Soul Mark

by niightear

Chapter 2

A bright light shone on my flank as I lied on the ground, next to the animals.

Three pink butterflies.

My wings flew up, seemingly instinctively. This confused me, until I realized why.

On the inside of my left wing was a grayscale tricolored lightning bolt coming out from a cloud.

My soulmate's cutie mark.

"If you would, please help me up to Cloudsdale?"

It didn't take long for some of the bigger birds to help, carrying me up with their talons.

I landed safely on a cloud away from the rest of the ponies, leaving any awkward situations out of the question.

So much was going through my head.

The race.

The fall.

The animals.

The rainbow explosion.

My cutie mark.

My soul mark.

And the adrenaline rush I suddenly had.

Once I arrived at the flight camp, everypony was surrounding her.

I approached, asking one of my friends what was happening.

"Rainbow Dash got her cutie mark!"

If I was drinking something, I would've spit it out.

The cyan pegasus smiled as she saw me.

"Oh, hey 'shy!"

"Hi..."

"Do you want to see?!"

She lifted up her wings, revealing two things.

1) Her cutie mark, which looked exactly like my soul mark, except colored.

2) Her soul mark, identical to my cutie mark, except grayscale.

"Um... that's... cool..."

Heartbreak.

That's what I felt.

Why?

She was already dating somepony.

Well, somegriff.

Gilda.

If it wasn't for that, I'd be fine.

I wasn't fine.

But when she asked if I was, I said one simple sentence.

"I'm fine..."

And she said one simple word.

"Okay!"