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// The Kind Life 
// Story: Life in Equestria 
// by TPC-2k16 
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“So Fluttershy, I see ya aren’t busy. Wanna hang out?!”
“Oh uh, sure. Just give me a minute to finish up what I’m doing.”


(One Hour Later)


“I thought you said ya weren’t busy?” Kyle sassily asks Fluttershy, who had just finished reading to all of the animals. After she had to feed them. And give them all each a soothing bath.
“Well I wasn’t. I guessed I just forgotten I had to bathe them,” Fluttershy answers back right after finishing up tucking in the last animal in its' bed, “Then I remembered I also had to feed them, then tucked them all up in their nice, cozy beds for their nice, cozy slumber and...” Fluttershy looks to see that Kyle’s not following, staring at her angrily, with a raised eyebrow.
“Well um, what do you wanna do together?” Fluttershy asks, smiling cheerily.
Kyle drops his stare. “Well, the sun seems to be setting. So not a whole lot we can do now.”
“Well, that doesn’t mean anything. Why, tonight’s the night of the full moon.”
“Uh huh. And why do you suggest that?”
Fluttershy giggles to herself. “Oh, you’ll see.”


***


“I still don’t see, or know, why we’re here.” Kyle asks Fluttershy as the two of them walk throughout the west orchard of Sweet Apple Acres in the pitch black of night.
“Oh, you’ll see soon enough.” Fluttershy answers back.
After about five minutes of walking, Kyle speaks up: “Aight. I wanna know why we’re here. Right NOW- ow!”
Kyle gets interrupted as the brightness of the full moon blinds him.
“I need to talk to that pony," Kyle says begrudgingly, holding a hoof up to his face to shield his eyes from the moon's bright light, “Speaking of which, where did she go?” Kyle finally realizes that Fluttershy is nowhere to be found.
“This is weird.”
Kyle spends the next ten minutes walking around aimlessly in the west orchard, looking for Fluttershy.
While he does so, overhead, among the treetops, a dark figure glides along the apple treetops, the figure settling on a tree branch once it sees Kyle.
“Fluttershy...! Ya here...?! I got an animal problem for you...!” Kyle yells out.
Just then does Kyle notice something behind him. Turning his head back behind him to see that hanging upside down on a far tree branch is some weird creature.
As Kyle moves to take a closer look does the full moon’s bright shining light shine on it, revealing the creature is none other than Flutterbat herself.
“Uh...”
Flutterbat hisses once she sees the sight of Kyle, spreading her wings out to the most they can go.
Kyle gulps just at the sight of her, looking as scared as ever.
“Aaahhh!!!”
“ThishasbeenfunnowbutIthinknowIshouldleavekbye!!” Kyle says scared as ever, running off to back the way he came.
After running around in circles all throughout the west orchard for the last twenty minutes, Kyle finally gets the bright idea and decides to make a run for it out of the orchard.
Running as fast as he can, Kyle soon enough sees the orchard's exit. Though, as he sees the edge of the orchard also does Flutterbat swoop down and block his path.
Seeing this, Kyle just plops down on the ground, scaredly holding himself, rightfully shaking in fear.
“Oh.” Fluttershy (or Flutterbat) looks on at the scared pony concerningly.
“I’m awfully sorry if I scared you. I just get ‘carried away’ once in a while.”
Kyle stops being scared as soon as Fluttershy (or Flutterbat) speaks to him, getting himself up off the ground, trying to return to his normal state (though, internally still feeling a little scared).
“I probably should’ve told you. Every night of the fifth day of the month, I come here. Why? I’ll show ya.”  Fluttershy/bat tells Kyle before abruptly grabbing his hoof, not letting him ask anything, as she flies up into the cool, nighttime Sweet Apple Acres air. Kyle making sure to definitely hold on tight with his hoof.
After a minute or so of flying, Fluttershy/bat had taken Kyle over to the Sweet Apple Acres' Fruitbat Sanctuary.
More specifically, the nursery part of the sanctuary.
“You know that I could’ve flown myself now, didn’t ya? Kyle asks, though to no reply from Fluttershy/bat, as he sees her make her way over to a nest of baby vampire fruitbats.
“So uh, do you come here often?” Kyle asks questioningly, this time getting Fluttershy/bat’s attention as she cradles one of the fruitbats.
“Not that often. Only on the first night of a full moon. You understand, right?”
“I guess... You really come here every time there’s a full moon?”
“Yea... yes.” Fluttershy/bat says muffled due to a whole lot of vampire fruitbats all holding on tight to her.
“So let me get this straight. Every time there’s a full moon, you come out here as your ‘vampire fruitbat’ self, all just to take care of the younglings?”
“I guess. I’m just being kind. I know their mommas and papas are all too busy to take extra, special care of them. So, that’s where I fit in.” Fluttershy/bat tells Kyle of her kindness ways.
“Huh, I see.” Kyle thinks for a second before showing a bright, small smile.
“Maybe I’ll try a little kindness too.” Kyle says to himself as he walks on over to Fluttershy/bat to lend her a hand.