//------------------------------// // The beginning of the end 1 // Story: My First Jump // by EverlastingKnightmare //------------------------------// Dark stood there looking at the ground. “Dark?” He looked up at the author with a fake smile. “Yes?” “What happened next?” The author asked with a raised eyebrow. Pinkie looked at Dark a moment before her hair deflated and she got the saddest look ever on her face. “Pinkie? What is wrong?” “She knows what happens next...” Dark’s fake smile ended. “Nothing else happened until that point... Then that happened...” Tears began to form in his eyes. “The day she.....” He fell to his knees. The author took a step back in shock due to the sudden change in Dark’s emotions. Pinkie trotted over to Dark and gave him a hug, which he gladly returned. “I don’t think he can tell it...” She muttered and looked at the author. “I’ll tell what happened next.” The author recovered and raised an eyebrow at her. “You sure? You need to get everything right and not add anything that would ruin the story.” She nodded as Dark began to sob. “Very well Pinkie, tell me what happened.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Come on Dark! We’re going to be late for the picnic with the others!” Twilight yelled up the stairs. Dark tripped down and shot up. “I’m ok! Where’s Spike?” He looked around for a moment before Twilight picked him up and walked out the door with him in her magic. “He’s already there! You took so long...” She coughed a bit. “You alright?” She nodded and kept walking, coughing ever now and then. “You're sure you're alright?” “I’m fine *Cough* Dark.” She grumbled. “Just have something stuck in my throat, as soon as I have one of Pinkie’s cupcakes I’ll be better.” Dark stared at her for the remainder of the walk. They soon arrived at a very large meadow outside of Ponyville. In the middle there was a picnic set up with all of their friends there, Rarity, AJ, RD, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Spike. “You know I could have gotten us here faster?” Twilight gave him a ‘Shut up Dark’ kind of look and coughed a bit. “I could have teleported us, but it’s a nice day, so I walked.” Dark paused a moment before shrugging. “Alrighty then, going to set me down there Twi?” She chuckled a bit and set him down. They both walked the rest of the way up to the picnic and smiled at their friends. “Sup everypony? Ready for me to eat all the food?” “Pinkie ate half of it.” Dash pointed out blankly. “Yup! I saved you a cupcake cause I know you like mine!” She hoofed him a cupcake. “Thanks Pinks, but Twi here needs it to get rid of something bugging her throat.” He then gave it to Twilight, who smiled at him and slowly ate the dome of delicious. “Right then, let’s get this awesome day going!” ------A few hours later!------ “-and that’s how Equestria was made!” Pinkie had finally finished her half hour long story on how she got her cutie mark. “A riveting tale filled with filled with plot twists and a amazing ending, we should publish this story.” Everyone laughed at what Dark said except for Twilight, who just smiled and let off a chain of weak coughs which soon turned into loud and powerful ones. “Twilight, are you ok?” Dark stood up and walked over to her. He crouched next to her. “Twilight.” She kept coughing until she finally fell over. “Twilight!?” He picked her up in his arms and looked at Dash. “Dash, get help.” She nodded and shot off. “Twilight, what is wrong?” He looked at the hoof she had up to her mouth earlier to see it had blood on it. “Hang in there Twi!” His hand glowed and he moved it over her chest, only to have it pushed away by one of her hooves. “Twi?! You need to let me help you! Come on!” He tried again but she did the same thing. “Come on sugarcube!” AJ had gotten next to her. “Let’em help! Please!” Dark looked up at the others. Fluttershy and Rarity were crying in horror over what was happening and Spike was babbling to himself on what he could possibly do. Dark looked back at Twilight only to look into sad but happy eyes. “Twilight?” No response. “Twilight!?” Still nothing. “TWILIGHT!” He got up and dashed off with her in his arms towards Ponyville. He ran fast enough to break the light barrier if her wanted to. He ran up to the hospital and literally kicked down the doors right as a team was about to leave to find them. “HELP HER! NOW!” He yelled at them in a near blind rage. They quickly took her and rushed her off somewhere. Dash was hovering behind him when they rushed her off. Dark fell to his knees. “Dark! What happened?” Dark looked up at her, tears almost ready to fall. “Dark?” He finally let the tears flow as his face hit the floor. “She wouldn’t let me help her! I could only save her if she wanted me to! But she wouldn’t let me! Why!?” He sobbed as Dash landed beside him. “It’ll be fine Dark, she’s a fighter. She’ll get through this.” She tried to calm him down but it wouldn’t work. All they could do was wait. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About three hours later the others showed up. They talked about what happened while trying to cheer up Spike and Dark. Spike was freaking out and Dark was just sitting on a bench looking at the floor while tears dropped every now and then. “Dark, please something.” Fluttershy sat next to him. “Dark.....She will be ok, please just say something.” Nothing for a few moments then he looked up. “She wouldn’t let me help......... I could only help if she wanted me to.....Shy.....Do you know what that means?” She looked at him confused for a moment before the realisation hit her like a truck. She collapsed to the floor with wide and tear filled eyes. Rarity ran over to her and checked her over before slowly looking at Dark. “What you said.....Does that mean....?” Dark nodded and she almost did the same as Shy, but stood standing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After about three more hours a doctor looking pony walked out with a blank face. Dark looked up slightly at him before returning his head to the floor. “I think you already know what I’m going to say...” Dark nodded slowly. “Are your friends out in the main hall?” He nodded slowly again. The doctor walked into the main hall to tell the others. Dark got up and teleported to a random mountin. Where he let his rage and sadness out like a torrent of water swallowing a town in a matter of minutes.