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// Prologue 
// Story: Losing Hold 
// by Rysonn 
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	“It’s all my fault...”

“Don’t do this, Fluttershy...”

“I should have helped them...”

“You know there was no saving them...”

“You don’t know that! You can’t know that! You can’t fucking know! How could you know?! W-we could have helped... We could have done something... but no! You had to fuck it all up and make us just sit there behind the glass! What does that help?! Oh yeah, ‘There was nothing we could do’, and, ‘They were already gone’, what do you know?! I’m fucking tired of all this bullshit! So I guess you are right, it wasn’t my fault, it was yours! This is all your fault! They died because of you! They might still be here today if you would have had the balls to go near them!”

“...You think I wanted this to happen? You think I wanted them to die? You think I wanted to just sit there and fucking WATCH?! No! I wanted to help, leave, even kill them myself, anything but just sit there like the little bitch I had to be! Do you even know what it’s like to have been the brave one, the strong one, the mean one, for your entire life, and then have to sit there with tears in your eyes and watch three of your best friends die?! Of course not! you were always the scared and whiny one of the group, this is nothing new to you! ...We already knew... We knew, Fluttershy... you can’t stop it once it’s started...”

“LIAR!”

Rainbow Dash had been with Fluttershy since only a few minutes after she had come into this world, but only this once had she ever been scared of the timid Pegasus. Now she feared for her life staring into those fiery green eyes.

Fluttershy dived onto Rainbow Dash and sank her teeth into the muscle of her right thigh, and those same teeth pulled. Hard. Rainbow Dash began to felt her flesh ripping away from her.

A searing pain burned through her nerves.

Rainbow Dash bucked twice on instinct. The First shook Fluttershy off her leg; the second landed hard on her forehead.

At first there was nothing she could do but just lay there for a moment or two, her heavy breath clinging to the fur of her foreleg as she lay there with her head on her hoof.

“...Fluttershy?” She bit her lip in agony. Blood streaked the floor under her friends ear. “Fluttershy?”

No response.

“Fluttershy, please!”

“...Shut-up, I have a headache...”