AppleDash Group Collab

by DbzOrDie

Widdershins - Craine

Where did it all go wrong? She couldn't say. It was all so hazy, what had happened. Her mane, adding prismatic flare to the world below her, flickered like tiny whips against her forehead. Only the biting cold prickles of wind beating against her scalp kept her aware, kept her conscious.

Even then, it was all so very hazy. An over-corrected turn, a jagged mountainside, an echoing howl shredding her lungs. It was all so hazy, yet one thing had become nauseatingly clear, as clear as the wing awkwardly twisted at her side. Rainbow Dash was going to die.

It was strange, really, how calming it was. Despite the frosting chill on her flesh, the sinking of her stomach, and the numbness eating away at her chest, Rainbow found herself smiling. And oddly enough, as she fondly made out the shrilling scream that grew ever so loud, Rainbow knew exactly why she was smiling. The more it occurred to her, the more reasons Rainbow had to keep this weird smile. She recognized that scream all too well, having heard it just enough times to be remembered. But perhaps she smiled for other reasons. Perhaps plummeting to her death could only fall moot in the wake of fond memories.

Memories of fresh morning grass.

Memories of straw and rich oaks.

Memories of sweet-scented earth.

Perhaps she didn't have a damn thing to smile about. Perhaps her acceleration toward the unforgiving earth below meant that she would truly die in vain. Or perhaps she smiled, because the earth pony that invoked all of those memories was there to catch her.

It was all so hazy. Rainbow could say that much. A sharp impact into solid flesh, the world spinning and turning, her ears attacked by scratchy, incoherent insults. Hazy as it may have been, one thing became so very, amazingly clear, as clear as droplets patting onto her nose.

Rise or fall, those sweet memories would keep Rainbow Dash alive.

Comments

[Fury of the Tempest]

Very nicely done. That could happen rather easily.

[survivor]

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