Nearing the end of their meeting Pinkie frowns at Twilight quizzically, "What do you mean I didn't help him? Strawberry Cream didn't have a wagon so I let him borrow mine!"
Twilight groans in frustration from explaining these situations several times. "Pinkie, letting somepony borrow your wagon doesn't help them understand the lessons of friendship any better. All those ponies you 'helped,' probably didn't have any friendship troubles."
Pinkie gawks at Twilight's statement, "Are you saying I have to re-help everypony I've checked off!?" She looks down at her list and quickly skims through the names she had checked off. "That's nearly... one hundred and sixty-three Ponies!"
Twilight holds up a hoof to speak but is cut off. "Do you know how long it took me to help all of those ponies!? Three Days!" Twilight sets her hoof back down on the table, meeting Pinkie's frustrated glare with an un-amused stare.
"You know, since most of those ponies were probably fine to begin with-"
Pinkie's demeanor instantly changes as a realization hits her, "Oh Twilight, your right. I didn't do it right the first time... but I will the second!"
Twilight is taken aback by her sudden change, "Oh... well, ok! But you don't necessarily have to erase all your checks and restart."
Pinkie tilts her head, "I don't?"
"Nope, because those are ponies you already know-"
"-are invited to my party!" Pinkie hops out of her chair and pulls out her list, rubbing out most of the checks. "Thanks for reminding me Twilight! Now I only have to re-help... seventy-nine ponies!"
Cheerfully Pinkie jabs her list into her mane and leaps out the door, dragging behind her a long list of names. "No! Pinkie wait! That's not what I-" Twilight jumps out of her throne and flies across the table. She slams a hoof down onto the crystal floor, barely missing the end of Pinkie's list by an inch. She runs to the door opening and yells after her, "Pinkie! I meant because those ponies you already know don't need help!"
Twilight sighs and looks back at her friends, "Well, I guess this meeting has gone on long enough." She walks around the table and slumps back down into her thrown wearing a slight frown.
"Twilight, what are ya'll down in the dumps for?" AppleJack inquires, voicing the thoughts of the rest of her friends. Besides Rainbow Dash, who had been staring at the same corner of the table for the past forty-five minutes.
Twilight looks up at her friends, "Oh, I don't know... It just seems that, nothing good has come of this, 'friendship spreading thing.'" Twilight slumps a little further back into her throne.
"Come now Twilight, there are plenty of positive things that have came from your decree!" Twilight looks at Rarity questioning the truth of her statement. "There really are! Like... Um..."
She frowns a little further. "Well it has only been three days you know, friendship takes time. It took months for AppleJack to fully consider me even an acquaintance!"
AppleJack quickly turns to face her accusing friend, "What n' the hay!? I think it was the other way around!"
Rarity smiles getting the reaction she intended, both being AppleJacks anger and Twilights little smile. "Whatever darling, its all in the past." She looks around AppleJack back towards the moping princess. "I know I haven't been the most helpful in your quest Twilight, but as soon as... I finish the pillows for our thrones..." Rarity gives Twilight an extra large apology smile, "I promise I will bring the magic of friendship to the most sorrowful pony I can find!"
Twilight's frown shortens, but still remains. "I believe you Rarity." She looks to Rainbow Dash hoping for some input or comment on the situation, but instead finds her giving the table the same thousand yard stare. They all look at each other and back at Rainbow. AppleJack waves a hoof and barely even gets a blink out of her.
Keeping an eye on her Twilight announces, "It's probably time to go now, I think it's almost four." They all stand up from their seats, watching Rainbow all the while. They all walk to the end of the table; Rainbow doesn't move an inch. "Rainbow Dash, are you coming?" No response. "Rainbo-"
"Huh! Oh, yeah." She quickly flies up into the air and heads for the door. She stops outside it and looks back in. "Uh, we are leaving right?" All her friends nod, "Ok. Sorry about that, I kind of spaced out for a sec."
