//------------------------------// // 19. Rainbows, Butterflies and Sparkles // Story: Ponyville Police Department // by Omega6047 //------------------------------// --Chapter 19-- Rainbows, Butterflies and Sparkles The morning next day was exceptionally bright and warm. Celestia’s sun sent a massive waves of heat on anyone foolish enough to stay outside for long, and there was no clouds to provide cover for those poor souls. The ones who were guilty of such a state of affairs were Ponyville’s weather control department ponies, and more precisely their Capitan - Rainbow Dash. While the rest of Ponyville citizens burned alive, Rainbow was comfortably sleeping, enveloped by arms of the very naked human - Revan. The human was on the blink of awareness, not acknowledging anything other than the fact that that someone was sleeping with him. Neither of them dared to move at all for next few minutes, choosing to stay in a world of comfort. Eventually, Revan woke up, but only when he felt something wet touching his neck. “Twilight stop…” He muttered and slowly opened his eyes. To his surprise (and disappointment) it wasn’t Twilight Sparkle who was licking his neck. It was Rainbow Dash. And after realizing that he had no clothes on, the conclusion came to him quickly. Holy shit… He cursed in his mind. Holy fucking shit of Jesus motherfucking Christ! He almost jumped out of the bed, but stopped himself from doing so, knowing it would wake Rainbow up, which at the time was the last thing he had in mind. He moved Rainbow’s hooves away from his shoulder and moved his arm from under her body. He managed to get up and moved away from the bed. Once he left the bed, Rainbow let out a snore. The loudest and the most horse-like snore Revan has ever heard in his entire life. It was so loud that even Mischief -who was known to sleep despite loud noises- woke up and stood up. Revan stopped the dog from jumping on the bed and possibly waking up Rainbow. Revan noticed that his clothes were thrown all around the room and proceeded to silently collect them. The necessity of a silent approach was questionable considering Rainbow’s snoring, but in his situation it was better to stay careful. He didn’t bothered himself with putting his clothes on until he was outside of Rainbow’s room and once he was fully clothed again, he inspected Rainbow’s home. He knew that Rainbow had her house built on the cloud, meaning that she has probably pulled it down for him to enter. Hopefully she hadn’t brought it back up, though by looking at the temperature he found it not very likely. The building was huge, with a lot of free space for flying. The partition walls inside were made out of clouds -probably some special version of them but Revan was not an expert- while all load-bearing walls were composed out of bricks. The floor was made out of stone slabs, designed to resemble clouds Practically everything inside was in a shade of blue, with only a green plant next to the entrance providing any diversity. Few pictures and posters decorated walls but Revan had no time to stay and examine any of them, he was too busy looking for a way out. He managed to locate the door after a moment of search and immediately rushed to them. He reached out his hand and grabbed the handle only to find out that the lock in the door was locked. Figures… Revan spent a good minute on trying to find a key but he hadn’t managed to find it anywhere. What he did managed to do, was to fall over when Mischief passed through. He landed with a loud thud, immediately hearing Rainbow waking up in her room. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck… He cursed to himself as he grabbed Mischief by the collar and pushed him into the kitchen. Rainbow opened the door to her room and walked out, her hair messed up and clearly not happy about being woken up. “Alright, whoever you are, show yourself!” She yelled and begun to look for an intruder. Sorry, but I must decline the invitation. Revan answered in his mind as he noticed that Rainbow was walking towards the kitchen. He tried to find a better place to hide but the only thing he found was the pipe above the entrance. He lifted Mischief and grabbed the pipe with one hand, lifting himself up and once Mischief could stand on his chest, grabbed the pipe with his other hand as well. Rainbow entered the kitchen, standing directly under Revan and Mischief. She looked left and right and stepped inside. Once she was far enough from him, Revan held Mischief in place with one hand and lowered them both on the ground, immediately stepping out of the kitchen before Rainbow spotted him. Still keeping Mischief in his hands to avoid his paws giving out their position by walking on a solid floor, and keeping his own moves as quit as possible, Revan walked into Rainbow’s room before she went out of the kitchen. God damn it, where is this fucking key!? He didn’t have much time to find it, as he heard Rainbow approaching again. He hid inside of her wardrobe, barely managing to close it before Rainbow came in. “Eh, must have been a dream.” She said as she entered. Rainbow jumped into the bed and pulled the covers over herself, falling asleep in record time. Revan stayed inside of the wardrobe for almost a minute longer to make sure she’s not faking it. He stepped out and quietly left the room again, letting Mischief go once he was away from her room. He still had no idea where the key was and with each moment he was beginning to doubt that he will find it. But while he couldn’t find key, he realized that there was another way out of this trap. Since the normal altitude Rainbow’s house is usually on is so high and because most Pegasi liked to sleep with the cold air surrounding them, Rainbow hadn’t have normal windows installed in her house. Only holes through which air could freely circulate. Revan walked over to one window and looked through it. Luckily Rainbow’s house was