Hurting Wings

by Mint_Chocolate_Pony


In the Mourning It'll be Okay

Try to think of a Picture Perfect Day again... Can you?
I don't think I can... I don't think I ever will again, either.
Is it okay if we cry? I feel like crying.
It's alright. In the morning, everything will be okay again. Trust me.

Chapter One
In the Mourning It'll be Okay

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Fluttershy woke up with a start, her creamy coat shaking with fear, underneath a hooded sweatshirt. Her pink hair falling back into her face. She breathed heavily, her wings fluttering softly.

Rainbow Dash cooly looked behind herself, her ear flicking. "What woke you up, Fluttershy?" Her rainbow mane tied up and herself wearing a sweatshirt, too. This one was black, unlike Fluttershy's creamy pale. In her hoof, a gun.

"Nothing Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy muttered. "just a slight nightmare. Do you think Princess Luna is still alive?"

"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash spoke up. Her wings opening widely and flapping calmly. "The only way we'd figure out would be by going to her. We're in Cloudsdale, right now it is the most safe place possible. The only ponies I'm hoping are still alive are Pinkie, Rarity, Apple Jack and Twilight, and You of course."

"What if I weren't alive, Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy looked at her hooves, covered in cloud tufts. "What if I were dead and didn't even notice?"

Rainbow Dash laughed a bit. "That's unlikely, Fluttershy. If you were dead, though, I'd be proud to be zombified from you, though." Rainbow Dash wrapped her hoof, bloody, around Fluttershy's neck. "I wouldn't be able to kill you."

Fluttershy swallowed sharply, her hoof poking the cloud. "Should we start moving? Or would you like me to start watch?" Her bright blue eyes looked up at the Cyan pegasus, pleading with fear.

"Would you? I would be fine with moving, but only if you got enough sleep." Rainbow Dash untied her hoof around Fluttershy's neck and looked up at the moon, it glimpsed weirdly. Rainbow dash didn't think much of this, at least the moon was up.

"Where would we go? A new cloud?" Fluttershy looked around.

"Zombie Killing?" Rainbow Dash shrugged. "I don't know or care where we go, we just need one more weapon and we need to start saving ourselves. Are you hungry at all, Fluttershy?" She turned her head below the cloud, thinking that some sort of pon-zombie was down below them. Nothing spotted.

"Did you see something?" Fluttershy backed up in fear. Her wings were slammed against her sides and her hair was in her face.

Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Dunno," she turned back to face Fluttershy. "Should we start moving again?"

"It's up to you, Rainbow." Fluttershy muttered calmly, her wings relaxing more, now. Her blue eyes glaring down below. "If we are, we should start with an investigation of the ground."

"We have wings, Fluttershy. We can out-fly that beast at any moment." Rainbow Dashes hooves stretched out quickly, along with her wings.

Fluttershy looked up awkwardly, noticing something on the edge behind Rainbow Dash, drooling as it's jaw was half open, blood tearing down it's face and it's slimy veins showing with a bulge in the side. Within what felt like minutes, but was just seconds, the creature curled up over Rainbow Dash's neck and bit heavily. Ripping the skin and flesh off from Rainbow Dash, there was a loud booming screen of fear and pain. It didn't come from Rainbow Dash either.

Fluttershy opened her wings terribly with fear and flew away, with a massive amount of speed, unknown to Rainbow Dash. She was crying in the speed, pulling her tears down her face and hitting her flank. The fear and pain of Rainbow Dash being lost, it had caused her to run without looking. She stopped for a second, before looking behind her to see Rainbow Dash. Relaxing in the sky with spread out, flapping wings.

"Fluuuuutttterrrrrrr..... diiiiiieeeeee...." Rainbow Dash's corpse roared, her eyes glowing white and her veins showing out of her neck, the wound of feeding there with high visiblity. Fluttershy screamed once more.

"Fluuttttttterrrr.... diiiieeeee...." Fluttershy curled up in a ball in the sky, her tears flowing down swiftly.

"Flutterrr... Diiiee." Rainbow Dash's voice became calming, and not so gruff.

"Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash's voice was finally normal.

"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash poked. Fluttershy blinked open her eyes, the cyan pegasus had her same dark maroon eyes, and her bright rainbow-colored mane. Calmness re-flooded Fluttershy, and her ears flattened softly.

"What happened?" Fluttershy muttered, looking around.

