Opportunity of a Lifetime

Chapter 48: Fear

Time felt slow for Dusk, as he slowly fell towards the ground, from two stories up. He looks up, to see the needles slowly flying through the air, barely missing his falling body. He could see the raindrops fall from the rainclouds in the sky, as the scheduled second rainfall begins. He prepares himself for a hard landing…

*CRUNCH*

Dusk prevents yelling out in pain as his legs buckle from land on his hooves. He collapses from the pain, and lies on the ground, unable to move. He knows that he isn’t injured from the fall, because he couldn’t feel any sharp pains in any parts of his body. All he could feel, is a painful stinging sensation on his hooves, his left fore-leg and his right hind-leg. There were fresh scratches and scrapes on the sore parts of his body. (If you count out his left wing, which is excessively pained.)

He wills himself to stand back up, just in case Rarity started to hunt for him. He needs to buy some time so Fluttershy and Twilight could catch up to him, and to stop this madness. The rain starts to pelt down again, and he realized that he could call Rainbow, who would still be working up in the clouds...

“Rainbow... *cough cough* ahem, RAINBOW, I NEED YOU DOWN HERE!”

It is no good, the rainbow maned pegasus can’t hear Dusk from above the clouds, and he is too weak to be able to use the power of the Dusk Royal Speech. His normal voice doesn’t have the piercing power of the DRS. He begins to limp away from where he landed...

The pouring rain did not help things for Dusk. Every little drop of water made things harder for him, as they made his scratches sting even worse than before. It is getting harder for him to continue limping. All he wants to do, is to collapse onto the ground, and recover, but he knows that this would be a very, very bad idea.

‘Damn it, I hope that those two can find Rarity, before she-’ “AAAAHH!”

He yells out in pain, as he feels hundreds of needles hit him from behind. He falls onto the ground, in utter pain...

(3 minutes before the 2nd collapse)

Point of View: Fluttershy

“...RAINBOW, I NEED YOU DOWN HERE!”

“...was that Dusk?” Asks Fluttershy, despite already knowing the answer.

“I think so, he sounds like he’s nearby, lets go Fluttershy.”

“Um... okay.”

Twilight runs in the direction where they heard him yell, while Fluttershy trails in the air. Fluttershy then sees somepony in the far distance, somepony whitish-gray. (And slightly purple) The yellow pegasus tells Twilight about who she thinks she saw.

“Twilight, I... I think I saw Rarity.”

“Really, well I suppose you have a better vantage point than me, tell me what way she’s going.”

“Well um... she’s still going straight, along this road.”

“Okay thanks.”

Twilight had quickened her speed to try and catch up to the fashionista, but to no avail. She still relied on Fluttershy to direct her. Fluttershy sees her friend going to the right, through one of the streets.

“She going right at about um... 400 metres...”

(Present Time)

Point of View: Dusk

Dusk begins to hyperventilate, as Rarity begins to get closer to him. The rain, had somehow made Rarity look even more demented, than she did before. She wore a very creepy smile on her face, as she casts a spell on Dusk. At first, he doesn’t know what had happened to him, but as he tries to stand up and run, he sees that his legs are all magically bound to the ground, rendering them useless.

He is completely under Rarity’s mercy.

She levitates fifteen needles, and a couple of her sharpened gemstone, as she walks even closer to Dusk’s unmoving form. He could feel himself start to tear up, from fear, as he tries to talk her out of this.

“R-R-Rarity, I’m s-sorry for *sniff* w-what I said b-b-before, I was kidding b-before, I-I swear.”

She coolly talks back to him, “But Dusk, I must stop you, so you’ll never do this to fashion. It’s nothing personal.”

She brings 3 of the needles onto his back, before slamming into his body, with a single fore-hoof. Dusk yells out in pain, which the darkened alabaster unicorn enjoys. It is one of the worst pains that Dusk has ever felt. He looks up at his assailant, in fear, as he tries another vain attempt to stop this torture.

“P-Please, s-stop Rarity, this i-i-isn’t you.”

“Your point Dusk? Do you think that I really- What’s happening to me?!”

She has been magically lifted into the air, from a familiar purple unicorn nearby. Twilight lifts Rarity closer to herself, and casts another spell on top of the levitation spell. Dusk watched it tear stained awe, as the twisted, grey demon-mare, turns back into the normal, alabaster Rarity.

Point of View: Rarity

As Twilight gets her out of her levitational field, she looks at Twilight and Fluttershy with confusion. She remembers getting yelled at by Dusk, while she was in her Boutique, and now she is outside, in the cold, shivering rain. It will ruin her mane.

“Twilight, Fluttershy darling, shouldn’t we talk inside, where the rain isn’t ruining our manes? (Especially mine.)”

Twilight doesn’t respond, as she looks at her with disgust, while Fluttershy is on the verge of crying, as she looks at something behind Rarity. The dress maker is genuinely confused, as to what is going on.

“Why are you looking at me like that Twilight?”

“Ask Dusk. I’m sure that he’ll know all about what happened, Rarity.” She has a hint of malice in her voice.

She turns around, to see Dusk on the ground. She dramatically gasps in horror. He has numerous sewing needles stuck in his body, (Mainly in his hind-legs) and many scuffs, and scratches around legs and hooves. He looks at her with immense fear.

“Oh my gosh Dusk, what happened to you? Why don’t I help you get back on your hooves?”

She moves closer to Dusk, to help pull him up to a standing position, when he frantically suffles back from her, as if it was his life on the line.

“NO! Get away from me!”