//------------------------------// // chapter 3: never a normal day // Story: Bound, in eternal love. // by SCOOTALOOxDAAWW //------------------------------// Chapter 3: never a normal day As dawn rose once more over the magical world of Equestria, as Dash awoke from her peaceful slumber she turned to her marefriend and nuzzled her affectionately, Applejack awoke to this gesture and returned the nuzzle. Applejack looked at the sun out the window to the sun and noticed that it barely over the horizon. “Sweet Celestia it’s early”. She moaned as she slowly rolled over to face her lover once more “heh ah guess this is the earliest ya ever been awake ya whole darn life huh Dashie”. “HEY! I’ve been awake earlier than this!” Rainbow protested “Oh yeah, name ONE time before this that ya’ll have woken up this early” inquired Applejack with a distinct giggle in her tone. Dash lay there for a couple of minutes before leaning over and placing a deep passionate kiss upon the farm pony’s lips, after a couple of minutes of bliss and savouring each other’s flavour Rainbow pulled away and said flatly. “Ok you got me there”. “Say Rainbow, can ah ask ya’ll for a favour”. “Can ah sleep at ya house tonight”. “Of course AJ if you can find a way to stay on clouds”. “Simple, ah will just ask twilight for that spell what lets us walk on clouds, ya’ll remember right? The one that she used to help us cheer ya on in the best young fliers contest in cloudsdale.” Explained Applejack. “Oh yeah... I would love it for you to stay at my house tonight” replied Dash. “Hey Dash are ya’ll coming to pinkie’s ‘make Monday a happy day’ party again today.” “Um duh! Of course I am, when pinkie pie throws a party I am there... also it’s an excuse to get free cake” laughed Rainbow. It was halfway through the day when it was almost time for Rainbow and Applejack to stop the farm work and go to the party. Applejack and Rainbow were halfway to the party when Applejack suddenly gasped. “Oh hayseed! Ah forgot to tell Applebloom, ah’d better go ge-“ Applejack was cut off by an unbelievable roar, as Applejack and Rainbow dash turned their jaws dropped as they saw a giant ruby coloured dragon with blazing orange spines running through the town, suddenly it stopped and looked at the two mares in front of it, shortly after smacks rainbow against the wall and went to snap down its massive jaws onto Applejack and without thinking Applejack jumped backwards turning on her heels and going into a full speed gallop away from the dragon, she risked a glance behind her and let out a ear piercing scream as she saw three rows of jagged yellow teeth. Dash got up and flinched at the pain in her ribs she looked around franticly for Applejack but suddenly turned in the direction of a loud scream, “AJ!!” ignoring the pain emitting from her ribs she saw Applejack being chased by the ruby scaled monster, with a single bound Rainbow was in the sky and heading towards the sound of the scream. In front of her Rainbow could see the orange mare beginning to slow, ‘this is bad. AJ may be the fittest pony I know but even she has her limits, if I can even hope to save her then I need to something NOW!’. But there was only one way that rainbow could even think of that would even slow the dragon but even IF she could do it it could endanger her own life as well. ‘no! my life doesn’t matter without her, I have to try’ and with that rainbow soared up into the sky as high as she could climb in one go and entered a dive bomb focusing on the place that the dragon would be in roughly the time it would take Rainbow to get there and flapped her wings with all her might, sweat began to flood Dash’s face as the mach cone formed around her cyan body, she continued to dive through the air, as she felt the transparent barrier in front of her reach its maximum resistance Rainbow tried something she had not attempted before, as she pushed past the barrier she twisted through the air and pointed her rear hooves down towards the dragons head and letting out a final shout, “DONT.YOU.EVER.TOUCH.HER!”. As those last words left her mouth there was an enormous explosion of colour and a wave of rainbow flooded over ponyville, rainbow screamed in pain as her hooves connected with the dragon’s skull and they both fell the ground in an almighty thud. Applejack turned when she could no longer here the sound of massive feet chasing her. She walked over to the dragon that was now slumped on the ground and suddenly another thought popped into her mind “Dashie!” she gasped she ran around trying to find were the rainbow haired mare was and suddenly she shouted in horror at what she saw before her. “RAINBOW! NOOOO! She ran over to the cyan pony. The top half of Dash was the only thing showing of the pegasus, Applejack rushed to her lovers side, “No, Rainbow what have ya done”. “Ugh, you’re welcome” groaned Rainbow jokingly. “Ya alive!?” jumped Applejack in both confusion and joy. “Yeah but not by much, my ribs are being crushed by a fifty foot dragon, I’m not sure how lon-“ she let out a ruthless cough and a large splutter of blood erupted from her lips. “No, just hold on Dashie ya going to be okay”. At hearing these comforting words Rainbow smiled and kissed the farm pony, closed her eyes and whispered. “never a normal day right?” “Dashie...DASHIE!” Applejack mustered all her strength to pull her lover out from under the now quite dead dragon and rushed her to twilight. “Another quiet day of study” said twilight to herself as she finished yet another book in her collection before jumping as she hears somepony knock on the door, she sighed “ I had to say it didn’t I?” she muttered to herself as she opened the door to see a watery eyed earth pony run through the door. “Twilight please ya have to help her, please help Rainbow”. “Oh my goodness what in equestria happened” “Well Dashie and ah were walking to Pinkie’s party when a dragon hit Rainbow into a house and chased me away from town, as ah was about to collapse from exhaustion ah hear a massive explosion, ah look up and saw that a sonic rainboom had been executed.” Twilight had seen it to from the window but had just assumed it was just a training session. “ah turn to see if the dragon is still chasing me and see that it is lying on the ground but dash is nowhere to be seen, so ah walk around the dragon and saw rainbow has under the dragon, and then she passed out... please help here twilight ah- ah love her. Placing Dash upon the table in the middle of the library. Twilight’s horn began to glow a strong violet and rainbow’s body suddenly stopped tensing. “I only managed to heal the minor wounds, we really need to get her to a hospital” and without a second thought Applejack put dash on her back an bolted out the door.