Chapter 7
I woke up to the thunderstorm still raging on. I couldn't tell what time it was, but I'm pretty sure that it was past noon. I sat around for a while until I felt like I couldn't stand it anymore. This was probably going to be like a typical Washington all-day type of rainstorm… just with thunder and lightning. "In that case" I thought, "I probably shouldn't just waste my time sitting inside. I'm used to rain, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue." I opened the door and flew out, hoping that the rain wouldn't mess up my speed or control. Puddles dotted the street while only a few ponies were out and about.
Eventually during my flight, I heard thunder and a bolt of lightning was directed to the one of the spikes on my wings. Electricity coursed through my little pony skeleton before I felt my muscles lock and I passed out into another seizure. I woke up to find myself stuck in between the branches of a tree, almost completely immobilized. I managed to reach a forehoof up to that spike to feel if my new hypothesis was correct… it was. Those spikes were made of metal. My blurred vision was only able to make out one not-so-close object… a cabin… There was only one pony in town I knew that had a cabin.
I called out for Fluttershy's help to get me out of the tree. After about 4 or 5 minutes of shouting, the door to the cabin opened and Fluttershy's head popped out to look around. I tried to wave to her as best I could while still shouting. She looked around for what seemed like an eternity before she found the tree I was stuck in. As soon as Fluttershy noticed I was trapped in the tree, she rushed over to try and get me out. She eventually did and she invited me inside her cabin. I didn't want to risk getting hit by lightning again, so I gratefully accepted her invitation.
We sat in silence for what felt like hours. Eventually, she spoke up. "If you are okay with talking about it, how did you get stuck in that tree?"
"I got struck by lightning" I chuckled, almost thinking of it as funny.
She gasped and asked "Are you okay?"
"10 million volts of electricity doesn't hurt as much as it sounds" I stated, smiling. "It may have hurt a lot, but I think I'm okay."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, thank you" I answered. I looked down to see a tiny white rabbit, only about as tall as a soda can, giving me a cold, angry look as if I had offended him. I bent down to get a better look at the small rabbit and asked "why are you staring at me like that?"
"Oh!" Fluttershy got up and rushed over to pick up the bunny. "This is Angel."
"He certainly doesn't look too happy I'm here" I said. "He doesn't like strangers, does he?" I could see Fluttershy give off a tiny shrug. Suddenly, Angel jumped out of her arms and jumped up next to me, giving me the same cold stare. I held back a laugh as he rolled his eyes. Angel apparently didn't like me being anywhere near Fluttershy, so he pointed towards the door. "Are you asking me to leave?" I asked, raising an eyebrow and lowering the other. He nodded, hopped over to the door and opened it, gesturing for me to leave. "What if I get struck by lightning again?" I questioned him with a worried face. He just facepalmed at my question and continued to gesture to the door.
I looked over to Fluttershy. "You can go if you want to. I really don't think you should though" she said, hiding behind her thick, pink mane.
I looked back at Angel. "You really don't like me, do you?" I said with an annoyed expression. Angel simply nodded and once again gestured out the door. I huffed out through my nose and told him "I'm sorry Angel, but I'm afraid I'd prefer to stay." He gave me one final death glare before promptly turning around and hopping out the door. "What the- Wait!" I tried to call him, but he ignored me and just continued through the pouring rain. "I'll be back" I sighed as I started for the door.
"Where are you going?" asked Fluttershy, who seemed to be scared.
"I'm going to go get Angel, of course" I uttered. I took off out the door, closing the door behind me. The night sky was still black and covered in a total overcast with rain clouds. I flew only a few feet above the ground, just enough to see the ground below me, as I scanned the street ahead of me. Sure enough, Angel was hopping down the road, now entirely soaked and undeniably cold. He soon spotted me and began to run- err… hop faster. "Вернись" I yelled (my brother always used it, saying it was Russian for "get back here").
As soon as I had approached him, I scooped him into my hoofs and carried him off while he squirmed to get out of my grasp. I tried to fly up high enough to the point where he wouldn't want to let go, but nevertheless, he continued to struggle about. As I approached Fluttershy's cabin once again, I felt another bolt of lightning flow through my bone structure. I once again began to plummet downwards as Angel attempted to scream (but he was always silent, so he didn't). I looked to see we were going to crash right through the cabin door, so I flipped over and put myself between Angel and the impact point.
All I heard was a crash and a scream of shock. I proceeded to open my eyes to Angel standing directly over my face with Fluttershy in the background. "Are you hurt?!" she said looking up and down my body to spot any injuries.
"Not really" I croaked weakly. "Angel, are you okay?" He nodded and… smiled.
"What happened?" Fluttershy asked quietly, grabbing and hugging her bunny companion.
"More lightning" I said getting up and dusting off. "So much worse than seizures." I noticed that the door was still in (mostly) one piece so I picked it up and put it back into place.
Fluttershy gently set down Angel and rushed over to hug me. "Thank you so much! I'm so sorry I got you hurt!"
I laughed and said "You didn't get me hurt. Those clouds got me hurt."
"But if I-"
I stopped her. "No… You didn't hurt me in any way. If there's anypony who got me hurt, it's me" I said looking into her cyan-colored eyes. (Social Link established! [If you get that reference, have a cookie :D]) We continued to talk for a while, until we were both pretty tired. It was still raining, so she insisted I stayed overnight and slept on the sofa. I decided it would be better than having another 10 million volts of electricity ravage my body, so I drifted off to sleep.
That night, more dreams came. Nightmare would grab me in a chokehold and lift up the front of his helmet to reveal that burnt, bloody, skinless, fleshless face with his demonic neon-green eyes. He would say "lightning will not even compare to this" then proceed to smash my head against the ground, shattering it like glass. I would then fade to black and the dream would repeat… I didn't think I could take it anymore. He had never tortured me like this before I got to Ponyville! I needed to find a way to get him out of my head. I didn't know how, though. Destroying something as powerful as Nightmare would be like magic… Magic… that's it!
