In the future, Snowdrop is passing her days in the Canterlot hospital after suffering a stroke, signing her demise. Luna stands by her side as her biggest supporter begins to pass away.
Snowdrop was sitting on a cloud like she had done many times before, her sight was improving ever since then. She could faintly see, however not perfect vision like she had always dreamed of. The ice blue Pegasus looked out into the sky but felt something, loneliness. Ever since her mother had passed away after she graduated school, things had been going well for Snowdrop, mentally, and not physically. The house they have been living in for years was still in very good shape, the color was fading slightly, Snowdrop had always wanted to get a re painting of her house arranged but she could never seem to get around to doing so, being that the house was a certain color and was expensive nowadays. Snowdrop would always spend a few minutes outside and go back inside to go to sleep, the only good side to not having her mother around was her ability to stay out as long as the blue Pegasus desired. However, she did miss her mother a lot.
Snowdrop headed inside her faded house as she sat at her kitchen table, her home was very small, it only had 3 rooms. One for her mother (who had passed away), herself, and the kitchen. There was really nothing to it, Snowdrop usually found herself staring out into the moon, which was incidentally one of the only things that she could see clearly, perhaps besides the snow coming down. She admired the moon of Princess Luna, who still remembered what Snowdrop had said about her beautiful night sky, her stars, and her wonderful moon. Snowdrop walked slowly to the refrigerator as she took out one tea bag and turned the kettle on. She waited a bit and watched closely to see when the tea would be ready, or when it wouldn't be. She was never a very good cook, and couldn't really make anything besides perhaps a muffin or a cup of tea. The kettle squealed, signifying that the tea Snowdrop was making was finished being made. She took her mug that she had received from Clouds-dale two years ago when she was taken there by her old teacher, Princess Luna.
She drank her tea slowly, still looking at the moon, gazing a bit in fact. Her one hoof slowly moved under her head instead of wasting the energy in her neck, hurting it slightly. Snowdrops eyes began to widen as she felt as her tea was getting cold. She ended up drinking it quicker than before, trying not to waste the drink she took careful time preparing. Snowdrop finished her tea, and put the cup she had drank out of in the sink. Snowdrop looked at her clock, it was 10:00. Snowdrop did feel very tired and decided it was time to go to sleep. She walked to her bedroom and climbed into her bed.
"Good night Mom..." Said Snowdrop, talking to the picture of her mother.
She didn't cry this time. Which was a surprise seeing that Snowdrops own voice made her cry because of how close she was to her mother when she had that voice. She was getting old, so having that tone of voice for even an instant pulled her heartstrings slightly. She pulled the covers over her and noticed something wrong, her neck began to feel very stiff. She slowly turned her head to face the ceiling, hoping that it would relieve the pain in the least bit. It didn't work very well however as the pain traveled to her face and took a toll on her eyes. She began to see doubles of everything around her, trying to make something of it. She shrieked in fear and began to bawl, so much that she began to vomit all over her bed. The rainbow colored vomit spread everywhere, on the floor, on the bed, and on the pillow she was sleeping on. Her face began to get crowded with the multiple tears she was spreading all over herself. Snowdrops slightly blind eyes dimmed as she passed out in her bed. The last thing she could hear, faintly. Was the sound of a ponies footsteps trotting into the room where she was passing out in.
"Snowdrop.. we are here...snowdrop...SNOWDROOOOOP!!!!!"
The faint voice she heard faded as Snowdrop ended up falling into a coma, and looked as if she was too close to death. She was alive, but looked dead however. The pony who had screamed her name and pleaded for her to awaken was Princess Luna, she had heard the screams and cries of the Snow Pegasus and decided to aid her in her darkest hour. Luna began to cry, seeing one of her only friends begin to die, even though Snowdrop wasn't. Paramedics aided Snowdrop as they took her to the Royal Hospital in the castle of Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. Snowdrop was then laid down in the bed she was assigned to be rested in.
"Is she alive?, is our friend Snowdrop....dead?" Asked Luna, looking as if she was about to cry.
"Just barely, shes in a coma. It looks as if she will make it though." Replied the Nurse Redheart, who was treating her.
"We advise you, your highness. To leave this pony to rest, we don't want hopes or spirits to be crushed is all." Explained Nurse Redheart.
"W-Why yes... of course.." Said Luna, finally. She soon walked away slowly, crying silently. Making sure no one was noticing the Princess who controlled the night, was crying.
Snowdrop, meanwhile. Was beginning to enter a very strange and very watercolor like dream, she saw herself wandering through the place she dreamed she was in. She dreamed herself as a filly, like she was when she had to do the famous report that she had planned very briefly. She wandered more as she saw various images. She saw the ponies who had made fun of her for her very bad vision issues, and her beliefs in the snow falling from the sky above. She could tell that the dream was not going to end well.
Snowdrop walked through a soot black corridor of sorts, finding that the dream seemed shaped as the royal castle. She had been in the castle of Luna and Celestia once though, and mixed with her bad vision, it made seeing the dream like corridor she was walking in very hard to see. The only thing she could see was a watercolor like image of a pony, a pony she knew and missed. She gasped as she realized that the pony was her own mother. She trotted to the lively watercolor like image of her mother but was then accompanied by the fact that she could not feel the image of her mother like she would if she was still alive. This hinted however how most ponies who knew her would want her to be right now.
