//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: |Fluttershy| Ponies Have Forgotten Kindness // Story: No Warm Soul // by WolfOblivion //------------------------------// No Warm Soul “And what has happened to this land? Should we be concerned of that as well?!” Chapter 2: |Fluttershy| Ponies Have Forgotten Kindness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fluttershy looked as Rainbow Dash uttered a few words she missed by a second, but gave a weak smile as a response to her. She winced as the door closed shut behind her friends, leaving her alone with the intimidating Mayor. Pawing at the ground with her right fore hoof, she becoming anxious of the silence that was prospering in the room. Fluttershy looked up a little to the Mayor, who was digging around in her desk, and turned up with three files slamming them on her desk forcefully. The Mayor adjusted her glasses and opened the file on the top. Clicking her tongue as she read whatever was present inside. Fluttershy began to do her new inhabited tics, cradling her hair in her legs. She waited a few moments longer before the Mayor spoke at last. “Three ponies, two earths and one unicorn. Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity. Fluttershy I believe that while we were evacuating, they were not on the list. Why were the element bearers not on the list Fluttershy?” The Mayor said, giving an intimidating stare at Fluttershy, making her cower under her hair. She cleared her throat softly before answering. “Umm, I only know why Rarity left, Rainbow knows why Applejack left, and Twilight knows why Pinkie did. On the day of the evacuation, we were all split up at first, and then amongst the chaos, we saw the others. The others decided to tell us individually why they weren’t coming and…” Fluttershy fought the melancholy raising in her chest. “Before we left, we all reminisced and went our separate ways.” the pegasus answered, becoming sad to remember the evacuation day. The Mayor nodded. “Care to tell me what Rarity said?” “Umm, okay.” Fluttershy said, beginning to articulate her story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fluttershy felt exposed and fearful inside of the increasingly large crowd she was now stuck in. The looming facility stood high above all the ponies on the ground, casting a shadow on the land. Snow was lightly falling for the second day, right after the finished construction and testing of the Ponyville facility. Canterlot was now being heavily coated in snow, with Manehattan and Fillydelphia already completely snowed in. All of the Pegasi worked day and night to delay the oncoming snowing, but all of the weather acted on its own, proving the weather team useless to stop the problem. Fluttershy tried to tone out all of the noises the ponies were making, some crying, and some saying goodbye. The yellow mare sat down in her own line, looking back at the town she fell in love with since she was a filly. Sitting in the back, Fluttershy felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see a saddened Rarity standing before her. “Oh hello Rarity, is this your line too?” Fluttershy asked with a smile and a tilt of her head. Rarity sniffed before answering. “No Fluttershy I...I don’t have a line….” Rarity said, sniffing again. Fluttershy stared at Rarity. “What do you mean? How will you get inside?” She asked, her speaking becoming faster. “I’m not coming inside of the facility dear.” Rarity said with a shaky sigh. “I can’t bear to go in there. With my parents just passing away and the recent fight I had with Sweetie…” Rarity trailed off with a huff. “Fancy proposed to me yesterday Fluttershy.” Rarity finished. Fluttershy let her mouth space open. “He did. That’s great!” Fluttershy couldn’t hold her excitement for her friend, but failing to cap her depression over her close friend not coming with her. “Yes. I’m…going to canterlot. They’re still allowing ponies to enter their facility, and Fancy Pants is in Ponyville waiting for me.” Rarity said, looking back up to Fluttershy with a weak smile lighting her face. “But we won’t be completely away from each other dear. We still have the communication systems in the facilities, and we can all talk to each other.” Rarity said, becoming a little bit happier with her own revelation. Fluttershy nodded and closed her mouth. “You’re right. We still can talk to each other.” Fluttershy and Rarity both snapped their heads up as the heard a loud whistle to the far right. They looked through the mass of ponies to see their friends all sitting there. Pinkie’s hair was down, but had a smile on her face. Applejack had her hat off, and was sitting down. Rainbow was waving her hoof to Rarity and Fluttershy, signaling them to come towards them. Fluttershy stood back up. “Let’s go Rarity.” The pegasus said said, smiling at Rarity with a new found confidence sparkling in her eyes. Rarity smiled back, and both mares turned to walk together towards their group of friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fluttershy stared at the ground as she finished her story. “So she didn’t come really because she was getting married. But, I think…” She paused to look up at the listening Mayor. “I think there was another reason why she didn’t come with us.” pondered