"Sugarcube that second, lasted nearly an hour! What was on your mind?" Rainbow Dash shrugs, "I dunno, just thinkin'." AppleJack lifts an eyebrow, getting nothing but another shrug as they all leave the meeting chamber.
After winding their way through the maze of halls and staircases throughout Twilight's castle they eventually arrive at the main entrance. Rainbow says goodbye and flies off, still looking deep in thought, leaving AppleJack, Rarity and Twilight by themselves.
"Well, I guess I'll be goin' home to pack my things. Tell me if you find out what happen'd ta Fluttershy will ya?" AppleJack says beginning to head off towards the farm.
"Will do. Have a nice afternoon!" Rarity exclaims waving a dainty hoof at her friend. Twilight looks at her wondering "'Will do?' I was going to check on Fluttershy." Rarity reads her expression like a book cover and explains, "I thought I could check up on Fluttershy for you, since she is on the way."
"Thanks Rarity! I'll come along with you." They both share a smile and trot down the crystal steps leading up to the castle. They set off down the dirt path and Rarity asks, "So, Twilight How is your 'Feed The Zebras' mission coming along?" Twilight groans, "Not good."
*****
Meanwhile, Fluttershy finally makes it to Razor's home. She had made her way through the forest to remain undetected, but now she would have to walk around to the front of Razor's house to knock. She looks around the corner and sees only a few ponies at the far end of the street along with a mother happily watching her fillies play in their backyard.
"Now's my chance!" she thinks, tip-hoofing around to the front of Razor's house. She gets to the door and rapidly knocks on it whispering for her friend. Knocknocknock "Razor!" Knocknocknock "Are you asleep!?" The mother watching her fillies a few houses down sees the commotion and turns her attention away from her foals.
Razor hears Fluttershy and her subconscious throws her out of bed. Still half asleep she stumbles towards her door. "Fluttershy? What are- Oh!" she runs into the door frame and becomes stunned for a moment. "Excuse me?" She shakes her head and jars her brain back into its normal state. "Fluttershy is coming over!"
"Razor!"
"On my way!" she trots down the stairs and stumbles a bit on the last step. She quickly unbolts the door and greets her friend, "Fluttershy!" she leans back onto her hind hoofs and throws her forelegs into the air for a big hug, but Fluttershy spins around quickly slamming shut the front door.
Razor is startled by the sound of cracking wood as the door slams in front of her. She loses her balance and falls on top of Fluttershy, "Oof!"
"Oh! Sorry about your door Razor." Razor slides off her back and brushes herself off fairly nonchalantly. "It's fine Fluttershy. What-" she notices the yellow streaks across her stomach, "What is this stuff?"
Fluttershy turns around in the familiar darkness to face Razor's voice, "I'm sorry again! It's just some makeup I put on today." she hangs her head in shame while Razor walks over to her candle cabinet to pull some more out.
"Makeup? I didn't know you wore makeup?" she pulls open the drawers and finds them bare. "Uh-oh! Now what will I do? I can't spend all day with Fluttershy in the dark... although we have been friends for a while."
"Well I don't usually wear it, but... Um, I kind of had a bad morning." Razor looks back at her, "Oh, I'm sorry. what happened?" She walks over to the wall and puts a hoof on the light switch. Before Fluttershy can speak she asks, "Hey Fluttershy?"
She holds back her description of this morning, "What is it?"
Hesitantly Razor asks, "Well, I ran out of candles so... would it be fine if I turned on the lights?"
"Yes, er, whatever you want." Razor doesn't want to show off her disgusting walls, but decides that either way Fluttershy would eventually have to see them. Dust flies off the flipping switch as a bright white light from the center of the room washes out their dark world in a flash. Both of them clench their eyes and raise up a knee to rub them with.
