The Muffin Mare

As Dinky slowly opened the door and called out to Derpy one more time, she walked into the dark room, which was only bright enough to see due to the window on the other side of the room which revealed to Dinky that her sister wasn’t there, or anywhere to be found, Dinky called out to Derpy a few times before giving up and accepting the fact that she was nowhere to be found. Except for the buckets of tinting fluid on the floor that filled the room with a pungent smell, and the small mess left on the floor, along with Derpy’s bed. A few moments had passed with Dinky waiting for her sister to appear. Yet, to no avail, Derpy never showed up.

As Dinky’s patience ran low on waiting for her sister she had left the room and started walking through the house almost aimlessly while calling out to the air for Derpy. Dinky wandered the halls calling out for her sister, almost tearing at the thought the her sister, the last person she had in her life to love and care about, might have disappeared forever and abandoned her. As the long hours had passed, more tears had fallen down her cheeks and onto the floor and her body feeling colder as she lost faith in her sister ever coming back for her.

Though her body was getting colder, it was not the fear of her sister that had caused it. It was a literal wave of cold passing through every part of her body, as well as the house, due to the window in Derpy’s room that was left open. Though as she grew cold, so did the house and everything in it. Dinky was young, meaning that she didn’t pay attention to the small details and didn’t even notice that Derpy’s window was left open, and that she didn’t open it.

Derpy had barely escaped from her room in time, hardly being able to open the window and take her suit off, almost unable to make the quick choice of throwing her costume under her bed and making a dash out the window and just in time too. Derpy flew above the city streets staring at all the earth ponies and unicorns trotting below her. Her staring down at the street causing her to almost run into some of the pegasi that were flying with her as well. She didn’t even know where she was going at this point. Her heart was racing with adrenaline while she flew trough the street, realizing how close she came to getting seen by Dinky.

Derpy knew she could go to the hospital and go meet Sound, with the hope that he could’ve woken up by now, but she couldn't see the point in that, Derpy knew it would just make her more sad about his situation than she already was if she were to go there and see that he still hadn’t woken up from his coma. Derpy flew through the city pointlessly having no idea of where to go or what to do, but realized what she needed to do when she saw the horizon. The bright yellow sun was now starting to set on the grassy horizon and the land was starting to get darker.

Her mind kicked into gear and she started to fly back home as fast as she could, running into trees and buildings as she realized how late it was and that Dinky was home alone, not thinking straight because of her fear. Derpy was actually more afraid that Dinky was sad about losing her sister rather than being scared that the house could’ve been robbed for revenge by one of the criminals she had previously busted. As her thoughts and paranoia flooded her mind, Derpy flapped her wings up and faster and stronger than she ever had and for a reason too, her sister.

Derpy had flown through the night sky and up to her house, slowing to a stop as she reached the door but barely able to see the door, or the handle, through the dim moonlight that was shining onto her. She fiddled her hoof around the area in front of her, until hitting the door. Finally, after multiple attempts, she hit the handle and slowly pushed it down causing the door to become ajar with the frame that it sat in. As she pushed the door forward slowly, it responded with a creek that started from a whisper and made it’s way to a quiet shout.

Derpy could tell that Dinky was out of earshot due to her not running straight for the door as the creaking got louder, as the door Derpy slid into the constantly growing gap between the doorframe and her, gaining her entry to her house. As she walked through the house there was no sign of life anywhere, and a call to Dinky would yield unknown results of either happiness or shoutings, results of which Derpy didn’t want to deal with right now. As Derpy made her way through the dark house and back up into her room she noticed a faint sound coming from her room which she quickly made out to be Dinky.

As Derpy walked into her room she saw one of the more familiar sights she had seen, Dinky, laying on her bed. Though it was completely normal for Derpy to see Dinky on her bed, there was one thing that drew small tears to Derpy’s eyes as she stared at Dinky. Through the midnight light that shined onto the bed Derpy could see the glimmers of dried tears as they reflected off of Dinky’s face along with the stained puddle on the bedsheets. Derpy’s mouth went agape as tears flowed down her face when she came to the sudden realization that Dinky had cried herself to sleep.

