After Death

Rainbow Dash sat in her room, bored. She stared at the clock and watched every second slip by, agonizingly slow. She groaned and stuffed her face under her pillow. Suddenly the clock rang, and she sat straight up in her bed. Her face whirled to face the clock across the room, and saw that it was nine o'clock. She slid out of her comfortable cloud bed and trotted towards one of the two windows in her room. She placed both front hooves on the window pane and peered out, trying to part the curtains as little as possible. She saw that the moon was in the sky.

She smiled. "It's time to go get my keys!" she said eagerly.

She grabbed two knives from her saddle bags in case she encountered any difficulties. She darted down the stairs and out her front door.

***

She flew quickly and quietly towards the place her murder took place, SugarCube Corner. Once it was in her line of vision, she slowly angled herself down towards it. She landed on the cloud she always used to take naps on that hung just above Ponyville's bakery.

She jumped off her cloud and opened her wings as she was about to hit the ground and gently lowered herself into a small ally way beside SugarCube Corner and hid in the shadows, looking for a good place to break in without drawing attention to her. After a few moments, she found a window rather close to the basement stairs. She gently creaked the window open and slipped inside, shutting it behind her so nothing looked disturbed.

Rainbow Dash quietly walked towards the staircase that led to the basement. She frowned at the staircase as she walked close, revealing the dark abyss that layed beyond it. Rainbow took a deep breath and trotted down into the basement.

At first, she couldn't see a thing, and she was walking down the stairs blindly. But after a few seconds of this, she could see everything perfectly clearly. Hmm... it must be due to the fact I was underground a pitch dark coffin for a year or so, she thought.

Once she was on the landing at the end of the stairs, she began walking around the room. Some things were gone, of course, to find traces of DNA to help find out who she had killed. But everything else was as it had been, probably because no one wanted to come down here if they didn't have to.

She walked around the room slowly, eyeing everything. She spotted a chest in a back corner of Pinkie's room of horrors and approached it. Upon reaching it, she opened it, unhitching the latch. She held up the lid and peered inside. She saw some knives and nails and hammers and other tools of torture as she moved things around, searching for her keys, which she found no trace of in the chest.

She frowned, shutting the chest and putting the latch back in place. She glanced around the basement one last time before moving back up the stairs. Upon reaching the upper landing, she thought her keys might be in Pinkie's room. Pinkie's room, how delightful she thought bitterly and walked up the staircase that led to the apartment part of SugarCube Corner.

Rainbow Dash quietly opened the door, and it emeted a small creaking noise, making her stop. After a short moment she opened the door all the way and slipped inside. She was about to look through her dresser drawers when she heard a soft movement like blankets churning behind her made her freeze.

There's somepony in here? Dash thought, a startled a bit. But, who is it? She slowly turned to see Pinkie Pie, fast asleep in her bed. Oh my Celestia! She's here!? They must have let her out of that asylum. Well, I won't let her stop me from getting back my keys if she does wake up.

Rainbow Dash quietly slid open all the drawers in the first row of the dresser and found nothing but accessories and party supplies. Same with the second row. And the third.

But when Dash checked the fourth row of drawers, sitting in the second drawer in the row, was her key ring. She smiled. She picked up her keys and shut the drawer. But when she did so, her keys jingled.

Rainbow froze when she heard Pinkie groan a little as she woke up. She rubbed her eyes groggily as she sat up in her bed. But when she brought her hooves down and away from her face, she saw nothing and nopony in her room.

Although she was sure she had seen a familiar faded rainbow streak zooming out her now open window.