//------------------------------// // Chapter I - Wing Problems // Story: Dashed Thoughts // by Chevan //------------------------------// Dashed Thoughts by Chevan Chapter I – Wing problems Rainbow Dash’s soft snoring could be heard in her bedroom, as her body rested on her cloud bed in her home up into the skies. Her body started to shift, and her eyes began to slowly flutter open just to be blinded by the sun, which Celestia rose to start a new day. Her head rose to sit on her cloud bed, and she stretched her mouth into a loud yawn. Her eyes were half closed to protect them from the blinding rays. She stretched her joints and flapped her wings a few times, to make sure that they’re in the good condition. Her wings still felt a bit sore after yesterday’s work, but she was rewarded a day off for her outstanding job as a weather team boss past few days. She was clearing or moving all the clouds with her team to make the weather right with the forecast. Today the sky had to be clear, and it is, thanks to her and her team. Blue sky and even a single cloud can’t be seen from Ponyville. It was a rest well deserved. When her eyes got used to the sudden change of the light level, she turned her head towards the window. She was welcomed by the sight of the cerulean and clear morning sky, decorated by the sun. She smiled, knowing that it was her who provided that weather. “What a beautiful day,” she said to herself, “I wonder who cleared all these clouds yesterday to make the weather like that!” she chuckled, “It was me, of course! Who else could it be?” She sat on her bed for a few more moments just gazing at the result of her hard work, which was on the other side of the window. “Well, it’s time to wake up, I guess,” She got out of bed, and trotted downstairs to the main hall of her home. The pink envelope near her front door caught her attention, and she got closer to it to examine it further. “I wonder who sent it,” She chuckled, already knowing that it was from Pinkie Pie, picking it up with her mouth. She made her way to the kitchen, and placed the envelope on the table. Her stomach began to growl, so the first thing she decided to do before opening it is to get something to eat. She made herself a daffodil sandwich, the one she always liked. After the meal, there was a time to see what’s inside the pink envelope. She carefully tried to open it with her hoof with no satisfying results. She just wrinkled it by her actions. “This is not going to work!” She growled, “My hooves are not made for hoofwork. I wonder how Pinkie Pie can prepare and tape these without a help of the unicorn. Maybe Twilight helped her?” she winced after the sudden imagination of the lavender unicorn, “M-maybe… well, she’s Pinkie Pie, this pony is capable of everything. I think I’ll just tear it apart. I’m sorry, Pinkie…” She did what she said using her teeth, what caused the envelope to finally reveal its contents. Rainbow pulled out the white sheet of paper from the remains of the envelope. It was an invitation. Dear Rainbow Dash, It’s Gummy’s birthday today, so I’m throwing a party! There would be a cake, cupcakes, balloons, streamers, punch, and a lot more! I prepared lots of games! This is going to be so much fun! Everypony in town is invited! Party starts today at 8pm in Sugarcube Corner. Please, come and celebrate with us! ~Pinkie Pie “Another party hosted by Pinkie Pie? Whenever Pinkie Pie throws a party, I’m there!” She said, smiling. She placed the letter back on the table. She extended her wings and looked at them, “But, until then, I think I have to go outside and practice some flying before these babies go completely numb.” She said, chuckling. She decided that washing herself would be the first thing she’ll do. After washing and drying her coat, she got out from her bathroom, and flared and flapped her wings a few times to check their condition once again. She winced, “They hurt a little,” she said, growling, “But they don’t hurt bad enough to make me be unable to get some training.” They were not in the condition she wanted them to be, but she decided to go outside and practice a little anyway. If she wants to be a Wonderbolt in the future, she has to practice whenever she has a free time. There were no clouds to be seen, thanks to her well done job, so it was easier to train for her. She could fly as much as she wanted to, without thinking about meeting with a puffy obstacle. The only surface she could hit was the ground, but c’mon, she’s Rainbow Dash, the fastest, bravest, and the most awesome Pegasus in all of Equestria. Because of her bravery and high self-esteem, she didn’t take burying her snout to the ground into account. But she was about to realize, that anypony is the best, and even the most awesome ponies like Rainbow Dash can have their bad days. She came out of her house, and stood in front of the door. She looked up into the sky, flared her wings, and took off with the insane speed, leaving a rainbow trail behind her. After making some tricks, when she was flying in a breakneck speed straight to Sweet Apple Acres, she felt a sharp pain in her right wing.  