Fluttershy had the same problem like Dashie 5 years ago
In a world filled with unruly people, that pushes you around and treats you like trash specially when you're parents are both dead... life seemed to be turning out to be a cruel joke... but, despite the cruelty and tears we received and made... Sometimes... all we need, is a little kindness...
Christian was a hard working 20 year old boy, who's really down on his luck. He was broke, still at college and has a lot of problems... That all changed when he found a small Creature in a basket within his ruined house, thats all so yellow and pink hair to match... To his surprise, it was the last thing he expected to see in his entire life!
(Inspired by the story "My Little Dashie" and the reason im writing story through and through!)
(This was the idea of a guy named "Christian Mariano" He told me a story that made me write this, i just changed some of his dialect and a small reference to the story My Little Dashie:.. The credit goes to him not me, And for the record.. The picture is not mine as well)
Life is literally unfair, I go through ‘my’ life with such dull, uneventful and unsavory path. Every week I wake up, go to school, listen to lectures, get lunch, listen to more lectures, go to my part time job, get dinner and go home. In some cases, I go out to play computer games, or watch new episodes of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, every Sunday. Either that or some random things starts to happen... Like, for instance. Being chased by a stray dog across the street, which got me scared of those creatures. Or being chased by thugs, who have nothing better to do but to steal and mug. In time, I began to hate my life style so much.
Living in this town is not quite as adventurous and eventful as I hoped years before I moved from the city. They say that the field behind our house was fruitful with rice and corn, now it’s just a dried, crumbled piece of land. I didn't get to see those fields in person though, only from the stories that my grandparents told me. Since my parents died in an accident, I’ve lived here alone in my Grandparents house. I only wish, that they could have stayed with me, for just a bit longer that day. They expected me to graduate last year and get a real job and travel abroad.
Sadly, I can’t say that I have gotten that far in any case, nor have I Achieved anything at all...
Through the weeks that pass, its all, School, Part time, Home, Rewind all over again. But in some cases, I have time for my self to enjoy. But because of such routines I go through every day that those small times of enjoyment would just fade ten seconds flat, if I’m lucky, it will last longer than expected. Watching Lauren’s masterpiece “My Little Pony” gave me a reason to go home, and gets my hopes up much more. Every time I’m browsing a page that’s, all about ponies it makes me remember those fun yet colorful characters in the show and the peaceful bliss of their land, Equestria. Sometimes, I’m so absorbed by that place, that... I simply must reach out to the screen and touch it, thinking they might just grab me and let me join their fantastic adventure through out the day.
Those hopes and dreams are gone, when the LCD of my computer screen blocks my hand.
I blinked once or twice to come back to my world and noticed the time, so I just simply turn it off for the night. Sometimes I do that. If I just get bored of something, I just stand up, And walk away. The night was freezing, since it was mid December. I felt like going out, but a feeling was telling me not to. I just ignored the feeling and went on at my plan anyway, I took my jacket out of my closet, the jacket had a demon pattern on it along with my dark blue pants and went out.
I walked the long, dusty road away from my house. I barely passed or met any body along the way, there aren’t many people living in this town anyway. Not since their land got all dried up and they moved to another location, now all that's left are abandoned houses that looked like they were going to collapse any moment. The grass was totally gone and the once proud rice fields of the cold wet muddy pits that used to be grown there, now its just a cracked, piece of earth that looks more like something like a meteor had fell over it. That thought made me laugh a bit.
I looked back at the landscape; the sky is clear but also cold. In the horizon, it reminded me of some of my crudely drawn pictures of the night sky that my mom used to do when I was little. She stood by me until I made my greatest sketch of all... “The night the star came down” was the name given to it by my mother, it was strange... When I remember it clearly, its more like in the shape of a butterfly, less like a star. Its funny though, It reminded me of Fluttershy. It made me giggle like a little girl of that thought, almost wishing for a stuffed version of her along with me all the time...I thought to my self, that was like a thought of a little girl! I shrugged the idea away and just continued with my stroll along the dusty old road. But still.. I really wanted one, just like what I had when I was young. Holding a cat Stuffed animal and never giving it to anyone, taking care of it like it was a real animal, and protecting it like its father or mother from predators.
I stopped by a small convenience store and bought some coke, I sat outside looking at the sky in a melancholic way, thinking about the times I had with my parents. Well, not all memories in my mind are good. There was almost a time I really wished they were dead! And just stop going through my life with such nagging, “Don't do this!” or “Don't do that!”. Man its making me sick! I snapped back to reality, leaving my unsavory memories of my parents behind along with my empty coke bottle near the store and went home.
At the very moment I got home, I immediately opened my T.V and watched “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” A Japanese anime that was suppose to be popular among the locals there. I could see why it was 'very' popular. Animes are also one of my favorite things to watch, but most of all are the ponies. After the show I logged in to my computer and watched the latest update of MLP. The same, heart warming sight made all my bad memories go to waste as I watch them in their adventures. After which I went to bed, hoping to see them in the dream world.
That morning as usual, I went to school thinking the boring damn lectures are about to go through the day again, The worst is, it was raining hard. I really hate fucking rain! By the looks of things, this might last till afternoon, and well guess what ... It did. Every hour I spend in class was torture! Equations, numerical's and algorithms. The damn fucking numbers are making me fall asleep on class all the time, and wished that all of this would just disappear. That afternoon, I was about to go to work when a Fire Truck came passed me and went towards the shop I was working on.
Apparently The store was on fire and all of its contents are turned to ash! So to speak, the employees got their salary of the day and just left. I on the other hand, also got my salary yet I didn't do anything today. A bit of dishonesty had aroused in me and just took the money without asking questions why they given me. I just thought, well... Maybe just an advance pay, or maybe they just didn't see me that I was actually not working at the time. At any case, I don’t care any of it at all...
I went home early to catch more of my favorite shows from the afternoon time scale, inorder for me to catch up the interesting story of both ponies and Haruhi. As i was about to reach my house something caught my eye. Near the ground i saw hoof prints of some horse or cow. Thinking that maybe one of the live stock from the nearby farm must have gotten out and went astray. I didn't bother to check at it, for it was not of my business at all, then again, I just remembered that... There was no longer any livestock there. Since the land grew dry, not a single farmer ever went back to that site. This got me baffled at so many ways, I followed the tracks leading to an open field disappearing through the thick land of grass. I didn't bother to continue through because of the rain. I just left that thought and ran inside the house.
That evening I was happily watching MLP in my computer, listening to the song “Winter Wrap Up” and singing along with it. Just as I was about to turn it off, a little knock on my door echoed to my house. I stopped. Listening to it again, like a ticking of a clock, it knocked two or three times before it pauses again. “That's strange” I Thought to my self. I never expected any company tonight, Hell I don't even remember Invited anyone at all! Thinking it must be a thug, or a thief I grabbed a wooden sword like stick and went for the door. I slowly opened the door and prepared my weapon, gripping tightly within the base of the stick about to bash the freaking head of the intruder. I raised the stick up high as I opened the door in full swing. But all I found was a basket with a paper attached to its side, with crude writing that almost unreadable. I squinted on the letters to find a meaning to it, until finally I got the message. “Please give to a caring home”
“Oh great! A cat, Just what I need” I sarcastically said, I really need no pets at this time so I just left it outside without taking a look at whats inside. I went to bed and tried to sleep, but every time I close my eyes, that basket keeps popping up through my mind! I can’t sleep at all, my curiosity and mercy got the better at me. I quickly put on my jacket and goes back to the door to bring the basket in. The basket is poorly made, and it seems its about to crumble at any second. I placed the basket near the couch and sat next to it, there was a small white blanket covering a small thing inside it, that moves a little every second. I still wonder what was inside the basket, if it were a cat it should have meowed for milk or something. I poked it once and twice, and every time I poked it ... it squeaked.
“Wait, Squeaked?!”
I quickly pull out the blanket, but as soon as I took it out a lightning struck outside causing all the lights in my house to go out. as soon as the lights went out I heard another squeak followed by something crawl up to my jacket. I was motionless, only feeling what the animal is doing next. As I looked under my jacket the creature was cuddled along my chest, and it looks frightened by the lightning. As I took the flashlight and looks at the thing cuddled up my chest, I saw a bright yellow fur, with pink hair at its back neck.. It no larger than a book and slightly shaken by the event. As I look at it in the light, my heart sank and my head felt it went big. I can’t believe what I was seeing! There is not a physical, mental, or extraterrestrial way how this could be here... How she could be here, in my stinking, pathetic and horrid world. I examine her further, My hands are sweating, my breathing erratic, and I'm blinking my eyes trying to refresh my vision. every time I opened my eyes it was the same thing.
There is no doubt that the creature hiding between my jacket is no other than a frightened, filly.. Fluttershy.
This is insane! I must be going crazy! Right in front of me... And I mean In front of me! Was a young Fluttershy. “This must be a dream” I said to my self. I pinched my self to be sure, but she’s still there. Inside my jacket, hiding. The next thing I knew I started to ask my self, besides the fact that a “Fluttershy in a basket” thing.. Its Why would anybody.. or rather why would anyone give up a Filly Fluttershy? I mean that’s just stupid of them not to take her in!
Well... I almost did, but thank god I didn't left it outside.
I was about to stand up and bring her to my room to sleep but bumped at the table near me, and the inevitable happened: she looked up, straight through my eyes.
At first I thought: “She’s gonna do the stare at me” but she didn't, She looks around, rubbing her face with a foreleg, trying to figure out where she is...
At first all she sees are the leather sides of my jacket, but then she looks back up to me. Those large black eyes, along with the pink-colored rim around them, drive my heart to, as the people geeks say, explode... twice. The sheer cuteness of it all drives me to kneel back down, and I can't hold back a smile. Never in all my years I smiled like that, not since i got my new P.S and laptop..but still not like this much at all!
She looks at me with such confusion, I didn't know what to say next..
I tried to speak but my tongue was frozen, several tries of moving my lips later, I finally spit out a single word.
