After a wonderous flight around the Ponyville airspace leads Rainbow Dash to peruse the marketplace for anything that was just as awesome as she is, she comes across the brother of her best friend Fluttershy, Zephyr Breeze, a stallion she wanted as much to do with as being grounded from flying.
However, the multi-colored mare spotted that something was bothering the errant stallion, and as much as she dislikes him, he was Fluttershy's brother, and she didn't like to see him all... whatever that was plastered across his face, so she heads over to see what the problem was. Besides, the mare was sure that her very presence will knock the funk out of the stallion and bring him back to his usual insufferable self.
Little did she know that something was wrong with Zephyr, something very wrong.
This story really touched my heart.
It feels incomplete. It's good, but no real ending makes it tough for me to truly grasp the story.
I actually like that you stopped the story there. While one would feel slightly gratified with the 'expected' good ending; most times it leaves unanswered the "what then?" and unexplored the circumstances that led to such decision. Partly because that's a lot to unwrap.
Fluttershy's lukewarm response and the inconclusive ending avoids--at least to me--the reasonable shallowness of a feel good ending in a short story.
Never thought this story would get so many likes. Glad y'all like it.