She shut her eyes and grit her teeth, “Ow! What the...?” She turned her head to the right to check her wing. What she saw made her eyes go wide in shock, and her pupils turned to pinpricks. One of her primaries was basically ripped out from her wing, which absence created a huge space between the feathers. She was unable to fly with that gap. She could see droplets of blood coming out from the place, where the feather used to be. “Owww, ponyfeathers…” It happened to her before, so she exactly knew what to do. She knew she was unable to fly much longer, and if she doesn’t keep the balance, she’ll begin to fly in a corkscrew. The crash was now unavoidable. She had to find something to crash on safely as fast as she could. The small lake in the distance caught her attention. It seemed to be the only reasonable place to crash. There were no other safe landing spots next to her, so she head over there. Sadly, she was descending much faster than she expected. She started to wonder if she’ll make it to her safe landing spot. As she got dangerously close to the ground, her hope of crashing safely almost completely faded. She didn’t want to crash too soon, which will result meeting a hard, grassy surface, so without worrying about a pain she flapped her wings as fast as she could, as well trying to keep the airflow equal between her healthy and damaged wing. “Ow! Come on wings!” she started growling and moaning because of the indescribable pain coming straight to her spine from her right wing, “Owwwwwww, Don’t fail me! Ow! Not now!” She cried as loud as she could, grit her teeth, and flapped even faster. Happily, she managed to accelerate to enough speed to make her safely reach her crashing zone. She stopped flapping, and let herself fall and dive into the pond. After a second she emerged from the water, and swam to the edge of her crash pond. She came out of it, and shook her body in order to dry her coat. She found herself just mere meters from apple orchards. Well, she preferred crashing the pond instead of being pierced through by a branch… Just a thought about it made Rainbow Dash wince. She looked at her wing in order to examine the damage a little bit closer. She flapped it once, which made it start to hurt so much that she shut her eyes and hissed, because she couldn’t stand the pain. She sighed, “Well, Rainbow Dash, remember to preen your wings from time to time…” She said to herself, and made a mental note to write this sentence in bold above her bed, so she could see it every time she wakes up. She stared at her wing a little bit longer, and moaned, “Darn it, so much flying for now…  Without a full set of feathers it’s very hard to fly, but first the pain has to fade to even think about taking off. It will take 2 weeks or more, but I’ll be almost unable to fly before my feather fully recovers, and primaries take a lot of time to recover… unless… somepony helps them…” she smiled, and looked at the library tree, which was visible in the distance, “by magic…” Rainbow’s mind immediately shown her an image of her lavender coated crush, Twilight Sparkle. She adored and loved this unicorn so much. Her love to this mare grew over time since she came to Ponyville from Canterlot to study magic of friendship. They both with her four friends became the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, her, being the strongest Element of Magic, and Rainbow being the Element of Loyalty. They both saved Equestria twice with their friends, which made her feeling even stronger. She didn’t want to talk to her about it, because she was afraid of her rejection and she had to be completely sure that she loves her back. She didn’t want to ruin their friendship by telling this to her. It became her life’s destiny to find out her feelings, and to finally say straight to her face that she loves her. Rainbow shook her head, and she came back to reality again. “I guess that nopony would do it better than Twilight…” She retracted her wings to her