Rarity finally finished her letter, looking it over one more time before nodding satisfactorily at it and went over to Spike, who was sitting next to Twilight trying to comfort her.
“Spike, I need you to send this letter to Princess Luna for me.”
“What?” said both Spike and Twilight at the same time, Twilight looking at her in confusion.
“Twilight I promise to explain latter, but right now I need advice on this matter and though it is a recent development, Luna is a pony I trust for matters like this. Now can you please send this to her for me?”
Spike hesitated for a moment, then nodded, grabbing the letter and sending it away with his flames. She thanked him and then got up, walking over to the table before turning as somepony knocked at the door. “I’ll get it,” she said, walking over and opening the door. However as soon as she opened it her jaw dropped, for the sight that graced her was one she had never thought she would see willingly in her lifetime.
“H…hi,” said Rainbow Dash sheepishly, blushing due to her friends stare. Her coat and wings had been cleaned, and her mane and tail were done up in a manner Rarity had never seen before, combed almost perfectly straight with a braid in both her main and tail tied around in a spiral.
“R…Rainbow, what the hay happened to you dear?”
“what, oh this, well I…I thought I’d clean up a bit you know, so that when I…I get Scoot’s out of the hospital she wont have to see a total slob when she first wakes up.”
“But but…you look gorgeous!” said Rarity, letting her fashionista eyes lance over each detail of her rugged friend.
“um…not that I don’t mind the compliment but can we go inside and talk, I think I owe you guys a explanation about this whole thing.”
Rarity snapped out of her faze, nodding and leading Rainbow into the library. Upon entering Rainbow caught sight of Twilight and Pinkie, and immediately ran over to them. “Pinkie, Twilight? Wha…what’s wrong with you guys?”
“The have been like that ever since they got the news dear,” said Rarity as she came up next to her, “I just sent a letter of to Luna asking for help, but maybe now that you’re here we can get this mess sorted out.”
Rainbow nodded, but before she could speak there was a crashing noise from the kitchen, and she and Rarity turned to see Applejack standing in the doorway, her eyes glaring at the rainbow manned pegasus.
“So you finally decided to show up you fucking varmint,” said the farm pony, her Stetson eschew and her cheeks flushed with a healthy coat of red. She had a bottle clutched in her hoof, and from the label they could tell it was a bottle of hard apple family cider.
“Applejack you’re drunk,” said Rarity with a grimace, “I thought I told you to cool off, not get yourself plastered.”
“Can it Rarity, I don’t need any backtalk from yah. And you-” she said, pointing a hoof at Rainbow, “yahs got some explaining to do yah here me.”
“Not while you’re drunk Applejack, I think you need to lie down and get your head back on straight.”
Applejack looked like she was about to shout something when a sudden blast of magic hit her right in the noggin, knocking her out cold and causing her to fall to the floor. Rainbow and Fluttershy both looked at her stunned for a moment, then turned to the source of the blast, Rarity.
“What the buck was that!?” asked Rainbow, looking at her friend with a little apprehension as she went over to pick up the unconscious farm pony.
“Just a little sleeping spell; one that will help clear her head while she sleeps off all the alcohol she has consumed, though how she found one of Pinkie’s emergency cider stashes is beyond me.”
“She has a cider stash here?” asked Fluttershy.
Rarity nodded as she carried Applejack up the stairs, “for cider emergencies, she has them all over Ponyville.”
They turned to each other as Rarity disappeared upstairs, both shrugging and then sitting down to wait. Fluttershy kept looking at Rainbow occasionally, till finally she got up the nerve to speak. “So, I see you decided to wear your mane like you used to…its nice.”
“Yeah,” said Rainbow sheepishly, grinning a little as she looked at her mane and tail. “I…I thought it would be a nice change you know…now that I…”
She stopped when Fluttershy grabbed her in a hug, hugging her tight and smiling at her old friend. She returned the hug, not needing the voice how happy she was that Fluttershy at least was still on her side, she just hoped the others would understand once she told them.
* * *
Luna woke up slowly as she heard the unfamiliar sound of a letter being transported by magical flame. Her horn glowed as she grabbed the letter, her eyes cracking open as she pulled it closer to her. When she noticed that it bore the purple ribbon that identified it as her students, she quickly opened it and began to read.
Dear Princess Luna
I know this isn’t the normal method of which I send my letters, but something has happened and Spike was on hand at the time, so it was easer to send it that way then our agreed method. Anyways we have found out some startling information about Rainbow Dash today that has caused both our pink friend and Twilight Sparkle to have sort of nervous breakdowns, and it has caused Applejack to be put into quite a mood due to it. As for what the information was, it appears that Rainbow Dash, our element of loyalty had a foal which she abandoned when she was young.
I know this must come as somewhat of a shock, but it is sadly the truth from what Fluttershy says. I honestly don’t know what to do in this situation, and I am hopping you will have some advice that can help, and will gladly wait till for your reply here at Golden Oaks Library, though hopefully Rainbow Dash will show up and explain this whole mess, till then I await your reply.
Your faithful student
Rarity
Luna was stunned, nay she was horrified. A foal, Rainbow Dash, the element of loyalty had abandoned a foal. She couldn’t believe it, she just couldn’t believe that the pony who personified one of the elements of harmony would do such a thing, it was unthinkable. She got up, placing the letter down on the table and exiting the room; she had business in Ponyville it seemed.
As the door’s to her room closed however another figure stepped out of the shadows, walking over to the table and picking up the letter to read, her strawberry pink eyes beginning to glow with anger as she reached the letters end. The letter crumpled in her magical grip, catching fire and falling to the ground in a pile of ash as the mare turned and left the room as well, for she to had business in Ponyville.