"Some say our destiny is tied to the land. Others say fate flies anywhere like a cloth, for it reaches us when we least expect it. Some want to change it. It's the one thing we search for. Some never find it! But there are some who are led......"
The Kingdom of Cloudsdale.
"The way my father lost his foreleg to the Manticore, Mordu, became a legend. I'm a big sister, to three new sisters, Sky High, Sweet Melody and Sunny. They call themselves the Incredibly Awesome Trio ......."
The IAT took some apple pies from the bakery and put them in Sunny's scooter. Then Sunny scooted off before Mrs. Cherry could catch them.
"......who are wee devils, more like. They can get away with Mrs. Cherry. I can never get away with anything! I am the Princess. I've got duties, responsibilities, expectations and stuff. My whole life is planned out! For the day I become, well, the thing my mother is! What was the word....oh, yeah, Queen."
Rainbow Dash was practicing her, well, speech. "The day I become queen I shall rule my..."
"Rule this!" Firefly corrected her.
Rainbow Dash continued. "And then I shall rule my.."
"You should remember all the points of this speech when you are taking your oath, or it's all for not!" Firefly said.
"This is all for not." RD muttered.
"I heard that! On the core....."
" A princess must be knowledgable about her kingdom..." While teaching RD about her kingdom she caught her red-handed doodling.
" A princess does not doodle!"
While Rainbow let a pigeon loose, it attacked her father straight, who was standing right in front of her. She was laughing like heck at the sight! "A princess does not snort!" Firefly said, who was standing right over there.
"A princess must be compassionate.
Cautious!
Clean.
Rises early!
And above all, a princess strives for, well, perfection." Firefly said finally, as Rainbow Dash stared at her in disbelief.
"But every once in a while, there was a day I don't have to be a princess! No lessons, no expectations, a day where anything can happen! A day I could change me fate....."
Rainbow Dash picked up her bow and arrow and along with Tank, flew off to the Whitetail Woods.
"Well, now I'm gonna perform so AWESOME tricks that the Wonderbolts would take me in first hoof!" Rainbow said confidently to herself. Then she started with her Phase 1 (Again!). She looked for the highest trees in that forest, and then flew in circles around 10 trees 2 times. Then she closed her wings and began to fall to the ground. As soon she was nearly 10 inches apart from the ground, she opened her wings and flew up even faster than a rocket. Then she came dashing down like lightning.
"So, Tank, how was THAT?" RD asked.The only reply she got was Tank curling inside his shell. "Oh, well, I guess all that scared you. But that means The Wonderbolts are gonna think this is 20% cooler than their tricks even!" Dash said proudly.
Tank looked at her like "Dafaq?!" But RD didn't notice it.
She performed many crazy tricks, but here was the one she had never, ever, done in her life! First, RD took her bow and arrow. Then she took the arrow in her mouth and adjusted it with the bow. She pointed the arrow towards the sky. Then she stretched the arrow backwards and then she released it. As soon as the arrow went towards the sky, Dash took flight as well. Then, at the speed of lightning, she went towards the arrow and caught it. Then, without wasting another minute, she performed the sonic rainboom. But this time, she performed it zig -zagging, not straight.
After all this, she took rest for a while. "Phew! THAT was tiring! And awesome! Hmmmmm. Maybe I could do one last trick....."
Tank was like "Oh shit. Not again!" "But this time it's not going to be tiring! It's going to be fun! Tank, you are going to accompany me."
Tank just rolled his eyes and nodded his head.
Rainbow Dash tied her wings and looked at the huge waterfall in front of her. "Firefalls," she said. "well, I'm gonna climb this WITHOUT my wings. For fun!" She said, looking at her tied wings. Then she started climbing the mountain. At many points she slipped, but finally she reached up. Then she drank the water from the falls. "Ahhhhh!" she said. "How refreshing! After all those crazy tricks!" The sun was setting. Rainbow Dash saw the sun setting from above there. THAT was a sight to see!
After a really tiring day, she and Tank flew back to their kingdom.
