Chapter 3- A Letter and a Visit
*Twilight's POV*
"Dear Princess Celestia,"
"I regret to inform you that my dear friend Fluttershy has taken ill. The doctors here in Ponyville have diagnosed her with third degree lung cancer, and are afraid that it may have spread to her liver and her heart, but we are still not sure at this point what exactly is happening. She insists she feels fine, according to Rarity, but her coat if fading and we know she is lying to us.
I write to you today, to ask if there is any cure that you know of to save her. We are willing to pay any cost to save her life. Zecora has told us that there is not a potion to drink, but I thought maybe you knew of a spell or charm that may work. Or maybe Princess Luna or Princess Cadance knows something. Anything at this point is better than nothing.
I know you would not usually make arrangements like this. You always say that life must run its course. But Fluttershy has done so much for Equestria, I feel that maybe this one time you could make an exception. Please, for Fluttershy.
Twilight Sparkle
"P.S. Her life is in your hooves"
This was the letter addressed to Princess Celestia that I sent through Spike. If it was hard for me to read about what happened to Fluttershy, it was even harder to write about it. I almost started to cry and probably would have to if it was less formal. Luckily Celestia was a princess and had formalities to follow.
Spike had sent the letter almost a soon as I the words had come out of my mouth. Now all we could do was wait for Princess Celestia to respond, which may take a while with all her duties (A/U Ironically, the response will be in the next chapter. I don't know how soon I will be able to write that though). I wished we could get the letter back instantly, but I knew that wouldn't happen.
Well, I guess I had one other thing to do besides wait. I had left the task of telling Rainbow Dash about what had happened for last. I knew this was something I couldn't put in a letter, but I didn't know how I was going to reach her. Then I realized I was an alicorn and could walk on clouds. Hehe. That always slips my mind.
I bid Spike good-bye and left the castle through the back door. I didn't want mobs of people to crowd me, and anytime I needed to go somewhere important, someone in Ponyville had a friendship problem. I took off in the gardens and soon was soaring at a medium pace over the town.
I was almost to Cloudsdale when I saw a faint shape hurtling towards me. It was reaching an incredible speed and rocketing toward the ground. And still it seemed to be trying to go faster. "What is it doing?" I wondered to myself. Then there was a huge bang and I looked to see the most incredible sight.
A sonic Rainboom had just been made. I still couldn't tell who had made it, but I had a faint feeling. The shape blurred past my again and took a couple laps in the area before settling on a nearby cloud bank. I flew over to look at it and found the pony I had expected, Scootaloo.
Scootaloo beamed at me and waved. "Hey Twilight! Did you see that?" she asked.
"I did. That was very impressive. But why isn't Rainbow Dash watching you? Didn't she say she would still coach you from the clouds?" I asked the mare.
Scootaloo's smile dropped a little. "Oh," she said, "RD never comes to watch me any more. She says it makes her too sad."
I didn't want to touch on this touchy subject, so I waved good-bye to Scootaloo and made my way to Dashies' house. When I settled down on the bank of clouds where her house was, I looked around and grimaced. RD's house looked the same as always, but it looked strangely empty somehow. Like the pony who lived there wasn't going outside as much.
I know RD had been devastated when she was in that accident, but I thought she was taking it better than she really was. I knocked on the door, and when I received no response, pushed it open. If I had been shocked by what was outside the house, it was only a glimpse of the horror waiting inside.