The sun shone down onto the arena the next morning, eliminating the dark sky and changing it to a bright one. The birds were all singing, the mockingjay loudest of all. Pinkie Pie was first to wake up that morning. She jumped out gleefully, hopping about and yelling.
"WAKE UP, SLEEPYHEADS! ITS MOOORNING!!"
"Shush, Pinkie." Groaned Rainbow Dash, who was awoken by Pinkie's yells.
"COME ON, GET UP!" Pinkie shouted, louder than ever, literally bouncing off the walls with excitement.
"Be Quiet!" Said Applejack sternly, who was also woken up due to Pinkie's noise.
"CHICKEN ELEPHANT, WAKE-"
"Shut the buck up!" Exclaimed Rainbow Dash, staring at pinkie with those annoyed magenta eyes.
"Oh- sorry...? Questioned Pinkie, tilting her head as she did so.
"Sorry!? The careers will find us if you make this much noise!" Ranted Rainbow Dash, "Anyways. I am going hunting with my spears. Does anypony want to come?"
There was a pause, while everypony thought about it. Applejack and Pinkie Pie shook their heads.
"Yes, I will come." said Chicken Elephant, who was now awake.
"Okay, let's go. I hope you can teleport, because I fly fast. And when I say fast, I mean I can go faster than the speed of sound."
"I can teleport, so it's okay, I will be there fast as well." Said Chicken Elephant, thinking that if he said that he could teleport because of his mystic chicken-headed elephant powers, Rainbow Dash would think he was weird. And he didn't want his crush to think that, especially that this was the first time he was going to be alone with her.
Rainbow Dash trotted to the entrance, spears in mouth, then she unfolded and stretched her wings. The next half of second she was gone, speeding over the forest in a blast of speed. Despite how fast she was, she was easy to see as her rainbow mane and tail stood out.
Chicken Elephant focused on his mystic chicken-headed elephant powers. All he needed to do was to focus on something he wanted to do and his powers helped him.
'Take me to the river where the chicken goddess's idol is waiting.'
Chicken Elephant was gone in a flash, and there he was, standing on a river bank. The river was wide, about as wide as a small lake. There were mini islands dotted in the middle of the river, most of them too tiny to walk on, or even stand on. There was a strong looking current going through it, as if you put your hoof into the river, your hoof was carried with it.
Rainbow Dash beckoned Chicken Elephant over to where she was. She handed him a spear, which he levitated.
"I hope you can fish," Rainbow said, showing him the thousands of fish in the river, "I'm gonna start. You can start whenever you want. Just try to get the big ones, they obviously last longer."
Shortly after that, Rainbow hovered above the River, looking for the larger ones. Every now and then she speared a fish and threw it onto the river bank.
'Spear a fish,' Chicken Elephant told his Powers.
'No. Harming living things and destroying things is against the mystic chicken-headed elephant law.' His powers replied.
'Do it!' returned Chicken Elephant, annoyed, 'It will please the idol of the chicken goddess!'
'Very well. But remember that you have broken our mystic laws.'
Sure enough, Chicken Elephant caught a fish. He threw it on the bank, and repeated many times. By the end of the fishing trip, they had gathered at least fifty fish.
"We will need to take two trips!" Said Rainbow Dash, picking up as many as she could.
"No, it's fine. I can levitate the rest of them while I teleport." Said Chicken Elephant.
They were about to leave when they heard a rustle in the bushes.
"Let's go before somepony kills us." Said Rainbow Dash, but at that moment, Pickle Fluff and Aurora Star jumped out of the bushes, Aurora Star pinning down Chicken Elephant while Pickle Fluff grabbed hold of Rainbow's tail with magic.
"Not so fast," said Pickle Fluff darkly, "We gotta do something first."
Rainbow Dash flapped harder and harder, but for no use. Pickle Fluff was drawing her closer and closer.
Chicken Elephant couldn't move. He was stuck, forced not to move by Aurora, who was a lot heavier than she looked. He saw Pickle Fluff's eyes dart towards a sword next to him. He was going to kill her slowly and painfully. He had to do something, or his most loved one would be dead. He struggled against Aurora's weight, but that didn't do anything.
'Get me out of Aurora's grasp.'
He vanished and appeared suddenly next to Aurora. She leapt at him, but he used a kicking technique applejack had taught her, he sent her flying. He crept up to Pickle Fluff, and tried to do the same kick, but Pickle Fluff stopped him with a flick of his hoof. Getting up again, he ran towards Pickle Fluff, who had his sword ready, levitating beside him. He was about to stab Rainbow Dash. There was only one way to save her now, and he wouldn't like it.
He ran full sprint towards Pickle Fluff, and thrust himself in front of the sword about to stab Rainbow Dash, blocking her but exposing himself to the danger.
Pickle Fluff stabbed Chicken Elephant. He could immediately feel torturous agony fill his chest. He had just a little more life left to see Rainbow flying away, and then back again with a rainbow behind her straight into Pickle Fluff. He saw her hover above him, and just as his vision was failing, he spluttered his last words.
"Ra-rainbow dash-sh, I-I-I Love-ve y-you." He stuttered through sharp breathing.
The fourth cannon echoed through the arena, meaning that Chicken Elephant, the pony who threw away his own life to save Rainbow Dash, was dead.