Chapter twelve
Cloudsdale
Author notes: Just a couple more days until my accursed cast comes off! Damn! It itches ssooooo badly! Anyways. I went over this chapter three times to see if I missed any capitalizations. So if I did then that means I suck and capitalization. I have no idea how that's possible though…
Rainbow Dash flew through the sky almost performing her famous sonic rainboom as she tried to fly faster to reach Cloudsdale sooner. She flew for what seemed like hours when in reality it was more like half an hour before the cloud city known as Cloudsdale came into view.
"Oh thank Celestia!" Rainbow yelled out in joy as she saw the cloud city was still intact.
She raced towards the city and lands on the edge of it enjoying the feel of the city's cloud base against her hooves," Hello!? Anypony here!?" She yelled out as she saw that the cloud streets were clear and the sky likewise.
Rainbow's fear creeped back into here," Hello!?" She called out again but louder.
She slowly began to flap her wings and soon hovered above the cloud street flying past all the workshops, the school, the factories, and the cloud houses.
Everything was abandoned. The factories where left running pumping out clouds filled with the wrong amount of rain in them or too little. The houses where left wide open the doors opening and closing in the wind, and the workshops were looted and empty.
Rainbow Dash flustered to her old flight school where she slowly walked in looking around," Anypony here?" She called out and was greeted with silence.
She walked up to a wall that had multiple pictures hanging on it. The pictures were of all the past graduated classes. Rainbow found the one she was in and sighed. She then exited the school and flew over to one of the many factories. But then turned around as she smelled the powerful fumes the machines produced along with the clouds. How those Pegasi could withstand the horrible smell was beyond her knowing.
Rainbow took another flight around the city before landing on the cloud defeated by the silence. She then looked up at the sky," Where is everypony?"
Rainbow got up and started to walk to the edge of the city to leave and return to Twilight and the others. As she passed the empty houses one door creaked open but Rainbow thought it was just the wind but the sun reflected off a piece of metal behind the door and a hoof shot out and hit Rainbow on the back of the head.
Rainbow's senses were instantly scrambled and she stumbled forward before collapsing from a second attack to her head. She fell to the ground blacked out.
Rainbow Dash stirred on the bed and flinched as the pain throbbed in her head. She awoke and discovered that her hooves were tied together. She frantically looked around and saw a glint in the corner of the room she was in.
" Hey!? You mind explains why the fuck I'm tied up!?" Rainbow yelled, her anger building.
" Just relax..." a voice said from the corner," The more you struggle the tighter the knots become."
The strange pony got up walked over to the bed where rainbow was tied up," I honestly didn't know if you were one of those things." the sunlight that shone through the window touched the pony's face revealing a black Pegasus with Centurion armor on. His bat like wings were folded against the body armor and when he talked rainbow could catch a glance of pointed teeth.
The Centurion caught Rainbow looking at his teeth," They weren't always like that..." He said and began to untie Rainbow.
"What do you mean?" She asked as she rubbed her hoof after it was untied.
"My teeth... had then shaped like that so that when my legs are cut off I can still protect my princess of the night...but what point is there now when everypony is dead?" He asked to no pony in particular.
"Luna is not dead..." Rainbow said softly.
"What!?"
"She's not dead." Rainbow said louder.
The Centurion drew back, "Thank Celestia... but I can't go back." He said and walked out of the room.
"You know in ever got your name!" Rainbow yelled after him and then walked out of the room also.
"And I never got yours."
"It's Rainbow Dash."
"Rainbow Dash..." the Centurion said out loud thinking to himself," Ah yes. Princess Luna talked about you before. Well Rainbow Dash it's nice to meet you my name is Silent Wind."
"Silent Wind?"
"Yep. Princess Luna gave me that name..." Wind said.
"Luna gave you your name?"
Silent Wind nodded," parents dropped me off at the royal guard academy as soon as I could walk." he then looked at the floor," They didn't even bother to give me a name... So when I graduated I still had no name but my job was to guard the princess at all times. Princess Luna said that everywhere she turned or went I was next to her. She said the sometimes I would scare her because I don't make any noise. There for Silent Wind."
