Crimson Plague

Chapter 2

-Ponyville General Hospital; Waiting Room-

The four of the mares sat nervously in the waiting room, the fifth paced the room. They were all waiting for news on their friend. All of them hoping beyond hope that she was alright.

“UGH! What's taking them so long?! Is anyone even there?! HELLOOOO”

The rainbow-maned mare bellowed,  having stopped her pacing only to knock on the door that lead to the ICU. Much to the other girls displeasure.

“That's enough Rainbow Dash!” The lavender mare said aloud, “You need to sit down an-”

“Sit down?!” she interrupted, “You expect me to sit down when one of our best friends is..is..LIKE THAT?!” she shouted pointing her hoof to the double doors.

The alicorn simply stood her ground, puffing her chest slightly, her, newly taught, regal self coming out now. “No Dash,I expect you to stop being selfish and considered ALL your friends” she said her eyes leading to a particularly solemn looking pink pony, her flat mane covering half of her face, eyes puffy and red from crying. The two white and orange mares shouldering the pink party pony sharing her solemn look, though their eyes shot disapproving glances at the sky-blue pegasus in between comforting their friend.

Rainbow Dash's earlier fervor seemed to die down to almost nothing, now adding guilt to the list of emotions she was feeling at that moment. “Sorry guys..” She said weakly toward the trio, her wings drooping to the ground now. Twilight's expression softened considerably as she walked over to her friend, putting a wing over her comfortingly. “I know you're worried Dash, but banging on the door like a madmare isn’t going to help anyone” she said in a scolding manor. “We're all worried about her, just try and be patient with us. “ She pleaded to the pegasus.

Rainbow Dash again turned to twilight, who offered her a smile, and nodded. “Alright,” she said conceding to the mare as she started back to her seat with Twilight. No sooner that she started to walk back, the double doors opened up. A unicorn stallion in a white lab-coat and face mask entered the room. The five mares quickly getting to their hooves surrounding the stallion. “How is she? Will she be alright?” The pink mare was the first to speak up.

The doctor, lowering the face mask with his hoof, simply sighed and shook his head, “we don’t know.” The doctor said with his own degree of guilt showing on his face.  The mares having mixed reactions to the doctor's answer. “What do you mean, 'you don’t know'?” the lavender mare was the one to speak this time, her Canterlot voice looming threateningly on the edges of her voice.

Despite this the doctor kept his cool as he confronted the five mares, “I mean that we have no idea what's happened to your friend. She's obviously sick, but we don’t know anything past that, whatever's happening is far out of our scope. The only thing we can say for sure is that whatever it is, it's getting worse, not better. If we don’t find out what's wrong and fix it soon, we fear that she..wont not make it another week. I'm sorry, I wish there was more I could do,” he said solemnly.

The girls stood there, all of them in varying levels of shock. The dreadful news regarding their friend was a harsh blow. They all knew that she was in a bad way, but the idea of her dying was a worst case scenario, one that they all pushed back to the back of their minds. They didn’t want to even think of the possibility of their friend dying. Now it was all they could think of. Pinkie whimpered loudly, her lip quivering. Letting out a fresh wave of tears before simply breaking down into sobbing loudly as  it all sunk in. Rarity joined her pink friend in the open display of sorrow, dark lines of running make-up marring the alabaster coat of the mare's face.

Twilight was struck dumb, unable to formulate any kind of response to the dreadful news, her eyes wide as she thought of something, anything to do.  “It can't be, she can't be..” the orange farm pony stuttered as she tried to comes to grips with the reality of the situation. Though, out of the five, the news hit Rainbow Dash the hardest, tears falling freely as she took the doctors coat in her front hooves, picking the Stallion up as she herself climbed to her hind legs, “YOU NEED TO SAVE HER!-” she screamed into the stallions face. “YOU'RE A DOCTOR! YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO HELP HER! SO START DOING YOUR JOB AND BUCKING HELP HER!” The cyan pegasus bellowed with a cracking voice. Tears flowing freely

The doctor was shocked at first, but upon noticing the look on the mare's face, he could only feel pity for her and her pain. Rainbow Dash looked at the stallion and shook him, “TELL ME SHE'LL BE ALRIGHT!” she cried now. “Tell me she'll be alright!” she said, her whole body shaking as she lost her grip on the coat. “I don’t want her to die...” she sobbed, her legs giving out on her fully. Releasing the doctor before collapsing to the floor. She buried her muzzle into her front hooves as she wept. Applejack, being the only one able to, walked over to Rainbow dash and put a hoof around the pegasus shoulders as she wept, her hat tipped slightly to hide her own tears.  The doctor said nothing at first, letting the girls cry it out before finally speaking up. “If you'd all like, you could go see her, she could use a visit from her friends right now.” The stallion said, most of the girls looking up to the stallion, agreeing silently with him. The mare's took to their feet, Applejack having to help Rainbow Dash stand up. Twilight, having regained some of her senses helped Pinkie and Rarity down the halls