Dark Sparks

I can't take it anymore. I've had enough.

Night arrives. I know what im going to do, regardless of who sees me. Or what they think. I don't even know how I'm going to do it. But I will.

Why am I in hospital? That's all I ask myself as I creep down the quiet halls. This hospital is unusually empty, considering, well, that it's a hospital and all. My ominous hoofsteps quietly bouncing off the walls with every step I take.

I thought I was alone, until I see a waiting room full of ponys, and a dragon, snoring away. Who were they waiting for? I didn't see anypony else in the hospital beds, and I had no idea who they were, so it can't be me.

I quietly tread past them, trying not to draw any attention to myself. The front doors of the hospital were open, strangely. There is a path, that seems weirdly familiar, but surely I would remember why.

The path takes me through this abandoned town. How did I even get here? Why am I here? There has to be some reason.

The path goes up to a cliff. I was going to jump. That's how this would end, but I can't remember why I was going to jump. Did somepony die? Somepony I knew? But I don't know anypony! Does anypony know me? If so, would they be sad that...I jumped? What would they think? Would they blame themselves...for some ridiculous reason, like they made fun of me? I hope they don't, nopony made fun of me. That is if even anypony knows me in the first place.

I remember something. I jumped off this cliff. When? After some fire? I think so. I can remember the sensation of falling. Horrible. After I jumped, I wish I didn't. I suddenly wanted to live. But for what? Did I know anypony then? Or was it just like now, no idea why I'm here, nopony to stop me and no point in carrying on. I don't even know who I am. My name. What was it? Do I have a name? Oh Celestia, I don't even know my own name.

I started to feel sick. The sight of the tall drop beneath me was too much. The tide was out, so no water was there to break my fall, just the sand.

I can hear voices coming from the abandoned town. I guess it isn't abandoned after all. Some mare was crying, shouting what I assume is someponys name.

"Ember! Where are you, Ember?!"

Somepony was lost? I'm the only pony who is out besides her, so...am I lost? Could that be my name? Ember? The mare spots me, and flies toward me. I don't know what to do, should I jump?

"Ember! Please don't do this! Just wait!"

She lands in front of me.

"Is that my name? Ember?"

"Yes! Don't jump!"

The mare shows me a book.

"I know this won't work, but I can't live knowing I did nothing to help you!"

What was she talking about? The mare opens up a page of the book, and reads. It sounds like a diary, with me in it. It couldn't be mine, I have never wrote a diary.

As the mare reads every sentence, she looks at me, desperate for something to happen. She talks about a talent show. Her eyes were flowing with tears, and she was trying to stop her voice from breaking.

She gets to a poem, that she says I wrote. I didn't write it. I would remember, wouldn't I?

"It's about your brother, Ember! You told me about it in the library! Oh Celestia please, please..!"

"I don't have a brother."

She gives up, drops the book on the floor, and cries.

"Just do it! You don't remember anything anyway! Just jump!"

Should I listen?

I make a step closer to the edge. Her crying gets louder. Another step, the crying becomes practically screaming. I take the last step. The final feel of grass underneath my hooves.

"No!! I didn't mean it, im sorry!!"

I don't jump, but I don't move back, either.

"Oh Celestia, what do I do?!" The mare pleads.

"...who are you?"

There was a pause.

"R-Rainbow...D-Dash..."

"Why don't I remember you?"

"...I don't know...but please...you do know me..."

"Can I ask you some questions?"

"...yeah?"

"You seem to know me, so why was I in hospital?"

"...your losing your memory..."

"Can I get it back?"

"...no..."

"Does that make me...lost in time?"

Rainbow doesn't answer.

I lean forward, and drop. Falling, I spin around to see the night sky above. And Rainbow, darting down to catch me. Too slow.