Fluttershy's eyes adjust faster to the light, opening before Razor's to view her... unbelievably clean home! The color pattern of the room seems strange to Fluttershy (orange carpet with grey walls and a brown ceiling), but not a single speck of dirt is visible on any surface she sees. Each wall even seems to have a slight shine to it.
Razor finally opens her eyes and notices her astonished face. Fluttershy walks up to a wall and goes to put a hoof on it, but holds back. "Um, Razor? Would it be ok if I, touched your walls?"
Razor winces with a thought, "Dang it! I knew I missed a spot in this pigsty." Begrudgingly she answers, "If you want to." Being careful to not damage it, Fluttershy places her hoof on the wall and slides it down. A loud squeak emits from the wall. Amazed it can even be possible Fluttershy whispers to herself, "Squeaky clean..."
She turns to Razor slowly walking back to the light switch and asks, "How did you get your walls so clean?" Razor raises a brow, "Clean? But there are smudges and stains everywhere."
Fluttershy looks back at the wall, "I don't see any?" Razor is dumbfounded by her statement. "But, you even tried to wipe that stain off?" She points were Fluttershy had rubbed the wall.
Fluttershy looks at her hoof for smudges but doesn't find any, "Oh... Well, I didn't see a stain. I just wanted to..." Fluttershy seems embarrassed by her actions, "... see if the wall would, squeak." She gives raiser a timid little smile, realizing she probably looked really silly.
"So... none of this bothers you?" Fluttershy looks around, a bit confused and questioningly answers, "No?" Razor steps away from the light switch letting a long sigh walking towards the couch in the middle of the room. Before her sigh can end she rolls over the back of the couch and lands on its cushions.
She pokes her head up and rests it on the back of the couch to look at Fluttershy. "I'm so glad to hear that! This room has always seemed kind of dirty to me." Fluttershy smiles at her and begins to walk around to the couch against the wall. "Even though I love the look of haunted houses, I would never want to live in one."
Fluttershy carefully lays down on the couch across from her, making sure she doesn't brush any makeup onto it, and asks, "Haunted houses?"
Razor happily nods her head, "MmmHmm! That's why I chose to buy this, fine establishment!" She waves a hoof through the air presenting it to Fluttershy. "One day when I was looking through the paper I saw what looked like a haunted house for sale and I just couldn't miss the opportunity!"
Fluttershy looks around the place a bit more, now that she is able to fully see Razor's living room. "Well, you have definitely cleaned the place up nicely!" She looks at all the candle holders around the room and notices how all the wax had been wiped off of them.
"Thanks! You should have seen this place before. It was a mess! But, after a full week of non-stop cleaning I cleaned everything too it's fullest potential." Razor's smile shortens a bit, "It's not as clean as I'd like it to be, only the entryway has reached that level. It's a shame the lighting is so bad in there. Otherwise I'd leave the light on all the time to show it off... But I'm glad you don't mind."
"Oh wait! You were going to tell me about your morning?" Fluttershy's happy demeanor quickly changes, "Oh, yes. It wasn't very good."
Razor adjusts her posture and crosses her hooves taking on the look of a therapist. She looks at Fluttershy with an endearing smile and asks, "Why don't you tell me all about it?"
*****
Rarity and Twilight make their way up to Fluttershy's home and read the note on the wall.
Dear Friends,
Hello! I'm sorry I missed the meeting, but I've been helping out Razor Sharp (my pony) all day long. I hope you didn't worry about me, and I'll make sure to definetly show up to your next one!
Love, Fluttershy
Twilight is relieved to find that at least somepony was getting the help he (or she) needed. "Well, that's good!" she happily affirms.
"I'm not so sure about that Twilight..." Rarity gives her a concerned look.
"Why is that?"
"Well, Fluttershy showed me Razor's home a few days back and to say the least... it gave off an aura of foreboding!"
Twilight's mind flips through memories of all the buildings, shops and homes in Ponyville and none of them seemed 'foreboding' in the least. "I can't recall any creepy buildings in Ponyville?"
