*November 25, 2015*

We've gotten four more notes since the first one crashed into my backyard. What were in the crystals? Well, all they were, were a bunch a of updates on the spell that Twilight had been developing. Am I depressed? Yeah. Am I angry? Definitely. But most importantly, is Rainbow happy? Well, that's not something that I'm sure of.

So, here I am, lying down on my bed throwing a baseball up and down. Its time like these when you're bored and upset that you start to think of the deeper things in life. I think about how the ball kind of represents how my life has been since Rainbow's arrival back in September. My life has gone up and down, up and down. It looks like my life is about to make a large downward spiral. According to Twilight's last message, the spell is pretty much complete. Rainbow could vanish at any moment.

"Matt? Can I come in?" Rainbow knocks on my locked door.

"I don't know..." I mumble as I catch the ball and sigh. This is really getting to me. If she leaves, my life is pretty much over. She is the candle, and I am the flame, I can't live without her. If she disappears, my flame goes out.

"Please Matt." I can hear she's starting to choke on tears. "You've been shutting me away for the past three days. Please tell me what's wrong."

I get up slowly and walk to the door. My hand hovers over the handle for a good minute before I slowly lower it, and open the door. Rainbow looks up at me with red, puffy eyes, and I'm sure mine look the same.

"What do you want?" I mumble as I walk back to my bed.

"To be with you. You've been so reclusive lately." Rainbow jumps up on the bed next to me and starts rubbing her head on my side.

"I've just been thinking about stuff..." I sigh as I realize all of the things I might not be able to do with Rainbow. I'll never get to spend Christmas with her. I'll never get to celebrate her birthday... I'll never get to do anything with her again.

"Is it about me?"

"It... yeah, it is. I'm sorry, I just really don't want you to go."

"I don't want to go either Matt..." She says with a weak voice as she wraps her legs around me. "But I might have to go back."

"I can't lose you Rainbow. Not now, not ever!" I practically yell as I squeeze my eyes shut. I grab her tightly against my chest, and the tears begin to flow. "I'm nothing without you..." I whisper into her ear.

"Matt..." Rainbow sobs back... Then it happens. I don't really notice it at first, but then I see it. A faint glow around Rainbow's body.

"Rain..." I gasp. The air in the room starts to slowly move in a large circle around us. The light around her body grows and grows.

"Matt, what's going on!?" She yells as she grabs onto me.

"It... its happening..." I mumble in realization. "Fuck! NO! THIS CAN'T HAPPEN!" I yell with all my strength.

"MATT!" She screams. Then the wind stops, the light dissipates, and she's gone...

*3 Weeks Later*

"Dude... you gotta come back inside..." Alex mumbles from the entrance to the school.

"I'm good... go without me..." I say as I sit on the front steps.

"C'mon Matt, you're skipping class again, and the teachers are pissed at you. You can't keep doing this every day, especially in the rain."

The cold rain pours down on me as I watch each droplet hit the ground. "I said... no..." Alex slowly walks down to me and sits down to my right.

"You can't keep living like this Matt... I know you miss her, but skipping school and sitting in freezing cold rain won't make it better. I'm trying to help you out here, you need to move on."

"I don't want to move on..."

"Well you have to! You may have lost your girlfriend, but because of that, I lost my best friend! Please Matt, stop this!" He grabs my shoulder and his eyes begin to water.

"I'm still your friend Alex, I just need my time to-"

"No, you need to get it together man!" He's being harsh, and his words hurt, but in the end, I know he's right.

"...I'm getting too cold." I slowly get up and make my way back into the school. I sigh with a little relief as the warm air hits me as I enter. The depression and darkness clouding my mind almost immediately returns once I've warmed up.

"Let's get you back to class..." Alex leads me back to our third hour class.

"Yeah... Its time to move on..."

I walk into my room and chuck my bag across the room. I go limp and fall face-first onto my bed. The tears come quickly, and it doesn't take long for my eyes to start burning.

I roll onto my back and grab my Xbox controller off of the table next to my bed. I open the Netflix app and pull up the one thing that has been able to give me a little bit of comfort. The MLP theme song starts playing, and my tears slowly dry away. Every time she comes up, a small smile makes its way to my face. When an episode ends, the depression returns. I can't keep doing this for the rest of my life, I know that, but I can't seem to be able to push away the thoughts.

