My heart plunged, something inside me knew that this, was real. It was far to vivid to be a dream. Even if it was things didn’t change, they stayed the same even looking away at them for long periods of time through my blurred eye’s. My heart finnaly hit rock bottom as I remembered Kema. She was dead their was no way she had lived from that. I grabbed my head but felt myself collapse on the floor. That’s when I finnally saw my hands. They were gone, now replaced by two fingerless hooves. I didn’t care however I began to roll on the grass below me as salty tears fell from my eye’s. I was filled with dread, surprise,anger. The emotions were so overwhelming I felt my soul being ripped apart from my guilt. For I had tried everything to keep her from harms way, tried to keep her from remembering, but it was all for nought just I had expected it was not meant to be. I had had enough everybody I knew and cared for are gone.

I felt myself slipping.................

slipping...........

Into greyness.........

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“ ummm Mike..... I just wanted to say that I love you”. My cheeks felt woefully hot. It was the fifth day since I broke our relationship. Doing so made us a new center of attention I spotted many familiar faces in the group that surrounded us. I managed to pry my vision from her beautiful blue eye’s. I said nothing but it was obvious that I felt the same way for her. She turned my head bringing her face to face with me once again.

“ Do you love me?” She asked making the last word linger in the air. Her eye’s began to water becoming ever more red. I said nothing the skin on my face began to burn. It hurt, not my skin but for the feelings that I felt for her, and more specifically the feelings that I couldn't share for her. My heart was pounding as hard as it always was when I saw her.
“Well?” She was pleading now, streams of tears fell anew on her beautiful cheeks. She removed her hands from my face, raised it and brought it down hard against my face.

I stood and took it all, every single slap making my skin turning an even deeper crimson. I hoped that she drew blood. I deserved it.

“I want to here you say it” She was screaming at me, but I remained silent.

She turned around and began to run, people began separating for her to leave. Meanwhile everybody stared, sharing looks of disapproval. I gave, not because they disapproved, but because I couldn't bear to lose another.

I ran to her grabbing her by the hand and brought her in for a close embrace. She smelled beautifully

“Don’t ever doubt that I do” I said in a low whisper. I moved her in closer the heat of our bodies felt so right. Her lips were so warm and smooth. I kissed her passionately It wasn’t long before she caught on. I stopped the kiss and turned

“Sorry”

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It’s been three days since I really moved from this spot. I’ve done nothing but lay on this grey grass under the torturing canopy of grey leaves. Occasionally I’d lap the dew off of the grey grass. Occasionally I’d cry, giving loud rasping sobs in between tears. All the while the day passed not caring for my loss.

I stared aimlessly at a meadow not to far away. It was filled with grey dandelions. They swayed as the light breezed licked at them. Some times they would be plucked from the ground and found themselves not to far from me. My body longed for these because they would now be my sustenance. I’d eat them knowing that they would extend my torture.

I heard laughing occasionally, but I paid no attention to them as they sounded distorted from the tunneled hearing I was experiencing.

For the first time in my life I could say that I had finally embraced the grey. I missed the colors but now knew that only grey would fill my life and heart.

An image was pushed into my mind, It was Kema in a grey photo wearing a grey hoodie that I kept in my locker, she was smiling.....

I felt a sudden warmth start from the tip of my muzzle as I started to remember things

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“Red get over here!” I looked over to see a beautiful figure to my far right. Her blonde hair falling straight onto her shoulders and pouring over dramatically onto her back.

“Well hello Orange having a nice day aren’t we.” I replied sarcastically to the leering blue eye’s.

“Oh shut up dude” She punched my arm and I returned the the favor, although much softer. We were in Violets underground cellar looking around at the gathered electronics. Red,blue,green,white and tan cords were hung unsurprisingly from the ceiling. Working color tv’s were strewn about the floor among the other electronic do-hickey’s. She knew a hell of a lot more than I did. I was proud to say that I was second smartest to her and by a long shot by that.

“No need to fight, we’re just waiting on Yellow here” I looked towards a pile of multicolored clothes as Green popped up. With a pile of the multicolored clothes. I could say that he was a better looker than me and considering we all went to the same school he was first best. While I a close second, because after all he did make his own grey clothes.

