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// Reasons to stay out of Fluttershy's Shed 
// Story: Now, You Will Love Me! 
// by Lilcmoe 
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Chapter 4-Reason to Stay out of Fluttershy's shed.

I jump out of my chair as I see Discord immediately hugging the back wall. He curls up in a ball as he is crying and yelling like a mad pony.

"Discord, what is wrong?!" I said to try to calm him down, "did something scare you?" I ran to his cage and saw what scared him but nothing but a near-empty sack of meat I gave him this afternoon. It was nearly empty, and maybe Discord was yelling because he was still hungry. His screaming was becoming annoying since he wouldn't tell me what was wrong. So the only thing I have to do is feed him more. Yes, that is how to ease a trouble Discord; feed him.

"Discord! Stop screaming, or I give you a reason to scream." I ran to my shock remote and turned the dial to 15%, and pressed the button. He starts to squirm and uncurl himself before me and now crying for me to stop. Why does he cry in pain? It isn't that bad as he thinks.

I release the button, and the shocks cease along with his screaming as he twitches on the floor. He was still breathing, which was a relief from a high-level shock. I looked at the collar of his chain and saw it was cracking a little.

"Great," I said, knowing that the collar was cracking from the number of times I had to shock him.  If it breaks, Discord is free to do as he pleases and runs away with them again. I sighed, seeing him finally quiet down, but I could see tears still running. I want to be concerned, but I must figure out what causes Discord this much stress in the first place. I looked around the area he ran away from but saw nothing out of the ordinary. I looked back at Discord, who was still lying on the floor, crying silently.

"Discord, I am going back upstairs to bring you back some more of the meat I made for you; it won't take long." I turn to walk back upstairs as I hear him cry again. "I also need to replace that collar too. So much to do with so little time." I said to myself as I left the bunker and returned to my normal lonely cottage once more.

I look around and see the same dull paintings on the wall and the same floor and furniture. The bunker isn't any better but what made me want to stay there longer each day is because Discord was there. I made some fast pace improvements to the door and the security outside. What I always hate about this house the most is the silence; I hate it so much. I can't risk the animals that usually live here getting involved with me and Discord's honeymoon. No, I can't have them near Discord at all; I must focus on him and only him for the time being. I never knew he would be so difficult and make things complicated instead of accepting his love for me. I should commend my mother for staying with my father for so long.

I approach the door and embrace the bright-lit sun and the somewhat dried grass. I have been avoiding the outside world ever since I locked Discord in my bunker. The lawn itself is overgrown and has not been trimmed for some time now. It doesn't matter because when I and Discord's wedding begins, we will leave this dread of a household in paradise in his world. Meeting all-new kinds of creatures and I will be with my only love. The more I long for our dream to come true, the more hollow I feel inside; it makes me think about Discord's process of how he hadn't proposed to me yet. It has been nearly a month in half, and he still hasn't asked me to marry him yet. Something wrong with Discord or maybe.

"No, Fluttershy, don't think such thoughts." I shake my head to deny the possibility that Discord never loved me in the first place. "Lets, just give him more of the meat, then maybe we can talk about our future together," I said to motivate myself to keep going a little longer.

I walk behind my cottage, where my garden is, and grab my basket with a tarp inside to keep the blood from dripping from walking to my shed and back to my cold and lonely house.

"Damn, the parts I need to replace the collar first then go to the shed," I said to myself; I don't need to care anymore of saying such rude language for I have no animals at my cottage sense they all live at the Sanctuary. I went back inside and to the kitchen, grabbed the parts and a metal collar instead of leather, and headed outside to my secret shed.

I remember the rumors that ponies in Ponyville think I am some deadly psychopath who kills ponies and locks them up in my shed. No, it was thinking I torture my animals in my shed. Rumors were rumors due to me being kind and beautiful. They would think anything of me for being a shy pony that lives on the outskirts of town. Worse of all, they think I am some whore that buck with other stallions and mares. The shed rumor was most popular because the children were curious about my shed when they explored behind my cottage. Ponies are always mean, and it still wonders why Discord loves being around them instead of being around with me. I stopped halfway to the shed as I thought about it.

