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// Kindness 
// Story: Harmony 
// by All Art Is Quite Useless 
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When Rarity opened the door to Fluttershy's cottage, she had to hold a hoof against her snout, the room stank. Rainbow followed in behind her, and before her they found Fluttershy, stood in the centre of the dilapidated room with a small chicken, softly running her hoof against its feathers. "I'm sorry, Cluckington," she purred, brushing the feathers as she inched her hoof higher, "but you really won't be able to live nicely with one leg. I'm sad you had to go like this."


With that, the pair watched, disgusted, as Fluttershy snapped the neck of Cluckington, before tossing him into a pile of corpses, some with no meat on their bones. Rainbow could swear that she could see a tufty white tail sticking out of the pile.

"Fl-Fluttershy!" Rarity shouted, bounding up to her, "What are you doing?! You killed that poor chicken!"

"I was just taking care of poor Cluckington," Fluttershy said, regarding the pair with a smile. "He lost one of his legs from a snake bite yesterday, and there was no way he was going to live a life of any value like that. It was better this way."

Rainbow's eyes narrowed as she took in the scene. Creatures of all types ran amok, but not in a friendly and cooperative way. They fought, antagonised, and even ate one another. Even Cluckington, who had been recently chucked onto the pile of dead animals, was being nibbled at by a cat as they spoke. "Why was a snake anywhere near him?" she asked, walking in, "why are all of these animals together when—ugh!"

She looked down at her hoof, finding feces smeared across. Now that she thought to pay attention, apart from the pile of festering corpses, there was also a ghastly smell emanating from the many animal droppings that had collected in various places on the floor.

"Oh, you're hurt!" Fluttershy called out, apparently forgetting the conversation as she glided over to inspect Rainbow's head. "I should get this wrapped up straight away! What were you even doing to get in this state?"

"I... I was," Rainbow strained to remember. During her pondering, she realised that she smelt almost as bad as the cottage. What the hell was happening? 

You were looking for a present for your friend, Fleetfoot. Her head reminded her, and she went on to say just that, though her voice was unsure.

Fluttershy cocked her head, apparently confused. "But I thought you didn't like Fleetfoot, Rainbow? You always told me she was really arrogant and selfish."

"I-it doesn't matter," Rainbow replied.

"Why not?" Fluttershy pushed, her eyes soft.

"It just doesn't, alright?!" Rainbow snapped, looking to the derelict floor.

"Oh," Fluttershy whimpered, looking away herself. A few moments passed, and she seemed to gain a new life. "Ohhh," she repeated, her eyelids falling as she began to chew on her bottom lip. "You sound stressed, Rainbow," her throat vibrated and hummed as she said the words, the desire to titillate her friend obvious, "let me take care of that for you." 

Before Rainbow could protest, she was being dragged by Fluttershy over to the couch, which sat only a foot away from the pile of corpses. Rarity stood in shock as Fluttershy leaned her back, lathering her filthy chest in soft and affectionate licks and kisses.

"Fl-Fluttershy, stop it, what are you doing?" Rainbow was unnerved; Rainbow was scared. The smell, the blood loss, the confusion of the situation, and now Fluttershy was kissing her, touching her. 

Halting with the kisses, she looked up at Rainbow with a playful grin. "Making you feel nice of course! Like a good friend," she mewled, arching her back and moving down to her belly, causing Rainbow's shit-covered hoof to rub off on her fur, not that she either noticed or cared. 


Rainbow was about to be sick. Between the smell and her friend all but assaulting her, she couldn't take it anymore. "Fluttershy, p-please stop, I'm asking you nicely... You're freaking me out."

Fluttershy pressed a hoof to her lips. "Hush, Rainbow. Let Auntie Fluttershy take care of it all."


Rainbow shuddered as she started to rub circles around her flanks with a hoof, moving towards her inner thighs. The smell, the atmosphere, the surroundings... Rainbow kicked out her back hooves, catching Fluttershy in the belly and attempting to force her off, but to little avail.

"Rainbow, I know what's good for you. Now relax and let me help you."

Rainbow was beginning to feel truly terrified. "Is that what you said to those animals before you murdered them?!"

"You don't understand!" Fluttershy snapped, fire in her eyes, "I was only trying to help them, to make things better for them!"

"You're letting them eat each other!" Rainbow screamed in her face between panicked breaths. "Look around you, Fluttershy! This isn't helping! This isn't kind!"

"It's—" Fluttershy paused as if she was smelling the room for the first time as she instinctively gagged. She looked around to her animal friends, some dead, some frenzied, and within moments she was a crying wreck. "It's not kind at all... Rainbow, what have I done?"

Rainbow didn't know what to say. Her friend had seemed about to rape her moments ago; now she was in her arms, sobbing her heart out. What was wrong with her? Was there something wrong with the both of them? This wasn't something Fluttershy would ever do. Knowing that, Rainbow wrapped her hooves around Fluttershy tight, holding onto her and showing her how much of a good friend she really was.

"We don't have time for that," Rarity called out.

They both turned to her voice. "What?" Rainbow said, a sentiment Fluttershy's face seemed to echo.

"I said we don't have time. Watching you two just now, I am certain that there is some... thing out there trying to change us, somehow, but I can't figure out what. I don't know what it's doing, whether it's changing the way we act or how we think, but it has something to do with our Elements. Fluttershy, you did this all to be kind, and you stopped when Rainbow said it wasn't. That means... something, but I don't know what. Not yet. And something has happened to Sweetie Belle... But I cannot dwell on that. We need to find the others, now. Let's go get Applejack and Pinkie and head to the castle, maybe Twilight will know what to do."

They didn't take much convincing. Nodding, the trio set out to find Applejack, leaving the wild animals behind.