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// Chapter 8: The Unravelling- An Aspiration of The Past 
// Story: An Adventure into E-Questria 
// by RFPegasus 
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Rainbow remembered her life as a small filly, growing up around soldiers- her parents were in the war effort too, or at least, that was what every pony was calling it. Cloudsdale was one of those arbitrary cities; her people did not tangle themselves in the power of the power feud- of course, Celestia had served them well, just as they had served her as citizens for over one thousand years, however, the new threat that shadowed the joint Alicorn throne was not refused. Cloudsdale had loyalties to live up to, but in the end, the people did, agreed with or otherwise avoided whatever was best for the Pegasus city.
Being surrounded by soldiers had greatly influenced Rainbow in her younger years, she had always dreamed of being a great and powerful warrior- maybe even one who was in charge! Her parents were not too sure though... it was clear to her now that they didn’t want her to get involved- although back then the message was too subtle. The rainbow filly could be found by the side of the parades and the training sessions, copying all the ponies, hoping to get their attention- these attempts failed-
Rainbow Dash gave Twilight a look, slightly of confusion, however having much more of an annoyed look, “are you trying to say something about me here?” she said defensively.
“Sorry?” Twilight replied. She was honestly unaware of what Dash thought she was implying.
“Are you trying to say that my aspirations are completely overshooting reality and that I’m a complete dreamer- that I should get some real targets in life instead of chasing after my dreams?” Rainbow blurted.
Shocked, Twilight cried, “No!”
“I heard you talking to Rarity the other day,” the Pegasus accused, “You were on about how brilliant you were with magic and that you could get a good job with your talents-” she continued.
Dash leant towards Rarity, pulling a prim-and-proper face, allocating a poor copy of the unicorn’s accent, (look, she was doing an ear-rending imitation of Rarity, okay?) “Oh Twilight,” she wailed melodramatically, “that would be amazing!” –this part of the speech she almost screamed as she vaguely attempted to put on an over-exited voice in the form of Rarity, “I love how you have real targets in life, unlike Rainbow Dash-” she pointed to herself, producing an expression of horror on her face, “how does she possibly think that the Wonderbolts- the fastest fliers in all of Equestria- could possibly bow low enough to her skill level, we all know those tricks are copied.”
Everypony was rather confused and horrified at this sudden outburst of emotion- fury, hopelessness, childish whining (don’t tell Rarity I called that whining,) and just random... Pinkie Pie style speech.
“Are you sure you know what you’re on about?” Twilight asked cautiously- Rainbow Dash never acted like this.
“Of course I know what I’m on about!” Dash nearly burst into tears, only stopped by Pinkie Pie, who, still elevated upon the light, began crying in an over-dramatic, but completely serious way.
“What is it now?” Twilight sighed, feeling although she was babysitting, not at a sleep over.
Rarity was sat perfectly still, her eyes on Twilight, an apathetic look of annoyance expressing her face, “Rainbow, we weren’t saying that- I’m sure you just got us... mixed up a bit, that’s all,” the smile she now possessed was ...priceless.
“...and i’m certain that I never said i was brilliant with magic-” Twilight stated.
“Listen RD, maybe you are just over thinking this whole story thingy going on here, maybe she’s just innocently tryin’ to make up story here-“
“No!” the blue Pegasus paused for a second, realising that she had made a mistake, “That’s just- I don’t know, it’s-”
Twilight looked at Applejack, Applejack shrugged in reply, Twilight looked at Fluttershy, Fluttershy shook her head in denial, Twilight looked at Pinkie Pie, Pinkie grinned, then realised that she was requested to think if she had an answer for why Dashie was acting this way, “I’ve got nothing.” She protested simply.
From the staircase, into the tension of the girls, emerged a familiar purple dragon.
Spike was tired, carrying his blanket in one hand and rubbing his head with the other, “Twilight, what’s with the noise?” he asked, still half asleep.
Upon seeing the discarded box of the game ‘E-Questria: Dungeons Are Magic’ his eyes lit up in excitement, “Dungeons and Magic?” He cried in joy, “Can I play?”
As awkward as it was, Twilight found this a brilliant opportunity to relieve everypony from the dense atmosphere, “err, okay! You can be Rainbow Dash’s friend in this flashback we’re having at the moment,” Twilight sounded awfully suggestive in the sense that she was suggesting that they should get back to the story and forget about the problems that had recently arisen.
“Its okay, whatever Twilight and Rarity said, I’m sure they didn’t mean it like that,” Fluttershy assured, rubbing Rainbow on the back gently.
“Of course! We didn’t mean it like that,” Rarity commented, “If anything, I think Twilight is a bit jealous-”
“Jealous? Jealous of what?” Twilight defended.
“Well, Rainbow Dash at least gets attention and recognition from her idols, based on the fact that the princess is always busy and never has time for you, I figured-”
Twilight Sparkle shown a dash of false truth, “I’m not jealous,” she stated firmly.
This obvious lie made Dash fell a bit better, although she still buried her head in her hooves for sympathy. Spike had been stood at the base of the stairs for the duration of the conversation, he looked a little confused as to what was going on between the six ponies who had so rudely awoken him in the middle of the night.
“What’s going on with you guys?” he asked, oblivious to previous happenings.
“It’s nothing,” Dash replied, returning with a smile of forgiveness and glee on her face- she felt much happier knowing that Twilight was in fact jealous at her for her relationship with the Wonderbolts.
“Anyway,” Twilight spoke, breaking back into the story, “I think we’ll just skip the rest of the back story-”
“Aww, come on! I want to know what happens!” Dash demanded.
“To cut a long story short, Rainbow gets the attention of the soldiers, being an excellent combatant she accelerates through the ranks to commander within a month, and her first assignment is to come and catch some paladin-” Rarity explained.
Twilight broke Rarity’s rough story, focusing on some key story points, “Ah, but she didn’t know it was a paladin- she was told that it was a rogue paladin who had done bad things to the city of Cloudsdale and must be captured alive and-”
“Hey! Tell anymore and you’ll run the story for the rest of us- oh, except from me, I already read the book while all you girls where arguing! You wouldn’t want anypony who was watching to have the story ruined too, would you?” Pinkie asked.
“And who would be watching us in the middle of the night Pinkie?” Twilight queried, rather worried.
“My Pinkie senses are telling me that there may be some ponies watching us, from up there! Or over there, or there!” Pinkie pointed her hooves at random areas of the room, one direction she pointed in seemed to be at you- “Hold on a minute!” Pinkie demanded, “I thought this story was third pony?” Pinkie was shouting at the roof.
“Who are you talking to and what in Equestria are you talking about sugar-cube??” Applejack asked, everypony’s eyes were facing up at the pink party pony dangling from the light, waving her hooves around like she was fighting a swarm of bees.
“Oh, you’ll see,” Pinkie said clearly, “just you wait.”
“O-k, there doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of story going on here you guys,” Spike commented, rather annoyed; all Spike wanted was one of two things: peace and quiet or Dungeons are Magic.

-Note-
This chapter has not been revised at all since I wrote it, so there may well be spelling, typing, grammatical and/or story/plot errors. I am currently going over all previous chapters to try and fine-tune them.