//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: Clipped // by Unarmed Pony //------------------------------// They walked all the way to the Ponyville hospital with Rainbow Dash, who was still curled up in a little ball. When they went through the doors, Nurse Redheart was there to greet them. "Hi girls." She then noticed the frightened little pegasus being suspended with two magical auras. "Oh my goodness. What happened?" Pinkie Pie answered the question "Well.... Dashie seems to be scared of us for some reason. When she woke up screaming, we ran in there to see what was wrong. Then she started sobbing and muttering things like "please don't hurt me"." "Oh dear, she must have had a traumatising dream. Come, bring her with me." Nurse Redheart had walked past a few doors when she finally stopped and opened the door. Inside was a bright, glistening marble floor with white tile walls. There was a small bed to the far end in the middle with a heart moniter to the left and some other machinery to the right. "Here. Put her in this bed." Twilight put Rainbow in the bed and covered her still cowering body with the covers. Nurse Redheart closed the door, knowing what might happen. And she was right. As soon as the unicorns magical hold was released, Rainbow bolted for the door, only to slam into it. Twilight once again picked her up and put her into the bed. Realising she was defeated, Rainbow stayed there, tears still dripping down from her eyes. "I would like you and your friends to leave the room for a moment. I need to talk to Rainbow Dash." They all left the room for the nurse to speak to Rainbow. "Hey Rainbow, how are you?" silence "You going to talk to me?" silence "You need to talk to me Rainbow Dash." "They tried to hurt me....." "Who did?" "The ones who brought me here." Rainbow only just managed to utter those words between the sniffs and the sobs. "How did they try to hurt you?" "They.... They....." Rainbow Dash once again broke into tears at the memory of what had happened. "Shhh calm down Rainbow, it's going to be ok." Nurse Redheart was now sitting with Rainbow, comforting her. "Why where they trying to hurt you?" "Because Fluttershy is dead and it's all my fault." Rainbow was now crying again. "Im sure it's not your fault." "It is my fault. She tried to save me and now she's dead." "The ones that brought you here, they care about you. They never would have hurt you" Nurse Redheart was still comforting the terrified Rainbow Dash "But they did!" Rainbow shouted out, her voice breaking at the end. "Twilight poured acid on my wings and drew on me with a knife! And Rarity cut off my tail!" "No Rainbow Dash, it was just a bad dream." "But I could feel it!" Nurse Redheart had nothing to say to this. She knew that nopony feels pain in dreams. "It's ok Rainbow." Nurse Redheart got up from the bed. "Now I know this is going to be hard, but I need you to explain exactly what happened before and after the dream." _____________________________ "I hope Rainbow is going to be okay" Applejack seemed more worried than the others. She had a right to, having known Rainbow the longest. "I'm sure she'll be fine." Twilight was doing her best to be optimistic, but couldn't stop a tear from streaming down the face as the thought of what might happen gripped her mind. "And what if she's not!" Pinkie Pie, mane still flat, finally spoke up, tears freely flowing down her face. "What's going to happen then?" Pinkie, I'm sure she'll be fi.." Twilight got cut off by Pinkie. "I am SICK of your stupid optomistic atitude Twilight." Those words struck deep, as Pinkie saw a tear drop from Twilight's left eye. "Not everything is some stupid just wait and everything is going to be fine game! Some things don't end up ok and I am just sick and tired of you thinking like that!" With these final words, Pinkie Pie ran home to sugercube corner. Everypony else just stared at Twilight, who was standing there with a few tears dripping down her face. Twilight was trying to be strong infront of her friends, but realised that was pointless and broke down, laid on the ground and cried. Applejack and Rarity came over to comfort their friend. _____________________________ "And that's what happened." Rainbow had just finished explaining her dream, during which, she broke down into tears several times. Nurse Redheart just stared at the pegasus with a look of shock on her face. "And when you woke up, you couldn't feel any pain at all, correct?" "Yeah." "Well i must say, that is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard. It's going to take months of therapy to fix the image you now have of your friends." "But they wern't my friends. They where sort of shadow, demon images of my friends. if the ones who brought me in here appeared to everyone else as just normal ponies, then why do I see them as the things from my dream?" "Well because that dream was a very traumatic dream for you. It will affect you for a long time. But with therapy, we can get you back to normal in a few months." "But what if i remember that they're not the demons that tortured me, but my friends?" "It won't matter. As soon as you see them, you will unwillingly forget about everything and just remember those so called demons that tortured you." "Can you call them in?" "are you sure thats a good idea?" "Yeah im sure" "Well alright then. I will be right here if you need me" The nurse went off to find Rainbows Friends A/N Don't ya just love it when you have a general idea but just wing it with the rest and it turns out great? Lets hope that happens with this. Anyway, this chapter is early because, as I said previously, i had an idea and idea's pop out of my head as fast as they pop in so............ Yeah. you can read the rest :)