash! Darling are you okay?" Rarity asked placing her hoof on top of her friend's own. Rainbow stared at her hoof for a moment before relaxing and regaining her composure. 
"Yeah, I'm fine" She replied, closing her eyes briefly. She opened them again however when she noticed an absence.
"Hey... Wheres princess Celestia?" Rainbow asked. Her friends shared a glance. They passed the focus to Twilight who glanced up at Rainbow.
"When she cast that spell on you earlier, and you fell asleep. Well... She fell asleep too. And... She's been like this for two hours now." Worry pulsed through her words.
Rainbow looked at the unicorn panic beginning to build up inside her. "L-like what?" 
Her friends shared a glance once more before they parted. beyond the wall they made, lay an unconcious princess Celestia.
But there was one thing that made Rainbow uneasy looking at the usually calm princess.
Celestia looked afraid.
Very afraid...