Gems and Butterflies
It was a cool breezy day in Ponyville, and the ponies were all very busy. Twilight was studying for the upcoming planet eclipse, Rainbow Dash was practicing for the Wonder Bolts tryouts, and Pinkie Pie was with Apple Jack, making apple pies. Rarity was in her dress shop, trying to think of new designs to wow Photo Finish. Fluttershy was walking around, looking for ingredients for the ever so picky Angel so he could have his salad. She had almost all of the ingredients, but she was missing a few things, which looked like a list that Zecora would make for some of strange stews and potions. Fluttershy read it aloud. “Rainbow down? Pie cotton candy puffs? Apple tears? Sparkly horn dust? Gem curls?” The last on the list sent chills through her entire pelt. Fluttershy had no idea what these things could be, or what Angel was thinking, but she knew how angry he would be if she didn’t have his salad for him by dinner.
She trotted around Ponyville, searching for the questionable ingredients. Little did she know, a dark and sinister presence followed her through the town, passing from shadow to shadow. She shuddered, her intuition was telling her something was wrong, but how could there be anything wrong on such a beautiful day? The shadow-hopping creature followed her back home, and waited in the chicken coop. Fluttershy heard a screech from her hens, and galloped as fast as she could out to the coop, only to find a gruesome scene. Feathers and blood, and a beak, hanging over the door. Fluttershy fainted at the very sight.
Fluttershy woke up, and found herself tied to a flat log in the middle of the Everfree Forest. She looked around, panicked, confused. She saw Angel, standing by a pile of things, she couldn’t make out what the blurry shapes were, but the stench told her it wasn’t good. Angel came over to her, holding what seemed to be a small doll version of Fluttershy. He smiled and flashed his wickedly sharp teeth and passed a faint cackle, the very best a bunny could produce. Fluttershy was horrified, how could Angel be doing... well whatever he was doing? Angel sliced open the chest of the little doll, staring at her with rabid, evil eyes. Then he put a cloth over her mouth and she passed out.
Fluttershy woke up in her soft, warm, safe bed. She had a violent headache, and her chest hurt as if it had been sliced open and filled with poison. She looked at it, and found nothing. Then she looked at the mirror, and saw that her eyes went from their soft blue to a dark blue, and they had deep red lines within, the lines looked like some sort of ancient writing. All she knew was that she was scared of herself. Then she heard a voice, not outside her head, but like an intrusive thought. “Fluttershyyy, we’re here to hellllp youuu... To make you very powerful, gooo too sleeep...” Fluttershy began to scream from the splitting pain within her head, and then promptly passed out again.
Fluttershy woke up again, but it seemed she was outside her body, linked to it, but unable to control it. She saw the chicken coop, but it was no longer filled with hens, eggs, and roosters. Instead it had tools, sharp, strange tools. And a book, without her able to control her body, it went over to the book, and began to read it aloud, in her voice, but scratchy, evil, possessed. “Evil falls, evil rises, evil fell again, Angel ponies with wings of white, brought upon us a horrid smite. We rise again, in the child of the winged ones, and use her body to steal the souls, to bring forth the Beelzebub, and destroy the moon and sun.” Horrified, the disattached Fluttershy tried to attack the book, tried to grab the tools and slice it to bits. She could not, however, as everything she touched fell through as if she were merely a mist.
Her body ran towards Ponyville, ravenous, insatiable, ready to listen to the dark forces within it. Fluttershy had no choice but to go along, even if she tried to fly from herself, she was pulled back. Her body first came to Rainbow Dash, flying and twirling in the sky. It flew towards her, and then head-butted her as hard as possible. Rainbow Dash fell to the ground, unconscious. The body then took the soft down feathers from Rainbow Dash's wings. Then to Pinkie Pie and Apple Jack, and ripped out Pinkie Pies neon curls, and kicked Apple Jack until a vial of tears was filled. Twilight Sparkle was attacked and had part of her horn filed down until there was dust from it in Fluttershy’s hoof. As the possessed body ran through town, cries of pain and shock filled the air. The last place to go, the last ingredient on the list, the last pony to visit; Rarity.
The dress shop was as pleasant as ever, and Rarity was adding gems to her newest creation. Fluttershy’s possessed body went into the shop, panting, shaking, poisoned. Rarity asked Fluttershy if she was ok, the body replied; “Not yet, but when I grind your horn into curls of ivory I will be!” Rarity looked confused, then nonchalantly replied; “But my horn would be useless to you broken and unattached.” She seemed to know something, something that Fluttershy did not. Then her horn began to glow, and Fluttershy’s chest moved forward, apparently not what it expected, because it fought back. Tears formed in Rarity’s eyes, and then her horn glowed even brighter, then it happened. A black, smokey, gem ripped from Fluttershy’s chest, and the departed pony was thrust back into her body. The gem dripped with blood and black fluid. Angel came through the door, enraged and obviously evil.
