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// Sections 17-20 
// Story: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Frightening! 
// by WatchTower1992 
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I went to the Golden Oak Library—Twilight Sparkle’s house—to tell her how helpful Spike had been to me. “I’m glad to hear that, Fluttershy, but I didn’t see Spike at all this morning!” she answered. Just then, a purple tortoise with a green shell came plodding in. “Hey—who’s that?” I cried in excitement when I spied the tortoise.
I picked the tortoise up very gently with my wings. “What’s your name?” I asked it. It hid inside its shell on the spot. “Awww—you must be shy!” I cooed, feeling very sorry for it.
Twilight examined the tortoise very carefully. “I think that we should take it to Dr. Fauna,” she suggested. I kept holding it in my wings. “I hope that it’s just shy and not sick,” I said.
Twilight and I trotted outside together, where it was sunny. “A little sunshine might help the tortoise,” Twilight informed me. We trotted to Dr. Fauna’s clinic. “I hope that you’re right, Twilight,” I answered.



“This tortoise appears to be in perfect health,” announced Dr. Fauna. “But Doctor, when I tried to ask it for its name, it hid inside its shell!” I explained. “I can’t tell you what’s in an animal’s mind, only what’s in its body,” lamented the vet. “I’m sorry, Fluttershy; I hoped that Dr. Fauna could help you,” said Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight and I exited the clinic with looks of disappointment on our faces. “It’s so sad that we couldn’t help this poor tortoise,” I told Twilight, holding the tortoise in my wings. “I know, Fluttershy—I know,” she answered. Just then, the both of us heard an evil chuckle.
“EEP!” I squeaked in fright when I saw Twilight. Someone had turned her to stone. I clutched the tortoise more tightly in my wings. When I turned away from Twilight, I saw who had turned her to stone—a draconequus!
“Hoof your shell-clad friend over,” the draconequus told me. I feared that he would turn me to stone as well, so I simply obeyed him. I extended my wings, and he gripped the tortoise to take it away from me. Now that I was all alone, I shrank and trembled in terror again.



“You poor pony!” taunted the draconequus in a cooing voice. I wished that Spike would come back and save me from the cruel creature who stole the shy tortoise from me. “Are you too afraid to stand up for yourself by yourself?” he asked me, taunting me again. To prepare his attack on me, he rubbed the tortoise’s shell with his lion’s paw.
Right there and then, I burst into laughter. “Oh, Spike, you have to see this!” I giggled. I saw that Spike had turned back into his proper dragon self and that the draconequus had turned into a tortoise. “Whoa—I never could have seen that coming!” remarked Spike.
When Spike and I looked at Twilight, who was still stone, we cried our eyes out. “I’m so sorry, Twilight Sparkle!” I sobbed. Spike tried to comfort me by cuddling me. “You turned into stone, and it was all my fault!” I cried.
Much to our surprise, Princess Celestia had seen us crying over Twilight and landed right next to us. “Fluttershy and Spike, please don’t cry!” she pleaded. We felt hopeless, but she knew better. “I am here to comfort you,” she told us.



“Did you happen to see a creature made of parts of several different animals?” Princess Celestia asked me. I was too full of grief to speak, so I just nodded my head. “That was a draconequus; his name is Discord!” she informed me. Fear and shock filled my body and constricted my pupils.
I cuddled Spike with my wings. “Did Discord change Spike into a tortoise?” I asked the princess, still in fright. She lowered her head and answered me very softly. “Yes, he did,” she told me.
“But Discord is a tortoise now!” I remarked, pointing to Discord in his tortoise body. Spike tapped me on the wing and pointed to Twilight’s stone body. “Oh—and please turn Twilight back to normal for us!” I pleaded. The benevolent princess complied with my request.
Once Celestia touched Twilight’s stone body with her horn, the unicorn turned back to normal. “Twilight—I missed you so much!” I cried with joy. Spike and I hugged Twilight together. “I missed you, too, Twilight!” cried Spike.