CHAPTER THREE: RARITY AND SPIKE

Twilight was still very upset about Pinkie Pie. All of them were. She was still baffled about the whole pinkie death. She died how she saw it in the dream she had the other night.

"Hey Spike, can you find me a book about visions?" Twilight asked the empty house. She forgot spike had went with Rarity back to the Carousel Boutique to try to comfort her about Pinkie..

"Never mind!" she shouted to no one in particular. She tried to find a book herself with her magic. She found a book in the middle of the floor. She had never seen it before. She opened the book to find the Table of Contents. They had some pretty interesting chapter titles.

"Well this will be an interesting day of reading," Twilight said to herself.

AT CAROUSEL BOUTIQUE:

"Thanks for comforting me Spike I can't bear seeing another pony die in front of me," Rarity sobbed.

"Shhhh, it is ok, I am here," Spike assured her.

"Thanks Spike," Rarity started to calm down. She just laid her head on Spike's shoulders. Spike enjoyed it while it lasted.

"Hey, how about we take a little walk to clear my mind. Just the two of us," Rarity suggested. Spike blushed at 'just the two of us'. They walked out and left, but it wasn't just the two of them on the walk…

BACK TO TWILIGHT:

The book she was reading was strange. It talked about death and visions and cheating it. While reading, she blanked out and started seeing images again. She saw a wagon full of fruits and a lake. Twilight then came back to her senses. As she was trying to cope with what she saw, a gust of wind blew in and started flipping the pages of the book. It stopped on a chapter talking about death claiming souls that cheated it.

"What could this be?" Twilight asked herself. Then Princess Celestia walked through into the library.

"Hello, Twilight Sparkle!" Princess Celestia greeted her student.

"Hello, Princess!" Twilight returned the greeting. "Umm, if you don't mind me asking, what are you doing here? Is there an emergency?" Twilight asked.

"Kind of. You and your friends are the ones in danger," Princess Celestia answered. Twilight was confused.

"At the Gala, you said you had a vision that the whole thing would collapse, am I right?" Celestia questioned. Twilight started to nod her head slowly.

"And, Pinkie Pie is dead?" Princess continued to question. Twilight nodded again, but with tears forming in her eyes.

"Well, I have seen this before in my many years of ruling Equestria, lucky group of ponies get out of a tragedy. Then, they all die," Princess Celestia explained.

"I still don't understand," Twilight said still utterly confused.

"You had a vision of your friends dying and got them out when they were supposed to die, so death is coming back to receive the lives of the ponies that cheated it. The ponies usually die in order, it is all in the book I sent you. But, I thought I should explain it myself," Celestia concluded.

"So, me and my friends are going to die, and we can't stop this?" Twilight asked in worry.

"You can if you save somepony, then death skips them and goes to the next pony on the list," Princess explained.

"Ok, so if what you are saying is true, my friends will die in order?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, now since you have things situated now I must be on my way I have a lot of royal business to attend to, so be careful. I believe in you," Princess Celestia then walked out the door.

"Ok, so just remember the order. First was Derpy, then Pinkie, and then…" Twilight didn't finish her sentence, realizing who was next. She then sprinted out the door.

BACK TO SPIKE AND RARITY:

"I am really glad you are with me Spike," said Rarity. They walked along until they were in front of a lake, just in front of Ponyville.

"Look, Rarity. After the incident, I realized that we aren't going to live forever. So, there is something I gotta say," said Spike. Rarity just looked at him in confusion.

"Ok, I sorta have a crush on somepony, and don't know how to tell her," Spike said. Rarity is smiling and almost jumping with joy.

"Oooohhhhh! Who is it? Do I know her? What is she like?" Rarity piled Spike with questions. Spike didn't reply, he simply just leaned in.

"Spike what are y-" Rarity was cut off by Spike's lips meeting hers. Rarity, a little shocked, returned the kiss. They stayed like that for a good minute. While they were enjoying themselves, a wagon filled to the brim with fruit were being delivered to several fruit stands. As the pony was walking up a hill with the wagon attached to his back, the screws were becoming loose.

'Have to reach Spike and Rarity quick, or else…" Twilight didn't even want to continue her thought. She saw Spike and Rarity kissing and was very confused. She stood there trying to cope with what she is looking at. Then the screws fell out, detaching the wagon and the pony. It was headed straight for them!

"Look out!" Twilight shouted as she regained herself. She ran to save them.

"Huh," Spike stopped the kiss and looked at Twilight running toward them shouting something about a wagon. He looked around and saw a wagon traveling toward them at record speed. He reacted quickly and pushed Rarity out of the way. Rarity was out of the way of the cart, but Spike wasn't so lucky. He was ran over and demolished into a bloody mess. But, Rarity's tail was caught by the wagon as it was racing toward the lake.

"Nooooooo," Rarity shouted as she was pulled under the water. Twilight then dove in to save her. Good thing she read about swimming and how to dive deep under water. As they reached the bottom she used her magic to untangle Rarity's tail. She was successful. They both floated up to the top.

"Thanks…Twilight," Rarity said between deep breathes. They both swam to shore and dried themselves off. But, Rarity's face then filled with dread as she look at Spike's brutalized body.

"Oh, why. WWHHYY!" Rarity sobbed down to the dead Spike. Twilight too sobbed, because she basically just lost her own brother.

All right, what I meant by the setting in this chapter is picture the scene in the episode where Babs Seed is introduced. Where the float flies down into the mud and there was a lake behind that. That is where this chapter takes place in case anyone was lost.