A Mare's Final Hours

    A bright, colorful rainbow shot across the sky like a longbow. Several streaks of it colored the pale blue sky. Young and old, weak and strong, looked up into the sky at the array of color.

"Look, mom! It's a rainbow!" Fillies would shout.

       The creator of the rainbow, then did a loop in the air for her adoring fans below. She did back-flips, and decided to turn up her speed a bit. She sped through the clouds, the little water particles puffed and dissolved as she flew through them.

    A cone of speed surrounded her, as she flew faster and faster. The, the last noise she heard, was her friend Twilight.

"Rainbow, stop!" CRASH!

      "She reviving. Nurse... c-call the doctor in, fast," a faint voice cried. Several sobs, and heavy breathing was all she heard after that.

"It's gonna be okay, w-we're here... Dash," a familiar voice soothed. She dared to open her eyes, finding a lavender alicorn sobbing on the pegasus' white blanket. Four others stood there in worry, Fluttershy and Pinkie crying their hearts out.

      "It's okay... I'm.. going to be- ARGH!" She held her head in pain, then jerked back her hoof, stained in dark blood. Twilight began to panic, as she ran out the hospital room doors, calling desperately for a doctor.

      "I apologize, your highness, but there is nothing I can do," a doctor stated firmly. Twilight did not take that for an answer. She grasped him in her magic tightly, tears escaping her eyes.

"I AM NOT TAKING THAT FOR AN ANSWER, MY FRIEND IS IN NEED!" She yelled.

    "I TOLD YOU,FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE, I CANT DO ANYTHING! ADMIT THIS FACT: YOUR FRIEND IS DYING!" At that, it hit the alicorn, who fainted on the spot.

     Apple Jack paced around the room, nervously waiting for help. Rarity attempting to calm Fluttershy and Pinkie, who were leaving puddles of salty water on the floor.

      "W-What is Rainbow Dash.... if she...." she trailed off, wiping tears from her eyes, looking over to the injured pegasus who sat in bed reading a Daring Do book. Pinkie hiccuped, looking over to her friend.

Rainbow Dash, stared weakly at Pinkie, then her eyes fluttered, her head slipping down a bit. Pinkie watched in horror, afraid her friend was gone. She felt her heart shatter to millions of pieces, as she broke free of Rarity's grip.

"Dashie, wake up! I know you're in there somewhere! Please wake up!" she cried, shaking up the cyan pegasus. Rarity ran over, grasping Pinkie by her back.

"Don't shake her head up like that, you could do permanent damage!"

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! YOUR BRAIN ALREADY HAS PERMANENT DAMAGE!"

"WHY YOU LITTLE-" the two were cut off, as the doctor and the purple alicorn entered into the room.

"I-I'm afraid there's some bad news, along with good," The doctor said quietly. Everypony's head, even Rainbow Dash's, shot up, facing him. Taking in a few breaths, he looked over the papers in hoof.

"Well, Rainbow Dash has had an extreme blow to the head, damaging her skull, and other bones as well as her wings and her lungs. There is..... well..." his eyes welled with tears, as one dripped onto the note pad.

"As of now... there is no sign of saving her. She has 48 hours left of her life, and after that, after all our research... she'll.... be gone... I-I'm so sorry..."