The truth about them all

Rainbow soared through the skies above Ponyville. She zig-zagged between the clouds and glided in the wind, leaving the trademark rainbow streak behind her. Everything was perfect. She and her mother were extreamly close, Twilight had not had any mental breakdown for a few weeks and the CMC had not burned down anything. yet. Everything was truly perfect. A year had passed from Rainbow's awkward meeting with FireFly, Rainbow had forgiven her long lost mother and they had started over. But Rainbow had still not told her mother about what happened after she dissapeard. FireFly had gotten a job as a FireMare. Putting out fires and rescuing Opalescence out of trees.

As Rainbow landed at her house's doorstep, a bad feeling grew in her belly.

Probaly nothing.. im just hungry or something. Rainbow thought for herself. In the corner of her eye, she saw Derpy. The mail mare.

“Hey Rainbow Dash!" She called before she crashed into the cloud house. Rainbow rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Wat'cha want?" She asked, frustrated.

"Mail from... The Hospital!" Derpy picked up the white letter that had a red cross seal with a victorious smile before placing it in Rainbow's wing between her feathers.

"Bye Rainbow Dash!!" Derpy said as she flew away, leaving the cyan mare behind her in confusion.

'Ok... i really dont like this...' She thought as she took the letter out from between her feathers.

With a big sigh, she opened the letter only to almost faint of what it said.

Dear Rainbow Dash,

We regret to inform you that your mother, FireFly have had an accident at a rescue mission.

She requests your presence by her side.

-Doctor Ex Ray

She threw the letter on the floor and rushed to the hospital in a matter lf seconds, but to her, it felt like days. The houses underneath her zoomed by at her ridicouless speed and the clouds she crashed into just let out a 'poof' and they were gone. 'Out of all ponies... Why does things like this happen!? They are killing my life!' Rainbow landed outside the hospital.            Same white walls... Same gingerbre- wait WHAT? Rainbow stood in shock as Pinkie where painting the roof of the hospital.

"Life has a way of killing things just as much as things kills happy moments in life.."

"Wai- Wha- HUH?" Rainbow squeezed out of her mouth.

"Pinkie, Do you know how to read ponies minds?" Rainbow asked. Pinkie had a paintbrush in her mouth and quickly spit it out to answer Rainbow's question.

"No, silly! I can't read minds!" Pinkie said in her normal and happy voice.

"But how did you..." Rainbow was shaking, How did she...?

"I read the story! You should read it too, its really exciting! But sadly, kinda rushed. Bye Dashie!" Pinkie said as she bounced away.

'Dont question her Rainbow! Dont. Question. Her.' Rainbow thought as she walked into the hospital.

She was met by the stellerized smell that all hospitals had. White walls created a rectangular room and small green plants stood in the corners.In the middle, there was a big white reception. She walked up to the nurse behind the reception.

"Where is my mother?" Rainbow asked sternly. She looked with anger into the nurses eyes.

"You're here for FireFly? She's in room 23 in the ER." The nurse responded as she turned her view back down into her paperwork.

'Room 23... 23... Another proof for Twilight to finally proove that some movies are right...' Rainbow thought for herself as she ran down the corridor of the ER. She stopped infront of the door and opened it, only to discover that it was locked.

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God curse that pony... A wooden bowl that stands on a wooden floor in a wooden house as a candle? How do you even come up with that!? And now i will be in hospital for... years. Thanks Derpy! FireFly thought as she heard someone knock the door.

"Hold on! I'll open!" She called to the door. She reached down under the table that was beside her bed and pressed a green button, unlocking the door.

The door slammed open as a cyan and rainbow blur zoomed into the room. It crashed into a wall, inches away from a window, and then fell down on the floor. FireFly knew who it was judging by the colours, but she asked anyways.

"Is that you Rainbow?"

"Yes, who else would it be?" Rainbow asked as she got up from the floor.

"Judging by the crash, it could've been Derpy." FireFly said, making Rainbow groan in frustration.

When Rainbow got up from the floor and saw her mother, she gasped in shock.

Bandages.

They where everywhere on her body. They technically covered her. Everything except her head had bandages.

"W-What happend!?" Rainbow asked, desperate for answers.

"Rescue mission. A filly got stuck in a house that was on fire, and the Fire Suit would gotten in the way so i got it off and went in without it. The filly got a  broken leg but nothing got burnt. I were a little more out of luck as my skin got burnt off." FireFly coughed vioenlty.  Did i spell it right?

The door opened behind Rainbow, making her jump. As she turned around she saw a unicorn stallion with gray fur walk in. He had a white mane and tail and a X-Ray picture of a pony as cutie mark.

"Hello laides, Im sorry to interupt but i would like to speak with..." He looked at the paper that was floating in her blue aura before looking up again. "Rainbow Dash. I would like to talk with you privatly." And with that, he walked out of the room.

"I'll... I will be back ok?" Rainbow said as she walked out of the room. She approached the doctor that was waiting for her at the end of the corridor. The doctor had a serious ponker face as She approached him. No emotion, reaction or anything. As she finally reached him, he turned around and motioned with his hoof for her to follow him. Rainbow walked after the doctor and after a minute or so, they where at a bench. The doctor stopped walking and turned around to face Rainbow.

"Now.. What did'ya want?" Rainbow asked the doctor as she sat down.

"It's about your mother. She is getting worse as every minute goes by."

Everything stopped. Rainbow knew what he would say. She would say how many hours left she had to live.

The doctory continued talking and pointing out injuries on a X-Ray picture, but she didn't listen. She was lost in thoughts.

'And the number of hours left is...'

"...She has a maximum of 23 hours left."

Everything falled apart.

