It was dark. A fog grew heavy over the area. I looked around, there was nothing in sight. Just fog and total darkness. I went to walk forward, but my legs were stuck in place.

"Only darkness will be found in the coming days." A voice range out from the empty void.

"Who's there!?" I yell.

"You can save them all." The voice called.

"Where..."

A body took shape in the fog. A simple silhouette of a Unicorn. It walked towards me. "All you must do is force them to stay behind." The voice started to change to somepony familiar.

The pony came to view. Deep red fur, clashing with two toned blue short, spiky mane. Her Carmine eyes looking deeply into mine. All I could do was stare, to shocked to say anything.

"Guess it's a little late for that huh?" Her face takes a saddened tone as a single tear slides down my face.

"Riv...River...I..." She put a hoof to my mouth and smiled.

"Shh...It's in the past now. It doesn't matter anymore." I swat away her hoof. "I could have saved you!" I yelled. At her. It hurt so bad to do that. "I would have saved you..." I whispered softly.

She smiled. "Maybe. But we'll never know. I made my decision back then, saving you, the thing I cared for most in the world, was all I wanted to do." I wanted to say something. But I couldn't find my voice. "But now, now there's others who care for you as I did. And they need you now, more then ever."

"What? Others? You mean Scratch and Treble Clef?" She nodded. "No. No, they don't think of me like that. Sure we got pretty close the last few months. But they're together, they couldn't like me. Be..besides I would never...I mean, they're both beautiful Mares, but I wouldn't...I don't.."

She giggled as I stumbled over my words. "Will it help if I said I approve of them? In any rate, you need to get going.

Goodbye Foxx." She started to fad I reached forward to grab her. "River!"

"I'll always love you." She said with a smile as she vanished into the fog.

"River! River come back!"

"River!" I jolt awake. Extremely damp from sweat. I could barely breath. I gasped for air as I tried to calm down. "Was that...only a dream?...no...it couldn't of been..." I mutter to myself.

Once I was calm enough, I looked over to the clock on the wall. Five Thirty...something. To blurry to tell. I fell back to the cold, sweat filled couch I occupied, and thought back to last night.

I came to Ruby's house, played with Night Flash from a few hours. She went to bed, and me and Ruby caught up. I was about to leave when she offered for me to stay the night. I instantly went here and fell asleep. Though I'm pretty sure she had other stuff in mind when she asked me to stay.

Oh well.

I lazily shift my weight over and get off the couch. April 22nd. Rivers birthday... I'm always depressed on this day, I should have thought about that before staying last night. And I have a feeling, today's going to be a bad day.

Might as well get an early start going home. Maybe seeing Scratch and Treble Clef will cheer me up. I start to walk away and feel an ungodly sharp pain run through my hoof. I yelp and stumble over. "Ow..."

I look around the floor and find what I stepped on.

A mother fucking red Lego.

"You..." I squinted my eyes. "Your the piece we needed and couldn't find. Because of you, our castle has a SINGLE yellow block!" I curse at the Lego and get back up to my hooves. Staring daggers of ungodly doom at the little plastic demon block.

I sigh in defeat and walk over to a desk to leave a letter for the girls.

I pull out some paper and a quill.

Ruby, Thanks for letting me stay the night.

I enjoyed catching up, and Night Flash was fun to play with.

I left early to get back to Manehatten before noon.

Sorry I couldn't stay longer.

Black Foxx.

I leave it on the couch and open the door. It was a little cold outside, but nothing bad. Closing the door behind me, I opened my wings and took off.

I flew over the early morning sky at a slow pace. The wind flowing through my mane kept me calm as I thought about River.

'It's been about two years today. Two long, lonely years since you sacrificed yourself for me. Dammit River...'

I didn't get to finish my thought before something crashed into me. Sending me spiraling to the ground. I groaned as I sat up and looked at what him me.

"Oops...My bad..." A soft voice called from in front of me. A, slightly...ditzy, voice.

My eyes met with light grey Pegasus with a blond mane. Her eyes were a beautiful amber, and were off set. Goddess I hope the crash didn't do that. "You alright?" She asked.

I shook my head when I realized I was staring at her. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Are you OK?" She smiled brightly, "I'm just fine. You don't have to worry about me Mister! It'll take more than a little crash to hurt this Mailmare!" I chuckle at the statement.

