//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Rainbow Dash: Before the Awesome // by redpackman4421 //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash and Gilda trotted down the halls of the large school building towards the nurse's office. Dash had lied to the teacher and said that she bumped her head while trying to do a trick, as not to have to bring back anymore of the humiliating event. Ms. Moonbeam didn't object and sent her off to the nurse in a hurry, and at the last second, Gilda slipped out with her. They walked in silence for a majority of the time, but when they got to the door of the nurse's office, Gilda spoke up, "You're really a good flier." she said, trying to sound upbeat. Rainbow Dash stared back at her skeptically. "No, I'm serious! Up until the um, you know..... accident, you had one of the best flying forms I've seen!" Gilda replied sincerely. "Yeah, suuuuure. You don't have to pity me Gilda, I'm just another wannabee," she said sullenly, the under her breath she muttered, "I'll never get into the Wonderbolts." Gilda stopped and looked right at Rainbow, "You're not a wannabee. You're a great flier who got bad luck. I'm sure you'd beat that stupid Hoops colt's flank any day!" she said confidently. Rainbow lifted her head and smiled weakly, "You really mean it?" "Of course I do!" Gilda half shouted, "You may not be as good as me, but fliers as good as myself are pretty hard to come by." she went on arrogantly. Rainbow regained her confidence and a bit of her pride to boost, "Yeah right! I could take you with one wing tied behind my back!" "You're full of baloney! I said you're good but not me good." Gilda replied with a cocky smile. "And just how good is you good?" Rainbow asked sarcastically. "Better than you, that's for sure!" Gilda laughed. "Oh yeah, well I-" Dash started hotly, but abruptly stopped as she pressed her hoof to the bruise on her head and groaned. "Don't get to worked up there, hotshot. You may need that head someday." Gilda joked. Rainbow recollected herself, "Ha,ha,ha. That was so funny I forgot to laugh. When I get my head right, the first thing that I'm doing is leaving you in my dust in a race." she said to Gilda. "You beating me? That's better than anything I could ever come up with. Congrats, you win the comedy prize!" Gilda replied smugly, continuing to poke fun at Rainbow Dash. "Whatever, let's just get this over with." Dash said beaten as they had finally reached the nurse's office. They opened the door to see a small room, containing nothing but a desk, a few chairs, two small beds, and a pink coated unicorn. "A unicorn? Dash thought to herself, "That's strange." Regardless, the two friends continued through the door and towards the pink mare. Her mane was vanilla white and her eyes were a rather soft shade of orange. Once the two had reached her desk, she spoke out gingerly and smiling, "Can I help you two?" Gilda spoke up first, "My friend hit her head against a wall, and now she has a big bruise on her head. We were just wondering if we could have some ice." "Well of course you can. But please, come over here and have me take a look at it first, okay?" she asked softly. Rainbow obeyed and walked around the desk to let the nurse examine her bruise. "Oh my!" the nurse exclaimed, "How in Equestria did this happen to you?" she asked concerned. Rainbow emidiatley felt her face turn red as she painfully thought back to the race, or more specifically the crash. While these bad thoughts began to reappear in her head, one thing did pop back into her mind though. That colt with the beep blue coat and the black mane. When she thought of his face, she got this wired feeling. Her knees would start to shake and she would blush uncontrolably. Suddenly, her wings shot straight out and remained stiff. She snapped back to reality and blushed hard when she noticed both Gilda and the nurse struggling to stifle their laughter. She immediately tried to push her wings back down with her hooves, but to no avail. This only added to embarrassment of the situation. "No worries dear, it's just natural, nothing to be embarrassed about!" the nurse said as she smiled meekly, "But I would like to know how that bruise appeared on you head." "I was just trying to do a trick outside and I didn't look where I was flying. No big deal really." Rainbow said as cool as she could with a stiff pair of wings. "Well it is a big deal, or a big bruise really. You'll need a bit more than Ice to fix yourself up. Here, let me put a bandage over it." the nurse said sweetly. "Oh great," Dash thought to herself, "A big band aid on my head, now I'll look tough for sure." As the pink unicorn went into a closet to get a bandage for Rainbow, Gilda walked over to Dashie and snickered. "Wow, nice stiffy Rainbow!" she whispered rather loudly, "I