16:20 pm

The hottest day of summer. Say what you want, but the heat always makes you sleepy. Especially if you’re a pegasus. And even the most awesome pegasus in all Equestria (with the only exception of Daring Do and the Wonderbolts, who were at least as awesome as Dash) felt like sleeping on that day.

A nap was mandatory. I mean, how could you not take a nap on that day? Ponyville was almost empty. Yeah, there were those three fillies (Applejack’s sister, Rarity’s sister and the orange filly who was her number one fan) playing and making a lot of noise, but that’s what fillies do, and even with them, Ponyville was more silent than usual. And of course, you can’t take a nap in your house. You sleep in your house at night. Dash was sure it was a law or something about it. I mean, Applejack did the same, right? Sure, she almost never slept when the sun was out there at the sky, but when she did, she did it right under a tree. And Fluttershy liked to sleep with her animals, right on the field. Unicorns like Rarity or Twilight never slept (Rarity liked to sleep with things on her face, and she didn’t like naps. Twilight just wasted all her time reading, and napping takes a lot of time and practice) and Pinkie… well, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Pinkie didn’t sleep even at night.

So, doing as everypony as awesome as her would have done, Dash took three clouds and put them above the center of Ponyville, her favorite place of the entire town (widely known fact: the most awesome place of a circle is the middle. Ponyville was not exactly circular, but who cares). She put them in the exact same spot, one under another, and lied on the middle one (because the most awesome thing of three things is the middle one. It’s kinda logic, if you think about it). That way, she was under the shadow of the highest one. Clouds are pretty cold, so heat was not a problem. The lower cloud was just because of the “being awesome” thing.

And boy, that nap was awesome. Dash was sleeping so hard that she deserved a medal or something. The only thing that slept as hard as her was her tortoise, Tank. The little boy (well, “little”. Who knows how old is a tortoise?) had learned how to sleep in less than a week. Now, he napped like her owner.

A little bunny saw her lying on the cloud and tried to wake her up, but she didn’t notice. Then, somepony screamed, a fluffy object came flying at high-speed (although it wasn’t flying straight, it was drawing some kind of extra-big spiral around Ponyville; it was easy to see it from a cloud), a ball landed on the cloud right under her and three little fillies started to scream at her, trying to wake Dash up. A pegasus like her would have been very helpful rescuing that ball.

And then, somepony screamed. And then another pony. And another. Suddenly, the town was filled with screams.

But sadly, Dash didn’t wake up. Not by choice, she just didn’t hear anything. She was sleeping so hard…

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