“Hello?”
She didn't respond and just hid under my jacket.
“Why are you in a basket?” I asked again.
She peeks out again, looking back at me. The more I examine her the more I realize she is really young; years younger than her filly appearance in episode twenty three, or something. She might not have the ability to speak yet..that is well, if she can talk here.The fact that she is even here right now has me twitching in confusion. I return my attention back to her, and notice a small shiver of her body. It was still raining outside, and it can get pretty cold, especially around mid-December.
I don't know exactly how to deal with this situation; do I let her stay? Do I leave her outside? Do I even call someone? Screw that, who can I even call? I’m the only brony in this side of town and there is no one within a fifty mile radius. I don't have any friends except for Joyce, but she’s far from here, but didn't quite watch the show that often. I can’t take her in the pound... That's a pathetic choice from the beginning. Not only its the most nasty decision, she might be taken to some experimental facility and gets tested on or something just as equally horrible. I have only left with one option.
She snuggles again inside my jacket making her self comfortable. she huddles beside my arm and feels like she’s going to a deep sleep.. That settles it, I can’t just abandon or throw her outside, I walked to my room and set her down the bed and put a blanket around her to keep warm, she moves around a bit until she found a right spot to settle as she lays there fast asleep.
I watched her sleeping in my bed for a while until I left the room and sits to my computer.
My mind is now overflowing with questions again and again like, Am I crazy or is this a joke? Time went on for an hour until I fell asleep in my computer desk, only to be woken up by the sound of my cell phone rigging. It was Joyce, saying that school was about to start. I looked at my watch and sure enough, It was already 10:00 a.m: (8:30 was our class though). I quickly scrambled up my chair and went to wash my face and get a quick breakfast, and went to change. Just when I was about to go to my room. I quickly remembered that Fluttershy was sleeping in there. I laugh a bit thinking that, that was just a dream and the fact that Fluttershy wont just knock on my door and asking to be taken care of... Its just absurd!
But when I opened my door, those moments started to come back and haunt me. There she was, sleeping like a baby up in my pillows, It wasn't a dream! She’s here In person! Or, in pony! I called Joyce back and told her I’m calling in sick today and have to skip school today. It was suppose to be our Christmas party today before the winter vacation, but I’ll just skip it, for the sake of my new found friend... I slowly went to her side, holding her, feeling her soft furry body. I still cant believe that she is sleeping in my room, in my house, in my world!
As I look at her sleeping, I noticed her eyes moved a bit, she’s about to wake up. Her eyes opened and looked around the room, seemingly trying to determine where she is.
“Hi there..” I said to her, but she just looked at me with a blank expression.
“What are you doing here in my world?” The question just came out, I didn't mean to say it out loud , but it just sort of happens every now and then. Not having friends its quite a lonesome world for me, except Joyce. So I find myself talking to, well, myself a lot. I don't own a pet, because that just means more money to throw out and I'm barely managing my life style as it is.
she didn't know either. Then again, what else should I expect from a filly that can't even talk yet.
“Are you lost, or something?”
The moment the words left my mouth, her ears droop and she looks to the sheets of the bed.
“O-oh, sorry”
The thought hits that she has no clue what is going on, where she is, who I am, or anything else. She's beyond the word "lost": she is misplaced.
“Well, if you want... You can stay here with me”
I noticed her head lifted up, her ears stood up, and looks at me with such worried eyes. I thought my words didn't sound encouraging enough, so I cracked a smile as I spoke to her.
“Don’t worry, I’m not that kind of a bad person, sort of... But rest assured, your in good hands, in the mean time your welcome at my humble home”
Her face became normal and smiled back at me, her wings flutter a bit and looks at me again.
The next few hours are spent giving her the "great expedition " of my house. Nothing amazing to see, except the third room upstairs where I kept some scrap books and drawings of MLP characters, which I avoided her to see. Afterwords, I gave her something to eat. I break up some small cabbages, and amazingly I discover she has some teeth. Since she is still a filly, I wasn't sure if she could eat solid foods such as cabbages yet. Then again, she is from a cartoon so I don't know what is "the right thing" for her anyway.
After her supper, I stood up and went to the living room, she flapped her wings and followed me there after finishing her cabbage, and sits near my lap. she circled a bit to find a spot to lay down until finally she curls up to a ball and drifts to sleep.
I felt my heart exploded once more.
Looking at her sleep in such peaceful way made my heart literally melt, usually I only let cats sit in my lap as I pat them in the head until they fall asleep, Or any animals (Usually small) for that matter. I used to have a pet chicken, a hen actually. She was well trained that when I just spread my hands while she’s in front of me, she would just come close and lets me hold her up. I loved that chicken so much...but one day, she went out and got chased by our dog, she got cornered and got torn apart alive. when I went to play with her a bit, I found her mutilated by that blasted dog. My sight went black! I got a sickle and a hammer and brutally killed the animal in cold blood. I never felt so much rage in me, like hell itself took over me and releases its fiery vengeance on the dog... When I finished the life of the dog I regained my consciousness and realized what I have done, I literally cried for the loss of my animal friend and for killing the dog. I never had any pets since that day... I was afraid that if I loved another animal, I might end up losing it or might kill some other animal because of my unforgiving rage.
“NO!” I shouted within my mind. “That will not happen! I will not allow such demonic thing come to my mind! Never!” I said to my self, hoping and wishing... That I wont do such horrible thing to her, ever.
At some point I fell asleep in the couch. It was the start of our Christmas vacation, and I plan to spend my time with her alone and nothing more. But she’s still snuggled up at my lap sleeping. I carefully lifted her up and set her down at the couch and used my jacket as her blanket as I went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. As I was frying eggs and making cabbage cobbler, I thought of something. that all I wanted for Christmas was a Pony stuffed toy to cuddle while in sleeping every night and I’m not ashamed to say it to any of my classmates. But now I have a real pony, a filly Fluttershy sleeping at my couch. content as though she's known me since childhood.
Right now, there is nothing else in the world that matters to me. My sadness, my sore head and stone cold heart all seem to melt to nothingness, as nothing else can come greatly close to the feeling I’m having right now; this happiness I am experiencing at this moment as I cooked our breakfast. She is here. She is real. Right now with me, she is my little pony. She is... my shy little friend.
The following weeks I spent time with Fluttershy was like a dream. Almost too good to be true! We spend Christmas and gave her a scarf that my mother gave me when I was a kid. It suits her well. At New year she was afraid to go out and see the fire works from afar.. who can blame her, Even I was scared to those things. Time goes by fast as it was already March, I struggled to finish my last days on college until finally, it was my graduation! I went off to buy some vegetables and cake for me and her, celebrating my graduation to college. But before I could even start the festivities, I also bought some writing materials and books for her. Might as well teach her some basic Kindergarten teachings, like the alphabets, basic counting and writing...the only problem is, she has no hands, only hooves. We’ll just be creative in some way.
As I near my little home, I saw her peeking and waiting for my arrival at the window sill. Like an impatient child waiting for a gift to be given to her by her father. As I opened the door, her wings flutter in excitement for she knew I had brought her something nice, she sees the cake and seemingly begging to give her some, who am I to refuse? I gave her a large helping of chocolate cake, which she ate slowly and elegantly. I was surprised, thought she will be like those other kids that will just eat the darn thing in a sloppy way. Guess my ‘expectations’ is just wrong, as always.
I let her watch some anime during the morning, she seems to enjoy “Baka to test to shukanjuu” although she can't understand Japanese, she still finds it amusing and entertaining for some reason. After the show I started to teach her the basic learning materials in my world. She paid attention closely and listened to me clearly all to the night, I know it was early for her to learn such things but I need to teach her as soon as possible so that me and her can understand more clearly. I started to teach her to write which really gave her a hard time...then as I expected she used her, well... You guessed it, her mouth. I’m not that creative to make something to help her with her writing, because even though my course is Information Technology and Engineering, I cant even make a simple program or device. But she managed to write well, which gave me relief..
This continued for almost 4 months, until finally she perfected it. I didn't knew it was possible...but I managed to teach her all I know, well...except algebra and science not to mention history of Philippine culture. But on the other hand, its useless for her to learn those other things because she’s not even born here. All my time was given to her, and barely had time for my self. I didn't mind it at all, because she’s my world now. Raising her like the daughter I never had. In time I started to named her Fluttershy, its only fair to gave her original name instead of something weird like “Pinkie” because of her pink mane, because that will just be downright odd.
For the passed months I noticed her looking outside my window every so often, I'm not worried about her being seen by passerby's. Like I said, The entire place is barely inhabitable by other people so that's the least of my worries. Still, though she doesn't say anything to me yet, I can see the hunger for fresh air in her eyes. I can't keep her in here her entire life.
Yeah right...I keep talking like she is going to be here forever. That not true. One of these days, some day, she will return home, whether it'll be a simple "ping!" and she's gone, or through some magical spell and Twilight shows up and takes her home to fix everything. In my heart, I hope that never happens. In my head, I know it will. It's just a matter of time.
That settles it! Tomorrow I’ll go out with her to the fields for a walk or flight. And make her fly even higher than usual... I hope that tomorrow is a sunny day, or else she wont have the chance to go out from my house for some sunshine.
If you tell me, that you cared and nurtured a cartoon character over the past years, I’ll call you ‘nuts’. I might as well be so in all that is real. But I didn't mind, I was happy, she was happy. Its all good. It was already 4 years since she came to my care, she’s grown a bit but she still cant fly that high enough. I had no experience on flying in the first place, and I was a lousy at teaching her to fly higher, I really wish i could teach her more than that.
It was a Monday morning, the clouds are a bit dark and ominous. I took her out for a picnic in one of my favorite spots in the field where I watched the thunder clouds out in a distance, when we got at the spot, some animals were hanging out there like chickens, birds any farm animals, you name ‘em. She asked me if she could go and play with them. I couldn't see why not? She talked to them for some time while I was setting up the blanket and the food. Just when I was about to call out for her a lightning shot across the field giving off a loud bang, like of a bazooka being blasted to a building. I looked at the sky and sure enough, rain was about to pour...hard. and its coming right towards us!
