A River of Crimson

Raindrop woke with a start.

"Wow, that was a bad dream." said a tired Raindrop.

"Raindrop, that wasn't a dream." came a mysterious female voice.

"Wh-who's the-there?"

The mare appeared out of nowhere right next to Raindrop's head with her face featuring a wide fanged smile before giving Raindrop a warm snuzzle on the cheek.

"Ahh! Will you stop doing that!"

"S-sorry." wimpered Crimson.

"Wait!"

"Last night can't of happened! I must still be asleep and i'm just dreaming!"

"Afraid not." said a doubted Crimson.

"Go away! This is all a just a horrible dream. I'm gonna wake up soon and all of it will be a dream."

Crimson suddenly had a small spasm, shuddering wildly for a couple of seconds.

"Well.. we better make that statement true." Crimson said with a shallow voice.

Raindrop suddenly felt a wave of sleep crossed her and she was out in seconds, the image of Crimson fading from her eyes.

"Uggh..." moaned Raindrop.

"That sure was a bad dream." looking around the room to make sure it was dream.

It took a couple of minutes for her to get out of bed as she forced her drowsiness to fleet her.

As she trudged towards the stairs, looking out the window at the rising sun she felt a stinging sensation in her eyes and quickly turned away.

"Nothing out of the ordinary so far." Raindrop mumbled to herself.

As she went to eat her oatmeal before she even put the spoon in her mouth she experienced a horrible taste
in her mouth and thought better of her oatmeal as it suddenly felt so inexplicably un-appetising, she also only managed a large slug of her usually amazing coffee.

"Maybe i'm just a bit ill today. But I can't let Medley do all the work so i'll just have to pony-up!"

As soon as she had walked outside of her cloud home Raindrop was practically blind.

"Maybe I should go and quickly by myself some sunglasses." moaned Raindrop.

After about a hour of blindely stumbling around cloudsdale and bumping into random strangers Raindrop finally made it to a shop that sold sunglasses.

Finally Raindrop managed to pick out a simple pare of aviators, true they cost her 30 bits but it was worth it since she could actually see now.

About 30 minutes later she made it to work.

"Where were you?!" bellowed Crafty Crate.

"I'm sorry boss, I had really painful eyes this mornin' so i went to buy some sunglasses." whimpered Raindrop

"That is no excuse for being late!" shouted Crafty.

Raindrop started to pout and when Crafty turned round he didn't just see Raindrops normal guilty pout but infront of it was 2 glistening, long white fangs. At this Crafty jumped about 3 ponies high before landing with a thud.

"May-maybe you shu-should ta-take the d-day off si-sick." stuttered Crafty Crate.

"Are you sure boss?" asked Raindrop.

"I-i'm quite sure, by th-the w-way ma-maybe y-you sho-should con-cons-consider go-goin' to th-the doc-doctor." nervously said Crafty.

"Alright boss." said Raindrop.

"I wonder what was up with Crafty Crate today. Oh well I won't complain about a day off." Thanked Raindrop.

As Raindrop walked on she swore that she saw that pony from her dream last night.

"I must be a little stressed. Oh well."

"I guess I should go and see the doctor anyway see what he has to say."

On the way Raindrop caught many strange and scared looks from almost all the pegasi in cloudsdale.

"What is with everypony today?"

When Raindrop finally made it to the Cloudsdale clinic she didn't find the lovely pony at the desk she usually saw, but instead a small figure hunched right into the corner.

"I'm here to see a doctor." said Raindrop.

"He-hes ri-right in th-there." said the scared nurse as she motioned her hoof towards a pair of double doors.

"Thank you." said Raindrop.

"Why is everypony acting so weird around me today." Thought Raindrop.

"Hey doc' can you figure out whats wrong with me?" asked Raindrop as she walked in and noticed the doctor slouched in his chair in the corner.

"Now thats a famil-fa-fa-familiar voi-voice." The doctors voice suddenly cutting to a small whimper.

"Doc' whats wrong?" Raindrops voice cutting to a anxious whimper.

The doctor finally managed to compose himself enough to say:

"May-maybe you should go and see a De-dentist." stuttered the doctor.

"If you say so Doc'." said Raindrop as she trotted through the doors and pass the nurse at the desk.

"Well if the Doc' says I shou..." Raindrops throat ran dry as she finally realized.

She slowly motioned her hoof towards her teeth and there instead of her normal, flat pony teeth there were two sharp fangs hanging down too about 2 inches under her chin.

Then and there she finally new why everypony in the whole of Cloudsdale was scared.

She turned around about to run home so she could drown herself in sorrow when she saw the same crimson mare from her dream popping her head out of a nearby alley. The mare made a motion of her hoof for Raindrop to come over, the whole time a sly and fanged grin beared on her face.

Author's notes:

Yay chapter 3 is finally out. A big thx to my sample reader 'Extrememuffinz' for reading over my previous chapters and helping me too smoothen the bumps.