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// Epilogue 
// Story: The Adventures of Shadow Chaser: The Cutie Mark Crusaders in Marelantis 
// by RangerBeef 
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	Rainbow Dash and I lay on the banks of the Highland Reservoir.  After all of the stories I had told at Skip’s “funeral” she had wanted to know more about him.  I was more than happy to oblige her.  Now we were relaxing in the same place Skip and I used to come to talk about things.

“Oh, Rainbow!  Shadow!  There you both are!”  Rarity’s voice carried over the hill and I rose to my hooves.  “Honestly, you two can be so hard to find.”

“That is our job,” I said.

“And you do it very well.  Listen, I just wanted to thank you for finding my sister.  I admit I was nervous when you said you were taking her to Marelantis but I think she was happier about her being home and even I was.”

I smiled as I remembered Sweetie Belle asking if she could go home.  “Yea, Miss Rarity.  By the time, we’d finally gotten to our destination; Sweetie was pretty well ready to come home.  I think the other girls were as well.”

“Oh, Shadow, darling, you don’t have to call me ‘Miss Rarity.’  You’re a dear friend and I think Rarity would do just fine.”

“You got it, Rarity.”  I gave her a sincere smile but I noticed that all my old feelings about her seemed to have left me.

“Well, I’d best be off.  Fluttershy is helping me put together a rather large order.  Honestly, I don’t know where that pegasus learned to stitch but she is a gem to have around.”

I chuckled softly as she turned to leave.  “Well, don’t let me keep you.  Try not to work too hard.”

I laid back down next to Rainbow and closed my eyes.

“Shadow, I don’t think I can do this anymore.”

My eyes snapped open and I looked over at her.  She was staring at the sky.  “Can’t do what anymore?”

She bit her lip as she looked at me and I immediately knew what she was talking about.  “I just don’t think it’s right.”

“We can work on it, Rainbow.  Make it right.  I mean, we’ve made it work up til now, haven’t we?”

“Yea, and we fought each other the whole way.  I only get in your way and you only get in mine.  We’re just too different.”

I sighed and sat up, looking out over the water.  “Do you think we have a chance of getting back together?”

“Maybe.  But something big would have to happen.”  She sat up beside me and leaned into me.  I embraced her gently.

“You think I could get Rarity?”  I asked through a chuckle.

Rainbow giggled into my chest.  “After that display?  Yea, she’d do just about anything for you.”

“Well, at least we had a good run, right?”

“Yea, we did.”

We sat in silence for a while, both of us contemplating what the future would bring.  We watched the sun set slowly behind the mountains in the distance and just enjoyed each other’s company.  I listened to Rainbow’s breathing and she listened to my heart beat in my chest.  After a long while, I finally broke the silence.

“So do you think the weather team will take you back?”

“Of course they will.  I’m only the best flier in Equestria.”

I laughed as I helped her to her hooves.  “Come on, let’s go home.”