The Pony Games
Okay, here it is. The Mystery Fic you're heard so much about from my profile page! (I just couldn't wait to start it.)
The fresh smell of the clouds helped calm the nerves of the cyan pegasus as she paced across the Wonderbolt's training field. The auditions for the Wonderbolts were today. And Rainbow Dash was nervous, very nervous. She just knew she was going to fail.
When Soarin walked out of the locker room he saw his girlfriend's eyes light up and a huge weight lift off of her shoulders. He trotted over and gave her peck on the cheek.
"I'm so nervous. I feel like I'm going to puke." She said. Soarin gave her a big hug. In his arms, he could feel the rainbow pegasus slightly trembling, trying to be brave.
"Dash, you're the best flier I know. You'll do great. I'll be sitting here in the stands cheering you on." Rainbow broke away from the hug and took a shaky breath.
She gave Soarin a smile. "You're right. I'll do fine."
Soarin glanced behind Dash's shoulder. "And it looks like there's some extra support here for you."
Dash turned around and saw the big purple hot air balloon landing on the cloud. The five elements jumped out of the basket and onto the cloud.
"Guys! You made it!" Dash ran over to the girls and gave them hugs. They all said words of comfort until Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts, walked in from the locker room, wearing her uniform just like Soarin was.
"Hello, Rainbow Dash. Are you ready?" She asked.
Dash took a deep breath. "I guess."
She turned to her friends and opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly, she was gone. There one second, gone the next. Everypony looked up, expecting to see her in the air, but she wasn't there. They expected her to jump out from somewhere, yelling "Boo!" but it never happened.
"Where did she go?"
"Maybe it was the zombies! Spike says there are zombies!" Pinkie said. Everypony looked at her with looks of irritation. "What?" She asked. "It's possib-" Suddenly Pinkie Pie was gone.
"Am I the only one who just saw that?" AJ asked.
"No, I saw it too. She just disappeared." Rarity said.
Twilight was very confused. It seemed like magic, just disappearing like that, but there was no burst if light, no sound, no nothing.
"Wait, Rainbow THEN Pinkie Pie? This must be a prank." Applejack said."
"But how did they manage that?" Rarity said. "Mayb-" Rarity also disappeared.
"Oh, my. This is starting to get suspicious." Fluttershy said, her eyes wide with fear. "What if we all disappear?" And then the quiet yellow mare was also gone.
"Okay, I might be able to bring them back." Twilight said to AJ, Soarin, and Spitfire, the only ones left on the field. Her horn started glowing, trying to reverse the teleportation, but it was futile. She tried not to panic.
"Nopony move." She said, trying to prevent anypony else from disappearing. "If you feel anything, anything at all, tell me and I might be able to prevent you from disappearing.
There was a moment of silence.
"Wait!" Soarin quickly yelled out, but then he, too was gone.
"I reckon this cloud is jinxed." AJ said.
"Everypony to the balloon! We have to get out of here!"
AJ and Twilight jumped in the balloon's basket while Spitfire flew beside them on their descent to the ground.
Twilight glanced over to the two ponies accompanying her about every two seconds, silently begging them to stay. But suddenly, Spitfire was gone.
Twilight involuntarily grabbed Applejack's hoof. "Don't leave. Please."
"I won't." But Twilight felt AJ's hoof there one second, gone the next. She looked down to where her hoof held held Applejack's just a second ago. The purple pony's eyes began to water. She was afraid, mostly because she didn't even understand.
She sat in the bottom of the basket, forcing herself to calm down. She took deep breaths. She tried to concentrate on other things. The blue sky, the ground, which was only about five hundred feet below her, and her stomach ache. Her stomach really hurt. Suddenly her stomach went from a usual stomach ache to something worse. It felt like there was ice in her stomach, freezing her insides.
Suddenly, she wasn't in the balloon anymore. She'd disappeared too.
Twilight was momentarily suspended in nothingness. It was dark, and her hooves felt no ground. There was nothing keeping her up, she just hovered.
The moment she tried to move, was suddenly speeding very quickly through the darkness, moving so fast that her eyes were forced shut. Then, it all stopped. When she opened her eyes, she still wasn't in the balloon, but she wasn't in the strange darkness, either. She didn't know where she was.