The Sun rises. The Moon sets and the morning fog has been lifted. Fluttershy loves this part of the day, the morning. It's clear, bright, quiet, and just overall relaxing. She loves the time alone with her animals until noon where she then meets up with the others. Today, however, Rainbow Dash has different plans. "Hey Shy! You awake?" She yells, knocking on the door. It swings open and Fluttershy lets her in.

"Good morning Rainbow, you're excited today."

"Camping!" Fluttershy jumps. "I mean, let's go camping. You and me, just for the heck of it."

"Oh, ok, well, why so randomly?"

"I don't know, I just feel like it."

"Um, ok, well, that sounds like fun but, where? Where would we go?" Fluttershy asks, nervous of the answer.

"The Everfree!" Once again Fluttershy jumps.

"T-the E-Everfree? But-"

"But nothing. We've been through that forest twenty times at least, and the more we go through it the less frightening it becomes. So what do you say?" Rainbow stands there, a smile on her face.

"Well, Angle and the others would-"

"Just fill up the bowls before you leave."

"And the others, they-"

"We'll be back first thing tomorrow, they won't even notice we're gone."

"But what if something happens to us, no one would-"

"Nothing will happen to us, come on Flutters its me. I'll protect us. Plus you and the way you handle animals will keep us breathing. So what do you say?"

"Oh, this is a bad idea Rainbow. A really, really bad idea. But..."

"But?" Rainbow asks, the anticipation growing.

"But ok, just for one night." Fluttershy reluctantly answers.

"Woohoo! Alright, I'll go get my things and we'll meet back here in an hour, don't be late!" Rainbow flies off.

"But I live here." Rainbow doesn't hear her as she is already half way back to her house. Angle hops towards Fluttershy and kicks her hoof.

"Well, I mean, she really wanted to go." Angle stares at her, an annoyed look on his face. "And she is right, we have been through the forest multiple times. I'm sure we'll be fine." He continues staring. "Here, I'll fill up your food for the rest of the day. Same with the others' food too." She walks around the house, filling the food and water bowls for all the animals. She grabs a blanket and no sooner is there a knock on the door. Fluttershy answers and Rainbow flies in.

"Ok, I got the tent and the food, ready?" Fluttershy looks back at the animals then back at Rainbow and nods. "Ok, let's go." They head out of the cottage and walk into the woods.

Fluttershy breaks the science. "So why did you decide to go camping?"

"Meh, it's been a long time since I've done anything at all with nature. I figured to get in touch with it for at least a night, and why not with the one friend who knows everything about nature?"

"Well, I don't know everything about nature, I mean no one could understand the EverFree." Rainbow looks up.

"Yeah, it is pretty unpredictable." They continue on until they find a flat area about twenty minutes into the walk. "Here will work." They set up the tent near a small cliff and lay out the food inside of it.

Rainbow finishes putting up the tent and walks out, seeing Fluttershy staring at the sky. She sits next her and looks up. "Isn't it amazing?" Rainbow walks over and sits near her.

"Wow. I never thought it'd look like this." The sky is a dark, navy blue. The moon is half full and it reflects off of the clouds that are slowly moving in the sky. The stars shine through the holes in the clouds and twinkle slowly. The two ponies stare at the night sky, both speechless. Suddenly the ground shakes below their hooves. "What was that?" The ground begins to move backwards, sounds of crashing coming from behind them.

"What's happening?"

"The rocks are giving way!" No sooner did she say that sentence when she falls onto her wing, a loud snap echoing throughout the forest, a sharp scream following soon afterwards. Fluttershy, scared and confused, holds Rainbow Dash by the hooves and flies up and over to solid ground. She falls to the ground as her wings give out, panting on the ground. Looking at what went wrong she sees scratches all over her both wings. She tries to fly up again to test them but is unable to do so as the pain is too much.

After two minutes the crashing completely stopped and the two ponies lay on the ground, neither moving an inch. "Dash? You ok?" Fluttershy asks, looking over at the motionless pegasus.

"No, I broke my wing. And I saw your wings, you have to be in worse shape then me." It's true, the pain is tremendous. But Fluttershy passes it off as nothing as she doesn't want Rainbow to worry. "Fluttershy, listen, I know you didn't want-"

"Rainbow, please, it's ok. No one could have guessed that this would happen." Fluttershy says, interrupting Rainbow's apology.

Rainbow sighs. "Ok, well, what do we do now?"

"I was hoping you'd know." They fall asleep on the ground, staring up at the navy blue, star lighten sky. Next Chapter: Welcome to the Everfree Estimated time remaining: 9 Minutes