Happiness is stronger than blood.

20 minutes passed since Angel had ran out of the home, and Ribbon was running around frantically. She was surprised when she didn't see the filly in bed, but as she progressively lost sight of the filly she grew severely worried. The filly eventually made it back to the main hall where she and Angel first met. She looked around, for any sigh of those vibrant eyes when instead of seeing purple, she saw pink and they were atop of a cream coat.

Ribbon blinked, looking at who she was staring at only to see Golden Feather, Angel's mother. The mare was smiling brightly, as if nothing was wrong. ''Ah...good day, Mrs Feather....No, that's not it. Feather, A-Angel, she's missing. She's nowhere in the house, not a sigh of her anywhere and it's worrying me!''

''Nowhere in the house? Did you do something to her to made her upset!?'' said Golden Feather, seriously.

''No...not that I know of. U-Unless....she saw me outside, near my mommy's grave........she's the type, who would believe that it was her fault right?''

''You're definitely right....But, that's what worrying me now. She could have left the house, is the front door unlocked!?''

Ribbon blinked for a moment, before hurrying over to the door and pushing on it, as hard as she could muster. It was open as it flung open as soon as she added enough strength. Now she was terrified, if Angel had really left the house, she could literally be anywhere as the world outside was massive. ''..She could be anywhere...''

''That's why we should split up. I'll go east when we get to the fork in the road at the bottom of the stairs and you take west. Report back to the house if you don't find her but if you do, just bring her back as quickly as possible. She's not safe outside, not with her illness taking over her body...''

While Golden never explained why it would be unsafe, Ribbon still got increasing worried for her sister and secret love. She instantly ran and turned right, leaving Golden at the door. The filly didn't even care, she needed to find Angel before something bad happened. Sweat rolled down her face, as her paranoia began to take the best of her.

She bolted all over the place, till a scream and light sobbing filled her ears. The horrible 'music' sounded just like...Angel. She instantly bolted in the direction of the sounds and came across a alleyway, bolting into it as soon as she got close. The cries and screams grew more intense the closer she got.

When she finally got to the center of the alleyway, her eyes widened. Her sister was there, curled up on the floor, with a gun pointing straight at her. The gun of which was wrapped in a red glow and was being held by a unicorn stallion, who was smirking. The filly, herself, was shaking and crying.

Her common sense was lost as she let out a war cry as she ran and kicked the stallion straight in the face, knocking him back. She stood up straight and glared down at the stallion and the gun, which rested a few feet from him and in reach of his twitching hoof. ''Don't even pull that trigger, you bastard! If you even dare, then I'll kill you straight here, right now.''

The stallion smirked at first, upon seeing the almost teen filly, before noticing the dark look on her face and he figured out that the filly must have not been right in her head. He freaked, glancing back at his gang. ''Let's got out of here, we had our fun for today. It's pointless to resist and that filly is scaring me....slightly.''

He picked up the gun with his magic, and ran away like a baby with his gang hot on his heels, the gang leader even let out a scream for his 'mommy'. Ribbon smirked a little, also she let out a small giggle, turning back to a still shaking Angel. She was shocked upon seeing the extent of the filly's pain.

As she started her gaze at the filly's head, she saw that the filly's beautiful white hair was no more as it had been dyed to a rich blood red as the very blood that dyed it ran down the side of her head, the blood even covering the filly's left eye. Luckily, the eye was shut to avoid any pain though the pained expression that the filly processed meant that it was obviously not working. As Ribbon continued to gaze, she noticed that the filly's open eye was black and red with tears. As for the filly's face, it didn't fair much better as it was coated in bruises and obvious knife wounds.

Ribbon was utterly shocked, especially as she stared down at the filly's black and blue coat. It was like non of that beautiful cream glow existed anymore and only black and blue existed, not a drop of cream anywhere. The knife wounds also didn't help as the blood that crept out dyed the filly's coat red. But even that wasn't the worst of it. The filly's legs were coated in blood, blood that Ribbon actually recognized, virgin blood and it didn't help that the very blood that coated the filly's legs was also dying the sandy floor behind her and dying the filly's tail.

Ribbon covered her mouth to stop herself from vomiting, as she watched the filly's pained face and eyes close. The filly swayed and eventually collapsed into her own blood. The older filly gasped and instantly picked the filly up, shocked as hell as she looked down at those bruised features that were formally beautiful. ''Angel, wake up. Angel!''

A faint sound reached the filly's ears, breathing. Ribbon let out a small sigh of relief, but that relief ended as soon as it appeared as she had to get Angel home and checked on, immediately before more pain was done to her frail form.