STRANDED- Ch. 4
Dash woke up screaming, "GET OFF ME! GET AWAY!"
"Dash, Dash, calm down." It was Fluttershy. They were a little distance away from the campfire and the group were not on the best of terms.
"Huh, what? Fl...Fluttershy? What happened?" asked the cyan pony giving her friend the same confuzed look that was on hers.
"We were hoping you could tell us, Dash. We found you bleeding out right at the edge of the jungle. We thought we had
lost you, but Apple Jack knew CPR and kept you alive until we were able to properly take care of you the best we could." explained the pink haired pony.
Dash was puzzled. "Soooo,,, what you're saying is that I was just found this way and nopony saw anything else?"
"That's right."
"Honestly, I don't know what happened... it's all kind of a blur to me now. I remember being attacked by a small brown creature."
"Are you sure you didn t run through a brier field on accident?"
The pegasus looked at her friend quizzically, "You think briers could have done this?"
"Twilight said they were self inflicted by the looks of the cuts."
Dash was stunned. "You really think I would do this to myself?"
Fluttershy immediately recognized what she had just said. "No, no, it's not that. It's just that you have been know to do questionable things when you're angry or sad... or confused."
"So what? You think I'm insane?"
"You wouldn t be the only one." an argument could be heard in the distance...
"You didn t split the fruit evenly!" said the orange workpony. She had a rage in her voice.
"How dare you accuse me of such a thing! Why I otta..." started the pink party pony.
"Ah saw you give Twilight the bigger split. What, y'all come to some sort of agreement er somethin'? Best buds now?"
"Yea, what's the big idea!" said Apple Bloom...
Rainbow Dash looked at her leaf bandaged legs, sat up, and talked to her friend. "Wow... how long was I out?"
"About three days. Ever since you took off into the jungle, everypony has been argueing." said Fluttershy.
Dash looked at the ground, "So it's my fault." she sighed.
"Oh no, don't take it that way Rainbow Dash. I mean, it was bound to happen sooner or later." said Fluttershy trying to raise her spirits.
"Yea... but I made it happen sooner." Dash seemed quite upset.
"Stop talking like that. You need your rest. Go back to sleep." Dash closed her eyes and slowly drifted back to her dreams as Fluttershy sang her a short song.
Fluttershy returned to the camp area where everypony except for Twilight was asleep. Twilight turned to Fluttershy, still agitated from the earlier argument...
"How is she?" asked Twilight.
"She's awake but..." Fluttershy hesitated.
"Buuuuut...?" Twilight inquired.
"She feels that our arguing is her fault and that the wounds were inflicted by some creature."
"You know that the arguing is her fault and there is not one single other living thing on this island. We checked."
"Yea, I know, but I don't want her to think that the arguing is her fault... but I hate to lie to her."
"Well... whatever you do, don't do anything to upset anypony. Everypony has been very territorial lately." Twilight warned.
"Even the little ones?" asked Fluttershy in a slightly sadder tone.
Twilight nodded. "Especially the little ones."
"What should we do?" asked Fluttershy, obviously concerned.
"I don't know. For now, let's sleep on it, OK?"
Fluttershy acknowledged, "OK..."