sides, but as the pain hit her mind again she had to flare the damaged one back open. “Ow! I guess I have to walk with the extended wing…” She said, as she started walking to Ponyville. *** Twilight’s morning was the same as always – getting up, eating breakfast, taking a refreshing shower and opening the library. She got a party invitation from Pinkie Pie earlier today as well. She always liked parties, but she especially loved these hosted by the pony, who was, after all, a party pony. She opened the library flipping the sign on the front door to “Open”. She decided that this day would be the day, when she will read some more books about unicorn magic, and hopefully learn some new interesting spells. But… was it a different day than the others then? Spike was still sleeping upstairs. He’s a baby dragon after all, and being Twilight’s number one assistant, he deserved to sleep as much as he wanted to. Owlowiscious could still help her when he was asleep. She lay down on her cushion near her fireplace and placed a small round table on her right side with a glass of water on it, and hid herself behind a huge pile of books, which she prepared the day before. She made herself as comfortable as possible. Her horn started to glow, and she levitated to herself the book from the top of the pile. She started examining the cover of the book she picked. “The magic you didn’t know about: Advanced manipulation spells” she read the title out loud. “I didn’t read that yet. This could be interesting.” She said to herself as she flipped to the first page, which contained the table of contents, and started to read it. One of the chapters caught her attention immediately, “Gravitation spells?” She read aloud, and narrowed one of her eyes like she was surprised, “Let’s see…” She flipped the pages to the one, where the chapter begins. She spent about an hour reading it. There were various spells allowing a unicorn to change how gravity works on certain objects, to change gravitational interaction between them, and even reverse the gravity of them. They couldn’t be cast on living creatures anyway, and each of them lasted 5 minutes. “Hmm, interesting… I should try to do some, but I must be careful not to wake Spike up.” She smiled and looked at the table beside her, “Let’s try to make this table a little bit heavier,” Her horn started glowing purple instantly, and after charging some magic, she lowered her head to point it towards her target. It shot a purple beam, which hit it, making a quiet crack. The room was filled with a bright white flash for a split second. She looked again at the table, “Let’s see if it worked,” She said, and hit it with her front hoof. The table refused to move, it just vibrated in place. It was basically glued to the ground. She smiled, “Well, it worked perfectly! Now, let’s try it on something else,” The first thing that caught her attention was a brown unicorn statue, positioned in the middle of the library. “Let’s see if I can cast the same spell on this statue,” She said as she approached it. Her horn started to glow purple again, ready to cast a spell. *** Rainbow Dash had to go through Sweet Apple Acres to reach Ponyville. When she was walking, she saw an orange silhouette galloping in her direction. She narrowed her eyes and put her hoof above her eyes to cover them from the sun, in order to see better the approaching pony from the distance. She realized it was her friend, Applejack, who was running towards her. Applejack started slowing down after she got closer to the Pegasus. "Rainbow Dash! You’re okay!” Applejack shouted, and put her hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, panting. “Yes, I am, I’m standing in front of you, and I’m still breathing.“ Rainbow said, smiling a bit. “Aw shucks Rainbow, ah saw you fallin’ near the orchard! Ah ran here as fast as ah could! Thank Celestia you’re okay, ah thought you didn’t make it! Well, maybe you’re Rainbow Dash, the most…” She stopped, “…never mind, I just was worried about you!” She looked to her left, “Ah see your wing is damaged…” Applejack said as she got her hoof off Rainbow’s shoulder, and pointed it towards her extended right wing. “Well, it is a reason of my crash…” She said, “But I crashed a pond which was mere meters from the orchard, so I’m okay.” “Ah was afraid you hit one of my trees or a ground!” Applejack shouted back, her face looking worried, ”What happened to your wing anyway?” “I forgot to preen my wings after yesterday’s job,” Rainbow growled, and looked at her wing, “Stupid, stupid pegasus…” She