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Rainbow Dash's parents

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Firefly & Rainbow Strike
Born strong and with impressive flying skills since she was really young, Firefly always counted on herself and nopony else, at least since the day the filly who she thought being her best friend abandoned her. "Sorry, now you are nothing but useless for me." This sentence kept on flying across her mind for years, until she realized she couldn't trust anyone. From that moment, she barely spoke, even with her older sister, Dragonfly, and with her parents. She trained every time she had a few minutes free, and soon she became one of the fastest flyers of Cloudsdale. She's always refused the advances of the stallions, and the other mares have always glared at her, almost disgusted. Her parents wanted her to find a mate, but she heard no reason. One day, exasperated from her dad's proposals, she ran away from home and hid in the Everfree Forest. There, she saw a dark shadow walking toward her. She made a few steps back, frightened, but then the shadow burst into laughter and revealed herself. Well, himself... In front of the scared mare stood a purple stallion, with wings spread out. At the very first impression, she decided to walk away, but she was stopped from the pegasus. He told her his name and started to make conversation, but she was still silent. He didn't know how to melt her, but he knew he had to do it. He felt like there was a sort of fight inside that mare. Firefly sensed his curiosity but decided not to answer it. She wanted to see how long he could last. When he asked her out, she could hardly contain her surprise: the other stallions always wanted to know more and more about her, and when she refused to answer, they left her alone, thinking that's how she wanted to be. "I'll take it like a yes, ma'am." He said after noticing her gaze. When she looked into his eyes, she saw a golden shade shine in his irids. The next evening, they were sitting one next to the other, but still not speaking to each other. Suddenly, Rainbow Strike stood up and reached a cloud, checking if Firefly was still looking at him. When he touched it, the cloud shone of all the rainbow colours for an instant. Firefly couldn't believe at what she had just seen. That stallion was special, she thought. And not only for his talent, but also because, when he flew down to her level and kissed her, she felt like she had never felt in her life. She felt like she was important to someone. And she was. For him, she was. 
When little Dash was born, Rainbow Strike couldn't contain his joy. He wanted to spend all the day with the filly, and so did Firefly. Rainbow Dash was the light of their eyes, especially Firefly's. She didn't want her to live what she had to live in the past, so she always tried to make her feel loved. However, the happy days soon came to an end. When RD was still really young, Rainbow Strike had a terrible incident during a storm and died in hospital after a few days passed in coma. Firefly barely spoke since that day, and Dash suffered in silence. She never told her friends what happened, and every time they asked, she changed version. There was always a tense atmosphere, whenever Dash and Firefly were together. Arguments became more and more frequent, until Dash decided to leave home. She was old enough now, but the fact she was gone hurt Firefly more than everything else happened to her. She wished this not to happen. She had done the impossible to try to avoid this situation, but in vain. She wrote to her daughter every day, but sent only a few letters now and then. The so wished replies, however, never came. Her heart now was broken, but she had still hope. She prayed every day for Rainbow Dash and for Rainbow Strike, until one day she received a letter. "I'm sorry", it said. The next evening, Rainbow Dash came to Firefly's house. They cried for several minutes, hugged, before gazing into each other's eyes.
It was Fluttershy who opened Dash's eyes. She said, a tear running down her cheek: "Love her more than you think you'd be able to. Love her, as long as you can."
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SAMSUNG
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GT-I9505
Shutter Speed
1/17 second
Aperture
F/2.2
Focal Length
4 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Sep 17, 2014, 7:10:19 PM
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Doctorwholovesthe80s's avatar
This is awesome. Despite the recent episode showing RD's parent, I'll always think of Firefly as RD's mom!