A Very Rainbow Hearth's Warming

by HiddenEntity


Chapter 3

Rainbow found herself huddled in a snowbank. She found herself soaked, be it in tears or melted snow, she could not tell. A storm had begun to pick up speed, and in the howling wind, a voice called.


"Rainbow?" Twilight called, again and again. Fear began to freeze her bones. Or was it the cold? She could not tell. The snow around her on the roads grew in elevation with each passing moment, the temperature dropping with every step. "Rainbow!" Twilight saw her friend's despairing face lift from the snow, and she rushed to her side.


Rainbow lifted her head and let out a raspy groan. Twilight dashed from where she stood, and urged, "Come on, Rainbow, we need to warm you up." Twilight brushed the snow from her face. She refused, until Twilight pounded her hoof impatiently. Rainbow reluctantly and weakly stood, and she let out a few coughs, then collapsed as her world went black.


Blood streaked the snow. Rainbow screamed in agony as she pulled her cut hoof out of the broken seat. The train was tipped. "Mom? Dad?" Rainbow looked to where they once sat...


Twilight sat worriedly as Scootaloo curled up beside her. Rainbow was under a blanket, resting beside the fire. Scootaloo looked up at Twilight, looking for reassuring comfort that her idol would be okay. Twilight's heart stung, and she wrapped a wing around the little orange filly, and cried silently.