//------------------------------// // Chapter 16: Dying wish // Story: Unexpected Destiny // by Rising Shine //------------------------------// Everything is black ... deep black. I open my eyes. Everything now is white ... really light white. I look around, but here is nothing ... until somepony touch my shoulder. "Hello there, Sweetfull Dream. Your time has come to left the world behind." I turn around, to see ... Twilight?! "Twilight, you ..." She has some unnaturally calm in her smile, shaking her head. "I'm not Twilight Sparkle. I just use the look from her. I thought, the pony, you loved most will make it easier for you to pass." Oh ... "Be sad. That's normal, no need for shame." She still smiles calmly to me. "So, this is pony heaven? I ... expected more." "Well, you are not going to heaven ... not today." I look confused. "What? But I never ..." "It has his reason, trust me." She still smiles calmly. "Uhm ... who are you really then?" "Even when she has no idea, I'm a part of Princess Luna. My purpose is to make the end easier for passing ponies and giving them there dying wish." I'm totally stunned by that. "If your a part of her, what if she dies?" "It doesn't matter what status she is, even know, captured in the machine you created and in a deep sleep, I'm always here. But to your question, only, and only then, if she dies, I'm gone too. Then there is no dying wish ... then there is nopony to help passing the life. If Luna dies, I'm gone forever." "I see, better hope she don't die ever then." She nods. "Anyway ... like everypony, who dies, you got a last wish." I look up. "Dying wish, right?" "Yes. You have one wish." I grins. "Fine, I wish, I'm back to kick Star's ..." "No ..." She shakes her head. "Huh?" "There are a few rules for the wish. In your idea, first: You can't wish yourself back to life. Second: You can't wish, that somepony dies. There are a few more, but I think in your case, those 2 are important." I sigh annoyed. "I see ..." "You have all the time to think about it, Sweetfull Dream." I don't know ... I have no idea. "How much time I have to think about it?" She chuckles. "Forever ... you know, there is no *time* here. All this here, happens 1 second after you died. So even when you think a whole year ..." "... there is in reality only 1 second happened?" She nods. "Yes." I think ... and think ... and think ... and ... wait, I'm so stupid, even when I'm dead. "I know now." She smiles calmly again. "Really? Say." "Allright then ... mayby this was my destiny from the beginning ... I wish, that Twilight bring Star back to normal. So, she is alive, Rising is happy and Star can start a new life. Everypony is happy then." She smiles more. "Yes, everypony will be happy. A good wish, you have. All right then, time to fullfill your wish." "Thank you." She start to glow, revealing herself ... I never saw something so beautiful and breathtaking before. With tears in my eyes, but smiling, I close my eyes. They can live now peacefully ... I feel something ... I start to fly. Thanks for this life, they all gave me ... Good bye.