Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Rainbow Dash lay in her sleeping mat.
Curled up.
Hugging herself.
She stared blankly ahead, navigating the fuzzy texture of darkness.
Hours passed.
At last, with an aching shift to her shoulders, the mare sat up. She rubbed her eyes and looked towards the other side of the tent.
Applejack lay face-up, her lungs slowly expanding and contracting. It could have been imagination playing tricks on Rainbow's eyes in the dim starlight, but she could have sworn she saw the mare's freckles curved in the shape of an undying smile.
Rainbow exhaled. She slicked her bangs back and glanced at the zippered tent flap.
On softly padding hooves, the pegasus trotted out of the cave. She left her friends sleeping behind in their various tents.
Before her, a circle of logs surrounded a pile of debris where a fire had been.
Rainbow stood above the vacant camp. She stared at the mess until her ruby eyes became one with the ashes that they were reflecting.
She exhaled. Her head tilted up. With a flap of limp wings, Rainbow Dash lifted up into the air.
Cricket song serenaded Rainbow Dash as she drifted above the pine trees and rocky outcroppings.
Soon, the mouth of the cave—and the camp—were so far away that they barely registered as a blur.
Rainbow Dash perched on a dull cloud. The mists around her glowed with a pale sheen. A full moon illuminated her sighs as she perched upon the roof of the world.
There, in melancholic solitude, with nothing but the wind to echo her breaths...
She repeated six words to the heavens. Over and over again. Until the substance of those sacred syllables lost all cohesion... melting off the tip of her tongue like so many tears.
And it wasn't until an hour had passed... and Rainbow's quiet sobs had relaxed into a gentle hum...
...that she found the courage to smile. It was a heavy thing, a weight that pulled her back down... so that she returned to her tent and slept soundly across from her best friend.
Like a silent sentry.
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...Well, nothing really to say here anymore than what's already been said...
Made your peace Dash?
Or have you finally mustered the courage to tell her, even though she has her heart set on somepony else?
Might as well have just told us the six words here....seeing as Dash is letting them go and trying to come to begin the process of getting over Applejack. So sad and bittersweet, I think we've all been through what Rainbow is feeling here.
Ah, just give it time, Rainbow. You can be the rebound date after Stu and AJ break up.
6817951
I'm beginning to wonder about that myself.
6817974
Unless Skirts is just jerking us around.
Again.
As for my own opinion on this chapter:
So, just like that, she gives up her love for Applejack.
Skirts, just when the ever-loving hell did this story turn into "AppleStuery", rather than "AppleDashery?!
Needless to say, I ain't happy with this turn of events.
6818002 If she lasts that long.
Skirts, just please, FUCKING PLEASE let this story end happily, and I don't mean some bittersweet slice of life "happy" ending. I honest to god dont know if I could take it if this story ends in some super depressing way, or if RD doesnt end up with AJ for any reason really. I can put up with all this fucked up heart breaking shit only because I still beleive things could end happily for Dash. I'm not trying to tell you how to write, beleive me I never will, I'm just asking you man to man to please not make me look like a little emotionally rekt bitch in front of everyone I know for weeks if this ends depressingly. Thank you.
Those better be some damn good cuddles.
On one hand I can respect Rainbow for not trying to actively sabotage AJ and Stu's relationship, but on the other, I feel like she may end up inadvertently doing that anyway. It's going to be complicated for everybody involved once the truth inevitably comes out now that Rainbow has encouraged AJ to pursue the relationship without being completely honest beforehand about her feelings.
Nah, maybe I'm naive or too trusting but I get the feeling that everything will work out in the end in this one.
Besides, I'm not sure you could willfully end a story with AJ shipped with somebody other than Dash.
6818023 What if this turns into RainbowJackery?
"A silent guardian. A watchful protector... a Rainbow Knight."
In before shit hits the fan in the form of some big adventure thing. And Dash is forced to out herself as the power of Awesome that she is.
I know this situation seems like a nightmare but imagine if this fic didn't update on a daily basis, that would a true nightmare.
