Chapter 7: Stories

It was night time. The moon was out and the ponies formed a circle around a campfire. Derpy had Dinky in her lap. Scootaloo was with Rainbow Dash. Babs was with Applejack and Apple Bloom. Rarity and Sweetie Belle were on the right of Applejack and on the left of Rainbow Dash. Film Maker was on the right of Rainbow Dash. Continuing on the right was Night Striker and Saint Wubs. On Saint right was Fluttershy. Fluttershy was on the left of Derpy. Pinkiepie was on the right of Derpy and on the right of Pinkiepie was Applejack. They were in a circle with the campfire in the middle. Everypony had their eyes on Derpy. Derpy had her attention on Dinky. Dinky had her eyes closed but she wasn't sleeping.

"Confused." Derpy said. "Out of all the emotions that were rushing at me at once it would be Confused. I wasn't scared of the blood next to the door. I was confused is to why the janitor didn't clean it up. I wasn't afraid of the heart monitor being off. I was confused is to why it was off. I wasn't afraid of the flickering light. I was confused is to why they didn't replace it."

Derpy turned her attention to everypony else. They all showed signs that they were paying attention.

"I needed to know what happened. I needed to find somepony I knew and trusted. Then I found Pinkiepie." Derpy turned to face Pinkiepie.

"Oh it was nothing." Pinkie said.

Derpy looked at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow's face showed guilt.

"What's the matter Dash?" Derpy asked.

"I thought you were dead." Rainbow replied.

"Why would you think that?"

"At the hospital.....Everything began there."

Rainbow's story. Hospital, noon. Rainbow was walking down the hallway to Derpy's room. She had red roses in her hooves. She walked into Derpy's room and saw Derpy lying in the bed. Rainbow walked up next to Derpy's bed and sat down in a chair next to the bed. Rainbow looked at Derpy.

"Hey Derpy. I'm back. It's been two weeks since you've been in your coma and it's been two days since I visited you. I'm sorry I didn't bring Dinky this time but.......She's at school." Rainbow looked at the roses. "I brought you roses....I hope you like them."

Rainbow got off the chair and went around the whole bed to set the roses on the counter next to Derpy's bed. She walked around the bed but didn't sit down in the chair this time. Instead she stood on her side.

"I hope you come back soon. Dinky is missing you a lot.......I miss you." Rainbow grabbed Derpy's right hoof. "I hope you come back soon." Rainbow kissed Derpy on the cheek.

All of a sudden a loud explosion shook the whole building. Rainbow stood up quickly and looked around the room. She walked over to the open door and poked her head into the hallway. There were royal guards lined up with guns. The royal guards had their guns aiming on six ponies. The six ponies were running up towards the guards. The guards shot their guns at the six ponies and they all fell down against the wall.

"What the fuck. Why are the guards killing civilians." Rainbow looked to her left and saw a pony with it's hind legs and tail twitching. "What the fuck is going on."

There was a loud gush noise and Rainbow walked up towards the pony. Half of it's body was cut off by a corner of a wall. Rainbow got closer and noticed a blood puddle getting bigger by the pony lying on the floor. Rainbow walked around the corner and saw a pony eating the pony that was lying on the floor. The pony that was eating, looked up at Rainbow. It's soulless eyes gave Rainbow Dash fear. Out of reaction, Rainbow Dash slowly walked away from the dead pony and started to move towards Derpy's room. Until all of a sudden the pony that was eating jumped on top of Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash kicked the pony off of her and started searching the room for a blunt object. There was a fire extinguisher lying right next to her. She picked up the fire extinguisher and started to bash the pony's head. Once Rainbow stopped bashing the pony's head, she walked into Derpy's room and locked the door.

Rainbow looked over at Derpy and saw her still sleeping. Rainbow walked over towards the bed and started to push on Derpy's shoulder. "Come on Derpy I need you to wake up right now......Please." A huge explosion shook the building again and the heart monitor turned off. "No no no no no no." Rainbow walked over to the heart monitor and started pushing a bunch of buttons on the monitor. "She needs you...turn on......please turn on.......FUCKING TURN ON YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Rainbow hit the monitor with her right hoof. "Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Rainbow looked over at Derpy and leaned her head against Derpy's chest. She couldn't hear a heart beat. "No." Rainbow looked at Derpy with sorrow in her eyes.

Rainbow walked up to Derpy and kissed her on the cheek. "I'm sorry." Rainbow walked to the door and saw blood seeking into the room. "Damn it....that pony is spilling blood right through the cracks of the door." Rainbow opened the door and saw a the dead pony. Rainbow picked up the dead pony and put her around the corner next to the half pony. Rainbow went back to Derpy's door and closed it. She looked to her left and saw a bed. She looked back at Derpy's door. "I can't let you get eaten." Rainbow moved the bed in front of the door and slowly walked away.

..............

Back to camp.

"Rainbow you know that it isn't your fault....It was a little mistake, we all make them." Derpy said.

"I know, but I still feel like as if it was my fault." Rainbow said.

"Why don't you come sit next to me. You need a little comfort." Derpy said.

Rainbow got up and switched places with Pinkiepie and sat down right next to Derpy. Derpy looked at Rainbow but Rainbow's head was hung in shame. Derpy put her hoof on Rainbow's shoulder and Rainbow looked up. Derpy slowly moved her head towards Rainbow's and kissed Rainbow on the lips. Rainbow closed her eyes and started to kiss back. Once the kiss was broken, Derpy looked down at her lap and saw Dinky with a big grin on her face.

Author's Note

I've had a rough time around where I live lately. I've been depressed because my girlfriend still doesn't know that I've attempted suicide. She knows that I drank again but she encouraged me to quit again. The day this Chapter will be published will be my fifth day of being sober. Last time I went twelve but I made a blog about that so I won't explain it in this note. So basically it took a couple days or so to put up this Chapter because of depression. Again. I hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter. Chapter 8 will be here sooner than hoped for. Hopefully. Anyway leave a comment on what you thought and stay tuned for Chapter 8.