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// Wingmare - RariShyZealot 
// Story: Flarity Group Collab 
// by Jondor 
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Written by: RariShyZealot




Did you know that Equestria has five official languages? Besides from Common Equestrian, the most common and wide-spread language in the world, each of the pony tribes have their own language from before they united: Erdeponisch, language of the Earth Ponies; Pegasiká, language of the Pegasi; Licornois, language of the Unicorn; and Alikornen, language of the Alicorn (today spoken only by a dozen or so ponies). As a rule of thumb settlements that leaned heavily towards one tribe, tended to teach that tribe’s language as a secondary language, while more cosmopolitan areas taught only Common Equestrian.

For example: Cloudsdale, populated exclusively by Pegasi teaches Pegasiká as a standard school subject, while Ponyville, a town founded by Earth Ponies but now inhabited by all tribes since several generations back, offers Erdeponisch as a bonus class.

Right now, Rainbow Dash was thanking all four Alicorns for that fact, as Fluttershy was in need of some reassurance. It was Twilight’s birthday, her first since her ascension to princess-hood, meaning that Celestia, Luna and Cadence were there to visit, which in turn meant that the local bar was filled with ponies jumping at the chance to meet one of Equestria’s rulers.

This was it, the night she had been looking forward to and dreading for years: Fluttershy felt ready to confess her feelings for Rarity, and as the Element of Loyalty, not to mention her best friend, Rainbow Dash was there to help her with planning, preparations and a kickass encouragement speech.

Unfortunately, Fluttershy had stopped less than three steps from their table, and now stood frozen in the middle of the room, staring at Rarity sitting by the bar.

With a sigh, Rainbow Dash got up and dragged the cowardly mare back to her seat. The long-prepared speech about how Fluttershy was going to “march up there, get your awesome on, and score that Unicon” didn’t work, it was time to improvise. She switched over to Pegasiká and leaned in with an expression of seriousness and stone-cold bad-assery.

“Fluttershy, I know you’re scared. If I were you, I’d be scared to. I know how much Rarity means to you, but it seems you don’t.” Fluttershy’s grimace of panic slowly melted as Rainbow Dash began her speech.

“Remember when you came home after falling of Cloudsdale? I was so worried about you, but you didn’t seem to care about the danger you barely avoided, you just went on and on about that cute, friendly unicorn filly you met on the ground. Remeber how you swore to move there, just so you could meet her again? And then, when you get here you let your fear take over and avoid the sole reason you moved here to begin with! For years you avoid the topic of love, you spent your days lying to her face and your nights crying to me about it.”

Fluttershy’s head sunk lower and lower as the rant continued, finally hitting the table at the last sentence. Suddenly she was thrown back up as Rainbow Dash slammed a mug of cider onto the table.

“But not this night!”

She pushed the alcohol over to the timid beastmaster, giving a smug smirk.

“Tonight you are going to drink this entire mug of cider, and whatever else it takes to loosen your tongue. Then you are going over there, and then you’re going home. With her.”

Fluttershy eyed the drink carefully, like it would attack her at the slightest provocation. After a few seconds of deliberation, she slowly picked it up.

“O-okay...”





On the other side of the room, Rarity perked up from her cocktail as a slice of cake laded on her plate, surrounded by a light blue dweomer.

“Oh, thank you darling.” She exclaimed curtly as Cadance took the seat next to hers. The two of them had really become good friends as of lately.

“Who’s idea was it to put the cake on the other side of the room from the bar anyway.” The unicorn complained as she took a spoonful of delicious princess cake.

“It has to do with Celestia, when she gets drunk, she-“ Cadance stopped mid-sentence, scanned the room and leaned in closer to Rarity.

“It’s not important, remember you told me about your crush on a certain pegasus?” She continued, giddy like a filly who can’t wait to tell everypony that she got that thing she wished for as a birthday present.

Rarity blushed and made her own sweep of the locale.

“Hush, not so loudly. What about it?” Rarity asked sharply, not wishing to bring that up in such a public venue.

“As I was getting the cake, I overheard Rainbow Dash getting her psyched-up to go ask you out.”

Rarity froze in place. Did Fluttershy have feelings for her too? It took all her strength not to jump into the air and sing with joy at the news. She looked Cadance in the eye, and the princess gave her a nod.

As Rarity swept the last of her drink and hopped off the barstool, Cadance gave her a pat on the back.

“Go get her, girl.”