Doctor were rushing around Twilight, trying their best to stop the bleeding in her stomach. She had been taken to the ER as soon as she made it into the hospital, her friends waiting in the waiting room, worried sick about her.
"I'm gonna kill them..." Rainbow dash growled, pacing around in the waiting room. "I'm gonna KILL whoever did this to her!"
"R-Rainbow dash..." Fluttershy said, attempting to calm her friend down. "Maybe it was an accident..."
"Don't you even say that!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "This was no accident. If it was an accident why didn't the person come up to help Twilight?! And why would they be shooting arrows out in public!?"
"Calm down Rainbow!" Rarity commanded.
Rainbow Dash was still fuming, but she eventually sat down and took a few breathes.
"Now look." Rarity continued. "Rainbow Dash, I agree with you that this probably wasn't an accident. Somebody definitely did this to hurt Twilight, but we don't know who it is. And besides, this is no reason to go yelling at Fluttershy!"
Rainbow Dash took another deep breath to calm herself down and looked over at Fluttershy. "I'm sorry.... I shouldn't have yelled...."
Fluttershy smiled at the apology. "It's OK Rainbow. You have every right to be upset."
Rainbow Dash smiled and took Fluttershy's waiting hand, gripping it tightly. While she didn't want to admit it, Rainbow Dash was scared. She didn't want to lose Twilight, she was her friend.
A doctor walked out into the waiting room and looked over at the group waiting for Twilight. Pinkie stood up to see if it was them the doctor was looking for. He walked over to the group and sighed.
"Is she ok!?" Pinkie asked, her hair having gone flat out of fear and sadness.
"She's going to be fine." The doctor said, sparking Pinkie Pie's hair inflation. "But she's going to need to stay in the hospital for a few weeks. the arrow buried itself pretty deep into her and we need to let them heal enough for her to move. You can go and visit her if you want."
They didn't even say anything. Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike all ran past the doctor and into Twilight's room, where she was rest on a bed, with a needle in her arm and the TV turned on. Twilight looked over at the group of friends who walked over to her beside.
"How ya feeling?" Applejack asked Twilight, looking at the blood that stained the bandages around her stomach.
"I'm fine I guess.... Not feeling too well though...." Twilight groaned.
Fluttershy went up and felt Twilight's forehead. "Girls.... She's burning up!"
Pinkie Pie went to feel her head, and she said the same thing. "I think she's sick... Did that arrow have some kind of poison on it!?"
"No," the doctor said, "We didn't find any traces of poison what-so-ever on the arrow, and we disinfected the wound so there shouldn't be any infection..."
Twilight grabbed Pinkie's arm. "Pinkie....."
"Twilight...?" Pinkie said, kneeling down next to her friend.
"At my house..... A book...... Revelations...... Pestilence...." This was all Twilight could say before she fell into a coma. Pinkie tried hard to shake Twilight awake, but after a while the hospital staff had to force the others out of the room due to them having to see if Twilight was either dying or falling into a coma.
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"What do you think she meant when she said those things?" Fluttershy asked on the trip back to her house, accompanied by Rainbow Dash.
"I don't know, but from what she said i'm guessing she wants us to go to her house and find some kind of book. What was it she said again? Revelations?" Rainbow dash said to Fluttershy.
"I think so... And what does "Pestilence" mean?" Fluttershy asked.
"I dunno, probably has something to do with pests like bugs or something like that." Rainbow Dash replied, taking a complete guess.
"Well do you think we should go and try to find that book?" Fluttershy asked as soon as they walked up to her front door.
"I'LL go." Rainbow Dash volunteered, "You stay here and lock the door. If there's some kind of psychopath going around shooting people with arrows, I want you to stay safe, alright?"
"But.... I want to help! Twilight's my friend too!" Fluttershy argued.
"I know Fluttershy..." Rainbow Dash held Fluttershy close to her. "But I don't want you to get hurt. I don't know what I would do if anything were to happen to you... So please, just stay here and lock the door ok? And don't open it for anybody you don't know."
Fluttershy sighed in defeat. "Ok Dash. Just be careful alright?"
Rainbow Dash smiled and kissed Fluttershy on the lips. "I will..." After that she spread her wings and flew off for Twilight's house."
Rainbow Dash landed directly in front of Twilights house and knocked on the door in hopes that Spike was still home. When nobody answered, she picked up the false rock twilight kept behind her bushes and took out the spare key, unlocked the door and walked in. It was a little strange walking into a friend's house who was in the hospital, but Rainbow Dash knew the house well enough to know the basic layout. After a quick trip to the bathroom, Rainbow Dash started looking around for any book with the title "Revelations". She knew how organized Twilight was so she went to check out the "R" section.