I looked at her expecting she’d run towards me because of fear, again my expectations were wrong. she went towards for animals instead and calmed them down because all of them became frightened of what just happened. She managed to talked them out of their fear and calmed them down, then something amazing happened... Her cutie mark appears before my eyes, I was glad for her to had finally got her cutie mark. She then walks towards me and asked if there is any place for the animals to stay for a while...
This was unexpected...I mean seriously where should I keep these animals? Certainly not my house, because that’s just plain wrong. I have to do something, or else she might not think I’m kind enough. Then it hit me like a rock, those abandoned houses across the street where I lived is the perfect place for them, since they already left it to rot anyway. I gathered the things back to the basket and ask Fluttershy for them to follow me, she’s quite good at telling them, that I was quite proud of her.
As she settles them into the house, Me and Fluttershy went back to the house and prepared supper, The picnic was a bust, but in return she got her cutie mark. And that's all that matters for me for today...
That night, we had supper and talked about things, like how was her day and how did it go...its cheesy but that's all I could think of at the moment. Then I asked her if she liked here with me, she nods with a hint of blush in her face.
“Umm.. sir?” She looked at me, as if she wants something to ask but cant say it clearly.
“Is something, troubling you shy?” I asked her with such concern in my voice.
“May.. I uhm.. I-if you like uhm..” She doesnt seem to say it directly since she keeps shaking every time she spoke.
“Call me what shy?” I knew what she was about to say, but I wanted to be sure and say it straight from the horses mouth. No pun intended.
“Can I...call you...” She keeps the word back until she finally said those words I was expecting. “Can I call... you dad?
I smiled and pat her in the head.
“You can call me what ever you like my little shy”
She flutters into my arms and gave me a hug, I returned the favor and hugged her back. It was a dream come true, a dream that I don't want to wake up to.
That night she went to bed ahead of me as I think about something, If I should give shy her own room but the only problem is, there is no space. I planned to fix it while she plays with the animals in the other house as a little surprise for her. It was settled, tomorrow I’ll give shy her own room. I went to sleep on the couch instead, and planned to wake up early for me to get started right away...
As I was in my deep sleep I suddenly heard a soft crying from somewhere which woke me up in the dead of night. She was crying. I scrambled up to my bedroom only to find Fluttershy crying in my bed.
“Shy, whats wrong? What happened?” I asked her as I went to her side trying to comfort her, She just hugged me tight never letting go.
“I had a bad dream” She cried some more as she tells me about her dream. She said that she dreamt that I was leaving her alone and walked away, she tried to run towards me but could not catch up then everything just vanish before her eyes. I gave her a hug and whispered to her ear.
“I would never leave you alone, you can count on me” She looks at me through my eyes. “Why would I leave you alone? I would be a cruel heartless person if I do that, now do I?”
She smiled and went back to her pillow.
“Tell you what, I’ll stay and sleep with you here, hows that sound?” She blushed a bit as she opened her mouth to say something.
“Is...Is it okay?” She asked softly. I just nodded and went to bed with her. I tucked her to bed as she lay down to the soft pillow. The I just thought of a way for her to sleep comfortably.
“How about I sing you a lullaby?” I said to her.
“That would be wonderful” She replied, I cleared my throat and sang her a lullaby that I recently heard.
“Hush now, Quiet now It's time to lay your sleepy head Hush now, Quiet now It's time to go to bed
Hush now, Quiet now It's time to lay your sleepy head Hush now, Quiet now It's time to go to bed”
I almost started to think that Sweetie Belle might just pop out and sing the “Jazz” version of the song. Luckily it didn't happen. She quickly went off to sleep as I lay there brushing her as she sleeps... Soon after, I joined her into the dream world...
That morning I woke up ahead of her and went to the kitchen to fix her breakfast, this time it was broccoli stew, her favorite dish. and as for me, Hot dogs! I ate first so that she wont see my eating meat. The fact that if she sees me eating meat she might think that I’m a predator myself. Those stupid thoughts just pops out to my mind, but still, what will happen if she finds out that I’m partially a meat eater? I don't even want to know...
She woke up and got out of bed, just in time as I was finishing up my breakfast. She floats to the kitchen and sat across the table, I gave her the bowl of broccoli stew and happily eats it.. I told her that I had a surprise for her, but she has to stay outside and play with the animals for a while while I get it prepared. Her expression was full of excitement and agrees to my condition, she said that she looks forward for it and went out, smiling all the way as she goes to the other house. I started to work as soon as she went outside.
I lifted up boxes and transferred them to the attic, doing the same process for the past two hours. By the time I got the boxes out, I started fixing the old room...dusting it, setting the bed, putting in mirrors and other things, I still left somethings undone so she could fix it up how ever she likes it..
It was nearly eight p.m when she came back inside the house after playing with the animals, she even brought a little bird in...
“Dad? This is Leaf, Leaf, this is my dad” She introduces a small bird to me, that literally talks to her!
“That's nice” I smiled and pats her head, as I told her to come and see something. I asked her to close her eyes as we go in front of the door.
“Okay Shy, open your eyes”
She opens her eye lids and saw a room that has a name printed to the door that reads “Fluttershy”
“Yes shy, I’m giving you your own room” I said to her with a smile, as she was crying with joy.. “Is this room, for me dad?” She said in a very soft tone, barely showing her excitement. I plainly nodded in approval as she went inside and looks at her new room. She looks back and gave me a hug, completely accepting the warm embrace she gave me.
“Thank you, Dad”
“Your very welcome, now tomorrow lets buy you some stuff for your room. What do you say?”
“That would be wonderful, Dad”
I carried her to the kitchen to have diner, tonight was all veggies , chop suey and what we call “Pinakbet”. its some dish made out of Okra, squash, and a variety of beans mixed together, usually with meat but i just left the meat out of the dish. She liked it so much that she wants it every time, sadly though, I don't even like that stuff. Much more the squash.
I managed to take her to town without anyone noticing her, its a miracle of what you can do with a costume of a dog that fits a pony very well. She picked up animal posters, decorations and other things. Again we went home late, and nearly dark outside. I put her things to her room and lets her decorates it what ever she likes, I also bought plastic flowers along, she wanted real ones but it will just wither if she just hangs them up. The sight of her being happy melts my heart and soul to the very core. I sat at the computer looking for new post of Anime shows and checked the MLP site, it seems that the show is still running, but doesn't seem to be missing Fluttershy.
I quickly turned off my monitor, fearing that she might see that the fact she isn't real and only made up of a fictional character... I hid this fact from her for almost four years, hoping that she might stay here for quite sometime,I even thought of her staying forever until the day I die.
Just hoping...
It was December 20Th.. her birthday, I declared her this day her birthday since this is the day i found her in my door step and changed my life until now, I made her a carrot cake out of scratch. It came out well...except that the shape and size of the thing just ballooned making the letters that supposed to read “Happy Birthday Fluttershy” had turned to something like “Irthy Tershy Ersh” making the words a bit horrid to read out loud she just laughed at it and thanked me for it.. I didn't even know if that's gratitude or just out of pity, but ever the same its quite heart warming..
That morning I went out for a stroll leaving her to tend for the house with the animals. I was thinking that I could bring her some presents before Christmas arrives. I went to the ATM first to withdraw some of my parents money that they left me in their will.
I took out 100,000 pesos out of the account and went for shopping, buying two cakes and stuffed animal toys for her. not to mention some food and supplies.. I was out for an hour when I met Joyce along they way..
“Oh, hey Chris!” She greeted me as she waves her hand to me “I haven't seen you since graduation.. Where have you been?”
“Just hanging out at home” I answered in a dead pan voice, I really not in the mood talking to her. besides she’s a bit talkative about everyday life. Specially personal things, like my life, that she keeps asking about.
“Is that so? Why not go with me in the restaurant and eat for lunch?” She offers me as she points to a Jollybee Fast food spot.
“I can’t I have much more to do and...” Before I can even finish my sentence, She yanked my arm and dragged me to the place.
“Come on, for once lets hang out together please?” She begs and did the “Puppy dog” face on me... That doesn't effect me at all! (Except on Fluttershy) rather alone with this girl...
“I said no! And that's final...” I said breaking the grip of her hand off my arm, and left her alone standing in front of the restaurant.
I walked straight home along the desolate road, my house coming into view as I walked closer and closer to it. As I was about to open my door something jumped at my back and covered my eyes! Thinking it was Fluttershy, I grabbed her back to see her smiling face...
But to my surprise, it was Joyce!
“What the hell are you doing here?!” I shouted, frantically pushing her out of the doorstep.
“I came to visit! Why is it wrong?” she said sarcastically..
“Its not wrong its just...” I needed her to leave fast, If she sees Fluttershy, she might blab the whole thing that might cause people to come and see that a “Winged horse had appeared!” and scientist would take her away from me!
I wont allow that...
“Please, you have to leave Joyce!” I’m literally begging her to leave, but she just shunned at me and went inside anyway..
I grabbed her arm and pulls her out, causing me and her to fall down face to face with each other..
I never went red like this ever, staring at her this close, with a real girl! I never had this trouble with Fluttershy before.
I quickly stood up and helped her to get up as well.. As I was about to ask her to leave again Fluttershy floats in front of the door as Joyce spots her immediately...
Joyce and Fluttershy Stared at each other for almost a minute, without thinking I grabbed Joyce and took her behind the house, and told Shy to wait inside while I talk to her. She nods and timidly went inside the house.
“Is that who I think it is?!” She asked in both amazement and confusion.
“Yes it is, Its Fluttershy” I had no choice but to admit it to her.
“I don’t believe it! Wait~ is that a robot or something?” She asked. My heart pumps faster as I saw an opening to escape this situation, I went along with her idea.
“Y-yes, she’s a robotic toy I bought last year” I knew it was a complete lie, but I had no choice but to lie to her, in order to save the secret of Shy being here in the first place.