"Phew! What a tiring day! I'm starving! You're hungry to I guess." she asked Tank. But the only reply she got was Tank blinking, that too slowly. "Sooooooo.......I'll take that as a yes?" Then she smiled awkwardly and went inside the kitchen. There she stuffed an apple in her mouth and took a plate of cream buns in her hooves. As soon as she entered the family dining room, the same old scene was playing: Her father bragging about how he defeated the Manticore, Mordu.
"His face had a SCAR with ONE.DEAD.EYE..." Sweet Melody and Sunny were bored to death while Sky High was imitating her father. ".........I do my sword, AND....."
" Whoosh!" Rainbow Dash interrupted. "The bear escaped and then CHOMP! Dad's foreleg was CLEAN OFF! Then Dad slayed the monster...."
"Aw, that's my favourite part!" Rainbow Blaze said proudly.
"Mordu has never been seen since." Dash continued. "And he's roaming awhile, waiting his chance of revenge. ARGHHH!" Then she made a wacky impression of Mordu. When she placed her bow on the table-
"Rainbow Dash, no weapons on the table" Firefly said.
"Mom, it's just my bow!" Rainbow Dash said, slightly annoyed.
"Princesses should not have weapons, in my opinion."
Rainbow Dash ignored that little comment and said "Mom, you'll never guess what I did today. I practised many new tricks, and drank from the Firefalls!" Though Firefly didn't seem interested, The ears of the Trio pricked up.
"Firefalls?! They say the great kings were only brave enough to drink from the fire!" said RB, winking at Dash. She laughed at her Dad's little compliment.
"What did you do dear?" Firefly asked, as if she didn't hear a thing.
Depressed, Rainbow Dash just said "Nothing."
"Hungry aren't we?" Firefly said.
"Mom!" Rainbow Dash said in disgust, depressed by the fact that her own Mom had no appreciation for what she did.
"Blaze, look at your daughter's plate!" Firefly said, pointing towards the plate with the stack of cream buns.
"So what?" RB said, while he was attacked by their pet dogs.
"Ugh. Girls! Don't play with your bitter gourds!" Firefly said as she saw Scootaloo putting the bitter gourd near Apple Bloom while AB was pretending to gag.
"How would you know you like it unless you try it? It's nice, yum yum!" she tried to assure. A servant came holding a tray with three letters.
"Here you go, my lady."
"Thank you Cherry."
As Firefly was reading the letters, Rainbow Dash tried to grab the attention of the IAT. "Psst!" she said, and pointed towards the tray of cream buns. Then she put the tray under the table. The Trio too went under and started munching on the buns. When they saw their one of their Dad's forelegs near them, a mischievous smile came upon their faces.
While Blaze was STILL being licked by those dogs, Firefly whispered "All accepted!"
"Accepted what?" RB asked, finally shoving away the dogs. Firefly looked towards the Trio.
"Girls, you are excused." As the Trio was going they stuffed cream buns wherever they could and took the buns with them. Sensing the smell of cream buns, the dogs followed them.
"What did I do now?" Rainbow let out a big, awkward smile and batted her eyes all innocent like.
"Your father has something to DISCUSS WITH YOU!" As soon as Firefly said these words, Blaze spat out the water he was drinking.
"Blaze?" Firefly pointed her eyes towards Rainbow Dash.
"Oh, that, um......" He stammered nervously. "Okay. Rainbow Dash. You are....um...."
"Shit. Rainbow, dear, the clans accepted have accepted the marriage proposals we sent!" Firefly said happily.
"WHAT?! DAD!!!" RD looked towards her Dad in shock. Only he understands and values RD's dream of being a Wonderbolt.
"Hey, it's not me! I didn't ........Firefly?"
"Honestly, Rainbow Dash, I don't know why you're behaving like this. The’re going to come here and compete for your hand!"
"WHY DOES A PRINCESS HAVE TO DO WHAT SHE'S TOLD?!" Rainbow shouted in anger.
"A princess does not raise her voice! Rainbow Dash, this is what you've been preparing for your whole life!"
"No, It's what YOU'VE been preparing me for my whole life!" Rainbow got up and and left the table as tears of anger escaped her eyes. Firefly just rolled her eyes and followed Rainbow to her room.
