STRANDED Ch. 12-
"Fluttershy!" she heard as she ran.
Everypony's heart is fragile and Fluttershy's was one of the most. The death of two of her friends definitely didn't help. One's heart can only take so much pain and tolerate so much hate and Pinkie's rejection was the line. Fluttershy's heart was shattered, shattered to millions of small, little pieces that even magic wouldn't be able to heal. The only thing that mattered to her anymore was to run, run as far from her friends as possible. She didn't know where she was going and frankly she didn't care.
When your heart is ripped from the very roots and smashed right before your eyes, you tend not to care about the world around you. She kept running until her legs wouldn't carry her any further and broke down on the grass, basically forcing the tears from her eyes to help cope with the heart-ache. She had never felt so alone in her life, so cold, so hurt. The pain didn't leave, didn't lift, wouldn't give way. She sat all alone, vulnerable, and didn't even care when she heard the bushes move. She held her head up to see which one of her friends had come to comfort her...
She had no such luck...
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Twilight's eyes opened. She was too weak to move or even speak, still very exhausted from her earlier episode. She looked to see Rarity and Sweetie bell sitting to her side together and talking. "Oh Sweetie bell, what ever shall we do?" Sweetie Bell didn't respond. "Sweetie Bell, I may have lost all of my other friends to this island but I WILL NOT lose you too!" Rarity said with a higher tone. The filly refused to even acknowledge she was there. Rarity's voice changed from sympathy to anger. "SWEETIE BELL, ANSWER ME!" Sweetie Bell winced at the words, raised up, and started walking away.
"Don't you walk away from me!" Sweetie Bell ignored. "FINE! Be that way!" Rarity lashed, slightly choking up. Sweetie Bell continued walking until she was out of sight and kept on. "What am I going to do? Everypony is slowly losing their stability and it's mostly my fault." She hung her head and sulked. "If only I stood up to Apple Jack at the beach, we wouldn't have had a death in the first place... If only..." she whispered to herself as she let a tear escape her eye and drop to the ground.
Twilight could only watch as the scene unfolded right before her. She wanted so badly to just hold and comfort her friend and tell her that everything would be alright. She knew she would never get the chance after what she had done to poor Scootaloo. She didn't even know if she could forgive herself, much less expect her friends too.
She laid there and dwelled on what she did to the poor little filly and let a tear of relief escape her eye as she slowly drifted off into a deep sleep. She was cold, hungry, and ashamed...
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"I HATE YOU!" Apple Bloom immediately regretted the words as they left her lips. A great wave of shame washed over her. She couldn't face her sister, not after what she just said. She sharply turned her body and ran away in tears and got just out of ear-shot before she tripped over a tree root and rolled down a soft incline. She picked herself up and sat in the grass and sulked her head in her hooves.
"She... will never forgive me for... what I said..." she quietly told herself. "Not... after... what I... said..."
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Apple Jack sat just to the side of the sad pink party pony and laid her head down to the grass, suffering from a terrible headache, and slowly drifted off to sleep as she quietly wept...
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Pinkie Pie paid Apple Jack no attention as the work pony came up beside her and laid her head to the ground and softly cried herself to sleep, obviously dwelling on what her sister had said before she stormed off in anger. "Why is this all happening to us... Why..." she softly told herself while still holding little Scootaloo. "What did we do... to deserve all of... this?"
She slowly started to feel sleeps sweet call as she laid down beside the orange work pony and slowly cried herself to sleep as well, still thinking on how she could have stopped all of this...
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Sweetie Bell walked away from her sister, pain in her heart as she seemed to lose her two best friends in one fell swoop right before her eyes. She walked with the pain and paid nothing no attention as she walked. Her head low, she didn't care to notice that she was walking the same direction as Apple Bloom and didn't care when she heard her friend weeping in the distance.
"She doesn't want to talk to me..." she told herself. "She didn't want to talk to her sister... Why would I be any different..." and she continued walking until she came up to the beach and stared out into the ocean while she thought back to what she had just seen. "I've lost Scootaloo... and now Apple Bloom... now I truly am... alone..." She laid down on the beach and shut her eyes tightly so the tears wouldn't escape her eyes as she slowly found herself able to finally sleep on the cold, hard sand as the moon gave a faint glow and the stars twinkled above her head...