“Wait, If she’s robotic. Why is she eating a carrot?”
I looked behind me and saw her eating a carrot in the kitchen, I looked back at Joyce and just made another excuse and shoved her out of my backyard, telling her to go home. She made a face at me and left, pouting while walking away from my house.
I went back as I watched and made sure Joyce had really left..and hoped that she wont blab this to my other friends (as if I got any) or any one she knows. As I went inside Shy looks at me, and probably about to ask who was that she just saw.
“Who was that dad?” She asked, as I expected her to.
“Just someone who really annoys me, Shy” I told her grumpily
“Is she your friend, Dad?”
“Kind of, but not much of a friend” I shrugged at that thought and looked back at Shy, She seems confused and probably something going to her mind.
“What was that about a robot, Dad?” She asked as she eats another carrot.
“Oh, you heard that? its uh, its just about a toy that's all” I said to her while flashing a smile at her. She smiles back and flutters to the living room to watch Animal Planet.
I still keep thinking about what happened earlier. If Joyce can find us here, who knows who might come walking down that dusty old road again... I have to protect her no matter what!
That evening, I was washing some clothes and Shy was sitting at the couch, still watching animal channel when my phone rang, It was my uncle Milo.
“Yeah, Sup?”
“Listen, Its Joyce! She’s been in an accident”
Those words made me pale out of my skin, I dropped the phone and broke into pieces right before my feet. I left what I was doing, and got dressed and told Shy to stay at the house and close the door, she nods at me and floats towards me.
“Take care, Daddy” She gave me a kiss on the cheek and returns to the couch. That made me happy a bit, but quickly fades as I return my thoughts to Joyce. What happened to her, and how did she got in an accident? I went to town and grabbed my phone on my pocket, only to remember that I left it at home shattered at the kitchen floor. I damned my stupidity and just went to a pay phone. I called back my uncle and asked where is she now.. She was in Garcia Medical Hospital being treated.
My mind is now racing like a computer overloading its circuits. Even she doesn't deserve this, not even a loud mouth, annoying girl like her. As I walked to the main road, my mind is still wondering. I didn't notice the motorcycle coming towards me as it hits me in the side. I spun around and hit the ground face first, that sorry of a bastard didn’t even stop to check me up. I hope he crashes to a car.
I stood up and felt a sharp pain in my side, that damn bike bruised my upper leg and it hurts like hell!
“Son of a bitch!” I shouted in anger, first Joyce got in an accident now I got hit my a fucking bike?! I Struggled to to get once again and walked to the hospital to see Joyce... I endured the pain while walking all the way to the hospital. I walked in and asked the nurse where her room was, she told me that she was in suite five, third floor of the building. The place is big for a hospital, its quite spacious and lots of rooms. I wondered what become of the old building of this place last year, I thought maybe they renovated it or just destroyed it all the same.
I didn't bother to know about that, right now I just need to be sure if she’s alright. I got to suite five after a long climb on the stairs. As I entered the room, my uncle Milo was sitting beside her, watching over the unconscious Joyce in bed.
“What happened?” I asked my uncle as he sits there silently, and not moving at all.
“She got hit my a car while crossing the street, they said she might be in a coma...but I haven't got any reports on her condition as of now” He said to me almost tearing up.
“Who hit her?”
“The guy drove away, when that bastard hit her...he just drove off and didn't even care”
The irony of this, is that I got hit by a motor bike and drove away like it was nothing as well.
“Any damage on her body?” I asked him silently.
“Luckily, none” He answered back.
I asked if he wants anything as I was about to leave the hospital, He just looks at me and didn't answered back... I went out of the hospital and walked towards home, another four miles to walk. I felt bad about throwing her out in the first place, Its probably my fault that she had an accident, The guilt is pouring like water inside me, consuming my soul to its very core.
Over and over, the voice of guilt called out to me...saying those horrible words like a broken record!
“Its your fault! Its your fault! Its your fault! Its your fault! Its your fault!!!”
“GOD DAMN IT!!! WHY DID I DO THAT!!!” I shouted as I kneel to the ground.
Its totally my fault for asking her to leave instead of going inside and have a chat with Fluttershy. I was a wreak, just like what happened to my parents first the coma and then death.. I tried to erase that possibility in my mind hoping that, that wont happen to her. But as soon as I was about to forget that thought, it comes back ten-fold.
I got really worried at her condition, thinking that if she dies.. then another will fill my broken hear yet again... After all, She’s my sister.
(You will notice that I put the lyrics of the "Winter Wrap up" in this part, but the lyrics was requested by some people "out of the site" to put in the lyrics... if this annoys the readers.. i apologize in advance, just say the word and ill erase the lyrics in the next update)
I Sluggishly returned home, Still holding to my injured upper leg as I walked another forty meters to the house. When I finally got to the front door, I felt that something was wrong, It was quiet...too quiet. Normally at this time she would be watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, because it was Friday. I entered in to the house, expecting her to be asleep, but to my surprise..
She was sitting at my computer...
Watching My Little Pony ... (The episode Winter Wrap up) listening for one of my favorite songs...it played the happy song as she listens to it..
Three months of winter coolness, and awesome holidays~ We've kept our hoovesies warm at home, time off from work to play~ But the food we've stored is running out, and we can't grow in this cold And even though I love my boots, this fashion's getting old~
Those lyrics brings back a part of my memory back...
The time has come to welcome Spring, And all things warm and green. But it's also time to say goodbye, It's Winter we must clean. How can I help, I'm new you see, What does everypony do? How do I fit in without magic? I haven't got a clue!
“Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! Let's finish our holiday cheer~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here!”
To those days when I was lonely....
“Bringing home the Southern birds, A pegasus' job begins~ And clearing all the gloomy skies, And let the sun shine in! We move the clouds and we melt the white snow, When the sun comes up it's warmth and beauty will glow!”
To the days when I almost in the verge of depression...
“Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! Let's finish our holiday cheer~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ Winter Wrap-Up Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here!”
When my parents are still alive...
“Little critters hibernate, Under the snow and ice We wake up all the sleepyheads, So quietly and nice! We help them gather up their food, Fix their homes below We welcome back the Southern birds, So the families can grow!”
Watching them, wishing I could be with them...
“Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! Let's finish our holiday cheer~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here!”
Wanting to, be a part of their lives...
“No easy task to clear the ground, Plant our tiny seeds With proper care and sunshine, Everyone it feeds Apples, carrots, celery stocks, Colourful flowers too! We must work so very hard, It's just so much to do!”
Hoping...
“Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! Let's finish our holiday cheer~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here!”
Dreaming...
“Now that I know what they all do, I have to find my place~ Help with all of my heart, Tough task ahead I face How will I do without my magic, Help the earth pony way~ I wanna belong, so I must... Do my best today Do my best today~~~~~”
Wanting so much to leave my sad and forsaken life...
Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! Let's finish our holiday cheer~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up! 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here~ 'Cause tomorrow Spring is here!
That is...after I met and found Fluttershy in my door step. It was the most Magical moment of my life...
I was stunned, watching her see...well “herself” inside the computer while doing things like “She” normally do in Ponyville. Shy found out the truth before I could tell her myself. She knows what she is, a made up cartoon character from a kids television show. She is mad, no, upset beyond all thought. She had locked herself in her room.
“Why didn't you told me?!” She shouted “Why didnt you tell me that I was nothing more than a Silly made up cartoon?!”
I tried to explain but she told me to go away and cries alone inside.
I'm horrible..
I should have told her sooner, I just wasn't sure when would be the right time. Now we are both suffering for my stupidity. I thought that the show stopped airing and erased the link from my computer to prevent her from finding out. I didn't even know it was still up, and find my surprise the show My Little Pony is still even IN THE SITE! It had stopped at eight seasons, but still it was repeated.
This is turning out to be a terrible night...first Joyce, now Fluttershy!
I went to her room after an hour and knocked again, this time she didn't respond. I knocked again, still no answer. I felt something was wrong I held the knob and rammed the door forcing it to open...as I crashed inside her room expecting her still crying in her bed, but all i saw was an empty space and an open window...
She went out, probably to sulk somewhere. It was dark and rain is starting to pour, I can’t bear for her to be outside while in the dead of winter and the coldness of the weather. I grabbed my flashlight and jacket, slipped to my boots and went out to look for her. I circled the dark houses, searching literally high and low for her. Already I spent five hours looking for her outside, my head already on fire and chills creeps to my back. I knelled down on the mud, and begged god for her to return, I was crying, literally crying. I can’t stand to be alone! She was my only hope for a peaceful life, I was like a father to her and I failed to do so, for I kept the darn secret and havent told her all this years...
I cursed my self. For the thought that I’d be a good father to her, and be truthful to her forever more.
I went home alone, wet, exhausted, and tired. I didn't bother to change my clothes as I just collapsed on the floor, inches from the doorway. I already had a fever, but I didn't care. I really wish that I was dead. Because of my actions towards Joyce, and not telling Fluttershy the truth...my world crumbled before me, I was literally crying in my pathetic state. I was there, alone once again, back in square one.
Fluttershy and Joyce are slowly fading through my mind, I should have never did those things to her, and to Shy... I don’t even know where to begin. Thoughts raced to my mind about Fluttershy.
“What if she wont return to me?”
“What if she looks for another Father?”
“What if she gets hurt?”
“What if...she disappears in my life... FOREVER!”
I forced my self to stand up despite my sickened condition and continued to search for her outside. I struggled to walk, not caring for my well being trying to find Shy in the dark. Thinking she might be crying and scared there alone in the dark.
I walked like an old man, looking in the same spots twice! I even looked at where the animals are staying hoping that she’s in there staying with them. But to my dismay, she wasn't there.
I'm starting to lose it... My visions are getting blurry and my mind is about to explode. I collapsed in the animals den unable to move further, my eyes started to go heavy, my body became numb, I slowly went to sheer darkness and drifted to a night of loneliness.