still down on the ground so he could jump down easily. He grabbed Mischief and threw the dog outside. He moved forward to jump out himself, but he found himself blocked by something. He realized that there was a piece of cloud splitting the window in two halves and while he himself could easily go through, his clothes were a completely different matter. It seemed that this type of cloud was able to hold a non-Pegasus pony and other objects without any additional magic, meaning that since his clothes were made in Equrestria, they are going to keep him where he was. God damn it, can this morning get any worse!? He quickly regretted thinking that as Mischief begun to bark. “Damn it, quiet!” Revan tried to calm down the dog but the fact that Mischief was within the cloud and unable to see the human made his efforts a complete failure. Soon enough, he heard Rainbow waking up again. Not thinking, Revan quickly stripped down faster than a horny teenager, throwing his clothes through the window. The door to Rainbow’s room opened and in the last moment, Revan jumped out. He grabbed Mischief’s muzzle and brought them both down on the ground to hide themselves from Rainbow who was looking through the window. Revan crawled through the cloud until he and Mischief were outside. “Oh, hi Revan!” He froze and turned around, looking at Rainbow who in return was looking at him from the doorway. “I see you finally decided to go out without all those clothes. Suits you.” His face grew red as he realized that he left the clothes under Rainbow’s house. “E-em… Y-yeah, I thought I should give it a try…” He replied, hiding his bottom parts behind a cloud on which Rainbow's house was built. “Well, good luck with that. And get that dog to shut up, I'm trying to sleep here.” She turned around to go back inside, but before that remembered something. “Oh, and… thanks for talking to me. I don't remember what happened after sixth mug, but it was good to spend some time talking like that.” She went back inside and soon enough Revan witnessed her house slowly flying up. He sighed and begun to collect his clothes from the ground. Revan thought a bit about what Rainbow had said to him a day before. Mainly what she said after she got drunk. She didn't know that she said that, at the time she was way more than just tipsy and it takes a lot more to get Revan drunk, allowing him to listen to what her drunken self was talking; if it wasn't for alcohol she probably wouldn't talk about it at all. I'm just glad that she doesn't have to go through any of this anymore, and hope it won’t happen again... He thought as he walked through the path towards Fluttershy's cottage. He reached the cottage in about twenty minutes, and was greeted by Fluttershy's animals looking rather angrily at the door. “What are you guys so upset about? Did Fluttershy forgot to feed you?” Harry the bear answered with a roar. After all the time he has spent with Fluttershy taking care of the animals, Revan had learned to recognize what animals were trying to say, at least to some extent. He was obviously nowhere near Fluttershy, who could have an actual conversation with nearly any animal while Revan could only understand the absolute basic information. And what Harry was trying to say was somewhere along lines: “There’s a mean lady inside, do something about it.” Mischief obviously understood at least as much as Revan did and he immediately moved towards the door. Revan followed the suit but just as he was about to open the door, he heard the conversation from within and placed his ear on the door. “…so yeah, I’ll be taking Garu now. Thanks for taking care of him an’ all, but I have stuff to do.” He hadn’t recognized the voice and it was hard to tell whether it was either stallion or a mare with a bit manly voice. He heard Fluttershy answering, but he couldn’t understand her quiet voice through the door. He did hear the other pony’s reply though. And he was not happy. “Pay? What do you mean by that? I don’t think I own you anything, and I never did. Now sorry, but like I said I have-“ Revan heard enough and opened the door, stepping in the moment when he/she was about to get out. He/She gasped with surprise at seeing him and jumped a little. It was a mare after all, and she was around 45 years old, her brown fur and black mane were beginning to get gray. She was also… big. In a bad way. If she stepped on the weight scale she would see her phone number… Revan commented in his mind. “You going somewhere?” He asked. „Y-yes, I was just about to leave.” She attempted to evacuate, but Mischief stepped in front of her. „Leave? But I just got here, and I would love to talk with you about some stuff.” He pushed her back inside and closed the door. „For example, did you know that article 85 of Labor Code states that ‘Payment for the work must be carried out at least once a month, or at a pre-agreed date’? You know, the very same regulation you were about to break, which would be punished by paying additional 50% of previously agreed payment to as well as 20% of overall pay to the government as a fine. Or maybe you know any other regulation you were about to break? Because there’s a few more.” “No, why do I care?” “You care, because even if you don’t know that a low exists, you can still be punished for not following it. You care, because I know for a fact that Fluttershy keeps a record of every animal that is brought to her for caretaking as well as the owner and the time in which she was taking care of the pet. And finally, you care, because if you won’t, you will earn an enemy who doesn’t forgive those who fuck with his friends and family. An enemy, that is willing to cause you problems. So I’ll ask this only once, do you care?” He looked at her from above, giving her an intimidating look. For a moment she tried to resist, but quickly realized that she can’t win. Her horn glowed with yellow aura and a small sack