“Indigo get out here!” Orange called. He crawled out from a pile of mother boards on the floor and came up with a pile that looked comically of a fruit hat on his head. He gave us a big smile and laughed heartily even though he had the smallest frame from all of us.

“Sorry, but how much longer before....” Blue was than scared out of her skin as something fell from the hole in the ceiling above. I was shy but this was ridiculous.

“Sorry guys” He fell with the most dramatic thump in the world. causing the littered grey floor below us to groan. He was especially heavy, not that he was fat ,but he was extremely buff. he wasn’t very limber whoever that was bestowed on Orange my most closest friend.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Violet shushed from behind a wooded desk working with small objects on the table.

“We’re in this together” The silence that proceeded almost deafened me as even Indigo calmed his rant.

“You and I are the last ones,to see the glowing spectra of the world. Just like all of the world before us. Things have changed, and only we see color. The color that itself brings hope happiness and deeper emotion. I’ll be damned to be placed in that office just like my parents.” She gave a pause before continuing

“They come home everyday don’t even give me a damned ‘hello’ but It’s time that we changed that. Not just for me but every other living being that inhabits this godforsaken piece of shit we call ‘home’. It’s time that we let them see. It’s time we did our best to change the future and in the future change the past” She started to tear from her eye’s

“Now ‘Friends’ do you wish to help me and seek a new and colorful future. Or do wish to continue in meaningless lives that will inevitably kill us all.” We all nodded

“Will you follow me until our last drop of blood is painted on the walls around us? Will you follow me knowing you will die? Will you follow me until your heart turns grey?” We stopped nodding and stood silently. I turned to Orange who was having an internal argument I could tell because she had a screwed up look about her. I thought about it, looking at the colors around us It was nice and I wished that people could see it.

“Yes,” I walked up to Violet and stood in front of her and embraced my friend and managed to move behind her.

“Yes,” Orange walked up to her again giving her a hug before finding a spot on my right. I stared ahead and not to her making the moment a lot more dramatic. One by One our friends stood behind her. We stood there looking at the figure ahead of us, our leader, Violet.

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I felt the heat reach my core. My eye’s began to register color again. I felt my eye’s grow warmer and my feature giving me what I suspected to be a smile. I could hear now, and heard the wooshing of the wind. It sounded unnatural however but I couldn't care less and considering I was in this new world, I couldn't complain. I knew that needn’t give up if I still had the memories of them. I stood on my hooves stretching my forelegs.

The whooshing became unsettlingly loud. Suddenly the clearing exploded as a Cyan figure fell dishearteningly fast into the golden dandelions. I stood quickly and galloped toward the dandelion field.

When I reached her however she was already getting up from her unbelievable fall and dusted herself off. I continued to approach when she looked in my direction. Her rose eye’s now giving me a dreadful scowl. I gulped

“Who are you?” She began to walk toward me and I felt myself back-up looking into her deathly eye’s.

“Are you a spy?” Her voice was becoming aggressive the surrounding noises fell silent as if expecting a dead person.

I wanted to say no but I was startled as I hit something solid. I looked back quickly, It was the same tree that I had been under. My indentation in the grass still visible and hard packed.

I looked back but she was already almost face to face with me. She extended her wings in a sudden motion and I found myself pinned to a tree and a hard place.

“Well it’s nice to meet you to miss.” I felt my lips react, the words were loaded with heavy sarcasm as I felt my talkative side ooze out in desperation. She obviously didn’t expect these words but her scowl was not leaving her face.

“I’m new” I said giving a small rebuttal to my past statement.

“From where?”She lifted a brow raising it surprisingly high.

“Trottingham” as I remembered the only place outside of ponyville from the Nightmare Night episode.

“Oh” she she retracted her wings and blushed slightly

“sorry bout that, but could you not....you......know tell anybody I crashed. Her features were softening but her muzzle continued to frown.

“Why are you out here anyways?” I felt pretty much trapped in this corner for the moment but I had to stop lying eventually right?