"Geez, after that whole Tree Hugger incident at the gala, he tried to open up to many ponies. It is my fault for going with her then. If I could go back in time, maybe Discord and I could be together right now. Instead of me having to keep him away from the world. His fault! Yes, if he confesses his feelings, I would not have to do things I did. No, it was Spike and Big Mac's fault! Those are the two I despise the most, and I told them just to keep him company and not get too close. What did those morons do? They became some geek squad buddies! Not anymore; I will get Discord back since there is no Tirek, The Insect Bitch, Storm King, and that brat could get me distracted from spending time with my love. Never again." 

I scratch my hair with my hoof and notice some of my hair fell out. I look at it and realize I have been stressed out for a month now. Discord has been giving me anxiety since I keep Discord locked up in a cage. It will all be worth it. Discord is now mine, and Spike, Twilight, or anyone else he considers a friend won't have him. Not even Trixie, gosh I hate her the most.

"You called?" I stood there as the familiar voice rang through my ears.

"Just ignore her Flutters; she isn't there," I said to myself as the apparition still lingers behind me.

"How the great-and powerful Element of Kindness is falling in despair, or is it madness." The apparition says as she continues to boast. "How does it feel to start losing the sanity you have left? How does it feel to kill for the second time? Discord sure is proud of you now, killing two ponies with your hooves for the sake of love."

I chuckle at the apparition from her comment. "Then you two should never be in our way, to begin with, and maybe you could witness something more beautiful than friendship."

"Even now, you are still in denial. What will it take for you to think that you are hurting him instead of loving him? Just like you hurt me in the alleyway. You know when you bash my brains out with a brick!" She said while I was staring at her with an open wound beside her crack horn. And a nearly beaten face that is hard to recognize this apparition used to be Starlight's best friend.

"I am not hurting my Dissy; I am guiding him to see the truth. I said coldly at her. "Besides, you should be rooting for me to take the initiative anyways, for I am no longer that weak shy Pegasus anymore. I get what I want, and that is Discord, now if you don't have anything else to say." I close my eyes and open them back, and all I see is a tree again. I sigh and pick up the basket with the parts, and continue to the shed.

I finally made it to my medium-sized tool shed when I had the animals living here before the Sancturay; there is no use for it anymore. Until last night that is. I took a deep breath and unlocked the latch doors. I hear the creaking noise in the door hinges. I slowly pull it open. The rotting smell isn't firm yet, and I have about a week to get all of it away, or ponies who might be guests could smell the odor from here. 

I look at the corpse for a while and walk inside and give it a small smile and turn on the lights to reveal a stallion whose intestines were still dangling off from the edge of the table. His eyes were cold and empty as his mouth was still agape. I was whole and alive, and the stallion was roughly cut in half, and he was dead. He was silent as I was trying to hold back laughter. 

"Well, good morning Brother, you enjoy your sleep?" He was silent due to death caught in his throat. I give a sinister chuckle as I continue to have a conversation with a corpse. "Please, dear brother, don't speak for you lose your tongue. I know the shed wasn't warm to your liking, but it doesn't matter, for when I slit your stomach open, I knew you felt the heat coming from your inside."

I approach the table where my decapitated brother lies as I place the basket beside and walk and turn on my workbench lamp to see a little better around my surroundings.

"By the way, brother, this is my tool shed. I keep gardening tools and other tools for my house. A little secret, brother, I repair this house from the ground up. It used to be owned by farm ponies who had remote gambling and a drug operation underneath the cottage, and this shed was for storing such drugs. No, Zephyr, I don't use drugs well...sometimes, when I am stressed out, I normally don't take it. When Twilight came into my life, I started to quit completely. Then Discord, you know my husband gives me an exciting drug, a more powerful and addicting drug. Love, I can't stop having this drug, Zephy his love just drives me insane, and I feel nothing but happiness."