on the fact often, but found no real incriminating blame as to why her friend wouldn’t come with them other than love. The Mayor nodded, crossing out something’s on her papers. “Well, now I know why she didn’t come. It’s all confusing really. We were never given any notice from them, they were all registered citizens of Ponyville, but we were never told yes or no from their arrivals. You sure you know nothing of your other friends?” The Mayor asked Fluttershy, raising an eyebrow. “Oh no ma’am. They all explained to the entire group that they weren’t coming with us. But they all individually told us why. Pinkie wanted hers a secret I was told by Twilight, and Rainbow Dash just got really sad every time I’d bring it up. I was the only one who seemed to have good news from my encounter.” Fluttershy finished. The mayor opened her mouth to speak, but was immediately interrupted by a stallion busting through the door. It was the same brown stallion from earlier. “Mayor. The water purifier has been broken.” The stallion said gravely, then letting his eyes go round as he spotted Fluttershy sitting there. “Oh um… sorry.” The stallion awkwardly apologized on his intrusion. “WHAT!?” The Mayor showed no care over his intruding before his news of the water purifier being broken. The stallion snapped his head back to the Mayor, beginning to be fearful of the Mayor. He swallowed before continuing. “Um, yeah. The chip that was used to filter the waste has snapped in half, and we have no means to repair it because of it complexity of parts and fried wires.” The stallion explained, using his hooves in his speech. The Mayor slumped back into her seat. She put both of her hooves into her face as she groaned. “This day…it’s just gone from bad to worse in a second.” The stallion looked side to side awkwardly before ducking out of the room and silently closing the door behind him. Fluttershy looked at the Mayor, distressed and broken. All confidence seemed to have drained from her aged able mind, both legs on the table and both hooves to her face. Fluttershy’s ears snapped as she heard a buzzing coming from the desk. She eyed the noisy walkie-talkie as Twilight began to spoke. “Mayor, we have repaired the panel and we are now head-” Twilights voice cut out from the communicator with a beep. The Mayor let her hooves down and looked at the walkie-talkie, expecting the finish of the report. Fluttershy plainly looked at the clock above her, self aware of how quiet she was being. Twenty minutes passed, and Twilight still did not respond. The Mayor sighed, picked the communicator up and paused. Waiting a few more moments, she clicked the button on the side. “Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash, come back here now, we have a big problem.” The Mayor said with force, releasing the button and slamming the walkie-talkie on the desk. Fluttershy shrank back from the angry mare, not wanting her to turn on her. Fluttershy sat silent beside Twilight, the three ponies lined up together. Fluttershy kept her mouth shut as the Mayor explained the predicament, the questioning, and the rising despair of having no solution. Fluttershy kept to her thoughts through all of this, not really thinking of anything. Only looking up at the ridiculous proposition of Twilight to go search for a new water chip. In the end, Fluttershy was walking behind her two friends as they walked the hallways to their apartment. The living quarters were extremely quiet, the barred contrast of ponies usually walking about. But now, everypony was inside of their homes, questioning the events of the day. The three ponies walked in to find Sweetie Belle awake and eating ice cream. Twilight huffed. “You got drunk, came home passed out, and then decide to eat the entire tub of ice cream?” Twilight asked walking up to her. “Oh uh, sorry, it was…” Sweetie paused for a second, having difficulty processing her memories. “I know, Scootaloo’s 19th birthday. Now go on to bed, we’re having a talk with you two tomorrow.” Sweetie belle moaned, dropping her spoon into the ice cream. Twilight shot her hoof out, making Sweetie grunt as she slid out of the seat and onto all four hooves. She slumped to Apple Bloom’s room as she put the ice cream away, shutting the door behind her. Twilight shook her head at the grumpy unicorn. Twilight stood back up, walking towards her room and wishing her two friends a good night. Fluttershy looked at the clock on the wall above the couch, reading eleven at night, Fluttershy realizing how tired she was becoming. Hungry too. I didn’t get to finish my dinner. Fluttershy sat down when Rainbow Dash walked to her room, and started following her subconsciously not even stopping to think about it. Rainbow sat down on her bed, and looked up at the sleepy Fluttershy. She sighed as she looked down. “I was…I was going to tell Twilight today.” Rainbow Dash said, Fluttershy pushing away her sleepiness when Rainbow Dash spoke. “We have to tell her sometime.” Fluttershy said, looking at Rainbow Dash expectantly. “Yeah I know,” Rainbow Dash paused as she rubbed her temples. “but when the rumbling started, and everything kept going on like that, there was no real time to tell her. I don’t think there will be for awhile, what with now we have