with bits flew out of her saddle bag and was dropped on the floor. “See? It wasn’t hard. A teraz wypierdalaj w podskokach bo psem poszczuje. ((Now get the fuck out of here or dog will show you the way))” She didn’t understood what that meant, but hearing his angry tone made her want to leave immediately. She moved towards the door but the moment she was at the doorway, her horn lit up again and her aura enveloped the sack of bits. Before Revan even reacted, Mischief begun to bark and growl at the unicorn. She lost the concentration and run away with a scream. Revan looked at her and the cloud of dust she was leaving behind. “Geez, I didn’t know that something this fat could run so fast.”He turned back to Fluttershy. “You alright?” “Y-you didn’t have to do it…” She said after a moment of silence. Revan didn’t answer immediately, not before he reached a conclusion. “That’s not the first time it happened, is it?” He asked as he lifted the sack and put it on the table. They both sat on the couch. In answer she only nodded. “Well, I can assure you it was certainly the last incident like that. There’s no way that I’m going to allow this to continue.” She smiled softly and hugged him. “Thank you.” She whispered and he returned the hug. “Just doing my job. Or rather to-be job.” He said as they broke the hug. “Now tell me, who was she? I haven’t seen her so far and she’s rather… hard to miss.” “That was Fat Chance,” Fitting “she’s a writer for Ponyville Press. You haven’t seen her because for the past two weeks she was away on business, that’s why she left Garu here.” She answered. “You know, this might have really not been a good idea.” “Why?” “Because she can spread some nasty things about you. She did this before and more than a few ponies had to leave the town because of her. But… you won’t leave, right?” “No way. I like it here way too much. And I can take some shit thrown at me by this fat bitch, so don’t worry, though I’ll probably throw some back. Anyways, I care more about what people that I care about think of me than what papers say.” She smiled and hugged him again. After that he explained to her where he was the previous night –skipping a few details- and the two ate their breakfast. Something Revan welcomed, since the last things he ate were burned pancakes. The same applied to Mischief, who was more than happy to devour two full portions. When they were done eating, Revan took it on himself to clean the dishes. “Revan, I’m going out to the town to do groceries. You’ll be alone for some time.” “Wait a moment and I’ll come with you.” “No, you can stay here. You should get some rest after that fight with Rainbow.” She answered, putting on her saddlebags. “You sure?” “Yes, just… stay out of trouble and, um… stay out of my shed.” She said. “Yeah, yeah, sure. I won’t go in there.” He put the last dish on the pile. With all dishes done, Revan begun to think about a way to pass the time. He spent some time walking around the room, before he remembered something. About three days ago, he dug out a root of a tree that had to be cut down on Applejack’s farm and since the rood was quite big and the wood perfect for craving, he took it with him. He walked out from the cottage and headed towards the pile of wood on the back of the cottage. The Root was already cut in pieces, so he grabbed one and headed back inside. After throwing Angel out of the couch, he lied down himself and pulled out his knife. There was nothing particular he wanted to make, so he just allowed his hands to do their job. Revan closed his eyes, putting himself in a meditation trance. His breathing slowed down and so did his heart rate. For the next hour, his hands slowly begun to create a shape. A shape that slowly begun to get very familiar. Revan didn’t allow it to distract him, and he didn’t wake up until he was done. His breath slowly returned to normal as he opened his eyes to see his creation. It was a star, but not just any star. It was a 6-arm star, and considering on whom his thoughts were focused all this time, it didn’t take him long to realize what it was supposed to represent. Still holding the star in his hands, he lied his head down on the couch. Alright, I really like her. He lowered the star and put it on his chest… only to notice that something was missing. He quickly looked at his chest, realizing that his badge was gone. The badge might not mean anything here, but it was important to him. It was a reminder of where he’s really from as well as his goal in life, and he wanted it back. He quickly stood up and looked around the room. It didn’t take him long to find the badge, it was after all hard to miss when it was held in a white, smirking bunny’s paw. „Angel…” He closed in. „Give. Me. That. Badge!” He jumped at the bunny, but the little thing got away. Revan growled at him. „That’s it you little shit! I’m done with dealing with you!” Revan grabbed the sword Octavia had borrowed him in case he wanted to train on his own, the very same he was using during their every training session. He unsheathed the blade and pointed it at the bunny. „Give me that back or I’ll train skinning bunnies alive.” Angel didn’t seem to care and still with a smirk, left the cottage. Revan run after the little thief, surprised by how fast the bunny was. However, Angel still wasn’t fast enough to outrun the human and soon enough he was lifted by the ears. The bunny tried to free his ears from human’s grasp, and when that didn’t work out, he bit into Revan’s finger. At first the human ignored the pain, but as soon as the bunny’s teeth bit through his skin and drew blood he was forced to let go. Soon after landing on the ground Angel avoided Mischief’s jaw and jumped on his back and then back on the ground. Before the two returned to their chase, Angel was already disappearing inside the Everfree forest. This is not going to end well. The human thought before running after the bunny.