Rarity simply smashed the gem with her hoof, and seemed to break a spell. Angel though was still there, angry, enraged. Fluttershy knew all of this horror was Angel’s doing, she gave him two options, to fix it all and never do it again, or to become a new ingredient in Zecoras potions. Angel tried to attack Fluttershy, but she wasn’t going to be his doormat anymore. As the evil bunny flew through the air, she turned around and bucked him square in the forehead, killing him instantly. She went to all of her friends, who didn’t seem to remember how they got their wounds, or why Fluttershy had a huge gash in her chest. She went into the Everfree Forest, and cleared away the strange piles of body parts and evil tools. Zecora came by and took Angels body to make lucky rabbits feet, and used his skull for candles.
Fluttershy’s wound had finally healed, thanks to the Ponyville hospital. She went over to Rarity’s store to thank her for saving her. Rarity was waiting in the store, clothed in a dark, and rather dreary cloak. Fluttershy was confused, this was strange, Rarity would never be so... unfabulous. Then Fluttershy saw it, a faint, ghostly Rarity floating above her cloaked self. Fluttershy realized that Rarity had been infecteted by the evil gem, and now was possessed by it. Fluttershy did the only thing she knew to do. She went to Rarity’s stash of beautiful, but fragile gems, and ran into the Everfree Forest with them. Rarity chased her, chucking black magic covered rocks at her, or anything she could. Fluttershy could hear the faint cry from the ghostly Rarity, and continued on, to the spot where Angel had kept his tools of evil and torture. Fluttershy stopped abruptly, right by a cauldron.
The cauldron had a foul smelling liquid in it, and it was very dark. The gems that Fluttershy had taken were bright colored, translucent, and clean. Fluttershy put the bundle of gems up to the edge of the cauldron, then the cloaked Rarity screamed at her; “No! You can’t put those in there! It’ll ruin the brew!” Then she covered her mouth with her hooves, realizing she had said too much. Fluttershy smiled, and began to dump the colorful gems into the grotesque mixture. The earth began tremble, and Rarity’s horn released a dark magical glow, and it flew into the cauldron. The gems began to lose their luster, and seemed to suck up the dark elixir. Rarity became one with her body again, and cried for her gems. Then the cauldron began to glow, as if a sonic rainboom was occurring within the very depths of it. Then all of a sudden, millions of shadow like figures flew from Ponyville into the glowing cauldron, as it hissed. A huge, brilliant, bright rainbow shot from the cauldron into the sky, and then turned into rain. Colorful, gem like raindrops fell from the sky, brightening everything they fell on. Then the cauldron, liquid, and evil presence dissipated into a cloud of smoke, broken apart by the rain.
Fluttershy took Rarity back home, as she had fainted from all the horror. She laid Rarity down on her bed, and tucked her in. Fluttershy felt really bad for using Rarity’s favorite gems to conquer the evil, then she looked outside, and the rainbow rain started to become gems! Fluttershy ran outside, elated. The gems were brilliant, bright, vivid, and seemed unbreakable. They fell in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Fluttershy began to pick them up, and gather them into the store. Then she found a particularly beautiful gem. It was halfway shaped like Rarity’s cutie mark, a lustrous diamond, and half her own cutie mark, a fluttering butterfly. Fluttershy blushed, thinking about how she had always felt about Rarity, but had been too shy to tell her. Fluttershy decided she would make a pendant out of the gem, then she tripped over another one! She went into Rarity’s workshop and began to make the matching pendants, hoping this would be enough to tell Rarity how she felt.
Rarity woke up, just as Fluttershy had put the last bit of wrapping onto the gift, and was wearing hers, but hidden by her mane for the moment. Rarity was very happy to see Fluttershy, and hugged her very tightly. Fluttershy, blushing even brighter than Cherilee’s bright pelt, handed the gift to Rarity. Rarity opened it, and looked upon it as if it was the most wonderful thing in the world. Rarity then told Fluttershy that she had liked her for a long time, but wasn’t sure if she was... into mares. Fluttershy hugged Rarity, kissed her head, and said; “I love you, and I have for a while.” From then on, they were together, and such a sweet pair.