to go out onto the barren surface.” Rainbow Dash slid off of her bed and walked to her dresser. Picking up her element bracelet, she stared at it for awhile. When will be the right time? Fluttershy asked herself. Rainbow Dash placed her element back on the dresser. Rainbow Dash walked back to the head of her bed, climbing into the sheets. “You coming with me Fluttershy, or you gonna sleep in your room tonight?” Fluttershy, looking up at Fluttershy from her laying position. Fluttershy physically started, brushing her tail hard against the wall and blushing. “Oh well, umm…” Fluttershy gulped, and nodded to respond. Fluttershy walked slowly to the other side of the bed, and climbed into the cold covers. Rainbow twisted around to turn the light off, leaving the door ajar for a little light, and turned back to face Fluttershy. She looked at the blushing yellow Pegasus, and smiled. “Good night Shy.” Rainbow Dash whispered. “Good night.” Fluttershy whispered back. And in moments, both mares were sound asleep, facing each other and smiling small smiles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fluttershy heard rustling through her slugged senses, and light trying to pry into her eyes. Opening her eyes a little, she almost flew off the bed when she saw Rainbow only inches from her face. Her heart beat racing, she slowed her breath to calm it down. Sighing on the inside, Fluttershy observed her surroundings. The rooms light were still off, but the living room shined defiantly through the door. Fluttershy looked down to the smiling cyan mare before her, and slowly backed out of the beds sheets. Fluttershy now out of the bed, poked at Rainbow Dash. Almost instantly, Rainbows eyes struggled open. She looked at the expressionless Fluttershy, and then down at herself. “Did we..uh…” Rainbow Dash let the sentence trail off with a grunt. Fluttershy giggled at her friend’s awkwardness, rather than her own. “No Rainbow. Not that I know of.” Rainbow Dash nodded to her response. Fluttershy left the mare to clamber out of bed to open the door. She saw a pained Apple Bloom next to a sleepy Sweetie Belle. Twilight was in the kitchen, piling some food into a bag. Fluttershy walked quietly around the two hung over mares to Twilight, making her turn around from her gathering. “Already packing Twilight?” Fluttershy asked, staring into the large bag of food. Mostly grains and cans of salted vegetables. Twilight nodded, setting the bag down. “Yes Fluttershy, it’s already nine O’ clock. I’ve called a substitute for your class, my class, and Rainbow Dashes coaching, and I am sending Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom to Scootaloo’s.” Twilight listed out her already done activities. Fluttershy raised her eyebrow to Twilights lack of trust in their foster children. Twilight sighed. “Scootaloo has been alone by herself for years; she knows how to handle herself.” Twilight explained, Fluttershy still looking doubtful. Twilight gave her a look. “Fine, I’m also having Bon Bon keep an eye on them. All three of them are partiers, and I need a settled mare to look out for them.” Fluttershy nodded with a smile, and turned around as she heard Rainbows door close. Rainbow Dash flew over to the two looking mares, and settled down to talk. Twilight spoke first. “Alright, so we all tell the girls that were going on a mission from the Mayor, we will be gone for a long time, and that they will be living at Scootaloo’s house for the time being. Got it?” Twilight asked her friends. Rainbow Dash gave a yawn and a slight nod, while Fluttershy gave Twilight a hum. Twilight turned around and picked her saddlebag back up, walking forward and out of the kitchen. “You guys should get your saddle bags, and pack lightly, we don’t want to be encumbered by weight. I’ll get started telling the girls.” Twilight finished as she turned the wall into the living room. Fluttershy went first into her room, quickly taking her saddlebag, her element, and a picture of all her five friends. Fluttershy stared at the picture, remembering the days before the snowing started. I know Rarity is still in canterlot, but what about Pinkie and Applejack? Where have they gone? On evacuation day, Applejack and Rarity went back to Ponyville, and Pinkie walked there as well. But from our conversations, Rarity told me Pinkie Pie went farther north, and Applejack went south of Ponyville into the badlands. Fluttershy almost dropped her picture as a loud knock came from her door. A now awake Rainbow Dash dressed with a saddle was standing in the doorway. “Come on shy, we’re going now.” Rainbow told Fluttershy in a morose tone. Fluttershy looked back to the picture full of smiling ponies, and quickly pocketed it away to climb to her hooves. She walked out behind Rainbow Dash to see Apple Bloom and Sweetie heading towards the door. They walked out with Twilight following close, Rainbow dash going ahead to walk out too. Fluttershy stopped half way across the living room to look around her house. The light carpeting surrounded by the grey walls made it all seem to dry for a true house. Nothing had warmth too it, almost like the coldness was being directly vented into the facility. Fluttershy huffed out of her nose, turning back to walked out of the apartment, shutting the lights off on her way out. