Equestria Missing: Memories

I must have the best big brother in Cloudsdale... Well he may be a little weird... I mean, I never really asked him about that whole bleeding voids in his eyes thing, but other than that, he's a really cool guy... Almost as awesome as me.... ALMOST!

Tonight was a rough night for him... Dad can't seem to see Flare, not to mention he doesn't believe in him... Which is odd because mom can see him clear as day... I don't know. It's just strange to me... I'll have to check and see if he's okay in the morning.

We woke up at almost the same time. I was excited for a great day with my brother, but he seemed a little out of it. He kind of just had a blank expression, I asked him what was up and he just responded with a "Eh. Don't worry about it Dashie, you're too young to understand... I'll tell you wh-h-en you're older..." Well I guess he's just having a bad day so far... I hope... he made a strange... how do I put this? Um... Flicker, yeah... He 'flickered'... Like a TV station being changed... Odd.... You know what, I think I can cheer him up.

"Hey, Flare... You seem a little down... How about a race?" He looked up at me with some confusion. "To the store and back... Winner gets ten bits" Flare cracked a smirk on his face when I said that. "You're on." To my surprise when he said that, the blood on his muzzle disappeared, he didn't wipe it away or anything... It just faded... Strange.

"321GO!" Flare yelled as he dashed for the door. "H-HEY! I wasn't ready!" I said as I quickly got into the air and flew after him.

We were both laughing like maniacs as we tried our best to keep up with each other. It was amazing, I hadn't seen my brother laugh this much before, at school before I knew him as my brother he always seemed to be a lone wolf. Sitting in the corner with a sad kind of face... Kind of blending in really...

I had spaced out, it was the final stretch I was only a little bit ahead of Flare, I turned around to taunt him, he was yelling something to me with an expression of worry. I ignored it and yelled to him "YOU OWE ME TEN BUCKS BR-" I had rammed into the side of the house hard... So hard I had blacked out.

I woke up in a dark room. I stood up and started to walk into the darkness, I had tripped over something, I landed flat on my face. "Ow god damn it." I stood up and had a look around, I had apparently tripped over a ball... "Hmm... Odd.." I Ignored it and continued walking. I started seeing a white light... I started to run towards it in hopes of getting some light in the room.

When I reached the end of the track I was in an asylum, it was a pretty run down, scary looking asylum. I could hear hoofsteps off in the distance, I then heard whoever it was, throwing up.

"Y-YOU FUCKED UP PEICE OF SHIT! This is your fault... I fucking hate you..." huh? Is that Flare? I ran around the corner and saw Flare Pacing back and forth, yelling at someone, but I couldn't see who. I inched in closer and saw that there was no one else around. He was yelling at a ball, I stepped towards Flare, who was still yelling, he then noticed me. "...YOU!" He said with an angry look as he started to move towards me.

I started to step back but tripped over. Flare then started to beat on me. Hard. "RAINBOW DASH! GET THE FUCK UP! GET UP! GE-ke up Dashie. Wake THE FU-p Dashie... Please..." I opened my eyes and saw I was in the hospital. I sat up quickly wondering what was going on, my head was hurting really bad too. "Oh thank god." My mom and dad hugged me quickly. "Wh-where's Flare?" I asked with worry. "Oh not this again." My dad responded with a look of disappointment as he left the room. my mom leaned in closer and whispered to me. "He's at home, don't worry." I breathed a sigh of relief as I slowly laid back down.

"You bumped your head pretty hard didn't you?" My mom said softly. "Y-Yeah.... I didn't see where I was going." "It'll be okay... the doctors said that you just got the wind knocked out of you. Nothing too serious... they said you can go home at the end of the day." I nodded and relaxed back, knowing that I had the end of the day to look forward to.

After another couple of check ups the doctors sent us on our way. When we got home Flare was at the door to greet us, he gave me a big hug nearly sobbing. "I'm so sorry... I'm sorry..." I hugged back feeling sorry myself. "It's okay Flare, I should've been watching where I was going..." He stopped hugging and calmed down... Wiping some tears away... Actual tears... The blood was gone... Something is going on, I need to find out what... "Flare... Lets go to our room." I said almost demandingly. "O-oh? o-okay." He said with somewhat concern.

"I Like your room..." Flare said as he entered... "It's really nice, Wonderbolts and all huh?" I just looked at him, with those empty eyes staring back failing to give an expression. "I-Is something wrong?" he asked trying obviously hoping I wouldn't ask him about the eyes, ear and blood. But I had to ask what happened... "What happened.... Before all this?" His somewhat happy expression quickly turned sombre when I asked that. "Y-You're too young... I'll tell you when your older." I stepped closer. "Yeah Flare I may be too young at this point, but I'm afraid that I'll be older and you wont be there to tell me what's going on." He looked at me in surprise. "Ha. Its funny. For a five year old, you sure know your words... Okay.... I'll tell you." "From beginning to finish." I immediately said before he could continue...

He told me everything. He didn't hesitate, most of it was rather disturbing, some bits were a bit saddening... By the end of his long story I had tears in my eyes. The room was silent after he finished. The silence was broken after our mom came into the room crying. Flare immediately asked what was wrong, moms response was something that I never would've expected... "Y-Your father.... he-... he left to go to Ponyville.... He said he is going forever...." My light tears were now pouring down my face, I couldn't control my sadness... I never thought dad would.... F-Fu-FU- "So thats it then..." Flare said with sadness and hatred in his voice.

"F-Flare, I-It's okay." Mom said trying to console him. "NO! Its not okay. I have had fucking enough of the shit i've been through. And now I've got to grow up without a father? You know? I hope he stays gone, I will grow up, marry a beautiful mare, have beauTIFUL CHILDREN AND BE A BETTER FATHER THAN HE EVER FUCKING WAS TO ME..... FUCK..." My mom looked at me with worry. "Listen If I can survive getting killed TWICE! then I can survive without a father........ Why can't he see me?" Flare had started crying and barged past mom and out the front door.

"F-FLARE! PLEASE! COME BACK!" Mom shouted as Flare flew towards ground level. I couldn't comprehend what was happening... Please, Flare, don't leave me again....

Some time has passed since Flare left.... Mom got killed in a workplace 'Accident' they never taught her to handle high voltage wires... As for dad I never heard from him again... Flare used to see me on a regular basis, He doesn't really anymore... He used to tell me that mom and dad got murdered by someone, unfortunately I had to be there when mom got fried alive from the electricity... it HAD to be bring your daughter to work day.... She HAD to be transferred to Lighting and Thunder on that day... Even when she knew damn good and well that she was never taught to work in that line of the department.... I was supposed to see the Rainbow Factory that day... I hate my mane.... I hate my name.... God damn rainbows....