Okay! The last chapter was scary! I rated it T for a reason. Anyway, that was part of the climax, but there's another part coming up soon. Not this chapter, but soon. This chapter will probably have a little more Sadie than usual though. Please review! :D
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC! The only characters I own in this story are Olivia and Sadie.
That night, Olivia got to stay at Rainbow Dash's house. Most of the ponies thought it was strange that she could walk on clouds, but she convinced them that it was completely normal.
She spent most of the night with Scootaloo. They were both still nervous about the nightmare, but they decided to wait until they knew they were in complete privet to talk about it.
Rainbow Dash watched the two little ones play. Ever since earlier that evening they had been acting very strange. Neither of them touched their food, which may have been normal for Olivia, but not Scootaloo. Every time Olivia heard a noise, she could jump and cling to Rainbow Dash. She had to tell someone about this.
"Hey guys," She said to the two little girls, "I'll be back in a little bit okay? I have to… work on my flight training! Yea! You know me, gotta be my very best for the wonder bolts."
Both the little ones nodded. Usually Scootaloo would ask to join Rainbow, but she couldn't leave Olivia alone. They had more serious matters on their hands.
As soon as Rainbow left, Olivia and Scootaloo came out from their hiding and continued to panic.
"How? How could we have had the exact same dream?" Scootaloo shouted.
"I have no idea, but this isn't looking good at all," Olivia replied nervously.
"He can't come! He just can't come take you away! You can't go back to living in fear like that!"
"Scoot… I've been feeling that same fear the entire time I've been here too you know."
"Yea, but at least you're safe here!"
While the two girls argued, Rainbow Dash flew down toward Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack seemed to be the most concerned when it came to Olivia, so she was the one who most deserved to know. When Rainbow Dash got there, she saw Applejack talking to Sadie, who laid back against a tree.
"Hey there Rainbow," Applejack said happily, "Aren't you supposed to be watchin' Olivia? Its yer night I reckon."
"Yea, yea I know. But I need to talk to you both. It's like REALLY important," Rainbow blurted out.
"We're all ears," Sadie calmly said while balancing an Apple on the tip of her pointer finger.
"Well, ever since I took them home earlier, Olivia and Scootaloo have been acting a little… strange." Rainbow explained.
At that, Sadie dropped the Apple, and looked at Rainbow Dash very seriously. "Like, how strange?"
"Well, Olivia's been jumping at every little sudden noise she hears, and neither of them touched dinner. They've been giving each other strange looks, like they knew something that I didn't. Then when I told them I was going out, Scootaloo didn't even BOTHER to ask if she could come. And Olivia looked terrified."
Sadie started to think. "While it's obvious she told Scootaloo something…," She thought to herself. She wondered why they were so scared all of a sudden though, especially Olivia. Scootaloo had a right to be scared, but Olivia was used to this sort of thing. Something wasn't right.
"What do you think Sadie?" Applejack asked a deep in thought Sadie.
"Huh? Oh uh… I'm sure their fine. They were probably just nervous that they would be left alone… I know Olivia can get like that sometimes…"
"This seems a lot for serious than that," Rainbow Dash protested.
"Tell ya what," Applejack suggested, "Keep a close eye on them for the rest of the night. If things still seem strange, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
Rainbow nodded and began to fly back home, but Sadie pulled on her tail, holding her to the ground.
"Oh, and one more thing," Sadie whispered, "If Olivia's eyes change to blue, gray, or red, calm her down as fast as you can. We don't need a repeat of the Silver Spoon incident."
Rainbow quickly nodded again and dashed off.
Olivia and Scootaloo had calmed down quite a bit, but they were still worried.
"It just had to be a coincidence," Olivia tried to convince herself; "Everything's going to be fine. He doesn't have a clue where I am let alone knows how to get here."
"Yea, yea you're right. Sadie's the only one that can travel through dimensions. There's no way he could get here," Scootaloo joined in.
