"So?" Spitfire demanded
"Spit, calm down. This isn't even about your family." Soarin laughed a little, then nuzzled Rainbow.
"Okay, so the Summer's rose is a bit weird, but easy enough to understand. It said the rose lies where memories drown. Where would you go to forget all your past mistakes?" Rainbow asked
"Somewhere...safe, maybe? A place that makes you feel comfortable?" Soarin asked
"Yeah, but I mean a place special to Fleetfoot's family." Rainbow replied
"Oh, the Frozen North! Dark Shooter said that your family is magically drawn to it." Spitfire said, turning to Fleetfoot.
"But...it'th the Thummer rothe." Fleetfoot objected. Rainbow sighed and her enthusiasm deflated a little.
"Right. But I think I'm right about the Fall rose."
"What do you know about that then?" Fleetfoot asked
"Well, it says the Fall rose is found in a song where all magic is answered, and concealed in a crowd. I don't know any place more magical and crowded by plants...than the Everfree Forest." Rainbow replied.
They flew down towards the tangled forest. Fleetfoot landed first and looked around.
"Where exactly are we going to look? The Everfree Foretht ith Huge." Fleetfoot said
"This way." Rainbow led Fleetfoot and the others through the forest.
The plants were almost reaching out to touch them. Rainbow stopped in front of a cliff. In front of them was a huge crystal structure. It looked like a clubhouse.
"This is a new thing. I bet that the Fall rose's part of the riddle was referring to what used to be here. Being the Tree of Harmony, an 'answer to all magic' since the magic of Friendship is the most obvious kind of magic. And the forest used to be really thick and overgrown near the Castle of the Two Sisters."
"So you're saying that since the rose is magical, it might have protected itself when this grew, so it's hidden somewhere here." Spitfire realized
"Yeah, basically. Should we spread out, or...?"
"Let's spread out, look for anything that might indicate a fall rose." Spitfire suggested. Fleetfoot ran ahead, looking around. Each plant was crowding over the next, only a few had flowers.
Fleetfoot closed her eyes and whispered the Fall's rose riddle into the air.
"Fall'th rothe ith within
A thong where all magic ith anthwered
Concealed in the crowd."
Fleetfoot felt a breeze blow past her, and she opened her eyes. A gust of wind was blowing past the trees, the leaves and plants shivering at the touch. Fleetfoot stepped closer towards it. She then ran after the breeze as it blew faster. Fleetfoot followed it, flying after it down the cliff.
"Fleetfoot!" Spitfire called, following her. Fleetfoot landed on the ground and wandered after the wind. It swirled around the base of the tree, where thousands of roses bloomed and shone in the light coming from the treehouse's base.
"Whoa." Soarin gasped
"Do you know how to find the right one?" Rainbow asked
Fleetfoot stepped forward and began humming under her breath. She then opened her mouth and began to sing.
"I can feel you stirring deep inside my heart
Your wind is rising up into my wings
Thousands and thousands of roses start
To bloom around the hidden songs
I'm here for you
Show me where you are."
Her song was short, but it stirred up the wind, which swirled again, picking up yellow-orange leaves from the ground. The wind swirled into the crowd of blossoms and lifted one high into the air. Fleetfoot took off and reached for it. The flower drifted down and landed in her outstretched hooves.
Fleetfoot examined it. It glowed with it's own light, a golden shine against Fleet's ice blue coat. Fleetfoot flew back down to her friends, holding the rose carefully in one hoof.
"You did it Fleet." Spitfire said as she landed.
"That's definitely the Fall Rose." Rainbow agreed
"Okay. So what's next?" Soarin asked.
"Get thith to thafety. And I think thith giveth me an idea on how to find the otherth."