In Stitches

by flanigomik

Chapter 14

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Rainbow shot awake. She opened her eyes and looked around. Everything was okay. She was on her cloud bed and she could smell someone making breakfast.

"Mmmm... That smells great" She thought as she got out of bed making it behind her. Something was bugging her in the back of her mind. Something was going horribly amiss. She could hear soft singing from the kitchen.

"Hang on... I live alone." She listened, it sounded like Fluttershy. She cautiously snuck into the kitchen. "Hello? Who is in here?" She turned the corner and there was Fluttershy with her back to her cooking and singing in a somehow chilling voice.

"Oh Celestia, it's just you" She said sounding relieved. "You can't just come in here Fluttershy. You scared the hay out of me."

Fluttershy did not respond still working on the counter, her icy voice still singing. Looking at the side of her face however she could see her lips were not moving.

"Um, F- Fluttershy? Your uh... Kinda creeping me out." She said. Rather than a response she could see a dark red liquid running off of the counter. The icy singing continued to come from her without her moving. She took a step backwards.

"Don't move Dashie, I'll be right there." The singing continued as she spoke her voice more icy than the singing around her.

"Y- You are really scaring me Fluttershy. N- Not funny anymore alright? Y- You can stop now." She took another step back and was flung into a wall. Before she could recover knives were thrown into her wings. She screamed in agony.

"What did I tell you about MOVING!" The singing raised in pitch and was now like blades of ice in the fires of hell.

She did her best to fight through the pain she met her friend's gaze and then was stuck. She was using the stare. There was no denying it, no resisting it. It cut into her and made her afraid and she couldn't look away. She felt like her eyes were melting. Her vision blacked out and she panicked and screamed. She could hear laughter of Fluttershy then only the singing.

"1632... You know I always loved that number. Too bad nobody loves you..." Said her former owner.

"NO! PL- PLEASE! N- NOT AGA-" She could feel her mouth tied shut painfully.

"Shh, no words now, only.... Nightmares..." He said before laughing sickeningly.

"PLEASE! CELESTIA SAVE ME!" She screamed in her mind.

"Oh look at that, you had your babies..." She could hear two crying fillies. "They look so much like you. And your apple picking friend. Cute." She heard the sound of two objects hitting the ground and the crying abruptly ended.

"PLEASE CELESTIA! LUNA! ANYONE! SAVE ME!"

She heard screams, laughter, things breaking and what sounded to be a tornado going through her house. Then nothing. The knives in her wings vanished and she dropped. She could hear someone walking. It sounded quite heavy.

"Rainbow Dash? Is that actually you?" A soft female voice spoke. It was familiar but she couldn't pin it in her current state. Two hooves picked her up and the cords vanished from her mouth. "What has happened to you? Where are you?"

"Wh- Who a- are you?" She fumbled between sobs.

"Come on Rainbow, look at me." The voice spoke.

"I- I- can't, I- I'm blind! P- Please d- don't hurt me, I- I- I'll d- do what you say!" She said hysterically.

"Rainbow, it's me, Luna..." She said sounding horrified.

"L- Luna?" She repeated the name from so far in her past it didn't have a face or much meaning anymore.

"What has happened to you? Where are you?"

"I- I don't know..." She cried.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"H- Hurt... L- Lost... B- Blind..."

"No you aren't." She said not fully understanding what she meant.

She felt her vision restored. She looked up. In front of her was a tall black Alicorn. "Y- You..." She said memories flashing back to her. "LUNA!" She yelled with sudden recognition. She jumped up and hugged the Alicorn. "I knew you guys would come save me! A- Are you going to take me home?"

"Rainbow... I'm so sorry... I can't, I don't know where in Equestria you are. You have been gone for almost three years. We though you were dead. Not even our most powerful magic could find you."

Her spirit was crushed. "So close..." She thought shedding tears. "I don't think I am in Equestria."

"Where are you? How did you get there?!"

"I don't know..."

"Are the others with you too?"

"Others...?"

"Apple Jack and Princess Twilight."

"N- No..." She said in a tiny voice "I'm all alone... I- In some strange pony's house."

"It is worse than I feared then... Are you safe?" She said trying to keep the shattered pegasus' spirits up.

"I th- think..." She said "H- He hasn't hurt me..."

"At least you are safe. I have to go. Your dream is growing weak" She said hurriedly and starting to fade away.

"Wh- What?! No! Please don't go!" She pleaded her voice rising. She shot upright and screamed. "LUNA!" She could feel a pony and a two legged creature jump.

"What's wrong Rainbow? Are you alright?" The doctor asked in alarm.

"You okay Rainbow dash?" Rachel asked sounding worried.

She flopped back to the hospital bed and cried. "P- Perfect."


Author's Note

ten points if you caught the Frozen reference before I mentioned it here. sorry but it kinda just happened :P

Also apologies to the image creator I lost your name. If you know who made it let me know so I can fix that.

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