Princess Aurora

by Xenay

Chapter 14

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The best and, at the same time, worst thing happened. Rainbow Dash opened her eyes.
Her vision blurry, she looked around. She noticed that there were lights on above her. She felt numb everywhere and couldn't move. Slowly her hearing returned. She moaned as the light was piercing into her eyes and closed them shut.
As she tried to breathe in deeper, she noticed that something was odd. Something was around her, preventing her from doing so. She tried not to panic, trying to think of what happened before she passed out. Before she could do so, she heard voices.

"Hey, how are you feeling?"
She knew that voice.. it was the voice of her lizard friend. No.. not a lizard.. a frog? No.. no it was.. a dragon. Yeah. Her friend was a little dragon.

"Dash?"

Oh no he's talking to me! What should I even answer? How Am I even feeling? Numb, Lost, Lifeless? No, I'm fine.

That's what she was going to say. But all that came out of her mouth was another groan.
She opened her eyes again. She knew that feeling from somewhere.. Like she was in the same situation once..
Finally her vision cleared a bit and she saw, very dizzy, a purple pony and a dragon. From looking around, she was in a castle.
Twilights Castle.
It all came back now.

"Twi-wiht?"
She tried to stand up. Her legs barely able to move, she managed to sit up. Only to have to be held up by her friends.

Damn why am I so weak?

Her mind wandered back to what's around her body. She turned her head around so see bandages wrapped around her chest and lower body. Then she noticed the blood on the floor. Her eyes widened.
Had she been attacked?
No, that's just silly. Who would attack her in a castle of a princess?
If she had been here the whole time, that is.

"Dash?"
She was brought back to reality again.

"Wha happen..?"
Twilight and Spike glanced at each other, then back to Dash.

"You don't remember?"

"No.."

"Dash. You committed suicide a few hours ago."
A few seconds of silence.

"Oh.."
She looked at her bandages.
"Is it that bad?"

Spikes eye twitched. She forgot it all?! He went to the fridge to get something for Dash. She needed lots of fluids right now.

"Rainbow, you should lay back down. You lost quite the amount of blood."
She didn't really get anything in her state, but she obeyed. Spike returned with a glass of juice and brought it next to Dash. The Pegasus looked at it, not getting what he wanted.

"Dash, drink it. You'll feel much better, trust me."
She gave another confused look until Twilight grabbed the glass with her magic and brought it to the Pegasus' mouth and she drank out of reflex. Dash tried to get a taste but her tongue remained numb like the lower part of her body. Twilight levitated the glass on the table in the kitchen. Not a second later she heard a soft snoring from next to her.

Dash had fallen back asleep. Twilight wondered if Spike put something in the juice or if she was just that beat. It was probably for the best.
In her dreams she saw her mother in Canterlot, how she stared into the sky as the guards flew off. Celestia was then joined by her sister Luna, who gave her a small nuzzle and guided her inside the Castle.
Then everything went black.
She awoke thanks to light. Her vision wasn't as blurry this time. It was a warm light. The sun was shining. And she figured she wasn't in the kitchen anymore. She was on a bed. Dash looked around, and from the looks of it, she was in the familiar bedroom she spent the last nights. Twilights bedroom. She was in Twilights bedroom...

Alone.

"Twilight?"

No response.

"Twilight!? Spike?!"

Again, no response.

Is this some kind of bad joke? Am I still dreaming? Wait.. what did I dream about...
She closed her eyes to concentrate, but found nothing but darkness. She wanted to breathe in deep to sigh, only to get reminded of her bandaged chest.

Memories flooded back into her mind. She only remembered peaces, and they were pretty blurry. She remembered being in the kitchen, pain and Spike yelling at her...

"Oh good, you're awake."
The voice almost startled her to death.

"Twilight!"

"I knew I heard something from up here. How are you feeling?"

"Urgh.. "

She grimaced as she felt a sharp pain in her head. She rubbed a hoof against her skull, trying to ease it. Suddenly it just vanished again as fast as it came.

"Dash? Are you okey?"

"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Still, what happened anyways?"
Twilight blinked at her.

"Dash. You committed suicide last night."
Then Twilight grabbed the anti depressants and held them in front of the Pegasus.

"Looks familiar?"
Dash scratched the back of her neck.

"Y-Yeah... how did you get them?"

"Fluttershy brought them over last night. She knew what you'd do... she saved you Dash."
Rainbow looked down on the sheets. She thought she was okey. She thought she could finally live without them..

"And she showed me your scars."
Twilight added, getting Dashs attention back. She didn't answer, though.

"Dash.. I know I'm a bit mad, but that was a real shock. I just want to know.. why?"
Dash didn't move for a few seconds, then sighed. Her ears folded back, she turned to the window.

"Dash.."

"It's because of... mum. S-She sent her guards, or is going to do so..."

"What? How-"

"Twilight I have visions I can look into the future or present with. I'm surprised you had to ask."

"Right..."

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