The Signs of an Angel

The horrors of the night

have risen to burn it down.

to burn the fabric of creation

to end all life

from which the creation

of death, and creation itself.

Cloud Watcher stands, picking Fear up gently, "Would you mind traveling with me, as well as carrying her for a little while? I don't exactly trust my strength all that much right now." Stormdrift nods his head as he looks around. Cloud steps toward Stormdrift and lays her gently on his back, "Thanks for your help, it means a lot to me." He begins to walk down the path that Storm had been flying along, "Oh, I'm headed to Ponyville, in case you had been wondering."

Storm follows Cloud, making sure Fear didn't slip off his back. "I could fly her there ahead of you and admit her to the hospital, then come back and meet you halfway. If you'd like?"

"I'd appreciate it..." He begins to whisper quietly, as Storm leaves the ground, "Sleep well... Mayflower.."

"What was that?" Storm looks down to Cloud, hearing him say something else.

"Hmm? Oh, you must be hearing things." Cloud continues down the path as Storm shakes his head and turns forward, flying toward the Ponyville hospital. Cloud looks up into the sky, noting the shapes of the clouds, the direction they flow and the speed they cross the sky at, "Why can't I be like them, free and unerring? A cloud, not bound by rules and laws." He slightly speeds up, his canter being a jog while he watches his surroundings.

He continues on like this for three hours, as the sun begins to go down he becomes drowsy, and eventually falls asleep on a tree trunk. During his sleep he has a dream, a recurring dream that never seems to go away.

"Vale, you know your end, you always have. A change to be, the same as it were."

He turns toward the direction of the voice, speaking, his own voice the same monotonous tone as always, "You have no control of destiny. Mine, or others. Now please, go terrorize little foals' dreams why don't you. You should already understand by now, you can't claim my mind as your own."

"We shall see." As the voice dissipates, his horn begins to glow a white color. This causes vein like energies to run to his flank, the area where a cutie mark should be present, burning him as if he were coated in acid. "A destiny, is yours no longer. No talent is yours to flaunt. A current of magic you no longer have  to. You have the weaknesses of a unicorn, with none of the strengths."

He wakes with a start, "I swear, these dreams get more ridiculous as they go along." He looks up to the sky, unable to see clouds the densely packed forest. "I don't remember this forest, not a bit, not at all. Where in the wide, wide, world of Equestria am I now?"

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Storm arrives at the hospital just as the sun began to sink, checking her in and staying by her side for an hour's time. As she awoke, she spoke three words. "You... may leave..."

The sudden sound of her voice, surprises him as he began to doze off in the chair, "I won't leave until I know you're alright, and not a thing you say will come close to changing my mind."

She sits up in the bed, taking the pain as if it were just a scrape on the knee, "Perhaps... you ought to visit... this Fluttershy you keep worrying about..."

Storm sits up in his chair, "How did you, know about her?" The blush apparent on his face, was all the proof Fear needed.

She looks toward Storm, "You kept whispering her name, on the way here... Of course I'd hear it... Even though I was out." She smiles, "Go, i'll be fine. The nurses will make sure i'm alright, I promise."

Storm thinks to himself, If I go... Cloud'll kill me for leaving her. If I stay... she'll be upset at me... I'll take Cloud being pissed. "Alright... Just, stay here, alright?"

"I'm not able, to go much of anywhere in my condition..." She looks toward her legs, trying to move them, acting as if they would not.

"Before I go..." He reaches into his saddlebag and pulls out a silver tiara, setting it gently on her head. "Just, a little gift I want you to have."

She smiles, "Thank you. I think, you should get going now, before she goes to sleep."

He nods and heads out the door, "See you in the morning Fear!"

Fear waits nearly an hour after Storm leaves and attempts to get off of the cot, falling down as soon as her legs took her body weight. "Thought so..." She tries several times to stand, only succeeding after a few moments of effort, and begins to slowly walk through the door. "Well... time to explore this town..."

She opens the door and silently walks down the hallways of the hospital, nearly getting lost until she noted the signs on the walls, nearly out of her right eye's vision. She follows the signs and eventually makes it outside the hospital into the cold, crisp night air, "Magic would help right now..." The tiara atop her head seemed to reflect the light from the streetlights, into unique patterns on the ground. "Pretty..."

Fear looks around and takes in as much as she can while she walks around the streets. Making it to the center of the town she sees a tall tree-house with a carriage in front of it, the symbol on the sides being a wand and a moon. "I guess... I should try to get some sleep.." She steps onto the carriage with one hoof, nearly slipping off, her hind leg catches the cobblestone path and she pushes herself onto the carriage. She curls up in the middle of the carriage and soon falls asleep, still feeling the crisp air from outside.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 Hour Later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Trixie must be leaving now, take care Twilight Sparkle!" The blue mare walks toward her carriage, unaware of the sleeping Fear that occupies it. As she walks forward humming the rhythm to a song she begins to hear steady breathing, "What the-" She arrives at her carriage and peers inside, seeing Fear, "What are you doing in Trixie's carriage!?"

Fear wakes with a start and cowers into the back of the carriage, hiding her face behind her hooves. "I.. I.. Don't hurt me... please..."

Trixie hears the fear in her voice and gets onto the carriage, holding out her hoof to Fear. "Trixie apologizes, the last my carriage was occupied, it disappeared for three days. Why have you chosen to sleep here? Don't you have a home to sleep in?"

"N-no... I just left.. the hospital.. earlier than I was supposed to..."

Trixie moves next to Fear, pulling off her cape and laying down. "Trixie wishes for you to lie with her, draped in her moon and stars."

Fear looks to Trixie unsure of what to do, she slowly moves closer to her and lies down, being pulled closer to Trixie and covered in her cape. As the cape settled over her she felt a hoof gently wrap around her. They both soon fall asleep, draped in the moon and stars.