Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"Hah!" Pinkie grinned wide. "I knew it! Light was their biggest weakness!"
"That's what they get for bullying those poor hippopotamuses," Rarity said.
"Buffalo," Rainbow Dash corrected.
"Whatever."
"Whew! Real whizz-banger right there!" Applejack smirked, tilting her hat back. "And I wasn't even scared! Heh!"
"Mmmmmm..." Fluttershy squatted in a little yellow ball, covering her eyes with her wingfeathers. "Sp-speak for y-yourself..."
"Awwwwww..." Pinkie leaned in to nuzzle her. "It's okay, Flutters! We're a long... long way from Tartarus or anyplace else where basilisks might roam!"
Fluttershy exhaled, peeking out of her wings with a nervous smile. "Well... I-I suppose you do have a p-point..."
"Although..." Pinkie tapped her scrunching muzzle. "If one of them did show up spontaneously out of the blue, exposing your eyes like you are right now would be the quickest way to turn to stone!"
"Eeep!" Fluttershy buried her face in Pinkie's fluffy mane. "Don't say th-that!" She quivered. "I-I prefer the lions, tigers, and manticores!"
"Ugh... Fluttershy..." Rainbow rolled her eyes with a smirk. "Sometimes, no matter what awesome things you say or do, you're still you."
"Uhm..." Fluttershy peeked out from beneath Pinkie's head fuzz. "It's a habit I'm d-dying to kick."
"Baby steps, girl." Rainbow winked.
Fluttershy nervously smiled back.
"Duaaaaaaah..." Trixie yawned, blinking dazedly up at the sky. "Trixie is beyond sleepy." Her ears twitched. "Trixie thinks she sees shining lights."
"There's a reason for that, sugarcube," Applejack said.
"Awwwwwwwwww..." Fluttershy cooed, her eyes trailing golden lights in the air. "Lightning bugs." A soft sigh. "That instantly makes me feel better."
"Hehehe." Pinkie nuzzled Fluttershy and helped her onto her hooves. "How 'bout we hit the hay, ol' Shy ol' pal?"
"Darn tootin'." Applejack stifled a yawn and threw a mound of dirt over the already-dying campfire. In wake of the ashes being extinguished, brief flashes of insectoid illuminescence streaked over their faces and manes. "Better get up bright'n'early for a fresh hike!"
"So long as we have plenty of time for beauty sleep." Rarity lit her horn, illuminating the path to her tent. "Twilight? Miss Lulamoon?" She motioned along with a dainty hoof. "Come, come. Unicorn tent ahoy."
"Mmmmmmm..." Trixie yawned, fuzzy and fuzzier. "Give Trixie a moment to... mfnnghhll..." She teetered, eyelids heavy. "...round up the stubborn sheep..."
Twilight rolled her eyes with a sigh. "Come on, apprentice." She smirked, leading Trixie gently by the hoof. "Time to experiment with REM sleep."
"Mmmmffff..." Trixie leaned on her as the two hobbled after Rarity. "Nini... Mareami Sparkle Machine... phweeeeeee..."
"Nighty night!" Pinkie chirped across the clearing. "Don't let the freaky butt glowing arthropods bite!"
Rainbow Dash yawned. Blinking, she hovered into a tent erected on the far end of the clearing. The mare touched down, grasped a sleeping bag, and swiftly unrolled it. Just as she was preparing to zip the thing open, she heard a set of heavy hoofsteps entering behind.
"Mrmmmfff..." Without looking, Rainbow spoke, "Sorry if the story freaked you out, Fluttershy. With how... y'know... assertive you've become as of late, I kinda sorta forget that scary tales can still get to you."
"Fluttershy's hittin' the sack with Pinkie Pie, sugarcube."
"... ... ..." Rainbow's eyes twitched—followed by her ears. She slowly turned around, gasped, then spun back to face her saddlebag with a frozen grimace.
"Mrmmmfff..." Applejack paused to rub her eyes. She stood above her sleeping bag, blinking at Rainbow Dash. "Somethin' the matter, darlin'?"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh..." Rainbow Dash shook... shivered. "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhm..."
"Heh... lemme guess." Applejack's freckles glistened in the starlight peeking into the tent. "Ya make frequent trips to the woods at night. Well, you can sleep closer to the tent flap if ya like—"
"No. No, it's n-not that, it's... uhm..."
