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// Pinkie Pie 
// Story: One Shy Problem 
// by octavia1997 
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	On A not so normal day;  in an almost perfectly, peaceful town, nothing was as it was supposed to be. Inside the ponyville hospital; lay the innocent grey pony; Derpy Hooves. With A broken hoof, A cut lower leg, and A jagged cut mane and tail; The poor mare awaited her dangerous surgery. One of her pony friends; Fluttershy, grieved over the motionless body; recalling all of the events that had happened the past morning.  





Fluttershy knew Derpy wasn’t capable of doing it, but despite her better judgement; the yellow pegasus let her try anyway. Following in the steps of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie; The grey pegasus got onto her sliver of wood, and kicked off the hill.   As Rainbow sped down the rocky, slick hill; she saw her pink pony friend zip past her all the way to the bottom; placing the party pony in first. The two desperate ponies were racing to be the first to the bottom, and had forgotten all about Derpy. Leaving her in A trail of dust and smoke as they sped past her. Fluttershy waiting at the start of the slope; watching  as all three raced to the end. 

While both Rainbow and Pinkie managed to eluded the dense brush of the hill side; Derpy on the other hoof had sped straight into the thick vegetation. Fluttershy began to worry for her friend; several minutes had past and still Derpy hadn’t emerged. Scared of what might have happened to her; Fluttershy began her trek up the steep hill, not even bothering to wait for the other two to arrive. 

Arriving at the small patch of weeds and thorns, the yellow pony found her friend tied in vines, and hair knotted into A couple of the thistle bushes.  Not too far back was A black shadow of A monstrous creature;  it sliced through Derpy’s mane as if it were cotton candy.  The shadowy beast then slashed at the vines that were binding the pony; cutting the pegasus free.  Moments after it looked up, and shot off into the sky. The creature carved its way through the canopy, vanishing from existence.

Rainbow and Pinkie arrived just in time to see the horrendous happenings.  Amazed but also terrified at the sight the the two nearly forgot themselves; that was until they saw the condition Derpy was in. Rainbow left to get help, while Pinkie waited by Fluttershy’s side.  Not wanting to waste time; Pinkie and Fluttershy picked up their grey friend and managed to get her to the bottom of the hill.  A medical team arrived shortly after taking the mangled mare to the hospital, and put her into intensive care.






“Excuse me, but  i  am going to have to ask you to leave.” A voice called out.  ”Visiting hours are over.  Sorry dear.”.  

“Oh...ok...” replied a distraught Fluttershy. “Can you...please tell me...what time can  i  come agai-”  	
With quick haste; the worker shoved Fluttershy out the door. “ohh- um, -err.... “ The worker muttered to herself. “...MONDAY! Yeah Monday, come back monday...” she shouted, as though she were in A rush to get off of work. 

Sadden by the turn of events, but still hoping for the best to come; Fluttershy trotted home.  Once inside, the yellow exhausted mare plopped down onto her bed. She crossed her Legs and placed her hooves to the sides of her heads.  She began to wonder what the creature she saw was. 

“Was it real...Did Pinkie or Rainbow dash see it...They did...didn’t they...”Fluttershy thought slowly  “...but...they never said anything.”

The mare turned herself over; not wanting to worry anymore than what was needed; She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep .She was so out of it, in fact that she didn’t notice the small rabbit that she was now laying on top of.  Angel bunny grunted softly as he attempted to push the pony off himself; but his little body wasn’t strong enough.  Angel simply sighed; knowing full well he was trapped till morning. 





