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// Alt Ending 
// Story: A rainbows burden 
// by tyion 
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This is the sad ending of the sorry. If you wanna proceed then brace yourselves, because manly tears are imminent.

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"NO!" Dash screamed, but it was too late. She turned around and saw that the regeneration seal on Fluttershy`s flank disappeared and that her eyes were closed.

She ran next to her, lifting her up.

"Fluttershy?" she called with an unsteady voice.

No answer was given; she held one of her eyes on her chest to listen to her heartbeat
"Dum.............dum........dum......"

"Dash?" Fluttershy suddenly said with a weak voice.

"Yes, Fluttershy?" Dash replied, tears dropping onto the mane of the pegasus she was talking with.

"So you don't hate me?"

"No, no, I don't hate you. I love you."

Several seconds passed before Fluttershy smiled. "I'm relieved," she said.

"Fluttershy?"

No reaction

"Hey, Fluttershy"

No reaction.

She listened to her heartbeat again. "Dum........dum...................." Dash waited, and waited for the next beat to come, but it never did.

A sudden burst of pain ran through her heart; it was like a thousand needles stinging into it. Her mind could not think straight, everything was so surreal for her. The agony and sorrow she felt was unbearable, she had to let it out somehow.

She had to make it stop, but it did not.

She started to cry, hoping that it would take away her pain.

But she couldn't cry hard and fast enough.

She started to scream her grief out, but she wasn't loud enough.

Everything started to turn blurry around her; her heart was being torn apart and there was nothing she could do against it. The pony she loved just died, and she would never talk to her again. Thinking of this made the pegasus go crazy. She struck her hooves against the thick stone walls, trying to let out her anger. She soon found herself lying on the ground, screaming and crying, blood pouring down from her hooves. She never felt anything like this before. She was feeling every single negative emotion at once; anger, sorrow, grief, agony, despair. It was worse than any physical pain she ever experienced. She tried to calm herself down but upon seeing the lifeless body of her friend the pain grew unbearable once again.

Several minutes passed in which Dash was just freaking out. She thought she is going to lose it right there, but she was too exhausted to proceed.

She laid down next to Fluttershy, panting heavily. She turned her head around and facing the body of the pegasus. She still felt sadness somewhere, but it was like she was out of emotions to feel. Feeling numb inside. she couldn't even cry anymore, because she was out of tears. She was even wondering if her heart was still there; of course it was beating, but she couldn't feel it anymore.

A bright light was now slowly enclosing the two pegasi, and a second later they were both back at the library.

"Dash? What happened how is-?" Twilight abruptly stopped once she saw Fluttershy`s lifeless body. Rarity and Pinkie were also present, but couldn't say anything.

Rarity started to cry upon realizing what has happened; her friend was dead. She wasn't even able to tell her last goodbye to her. Fluttershy is gone... no matter how often that thought crossed her mind, she still couldn't believe it.

Pinkie’s curled and vivid mane immediately fell straight. It was like being hit by reality with a hard blow. The pink pony never thought about death and never experienced it happening in such a close environment. Pinkie didn't know how she should feel, or what she was feeling. It was similar to when she worked at the rock field, only hounded times as intense.

Applejack was working on the fields when she felt a pain in her heart.

"Whats the matter?" Big Mac asked her.

"Nothin’, nothin’ at all," she reassured before getting back to work

"Huh?" she said to nopony in particular. Wiping a hoof over her eye she found herself crying, but didn't know why.



The sun did not rise for the entire week; Luna announced to everypony that everything will be back to normal soon.

But the five friends did not mind. Why should there be a sun? A sun was a sign of happiness. And there was no happiness to be found inside of Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack and especially Dash.