//------------------------------// // Why are you doing this to me? // Story: A time of sadness // by Slick Dash //------------------------------// I towered over Nightmare Moon, my feet pressed against her chest pinning her to the floor. She may look like Luna, but it was obvious that it was the dark mare from legend. She had killed Tom needlessly, almost killing me at the same time. She had haunted my dreams for nights! She was all I could think about, her defeat was all I cared about. Her horn began to glow as she tried to cast a spell, but I was too quick. My right forehoof slammed into the horn and pinned it to the floor causing the blue mare to squeal slightly out of surprise. Her magic glow faded as the power seeped into the earth below us. I leant in to her ear and whispered slowly to her, “No magic this time your majesty. You’re not killing anyone else!” The blue mare opened her mouth to try and speak. I hit her with my left hoof, hard! She spat out a small splatter of blood from the contact to her jaw. This felt good, she was suffering, the way Tom had suffered for those three hours in a hospital bed, the way I had suffered for the last two weeks! “YOU DON’T GET TO SPEAK! YOU’RE GOING TO LAY THERE AND TAKE EVERYTHING THATS COMING TO YOU!” I lashed out again, this time with my right hoof. There was more blood than before, it spewed forward and onto the immaculate green grass below. I even felt spots of the red liquid spatter across my blue coat, but I didn’t care. Luna was too dazed to try and use magic again, here eyes faded in and out of focus as she looked up at me. I was now standing with each of my limbs pinning hers down to the grassy floor. She struggled weakly but I was positioned perfectly, she was stuck here. “You took my Tom from me...” My rage seemed to vanish suddenly, as the opportunity for answers suddenly arose. “Why? Why did you do it? What did he ever do to you?!” I heard hoof steps behind me fast approaching. I raised another hoof preparing to pound at the Mare’s horn, I intended to break it off from her skull completely! That would stop her ever using her powers to hurt others again! I felt the magic pull me off of the princess before I could strike, I called out madly as I was dragged away from the dark pony and towards what I could only suspect was my friends and Princess Celestia. “WHHHHYYYY?” The blue Alicorn mare stood shakily, she rubbed the blood from her mouth with her fur on her foreleg. And looked at me coldly. “I did no such thing as taking your ‘Tom’ from you.” My insides exploded! “LIAR! YOU’RE LYING!” I felt warm forelegs wrap around my chest keeping me back. I looked down to see that one was orange, another was yellow, and the final one was pink. My other two friends were obviously the ones using their magic on me to hold me back. I took no notice, I only had eyes for the Alicorn in front of me! “I am not lying to you Rainbow Dash. I never met ‘Tom’” “YOU’RE LYING! I KNOW YOU’VE MET HIM! I HAVE PROOF, I HAVE A PICTURE OF YOU TALKING TO HIM AT THE GALA! YOU WERE INTIMIDATING HIM! WHY?” The Alicorn looked confused. She looked up behind me, to what I could only guess was her sister. When no comment came from the group behind me Luna looked back to me. “Do you have this picture?” “NO! I...I left it at home. BUT SPIKE SAW IT TOO!” I searched for the little dragon, I spotted his tail sticking out from behind Twilights flank. “SPIKE! TELL THEM!” me and the girls all looked to the dragon, who then peeked out from behind his sister nervously. “Uhmmm, Where was that picture exactly?” What? What was he talking about?! “In my house!” The girls turned to me “Yesterday! You came over to talk about Twilight and then you spotted Luna and Tom in the background of one of our pictures!” The girls turned their heads back to the dragon, as though watching a fast tennis match! The dragon rubbed the back of his neck nervously. “R-Rainbow... I’ve never been to your house, not in the last few months anyway... Yesterday you came over to talk to Twilight on your own, and you guys made up. Then we ALL came here. To help you! I never came to talk about Twilight with you...” Time seemed to stand still. What? But the dragon had shown up at my house, he had looked terrible, nervous even ill! Come to think of it, the dragon suddenly looked a million times better. In fact it was impossible for him to look so well after what he had looked like yesterday! “But...” I couldn’t think straight. “But... you... and I... you asked me to help Twilight!” I pleaded with dragon to agree with me, but he merely shrugged his shoulders miserably as he saw my face drop into sadness with his actions. “Maybe I...” Spike began trying to twit his words to help me, but Twilight put a hoof on top of his head to calm the panicking assistant. The dragon stopped and breathed deeply. Twilight moved over to me, standing between me and the quickly recovering Luna ahead. All I could see were her big purple eyes. When she spoke, it was barely more than a whisper. “Rainbow, Spike was at Rarity’s all day yesterday. Helping her sort out gem stones. He left hours before you came to talk to me. And he was still there when I went to tell Rarity what we were going to do today. He was never near you yesterday Rainbow.” I heard the honesty in her voice, saw the truth in her great purple rimed pupils. She believed what she was saying, one hundred percent. I felt the despair of being alone spread around me, tears came to my eyes quickly at my friends words. She moved slightly out of sadness, she leant on her left side rather than her right, so she could reach up and stroke my mane and reassure me. They must think I was nuts! When my friend moved, I gained a clear line of sight to the dark blue princess -now fully recovered- watching the scene before her. “W-why?” I pleaded with her. “Why are you doing this to me?” what did I ever do to you?! What did Tom ever do to you?!” I gave into the bitter sobs building up inside me. I went limp, I was exhausted. The forelegs around me slowly lowered me to the ground and retreated. I lay there on the ground, tears soaking the tall slender blades of grass below me. “Let... please... let them know what you did! Don’t do this to me, I...I can’t stand it being the only one that knows the truth.” Pinkie approached cautiously, she laid her forelegs over me and hugged me tight. “It’s okay Dashie. It’s not your fault, you didn’t know what you were doing right? I’m sure that Princess Luna will forgive you if you just-“ “I...don’t want to... be forgiven... not by her! Not by a lying piece of scum who hides behind deceit so I can’t make her pay for what she did. She needs to pay for... everything...” I moaned into the grass helplessly. I’d never felt so alone. Tom. I need you! “Rainbow dash.” I looked ahead, the ‘thing’ in front of me –it wasn’t a pony, a pony would have a sense of pride!-had begun to speak. “I apologise, but I cannot repent for a crime I haven’t committed.” She smiled up at my friends. Her pandering made me feel sick. “Listen to your wonderful friends, the ones who have stood by you for so long and through so much.” I felt the fire reignite in my belly. “Yeah Dashie, see Luna’s a great pony! She’d never do something like th”- “GET AWAY FROM ME PINKIE!” I exploded from the ground, shattering the spells of my friends holding me, and sending my pink friend flying off to the side. I bolted straight for the Alicorn! As I reached my panicle of speed, my right forehoof came into contact with the princess’s nose. In one second, there she was falling to the side, blood pouring from her nostrils, and in the next there was only whiteness, all around me simply white light shone from every direction. What had happened?