I was in shock; I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. I kept repeating it over and over again in my head. Scootaloo and Diamond got into a fight. Diamond pushes Scootaloo over a cliff.
I can still see the look on her face as she disappeared over the edge, a mix of shock and confusion. She didn’t even try to stop her fall in any way, she didn’t even scream. It was as if her mind couldn’t process what was happening to her. I felt the same way as I watched it happen. I still can’t believe what I had just seen. I just continued to stare at the spot where she once was for a while. Has it a few seconds or was it minutes, I’m not sure. Time feels like it’s standing still.
Suddenly I felt myself moving towards Diamond Tiara, and the cliff. My whole body is shaking and I have a sick feeling in my stomach. I just stared at the edge the whole time I’m walking towards it… where she disappeared.
“D-Diamond…” I forced myself to speak, “y-you… you… that…” I couldn’t think of anything to say, I tried to but it kept getting jumbled together.
Diamond doesn’t say anything. I turn to look at her, she has the same face that Scootaloo had as she fell, eyes wide open and pupils shrunk to pinpricks. Her mouth was moving as if she was trying to speak but no sounds came out.
“Diamond… Look at me Diamond!” I yelled, while grabbing her and shaking trying to snap her out of her shock. Her head snapped to look at me, the look of shock still in her eyes.
“S-Silver? I didn’t… I never meant… I… I…” she said while slowly turning her head back towards the cliff, I also turned to look.
We both made our way closer to the edge; it was like some sort of sick compulsion that I had to obey. I couldn’t stop myself no matter how much I wanted to. Neither could Diamond Tiara. Slowly we crept closer to the edge, slowly my stomach started churning at the thought of what I was going to see next as we both look over the cliff at the same time seeing what we wished we didn’t know to be true.
At the bottom of the gorge was Scootaloo, looking like a tiny doll from the height we were at… a tiny broken doll. That’s when it hit me, Diamond Tiara just killed Scootaloo and I watched it happen. I feel the tears threatening to well up in my eyes. And judging from the quivering breaths coming form Diamond, she wasn’t faring any better with what we are seeing than I was.
I looked back over at her, reaching my hoof up to her chin to turn her head to face me. Her eyes are filled with tears while she kept saying “I didn’t mean to...” under her breath over and over again.
“D-Diamond, we need to… to tell som-” I’m cut short when a noise pierces though all my thoughts like a knife. Screaming, somepony screaming. It isn’t me, and it isn’t Diamond. We both are quickly drawn back to the edge looking down at Scootaloo.
She was screaming… Scootaloo was screaming in pain. SHE WAS ALIVE! I’ve never felt so relieved and terrified before in my life. Relieved that she isn’t dead, but terrified at the noise she was making.
I’ve heard ponies scream before, in fear, in anger, but never in pain. It is the single most horrific sound I have ever heard, piercing me to my very soul. I feel sick just listening to it. The visuals accompanying it didn’t help.
Suddenly both I and Diamond are running along the edge of the cliff, completely on impulse. We came here often and we knew there was a place where the gorge got shallower making it safe to enter, that’s where we’re running towards. All I can think of is Scootaloo in pain, and that we had to help her. It didn’t matter if we didn’t like her, no that stopped mattering the moment we heard her crying in pain. It was like that screaming was compelling us to get to her as fast as possible.
As soon as we reached the safe path into the gorge, the echoes of her screaming were fading. The screaming terrified me, but the sound of it getting weaker and weaker was far worse. We ran faster, it felt like forever until we finally reached her.
When we reached her, I could see what had happened clearly. From what I could tell by looking at her, she had hit a pile of rocks and other stuff that seemed to be piled up against the wall of the gorge. I didn’t have to look at her to tell that, there were spatters of blood and some of her feathers on the pile where she hit and rolled to where she was now.
I can feel my stomach turning just by looking at her. Little orange feathers fluttered a crossed the dirt in a light breeze. Scootaloo is laying covered in dirt and blood that was seeping form several gashes and scrapes across her body. One of her wings is draped over her and the other is laying limp next to her on the ground. I see something sticking out of one of her front legs; I quickly look away from it.
She’s sobbing, with a pained look on her face, tears streaming down from her eyes mixing with blood coming from her nose. Her eyes were open but even though she is looking in our directing I’m wonder if she can even see us.
Diamond stands still, a look of worry on her face. I have to force myself just to make a move towards Scootaloo.
“H-hay…” I say as calmly as I can to her as I leaned down next to her. Being this close I can actually smell the blood; it’s making me feel even sicker then I am. “Scootaloo, c-can you hear me?”
She didn’t respond, just continued the same pained sobbing she’s been doing since we arrived. Her eyes are looking at me but they look like she’s trying to see something behind me. I gently reach out and touch her…
Her high pitched scream of pain causes me to pull back quickly and cover my ears to attempt to drown out the horrifying noise.
“SILVER WHAT DID YOU DO!?” Diamond yells at me as she quickly closes the distance between us, Scootaloo’s screaming having snapped her out of her stupor.
“I just touched her and she started to scream!” I say as she looks down at Scootaloo and held her hoof up to her mouth. I can hear her choking back the urge to throw up.
“I-I did this… I did this…” she began repeating as she stared at Scootaloo.
I shook her, looking her right in the eyes, “Listen Diamond, w-we need to help her okay?” Diamond nods to what I’m saying. “We’re going to have to carry her… H-help me okay?” Another nod from Diamond. “S-so… Help me lift her on my back… yeah, my back. Okay?”
“…okay…”
Diamond gently tried to slide her hoof under Scootaloo’s body. Immediately she began screaming in pain and Diamond quickly pulled away, squeezing her eyes shut. This isn’t going to work; we can’t even pick her up without causing her pain. We need to do something else.
“W-what are we going to do Silver?” Diamond sobbed. “What are we going to do?”
“W-we… we get help!” I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. All of the panic must have been keeping me from thinking straight or something. “Diamond, you go tell somepony what happened a-and I’ll stay here with Scootaloo.”
“Y-yeah...” She replied before slowly backing away, turning around, and quickly sprinting away.
I watched as she got farther away and I suddenly feel something wet against my hoof. I looked down… blood. It’s blood. Scootaloo’s blood... There’s a pool of blood forming around her. I slowly back away from her, and turn away. I can’t bear to look at her anymore.
“Please… hurry.” I said before the tears started falling from my eyes. I couldn’t hold them back anymore. I can’t stop crying. All I can think of is Scootaloo right now. This shouldn’t have ever happened. Why did this have to happen?
I hear more pained moans from Scootaloo. I turn to watch her. She looks like she’s trying to move! “N-no, don’t move,” I say, though I don’t know if she can hear me. She continues to move, it looks like she’s trying to curl into a ball or something. Maybe I should stop her… no touching her only hurts her more.
Suddenly she makes a jerky movement and a retching sound… Oh Celestia, she’s throwing up. I have to look away and cover my ears, I don’t want to hear this I don’t want to hear this! It’s too horrible.
The smell… Blood and vomit. It’s too much for me to take. I can feel my stomach trying to, to… I can’t stop my self. I throw up on the ground in front of me.
Please Diamond… Please hurry…
I close my eyes; all I can do now is cry and hope.