As Derpy walked closer towards the bed, the sound of Dinky’s slow breaths, mixed with some muffled crying started getting louder but stopped as Derpy slowly laid a hoof on Dinky’s back, giving Dinky the comfort and love she craved ever since she thought that Derpy had abandoned her. The longer Derpy’s hoof was on her sisters back the more calm she became, slowly as Dinky’s breathing calmed down Derpy started laying down next to her and closed her eyed, happy that she was there to comfort her sister. As the room went dark and time passed, Derpy’s mind shut down and she let her mind and eyes rest.

Slowly the night passed and the sun started to rise into it's regular position, shining at just the right angle into Derpy's room and beaming right into her eyes, gently waking her up. Derpy awoke from her slumber with a few confused mumbles and gently maneuvered her way around Dinky, trying to not wake her up, allowing her to get up from the bed, and as she left she wrapped the sheets around Dinky to help with her shivering. As the blankets ran over Dinky, her body responded immediately by calming down and going into a more peaceful slumber, one that somepony would actually want to be sleeping in.

Derpy walked further from the bed and closer to be window, and standing there, staring out into the land and the depths if the sky. She didn't know what to do anymore, she lost her friends and almost her daughter because of what was going on with her body, all these confusing new abilities and powers. Derpy couldn't help but think about what was going on and at least trying to make sense out of the world that was laid before her. "What did I do wrong?" she spoke quietly to herself, but still loud "I took care of everypony and did the right thing. Yet, here I am. Getting punished. For no reason other than doing the right thing." she said as she tapped her hoof on the bottom of the window sadly and confused until she stood up and flew out of the window and out onto the land.

Time passed and eventually Dinky woke from her slumber, the only emotion showing was her shocked face when she saw Derpy, glad that she wasn't abandoned. Dinky got up from the and ran towards her sister pulling her into a tight embrace and smiling all the while "Sis! I knew you wouldn't leave me!" Dinky shouted happily though the Derpy's coat "But I just got so scared! Because you came up here, then I couldn't find you in the room when I opened the door! I even checked the whole house and I couldn't find you! Anywhere!"

Derpy simply sat through the embrace, accepting it, but not returning it. Though, Dinky didn't seem to mind, or even notice that she wasn't paying attention to her, due to all of her attention being so focused on the fact that Derpy didn't abandon her. Derpy looked on through the window and could see buildings, with multiple lines of muffin mix stuck to them, hanging down below above the ground but not touching it, or getting in anypony's way. Derpy stared on and could see the obvious path that she had taken with her muffin mix transportation method earlier. It led right to her house, and straight to the hospital.

As the realization of her mistake hit her, she realized that if anypony caught on to the muffin mix and it's trails to her house, she wouldn't be safe for very much longer, especially with all the people that now hated her for her abilities. Derpy's thoughts were broken as she faded back to the world, not surprised to still hear Dinky rambling on about her disappearance. After all, Dinky loved her more than anything in the world, and Derpy knew it. But she didn't want to lose that love because of a stupid mistake like this.

"So, sis, where were you last night?" Dinky asked "you don't normally disappear like that, especially without even telling me! I mean... It's not like you have to... But still! Plus, your room was a mess... You normally clean it before you go anywhere..." Dinky said as she loosened her embrace with her sister and stared at Derpy, looking for answers. Derpy simply sat there as she remembered were she went that morning, as the memories flowed back tears came along with them, and as they began to cloud up her vision, the sun shined straight onto her, making the tears more visible than ever, especially to Dinky, who was right next to her.

Dinky could see the tears forming on Derpy's cheek through the light from the window and started to tear up a little on her own by the sight of Derpy crying "Sis! What's wrong? Are you okay? What happened?" Dinky pleaded for an answer to understand Derpy's sorrow through her sobbing.

Derpy simply sat there staring out onto the land beyond the window, almost ignoring Dinky and going into her own world, until she felt the need to comfort her sister, to tell her it was all okay, that there was nothing wrong, that she would always be there for her, and she knew that was her job as the older sister, especially without the parents. Slowly, Derpy opened her mouth and started her attempt to form words to explain her sorrow an pain "Dinky." she said as she started to turn herself towards Dinky and look her in the eye "Everything is fine. Nothing is wrong Dinky, and everypony is fine and safe. Especially you."

Derpy lost herself in her thoughts as they began to echo in her mind repeating over and over again at what she had just said to Dinky. All she could hear "Everypony is fine and safe." The words repeated on and on in her head and stabbed at her brain like daggers as she realized the magnitude of the lie that she had just told to her sister.

Nopony was safe around her.