'Not that number again! God curse movies... now they effect my life too!'

A tear fell down from Rainbow's cheek. She stood up and walked slowly in the direction of her mothers room.

"T-Thanks doc... you've ruined my life... Again." Ahe said as she walked back to her mothers room. As she entered she was met by a rispy voice.

"Oh! Y-You're back!"

It was her mother. Her mothers sweet voice were gone. It was replaced by a dry, emotionless voice who felt like knifes in Rainbow's ears.

"Mom... I-I have... News..." Rainbow looked at her mothers face. Her eyes were so full of life, this can't be the end. Rainbow took a step backwards, almost walking into the machine behind her. She took a deep sigh before opening her mouth. But her mother spoke first.

"Rainbow, I know."

Those words hit Rainbow like a wall. She already knew that her time left in this world were running out. Rainbow closed her mouth again. She walked a step forward, Moving away from the machine behind her.

"H-How did y-you know?" She simply asked. FireFly looked into her daughters eyes. They screamed fear. She sighed deeply and looked up in the roof before smiling.

"The doctor is really bad at picking 'Private' places to talk to. The room you where talking in is just on the other side of the wall. I heard every word." Her mother smirked. She looked down at her bandages who covered her body.

"And i can figure out that i will... be gone by looking at my injuries. They are quite... Severe."

Rainbow gave away a small smile at her mothers quick thinking, but it turned into a frown again. Pinkie would kill her if she saw it, or rather kill her with balloons.

"Rainbow... I know what you are thinking about." FireFly looked at Rainbow with a serious look on her face.

"D-Don't tell me you also can read minds."

"I can't. But I can do another thing, And that is reading peoples eyes. How about i change the number 23 to 25?" FireFly searched for an answer on Rainbows face, but for no use.

"Y-Yes please... I need to stop watching those kinda movies."

Firefly smiled. It was her normal, happy smile that the healthy FireFly always wore. Not the sick-FireFly had. She looked up in the roof and sighed before she opened her mouth again.

"But only if you tell me about your childhood."

Time stopped. Rainbow looked at her mother in an expression that said 'Are you crazy?', but after a min of staring, Rainbow gave up.

"Do you Pinkie Promise to not hate my guts?"

Firefly smiled her warm smile again.

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

Rainbow sighed and started telling her mother the long story that was her childhood.

Two days had gone by since FireFly passed. Rainbow had not been taking it lightly. Her freinds had helped though, but her mothers death had really gotten to her. She didn't fly. She walked. This was very strange for Rainbow's freinds, as they were used to the multi-colored pegasus always hoovering above their heads. Rainbow only flew up and down to her house, And stayed in the house 50% of the day. Twilight regulary visited her now that she was an Alicorn, but she still couldn't fly. She simple teleported up. Rainbow always liked her visits but at some times, she just wanted to be alone. A week after FireFly's death, there was a funeral. It was a traditional Pegasus Funeral, where you put the ashes after the pegasus into a cloud and sent it away. After the funeral, Rainbow had stayed on the hill. Hill 364. The place where they had met a year ago. She watched the cloud hoover away on the horizon. When it was compleatly out of sight, she stayed. After an hour, Lunas moon shone bright, and the stars twinkled. She heard someone walk up to her side and put a hoof on her shoulder, when she looked at he shoulder, she saw a lavender hoof.

"Hey Twi..." Rainbow looked at Twilights face. It was filled with understanding of some sort.

"Hey Rainbow..." Twilight answered Rainbow.

"What a day huh?"

"Uhh... yeah..."

They stopped talking or saying anything. They just looked into eachothers eyes. Suddenly, Rainbow layed down in the grass and looked up at the stars. Twilight followed suit. They just looked at the stars above them. after a min or two, Twilight finally decided to break the scilence.

"Its really peaceful out here at night."

"Yeah..."

Rainbow looked at a cloud that were above them. It was shaped as a... Well, As a cloud. It floated slowly accross the sky. So peacefully and quiet. Its fluffy edges cut through the wind as it floated towards its destination. Twilight broke the scilence again.

"I used to watch the stars every night. I studied them when i was a filly, but when i was done with my studies about stars, I still came out every night and watched them. When Luna returned, I became so distracted as Celestia made my studies harder... I guess I forgot about them..."

Rainbow looked over to Twilight. The Lavender mare where so caught in the stars that she didn't notice Ranbow looking at her. After a min or two, she returned her eyes to the stars.

"I always practiced under them... I saw them every night as a filly... I guess it took me some years to finally figure out their beuty."

Twilight knew that this was the best moment to talk about Rainbows mother. Rainbow wouldn't give Twilight another chance. She searched for the best way to start the conversation. When she finally figured out how to start it, Rainbow started it herself.

"I-I really miss her... I Always missed her. I guess it just took a long time for me to figure it out..."

Twilight was in shock. 'Did she just admit that to me?' Twillight thought. She carried the convesation on.

"I miss her too Rainbow. She was a good Mare, A good freind, And she was a good mother."

A tear came out of Rainbow's eyes. It ran slowly down her cheek and hit the ground with a small, quiet 'Splash'.

"Why? Out of everypony, no. Out of everyBODY, Why her?" Twilight saw the pain in Rainbow's eyes. Guilt, Sadness and pain.

"You can't question fate Rainbow. I wish I could do that sometimes, but I can't."

"I-It shouldn't have been her!" Rainbow lost it. She sobbed vioently into Twilights shoulder. Twilight placed her wings around Rainbow and embraced her. After a min, Twilight were also crying. The two freinds sat there, and cried into eachothers shoulders, Late at night. An hour later, They were asleep on top of the hill, curled up against eachother. Everything was going to be fine.