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// Coming Out of Your Shell 
// Story: Fluttershy the Tortoise 
// by GhostRider1996 
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“Oh, dear! I don’t like this place! Not at all! Where am I?” I spluttered, both out of fear and out of confusion.

“Fluttershy? Is that you?” 

The voice was too soft to frighten me, but just loud enough that I could hear it.

“Yes, I’m Fluttershy,” I answered. I was curious whom her visitor was.

“But… who are you?” I asked.

“I’m Princess Luna,” the soft voice replied.
“Will you help me, please, Fluttershy?” Princess Luna asked.

“But — I don’t know how!” I answered, very much frightened!

“Don’t worry, my dear; it’ll be easy,” countered the Princess of the Night.

Princess Luna carefully explained how I was to help her. She told me to inhale as deeply as she could. So I obeyed.

Next, Luna told me to hold that breath for as long as she could. Which I did, as well.

Then, finally, Luna told me to exhale as slowly as she could. Once again, I obeyed.

We repeated this process as many times as I could handle, until — finally…

BOOOOOM!!!





My fright burst like a balloon!

There I was—wide awake—standing up right in front of Princess Luna, who had just rescued me with those breathing exercises.

I was back in my old Pegasus body, and beside myself with pride!

“Congratulations, Fluttershy. You succeeded,” the princess stated.

The very next morning, after the princess had lowered the moon, her elder sister — Princess Celestia — had raised the sun, which woke me up in the Golden Oaks Library, where I’d fallen asleep.

“I am very proud of you, Fluttershy,” Celestia told me. “Because you have banished the last vestige of Nightmare Moon.”

I beamed with pride and blushes intensely.

“I did it — I really did it!” I cried.

The princesses and Spike were very proud of me. And all of my pony friends were equally as proud of me, as well.