Red the color of "passion" they called it, a color for romance ponies thought. Rainbow Dash knew better now what the true meaning behind the color was, death. She lay there in the street convulsing blood covering her emanating from her vaginal tract. She was supposed to be with child, she and Soarin were supposed to get married and have a foal together and live happily ever after. Nothing is ever as it seems.

He was a kind stallion at first but the more she grew to know him the more violent he became, she told herself things would change after the wedding but she knew she was lying to herself. Now the unborn foal, not even fully formed, was in the street as horrified onlookers stared at a seething Soarin who was towering over her. "You dumb bitch!" he yelled "You fucking bitch you killed my child!!.... You fucking retarded ass bitch!!!" His hoof slammed across her face making her see stars, he had hit her before she was used to it. She would put on some make-up and pretend like it never happened. But it did, it always did.

He pummeled her with his hooves mercilessly beating her until she began to feel her own blood mix with that of the foals. A hoof caught that of her fiances and with an authoritative voice commanded "Stop it wasn't her fault." The stranger received a buck for his efforts and Soarin returned his attention to Dash, "Now you'll pay you..." his sentence was cut off by a deafening blast of lightning that threw him into a nearby store window. The stranger she saw now was a stallion with a black coat and mane red stripes running through it.

He smiled down at her and reassured her "everything is going to be fine I promise" he said. And for some reason she believed him. Black dots swam in her vision and she felt herself slipping away. She gave in to the darkness and allowed herself the luxury of sweet unconsciousness.

Dark lightning looked down at the now unconscious mare, he had watched the entire seen unfold before his horrified eyes. The rainbow pegasus had stopped in the middle of the street groaning in pain and collapsed, she began to bleed from her vagina as her unborn child spilled out prematurely and dissolved into a puddle of gore. The stallion had begun to rage and beat her savagely for "killing my foal" to quote him. Dark had intervened shortly after but he hopped that he had been fast enough.

The wonderbolt darted out of the window in a furry after Dark but was met by an uppercut mixed with another surge of lightning. He followed up the attack with a series of balls of lightning that stuck to the pegasus and detonated sending him flying off into the distance. He rushed to the battered mares side picking her up and flying as his wings would carry him. He arrive at the hospital raging through the front door and shouting "MEDIC!!"

The nurse red heart helped him put Dash onto a stretcher and wheel her off, he pace furiously until the nurse came back into the room. "How is she?" he asked hopelessly. "She'll survive, but the foal was miscarried and she has some severe busing not all new. From what you told me happened she probably was being beaten by him regularly and that was, I believe, the reason for the miscarriage. He shook with rage at Soarin's actions electricity coursing through his body, "Shes conscious but non-responsive, I hate to ask but could you stay with her for a few days at her house? I don't see her recovering from this emotionally for quite some time"

Still quaking with rage Dark Lightning nodded and followed her to a wheelchair containing a bandaged and tear streaked Rainbow Dash. His heart fell through tartarus and further still, he walked over to her and looked into her cyan eyes and hugged her compassionately. She fell apart in his arms heaving with every sob, "It wasn't you fault, don't worry he wont ever hurt you again I promise." She continued to wail uncontrollably into his mane, soaking him with tears of pure sorrow.

The fly to her house was a short one, luckily Soarin had enough sense to pack up and leave before they arrived because if Dark ever saw him again he knew, he would kill him. He lay Dash into the cloud bed and was about to leave when Dash grabbed him saying "Please don't leave..." That was all he needed, Dark got into bed and held the mare tight stroking her mane as she curled up and hid herself in his coat. Draping his wings over them Dark sang quietly to Dash until he was certain she was sleeping.

Soon after he fell into a deep slumber himself whispering into her ear as he did "I will always protect you no matter what.... always and forever" and with that he fell asleep drifting into a world where everything was good and nice. After he had fell asleep a small voice emanated from Rainbow dash so quiet that it was barly even audiable "I'll hold you to that promise"

Next Chapter: Love is necessary Estimated time remaining: 12 Minutes