//------------------------------// // Gaurdian of the insane // Story: Pinkie promise // by Deadcat //------------------------------// Chapter 15: guardian of insane. I stared deep into the rainbow filly's magenta eyes. Her magnificent sparkling eyes melted Into my vision. "D-dashie?" My raspy voice cooed softly. She continued to stare at me In confusion. My heart dropped to my stomach and a feeling of indescribable sadness filled me. She had already forgotten me, and I hadn't even said goodbye. Tears began to drip down my dirty cheeks. "P-p-pinkie?" Her voice spoke with perplexity. Her voice was icy, cold, and scared. She darted towards me and flung her forearms around my quivering body. "Y-you remember me?" I said with a hope filled voice. "Of course!" She uttered as she continued to dig her head into my shoulder. Out relief was short-lived. "Pinkie, I-I'm so scared! I-I'm forgetting things and I don't know why and I'm starting to forget you- a-and I don't know what to do I'm just so scared and-" I silenced her with a deep kiss and wrapped myself around her more tightly. "Shhh." I calmly cooed the flustered Pegasus. I broke the kiss and felt her tears cascading down my pelt. Something in the back of my mind told me a fact that I was not brave enough to investigate. Something That I could not cope with, it continued to eat away at the back of my head and I felt a throbbing pain where it had gnawed on my brain. It was the truth, the truth that I was afraid to finalize in my mind, it was the fact that this would be me and Dashie's last night together forever. At the rate she was forgetting things, I knew that in the early morning hours, she would have long forgotten me. The Pegasus seemed aware of this and it terrified her. The least I could do, was give her a happy ending. "Shhh, it's okay, we are here tonight, and that's all that matters, okay?" I softly spoke into the filly's cyan ears. She nodded apathetically as I wiped the wet tears from her dried cheeks. She still seemed plagued by the fact that we both new this was the end. "D-do you remember what you said to me, that day we did the sonic rainboom right? Well, I said that they would never let us fly again and then you told me something I won't ever forget, you said: then let's make it one hell of a ride-" I paused to let out a small laugh, "so let's make tonight, one hell of a ride." Rainbow dash first looked at me with uncertainty, but then a toothy grin spread across her face, "let's get this party started." She remarked with enthusiasm. The remainder of the night we spent playing games, and laughing and telling secrets. We just pretended that nothing outside of us existed, it was just me and dashie, and the rest Of the world didn't matter. It was just us. "Smile!" Dashie Instructed cheerfully as the flash of the camera momentarily blinded me. Just as the camera snapped the photo, the Pegasus leaned in and pecked me on the cheek. We waited patiently as the picture printed out the bottom and we then glued it in the scrapbook. It was about 5:00 am and I felt that our time was coming to a end. Suddenly, Dashie scrambled under the bed and emerged back to me all dusty, but in her hooves she held A soft green alligator, she placed it in my hooves. "I want you to have this.." She said as I felt the green mass in my hooves. "G-gummy?" My voice shook,"are you sure, y-you love gummy" The rainbow filly nodded her head vehemently. "I'm positive, besides you need something to remember me by, perhaps we can get a real pet alligator when were older." She suggested with a grin. I saw her smile slowly deteriorate into a frown, her eyebrows creased together in a worried look as I saw wet shiny tears form in the whites of her eyes. "Hey d-don't worry, we will get to Ponyville and we will do it together." I reassured her. I rubbed my hoof through her rainbow mane, the multicolored hair cascading in all directions from my fleshy pink hooves. "I don't remember much about that day, the day we met, but I remember those icy blue eyes stating into mine, your dazzling eyes, there what I remember most." The panicked mare seemed slightly flustered, but masked it with a calm smile. "I'll tell you what happened, and I'll tell you all that mattered, that we did meet, and we did become good friends, and we became mare friends, and that is all I could ever want." I explained as I continued to run a hoof through her mane. "Look. Look deep into my eyes." The Pegasus instructed, I followed her command and looked into her eyes, They were like warm magenta pools of emotion that you could just jump into and be surrounded by warmth, I also noticed something, there was a spark, a light that made her sparkling eyes glow. "There magnificent..." I stated calmly, I was memorized by her. "D-don't you see that spark?" She inquired. I nodded slowly, still memorized by her eyes. "That spark isn't in my eyes, it's in yours, it's reflecting through mine, you see, sometime you put all your hope into somepony else, when It was in you all along." The Pegasus stated. That was the