Fluttershy trotted along the soft, fluffy, clouds, averting her eyes from those of the other pegasi trotting around the Cloudsdale streets. If you could call them streets. They were nothing like Ponyville's street. In Ponyville, the streets were solid, provided support for your hooves, and made you confident in every step, but Cloudsdale was an entire city of clouds, clouds were soft, cushy, and unbalanced.
Since she had moved here a few days ago, Fluttershy had been living in a small house on the edge of town, she had a part-time job at the small pet shop on the corner of the street, it was a good job, with decent pay at ten bits an hour. She had a good life, but she missed her friends. As mentioned before, Cloudsdale was an entire city of clouds, and only pegasus ponies can walk on clouds, which made it virtually impossible for her friends to visit her.
Fluttershy walked into the small cloud house and closed the door behind her with a gentle kick. She set the bags she was carrying down on the counter, she'd put the groceries away later. in the meantime, she'd watch the news. Apparently, Celestia's court gaurd were doing a tribute to Rainbow Dash by creating a rainbow out of colored smoke, and hanging a banner with her cutie on it over the usual one featuring Celestia's. They would also be wearing badges sporting the same symbol. Shining Armor even spoke a few words, or, to put it better, a four minute speech.
Seh sat there watching the newest developments across Equestria for about a half hour, and then, there was a knock on her door. Well, not really a knock so to speak, more of a soft thud.
"Who's there?" asked Fluttershy, still watching the projector.
"Applejack,"
Fluttershy stopped the projector, got up, and ran to the door, and sure enough, the orange earth pony was standing there.
"Hey," said Applejack, lamely.
"Hey,' replied Fluttershy "Come on in," Applejack walked into the small house, awestruck.
"Wow, I never thought thatcha could make clouds so smooth,"
"Yeah, you get used to it. Say, how are you walking on clouds? Only pegasus ponies can do that, did you have Twilight cast that spell again?"
"Nah, Celestia sent us each one of these magical runes," she said, indicating her necklace. "They work like a constant version of that spell,"
"Ah...Oh! Can I get you something to drink?"
"Huh? Oh, yea, just water,"
"Okay," the pegasus went into her kitchen, got two cups, and began to fill them with water. "So how's ponyville been?"
"It's been pretty dull, everypony has been pretty bummed out, half the apple family dropped by to apologize, and Braeburn even dropped of some flowers at her grave,"
"To think so many ponies cared so much about her,"
"Well she was kind of a town celebrity,"
"True, so how is everypony else?"
"Well...Rarity hasn't made a dress in four days, Pinkie Pie moved out, I've been taking a break from the farm and Twilight hasn't left the library since the funeral,"
"That bad, huh?"
"Yeah,"
"So what about the Elements of Harmony? We need the element of loyalty,"
"Celestia and Luna will wield them again,"
"Oh," Fluttershy set down one glass in front of Applejack.
"Thanks," Applejack drank the water in several large gulps, set the empty glass on the table, and wiped her mouth with the back of her hoof. "So how's Cloudsdale?"
"Lonely, but at least I get the chance to move on. I wouldn't be able to do that in my cottage back in ponyville, but here...,"
"Here you can?"
Fluttershy nodded "Yeah, back in Ponyville, there's plenty to remind me of Rainbow Dash, but not here,"
"But didn't you and Rainbow Dash used to live here together?"
"Yes, but to me, they're to different ponies," Applejack gave Fluttershy a confused look. "I knew her back when she lived here, we went our seperate ways, and then we met again in ponyville, but she had a completely different attitude towards many things, so I never saw any connection to them, other than their looks,"
"Ah, I see,"
"So yeah, here I can finally forget,"
"Forget? Why'n the hay would ya want to forget?"
"Because I don't like being tortued by all the memories about her,"
"Tortured? You're looking at this from the wrong angle,"
"How so?"
"I'll put it this way, how would you feel if everypony suddenly forgot about you?"
"Wow, I guess I never thought of it that way. Thanks Applejack,"
The two ponies sat there silently, contemplating a way to continue the conversation, and then Fluttershy spoke.
"You know, I expected she'd at least outlast Granny Smith,"
"Yeah, talk about bad luck,'
"Yeah...Hey! Are the girls back from Manehattan yet?"
