//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Clipped // by Unarmed Pony //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash wept over Fluttershy's body, now devoid of life. "Fluttershy, please wake up." The rest of the ponies came down on the baloon. They all developed tears in their eyes when they saw Rainbow Dash slumped over Fluttersy, crying. She didn't even look up when they came to comfort her. but four words sent her over the top. "It's not your fault." "It is my fault! If it wan't for my crazy obsession with the wonderbolts, this wouldn't have happened! She died because of me!" Rainbow Dash took off in a hurry to somehwere she knew she would be alone. Then she saw a single cloud drifting through the sun set sky at a snails pace. Rainbow settled on this croud, and curled up into a ball and cried. She didn't care if anypony could see her. She didn't care about her tough tom-boy reputation. She just laid there in the fetal position and cried herself to sleep. "It's all my fault." ____________________________ Rainbow opened her bloodshot eyes the next day to find her cloud had sunk to the ground and dissapated into thin air, so she was laid there on the ground, with tear marks on the fur of her face. Then she noticed her company. Applejack, Rarity, Twilight and Pinkie pie where all asleep around her, each with their own tear marks in their face. She noticed something different about Pinkie Pie. Her mane was flat. Rainbow got to her feet and as she did, so did Pinkie. "Dashie? Where are you going?" "Somewhere i can be alone" "But..." "I don't want to hear it Pinkie, I'm going and you're not stopping me" She flew off in the direction of her cloud home with tears flowing down her face freely, like a constant waterfall of depression. _____________________________ "Guys wake up" "What is it Pinkie?" Twilight didn't remember what had happened untill about two seconds later, then she started to cry again. "Where's Rainbow Dash?" "She went off to her home, she said she wanted to be alone. I think we should leave her to think. I'm worried about her Twilight. She blames herself for what happened to fluttershy." "I know Pinkie. Right now the best thing we can do is just let her be alone to think." _______________________ Rainbow touched down with a loud thud on her cloud home porch. She went inside to see everything on the floor and all the drawers and cupboards opened, like they had been searched through and not bothered to be put back. Just how she left it. She waled up into her bedroom which was equally as messy and curled up on her bed and cried, again. She awoke to a few knocks on the door. she reluctantly got up to check who it was. She opened the door and saw Ditzy, the mail pony. "Wow dash, you look sad. What happened? Did you drop your muffin?" Tears started to well up in Ditzy's eyes at the thought of a perfectly good muffin being destroyed. But then she noticed Rainbow Dash starting to cry again. "It doesn't concern you Ditzy." "OK. Here's your mail, bye bye!" Rainbow slammed the door shut, not caring if it had hit Ditzy. She tore open her mail with her mouth. She got her "Wonderbolts Weekly" magazine, she got a "Rocket Booster" and she got a letter. It was marked to Rainbow Dash from Twilight. She read the letter aloud. Dear Rainbow Dash. Funeral arangements have been made. We're all worried about you, you've been avoiding us since yesterday and we dont want you to hurt yourself. We want you to be comfortable and if that means you being alone then so be it but please dont harm yourself. Your loving friend, Twilight Sparkle. She crumpled up the letter and threw it in the bin. A/N Couldnt leave out Ditzy could I? Anyway, i just wanted to point out that i've been sad recently and that's what made this chapter really sad, i couldnt really think joyfully. But it's sorted now so i'm no longer sad.