Chapter 3
Night Shade was trotting towards to Fluttershy's house, to check up on her after what happened last night. As he trotted he came upon Fluttershy's house, though the strangest part was, all of the windows were boarded as well as her front door. Night Shade was concerned for Fluttershy, he needed to act quick and fast before she would do something drastic. He walked up to the front to and knocked.
*knock knock knock*
"GO AWAY! I DON'T WANT TO FACE ANYMORE DANGER LIKE THOSE PREVIOUS PONIES!" screamed Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy why are you in there? Come on out."
"NO NOPONY CAN DIE ANYMORE. NOW THAT I'M SECURE I WON"T CAUSE THAT SILENT SHADOW PONY TO COME AND KILL ANYMORE."
Night Shade needed to help her, he popped out his hook and ripped off the boards barricading her front door. He then popped out his blade and picked Fluttershy's lock. *Click* The door pops open but stops, Night Shade looked down to find the same white rabbit who threw the plate at Night Shade. The rabbit looked at Night Shade sweating bullets, he nodded to Night Shade who nodded back and let him in. As he walked in he could feel that most of the floor was wet and flooded with tears of his friend. He found Fluttershy sobbing to herself in a corner, Night Shade walked up to her and picked up her head and faced it towards his. Her eyes were drooped, red, and still had some tears in them, but her eyes weren't the only thing that was red, her cheeks turned red as well.
"Fluttershy look at me. You couldn't have cause any of this. Anypony could have been their target, it could have been Twilight, Rainbow, even Rarity, you were just some normal regular target for them. It's not your fault, you can't blame yourself for everything that happens. Now repeat after me, It's not my fault.
"*Sniff* I-I-Its n-not my fault" Fluttershy softly said as she repeated what Night Shade wanted her to repeat.
"Louder"
"It's not my fault" She repeated
"Again, and say it like you mean it!"
Fluttershy led out a enormous gasp and yelled at the top of her lungs. "IT"S NOT MY FAULT!!!" Fluttershy softly said doing the opposite that Night Shade wanted her to do.
*Meanwhile in Night Shade's head"
OK. That is probably the cutest thing I have ever heard, but still.
Aaaaaaand back to reality!
Night Shade dropped his head down in disappointment and heavily sighed.
"To loud?" Fluttershy asked
Night Shade chuckled, not that he was disappointed but it's that it doesn't matter, at least she stood up and rose from her tears. "Well no, it's alright at least your getting better. Also I've noticed you being really red lately." Night Shade smirked as Fluttershy turned as red as a phoenix. "See what I mean.....wait.....Fluttershy do you have a crush on me?"
Fluttershy was frozen, like literally frozen with fear, she was breathing heavily, in panic she was sweating like bullets, Inside her mind plagued too many bad ideas.
Ohh what should I do?
Should I tell him? NO! He'll reject me.
Should I reject him? NO! He is the nicest stallion I've met. ohh what should I-
Fluttershy was interrupted, Night Shade had collided his lips with hers. Fluttershy couldn't believe it, she was kissing the stallion she liked NO wait....loved with her lips. Fluttershy accepted his kiss and wrapped her hooves around his neck pulling him in into a more passionate kiss. It lasted for a few seconds, maybe a whole minute? Neither of them didn't care, they just went ahead and went with it. They finally broke their kiss, they looked at each others eyes, sparkling like Luna's stars.
"I'm glad you chose me." Night Shade confessed. "And to be honest, when I saw you, I felt like I wanted to live with you."
"And I'm glad that you found me" Fluttershy said
They both sat down on Fluttershy's couch. "So... when should we tell the others?"
"I um...think that we could tell them tomorrow? Um...if you want...to?"
"I think that's a great idea." exclaimed Night Shade. "Well for the mean time why don't we get to know each other?"
"Well what about you? I know that you're from Neighsia and very athletic because I saw you climbing and jump from tree to tree yesterday, but that's all I know about you."
"Well, I am part of a...certain...group that helps ponies."
"Stop ponies, that's incredible of you, your parents must be proud of you."
"Heh" Night Shade chuckled "They sure are, especially my father."
"Where do you work Night Shade?"
"I work at The Tea House with your friend Twilight's boyfriend Tea n' Tea."
"So what about you Fluttershy?" asked Night Shade
"Well I am a animal care taker, I take care of my animals and I babysit other ponies' pets, which is also my job. I also have my own pet named Angle bunny, he's a bunny, have you two met?"
"Eh...yea...he threw a plate at me."
