//------------------------------// // A Beautiful Mane (Chapter Five) // Story: A Hopeful Melody // by deerstunt //------------------------------// Eight months has passed since the birth of Octavia, a quiet and silent morning. Carnelian woke up too kiss Majestic, but something was wrong. She wasn't moving, Carnelian started to shake her hard and harder to wake her up, but she didn't move. Carnelian quickly bounced up and rolled Majestic over. He started to run down the stairs and yelling for help before busting the front door down. He yelled as loud as he could. "Help! Help, my wife needs a doctor." Carnelian yelled with force. The first to respond was Mist and Lighting Hooves from next door, as soon as they heard they ran outside to get more information what was happening. As soon as they started to speak to Carnelian to find out was wrong, he ran upstairs telling Mist and Lighting too follow. He was huffing and puffing with no breathe. Mist Hooves saw the situation and told Lighting to get more help. Mist Hooves was a doctor and attended the Cloudsdale University, so he started to perform operations on Majestic's body. He told Carnelian to grab Octavia and go to his house and let her play with Derpy t'll further notice. Carnelian ran out of the room grabbed Octavia and ran to the Hooves' household and took her into Derpy's room. "Daddy! Where's Mommy?" Octavia asked. "Mommy will be with us soon, Mommy is busy." Carnelian replied. He started to cry and a tear ran down his neck. "Daddy, why are you sad?" With a very soft voice. "Daddy is just so proud of you, Octavia." While grabbing her for a hug. The sounds of the medical carriage rattling against the brick road of Canterlot. The sound of it got louder and louder as it got closer. With a sudden stop of the rattling, Carnelian looked out of the window, while Octavia and Derpy played with each other. He saw Lighting run inside and as soon as she hit the doors, Carnelian ran down stair to tell Octavia the fillies were upstairs. She walked upstairs while he ran out to get on the carriage with his wife. Mist carried Majestic to the carriage and got inside of it with her to continue to keep her alive. "Will she make, Mist?" Carnelian asked while holding Majestic's hoof. "Yes, but she is extremely ill and I don't know anything after that, without equipment."Mist replied while pumping on Majestic's chest, as the nurse hooked her up to a machine that pumped her with fluids." "So there is chance she might die?" Carnelian shouted with question. "If we do not continue to operate on her or get her to the hospital fast enough she will, but I'm trying my best so you need to keep talking to her and don't let her stop hearing you." Mist replied as the carriage started to move with speed. "Honey everything is going to be alright, just keep listening to me. Just keep on fighting and thinking about Octavia." Carnelian told into Majestic's ear. She could hardly move, but you could see a tear roll down her cheek out of her eye. The carriage finally got to the hospital, Mist kicked the doors open and pushed the bed out of the carriage and ran through the hall as Carnelian was jumping out of the carriage. Carnelian walked to the dreadful waiting room that he highly despises but wasn't carrying about at the time. He sat down and waited. Mist gave the bed too another doctor half way down the hallway and just followed the rest of the way. He was stopped at the door by a nurse but the nurse noticed who he was and she let him go through. He started to order the nurses around and told the doctor what he needed to do with a sudden demand. The nurses ran to get the supplies, and the doctor slapped a warm rag on Majestic's head and another one on her chest and neck. He changed the bag of fluids and started to take over Mist's job when pumping her chest. The nurses ran in with the medical supplies, and Doctor Mist started to operate with the equipment. After hours had passed, Mist walked out to see Carnelian. Carnelian looked up at Mist while Mist looked down. Carnelian ran up to Mist, and held his head up to his and ask with authority. "Tell me, what happened." "I'm sorry Carnelian, she's gone." Mist answered. A tear ran down Mist's face, while he looked down. "Wha.....What happened?" Carnelian asked while trying not to wail. "The terminal illness she had took a turn for the worst when we started to operate, her body was to weak and she moved on." Mist replied. Carnelian couldn't hold in in anymore, he wailed so hard in that waiting room. Mist looked at Carnelian and told him. "You can stay with us tonight, we will feed Octavia and you and you can sleep in the guest room." Carnelian continued to wail and Mist grabbed hugged him and walked him home. Once they got to the Hooves household, they opened the door too see Lighting and Fairy sitting on the couch. Lighting and Fairy jumped up and Carnelian continued to wail. Mist took Lighting and Fairy into the other room to leave Carnelian alone. Shortly after, Carnelian heard the crying in the next room from both of the Mares. Carnelian just walked up the stairs and walked into Derpy's room to grab Octavia. He took Octavia into the next room and sat her on the bed. Before Carnelian could explain Octavia took her pink ribbon off of herself and gave it to Carnelian. Octavia began to speak softly. "Mommy said this will stop crying because this is her." Octavia said while Carnelian took the ribbon. He notice that it was the same pink ribbon that Majestic wore as a bow tie when she met him. Later on she let Carnelian wear it around his hoof as a bracelet and he remembered why she did it and he still remembers exactly what she said. "As long as you have the ribbon, I will always be with, even when you are alone. Just hold this to your heart and no matter where I am I will always be there." Carnelian took the ribbon and held it against his heart, and took Octavia and hugged her while the ribbon was touching the hearts of both ponies. Carnelian smiled while looking at Octavia. "Mommy, is in a better place now, she has her beautiful purple mane again and she is dancing with her mother now." "Can we see Mommy?" Octavia asked. "I'm afraid not Octavia." Carnelian replied. He took the ribbon and tied it around Octavia's neck as a bow tie. "This is how Mommy wore her ribbon." Carnelian told Octavia. "I miss Mommy now!" Octavia said. "I do to baby!" Carnelian said hugging Octavia.