//------------------------------// // Deep wounds // Story: Wishing on a star // by Spitfiresign //------------------------------// The scene set was chilling, infront of her, she saw her best friend in a state of complete sadness, her bed now dripping with tears and herself unable to move or speak, for a few moments twilight felt everything happening infront of her to be a dream, that her friend was not having a mental breakdown, on her birthday no less, and crying uncontrollably but this was just a horrible, horrible nightmare. But the truth finally dawned on her and she knew, something had to be done, or this could turn into much worse, she has already lost friends, she did not want to lose a friend like Fluttershy. Though she knew she needed to be tough to get her friend to tell her what was wrong, Twilight felt it was impossible to follow the 'cruel to be kind' way of thinking, especially to somepony like Fluttershy, but she thought this was the only way to get the needed information out of her. so, reluctantly, she started, " Fluttershy, you have to tell me what is wrong, you cannot stay like this, I will not allow it." She calmly demanded, with her friend on the edge of being lost like this she would not stop until all was fixed. It took a while, but Fluttershy had eventually managed to calm her nerves enough to just about talk to her, " I'm so sorry you have to see me like this Twilight, this is all my fault." Fluttershy managed to mutter, "no this is not your fault whatsoever, but you need to tell me what's wrong, or I cannot help you Fluttershy, so lets start from the top, what has happened, why have you been acting distant?" twilight asked, although with a face of undeterminable emotion, as the question still stood silence still held the room until, " I just feel so alone." a tiny little voice shrieked. Obviously shaken by this twilight decided to further investigate, not that she had, or wanted any other choice... " how can you be alone when we are almost always with you, and need I remind you of all your little animal friends?" twilight managed to somehow keep herself calm by this earlier comment, " I don't mean it like that Twilight. it is more complicated."Fluttershy responded sadly, "what do you mean then?" Twilight asked, confused. 'where is she going with this, I don't understand... unless she means...' " I mean that ever since I realised that no one is going to be able to help with my problems that there is no one I can truly love as family, not that I ever had one..." Fluttershy said, almost as if she did not say that herself, her tone becoming more dark and evil-sounding, Twilight started to become more worried her friend was lost, " what problems are you referring to exactly?" Twilight worriedly questioned, noticing her friends off behaviour, " problems like... erm... (sigh) I don't really want to talk about them." Fluttershy stated In a dismissive manner, not wanting to talk about her true fears, "Fluttershy! you need to tell me, you are on the verge of becoming an emotion train wreck, you can't just turn your back on the world, this has to stop!" twilight shouted, she felt bad raising her voice but knew she needed to. " I guess that you should know, but I'm afraid you'll just laugh at me like all the others did." Seeing her friend smile softly made her understand her friend's genuine request, she continued, " I always worry that I will lose my friends, and then there is this dream... it is very strange...". even though she was grateful of her friends honesty she need to get to the deeper source, so she kept depicting, "what exactly happens in this dream?" Twilight asked, knowing that this dream of hers can't be the source of her deep sadness. Fluttershy continued, " well at first everything is very dark, much like the sky without the sun, moon or stars, then there is this light, it felt so real, but it felt as though it was distant, that it did not belong, then I hear voice, saying ' you will become like the rest' then in wake up as if it was just a bad dream. it always scares me but that isn't what is making me upset." Twilight silently huffed to herself in agitation, " every time I see my friends I see... ". As Fluttershy starts to cry her voice starts to diminish into a quiet cry of unintelligible noise, Twilight however keeps concentrating as she recognises this as what is bothering her. " I see nothing but disappointment, I always mess things up, I'm just know for being the one whimpering before the going gets tough , I can't take being known as a nuisance... " before Fluttershy could finish she was tackled into the ground in a hug, "of course your not a nuisance, what about the time you saved us all from that horrible dragon, or when you helped the manticore when we first met or when you stared down that cockatrice to protect Applebloom, Sweetiebell and Scootaloo, never mind all the lives you saved taking care of the animals, you shouldn't dwindle on your weaknesses Fluttershy because you are more special than anyone I know, you should be proud of yourself, not to mention the girls." Twilight happily responded. As she thought about it, Fluttershy realised that her friend was right, and she had been getting herself worried over nothing, she did have a tendency to take things the wrong way, so this would not be the first time, like when Rainbow said her wings were a bit small and she couldn't stop crying for a week, she happily hugged her friend and thanked her for getting her out of a sticky situation. It was not long before they had started saying goodbye when both Fluttershy and Twilight noticed something strange outside, " Do you see that twilight?" a brilliant white light was sparkling in front of them like a gem, they both had never had seen anything like this, but all good things go bad, the ground suddenly started shaking and the white light was now gone, after the small quake had finished, the unmistakable sound of a spell could be heard, the whirring of sound could be heard from Canterlot, " What's happening Twilight!" Fluttershy screamed, "I don't know!". after a few tense moments the screech stopped, but the worse was to come, as from just outside Fluttershy's yard there was an ground-shaking explosion, which caused both of the distressed mares to fall over. eventually the shaking stopped and both mares were able to get to their hooves. " what could have cause that?" a shocked Twilight said, rubbing her now bruised head, " whatever it was, it was outside," Fluttershy added. shakily they both exited their safe haven and trotted outside to the location of the explosion and what was in front of them shocked them.