***Meanwhile back at Twilight's house (one week ago)***
"I hope Fluttershy's doing okay."
"Don't ya worry any now Twilight. Ah'm sure she's doing fine. She is the pony that's good with the outdoors and what not."
"Yeah your probably right Applejack. The way Fluttershy is with. . .um how you say nature. . . she'll have no trouble at all finding Daniel."
"Ah'm still mad at him for stealing mah apples! Nothings gonna change that."
"Yeah I agree with you Applejack. It's just not right stealing from somepony. . . let alone one of your friends." said Rainbow Dash.
"He's a big liar if you ask me! I mean I'm so made that I can't even talk like myself right now!"
"You hear that Daniel! I know you do! You are writing the story after all!"
Pinkie! You need to calm down! The story's still in the beginning state right now! We haven't even gotten to the . . . crap! Now look what you've done! Your making me spoil some of the future parts of the story to our readers! Please just go back to acting out the story for me. I promise It will get better. But you need to calm down. Besides. . .you know I don't like to yell and argue with anypony.
Well. . . okay if you say so, but promise me one thing though will you?
Sure Pinkie anything for you. What do you need?
It's not anything I need, but rather something I want to do. I want to throw a party for when you. . .
PINKIE DON'T RUIN ANYTHING!
Oh. . .right. . . sorry. . . I'll just get back to the story now.
That would be great. Thank you Pinkie.
Sorry about the sidetrack readers but you know how Pinkie can get.
Now back to the story.
"Oh how could we let this happen. It's been a whole week now since we last saw Fluttershy."
"I know Twilight It's gotten everypony all worked up." said Rainbow Dash.
"Ah new we should have checked up on her." said Applejack.
"Girls it's not anypony's fault. We just had a miss-hap."
"Rarity this is not just a miss-hap. . .FLUTTERSHY IS MISSING. We don't even know where she could be."
"Easy Twilight I was just saying that so not one pony was blamed for a. . .ahem. . .group effort."
"Well what the hay are we going to do now?"
"Our best bet is to look for Fluttershy where we sent her to look for Daniel."
"Then what are we waiting for! Lets go!" demanded Rainbow Dash.
***20 minutes later at the edge of the Everfree forest***
"Well, hear we are girls. This is the spot I told Fluttershy to look for Daniel." said Twilight.
"Oh! Oh! Look what I found! Look what I found!" said Pinkie pie.
She was over by the tree that Daniel was leaning against from the other night. There she found some of Fluttershy's hair along with tracks made by Daniel. The tracks lead into the Everfree forest.
"Oh no! You don't think Daniel took her do you?" said Twilight.
"Ah don't know what to make of it Twilight. Them hear tracks are without a doubt from Daniel."
"We should look for more evidence before making any false accusations darlings. Just to make sure that is." said Rarity sheepishly.
"Well you do make a good point Rarity, but I still don't like what we found so far." said Rainbow Dash.
"Um. . .girls. . .you might want to take a took at this." said Twilight with a scared voice.
"What did you find sugarcube?" asked Applejack.
As the other four made their way over to where Twilight was they all just stood there in disbelief as to what she found. For now the five mares were looking at what appeared to be drag marks in the ground that also lead to the forest.
"Oh my stars! Girls. . .you don't think Daniel setup a trap for Fluttershy do you?!" said a worried Rarity.
Just then Rainbow Dash spoke up.
"I bet he was waiting for her behind that tree over there where we found some of Fluttershy's mane! When she walked by the tree. . . BAM! He grabbed her then took her back to his hideout! It's the only thing that makes sense!"
"I hate to say it girl's, but Rainbow Dash is right. It's the only logical situation that makes any sense. We need to go to his hideout and rescue her! For all we know she could be. . .well I don't want to think about it. Let's get going!" said Twilight.
And with that they were off into the Everfree forest in search of Daniel's camp/ hideout to rescue Fluttershy.
***30 minutes later***
"Well now that we've located his hide out we can start looking for Fluttershy. Oh and girl's. . . don't be afraid to make a mess of things. Seeing how he took Fluttershy. . .I don't think the "make yourself at home" rule applies to us anymore." said Twilight giving the others a wink.
The group of mares then began to search the surrounding area for Fluttershy. They tore apart Daniel's tent, through his personal belongings out into the open weather, and even dumped his collection of apples and other various foods he gathered for himself earlier that morning down the nearby river. The camp looked like a tornado went through it!
***20 minutes of ransacking and destroying Daniel's camp later***
"Well ah give up! There's just no sign of Fluttershy anywhere!"
"Yeah, it looks like your right AJ. She's not hear." said Rainbow Dash
"I don't get it. Where else could she be?" asked Rarity.
"Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me!"
"Yes Pinkie?" asked Twilight, almost facehoofing herself.
"Why don't we try Zecora's! Daniel live's in this forest and so does Zecora! With all this time out hear by himself he's surly to run into her at some point!" said Pinkie rather fast.
"You know Pinkie. . .that's not a bad idea. Change in plans everypony. We're going to pay our good friend Zecora a visit." said Twilight with a devilish look on her face.
And just like that they were off down a dirt path to see Zecora.
***Meanwhile at Zecora's hut***
"Zecora! She's awake! She's awake Zecora! She's awake! I yelled loud enough for anypony to hear me.
"What? Can it be true? Has she finally awaken after nearly a week or two?" Zecora said with a little hope in her voice.
"Yes, yes it's true! She's moving back at you hut as we speak!" I said in excitement.
"Let us not waste time, we must make haste, for she is all alone back at my place!" Zecora chanted.
"Wait . . . Zecora I can't. . . " I trailed off saying.
"And why is that Daniel? Please explain what is causing you pain."
"Well you see if Fluttershy wakes up and sees me. . . she might get the wrong idea about how and why she's with me."
"I. .I. . .don't want to go into any detail okay? Lets just leave it at that."
"And besides. . . I'm getting hungry and there's food back at my camp calling my name. Oh and Zecora? There's just one more thing I need you to do for me. . .please don't tell anypony that I was hear. . . they might get the wrong idea about why Fluttershy was missing for a week."
"You have my word Daniel this I say, but why is it that you cannot stay?"
"Zecora please. . . Fluttershy needs you now. . . .and besides that story's for another time. . . ."
As I was heading back to camp my stomach started to yell at me for not feeding myself all day. So I decided to take a shortcut through a section of trees that would lead me straight to camp.
When I was cutting through the trees I started to hear voices over on the normal path I would take to get back to camp.
So my reaction was to hide behind the trees so nobody or pony for that matter could see me.
I was really scared at first because I knew who these ponies were. They were Fluttershy's friend's!
I kept thinking to myself "please don't see me, please don't see me! I kept my fingers crossed."
Luckily they didn't and I was up and out from behind those trees faster than you can say "Dear Princess Celestia."
***Over at Zecora's***
Twilight and the others were galloping through the forest to get to Zecora's in time to catch Daniel with Fluttershy and finally get him captured for the princess. They all started slow down as they were coming up on Zecora's house.
That's when they came bursting through her door. . . .
"Aha! Stop right there Daniel and give up now or . . . go . . . he's not here." said an annoyed Twilight.
"No body but me as you can see. Fluttershy is over there you gave her quite a scare." said Zecora.
"Um . . . hello. It's nice to see you all."
"What?! But how is it that your not hurt?!" Said a very confused Rainbow Dash.
"What do you mean? I'm fine now thanks to Daniel."