//------------------------------// // Chapter 15 // Story: Stranded // by EternalShadow54 //------------------------------// STRANDED Ch. 15- Pinkie's muscles froze. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped as she watched Fluttershy charge her. Pinkie's instincts kicked in and she ripped the spear out of her shoulder. The pain was immense, but it didn't stop her. Fluttershy was a mere 10 hooves away before she was able to stop herself just before running into the point of her own spear dripping with Pinkie's blood. "You..." Pinkie started, "can't do this..." Pinkie thrust the spear at Fluttershy. Fluttershy quickly dodged and rolled to her left. Pinkie turned and charged. Fluttershy quickly looked about her and found a rather large, blunt rock. She picked it up and threw it at Pinkie with all her might. BAM! The rock struck Pinkie right in the forehead. Pinkie was knocked on her back from the impact. She was down... but not out. She quickly regained herself and looked at Fluttershy with a sadistic frown. "We don't have to fight Fluttershy..." Pinkie began, "We can work this out..." Pinkie had blood dribbling on her face from where the rock had struck. Fluttershy looked to her right and found a smaller yet quite sharper rock. She and Pinkie both looked at the rock and paused, looking at each other and waiting for someone to make a move. Fluttershy dove for the rock. SLASH! Pinkie had thrown the spear right into the side of Fluttershy, striking her to the ground and causing her to let out a great scream. Fluttershy looked at the spear in her side and gritted her teeth. She spoke, "You... will... not... KILL ME!" Fluttershy ripped the spear from her side and grabbed the rock. "Here," She threw the rock at Pinkie, "You need to have some chance." Pinkie let out a grin. "You don't see a way around this?" she asked sounding somewhat... afraid. "I'm afraid not." Fluttershy responded with a smile... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What the hay was that!?" Twilight yelped to herself as she heard a EXTREAMLY loud scream. "I better hurry before something bad happens." she told herself as she continued in the direction she left Pinkie Pie by herself... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple Jack was holding the little body of what once was her little sister and stroked her hair softly, crying a few tears into the mane. She heard the tussle between Twilight and Sweetie Bell a little to her left, just behind a few bushes. She heard the words they spoke and she knew Sweetie Bell was about to have her heart torn out. She awaited the interruption that was inevitable. As she wept, she finally heard the voice of her friend Rarity speak. "Apple Jack... is that you?" "Yea... it's me..." Apple Jack responded with a sad tone. "Apple Jack, you're not still crying over what Applebloom said, are you?" Rarity asked. What she said made Apple Jack instantly break down. She held her sister's body tightly to her chest and turned her head over her shoulder. She spoke with pain in her voice as she saw Sweetie Bell. "No Rarity... Ah'm not still cryin' over that..." Her voice seemed empty of all emotion. "I wouldn't think, seeing as you're holding little Apple Bloom in your lap. She looks so peaceful when she sleeps." Rarity didn't know any better. Apple Jack scrunched her face and jerked her head down. She tightly closed her eyes and coughed a tear out. Her throat was tight and dry. "She's... not asleep..." she choked out. Rarity gasped. "You don't mean..." Apple Jack closed her eyes and nodded. Sweetie Bell's heart sank. She couldn't believe it. She knew she shouldn't have asked but she couldn't help herself. "How...?" Sweetie Bell asked with a lump in her throat. "Suicide..." said Apple Jack... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fluttershy drew her spear to the side and set her ground. Pinkie grabbed the rock and pointed it at the once kind and gentle pony. "Ready Pinkie Pie?" Fluttershy asked. "As I will ever be." Pinkie retorted. The two ponies stared at each other with deathly glares and made ready to fight to the death. Just as they were about to charge they heard a yell from the distance. "WAIT!" the voice called. It was Twilight. Twilight breached the bushes and stood right in-between her two friends. "What's this senseless fighting going to solve?" she asked the two. She turned to Fluttershy first and started talking. "Fluttershy, I know when Pinkie rejected your kindness that it nearly broke your heart. I could see it in your eyes as you ran away last night. I know that everything is falling apart but this fighting won't solve anything." She then turned to Pinkie. "And Pinkie, you shouldn't-" GASH! Twilight felt a sharp pain in the back and front of her neck. She looked down to see the point of Fluttershy's bamboo spear through her throat. She couldn't yell. She fell to her knees and slowly bled-out right there on the grass, giving off a twitch every now and then. "She was getting rather annoying." Fluttershy said as she pulled the spear from her former friends throat. "Now, where were we?" she asked looking at the pink party ponies horrified face. "Oh, yea. I remember." She charged...