Upon awakening the world had felt different, but the same somehow.  Not having time to ponder on the subject, she stormed out of her quarters and headed into the world, “um hummm,” Fluttershy muttered.  The sun had not been raised yet, and it was already 7:34. 
“Hey you?!”  She hollered at the top of her lung, the pony turned and ran. Fluttershy, scared to be left alone began to take chase. Tripping over A rope, she rolled forward; losing all sight of the pony or whatever it was.  Looking to see where the rope had lead, found an inexplicably sad, pink pony, with A mane as straight as A straight line. 
Fluttershy walked slowly to the tall tree where her friend was. "Hey Pinkie...um...wha-what are you doing out here?" The yellow mare asked in confusion. "It's...so dark...an-and...spooky...” 
“Oh, hey, Fluttershy,  i  am just going to, ummmm, climb that tree.  Can you help me?” She asked in the bitterness of her voice. 
“Oh,  I’d love to!” She yelled in A squeaky voice.  Pinkie Pie shook her head as A signal to move in the direction of the tree, and then walked.
The walk was silent and lonesome.  No words were uttered and the hill was A pain to climb.  towards the top of the hill Pinkie Pie had started to fade into nothing.
Fluttershy flipped and started to quiver.  Scared that she had pulled A prank, she pressed on.  Near the top, A river had started to run red.  it didn’t seem like one of her pranks, maybe Rainbow had be in on this; but not even Rainbow did this. Up at the top there was the tree , all of the leaves and branches, on fire, the mysterious black shadow pony was watching her closely. 

"Oh...no...oh...oh...Pin-Pinkie...Pinkie...what...happened..." The yellow pegasus said as her body began shake.
"Pinki-..." Fluttershy's eyes lite up as she stared at her pink friend.
The Yellow mare quickly shut mouth and turned her head away.To her horror; Pinkie pie was dead; hung by the very rope she had brought with her.





Waking up from that terrible nightmare, Fluttershy hit the bunny off the bed side.  She checked the date to see that it was Sunday, the date hadn't changed that much, only A days worth of time, just one day. Shocked at what had happened in her dream, she went off to see if Pinkie Pie was OK.
Fluttershy ran, just ran, faster than Rainbow Dash could fly.  A little ways from the entrance of the bakery was the darkened pony.   It noticed her and fled. Fluttershy resisted to take chase and rushed into the doors.  On the table was the pink party pony, but she wasn't looking good.  With some more inspection, she saw A blue streamer around Pinkie’s neck.  Scared to lose A friend, Fluttershy flew up onto the table and attempted to cut the streamer with A pair of scissors, but the choking mare kept moving and bouncing around, rendering the shy pony’s attempts useless.  Sad at the fact she was still dying, she grabbed A knife and swung at the streamer.  Hitting it after the third swing, Pinkie Pie fell onto the counter, blood running down the pink cheek.   A  certain pony, gave her A super happy hug, even Pinkie Pie couldn’t match it.
The two had A joyous reunion. “Oh, thank you Fluttershy,  i  thought  i  was going to be A goner,” she exclaimed.  “Oh you don’t have to thank me,  i  just didn’t want you to be dead, that would make me and the others very sad.”
As Pinkie started her way down off of the countertop, she slipped on her blood, and fell backwards; banged her head on the oven hood, and getting finished by the white tile floors. quickly bleeding out, A disturbed mare fell back and sat in horror at the brutal death of the Pink slice of joy.  She crept up on the body of A once energetic, sweet, living mare.  There was nothing left to do for her, not even Celestia could help with this.  With all of this happening so fast and so quick, she aspired to find A way to hide the red carcass.  With every pony out of the shop, and the store not to be open for another hour or so, all the possibilities were endless.
Trying to respect the lifeless body, and give it A proper burial, Fluttershy moved it onto A pink blanket, and hauled it out onto the back porch.   Apologizing for every step she dragged it down.  Pulling up A shovel and digging A small divot, Flutters very tears for the lost friend, softened the rough dirt and stone.  With hole deep and pony ready, she lowered the carcass. The last words said to her were, “ i  just didn't want you to be dead.”  Fluttershy announced the death, and gave her A long lengthy prayer.  She filled the hole and left fresh cut flowers, Zinnia, as puffy as her personality. The depressed, heart struck gal trotted off to work with the animals.
While she was walking home, the little cute purple dragon, Spike came along side Fluttershy, and walked with her to the forest; planning on stopping at Rarity’s.  Not willing enough to tell Spike what had happened, the walk was long and flavorless.  Spike asked her what was wrong, almost A hundred times.  Walking by Rarity’s, he gave Fluttershy A fair-well hug, and wished the shy girl A good afternoon.  Spike left into the purple and white house.
Hours before nightfall or even bed time for that matter, she just kept reminiscing on how she killed, no, no, accidentally killed Pinkie Pie. So many feelings and all of them linked to that blackened pony from Derpy’s accident.