There was a slight beeping of some type of machinery amongst the blurred darknes that enveloped the purple unicorn's eyes. When she finally regained most of her vision, she took in her surroundings. The walls were white and there was a heart monitor to her side. She was lying on a soft, white, comfortable bed. But there was nopony anywhere in the room with her. When she tried to sit up, she felt an excruciating pain in the back of her head.
"AH! OW!" The unicorn said with distress. Two ponies dressed in white unifoms rushed in about a minute later. They seemed to be some type of nurses, which was a welcoming sign. She could now deduce that she was in the hospital. But why?
"Twilight! You're awake!" One of the nurses said with glee. Twilight remembered her; her name was nurse redheart. The other nurse was checking the machinery with a worried expression on her face.
"Yeah... but... I can't seem to remember much. I know who you are though, thank Celestia for that..." Twilight slowly said, still getting used to the strange lightheadedness she was experiencing.
"Well, how much do you remember?" Nurse Redheart asked. Twilight remembered her firends and everything that went on for the past few years and beyond that. But what she could not remember was how she had gotten hurt. But the more she tried, the more she got the feeling that something dark was trying to reach towards her... grab her... feed on her.
"I... I remember everything but how I got hurt." Twilight said, fearing this darkness that loomed over her. Nurse Redheart must not have seen the fear in Twilight's eyes because she did not ask about it.
"You had ran headfirst into a house, toppling over a flower pot, which landed on your head. The reason we are worried is because a shard had broken off and had slit your throat. It was a one in a million thing but it happened. Thank Celestia the pony in the house heard you colliding with his house. He rushed you here and we just barely got you in a stasis field of magic before you slipped away from loss of blood. You are truly one lucky mare that that stallion that saved your life had the ability to teleport you and him to the hospital. Otherwise, I'm afraid we would be one element of harmony short."
Twilight tried to soak every little detail up, hoping she could remember why she was running in the first place, "Well... do you know why i was running? Or why I can't remember what happened?" Twilight asked.
"No... we were hoping you could tell us that. And the reason you can't remember anything would have to be from the loss of blood. You had literally been braindead for a few seconds, which is enough to cause some memory lapses. It usually doesn't happen like that but in your case I guess it was. At least that is what i'm guesssing right now. We will have to do a few tests to see if I'm right" Nurse Redheart replied with a warm smile, obviously trying to comfort her. Twilight looked to her bedside table and saw that somepony had put flowers on it. They were in a vase and were not just any type of flower. They were her favorite kind. Lilacs.
"Ummm nurse... who put these here?" Twilight asked with a smile, feeling touched that somepony had given her flowers. Nurse Redheart looked confused for a second and and then saw what her patient was talking about.
"Oh, it was that nice stallion that saved your life. He came by to make sure that you were alright." Nurse Redheart said with her usual warm smile. Twilight smiled and felt a blush on her cheeks. She didn't even know him and he was doing all these nice things for her.
"Well, all we have to do is conduct some mandatory test and you can go home!" Nurse Redheart said. Twilight smiled and looked back at the flowers. Did he know that lilacs were her favorite? If so... how?
"Oh, and here are your things. I'm sure you want to see if everything is accounted for." Nurse Redheart said, offering Twilight the saddlebag she had been wearing when everything had went down. she accpeted it and peered into the contents, making sure that everything was still there. Fletlock's Sciences That Boggle The Mind was still there, thank Celestia for that... wait... what's this? She reached in, only to find an ancient-looking envelope that looked like somepony had put it in a fire but put it out before it had done any real damage other thand the burnt edges and then let it age for five hundered years. Of course something like that would be ridiculous. She pried the letter open and the contents of it were... creepy to say the least.
It said, We run, we hide, we make sure that nothing lays behind when it is above us. Darkness, it creeps, it crawls, it knows when you sleep. It watches, it observes, it waits for its chance. Lay your head to rest because there can be no hiding and most certainly... you will never get the chance to run. Scream as you may but it is time for you... to... die....
Twilight gawked at the ominous letter. She remembered something... when she was at some place, which she couldn't remember where, she could recall hearing the exact same thing in her head. The voices... the darkness... she remembered hearing this there. She looked closely at the last word, which looked to be bleeding. There was no doubt... the other words had begun to bleed and drip off of the letter.
"Wha... what is this?" Twilight mumbled in petrified terror. She threw the letter off to the side, gasping in fear. She looked up to see that Nurse Redheart was still there.
"Twilight?! Is something wrong?" Redheart asked with concern and confusion. Twilight picked the letter back up and saw that it was no longer bleeding or even had any indication that it ever did. Maybe it was just her head... she did get quite a hit there. Must be my imagination running away without me...
"No... I'm fine..." Twilight said, not taking her eyes off of the letter that seemed to be alive and hungry. But hungry for what? This was a strange puzzle... a strange puzzle indeed.
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After the nurses had conducted their tests, they had let Twilight out and she had went home, never taking the image of that bloody letter out of her head. She looked out the window of her library, contemplating the recent events. The sun seemed less bright and everything that would normally brighten the purple unicorn's day only served to make it even more depressing than it already was. She had the strange desire to go and visit Pinkie Pie for some reason, which was a little weird. Well, off to get cheered up by, possibly, the happiest pony alive!
"This'll do me some good... I'm sure of it!" Twilight said. Although, she couldn't shake the feeling that things were far worse than they appeared. It was only a matter of time before this darkness showed itself. And when it does... we're all in for a world of hurt, because the darkness hungers... it must feed.