chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
Rainbow dash swooped and dived, swirled and dashed as she flew up and over a heap of clouds. It was early in the morning and she wanted to get a bunch of practice for the upcoming pegasi race. Which was no ordinary race, the race consists of 25 racers each competing In a treacherous obstacle course in the sky! All of equestria and beyond would be watching it the day it airs. and Rainbows hopes and dreams were to some day be in that race. In a week, the race tryouts will start and rainbow is ready. More then ready with her constant 24/7 practicing.
"Oh yeah!"she hollered as she spun into a wicked nose dive. Her hair was blowing, her eyes were watering and she still managed to grin as the high pressured wind blew in her face. "Almost there...so close..." She mumbled under her breath as she kept diving through the clouds. When she reached the ground she would swoop up and do an air flip. Just as she was about to dip and dive upright, A yellow blur was right in front of her where she needed to swing herself back up in to the sky. She couldn't make out what it was, but if she didn't glide herself back up she would crash into whatever it was. she swerved to try and miss the yellow figure but it was too late, she was too close to the ground and BANG!
A somewhat stunned rainbow dash bumped into some figure that landed her crashing. she staggered to stand up but fell back down. when she fell she heard a quiet squeak. She surged up and gasped. she was on top of Fluttershy.
"Oh man! a-are you hurt? are you ok?" She stammered quickly lending a hoof and helping her up. "Tell me your not hurt!" Rainbow said worrisome. Surprisingly she wasnt hurt, she landed on her soft basket in which she was picking flowers with.
"Dont fret Rainbow, Im ok, but your heavier then you look...." She smiled weakly. Rainbow could still tell she was a bit hurt. "I guess Now I know how the ground feels when people walk on it." Fluttershy mumbled as rainbow sat down beside her. Clearly she was trying to make a joke out of all of this, though rainbow was not amused. She sternly stared at Fluttershy. all she was thinking was, "I worked so hard trying to perfect the nose dive! I worked for years! and years and the day I think I finally can do it she has to come pick stupid flowers and get in the way of everything!" Dashes emotions soared into anger. and she didn't even realize how loud she was when she yelled at Fluttershy.
" Fluttershy! I have constantly been working on that dive and you just had to come, at this day, at this very spot and get in my way!" Rainbow knew she shouldn't be this angry at Fluttershy, because she knew her feelings were so sensitive. But her mixed up emotions of sadness, anger and disappointment, got the best of her. Fluttershy looked hurt but surprisingly mad too. She looked straight at rainbow like she wanted to say something but soon her face returned back to her usual shy state and her eyes converted to the ground as if she just didn't want to complain. Rainbow stared at her waiting for an answer. She finally decided to speak.
" Well, it was just as well your fault as....it..was....mine..." The first few words she said with confidence then with her hair falling in front of her said the last few so quietly as she backed up. Rainbow dash could still hear what she said though and got even more mad. Her eyes glared at her completely forgetting who she was dealing with and how to properly control her voice.
" Fluttershy! just-just-Uhh! you don't get it!" Rainbow started pacing back and forth with an angry look as she continued. " You were the one in the way, not me! I knew perfectly well when to dive back up, but the distance from the ground was a good height so I wouldn't hit it, you just had to be there! And cause me to fall! Don't you know I have been practicing and practicing! I only have a week left! A week Fluttershy to prepare and..." - Rainbows ears pricked as she heard sniffling, she turned her head slowly too look at her friend. Her pink mane covering her whole face. She was sitting up, but hunched over like she was crying...though she was so quiet rainbow only heard soft whimpering. When hearing that sound dash realized who she was yelling at. Fluttershy the sensitive pony, her friend. Guilt washed over her and her face had a look of sadness on it knowing that she shouldn't have raised her voice, and it was her fault. More then Fluttershy. She walked over to comfort her, but couldn't. " How could I comfort her after I yelled at her like crazy? when it wasn't even her fault..." Rainbow knew she gets her head in the clouds alot and sometimes gets to angry over unnecessary things. How dumb it was for her to act this way.