“You see things aren’t really....” I was cut off

“Anyways what’s your name?” She didn’t seem to have interrupted me on purpose, but even if she had I really couldn't do anything about it.

What was my name anyways? I new that it was Michael due to some thing that my dad found in some uncensored history book. Yet what would it be here I knew that the names here were strangely uncanny so I just gave her the first thing that came to mind.

“Angelo” I guess she was trying to figure out what my name meant but as I tried to contemplate it, she asked another question.

“What are you supposed to do?” She was pointing at my flank since it was the first real time looking at my back I saw that I was just an earth pony nothing more nothing less my coat was a light red that looked nothing of pink and I had a brown mane judging by my tail but on my flank however. Was a white human sneaker with the initials FRR in bold and dark letters. It had a red lighting bolt with Autumn leaves dancing happily about it. Yet the most peculiar for me was the fact they they had large red wings on it.

I smile crept on my face for the first time in three days. I looked back and saw some of the lower hanging branches of the tree. I jumped almost hugging the the branches as I made my way up to the dense canopy above. She tried fruitlessly to stop me but It was way to late.
I jumped on to the surprisingly dense foliage. I ran on top of it occasionally making errors due to my new body but I couldn’t care less.

A Rainbow suddenly flashed to my left causing me to flinch and almost miss my next step. It dashed to my right trying to bash me off of the foliage but I knew better I jumped over her. She circled her way back to me. of course I was no where near as fast as her but I could dodge whatever she could do to me.

Every single dodge could make her visibly more aggravated. I eyed the town of Ponyville that I had been running on the canopy around.

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“It’s not like you’ve ever ran before, It’s the same thing just that this time you have to break some windows!” Orange called from the other side of the building. She had become very adept to running on top of the grey abyss below but I guess if she could do it I could lag slightly behind her.

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The hay was surprisingly solid. From below I could see hooves being pointed toward me. I shrugged it off considering I was probably the first Runner ever. I jumped onto a precariously placed pink building which felt made my mouth water. The smell was so sweet I lost my concentration and Rainbow Dash came down and scooped me up. I was pulled so abruptly that I snapped back and I felt myself falling.
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Shhhhhiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. I missed the stupid jump. I felt myself accelerate approaching the cement wall below.

“Rooollll” was all I heard I hit the ground with an audible thump and tucked myself in and rolled. It hurt considering I fell five stories I could tell that I at least bruised my rib and twisted my left ankle but thankfully I was alive.

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I hit the ground rolling, I fell the equivalent of 6 human stories from Rainbow Dash’s grab. I looked up and gave her a big wide grin, before taking off to the under brush of the surrounding trees.

I awaited her to come down as I predicted she would to look for me. as she closed her wings I came out from the underbrush and approached her. I gave her a big hug, her I felt myself blush.

“Thanks, for making my day” I said in a low whisper after holding the hug for so long

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I stared at the the moon, the darkening sky made it fit in so perfectly. As I stared, I felt myself glow with anticipation of the new day tomorrow. I planned to go in town, not as a runner but a regular pony, as it may be. I felt my eye’s close as they became sleepy from the advancing darkness of sleep. I smiled at the prospect of meeting with dash another day because even though no at first I new that we had both had our fun.

It was nice to fall asleep..........

on a high note...........

looking at the moon in the the dense canopy of the tree............

but better than that.......

it felt good to fall asleep...........

with the thought of.......

a …......

friend.............

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We all had went are seprate way’s after our last drop of green’s paint was spent. I looked at the canvases that had once been the grey buildings covered in beautiful and intricate drawings of colored angels.

The helicopter had stopped chasing us in it’s attempts to keep the civilians from looking up. That plan however was in vain, As they looked up at the picture. It may have been grey in their eye’s but it was different. That is what we aimed for and we wanted to keep it that way.

I managed to climb the building and across the fence and in to the grey canopy below.

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I walked into town

Many-a-hoof were directed at me but I didn’t care but something seeemed strangely familiar. Were they........ no the coudn’t be

but it looked like for the most part were all blushing at me.......

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