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Lifeless Sand

by Write Holiday

Chapter 7: Unsung Evil

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Unsung Evil

My eyes slowly open to a light. I thought I was dead at first, but I realize I was in a hospital. I look around the room, trying to see some sort of chart or computer that tells me how my vital organs are doing. I see a pice of paper that is at the foot of my bed. I sit up, but in extreme pain. I pick up the paper, and flop back into the lying position. "Dear Rainbow Dash, I would hate to be the one to tell you this, but Fluttershy and Applejack were found dead not too long ago. I apologize, and all of our thoughts and prayers are with you. Signed, all of your friends." They must have no idea. I look at my stomach, it has stitches.

"Hello?"

"Come in." I say, hoping the pony can hear my rough voice through the door.

"Hey Rainbow." Scootaloo walks over to the side of my bed, and sits down.

"Hey kiddo." I weakly laugh out, rubbing the top of her head. She just blushes and looks up.

"Hey uh, I head about Applejack and Fluttershy. I'm sorry to hear it."

"Oh, it's fine Scoots. I appreciate you saying it in person though." I hold up the note.

"Just, one question." She looks down.

"What's up?"

"How hard was it to get out?" My heart stops.

"W-what do you mean?"

"Well, you did go to the biggest prison in all of Equestria."

'Scootaloo, how do you know this?" I ask quickly.

"A number of things." She turns, and shows me her flank. She has a cutie mark, it's a magnifying glass with light going through it. "Do I really need to go into detail how I figured it out?"

"No. I don't know how I got out, I just, woke up here."

"Alright. Well, I have to get going. And don't worry RD, I won't tell anypony about the truth."

"Thanks Scoots."

"No problem." And she leaves the room. I can trust her. I get released from the hospital, and fly home about an hour later.

"I wonder if AJ is working on the... Oh, wait." I say to myself. "I know, I could go and help Fluttershy with..." That's when it really hit me. I didn't save myself and others only, I killed the two best friends I have ever had. I sigh, and sit on my bed. I eventually cry myself to sleep.

"Rainbow."

"Hello? Who's there?" I'm surrounded with blackness and nothing. I can't feel anything under me.

"Rainboooow."

"Who's there?"

"Hi Dashie." Fluttershy walks out from the darkness.

"Fluttershy?" My heart stops. I want to yell, to scream at her, but instead, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I didn't want to kill you. I just, I don't know. And now your dead. My best friend is dead because I killed them. I'm so, so sorry." I fall, crying. I feel a hoof on my mane.

"Dashie, I know. I shouldn't have done what I did. You did what you had to do, and I am not holding poor feelings towards you. I promise." She rubs her snout against mine.

"I am though." Applejack appears too.

"Applejack?" I ask.

"How dare ya! How dare ya kill me Rainbow! I had a good job and a mare that loved me!" I feel something soft underneath me. I open my eyes. I'm back in the sand. "I had the world trembling at the sight of me dammit! Why did you kill me?!"

"Jackie, calm down, we were evil, we were corrupt. We shouldn't have done what we did." Fluttershy says, standing in front of me while I'm cowering in the sand.

"She shouldn't have killed us! That damned excuse of a Pegasus killed us both Shy'. Do you really want to defend somepony like that? Really?"

"I don't want to, but I know what she did was right!"

"Right?! RIGHT?!" The sand becomes hotter, and hotter. It eventually turns to lava, but I'm on an island made of rocks. "Right is what WE were doing Fluterrs! RIGHT would have been if we, lived! That is right!"

"Applejack! What has gotten into you? Think about it, we were killing innocent ponies who just so happened to know about what was going on, how is that right?!" I've never heard Fluttershy so loud, even when she was cheering once I did the sonic rainboom.

"If you want to defend your old love, fine. I'll be here when you come to your damn senses." Applejack disappears. I begin to sink into the lava.

Fluttershy holds out her hoof. "Go on, grab it. I know you might not trust me, but please, grab it." I go to fly, but my wings aren't even there. I think about everything I just heard quickly, how Fluttershy defended me. I don't know if I should just let myself die, or continue living. At the last second, I reach out and grab her hoof. She flies in the air, carrying me. I look down, and see the last pice of land I was on go under the lava. We fly into a light, and then...

"Hi Dashie." It's all white. It's quiet. I'm lying on my side, looking at Fluttershy. "Don't panic, your not dead. Sorry about Jackie though, I guess she's too far gone to hope to come here."

I sit up, "where exactly is this?"

"This is heaven."

"But I thought you said I wasn't dead."

"Well, technically, you are. But your going to be awake in a few minutes. Right now though your heart had too much blood pumping through it. You died, but you'll wake up." I begin crying. "What's wrong Dashie? Aren't you happy to know that your going wake up?"

"I, I should say yes." I say through sobs. "But this it's just so, perfect. Being here with you, and you alone. I should never have killed you." I look down, crying heavily now. Fluttershy puts her hoof under my chin, and lifts my head up.

"Dashie. Don't feel bad, as I've said, you did what you had to do." I force a smile. "Look, I know you want to stay. I know how perfect this is. But trust me, I'll be here. I'll be waiting." She begins to fade away, and everything is turning darker, and darker. "And I'll be there with you. I'll always be watching, be right at your side, just loving being with you. Even if you can't see me, love me, or even remember me at some points, I'll still be right there. I'll be with you, I'll be guiding you. I'll be waiting..." Her voice dies off, and it goes pure black. I start breathing, realizing I haven't been breathing at all, and pass out.

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