"Uhh..."
It was an absolute wreck by the time I was back to the living world.
All I could remember at that time was when my horn starting to glow, dragging me into a middle of no where, and by the time it bursting out from the ground and when it let out a roar towards the sky before finally, it was looking down at me with eyes full of rage. It was scary. I still remember the way its breath over my coat. I'm still feeling its presence on me. It felt so real. Very real. The pain felt real. There was blood everywhere and the smell...
'Was it a nightmare? Or was it real? No, it wasn't real... It wasn't!'
I tried to convince myself that everything I saw was just a nightmare. It must be a nightmare, otherwise, I might've not waking up at this moment...
Right?
I was laying there longer than I was expecting. My body was still tense, and I felt like I was running for a mile non-stop. There was also this light that shone over my eyes, it was so annoying.
'It's morning already?'
When I first awake, my mind hasn't had a full grasp nor time to fully proceeded about what was happened. I was convinced that everything was just a nightmare and I assume that I was awake in my room. I tried to move my arms to block out what I assume was a sunlight, but I found myself unable to do so. The second time I tried to do that again, I could only move my right foreleg a few centimeters above the bed before my muscle failed me and my arm fall back down. It was then I realized just how weak my body was.
A worry feeling creep into me by the moment I realized I couldn't easily move my body. My breath was rapid once more, and I felt my heart was beating fast against my chest. Trying to muster all my strength to open my eyes, all I could see was a blinding white light above me which doesn't make any sense, when did my room have that big light over there? My ear was slowly but gradually heard a low beeping noise just a few inches from me. Instinctively, I rolled my eyes around, and then I realized this wasn't my room.
'What? Where am I? Why I'm here?'
My heart pumping even faster, I tried to move my limbs in panic. I had no idea of where I was and how I even be here. I don't want to be where I was and all of a sudden, an overwhelming urge of me wanting to be home poured into my mind in the form of a desire that was so strong it could not be resisted. I was afraid of being kidnapped or something Mom and Dad won't tell me until I'm old enough, and I was afraid that I was on the latter.
When my mind was begging for either mom, or dad to be with me here, It was then that I heard the door swung open and soon followed by the sound of hoofsteps coming closer towards me. Somepony was entering the room. Somepony who I do not recognize which was looking at me with her eyes open wide at me.
'Who is she? Is she my kidnapper?!'
But then, I heard her voice found it's way into my ears, a worried kind of voice if I recall.
"Easy, easy, It's okay now, you are safe..."
It took me a few second to stop myself from thrashing around. I was still breathing hard from the initial panic, from the nightmare and from my fear of being separated from my parents, but when I heard her voice was neither cold nor malice, I finally realized that she doesn't mean any harm.
I wasn't fully aware about what she said during that time, as my past self was too occupied to hug the first friendly pony I saw. I don't even remember how I managed to wrapped my forelegs around her, I just cried into her pink fluffy coat, hugging her as strong as I could for comfort for what its seem forever before I finally calmed down enough to processing of what she said to me.
"Sush... that's fine, that's fine... you're okay now, Sush... Sush... you are safe now, please stop crying, your parents will be here soon sweetie, so don't worry."
That was more or less what I remember during my emotional outburst. I did remember calling out for mom and dad when I was sobbing into her chest and when she said that my parents will be here soon, a sense of calming sensation seep into my chest that I know I was not in a big of trouble as I thought I was. Breathing in the air, I was able to make my eyes focused on her face and took notice of her expression by the time I stop sobbing. She was smiling at me, she seems had tears of her own from what I could guess from the corner of her eyes. Her blue eyes seem like they were reassuring me that I am safe in here with her. When she pulled herself off from the embrace, my attention was shifted almost immediately towards the hat on top of her yellow mane, or more specifically, a picture on her hat. A red cross logo was seen on her white hat and there was only a few places where I know where ponies usually wear that kind of hat.
'Am I in the hospital?'
With that new information I found, I turned my head around to get a better look of my surrounding. I was in a room with a decorated dark green wallpaper with wooden planks on the bottom. There were several empty beds in the room, around five from what I remember, and two set of window on the wall.
"Where are we?"
"You are in the hospital sweetie, but don't worry, you are safe now, there will nothing that can hurt you here."
"We are, in the hospital?"
"Mhmm." She nodded.
I hung my head after she did the confirmation. I was about to think about how did I end up in the hospital, but my mind had already begun its head start, and I was about to drifting back to the moment where I meet the monster. I immediately shook my head in an instant and I found myself staring over my body, I saw some part of my coat had a small pinkish tint here and there, and I had small cuts on my sides and all over my legs. My right hind leg was wrapped in a bandage and I had several tubes and wire attached to my right foreleg which connected to the beeping machine next to me with a picture displaying a lines and number I couldn't understand.
It was such a surreal experience when I saw the condition of my body, I never imagine that I will see myself like this. If it wasn't for the fact that I was the one who was injured, I might have shocked and scared myself even more.
I stopped looking over myself by closing my eyes as my mind began to think.
'So, was it real...?'
Thinking back to my nightmare, I knew that me being here had no other reason other than that it was real, but I needed somepony else for confirmation, maybe I was hurt by something else... maybe I just tripped and fall, or maybe... just maybe...
"What happened to me?"
Her eyes widened, I saw her expression shifted from her smiling self, she turned her head up and down and then looking at her right while biting her lower lip. She then sighed before she turned her head to look over me, saying. "You were... hurt, near the cliff. Are you remember that?"
I nodded, "I think so..."
For some reason, she seemed relieved when I said that, but I still had no idea the reason though. "And then... there was a..." She shifted her gaze somewhere as she lifted one of her foreleg and rubbed the back of her head. "There was a creature that... that was near you when you were there."
