I stop at the Library, hoping to calm myself in order to not make myself look like an idiot before bursting in there, mysterious book in mouth. I get the energy out of me now by jumping in place until I feel calm enough to ask Twilight without shoving the book in her face.
I open the Library's door, since it's still open knocking isn't needed, and look to see where Twilight is. She's flapping her wings, trying to reach the top shelf to get something.
"Hey Twilight, what are you doing?" I ask, but my words startle her into retracting her wings, and she falls to the floor. "Sorry, but uhh, I found this book," I drop the book and slide it over to her side. She looks at it quizzically, "and it can bring Rainbow back. So, you can do this right?" Twilight just stares at me, her eyes shrunken with what seems like fear, and she grabs me before pulling me close to her.
"You brought a Necronomicon here of all places?" She hisses at me, as if I had done something really bad. "Do you know what Celestia does to ponies who even have this book!?"
I shake my head, and Twilight just sighs, letting me go and putting the closed sign on the front of the Library door. She turns to me and begins to explain.
"Even if I got permission form Celestia to use this thing, both you and I could be banished forever just for having possession of this Tartarus bound book." Her horn begins glowing, and I can feel a strange heat radiating from where the book is sitting.
"NO!" I scream, before jumping on top of the book to protect it. "You can't burn this. This book could be the only way to bring Rainbow back." Tears begin to form at the corner of my eyes, blurring my vision a little, as I think about how happy I could be should Rainbow come back, or how heartbroken if she doesn't. "You're a Princess, you should be able to ask for pardons. They'll give it to you, and we'll all get Rainbow back. I'll have my mom, you'll have your friend and Element of Loyalty, Soarin will get his marefriend back, and the Wonderbolts will be able to have their secondary captain back."
She know I'm right, and it shows on her face as her hoof goes to her chin, contemplating the benefits. She really couldn't have honestly thought Celestia would just immediately strip her of her Princesshood and banish her forever right? After a few minutes of her standing there, thinking, she finally gives me a reply.
"I'll send Celestia a letter, and we'll wait to see what her response will be." She puts her hoof down, and I hug her, trying to hold back from freaking out. She pushes me away from her to give me a response. Typical of her, forcing everypony else to know the entire picture, instead of what they want to know. "But if Celestia declines, both you and I will be in more trouble than even Discord was."
I nod my head to show I understand, and lift off of the ground before flying out of the door, leaving the book there for Twilight to study while I go over to Rainbow's training spot. I go there every few days to calm myself down. Whether it's for sadness, or the giddiness I feel now. I just know Celestia's going to say yes, and I can get my mother back.
I touch my hooves to the ground and wait to admire the nature before starting my run through Rainbow's course. The wind blows through my feathers, leaving a tingling sensation as they begin to dance in the breeze, similar to leaves on a tree.
I bend my knees, which allows me to get more force when I take off straight into the sky. The similarities between my technique and Rainbow's are unbelievably similar, and it scares me a bit as I tend to think about what would happen should I copy Rainbow's exact movements within this course.
I take off, leaving a small cloud of dust where I was standing as I begin to head to the Wind Blowers, which has been blowing since Rainbow died, and they're starting to sport some rust on the sides.
I glide through them, in an up and down zig-zag motion as I try not to get pummeled by the concentrated wind beginning to blow my way. I make it through, with the usual relative ease I've learned to be able to do against the majority of this course. I begin to reach the second set of Wind blowers, but realize something as I get closer to them. They aren't blowing any wind.
I decide to just ignore it and fly straight through, eyes closed as it's impossible not to complete this. I regretted that, as within a couple seconds of my confidence one of them somehow turns on and hits me hard with it's concentrated, Hurricane like winds.
I begin spiraling to the trees directly north of the opening, and open my wings in order to stop myself. The wind resistance from this falling hits my wings hard, and pain shoots from my shoulders to my wing tips. I manage to hold strong though, and keep my wings out so I don't fall to my death.
I hit the treeline with a force I hadn't expected, making pain flow through any area the trees make contact with, and begin to fall through the multitude of razor like Everfree tree branches. By the time I hit the ground, with a heavy thud and a loud crack, I'm covered in cuts and scrapes.
Due to the adrenaline in my body, the pain takes a few seconds before I can feel it. It stars as a dull, pulsating feeling, as if I had just fallen on the concrete, but quickly turns into the deep, searing pain I can only imagine Rainbow could've gone through when she died.
I begin to walk, until a pain in my leg makes my bend down. I look down at my right foreleg, and notice how flimsy it looks. I lift it up to try and make sure it isn't broken, but it just confirms my concern. I shake my leg, and it's not responding very well to the non-verbal commands I give it. Instead, it decides to retaliate by pushing a wave of pain up my leg.
Luckily, I landed close to the path that everypony uses to get in and out of the Everfree. I begin to limp towards it, and I notice the large drops of blood flowing from the large quantity of cuts that show on my body, wings, face, and even one across my cutie mark. The cut aligns well enough with my Flaming Hoop Cutie Mark, that it makes the usual sign store managers use to show what not to do.
I begin walking out of the Everfree again, as Fluttershy's house is closer than Zecora's. I just hope Fluttershy can help me, or at least get me to a Doctor, since I don't have any plans on bleeding to death today.
I knock on Fluttershy's door, reluctantly since I'm still unsure if she caused my mother's death, and she answers relatively quickly with a forced smile on her dreary face.
"Oh," she says, her voice scratchy from what I could only guess is heavy sobs, judging from her red eyes and wet face. "It's only you Scootaloo, come on in." She steps aside, and ushers me inside.
I nod my head and slowly make my way through the front hall, admiring the pictures she's assorted the halls with. The ones including Angel usually include cuddling, or hugs, or some form of affection I'd rather not describe.
