“So are you absolutely positive that this is safe Fluttershy?” Rainbow asked, concerned.
“Well of course it is Dash, since when were you concerned about something as cute as a little spider anyway?” Fluttershy responded, fishing little Rica out of her cage.
“I don’t know, I guess I never actually sat down to see what they are like, and I’m sorry, but something with more than six legs seems to belong in the everfree in my eyes.”
Little Rica, a goliath tarantula straight from a jungle outside Camu, had slowly crawled onto Fluttershy’s butter yellow hoof while Rainbow had been excusing herself for putting off this particular audition. Knowing that Rainbow had kind of a soft spot for her, the only way Fluttershy could get her to let Rica compete in her quest for the best, most awsomest pet was to tell Dash that it would make her feel bad if she didn’t.
“Well that certainly wasn’t an answer I’d expect to hear out of you,” Fluttershy remarked with a smug smirk graced upon her mouth.
“Yeah I well maybe I’m not as one-sided as you think- oh my celestia!” Rainbow exclaimed as Fluttershy pulled out Little Rica, “That thing is enormous!”
“Well yes but isn’t she so cuute?” Fluttershy held out the big hairy spider so Rainbow could have a nice healthy look at the arachnid.
“Maybe if I was born without eyes it would be,” Rainbow began to panic when the spider fidgeted in Fluttershy’s grasp, “Where did you even get it from Fluttershy? Nope jungle in the country of Nopia?”
Fluttershy gently smiled at Rainbow’s remark, “No silly, I got her from a friendly camel trader on our trip to Camu a few months ago.”
Rainbow Dash just stood there, staring at the arachnid in her best friend’s hooves. The gaze never breaking, she began to study the thing’s details. Its hairy back, legs, and head made it a little bit friendlier to the eye. But if Rainbow looked at the spider in a broad way, she realized that the things that made it creepy were the fangs, eight eyes and legs, and... Is that where the silk came from?
Immediately after noticing those things Rainbow gagged as if she was about to puke and honestly, she felt like it. “Nope,” was the last thing Rainbow muttered before taking off into the skies like a rocket.
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Fluttershy was taken aback by the sudden departure of her best friend. She craned her neck up to see where the technicolored Pegasus had taken off to, but at that point, it was basically pointless.
Little Rica slowly inched her way up Fluttershy’s hooves to her shoulder. She then proceeded to whisper into Fluttershy’s ear what she thought of Rainbow in tongue that only arachnids and... Fluttershy could understand.
Fluttershy listened intently, then responded, “Oh Rica, you shouldn’t be so accusing, she is just a bit... Out of it for the moment. I’m sure she will come around.”
The spider just looked at her owner with a look of judgment and disbelief.
“Come on now, don’t give me that look miss. Now how about we go catch some flies for your lunch?”
The tarantula expressed delight in the idea by tapping one of her legs on Fluttershy’s shoulder a couple times.
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"Nope nope nope nope nope,” Rainbow Dash said to herself as she bolted away from the hairy abomination on the ground at high speeds. In the distance, she could see her cloud mansion floating above her “training grounds” just outside the ponyville border.
Rainbow Dash had to admit, it did look very peaceful at her little slice of the world. The whole scene seemed fragile, like still water with no fish, or a glass window that could see everything. Nothing moving except the rainbow flow from her pool.
Then Rainbow decided to wreck what she thought about the whole scene by flying at full speed to her front door, kicking up clouds and yelling “nope” the whole way. Her new perspective of the world was basically throwing a cinder brick into the window of tranquility that was painted her previous view.
But she couldn’t care less, to be honest. Rainbow trotted into her cloud house and swung the soft door shut hard. Deciding she didn’t get enough satisfaction from the soft “pff” sound of the door’s hinges hilting, she opens the door again and slammed it even harder. She was rewarded with another soft “pff” noise. Rolling her eyes, Rainbow continued into her kitchen area.
Pots and pans hung from racks near the celling, with spotless shines graces upon them. They have never been used. Ever since Rainbow had bought the kitchen set from walmane’s she had never touched anything but the glasses and the plates. Hey, when you are training as hard as she does there is nothing better to eat than leftovers from berrygarden or the sugar cube corner. Apples from Applejack were also a rare treat, since Applejack over prices her goods and won’t even let her fellow element of harmony get a discount.
Rainbow opened the refrigerator and pulls out a bottle of hard cider and a styrofoam box that possessed her leftovers from the picnic she and her friends had a few days ago. She pulled out a glass from the cupboard next to the fridge and sets it on the soft counter and begins to pour her cherry flavored hard cider into it. It was a bit early to be drinking, and Dash was well aware of that, but when you know you are the top pony and that you have no fears only to find out what your true fear is pretty rough. Rainbow contemplated putting a few cubes of ice in her drink but overrules the idea with the fact that she needed to forget the past hour as soon as possible so in her eyes getting ice was wasting days. Because screw ice.
Rainbow sat down at her comfy couch and begins to drink her problems away over hay and cheese sandwiches.
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The next day Fluttershy went out to the spot outside Ponyville that she and rainbow would be meeting at for auditions every day that week. She had brought Little Rica with her, just in case Rainbow had changed her mind about her. They had been waiting for Rainbow for a heavy hoofful of minutes now, and Little Rica began to get restless. Rica looked up at Fluttershy with a look of disbelief, yet in there was a tinge of hope.
“Oh, I don’t know Rica, she said she would be here but let’s wait a few more minutes?” Rica responds by clicking her fangs together in disapproval, “Well okay, perhaps I could go and take a look around her place, but if I don’t find her, I think we might have to call this all off Rica.”
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Fluttershy arrived at Rainbow Dash’s mansion and softly knocked the soft door, resulting in a small “pff” noise for her troubles, “I don’t know Rica... Do you think she will appreciate it if we came into her house without knowing if we are allowed?” The arachnid just glared at her in response.
“Okay... Here I go...” Fluttershy slowly pushed the door open with her creamy yellow hoof.
Fluttershy took a single hesitant step into the mansion, “Hello? Rainbow?” she asked nervously. Only the words that graced her lips where lost into a void with no response and only she and a spider could have called back. She continued into the floating mansion that housed a currently distressed and shocked rainbow pegasus.
Fluttershy and her arachnid companion meekly traversed the house, “Rainbow dash? I have someone here who wants to see you,” Fluttershy said as she reaches he best friend’s bedroom, with yet again no answer.
Rica pushes the soft door ajar so her owner could have a look inside, “Rainbow?” Fluttershy asks yet again, taking a look in the room. Wonderbolts merch littered the room, from posters to old unused action figures in the corner. Everything Rainbow could ever contain and love was in the room, except for the technicolor pegasus herself.