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// Chapter 1: Cold Mornings 
// Story: Darkness Evolved 
// by Trivium 
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 Chapter 1: Cold Mornings

Rainbow Dash sat across her bed from Flutter Shy, both of them randomly gossiping, and by that, I mean Rainbow Dash would say something and Flutter would reply with an occasional sentence or word, but more often then not, a squeak of some sort. Rainbow was getting tired, she hadn't slept much the night before, and she had just had a glass of wine. Rainbow yawned, then asked, "Could you by some awesome chance re-fill my glass?". Flutter nodded, choosing not to have any wine herself. "You're the best." Rainbow replied, patting Flutter's shoulder as she left the room. Rainbow Dash didn't even realize it, but in a matter of seconds she was laying on her bed, and soon fast asleep. Flutter re-entered, carefully bringing a glass of wine. She muffled an instinctive squeak when she found Rainbow had fallen asleep. She sighed quietly, and set the glass of wine down on an end table in the room's corner. She didn't intend on waking Rainbow, for one, she knew how much Rainbow hated being woken from a nap, and two, she didn't want to seem rude. She figured it was the least she could do to at least bring up a blanket and drape it over Rainbow so she didn't get too cold overnight. As she slowly and gently draped the blanket over Rainbow up to her chin, Rainbow Dash muttered something and rolled over, causing Flutter Shy to jump, and step back, hoping to not have woken her. After a good 30 seconds of steady rise and fall of Rainbow's chest, with the occasional snore, Flutter decided that Rainbow hadn't been disturbed, and at this, she turned to leave, quietly closing the door on her way out,

Rainbow Dash slowly faded into life, lying in the comfort of her bed. 'Shoot, did I really fall asleep while Flutter Shy was over?' she thought, quickly coming to the conclusion that she did. She smiled warmly when she saw her glass of wine sitting awaitingly at her end table, and noticed that Flutter Shy was kind enough to cover her with a blanket, to prevent from getting too cold at this time of winter. Sometimes, it was the small things that mattered more in life. She checked the time, 2:30 AM. Dammit. Rainbow re-adjusted into her bed and tried to fall back asleep, to no avail. She lay half-awake until 3 O' clock in the morning. She figured that her glass of wine could give her that drowseyness she needed. She picked it up and trudged into the fireplace room, and pulled up a chair infront of the fire. She started a small fire in the fireplace, and kicked back to relax, resting her legs crossed on a small table, sipping the wine. She sighed, not being used to the life of relaxation and luxury. She supposed that it was okay enough.

BANG. Rainbow Dash jumped, spilling some of her wine. "Dammit." She hissed, placing the glass of wine down and getting a cloth to clean up the small mess, disreguarding the sudden crash that startled her. After a small amount of trouble, Rainbow Dash was soon back in the chair, relaxing, excusing the loud bang as some drunks in the street, running into a lightpole or something. She sipped the wine, and let out another long breath. She heard a  few more bangs, and she ignored them. BANG. Rainbow Dash jumped again, this time skillfully catching the few lost drops of wine in her mouth. This bang sounded like it was hitting right against the side of her house. She groaned and rose, slowly creeping towards the door, not exactly looking decent enough to go outside, her mane a wreck, her eyes reddened, and her steps and voice grogy. She carefully opened the door, poking her head out into the cold, crisp, winter morning air. She intook a deep breathe and exhaled, watching a cloud of steam eminate from her mouth. She chuckled at seeing her breath, but quickly closed the door, remembering that she looked like a zombie Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash rose, bringing her empty glass of wine into the kitchen, and lazilly setting it down at the edge of the sink, ready to go back to bed, more tired then ever. She slowly began to walk to her bedroom, but didn't make it. She collapsed to the floor, and over-dramaticly tried to drag herself the rest of the way, falling back into sleep with her arms extended. She awoke once more, about half an hour later, because she heard her door creak open. She quickly got her senses together and dashed around a corner, awaiting to see who her tresspasser was. After a long silence, never hearing the door close, she thought she might not have closed it entirely when investigating the earlier banging sound. She creeped back to the door, and roughly closed it, locking it extra violently. Then she saw it, a flash in the darker corner of her living room. Being the courageous, (or less then intelligent) pony that she was, she dove into the darkness, and availed a dark-coated pegasus, wearing dark but solid clothing. She lifted the pony up, and slammed him into the floor, holding him down with one hoof, panting with anger. "D'you have any idea who you're messin' with? Huh? D'ya? D'ya?" She said excitedly, putting pressure on the ponies chest. He lifted his hind leg and nailed Rainbow Dash hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. Rainbow grunted and stepped back, reflexingly covering the pained spot with one hoof. She grumbled lowly, now getting extra furious. She dove at the pony, only to be embarrassed with clumsyness. The pony gracefully dove to the side, nailing a sharp kick in the side, knocking Rainbow Dash into the wall. She rose almost instantly, her vision being reddened with blood flowing quickly through her head, with rage, pain, and getting the wind knocked out of her. The pony dove at Rainbow, skillfully flipping in the air, hooking his front hooves around Rainbow Dash's jaw, painfully flipping her over onto her back and smashing her head into the floor. Her vision blurred, but she still arose, determined to fight off her intruder. She shook her head, making a fruitless attempt at clearing her vision. She stumbled, trying to regain her senses, but it wasn't fast enough. The pony quickly ran towards her, grabbing her hind legs and ripping them out from under her, causing her to fall on her jaw, making her bite her tongue painfully. Rainbow Dash groaned in pain, and slowly tried to get back up. The intruder arrogantly walked over to Rainbow Dash and stepped on her back, forcing her back on the ground. "D'ya have any idea who you're messin' with? D'ya?" He said mockingly, stomping down on Rainbow's back.

She yelped with pain, and rolled out from the painful pin-position, gracefully getting back on her hooves, now fusing fear, rage, and embarrassment to make a super-adrenaline. She faked a dive, causing the pony to jump to one side. Before he could react again she lifted into the air and flew into the ponies side, knocking him into a corner. She charged once more, slamming his back into the corner. She slid him upwards, pinning him eye-to-eye with Rainbow Dash. She growled, looking downwards slightly, raising her eyes and leaning close into the trapped intruder. "You should know, you don't fuck with me and live to tell the story." She said, the obscene word not commonly used by her. The pony grinned. "Is that so?" He replied, showing no fear. He quickly moved, doing a backspin, kicking Rainbow Dash twice in the stomach, sending her back, and letting him land on his hooves. He charged to one side of the house, launching off the wall, spinning and landing directly on Rainbow's back, causing her to collapse, losing her breath, her vision reddening again. The pony did not hesitate to lift Rainbow's head, and slam it to the ground again. He began to violently smash Rainbow Dash's head into the ground, while she struggled to breathe and remain awake. She yelped in pain once, and tried to get free, each time resulting in a painful kick in the ribs. Rainbow's vision began to fade into blackness. "No..." She muttered, her voice trailing off, following Rainbow Dash's loss of consciousness.