*Buzz*...

"What the hell?" I whisper to myself.

*Buzz*...

I get up off the bed and head for my bag which is now laying on top of a tall cabinet where I keep my movies and games. I have to stand on my toes to reach the bag. Probably wasn't the best idea to throw it up here. I grab for my phone to check it, but my hand brushes against something different, something soft. I pull my hand down, my phone in my hand along with another object. My eyes light up and my mouth hangs open as I ignore the text and place the phone in my pocket. I stare at the other item, and a small smile spreads across my face.

In my hand is a single blue feather. I turn it between my fingers and smile my first real smile in weeks. Something I can remember her by other than pictures. I guess it flew up there when she vanished. All of that wind probably ripped the feather out of her wing, and it landed on top of the shelf.

"I miss you Rainbow..." I drag the feather through the air, imagining her flying. Then I saw a small spark. It engulfed the feather in a dull light.

"What the fuck..." The light spread down my hand slowly, then up my arm. In a matter of minutes, the light had spread across my whole body. What the hell... Was the spell still affecting this single feather?

Then the wind started. The same wind I had felt three weeks ago. I spin around and watch as papers and small objects fly around my room. My vision is quickly filled with a pure white light.

Then it all disappears...

"Where... Rai..." I try to lift my head, but it quickly falls back down to the ground with a thud. I can feel the dirt through my hair. Wait, dirt?

My eyes quickly shoot open, and the sun burns them. I quickly close them shut and groan as I try to sit up. It takes a minute, but I make it into a sitting position with success. Where am I?

I look around, my eyes still slightly blurry, and try to take in my surroundings. I'm in some kind of field, and there's a light snow falling to the ground. Snow in Florida? The fuck?

I get onto my feet and stretch the muscles that feel tight and unused. I start to walk in a random direction, trying to find any kind of land mark. The feather... the wind, the light. Had I gone to the same place as Rainbow? Was I... in her world? I keep walking and walking until I come to a hill that overlooks a small town. I recognize it, and for the first time in almost a month, all depression and sadness flees from my mind. Ponyville... I can't believe it.

I start to full sprint into the small village, and realize quickly that I'm probably the only human here, and that none of the residents have seen me before other than Rainbow. I come to a stop on the edge of town, and peek around the corner of a house. The streets aren't very busy, and I can see the lights on inside of a lot of houses. Then I spot it, the library. The central hub of the town. I can see lights on inside of it, and dull music blaring from inside. A party? Maybe Rainbow is there.

I take off quickly into town, towards the library. I get a few looks from the ponies as I pass by them, but I give it no attention. I have a goal, and I'm going to reach it.

I reach the front entrance of the giant tree, and stare at the front door. Is this really happening? Am I really here? What if I'm just going insane? I push the questions aside and peek in through the window. I don't see Rainbow, but I see Twilight and Applejack talking off to the side. However, on the banner, it says "Welcome home Rainbow." Score.

I don't even bother to knock on the door. I try the handle, and find that its unlocked. I slowly open the door, and luckily nobody seems to notice. Not yet anyway. I see her, there, in the middle of the room. I can see her expression. She has a smile on her face, but I can tell its fake by the look in her eyes. She's trying to be happy.

"We're glad to have you back Rainbow." I hear Rarity say over the music.

"Yeah, its good to be back." Rainbow responds with her fake smile. Then the music stops. All noise in the room comes to a halt. All eyes are on the doorway where I'm standing. I stare at the only one I care about.

"Huh? What happened to the-" Rainbow looks around in confusion before looking at the doorway. I don't even say anything as I full sprint into the middle of the room. Rainbow doesn't even move. Her smile disappears, and her eyes quickly begin to water. I practically dive onto her and we roll across the floor. We come to a stop, and Rainbow is on my chest and I'm on my back.

"Are... real?" She mutters, her pupils small as pinpricks.

"I-I'm real. I'm really here." I say through my own tears.

"Oh Celestia..." Rainbow chokes out, her voice going into a higher pitch. She quickly buries her face into my chest and begins to sob. I can feel all eyes on us, and I can see some gaping jaws around the room from the corner of my eyes. I don't care though, I have her back. She's finally back.

"I found you Rainbow... I found you..."

Author's Notes:

Did you cry? I bet you did.

Anyway, the next arc of the story starts here.

The journey is far from over.