Rainbow reached a hoof to lend to Fluttershy to sooth her weeping friend. But to her surprise, Fluttershy moved her pink wave of hair out of her eyes. Her face stained with tears. She looked no longer sad, but angry. Almost like returning to what she was going to say to rainbow before. She raised her head and opened her mouth to speak.
" I hope your proud of yourself." Rainbow was confused she cocked her head and was about to ask what she was talking about when Fluttershy continued. " Always yelling at me to stop getting in the way, or-or to try better...is nothing I do good to you?"-she paused no longer able to look at her friend but instead looked at her broken flower basket and began to talk. " What happened to you Rainbow? you were never like this when we were friends before you always told me to believe in myself, and you always did...what hapened to that? why all of a sudden are you taking things out on me?...Is this the true Rainbow dash? well if it is, I don't know what I saw in you before.." Tears rolled down her cheeks causing rainbows heart to break. she hated seeing her friend this way. Dash wanted to say something but she couldn't...She was too hurt because what Fluttershy was saying was true. Lately, Rainbow has been treating her like this, and she had no idea how and why she was.... Fluttershy got up and picked up her broken basket with smooshed flowers inside. " Your not the Rainbow I became friends with..." Fluttershy weeped as she turned and ran away over the grassy hills into the forest that lead her to her cottage.
Rainbow was frozen. she was unable to speak or move...she just was trying to take it all in. all she could do was stare at the forest where Fluttershy disappeared into. Dash kept replaying the scene through her mind which felt like ages. and finally displayed body movement, she lowered her head and dropped her ears.
"Fluttershy was right, I have been treating her differently...I just don't know..why?" She whispered so quietly much like her friend Fluttershy does when she is uncomfortable to speak. The daredevil would never want anyone to see her this way...not even her friends...but one lonely tear dripped down her blue cheek and landed in the fresh summer grass. she didn't know how to ever make it up to her best friend and get out of this huge mess. Or why she was crying...all she knew was that she was done practicing today. She allowed her weak wings to pick up her limp almost lifeless body to fly upon the nearest cloud where she could sit and think about all her emotions she was carrying and how she would fix this.
But her mind was blank. she was lifeless and hurt...she never felt her heart break this badly before. so she just lay on that puffy cloud and just started to think it all over to get things straight again. " I just don't know how I will ever make it up to her? I never meant to hurt her like that...why am I always taking things out on her? I didn't used too.." Rainbow grasped her head. It hurt badly from all this thinking. she closed her eyes and tried to relax, but all he could think about was how she yelled at her best friend when it wasn't her fault, and how she would make things right...and how she has been treating her differently then usual...but the one that bothered her the most, was how she has been treating Fluttershy. her best friend. they used to do everything together. she smiled at remembering those sweet memories of the two of them. and how immature they were, and they would always get in trouble so they had to be separated a lot. Rainbow smiled even bigger.
"How did that lead to this? what is different about her now then she was before? shes the same pony...why cant I treat her the same?" Dash whispered this to herself turning on her back and admiring the clouds. " Maybe...I get mad at her lately...because I-I...Somehow feel different about her?" That thought sent butterflies soaring through her stomach and caused her to jolt upright on the cloud shaking the whole fluffy thing. She swallowed. " Naw, thats-thats craziness...I mean were friends-the best of friends...that could never be true."
Dash calmed her self and lay back down blushed and nervously grinning realizing she was talking out loud to herself...good thing no pony was around. But she couldn't wipe that thought from her brain it kept creeping back forcing her to think about it. She swallowed again. " If I don't feel that way-Dash paused to whisper because she was talking out loud again. "Then why did I get butterflies when I thought I might feel different about her?" Her heart beat like crazy at this new thought that made a lot of sense... Rainbow laughed nervously pushing the clouds misty puffs around and quickly whispering, "I only get butterflies cause I don't want to feel that way..." Although that thought didn't calm her, the first one made more sense, and she knew it...she just didn't want to maybe admit it to herself....