Once upon a time, in autumn, Twilight Sparkle was sitting on a chair in a small isolated house near a small river. It was a bit cold outside, and she was enjoying the warmth that the chimney was giving. She was drawing something with colored pencils, to distract herself from waiting for Rainbow Dash to appear. Then the unicorn looked again at the paper, certain minutes after she had just drawn a snailpony, who was slowly crawling towards something in a hurry, not really happy with the carefully drawn outlines of beautiful trees and clouds on the picture she was in. She had been expecting Rainbow Dash to visit her for the second month already, and she was slightly angry, but Rainbow Dash was a bird now, she was living in a big oak in the forest nearby, in a cool new nest that she made this year. Normally, she also liked to sing songs, but Twilight hadn't heard her for long time, perhaps because it was autumn.
She turned away from the drawing lit by the dull evening light from the window. On the dark wooden chest, there was a bunch of carrots in a big plate, but it wasn't time for eating yet. In the corner of the room, there was a bed, where a multi-colored ball was lying. With nothing else to do that hour, she began talking to the ball. Twilight became friends with it since she suddenly found it lying on the ground a month ago. That ball's name was <whistle sound>, but she rarely called it by name. Maybe that's why it appeared to be so grumpy most of the time.
"Hello there. Do you by any chance know where Rainbow Dash went?" - she said. The ball didn't respond. The only real sound in that place was from logs burning in the fireplace. Even the clock was broken.
"Just 'cause I'm worried. She promised me that she'll be there. So where is she now?" - she told the ball. "And you promised me to be responsible." - she touched a red window curtain with a hoof while saying that later, thinking, concerned. "I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but you're being lazy right now. Get off the bed, you have chores to do", - she said with an angry frown. Everything was quiet. Groaning, she went out of the room and entered the kitchen.
"What am I supposed to do? I'm alone and even the ball doesn't help me." - she thought, searching for a bucket of wood. "That's rather disappointing. Of course, I can do things here alone, but I shouldn't let him sit there and laugh at me. Eventually, I'll banish him to the basement, ...and then...", - she whispered, "I'll have to search for her myself." - she approached the kitchen table, setting a tablecloth, "into scary forest. Might do that now, first, meal." - she took a bowl of fritters and a tiny teapot which was as big as a cup. "Aunt Celestia told me I could find a lot of things in there, so," - she drank the tea nervously, - "officially I'm going there for supplies."
Then she went to the bedroom, took the ball, not looking at it for a second, and descended down the stairs. In there, she grabbed an orange hard hat, a saddlebag, attached it to the saddle that looked like it was done from a piece of carpet, and a book labeled "Forest emergency encyclopaedia".
And then, she left to face an adventure, disappearing from the vicinity of her house to the bright picture of the grassland with a red and yellow forest in the background, under the sky that was just above all that.
It wasn't an adventure she expected. She arrived at the destination in five minutes. Basically, she fell down, having overlooked a tree root because she was looking at the trees above, and then, with a surprised look, she knew she was there. But wait, Rainbow wasn't welcoming her yet? That was a rather worrisome signal, which could mean Rainbow wasn't there, or that she wasn't welcome. Twilight wasn't scared. "Rainbow!" - she shouted. But then she was scared, and that's when she opened the book. "Check... for... leaves... on the... ground." - was written there in big letters. She looked. There were plenty. "That... means... you... in a... forest" - and there was a big picture labeled "forest" taking the rest of the page. "Then... the... fol... lowing... will... apply. Check... foer... falling... trees." - why would?.. She looked at the ground instead. Does anything seem unusual at all? Brown leaves... yellow feather? Twilight couldn't remember any yellow birds from anywhere, not even from her fairy-tale books. Was Rainbow attacked by a yellow bird then? She couldn't tell. But she was ought to investigate what happened here, because she had enough armor to fight the yellow bird, and could potentially save Rainbow. She decided to read the book to the end again, though.
When she finished the book, it was rather dark. The sky was dark blue, except some places were white with grey grid pattern. The unicorn expected the yellow bird to leap from any side, so she kept the open book on her back to defend herself. The trees and leaves around her were all dark purple. The grass was light blue. She wondered if she was able to find a way home from there. Also, she was afraid that the ball had somehow freed itself from the basement, overtaking her home and planning its revenge. She was very worried. But then she saw the light.
She ran toward the light, accidentally dropping her book.
Then she returned to pick it back quickly.
She ran.
Under the dark skies, in a big field, there was a tall lighthouse built on a windmill. Under the tower there was a dark, scary, nice little barn.
Twilight was out of time. She needed to find what that was, right then. She crossed the field of blue grass, and knocked down the door.
Behind the door, there was Fluttershy.
Twilight jumped at scared Fluttershy with the book. Yellow pony tried to hide her face, but Twilight was angry, and she asked.
"Don't tell me you don't know where Rainbow Dash is, yellow pony!"
"I'm sorry!.. I am seeking for her, too. I've built a lighthouse so she might find this place." - Fluttershy responded.
"Can we be friends?" - Twilight asked.
"Yes, of course," - Fluttershy answered, smiling worriedly, "but not right now. Please just wait while I feed the animals, and then we could be friends" - she said.
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"I'm sorry, I haven't written the rest yet," - Fluttershy said. Twilight Sparkle liked the story, apparently, she asked "Why is Rainbow Dash a bird?", though. "This was an idea of one of my thrush birds. He was a fan of Rainbow Dash" - she explained. "Do you think he will like the story?" - she asked.