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// Some past in the present 
// Story: A rich man with a new life 
// by applejack2357 
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    Rainbow is falling to her death… ten seconds on the clock…

Ten.

“What should I do? What should I do?!” I said.

Nine.

“Wait, I’m a unicorn! I could save her with my magic!”

Eight.

“No, that wouldn’t work. I have no training on the matter.”

Seven.

“I could try and catch her with my hooves.” I look at my hooves.

Six.

“That wouldn’t work either.”

Five.

I then remembered mine and Twilight’s conversation from the night before. She told me the way to use magic was to concentrate on what you wanted to do. She even offered me lessons. Guess I’ll have to take her up on that.

Four.

I concentrate with all my might, trying to focus on levitating Rainbow. This was my absolute first time trying to use magic. I didn’t know if I was going to succeed. Her screaming had become loud, almost ear-splitting.

“Stay focused, RJ. You can do it.”

Three.

I bite my lower lip. Hard. I feel a warm liquid flowing down my chin. Whether it was saliva or blood, I did not know, and I didn’t care. All I cared about was saving Rainbow.

Two.

I… I felt something weird… Like a small click in my brain… I stayed focused. It almost felt like nothing else… existed… Like I was the only one in the universe…

One.

“GAH!”

…

I awoke in my house. In my own bed. Looking around the room, I saw my MP3 player, sitting on its charger, my headphones sitting right next to it.

“It… it was all a dream?” I say looking around. I get up, and look at myself. I was human again. I was confused. I walked out of my bedroom, and then I realized where I was. I wasn’t in my mansion. I was in my old house.

My parents’ house.

I look at myself again. I was a child; about 10, wearing SpongeBob pajamas. I smelled eggs and bacon. I ran into the kitchen. My mother was there. I teared up almost instantly, for seeing my mother again brought up an emotion that I thought I had lost long ago: love. She looked at me with her signature smile. She wiped her hands on her apron, then walked over to me and picked me up.

“Hey, honey, are you okay?” she said, a more concerned look on her face, “You’re never up this early. Did you have that dream again?”

“Yes, mommy,” I said, “Can I stay up with you?”

“Of course you can. You can stay with me as long as you want.”

Then it hit me: I was dying. Something must have happened, whether during a dream or if it actually happened. A bright light came up to us. My mother frowned.

“I guess duty calls.” She said, tears coming to her eyes. I looked at my mother, her face slowly turning a light purple, and something started coming out of her forehead. It was… a horn. She was slowly turning into Twilight.

When my vision cleared, I was in the hospital, looking at Twilight. She was looking at me. She smiled.

“Welcome back.”

I gasp, and sit up. “Rainbow!” An extremely painful migraine comes to me instantly, causing me to groan in pain. Twilight helps me lay back down, then looks at me.

“What happened?” I asked her.

She smiled.

“Thank you, Arjay.” She then walked out of the room. The next pony I saw made me sigh. It was Rainbow, her right wing all bandaged and tied between two boards, to help fix it. She walked up to me with teary eyes and a frown.

“I thought you were gone.” She said, looking at the ground. I lift up her chin, and look her straight in the eyes.

“Listen, Rainbow. My memory may be a little sketchy of what happened, but I saved you, and that’s all that matters.” She smiles, then she goes on to tell me what happened. She explains that she was about an inch from the ground when I used my magic to stop her from falling.

“You then turned me upright, put me on the ground to where I was standing, and then you passed out. I checked your pulse, and couldn’t find it.” She said.

Inside my head, my brain was having a fucking party at the thought of me using magic for the first time, but I kept it inside. I stayed silent, as to not surprise her with my over joyous cheers.

“Well, thanks for saving me.” She said, looking me straight in the eyes. Then she did the unthinkable.

She kissed me.

Rainbow Dash kissed me on my lips, and then walked out of the room.

Surprised, I couldn’t say a god damn thing. I closed my mouth, which was gaping, then tried to think of something else. No success.

“Well…” I said to no one, “That was something.”

Looking out the window, I realized it was close to dark. My guess was that I was spending the night here in the hospital, so I sat there; staring at the ceiling, wondering what the hell was going on, until I finally drifted off. “This is just getting stranger and stranger.” My last thought before falling asleep.