Funeral for a friend.

                                                                                                    Chapter eleven.

                                                                                                       The final sign.

Sunset and Fluttershy walked in silence for what seemed to Fluttershy to be hours of just being in each other's company when in actuality it had only been a half hour into their walk. In either case it didn't much matter as to how much time passed. She was just happy to be next to the girl that she was in love with.  She wanted to tell sunset about her true feelings for such a long time. Yet her gentle shy nature made that impossible. Everything that was going on, Sunset's destiny, The screaming burning agony of her getting that damn mark on her chest, and the ensuing upcoming battle with a demon. Made all of her feelings for Sunset seem like a world away to her. Fluttershy wanted to take it all and just toss all this demon stuff into a trash can never to hear about it or see it again. Yet she knew in her heart that Sunset was right. So far nothing seemed to be able to help with any of this. As they walked farther down the street Fluttershy asked.

“At the hospital you told me 'I know' yet you have not told me what it is that you know, so I must ask what do you know?” Fluttershy asked Sunset as they walked down the street.

Sunset stopped looked at the ground and halfheartedly replied with.

"oh...uh...I know that you were the one that tried to Twilight from opening my shirt while I was asleep in the hospital bed." Sunset said as she nervously rubbed the back of her head with a half smile on her face.

Fluttershy quirked an eyebrow at this response but, said nothing as she started to walk further up the street. This being a total lie Sunset had actually wanted to tell her that she really knew that Fluttershy was in love with her. But, in her mind she needed to let Fluttershy say this when she was ready and not before hand. She didn’t want to risk their friendship by making her admit to something that she might not be ready for.  Several months ago Fluttershy had invited Sunset to stay with her at her home until Sunset was able to get a place of her own. It was there that she had figured out that Fluttershy had actually fallen in love with her. Fluttershy had kept pictures of her and her friends but, she only had six of these photos. When it came to the ones of Fluttershy and Sunset however she had over eighty of these and all of them were placed into heart shaped picture frames. Sunset wanted to ask her then and there about the photos. Yet she felt that this would somehow in some way upset Fluttershy. Fluttershy was a timid girl and very gentle she loved all sort's of things that where fluffy and well cute. This is something that Sunset loved about her it was also the reason she didn't want to push Fluttershy into this any further. So she made up a lie in order to spare Fluttershy's feelings something that she silently cursed her self for doing. As they walked each fully enjoying the others company Sunset looked down and sighed deeply this Fluttershy took notice of.

“What is wrong Sunset are you not enjoying the walk or the brisk air?” Asked Fluttershy as she came to a complete stop.

Sunset turned to her and replying.

“it's not that, it’s well I don’t want to fulfill this damn destiny of my birth.” Sunset said grimly to Fluttershy.

“Then don’t if that is what is really bothering you, then leave here run as far away as you can. If you really are destined to do what you said to us last night then run. Get away from here and live your life to your rules and not some ancient words that you heard as a child.” Said Fluttershy as she looked into sunsets sky blue eyes.

The two of them continued to walk down the street again until Sunset said to Fluttershy glumly.

“Its not any where near as simple as that Fluttershy you know as well as I know that well.” Her voice trailing off as Sunset came to a complete stop then began to recite the prophecy of her birth in hope that Fluttershy would fully understand it this time.

"THE PHOENIX CHILD WAS BORN OF DEMONS DESIRE. THE PHOENIX CHILD WAS BORN OF FIRE. THE PHOENIX COMES TO CLAIM. THE CHILD HAS COME WITH FLAME. THE DEMON TEARAGON SHALL HEAR HIS NAME CALLED UPON THE DRUMS OF WAR. THE PHOENIX CHILD COMES TO END THE DEMONS REIGN. THE PHOENIX SHALL BECOME HIS PORTAL. THE PHOENIX SHALL BECOME MORTAL. THE PHOENIX SHALL END ALL DEMONS IMMORTAL. THE DEMONS SHALL BURN IN PHOENIX FIRE. THE PHOENIX SHALL DESIRE THE THRONE OF THE IMMORTAL KINGS DEEPEST DESIRE."

“Do you understand those words at all Fluttershy” asked Sunset as she stared coldly at her.

"I fully understand those words NOW! you understand this! you don’t have to fulfill this prophecy at all, all you have to do is leave run as far and as fast your legs can carry you.” Fluttershy said heatedly to Sunset trying to get her to understand that in her mind Sunset didn't need to complete this prophecy and actually leave if she wanted to.

"I have already become the portal" Said Sunset colder and harsher than ever before.

“Wait what?......What do you mean you have become the portal? How can that be? How can you be a portal into Equestria when I see no portal any where around me?” Fluttershy asked in shock to this reply from Sunset. Before she got the answer she was looking Sunset replied with another response that also through her for a loop.

