Angel Wings, Broken Rainbows

Fluttershy waited in the hallway resisting every urge to burst through the door and be with her beloved. She looked over at Pinkie Pie, her mane and tail straightened once more, as the previous night replayed itself over and over again in her mind.

Fluttershy laughed once more at the pink pony's antics as they reached the door of her cottage. Her spirits had certainly lightened after her talk with Pinkie Pie and the dozen cupcakes were certain to make Rainbow Dash feel so much better.

"If there was something really wrong, Dashie would tell me. Right Pinkie?"

Pinkie Pie stopped bouncing and her icy blue eyes burned into Fluttershy's aquamarines, "Of course she would Fluttershy. She loves you so much. She would never lie to you."

Fluttershy looked back into Pinkie Pie's eyes, fighting the tears stinging her own, "You're right Pinkie. Thank you for everything."

"You knew already. Now lets get in there. These cupcakes won't eat themselves."

"Yeah."

Before Fluttershy could say otherwise Pinkie burst through the door yelling Dashie's name. It sounded like she had reached the bedroom when everything grew silent.

"Pinkie?" she rounded the corner where she saw her friend frozen in place, "Pinkie, what's the matter?"

The pink pony did not move in the slightest. Fluttershy followed her gaze over to a cerulean blur lying on the floor. Suddenly everything clicked into place.

"Dashie!"

"Miss Fluttershy, Miss Pie?"

"Nurse Redheart! Whats wrong with her? There was so much blood. Is she gonna lose the baby?!"

"Whoa whoa, calm down Fluttershy. First off, she and the baby are going to be okay. Although she did lose a lot of blood."

"What happened to her?"

".....I'm sorry. There are certain protocols I have to obey or I could lose my job. What I can tell you is that she suffered some mild internal damage. But its stopped bleeding and she will be okay."

"Why can't you tell me? What caused the bleeding?"

".....It was caused by magic."

"What? Who would do that?"

"I don't know Fluttershy. But I can't tell you any more. Not until the princess gets here."

"Why.....would the princess be coming? Does she know something about this?"

"I am so sorry Fluttershy. I can't say. You can go be with Rainbow Dash until the princess gets here."

"Nurse Redheart.....I trust you. As long as Dashie is okay, that's all that matters. Thank you."
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-Beep-Beep-Beep-

The steady pulse of the machine was enough to rouse the cyan pegasus from her sedation. Her eyes wandered the room until she found what she was looking for, two beautiful turquoise eyes shrouded in tears.

" 'Shy, what happened?" she said, her voice a little raspy.

"I met up with Pinkie Pie when I went out shopping. When we got home we found you unconscious on the floor.....there was so much blood Dashie....."

"Hey hey, I'm okay now-"

"But why didn't you tell me you were in pain?! I wanted to stay with you! You could've bled out before I got home! I can't lose you Dashie! Please....."

" 'Shy.....I'm sorry. I've been getting stomach pains for a few weeks. I didn't want to worry you and most of the time they weren't anything special. But today they got really bad. When I was puking this morning.....there was blood. I didn't want you to worry if it was nothing so I was gonna get in touch with Twilight and have her take me to the hospital, but then I couldn't move and.....I'm so sorry 'Shy."

"Don't you dare apologize to me.....I'm the one who didn't help you. Everything that has happened to you. I could have stopped it."

"No you couldn't have. Bad things just happen sometimes."

"Both of you just stop it." Pinkie Pie's voice surprised the lovers as they turned to their pink friend. "You guys love each other, and you're both alright. Be happy for that. And not that but I love- I mean everypony else loves you too. You guys will never be alone. No matter what pains or hardships happen, we will be with you."

"That was very well said Pinkie Pie. We would happen to agree."

The three young mares looked toward the door to see the dark purple alicorn slowly walking into the room.

"Oh, Princess Luna. I thought Princess Celestia was going to come."

"Our sister wanted to, but something urgent came up and she could not make the time. She trusted me to tell you what she needed to tell you."

The three ponies stood in silence, eyes glued to the princess of the night.

"Have you never wondered what became of mine and Celestia's mother? The truth is.....we are in fact half-sisters," seldom did the sadness become so very apparent in the princess' eyes, "our father was the very first alicorn. Some even say he was the very first pony. He never told us about his past. Celestia was born first, and then to a different mare, I was born. The reason our mothers died.....an alicorn's power is too much for the mother to handle. Her body is destroyed from the inside. Our father's name was Omega Solaris. I was lucky. As Celestia was the first born, she had opportunity to meet my mother and tell me of her. But my sister.....she never knew her mother. Father raised us for most of our lives. We were always traveling, and he bedded every mare he could.....some by force. We didn't know why he did these things, but he was our father and we loved him. Then one day, one of his many mares was ready to give birth.....but it wasn't an alicorn. It wasn't even a pony. It was then that our father abandoned us and our newborn brother. We had nothing and we were but fillies ourselves. But still we cared for our brother who took to calling himself Discord years down the road. But you know that part of the story.....So far as we know, it was a thousand years before another alicorn was born. We don't really know why we are immortal. We think that because we were his first, Celestia, Discord, and myself have his full undiluted magic and blood. But twenty-eight years ago Mi Amore Cadenza, our "niece" was born. Her mother of course died, but the stallion who loved her mother, the pony who should have been her father, cared for her as his own. That is how we knew he was active again and since there have been similar attacks all across Equestria."

"I don't understand," Rainbow Dash said, sitting forward in her bed, "why are you telling us this."

"Because it was our father who raped you. And you are pregnant with his alicorn baby."