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// Bad News 
// Story: Destiny 
// by Zap-The-Pegasus 
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Rainbow invited us inside. I followed behind Hurricane as we walked into the living room, but as we all sat down, the smile on the cyan mares face disappeared, I didn't say anything, but I was rather confused as to why she suddenly seemed so upset.

"Is everything all right?" Hurricane asked. His voice was full of worry and fear, Rainbow sighed before she replied.

"I have some bad news, Hurricane." she spoke. "I received a letter from your father this morning, Lightning's disappeared, he's been taken.." Lightning...no no no..not..how..he's..

"What! But how! He's four years old! He doesn't understand what's happening!" he said loudly, his voice was wobbly and tears started to form in his emerald green eyes. I put my hoof on his shoulder but he pushed me away, he jumped off the sofa and ran up the stairs.

"Who's Lightning?" I asked, I knew, but if I said I knew it would probably freak Rainbow out a bit, since she's never met me before.

"Lightning is Hurricane's younger brother. He's been living with his father for the past three years, since there both Earth Ponies it wouldn't be possible for them to live here." she said sadly, I could see she was upset. "It doesn't help that Hurricane barely knows him, since the three groups where split up when Lightning was only a year old.." she stopped as tears started to fall from her eyes. "I just don't understand--whoever is doing this is breaking families apart--they've taken Sunny and now Lightning, why are they taking young ponies who have no idea what's going on..." she cried. Sunny, or Sunshine Dash, is, as you've probably guessed, Hurricane's sister, she's a young, Pegasus filly, who loves flying fast. Yes she is one of my OC's, as is Lightning, but the fact that they've been kidnapped..or would it be foalnapped. Hmm..Anyway, kind of makes it harder for me to process everything that's happened in the last..hmm...twenty minutes or something like that.

I sat there silently as Rainbow cried, I wanted to reassure her, but how..I was lost in thought. Thinking about why I was sent here. Maybe, maybe there was a reason, maybe I was sent here to help the ponies who have suffered. But how would that work, I don't have any special powers, or do I...

Seeing Rainbow cry was rather shocking, I'd seen her tear up in the show, but never full on brake down into tears. I sighed. I felt so useless as I sat there, doing nothing. I knew I should do something to try and cheer her up.

"Miss Dash." I said softly..Then it hit me, why did I say that! She hasn't told me her name yet! She doesn't know who I am, or why I'm here! She's probably going to think I'm a mind reader or something now..

"Yeah.." she whimpered as she lifted her head slowly and looked at me, her eyes where red and her cheeks where wet with tears. Yet she didn't seem to think much of me calling her by name when she hadn't properly introduced herself to me yet.

"I understand why your upset, but you need to stay strong, I'm sure that Sunny and Lightning will be fine. I may not know much about them, or you, or Hurricane, but I will stay by you and help you, after all, your son did save me, Its only fair that I help him." I smiled. Rainbow tilted her head slightly and smiled.

"He saved you, how so?" she asked.

"Well, I ended up surrounded by Unicorns, one of them was going to attack me, but Hurricane came down and took me back up towards the clouds." I smiled.

"He's so kind hearted, he can be a little shy around fillies his own age, but if somepony needs a helping hoof, he's never afraid to help them." she smiled as she sat up. "But how did you end up surrounded by Unicorns, Pegasi are told to stay above the cloud barrier unless told otherwise."

"Its kinda hard to explain.." I said. I wasn't sure how I could tell her where I was from, she probably wouldn't belive me if I did say.

"That's OK. Your safe and that's what matters." she smiled. "And Zap,"

"Yeah."

"no need to be so formal, you can call me Rainbow, I won't be offended by it." she said. I smiled softly, though inside, I was confused as to why she hadn't asked how I knew her name. Maybe she had become a Wonderbolt and was used to being called by name to ponies she'd never met before.

The seemingly calm atmosphere was broken as a crash and a shout were heard from upstairs.

"What was that?" I asked as I looked up at the ceiling.

"Probably Hurricane, do you want to go talk to him, he's more likely to listen to you at the moment." Rainbow said as she stood up.

"Ok, but why would he listen to someone he barely knows?" I said.

"Well, he's upset, and something tells me he'd rather talk to someone who's not part of the family." she said softly. As I thought about it, what she was saying actually started to make sense. I smiled and stood up, before trotting up the stairs and down the corridor. I didn't know where Hurricane was. But I was guessing he'd be in his bedroom, but where was that?.......