---Dash's P.O.V.---
"Uh, what happened?" I asked. It was all a blur since....I don't know when. Why couldn't I remember anything? I glanced around the area I could see from my current location upon the ground. I saw a teenage girl with a head of pink hair against a face of yellow directly above me, and another one with purple skin and hair by my side. Definitely too close to me. Stranger danger. This was concerning.
I mentally prepared myself to deal with these...kidnappers?? Not sure what they were, but it looked like they had freakishy long hair and - were those horse ears? What the actual heck. As I thought this, my ears picked up noise nearby. It took me a minute to realize one of them was speaking to me.
"Dashie, are you okay?" the yellow girl asked. "I was so worried." Her teal eyes were moist with salty tears. I got the sense she knew me, but even if she did, I didn't know her. I wasn't about to trust her, but I was in no position to do anything. I decided to play it cool....ish? More like put on the confused act, really.
"Who...are you?" I asked, my voice wavering despite my best efforts. At that, the girl's eyes released the tears they had been holding, and she spoke to me again, in a voice so soft I barely heard it.
"W-What? D-Dashie, i-it's me. F-Fluttersh-shy. Y-Your best f-friend." Hearing that made me REALLY confused. I didn't know this girl, but she was my best friend? She had stuttered, so maybe she was lying. That was pretty likely.
"Uh...don't think so. Sorry." I said. It was a little rude, but it blew her off. As she started to cry harder, I went to sit up. Seemingly out of nowhere, a girl with a yellow-orange complexion and locks of red and yellow hair knelt beside me. She lightly pushed me, setting me back to the ground. Her fiery hair settled on her shoulders, and her pale blue eyes seemed to scan me. I wasn't sure I liked what she was doing, but there was something about her presence that was...strange.
"Rainbow, are you okay? That's Fluttershy, your best friend since forever. Why don't you..." She glanced over to the purple girl. "You don't think..."
The purple girl looked down as she sighed. "It's looking that way, Sunset." She said in a defeated voice.
As this conversation took place, other girls came over and sat beside me. Way too many, too overwhelming. It started to scare me. I couldn't move, couldn't get anywhere. I was stuck with strangers, they were gonna hurt me, they were gonna kill me. Have to get out, get away, escape.
My lungs started working overtime as I sucked it air as soon as I let it out. Scared, terrified, I curled into a ball. Breathing was getting harder, too much physical pressure, too much mental pressure. The pressure was too much. Why were the strangers so close?
You're always told if you're scared to take deep breaths. If you don't, you could hyperventilate and pass out. I always thought that was a bunch of bologna, that it never actually happened.
As my head hit the ground, I realized sometimes impossible-sounding stuff really is true.