"It's the old residence on the road to Cloudsdale." Twilight shrugs. Rarity's concern increases as her worries begin to stack, "Twilight, I think we should go check up on her."
Inside Twilight figures Fluttershy is probably fine, but seeing Rarity this apprehensive over one mare does make her wonder. "Alright, let's go. Although it's a shame we'll have to walk all the way across town again."
Crossing back over Fluttershy's bridge Rarity's worries fade away a bit when she begins to wonder, "Wait, why is a Princess walking around town anyways? Have not your servants arrived yet to submit to your every whim?" she asks with a smirk.
Twilight furrows her brow in response, "My servants should be here in around month."
"A month? Is there a shortage?"
"A small one. Apparently Tirek was held back for quite a bit before he finally fought his way through to the castle..."
Rarity gulps, "Casualties?"
Twilight nods, "Discord said that he wasn't there at the time and didn't arrive till the battle had already been lost."
Rarity sighs and they both make their way back into Ponyville lamenting of how everything could have gone so much better.
*****
At Razor's Fluttershy finally ends her story "... and once the coast was clear I ran to the front door and yelled for you."
Razor feels ashamed for being the cause of her morning sorrows and repeats again for the fifth time, "Fluttershy I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you so bad."
Fluttershy also repeats for the fifth time, "It's fine Razor, I don't mind." They both sit for a while in silence now that Fluttershy's story is over; both of them feeling bad for the other's pain and bruises, even though they both had fun making them.
Fluttershy speaks up, "So, you had a fun night last night?"
Razor cheers up a little, "Definitely. I hadn't gone night walking for months, and it felt really great."
"Did you see anything on your walk?" Fluttershy's mood improves as she begins to invest herself into Razor's story.
"Eeyup, I saw Twilight's beautiful castle! And it was surrounded by the best rolling grass I've ever tumbled in!"
"I guess the grass is pretty? When it blows in the wind." Fluttershy says relaxing a bit.
"It was pretty. But, it was a lot more fun to roll around in."
Fluttershy smiles as Razor seems to get more excited from telling her story. "When I saw the field, I took off sprinting until I reached like... fifty miles an hour! Then when I was about to run out of breath I jumped in to the air and rolled." Razor does a little roll on her couch (somewhat) demonstrating what it looked like.
"I rolled for a Long time, head over hooves!" she chuckles a little remembering. "I must have looked ridiculous to the pony stalking me last night!"
Fluttershy is more than a little shocked to hear this, "Stalking you?"
"Yeah! Last night after I made it up to Twilight's castle, which was breathtaking, a brown pony in a trench coat jumped out of the shadows!" She holds a mangled leg over her muzzle concealing it like a cloak as she pauses for dramatic effect.
"He asks, 'What are you doing? Are you looking for the Princess!?'" she glares at Fluttershy with same expression he 'glared' at her with. Fluttershy cowers a little as she continues her story, "I said ' No, Go away! You dirty spy!' He looked as though his cover had been blown after that and he quickly lept back into the darkness!"
"There is a spy after Twilight?" Fluttershy whimpers out. "I don't know? After I leapt into the shadows after him, he did a few ninja moves and I lost him." Angry and disappointed in her ability to keep up with the spy she frowns. Her mind begins to wander toward the kitchen-
"Ninjas!" Fluttershy is horrified by this news, "We have to warn Twilight!"
"Definitely!" Razor's stomach is abruptly struck by a chorus of rumbles, "Let's do it on the way to lunch though."
"Wait, but uh.." Razor gets up off the couch; Fluttershy soon follows after her. "But, my bruises?" Razor stops and looks back at her, "Oh yeah... dang" her stomach rumbles again.
Fluttershy looks down at the few bruises she had not covered in makeup and sighs, "I'm sorry..."
