A Life Changing Wish

by The Crusaders


The Change

Rainbow Dash hissed under her teeth.

"Well it's not my fault that Twilight couldn't just fix it with her freaky magic!" she shouted.

"Well it is yer fault fer breakin' it in the first place!" Applejack retorted. Fluttershy sobbed wildly beside Pinkie Pie, who was also sobbing. Rarity was patting them on the back while Twilight was carefully carving a stone.

"Fluttershy darling, Eloise is in a better place now." Rarity cooed, lifting the broken shards of fishbowl with her magic and placing them in the trash. Twilight let her stone fall gently. It was shaped like a goldfish, with words inscribed onto it.

Eloise
Fluttershy's beloved fish
Rest In Peace

Fluttershy hugged the stone tightly before placing it back onto the ground in front of the grave of her poor fish. She had never been more angry at Rainbow Dash in her life. It kept coming back to her in little scenes, the way Rainbow had killed her fish.


"Um, Rainbow Dash, maybe you shouldn't do this indoors..." she cautioned. Rainbow Dash flipped, and then began to fly around the room, getting faster and faster.

"Rainbow Dash! Stop!" Fluttershy called. Rainbow ignored her. "STOP!" she screamed, diving to protect the few animals she had reached. Then, a horrible crack broke out, Rainbow had kicked the fishbowl. She stopped in her tracks and turned around, Twilight racing out of the kitchen with a gasp. Her and Fluttershy desperately dove to catch the bowl, but neither of them reached it in time, and it hit the ground. Rainbow, not noticing what she had done, continued her indoor tornado, sweeping up the glass and causing it to fly around the room, also drying out Eloise instantly.

A scream pierced the room, it was Pinkie Pie. She collapsed to the ground with most of the glass sticking out of the side of her body. Applejack and Rarity instantly rushed out of the kitchen, and gasped when they saw Pinkie Pie. Applejack's eyes watered slightly as she spoke.

"Pinkie Pie, stay still, I'll take out the glass." she choked. Pinkie nodded and sniffled as she bled. Rarity yanked out bandages from Fluttershy's Emergency Emergency Kit, for when the Emergency kit was out of reach, and pulled out several bandage rolls.


Pinkie sat, goz heavily coating half of her body, crying over her pain and Fluttershy's fish. Rainbow Dash sighed as she laid a hoof on Fluttershy's shaky shoulders. Fluttershy froze and whipped around.

"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU MURDERER!" she screamed. Rainbow staggered back and fell onto her bottom, rolling over.Everybody was taken aback by Fluttershy's volume as she panted in frustration. Twilight locked up her mind in the same mood as Fluttershy.

"I can't BELIEVE you just killed Eloise! Rainbow, you cared more about your stupid trick than Fluttershy's LIVING ANIMALS!" she stamped her hoof hard against the ground to emphasize her final words. Rainbow shrunk down slightly. Her friends gave her looks that could kill if they wanted to, like a deadly laser that could fire at any moment

As soon as she felt a tear in her eye, she knew she was done. She threw up her wings and burst off like a firework, plowing through Twilight's bookcase and wall. Twilight stood in shock at her demolished wall, then fainted.


Rainbow stared out from the balcony, looking across the starlit sky. She always loved the stars, the way they simply exploded with light in the sky, but never, ever had she seen a star like this one she saw tonight. It had four points, each sparkling a different color. She had heard tales from her mother and father about this amazing star. If you wished on it, your wish would surely come true. The one night they saw one, they had wished for Rainbow Dash, and now here she was. It had to work, it had to!

She closed her eyes and muttered one tiny little phrase that only the wind could hear before it was carried away.

"I wish my friends were different."

She took a deep breath and opened her eyes and flopped back onto her bed, which suddenly caused a horrible pain to hit her stomach. She was going to throw up. She raced to the bathroom and slammed the door behind her.


Fluttershy's wings burst open and crumpled up as she threw up, she had never been this sick in her life. A tiny little knock was heard on her door. "Not now angel bunny!" she sobbed, brushing her pink mane aside and hurling again.


Rarity cried in pain as her stomach contorted, grabbing the bucket beside her bed and filling it. "Sweetie Belle! I need a new ice pack!" she cried, filling up the bucket some more and crying.


Twilight had a very strong stomach. She always had one, from the very moment that she was born. All this meant is that she was put in horrible pain, late that night, unable to throw up. An empty bucket was beside her bed, and Spike was holding an ice pack to her head.

"Need anything else?" he asked sympathetically. Twilight sobbed and shook her head.


Applejack was pretty much in the same position, wrapped up in her blanket sobbing in pain.


Pinkie sobbed as she vomited into her toilet, wondering if the glass had been infected some how.


When Rainbow finally awoke, she stretched out her arms, feeling as healthy as can be. Her wings even felt weightless! Completely weightless! As if they weren't even there! Rainbow squeaked as she whipped around to look at her back, which certainly did not sport wings, just as her flank didn't sport a cutie mark, and just as her head sported a horn. How on earth was she going to explain this?!