Fluttershy turns and looks up, and her facial expression immediately goes into one of panic as she notices my physical condition.
"Oh my," she states, shocked by the multitude of cuts, scrapes, and overall broken body parts I'm showing off now. "How could this have happened?"
I respond by telling her as much of the story as I care to tell.
"I was flying, and got knocked into a bunch of trees in the Everfree. I might've cracked a rib and broken my foreleg." I shake my supposedly broken hoof for extra emphasis, and to show her that I'm not bluffing about the broken foreleg bit.
She bolts into the air, using her wings to hover in place, and begins to fly around feverishly.
"Oh dear, we need to get you to a Medic Pony, or a Doctor, or somepony who can help deal with this!" She says, panic in her voice, resembling that of a Mother who's trying to get their child some kind of bandage after their child's first time being cut. Constantly running around, over reacting, and even shouting for no reason other than to calm themselves,although it's to no avail as I've seen.
"Fluttershy," I say, reminding her of her abilities. "You're trained in medical usage. You could just give me some wraps, a bandage, and maybe stitches if those are needed."
Her response is more frantic, and louder, than her last few words.
"I'm specialized in animals, I don't know the first thing about helping Ponies heal."
I stomp my broken hoof, making me wince as tears come to my eyes from the pain. I recompose myself, and stomp my other front hoof so it makes more sound and attracts the attention of Fluttershy better.
"How different could treating a pony be from treating something like a goat." I say, knowing I may not make it to the Doctors, as a hoof full of the cuts I've sustained from the fall need stitching. "We're practically one of the same species aren't we?"
This makes her stop mid flight, and look at me quizzically as she begins to contemplate whether or not what I said was true. She finally nods her head, and comes down from the air in front of me.
"Alright," She says, putting a hoof on my shoulder, while also being careful not to press her hoof into one of my cuts. "I'll give it a try, but you're going to have to sit still through the whole thing, got it?"
I nod my head in understanding, to get this over with if anything else, but also because I want to return to Twilight and hear Celestia's response to our proposition to bring Rainbow back.
I wince again, as the needle pierces my skin, leaving a cold sting that is quickly followed by a burning sensation. The closest thing Fluttershy had to a numbing agent was a Rabbit Tranquilizer, which doesn't help very much.
Fluttershy looks at me with a worried look, before returning to her work stitching up the last of my cuts, the ones that needed it that is. She begins to speak to me, hoping to distract me from the pain of her needle.
"How's Tank been doing, since the..." She pauses for a moment, trying to think of a way to not offend me when talking about Rainbow's death. "Since the incident involving a Wonderbolt."
I shrug, trying not to wince as the needle exits the wound, and tense up as it begins to come back down.
"Well, hes a turtle-"
"Tortoise" Fluttershy says, interrupting. "He's a Tortoise, Scootaloo." I roll my eyes, and continue my sentence.
"Well, he's a Tortoise so he's slow by nature, but he's been unusually slow as the days have gone by, and he hasn't been eating much."
This make her gasp, and she accidentally pushes the needle too far into my wound. I shout in pain, as the tip pierces some of the exposed flesh. She quickly tries to fix it, to little avail since it takes a couple of minutes before the needle is ready to exit my wound again.
"Oh my," she says, trying to continue a conversation I'd rather not. "you don't think he'll starve to death do you? A lot of my animals have done that when they mourn for their parents, or children, or even siblings."
I shake my head, as I hear a snap, accompanied by a slight tug from the string.
"Alright," Fluttershy says, with a sigh of relief. "you're finally all stitched up, and I think it's safe to say that you should just stay in your house for a day or two."
I nod my head, and as I get up a knock at Fluttershy's door grabs our attention, and Twilight's voice follows in suit.
"Fluutershy, have you sen Scootaloo by any chance? I've been looking for her since I got a letter from Celestia addressed to her."
I jump up in excitement, and begin rushing my way to the door. If I can just grab the letter and get out of here, then I can see Celestia's answer. My life could be back to normal, for the first time in what feels like forever.
I open the door, and extend my hoof hoping Twilight will just put the letter there without question. Unfortunately, she decides to speak a few words first.
"Oh, I guess you are here," she says, before putting the letter in my hoof and finishing her sentence. "I made sure not to read it, as hard as it was, since I thought you should be the first to know.
"Thanks." I say with excitement in my eyes as I fly away, at the expense of some of my stitches, going to my house to read the letter in private.
I jump into my bed and, once the bed stays still, open the letter to read it.
Dear Scootaloo
I am glad that you have found a Necronomicon, and even convinced that it could bring the element of Loyalty back; it may even help many more ponies with the struggles they face moving on.
However, I am going to have to decline your proposal, and I ask that you submit the Necronomicon to us for it's destruction. I am sorry that you will be unable to have your mother back, but the protection of the public are much more important than the life of the deceased, and if that book were to get into the wrong hooves, it'll be like the cutie pox plague all over again.
Sincerely, Princess Celestia.
I drop the letter on the floor, tears flowing freely from my eyes. How could she do this? She knows the Elements of Harmony are the biggest protection Equestria has against any form of evil, so why doesn't she seem to acknowledge the fact that we need all six of them to work?
I curl up into a ball, my sobs turning my breaths into a shaky, loud, jumbled mess. It isn't the quiet sobbing, that you'd expect from most ponies when they cry. It's the deep, loud cry that resembles a newborn. Loud, deep, and uncontrollable. I feel like my life has just been thrown into the dumpster, beaten to a pulp after a fight and left to die from it's injuries.
Only now do I realize how cold the world really is, and the loneliness that truly comes with being an orphan.