Razor walks over to her, repeating an almost overused saying, "It's not your fault. Maybe I have something in the kitchen?" Razor walks over into her kitchen, flipping on the light and opening up the fridge. She is sad to see instead of bleeding flesh nothing but a few carrots, apples, and surprisingly bananas.
Digging around further in the fridge she calls out, "Fluttershy? Do you like bananas?"
Being half-way in the fridge muffles her sound. Fluttershy responds with, "I'm sorry, but... what?"
"I said, Do you like bananas?"
"Bananas?" Fluttershy takes a while to think about it, "Um, yes."
Fluttershy's response is muffled by the door as well. "So, you like bananas?" Razor opens up a few drawers at the bottom of the fridge and digs through them finding more fruits, vegetables and roots.
"Yes."
"Alright!" Razor gives up her search for other fruits and bites down on a bushel of bananas. She closes the door behind her and walks back over to the couch. Placing the bundle of bananas down on the table she picks two off.
Holding one in her mouth she warns, "Hey Fwuttershy, here comes a bwanana!" she gently tosses one over. Fluttershy stares at the oncoming fruit and opens her mouth to catch it. The banana bounces off the top of her snout and hits her in the eye, "Ouch!"
"Sorry!" Razor says before she sits back down on the couch and attempts to peel her banana open. Fluttershy picks up the fruit that hit her and glares at her. She walks into a good position while Razor fiddles with her peel and flips her head, flinging the banana back at Razor.
Fluttershy's projectile knocks the other banana from razor's hooves. "Hey! I was trying to peel that!" An evil smirk spreads across Fluttershy's face, withering a bit as Razor continues to look back at her confused.
A moment passes and Razor says nothing. Fluttershy's smirk dies as her mind asks herself "Why did you do that? Razor didn't do it on purpose." She looks down at the bananas on the couch and sees Razor pick one up. Suddenly a banana bounces off her snout again, this time luckily missing her eye.
"And another!" Razor shouts, picking up the other banana and jumping off the couch. She strolls up to the confused Fluttershy and gently places it on her head. After careful balancing it she picks up the other banana from the floor and puts her hooves on Fluttershy's shoulders. Still confused by what is going on she asks, "What are you-"
"Shhpfh!" Razor whispers through the banana in her mouth. Gently she balances the other banana on Fluttershy's nose and takes the one on the top of her head off. She hops back onto the couch, fidgeting with the banana peel once again.
Fluttershy looks down at the banana on her snout, gaining a giggle out of Razor from the funny expression on her face. Fluttershy glares once again and flicks the banana into the air to catch it. It flies behind her and Fluttershy leaps up after it, fearing the humility of being uncoordinated
But she misses, and tumbles backwards onto her back with a soft little "Oof!" Razor nearly chokes on her banana as her giggling ascends into a full-blown laugh. She rests the banana on the couch and painfully swallows her bite, laughing at Fluttershy wiggling on the ground still attempting to grab the banana.
Fluttershy grabs the banana in her hooves and rolls back over onto her stomach. With a scowl she states, "It's not that funny!"
Razor suppresses herself for a moment, "But you were all like 'My Banana! Derp!' Bwahehahooganeheehehe-" Suddenly a yellow object bashes into her forehead with an unexpected force. "Ow! Hey, that's gonna bruise!"
Fluttershy flatly states with a deeper scowl, "It's a banana, you'll be fine..."
"I wasn't talking about me I was talking about the banana!" With a bit of a chuckle Razor holds up the banana in between her hooves and shows her the tiny black circle beginning to appear. "Ye see that? It's ruined!"
Fluttershy looks over at the bundle on the coffee table and jumps for it. She quickly breaks off a piece, while the slightly bruised banana flies back and hits her in the eye, Again! She squints through the pain and throws her newly acquired missile back at Razor in retaliation.
Razor ducks and misses the banana, "Ha Ha. Too fast for you!"