Seeing all this, Rainbow Blaze got up. "Um....Rainbow Da.....Wha?!" He looked down as he saw one of his foreleg's tied to the table and as he got up the whole table fell down! "GIIIRRRRLLLLSSS!!!!"
Rainbow Dash was hitting her bed with her sword. "Mom, Suitors? MARRIAGE?!"
Firefly just picked up a set of chess kept on a table. "Once there was an ancient kingdom....."
Rainbow just rolled her eyes. "Oh, MOM! Ancient kingdom?! We're in the middle of a huge problem here!"
Firefly ignored her and continued. "It's name is long forgotten. It was ruled by a wise and fair king who was much beloved! One day, he gave both of his two daughters different jobs. The oldest one got the job of rising the sun and younger one got the job of rising the moon. But everyone gave the oldest one more importance, and the younger one was neglected. One day, a dark power of jealousy filled her and she became evil. She was out of her mind and even tried to kill her own sister! And she became, what we now know as Nightmare Moon."
"That's a nice STORY." Rainbow said sarcastically. "And, BTW, Mom, we know the story of Nightmare Moon. And we defeated her. And this has nothing to do with our problem here."
"It's not just a story, Rainbow. Legends are lessons they are connected to truth!"
"But, but, I....."
"I don't want to hear anything else Rainbow Dash! And it's just marriage, it's not the end of the world!"
As soon as Firefly went out, Rainbow slammed the door in frustration. Then she flew out of the small window in her bedroom and muttered to herself."It's marriage, not the end of the world! Yeah right! Of course it's not the end of the world, but the end of MY life and MY dreams!" Then Rainbow just lay on a cloud and muttered to herself.
"Rainbow! We're so glad to see you again!"
Rainbow looked down from her cloud and saw Twilight and her friends. "Oh, Hi guys!" Rainbow felt good to meet her friends again, but after all this marriage fiasco, she was kinda depressed and a frown came on her face.
"Um, Rainbow, aren't you happy to see us again?" Fluttershy asked.
"Huh? Oh, of course I'm happy!" RD plastered a fake smile on her face.
"Ah'm pretty sure something's botherin' you. What's the matter, sugarcube?" That's when RD almost blurted out her feelings. Well, almost.
"Well, the thing is....wait, first let ME ask something; what are you all doing here?"
Pinkie answered cheerfully, "Oh, we're here for your MARRIAGE PARTY!" Then Pinkie started making kissy faces and noises.
"Soooooo......who's the lucky boy? Maybe that Wonderbolt Soarin? Oh, we all know you like him!"
Rainbow just rolled her eyes. "Ugh. It's something and nothing like that. Just because I saved him from falling to his death when we were in Rainbow Falls, it doesn't mean I like him or anything!"
"Oh, but it was sooo romatic! Seeing both of you together is just.....PERFECT!" Rarity said dreamily. Twilight shushed both Rarity and Pinkie.
"Forget them, Rainbow. Tell us what's bothering you."
That's when Rainbow got all emotional and blurted out everything. "Well, my parents said that these three clans people are gonna come and present their suitors for my hand. But I don't wanna get married! You all know that I also cleared that Wonderbolts exam test thing and I was so close to living my dream! But all this marriage fiasco started coming in my way! After getting, you know, married, we have to see the house and.....it's just so complicated!"
Fluttershy felt really sorry for Rainbow and flew next to her. "Oh, Rainbow Dash, I really wish we could do something about all this!"
That's when a lightbulb struck inside Pinkie. " Hey, hey, I know what to do!" Rainbow's eyes lit up.
"What?!"
" You could marry Soarin and then ask him to get you into the Wonderbolts and problem solved!"
AJ punched her hard. "Pinkie!" AJ said sternly.
"Ow! Whaaaaat?"
Rainbow just sighed. "That's a good plan, but......it's alright. Anyway, I do feel really better seeing you guys!" Then she waved. "Bye! See you later sometime, I guess." Her friends waved back.
"GOOD LUCK FOR.....um....NOT GETTING MARRIED!" Pinkie shouted at the top of her lungs.
Rainbow just rolled her eyes and chuckled to herself. " Typical Pinkie."