didn't think you were into mares !" she laughed. "Shut up!" Dash said hotly as she nudged Gilda in the side with her hoof, "and I'm not into mares, I was just thinking of someone." Dash said. Immediately she wished she could have taken those words back as Gilda's eyes widened and her grin got even bigger. "Really? Who is he? What does he look like? Does he have a nice flank?" she began to inquire. Rainbow faced hoofed. "Why the hay did I say that out loud." "Becuase you want me to help you get with whoever it is." Gilda said, trying to coax Rainbow. "No way! If anything you would just try to embarrass me in front of him!" Dash protested. "Exactly, now help me help you help me." Gilda said grinning even wider at the newest way to torture Rainbow. "Yes..., I mean no, I mean..... dear Celestia, I don't even know his name!" Dash exclaimed in exasperation. "Know whose name?" the nurse's sweet voice chimed as she came back to the two little ones. "Rainbow Dash's crubilifrbrgshir," Gilda tried to spit out, but Rainbow was too quick and instantly wrapped her hooves around Gilda's beak. "Nobody!" Dash blurted out quickly, and added an awkward, unconvincing smile. "I'll never understand fillies your age," the unicorn chuckled to herself, "Alright, let me see that bump again. Rainbow slowly let go of Gilda and began to stare her down menacingly. She then moved her hoof to her lips and made a zipping motion, telling Gilda to keep her mouth shut. Gilda simply smirked and nodded her head in compliance. After that small turn of events, Rainbow walked back towards the nurse, and had her forehead wrapped up in bandages. The nurse gave her an ice pack to put on the bruise as well, and Rainbow quickly scooped it into her hooves and placed it carefully on her welt, quickly relieving her pain. Rainbow turned back to Gilda, "How do I look?" she asked. "Like you just flew through the rough part of Manehattan with a 'kick me' sign on your back." Gilda joked again. "And more comedic gold from Glilda the Griffin!" Rainbow retaliated, rolling her eyes. "I'll be here all week!" Gilda responded, taking a bow as both of the fillies laughed. "I can see you two having multiple visits to my office this year," the nurse finally spoke up as she raised her eyebrow, "If you two ever need a little fixing up, I'm always in my office. My name is Miss Sugarcrest by the way, what about you two?" "I'm Rainbow Dash, and this is Gilda." Rainbow said exuberantly, speaking for both of them. "Rainbow Dash and Gilda, what nice names! I'm sure that I'll have no problem remembering you two. Anyway, let's try to keep the visits here at a minimum, not that I wouldn't love your company, but another bump like that and you'd be in pretty bad shape. Well, have a nice day you two!" Miss Sugarcrest said as she gave each of them a lollipop and sent them back on their way to class. "Wow, thanks Miss Sugarcrest!" the fillies said in unison as they took the lollipops and left back into the hallways. The two walked for a bit, up the stairs to the 3rd floor where there class was. When they made it to the 3rd floor, Gilda asked Rainbow in between licks of her lollipop, "Okay seriously, who is it? This has been bugging me for the past five minutes, just tell me!" "I already said I don't know his name," Dash said exasperated. "Then just tell me what he looks like! Come on, first day and you're already getting wing boners for some colt you've never even met before? He must look good." Gilda begged, trying to extract as much information from Rainbow Dash as she possibly could. Rainbows face went red at "wing boners." "I don't really wanna talk about him now, it's been a long day and I-" Rainbow began, until Gilda suddenly interrupted, "Is it Hoops?" "OH HAY NO!!!! WHY WOULD I EVER- " Dash started in an uproar. "Kidding." Gilda said snickering. Rainbow returned the joke with a piercing, unamused glare at Gilda. "But if you don't tell me who it really is," Gilda continued, "I can never be sure." Dash had her back against the wall on this one. She was beat and she knew it. "Fine," she began, "He looks like, well...um.... he has a black mane." Rainbow stuttered, and looked up at Gilda, who had an unsatisfied look on her face. "Well that sure is helpful," Gilda spoke sarcastically, "Just point him out when we get to class." "Well, I don't think he's in our class." Rainbow said to Gilda, scratching the back of her head with her hoof and offering a weak smile. Gilda grinned and her eyes lit up once more, "Someone older? Ooh, I'll keep my eye out for an older colt with a black mane." Gilda spoke, then muttered under her breath, "Like there aren't a million of those." Rainbow just brushed off her comments, then she and Gilda opened the door and walked back into the class room, both of their little heads filled with an array of thoughts.