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle said their goodbyes as they walked down the hall to Scootaloo’s apartment, the three ponies watching them go. Twilight stood up, and turned on the other side of the hallway. “Next stop, infirmary.” Rainbow and Fluttershy both got up to follow the purple mare, walking down the still silent hall way. The three mares were strapped to operating tables, all lined up parallel. They had walked into the infirmary, instantly being kept into the operating room by orders of the Mayor. A stallion with a brown coat and black hair walked into the room, turning to the ponies to explain the reasoning behind the operating room. “We have been told that you two were implanted with awareness chips, am I right?” The doctor asked Twilight and Rainbow Dash. They nodded in response. The doctor nodded back. “Yes so, this is similar. Except we are going to implant it into your brain.” All three ponies went wide eyed as the doctor finished. “What?” Fluttershy asked with a whispered fear. The doctor put both his hooves up in defense. “Calm down you three, this is a very basic procedure. The chip will be planted into the part of the brain were you are able to sense things. Like your feelings, your hunger, and things similar to that. This chip will warn you of hydration levels, nutrition levels, and temperature. These will all be necessary to your mission, being prolonged to such hostile environments will harm your bodies in many more ways than one, and this will detect each one. Now, we will be putting you to sleep for the procedure, so just try to relax once we get started.” The doctor finished, two nurses walking into the room with three miniscule tanks. All three were hooked up to the mares, pulling in the funny tasting gas their lungs. Fluttershy felt her eyes get heavy, and her body starting to shut down. She heard the doctor instructing to relax, and Fluttershy gave in to the powerful urge to sleep. Falling into a black abyss, Fluttershy lost all sense of light as she passed out. Fluttershy awoke to a painful world. Her head was pounding like a drum, and her forehead felt like it was stretched out like taffy. Opening her eyes, she found she was lying on a cot inside of a brightly lit room, Rainbow Dash sitting up and talking to a nurse. Twilight stood next to Rainbow Dash, but was more focused on a small brown bottle. Fluttershy sat up with a struggle, grunting as the pain coursed harder through her. Rainbow Dash turned her head away from the nurse at the sounds of Fluttershy sitting up, and walked over to her. “Head hurts a lot doesn’t it?” Rainbow Dash asked with a mocking smile. “Mmmhmm.” Fluttershy hummed in response while rubbing her head. “Yeah well, that pill bottle Twilight is holding makes it go away, so go take some.” Fluttershy looked at the pill bottle hungrily, and sild slowly out of her bed to Twilight. Twilight turned it over, inspecting the label. Fluttershy reached the inquisitive unicorn. “Um, can I have some of those?” Fluttershy asked quietly. Twilight stopped combing the bottle and looked at Fluttershy. “Oh, yeah sorry.” Twilight handed two pills to Fluttershy, whom swallowed both in an instant. Fluttershy sat for a minute, feeling odd. She realized after a few moments that the pressure on her head was loosening, until all the pain finally went away. Fluttershy instantly swung into a better mood, questioning in the back of her mind why she seemed to be happier than usual, but in the front not caring in the least. Twilight stared at Fluttershy in her doped state, showing a little amusement. “They’re pain killers, they make you go all loopy in the head.” Fluttershy nodded sloppily to Twilights explanation. “Well go get your saddles girls, the doctor is going to see us out.” Twilight stood up with her saddlebags already on, and pocketed the bottle inside of the pouch. When both pegasi situated their bags, then doctor walked in, looking bemused. “Well all three operations went swimmingly, and now you all have a sixth sense. If you focus on your body, you are able to gauge your levels of hunger, hydration, and temperature accurately. Fluttershy looked down at her hooves as she concentrated. Hydration: 60%. Hunger: 75% full. Temperature: 97.3. “Shouldn’t we be able to tell this stuff to ourselves without technology?” Rainbow Dash chimed up, making all the ponies in the room look at her. The doctor chuckled at her outburst. “You can only tell these things on a certain blind level of awareness. With the chip, you are able to pin point it on a decimal point, making it able for you to be a lot more proficient with your health. It also acts as a warning system as I’ve said. It works like your pain sensors, except with your entire health system. However, we do not know the full extent the chip can have on your brain; we still don’t know much about the brain. So it would be best if you take it slow and steady with your new addition. Augmentation can be dangerous.” The doctor finally finished his rebuttal speech. The doctor turned to the door, and waved his hoof back to signify a pony to come in. The three mares as the same three nurses from before walked into the room, all levitating a bundle of clothes for each