The crowd of ponies began to grow bored, standing and waiting. The three alicorns yawned as well. Waiting for the groom and for the ceremony to start. It had been at least an hour. An hour since the wedding was supposed to start.

Four mares in beautifully designed dresses stood on the steps of the altar, also growing bored. One of which began to braid her own blonde. Twirling it and plaiting it.

"This is taking forever!" The pink mare whined. Slouching to the floor.
Her own bouncy mane waving around.

"I know, dear. We're all waiting for Twilight and Soarin. But neither have come out yet. And Twilight is doing the ceremony." Rarity yawned, raising her hoof to her mouth.

"That's it!" A pony shouted from at the bottom of the aisle, making everypony in the hall jump and wake up. A cyan mare in a stunning white dress stood at the bottom of the aisle. An angry and concerned look upon her face.

"Rainbow?" Applejack questioned, tilted her head. "Wha in tha name of Equestria are ya doin'?"

"I'm getting my fiancé! He's late for our wedding!" Rainbow growled as she trotted down the corridor. Her puffy dress bouncing up and down, and the trail following.

"At least now we might be getting somewhere." Fluttershy whispered, waving gently at her own husband, who was sitting next to Caramel.

~~~~~~

Rainbow muttered under breath as she reached the door of her husband-to-be's dressing room. Sighing as she raised her cyan hoof to the door.

"Soarin? Soarin, honey, are you okay?" Rainbow asked through the door. But when she was met with silence, she knocked again.
"I know you're nervous, so am I. But, it's only because I haven't had anypony close. Well, not extremely close. You're different. A special different, and I like that." She smiled to herself.

Yet, no pony answered. Silence overruled everything. Rainbow waited for a couple of seconds for any reply, before grabbing the handle.

Gently, she twisted the handle and pushed the door, not expecting it to be open. However, the door clicked as it opened. The pegasus glanced inside the room.
"Soarin?" She called as she walked inside. A slight, cold drift touching her fur. She noticed the open window and continued to look for the groom. Her groom.

Neither Soarin or Twilight were in the room. She grew puzzled. Her mind wandering around as she searched the room. Her eyes fell upon two objects upon the floor. Making her gasp as if she had been stabbed through the heart.

~~~~~~

"Great. Now Rainbow is taking forever." Applejack complained, rolling her eyes.

"Oh hush hush, dear. You can't rush-"

"Sh!" Fluttershy interrupted. Rudely shoving her hoof into the unicorn's mouth, who glared angrily at the pegasus.
"I'm sorry, Rarity. But listen." She apologised as the hall fell silent.

Very, very faintly, coming from down the corridor, was the sound of crying. Of wailing.
It didn't take too long for the four mares to realise the sound and begin galloping towards the crying. Leaving a hall full of confusion and worry.

~~~~~~

The four ponies trotted up to the slightly ajar door, carefully opening it, looking for their friend.

"Rainbow?" Applejack called quietly, despite the sound of crying in the room. The mares walked further in, growing worried, until they found a scene that broke their hearts.

Upon the floor, in her beautiful white dress, crying into her hooves, was their friend. Held tight in her hooves were two items, covered in her tears. Her mascara dripping down as she weeped. Her neat rainbow hair ruffled and drooping over her face as she cried.

Pinkie Pie quietly walked over and placed a hoof on the cyan mare's shoulder.
"Dashie? What's wrong?" She croaked, distraught for her friend.

But the pegasus didn't reply, instead, she lifted up a piece of paper. The girls looked at each other before Rarity hovered it over.

"Um..."

Dear Rainbow Dash,
I am so very sorry, but, I must postpone the wedding. In fact, just cancel it all together. You see, it's not you, it's me. I am sorry to say that my love for you has....died out. I've lost all love for you. I don't wish to marry you anymore. I don't even know why I proposed. I've grown confused, and decided to end it. Our relationship. Before anypony gets hurt. Anyway, I've run off with the real mare I love, and I love her more than I did with you. Everything we did together didn't mean anything. Hugging, talking about our family, making love. None of it meant anything. But the mare I'm with now is....well, amazing. She's prettier, smarter and not an assassin.

So goodbye Rainbow Dash. And sorry that you are going to have to raise the foal by yourself. It's not my problem. Why do I want a mare who is pregnant? I don't want to be tied down! That's just stupid. I'm free, unlike you.

Bye forever,
Soarin.

As the girls read the letter, Rainbow began to talk.
"It's Twilight. He's run off with Twilight." She cried out. Shakily getting up.

"Wait, what?" Rarity pushed the paper down. "How do you know this?"

"Where is Twilight? Twilight's not here! She's with him! He loves her not me!!" Rainbow wailed as she stood up, taking off her bracelet and throwing the two things to the ground. Her engagement bracelet and his wedding band.

"Rainbow, calm down." Fluttershy hushed, but the assassin only growled through her tears.

"No. I have had enough of this. Of everything. I am no longer the mare I used to be. I no longer have that heart. Everything I ever cared for is dead to me. My heart is finally put together, filled with only pain. My heart and soul are black, darker than the night." Rainbow shouted as she took off her wedding dress.
"Goodbye, girls." She began to trot out of the room.

"Rainbow, wait!" Applejack tugged at the mare's tail. "Where are ya goin?"

"Don't know, don't care. And neither should you." She snapped, trotting away, snapping her engagement band as she walked out, bending it, and snapping it. The words inscripted in Latin, that once said 'My Beloved' was twisted and turned. Rarity and Applejack glanced at the mangled bracelet, staring at it, worryingly.

"Oh dear." Fluttershy muttered under her breath.

