Orange! Red! Yellow! Green! Purple! Pink! Blue!

Rarity was in heaven, dancing around fabrics, each made of a wonderful color, each glowing with hope and love, creativity, inspiration, excitement.

This was the perfect dream.

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"Rarity!"

Indeed it was, Rarity slowly woke up and the bright colors of her dream start to fade and disappear until there was nothing but yellow and pink. The sweet colors of the equally sweet Fluttershy.

"Are you okay?"

"Oh I was just...it´s nothing darling. Just a simple dream," Rarity answered.

"Was it a bad dream?"

"No. No, it wasn´t. It was a nice dream. It´s just...well, the weather doesn´t match it," she said looking at the window, looking at the dull and colorless Ponyville and all its inhabitants, the same grumpy and rude folk.

"Umh looks like you need a cheer up. How about this flower?" Fluttershy said, offering a flower that promptly sprayed water over her own face, ruining her pink mane.

Fluttershy intentions were nice but her pranks were never successful.

"I appreciate the gesture, darling, but next time, just stay with the sweets and pastries," Rarity said, wiping her face with her handkerchief. Fluttershy smiled back. "Well I better get going, I´m supposed to clear the sky for the Celebration. It seems I´ve delayed the entire team, again."

"Good luck," Fluttershy said and waved her goodbye.

Rarity left Sugarcube Corner and made her way to the Town Square. Like always, her steps took her the wrong direction, heading to Carousel Boutique. The noise of the sewing machine could be heard from the outside, as well as the muffled curses the Manehatten girl kept making. Rarity always felt this urge, this need to go outside the boutique and take over the place, but that was ridiculous. She knew nothing about fashion, her passion was the sky, wasn´t it?

"Hey Rarity." a voice said behind her.

"Hello Rainbow Dash. I see Opalescence is giving you a little bit of trouble again," Rarity said, seeing the cat firmly attached to the pegasus´ flank.

"Nothing that I can´t handle," Dash lied, doing her best to hold back a scream as the cat claws dug deeper. "Say, you know if Princess Celestia is coming today?"

"So it seems. Although I heard that maybe a new organizer will be sent from Canterlot to make sure everything is ready beforehand."

"Ah that´s too bad. I was hoping to see if the Princess was bringing her pet phoenix."

"Are you interested in that, Rainbow?"

"Are you kidding? Animals is like my thing, you know?"

"Yes, it is," None of them seemed too sure of those sentences. "I better get going. Take care, Rainbow Dash."

"You too, Rarity. Auh, could you loosen a bit, kitty?"

Rarity reached the Town Square where she noticed the town´s farmer passing by with a cart full of apples. Like usual, her straight mane was covering half of her face but Rarity could tell she wasn´t smiling.

"Pinkamena. Are those the treats for the celebration?"

"Oh, hi Rarity. Yes, I mean no. These are just the raw apples, they still need to be cooked," she said.

"Are you going to bake the pies this year? I heard you were quite good at the kitchen."

"I´m not. I tried once but Granny Smith didn´t liked how they turned out. Fancy carnival flavors, she called them. She was right. I´m not supposed to cook."

Again, that urge. That feeling to do something. She could almost hear the words coming out of her mouth. "Nonsense darling! You´re the best baker in the whole town. Nopony can make cupcakes like you do!" but she kept her mouth shut.

Pinkie was right, she was a farmer not a baker, what nonsense was she thinking?

"Well. take care Pinkamena."

Her friend just made a small nod and left, carrying the heavy cart with her.

Rarity looked at the sky. She remembered, back when she was younger, that the sky used to be blue, a precious light blue with puffy dots of white clouds and the occasional purple of a mountain at the distance. Now, there was nothing to see but grey. A massive wall of grey clouds, covering the entire town, looming, threatening to drop a downpour on their heads.

Rarity frowned. She hated this sky. She tried to move the clouds, gathering all the magic energy she could. Controlling weather was a pegasus job, she still wondered how they accepted an unicorn in the team. The clouds keep rebelling against her. "Blast, if only there were rocks!", she tought and laughed at that silly thought. Why would she care about rocks?

Finally the clouds moved and she smiled, but it wasn´t her doing. It was a Royal Chariot making its way through. The chariot landed next to her. First, a baby dragon came down. He took a look at her and smiled. She smiled back and noticed him blushing. Then an unicorn came next. She had this air around here, the type of presence only Canterlot ponies had; but there was more to her. The way she stand, the way she walked, like she didn´t want to draw attention to her; a country mouse in city clothes, Rarity thought.

"Oh hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I´m here to supervise the Summer Celebration," she said.

Just then, the clouds moved on their own will and a small ray of light shone upon them. Rarity looked up and finally saw that blue sky that had been hidden behind the grey all along.

"Umh hello?"

"Hello Twilight. My name is Rarity. A pleasure."