I'm a dragon? I thought I was suppose to be dead!

by DeathKing

Stage 0: A life for a life for a new life?

“How did everything end up like this?” I whispered softly. “One minute everything was awesome and the next? Everyone was at each other's throat.”

I lifted my head to stare at Sunset's bedridden form. Sunset was always beautiful no matter what she did, when she was queen bitch of Canterlot High, beautiful. Turned into a she-demon and mind-control the whole school? Beautiful. Faced off against three mind-controlling sirens and won? Beautiful.

Even now, bedridden, she was beautiful. Her hair spread around her head forming a golden-red halo. Even though her face and body are covered in bandages from all the cuts and bruises across her body, she was still beautiful.

“God, I’m so sorry, Sunset,” I said, hoping my words would somehow heal her. “I would say it thousand, no, tens of thousands of times to see you awake and smiling again.”

But no matter how much I beg she still wouldn’t wake up. If it wasn’t for the slight rising and falling of her chest, anyone that saw Sunset would think she was dead.

“Begging won’t help, my dear,” a smooth-talking voice said behind me.

I ignored it.

“Come now, don’t ignore me! It won’t help you or your little girlfriend,” the voice whispered in my ear.

“What do you want?” I asked, nearly growling the words out.

“To see your answer of course,” said the voice.

“And if I say, no?”

I could practically feel the grin in his voice when he said, “My dear, we both know that won’t be your answer.”

“... How did this even happen?” I absently asked myself. Even now, I still can’t believe how all this got started. A few weeks before the winter holidays an account open on Mystables called Anon-a-miss. At first, it appeared to be one of those gossip blogs that pop up ever so few often, just to die out soon after.

But Anon-a-miss... was different.

At first, she started posting the usually kind stuff, “he was taking drugs” or “she was cheating on her boyfriend”, ya know the usual kind of gossip. But what made Anon different was the fact that she had proof to back up what she posted. As she started to post more and more, people began taking it as fact even when she couldn’t prove what she posted was true.

Soon the students of Canterlot High were at each other's throats, ready to tear each other apart at the drop of the hat. It was around this time that someone conveniently pointed out that Anon’s Mystable background was red and gold with her profile picture being a silhouette that looks awfully a lot like Sunset. It didn’t take long before everyone was pointing their fingers at Sunset, accusing her of being Anon-a-miss.

Of course, my friends and I defended Sunset from their unfair accusations, but... we were no better. When our secrets got out we easily turned on Sunset just like the rest.

After the girls and I told Sunset she wasn’t our friend anymore, Anon posted a secret of Fluttershy’s that caused a bit of a problem for us. See, no one knew this secret except for me and Fluttershy herself. This left me as the sole source of the secret and since Fluttershy knew I would never tell anyone this secret, this put doubt if Sunset was guilty or not.

The post caused a rift to form in our friendship. Pinkie thought Sunset was just being meanie-pants to Fluttershy while Applejack and Rarity thought she was just lashing out at Fluttershy for standing up to her. I was suspicious of the post since Sunset wasn’t around during our middle school years, plus, I doubt Sunset would just gather dirt on random people without a reason.

After telling Fluttershy to hold off on defending Sunset again for a bit, just in case we were wrong, I started looking into her innocence. But I wasn’t making much headway besides learning that all the secrets that were told were only told to one or two other people.

So after hitting a dead-end I decided to see my old friend Gilda to she what knew, stopping long enough to say hi to Scootaloo, I met up with G to trade info, seeing as Sunset defeat at the fall formal allowed Gilda to become the top dog again, but that when everything went wrong.

“How did it go wrong, Rainbow Dash?” the voice whispered all-around me.

Anon posted a video of Gilda and me... experimenting, and anyone with a half-brain can guess what happen next. Gilda rep was being threatened by a brunch of dickheads for being a “soft, weak lover”.

As for me, nothing anyone could say to me could piss me off more than doubting that Sunset wasn’t guilty. I was angry at how she was tearing our school apart, angry at... “at our friendship being fake,” I choke out loud.

Slumping down in the next chair to Sunset’s bed, I stared out at the window sighing, “I got angry, let Gilda convince me into helping her perform a jump on Sunset... It was only after the police came did we figure out we were set up.”

“Hmm... interesting. Please continue, miss Dash,” the voice said in front of me even though I couldn’t see it.

