//------------------------------// // Visit // Story: Backwards: A Not so Element of Kindness // by chewyrainbow //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle was of course, reading a book as usual. It had been a while since she had seen any of her friends, and strangely enough she figured her book could wait, she was going to see her friends. The unicorn put up her book, and headed towards the door. When she opened it, she found Fluttershy waiting outside. Slightly surprised since she didn't expect this, she stuttered, "Oh, um, hey Fluttershy, I was just going out to see you and the other 4, was there something you needed?" "Oh no, Fluttershy was just hoping you would come for a visit! Me and the other animals are having fun, Fluttershy wanted you to come to," her voice was not lowered as, and she did not hide her other eye behind her pink mane, her coat was not cleaned, it had dirt in it. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she wasn't cowering, as usual. "Um, sure? But, what are you doing, if I may ask?" "Oh nothing really, me and the blue and rainbow bird were just talking, and the white horse with the horn was playing Celestia says with the orange deer! I don't know how they did it, but they ended up hanging on the wall," she began to grin. "Oh..um, do you mean Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack?" "I don't know who you are talking about..but okay, if you say that's who they were, they were that," she began to become slightly uneasy. Twilight looked confused, but Fluttershy was always talking about weird animals she had found, maybe that's all it was...but a blue and rainbow bird? "Yeah, sure I'll come Fluttershy," she stepped outside of her tree house, following behind the pony. She saw Berry Punch stop to say hi to Fluttershy, but the yellow pony didn't seem to notice her, the confused magenta mare left. Fluttershy was definitely acting strangely, but maybe she decide not to act so, well, shy. But that didn't explain why she was talking in third person language, and speaking of animals that sounded just like her friends. After a while they had made it to her cottage, but the Pegasus stopped walking at the fallen tree that blocked the doorway. "Yes, Fluttershy have fun with animals, she want to have fun with you to!" the pony turned around, and in her mouth was a long knife, it's blade covered in a dark red liquid which was Rarity's from earlier that morning, and Twilight didn't know that of course. "F-Fluttershy, w-what are you doing?" "Simple, Fluttershy hurt the animals that hurt her!" "But I never hurt you!" "All animals hurt Fluttershy, so Fluttershy hurt them back!" instead of using the knife, she dropped it, and turned around again, Twilight, very confused, didn't move, she felt frozen in her steps, why couldn't she move! The pony bent down and picked up a rock with her mouth, kinda odd, but she did. Before she had time to react, the yellow Pegasus had turned and flung the rock at her head with a force of strength unexpected. Twilight stood there for a moment, still shocked, but she soon felt a little lightheaded, and of course, dizzy. she didn't feel her hooves anymore, she couldn't see clearly, but she could feel the blood dripping down the side of her face where the rock had hit. Slowly the feeling left her whole legs, and then her body, only the thing keeping her from going into sleep was her mind, still trying to fight it, but she couldn't keep that much longer. The uncertain darkness of sleep was not what she wanted, definitely not after all that had happened before this, but sometimes you can't fight everything, she began to feel her senses slowly leave her mind...