//------------------------------// // Twilight's Question // Story: Orphan // by AshuraZXexianGlitch //------------------------------// Twilight's Question Rainbow Dash: I was reading at the time. When Twilight asked me a certain question, a question that I was hoping to never hear. It wasn't a bad question really, it wasn't hard to actually answer. Well in an ethical way it wasn't, but in a personal way it was. I just wasn't expecting it at the time, honestly I figured her, out of every pony I knew. I knew she would have asked that certain question at some point. "Dash, how come I haven't met any of your relatives?" Twilight asked looking at me suddenly. I lowered my book and looked at my dear friend. "What, what do you mean?" I asked confused, I understood the question, but my brain went on lockdown for a second. I looked at her blankly. Like I was brain dead or something. "Relatives, I met Rarity’s sister and parents. Pinkie Pie tells...a story about her folks and a rock farm. Applejack has loads of them, more than anypony I have ever met. Fluttershy and you, I haven't met anyone of your relatives. No mom or dad, no brothers or sisters. I'm just curious is all." She said putting her hoof on her chest. "Yeah about that." I started flapping my wings and took off into the air. "I gotta go, c-ya Twi!" "Rainbow!" She yelled as I flew as fast as I could out the window. I flapped my wings as fast as I could towards my home. It was no problem for me to fly there in no time flat, but I wasn't expecting someone to be there. I had just lain down on my bed and took a deep breath in and then out. "Hi Rainbow Dash." I heard and flew into the air startled. I hit my head on the ceiling, I felt woozy for a second but I was able to stable myself in the air. I was rubbing my head when I saw who startled me by greeting me. "Fluttershy?" I asked slowly guiding myself to the ground. "Oh I'm so sorry Rainbow, I didn't mean to startle you." She said softly apologizing. "It's fine, I thought you were Twilight for a second." I said going over to my bed and laying down on the soft cloth that was my comforter. No wonder why it's a comforter, it so comfortable, made me wanna fall asleep every time I was under it or on it. For a second, I forgot about Twilight's Question. "Twilight is not that scary, is she?" Fluttershy asked questioning her judgement on her friend. I looked at her with confusion. I grabbed my pillow and tossed it at the light colored mare. "What was that for?" She asked confused as well. "Twilight isn't scary, but her mind is sometimes. But that's beside the point, she asked me a certain question that I don't even want to think about." I said burying my head in the soft cloth of my comforter. "What did she ask?" Fluttershy asked kindly. "About our relatives." I said lifting my head so she could hear my mutter reply. I looked at Fluttershy, I felt really bad instantly. When she was a filly she never had a mom or a dad. I can't say the same for me, at least I had a dad. That is until he left me. I flew over to Fluttershy and hugged my friend. She returned the hug with heavy tears. ~ ~ ~ Twilight Sparkle: I couldn't figure out why Rainbow Dash flew off so abruptly. It was rude, plus she didn't answer my question. Obviously my question is what brought up her reaction. This was only going to drive me to find out what she wanted to hide. As friends I think we shouldn't keep things from one another. Although maybe it's not even my place as her friend to know. I couldn't say for sure. "Hi ya Twilight!" Pinkie Pie said bouncing into the library. "Where's Ashura?" "He is at Canterlot, Shining Armor had an assignment for him." I said turning around on my chair. "What's wrong Twi?" She asked me with concern. "Rainbow flew out of here abruptly when I asked her a question." I said still trying to decide what to do about Rainbow. "Oh you know how Dashie is, she can hardly sit still for long." Pinkie said with a big smile. "Not when she is reading Daring Do, especially when she is almost done with it." I said to Pinkie holding up the unfinished book Rainbow left behind. Some of the pages were bent from falling onto the floor. "Maybe she got ants in her pants. They must have been biting her hard, that would make me fly away abruptly!" Pinkie Pie said happily. I looked at her sternly. "Pinkie, Rainbow wasn't wearing pants, and she was reading there for an hour before she flew off. If she had ants biting her...oh never mind, that's pointless anyways." I said with a face palm. "Ohhhhhhh! When you have ants in your pants and you just can take it, dance about like..." I covered pinkie's mouth from the fear of her singing. I already had heard three of them already today. "Pinkie, no singing." She nodded and I took my hooves off of her mouth. "Besides, what are you doing here?" "I was loooooooking for Gummy have you seen him. We are playing hide and seek, and he is so good at it." Pinkie said looking around. I noticed Gummy was attached to her tail from him biting it. I sighed and pushed her head to look back toward her tail. She smile and tried to hug Gummy, who was still attached to her tail. It was funny to see her chasing her tail trying to catch Gummy. Reminded me of Winona chasing her tail for no apparent reason. "Boy Gummy, I'll never get to hide." Pinkie said unhappily. "Why do you say that?" I had to ask, why did I have to ask. "We have been playing for six hours now." She said jumping at her tail, missing and crashing into one of my bookcases. All the books came out and fell on top of her and around her. Her and Gummy popped out of the pile of books. Pinkie smiled and grabbed Gummy. "Ha! You are it!" "Oh Pinkie." I said with a smile and a sigh. Pinkie looked at me with a smile. "So what did you ask Rainbow Dash?" She said climbing out of the books. I walked over to her and started shelving the books back into the bookcase. Pinkie was helping clean up her mess too, that would minimize the time spent on shelving. "I asked her about her relatives." She stopped and looked at me. Her facial expression looked shocked, like she couldn't believe I'd ask Rainbow a question like that. "What's with the look?" "Twilight, Rainbow Dash was an orphan." Pinkie said looking sorrowful. "What about Fluttershy?" I asked surprised. "There's a reason Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are so close. They lived together at the orphanage in Cloudsdale." Pinkie said, this was big if Pinkie was calming down for this. I had to know more, there was no question that I had to know more.