Writing Time: 25 minutes
Word Count: 470
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Princess Luna
Prompt: Princess Luna takes Pinkie Pie on an "outing" to thank her for something.
Disclaimer: I do not own MLP:FiM.
Author's note: I know this one is short, even compared to the others, but I just didn't need many words to do this. I like how it turned out, though. It flows better this way.
Luna hadn't expected such a small little pony to be able to fight off a full-grown Ursa Major, or even distract him. But the little pink pony had managed to send it off a cliff and for that, Luna would never be able to thank her enough. But she might not get to thank her. Pinkie Pie had sustained wounds that no healing spell would ever be able to heal. The bear-like creature had torn open the earth pony's abdomen and now intestines were beginning to fall out of the wide wounds.
The alicorn couldn't save her, so as thanks, she did the only thing she could think of to ease the pink pony's agony. The princess of night lies beside her dying savior and touches her horn to the pony's head, finding in her mind scenes of her friends and her playing. The princess feels tears begin to stain her midnight blue coat, but she keeps searching until she had enough information to formulate a scene.
Although Luna didn't know much about the pony, she knew enough to know that this little pony values any time she could spend with her five friends, and so in the vision Luna created for her, Luna gave them. She didn't know everything of their personalities, but she gave each of them the personality of their elements and what little other facts she knew of them.
She can feel the injured pony let out a soft sigh as the images of all her friends together came into her mind. But simply letting her see her friends for one last time wasn't enough. Nothing would ever be enough. Luna quickly created a land of sugar and candy treats where the pony could play for her last few minutes. It was dominated mostly by pinks and blues, with every candy the small pony liked and nothing she didn't.
As she wracks her brain for anything more to give this suffering pony, she creates cotton candy clouds and chocolate milk rain. Luna doesn't know what else she can do for the pony, so she holds the dream and watches Pinkie recreate her old, uninjured self as she prances about with her friends eating candy and making jokes. She watches Pinkie telling her friends that she loves them all and that she'll miss them. The pink pony must know this is just a vision – a dream – that the night princess has given her, but she seems not to care. She tells each one of them that they've been wonderful friends.
On a whim, Luna creates Pinkie's pet toothless alligator, the one she loved so much. She feels the little pony struggling to hold onto her breath and just as she thinks the pony is dead, she manages a few words, "Thank you." And then she was gone.