//------------------------------// // Chapter 1- A Frosty Start // Story: Fire, Ice, And A Rainbow // by Pyrefly_91 //------------------------------// Author's Note Before reading this story, please be sure to read my first story, The Comet and The Rainbow. I'm adding this note as to remove any confusion as to why this story starts the way it does. Thanks and I hope you enjoy this conclusion to Pyrefly and Ice Dancer's introduction to the FiM Timeline. Later. /) ________________________________________________________________________________ Fire, Ice And A Rainbow A Frosty Start "What is going on here!" Cried everyone in unison. "This calls for a party!" Yelled Pinkie Pie. "Pyrefly, Rainbow, what in the hay is going on here?" Applejack demanded. "Clearly we missed something important that happened in the last 24 hours," commented Twilight. "Care to fill us in?" Rainbow and I broke our gaze and turned toward the circle of mares. "What do you mean Twi?" Responded Rainbow, smiling in my direction. "You two just met yesterday, were instantly at each other's throats, and now you're acting like long time love birds! Please tell us how in Equestria this came to be?" Rarity asked. I turned my eyes back toward RD, her own eyes still looking at me, as if she was trying to get me to explain so she didn't have to. I just turned back and said, "There's too much for a quick explanation. Besides, you guys probably just laugh and say we're crazy." "Then tell the long version! I just love love stories! Especially long love stories!" Chirped Pinkie. "I think we should let them be, if that's ok?" Suggested Fluttershy timidly. "Not a chance Fluttershy. An explanation must be given at once!" Retorted Rarity. "I agree with Rarity," said AJ. "Dash, Pyrefly, y'all better start talking, or I'll hog tie ya, hang ya from a tree by yer hooves, and buck ya till ya do." This threat scared me, and Applejack looked like a mare that followed through on her threats. I met Dash's eye's again. "They're more your friends than mine right now, so would you care to do the honors?" I asked the beautiful mare resting in my forelegs. "Fine," RD said jokingly, rolling her eyes for effect. And so we filled the mares in on what occurred the previous night, which lead to what the group of friends now saw before them. "So, There you have it," I said. "That's how me and RD went from at each other's throats to at each other's lips. For lack of better words." An awkward silence hung in the air. The tension could be cut with a knife. "Well," Twilight started. "This quite a turn about." "I'll say," stammered Applejack. "I say, this is a real hard story to believe, if I do say so myself." Added Rarity. "I don't care what you guys think, say, or do," Dash said defiantly. "Before I spent yesterday afternoon talking to Pyrefly, I never would have thought something like this would ever happen to me. But for the first time, I found somepony that makes me more comfortable to be around than anyone else." "We didn't think anything," Twilight said quickly, looking at the others, receiving nods of agreement from all of the, except Pinkie, she was still off in her own world. Twilight continued, "It's just how sudden this all is." Suddenly Pinkie sprang back to life, balloons and confetti shooting out of no where once again. "Who cares how sudden this is! We need to throw a humongous party to celebrate this momentous occasion! Dashie has a coltfriend! And he's a celebrity too!" Pinkie yipped in excitement. "What in the hay is going on here?" Someone called out from behind Twilight and the others. Ice Dancer wiggled her way between Fluttershy and Applejack. When she got through, she noticed Rainbow and I hugging each other closely. Her jaw fell open for a second, but the look on her face was quickly replaced by an intense glare of anger and fury. "Brother! What is going on? Why are you hugging Rainbow Dash like that? What is going on? Tell me now!" She screamed. "Ice Dancer!" I said with a start. "I don't know what you're thinking, but let me explain. Just head home, and I'll explain-" "SHUT UP!" Ice Dancer shouted. "We were just getting use to living here by ourselves, and suddenly you're clutching onto somepony you just met. Not to mention I haven't made a single friend yet, and already you're surrounded by five other mares! I don't want to wait till you come home to hear an excuse, I want the truth NOW!" "Now, now sugar cube. I know this is sudden, even we're confounded by all this. But let your big big bro fill ya in?" Pleaded Applejack. I could feel a chill begin to envelope our small group. "Ice, I think you need to calm down and chill out and listen." I said, carefully sliding out of RD's embrace, trying to talk some sense into my enraged little sister. "That's a very poor choice of words, Pyrefly." Commented Ice Dancer, the aura around her horn intensifying, drastically cooling the air around us. "You always do this," she said. "You always get caught up with some random mare and completely forget about me!" "Oh come on!" I started, getting fired up myself. "That was one time. After mom and dad died, I was hurt more than I let you see. I needed somepony other than my own sister to be with to help numb the pain of losing them. I'm sorry i got carried away. Everypony in Equestria has done something like that. I'm sorry that it happened the way it did. But I swore it would never happen again." "BUT IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN!" She screamed, willing the temperature around us to drop even more than before. "Listen, kiddo," Rainbow said, breaking her silence and walking up to stand beside me. "I can assure you, Pyrefly wont abandon you. Alright?" She donned a warm smile, hoping to levitate the hanging tension. "I know he won't," Ice Dancer said, a devious smile creeping across her face. "There's no way he'd be able to be with an ice cube." And with that, a flash of light erupted from her horn. When our eyes regained their sight, Ice Dancer was gone, yet the frigid air still lingered. 'What did she just do?' I asked myself before turning my head to see just what it was. Standing beside me, frozen solid, was Rainbow Dash.