True Feelings

Chapter 1: "Nightmare"

"Darkness... I hate darkness, it makes me defenseless. But it's not the darkness that frightens me. It's the unknowing of something that hides in the obscurity. And you never know what expects you there." - Rainbow Dash

Rainbow-haired girl regained conscience. She couldn't see anything, it was a dark room. Lying on the floor, she tried to refresh her memory, but it was useless; She couldn't recall anything. The room was cold; Bleak as ice. Air was dry and she could barely breath. After calming herself down, she tried to get up, but every muscle of her body ached as hell.

Somehow Rainbow Dash managed to get up, but she was exhausted. Every movement of her body was painful. She could hardly swallow the air. Cold sweat drops appeared on her body as she tried to walk in the darkness. While walking, she called for help: "Hello? Is anybody there!...". It was useless, she was alone in the obscure room. After walking a few meters she bumped into an iron door. She opened the door with a creak, echoing across the corridor. At the end of it she could recognize a dim light. It was very far, she began walking to the light, but she was so tired that she could just fall on the floor. Her legs were aching, and her throat was dry. The only hope she had was a strange dim light. Maybe it was her chance to get out of here.

Walking along the endless corridor was really exhausting; She wanted to sleep, and her eyes began closing by themselves, sticking together. Finally, she could reach the light. It was just a tiny flashlight, she picked it up and continued searching for the exit. The flashlight was too small and weak to produce enough light to disperse the darkness around her. In this situation somebody would say: "Better this than nothing", but she won't. She couldn't see anything, flashlight just made an illusion of 'safety', it was useless.

After walking about a few hours, she found a crossing. There were three ways to go: front, right and left.

From the front way was blowing a disgusting smell. She couldn't recognize what it was, but the smell was really awful. It smelled like something rotten. She definitely will not go this way. Well, now it's one choice lesser. While she was thinking which one to choose, the flashlight slowly fade. "Damn it, guess I was wrong about flashlight, it was useful..." - she thought with a regret.

Suddenly, on the left side small light appeared far from Rainbow Dash. That was strange, maybe it was a trap, no it certainly was a trap. She quickly ran into the right side, as fast as she could. After she made sure that she was far away from the crossing, she walked on the right side of corridor. She tried to find something on the walls, maybe there would be a switch to turn on the lights, but there was nothing. Sometimes she could find something fluid, it was a strange liquid. She couldn't see what it was, so she stopped searching switch on the walls.

Corridor was literally endless, and she couldn't find anything. She stopped for a break. Darkness didn't scared her, not anymore. And as she thought about this, a few moments later a bright flash of light attacked her eyes. She quickly closed her eyes for a few seconds. After opening them her eyes couldn't adapt new conditions, they needed some time. The only thing she could see is a blur of a red color. About ten seconds later, finally, she could see everything around her.

The corridor was "pure" white: walls, floor and ceiling were "almost" white, except for the blood dripping out of the ceiling. Walls were "painted" in blood, and she could recognize some blood hand prints on walls and on the floor. Dash was even more scared, she wished she haven't saw this. She would definitely choose darkness, instead of light. Her heart was pounding faster as she looked on the walls "painted" in blood color.

After calming herself down, she continued searching for the way out of this hell. As she was observing everything around, she saw a door opening by itself on the right side of corridor. The door was covered in blood. It was suspicious, she turned away to go back, but suddenly light began turning off on the back way of corridor, but it was still switched on on the front side of corridor, where the strange door was. Rainbow Dash didn't know what to do: go into darkness, or to the door? What is more, she heard sounds of steps on the dark side, it wasn't that far, and she could hear a rasp of metal.

She chose to go to the door, maybe she could hide there. As she ran to the door, something stabbed her back. It was a sharp blade that pierced her belly. A sudden pain in the stomach made her scream. She barely could stand on her feet; she entered the empty room, and closed the door; her heart was beating even faster. The pain filled her mind, she couldn't stop thinking about knife sticking out of her belly. She tried to pull it out, but as she touched the knife, it made even more pain. Tears began appearing in her eyes, she couldn't bear with it. Her death was coming, and she is defenseless against it.

After a few seconds somebody on the otherside of the door, began pushing the door. Dash lost all of her strength and stamina by walking in this maze, she wasn't able to hold this door tight, not with a knife in her stomach.

"What do you want from me?! Go away, you creep!" - Dash cried

"Dash, it's me Pinkie Pie, help me. Somebody's coming, open the door!" - Pinkie replied.

