“Rainbow Dash?”
She played with tiny, fluffs of clouds. They bounced between her hooves in the glistening morning sun.
“Rainbow Dash...?”
Her ears perked up. With a gasp, she shot up and glanced down from her perch in the sky.
Five colorful figures stared up at her. The pink one was bouncing up and down, waving. The orange stood in the back, chuckling.
“Rainbow Dash!”
She smirked wide. Tossing her mane back, she flexed her wings and dove off the cloud. She squinted her eyes against the gnawing wind as she soared earthward, spiraling once or twice for show.
When she landed, blades of glass and flower petals lifted up around her. She chuckled and looked ahead of her... then blinked as a dull expression fell across her face.
There was nopony to be seen throughout the rolling landscape.
“Rainbow Dash?”
She spun around.
Gold Petals stood. Not a scrap of leather was to be seen on her. She smiled, her short blond mane hair fluttering in the breeze. “Can you really do anything?” she asked.
She smiled back. She was about to give a laughable quip, when she felt a cold sensation pouring over her limbs. Glancing down, she gasped. Her hooves had turned gray. Part of her mane hair dangled in her peripheral vision, and it too was colorless.
“Rainbow Dash...”
She spun, gasping.
Princess Celestia stood. Her face was grave as she slowly turned to stone from tail to mane. “You can't do anything.”
She backtrotted, her lips quivering. She bumped into Gold Petals' body, but felt something warm and wet. Glancing back, she had to look down to see the horrific sight. Gold Petals corpse was being gnawed on by several leathery creatures. They all glanced up and hissed in crimson hunger.
Before she could react, she felt thunderous pain wracking her skull. She moaned, screamed, and fell to her knees. A pair of hooves flew up to her forehead, but were powerless to stop the two mishapen horns ripping out of her skull.
“Aaaaaugh!”
There was a fright flash of light from behind, and she felt her entire body pelted by a sea of shattered stone and gravel.
Hmm. Stone, Horns. Discord involved, maybe?
Another nightmare, this time involving those strange creatures as well... Hmmm... Again, the theme of hair falling out and turning grey is present. I wonder if that has any significance...
New hypothesis: Rainbow Dash is being possessed by Discord?
New? I thought it was kinda obvious... after someone pointed out that her eyes turn to discord's eyes when she's having a dizzy spell.
IIIIIt's Dashie's Marathon Evaluation Time!
This chapter is cool, I think. We get another nightmare, like the one from earlier in the story. Again, the theme of colorless hair and skin is present, as well as losing her friends. In the nightmare, two horns also grow out of Dash's skull, and I think I'm 99% positive that something is going on with Discord here, what with all the evidence. One last bit of said evidence is Dash feeling shattered stone, probably from Discord's statue, pelt her. We still don't know exactly what happened to the mane six, though...These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S. .....2.....left.....
A recurring theme a graying, withering; horns; the Princess turning to stone, Dash to powerless against it; her friends not being there...
So many questions!
Or maybe Discord was sealed inside Rainbow with the elements.
Ooh, it's another nightmare chapter! Still the grayness and losing her friends, as other people have noted, which now includes Gold Petals. Poor Rainbow, I hope she doesn't lose her too. And now she's growing horns too? Yeah, Discord definitely has something to do with this mess. Also, Princess Celestia saying she can't stop it. Could this be linked to why she hates her?
~FierceRainbow
Hmm... I think that the rest of the main six might be dead.
These nightmare chapters... they're so much like ones in the later sections of the series.
So after having this on my read later queue forever, I'm finally getting into reading it (about 5 to 10 chapters at a time, mind), and...two things:
1. I'm really enjoying this so far.
2. You really need to take some time to go back and make corrections. There are at least two errors per chapter that could've been avoided by proofreading before posting, and should've been fixed over a year ago because people HAVE pointed the majority of them out to you.
It's a sad thing when you read a story this beautifully written, and it's marred by silly mistakes like "blades of glass" and "a fright flash of light", when it would take about 1 minute per chapter to fix these small mistakes.
Obvious Discord....possession?
They took off her element to treat her didn’t they?
6300308 ...oh dear.
1932300 oh. OH. Wow. Maybe.
Well, that's quite the nightmare type thingy, isn't it. It seems that people are speculating that they took off her element to treat her, which makes me wonder just what would happen if they did. I'll find out!
~SolidFire
Uh oh. She's turning into Discord. Her Element was taken off for treatment, wasn't it?
Oh good! Back to the ole "mysterious hinting at Rainbow's past" M.O. I was starting to miss it.
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Only time can tell
Rainbow Dash's nightmare here conveys feeling helpless and horrified.
Ah yes, of course, perfectly normal. Nothing bad at all to imply from this lovely and happy dream sequence!