I looked at the corpse, which didn't look like it was interested in what I had to say. For I am well aware I killed my brother, but Zephyr interfered with my special night with Discord, and he dared to barge into my house and sleep in a bed without my say so. This was the punishment he deserved, and Equestria and my parents would feel ten times happier that I finally squashed the insect. The Element of Kindness did it all by herself, without depending on my friends. Trixie said that I am great and powerful, and all ponies will fear me and Discord for the rest of their lives.

"Oh, how rude of me, Zephyr, I didn't hear you; what did you say?" I was waiting for some form of a response, but he was dead. "Oh, brother, you are so rude at times but don't worry, I am just here to take some of your guts and muscles again," I said with a smile on my face that will make other ponies flinch.

I grabbed the saw as I was starting to laugh and stand over my brother's body as I began to feel an itch on my neck. It was the same itch from yesterday and before I killed Trixie; I scratched my neck where it was bleeding a little, not enough to be fatal. Just enough to leave a deep scratch mark.

"Okay, brother, well it is time to cut your legs and testicles apart so I can make some meatballs for Dissy, oh and he loves how you taste too. He is the reason why I am here right now, just to get some more." I said as I started to laugh as I began cutting and breaking the leg bones and the second harvest round.

After I got what I needed from my grotesque of a brother, I was filling a bucket of water where I heard two familiar voices that weren't coming from my mind.

"Hey, Fluttershy! How have things been doing?! Said the raspy mare voice.

"Rainbow, don't try to startle the poor thing, hey there sugar cube?" Said the orange mare with a cowboy hat. 

"Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash?" I said confusingly and shocked that they chose the worst time to visit as I stood there with a bucket full of water. "W-w-w-w-What are you two doing here? 

"We came to see you, duh." Said Rainbow Dash sarcastically.

"Don't mind her Flutters, we hadn't seen you for a month, and Rarity wouldn't quit complaining about how non of us try to see what is going on." Apple Jack said.

"I told them that you were just busy at the Sanctuary with the animals for hibernation, but no one listen to Rainbow Dash." She said as she crossed her arms while flying mid-air.

"Girls, I am fine, really, and I need to go back inside to finish cooking. I said it to cut the conversation short, but I was too careless for Apple Jack caught my neck wound earlier. So I'll see you later."

"Fluttershy, what happens to your neck? She said as she walked up to me and moved my hair and neck to expose the flesh wound I had done to myself. "Sweet Apples, come on, Fluttershy, let's get you all patched up. Rainbow can get her buck-

"No problem, AJ, one bucket full water ready to be drop off." Rainbow Dash flew inside my house. I tried to run after her hoping she didn't see the hatch to Discord lair, but Apple Jack was holding my hoof.

"Relax, Sugar Cube, let us get you first aid, and then we can catch up and cook together, okay. She guided me to my house as my blood was boiling and freezing, for if my friends see the mush meat or Discord, I am done for. However, ponies keep thinking that it is fantastic to barge into my house without my permission. 

We all enter my house as Apple Jack guides me to my couch as Rainbow looks at some odd things out of place. At least they are not going into the kitchen, which I am joyful for she didn’t go straight into the kitchen. I want them to leave. I scratch at my head as my hair is falling out, as a rush of anxiety comes back again. I hope that Apple Jack doesn't go to the kitchen because she will suspect something is off and seeing the cut-up meat and stains of blood on the countertops. I had to distract them until I ensured that anything connected to being a kidnapper and a murderer was gone.

"AJ! I said aloud but did a slight cough to control my tone of voice. "AJ, how about you go get the bandages from upstairs as I make us some tea, okay."

She just nods and heads upstairs, retrieving the bandages. As I noticed, Rainbow Dash was looking at me weirdly.

"You okay, Flutters?" She said to me like I was very uncomfortable and itching to move. "You seem like something is watching you or something.?"

"Rainbow, I just can't stay in one place right now. Let me go and make some-”

"Where are your animals and Angel Bunny?! It seems so quiet here now?" Rainbow interrupted me as she continued with her so-called investigation of my home.