“STOP!! YOU CANT DO THIS!” I shouted as the authorities took Fluttershy away. This isn't happening! They're taking her away, they're going to experiment on her!
“MOTHER FUCKING BASTARDS!! LET ME GO!”
I struggled from the grasps of the policemen holding down my arms and hands behind me, a black van came down the road and stopped in front of the two men in black and took her inside the van, she cried, and reached out her hoof for me to get her out of the vehicle.
I forced my self to shake away from their hold and manages to get free, I ran towards the two men in black and shoved them away to get my Shy out of there. My victory on taking her back came to a halt, when the policemen caught up and pinned me down to the ground!
I cursed the policemen and struggled again to get free, but their grip was tighter and I wasn't able to break from it, Shy only cried as she was carried back to the van. I can only watch as they took her away and drove off the road. The policemen lets me go and went inside their cars and followed the van, closely behind.
I sat there looking at the ground, trying to make sense what just happened. Then I realized..she was gone, she was taken by those bastards!
But who could have told them?!
Who told that Fluttershy was here? Then the thought hit me like a rock, assuming that it was just a lie in my head I ran inside the house and called Joyce. Twenty minutes had passed ans she still wont answer the damn phone, I decided to go to the hospital to ask some questions, but by the time I got there all I saw was utter chaos!
Trucks and vans got crashed in front of the hospital entrance, for reasons unknown to me. The guards asked the people, inside and outside, to remain calm and kept them out until they moved the jammed vehicles out of the entrance.
It was a disaster, but I still pressed on! I sneaked to the back door and ascended to the third floor towards her room, when I finally reached her room and opened it expecting her to be sitting there making calls..but instead was an empty room. I ran back outside, not knowing what to do next.
I was tearing up my hair, asking my self what to do. Having seen Fluttershy, got kidnapped (Or rather Pony-napped) I wasn't able to do anything, but watch her being taken. I went home upset about the ordeal earlier, I wasn't in the mood for anything.
Then a rabid dog shows up and growls at me...
I glared at it... And it at me..
The dog barked at me with its foamy mouth, and walks towards me. Normally I would run but he caught me in a very bad moment. It jumped and bit my arm, I didn't even flinch and let it bit me all he wants, I grabbed a stone and knocked it on the head, stunning it and making it twitch. I wasn't finished yet...I threw the rock at the head of the mutt, making a sickening crack. I grabbed a large log and beat the daylights out of the animal. Every time I hit it, the more rage I get! After pounding it to a pulp, something clicks inside my memory...
It was the same thing I did to my dog years ago!
I backed away, It was happening all over again!
“This cant be!” I said with tears running down my cheek. I eventually felt the pain of the bite that the dog gave me, I knew that I got rabies and it was getting worst every time I moved. The hospital is a four mile walk back, I wont make it in time.
“I guess, this is how it ends huh?” I muttered “A dog finally got revenge for what I did to its kind years ago!”
I laughed at the thought and held on the wound tightly, I went back to the house instead to see it one last time or at least...see Fluttershy one last time before I die.
I dragged my self to the living room and stood there for a couple of minutes. remembering the times with Fluttershy, with Joyce, Mother and Father. These place brings so much memories... I don't even know where to start..
I saw the basket where I first met Fluttershy in, the I saw our picture just outside the fields during her 3rd birthday, then saw another picture when she got her cutie mark... Then the time when both of use celebrated Christmas together.
there’s so much memories to remember... But lesser and lesser time to remember them... I feel the poison of the dogs damn saliva going to my brain, I sat there waiting for the inevitable, for my own death...
As the world around me slowly becoming black, I suddenly saw Fluttershy’s face, crying... I could tell that she’s scared and alone, she called out to me, but I cant save her... My whole world, My entire life, My heart...was completely swallowed by darkness...
My life flashed before my eyes, seeing Mother and Father waving at me to come with them.. I reached out to grab their hands, but I seem to go farther and farther away from them, I cant seem to catch up with them.
Before I knew it, they disappeared from my sight. Then I heard Fluttershy’s voice! I looked back and there she was... Looking at me.
“Shy?” I said while trembling and thinks of what to say next. But then she opened her mouth and said something to me that will haunt me forever.
“Its your fault I was captured!” She said it over and over, like a broken record on a jukebox..
I begged her to stop, but she just kept saying it... I fell into deep darkness, watching the last light fade to nothingness... I float there in the dark, waiting fro hell to grasp my miserable soul down to hell where I will spend my eternity alone, tormented and pathetic soul..
When I was about to accept my fate, a loud ring bombarded my ears. I plugged it with my hands but it was too loud for me to handle! I reached out to the darkness trying to block the thing that's making the loud racket! There somewhere in the darkness I felt it, I reached and grabbed the thing... Turning off my cellphone...
I woke up in the house where the animals are staying... I’m still wet and still got a fever though. I sat up and went back to my very odd dream, then I realized that Fluttershy was still missing, I forced my self up and tried to find her again, I just hope that, that nightmare wont come true...
I went back to my house just to get some medicine before going back to my search, as I went to my room, I heard a soft cry. I stopped and listened for it again...it was coming at Shy’s room.
My hearts pounding as I walked towards her front door, shaking not by the coldness of the weather, nor the fact that I'm all wet. I just don't know what to say if I see her inside.. I gathered my nerves and Manned up fro once in my life time and went inside her room.
There in the edge of the bed, Shy sits there crying in the dark, even when the lights are off, I could see her through the small light out in the hall way. I walked in and sat beside her, but she just turned not facing me. I know what she’s thinking...I know it all too well.. I started to say the things I was sealing inside my hear so for so long... It was the right time..
“Shy, I know you hate me for the fact that I kept this secret from you all this time. I hated my self for that, I only wish that you would have a happy life here, not knowing who you really are, or what you are. Remember those times we had? You were so happy, I could not bare to say the truth...so I kept it, hoping you wont discover it, and yet you did” I paused and looked to the space of the room..
“But even though your just a cartoon out of that show, I loved you for who you are Shy, And no one will change that, not now, not ever” I was literally crying, opening up to Shy, letting all that stored feelings out.
She looked at me and flaps her wings to get close.
“I’m sorry dad...for leaving you alone” She silently said close to my ear, tearing up as well.
I hugged her tight, wishing that I never let her go, ever.
“I love you Daddy” She said in a low, soothing voice.
“And I love you, My little Fluttershy” I said back, hugging her even more, showing how much I cared for her, how much I love my daughter so much. I didn't care that my clothes are wet, neither did her. We hugged there for another two minutes, I broke away from the hug and asked her a very simple question.
“You hungry?”
She just nods to me, and gave me a smile. I went to my room and changed first before cooking her diner... Then I forgot something that I had since I started to search for her. My fever got the best of me, as I collapsed on the kitchen floor...
I woke up on my own room, a bit sore and cold. I looked around my room and saw Shy in my right side sleeping. I just laid there in bed, patting her head. I could have sworn that she smiled at what I was doing...
Another month had passed, and all was sweet. She finally trusted me again, I even called Joyce over after her recovery to chat with her. Since Fluttershy already knows what she is, There’s no harm of Joyce to bring out “The Secret” to Shy anymore.
We all had an eventful day, chatting and sharing stories together! It was a day I always dream of, for once...I felt I had a family again. A family that wont leave me alone, ever.
It was 8:00 in the evening, And Joyce was cooking us some diner, its been a while since she came to visit and cooked me diner, for once, I’m not annoyed to have her in my house. She went to the cabinet and took out the P.S 2 (Play Station 2) out and played it with Shy. The game was “Marvel versus Capcom” We played it by turn, who ever loses will change the player. I made a deal to her, that if she beat us two, I will treat her to four carrot cakes tomorrow, she agrees and started to play. I was boasting at the first two fights...but to my surprise, Shy beat the both of us hands down! my mouth is wide agape and so was Joyce...
We, and I mean “WE” are the most experienced gamers since 1999 to 2010, and never a single one of us had been beaten to a game before, specially in “Marvel vs Capcom”. But Shy, just dominated us both, in one hour!! Not only we both got humiliated for loosing thirty fights in a row, but we were beaten by “THE” Fluttershy!
I'm not sad, no... I only felt my dignity as a video game player, melted along with with my pride... And I know Joyce did too. In the end, (Despite that the fact, that I was a bit sore for loosing to Joyce and Shy for Seventy times) I just laughed it up and gave her a hug for beating us fair and square. A deals a deal, I promised her to buy her the four cakes and so shall it be. Joyce eventually left the house and goes home, we were both left alone as I cleaned up the mess left behind by our shenanigans.
Shy helped out as well, as she was sweeping the floor while floating, I washed the dishes.
“Dad?” She called out.
“Yes, Shy?” I stopped a bit and looked at her waiting for what she was about to say.
“I’m glad that...I have met you dad” She said sweetly.This made me a bit soft inside.
“And I’m glad that I met you Shy” I sad to her “Very much”
That night we went to bed, as I was about to drift off to sleep, Fluttershy walks in to my room with her pillow resting to her back like a saddle.
“Dad? Can I sleep with you? Please? I-if its not a bother..” She shyly said as she stood to the door way.
“Come over here,Shy” I let her climb to my left side and wiggles to find a comfortable position to settle, once she was comfortable she looks at me with a smiling expression on her face.
“Want me to sing you a lullaby, Dad?” She asked me, for some reason, I already know what she’s going to sing. I nodded, expecting the song as she opens her mouth a bit.
“Hush now, quiet now It's time to lay your sleepy head Hush now, quiet now It's time to go to bed
Hush now, quiet now It's time to lay your sleepy head Hush now, quiet now It's time to go to bed...”
She sings in melody, Then my mind starts to “Troll” on to me.
“I know this song..” I said calmly..
“Oh wonderful, Dad. Why don’t you sing it with me?” She said while tucking her self to bed.. With my last burst of energy, I sang like Sweetie Belle...
“Hush now! Quiet now! It's time to lay your sleepy head! Said hush now! Quiet now! It's time to go to bed!“
“O-okay, Dad.. That was..” But I continued, making out of my own voice with a second voice, which is hard to do..