said, and looked at her front hooves, frowning. “I always forget to preen them… And here we have a result…” She said, and pointed a gap in her right wing with her hoof. “I lost my primary feather, I’m almost unable to fly without them.” She said, looking at Applejack. “Ah’m so sorry about you Rainbow,” Applejack said, frowning, “It must hurt so much, you were bleedin’!” She said, now seriously worried about her friend. Rainbow looked at Applejack again, “Indeed it did, but I’m heading to Twilight’s now, so she can… recover my feather…” She looked to her right, trying to hide her flushing cheeks. Happily, Applejack didn’t notice that, “Thank Celestia we have a unicorn like Twilight, don’t ya think?” She smiled at the pegasus. Rainbow looked at the earth pony again, smiling, “Y-yeah… You’re right…” “Okay, then!” Applejack said, “We can walk together back until we reach mah house. Ah have so much work on the orchard today, so ah won’t accompany you on your way to the library.” “Okay, let’s go then!” Rainbow shouted back, and grinned. Applejack’s home was visible in the distance, but it was still far away. During the walk, they were talking about today’s events, laughing together at what ridiculous things had happened just since they woke up. It turned out, that Applejack got the invitation from Pinkie Pie as well. It wasn’t surprising, since everypony was invited after all. They finally approached Applejack’s home. “Here we are, Rainbow Dash.” Applejack said, looking at the pegasus. “Ah have to get back to mah brother, he must be worried about me right now. Say hello to Twilight from her fellow Applejack!” She said, smiling, and poked Rainbow on her shoulder. “Will do, Applejack! Thanks for the walk!” Rainbow answered. “No problem, Sugarcube. Get well soon!” Applejack said. After that, they went their own ways. Rainbow made her way to Ponyville, Applejack went back to her brother. Not much time passed before Rainbow approached her destination, Ponyville. She headed towards Twilight’s home. After several minutes, she stood at the front door of the library tree, and looked up to the sky. She could see upper branches of the tree, covered by green leaves. She saw some birds flying off them. She looked at the library’s front door once again, and realized there was a sign, which read “Open”. Rainbow struggled with her feelings for the moment, “Come on, Rainbow. Stop being so scared, Rainbow Dash is never scared of anything!” she closed her eyes, “Let’s do this…” She said, as she pushed the door open. *** Twilight was just about to cast a spell on a statue, when the door to the library opened. “Hey Twilight!” the voice shouted so loud, that it startled the unicorn. It caused the spell to double its power, and it came out of control. Twilight immediately turned her head to face her sudden guest. It was Rainbow Dash. The fact that she turned her head was a horrible mistake, which catastrophic results she was going to face in a second. Rainbow Dash walked a few steps into the library, and saw Twilight looking at her. Her eyes were white, her horn was glowing purple, ready to shot. “Wha-” Rainbow was cut off by Twilight’s horn, which shot a purple beam and hit the bookshelf just above Rainbow’s head. Rainbow looked up, then back to Twilight, scared. “What was that supposed to mean?” Twilight exactly knew what was going to happen right then. “RAINBOW! JUMP FORWARD NOW!” She shouted to a pegasus, who, without any further questions, did what she said. The spell was so strong, that the insanely increased gravity caused the bookshelf to shift its weight forward, and it completely shattered on the ground by falling from the height of just 2 meters. Rainbow avoided the falling bookshelf with the insane force at her head just by mere inches. Rainbow hit the floor by her whole body. She opened her eyes, and saw a pair of purple hooves in front of her face. She looked up to see Twilight staring at her, her eyes full of worry. “Oh my gosh Rainbow, Are you okay? I’m so sorry!”  