I have to explain my situation without her going to the kitchen or prying about my personal love life. "They are at the Sanctuary, for the time being, that is all. Let me play some music for you, so you don't get bored." I head to the Funky Radio Box that Dissy Dear gave me on my birthday so we can play literal funky music that is not pleasing to any ponies' ears or will cause Vinyl Scratch to commit suicide just by hearing it. I still have the nature soundtracks that I can play when it is me and personal meditation time. Something I stop doing when I finally have my lover in the other room.

I grab a random nature vinyl disc and play it, which was wind meadow breeze, which I played, and it did calm my nerves but still seeing Rainbow Dash not relaxing one bit still gets me to unedge.

"Rainbow, you could sit on the chair if you like. I will get some tea," I said as I started walking into the kitchen.

"Sure, and can I have some cookies if you got some? I didn't eat anything nearly all day. You know training and stuff." She said with a slight grin on her face.

I nod and walk into the kitchen, and once I open my curtain to the room before me, I clench my teeth and frustration. I sigh into my hooves as now I have two ponies in my house and ruining my perfect day with Discord. I ignore the fact and just have to play it cool. I grab the kettle, start boiling some water and search the cupboards to see if I have any of those iced cookies that I can share with my uninvited guest.

It took about ten minutes for the kettle to be ready as I was rushing to get the meat into my refrigerator to keep it fresh and wipe up any blood on the cutting board or the counter. I do not have experience when it comes to covering my tracks, but I had seen some murder movies and read a lot of case files before I enacted my plans on capturing Discord. Still, if they do enter this kitchen, they would see evidence of murder here or there. As long I keep them away from this room, then I should be okay. After cleaning the bloodstains and moving the meat into the fridge, I bleach my hooves to remove any leftover stains. Then I grab the kettle and some teacups and sugar (what is left, that is) and head back to the living room, where I see Rainbow dozing in and out on the couch. I forgot how easily bored Rainbow could be, and with the nature music playing, I figure she will take a nap on my couch without permission.

"Rainbow Dash," I said as she jumped up and saw me with the tray of sugar cookies with the tea set. I pointed with my wings to a medium table that was dusty and older than my last one. "Move that table for me, please, so we can reach the cookies together."

Apple Jack finally came back downstairs with a box of bandages in hoof as she saw me struggling a little with placing the stuff down.

"Let me get that for you, Fluttershy." Apple Jack said as she places the box of bandages and grabs the kettle and the plates of cookies on the table.

"Thanks," I reply, covering my face once again, acting shy with my friends. "Um, when did you guys decide to start worrying about me? If you girls don't mind me asking." I was generally curious because it was nearly a month and a half, and I hadn't seen any of my friends trying to come to my place to check up on me.

"What are you talking about, Flutters!" Rainbow spoke first like she was offended. "We were trying to reach you for weeks. We try sending you letters, but you never reply!" She huffed as she finished her statement.

"Rainbow is right, Sugar Cube; we sent you a letter, and Pinkie tried knocking on your door, but you never answered, and well some of your animals keep coming to my farm as well." Apple Jack finished as she grabbed a cup of tea and took a sip.

"Oh…right, I guess I was busy with housework, and they probably were worried sick about me since I wasn't at the Sanctuary for a while," I said, acting I wasn't aware how worried my animals were about me. 

Still, the truth is they were trying to ask for help to stop me from spending time with Discord. Thank Celestia, for I am the only pony that can communicate with animals and maybe other creatures. Still, the animals are drawing attention and making me waste more time away from Discord.

I just push that aside and pour myself some tea and just enjoy some quality time with Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash for the time being. As I listened to Rainbow Dash's stories of the Wonderbolts, AJ tended to the scratches on my neck. She was so tired of hearing Dash's stories as she was ignoring them.

"Wow, Rainbow," I said as I fully engaged in the stories that I miss for a good month and a half. "Guess the new nickname of Crash should go to Thunderlane now, huh?”

"Nope, that title is for me to bear and bear alone. Although now I won't ever let that go for a long time." She started to laugh. I join in the fun with a slight chuckle as AJ finish with the wounds.

"Hey Fluttershy, you want to see something fun?" Apple Jack said as she gave a mischievous smile at the laughing Rainbow, not noticing her devious scheme. "It is something important that you want to hear."