"No!" Fluttershy yells, squinting her eye in pain and frustration. She picks out another banana from the bunch and runs over to Razor's couch with it in her mouth. She jumps up onto the couch, startling Razor a bit. "Fluttershy what are you doing?"
"Rawr!" Fluttershy lunges at Razor tackling her down on the couch. She spits the banana out of her mouth onto Razor and proceeds to rub it all over her face with her hoof. "Fluttershy! pfft pffht..." Razor's forelegs fling about trying to push Fluttershy off while the banana breaks open under her hoof.
Banana juices begin to poor out of it's peel and ooze onto Razor's face. Soon her eyes are filled with a cold yellow haze as banana chunks slide into her open mouth. She swallows a few mouthfuls, "Mmmm good stuff! Wait a second, I don't want banana stains in my couch!" Razor increases the force of her flailing hooves, "Alright that's enough!"
She throws her body up along with her raised hoof, striking Fluttershy in her chin. Fluttershy's head jerks up, lifting her hoof from the banana, shocked at what has happened. Razor gasps at what she has done and hopes she didn't go too far. Fluttershy slowly looks back down at her with the same angry expression, putting Razor at ease knowing she probably didn't mind the hit.
Razor shakes the banana off of her face exclaiming, "Take that!" She rolls onto her stomach and lifts Fluttershy into the air; turning around and tossing her off onto the carpet floor. As she hits the floor, Razor hops off of the couch and reaches back onto the coffee table to pick off another banana.
Once the fruit is off of its bundle, Razor is immediately hit with a painful buck to her side; knocking her into the middle of the room. She spits the banana out of her mouth, "Ow! what in the world was-" Razor sees Fluttershy rake at the ground preparing to charge. Razor quickly jumps up and rears onto her hind legs letting out a fierce whinny before Fluttershy takes off sprinting.
She rams into Razor's stomach. Razor falls over Fluttershy onto her back, holding on as Fluttershy comes to an abrupt stop in the kitchen. Fluttershy shakes all about trying to get Razor off of her. She kicks and bucks, and even bites Razor's back legs in an attempt to get her off. Razor retaliates to the bite with a bite of her own on Flutterhy's rump.
Fluttershy squeaks with pain and rolls over onto her back, finally knocking Razor off. She immediately gets on top off Razor and jabs a hoof into her eye. Razor can feel the grooves of her hoof press down into and around her eyeball as a small squish echoes through her head. She screams in pain; knocking the hoof away and covering up her face with her leg. She uses the other one to deflect the rest of Fluttershy's frantic blows.
Through her teeth Razor yells, "Don't Hit My Eyes!!!" and lurches up pulling Fluttershy's head to her snout. Fluttershy throws her legs around attempting to escape as Razor lets go of her eye and wraps both her forelegs around Fluttershy's head. Now with a firm hold on her, Razor bites down on her forehead with all her might.
Feeling the skin breaking from the pressure Fluttershy yelps and attempts to shake her head free. She pushes as hard as she can against the tile floor and strains her neck muscles attempting to free her head as it begins to go numb and moist.
Finally Razor let's go. Fluttershy throws her head back relieved to be free from her jaws and is met with a very hard hoof slaming against the side of her cheek. It knocks her sideways, just enough for Razor to roll over and get onto her feet.
As she raises up a sharp pain rattles through the back of her head from another one of Fluttershy's punches. Razor spins around from the hit and comes nose to nose with her. Without even a second for her to react, Razor launches a hoof up and into the snout of Fluttershy.
Fluttershy shuts her eyes as her snout is shoved back into her skull, sending an excruciating pain throughout her face. Fluttershy steps back with her eyes still closed, feeling pain slowly spread across her nose, teeth and eyes in the rhythm of her heart. Feeling a bit tired she hangs her head down, fighting the urge to pass out.
Surprised she hasn't already retaliated Razor looks at her with her good eye and takes a few steps closer. "Fluttershy, are you ok?"