Driftin' (driftin') off to sleep! The exciting day behind you! Driftin' (driftin') off to sleep! Let the joy of dreamland find you!
“Thank you, Dad uhm..”
Hush now! Quiet now! Lay your sleepy head! Said hush now! Quiet now! This's time to go to bed! OW!!!
She was speechless, then she giggles and remembers it all too well, I laughed with her and pets her until she falls asleep herself. After which, I drifted off to sleep...
(The end of the story is almost here... There are 3 alternate endings, so imagine :D)
I woke up by the sound of my phone rigging its alarm. It was morning and the sun shines brightly outside! I looked at my side to see Fluttershy, still coiled up and sleeping peacefully. I haven't got the heart to wake her up, so I went down instead.
I can’t believe it was already been 10 years since she stayed with me, Joyce got used to her and even came over more frequently, She had grown to a beautiful mare, her eyes became brilliant light blue that I almost go in a trance when I look to her eyes, her mane and herself grew quite a lot too. I got used to having her in my care, and she was aswell.
As I was about to reach the kitchen, someone knocked at the door...
“Strange?” I thought to my self “I never expecting Joyce this early, nor any visitors at this time of day”
I walked towards the door to answer my unexpected visitor. But I stopped half way across the room as I notice something about my visitor. It wasn’t Human though, but rather horse-like, the silhouette on the other side of the window sill shows a tall horse with mane that seemingly moves with the wind! My heart pounded, My hands sweating, and my hair stand on end...I knew who it was... I knew who was in my doorstep very clearly this time, I opened the front door and my expectations came true... It was Princess Celestia!
“Good morning, Sir” She said in such an elegant and in a polite manner.
“Uh.. H-hello?” I managed to say it out loud, still in a bit of a shock. I knew this was coming... I just cant believe it has to be now. She asked if she could come in, a question that I always refuse when Joyce or some other person I didn’t like came to my house, and yet something about her voice was reminiscent. I couldn't help but to invite her in. What surprises me more is when she entered, five familiar ponies followed her from behind. The first one to follow Celestia is Twilight Sparkle, Then Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, And lastly Pinkie came bouncing in, all happy and joyful as always.
“Oooohhh... Another alien house!! I really love what you’ve done to th- OH MY GOSH A GAME!! Can I play? Can we play? Oh please, oh please oh plea~”
She was stopped by Applejack's hoof, "Easy there sugarcube. We're jus' here fer Fluttershy, so we ain't got no time for any playin'."
Applejack’s eyes glittered a bit on the sight of my game console, “No matter how fun it might be.”
Pinkie stops as she remembers something from the back of her mind... "I think I saw this scene from somewhere..." Pinkie said, but quickly shrugs it off...
I still wasn't sure how to completely react to all this, but not wanting to be rude I offered some left over cake and boiled broccoli from last night, "Uh, we have some left over cake and vegetables from dinner last night. You're more than welcome for some, if you like."
Pinkie puts her attention to the kitchen and sped off inside, like the roadrunner running to a tunnel; heck I didn't even bother to tell her where our left overs were, she just knew where they were... Thinking that she might just know it from the start, or just being Pinkie Pie... I had no clue what to think.
"Ah'll go keep an eye on her," Applejack said, walking to join the bouncing pony. As she passed, she tipped her hat to me. I find them not so very hesitant around a Human, such as me around them to interact. Then again, the same thing goes to me, but having Shy for fifteen years I grew used to having such a thing around me. Now, I have five other ponies and a full sized goddess horse looking at me with the same amount of curiosity that I held for them.
The room became silent as I watched Applejack goes to the kitchen, following Pinkie inside.
"I'm quite surprised," Celestia began, "I had expected a little more resistance to us entering."
“Why would I? I know all of you anyway.”
Celestia nodded, “I see that you know as well.”
Why did she say.. “As well?”
“You see, sir.” She started. “We already went here to your world once”
“Went...here? Are you kidding me?!” I almost raised my tone, by the fact that they already and I mean, ALREADY!.. Went to my world?!
“It was when, Rainbow Dash gone to, almost the same accident as Fluttershy did.” She said while maintaining a calm expression.
“You what?” I blurted.
“That aside, do you know why were here?”
My heart fell into the pits of my feet. I did know, and she was straight to the point about it. During all these years, I expected this moment, but as time went by, that thought slowly fades until it was just nothing more than a minor nip in my mind. That's when it always happens, you know; when everything is finally perfect and you don't have to worry anymore. Then this ‘moment’ had to come and ruin the whole thing...
"Um, excuse me sir," Twilight began, "But from what we could figure out Fluttershy should be here. Is she?"
I looked at the Magenta mare and thought of saying no to her, and make them leave my house. But it was a long shot.
“She’s in her room.” I pointed towards the upstairs right next to my room.
“In her room?” Rainbow Dash asked, surprised of what I just said.
“Yes, Shy-Shy is in her room. She’s still sleeping though, I didn’t want to wake her yet.”
"Shy-Shy?" Rarity asked, sharing a look with the others. "Erm, pray tell, what with the nick name if i may be so bold?" Sensing that something that doesn't seem right, the others can see whats happening all too clearly.
Rainbow started to mutter something not audible "no, oh Celestia please no." as she realized whats going to happen next. Little to my knowledge, Celestia knows whats going to happen next.
That made my blood boil, and wanted to strangle her so tight back then. They way she talked back at me with such annoyingly tone. “Friendly?! That's not even the half of it!! And I should be asking you, why did you left her alone!” My voice got louder..
“AND WHY THE HELL DID SHE SAY “AGAIN” WHEN I ONLY SAW YOU JUST NOW?!”
Celestia raised a brow, taken back by my change of tone, "You see, my student-"
“I know who she is!! Get to the point already!!”
Twilight looked at her teacher as she continues. “Yes, of course.” Celestia cleared her throat and continues on.
“She was doing a spell to help Fluttershy with her cottage, repairing and renovating her home Well, they made a slight miscalculation making one of the wooden blocks fall out of the roof , and when Twilight used her magic to try and catch it, at that time a storm made by the Pegasus shot a lightning bolt meeting her magic. Fluttershy was unfortunate enough to be within reach of the blast, and it engulfed her and sent her to, well, here. So, we are here to retrieve her, Just like Rainbow Dash when the same thing happened to her, a long time ago, simple enough I'd imagine."
Before I could say something, Shy, called out obviously woken up by my loud shouts. “I-Is everything alright, Dad?”
My entire body went stiff, I turned my head to see each pony staring back at me, I could see that some of them were shocked, Except for Dash,Twilight and Celestia.
"Uh... 'scuse me sugarcube," Applejack started, poking her head and peeked to the corner doorway of the kitchen, "did ah jus' hear Fluttershy call ya ‘dad’?"
I was about to answer her, when Celestia started again, “I know this situation all too well”
“You do? Why is that?” I asked her, completely oblivious of what she was talking about.
“We will wait in the living room, please call her down so we could discuss the matter at hand” She said as she gallops to the living room and sat at the carpet, along with the remaining two unicorn ponies, as Applejack and Pinkie Pie browse in the kitchen.
I stood there speechless but gathered my guts and did as she told me to do, and climbed to her room and knocked at her door.
“Shy? Can you open the door please?”
She opens the door and pokes her head out a bit.
“Shy, uh.. We need to talk”
As I told her who was down there and were here to take her back to their world, her eyes begin to tear up. She really doesn't want to go, and neither do I. I talked to her some more, trying to get some of her courage back and have to face them anytime soon, but she refuses and hugged me tight, never letting go.
“Shy, you have to talk to them. They’re your friends, and your their friend, a dear one.” I said to her, nearly tearing up my self. After a couple of minutes later, I finally convinced her to come down to meet with the others.
“FLUTTERSHY!!” Pinkie shouted, rushing towards her Canary-Yellow friend.
Shy was startled at Pinkie’s happy outburst and quickly climbs over my shoulder, like in the anime “Pokemon” When pikachu climbs over ash’s shoulder. She was literally shaken by her. Dash was obviously calm and only shaking head, what seems to understand the situation.
Pinkie's mane went straight, like a muffin that looses its air and deflates.
“You...don’t recognize me.. Do you?”
Dash walks towards Fluttershy and uttered something.
“I never thought you ended up the same as I went through Shy” She said looking down at the floor, and back at her.
“I don't understand, What do you mean, “The same as you went through”. What happened to you?” I needed answers of what she had said, and to what she mentioned “The same as her”
Did they had the same problem to Rainbow Dash?
Is this a product of a careless spell? Or a chain reaction of event that happened which I can not explain?
Dash walked to me and asked me something that I never expected.
“Is she a filly when you found her?” She asked.
I was totally caught off guard by that question, and that how did she know that she was a filly when I found her, but I manage to answer her question.
“Yes, she is”
“And how long did you take care of her?”
“About, fourteen years”
Dash looked at Celestia, nodding.
“Indeed, Its the same thing”
“Could you tell me whats going on, PLEASE?!”
Impatient and already out of Patience, I asked them directly of what they were all blabbering about.
“You see, Dash here had the same thing happened with her. A human, such as your self, took care of her when she had the same accident, she was in the weather team with some storm development. Well, they made slightly too large of a storm, and when Twilight used her magic to try and dispel it, it shot a lightning bolt meeting her magic. Rainbow Dash was unfortunate enough to be within reach of the blast, and it engulfed her and sent her to your world, which is similar to what happened to Rainbow Dash, at this case Fluttershy.
“You just said the same thing earlier, only longer this time.” I said, but seemingly understands their story.
“You took care of her for fourteen years... Thats why she called you dad now, right?” Dash said nearly tearing up.
I might not understand it all, but I think that she might had a Human father as well. The next ten-minutes seemed like an eternity of silence. Finally I broke the silence and asked a question.
“So, what happens now?”
Dash looked at me again, this time she was already crying.
“We need to take her back now.” She said, looking at Fluttershy.