Twilight instantly took Rainbow by her shoulders, helping her to stand up on her four. Rainbow accepted the help, and got up from the floor. Rainbow shook her head, “I-I’m fine Twilight, don’t wo-“ She was cut off again, but this time by a sight of Twilight, who started desperately examining every part of her body to find any damage that could be caused by a falling object or an interaction with the floor. “Sorry sorry sorry sorry Rainbow would you ever forgive me that please please ple-mlrph!” Rainbow silenced the mare by putting her hoof into her mouth. “Calm down there, Twily. I’m okay! Stop acting like Pinkie Pie.” Rainbow said, smiling, and looked straight into Twilight’s eyes. She placed her hoof back to the ground. “…What in the name of Celestia is going on there?!” Spike shouted from the room above. Twilight gasped, and looked up to the room. She completely forgot about a sleeping baby dragon upstairs. “Nothing important, Spike, go back to sleep! I’ll call you when I need you!” Twilight shouted back. The loud groan of the dragon could be heard in the background. She looked back at Rainbow Dash, tears almost welling up in her eyes. She closed her eyes tight, grit her teeth, and her face immediately switched to an anger expression. She shifted her weight forward. Rainbow moved away from the sudden assault of her friend by shifting her weight backwards, she was shocked by a sudden change of her friend’s expression. Twilight started talking with a louder voice, but not loud enough to wake Spike again, almost from above Rainbow’s head, “Don’t you ever scare a unicorn when they perform magic! I almost killed you!” Twilight started panting through her grit teeth. She started feeling guilty straight away when she saw this poor, injured and shocked pegasus standing in front of her, looking up at her eyes with her tiny pupils. She- wait… injured?! Twilight’s eyes shot wide, and her jaw dropped. She came back on her four. “W-What happened t-to your w-wing?!” Twilight said, and pointed her hoof at Rainbow’s damaged wing. Rainbow Dash, finally feeling safe, came back to her four too and chuckled a little. She scratched a back of her head and said, “Well, that’s the reason I came here.” “T-tell me what h-happened!” Twilight said, almost crying. Rainbow felt her cheeks start to flush. She was happy to see how much her… her lover… is worried about her. She was trying to hide her flushing cheeks by looking away from her. She started to chuckle, and said, “Heh, well, I just forgot to preen my wings after yesterday’s work, and when I was making some training my feather just got ripped off from my wing and I crashed-“ Rainbow was cut off by a unicorn, “What? Ripped off? You crashed? Where? Are you hurt somewhere else? Gosh your wing must hurt so much right now… can I help you somehow? Maybe yo-” Rainbow cut Twilight off, “Calm down, Twilight, please. I’m okay in 100%…” she looked at her wing, “…o-okay, in 95%,” she looked back at Twilight again, “But don’t worry, I’m fine. Yes, my wing hurts so much, and, as I said before, I came here to ask you to help me.” Twilight finally calmed down. “I’d be glad to help. I can recover the feather easily, but it’s going to take some time, so you have to be ready.” She said. “That’s what I was thinking about, Twilight!” Rainbow said, smiling back. “How much time is it going to take?” "I haven’t done it for ages now, I have to find a book about the anatomy of pegasus wings to remember how the feather is supposed to look, but I think it won’t be that hard for me to recover it.” Twilight answered. “Heh, you’re an Element of Magic, nothing can be hard for you about this stuff,” Rainbow said, and grinned. Twilight blushed in response, “Thanks, Rainbow…” She looked away, “But first off, I have to clean this mess.” She said, pointing her hoof to the remains of the bookshelf. The gravitation spell had ended, so she easily levitated the parts of the bookshelf by her magic, and fixed it in just a few minutes. She lifted it to a place where it belongs, and put back the books on its shelves. Rainbow watched in awe as Twilight turned a stack of wood back into the bookshelf. “Wow, you’ll recover my feather in the same way?“ She asked. Twilight looked at Rainbow, and chuckled, “No, Rainbow. I wouldn’t be recovering anything. I’ll just speed up a process. I have to know the anatomy of a pegasus wing, because I have to know which nerves do I have to work on to make your wing produce a new feather.” “Uh-huh…” she scratched her chin by her hoof, “But won’t it be weaker because it was recovered too fast?” She inquired, looking concerned. “Don’t worry, Rainbow, it will be the same feather as the one, for which you would have to wait several weeks to recover itself.” Twilight answered, smiling. “So, how much time do you think will it take?” Rainbow asked, smiling back. Twilight scratched her chin, “Hmmm, I was recovering birds’ feathers in half an hour, and since pegasus feathers are more complex, and we’re talking here about a primary feather, I assume I’ll recover it in…” she paused, “…in about 2 hours.” She ended, smiling. Rainbow