"I have also become mortal as well." Upon saying this sunset lowered her head and a few tears leaked out of her eyes.

"OK I think that needs some explaining, what do you mean you 'I have also become mortal?' are you really telling me that you are some immortal being of some kind?" Asked Fluttershy with more than a confused look on her face.

Fluttershy wasn't entirely prepared for the answer she got from Sunset as to how she became mortal or if she was even a imortal being to begin with. Sunset looked at Fluttershy then at the ground before saying to her.

"Back when the Friendship games were just starting I was sitting on the school steps about to write to Twilight from Equestria.  I looked up and saw the Twilight from this world using some sort of scanning thing on the statue. So I tried to stop her and she ran off before I could get any answers from her."

"OK I seem to recall her telling me something about that but, please continue." Fluttershy said trying to get all the information out of Sunset that she could.

“It was when she was standing next to the statue again, When I saw her for the second time. I touched the statue with my hand and my magic got sucked into the it. Although I was able to pull away from the statue. My magic got sucked into the statue and through the other side right into Twilight's pendent. The magic that she took from me on that day wasn't just magic it was also the portal that Tearagon needed to open a portal into this world and conquer it."

“and the reason you are telling me this now is why?” Asked Fluttershy a bit confused and also worried at the same time.

“Because I didn’t think that the prophecy was going to come to pass! It wasn’t until I began to get my mark that i came to realize what i had done and what it meant for this world” Sunset said as tears began to flow down her cheeks.

Fluttershy took a hold of her and embraced Sunset in a loving hug which she too embraced her friend and hugged her back. Sunset said as she started to let the tears flow out completely while she hugged her friend.

“The drums of war are already sounding within that awful land and Tearagon is already freed from his prison. Now all he needs to come here is for the the final part of my mark to show it self and thus show him where to find me. Once that is done, that is it your world shall burn”  Sunset said as she started to fully cry.  Fluttershy wasn’t sure how she could help her friend so she took hold of her and let her cry on her shoulders.

“i know you are wondering how i can know about this when neither of us had heard any actual drums” cried Sunset

"Well yes the thought had just now accrued to me." Fluttershy said gently rubbed Sunset's back trying to calm her down.

“I know of this because each time I feel that burning sensation when my mark shows it self. I can actually see and hear all that is going on in Tartarus”

"You mean to tell me that you can actually psychically see and hear everything that is going on in that place that you are some how linked too?" Fluttershy asked a bit shocked by this.

"Yes I can actually see all that is going on there. While my cutie mark shows it self on my chest. My cutie mark isn't just a wound Fluttershy it is also a warning of things to come. Each time a piece of it shows it self, he gets freed from his prison. Each time I burn demons within that land beat drums and cry out for war. It is not just this world that will burn but my world too. I am nothing more than a tool to be used then tossed away once both our worlds have been fully conquered."

Fluttershy gasped in horror knowing now what that meant for sunset to be going through. She gently pushed Sunset away from her so that she could look into her sky blue eyes and dry her tears when a look of pain and horror shot across sunsets face.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

"SUNSET!" Exclaimed Fluttershy as she caught her friend when she began to fall to the ground screaming in pain.

“The pain! Make it stop! Please make it stop!” Screamed Sunset as she was held by Fluttershy's gentle arms trying to not let her land painfully on the ground as Sunset clutched her chest as smoke emanated from her shirt once again.

Fluttershy grabbed her by the arm and just held her as she kicked and thrashed about like a wild mare about to get a branding iron put to its flank.

“It hurts……..it hurts so much…..make it stop! Please make it stop!” screamed the girl in agony.

“I know it hurts just let it all out Sunset." Fluttershy said as she held her arm tighter not wanting to let go for fear of her friend hurting herself because of the pain she was in.

Sunsets eyes once again light up into fully emblazoned blue spheres and her voice became deep and guttural. She screamed and screamed as more smoke came from under her hand.

“I see him…..I see Tearagon I see that he is……..is fully freed Fluttershy. He knows now where the portal to this world is and how to get to it.” She screamed.

"It's alright Sunset I will not let anything hurt you Sunset."

“He is coming he has already chosen his form he is coming!”

Just then the sky went midnight black as the moon covered the sun in a full eclipse and a red beam of energy was shot up into the sky. Sunsets eyes rolled back into her skull the blue flames that now made up her eyes went out as they returned to their normal white spheres. She passed out there on the street. Fluttershy let go of her hand and removed the one covering her mark on her chest. She saw that this time the mark was……..complete. A fully embed Yin-Yang sun symbol was wreathed in red and orange flames on her chest. As she lay there a loud laughter could be heard coming from the direction of the high school. Fluttershy looked up into the sky seeing that the moon was now covering the sun she stood there in fright of what was about to happen.