"M-Mama?" murmured Snowdrop as she touched the figure.
The figure of her mother soon became flesh and blood, as her mother then proceeded to give Snowdrop a nuzzle on her fluffy mane.
"Snowdrop... you have to wake up...." Said her mother softly.
"B-But i don't want to wake up.... i want to stay with you...." Replied Snowdrop, beginning to tear up inside.
"You will be here soon, but you have to wake up......" Said her mother once more, repeating herself.
Snowdrop began to cry as her mother began to fade into water colors, and soon into wind blown snow. Snowdrop sat on the ground of the big corridor as she said over and over.
"Wake up now..........wake up now.........wake up now....." Snowdrop said, repeating herself three times over.
Luna stayed in her room as she felt Snowdrop dreaming. She closed her own eyes as she saw into Snowdrops dream, she found Snowdrop crying that she had to wake up. Luna stepped into the dream herself as she approached the snow pony as she embraced her in a hug. Snowdrop hugged back instantly, holding onto the shoulders of her teacher, crying as the moon Princess was hugging her as if they where of the same blood, they seemed like that anyway. Snowdrops dream ended as she woke up crying, bawling sort of. Princess Luna emerged from her room as she went to the hospital section of the castle that had Celestia near by.
"Luna!, where are you going?!" Cried Celestia as she found her sister leaning on the hospital room doors.
"I must attend to some pony... this is urgent.." Replied Luna, looking a bit stern as always, yet trying to hold back tears.
Celestia stood, speechless, caused because of Lunas actions on entering the hospital room. She found it strange that Luna would get so emotional about any pony, at times she seemed to feel she should be the center of attention, however was kind and gentle at the same time, it seemed very strange indeed. Luna rushed to Snowdrops bed, panting.
"Snow *pants* drop..., I'm... *pants* here........." Said Luna, panting.
"Hello Princess Luna..." Said Snowdrop, faintly recovering from her stroke 2 nights ago.
"Its very good to see you again...." Said Luna, sitting near Snowdrops hospital bed.
"Its good to see you too Princess.." Snowdrop said, being able to see the moon princess briefly because of her obvious vision problems.
"What happened Snowdrop, why where you screaming?.." Asked Luna, uninformed on what happened.
Snowdrop paused. She didn't want to tell her teacher about the stroke she experienced.
"You have to tell me Snowdrop......" Luna said, being repetitious.
"I had a stroke in my eyes!" exclaimed Snowdrop as she covered her face and cried.
The moon princess walked closer to the bed as she rubbed Snowdrops back as she cried, she felt bad that there was nothing that she could do. Snowdrops eyes where filled with tears, all falling down her face, dripping. Snowdrop laid back down as she felt something in her eyes, it felt like another stroke but wasn't, it was a mind grain. The snow pony put one of her weak hooves over her skull as she rubbed her head, feeling her mind feel as if it was burning. She sat up, and rubbed some more.
"Snowdrop... you have to lay back down Snowdrop..." Said Luna, staring and observing what Snowdrop was doing.
Snowdrop didn't hear as her head drifted, she felt a bit dizzy as her head fell into the pillow as her eyes began to be throbbing in pain, she felt as if the mind grain was forming into another stroke, and it was. Luna took a step back as Nurse Good heart charged towards the bed as she felt Snowdrops head out. Snowdrop, bawling in agony began to feel her vision dimming, it was not like last time where her vision was VERY blurry. She began to close her eyes, closing them slowly, as she had her hoof on her heart. Snowdrops vision began dimming more as she began to look as if she was to pass out, but that wasn't the case at all.
"Snowdrop?" Asked Luna, curious but anxious.
"Your highness.... i'm so sorry...." said Nurse Red heart as she gave Luna a look of disbelief.
"W-Why are you sorry?!" Luna asked again, beginning to cry once more.
"Snowdrop has just passed away........" Nurse Red heart said finally, tearing up a bit.
Luna covered her face in her hooves and trotted out of the hospital room, Celestia was just outside. Luna ran back up to her room as she closed the door, she locked it as well just in case Celestia was planning on entering. Luna cried for three hours on end, burying her head in the small bed she had. It was 7:00 at night and Luna felt a breeze coming into her room, she had strangly kept the windows wide open, exposing her room to the cold air of winter. The moon princess saw the moon coming up slowly, realizing that she had been had been out crying while her sister raised the moon, a bit quicker then she could in fact. She then saw the snow slowly tinkling down in little flurries. Luna walked to her open window as she stared and gazed at the snow coming from the sky, she then looked into the moon gazing and imagining with her imagination, then she saw something brilliant, something amazing. She saw an imaginary cloud with Snowdrop with her mother snuggling, the image looked like that of a painting, accept animated somehow. Then, the image faded from the sky completely. Luna kept gazing at the stars and the falling snow for several more hours, then, the snow stopped falling completely. Luna proceeded to close the windows, she was smiling, however was unaware of it.
Luna pulled the covers over herself as she felt herself getting sleepy, she looked at her window and said,
"Thank you Snowdrop.... thank you for us joy and happiness in the process...."
Luna then fell asleep, awaiting good dreams ahead.