"Pinkie? It's you?" - Dash was surprised to hear Pinkie's voice.

After she weakened grip, the door opened with force bumping into Rainbow Dash. She fell on the floor, on her belly, and then she saw her "best friend" entering the room. The Pinkie Pie that entered room was different from the friend Dash knew. Her usual fluffy cotton candy-like hair was now straight and sharp, the color of her hair was pale pink. The usual beautiful azure eyes were now black and lifeless. The clothes she was wearing were "white" apron dripping with blood and a blue blouse with a pink skirt.

Rainbow Dash was confused, she couldn't accept that Pinkie did this.

"W-why're you doing this, Pinkie?" Dash sobbed.

"Why? Because it's fun, Dashie" - Pinkie said with a smile. She came closer to lying Rainbow Dash, she was crying of fear.

"Please, don't do this" - Dash said crying.

Pinkie pulled out a knife sticking out of her tummy and tossed it away, Dash was whimpering of pain. She boosted and put Dash against the wall, licking her cheek in process. Dash was tired and exhausted, she tried to resist but it was useless.

Pinkie Pie drawed out another knife, but it was different - it was much longer than previous knife. She put Dash's hands together to the up and pierced both of them with a knife, attached to the wall Dash was "hanging" down on the wall. After this Pinkie leaned  over Dash's sobbing face and kissed her with tongue.

"I love you, Dashie" - Pinkie said with a smile...

...

The room was illuminated with a weak moonlight. It was a small room with blue wallpapers, it wasn't small nor big - average size. The wallpapers were depicting clouds with vivid lightnings and rainbows. On walls were different posters of "Wondercolts" the soccer club at her school. Moonlight weakly lighted room painting it with pale white color. Only wardrobe and her clock were left "unpainted". The clock was showing 3:06 PM, when a penetrating scream spread in the silent room. If she would live with somebody, they would hear her scream from the basement, but she was alone living in this big house. She was lonely living by herself, trying to be like an adult. Of course her parents supported her with money and stuff, and they regularly visited her (every 2 weeks), and she "enjoyed" adult's life. Well, she was lying to herself, she still was a 17-year old child, and deep in her mind she was regreting about living alone... She was breathing rapidly, hungrily swallowing the air. "It was all just a nightmare" - Dash thought, while panting. Her bed was wet; she was sweating heavily. After calming herself down, she got up of the bed and walked through a "dark" corridor enlightened by nightlights on every corner or wall. She went downstairs to the kitchen - to drink some water as her throat was dry. (By the way she was wearing pajamas with a pink pony that resembled Pinkie Pie. What a strange coincidence)

While walking to the kitchen she thought about strange nightmare she had. "I should probably stop watching horror movies" - Rainbow Dash said to herself with a sigh. "The horror movies explain everything except the sudden appearance of Pinkie Pie. And the last part was... a little... embarassing?" - as she thought about this a blush appeared on her face. "I wish I could confess my feelings to Pinkie, but It feels so wrong." - Rainbow Dash cried in the kitchen

Rainbow Dash was attracted to Pinkie, she had a crush since she met her. And as Pinkie was near her, the feeling grew even more. So Rainbow Dash tried to avoid Pinkie, and she was even more lonely. The only one that was helping Rainbow Dash to bear with loneliness was her pet tortoise - Tank. But, still it wasn't enough, her soul was crying of loneliness. She was lonely from her childhood as she was different, and she always tried to draw attention of everybody. That she didn't feel lone at all, and as she grew up, she met her best friends. She wasn't alone, not anymore, but as she met Pinkie. After she knew her better, her heart was melting every time pink-haired girl smiled at her. It was a gift for her soul. And presence of Pinkie was necessary for Rainbow Dash, it was necessary like water and air..