"What, darlin'?"
Rainbow turned. She squinted through the tent flap and at the other side of the clearing. Pinkie Pie bounced into her tent. Fluttershy followed shortly behind—but not without stealing a glance back at Rainbow Dash. A blink... and the pegasus smiled briefly before disappearing.
Rainbow exhaled. "Nothing. I just... uhm..." Rainbow squeaked. "I-I'm kind of a restless sleeper."
"Ya toss and turn, huh?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, ain't no thang." Applejack yawned as she rolled her mat out. "I mean... ain't like we're sharin' a sleeping bag, right? Heheheh."
"Right..." Rainbow's voice cracked. "That would suck..."
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They're gonna be sharing a sleeping bag at SOME point, I can tell already.
Fluttershy, you sneaky filly, you.
6743349 Yup.
Ohhh, I remember that.
Ah, back to good old fashioned blushing shivering awkwardness. Just like old times.
Jus' Quit Yer Fussing and Snuggle Up, Sugarcube!
And Rainbow got exactly zero sleep that night.
Fluttershy, I love you so much right now.
Well this is gonna be fun. I'm gonna admit that I have this almost evil glee at seeing Rainbow stuck in this situation.
Yeah, wouldn't that make for an interesting story? I wonder who'd be awesome enough to write that?
6743349 Eeyup. It's only a matter of "when." Probably around 700+ more chapters from now.
6743433 i.imgur.com/8NZYn.jpg
Shy is being epic right now.
sneaky genius manipulator.
Rainbow, that's bullshit and you know it.
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Dis gon be gud.
Jus' Quit Yer Fussing and Snuggle Up, Sugarcube! would just be so perfect at this point
I've actually heard of people who believe lightning bugs don't exist, and are just a common element in fiction. Just like narwhals.
Suuuuuuuuuure Rainbow, it would 'suck'.....
OK, now in the morning, what pretty embarrassing thing is gonna happen?
~ADG
So will Dash be too worried about sleeping in close proximity to AJ or her sleep talking?
It's probably too much to hope for that AJ would hear those six words in the middle of the night.
What if Appledashery is Skirt's Ur-appledash fic? And every Appledash fic he's ever written all comes into play?
...
Nah.
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To be fair, if you live in a country where such things don't exist (in fact, I'm pretty sure Britain is one of those places, as I think th closest country to have them native is Belgium or around there), then it is pretty difficult to believe. Flies that glow brightly, illuminating the night sky? It sounds magical and a tad surreal. Now, I know they exist, but having never seen one for myself, I have to ask: are they truly as spectacular as fiction portrays them?
6744712 I could ask the same of snow really, living in Australia doesn't give one a lot of chances to see it without heading to a ski resort, so I've never seen it, but my mates in UK and America bang on about how wonderful and pretty it is. It leaves me sitting here thinking "it's just frozen water, like hail but not painful, is it really that wondrous?"
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6744851 Fireflies are pretty cool. Sadly I don't see as many as before now that my zone is more urban. Narwhals? I don't believe in them. For that, I would have to believe in the sea, and I've never seen it. I would have to believe in ice and snow forming without a freezer, and that's not possible. I would have to believe in whales and dolphins, and I've never seen those either. Having to believe in all those factors to believe narwhals are real, I just cannot.
6744851 Snow is one of those things that stops being great with the older you get. As a kid there was nothing more awesome than school being cancelled by a big snowstorm and then spending the rest of the day playing in it. Now though I've got worry about shoveling and plowing all of it, trying to keep my car out of the ditch, the salt they put down on the road rusting out my car, and snow emergencies where it's illegal to even be out on the road.
Ugh, I hate the stuff...
Awwwwwwwwwwww. I wuv Fwuttashy in dis. Especially with her playing matchmaker. Or friendmaker. Or whatever.
Skirts, that's an implied promise, right?
I’m . . . puzzled over what Flutters is trying to accomplish, here. Ish she trying to help Dashie be a better friend to AJ, or is she trying to help her get that shared sleeping bag?
Rainbow Dash kicks dirt on the fire
"Oh nooo, now we all could freeze to death! Applejack we better cudd-err I mean, huddle together to conserve body heat!"
Too bad Lancie's not here to see this...