Just then, they heard banging on side of the house. They both held their breath. Olivia's heard was pounding in her ears. She was frozen in terror. She heard the door open. Her eyes brightened to an even brighter blue than usual. The footsteps were coming toward them. Scootaloo had her hooves up, as if she was ready to fight, but she was just as terrified as Olivia. Olivia slowly turned her head toward the door, expecting to see the end right then and there.
"RAINBOW DASH!" Scootaloo shouted.
Olivia let out a loud sigh of relief and fell backward, letting her back hit the floor. She panted loudly after what could've been one of the most terrifying moments of her life. And that was saying something.
"Are you guys okay?" Rainbow asked.
Olivia nodded while she tried to catch her breath. Scootaloo did the same. Rainbow Dash just stared at them and sighed. There was something wrong alright, no matter how much Sadie denied it, there was something wrong.
Olivia stumbled as she walked down the path to the clubhouse. She had been too afraid to sleep the night before, so now she was insanely tired. All the others noticed this, but they decided not to say anything.
Just before Olivia reached the clubhouse, Sadie walked up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. Olivia lazily turned around, not really in the mood to talk.
"Hey Sadie," She yawned.
"Hi. You feeling alright?" Sadie asked concerned.
"Huh? Oh yea. I'm fine. Why?"
Sadie sighed. Rainbow was right, Olivia wasn't acting very normal. She shrugged and pulled out her iPod.
"No reason. Hey, music used to help you through everything right?" She handed Olivia the iPod.
Olivia stared at it. She had used Sadie's iPod for as long as she could remember. But she knew the ponies didn't have anything like it in their world. She took the device carefully, quickly thanked her with a nod, and continued her way to the clubhouse.
When she walked in, all three fillies were eyeing the device she had in her hand.
"It's an iPod," she explained before any of them could ask, "It plays music. Wanna listen to some?"
All three of them nodded and Olivia set it up. She wanted a song to fit her mood, and she found just the one. (Space Bound by Eminem).
All three fillies were amazed by the iPod, while Olivia just drifted away into the song. She whispered each rap lyric carefully, as if it were the last song she'd be able to sing. The fillies stared at her in awe.
"What does that word mean?" Sweetie Belle whispered to Scootaloo
"Don't ask questions, just listen," she whispered in reply.
Meanwhile, the six elements of harmony sat back in Applejacks barn discussing the strange behavior of Olivia and Scootaloo the night before.
"I swear they were in the middle of a panic attack before I came in the room," Rainbow Dash explained, "And when they saw me, Olivia kinda fell over, like she had been holding her breath for the fast ten minutes."
"That is mighty strange," Applejack said, her voice trailing off.
"I was reading up on humans the other day," Twilight broke in, "And get this. A lot of them really are cruel! In some of the books it had pictures of them hitting animals!"
All the ponies in the room gasped.
"And once, I even read about some humans hitting their own kind! Turns out, they start these things called wars all the time, and they literally fight to the death until they get their way."
"That's terrible!" Rarity gasped.
"I know," Twilight said, "Then I started thinking. Now don't blow up at me for this, what if Olivia ended up that way when she got older?"
Applejack stomped her hoof at this. "How could you even get a thought like that in yer mind Twi? Olivia wouldn't hurt a horsefly!"
"I know she wouldn't now, but think about it. Everything that I read about what about adults. What if one day, when Olivia grew into an adult, she became like the rest?"
A lot of them shuttered at this thought. They all wanted to refuse to believe it, but the possibilities were endless with Olivia.
"No! That's not the Olivia I know!" Pinkie Pie suddenly burst out, "Last night, she was sobbing her little eyes out just from a dream!"
Twilight snapped her head toward Pinkie. "She had a nightmare last night?"
"Yea!" Pinkie said, "And a bad one too! She just wouldn't stop crying!"
"It seems like ever since she got here, Olivia has been having nightmares to no end…" Rarity thought out loud.
Fluttershy stared at the ground, but spoke softly. "Sorry… but… maybe it would be better for her and us in a way, if we sent her back to the human world?"