My curiosity intrigues me as I start to love a little mischief sense I have been spending time with my husband Discord. Seem like Discord gave me something that my friends could never provide me in my lifetime, which is excitement from my shy-mundane life. So I nodded with anticipation, and she smiled and looked at Rainbow Dash and cleared her voice as she was going to make a public announcement.

"Rainbow Dash!" She said to get Dash's attention but still couldn't stop laughing at the story she told me.

"hahaha….w-what AJ?" She was chuckling as she finally sat back down on the couch.

"How is your flank felt after your workout session with Sorin yesterday." Rainbow spits out her drink as her wings flared up, and her head became a whole cherry from pure embarrassment. I started to laugh to see her head become like a cherry.

"N-n-not cool AJ, you promise me you won't say that around with our friends!" She said she was trying to be angry at AJ but was embarrassed out of her mind.

I stop laughing and look at Apple Jack to explain why Rainbow is so embarrassed and what she means by flank exercise. "AJ, please, I need to know the details of this story. Does Rarity know?

Apple Jack chuckles a little bit, "oh, she knows, alright. Sweetie Belle was the first mare to tell her about this outcome. Now I shall tell you Fluttershy."

"Don’t you bucking dare Apple Jack!” Rainbow Dash was still trying to threaten Apple Jack for telling her the story. Rainbow ran to my radio and put the volume on high so that I couldn’t hear the story, but I was still laughing at seeing how she tried so hard to hush AJ up. “Whatever she says to you, Fluttershy, it isn’t true!”

“Okay, Rainbow, I won’t tell what happened! Apple Jack had to scream because it was really loud. Turn the music down!”

“What!” Rainbow shouted louder due to they couldn’t hear each other anymore.

I roll my eyes, knowing all too well where this is going to lead, and my ears are going to bleed shortly after this, so I fly to the radio and just turn it off as it is finally silent again. I chuckle at the two as they don’t notice. I turn off the radio as they are now still screaming at each other. Soon they realize, and then they join in the laughter. What I didn’t expect from my loving friends was Apple Jack change the mood from something I will cherish to something I would dread for the rest of my life.

“So Fluttershy, you know what happened to Discord as of late?” AJ said with a smile on her face as she didn’t know. I was shocked at the news myself.

“W-w-w-w-what do you mean by that AJ?” I try to act confused as slowly I begin to sweat a little. I was stunned that they care about Discord like that, but I tried to deflate the question right there and then. “Y-You know Discord is….Discord he is probably causing chaos at his home instead or in a different dimension that is all.”

I notice them stop laughing and now looking at me strangely. Was this a setup to let my guard down? No, it can’t be. I am sure my friends don’t care about Discord like that, do they? No, it can’t be like that at all. Then why is Apple Jack of all ponies asking about the whereabouts of my Dissy? At least she…no, she doesn’t love Discord too, not like that witch Trixie; why did she ask? These questions start to run rampant in my brain, but I try to remain calm and hope that my answer was the best to veer them off course about my Discord.

“Well, you see, Flutters, Big Mac, and Spike been looking for him some time ago because he never misses his O&O sessions with them. Apple Jack explain her reasoning to me and at the moment I heard those two names from her mouth. I know my rage is going to boil; those two are always in my way and here they are trying to separate me from Discord again. Big Mac wanted me to ask you since we were coming to visit you anyhow.”

“Forget them, Apple Jack. Discord doesn’t need them anymore.” I said coldly that made Rainbow raises her eyebrow in bewilderment. 

“Fluttershy-“ Apple Jack was about to argue, but I cut her off.

“You guys don’t care about Discord, so why now be wondering about where he is, huh?” I said sternly at my friends as if I only saw that bratty dragon and that whore stallion in front of me instead. 

“You two just like his power giving awesome experience because you two are boring ponies! You don’t care about him, and you two just keep on taking him from ME! No! I don’t know where he is, and if I do, I am not going to let you have him again, Big Mac! He is mine! I reformed him! I was the one to ask you guys to befriend him! I am the only mare that understands him! I am the one that loves him! So, keep your dirty hooves and claws away from my DISCORD!!!!” 

