Guys, just telling you now, perspectives are going to swap every chapter, so pay attention!
"Come on, Rainbow! I'm open!" Pinkie Pie yelled. I tossed it as fast as I could, using my wings for stability. I heard the sound of hooves plucking a frisbee from the air.
"Ah, come on now, girls. This ain't fair. Rainbow's a pegasus and Pinkie's… well, Pinkie." Applejack said, standing on all fours again.
"And since when did you think frisbee had rules?" I retorted.
"(giggle) You should have thought of that before you chose teams." Twilight added. As you my have gathered, we were playing a game of frisbee outside of ponyville. Me and Pinkie were on one team, Applejack and Twilight on the other. Our current rules stated no magic, now flying. Nothing said about using wings for stability.
It had been a few years since what Princess Celestia called 'The Incident'. Nopony remembers what happened, except one madpony. His name was Zenexer, and he started ranting to various towns and cities about it. After about a year of it, Princess Celestia condemned him to the Gallows, a new addition to Canterlot. The Princesses had become more cautious since this Incident, but whatever it was, it must have changed Equestria forever. There was one remanent of it, though. A sword, completely made out of diamonds. It had a inscription on the blade, but nopony could ever depict it's meaning, as it was in a strange language. Princess Celestia had shown Twilight the inscription for study, and even she was baffled.
"Rainbow? You playing or not?" Applejack called. I shook my head a few times and turned to her.
"Sorry Applejack, buts it's nap time for me!" I said, stretching and yawning. Applejack gave me a doubtful look.
"Suuuure you do." She said, rolling her eyes.
"Have a good nap, Rainbow." Twilight said, smiling. I waved them off and flew to my napping tree, where I settled comfortably into the branch's nook and began to doze.
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The strange furless creature writhed on the stone table, several instruments extruding out of it's chest. And I was calling it's name.
My voice sounded distant, like a pony on a hill. I was cast away from the room, blood coating the floor of it. I saw galaxies, nebulas, solar systems. As I floated in the voice of space, I suddenly rushed forwards, zooming into a galaxy, into a solar system, and hurtling towards a planet I knew only to well. But to a different side, to the north, infect. My vision zoomed to a lone figure, non-equine in appearance.
It looked up from the lonely rock it was sitting upon, and reached out, it's hand made up of several little cubes. I reached a hoof out, our hands/hoofs almost touching. We collided and the "Wall" rippled, just where we 's mouth moved, as if saying something, and then it looked up in horror, and pretty soon, bolting. The seen ripped apart in front of my eyes, leaving me sitting in nothingness.
A dark chuckle emitted from somewhere, or perhaps everywhere.
"Well, what do we here? A mare, lost and alone, cast adrift upon the fabric of dream." It said. A dark, shadowed figure appeared. This creature was, quite literally, a shadowy fog. It had no feet, just a fog, and no eyes, huts empty holes, seemingly filled with hate, and knowledge.
"What are you?" I asked, my voice echoing ghostly around the nothingness.
"Absolutely nothing." It said, swishing around, circling me. "Do you miss him?"
"Miss who?" I answered in slight annoyance. It was slightly taken aback by this, or rather acting so.
"Oh, that's right." It said, giving me a toothy grin. It's teeth were sharp, like razors."Your so-called Princess wiped your memories. How very quaint of her."
It started circling me.
"Your Princesses cast a mass memory wiping spell." It begun."Erasing all memories of your past year. Making you forget about the laughs, the cries, the peace…. The War."
"What war?" I asked anxiously.
"All in good time, Rainbow my dear." It said. " They wiped your memories of him. The love of your life. In fact, you were engaged."
"You lie."
"Thunderstrike was no lie, my dear. He was quite real."
My mind twisted and turned, burning and searing and throbbing with pain. I clutched my head, cradling it in-between my legs.
"Much to your despair, he left you for another."
"No…"
"And you hate him for that."
"No…"
"And you hate yourself, for letting him LEAVE!"
"NO!" I shouted. I was on my hooves now, glaring menacingly at it.
"And you-"
"ENOUGH SPIRIT!" A loud, booming voice yelled from the emptiness. Out of nowhere, Princess Luna appeared, walking towards us.
"Luna." It said, giving her that toothy grin again.
"YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE, SPIRIT!" She yelled again. It had been quite some time since she used the royal-canterlot voice.
The 'Spirit' hissed. "You should not be interfering with this, Princess.
"It is my duty to." She retorted.
"Watch your tongue, she-pony."
"Ego depellendam vos ex hoc somnium, malum unum! I nunc et animi pace dimittunt!"
The creature gave one short bloodcurdling scream, and vanished in a puff of smoke.
"Expergiscere nunc, iuvenum unum. Erunt in pace." Luna said. She tapped me upon the head once with her horn…..
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I awoke with a jolt, and a chill. I was lying in a hospital bed, clothed in the simple blue garments of patients. I heard whispering outside my chamber, and I strained to hear them.
"She's awake." I heard a mare say.
"Best to let her friends in first." A stallion said. I saw Twilight and the gang walk in. Pinkie rushed towards me and hopped onto the bed.
"WhathappenedDashieDidtheypok eyouwithneedlesOhIhateneedle stheystab-"
"Can it Pinkie." Applejack said, silencing Pinkie with a hoof.
"So, Rainbow, what happened?" Twilight asked, looking at me with a face saying 'Tell Me All You Know Or I Will Eat Your Soul'.
"First, tell me why you brought me here." I said, crossing my hooves.
"Well," Twilight began,"Applejack came to ask you if you would like to come to the spa with us, and instead she found you out cold and spazing on the ground. So she picked you up and took you to the hospital. She came by and told us what happened. So, what happened to you?"
"Well…" I started. I proceeded to tell them about the dream; the thing with the tools, the galaxies,the 'humanoid' as Twilight told me the shadow-thing, and Luna's intervention.
"Well… That's a lot of information to ingest. Rainbow, the doctor said your fine, but you should come back tomorrow for a medical checkup, so why not spend the rest of the day with us at the spa?" Rarity offered.
I tapped my hoof on my chin, thinking. "Sure, why not."
