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// Prologue: A Pony History Recap 
// Story: I Meet Fluttershy 
// by HeManSheRa777 
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PROLOGUE:

A Pony Recap/Fluttershy


Legend has it that every twinkling star in the sky is actually a Pony from the Land of Equestria, calling out to us, and telling us that no matter how far apart we are, we always find a way to be together, and stay together, even if others say otherwise. Each time a star twinkles, and does so in a pattern, a Pony behind those stars tell us all about their days, and how they live the same lives we often live through. And even though we cannot tell that from the stars, we feel that somehow, it can be felt right in our hearts. Usually, they tell us what we either don't know, or understand. Either way, what they tell us just seems like twinkles to us.

In the other dimension of Equestria, there resides a life residence of Ponies, Dragons, and other marvelous creatures, but if you visit these three places of Equestria, Canter-lot, Clouds-Dale, and Pony-Ville, chances are that you are most likely to run into a Pony or two. In fact, three different varieties of Ponies; Earth Ponies, Unicorn Ponies, and Pegasi Ponies. The rulers, and residers of Equestria are winged unicorns, which are probably pretty rare types of Ponies. And they are Princess'. Princess Celestia rules the day by helping to raise the sun into the sky in order to end the night until that night should come again. When the sun is high in the sky, the Princess tends to her daytime routine. Her sister, Luna, the Princess, and ruler of the night, helps to raise the moon, and bring out the stars that twinkle in the sky. She helps to make sure that all the Ponies sleep well at night time. When she once fell to some sort of darkness that made her succumb, and transform to the wicked Nightmare Moon, that was when her Sister sadly had no choice, but to seal her away, and imprison her within the moon, and Celestia had to take charge of both, day, and night in her place.

Now Princess Celestia had not just a sister whom she loved, even after she had been imprisoned, she also had a faithful student, a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle. And she had a faithful assistant, a baby dragon named Spike. Whenever Twilight had things she needed help with, including a message to the Princess, she would call on Spike to help out. Princess Celestia would take reading her students letters. One day, she was concerned for Twilight when she received a message from her, stating that she predicted the return of the Mare In The Moon, or so she was called, and advised her to head over to Pony-Ville, and make some friends over there as well as prepare for the Celebration of the Sun Festival which would be attended by Princess Celestia, as it was a Pony-type tradition. The friends Twilight met in Pony-Ville were Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity; not necessarily in that order.

On the day when they were just about ready to honor, and welcome the Princess, it turned out that she was missing. The shadow of the Mare In The Moon had disappeared from the moon itself, and Nightmare Moon was set free. The moment she came lose, she began her plot for eternal night, making sure that the sun would never rise, and their Princess would never return.

Realizing that there was a way to defeat Nightmare Moon, Twilight searched throughout the library, where she now lives, and tried to find a book about special items called, "The Elements of Harmony" which would help to defeat Nightmare Moon, and bring back the light of day. Her friends, concerned for Twilight, and wanting to do whatever they could to help her, tagged along to see if they could do whatever it took to help Twilight to find, and reach those elements. Each of the Ponies were able to find that they themselves represented the Elements of Harmony, because they were the Spirits of those Elements; Twilight represents Magic, Applejack represents Honesty, Rainbow Dash represents Loyalty, Pinkie Pie represents Laughter, Rarity represents Generosity, and Fluttershy represents Kindness. Together, using themselves, and their new Elements of Harmony tiara, and necklace', they defeated Nightmare Moon, freeing Princess Luna from that darkness, and reuniting both her and Celestia back together, and returning Luna to her nighttime job that she was meant for to begin with.

Ever since that adventure, Twilight learned that if she had ever left Pony-Ville, she would also be leaving her friends whom she had grown very attached to, and feel very lonesome, even with Spike. Celestia declared that Twilight would be allowed to reside in, and stay in Pony-Ville, especially when given a new assignment; to study the important lessons of Friendship. And she has resided in Pony-Ville with her friends ever since.

The longer she stayed in Pony-Ville, the more better she got to know, and visit her friends. But of all the friends she had gotten to know so far, the one friend she was able to get to know the most was Fluttershy; she's one of the Pegasi pony who is close friends with Twilight. Although she is sweet, and calm around Twilight and other Ponies, she is capable of ending up very shy, especially by name, and nature. She has been pretty helpful for her friends though. She's likely to become forceful whenever anyone pushes her too far, and/or whenever her friends end up becoming mistreated, or even injured. Despite this, she is also a marvelous care-taker when it comes to her animals.

Princess Celestia had wanted to meet Fluttershy during a special "brunch" meal, because of that. She probably felt pretty shy meeting the Princess, but felt pretty popular to her just the same. Although Fluttershy finds a liking to Spike, what with him being a baby dragon, and all, it's bigger dragons that give her the Goosebumps, and scare her. A lot.

She lives in a little cottage, somewhere outside of Pony-Ville, where she tends to all the animals that come to live with her, or to visit her. Whenever an animal gets injured, be it a scrape, or a broken bone, Fluttershy does whatever she can to help heal that animal. She doesn't live there alone though. She has a pet Rabbit named Angel who helps her to overcome her fears, and go through with her problems, even if it means doing to her with force. Other times, though, Angel can strive to help cheer Fluttershy up, dry whatever tears may fall down her eyes, and put a smile back on her face, and courage back in her heart.

Sometimes her friends can try to get her to do the things that she ends up becoming too nervous to do, but Rainbow Dash tries, the most to talk her into whatever she wants her to be involved with, but she isn't always successful when it comes to Fluttershy. When she does succeed with getting Fluttershy involved, though, she tries to help her to overcome her fears, and even shows her soft side for the timid Pegasi.

Fluttershy isn't like the other Ponies, but her friends still like her, and love her for who she is. Sometimes they wonder what their Pony-Filled world would be like without her, and then realize that it would be pretty empty. Little did they know, they would find out that they would be right.