mare. “These will be situated to you for a fast and light travel, and will also keep you warm. You are being given light cloths that insolate you body heat for your bodies.” The doctor explained as the trios were situated with a smoke black flannel type of body dress. It covered them from the beginning of the neck, stretching all the way to their flanks and down the legs. “Next is a head wrap that will keep the heat from escaping your scalp, and a scarf to mouth wrap to keep your snout from freezing up if you are caught in a blizzard.” The nurses wrapped the cloth around their heads, down the back of the neck, and kept it at the bottom of the neck. Twilight shifted around in the covering clothes, seeming to look uncomfortable. “Isn’t this all a little fast? I mean, we technically had brain surgery, woke up, getting situated in clothes, and then we will be shipped outside right after this?” Twilight asked, doubtful of the operation. “Well you did pack your own food, showing you were going to go today. But aside from that, the Mayor has given strict orders to put you on a rush to begin. It’s all a matter of time she said, so we have to get started as fast as we can.” The doctor looked at a clip board on the desk to his left. “It’s said that we only have two months of purified water if it is rationed out in a withheld manner, and we will all likely suffering from dehydration. All in all, we need you to hurry to the objective.” The doctor put the clip board back. “So this is the end of the line girls, next stop is the lift.” The three friends got up and walked out of the door single file, out of the infirmary and into the hall. Like every hall they have walked through so far for the past two days was quiet and had little to no life. The only noises were the clops of the three ponies hooves. All were silent through the trek of getting to the surface lift, taking them to a icy wasteland. Turning the direct corner of the current hallway, the noises of engines came into hearing. Soon enough, the three reached the open door of the large list room. Two stallions were standing by the controls, looking over some papers and comparing them to the control panel. The three girls walked up to the lift, making the two stallions look up and nod. They amassed onto the metal lift, and soon it was lurching upward into the dark passageway. Twilight lowered her head to cast an illuminating spell, making the nearby Fluttershy brace her leg against her eyes. Looking back up, she watched as the ceiling approached. Soon enough, the ponies were out into the frozen land, fierce winds whipping their faces with sharp bites. The three mares stood in a triangle, looking out to Ponyville. “I think we should go to Ponyville first.” Twilight chimed in. Fluttershy nor Rainbow Dash gave a rebuttal, but both thinking why. Twilight fished out a lantern from her saddlebags, levitating it above her head. “Why don’t you use your magic?” Rainbow Dash questioned the lantern. “Because I need to conserve my energy for when we absolutely need it.” Twilight served as a answer. Twilight closed her eyes for a second, opening them again when a fire sprouted from the cold, iron lantern. It illuminated about twenty feet in all directions, making them all fell a little bit safer. Twilight turned around to face the road, once made out of soft yellow dirt, was now made out of frozen snow and stark white. In the back of her mind, Fluttershy felt the familiar longing for the nature she fell in love with as a young pegasus, now no longer holding any furry critters made her wonder again where they had gone. Fluttershy had taken the old and weakening angel into the facility, where he had been treated even more graciously and gently than before. She jolted from her deep thought as Twilight began to move down the road to Ponyville. Both pegasi following her shortly thereafter. The three mares walked in a silenced single file line, none of them uttering a single noise. The wind roared as it shot past them, making it sound as though it were coming from a high power fan. Fluttershy pulled the bottom of her head dress up and over her mouth to keep in the hot breath, wanting to keep her lips and snout heated. As they grew ever closer to their old town, the house that caused Twilight and Rainbow Dash to loose their footing came into view, and even more speculations came to mind about it. But all speculations died as they finally reached it, and instead stared numbly at the object. The east side of the house from the front door had been completely smashed in. A bathtub hangs off of the side, dangling ever so slightly in the freezing wind. The roof had gone through a cascade of renewal, hanging off of the frontal side of the second story, and the debris from it covering the yard. But the oddest part was a giant sphere, big enough to fit a pony inside. A large hatch was propped open, a circular window showing whoever was inside what was outside. Twilight walked forward to face the open hatch, and turned her head to reveal what was inside. A small leather seat that was appropriate size was mounted inside of it. Stepping closer and drawing the lantern closer as well she began to investigate. The leather seat had three long scratches on the bottom of it, and the seat belt