“You what?!” I said to her almost shouting, “You cant! She’s now my daughter and that's that!” I just can’t let her go now, not when I already loved her as my very own daughter."
“D-dad?” Fluttershy leans on me and looked at my slightly tearing face.
“Please! You cant take her away, She’s my world, my life! She’s the reason of my happiness! You cant take her away!” I hugged her tight, Letting them see that I mean business.
“Sir, please!” Twilight tries to calm me down, But i continue my outburst.
They thought I got angry and might harm anyone or anypony around me, Dash was brave enough to come close and calm me down.
“Sir, I don’t want to take her away nor do they.” She said “But, please...can we talk about something that I experienced my self when I was taken cared by ‘My’ Dad?”
I listened to her words and calmed down, I set Shy down as Dash gestured me to follow her to my room and talked privately.
What I found out made me realize, the whole gravity of the situation...
“So that's it, You lived here as well for 15 years?” after hours of explanation and bringing light to the concept, I finally understand, or should I say know what happened to Dash and Shy.
“Thanks for that, I’m calmed down now.” I said as I stood up from my bed room. I went back to the living room and looked at shy, then the Princess...
I knew what was in her mind, and I know whats going to happen next.. Celestia then turned to her student and called her who instantly perked up hearing her name.
“We need to do the memory spell again, my dear student” She vividly said, as Twilight nods and stood up from the floor and went in front of Fluttershy.
I knew this was coming, she wanted to either erase her memory of our times together and replace it with her original memories, or simply just return her to their world
I wasn't exactly sure what to do, I felt that it was the right thing. I knew it was the right thing, and needs to be done. I had been telling myself that for fourteen years as I waited for this moment to come. But I have to say something before it happened. These ponies were going to take my Shy-shy away, but I had something to say before they could even begin.
“Stop!, Please can you wait for a second.. Please!!” I started. The purple mare stood there for a second and looked at the Princess, “Just let me talk to her for one last time, since she’s... I mean, this is the last time were be together.
I already accepted the fact that she’s leaving. But I still cant get the fact that, I wont see her anymore. I already tearing up, as I go to Shy and knelt down to talk to her. I looked her straight to the eye and began my final words to her.
“Fluttershy, my dearest Fluttershy, you know very well that I love you so much. You changed my life since the day you came to my home. And changed my once lonely life, to a fruitful one you..” I paused to catch my breath and wipe the tears off me, “...you have given me a purpose to give life another chance, a chance that you gave and I cant possibly thank you for.”
I couldn't hold my self any longer, I hugged her and cried. She too starts to cry, which made me even worst than before.
“For the past fourteen years we spent together, from good to bad, all of those; had been the most amazing moments of my life. I just want you to know, That your very special to me, we may not be purely blood related, but I loved you as my own daughter, and that's a fact.” I looked at her in the eye and brushed her mane a bit. “Now, If you have any problems or if something scares you, don’t think twice and go to me, and I’ll protect you, no matter what!”
I tried to crack a smile, letting them know that I was kidding on the last part, but to no effect, we both cried in our sorrow. I could hear sobbing coming from behind me, I could Imagine how Pinkie Pie would cry like a waterfall, like when she did it in one of the episodes when they obtained “The Elements of Harmony”.
“I-I-I don't want to go, dad!”
I watched her crying face and felt her sadness all together. In all the years I took care of her, this was the hardest thing I ever experienced with, Making things very hard for me to let her go now.
I was about to accept the fate for the both of us and stood up for them to proceed. But before I could even stand, she flaps her wings and gave me a hug. I could feel her warm tears running through my back.. I did what I can only do now, returned the embrace.
“Its where you belong Shy, You don’t belong here. That's were your home is, where your real friends are.”
“B-but, I-I want to stay here..w-with you!”
It pained me so much, trying to convince her that it was the right thing to do, “No, you aren't Shy, This world is not for you, I eat meat all too often, yet you have animal friends here. I don't want to hurt them, so after your gone, I plan to set them free. And I fear that someone, other than me and Joyce would see you here. Also, there are no other ponies here that you can talk to, I just hate seeing you so alone, Shy.” I moved away a bit to lock eyes with her again. “I was only taking care of you until this day had come, but never I thought it would hurt this much.”
We all remained quiet for a couple of minutes as I hugged her knowing that this is our final good bye to each other. She didn't protested, nor to resist. She told me that she was alright now.
“I love you daddy..”
“And I love you too, my shy little friend..”
I lowered her to the ground, and lets her go.
At this moment, All of them cried along, Dash seemed to be affected by it more, Even the princess herself. She already known this from another perspective, Via Rainbow Dash. But still she was saddened by this as well. I just cant believe that, this time line over here is much different between the two worlds as Dash explained to me earlier.
Twilight wiped the tears with her hoof and went closer to Fluttershy as her horn glowed. I knew this was going to happen, and it hurts me even more that this was happening right now, when her birthday was just around the corner. But I knew it was right, this is meant to happen, for her, her friends, and a depressing way for me. Now I could know she was actually going home, and would be around her friends and could take care of the animals where ever and when ever she wanted to, over the vast variety of animals there. She could enjoy friends company once more.
“Stop!”
Shy, backed away from Twilight a second before she could even put her horn on Shy’s head. “Please, before we can go on, I need to do something. P-please?”
The princess allowed her wish, then Shy went to her room and came out with a small back pack, a paper, and a pen. Shy sat in front of the kitchen table and wrote something, after she finishes she folded it up and puts it in the bottom of a plate. I wondered what was in the back pack and thinks if Celestia there, lets her keep it. My thoughts guessed that, what ever is inside that bag could be her mementos of us along with her stuff. I hoped that she has a picture of us together in there too. Then again, I also hoped not, for she would be forced to remember me a world away, and that hurt just as much as everything else.
“I’m sorry” Dash started, “I wish we could do something for him as well, seeing that this happened to me as well.”
“I wish there was an alternative in this situation, but...” Twilight stated as Shy looks at me crying.
“I know what your going to say Fluttershy, and the answer is no, he cant join us in our world.” Dash said, intercepting the words that Shy is about to say.
“Can’t...” Shy started, “C- Can’t you find a w-way?”
The stuttering in her voice told me she was simply speaking her mind, not actually asking the question. Twilight shook her head, unable to keep eye contact with her friend as she cried before her. Dash can’t face them as well, for it reminded her a very sad parting with her father.
"Fluttershy-" Princess Celestia started, "He cannot join you in our world much like how you cannot stay in his. This was all never meant to be, and the world around us was not made to house you. And yet..." Celestia looked to me, smiling, then began to look around our living room. All the photos of us together, all her knick knacks and belongings strewn around the room, "... and yet, something beautiful happened here. Something I cannot explain in full detail." She looks back at Fluttershy.
“When Rainbow Dash was in this world I found out that she had been taken care by a good person, It seems that the same thing happened to you. I was expecting the worst, due to Shy’s kindness and gets abused. I was wrong.”
I stood there waiting something to happen... Waiting for the inevitable.
Celestia finishes her words and looked over Shy, I couldn't say anything more. Rather, I just gave Fluttershy a one last big hug, before she leaves me forever...
Dash, walks by my side with her eyes still tearing up.
“Is there something you might want to say to her? Because, you might never see her again. This is your last chance, sir.” I nodded to her suggestion and looked at Shy’s saddened face, looking directly at her eyes, then I let my words flow out of my mouth.
“Those fourteen years had been the most mystical, yet enjoyable experience of my life. What ever happened back in your world, doesn't matter to me here. All I wanted is for you to be happy,” I looked at Twilight and gave her some words as well, “Twilight, I don't know actually what you did to her that time, I should be mad for your irresponsibility towards your friends. But instead, I thank you. Thank you, for bringing Fluttershy to my life and made me to the man I am now.” Finally I turn my attention back to Fluttershy. “And finally, thank you Fluttershy. Because of you, I learned a valuable lesson in life, No matter how far love ones are apart, they are always be in our hearts...no matter what.”
No matter how I try to crack a smile, I always end up crying even more. But twilight just looked away and lets her sadness out.
Celestia then stood from the rug she laid on, and walked over to me as I stood.
"No need for thanks, good sir. Instead, I wish to thank you, for taking care of one of my little ponies. She would have never made it without someone much like yourself."
Dash stepped beside me and told me to hold still, Celestia closed her eyes and then leaned her horn towards me. I wasn't sure what to do, I only did what I could think of, I stood still. At that moment, a sudden warmth yet comfortable feeling rushed to my body; It was like the goddess her self gave me an embrace. She moved her horn away, smiling as she moved back.
“Thank you...” Dash spoke up a bit of tears falling from her cheeks and hugged me tight. I never thought that dash would be like this over this situation, then again...she did went to the same ordeal as shy.
Applejack came close to me and offers a hoof-shake.
“Thanks a lot for takin’ care of Fluttershy.” She kindly shakes my hand, which I didn't expect. I was thinking she would shake my hand in a fast pace, like when she shook Twilights hoof in episode one with such speed, or as she say “The apple family greeting”
She lets go, this time Rarity spoke.
"Thank you, darling, for caring for our Fluttershy," Rarity spoke as she only gave me a simple thank you, nothing more nothing less..
“Thank you, sir.” Twilight spoke, despite of her crying she manages to say it clearly.
Finally Pinkie gave me a huge hug and shouted, “THANK YOU!” to the top of her lungs. I could have sworn that her mane smelled like Vanilla, it was a scent to remember the hyper active knuckle head of Equestria, In a good way.
She lets go and went back to her friends, I remained quiet as gave them a nod, then looked back to Shy, who also wore a smile on her face.
All of the ponies gathered to Fluttershy as Twilight’s horn lights up once more.
“Are you ready now, Shy?” Dash asked Shy, as Twilight prepares for the final act.
She simply nodded, as she closed her eyes and awaited for the final spark.