smiled back, “Well, It’s not that much! We’ll have plenty of time before Pinkie’s party. You’re invited, aren’t you?” “Of course I am! I thought she wrote that everypony in town is invited?” Twilight said, chuckling. "Oh… right. You have a point,” Rainbow said, chuckled, and paused. She thought this is the best moment to make a joke, “But wait a second, you said you wouldn’t be recovering anything!” She grinned. "Wha-“ Twilight just finished processing Rainbow’s sentence, and facehoofed. “Rainbow… what I meant by that was that I-“ Rainbow cut her off, “Okay, okay, I was just joking,” she said, chuckling. Twilight started to laugh, “Haha Rainbow… Do you really have to make jokes from my mistakes every time?” Rainbow laughed too, “Well, I like to do this!” Twilight stopped to laugh, and smiled, “I see…” She suddenly remembered that she didn’t ask her the one important question before, “Hey, Twi, what was that what you were doing with that magic anyway?” Rainbow asked. “Well, I found a book about advanced manipulation spells, and a chapter about gravitation spells caught my eye. There was a spell that makes objects more susceptible to gravity, and I wanted to try it out.” Twilight answered. “So you basically wanted to make this statue”, she pointed her hoof at the brown unicorn statue in the middle of the library, “um… heavier, but I scared you, and you shot the bookshelf above my head instead of it?” “Yes, that’s exactly what had happened.” Twilight said. “Whoops… sorry…” Rainbow’s head dropped down, and her mouth turned into a frown. “Don’t worry, Rainbow, everything is ok now, you don’t have to apologize.” Twilight put her hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, and smiled. Rainbow raised her head back up, to be welcomed by Twilight’s smiling face. “Aren’t you mad at me?” Rainbow said, still frowning. “Not at all, Rainbow. I fixed all the damage I’ve done. The only thing that matters is that you’re alive,” Twilight said. The pegasus smiled, and started to chuckle, “But only thanks to you…” She said, and gave Twilight a hug. Twilight was surprised in the first second, but she returned it with joy. “If you didn’t tell me to jump, I wouldn’t be here anymore…” Rainbow said, on the verge of tears. Twilight smiled, “You’re welcome, Rainbow. What are friends for?” After the time which seemed like eternity, Rainbow broke the hug. Twilight was the first to speak, “Now, let’s go to recover your feather. I can’t stand looking at your damaged wing anymore.” Twilight said. “Heh, okay… So, what’s the plan?” Rainbow asked. Twilight began to talk, “Well, it needs a lot of unicorn magic to speed up the recovery. I’ll be speeding it up by interfering with your passive pegasus magic, so we’ll be both exhausted after we finish up the process.” She levitated a cushion from the corner of the room, and placed it beside her own, which was near the unlit fireplace, “You’ll be laying down on this cushion, and I’ll be laying on mine just beside you. Your right wing must be faced towards my horn to let me work on it with my magic. The most important thing is that you mustn’t fall asleep. We’ll have time to sleep later. Do you understand?” Twilight asked. “Yeah, I think I get it.” Rainbow answered. “So, are you ready to begin?” Twilight inquired. Rainbow quickly jumped on her cushion, and made herself as comfortable as she could. “Yes, I am!” “Okay, I’ll bring the book, wait for me a second.” Twilight answered, and went upstairs. She got back about 1 minute later, levitating the book in front of her by her magic. She positioned herself on her cushion, facing Rainbow’s wing. She opened the book, and flipped its pages to finally reveal the part she was looking for. “Okay, got it. Now, relax, and let me work on your wing.” She said, as her horn began to glow. “Wait a sec…” Rainbow interrupted, “Do you think we’ll make it to Pinkie’s today?” she asked. Twilight’s horn stopped to glow, “After the process we have to sleep together to recover our energy. We still have 8 hours to the party, so I think there’s no problem to make a short nap. You like napping, don’t you?” Twilight inquired, and grinned. “Um…” Rainbow’s eyes shot wide, and her cheeks turned to a deep shade of red. Twilight raised an eyebrow, but after some thinking, she realized what she just said, and her cheeks turned to red as well in an instant. “Um…” She felt so embarrassed about what she just said. “I-I mean, you on your own cushion and me on my own…” Twilight quickly corrected herself, looking away to not look Rainbow in her eyes. “I-I