The medics jumped from the vehicles and went to work. Sunset and Sonata were placed onto gurneys and placed into the ambulances. Both girls were bleeding out and Sonata was in worse shape than Sunset. The blood on Sonata’s blue skin was turning purple where it ran on her skin. The doctors in the ambulance were doing everything possible to keep her from bleeding out but Sonata’s skin started turning white and pale. “Come on, don’t you die on me.” Doctor Horse frantically worked on keeping Sonata stable without doing more damage. The fast speed and bumpy road complicated things. All of a sudden there was a loud bang. “What’s going on up” The ambulance spun around throwing the doctor to his knees and Sonata off the gurney. Blood splattered the wall of the vehicle as Sonata flew into it with a loud thud. The vehicle flipped sending Sonata and the doctor into the roof of the ambulance. The glass windows shattered as the vehicle rolled. Doctor Horse’s vision became blurry as the doors to the back of the ambulance opened up. Doctors rushed into the blood covered vehicle and carefully pulled out both passengers. Doctor Horse blacked out.
Sonata opened her eyes, the world around her pulsed rapidly and her body hurt. The sun was bright and burned her eyes. She slowly moved around as her eyes adjusted to the brightness. “Sonata, sweetheart.” Sonata looked around trying to hear the voice singing to her. Who would call to her like that and why? The voice was gentle and it sounded familiar. It couldn’t be though, the owner was gone and had been for many years. “Sonata, where are you going?” Sonata put her hands over her ears in an attempt to refuse to listen. It was torture and it hurt. Someone was trying to mimic her mother’s voice, she couldn’t listen. “Please don’t shut me out sweetie, I love you.”
“NO! You are an imposter acting like my mother. She is dead, stop talking.” Sonata started to run but the owner of the voice was faster and cut her off. Sonata stopped when she ran right into the siren and fell on her rear. She looked up at the siren to see that it was her mother or at least someone pretending to be. “Leave me alone, stop tormenting me.”
“Sweetheart, don’t puuusssshhhhh meeeeee awaaaayyyy.” The sirens voice dragged on as she began melting away. Blood began to flow from her eyes, ears, and mouth as she melted away. A griffin grabbed the figure and carried the melting thing away and in its place was Aria, and Adagio pointing and laughing.
“What’s going on, why is this happening?” Sonata backed up and away from her two former friends.
“Sonata, how pathetic is she?” Aria laughed.
“I know, first she loses her stupid mother and then her mind, not that she ever had one. The look on your face is priceless.” Adagio and Aria grew and towered over Sonata.
“She is the dumbest Siren ever; I bet her mother is glad to be dead. I know I would be if it meant having a daughter like her.” Aria laughed harder along with Adagio.
Tears formed as Sonata shrunk to the ground as Aria and Adagio threw her mother’s dead body at her and laughed. “Stop it; I never did anything to you. Why are you doing this?” Sonata asked through the tears. Adagio was about to answer when the two were blasted out of existence and was replaced by Luna. “Pri-Princess L-Luna?” Sonata said weakly.
“Calm down young Siren, your nightmare is just that. Do not let Aria and Adagio torment you with false words. My sister knew you well child or at least your mother well. She was a great queen from what I’ve heard.” Luna wrapped her wings around Sonata lovingly.
“I don’t understand how you are here? I’m not in Equestria, so how can you be here?” Sonata wiped the tears from her eyes and sniffled.
“You are in Equestria Sonata; you were brought here by an unknown source. Both you and Sunset Shimmer are here and being treated. You have noticed that this nightmare of yours is pulsing?” Sonata nodded. “You are weak and you are dying or were dying. You are right now under intense care.” The dream world shook violently. Sonata broke free of Luna’s wings, took a step back and began breathing rapidly. She was on the verge of hyperventilating. “Calm down child, do not worry. I wish I could show you what is happening but that could put you at great risk. Your body can barely handle me here as it is. The magical energy it takes to enter a dream is very little and the damage it does to the mind isn’t even existent if one knows how to properly do it but to an injured body such as yours, it takes a large toll on the body and mind. I am tired because I had to strain myself when entering your dream to keep the damage minimal. I must go before too much magical damage is done but remember, all of us are here and waiting for you to wake.” Sonata nodded as her dream shook again. “We are waiting for you; Sunset is the most worried for you.” With that said, Luna disappeared.
When Luna returned to the real world, all eyes were on her. “Adagio and Aria are making things hard on her in there. I did my best and I believe she is calmed down but I could not stay. She would have died if I stayed much longer.”