"Return of Conan, Revolt in 2100, Rewards in fairies..... Nothing about Revalations!" Rainbow Dash said out loud.
After another hour of looking Rainbow Dash was exhausted. She flopped down onto Twilight's bed and felt something hit her back. Rainbow Dash looked at the bed and saw a square form through Twilight's blanket. She flipped up the blanket and saw the book titled "Book of Revelations". She picked it up and opened it up. She saw a bookmark with the letters FRA written on it. She opened it up and saw that FRA stood for Four Rider of the Apocalypse. Rainbow dash read into it until she saw the "Pestilence" rider.
"Pestilence.... Twilight said something about Pestilence...." Rainbow said to herself.
After reading further, Rainbow Dash discovered how Pestilence was a rider who used two crossbows and a large bow and arrow to infect her victims with disease. She couldn't believe it, if this was true, then this was the end of times for Equestria!
"I need to get to Celestia!" Rainbow Dash closed the book and headed for the door, though she was quickly stopped at the door by a direct punch in the face, sending her flying back into one of the bookshelves and sending all the book falling down.
Rainbow Dash could barely see straight, but she could hear two voices talking to each other.
"Nice going genius! Now we have to look around for that book before she wakes up!" The first voice said.
"If she gets back up, i'll just crush her skull...." The second voice growled.
The first voice sounded young, about Pinkie Pie's age. The second sounded much older, about as old as Princess Luna. Once her vision straightened, she saw two women throwing Twilight's books around, sweeping them out of the way, and throwing them out the front door. One had emerald green hair, with a light brown trench coat open to expose a black leather bra, a cockroach crawling across her stomach which she proceeded to eat, dark brown pants, and a crossbow in one hand.
The second was dressed in red and gold armor with messy white hair, and a large sword. The second one was much larger than the girl with the green hair, so Rainbow Dash figured she could knock out the one with the green hair first and take on the other herself. Rainbow Dash looked around for the heaviest book she could reach, and lobbed a copy of "Moby Dick" At the girl with the green hair.
"Shi-!" Was all the girl managed to say before the book hit her square in the face, knocking her on her ass.
This alerted the other woman who took a hard swing at Rainbow Dash. Dash dodged the first punch which put a hole in Twilight's wall. The second punch however connected with Rainbow Dash's gut, which caused to her topple over since this woman hit like a freight train. Then she proceeded to grab Rainbow Dash by the legs and slam her down of the pile of books that lay on the floor. She did this another three times until Rainbow Dash stopped moving. Blood dripped from her mouth and pain was shooting throughout her entire body from head to toe.
"You OK Pestilence?" The large woman asked.
"I oughta kill that bitch..." Pestilence said holding a rag to her nose.
"Well I already beat you too it." The other woman bragged.
"Damn War...." Pestilence said as she went over and looked at Rainbow Dash, beaten to a pulp. "I don't think she's dead though.... She's still breathing."
"I'll just have to fix that....." War said, drawing her sword from her back.
Rainbow Dash tried to move to get out of the way, but her body was in so much pain she couldn't even blink without sending a shot of pain everywhere. War raised her sword above her head, and brought it down, just barely stopped above Rainbow's body, held by a pale hand. War looked to her side to see Death keeping War's sword at by with a single hand. War growled and swiped her sword away, sheathing it on her back.
"What the HELL Death!?" War yelled. "I thought you were supposed to kill people not save them!"
"I don't kill anyone, i am simply present during the time of their demise. And it isn't this girl time yet. Besides..." Death looked down at the crippled Rainbow Dash. "I have special plans for this girl and her friends...."
Pestilence walked up, still holding a cloth up to her nose, making her voice quack slightly. "What kind of plans? They're gonna die anyway so what does it matter when we kill them?"
Death looked at Pestilence and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Because Pestilence, before the Apocalypse we must show restraint as a law, our powers are to be held back. But...."
Death looked back to Rainbow Dash, smiled, and looked over to Pestilence. "Once the Apocalypse comes, we will be free to use our powers to their maximum. Nothing will hold us back. So i am trying to preserve as many of these mortals as i can before it comes."
Pestilence grinned at this statement. "Well allllllrighty then!" And with that she walked out of the house.
Death looked over to War who was still fuming at Rainbow Dash for being left alive. "Did you find the book?"
"No...." War said. "We looked all around but we couldn't find it."
"She must have it with her then...." Death stated. "Tell Famine we will retrieve the book at the hospital."
War nodded and walked out of the building. Death then looked back and Rainbow Dash and kneeled down next to her.
"My sisters and I.... We are going to enjoy ending your pitiful world..... But do not fret... For your extinction will bring upon a new race. Remember, every end makes way for a new beginning...."