“Rainbow Dash!” shouted a faint voice, “Rainbow Dash, come here!”
Rainbow was definitely dreaming – she was sleeping high on top of a tree. Covered in a blanket with a book over her face, totally oblivious to the voice. She rose her head up and looked around for a bit swearing she heard somepony calling her name.
“Rainbow Dash!” the voice grew louder and louder and until it was now a booming roar, “Element of Loyalty, Rainbow Dash, your Princess of the night commands you to come forth!”
With a startle Rainbow awakened to hear the bracing voice. The voice being such a booming roar caused her to fall out of the tree. After she fell she took a quick scan of the area. She was in a forest filled with trees. Somehow, this area felt very familiar to her.
“Rainbow Dash!” the voice boomed causing Rainbow and the ground to shake.
“Who said?” shouted the cyan pegasus, “Where are you?”
"The Princess of the Night." said the voice in an even louder roar.
"Princess Luna? Is that you?” Rainbow asked in confusion as she shaked her head, “How is that possible? Aren’t you still banished to the moon?”
“Follow my voice.” said the voice softer now, “I’ll answer any questions you have.”
Rainbow Dash nodded and flew through the forest noticing that the volume of the voice had softened and she felt it getting closer to her. She zipped through until she saw a dark blue alicorn with a crescent moon as her cutie mark. She mane was partially translucent, rippling and sparkling. Her mane resembled that of a starry night.
“Princess Luna?” asked the pegaus as she landed on the ground and looked at the alicorn in awe, “Is that you?”
“Aye tis me. Come forth, for our time is limited,” the princess answered as her tone grew quieter and quieter, “You have questions and I have the answers, come forth.”
“So I can ask you any question, and you’ll answer?”
“Aye.”
“You know what those dreams mean don’t you? I'm getting my memory back aren't I? These dreams are the pieces to my puzzle?”
“Follow me and I’ll explain.”
Rainbow nodded and followed the alicron,“Then tell me, what do they mean?” she demanded her voice filled with anger.
“Has anypony told you that you’re quick to anger?”
"Has anypony told you that you shout alot?"
"I apologize. The shouting is what many refer to as the "Royal Canterlot Voice"
Rainbow just sighed, shrugged, and rolled her eyes, “ When you shout, you sound like my mom.”
The alicron gave a quick glance to the pegasus, “I’m surprised you didn’t ask me what I’m doing in her dream.”
Rainbow shrugged, “A bunch of weird things have a been happening in my dreams.” she had noticed that the princess had stopped in front of a tree.”A reason would be nice though.”
“Does this tree seem familiar to you at all?”
Rainbow looked and saw a tree made of what seemed to be crystals. The trunk of said tree had a crescent moon and sun on it. Rainbow looked up and saw that each branch a different color gem in it. The colors were; orange, green, blue, purple, red, and purple. She looked in the middle of tree and saw a star shaped crystal in the middle of crystal tree.
“No.” Rainbow said flatly. She looked back at the tree and to Luna, “Is it supposed too?”
“Tis but I feared,” Luna mumbled.
“What do you mean?”
The alicorn cleared her throat, “As princess of the night, I can go into anypony’s dreams who are in need. I try to help them. They ask me questions and I give them answers. To answer your question Rainbow Dash, yes these are the keys to getting your memory back.”
“Then why is it taking so long?” whined Rainbow , “I mean, I want to know who I am again, I want my friends back, and I want my life back.”
Luna had laughed, “Element of Loyalty you, Element of Patience you are not.” Luna cleared her throat, “Tis what my sister and I had feared. Rainbow Dash, you must go to your friend, Twilight Sparkle.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Fear, scared, hopelessness, and what will eventually lead to his return,” said Luna softly.
“Why what's happening? Who's returning?” shouted Rainbow angrily, “Tell me, who is coming back! It's my dream, I deserve to know!”
“The one who causes disharmony and chaos, the one known as Discord,” said Luna, “He is using a new tacit of causing his chaos, he is making you afraid Rainbow Dash. Do not fall for his cheap tricks, stay strong Rainbow Dash.”
“But I thought-”
“I must go, our time is up,” interrupted Luna as she flew away, “Remember stay strong Rainbow Dash, do not fall for his cheap tricks.”
“Rainbow Dash!” a loud booming voice had caused Rainbow, Luna, and the are aroung them to shake. “Rainbow Dash, it's time. Get up!”
“Go Rainbow Dash. Your friends can help, trust them. They are going to be the ones that can help you get your memory back,” said Luna's faint voice, “Remember, when you dream, I'll be there to answer your questions.”
“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie's loud booming voice could be heard from miles, as she galloped up to the door of Rainbow's room and thrust it open,
“Rainbow Dash, it's time.” She looked to see that Rainbow was still asleep, but that didn’t stop her as she began to shake her friend, “Come on Dashie. you can sleep later.”
Rarity soon followed into the room and just heaved an annoyed sigh,”Pinkie darling, how many times must we go through this? You don’t run in a hospital.”
Pinkie could only smile as she looked back to her unicorn friend, “Sorry Rarity, I’m just existed.”
