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**iamjohndoe** · May 27th, 13, 02:47 AM

"I think Warm Skies will be there," said Firefly. At least, she hoped so. "Now I'll walk you to school, okay? But just for today, to make sure you don't get lost." Really, she just wasn't quite ready to let her little filly go.

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Fluttershy had already used all of her fight, and she caved easily. "Okay, Mom," she said, shuffling herself into the pants and the dress. It was a green sleeveless dress that at least helped to hide what she was wearing underneath (provided that no one was directly behind her and looking closely.) Her tail poked out from beneath the dress, betraying her nervousness as it flicked about.

"You said Rainbow Dash was coming over?" she asked, finally ready to leave her bedroom.

**AmaraDash19** · May 27th, 13, 02:55 AM

"Of course sweetie. I can't think of a better way to end the first day of school than with you and Rainbow Dash playing together." Warm Skies said happily, picking her daughter up. "Now how about some breakfast? I can't imagine that your stomach isn't grumbling." She said as she heard a large grumble from her daughter's stomach. "What would you like sweetie?"

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Rainbow Dash finished her breakfast and shook her body. It had been quite awhile since she'd eaten any of her mother's cooking. Her mom was a pretty damn good cook. "This will be about the only other plus side to this, mom's cooking was great." She thought to herself. "Can I fly on the way to school mom?" She asked, hoping she could fly well enough.

**iamjohndoe** · May 27th, 13, 03:22 AM

Firefly doubted the flight would be successful, but she loved her daughter's enthusiasm. And practice never hurt. "Right on, kiddo," she said. "At this rate you're gonna be flying higher than everypony else before you know it. I bet you could even show the wonderbolts a thing or two someday."

Last Firefly checked, Rainbow still couldn't fly. But she was getting better every day, and she was still better than most of her classmates. Firefly was anxious to see where it would lead.

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Fluttershy was experiencing mixed feelings in her. One one hoof, she was definitely hungry; the rumbling could attest to that. But on the other hoof, her nervousness was twisting her stomach up in knots. She didn't think she had much of an appetite. But she didn't want to say that, so she mumbled "Sandwich?"

She needed to talk to Rainbow Dash.

**AmaraDash19** · May 27th, 13, 03:34 AM

"Whatcha want on your sandwich? I'm sure we have some daisies left. How's that sound?" Warm Skies sat her daughter at the table. "Don't worry sweetie, your father has already left for work."

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Rainbow Dash was excited and jumped up in the air and flew rather well around the kitchen. She'd always done this as a filly and her mother and father got onto her about flying inside. "SO when we gonna leave?" She asked, hovering slightly off the ground.

**iamjohndoe** · May 27th, 13, 03:47 AM

Neither Fluttershy or her mother needed to mention why her father being gone was cause to not worry. "Daisies are fine," she said, not really caring. Her anxiety was not doing her any favors, and she just wanted to get to Rainbow Dash.

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Firefly giggled at her daughter's enthusiasm. "We can leave right now," she said. "I bet you could probably get there before I could blink, but please sweetie, let's stay together alright." She watched Rainbow fly around. "Wow. You've improved so much." She'd never seen her daughter fly with that much control before. "Let's go then."

**AmaraDash19** · May 27th, 13, 05:11 AM

Rainbow Dash so incredibly glad that she could still fly. It wasn't as well as she had hoped, but still better than she had at this age previously. Which meant she could go even faster later!

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Moments later the breakfast sandwich was placed in front of her daughter. "Eat up sweetie, we need to leave in about five minutes. I've got your saddle bags packed so we don't have to worry about that. Then we'll leave and I'll walk you to school ok?"

**iamjohndoe** · May 27th, 13, 04:07 PM

Fluttershy had given up trying to figure out what was going on. It had to just be a bad dream, she decided, and she would wake up soon. She ate the sandwich in silence, forcing it down. When she finished, it was about time for them to leave.

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Firefly grabbed the lunch she had packed for Rainbow Dash and led the way out the door, checking frequently to make sure Rainbow Dash was right behind her.

(I'll put up a visual description of Cloudsdale in my next post.)

**AmaraDash19** · May 27th, 13, 07:10 PM

Rainbow Dash was excited to be able to fly, so she hovered along side her mother the entire way to school. "Mom, you don't have to keep looking for me, I'm not gonna dart off and try to skip school. I wanna see Fluttershy!"

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Warm Skies gave her daughter a big hug to calm her down. "Don't you worry sweetie. Nopony is going to try to hurt you or anything. Plus if anypony even tries, you've got your teacher and Rainbow Dash to be there for you ok?"

**iamjohndoe** · May 27th, 13, 11:39 PM

Fluttershy put on her best smile, wishing she could believe her. She felt bad for her mother, who she knew tried so hard to take care of her and protect her, but it was never enough. Warm Skies could never really calm her daughter, and in fact her words tended to rub in Fluttershy's wounds. Her constant remindings of Fluttershy's bullying, her frequent attempts to draw attention to her insecurities, and her belittling of Fluttershy's own abilities always ended up having the opposite effect than what was desired. But she knew that her mother tried, she knew that trying to look after her gave her mother strength, and most importantly, she knew that her mother needed that strength more than she did. Letting her mother try was simply the kind thing to do.

She remembered the last time she had visited her mother, after she had finally worked up the strength to leave her father. Skies had grown so much, Fluttershy recalled. They both had. There was a light in both their eyes again.

And now it was gone again.

Fluttershy stepped out the door, desperately needing to find Rainbow Dash. She froze when she realized that her family wasn't the only thing that had changed.

It wasn't the Cloudsdale she remembered. At first glance, it looked much the same: buildings supported by ornate pillars and columns made of cloud. But the flowing hills and valleys were gone. Instead, the surface she walked on was bulldozed flat, practical but bland. Far off in the direction of the rising sun, Fluttershy saw what looked like the early beginnings of a construction project of some sort. A large sign near them cheerfully warned "Stay away from unstable cloud edges!" and another further down read "Clouds are our future! Don't waste them! Recycle!" (the signs were still made of clouds, thankfully.)

"What happened to this place?" Fluttershy voiced aloud. "It used to be so beautiful."

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Firefly didn't notice anything different about Cloudsdale at all as she guided Rainbow Dash to school. The school turned out to be above their starting location, but rather than follow sloping hills and stairs built into them to reach their destination, she brought Rainbow Dash to a nearby spiral staircase that lead up to another sheet of cloud running above them.

The entire ensemble seemed industrial, economical, practical. But it wasn't pretty. And it wasn't the Cloudsdale either filly remembered.

**AmaraDash19** · May 28th, 13, 12:46 AM

Rainbow Dash flew outside, and was greeted by something that definitely wasn't the Cloudsdale she knew. It looked much more industrial, and non-natural. Despite not being Fluttershy, this upset her greatly. Though right now flying was keeping her mind calm enough. After a few minutes of following her mother, she got distracted and crashed into a sign.

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Warm Skies led her daughter through the twists and turns to the main road. Thankfully, she had convinced her husband to not live inside the actual city limits. She hated the sounds of some of the machines and the like and they made it to where she couldn't sleep. "Are you ok sweetie?"