Rainbow Dash laughed a bit. "I asked you if we should start moving again, you closed your eyes and started to doze off. Kicking and flapping your wings like crazy, I take it you still need more sleep?" Rainbow Dash set the pistol down and rested cooly on the cloud. "I could take a rest. Should we find a rain cloud and sleep inside of that? I heard that rain clouds are hollow in the middle, which is where the rain forms before it falls to the bottom of the cloud and drips down. You'd have to be careful not to kick in your sleep, though."

Fluttershy blushed awkwardly. So everything that just happened in my head was a dream? I didn't exactly see Luna there. Isn't she meant to come in your nightmares? Fluttershy looked up into Rainbow Dash's eyes. "That sounds good, Rainbow."

Rainbow Dash nodded. "It can't take to long to find one," she squinted her eyes and looked closely around. Not to many clouds were in sight, and others that were there, would be heavy soon and turned into fog. "just fly a bit that way." Her hoof pointed eastwards. Rainbow Dash's wings spread out widely. "Ready to go?"

Fluttershy looked down at the pistol and then back up at Rainbow Dash. "Seems dangerous."

"No pain, no game, right?" Rainbow Dash smiled softly, and flattened her ears.

"Unless we get eaten alive by this disease." Fluttershy looked down. "If we go east, we would be closer to Cloudsdale. Shouldn't we move away form there? Flying Zombie ponies." Fluttershy looked around, if they were too close, there would probably be many flying undeads around, some coming close to swallow the two living pegasi flesh, wings, and eyes. Gross.

Rainbow Dash sighed. "I don't know anymore. We could go to ponyville, maybe Time Turner is still alive, we could go back in time to stop the disease from spreading." She tapped her hoof slightly on her chin and looked back down. "I just don't want to risk you, either."

Fluttershy picked up the silvery gun, and looked at Rainbow Dash. "We can go find that Rain cloud. You'll need rest soon, and I can't work a gun for sleeping on these clouds. Moving up will help us find one, rain clouds form high." Fluttershy moved closer to Rainbow Dash and put the gun in her hooves.

Rainbow Dash muttered quietly. "I think this would be a good idea." She pulled out two silver bullets from her pockets and looked at the gun. It already had four bullets in it. She put the bullets back in her pockets. "Four shots ready for use, and we should be good."

Fluttershy nodded. "Lets go then."

Rainbow Dash's wings were already open, as she pulsed them down, Fluttershy had opened hers and did the same. Both were now airborne, flying upwards at a rapid speed. Well, Rainbow Dash, anyways. Fluttershy was working slowly to get up in the atmosphere, and her mane would fly back in her face. Her wings were starting to move faster, as Rainbow Dash's got slower.

"I think I see a cloud over that way." Rainbow Dash shouted as her hoof pointed north. The noise that was happening in the background was unexplainable, and was thrusting against the pairs ears. It sounded almost like static, but it didn't at the same time.

"Rain cloud?" Fluttershy screamed almost, her voice would be too quiet to hear in this area. Yelling wouldn't do much.

"Probably, we can bring it down, though." Rainbow Dash moved forward quickly, leaving a rainbow trail behind her, Fluttershy would be able to follow that if she desired. Few seconds turned into minutes, and Fluttershy was all alone for a while. Rainbow Dash came back with a black cloud in front of her, rain dripping down slowly.

"I'm going to bring it down, wanna help?" Rainbow Dash shouted, her wings still as she rested on the cloud. The cloud, however, was slowly going down.

Fluttershy nodded and laid on the cloud beside Rainbow Dash, the weight was dragging it down and slowly making it towards a regular atmosphere. Once it got there, the two opened a small circle and crawled in. It was damp and warm, unlike the outside world.

The outside world is frost-bitten, dark, and not to mention dead. Everypony moans and moves around like they never learned to walk. Pegasi flap their wings helplessly, while unicorns only seem to remember levitation. Fluttershy shuttered as she looked around the dark cloud.

Rainbow Dash flapped her wings softly, entering the cloud with happiness. She turned to the entrance, and tapped her hooves lightly on the sides, shutting the entrance out. Her maroon eyes glowing warmly.

"I'm scared, Rainbow. What if we get attacked? What if the wonderbolts are patrolling for food? Even you can't out fly them." Fluttershy spoke with fear.

"We wont, Fluttershy. I'm sure of it. Just think," Rainbow Dash smiled, curling up for sleep. "In the morning, it'll be okay." Rainbow Dash muttered as she shut her eyes, the darkness of the cloud swallowing the two of them. Fluttershy closed her baby blue eyes, and got herself ready for sleep, too.