//------------------------------// // 2-Rainbow's Second Friends // Story: I Don't Need a Love Potion to Love You // by Night Flight //------------------------------// “Ra…Rainbow Dash,” called a girl with watery eyes. Rainbow Dash who was gathering leftover of her food turned around with a smile. “Hey Fue… oh,” Rainbow’s expression quickly went sad as she saw the tears on the girls face. The girl was a beautiful one. She had a straight navy and light yellow hair that was always gathered in a ponytail and at that moment was messy. Her skin was something between purple and pink and it was the first thing that caught eyes of the people who see her. But at that moment, her skin was paler than other times and it was glistening due to crying and its wetness. "Soarin… he… he…” stammered Fury Star. “He screwed up again, right?” said Rainbow flatly. As the answer, Fury only nodded with an innocent face. Rainbow smiled kindly at her and put her hand on her shoulder. “Don’t you worry. I’ll fix it for you.” “AHEEEEM,” someone cleared her throat from Rainbow’s behind. She turned around to find the source of sound and saw nothing but Twilight’s almost angry face. “Yes Rainbow. You never said so cause it was true.” “What are you talking about Twi?” said Rainbow with an awkward chuckle. “You know better what I’m talking about,” said Twilight with a frown. “Can… we talk later?” said Rainbow as she sensed Fury pulling her hand. “Fine but remember that you can’t run away this time,” shouted Twilight as Rainbow got pulled away. “Whoa, Fue. Slow down. I’m not going anywhere,” said Rainbow but got no answer in return. “So… what happened this time?” “I… I was telling my classmates that I have a wonderful boyfriend and it’s none other than Soarin but suddenly he came there and told me that he wants to talk to me. Then he pulled me away from them and started shouting at me for telling my friends about our relationship,” explained Fury sadly. ‘Of course he would shout at you. Showoff,’ said Rainbow in her head. “OK, leave it to me.” It was always a trouble for Rainbow to build the friendship between two people that were in the sulks with each other but after Soarin started dating Fury, their arguing started. It was all Soarin who started the fights. Poor Fury was so in love with Soarin that she endured all of those humiliations from him. In the middle of all of these was Rainbow who had to talk to Soarin and make him accept his fault. First time it started off right in front of Rainbow and happened a week after Soarin and Fury's first date. Fury who had seen Rainbow, Spitfire, Fleetfoot hanging out with Soarin all the time, told Soarin that she wanted to a part of their group. At that time, Soarin said a simple 'no' to her but he quickly got angry when Fury kept begging him. It was when he started to shout at her and she quickly teared up. Rainbow who had been there all the time, saw this and went to Soarin. Instead of being angry at Fury, she was mostly angry at Soarin so for the first time in her life, Rainbow Dash started shouting at her best friend, Soarin. She blamed him for tearing Fury up. While Rainbow was shouting, Soarin was only staring at her with wide eyes and dropped jaw and that was completely natural. Never in his life had Rainbow raised her voice on him. They were always so good to each other that whoever didn't know them, thought that they were siblings. However, after hearing all of Rainbow's shouting, all Soarin did was frowning and saying that what she said hadn't changed his mind so she started to talk on a softer tone. Sure, it took a long time for Rainbow to make Soarin realize that what he did is wrong but after doing that he accepted his fault but didn't apologize. By the way, this is Soarin we're talking about and he never ever apologize a girl. That day, Soarin promised Rainbow that he would try his best to treat Fury, if not like his girlfriend, but at least like his own sister. Even with that promise it was obvious for Rainbow that there are gonna be a lot of fights between them in the future. Also, she started defending Fury after the first fight. Spitfire and Fleetfoot who hated Fury to be around them, were the first people who started teasing Fury. It was when Rainbow appeared in front of Fury just like a super hero and defended her. She told them if they have a problem with Soarin's girlfriend, then they'd better go and find other friends. Spitfire and Fleetfoot sure learned their lesson and stopped teasing her and in return, Fury didn't hang out with them as much as she wanted and decided to spend most of her break times with her friends instead of Soarin and others. But even with all of those, there was a strong fight between Fury and Rainbow. But how? Well that's easy... Instead of a simple thank you, Fury demanded that Rainbow has to go away and stop eating lunch with Soarin and her other friends. At first, Soarin wanted to start another fight with her but Rainbow who was also tired of Fury's teasing, accepted to sit away from them and hang out with her old friends. And that was it. BUT, No one, as in NO ONE dared to do such thing to Rainbow. If anyone did something like that, then she/he was totally dead. And Fury was no exception. Too bad that she was still Soarin's girlfriend. Otherwise, you couldn't have found a student named Fury in Canterlot High anymore. But no matter how much they hated each other, there was always an unwritten rule that made Fury go to Rainbow whenever she had problem with Soarin and it was the exact same rule that made Rainbow defend Fury whenever it was needed and it was exactly because of that Rainbow was letting Fury drag her to Soarin's table. Soarin still had his head in his hands and Spitfire and Fleetfoot were eating their lunch peacefully. As they got closer to the table, Rainbow noticed Spitfire huffing, probably due to seeing Fury. Fleetfoot who had seen Fury too, rolled her eyes. Few seconds later, Soarin who was frowning, sat upright. Clearly, Fleetfoot had signed him by kicking his legs. Fury who saw all of them did nothing but sniffling few times but Rainbow frowned as she stopped in front of their table. Soarin took a deep breath and tried to smile at Rainbow. "Hey!" "Hey? HEY? HOW DARE YOU SAY HEY TO ME?" she said angrily. Then she sighed and continued talking in a sad voice, "Seriously Soarin, I'm tired of those idiotic fights," said Rainbow. "I..." Soarin tried to speak but was quickly interrupted by Rainbow. "I thought you promised me to be kind with her. Am I... not important for you anymore that you break my promise?" "NO!" shouted Soarin. "Nononono. You're wrong. Rainbow let me explain Fury-" he said very quickly. "No need to explain. Fury told everything to me," said Rainbow. "But Soarin, you could have warned her in a lower tone and kinder than that," she said with a smile. By the way, that smile didn't last too long and a sad expression was replaced instead. "You know... sometimes I can't understand how that kind, calm Soarin who was always famous for staying calm at hard times, turned to this Soarin that can't use his kindness on a girl." "If I were a boy and Fury were my girlfriend, I would've acted the same," muttered Spitfire. True that she just muttered but Rainbow's ear quickly caught that. She gasped and said, "Spitfire! Not you! I thought you'd always follow Soarin's decision. How... how could you?" “Yes, I will follow Soarin’s decision but I will not follow my mom’s wrong decision,” said Spitfire with a frown. “OK, everyone before things go further, END IT!” said Soarin. Then he looked at Rainbow with tired eyes and started to talk quickly, “I know that I did the wrong thing and stuff. So sorry Rainbow,” Oh, that… One of Soarin’s very bad behaviors was that. He never apologized a girl unless that girl was one of his friends and he knew that he did a real wrong work. But in Fury’s case, instead of apologizing her, he apologized Rainbow. And that was the reason Rainbow huffed when Soarin was done speaking. “I’m not the one you should apologize. That’s another person. Now if everything’s done, I gotta go.” Soarin only watched Rainbow as she started to walk toward cafeteria’s exit. He knew better than anyone that doing this took a lot energy from her and made her so tired that she needed to sit somewhere and sort her mind again. Well, too bad that a group of curious girls were waiting for her out of cafeteria. By the way, this girl had a lot to explain about her other friends.