“It’s fine, just be more careful.” Rarity said as she walked up to Rainbow’s bed. She saw that her friend was still sleeping and only shook her head, “My, she is lazy as ever.”
“Oh come on Rarity, she just needs some help.” Pinkie giggled as she made her way to the window, “Wakie up Dashie!” she said as she opened up the window blinds. Rainbow had mumbled something and flipped over to the other side.
“Let me help you with that,” said Rarity as she used her magic to open more of the window’s blinds, “Come on Rainbow, wake up.”
“Yeah what she said. You see that sun, it means you should be awake. Plus there's so many things we have to do!” beamed Pinkie.
Rainbow tossed and turned and just sighed and mumbled, “Five more minutes.”
“Come on Dashie! Wake up!” whined Pinkie.
“What part of five more minutes don't you understand?” mumbled Rainbow as she sank her head deeper into the pillow.
“Are you sure? You seem like the type of pony that would do anything to get out,” said a gruff voice that belonged to a brown coated unicorn levitating a clipboard entering in the room.
“Oh, you can't go back to sleep, there's just too much to do,” Pinkie continued to whine, “Besides, I have to show you Ponyville and that's gonna take like forever!”
Rainbow groaned as she sat up in her bed and stretched. She looked around the room and saw that only Pinkie and Rarity were present. Pinkie had looked happier than ever while Rarity looked like she just woke up recently.
“Where're the others?” Rainbow asked, letting out a yawn.
“Applejack is busy at the farm, Fluttershy is caring for the animals, and Twilight said something about hitting the books,” Pinkie said with a smile, “If you ask me, hitting books doesn't seem very nice. What did the books ever do to her?”
Rarity sighed, “Pinkie darling, that's not what hitting the books mean.”
“Then what does it mean?” asked Pinkie, “Does it mean Twilight is committing some book crime! Why would she do that? I thought Twilight likes books.”
“It's another way of saying reading books,” Rarity sighed even harder, “Last time I checked, Twilight would be last pony ever to commit any crime.” she said as she shook her head and thought for a moment,“Well she does commit a crime against fashion; a little too much isn't a real crime. Sometimes though, I wish it was.”
“Then why doesn't she just say she’s reading books?” wondered Pinkie, “I mean isn't hitting books like illegal in a library. Like book abuse? Why would Twilight do that? I mean she lives in a library.”
Rarity rolled her eyes as Pinkie went on for what seemed like forever. “Never mind, Pinkie, just get your stuff Rainbow. The faster you do, the faster I can get away from her.”
“Then why did you come with her?” asked Rainbow noticing how annoyed Rarity sounded, “I mean you sound really annoyed.”
“Silly Dashie, Rarity is always annoyed!”
The unicorn gave Pinkie a stern look, and said, “If I were you, I would take back that comment you just made.”
“Okay, I do.” smiled Pinkie, “Why did you come with me?”
“I really don't want to deal with any clients today,” replied Rarity, “Well that and I don't want to spend any more time with my parents, then I should.”
“Are you still mad about that whole Appleloasa thing?” asked Pinkie, “I mean that was like forever. Plus why do you hate your parents so much? I wish I had parents like yours, mine are just boring old rock farmers.”
“Being stuck with you was torture and more of crime than anything,” mumbled Rarity, "I rather have rock farmers as parents and ones that just sit and talk about boring stories nopony cares about."
"What?" Pinkie blinked as she tried to understand what her friend was saying, "I'm sorry, did you say something Rarity?"
“Can we get back on topic,” said the doctor pony in a stern voice. Rarity and Pinkie both nodded and the brown stallion cleared his throat, “Miss Dash, you can go.”
Rainbow Dash blinked, “I can?”
“Yep, you're fit as a fiddle now, go on. From the talks of Pinkie, it seems like you have a lot of things to do.”
“Wait, how do you know Pinkie's name?”
“Silly Dashie, I know everypony!” laughed Pinkie, “So come on and get ready. We have a bunch of things to do today.”
As the day passed, Rainbow Dash seemed to be even more lost than before. She could barely keep up on what Pinkie Pie was saying or understanding the stuff she did. When she was about to ask her, an orange filly with a purple mane told her, “Don't question it, she's just Pinkie Pie, but I thought you knew that already? And…don’t you remember me?”
Rainbow looked at the filly and sighed, “I'm sorry, I don't.”
”The filly looked hurt and started the cry a little, “What do you mean you don't know me, I'm Scootaloo the president of your fan club.”
As Rainbow was about the say something, Pinkie appeared out of nowhere and suddenly said, “Hey Scoots, I think I saw Apple Bloom and
Sweetie Belle looking for you.”
“Oh right, thanks for reminding me,” said the filly as she put on a helmet and got on a scooter, “Bye and thanks.”
As the filly rode away on her scooter Rainbow sighed, “I really don't know anything about myself.”
“Dashie, don't be so hard on yourself,” said Pinkie giving her friend a rescuing smile, “Come on, I think Twilight might be able to help you.”