"Whaaaaat!?" Fluttershy turned her head towards Angle who was tiptoeing away but was stopped by Fluttershy. Her eyes widened as she starred at Angel who was frozen like an ice sculptor. "Angle Bunny, you threw a plate at him? You better apologize to him right now." Angel gulped, hopped towards and bowed his head in apology.
"Uh...Ī nda yo, It's okay Angel, just think before you act next time. I know you are willing to become Fluttershy's guardian angel but if you protect her for too long, you might loose her forever. Think about it." Angel gave a long hard thought, he hopped towards Night Shade's front hoof and hugged it, giving him his trust.
For the rest of the day the two hung out and chatted. When night struck, Night Shade had to leave to begin his... business. We walked out and waved his goodbyes to Fluttershy. He quickly put on his hood and mask and galloped off to Ponyville, except what he didn't see is that Fluttershy noticed him putting on his hood.
Wait...that hood... is he the Silent Shadow? No he can't be that hero from last night. can he?
It was night and The Silent Shadow was galloping upon the rooftops of Ponyville. During this night he has stopped about 3 thiefs and has only killed one mugger. It was slow under Luna's light, until he saw Twilight Sparkle running away from what looked liked to be 2 muggers, a pegasus and an earth pony both in black clothing, hiding their faces. Twilight Sparkle was cornered by the two black ponies ambushing Twilight. Night Shade jumped in front of the 2 mugger ponies popping out his hidden blade.
"NOW!" screamed Twilight
"Huh?" Night Shade was confused but didn't have enough time to react. A rope was camouflaged to match the color of the ground was snared wrapping around all of his hooves separately. Then a small metal cuff was attached to Night Shade's horn, his magic was useless now. The two black ponies revealed themselves and turns out it was Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
"Alright girls let's unmask him." said Twilight
NO!!! Night Shade thought, he can't have his friends in Ponyville unmask him, Twilight's hoof was a few inches away from Night Shade's hood. He was close to his doom. Suddenly in a flash a green light flashed upon Rainbow Dash, revealing a black and green hooded pony with bug like wings. Night Shade looked closely and realized he had a hidden blade on his front hoof. It was Camouflage, his changeling friend. Camouflage pointed his vambrace out and shot a dart at Applejack's neck which made her fall to the ground, he also shot one towards Twilight but she caught it with her magic. Camouflage then cut the rope off of Night Shade releasing him from his prison. The two hooded ponies both gave a nod and a smirk to each other.
"Oh no you Don't!!!" Exclaimed Twilight
Camouflage then threw down a small sphere object, with a fuse. *tick* *tick* *tick* *PHOOOFFFFF* Suddenly black smoke covered the entire area leaving Twilight temporarily blind. After a few seconds of wondering around the black smoke cleared up and the 2 hooded ponies were gone.
"Dang it" said Twilight
Night Shade and Camouflage both arrived at Night Shade's house, panting from escaping his friends.
"So...you're Camouflage is that right?"
"Yea. nice to see you Yami."
"Quiet you know I hate that language name of yours." he chuckled removing his hood. He was a changeling, but a changeling who defies Chysalis' rule in any way. He was a special changeling, he could not only feed of love, but in other emotions, like fun, fear, and laughter, though was shunned by his hive for being different. "And you can call me Camo if you wan't."
"Aight Camo, so how did you find me?"
"I followed you." Camo answered flatly
"Wait, those darts were they poi-"
"Tranquilizers." Camo interrupted
"Aaaaand what did you do with the real Rainbow Dash?"
"Tranquilized her in her cloud home, made her feel like she was sleeping to forget the plan."
"Figures we never target civilians......... hey, can you do something for me?"
"Sure what is it?" Camo raised an eyebrow
"Send word to my brother, if he can, can you tell him that I could use hawkeye vision lens, and an Amareican hidden hookblade. I know it's a lot to ask, but it could come in handy."
"You do know that an amareican hidden blade is hard to use, it's the only hidden blade for unicorns specifically. But I can try, remember no promises. Anything else?"
"A tomohawk, again from Amareica"
"Ok, how will you pay me, my brother is blade?"
"Well Ponyville is rich in....your source of food." Night Shade persuaded
"Deal. It'll take about a week or 2."
"Take your time."
"Remember to think before you act Silent Shadow, you nearly faced the public. I can see why you would need hawkeye lens. But still 'Think before you act.'" And with that Camo left and headed for the nearest airship. Night Shade went off to bed, his mind was plaguing with worries. He was so close to loosing his friends in Ponyville, he had to tell them eventually, but when he asked himself.
"Next time. I gotta be more careful" he said as he drifted off to sleep.