A Color Divided

One In A Lifetime

Rainbow Dash woke up from her deep sleep, she realised that Applejack was still sleeping beside her in the bed. Rainbow looked over to the desk cabinet to try and find a clock.

She edged out of the bed, trying not to wake Applejack as she got out. Rainbow rummaged through the desk cabinet for a couple seconds until she found a small clock inside it. The time read 8:49.

Rainbow looked back over to Applejack who was twitching on the bed. Rainbow placed the small clock back into the cabinet and trotted upstairs towards the main area of the library. In the library was Twilight who was floating books back into their shelves.

"Morning Twilight, how are you doing?" Twilight got a small shock at Rainbow's sudden appearance.

"Oh hey Rainbow, I'm just rearranging all of the books... and I'm doing fine, thank you for asking" Twilight trotted towards Rainbow and smiled at her. "So where is Applejack?"

"Applejack is still sleeping downstairs, she seems to be pretty tired" Rainbow looked over to the door leading to the lower part of the library; she then looked back at Twilight.

Twilight just walked back over to where she was and started placing books back onto their shelves again. Rainbow trotted over to the library entrance door, only to have the door slam open.

Rainbow was pulled out the library by Pinkie and was thrown up in the air, only to have Rainbow panic and release her wings and float midair. "Pinkie, I thought I told you not to do that to me" All around Pinkie was decorations and a small cake on a table.

There were other ponies there too. Berry Punch, Colgate, Lyra, Bon-Bon and even Ditzy was here. Rainbow flew down and everypony trotted over to her. "So what do you think Dashie? Is it good or is it super duper fantastically amazing?!" Pinkie was bouncing on the spot constantly.

"Wow, Pinkie... I can't believe you managed to pull this off despite only having less than a couple hours to do it. How did you get every other pony here so fast?" Pinkie jumped onto Berry Punch. Berry flinched and looked back at Pinkie who was balancing on top of her.

"I just told everypony in the town about you leaving for a while and most of them showed up... and Dashie, you know me, I'm Pinkie Pie, I can get you a party by clicking my hooves together" Pinkie leaped off of Berry and landed face first onto the ground.

Pinkie came up, wrapped a hoof around Rainbow and walked her towards all the other ponies. "Pinkie, you don't haft to introduce me to all the other ponies, I've met them all before" Pinkie bounced away from Rainbow and over to Lyra.

Twilight opened the door to the library and walked out to see all the decorations. Twilight placed a hoof on her chin and walked over to Rainbow; she hugged her and looked round to Pinkie who was still hopping around the place as usual.

"So you are leaving today Rainbow?" Rainbow nodded and just remembered that the guard said that she couldn't return to Ponyville once she left. Twilight noticed Rainbow Dash's discomfort and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Rainbow, you seem sad... what's wrong?"

Rainbow looked over to Twilight and smiled, trying to act normal. "Uh, nothing... I'm just..." Twilight never changed her look because she knew Rainbow was trying to hide her discomfort.

Rainbow's ears flopped down as she was about to tell Twilight. "I'm not going to be coming back after I leave Twilight... I have been invited to join the Wonderbolts and I'm going to haft to stay with them if join them." Twilight had a sad look on her face as Rainbow told her.

Twilight just hugged Rainbow. Just then Pinkie came up from behind Rainbow Dash. "You're not going to come back Dashie?" Pinkie never usually looked sad, but in this case, she was. Rainbow just nodded and stepped back from Pinkie, she knew that Pinkie would burst into tears any second now.