Rainbow grinned, "That's a pretty awesome story. Other than your parents leaving you."
"Uh huh." Wind replied and then busied himself with opening a bag of dehydrated daisies.
"Sooo what happened here?"
"Sheer panic." Wind said as he poured some boiling water into the bag and then resealed it, "When ponies here found out what was going on everything exploded into panic."
Rainbow shook her head," Then what?"
"Murders, everypony started going insane and killing each other. They just didn't know what else to do." Wind said as he sat at a table.
"How did you survive?"
Silent Wind pointed over to wall that had a sword on it. The sword was caked in thick dried blood," I killed whoever tried to kill me."
Rainbow paled slightly as she stared at the sword and then back at Wind. Silent Wind then picked up the bag holding the dehydrated daisies and opened it up," Eat." He said as he handed the bag to Rainbow.
Rainbow cautiously took the bag and ate quickly," Thanks."
Wind nodded and then walked over to a boarded up window and peered outside," It's getting dark. I'm going out to look for more food."
"Why when it's dark?" Rainbow asked.
"I'm a Centurion. I live in the night." he said.
"Then when do you sleep?"
"I don't..." He answered dryly and then walked out if the house.
Silent Wind returned early the next morning. When he came into the house he found Rainbow asleep on the couch and a second bag of dehydrated daisies on the floor next to her. Wind's eye twitched and he walked over to Rainbow and shook her awake.
"What? What?" Rainbow said sleepily.
"I need help moving somethings." Wind said and walked into the kitchen.
Rainbow rubbed her eyes," Like what?"
"Just help me!"
Rainbow sighed and got up to go help Wind. She entered the kitchen and looked around," What needs to be moved?"
"These boxes." Wind said as he pointed to a few boxes stacked up in a corner.
"Alright..." rainbow said and picked up a box, "Where do you want it?"
"In the closet." Wind said as he picked up a box himself. He and rainbow carried the boxes over to closet. Silent Wind made sure for Rainbow to be in front of him as they walked to closet.
Rainbow then set her box down and turned around, "That good?"
"Sorry." Wind said as he threw the box at Rainbow hitting her. He then rushed over other holding the bloodied sword from the wall and hit her on the head with the back of the blade.
Rainbow woke up feeling groggy and like all her blood was in her head. Probably due to the fact that she was dangling from a light pole back in ponyville.
"Terribly sorry Rainbow Dash." Silent Wind said as he hovered in front of her.
"Silent Wind! What's going on!?" Rainbow yelled.
"I can't have you eating all the food I've stored! Plus you make too much noise!" Wind said and he smiled insanely flashing his sharpened fangs," Plus I think it would be entertaining to hear you scream."
"You're insane!"
Silent Wind laughed," Am I!? I'm a survivor Rainbow Dash! This how we survive! Pick off the clumsy and don't share anything!"
All conversation was then cut short as moans and pain filled cries from the thousands of mutated ponies that poured into the street below Rainbow Dash and Silent Wind, attracted by the yelling more and more poured in.
"Ah the dinner guests are here." Silent Wind said and then flew up to Rainbow's restraints," I really am sorry Rainbow Dash. You are a lovely Pegasus. But this is the time you die."
"Please! No!" Rainbow yelled," I don't want to die like this!"
Silent Wind smiled and bit the restraint with his fangs. Rainbow Dash fell to the ground and was instantly covered by the mutated ponies. Silent Wind closed his eyes and smiled listening to the painful screams of Rainbow Dash.
"Who needs sleep?" he's aid to himself and laughed as he flew back to cloudsdale.
Author notes: I think the font is going to be weird on this chapter since I did write it on my ipad so if it please forgive me and my crappy ipad. Anyways, I think I found myself a new oc…lol. Sorry to y'all RD fans but I need to start picking off some survivors. Skull out until next time!