6818952
Don't even think about that. That is the source of childhood trauma and years of nightmares. That is a monstrous form of blasphemy. If mentioned, it corrupts the author into thinking he can get away with stringing his readers through more painful rides with larger intervals and I can't deal with that right now. So no. No talking about it.
6818083
Well said, and my thoughts exactly. It is only the idea that Dash will end up happy with AJ that allows me to stand each of these heart-wrenching chapters with only minimal sobbing. I dread to think how I'll react if the ending isn't AppleDashing cuddles and snuggles and huggles.
I've said this before, but this story is utterly, soul-crushingly depressing. I mean, it's not on Background Pony's level, but that story was abstract, its every crevasse of hopeless anguish was lined with incomprehensible pseudo-philosophy and the mysterious nocturne plot, like a slimy shield cushioning you from the pain with glazed-eyed bewilderment. Of course, when it did hit you it was like taking a skyscraper to the face, and you'd spend a considerable amount of time with your thoughts trapped in those chasms of freezing sorrow. But I digress.
This story is very direct in comparison. Rainbow Dash's misery is so very palpable, and her thoughts and feelings are so honestly presented to us in such a tangible way that it's impossible not to empathise with her. That only makes the sheer hopelessness of her struggles even more heartbreaking, as she blunders through ridiculous quests for the meagre chance she could hypothetically hear an echo of Applejack making a happy noise as she watches from a far away cloud, or blunder through these slice-of-life sections with awkwardness and despair alike as she goes ever backwards from her goal and buries herself ever deeper beneath a landfill of problems. And sometimes, on occasion, you'll tease us with a faint glimmer of hope, a slight sign of progress. And then you'll snuff it out. With a brick.
Of course, I continue reading, as I did with Background Pony, in the hapless belief that there might be a happy ending. Because Rainbow Dash deserves one after such torment. But with every new chapter I become ever more doubtful it will come, and naturally, I've invested far too much time in this story to ever back out. Hence, I'd like to make the humble request that this torture may eventually end with motherfucking AppleDash cuddles. Thanks, Colon old boy.
6819166 Honest to god though, I will be fucked up if this ends depressingly. Background pony fucked me up royaly and I am a hell of a lot more invested in this story than Background pony.
6818664 I wouldn't mind.
As long as AJ and Dash are the ones ending up together at the end, that is.
I think this arc is coming to a close. Or it will be upon their return. I also think, that Dash isn't going to just hang around and mope. Nope, I think her next step will be to grieve in motion. She seems the sort to, when really upset, keep herself busy in order to deal. To that end, I think she's going to go in search of Discord. It'll keep her busy, as she's got nothing to go on as regards his whereabouts and it'll also keep her out of Ponyville; incidentally away from the burgeoning romance between Stu and Applejack. Though I don't imagine she'd want to be witness to such a thing.
I've said it before: Rainbow's driving force has always been Applejack's happiness. If that came from Dash, it would've been a nice bonus. She'd be devastated if it came from Applejack loving somebody else (case in point), but she'd make herself content with that or at least pretend to herself that she was.
6819550 I think you're right.
But... if she does this:
there goes her determination to reconnect with her friends and start spending more time with them, and most especially AJ.
Makes me wonder if Applejack won't wonder what caused that, especially after her saying she'd spend more time with her friends, then she goes off and all that goes right into the crapper.
It also makes me wonder if AJ will start connecting the dots and have an "Ah-ha!" moment that Dash is gone so much because she has feelings for her, and can't stand seeing her with Stu. (I can't, either, to be honest, given that I can't stand him. Especially after this arc.)
And then there's Dash's letter to AJ that has been floating around in our consciousness for awhile now.
Makes me wonder if Dash is finally gonna remember that she left it, and the letter at the farm's fence when all the drama with Apple Bloom cropped up, and goes back to retrieve them.
Provided, of course, that nopony found them before this.
But we'll see how everything unfolds soon enough, I guess.
GOD DAMMIT!!! COME ON RAINBOW!!! SHES RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!!! JUST FESS UP!!!