"So it was... real?"
The moment I asked that, her expression shifted once more. I couldn't tell what was she thinking from the way she looks, but it wasn't a pleasant one, like my mom when she was about to say something bad, like when she couldn't fulfil her promise. She sighed and turned her head to the left once more and shook her head lightly.
By the moment she was looking at me again, she then asked, "What do you mean my dear?"
I wasn't sure what should I say at that point. It was too obvious now that she couldn't even bring up this topic, but I still need the confirmation of what was happened to me.
"T-the monster..." I said, "Was it real?"
She was silent for a moment, her expression downcast, and I could have sworn I heard a gulping noise coming from her direction. When she glanced her eyes up to looked at my own, she tried to give me a smile despite her eyes and brow showed a different kind of emotion.
"Well... yes sweetie," She began before she scooted closer to me and placing her hoof to pat my mane, "But It's okay now that you are here with ponies around you who can protect you."
Silent soon followed, I didn't know why, but I felt like crying. I had been through such a horrible experience and nothing could make me feel better about it. I was sure that I was dead by the monster, but here I am. I don't think I wanted to do anything at the moment, I just wanted to see my parents again.
It was then the nurse glance towards my hind legs and say something unexpected.
"Hey, have you take a look at your cutie mark?"
That statement caught me by surprise, I was too focused about where I was and what was happened that I haven't realized that I have my cutie mark when I looked at myself before. I Immediately tilted my lower half of my body, so I can look at the side of my thigh to see my own cutie mark. There was a picture of three blue diamonds on my coat which is contrasting against the white color of my fur. I couldn't believe my own eyes, I was too caught up in my excitement that I nearly forgot all of my pain until I wince when a jolt felt on my right hind leg when I tried to move it, but It proves something, I'm not dreaming!
"I-it's real!" I exclaimed.
The nurse smiled and then put her hoof to her mouth as if she was trying to hide a laugh.
"Oh, wow... You really did get yourself into a lot of trouble for that huh? That's a pretty impressive cutie mark you got." The nurse said as if she knew everything already.
But of course she didn't, most ponies will probably thought that I must be running around the town trying to do some stuff so I can earn my cutie mark and got lost somewhere. But I knew that wasn't the case, it was my horn which pulled me into the trap, and I might need to clear up some confusion.
"N-no, I-I didn't go to the cliff, it was my horn that... pulled me there."
She blinked, tilting her head and said, "So, it was true you were not going there by yourself."
Now it was me who was blinking, "You know?"
"Well..." She began, "The eyewitnesses said that your horn was glowing bright, and you were dragged outside the town. I'm honestly wasn't believing it because I wasn't there, and that kind of thing was never happened before."
Never happened? I was sure it must because the magic that pulled me there was a unique one. It was coming from my own horn to the place where I gain my cutie mark. I was sure of it. Unicorn magic doesn't happen without a reason, and it is true, but now it's bag a new question.
What is my special talent.
The meanings of cutie marks are not always literal, they can be a symbolic representation of something. Judging from the cutie mark I had, I believe that my cutie mark is falls into the latter category. With that in mind, let's trace back a few moments about what was the last things I did before I woke up in the hospital.
'My horn was glowing, and I was pulled into a middle of nowhere and then the monster showed up.'
I wasn't particularly aware what does that mean, but I was sure that somewhere at that time was the time I earn my cutie mark. So then I thought, 'Is my special talent is involved something violent? Or is it a monster detector? Or is it the beam spell? Or maybe it just plain above average magic? Is fashion... wait, hold on!'
My train of thought was completely derailed the moment I start thinking about the topic I fall in love with.
'Is my cutie mark had nothing to do with fashion? No, my talent must have something to do with fashion. There is no way my talent is anything but fashion!'
But the more I keep thinking about it, the more I realized that my cutie mark had absolutely nothing to do with fashion design. In fact, I don't think my talent meant anything good at all.
I must have earned it 'after' my encounter with the monster. The last thing I remember before me being here was when I tried to cast a beam spell, and it is a destruction type of spell. 'Is my talent is about destruction? Is my talent is about killing? Oh, no. Nononono! That can't be-'
"Rarity, what's wrong?"
I must be zoning out that time, I looked up and saw her worried expression on her face while she was looking at me while holding a clipboard in her magic. What should I say? I was sure that my talent is anything but good, and should I tell her? What if she decided to call the guards and taking me into who knows where?
"Rarity stay with me, breath, take a breath, take in it slow, and exhale, in and out, in and out."
The moment I wasn't on the verge of hyperventilating, I was crying again into her chest, I felt her hoof was patting my mane to comforting me while I sobbed, but I knew that it might be my last time for me to have a caring pony once they knew my talent. But, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm missing the point of why I was at the cliff in the first place, or I was just misinterpreting my cutie mark, maybe... I just asked her and tell me I was wrong. Surely it was a good idea... right?
"What is my special talent?"
"What?"
"M-my special talent?"
"I'm sure you will find out soon sweetie."
"But what if it's destruction?! What if my cutie mark means something bad?"
"What?! There's no such thing as a bad talent, okay? There is nothing bad about you."
"But I gain it when I attack the monster! What if it is?! What if I hurt somepony else? Will I got send into a prison! W-what about my love of fashion... t-this is not what I want... please tell me that wasn't the case..."
I briefly saw her eyes widened from what I said, but I kept hugging her body and planting my face into her chest, so I don't have to see her expression. That was the last thing I knew before I managed to make myself a sleep by crying on her pink fur... or if she decided to use a spell or injecting a medicine into me without I notice.