>"RARITY, HELP ME!"
>Rarity jolts awake, nearly ripping her sleep mask off and sits completely still in her bed, not believing what she just heard.
>A blood-curdling call for help coming from outside the boutique.
>It sounded like Sweetie Belle.
>Her heart immediately begins to race wildly.
>She sits up in her bed in silence, waiting, heart slamming against her ribs.
>Then, outside, from the window "SOMEPONY HELP ME PLEASE!"
>"Oh my Celestia, Sweeite!" Rarity yells as she trips over herself scrambling out of her bed and galloping towards the window.
>She throws the shutters open and scans the landscape below.
>No sounds, no movement, dead silence.
>Darkness.
>Reacting as fast as she could, she sprinted towards her bedroom door and flung it open.
>"RARITY HELP ME!" is heard now clear as ever through the open window.
>Never in her life has she ever heard screams so thick with terror, the kind only heard moments before a life is taken.
>"BIG SIS IS COMING" Rarity screams back at the top of her lungs, through choked sobs, tears streaming down her face.
>Rarity plunges down the darkened stairwell.
>Another incoherent scream reverberated dully through the boutique walls.
>"Oh my Celestia please be okay" Rarity reassures herself, stumbling down the stairs.
>On the showroom floor, Rarity rushes to the show window to search for any sign of her little sister.
>Silence.
>Darkness.
>She was too late.
>Rarity darts for the front door and begins shakily undoing the locks.
>"R-Rarity?"
>Reflexively she nearly jumps out of her skin and turns to face the voice with no time to process.
>There stands her little sister Sweetie Belle, at the bottom of the stairs, shaking and sobbing.
>"Rarity..." Sweetie barely eeks out.
>Confusion.
>They stare at each other for what feels like eons.
>Everything is swallowed in darkness, silence rings throughout the boutique, between exasperated gasps for air and sobs.
>Until they hear it again.
>"RARITY HELP ME"