had not been taken off. Rather, in had been cut off from the end, a short and accurate snip made it limp weakly onto the cold seat. “Girls, whatever was in here wasn’t pony. Animal maybe, but why would it be in here?” Twilight reported to them, but turning her head back to the inside as she asked her question. “What is this thing anyway?” Rainbow Dash asked, stepping closer to inspect it. Fluttershy sat down, her hooves starting to freeze from standing in one place. She frowned as her flanks began to soak up the snows condensation, but sat still nonetheless. “It’s an old torture device.” Twilight revealed, groping around her knowledge of historic items. Twilight walked around it. “Yep. It was used to torture ponies magically by bringing their deepest fears to life, but also being stuck inside of it.” Twilight’s snout began to crunch slightly as she stared at the sphere. “Some ponies went insane from these things. Of course, they were used in the barbaric ages of Celestia’s rules, most likely from the first twenty or thirty years of the rule itself. It was a little after the banishment of Nightmare Moon that these things were disbanded from discipline.” Fluttershy became anxious as she watched Twilight’s expression soften but was replaced by a strong curiosity. “What the weirdest thing, Celestia told me they were all scrapped after they weren’t being used, so why and how is this here?” Twilight finished by placing a hoof on the ice cold metal. Rainbow Dash just shook her head, disgust and disbelief showing in her eyes. Fluttershy looked up, and was surprised to be able to see the castle, standing defiantly against the mountain. A small, purple flash stroke against the dark clouds, happening so fast Fluttershy questioned if it really had ever happened. Rainbow Dash looked around, squinting against the hard buffeting of the wind and snow fall. “Hey guys, we should go find some shelter. I think I can see the Cakes bakery over there.” Rainbow Dash turned her head to look at Twilight and Fluttershy, expectancy over taking her expression. Twilight nodded, drawing herself from the torture pod, and quickly jutted her head while looking at Fluttershy to gesture a follow. Fluttershy rose from above the wet snow, shook the solid pieces off of her flank, and followed behind the purple unicorn. All three climbed into the aged building, making them realize that it was just as cold inside as it is outside. Twilight broke off into the kitchen, and lit the stove with her magic. Fire showed the still colorful kitchen with an odd lighting that made it seem innocent, as well as malevolent. For once the cyan pegasus did not question the doing of her unicorn friend. Both pegasi filed into the kitchen to sit around the open stove flame. They had rolled out tiny sleeping bags, warming up from their own body heat quickly. For sometime no one spoke. The crackling of the small fire and the howl of the wind were the only two harmonizing sounds that seemed to emanate from the world, and even that wasn’t enough to lift the heavy silence. And finally, Fluttershy broke the deafening silence with a whisper. “I wonder what Rarity, Fancy and Steel are up to.” Rainbow Dash shifted around in her bag to face Fluttershy, a warm smile on her all but cold face. “Oh right. We never got to see her little filly did we? I hope she’s as beautiful as she sounds.” Rainbow Dash showed something she rarely did. A small girly giddiness arose from the depths of her heart at the mentioning of a filly of her best friends, actually liking something potentially cute, unlike something masculine. Fluttershy smiled back, and craned her neck upwards to look back at Twilight. The purple pony sat with her back facing them, already in a light and slow snore, signifying her sleep. Fluttershy rested her neck back into place and smiled again. The light from the fire was diminishing slowly before Fluttershy spoke again. “Good night Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow Dash returned the gesture as Fluttershy’s eyes fell heavily into place, fatigue and worry overtaking her body. Almost instantly, she fell into a dark blue depth of sleep, smiling all the way down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And now i am back from a short hiatus. The reasoning behind it was thus. Firstly: My laptop broke.I won't go into detail about the crazy adventure i had to chase after it, but needless to say, it was smashed to pieces. Secondly: Writing these chapters takes awhile. And Thirdly: More IRL issues. This is were i bring up a pre reader thingy. I have no brony friends since the majority of them moved away from were i live. So i need someone to fix my countless mistakes, seeing as i have schooling and what not. So anyone who will be up for it (not really expecting much) send me a message. I'l respond shortly there after.\ I have a tumblr! Not a draw tumblr, but a blog were you can ask me things and what not. I just set it up, and maybe at some point were i get better at art, maybe some of dat too, http://wolfoblivion.tumblr.com/ Next chapter will be Rainbow of course to complete the cycle, then after that, the perspectives will switch to who ever is the main priority in that standing point of the story. Twist soon will arise. Thanks for reading!