Fluttershy sniffs and nods. Swaying a bit she continues to hold her head down as the throbbing pain creeps across her face all the way to her ears. She can hear the drips on the tile as the throbbing increases.
Razor watches as the drips increase sending a stream of red out of Fluttershy's nose. A small puddle begins to form on the tile, "Uh-oh, um... Fluttershy I'll be back."
Fluttershy nods and sniffs up a gulp of blood. She swallows it and quivers at the taste and amount that must be leaving her numb face. She tilts her head up and attempts to stop the bleeding, resulting in a large amount dripping down into her throat. She gags and tilts her head back down, while hearing hoofsteps enter the room. She opens her eyes a bit to see what was going on?
Razor throws a towel down on the splattered puddle, "Fluttershy I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do this." Razor stomps the towel down into the puddle and swirls it around to soak up as much as she can.
Fluttershy looks down at her and covers up her nose with a foreleg almost falling over in the process. Razor looks back up at her and notices how unbalanced Fluttershy has gotten and quickly runs to her side.
Razor lets her lean on her and helps Fluttershy away from the messy towel. She eases Fluttershy down onto the kitchen floor and examines her nose. "Fluttershy?" She looks at her. "Can you wiggle your nose?"
Fluttershy wiggles her blood matted nose back and forth behind her leg, getting a relieved sigh out of Razor. "That's good. I was, really hoping I didn't... break it." Razor continues to stare at her while Fluttershy stares back, worried about the terrible bruise she had created on Razor's eye. Unclear on what to say next, Razor simply apologizes, "Fluttershy... I'm sorry." She lays her head down on the floor next to her. Fluttershy closes her eyes again and slumps down further into her fore leg.
A knocking sound catches Razor's attention. She stands back up and looks towards the front door. "Uh, Razor? Are you home?" a strange voice asks on the other side. Razor hesitates, "Um... Yes?" She walks across the kitchen and through her living room to the front door. She uses her good eye and looks through the eye-hole, "A white unicorn and a... purple alicorn!? Princess Twilight!"
"Princess Twilight!!!" Razor bounces with joy into the air, her smile growing so large it hurt her bruised eye. She had heard so much about Twilight from Fluttershy, and if she was like her in any way they would become friends with her as well! Her excitement overpowers her and she throws both hooves on the door handle, ready to greet the princess of the land and the other pony who she can only assume is Rarity?
*****
"Razor?" Twilight asks again, raising her hoof to knock as the old creaky door flings open in front of her. Twilight jumps back in horror at the sight of a huge blue smile with one bright yellow eye glowing in the dim light of the afternoon. The face quickly lowers in front of her stretching out its minced and blood matted legs in a bow. A lovely voice happily exclaims, "Good afternoon Princess!"
Twilight takes a closer look at the sliced legs of the bowing mare in the doorway. Crusty red lines flow down from the multiple slashes across the legs' surface. Twilight gulps and attempts to speak, "Oh... Gulp Dear Celestia." Rarity stops examining the siding of the house and looks over at Razor. She sees her legs, filling her lungs with a shocked gasp.
Razor looks up at her, "What is it?" Underneath a pile of fuzzy tangled violet hair one good yellow eye looks up at her beside a deep, purple, squinting sore. The sight is too much to take in at once, Rarity screams at the top of her lungs, "Aaaaaaaaaaa-Uhf!" Twilight kicks her side. "Cough cough Oh my! Cough Um, excuse me dear!"
Razor's eye shifts between the two of them, feeling embarrassed and scared. Rarity sniffs a few times, "The allergies this year are just, really getting to me." Twilight frowns at her and looks back at Razor. "Um... Good afternoon to you too."
A moment of silence passes between the three of them, "Uh... so are you Razor Sharp?" Twilight asks. Razor stands up and nods, "Yeah." She looks over at Rarity, "Are you Rarity?"
