Everyone was starting to feel a little down now. They just couldn't find a rainbow that would please Tommy. Finally, Tommy looked into the sky, and saw a rainbow fly by. He stopped in his tracks.

"That's it!" he shouted. "That's the rainbow!"

"Looks like any ordinary rainbow I've ever seen," Sting said. "These days, you see one rainbow, you've seen 'em all."

Tommy didn't acknowledge Sting. He just ran after the glittering rainbow in the sky. The others followed him. The rainbow was moving much too fast for them.

"It's no use," Shady said. "We'll never catch it! It's too fast!"

"I could get it," Franky said. "But it's too high."

"I'm a pretty fast flyer," Morning Glory said. "Together, we can do it, Franky!"

"But I'm to big to ride on you, Morning Glory," Franky said.

"Don't worry about that. I know exactly what to do! I hope you don't get sick on thrill rides, Franky!"

"Well . . . ."

Before Franky could say another word, Morning Glory swooped down, and scooped Franky up into the air. She was holding underneath his arms with her legs. She found it easy to carry him.

"What are you doing?!" Franky shouted. "Put me down!"

"We've got to get that rainbow!" Morning Glory shouted.

"I can't get it like this!"

"Oh come on. You never know what you can do if you don't try!"

"Oh all right. Contact!"

Morning Glory fluttered as fast as she could until she and Franky got close enough to the rainbow. Franky reached out and tried to grab it, but it flew away.

"Whoa!" Franky shouted. "What's it doing?"

"After it!" Morning Glory shouted, and she flew off.

Sting, Shady, and Tommy followed them until they all managed to catch up with the rainbow.

"There it is!" Tommy shouted, as Morning Glory put Franky down.

"How are we gonna get it?" Sting asked. "Every time we get close, it moves!"

"Let's just get in there and grab it!" Franky shouted, and he and the others charged at the rainbow, but it flew away once more.

"We can still go after it!" Tommy shouted. "Come on, let's go!"

"Wait!" Shady shouted. "I can't move! I'm stuck!"

"Stuck?" Franky asked.

"Oh no!" Morning Glory shouted. "Quicksand!"

"We've got to get her out of there!" Sting shouted.

"But we'll lose the rainbow!" Tommy shouted.

Tommy was up a tree. The rainbow was already moving out of range to catch, but he also knew the others needed him to help get Shady out of the quicksand. Finally, he knew the choice he had to make.

"We need a good strong rope," he said.

"Would a vine do?" Morning Glory asked, grabbing a vine between her teeth.

"That's perfect!" Franky shouted. He tied a loop in the vine and twirled it over his head.

"All right, cowboy," Sting said.

"Yeee-haaaa!" Franky shouted, and he lassoed Shady. "Okay, Shades! You're gonna have to pull yourself out as we're pulling you out!"

"It's the only way you'll get out of there," Tommy said.

"All right," Shady said. "I'll try."

"Okay, everybody," Franky said as Morning Glory, Sting, and Tommy took the vine. "On the count of three, pull! One, two three!"

"HEAVE!" everyone shouted and gave the vine a good yank.

Shady struggled, but managed to move her legs slowly. Everyone else continued to pull as hard as possible. Finally, Shady was free of the quicksand, but the rainbow was nowhere in sight.

"There goes Julie's rainbow," Shady said.

"Maybe we can still catch it!" Sting shouted.

"It's too late, Sting," Tommy said. "It's gone. We'll never find it now."

"I'm sorry," Shady said. "If I hadn't gotten stuck in that quicksand . . . ."

"Don't worry about it, Shady," Franky said. "So we lost that rainbow big deal. They'll be another one."

Tommy thought about that. He knew Franky was right. But he still heaved a sigh. Franky looked up at the sky, frowned, and sighed himself.

"We have to be heading back to the Estate," he said. "It's starting to get dark. Megan and the others might be worried about us."

The others had to agree on that, and they started back for Paradise Estate. They reached it just as the sun was sinking into the horizon. Megan and Twilight were waiting for them outside.

"Where have you guys been all day?" Megan asked.

"Chasing rainbows," Franky said, for what felt like the millionth time that day.

"We were looking for a special rainbow," Tommy said. "But we weren't able to find one."

"We looked all over Ponyland," Shady said.

"Well, what about this rainbow?" Megan asked, holding out Tommy's drawing. "I saw it on the table. Come on, Tommy, you used your glitter markers on it. It's a great rainbow!"

"It's a pretty rainbow," Tommy said. "But it isn't special. Julie was so sad about Lisa moving away, I wanted to give her a really special rainbow."

"Tommy, you are a great brother," Megan said, giving her cousin a hug. "You went all over Ponyland to find a special rainbow for your sister?"

"Yeah," Tommy said. "But the one we found went away, and we can't find another special rainbow."

"You'd think it wouldn't be so hard finding a special rainbow here in Ponyland," Franky said.

"It all depends on what you're looking for," Twilight said. "If you look hard enough, you'll find the rainbow you're looking for almost anywhere."

With that, Twilight lit up her horn. Suddenly, the rainbow jumped off the page and swirled around. Tommy looked at it, and gasped. It was the same rainbow he had seen earlier, just before Shady got stuck in the quicksand. Julie walked outside and saw it.

"Ooohhhh," she breathed. "It's so beautiful!"

The rainbow twirled around, and from out of nowhere, a locket appeared, but it wasn't like the Rainbow of Light. It was a gold heart on a gold chain. The rainbow flew into the locket and it closed. Then it floated down to Julie.

"There you go, Julie," Twilight said. "Tommy went on a search all over Ponyland just to give you that."

"My own rainbow?" Julie asked.

"Uh huh," Tommy said. "I wanted to cheer you up with a special rainbow."

Julie smiled and looked at her new locket. Her name was even engraved her name onto it. She smiled, and gave her brother a big hug, and a kiss.

"Eeeuuwww!" Tommy shouted, wiping his face off. "You don't hafta get all mushy!"

Anne, Molly, and Danny came out of the Estate with Firefly, Medley, Surprise, and Lofty.

"Come on, you guys," Megan said. "It's time to go home."

Julie and Tommy climbed on Medley while Franky got on Lofty, and they were off over the rainbow to go back to their own home.

"So you went all over Ponyland, huh?" Anne asked.

"Yeah," Franky said. "We saw a lot of great rainbows. Come on, I'll tell you about them."

All the way back home, Franky and Tommy talked non-stop about the adventure Shady, Morning Glory, and Sting had that day.

The End