Virus

Virus

Chapter 3: Forbidden

Twilight awoke with a start. She had had the most terrible nightmare. Her dear friend Fluttershy had some terrible kind of disease with no known cure! Her friend Pinkie Pie had unlocked her dark side once again, and the rest of her friends were in tears.

Twilight blinked at her surroundings. She thought it funny how she recognized a similar blue jay sitting on a perch inside of a bird cage, hanging from the ceiling. Huh. She thought. That looks like the blue jay from Fluttershy's house!

Twilight rubbed her eyes and focused in on the room she was in. A large bedroom inside of a small cottage. She adjusted herself in the chair she had drifted off in. She blinked a few times, trying to get rid of the bubbly squiggles in her eyes. Every time she blinked, a small red and blue light blinked across the wall, the feeling you get when you looked into a light for too long.

A lump in the bed next to Twilight grabs her attention.  Immediately as Twilight spotted the mass of pink hair lying in bed, she knew that what she had thought to be a dream was actually true...

Twilight breaks out into a fit of tears.  "I'm so sorry! You don't deserve this, Fluttershy!" This feeling of depression begins to overwhelm the unicorn.  She starts hyperventilating and screaming her head off.  Twilight falls to the floor and curls up on the ground, shivering.  How could this have happened to her pegasus friend? Twilight could not have Fluttershy die while she was still alive...  Twilight knew it was crazy, but she had to do it to be with her beloved friend.  She scrambles next to Fluttershy's bed and starts shaking her, violently.  Fluttershy awakes with a start.

"Twilight! What are you-?" Fluttershy covers her mouth with her blanket as she starts to cough up mucus and spit, and even a hint of crimson fluid.

"NO! PLEASE. PLEASE, FLUTTERSHY I NEED YOU TO GET ME ILL." Twilight screams.

"What!? No, I couldn't!" Fluttershy protests.

"PLEASE!!!" Twilight continues shaking her friend.

"Stop!" Fluttershy mumbles, coughing into her blanket.  Twilight falls to the ground.  She ruffles her hair up and shivers on the floor.

"Twilight?" Fluttershy pants.  Fluttershy starts to feel a bit dizzy.  She grabs her head, a searing pain rushing through her brain.  "Agh!" The pegasus feels the blackness pouring over her... her brain starting to shut down... closing... closing...

Fluttershy faints into her pillow.  Twilight continues to shake.  She lifts herself up and stares at her friend.

"No..." she whispers. "NO!" Twilight throws the covers off of Fluttershy, and eases her panting when she sees that the pegasus was breathing... But shallowly...

Twilight hits herself for acting so psycho... Fluttershy would want Twilight to stay alive anyways...  Twilight flattens her hair down, and accidentally hits her horn.  Then a light-bulb flashes inside her head... Magic!

Twilight focuses on Fluttershy's body.  She breathes in, ready for whatever kind of magic she was about to do.  A spark ignites on Twilight's horn, but falls to the floor, leaving a small black mark on the wood.  Twilight pants... But she wasn't going to give up that easy.  She would go to the library to search for information...

Twilight rushes towards the front door, and throws it open, surprised to find a couple standing right outside.  The mare had long grey hair with a light blue coat, green eyes, and a cutiemark in the form of two flowers in the shape of a heart.  The colt had short grey hair with a bright yellow coat and brown eyes.  His cutiemark resembled a cloud with a sparrow sitting in it.  The stallion's hoof was raised in the pose of him about to knock on the door.

"Oh, sorry! We must have the wrong cottage! Do you know where a Fluttershy might be?" asks the colt.  Twilight's eyes start to glisten with tears at the sound of the name.

"Oh, actually F-Fluttershy does live here! I'm just v-visiting..." Twilight explains.  The mare wipes her eye and sort of half smiles, making it look very awkward.

"Um... Can we come in? We're her parents..." says the mare.  Twilight grins gawkily at the couple and slides past to let them inside.  The couple rush into Fluttershy's cottage and into her bedroom.  The mare starts to sob uncontrollably, the colt putting his arms around his wife.  Twilight stares in agony at the poor couple... She couldn't bear to see them so upset.  Twilight realized that she had no time to dilly-daddle, and went on to the library.