I yelled at Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash as I talked to Spike and Big Mac, but when I blinked, I realized I said way too much than I needed to.

Rainbow Dash finally was able to move her jaw again and spit out some words to me. “Who is the Whore Stallion?”

I stood there, frozen realize what I just blurted out, and I just had the impulse to run upstairs to my bathroom and stay there until I died. I heard Apple Jack calling my name, but I didn’t want to stop nor wish to engage in a conversation with her. They won’t understand my feelings and the pain in my heart. Trixie, Spike, Big Mac, and my friends don’t honestly know how they hurt us so, how they hurt me for keeping my lover away from me. It is just too much, and the magic of friendship is no remedy to this. It is all about Discord, he needs to cure me of this disease, and he can only do that if he is away from these distractions. Still, I cry and cry for him to save me, but he just ignores me. I ran into the bathroom, and moments later, I heard knocking on the door and Apple Jack's voice trying to tell me to come out so we could talk. 

“Fluttershy, please open the door; I just want to talk to you, that is all. We are friends, and Rainbow and I could help you.” She repeated it as she knocked on the door.

“GO AWAY!” I yell through the door. “Apple Jack, I just want to be left alone! I Just want to be with Discord alone! Go Away!” I started to cry as I heard more words, but I was too much into my emotions to listen to what was said on the door's other side.

“AJ! Come here quick! Rainbow yelled to call for Apple Jack as I was not caring but just crying in my bathroom.

I started to hear hoof steps away from the bathroom and heading towards the stairs. I can only guess that Apple Jack gave up and reunited with Rainbow Dash and left my home. After a good few minutes, I finally stopped crying and lay on my bathroom floor staring at the ceiling and finally looking at the clock. It was only 4:45 pm, I usually have dinner made for me in this deary house alone and cook a portion of the food for Discord, I also remember I have to make up our date. It was so much to do and so many things happen that I just want to sleep in the bathroom for today but Discord is my first and only priority.

I got up and opened the door and saw the hallway was indeed empty. I headed downstairs and saw it empty with no sign of the cyan Pegasus and the orange Earth pony. Yes, my friends did leave, and I immediately locked the door, locked the two latches, and shut my blinds. Then I finally sigh, turn around, grab the tea set and cups, and head to the kitchen. I walk towards the sink and begin running the water to wash my cups as I notice my hair is messy. 

It had split ends and is no longer groom to Rarity’s perfection, but I didn’t care because Discord just loves my hair sloppy anyways. As I look outside to see the dense forest and my shed, I see the kitchen reflection through the window. Something was off; something was in the reflection of the window that it shouldn’t be there.

When I get a close look, I see a shadowy figure with Emerald green eyes staring back at me; its eyes glow, and I immediately panic and turn around and see it has gone, but in its place was my stove. I took a deep breath to calm my nerves as that strange, hooded figure was gone again, but I looked back at my stove. My stove never is behind the window’s reflection. My eyes shrink as I realize someone or that hooded figure moves my stove. I steadily look at the stove's original spot and where the hatch is to Discord’s new room and see it open. My heart stops, for I know I closed and moved the stove back into position after I finished making tea earlier today. Or, did Discord escape while I was upstairs. No, it can’t be right. I know I installed sensors in his cage in case he did break free. So why is it open?

My eyes widened as I finally put the pieces together that Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash went into my kitchen and discovered the hatch. Now they are downstairs. I begin to panic, and soon my rage boiling, and I have to hurry before they figure out how to set Discord free. I looked at one of my wooden chairs, broke its leg, and was ready to use it as a club.

“Don’t worry, love I protect you from the intruders, and then we can finally be together alone in our chaotic world,” I said as I dash down there as I see the rainbow color tail downstairs and made a be-line to her and at that moment my rage took control, and all I see is red. "STAY AWAY FROM MY DISCORD!!!!!" I scream after I made it downstairs and took a giant swing across Rainbow's head. 

All I know is I heard a cracking sound and a loud thud noise hitting Discord cell.

“RAINBOW!!!”

End of Chapter 4