“Luna, you have done enough. Look, she isn’t panicked anymore. She will be just fine, though she may be tired after waking up.” Doctor Horse said. Usually he didn’t make house calls but Princess Twilight had insisted. He couldn’t refuse especially when he heard that Princess Celestia, Luna and Cadance would be there. It must have been important to have four Princesses there. To be fair though, Cadance had been there visiting with her sister in law but that didn’t lessen the importance just because of circumstance. “I still don’t know how those little holes were made. Right near her most important vitals too, how scary it must’ve been. Whatever made them is gone, so that’s a plus but repairing her artery was rather difficult. Thank goodness for magic.”
“Yes, I have to believe that magic saved our lives.” Sunset sat up slowly and leaned against the head board. “Thank you for allowing me the use of your guest bed by the way.”
“Of course, what are friends for?” Twilight smiled before turning to Sonata who was still very pale. Her blood soaked the sheets of Twilights bed. Was the blood gross, very; was giving up her bed necessary, definitely. She was glad to have medical supplies in the castle. Twilight had been able to read up on how to take care of somepony bleeding to death. That had saved Doctor Horse some trouble of hooking up both Sonata and Sunset. There had been some rearranging of tubes to the correct places but it did save them the extra time. Time was something that the two girls just didn’t have.
There hadn’t been time to move a different bed into the room even though Twilight didn’t want her sheets getting bloody. Friends were worth it though and the decision to bring in a different bed so hers wouldn’t get bloody wasn’t really there. It was a sacrifice in her mind that she was more than willing to make.
Twilight barely had time to get Sonata to her room up the stairs and down the hall. It was the closest room with a bed in it. Twilight had been grateful that Spike hadn’t been there. It would have most likely scared the dragon in such a way; he wouldn’t have been able to sleep without Luna there in his dreams. She would have somepony clean the floor if nopony had done so already. There was a long trail of blood leading up to her room from the mirror room. No one in Equestria had seen so much blood and Spike was a baby dragon. “So what do we do now?”
“All we can do; wait and hope for the best.” Sunset said looking over at Sonata and hoped that just maybe everything would be ok with her. Adagio and Aria hurt her in the worst way. Now they continued to do so in her dreams. It was unacceptable and it caused her anger to rise. “No, I can’t think of things like that in my condition. We’ll recover and then I’ll lose my temper.” Sunset thought as she brought a hoof up to her injured shoulder. It wasn’t fair, why did Sonata get the worst of it? She may be a siren but she didn’t deserve all this pain. Sunset came to a conclusion, she would help Sonata in every way she could.
For the next few hours, everypony was quiet. The doctor was doing his job and made sure that all Sonatas’ vitals were working. Twilight nervously paced in circles while Cadance tried to calm Twilight down. Luna and Celestia stood by Sonata waiting for her to open her eyes. Sunset couldn’t even sleep. Every time she had tried, Sonata came to mind. Sunset couldn’t sleep when Sonata may not wake up.
The air in the room became thick, everypony was worried. Twilight sped up her pacing as time went on and she would even whisper the words, “come on Sonata, you can make it” Over and over. She had almost sped up into a trot and had even begun sweating. She didn’t care though; Sonata was the focus for the time being. “Sunset, Twilight, she is waking.” Luna had said a little louder than she had meant to. She moved Sonata’s head to face Sunset.
Sonata slowly opened her eyes to see the face of the first true friend that she had ever had. “Sunset?” She saw her friend smile and then turned her head slowly and saw each princess one by one. “What’s going on?” Sonata grabbed the floating glass of water in her hooves and began to drink. She wanted to drink all the water in one gulp but she was too weak.
“Sonata, rest and when you are rested up and ready to talk, I will explain everything.” Sonata nodded and fell asleep once again. Twilight smiled and left to grab some fresh sheets for the bed. When she returned, she magically changed the sheets by moving them through Sonata. A maid had followed Twilight and took the bloody sheets to wash them. Twilight thanked the maid and then sat down. “There is going to be a lot to talk about when she is ready.” The first and most important for Sonata would be to explain the mark. The second most important thing would be to explain what happened to her race and why they have become endangered for the lack of a better word. Twilight was not excited about it, not one bit. The one thing she just couldn’t explain was how they got to Equestria. Just then a pony came into her room. Everypony looked toward the door to see the Stallion. “Who are you and how did you get here?” Twilight started to charge up a magical blast just in case as did the other princesses and Sunset. Sunset then saw the stallions cutie mark and wondered.
The pony looked over at Sonata and smiled paying no attention to the others in the room. “My name is Lucky Clover and I brought Sonata and Sunset here. I can explain everything that happened to them before they came here.” Twilight nodded and welcomed Lucky in. Everypony relaxed and smiled.