~~~~~~

"So, where are they?" Cadence asked, brushing her mane, bored out of her mind.

"The wedding is off." Fluttershy mumbled quietly, making the three princesses gasp.

"What?!" Everypony in the hall yelled, before breaking off into a loud distorted mumble of noise. A concerned orange pegasus mare with a flaming mane trotted over to the mares.

"What happened? Where's Soarin?" She asked as she followed the four ponies.

"He's gone. He left Dashie." Pinkie grumbled, turned away from the others.

"What?" Spitfire asked again.

"He's gone!! He left Rainbow Dash!! He's run off with Twilight!!" Pinkie screamed, her usually pink, poofy hair deflating like a balloon. Her now darkened pink mane, falling flat upon her neck and shoulder. Her yells echoing and catching a silence. Making everypony shut up.

"Pinkie, dear. Calm down-"

"No!!" Pinkie yelled, her tears streaming down her face. "Dashie is my bestest friend!! And I'm tired of seeing her hurt!! Soarin was her special somepony and Twilight was our friend!! And now they've crumpled on everything!! Destroying my friend and our friendship!!!" Pinkie fell to the floor, madly crying.

The ponies in the hall were shocked by the party pony's sudden outburst of tears. Fluttershy and Applejack attempted to calm the mare down, but nothing stopped her cries.

"Dashie is my sister!! She's family!! And she's constantly being hurt!! It's hurting me as well!! I can't save this relationship!! I can't save this family this time!! I couldn't save mama and papa!! It's happening all over again!!!" Pinkie wailed, hyperventilating as she gasped for air through her cries.

Cadence trotted over and hovered the young mare upon her back. Pinkie clutched onto the alicorn's neck, not caring who she was.
"I'll take her to one of the chambers. I'll make sure she calms down." Princess Cadence hushed as she began to walk out, followed by Fluttershy.

"I'll help. She's needs a close friend." Fluttershy smiled weakly. Trotting with the princess. Wincing as the usually happy mare cried.

Princess Celestia and Luna trotted over to the two remaining mares of harmony, with Big Macintosh, Caramel, and the rest of the Wonderbolts following behind them.

"What happened?" Caramel asked his own lover, Applejack.

"We don' know much. We jast found Rainbow cryin on tha floor with a note from Soarin." Applejack explained quietly.

"A note?"

Rarity levitated the piece of paper, it glowing light blue.
"It said that he doesn't love Rainbow anymore, and that he's run off with another mare."

"Which may be Twilight?" Spitfire questioned. "But why? Soarin would never do this."

"Yeah, Soarin hasn't stopped going on about Rainbow since the day he met her." Fleefoot defended her friend. She couldn't believe the news of her friend destroying the relationship he so dearly put so much into.

"Twilight wouldn't do such a thing." Celestia snorted. "Twilight hasn't been known for having romantic relationships. She still can't talk to most stallions without butterflies in her stomache."

"Well, they've both ran off." Applejack said bluntly.

"I wonder how Rainbow is dealing with it."

"Not to well. She said that her heart and soul have turned black. And she feels nothing but pain." Rarity carefully explained. Feeling sorry for her dear friend.

"Oh dear, I believe that Rainbow Dash has finally snapped. I knew this would soon happen." Celestia bit her lip, as the others looked at her in concern and confusion. "All ponies have a breaking point. Snapping. Turning into a shadow of their former selves. I found out, through a mind spell, that Rainbow's breaking point is losing another loved one. Being rejected. And this is what has happened. I believe that Rainbow has found her darker side, and has been swallowed by it. It has happened to many of my students." Celestia sighed, remembered all of her broken hearted students running and crying around the halls of her school. It broke her heart to see others hurt through love.

"We've got to do something. Something to help her out."

"We've just got to be there for her." The sun princess hushed. "We've just got to get her through this without anymore pain.

Which I doubt is going to happen."

Author's Notes:

Sad from now on. Sorry. And there is more blood, guts and gore in this story.

Comment any errors.