Sighing, I glared at where I thought the was coming and said, “Why should I keep talking about what I already kno” - *SNAP* - “fine. But it doesn’t get any better from here.”

“I figure as much,” the voice said absently like it was picking at its teeth. “Now continue.”

“Yeah, yeah, hold your horses,” I said, annoyed at the voice way of talking before I continued my recount of what happened.

Looking back now it was obvious we were being set up. I wasn’t being subtle about asking people who knew their secrets and it was quite convenient how Anon posted a video of me and Gilda soon after I started looking into who knew whose secrets. But being the idiot that I am, I didn’t see it until it was too late, and now Gilda is in jail, taking my share of the blame with her so I can have a chance to find the real Anon-a-miss.

“And did you find them?”

“Yeah, I di-wait, how did you know there was more than one per-”

*SNAP* “No distraction now, miss Dash, continue.”

“Okay.”

I found out who Anon-a-miss was by complete accident. I was heading over to Applejack’s to my clear head and caught AJ rushing out of the farm saying Rarity called her and said she needs her over her place ASAP. Being the good friend that I am I decided to tag along with her to see what disaster happen now.

When we got there, we found Rarity standing over Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo like a lion over its prey. We asked what happen and all Rarity did was point at a laptop sitting on a nearby table. At first, we didn’t understand what Rarity was mad about until we notice what was on the screen.

“And what was on the screen, Rainbow Dash?”

“It was Anon-a-miss Mystable account. And at first, we thought it was just a blog post that they got caught reading. But that quickly went the drain when we notice the accounts control.”

“I take it neither of you took it very well?”

“That’s an understatement,” I snorted. “Applejack was horrified at what Applebloom did. And I couldn’t look at Scootaloo without wanting to choke the life out of her.”

“I see,” the voice said with mock sympathy. “And since all of you know the truth now, what did all of you decide to do with it?”

I stared at Sunset for several minutes before saying, “They... Applejack and Rarity wanted to cover up Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo's involvement in Anon-a-miss. Or at least for the time being they said.”

“And what did you want to do, Rainbow Dash?” the voice whispered in my ear as I felt its claws dig into my shoulders causing me to shiver.

“I wanted the truth to come out. No more secrets. No more lies. Just the plain old truth.”

“I take it the others didn’t take kindly to what you wanted, did they?” the voice said with a hint of understanding in its voice.

“No, they didn’t... They - I... We fought. And I think I lost two more of my best friends... I-I made choice.”

“Hmm, your sure you're ready? You still got time to reconsider?” asked the voice.

“No, I might end up changing my mind again if given the chance. Just... get it over with.”

“... Very well.”

*SNAP*

At first, nothing changed, I was still sitting in the chair, and Sunset was still in bed slowly dying. It was when I started to doubt my own sanity when it happened. My body suddenly felt drained, like something was slowly pouring out of me. When I started having trouble breathing I look up and saw something wondrous. Sunset’s injuries were healing at an alarming rate.

What was once a Sunset so injured that she lied at death-door ready to cross it at any time, now lied a Sunset who looks like she had never been in a fight in her entire life. Scars on her face that were there before the incident was gone. Leaving Sunset with an otherworldly beauty that surpassed what she had before.

“Beautiful.” I manage to choke out.

As I felt more of my life leave me, I couldn’t help but feel a sick and twisted sense of joy over the fact I was becoming one with Sunset in ways that no one else ever will.

As all the feeling in my body, besides the ever-present cold, left me. I quickly realized that this was my final moments and did the one thing I wanted to do at that moment.

I stared at Sunset. I watch as my life brought her back from the brink of death. I watch as my life made her
more beautiful than anyone else.

I still watch knowing she will never be mine.

I let out a shuddering sigh as my vision fails me leaving me blind to the world.

If this is the moment my life ends then I’m content, I thought myself as I waited for my life to come to its ultimate end.

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“It seems you didn’t meet a terrible end after all.”

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“Hmm, the drain must have taken a lot out of you than I first thought if you can’t even think.”

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“But what to do with you though? I can’t, in good conscience, just leave you here as a helpless and mostly dead corpse. That just plain rude! Hmm, what to do, what to do?”

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“Ah-ha! I got it! I just make one of those!”

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“Now I know you will agree with me when I say you don’t want to die. So I’m just gonna say you’re welcome. And welcome to your new life, Rainbow Dash.”

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“And before I forget you have to find your own way back.”

*SNAP*