deepest thing id ever heard the argumentative Pegasus say. The Pegasus continued, "I mean, you should see your eyes, pinkie, there dazzling." I blushed lightly at the compliment and hugged her close. "Thank you." I whispered as I leaned in a placed my muzzle against hers, we both leaned in and kissed for a long time. I felt her warm mouth against mine as tears formed in my eyes. I knew that the end was closer than ever. And I was scared. I broke the kiss and hugged the rainbow filly tight, the only friend I had ever known was leaving, and my heart was broken, but never in a million years would I show it. I held her close and felt her warm tears pang on my coat. "P-pinkie promise we will go to Ponyville together?" The rainbow maned Pegasus asked. "Pinkie promise." I echoed with a sad smile "A-and pinkie promise you won't forget me?" She added "Cross my heart, and h-hope to f-fly, s-stick a cupcake in my e-eye." I choked between silent sobs. "I love you Dashie." My grip on the Pegasus tightened, this was the end, it felt like a train was coming but I couldn't move of the tracks. "I love you more." The cyan filly stated calmly, perhaps she was unaware of what was coming, or perhaps she wanted to give me a happy ending too. "I love you most." I whispered in her ear. I felt her body go limp in my arms, like a warm mass. She was still. She was gone. The sobs I had been trying to hold in, had broken through and I let out a silent scream. Tears poured out of my eyes like a waterfall. I heaved Dashie to her bed and rested her in her room peacefully. I grabbed our scrapbook and the stuffed animal. Just as I was about to leave, I heard a small voice. "W-where am I?" The small voice from the corner cooed with fear. I whipped my head to see where the voice had emitted from. That's when I saw the cyan filly sitting up in her bed and looking around, terrified. I stayed silent for a while and hid myself in the shadows, my heart was daring to speak, but my throat had refused words to come through. "D-do you know who you are?" My shaky, dry throat finally lost the battle "Of course I do! I'm not stupid! It's rainbow dash and I'm the best flier in all of equestria!" She spat harshly, unaware of my fragile state,"now tell me where I am!" My mind raced as I tried to come up with a response. 'I might as well give dashie a happy beginning, the life she deserves' I thought as my shaky voice uneasily gave an reply "Y-your at the wonderbolts academy, your loving parents sent you here to find your cutie mark, they love you, they love you so much, a-and you got your cutie mark when you did the legendary sonic rainboom, which is why you are the best flier ever." "Then why are my wings all roped up?" The filly interjected. "Because you hurt them a little when you did the sonic rainboom.." "B-but I don't remember.." I noticed the Pegasus constant twitch, had stopped, and as far as I saw, she seemed completely normal at first glance. "D-don't you remember? The wind blowing through your mane, the big rainbow explosion, the people cheering your name..." I trailed of and got caught in the memories of that day. Rainbow nodded, unsure at first, but then vigorously, "Yeah..." She exclaimed happily,"thanks pin-p-p- wait, who are you?" The Pegasus laid her hooves on her head, as if it hurt to remember. Hearing the first part of my name, I got so excited, but I knew she wouldn't remember, and it broke my heart. Tears were pouring out of my eyes As I continued to hide myself in the dark of the room. "I'm-I'm y-your guide, y-you won't know w-who I am but I p-promise to protect you always- I pinkie promise." I choked between sobs that hung in the air, I watched patiently to see if there could be a spark of remembrance In the Pegasus. She looked of into the distance and didn't respond. I slowly moved to the door and opened it. I stood at the doorway in silence. "I will always love you." I remarked as I calmly left Dashie. I darted down the hallways and finally got back to my cell. I poured into my room and let out a cry. Tears cascaded from my eyes and I continued to sob. My Dashie was gone. I cried and cried and screamed all night until a bright light distracted me from my sobs, when I turned around I noticed a mark becoming indented on my flank. My cutie mark. They were 3 balloons, blue and yellow. Often I ponder why I got my cutie mark that night, and it finally seems clear to me. The balloons don't just signify parties and fun, it represents hope. I raised Dashie up, I was her balloon, I gave her hope and gave her the life she always deserved. My cutie mark means that my special talent is not just being a crazy party pony, but to give ponies the hope they always forgot they had, my talent is to protect and raise Dashie up, and I pinkie promised I would, I decided right then and there that I would protect her from the truth, I would never tell her about our life, because if I did, her reality would be tampered, and I wouldn't want to change the perfect life I had given her. I will guard you,dashie. I was the guardian of the insane.