Like in the movie “The Matrix” Everything seemed to slow down as Twilight’s horn went closer and closer to Shy’s forehead. My mind suddenly bombarded me with memories of us together. I fairly remember her first word, when she was sitting next to me while watching Animal Planet. I could still feel the burn marks that I made when I was teaching her to cook a dozen times. I could still smell the fresh air when we went to my favorite spot to have a picnic, where she got her cutie mark. There were so many memories, that I simply had to cut off from my brain so that I could keep myself focused on Shy.
I watched Twilight as she drew her horn closer to Shy, until it touched her forehead. I could see one final tear rolled down her cheek, as she was doing the same thing as I am. Remembering the times of us being together.
A bright light engulfs the room, blinding me in the process. I shouted her name to the top of my lungs. As the light disappears, I slowly regained my sight. They were all gone. All of the ponies had vanished. She was gone and no longer with me now. It felt wrong, yet at the same time it felt right. She was now the old Fluttershy that belonged in Ponyville. I stood there, for a few more seconds and collapsed on the floor, kneeling on the same place where Shy once stood not long ago. I looked around my living room and noticed something different about it; My game console was not in the floor anymore, the stuffed toys Shy used to play was now gone, and the only one picture frame of us mounted at the wall was now a blank picture.
All of her personal belongings scattered through out the room were all gone, including the DVD’s I rented for her to watch is also gone. I was a bit confused now, despite my broken heart, I went to her room to see if she was still there, hoping for the impossible to come true I flung the door open to see a smiling Fluttershy looking at me. But to my dismay, it was just an old poster of her I bought 10 years ago before I even met her.
Her bed is now filled with boxes of my old stuff, and her drawer with flower patterns and pink paint became an old dusty mid 1980’s drawer.
I went down and sat on the couch, recollecting of what just had happened. Then it all made sense, but it made my heart bleed even more. I thought to my self that Celestia must have removed all existence of Shy ever being here. Being with me. Fourteen years were trashed, just like that as her existence was removed off the face of the earth. I felt that all those years were in vain, completely wasted as I wouldn't be able to remember her.
And yet... my memories of her are still intact. I could remember everything as if it were still as clear as when they happened. Then the thought snapped: she did something with her magic when she touched me with her horn. Did she protected my memories so that I would remember her? Had she done the same for Shy? As I stood up and went to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee, I spot something on a plate near my dining table... I recognized it; it was my scrap book. I walked to it and picked it up, and opened it to the first page. There, was my mother and father with me shortly after I was born. It was a poorly made scrap book, which I regret not buying a photo album instead.
I carefully continued to flip through them, for the pages were easily torn as I stroll down memory lane. There was a gap after my parents died, but to keep my mother's dream going I had picked it back up. Making false pictures of happy times and enjoying my life to stick into my scrap book of memories. Then, I opened up to a piece of paper. I picked it up, and immediately recognized the hand writing. Or rather, her mouth writing. I guessed that this was what she had written down before she left.
Dad,
For fourteen years you took care of me. For fourteen years you loved me, played with me, and made sure I enjoyed my life in a world not meant for the likes of me. I'm not a mare of many words, yet even though I told you this in person, I felt you might understand it with a simple letter.
I love you daddy. You helped shape me into the mare I am now. But then again, you made me learn of my true self, showing me not to be scared, to be brave! And stay strong even on the hard times we come across. Taking care of my animal friends there, and making sure I was safe. I may not as brave as you, but you did a wonderful job making me a friendly mare.
With Celestia's permission, I hope to allow you to keep our photos; our memories, with you so that you will never forget. Again, I love you, and thank you.
Your little daughter always, Your little Shy-Shy forever, Fluttershy
At the back of the note, there’s a memory card stuck on the corner of the paper, I took it and inserted it to my phone. Once the memory card sets in, a video appears before my eyes. I was soon greeted by Fluttershy’s filly smile.
“Daddy!!”
It was a video made 8 years ago, after her 8Th birthday.
Now that shes gone, I sit here alone looking at my almost condemned house. Remembering all the times we had together. Her first word, her first failed cooking attempt, her first animal friend and even her first fallen feather, all in this room of memories inside my head and my small scrap book. Everything else in the house seemed to have vanished, but what I had put into this scrap book still remains.
My life had been change from bad to good, from depressing, to a very wonderful one. but something resides in my heart, a missing piece, a piece that was recently took out. I was sad, depressed and once again lonely. I never thought loosing someone you cared and loved for could be this hard to over come. She’s gone, she’s now home, back where she’s belong, and safe of anyone else finding out about her.
I look back at the video over and over again, turning to the past days, the last days were together, until the video went to the part that we recently took yesterday. There’s a lot more space in this memory card. I still have a lot of life ahead of me, and still...I don't know whats going to happen next.
I lived my life, with such dull, uneventful and unsavory path, but now.. I live my life, along side the memory of Fluttershy with me, carrying the memory card of videos that we made.
Another year had passed, Joyce and I are getting along very well. She too forgotten about Fluttershy which made me even sadder, that I was the only one who knows. As we parted ways, I went straight home... I still imagine that she might just pop out somewhere and say, “I miss you dad!” But I knew it was impossible.
I finally reached my home, I took the key and unlocked it, as I entered the house I opened the lights and went to the kitchen to make some coffee. As I was busy mixing the sugar and milk, I felt something walked behind me.
My body froze, and my mind is racing... I knew this presence all too well, I stood there as I heard a soft voice coming from behind me, and called out...
(This one is short though... But He insisted it might have a small Tragedy to it)
A bright light engulfs the room, blinding me in the process. I shouted her name to the top of my lungs. As the light disappears, I slowly regained my sight. They were all gone. All of the ponies had vanished. She was gone and no longer with me now.
“They're... gone.. There’s nothing here anymore...” I said in a dead pan voice. My heart, my soul, and my feelings suddenly went away...
I felt, depressed... No, more than depressed. I was furious...
“Why did I let her go?! I should have said No!” I complained and cursed my self. She was my life, my pride and joy in the house! I couldn't bare that raw fact. I stood there, motionless... waiting... waiting for something, anything to happen! Thinking that this was all just a bad dream! I looked around, and called out. I kept calling out her name, hoping that she was still there...
Silence...
My eyes widened, and my body starts to tremble. I ran across the rooms looking, frantically searching for my daughter, as I was going down the second floor I fell down the stairs, bouncing painfully with every thud I made. By the time I reached down the bottom of the stairs, I already broke my neck. I lay there, motionless as my vision fades... I heard the door swung open, and a small scream followed after that.. The Next thing I remembered was the voice of Joyce, after I slipped into darkness... I felt a soft thing came flopping down my back, but it was actually a stretcher. Joyce called in an ambulance and drove me to the hospital.
Several hours later I was in the ICU, they were all trying to save my life, for the accident was too severe. Beneath all the activity that's going on, I still remember all that time time with Fluttershy. I looked around with my blurred vision, doctors were scrambling to get me saved. But it was too great, My body slowly loses its strength, I closed my eyes and slowly...but surely... I died... The only thing I regret was, not dying in the hands, or rather hooves of my beloved daughter...
A bright light engulfs the room, blinding me in the process. But something was wrong! The light grew brighter and brighter... Until I lost my consciousness.
I slowly woke up from my slumber, thinking I just had a terrible dream. I sluggishly rolled expecting my pillow to be beside me, but the only thing I felt, was a rough paper like feeling. I slowly opened my eyes, instead seeing my boring old ceiling fan I was greeted by the clear blue sky...
“Woah... My roof is gone...” I said to my self, then the common sense kicks in, “WAIT WHAT! MY ROOF?!” I shouted. I quickly stood up and realizing where I was.
Around me was a field of grass, and beyond the horizon were mountain peeks with snow on top. Mind starts to race, and tried remember what just happened. I suddenly remember some bits of events earlier,
“Fluttershy was about to leave when a Bright light engulfed me, and saw darkness... the next thing I knew was... I’m in here laying on the ground.” I said to my self, thinking that It might be just a dream... Then I suddenly saw someone coming up the hill...
“HEY!!!” I shouted, finally someone who could tell me where I am... As I approached the man heading up hill, He turned around and looked at me, obviously surprised.
“What are you doing here?” Was the first thing he said to me...
“That’s what I want to know sir... Where am I exactly?...” The next thing he told me made my heart sank to the bottom of my feet...
“Your in Equestria young man...”
My eyes widened and heart pumped at maximum speed, I didn't believe it at first, until I saw something streaked towards the sky, A Rainbow Streak to be precise...
“That's my daughter..” He solemnly said...
I cant believe it... I don't believe it!... Its really him... The “dad’ Rainbow Dash told me earlier...
“Sir... Please tell me... Do you know where Fluttershy lives?” I know where she lived... But i just need someone to come with me to her house...
He looked at me, like he was staring at my very soul before he nods and agrees to escort me there... I followed the man, without another word...
As we walked over to her house he asked me questions as we go along the way, such as, “Who are you?” or “How did I come here” or stuff like that... Of course I told him, and he might think that I was just joking...but he didn't think it was funny though... He told me that he understood what I’ve been through... and gave me some words of advice... by the time we arrived at her cottage I was already shaking in both fear and excitement... What if she forgotten me?” Was the question on my mind, asking over and over to me like a broken record.
The man left me alone as I made my decision... I went inside expecting her sitting down at her living room taking care of her animal friends... but she wasn't there... So I explored a bit; Her house was well maintained, plus dozens of little animal houses hung from every corner of the room...
As I went exploring for at least a half an hour, I suddenly heard footsteps or hoof steps across the living room, I was in the kitchen at the time...
The adrenaline inside me , activated. My head bombarded me with thoughts on how to speak to her... I peeked a bit out of the kitchen door and sure enough, she was the sitting alone in the living room... I tried to go and give her a surprise hello... But my feet wont let me move... She stood up and went towards her room...
“Come on MOVE!!” I shouted in my mind, forcing my legs to move, until finally I walked towards her...
“Shy?” I spoke softly...
She stood there for five seconds until she turned around slowly showing her tearing face as she runs towards me...
