“How can a small reflection doohickey do this? I ask you.”
“You mean ah mirror.”
“Is that not what Rolf said?”
Applejack just looked down and shook her head. She didn’t even want to attempt to talk to Rolf about what a mirror should be called. Twilight magically took hold of Rolf’s hoof. “Lets see if there's anything I can-”
Rolf immediately yanked his hoof away from her grip and tucked it in his overcoat. “Rolf does not want the magic mare to touch Rolf wounds! The mare understands yes?” Twilight was reluctant, but she nodded, knowing Rolf would probably prefer that he do it himself.
Rolf looked over at Fluttershy. “Is the shy ones eyes still closed?”
“Y-yes.” Fluttershy said. As soon as Rolf had yelled in pain at how his hoof got embedded with shards of glass, he told Fluttershy to shield her eyes and not look at him. So she covered her eyes with her hooves and her bat wings.
Applejack looked over at Fluttershy, then at Rolf. “And why are you making her cover her eyes”
Rolf glared at her. “Does the Farm pony not understand.” He walked up to her, with his hoof still in his coat, and whispered. “If the vampony looks at Rolf’s hoof, even for a second, she will pounce on Rolf faster than the small Ed boy pouncing on pretty pennies.”
“Ed boy?” Applejack pushed Rolf away “Look Rolf, why would she try tah get ya if she saw your hoof?” Rolf pulled his hoof out of his coat and held it between them. His hoof was a mangled mess of glass pieces that were covering the bottom of it, and some parts of it were so embedded they were starting to bleed. “Doesn’t that hurt?” AJ asked.
“That doesn’t matter farm girl, because If she” He pointed his better hoof at Fluttershy, whose eyes were still covered. “were to look at Rolf’s hoof, she would lose all control and-”
Applejack grabbed Rolf's coat and pulled it towards her. “Rolf, she sucks fruit, not bl-”
Rolf wrapped an arm around her neck and looked at her. “She will be sucking the red liquid sustenance cow mare. It only takes a matter of time until she finally snaps and comes charging toward-”
“Ah don’t wanna hear it!” Applejack pushed Rolf away again, this time making him crash into his pile of trinkets. Victor looked over his shoulder and baahed.
Twilight gasped. “Applejack, do you have to be so rough?”
Before AJ could explain, Rolf popped his head out of his things and said. “Yes AJ, why must you treat Rolf like nana treats her big toe?” He pulled himself out and got to the floor. He didn’t notice, but the glass in his hoof was starting to cut deeper, and the blood was starting to drip, and with every drop, it made Fluttershy's ears twitched.
“Why, WHY!? Let me tell ya why” She stormed up to Rolf and grabbed his hurt hoof. “I’ll even help ya with your hoof while i’m at it.” Applejack was beginning to lose it, she had had enough of this, with Rolf acting like this, reminded her of when they first met, and she hated it.
Rolf looked at her in confusion. “Rolf would rather-GAH”
Applejack yanked on his hoof, bringing it up to his mouth, where she took a bite into one of the shards of glass and yanked it out. Rolf yelped in pain as she spit the piece out. “Well, number one, Rolfie boy. You do things that ah don’t like, and even when I tell ya not to do em’, ya do it anyway.” She bit into his hoof again and pulled out another piece, causing another cry of pain from Rolf.
Rolf started panting “C-can the farm mare please-” Rolf was interrupted by a set of teeth sinking into the skin of his hoof and pulling out another shard of glass.
“Number two.” Applejack yelled. “You and the rest of your family wouldn’t stop showin’ off at how much better ya are than us.” She digged her teeth into another piece of glass, making sure to cause as much pain as possible for this ‘colt of a shepherd.’ Meanwhile Twilight was conflicted on how to help, and Fluttershy was starting to cover her ears to stop them from twitching, and to drown out the noise, then her nose was starting to twitch.
Fluttershy stopped shaking and concentrated on that smell. She took another sniff, she wanted to look around but she was too afraid to open her eyes, so she took another whiff. That time she got the scent. She had never smelt something so...so…
So amazing.
It was a scent of great pleasure, it was better than flowers, or the smell from the spa, or even apples. Now she was starting to get curious. What was this strange smell. Her mind slowly went back into reality as the noises of a shrieking Rolf and a yelling Applejack came into her ears. She knew you couldn't hear where the smell was coming from, but you could see it. Yeah, she’ll just open her eyes for just a sec, no one would notice.
Carefully she pulled her wings back and lowered her hooves to take a look around her.
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“*pleh* And number five.”
“Stop stop STOP! Release Rolf from your grip of pain and let him-”
“Not until you-hu?”
