Fluttershy awoke to the rut of life. It was a very average day outside. A swarm of butterflies glided around a herd of snow-white rabbits. The greenest of grass was placed in a large feeding trough,where animals of all sorts gathered to eat. Fluttershy trotted out of the door, much aware that her normal day was about to end.
In need of a rare ingredient for a medicine, she would have to venture into the Everfree Forest. She hated to have to go, but her squirrel friend was sick. Tightening her satchel bag around her waist, she tried to prepare her mind for what she was about to attempt. It didn't help, made it worst in fact.
"Maybe there was another medicine, one without the accursed ingredient?" She thought.
She knew there wasn't, but didn't really want to go. Taking a deep breath, she slowly carried herself to the edge of Ponyville. A dark, looming forest looked down upon her. It circled her and closed in. She shrank down, surely this was a place of evil. The trees came together behind and above her, trapping the terrified pony inside their hideous maul of branches. She clamped her eyes shut, trying to shut out the damnation of twisted, gnarled arms reaching nearer and nearer. She could feel tingling across her back, as the wretched limbs came oh so close to her. Then there was nothing, no sound, no light, only her and the trees. Fluttershy opened her eyes, the forest had completely surrounded her. It was so thick, that if not small beads of light shining through the only few cracks between the layers of limbs, it would have been pitch black. There were so many that sound could not penetrate the living walls. She screamed in fear, completely aware that nopony could hear her. Behind her stood a tree,even closer then all the other trees, and much larger too. It didn't move like the others, but was the cause of most of the worry in the young Pegasus' mind. Suddenly a strange, near describable feeling overcame her. The only things close would be; a bone deep tingling,or a dispersement of yourself into a much different object. It was more of the second one really, but whatever the feeling was, it wasn't good. Feeling it in her legs and flank, she tried to look back,but wasn't able to move under the trees. The feeling started to move up her body. a horrid realization came to her, she was being absorbed into the tree! Her flank and legs were gone. She started to struggle but quickly gave in. There was nothing she could do. Tears welled up in her eyes and she began to cry, not for herself, but for her squirrel friend. She knew that without the medicine he would die. She was squealing as her head began to be sucked in. In seconds, her eyes were gone. She squeaked out one last thing before being completely consumed.
"I'M SORRY!"
She was gone. The forest returned to the normal abnormality that it usually was. A somber wind whistled through the tangle of trees, silently whispering,
"Well Fluttershy, you always wanted to be a tree."