Rarity jumps a little at the question, "Yes." Razor smiles and looks at the two of them, straining to open her injured eye. She gives a quick strain to open it, but the pain keeps it closed. "Ouch!" She lowers her head and puts a foreleg against her face. Twilight watches her eye twitch underneath her leg, "Uh... Razor Sharp? I think you need to go to the hospital."
Razor lifts her head up and blinks, "Nah, I'm good."
Twilight watches her put her leg back down and notices a few bruises on her shoulders. Politely she asks, "Razor, would it be ok if you stepped outside a little bit?"
"Oh, Sorry!" Razor steps out into the sun and reveals more bruises scattered across her body. "Oh My!" Rarity gasps again, walking a little closer to Razor.
"Razor I Really think you should visit the hospital." Twilight states again. Razor looks at them both almost blushing from her embarrassment. "But, I'm fine..."
Rarity can't stand seeing a pony this injured, "Razor, you can barely open your right eye! Come with us, we'll walk with you to the hospital." Razor thinks about it and rubs her legs together looking at the floor. The sound of scabs scraping together makes Rarity a little sick and increases Twilight's want to tend to her wounds.
Razor looks back to them opening her mouth, but is interrupted before she can speak. "And don't worry about the cost. I'll pay for any bills." Rarity smiles at Twilight, "Taking a page from my book I see."
Her stomach fills with butterflies as she comes to a decision, "Um... ok. But, could we stop somewhere to eat first?"
"Of course Darling! Neither of us have had a bite since breakfast."
Razor steps out into the sunlight a little further feeling a bit queasy, "Alright." She walks out of her doorway and up next to Twilight. Out of curiosity Rarity, looks into her house. Inside she sees a very clean living room and... a blood soaked towel on the floor! Instantly the lights flick off in the bloody room, sending a chill down her spine. "Probably just... ketchup. And... faulty wiring." Rarity looks away and catches up to Razor and Twilight now walking very close together.
"I've never been to the hospital before." Knowing they would bump heads if she turned Twilight simply glances over, "You've never been before? Well... good! I guess?"
Razor stops in her tracks and looks back at her house, "Fluttershy!" She hastily trots towards the open doorway calling back, "Sorry! I need to... uh, get something." She walks inside and closes the door behind her. She whispers, "Fluttershy? Did you know Twilight and Rarity are here?"
"Mmmhmm" Razor walks into the kitchen and flips the light on. The light unveils Fluttershy curled into a ball in the corner of the room. A large blood stain covers her leg where her nose lays; her eyes are nearly closed as Razor walks up. She kneels down in front of her, "Fluttershy..." She stares at the deep red gap between her nose and leg, "... Twilight said she would take me to the doctor. Do you want to come along?"
Fluttershy shakes her head and closes her eyes, wincing a bit. Razor lays down on the tile next to her, "Ok, I'll just stay here with you then."
Fluttershy shakes her head again, wincing a bit. She raises her snout up above her leg and whispers, "But, I want you to meet my friends."
Razor stares at the blood draped across Fluttershy's snout, "But..." Fluttershy opens her eyes a bit and looks at her, "Please?"
The look in her eyes is enough for Razor to know that she has to go. "Ok..." Razor nuzzles up next to her, "Bye Fluttershy..." Fluttershy rests her head back down into her leg closing her eyes.
While getting up Razor whispers to her, "If you want to sleep in my bed you can." Fluttershy smiles a bit and nods. "Ok!"
"It's the door on the right upstairs, the door across the hall is the bathroom." Fluttershy nods again.
Razor begins walking out of the kitchen waving at her friend whispering, "Bye!" Fluttershy smiles and sleepily waves back as Razor rounds the corner, turns off the light and heads back to the front door.
Outside Twilight and Rarity watch as Razor exits her home. Rarity takes another quick look inside before the door closes, but the light is still off. "Ready to go?" Twilight asks. "Yup! Just had to do... something." Razor quickly trots up next to Twilight again. "So where do you want to eat first?"