Rainbow nodded and followed the bouncing pink pony. The distance from Sugar Cube Corner to Twilight's library wasn't that far, but it didn't help that Pinkie said “hello” to everypony she saw along the way.
“Do you have to talk to everypony that you see?” said a slightly irritated Rainbow Dash, “I mean, we could have been there and back already.
“Somepony has been taking some grumpy pills today,” replied Pinkie. “Is there something wrong with being friendly?”
“Well there is a thing called being too friendly,” muttered Rainbow.
“Did you say something?”
“No.” sighed Rainbow as she looked down on the ground, “Are we at least almost there?
“Well, I have something even better to tell you! We’re here!” beamed Pinkie as she pointed her hoof to Twilight’s sizable library, which happened to be built inside a very large tree.
“Twilight lives in a tree?” asked Rainbow looking at the structure in confusion, “That's well…interesting.”
“Come on Dashie!” said Pinkie as she went closer to the door, “You said you wanted to see Twilight, so come on!”
Rainbow nodded and trotted over to where Pinkie was standing. When she got there, Pinkie knocked on the door with her head. Rainbow looked at her with a baffled look and just sighed, “Don't question, she’s just being Pinkie Pie,” thought Rainbow as Pinkie knocked louder,
“Whatever that means.”
Finally, the door opened, and a lavender unicorn appeared, possessing a dark sapphire mane with a streak of purple and rose along the center. She smiled at her two guests and said, “Hello Pinkie, hello Rainbow!” Twilight gestured for them to come inside, “So, what brings you girls here today? You two aren’t the type that go to a library for fun.”
“Oh, Rainbow wanted to ask you something,” explained Pinkie, continuing to smile.
“Oh? What is it then?” asked Twilight, as she used her magic to levitate a book and put it on the appropriate shelf.
“Well, I've been having some weird dreams lately,” said Rainbow, “I just want to know what they mean.”
“Like how weird are your dreams?” inquired Twilight.
“Well in one, I was at this wedding and dancing with a Wonderbolt. The second had something to do with this weirdo named Discord,” explained Rainbow. “Lastly, I had a dream that Princess Luna mentioned something about you being able to help me and then, something about being able to go into pony's dreams. Can she really do that or was it really just a dream?”
“No, Princess Luna really does go into the dreams of other ponies. She is the Princess of the Night after all,” answered Twilight, “Now, what did the Princess say?”
“Something about you, Pinkie, and the rest being the pieces to a puzzle or something.”
After Rainbow had said that, Twilight froze for a moment. The book she was holding with her magic fell and she quickly disappeared to rapidly reappear with a quill and paper taking the book's place.
“So dreams about the wedding, Discord, and Luna saying something,” she mumbled as she trotted over to find a notepad to write everything down.
“Twilight, does this mean that Rainbow is getting her memory back?” asked Pinkie.
“Yes, Pinkie, it certainly looks that way,” noted Twilight as she continued to write on the paper, “What did Luna mean?”
“Why don't you just ask her?” asked a purple dragon yawning and stretching, “Come on Twi, you woke from my nap?”
Twilight froze again and eye started to twitch. She then began to panic as she began to run all over grabbing and levitating different scrolls, “What if this is another test? Oh, I'm so not ready. What if I fail? I don't want to go back to Magic Kindergarten!”
“Here we go again,” muttered Spike as he looked for a dish of gems to eat,“Come and get me after the little episode you’re having.”
“This isn't an episode Spike! It's serious!” shouted Twilight. She took a moment to think and looked over at her troubled friend, “I'll figure this out Rainbow Dash, just go and come back later.”
“You said that last time,” muttered the dragon, “Whatever, if you need me I'll be helping Rarity.”
“Spike, you can help Rairy later, “ said a frantic Twilight as she stopped levitating the scrolls causing them to drop to the ground, “I need your help.”
“Come on Dashie. Twilight is going crazy!” said Pinkie as she made the loopy sign with her hoof. “Let's go to Sweet Apple Acres!”
Rainbow nodded, “Sure, let's go.”
The two departed the library, while Twilight continued to ponder what seemed like yet another test from the princess. Just what do these developments mean? Rainbow Dash’s quest for answers continues and hopefully she’ll find some clues at Sweet Apple Acres.
"Spike, before you go, take a letter." said Twilight as she used her magic to levitate a scroll and a quill.
"Sure," replied Spike as he put his platter full of gems down to grab the scroll and quill, "What is the letter for?"
"Make it to the Princess, both of them. I think I know what's going on here." replied Twilight, "Make sure to include Rainbow not acting like herself in it."
"Why would that be important?"
"Well, I think I know what is happening. It isn't a final thought, but more of an educated guess on what is happening."
"That being what?" asked Spike in a voice filled with curiosity as he was getting ready to take a letter.
"Just make sure to include the right amounts of chaos and disharmony in the letter." responded Twilight as she began to pace, "Make sure to include that we're ready this time."
“Him again?” asked Spike has he finished up the letter, “Does he ever tried?” he shrugged and took a deep breath and blew causing the letter to go up in green flames, “He needs to get a hobby or something.”