//------------------------------// // The Prey // Story: To Catch A Fluttershy // by Kory-Starr //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash hovered in spot thoughtfully. She then touched down on the ground a mere three inches away. Had she really seen Fluttershy just heard a big ole bear right now? The rainbow themed pony turned her head around to where she had thought she saw the yellow and pink pony go. She knew it really should not suprise her that Flutter could deal with a bear or manticore but, this was a whole lot different. That bear had been wearing a tutu. She hummed to herself for a bit trying to decide if she wanted to see if what she saw was true. She heard a soft clomp of hooves and quickly gathered her wits and moved to the side of the Ponville road as Applejack came up the road. Rainbow Dash could feel a laugh slowly bubble up in her throat as she looks over the honey colored poney slowly. She had sticks all stuck in her mane and looked like she had a roll in a good soft pile of dirt. Bits of mud and dirt are stuck to her flank. Her hat looked like it went rounds with a pair of scissors. Rainbow Dash quickly got over her mirth when she saw the mare sporting a nasty looking bruise. "Whoa what happened to you? Looks like you went a few rounds" she says pointing a hoof all around the mare. Applejack just snorted then sat down slowly. "A bear cam onto the farm. No idea what it was lookin for." Applejack says a puzzled look came over her muzzle. "As far as I know bears do not eat apples." she says after a thoughtful pause. "Yea, they don't probably just wanted to sleep in the barn or something." Rainbow Dash says rolling her eyes on yea. "An' just how would you be a' knowing? I thought that there was Fluttershy's thing... Are you...have you been watchin her?" Applejack says tilting her head a bit. Rainbow Dash managed to look like an excellent mixture of stunned and flustered as her cheeks tinted a light pink. "Wha- wha ...No I have not I happen to listen like a good friend!" Rainbow squeaked a bit. She flapped her wings and hovered her front in the air crossing her hoves over her chest. She looked away and huffed. Applejack smiled just a bit and looked away chuckling softly. "Sure Dash, Sure. Any way I came in to get a few things when I saw ya. I better head off. Good luck with your watchin " Applejack says as she walks down the road and out of sight. A few ponies had paused out of curiosity and stared at her. "What are you all looking at?!" Rainbow Dash squeaks before flapping her wings and quickly flying away to a cloud out of sight. She burries her head in and screams into the cloud. Her frustration and emberassment goes into the scream. She does this for a while not noticing a purple alicorn stopping just below her. "Rainbow Dash?" the alicorn calls then spreads her wings and flaps up to see her friend. "Hey, are you okay?" she asks softly taping the rainbow themed poney with a hoof. The poney looks up mildly startled and rolls her eyes with a huff. "Oh its you. Yea, I am okay just ...uhmm....testing this cloud for sound proof..." Rainbow Dash says shoving her head back in and makes a few sounds. "Wha...what?" Twighlight asked puzzled. The pegasus pulled her head out giving a cheesy nervous smile then put a on her brave face. "Couldn't hear you its perfect I'll use it for my sleeping perch" Rainbow Dash says trying to be convincing as she gathers up pieces of the cloud. "Okay....if you ever want to talk you know you can come to me right?" Twilight Sparkle asked flapping her wings lifting up as Rainbow Dash gathered the cloud. "Y-yea sure Twi. I better go." Rainbow Dash says with another cheesy smile and rushes off with the cloud leaving a very confused princess of friendship behind. Rainbow Dash flew all the way to her favorite cloud and huffed a sigh of relief. Nopony had followed her. She droped all the bits of cloud that clung her and began to dust bits off of her flank. "Glad thats over wonder if I can still see that bear..." she paused looking up as she heard the flap of wings and a rush of wind. She looked up to see Spite Fire ,a fellow Wonderbolt, flay past. "Huh must be practicing maybe I should to.. Naahhh I am already awesome." Ranbow Dash says with a bright smile and decided to curl up for a nap. "Besides...I can always...race her later..." she yawned and quickly fell alseep ()Some time later() Soft meek hoofsteps later came under Rainbow's cloud not knowing that it held a sleeping pony. "See Angel. There was nothing for you to be scared of." a soft meek voice says. A yellow pony with a pink mane pulling a little waggon with a bunny in it. Unknown to her Fluttershy woke up the sleeping pegasus. Rainbow Dash was not very happy about waking up from her nap. That is until she peered over the edge of her cloud and saw the poney that has been on her mind since this morning. Rainbow Dash crept to the very edge of her cloud and peered over with just and as as Fluttershy made her way back home singing softly to herself. The rainbow themed poney felt her heart give a soft thud. She knew that from now on she was not going to be hunting for her next trophy to show off her awesomness but, rather a very different kind of hunting. A smile made it's way across her muzzle as she started to think of ways to bait an adorable sweet mare such as Fluttershy. She knew her acts of bravery would mean nothing. The blue pegasus would have to come up with a better more awesome plan.