"Well, if you don't need anything like a doctor or something. I got to get going. The mail isn't going to deliver itself!" She cheerfully says standing up.

I stand myself, my right foreleg hurt where she crashed into me, but I didn't let it show. "Nope, I'm find. Have a good day."

She nods and flies off towards Ponyville.

I try to take a step, but my leg buckles from underneath my weight. "Fuck. I think it's dislocated..." I scowl and limp over to a tree. Taking a deep breath, I position myself by it and count to three.

One.

Two.

Three!

I ram my shoulder into the tree trunk with all the force I could put into it. I loud pop rang through the air. Followed by a short yell from myself.

I walked with a slight limp until the pain subsided. I then took back off in the sky, and headed for Manehatten. My wing started to hurt, it was only three months ago it got cut up by a Griffon.

"Really? Goddess dammit...what next? Sompony need me to take a dip in a lake. Because I fucking hate water!"

As if the Goddess heard my sarcastic remark, and wanted to bid me a 'fuck you', a Mare screamed from close by.

"Sompony help! My Fillies stuck at the bottom of the pool!" I stopped mid-air to look down. Sure enough, some Filly got her hoof stuck in the drain. And for some reason, nopony moved to help her.

"I fucking hate you..." I called out to nopony in particular. I tucked my wings in and dived down into the water.

Everything went quiet except for the sound of water rushing around me. Forgetting I was under water I tried to breath, almost drowning myself in the process. That's what I hate about water, no air. I liked air.

Pushing aside my acute fear of a breathless death, I did my best at swimming down to the Filly. Oh yeah, I can't swim that well either.

When I reached the Filly, I saw that her hoof was stuck in between the tile ground and the grate of the drain. 'Really kid? Just pull your hoof out, you shouldn't even be stuck right...' I looked up at her. She wasn't moving. Shit.

I grabbed at the grate and pulled up. It didn't budge. 'What in Celestia's name is this made of?!' Putting my back hooves on the ground, I pulled up as hard as I could. It barely moved, but it was enough to get her out. She started to slowly ascend, I dropped the grate and grabbed her, kicking off the ground.

My lungs burned for precious air, and once we broke surface, I gasped and took in as much as I could. Coughing, I brought the Filly to the side, getting her out of the water. I rested my head on the ground and closed my eyes for some much needed rest.

"She's not breathing! Sompony give her CPR quick!" Her mother yelled. And yet again, nopony moved.

I pulled myself out of the pool and positioned myself above the Filly. Putting my hooves to her chest, I start compressions

I do the cycle a few times, fifteen compressions, two breaths, repeat. And just as I was about to give two more breaths, the Filly starts to cough and spit up water.

Everypony shouts and cheers as the mother grabs her into a hug. Still coughing, the Filly manages to speak. "Mommy?" Her mother pulls her close and strokes the Fillies mane. "Shhh...It's alright now. It's over. You're going to be just fine." She rocks her Filly back and forth in her hooves.

I take this as my Que to scadaddle and stand up. The mother looks at me with tears streaming down her face. "Thank you...Thank you so much!" I smile and nod at her. Turning around, my smile turns into a frown of hatred of water, and I walk off, shaking my legs every few steps to rid it of water.

Stopping, I spread my wings and shake my body much like a dog would. Yeah it's a little Animalistic, but I don't have a towel, and I want to leave. And wet wings don't make for good flying. Once I was dry enough I took off in the direction of Manehatten.

I flew faster then I wanted to, and keeping a sharp eye out, just to avoid anymore random occurrences that want to make my day worse.

In no time I was back in the great city where I lived. The smell of old burnt wood hung heavy in the air.

I ignored it and pressed on into the city. As I neared Elements, the smell of burnt wood became more strong.

'No...' I landed in the street and ran to the Inn.

"No no no no no no!" I screamed and collapsed in front of the burnt pile of wood and ash.

I stared in horror as I scanned the wreckage. The fire was started by magic, that much was clear. It didn't burn the same as normal fire. And even though everything was destroyed, signs of a fight stood out clear as day.

I gasped. For on the only brick wall in Elements Inn, The bars back wall, there was a message. It brilliantly shined with its blue magic aura.

'Found You'

And with it, hung Namikaze Fire's Katana.