Music

I went meet her at the exact time she said at Sugar Cube Corner, but she was no where to be found. I asked Pinkie if she had come in but she no she hadn't. I just meandered around the shop looking at all the deserts playing a hame with myself.

The games was trying to figure out that deserts Octavia would like. The only think I could think she would like was cupcakes.

I had been waiting for over an hour when I finally stormed out. She had told me to meet her there but she couldn't even show up. I decided to see if she was in the forest.

***

I followed the path that I had only trekked twice before but felt so much like a part of me. Something that went deeper than a path through the woods. I followed it feeling panic well in my chest and I ran. Why was I panicking and running? I tried to slow but my hooves didn't respond the urgency grew and my breaths quickened burning my nose from the intensity of it all and suddenly I felt light-headed.

I jumped over a fallen tree that I could have sworn was not there last time I came walking through here. I burst into the clearing. I looked wildly around as I stood tall and my tail flicked slightly behind me. I let out a sigh of relief and moved to slump against a tree to catch my breath but then I heard a blood- curdling scream that pierced my ears and made a shrill sound through the quiet forest as all the birds fluttered out of the trees and as fast away as possible.

I flattened my ears against my head as the scream grew louder but then the urgency returned and I was up and running. My instincts took over and I was jumping and swaying and moving with grace I never knew I had. I jumped over another tree trunk and found what had made my heart race.

Right there in front of me was Octavia, bloody, broken, faintly breathing, and with an object that pierced through her heart. I stood there still not comprehending as the gears in my head finally started to move and I was again taken over by instincts.

I threw her on my back and ran back to Ponyville making my way to the hospital. I weaved my way through a crowd in the square and ran into the hospital as the nurses crowded around and rushed down the hall and all I could do was stare a she was rushed down the hall as she looked up at me for a final time before her eyes rolled back and her chest stopped rising.

***

A nurse stepped out from behind the desk and herded me into the waiting room while I was still in a blank stare. She sat me down on the bench and whispered something that I didn't quite understand. I looked up at her and stared back. Then, it played in my ears over and over. It was Octavia's song that I had first heard that had compelled me to go into those woods that day.

I let the song soothe and relax me like it had that first day. I let it take my worries away with the rush of the notes and I sat and waited.

***

The doctor came out and my heart skipped a beat for a second.

"You're the pony who brought...",he said as he checked his chart,"the uh Octavia pony in?"

"Yes.", I whispered worriedly.

"She's going to be okay, but I need to ask you a couple of questions.", he said.

"Go ahead.", I said.

"What happened to her?", he asked.

"I don't know, I just found her like that.", I answered.

"Where did you find her?", he asked.

"In the woods.", I replied.

"Why were you in the woods?", he raised his eyebrow questioningly.

"I don't know, I had this felling I should go there. She was supposed to meet me at Sugar Cube Corner but when she didn't show I up, I got a little angry but worried at the same time.", I explained.

He nodded his head obviously deep in thought.

"Do you know any pony who could have done this to her?", he asked still deep in thought.

I shook my head now deep in thought, too. What if some pony had done this to her? Obviously, no creature besides a pony could have pierced her heart like that did. What pierced her heart? Why had they hurt her? What had she done? Had she done anything?

I couldn't stop my mind from racing.

"I have one last question.", he said.

"Go ahead.", I said still in thought.

"Did you do this to her?", he asked menacingly.

I snapped out of my train of thought and looked at him bewildered.

"Of course, I didn't", I said shocked that he dare accuse me of anything like that.

"Just calm down, we were making sure that that wasn't the case.", he said.

"You can go in and see her.", he said motioning to her door.

I got up and walked down the halls that smelled of antiseptic and small hint of death. I entered her room and I at with her, staring at her chest for hours making sure that her chest was rising and falling on pace.