Silence was filling the house, not a single sound was heard. She went upstairs back to her room to pick a blanket with a pillow. Dash tried to get some sleep on the sofa in the living room, but it was useless. Not that she wasn't sleepy, it's just the thoughts of her last nightmare. They were disturbing her, and her attempts to sleep have failed. She looked on clock that was hanging on the wall: The arrows of clock were pointing at 3:36 AM. Tomorrow wasn't a school day, it was holiday, so she didn't feel worried about not getting a sleep. Rainbow Dash just wanted to forget about this nightmare. And she couldn't bear with the loneliness, sometimes she just cries at nights like this one, but tonight will be different. "Tomorrow I will confess my feelings to Pinkie, and It doesn't matter what she'll say to me (lie), I just want to end this"

A strange thought appeared in her mind: "Maybe I should go to one of my best friends? But, It's 3AM - everybody's probably sleeping right now. But what If I go to Pinkie's place or Fluttershy's? They would certainly accept me". Rainbow-haired girl quickly got up from sofa and went to her room. She picked a phone and stopped for a few moments: "Should I call Fluttershy, or Pinkie Pie? ...Probably Fluttershy, I can't talk to Pinkie, I'm not... prepared right now..." Dash dialed Fluttershy, patiently waiting for the otherside to pick up a phone. But nobody picked up the phone. "Hm, that's bad" - "Maybe, I'll just stay at home..." - Rainbow Dash thought with a little bit disappointment. She lied down on her bed and covered with blanket, but as she tried to sleep the fear of darkness and loneliness filled her soul... She trembled alone in her bed.

She won't be able to sleep, so she decided to call Pinkie.

"Hello? Rainbow Dash? - Pinkie asked.

"Yeah, Hi, Pinkie. Um, I just had a nightmare and I can't sleep... So can I go to you?" - Dash replied awkwardly

"Oh, that's so great! ...I mean you can come whenever you want, I'll be waiting for U" - Pinkie couldn't hide her excitement

"Hm, why she was so excited. Maybe she wants to make... A slumber party or something like that? But why she told that I can come whenever I want to?... Dash stop, it's just a politeness, nothing more" - Dash concluded while changing clothes. Pinkie Pie wasn't living far from Rainbow Dash's place, - It was just in ten minutes walking. She changed clothes a hoodie with jeans, grabbed keys and closed the house. After that she walked to the outside. The streets were enlightened by a beautiful moon, so it wasn't dark like in her nightmare. And the fresh air filled so nice and 'free'. As she walked to Pinkie Pie's house, she thought about confessing her feelings in the morning: "That's a bad idea, If she won't accept my love - I will lose my best friend that matters to me even more than myself - But If she will accept my love (She paused on this moment, blushing) ...I will be so happy I could die"

After 10 minutes she reached Pinkie's house. It was of pale grey colour, just a regular house like others in her neighbourhood. As Dash came closer to the entrance she knocked on the door, and less than a second Pinkie opened the door. Pink-haired girl quickly hugged Rainbow Dash and grabbed her hand.

"Yay, you've made it" - Pinkie welcomed Rainbow while yawning.

"Yeah,..Heh" - Dash was a bit surprised when Pinkie hugged her so tight. But it's not the hug that surprised her - it's the weird pajamas that Pinkie wore. "What're you wearing?" - Dash asked curiously. Pinkie wore a strange pink costume with cat's ears attached to her hood. "Cute" - thought dashed in Dash's mind.

"This one? Oh, it's just one of my... um, special pajamas... yeah, special." - Pinkie said, "If you want, I can bring you something like that" - she offered.

"N-No, I... prefer regular ones" - Dash replied with smile.

"So, where do you wanna sleep? If you're scared, you can sleep with me" - Pinkie said with excitement (especially on the last part) while giving Rainbow Dash regular pajamas.

"I... I'm fine, I'll sleep on the sofa" - Dash replied.

"Oh, Okay I'll bring you blanket and pillow" - As she said this, she went upstairs.

While waiting for Pinkie, Dash quickly changed clothes into Pinkie's pink pajamas with an image of pink pony with a pink mane that resembled Pinkie herself. "Smells like Pinkie..." - Rainbow Dash thought while smelling pajamas, and blushing.

Pinkie came to Dash with blanket and a pillow. "You know I can sleepwalk sometimes, so don't be afraid If I'll wake you up" - Pinkie said while giving blanket to her.

"That's weird, I didn't knew you can sleepwalk" - Dash said with surprise.

"Oh, I didn't know myself. I discovered about it not long ago" As Pinkie walked away from living room.

Dash lied down on sofa and covered with blanket. It was comfortable, and the smell of Pinkie surrounded her - but It wasn't enough. She was regretting about declining Pinkie's offer to sleep together. After a few minutes she went to her dream world. Or a nightmare world? She was probably having a nightmare again, because she was shivering and tears dropped from her closed eyes.  Nightmares filled her dream world, because she still had fears about confessing her feelings to Pinkie.