Applejack felt a bit dazed, wondering what happened. She looked up to see a purple alicorn giving her a look of disappointment. “What is wrong with you Applejack!” Twilight screamed. She had teleported AJ over to her as to not get involved with trying to come between them physically. “Why are you torturing Rolf?”
Applejack crossed her hooves and looked away. “You wouldn’t understand, you weren’t around when we were-”
“It seems the alicorn has some sense in her head.” Rolf cradled his hoof while trying to hold in any tears. “You remind Rolf of the sock head wearing Ed boy.”
Twilight and Applejack weren’t too sure how to respond to that. “What does a sock have to do with anything?” Twilight asked. “You know what, nevermind, a better question would be why you two hate each other so much?”
Rolf couldn’t stop shaking from the pain. “Rolf does not hate the brown hatted one. All he wants is for her support.”
“What?” Applejack said. “By making me look like an idiot with your stories.”
Twilight looked at Applejack. “Uh...AJ. He only told us one story.”
“Which was a complete lie!” Applejack yelled, she glared at Rolf. “And i’m not talking about that story, i’m talkin’ about other stories that he would tell by his family.”
Rolf raised his eyebrow. “How does the mare kno-”
“Because I could hear ya laugh it up with your folks.” She started giving bad imitations of his family. “‘boy howdy, let me tell you about this here farm mare, how she can't get apples out of her head.’ Or how about this. ‘That farm mare of yours, Rolf sure does know how to buck a tree, to bad that's all she knows how to buck.”
Rolf was starting to grow a bit nervous. He had to admit, his family did in fact talk about her like this, but Rolf was only trying to look tough, in reality he-
“Or how about this. ‘That soft mare looks like she couldn’t go a day without tending to her baby trees.’ How about that one Rolfie?” Everyone was speechless. Applejack was breathing heavily and Twilight was looking at her in shock. Rolf was trying his best to figure out what to say. How to you apologize to a mare you have been making fun of behind her back for most of you life? Rolf looked to the ground in shame, it seems he had hurt this this mare. He looked at her with deep sorrow.
Which turned into complete fear as he looked past her. “A-Applej-j-jack?”
Applejack regained her composure and looked at the stallion. “What is it Rolf?”
Rolf started backing up. “L-listen to Rolf, you must-” Before he could get another word out he backed up into Victor and fell over him, landing on his head, and Victor giving another baah.
Twilight came to her senses and looked at the accident. “Are you alright Rolf.”
Rolf raised his hoof above and pointed it at them. “What about us?” Applejack asked. Rolf pointed his hoof twice. Hoping they would understand.
Twilight shrugged and looked at Applejack. “I guess he wants us to look be..hi..n..d.” As she looked past AJ she started to stutter.
“What is it Twilight?” Applejack turned around. “What are ya lo…ok...ing at...”
Twilight and Applejack couldn't look away from it. Fluttershy was staring at them with her eyes being more red, her wings spread, and her mouth hung wide open, drooling a little. She took a step forward. Making them step back. “Um...Fluttershy...ya’ll alright?” Applejack said with a fake smile.
Fluttershy just kept walking. Her eyes looked like they were looking into their souls. “Um...Fluttershy.” Twilight said with a nervous laugh. “Don’t you look at us like that.”
Fluttershy continued making her way toward the mares, that was until she stopped dead in her tracks once her hoof hit a pool of blood. It was Rolf's blood from the 'treatment' Applejack was giving him earlier. Twilight and Applejack looked down in horror as Fluttershy inspected it, running her hooves in it and taking a small sniff, which turned into a big sniff a few seconds later. “Is….I..Is she?” Applejack wasn't sure how to ask herself this.
Suddenly Rolf came in between them and whispered. “Now would be the time the mares and the son of a shepherd make a run to the woods.”
“Woods?” Applejack whispered back. “Why the woods?”
As they talked. Twilight continued looking at Fluttershy, she was now just looking at her hoof. staring at it as if it was communicating with it. Then her tongue made a viscous lash her entire hoof. Licking up every spot of the red liquid off. Twilight flinched, not knowing what to do. She gave a few more good licks and looked up at the ponies. Her pupils dilated. Twilight followed where her eyes were looking at and saw that she was looking straight at Rolf's bloody hoof.
“Uh...Rolf.” Twilight gulped.
“And then we must...What is it crowned one?”
Twilight pointed at Fluttershy, as Rolf and Applejack looked up, they saw the same sight. Her body was becoming ruffled, as was her hair and tail, her wings remained extended, and her eyes started glowing red, and they continued giving a look of hunger, and her fangs were drooling with an attempt to sink them into something that had the same wonderful taste of whatever that red stuff was, and right in front of her were three perfect providers.
“I hope you don’t mind if I FeEd on you against your will FoReVeR! Until you die that is, and I hope that's okay with you.”