know… I know what you meant…” Rainbow answered, her cheeks still red. Twilight still felt ashamed, “So… a-are you ready?” “Y-yes… go ahead…” Rainbow answered. “Oh, almost forgot,” She said as she pointed her horn towards the library’s main entrance. She flipped the sign on the other side of library’s door to “Closed”, and locked them. Then she turned her head to look upstairs, “Spike?” she shouted. The purple dragon went out from the room after some seconds, rubbing his eyes. “What’s wrong, Twilight?” “I’ll be working on fixing Rainbow’s wing in the next few hours, so would you be so kind and not interrupt us?” Twilight asked. Spike faced the laying pegasus, “You damaged your wing again? I feel so sorry for you…” “It happens from time to time…” Rainbow answered back, sighing. “I won’t interrupt you then, girls. Thanks for telling me!” Spike turned about and walked back to the room. “Thanks!” Twilight shouted, and faced the pegasus. “So, for the third time – Are you ready?” She smiled. “I trust you, Twilight. Do what you need to do.” She answered, a smile grew on her face. Twilight’s cheeks started to flush again, “Th-thanks, Rainbow… Remember, you mustn’t fall asleep.” Her horn started to glow, and she began the healing process. Wings are the most sensitive parts of the pegasus body. They are considered as a very private areas, so even looking at them can be sometimes offensive to the pegasus. If he lets another pony to touch his wings, it is a sign, that he has a complete confidence to this pony. Just like Rainbow and Twilight right now. Rainbow Dash was constantly feeling a tingling sensation in her wing during the healing process, and she felt her feather slowly grow back up. Her wing was constantly covered in a purple aura, which was the working Twilight’s magic. She was looking at her from time to time, just to see her laying down beside her with her eyes closed, and her horn glowing. Sometimes, when Twilight touched Rainbow at the very sensitive spot on her wing by her magic, about which she didn’t even know, she made her squeak lightly. Then the pegasus was facing Twilight, just to see her smiling face. Rainbow was always smiling back. Twilight was proud of herself, that she was the one, who was allowed to heal the pegasus. She finished her work after a bit more than 2 hours. “I’m done!” Twilight said, her voice quiet. Rainbow examined her wing, and saw that she has a full set of feathers again. “Thanks, Twilight. I knew I could count on you…” She said, quietly as well. They were both exhausted. Twilight, seeing that her other feathers are misplaced, wrapped both of Rainbow’s wings by her magic. “Can I?” She asked, smiling a bit. Rainbow Dash, knowing that Twilight wanted to preen her wings, slowly flared open both of them, and said, “Of course, go ahead…” Twilight started to fix every misplaced feather by her magic, making Rainbow quietly moan from pleasure. Rainbow didn’t like to preen her wings, but being preened by somepony is totally a different story. She felt so good, knowing that it was Twilight who made an outstanding job preening her wings right now. “Oh my gosh, Twilight, you are so good at this…” She said, between her moans. “I’ve never done this before…” She said, smiling. “You know something, Rainbow?” Twilight inquired. “What is it, Twilight?” She asked, curious. Twilight began to talk after a second, “I… I love your wings…” She said, as she continued preening. Rainbow started to smile. Then Twilight continued, “Your wings are your life, I would never forgive myself if I let your wings be hurt and not to help you…” “Th-thanks, Twilight…” was the only thing that Rainbow was capable of saying right now. Twilight finally finished her work on preening the wings of the cyan pegasus. She was so exhausted, the only think she was thinking about now was a slumber. “I’m done, Rainbow.” Twilight said, “Are you feeling better right now?” “A lot better…” Rainbow answered and flapped her wings a few times by her remaining energy. She felt that the tension in her wings completely subsided. “But I need to sleep right now…” “Yes, me too. Spike?” she called. The green-scaled dragon appeared upstairs, “What is it?” “Can you wake us up at 7? We’re going to sleep, we’re exhausted, and we want to go to Pinkie’s today…” Twilight said, quietly. “I see,” Spike said, “You can count on me, then.” He turned about and disappeared in the room. Twilight faced Rainbow again. “Well, have a nice sleep, Rainbow,” Twilight said. “You too, Twilight…” Rainbow answered, and they both immediately fell asleep.