//------------------------------// // Fanning the Flames // Story: One Fire is Put Out... // by MasterT231 //------------------------------// "Could this be what death feels like?" Pinkie thought as she looked around her surroundings. She was surrounded by nothing, it was as if she was lost in the shadows, doomed to never return. Laying on the floor. what she thought was the floor, Pinkie just pondered about her life, what she had done, and who she got to meet. "I never even got the chance to say goodbye" Pinkie Pie choked out. Then as if by some sort of miracle, be it divine intervention or sheer dumb luck, a light appeared on the horizon of the dark. At first it was minuscule in size but it soon grew into a great, and powerful beacon that blinded the poor girl. She put her hoof in front of her eyes to shield them from the piercing light beam, when all of sudden she began to hear voices. Quietly at first but they grew louder as time passed. "Oh great more voices in my head, isn't that just swell" She sarcastically murmured. "Do...Pinkie...Alright?..." a familiar, and kind voice said. Pinkie's ears perked up as she looked back at the white light, could she have heard who she thought she heard? The light continues to expand, and expand until it fills her entire field of vision. Her eyes had shut tight the light was just too much for her. Pinkie...wake...up... pleaded the voice. This time she was sure whose voice that was, there was no doubt in her mind it was none other than Rainbow Dash. "They're...still my...friends..." She said with a small tear rolling down her cheek. Her heart felt cooler when she said that, as if it knows that everything is going to be all right. With a smile she drops her hooves down to her sides and slowly opens her eyes to the light so that she may be reunited with her friends. Her eye's struggle to open but in her blurred vision she sees five ponies huddled around her, each with a deep look of concern on their faces. Finally her eyes open and looks around the room, it wasn't her room back at Sugarcube Corner, from the looks of it she was at a hospital in one of their beds. Before Pinkie could look at anything else though, a rainbow blur darted towards her and wrapped her necked in a warm hug. "Pinkie! You're okay!" Rainbow Dash said while crying tears of joy. Pinkie felt the tears soak the back of her neck. "Rainbow Dash was actually crying" Thought Pinkie. That act alone brought the biggest grin on her face, it brought her color back, it brought her poofy hair back, most importantly it brought her happiness back. A purple unicorn stepped forward, it was Twilight Sparkle with a guilty expression on her face. "Pinkie...we had no idea...we didn't..." Twilight tried to put her thoughts together but to no avail. "Twilight...you don't need to say anything... all that matters is...I'm here and I'm not going anywhere for a long, long time" Pinkie choked out as tears started to flood her eyes Twilight looked at her friend with a proud look, and she trotted over to hug her along with Rainbow Dash. Pretty soon all six of them were in one massive group hug with Pinkie in the middle, That weird feeling in her heart had left, that awful, fiery sensation had left her heart the moment she saw Rainbow look like she just lost her only friend in the world. Because she knew that deep down each one of her friends care deeply about her, and no matter what problems she may cause, or how annoying she may act. They're her best friends, they're her true friends they would never leave her side, they'll be together until the very end. "I love you guys" Pinkie proudly said "We love you too Pinkie" Twilight said while hugging her Truly Pinkie was the luckiest pony in the world