"I dunno, but Applejack wasn't back when I left, so probably not. I'd just hate to be the one who tells Scootaloo,"
"Agreed. So what was that earlier bit about Twilight?"
"Oh, she ran home at about 8:00 on Sunday, and hasn't left her home since,"
"I hope she's alright,"
"Well, according to Rarity, she's studying ancient magic, so she's at least partway back to normal,"
"Well that's good,"
Again the two ponies dropped to an awkward silence, but this time, it was broken by Applejack.
"Well, I'd best be getting back to the farm, Everypony will be expectin' me"
"Wait! it's already past six o'clock, and it's a long way back to ponyville, why don't you stay for dinner?"
"Ah, well, I don't wanna impose,"
"Oh it's no trouble, really. It'll be nice to have somepony to talk to over dinner,"
"Well, if'n ya insist,"
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"Ya know Fluttershy," said Applejack, picking up a forkful of the steamed veggies "If you went out there, said hello to some ponies, be friendly, you could probably get yerself a few new friends, maybe even a colt-friend, or mare-friend, if that's what yer into,"
"I don't know, I don't think anypony would like to date me,"
"Ah, c'mon your sellin' yerself short, there's plenty of colts and mares that go for the gentle, silent type, and yer extremely cute to boot, you'd probably stand a better chance than most of the other mares in cloudsdale,"
"You think so?" asked Fluttershy.
"Definetly,"
"Thanks Applejack,'
"No problem, Ya take care of yerself,"
"I will, and you do the same,"
"Later Fluttershy,"
"Goodbye,"
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"Okay, Carbon, water, pictures, assorted chemicals, runes, looks like I'm all set, now I just wait for Spike to go to sleep, and then I can get started," Twilight walked up the stairs, and closed the door to her basement.
Damnit, don't do it! Haven't you ever watched Fullmetal Alchemist? It's a bad fucking idea.
Or Buffy, or heck jus about any thing with resurrection? Only in D&D is that stuff free...
Will RD come back and possess Twilight? Maybe she comes back half alive and eternally tortured because she's no longer of this world, but can never go back for some reason or another? Maybe it's something like Rd's soul is brought back, but it's been chained to some monstrosity that only forbidden arts could create? Will Twilight die instead, and be condemned to suffer for eternity, and Rainbow has to get her back? Maybe just FMA with ponies?
Idk, I have to go write any essay- Give me a reason to procrastinate!
3236976 you really want to get that right don't you, I admit there is some FMA inspiration, but it won't be an exact copy-paste, in fact, far from it. you'll see what I mean.
3236986 Actually, I just spend my time thinking up creepy grimdark/sad story ideas and telling myself "I'll write these someday..."
3236989 you should do that, I'd read them
3236995 Aww, now I'm morally obligated to write them.
You horrible person, you *Goes off to finish stuff for her essay, then brainstorms!*
by the by, I need to make a new portrait for the story in time, any app suggestions to do so with?
or if you can do it for me that would be greatly appreciated as well
Good story so far. My guess it is some kind of alchemy (hence the carbon and water) with a magic twist.
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I was just looking at the statistics, today we hit the highest number of views per day for this story, at 192.
Thanks for reading!
i'm wondering if she's going to make rainbow dash a new body (using the assorted chemicals and such) and then draw her soul into it (using the magic runes). this sounds a lot like Full Metal Alchemist, but this time i'm praying it works. i want dash to come back and make everypony happy again!
3237618 good guess. Although, I would like to see someone predict why the pictures were important...
3237843 easy, the picture would be a catalyst (or a focus) for how she wants rainbow to look. she would use it to make the spell, as a whole, go smoother because that would be one less thing she needed to focus on.
3237874 Congrats on first guess on how the pictures play in. have a moustache
3237917 MUSTACHES!
Okay, I am stunned, I am utterly and completely flaberghasted. I looked at the total views for the story. After I posted that we hit 192, the views skyrocketed to 242. Thank you very much to everyone who takes time out of their day to read my story, you all deserve this.
Only mistake I saw.
So... Twi is essentially trying to bring Dash from the dead... Dang it Twlight, I knew you were clingy, but this takes it too far!
'O the stupidity of the intellectual!