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Deception

“Sunset.....”

The voice continued to call out her name once more.

“Sunset....”

Sunset had heard it, but she’s too tired to react, right now. She felt like her hands were heavy as hell, and her eyes seemingly closed shut. But then again, she did want to get up, it’s just that she can’t.

“Sunset!”

‘Wait. It’s like I know this voice, but I can’t put my finger on it. Think, brain, think!’

“Sunset! Wake up!”

Immediately, she jumped out of her lavender pink bed, screaming and gagging loudly. She opened her eyes, only to see Rainbow Dash, wearing her usual outfit, topped off with a tracksuit. She wanted to question her about her geode,which was missing from her neck, but she decided to brush it off. Maybe she left it at home? Who knows.

“Mind telling me just what was your reason waking me up? And just how did you get in here?” she murmured.

“Seriously, Sunset? You said you wanted to see the new Daring Do movie with me! How did you forget that? And besdes, everybody knows where you hide your keys outside.”

She thought back to the last time she talked with Rainbow Dash. It didn’t seem to far back, probably a day or to before her unexpected arrival at her house. To her, it wasn’t anything that particularly something she remembered, since they hang out almost every day.

‘Did she wanted to see the knew movie?’

‘Wait, no. Cut that. Is there a new movie coming out? Rainbow didn’t tell me about it or anything.’

She paused for a brief moment, thinking about her mentioning the movie. She rushes over to grab her phone, and opened up Google. Since she can’t remember anything about the movie, She searched it online, and there it was, the new Daring Do movie. She slaps her forehead, in utter embarrassment.

“Ooooh. Yeah, sorry Rainbow. I forgot about it.”

She waved up in the air, signalling her care.

“Nah, it’s alright. Hey, at least you can make it there.”

This got Sunset’s curiosity to stir.

“Wait, what about the others?”

“Twilight, AJ, Pinkie, Rarity, all of them got something they have to do over the weekend. Guess it’s just you and me, huh?”

Wait. One of those rings a bell, but she can’t quite put her finger on it yet.

Rarity.

But why is it so important? She can’t remember why, but just hearing her friends name being called out loud makes her shiver. Not a lot, but it was present. She thought of it as placebo and just went on without it.

“Forgot to ask.”

“Hmm?” Rainbow replied.

“No homo?”

She smiled over to Sunset, and immediately bursts into laughter.

“No homo.”

“Lemme just take a shower, then we’ll go. You can stay at the living room if you want.”

“Fine then.”

And so, Sunset grabbed her towel and went straight to the showers. She stripped off her remaining clothing and hopped in, feeling the hor water drizzle above her. Since her friend was waiting, she didn’t take long.

While she was in there, she thought to herself. Was there something she was supposed to remember? She can’t quite understand just what it is that’s so important, but it feels like it’s a must. She needs to remember it. Whatever it means.

‘Was it something tragic? Memorable? Insatiable? I just, can’t get it on the tip of my fingers.’

‘Is there even supposed to be something that I should remember, or at least, try to?’ Sure, she tried, but to no avail. There was just nothing to grasp on, but yet, Sunset still feels something’s wrong.

In a way, she’s damn right.

Once done with ‘long’ shower, making her way to change her clothes to a more suitable and casual one, they were now set and ready to go to the movies. Sunset grabs her keys, which was placed at the glass tabletop nicely by RD. She scopped it up, and instead of putting it in the original location, it was fitted inside her pocket.

“Can’t let anyone break in that fast, can it?”

Both of them laugh it off, and went straight to the theaters, driving.

“Y’know, you do need to pay me back afterwards, okay?” Sunset exclaims, not leaving her eyes off the road.

RD raises an eyebrow, questioned.

“What for?”

“One flat barren word.”

“And that is...?”

“Gas.”

She pushes Sunset just the slightest bit, but still made her temper rise.

“Rainbow, what the hell? I’m driving!”

“Me being the youngest in the group, and you think I can afford gas? I barely had enough money for this movie!”

Forcefully making her temper deplete, Sunset lets out a small sigh and smiles at RD, figuratively.

“Fine then.”

Once arriving at their destination, they got out of the car, and RD begins to leap in joy.

“Oh, man, I can’t wait for this!”

Sunset, seeing the overly excited RD, decides to tease her just the slightest bit. She glances at the available movies, which were displayed at the front of the theaters, for the whole world to see, and chooses a random one. Once she made her decision, she rushes over to the counter, giggling at her actions.

“Two tickets for-“

And a terrible scream fills the ears of Sunset. She takes a glimpse at the cause and the one making the horifying screech. As it turns out, not to far. It was caused by a pedestrian, gazing over Rainbow Dash’s chest in sheer shock and disbelief. Sunset followed suit too, and took peek at her stomach. From her peripheral vision, it seemed that something was off, and she was damn right.

A knife was sticking out of her.

She was frozen still, and didn’t even flinch the tiniest bit, the only exception being gurgles coming out from her mouth as she received waves of pain flowing throughout her entire system, shutting down everything except the existence of the knife, and the terror that comes with it. Blood spatters out from the mouth of the gurgling woman as she begins to topple down, not for collapsing, but for the sentence of her life.

Sunset, stood in silence. She’s still trying to process just what the hell had happened. Who did this? There was nobody who was at the back of her, needless to say. Nobody can throw a knife that accurately, so it must be somebody. But who?Soon enough, she came to her senses and rushed towards the bleeding body.

She holds Rainbow Dash’s right arm, squeezing it tight and snug. There was one thing missing, however. The general heat that she had. It was no more. Her hands were a little bit more stiff, and cold to the touch. She knew what has already happened. Once the body has lost it’s soul, the brain shuts down, and all life inside too. It will take a slow process, but slowly but steadily, her body will decompose. Not to mention her body stiffening and her body becoming more cold than usual.

She screams in agony, bead after bead of tears flow from the top, and down to the blood soaked asphalt below. While this was happening, she sensed a strange lingering sensation, like a pulse of some sort. She had felt this before, and knew just who this person was.

“Just look at you. Pathetic.”

She gives out a bloodhound look, and stands tall on her two feet. Midnight, however, not even touching the ground, but instead gliding with her wings.

“What are you gonna do? Throw a rock or something?”

“Maybe teach you a lesson. Or. Two.”

“I’ll say otherwise.”

And with a snap coming from her own fingers, the world faded to black.