AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just a slight mention of a special guest appearance later in the story of Disney's Professor Ludwig Von Drake, who I think is one of the funniest Disney characters ever created.

It was another beautiful day in Ponyland. It was also a pretty lazy day as well. No one was doing much of anything. Magic Star was trotting around when she saw Firefly, Medley, Wind Whistler, Paradise, and Surprise fly down with Megan, Danny, Molly, Julie, Tommy, Anne, and Franky. Danny was on Surprise, Anne was on Wind Whistler, Franky was on Paradise, Molly and Tommy were on Firefly, and both Megan and Julie were on Medley. Magic Star thought this was a little odd, since Julie now could get on a pony's back (especially if it was Medley) without fearing she would fall off. Then Magic Star saw the look on Julie's face. It looked like she had been crying.

"Hey Jules," she said. "What's the matter?"

Julie sniffled, but she didn't say anything. Megan patted her cousin's shoulder and turned to Magic Star and some of the others who had gathered around.

"Julie just found out her best friend is moving to Minnesota," she said. "Not only is this her best friend, this is her next door neighbor, too."

"It's not fair!" Julie shouted. "Lisa is my best friend, and now she's going away."

"Oh Julie," Medley said, giving Julie a nuzzle. "You can always write to her, and you can call each other and visit each other."

"It won't be the same," Julie said, and she walked to the Estate.

The others just looked at each other and walked off. They figured Julie would be okay, in time. In any case, Tommy decided to do something about it. He stashed his glitter markers in the nursery the last time he visited. He knew what would cheer his big sister up. A rainbow! Rainbows always cheered her up. He not only used his glitter markers for the rainbow, but he used metallic markers and drew gold stars on the paper above the rainbow. Then he took her regular markers and drew Julie, Medley, Cupcake, and Baby Cuddles in the picture as well. Medley, Cupcake, and Baby Cuddles were Julie's favorite ponies. Then he wrote "To Julie From Tommy" in the bottom corner. He picked up his picture and smiled. But his smile quickly turned into a frown.

"It's a pretty rainbow," he said. "But it won't cheer up Julie. She's so sad, she needs a very special rainbow."

"What are you doing, Tommy?" Shady asked, coming into the room.

"Drawing a picture for Julie," Tommy said. "But the rainbow in the picture isn't special enough. I need to find a special rainbow just for her."

"Maybe we can ask Megan if we can use the Rainbow of Light. It can do some tricks for Julie."

"No, the Rainbow of Light isn't special enough. I want to find a really special rainbow. Come on. Let's go get Franky. He's sure to know where we can find a special rainbow!"

So that's what they did. Franky was a little confused at his request.

"I don't know if I can find a rainbow for you guys," he said. "I don't know where to look."

"Then we'll just have to go look for one," Tommy said. "Are you guys with me?"

"Well . . . ." Franky said hesitantly.

"I don't know," Shady said.

"Fine," Tommy said. "Then I'll just go find a rainbow for my sister all by myself."

With that, Tommy started off. Shady and Franky looked at each other and then followed. They couldn't let Tommy go all over Ponyland by himself. Megan would kill them.