The Goddessy: Hestia's Revenge

Chapter Sixteen

Sunset knew something was up when she heard rustling. She gently opened the door, and froze as she saw Rainbow moving a pencil along a piece of paper.

"Hey, are you okay?" Sunset asked.

Rainbow jumped.

"Uh, yeah, totally! Just woke up and needed to do... stuff," she said, clearly lying.

Sunset went into the room, noticing the half-done image on the desktop.

"Hang on, you did this?" Sunset picked up the drawing, and could sorta depict a girl being chopped to pieces by those shards Hestia had been throwing, surrounded by flame.

"Okay, what's going on?" she dropped the paper. "This is too intricate to be creative art."

"Fine," Rainbow sighed. "What memory do you want me to project?"

"Project?" Sunset cocked her head.

"You really wanna go through everything?" Rainbow asked.

Sunset put a finger to her chin. She wasn't sure what everything meant, but she was willing to give it a try.

"Sure," she gripped her wrist and her mental self entered a large blank space.

No, a large space filled with moving images.

Sunset wasn't expecting to find so many memories inside one head. She knew people like Twilight had a pretty good photographic memory, but this...

It was insane.

"Um, so is this what happens when you've been living for centuries?" Sunset asked.

"Centuries and no way of forgetting them," Rainbow's mental self entered the space as well. "I literally can't get rid of any of them. Believe me, there are some things I've tried to forget."

Memories zipped by the two, each more vivid than the last.

"So they just stay in your head?" Sunset asked, watching a memory involving a plant monster. "And there's no removing them? Because I apparently am great at forgetting stuff. And I thought you were too."

"Again, I had to hide my identity from the world for two and a half millennia," Rainbow pointed out. "So nearly everything you know about me is wrong."

"Okay, but please tell me you still have something I've known for a while," Sunset said.

"Well, lucky for you, Aphrodite and I are total opposites," Rainbow shrugged. "And Rarity speaks fluent Aphrodite."

"Okay, the universe is still a little together," Sunset sighed in relief. "So... is there anything in particular that I'm supposed to see?"

Rainbow's mental self closed her eyes, and memories swirled around their heads.

"What's going on?" Sunset asked.

"I've had to cope with never forgetting," Rainbow said, swirling her hands around. "So I figured out a way to find the memories I want."

A series of images stood in front of them, each more gory than the last. They all had pieces and jagged edges around the edges.

"What are these?" Sunset asked.

Rainbow said nothing for a moment.

"My nightmares," she whispered.

Sunset watched as possibly the most terrifying scenes played out, involving explosions, drowning, vines, Zeus's head, myraks, and much more.